Evening star., 1937-03-26

President Roosevelts belated decision
to move in the sit-doWn strike crisis is
notable demonstration of the power OF
public opinion on critical occasions to
make even the White House sit up and
take notice. At no time during the New
Deal has popular feeling boiled up so
promptly or vociferously. Congress, re-
acting to pressure from back home, was
ready to explode and undoubtedly was
in mood to force the Presidents hand if
the Administration had not itself finally
taken cognizance of the situation created
by labor laWlessness. When word reached
Warm Springs early this week from Sena-
tor Robinson and other responsible
Democratic leaders, demonstrating against
the peril of inaction, it's now apparent
that the President decided to abandon
the do-nothing attitude. His impending
conferences with senators and represen-
tatives even If the c. I. O.-Chrysler con-
troversy pipes down, are expected to pave
the way to steps, by act of Congress or
otherwise, that will effectually prevent
recurrence of the most sinister industrial
development in our time. Politicians be-
lieve one of the things that spurred the
Administration was the unsavory en-
phasis beginning to be laid on the $500 900
contribution to the 1886 Democratic war
chest by John L. Lewis associates, and
cynical deductions which anti-RooSevelt
ians were making from it.
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Twenty-seven Democratic senators will
be up for reelection in 1888. Eighteen
rank as supporters of the Roosevelt
judiciary reform plan. Seven are against
{xy,o of 10 AZ orr
Lonergan of Connecticut-appear still to
be among the uncommitted. National
Chairman Jim Farley's repeated ap-
peals for party loyalty to the Presi-
dent, irrespective of senatorial con-
victions on the Court proposition, lend
special interest to the identities and fates
of the septet which now risks reprisals
at the hands of the New Deal machine.
The unterrified seven are Adams of Colo
RADIO, Clark of Missouri, George OF
Georgia, Gillette of Iowa, Smith of South
Carolina, Tydings of Maryland and Van
Nuys of Indiana. The commanders-ln
chief of the court opposition-Wheeler OF
Montana, Connally of Texas and Burke
of Nebraska-Will not have reelection
contests until 1910. Those two other
leading ants, Glass of Virginia and
Bailey of North Carolina, don't face the
guns until 1912.
DR.. Hans Luther, who is about to be
displaced as German Ambassador to the
United States, will retire from public
life at the relatively early age of SO years.
A native Berliner, he celebrated that
birthday anniversary on March 10. Few
Germans have had more distinguished
and varied public career Beginning as
a municipal councillor at Magdeburg in
1907, he became chief burgomaster of
Essen in 1918. -Four years later he was
appointed German minister of food and
agriculture, then minister of finance in
1923, and in 1925 was elevated to the i'm
perial chancellorship. A couple of years
service as president of the Reichsbank
preceded assignment to Washington in
1888 His friends think DR.. Luthers in
ability to popularize Nazi "ideology' in
the United States, and, in particular, his
failure to checkmate tie anti-German
trade boycott may be the things that
paved the way to the somewhat abrupt
termination of his ambassadorial career.
When Dorothy Thompson takes the
stand before the Senate judiciary COM
mittee, to oppose the Roosevelt Court
packing scheme. she will appear-though.