Evening star., 1937-02-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

market. King Haakon's government has
filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission a formal registration state
ment covering a s29,0OO,000 4 per cent
loan due in February, 1868. AS the
Norwegians are not included among the
foreign nations in default to the United
States, they are at full liberty. under
the johnson act, to borrow in this
country. Norway's credit here is so high
that a group of dozen New York in
ternational banking houses has under
written the entire amount of the pro-
posed loan It's the second registration
of new foreign securities with the S. E.
c. in recent weeks.
Appointment of a successor to Gov.
Murphy of Michigan as American hign
commissioner to the Philippine Com
monwealth may await the arrival here
this month of President Manuel Quezon,
who has just sailed from Shanghai on
his way to Washington. Mr.. QueZon's
purpose is TO confer with President
Roosevelt regarding date and program
of United States-Philippine trade con-
ference, at which the whole range of
future economic relations between the
two countries is to be surveyed. QueS-
tionS Of Philippine defense will also be
discussed. along with possible revision of
the Commonwealth constitution, adopted
at Manila in February, 1885.
Senator William H Smathers. Demo-
crat, of New Jersey, who halls from
Atlantic City, has returned from
Florida vacation with some new ideas
for the famous resorts beach and board
walk. He found that Miami charges
for everything" and thinks it's high
time that his home town should compete
for exclusive patronage" by collecting
a nominal fee for the use of both the
beech and the Smile planked prone
made The Senator believes at least
$8,000,000 to $4,000, 900 year in revenue
would result and that local property
owners would be correspondingly re-
lieved of tax burdens now carried to
supply entertainment for visiting fire.
men.
Representative Virginia E. Jenckes,
Democrat of Indiana deploreS the
absence of fiagpoles on top of the new
public buildings in Washington and the
resultant marked similarity" to the
structures in Moscow's Red Square. The
architects of the magnificent Federal
buildings on Pennsylvania and ConSti-
tuition avenues seemed to think it would
be more aesthetic to fly the Stars and
Stripes from poles projecting from the
facades of buildings rather than from
their roofs. On appropriate occasions
the flag is conSpicuously and effectively
displayed from such Staffs. In the case
of older buildings, like the White House
and the Capitol, Old Glory still floats
from rooftopS.
LAWYERS inside and outside of Con-
gress and the Government departments
are commenting in varied fashion on
the recent New York speech of Assistant
Attorney General Robert H. jackson,
now in charge of antitrust prosecutions
in the Department of Justice. Address
ing the Empire State Bar Association,
Mr.. Jackson said that democracy Is
being frustrated" by the monopoly"
of the Supreme Court by lawyers. He
pointed out that the Constitution does
not require Supreme Court justices to
be lawyers, and asked: Suppose some
radical administration should propose
to pack the bench with men of other
vocations?" Mr.. jackson also spoke of
the rigid and unyielding legal phi
loSophy" manifested by the court in the
Dred Scott decision, and decried the
practice of lawyers closing the roads
to political compromise OF basic prob