Evening star., 1936-04-15

conducted by the New York State Young
Republican Clubs. Col. March was Re-
publican campaign manager for Mime
sofa in 1924 and was appointed to the
Federal Trade Commission by President
Coolidge in 1929. In an interview in the
current Magazine of Wall Street Chair
man March discusses the mistaken ten
dency among some sections of the public
to look upon the Federal Trade Commis-
sion as "a cantankerous troublemaker,
for the mere love of prosecuting business
people. when it proceeds against monop-
oly." He predicts that from now on, as
a result Of what the business world has
been through in the last few years, the
commission will have more and more
friends and supporters. He notes
marked revival of resort to the F. T. c.
for its approval of, and cooperation in,
voluntary codes of trade practice ethics.
Plans to have President Roosevelt
make an extensive Speech-making cam
paign tour of the country are inter-
preted by anti-New Dealers as evidence
that Democrats are not as cockSure OF
victory as they pretend to be. The argu-
ment is that if Roosevelt and Garner
were as 100 per cent certain of re-elec-
ton as Chairman Farley boasts, the
President, fond of travel and mixing"
as he is, would hardly embark upon so
eXacting a SPELL binding expedition as is
now projected. Sunny Jim," as prac-
tical politician, habitually warns party
workers to beware of overconfidence. It's
his theory that a campaign should be
waged in every precinct until the polls
are closed. So the scheme to have the
President personally contact" as many
voters as possible between now and No
vember may simply be intended to ad-
moniSh the faithful against the peril OF
counting chickens before they're hatched.
Apparently Democratic strategy this year
is to take nothing for granted.
James M. Beck was regarded in Great
Britain, as well as in the United States
as one of the master orators OF the
English-Speaking race. Addressing
London Pilgrims dinner in 1916, Beck
delivered a panegyric on the far-hung
activities of the British Army and Navy
that was considered so classic tribute
to Britannia S war effort that it was re-
produced as a talking machine record
and circulated throughout the empire.
Many of his friends believed BeckS
crowning ambition was to be sent to the
court of ST. James as American Am
bassador. Periodically during the
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover admins
trations, there were proposals that he
should be given that blue-ribbon ap-
pointment. Republican leaders look
upon Beck's passing as major party
disaster. Eloquent and uncompromislng
archfoe of the New Deal that he was, he
was to have been drafted for important
service on the stump this year.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia Is
destined to go down in history as "the
Great Unbeatable" Not long ago the
lone and venturesome Democrat who es-
sayed to oppose him for denomination
abandoned what he discovered was
hopeless task. Now come the Virginia
Republicans and vote not to put can
didate in the field against the Democratic
veteran. Every once in while mem
Der of the House of Representatives is
returned to Congress without opposition,
but it is rare for United States Sen
ator to receive such a tribute of invinci-
bility as has just been bestowed upon the
Old Dominion stateSman-editor. Though
incorrigibly opposed to certain New Deal
policies, Glass will be aboard the Roose-
welt bandwagon in the coming campaign.
(Copyright. 1850