Evening star., 1937-09-22

them as yet measures up. Senators
Lodge Of Massachusetts and Bridges of
New Hampshire are Vandenbergs prin-
cipal runner-ups. McNary Of Oregon
and Smell of New York are also tagged
as possibilities. Ex-Gov. Winant of
New Hampshire and Gov. Aiken of
Vermont have their boosters, too. Be-
lieve it or not. some elephantine souls
still think Herbert Hoover and Alt
Landon cannot be left out Of account.
The John NJ Hamiltonians, whove given
the Capital its first patch Of Republican
color in many New Deal day. tell you
in accents of conviction that Roosevelt
is on the toboggan and slipping so fast
that Democratic days will be numbered
by the time 1910 rolls around Conn.,
dentially. the G. o. P. Is praying hardest
for third-term venture.
Lawyers resentment of the Presidents
Constitution day speech knows no
limits. They reject his smearing of
the legal profession as IAN age-old, time
worn trick of demagogues" The bar
risters say numerous facts and figures
In the present national picture utterly
belle the impression Mr. Roosevelt
sought to convey that lawyers are no
longer trusted by the American people
in places of public leadership. When
the present Congress convened last jan
uary, II members of the Senate out of
a total of 96 were lawyers OF 435 mem
bers of the House. 237 belonged to the
presidentially pilloried profession. OF
48 State Governors, 26 are lawyers Some
10 per cent OF State Legislatures con-
sists Of lawyers. Time and again Mr.,
Roosevelt emphasized that the Consti-
tuition is "a laymans document" The
great charter was signed by 40 men, of
whom % were lawyers.
Senator Borah, who Is back home at
Boise this week in time to greet Presi-
dent Roosevelt as the latter crosses the
big potato commonwealth, Is said to
have the blood of Martin Luther some
where in his ancient lineage. That
circumstance lends special interest to the
Idahosn's sledge-hammer Constitution
day warning to- Germany that NaN
transgresSors against our laws face the
prospect OF electrocution. All over Eu-
rope and Asia, Borah's prestige approxi-
mates that Of high official of the
United States Government, which, in
fact, he is, as member of the Senate
and as ranking minority foreign rela-
tions committeeman. No doubt pre-
walls in Washington that his plain
speaking about NAzi monkey business
over here struck home in Hitlerville.
Nothing less than that keystone of
American national policy, the Monroe
Doctrine, might be invoked as justifica-
tion for curbing Nazi. Fascist or Com
rnunist propaganda in the U. 8. A.
President Monroes celebrated message
to Congress in 1923 began as follows:
I'VE owe it, therefore, to candor, and
to the amicab1e relations existing be-
tween the United States and those pow
ers, to declare that we should consider
any attempt on their part to extend
their system to any portion of this
hemisphere as dangerous to our peace
and safety"
Virginia is making elaborate prepara-
tions for the ceremonies to be held in
Lexington September 80 and October
on the occasion of the retirement
of the Marines World War idol Gen.
John A. Lejeune, As superintendent Of
Virginia Military Institute and the in
duction of his successor, Gen. Charles
E. kilbourne, U. S. A., retired One Of
the smash lines in Brother Rat" the
reigning comedy success dealing with
military school life in the South, is
that West Point is the v. NJ. /. OF the
North"
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