Evening star., 1937-12-10

spans the continent. Traffic Director
w. A. Van Duzer has just heard about
1t from D. c. friend Sojourning in Los
Angeles, where there is rigid pedestrian
control The friend was about to cross
a street in Hollywoods sprawling suburb
Looking in both directions and seeing
no automobiles within what he con-
Sidered an unsafe distance he started
over on red signal. He'd gone only
about 10 feet when cop blew his whistle,
motioned him back to the curb, and asked
him if he was from Washington!
Washington's Town Hall, now at the
outset of its third successful season, will
be the scene of timely and lively ora
torlcal passage-at-arms between a dis
tlngulShed Chinese and an eminent
Japanese on December 10. DR. No Yong
Park, who will speak for China. will
debate THE Sino-Japanese Conflict"
with DR.. Yutake Minakuchi of Japan.
Their set-to will also be Harvard-Yal
clash, for DR.. Park took his doctorate
work at Cambridge, while DR.. Minakuchi
studied at New Haven, in addition to the
Universities of Virginia and North Caro-
lima. Both of the Oriental scholars have
resided for varying periods in the United
States and command the American Ian
guage freely.
Keep your eye on young Lew Douglas,
former Arizona member of Congress,
one-time director of the budget, and
principal-designate of McGill University
at Montreal. Douglas recent New York
address appealing to industry, the ad-
mlnlStrQ tinY1 ond tha Pcrrlh1ioor @o,-tyy
to bury their respective hatchets not in
one another's backs, but for the purpose
OF united action to return business to
the high road, attracts attention to him
as 1910 presidential possibility. Douglas
would measure up ideally in youth,
capacity, geography, public experience,
and bipartisan politics to the demands
of many Democrats and Republicans for
a realignment leaguing moderates of all
parties. His hostility to the New Deal,
which he deserted in 1884 because of
refusal to stomach Roosevelt fiscal
policies, would probably deprive the
Arizonan of Democratic organization
support.
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Congress may not know it, but judging
by rumbles and murmurings audible in
Washington these days among prom
inent citizens here from all parts of the
country, the Nation was never more dis
guSted with the d-jamming time
killing and demonstrated impotence and
Incidence of House and Senate. Though
the special session will be four weeks old
next Monday, its accomplishments are
represented by large and juicy goose
egg, or "swabo," as zero is known in the
Navy. To be entirely fair to the pro-
fessional takers at the Capitol, the fault
is by no means exclusively theirs. Such
thing as leadership is supposed to exist.
Since November Is, it has been con-
spicuous by its absence. Outside Of
senatorial Devastating expedition in
Pennsylvania and contest in the House
of Representatives over the respective
merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes, the
people who must foot the holiday
mileage bill Of their lawmakers are still
waiting for evidence that they have
earned the $442500 in monthly salary
which members will have drawn by De-
cefnber Is, to say nothing of the 10000
or $4,000 it has cost to preserve their
vapid words in the Congressional Record.
Secretary Ickes has rushed ualiantly
to the support of President Roosevelt
and Secretary Hull in their ardent desire
to make the country realize the gravity
Of the peril which democracies face at