Evening star., 1935-06-14
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

pre-New Deal days. Mr.. Tlson is now
lecturer on parliamentary law at the
Yale School of Law. Of which he is
himself an alumnuS. The volume
opens with a foreword by Speaker
Joseps w. Byrns. a longtime col
league Of Mr.. Tilson in Congress.
Among the 18 Democrats who voted
against the utility holding company
bill in the Senate on June IL was
that group OF conservatives, mostly
Southerners, who rank as opponents
of various New Deal innovations.
Among them were Senators Byrd and
Glass Of Virginia, George of Georgia,
Smith Of South Carolina and Tydings
of Maryland. Senators Clark of Mis-
souri,, Bachman of Tennessee and
Reynolds of North Carolina joined the
Dixie insurgents in opposing the util-
ity measure. 1t is "Jeffersonians" and
"constitutionalists," like some of those
just mentioned, upon whom the recent
G. o. P. grass roots convention at
Springfield had its eye in appealing
for Democratic support in combating
Rooseveltism.
Because of G mems latest triumph
prompt apprehension of some of the
Weyerhaeuser kidnaperS-and because
of the popular fame which current
motion pictures are giving Uncle
Sans crime-fighting force, the Bu-
reau of Investigation at the Depart
ment Of Justice is one of Washington's
sights" which visiting Shriners this
week were most anxious to inspect
1t rivaled Huey Long as a drawing
card. The Mobiles take a special pride
in the achievement of the G men,
because their chief, j. Edgar Hoover,
is an active Shriner.
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At this weeks International Trade
Conference Of Seaport Cities in New
York there was naturally much talk
about Frances record-breaking Nor
mandie and speculation as to the
amount of American business she is
destined to capture. One session of
the conference witnessed a spirited
passage at arms between p. A. s.
Franklin, president of the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine, and Chair
man Robert L. O'Brien of the United
States Tariff Commission. Mr. Frank
lin aired the view that Americans
should travel and ship exclusively
under their own flag. Mr.. O'Brien
held that American shipping is en-
titled to its deserts. but said he didn't
believe it should have a monopoly
For example, the tariff chairman
added, he doesn't see why Americans
should not travel on British ships as
long as Britain buys four times as
much from the United States as she
sells us. The average American ship
ping expert doubts whether the day
will ever come when the Stars and
Stripes will float from an Atlantic
blue ribbon winner unless Uncle Sam
contributes generously to its construe-
ton, as European governments do in
the case of their super-liners.
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Washington's brand-newest organi-
zation is the BE Square Club" 1t
evidently derives its inspiration from
the New Deal alphabet soup, for it
has adopted the letter B as the basis
of an alliterative program, which
pledges the club to beware bootleg
gers, boycott bootleg and Danish boot
Logging" Members are asked to In
sist upon being served beverages which
they have good reason to believe are
legal, to refuse to patronze places
suspected of dispensing illicit liquor
and generally to use their influence to
eliminate bootlegging in their re-
spective communities. The club quotes
F. A. C. A. Administrator Choate as
estimating that half the hard liquor
now being consumed is OF bootleg
origin.