Evening star., 1935-07-01

To the JOY and satisfaction Of the
newspaper men and women who attend
his semi weekly White House press con-
ferences, President Roosevelt has appar-
emily rescinded the rule he laid down
some time ago not to talk about legisia-
ton pending before Congress. F. D. Il.
has seldom spoken to the press with
more vigor than at the end Of last week.
when he discussed in hammer-and -tongs
language the utility holding company
bill now facing a vote in the House.
The scribes are glad the President seems
to have changed his mind about per-
mitting questions pertaining to current
events on Capitol Hill. These are gen.
orally front page stuff and can only be
fully interpreted and reported in light
of White House reaction to them. II
the lid remains off, the press confer
ences from now on are sure to be the
forum for inteTogations designed to
elicit presidential views on rates, sched-
ules and other aspects of the bill to
be incubated by the Ways and Means
Committee for giving effect TO the
Roosevelt wealth tax program.
DR.. Hans Luther, German Ambassador
to the United States, has sailed for
Europe on a brief leave of absence in
Berlin He plans to return to the United
States early in August. Reports were
recently published in Londons-that DR..
Luther may be Supplanted at Washing
ton, although neither American nor
German official quarters here have any
knowledge or expectation of such
change. The London stories also inti-
mated that Hitler's armament envoy,
Gen. Joachim Won Ribbentrop, laurel
crowned negotiator of the Anglo-Ger-
man naval pact, might succeed Herr
Won HoeSch as German Ambassador to
Great Britain. DR.. Luther and his Lon
don colleague having been adherents OF
the old Stresemann regime. and It's long
been thought possible that on account
of their standardization with the Hit
lerite party organization either or both
of them might at any time be asked to
make way for ambassadors of more
pronounced Nazi affliationS. DR..
Luther is expected to return to Wash
ington with up-to-date instructions on
German American reciprocal trade
matters.
with enactment OF Cne LABOR disputes
and social securities bills, both of which
bear his name as chief sponsor, Senator
Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, can look back upon remarkable
record of kindred legislation fathered
by him since he first came to the Sem
ate in 1927. 1t includes large number
of unemployment insurance bills, the
first $500, 900, 900 emergency relief bill in
1882, the emergency relief act Of 1888,
the national employment service act, the
national industrial recovery act, the rail-
road pension law and the now pending
bill for workmens compensation for rail-
road employees. Senator Wagner's in
terest in industrial and social laws
dates back to the time, Is years ago,
when he and Franklin D. Roosevelt were
fellow members of the New York State
Senate and Wagner was chairman OF
the State Factory Investigating Commis-
sion. One of their co-workers in those
days was a young woman social service
enthusiast named Frances Perkins, now
Secretary of Labor.
One of Senator Huey Longs hobbies,
along with his share wealth" cru
SADIE, is the idea that young people
should have public aid in obtaining an
education designed to fit them for pro-