Evening star., 1935-06-05

| Senator Borah'S challenge Of Pres
! ident Roosevelt's position on the Su-
preme Courts N. r. A. decision set
promptly in motion new Borah-fo
President boom of no inconsiderable
dimensions All over Washington
I politicians can be heard saying that,
/ if Borah were 10 years younger. he
would have an almost irresistible
+ claim on a 1885 nomination by some
party. What they have in mind is
| that, as the Idahoan will be 20 on
June %. he is probably eliminated by
the unWritten law OF American pol
iticS from serious consideration for
/ White House honors. Nevertheless.
the father of the Senate was at the
! top OF his old time fighting form in
his broadcast calling upon President
Roosevelt to carry the constitutional
issue squarely to the people. Senator
Borah's Office has been inundated
with kilograms, letters. newspaper
editorials and long distance telephone
calls acclaiming his address and, in
numerous cases, Voicing the view that
| he is the ideal person TO lead cru
sade for defense Of the Constitution.
! Borah's onslaught is not likely to
/ soften the determination of the Dem
! ocrats to get the western veteran
when he runs for reelection next
year. The man they're relying upon
to do the trick is Idahos Democratic
| Governor, c. Ben Ross.
+ 4 X
It's inconceivable that the G. o. P,
at least under Old Guard domina-
/ ton, would ever nominate Borah for
President, yet there's no Republican
who measures up to him in power TO
dramatize and personify the consti-
tutional issue, should the party make
it the battle cry next year. as Herbert
Hoover and Frank o. LoWden seem
to think it will do. Borah is at his
best in crusad ding for constitutional
| ism. His recent utterance was not
only a mastery exposition OF the
issue now uppermost in the country S
mind. but was made with a clarity
that a schoolboy could grasp, and
! with notably dispassionate calm. One
of Washington foremost judicial au-
thorities predicts that the broadcast
will rank with the historic constitu-
tional utterances of all time.
**
Mr.. Borah appeared before the Su-
| preme Court at its farewell sitting
| under the Capitol dome in order to
| present a member Of the District Of
Columbia and Virginia bars, Lionel
Glenn Anderson, for admission to
practice in the highest tribunal. Just
before entering the court room the
Idahoan encountered Mr.. Justice
Stone, who greeted him cordially and
with apparent assurances of the graft
fication and gratitude which Borah's
defense of the N. R. A. decision in
spired in Chief Justice Hughes and
his colleagues
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Suggestions are current, spropos
the presence in the United States OF
Nine. Albert Lebrun, wife OF the
President of the French Republic,
that Mrs. Roosevelt one of these days
may decide to return the visit by a
trip to Paris. Hitherto the indefati-
gable mistress of the White House has
refused TO entertain the suggestions
to extend her far-f1ung travel activi-
| ties outside of North America. Her
| globe -trotting has been limited to
Puerto Rico and Canada. Mrs. RooSe-
velt is scheduled to speak in Mont
real, at the end of this week. before
the American Public Welfare Asso-
citation. But nothing SO ambitious as
transatlantic expedition has been
contemplated by her. Mrs. Roosevelt
in earlier life frequently toured
abroad. The precedent for foreign
travel by an American President S
wife was set by Mrs. Woodrow Will
son, when she accompanied her hus-
band to Europe for the Paris peace
conference in 1918.
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If more extensive use Of the Stars
and Stripes is any criterion. there's
! q boom In patriotism. Statistics re-