Evening star., 1935-11-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

white House" In the course of the
driver, he modeStly identified himself
as the Presidents son and nameSake,
chatted volubly about foot ball and other
news of the day, and, when the cab
pulled up at the Executive Mansion,
slipped the driver dollar bill-the most
liberal fare" the proud and happy pilot
has ferried in many day. He describes
young Franklin as swell guy"
X
Gov. Talmadge of Georgia is no longer
the only Democrat who thinks his party
ought to repudiate Mr.. Roosevelt and
nominate somebody else for President
in 1886. In recent broadcast from
Philadelphia. Judge Eugene c. Bonni-
well of the Municipal Court pleaded for
the denomination of Al Smith. AssaiIing
the New Deal and all its works, Judge
Bonniwell acclaimed Smith as the fore
most citizen in our land, man who
towers like Colossus among his fellow
men" Bonniwell has been an unsuc-
cessful Democratic candidate for the
governorship of Pennsylvania and for
the Appellate Court He bolted the
party ticket in Philadelphia this month
to support Republican Mayor-elect S.
Davis Wilson.
At both the State and Treasury De-
partments joy reigns unconf1ned over
Finland's announcement that she will
again meet her war debt inStallment of
S230,000-odd due on December Is. AS
none of our other war debtors gives any
iy,Iipo tjOy, 1f
ment on account next month, Finland
is likely to retain her proud but lonely
eminence as the only non-repudiating
debtor on Uncle Sans books. The Firms
owe us s6.635625 out Of a total unpaid
European debt of roundly $4,000 100000.
Nobody in Washington except an occa-
Slonal Super-optimiSt ever expects to see
the color of that money. Finlands keep
ing of the faith is all the more notable
for that reason. Uncle Sam will soon
erect fine official premises at HelSingfors
as token Of appreciation.
r *
California's booster project to establish
a Pacific Coast white House" for Presi-
dents of the United States probably
appeals less to Mr.. Roosevelt than it
might to some of his successors in days
to come. He already has four homes, in
addition to his present abode at No. 1000
Pennsylvania avenue. They include his
New York town house on East Sixty
fifth street, his place on Campobello
Island, off the coast of Maine; "the little
White House" in the pine woods at
Warm Springs, and the ancestral estate
at Hyde Park, overlooking the Hudson.
If F. D. r. ever establishes another
habitat for hide-out purposes, it's dollars
to doughnutS it will be somewhere at
sea-far and away his favorite environ
ment.
Charles Nicholson, Democratic Ma
tional Committee publicity ace, seems
to have been infected by Herbert Hoover's
recent outburst of epigrammatic i1vec-
tive. Not that the former New York
World man is novice as phrasemaker,
for he long since won his spurs as a
devastating political penman. He has
just described Republican spokesman as
ranging from the gloomy seer of Palo
Alto to the mosquito fleet. typified by
Dickinson, Ham Fish, Smell and Arthur
Robinson" Nicholson also thrusts at the
highly non-partisan and vehemently
neutral American Liberty League"
headed by his old National Committee
comrade in arms, Jouett Shouse.
X
On his return from recent visit to
his home in San Francisco, New Dealer
is telling Washington friends that he
spent most of his spare time out there
contemplating and deploring the desc
Grafton Of the Golden Gate vista by
the gigantic $35, 900 900 bridge which will
soon span the bay. Despite its utilitarian
advantages, many Californians evidently
consider 1t an eyesore.
(oopyxight, 1e36A