Evening star., 1935-07-17

That member Of the House or Senate
with drag enough to induce President
Roosevelt to instigate or sanction early
adjournment will have an ironclad claim
on the Congressional Medal of Honor
or. at least, to the undying gratitude
of hundreds of frazzled legislators. How
rampant adjournment sentiment is in
the House was evidenced by the vocif-
erous ovation given to Representative
Deem, Democrat, of Georgia when he
demanded this week that Congress stack
arms. There is widespread Senate desire
for adjournment, too, but the gentle
mems agreement between Finance Chair
man Pat Harrison and Bob La Toilette
is the stumbling block The compact
calls for wealth-tax legislation at the
present session, come what may. Even
if Mr.. Roosevelt were to signal his ap-
proval of recess, the ProgreSSiveS prob
ably would insist upon keeping the con-
greSSional nose mercileSSly to the grind
stone. They cannot be unaware of the
unpopularity of that program, with hun
dreds of weary colleagues craving for the
repoSe of home, but there's little sign of
any readiness to yield to the clamor.
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Representative Braswen Drue Deem,
the Georgia Democrat, who has made
the front pages with his single-handed
battle for adjournment, is in the midst
of his second term in Congress. He is
a man of varied background, having
begun life as a teacher. He left his
home county superintendency of schools
to enlist for Y. M. C. A. service in the
World War. Later he became president
of the South Georgia Junior College,
farmer and real estate man, editor and
proprietor of a weekly newspaper and
president of bank. If by some miracle
Congress does quit sooner than hitherto
expected, there1l be an inclination on
Capitol Hill to look upon Deem as the
hero Of the adjournment campaign.
Although Russia stands in the Treas
ury'S books as a debt defaulter debarred
from access to the American money
market, New York Offices of the Soviet
American Securities Corporation" are
offering for sale Soviet Union per
cent gold bonds. In an announcement
addressed to institutional investors" 1t
is stated that the bonds have market
ability equivalent to that of demand
note" The offer explains that the
present parity of the gold ruble is
8713 cents and that obviously any
further increase in the price of gold in
terms of the dollar would cause these
bonds to appreciate in value" Princi-
pal and interest payments are said to
be based upon fixed quantity of gold
and payable in American currency at the
prevailing rate of exchange.
After a considerable radio silence,
Senator Huey Long will be back on the
air next Friday evening, July 10, when,
over a coast-to-coast network he Will
hold forth on the announced subject
of 1.-The Need of Sincerity and Truth
in Mr.. Roosevelt's Promises" The King
fish will speak from Washington and
presumably deal with pending wealth.
tax proposals, the general idea OF which,
Longs supporters contend, has been bor-
rowed by the administration from the
Louisianan's are-the-wealth" plat
form.
Hoffman Philip, veteran career diplo-
mat just appointed Ambassador to Chile,
served with the Roosevelt Rough Riders
during the Spanish american War. He
entered the foreign service in 1901, just
about the time his fellow Rough Rider,
Henry P. Fletcher, now Republican
national chairman, got his first diplo-
matte job from T. r. Fletcher, too,