Evening star., 1935-10-25

tied Washington this week in the course
OF an American lecture tour upon which
be has Just embarked. Since he left
England Angel has been nominated as
Labor candidate for the House of Com
mons in the University of London di-
vision. AS the constituency is over
Whelmingly Conservative he hardly eX-
poets tc be returned to Parliament, in
which he sat during the governments
headed by Ramsay Macdonald. close
personal friend, though he thinks Labor
will double its present strength at the
forthcoming election. Angel was once
a cowboy on our Western plains, but has
devoted his life to journalism and
politics He achieved international re-
noWn in 1916 with The Great Illusion"
a book which argues that economic
devastation is the inevitable result OF
war for victor and vanquiShed alike.
Angel is now concentrating on the sub
ject of money. He says popular ignorance
of that fundamental question is world
wide. Sir Norman has invented a card
game called Money" which aims to
explain the monetary system.
Indications that Controller General
John r. McCarl is now stepping on the
gas in liberating hundreds of millions
of work-relief dollars revive interest in
the McCarl-for- President boom. AS a
WeSterner from the farm country, a
NebraSkan trained in the Norris Pro-
greSSive school, the watchdog of the bud
get measures up to what many Repub-
licans consider to be their chief requisite
in the form of a candidate next year.
The controller generals 15-year term OF
Office expires on July l, 1886. He will
be Sc years old next month. G. Q. P.
stress on New Deal expenditure is re-
garded by McCarl's friends as water
on his mill.
** X
Secretary Hull is acquiring reputa-
ton within the State Department for
simplicity and Democratic informality
in documentary expression. He is
credited with a healthy dislike OF the
stiited and stereotyped language OF dip
lom3tic officialdom and has been known
on occasion to request the redrafting OF
reports and memoranda in plain English.
Il X X
Under auspices OF the National Insti-
tuition OF Public Affairs, of which former
DlSlTlCG Ol AONlo
Brownlow is chairman and Otis T. Wingo,
jr.. both of whose parents served as
representatives from Arkansas. is secre-
tary, a national governmental "labora-
tory" is to be established in Washington.
It will train college graduates for pub
lie service. Thirty of the countrys ablest
young men and women will be brought
to the Capital each year on fellowships
and scholarships for insight into prac-
tical operations of the Federal Govern
nlent. They will serve as "interne"
assistants to high administration OFF,
cials. Rockefeller Foundation funds
assure the scheme ample financial
support.
Five or six States may be arenas of
spirited 1896 presidential preference
primary contests among their own
faVorite sons California may be called
upon to choose between Hoover and Gov.
Merriam, Illinois between Col. Knox and
Gov Lowden. Iowa between Senator
Dickinson and Col. Hanford MacNider
and Oregon between Senators McNary
and Steiwer. while New York has Mills,
Smell, Wadsworth, Fish and Teddy
Roosevelt as possible rivals for conven-
tion delegates. Landon in Kansas,
Vandenberg in Michigan, Borah in Idaho
and Hoffman in New Jersey face no
homegrown opponents.
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