Evening star., 1937-11-17

Battle flags have been promptly un-
furled at so many points on Cipltol
Hill that it's already safe to predct
Kilkenny special session. with mTe OF
the same when the babbling am the
pickering merge into the regula term
in January. Rubber-Stamp day have
evaporated, not exactly to the admin
istrations surprise, but to its endless
chagrin. The prophets of gloon freely
predict that Christmas and New Year
will have come and gone with little If
anything accomplished in enacment OF
the White House flve-point program.
Axes and bludgeons are even rpW sWlEg-
ing heavily at the key projeGs OF tax
revision, wages and hours, crp control,
Government reorganization and anti
lynching legislation. Nowhere is the
spirit of revolt wider or NOR rampant
than in the ancient Democratic strong
hold of Dixie. The South will hear
nothing either of the BlEk-Connery
labor regulation measure or the Wagner
Van Nuys- -Gavagan anti-lpching bill.
From below Mason and Dixn's line, too,
in the determined person of Senator
Byrd of Virginia, comes the heaviest op-
position to the Federal reorganization
scheme, whereby Congress would be
stripped of almost the list vestige OF
power over the national purse, by turn
ing the General Accounting Office into
a toothless audit bureau, incidentally,
congressional weather frecasters SEN
tence House and Senate to at least a
seven months term, winting up in June
or July, 1888.
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Sweet are the blessings of adversely
the business world agrees, as 1t X-rays
F.. D. RS reassuring message to Con-
gress, even though it's lar from para
gon of clarity or binding pledge. Cap
tairs of industry and finance derive al
mos as much solace from the Presidents
new tone toward propertied citizens as
they do from the prospects Of tax re-
visin, which he holds out. The White
House evidently has declared a mora
torilm in name calling. Nowhere in the
message are there familiar epithets like
moAey-changers, intrenched greed,
princes of privilege tories, economic
roAlists, gentlemen in Well-stocked CLUB
noises and other brickbats which used
to Fly with gay abandon in the direction
of the gentry once pilloried by another
IOuoCFelG DIS plcudlOIy AIltCiCoto dAo
indicators of great wealth" While
bunness is grateful even for negative
Nev Deal favors, its attitude, Missouri
lih, is to wait and see. It hopes for
tn, best, primarily because, master poll
tidan that he is, the President is thor
olghly 1888 and 1910 conscious. He
rellizes that what happened to Hoover
ar1 the Republicans can happen to
Roosevelt and the Democrats, should the
"pesent decline" which he mentioned
on Monday, avalanche into real de-
passion.
This being once again the wind
janming season in Washington, gentle
MN about to become intoxicated by the
eAberance of their own verbosity will
h&r with interest, if not with amuse-
mint or profit, what happened to an
a4er-dinner speaker in New York the
otter night. He was in the midst Of a
tdrential peroration that threatened to
BIAS long-winded as his preceding Mag
al of words. Having chosen "the milk
OF human kindness" as his ''in conclu
sbn" theme and mentioned it a dozen
tines, a wearied listener shrieked: For
Gods sake, condense it," He did.
M. s. Szymczak Of the Board of Gov
fnors Of the Federal Reserve System