Evening star., 1937-09-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

light of all the facts that have been
brought out this month. Such a step
on Blacks part admittedly would be
brave to the point of recklessness. But
friendly counsel to that effect. it is
learned, will be offered when he returns
from his nightmare of a holiday in
Europe.
Representative Sol Bloom is the re-
cipient on all hands of cordial congratu-
lations on his triumphant organization
of Constitution day celebrations. Uncle
Sans master Snowman thinks his star
stunt was the conversion of cloudy and
rainy weather at Washington on Friday
into sunshine and moonlight. Thereby
hangs tale. AS the heavens remained
foreboding and gloomy throughout the
day suggestions came from certain
august quarter that it might perhaps
be best to call off the celebration at the
Monument and turn it into a fireside
broadcast from the White House Sol,
whose sunny name apparently wasn't
given him in vain, wouldn't hear of it,
even though he'd just returned from
Mount Vernon, where ceremonies at
Washington's tomb were held in down.
pour. Bloom went to the Sylvan Thea
ter to test the radio amplifying system
Addressing the master microphone in
hog-calling tones that could be heard
at the far end of PENNSYLVANIA avenue,
the New Yorker raised his voice to the
sky and called upon whoever up there is
In charge of the celestial weather bureau
to shower suitable blessings on the rest
OF the day. His prayer was promptly
answered, but the sesquicentennial
Belasco regrets he forgot to ask 'em to
turn on the heat!
Amid the encircling gloom, the Presi-
dent and the rest of the administration
politics department derive no end of
balm and comfort from the smashing
OF Copeland-Tammany designs on the
mayoralty of New York. The Big CITY
Is the Nations chief fountain of Roose-
velt hate. Thence the most plutocratic
OF our economic royalists swell the
streams of anti-New Dealism that irri-
gate the land. For the pro-Roosevelt
groups to have won smashing victories
III both the Democratic and Republican
primaries in Manhattan, Queens, the
Bronx, Brooklyn and Richmond in a
battle pitched by the opposition in an
outright anti administration key is no
mean achievement. 1t strengthens the
belief OF many authorities, friends and
1oes alike, that If Roosevelt were run
ming for reelection tomorrow, there
probably isn't man in the country
who could beat him. What would hap
pen to third-term venture three years
from now is another story.
X X
At the Department of Justice, in the
Senate and, It's said, even in the White
House secretariat, crossing of fingers
has suddenly become the favorite indoor
sport. Everybody now says mot guilty"
on the Black appointment, claiming it
was exclusively a one-man perform
ance, without benefit of advance counsel
or information in any quarter.
X X
Politicians aren't surprised that Lewis
and Roosevelt are ''reconciled"-again-
though some think they've not buried the
hatchet. but only filed it away for future
reference. The President and the
c. I. O. leader need each other in their
business. They are as interdependent
as cause and effect. or supply and de-
mand. Without White House support
Lewis dash down the political gridiron