Evening star., 1936-01-27

campaign in favor of prohibition repeal,
comes from famous political stock. She
is the daughter of the late Paul Morton,
one-time Secretary of the Navy, in the
Theodore Roosevelt cabinet, while her
paternal grandfather, the late julius
Sterling Morton of Nebraska, was Sec
retary Of Agriculture in the second
Cleveland administration. Under Mrs.
Sabin's animated direction women in
large numbers have identified themselves
with Liberty League activities.
Many anti-bonuS members of Con-
gress, in both Houses are giving express
sion to the view that President Roose-
velt's brief veto message was so fatally
lacking in fighting tone that it was
doomed to fail to produce sustaining
votes. Critics describe the 200-word
communication as so lukewarm, despite
its reminder of last years vigorous but
widely forgotten veto, that the White
House could hardly have expected 1t to
change votes on any effective scale.
One week end theory was that the
Presidents mildness sprang from his
realization that any other attitude would
pe loves labor lost because of Capitol
Hills we'll understood determination to
enact the bonus under any and all
circumstances. Some authorities dis
cerned Rooseveltian strategy in SUBJ
mitting the message to the House while
the Senate was in recess, in the hope
that the interval would permit anti
bonus public sentiment to make itself
felt among Senators before they voted
In
preached it seemed altogether unlikely
that the necessary demonstrating votes,
as in 1885. could be mustered in the
Upper House this time.
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Gov. Landons friends are reported
to have no present plans for speech
or any other activities by him in the
East for the purpose of promoting
his presidential cause in these parts.
The program is to concentrate for the
time being on mobilizing Landon
strength in the eight or ten States
more or less contiguous to Kansas, with
a view to preserving the identity Of the
Governors candidacy as essentially
Western and agricultural. The belief
is that uninstructed delegations from
other regions. especially the industrial
and financial Atlantic Seaboard, Will
automatically gravitate in the Kansan's
direction at the psychological moment
in Cleveland. Landon's supporters claim
there is ample evidence that latent
Eastern sentiment is ready to be crystal
lized on his behalf whenever desirable
or necessary.
Psychologist Walter B. P1tkln, VINO
contributes regular page to the Farm
Journal of Philadelphia, seems to think
that the humble American mule Is par
tally to blame for the failure Of Musso-
lini's campaign in Ethiopia. Italy I'M
ported large numbers Of the famous
United States Army beast OF burden Tor
the African expedition, drawing supplies
mainly from Missouri and Texas. They
hoped that the mule would supplant the
camel as an effective transport animal.
But, according to Mr.. Pitkin, "the big
American mule has failed because he
isn't surefooted enough for those hair
pin turns of the Ethiopian gorges. Nor
does he endure the awful Shift from
noon heat to midnight frost up on the
plateaus. The only mule that endures
well there is the little African fellow.
And now Rome can pick up few Of him.
for the supply never was large, and what
supply remains u mostly in British
Sudan"
(Copy1ight, lo80.)