Evening star., 1936-02-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

March will witness another march"
on Washington. It will not be as spec
tacular as the bonus march of 1882 or
last years march of Triple-A farmers,
but may turn out to be quite as i'm
portant as either Of those demonstrations
The affair will take the form of a ma
tional conference staged by business in
terests which favor early passage Of the
Robinson -Patman anti-monopoly bill.
Independent merchants and certain
groups of wholesalers are pressing for
early enactment Of the measure. Their
purpose is to convince House and Senate
of the advisability of legislation to end
price discrimination in distribution OF
commodities. Vigorous as is the move
ment in favor of the bill, there's no lack
of antagonism. 1t is opposed by groups
which claim that any law designed to
restrict large-scale buying operations will
cause heavy retail price increases, especi-
ally for groceries. Because of violently
divergent viewpoints, the chances for en-
actment of the bill during the present
session are not considered especially
bright.
Dixie elements in and out of Congress,
of Maj. Gen. johnson Hagood, who has
been removed from his command Of the
9th Corps Area as a supposed aftermath
of his observations about w. P. A. funds.
Gen. Hagood, a South Carolinian, is
nephew and namesake of Brig. Gen.
johnson Hagood of the Confederate
Army. who later became Governor of
South Carolina. Few American officers
have seen wider or more varied service
at home and abroad than Hagood. He
has been on duty during the 40 years
since his graduation from West Point at
practically every point on the map where
troops of the United States Army have
fought or been stationed Gen. Hagood
also enjoys distinction as writer. He
has produced two volumes - General
Wood As Knew Him" and 1.-The Services
of Supply-a Memoir Of the Great War"
AS matters are shaping, the Hagood af-
fair promises to develop into one of the
major politico- military incidents of the
era. resourceful protagonist, the con-
troversy will not be lacking in fire if
conditions require the general personally
to wade into it.
If Republican coalition suggestions for
1895 were ever to get anywhere the late
Albert G. Ritchie was destined to figure
conSpicuously in them. Maryland'S per-
ennial Governor was always prominently
mentioned as logical nominee for Vice
President had the G. o. p. determined to
give second place to an anti-New Deal
Democrat. Also, If the proposal to in
clude a "Jeffersonian" in Republican
cabinet had ever reached the practical
stage. Ritchies name would automatical-
ly have cropped up as an ideal one for
inclusion in what Senator Vandenberg
recently termed "the council chamber
after next NoVember's victory is won."
II X
Henry L. Doherty of the Cities Service
Co. is a director Of more corporations
than any other person in the United
States Late statistics disclose that he
sits on the boards of s5 companies and
is president of 81 of them. None of the
country's other rich men, including j. p.
Morgan and the Rockefellers, approaches
Mr.. Doherty in directorate connections.
Henry Ford and his son Edsel confine
their corporate activities to their own
motor enterprises. Charles Hayden of
Hayden, stone & Co., New York bankers,
is q director Of SO corporations. Herbert
Hoover and AL Smith are co-directors of
the New York Life Insurance Co.
Il
Should Senator Vandenberg of Mich
igan, widely accounted G. o. P. dark
horse No. l. walk of with the Republican
presidential nomination at Cleveland,
the country will be called upon to choose
in November between two men Of sturdy
Dutch ancestry. Like President Roose-