Evening star., 1936-07-29

OF time to do the President the maximum
OF good. One of the interesting con-
tributionS to current business discussion
comes from Joseph p. Kennedy, former
chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission. He thinks "a real prob
lem" is due about 1888 or 1885, when q
normal reaction" is inevitable The
thing to do says Mr.. Kennedy, 'is to
put Roosevelt back in there with his
experience because the country won't
want to be without a plan and leader
ship to deal with the situation"
Two men once closely identified with
Herbert Hoovers political fortunes
bounded into the Landon picture this
week. George Akerson, the former
Presidents White House secretary was
appointed contact man at Eastern Re-
publican headquarters. Lewis L. Strauss.
young New York banker, who was Hoo
ver'S wartime private secretary, visited
Gov. Landon at Topeka and joined in a
statement by prominent Jewish laymen,
declaring their intention to combat the
whispering campaign alleging Landon's
intolerance toward minority groups.
In winning denomination in the Texas
primary, Senator Morris Sheppard,
Democrat, assures himself not only of re-
election but of retaining his proud rank
of dean of Congress by virtue of having
had longer continuous service than any
other living member. 1t dates from his
election in 1902 to fill the unexpired
House term of his father, the late Rep
reSentative John L. Sheppard, in the
Fifty-Seventh Congress. The senior
Senator from Texas served in the House
until his election to the Senate in 1913.
Political birds are whispering that
Democratic anxiety to win the big Italian
vote, especially IN pivotal regions like
New York and Chicago, may turn out
to have a certain bearing on American
recognition Of Mussolini's Ethiopian
empire" Throughout the late African
unpleaSantneSS, Italo-Americans were
vociferous in hostility to any policy at
Washington designed to support the
sanctionist powers.
Americas relation to the League OF
Nations was mentioned unofncially in
Budapest this month at the meeting OF
the Interparliamentary Union. Greece
having proposed q resolution condemn
ing the League for failure to maintain
peace and calling for fundamental
changes in its structure, the American
delegation refrained from voting. Its
chairman, Senator Barkley, Democrat. OF
Kentucky, explained that as the United
States is not q member of the League 1t
would be inappropriate for its repre-
Sentatives to participate in any criticism.
The American delegation consisted, in
addition to the Philadelphia keynoter,
of Democratic Senators Wheeler of Mon
tana and Thomas of Utah; Democratic
Representatives Mcmillan OF South
Carolina. Richardson of Pennsylvania
and Castellow of Georgia, and Arthur
Dearin Call of Washington, D. c., execu-
tive secretary of the group.
Uncle Sam is about to have his
drought stricken dust bowl" mapped
from the air. The project calls for q
Photographic survey of 24,373,760 acres
in 72 counties of nine States-Colorado,
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, Oklahoma and the two Da-
kotaS. Mapping will be done from
attitudes of $4,000 to 1900 feet and
involve a total OF 10000 separate ex-
posures. The work will be supervised
by Robert Shippee, who made notable
scientific discoveries in Peru with air.
planes and aerial cameras.
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