Evening star., 1937-09-15
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

man Of the United States Maritime Com
mission wig-wagged to the Government
owned steamship Algic at Montevideo.
Coolidge's manifesto gave him national
fame over night. Within two years it
brought him the G. o. P. nomination
for Vice President. The rest is history.
Joe Kennedy happens also to be ma
tive New Englander-a Bostonian. He'll
be 50 in 1910, exactly Roosevelt's age
when the White House incumbent was
nominated for the presidency.
When the faction-torn American Fed
Grafton of Labor assemblies in conven-
ton on October 4, Denver will be the
battle-ground of the fiercest combat In
national labor history. Not only will
the feud with the c. I. o. produce
a knockdown and dragout-possibly in
very literal and physical sense-but
internal ructions with the American
Newspaper Guild and the powerful In
ternational Typographical Union are
certain to provoke bitter conflict. Fed
Grafton President Green insists the print
ers must choose between him and John
l.. Lewis. Warfare over the Typo
graphical Union is intensified by the fact
tlldg ito ~ CSlQClJ, OlidllcS l1OWdIu,
is secretary of c. l. o., though l. T. u.
is still an A. F. of l.. component Green's
stranglehold on his job is not likely to be
broken while the Rocky Mountains re-
vertebrate with strife, even though su-
perstitious souls see something ominous
in the fact that he's completing his
thirteenth term.
X
Il
Age, Inc" recently founded organiza-
ton, is meeting in Washington tonight
under the Craftsmanship of Elwood v.
Street, director of public welfare of the
District of Columbia. The foundations
purpose is ito achieve economic security
for men and women of mature age who,
through changes in our industrial de-
velopment and growing antipathy to
age, are finding it increasingly difficult
to earn income" Howard K. Bruce of
Baltimore will explain results already
accomplished there. Sponsors of the
movement claim research shows that the
tendency to shelve the mature worker
is result of built-up prejudice not
justified by unfitness or let-down of
efficiency Lets help those of mature
age earn again!" is the foundations
slogan.
Politicians incline to think the Roose-
velt third-term drive may be speeded up
when score or more of State Gov
ernors bask in the presidential graces
over the White House luncheon table on
Constitution day, fresh from their an
nual conference in Atlantic City. At
least seven New Deal State executives
Pennsylvania Earle Texas Alfred,
Michigans Murphy, Kentuckys Chand-
Ter, Louisiana's Leche, South Carolina's
Johnston and Minnesota's Benson-have
openly declared in favor of extending the
Roosevelt lease on No. 1900 Pennsylvania
avenue until 1915. They are not be-
lieved to exhaust the number Of SIM
ilarly minded provincial satraps. DEM
ocrats heavily predominant in the guber-
material sanhedrin. Out of the 48 States,
only eight today have Republican rulers.
Minnesota is governed by Farm Laborite
Benson and Wisconsin by Progressive
Phil La Toilette.
X
II there's a firing squad available for
punsters, candidate for the wall is an
anonymous contributor to this column
who suggests that "the Presidents choice
of director of the unemployment GEN.
sus may be due to the belief that Biggers
is good at f1ggers."
(Copyrisht, 1879