Evening star., 1936-07-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the Labor party is destined ito save the
British Empire" Through domination
of the County Council, it now rules Lon
don, and Swaffer predicts that some
general election in the not distant future
will return the LaboriteS to Downing
street for another lease Of national
power Reconteur, dramatic critic and
orator, Swaffer has long been one of the
most colorful figures in Fleet street. Lon
dons famed newspaper row. For many
years one of the late Lord NorthCliffeS
editors, he says he's in regular contact
with his departed chief through the
medium of spiritualism.
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While some politicians reckon that
certain gratitude vote" in drought
stricken Western States may accrue to
the administration as result of relief
activities, many authorities think any
benefits of that sort would be more than
offset by steel strike. The turmoil and
bitterness inseparable from great labor
upheaval are political poison in an i'm
portant election year. New Dealers are
hopeful that If a steel conflict cannot
be averted, it can at least be kept
within reasonable bounds. Rooseveltians
Of course are particularly anxious to
escape industrial conditions that would
mar the happy days" picture as No.
vember approaches.
E. Ross BARLEY, former Capital news
paper man, who has just taken charge
of Gov, Landon's personal press rela-
tions, can supply the G. o. P. nominee
with plenty of inside stuff on executive
life at Washington. BARLEY covered"
the White House for the Associated Press
during the Harding administration and
in early Coolidge days. In 1925 he be-
came private secretary to Vice President
Dawes From 1881 to 1888 he was pub
licity director of the Chicago Century
of Progress Exposition. No one knows
the inS and outs of the political game
better than the HooSier now at Gov.
Landons elbow or has wider acquaint-
ance throughout the journalistic craft
and among public men.
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When Senator Carter Glass home town
of Lynchburg, Va, celebrates its 150th
anniversary in October one of the fea-
lures will be a special issue of 10000
half-dollar pieces struck off by the Treas
ury in honor of the occasion and bearing
a likeness of the Virginia editor-states-
man. The Old Dominion's favorite son
has been identified with Lynchburg since
birth. He was educated in its public and
private schools, and successively repre-
sented the community in the Virginia
Senate, the State Constitutional Conven-
ton and House of Representatives before
entering the cabinet and the Senate.
For years Glass has owned the citys
only newspapers, the morning Daily
News and the evening Daily Advance.
If George H. Moses defeats Senator
Keyes and Gov. Bridges in the New
Hampshire Republican senatorial pri-
mary, his friends predict he'll make a
strong bid for election, no matter who
his Democratic opponent may be. The
veteran irreconcilable succumbed to Sen
ator Brown, Democrat, in 1882 by only
2117 votes in total poll of 195,000-odd,
though Hoover carried the State. Moses
still rates as vote-getter. Republicans
believe there's enough of an anti-New
Deal tide flowing in the Granite State
this year to give Moses more than a
fighting chance to return to the scene
he 50 long adorned on Capitol Hill, If
he wins the nomination. 49, ----.--
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