Evening star., 1935-01-21

Recovery, of course, Is the para
mount issue on which the Democrats
will go before the country in 1886, but
the Roosevelt economic security pro-
gram is sure to loom conspicuously in
the platform on which they will seek
to retain national power for another
four years. It is certain that no
single phase of the New Deal Is closer
to the Presidents heart than the plan
he has just laid before Congress. BY
the time his campaign for reelection
is on, year and half hence, the
unemployment insurance and old-age
pension systems prospectively will be
in full swing. That they will consti-
tute flrst-class Democratic talking
points Is admitted by politicians Of
all hues. Women, for whom gener-
GUS aid in the maternity and child
welfare fields is provided, are ex-
pected to be particularly enthusiastic
over Uncle Sans great advance into
the humanitarian realm. 1t may
well be, some authorities think, that
the scheme Mr.. Roosevelt has just
launched is the thing destined to give
his administration its greatest glory
and become the New Deals most en-
during claim to fame.
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King George v isn't the only ruler
who is celebrating a silver jubilee in
1885. This year happens also to mark
the twenty-flfth anniversary of Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt's entry into pub
lie life. It was in 1910, after having
practiced law in New York City for
three years, that he was elected a
member of the State Senate, in which
he sat until he resigned in 1913. That
service was destined to inaugurate
the career that 20 years later led him
into the presidency of the United
States. 1t was while he was Sen
ator at Albany from Dutchess County
that he met Col. Louis McHenry
Howe, who managed his campaign for
reelection and has ever since been
associated with Mr.. Roosevelt's po-
litical activities.
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Former Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of
Maryland has new job. He has just
been elected to the Board of Directors
of the Maryland Casualty Co. at Bal
timore, along with nine men promi-
nent in business and banking
throughout the country. Among Gov.
Ritchie's associates in his new con-
nection are S. Clay Williams, chair
man of the N. r. A., and Walter j.
Cummings of Chicago, former chair
man of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.
There's possibility that the United
Staes may find itself compelled to
take a hand in the settlement of the
Saar question, following the recent
plebiscite whereby Germany obtains
sovereignty over the territory that
was so long a bone of contention
between herself and France. Ameri-
cans are holders of approximately
Sc, 900, 900 in bonds issued by Saar
municipalities and corporations and
are waiting somewhat anxiously to
know what will be the status of these
obligations under the Nazi regime.
It's feared the Hitlerites may decide
that the bonds come under last years
moratorium declaration Of the Ger
man government. The Washington
Government on several occasions in
1884 had occasion vigorously to re-
monStrate against Germany's at
tempts to order her financial affairs
without regard to the rights of foreign
creditors.
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Manhattan Island tonight will be
the scene of an argumentative knock
down and drag-out on the subject
of the New Deals public utilities
policy. The occasion is discussion
between David E. Lilienthal, one OF
the three directors of T. v. A., and
Wendell L. Willkie, president Of the