Evening star., 1935-01-14

puoget, but hopes Congress will de-
mand specifications as to how the
81 900, 900, 900 work-relief fund is to
be expended.
Idaho, remote as it is from salt
water, seems determined to maintain
at Washington the prominence that
Senator Borah has long given the
land of big potatoes in the United
States foreign affairs. Mr.. Borah's
Democratic colleague, Senator Pope,
is now leading the movement to have
the United States join not only the
World Court, but the League of Ma
tlons itself. Thus Idaho presents the
spectacle of its two Senators head
ing, respectively. the pro-League and
anti-League points of view in Con-
greSs. While there is believed to be
safe two-thirds Senate majority for
adherence to the World Court, it's far
from certain that similar strength
could be mustered in favor of our
joining the League, especially if Presi-
dent Roosevelt refrains from sponsor
ing such plan.
X X X X
Seldom has Washington seen a
more magnificent specimen of the
cabinet making art than the massive
II y -foot-wide mahogany round table
just presented to President Roosevelt
by the Filipino national hero, Gen.
Aguinaldo. The table is so big that
to squeeze it into the new White
House offices the front door had to
be temporarily removed. The BEAU
tifully polished top must have been
sliced in one piece, either laterally or
horizontally, from giant tropical tree
of the dimensions found in our Far
Western forests. With its huge carved
legs and embellishments in the form
of carabao heads, the table weighs
5000 pounds. 1t spreads all over the
entrance lobby of the executive Of
fees. An irreverent news man esti-
mates that at least 20 persons could
comfortably play poker around it.
X X X X
When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
calls the National Conference on the
Cause and Cure of War to order in
Washington for its tenth anniversary
meeting on January %, the grand
old lady of the American feminist
movement will have just celebrated
her 18th birthday anniversary. She
has been devoted to women's causes,
especially suffrage, uninterruptedly
for As years. Peace and means of
promoting it are the ideals to which
Mrs. Gait now more particularly di-
rects her activities. She will address
the forthcoming conference on accom-
plishments in that field during the
past 10 years. Speeches by Mrs.
Roosevelt and Senator Nye of North
Dakota will be other features of the
meeting.
X X X X
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Morgenthau rejoice over indications
floating down from New York that
Wall Street has accorded favorable
reception to the $500 ,000, 900 budget
and foreshadows ready cover of the
Treasury's forthcoming borrowing
needs. Banks are bulging with de-
positors' funds which they cannot
employ, and even If private business
comes into the loan market on an
enlarged scale, money will be avail
able in plenty for Federal purposes.
The banks of the country, it is esti-
mated, already hold over go per cent
of the public debt. Some institu-
tions are said to have from 20 to 40
per cent of their total resources in
Federal obligations. Despite low
money rates, the big New York banks
did handsomely in 1884. The Chase
National Banks net earnings
amounted to SIG, 500. 900, and the First
National Banks to slightly less than
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