Evening star., 1935-01-02

With Congress on the job, WASH
ington will be itself again. When
House and Senate ,are away the Ma
tisnal CAPITAL is never quite the polit-
ical metropolis of tradition, though
throughout the New Deal the eXecu-
tive end of Pennsylvania avenue has
been pretty much the whole show.
No Congress has ever seen a Wash
ington so vibrant with metropolitan
hustle and hustle as the Federal City
of today. In point of size and gen.
eral animation it approximates, if
Washington of World War days. New
streets. shops. hotels, Office buildings
theaters, restaurants and apartment
houses and its architectural splendor,
are made suddenly aware that Wash
ington has become one of the great
cities of the country and great capitals
of the world.
Next to the actual contents of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's message to Congress
on the state of the Union and on
the budget-politicians and business
leaders await with keenest interest
straws which will show whether he
intends detouring to the conservative
right or the radical left during the
next phase of the New Deal. The
consensus is that he will steer a
middle of -the-road course, especially
in case there are attempts to push
him into adventurous monetary pro-
grams. ByrnS and Bankhead, pro-
o,tctnlionc nf tho nQnonProt in
steam roller in the House, are ex-
pected to hold the lower branch in
line, while Joe Robinson OF Arkansas,
Pat Harrison of Mississippi and Jim
Byrnes Of South Carolina will be re-
lied upon to keep things safe for
Roosevelt in the Senate. Edward R.
Burke, Democratic Senator elect, OF
Nebraska may blossom out as a
White House wheel horse. He has
the prestige of having had his elo-
uuent definition of the New Deal
branded by the President as the best
epitome of what F. D. r. is trying to
accomplish.
New York State Young Republican
Clubs have now joined Senator Borah
in inviting Henry P. Fletcher to step
out of the G. o. P. national chair
manship and make way for liberal
regime. Every indication oozing out
of headquarters is that Mr.. Fletcher
intends to hang on throughout 1885,
or at least until the committee itself
formally demands his scalp. Mean
time. the full machinery of the Ma
tional Committee will be maintained
under Fletcher's direction in order
that when the time comes to grid the
party's loins for 1886 it will be ready
for action, no matter who is finally
chosen to command.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau has established a cabinet record
for prompt dispatch of correspond
ence. He has laid down the rule that
all letters must be answered within
"a hours, and his staff is kept hump
ing to see that it's done. Mr.. Nor
genthau's correspondents insist upon
giving him a middle initial. During
the past 12 months he's BEEN ad-
dressed with middle initials including
every letter in the alphabet except
K, Y and z. He is simply Henry
Morgenthau, jr., with the last syllable
of his surname pronounced "thaw" or
sometimes "taw."
X X X i
As the Hauptmann trial sets in
at Pennington, N. j., simultaneously
with the convening of Congress, the
new House and Senate face serious
front-page competition during the
| next few weeks. Press arrangements
have been perfected to cover the trial
as elaborately as If 1t were a national
convention. The prospect is that news
e.