Evening star., 1935-01-11

Washington is putting up the bravest
news show it can in competition with
the Hauptmann trial. Ordinarily. cur
rent developments at the National
Capital would swamp the front pages,
now usurped by the proceedings at
Flemington. At hardly any time since
the birth of the New Deal has a single
week produced such an avalanche of
momentouS events as the So, 500, 900, 900
budget; the S4,000,0O0,000 work relief
plan: the Supreme Courts hot oil de-
cision; it's hearing of the gold clause
case; World Court approval by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
and the bonus controversy-to men
ton only a few of the things now to
the fore on the palpitating Potomac.
Probably more than one scheme
Matching on Capitol Hill is waiting to
be sprung upon an unsuspecting public
until the Hauptmann case is out of
the way and the country is once
again paying attention to the Ma
tion's business. The stage is set for
as stirring political season as Wash
ington has known in many a day, but
until Hauptmann's fate Is decided the
politicians seem condemned to occupy
the back seat.
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President Roosevelt Is at his best
in his semi-weekly bouts with the
press when he resorts to parable and
allegory in clarification of his views.
The scribes have seldom encountered
F.. D. r. in more effective form than
this week, when, pressed for comment
on the Supreme Courts oil decision,
he drew upon the experience Of an
upstate New York village in coping
successfully for year and half with
a dangerous traffic problem, only to
discover that it had technically ex-
ceeded its legal rights in suppressing
death-dealing evil. Later, after the
courts had pointed out its error, the
village applied corrective measures.
Thus, without discussing the Supreme
Court decision, the President plainly
inferred that the Government, having
had its attention called to its legal
istic misstep, would proceed to do the
necessary to validate control Of oil
production and thus perpetuate bene-
flcial results. Mr.. Roosevelt does not
share the views of critics that the
Supreme Court has administered a
rebuff to the New Deal. With respect
to oil In particular, he is determined,
under revised authority, to carry on
along former lines. With existing
good intent on all sides, he is con-
vinced that desired effects will con-
tinue to be obtainable.
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Lewis W. Douglas, former director
of the budget, who recently entered
private business in New York City
will deliver the annual Godkin lee
lures at Harvard this Spring. His
topic has not been announced, but it's
assumed he will deal with Federal
finance and elucidate the reasons un-
derlying his departure from the New
Deal because of its budgetary policy
X X X X
In his annual report of Government
Printing Office operations A. E.
Giegengack, public printer, discloSes
that printing for Congress constitutes
"a major problem" The G. P. O.
looks back upon the busiest year in
its history. indicative of the loquacity
of House and Senate is the fact that
the daily average number of pages
of the Congressional Record during
the last session was 9432 for 139
issues, which was, with one exception,
the highest ever attained. The issue
of June 16, with 302 pages and a
requirement of 231a tons of paper,
was also, with a single exception, the
largest issue ever printed. During
the session the Senate filled alto
gether 5,504 pages and the House,
4,874. Including appendices the
Record ran up a total Of 1910 pages,
accounting for approximately 1000
tons of paper.
4 X 4
In a letter to Representative Louis
Ludlow, Democrat, Of Indiana Secre-