The Washington times., 1937-12-13
LandOn's Horse Sense

AASAAANAOAA AAOA ~ O~AkON
IF LANDON, who changed his automobile tire the
"A night he elected governor of Kansas and cur
red his horse after he defeated for the pres
dency has shown his usual horse by taking him
self out of the running for 1910 Herbert Hoover al
ready has declared himself out, and this time he
to mean it.
As Jim Farley says-there is nothing like healthy
opposition a tonic to political SYSTEM and the
Landon Hoover exit should pave the way for young
blood and a new COP buildup. The Republican nomi-
nation might be worth having in 1940
ID EAIs credit is due Pan American Arways for their
~ trail-bazng the Atlantic revealed in bids
for clippers carrying 100 passengers. With their
pioneering to South America and Asia, Pan American
has become the premier irbazer Of the world How
Hoo O.ocn ever the manner in which high
State Department officials
Route SeWed Up induced to nail down mononoles
in South America does not make pretty reading, and
it would be wise for the State Department to keep its
skirts clear of any monopolistc activities in the North
Atlantic. Competition is healthy in business in
politics. and at present Pan American-with the tacit
approval of the State Department-has the Atlantic
route sewed up all to themselves.
TT IS good to have Colonel Lindbergh back in this
country, and he ought to stick around awhile How
ever it easy to that this game of andseek
with the press is going to get his very
So why not call truce Lindys wise enough to realize
that the he dodges the the public is going
to demand pictures of him Grea Garbo seems to have
discovered the way out by walking unobtrusvey into
Hollywood premier the other day. No one paid any
attention to her Charles Evans Hughes one of the
most recognizable figures in public fe still walks down
Connecticut Avenue to work in the morning while Gen
eral Pershing enters the War Department without at
tracing any attention than messenger boy.
THE narrow squeak of the farm bill in the House
of Representatives illustrates the increasing COM
plexity of economic life in America When you try to
get Congressman representing Northwest wheat Vir-
gina peanuts, Iowa hogs Southern cotton and Maine
Wallace Too Ruou and Idaho potatoes to agree on
D. nm a single farm bill, you approach
preparing TOT 1S4O the old days of log-rollng and
legislative chaos attending the writing of the tariff
At present not even the South agree cotton con-
troll. (The machineusing of Texas and Oklahoma
disagreeng with the hand-labor areas of the Georgia
and Mississppi) One unnecessary handicap to the
pending farm legislation is the fact that Henry Agard
Wallace is awfuly busy running for President in 194O
VIZ lTH all the current furore about the heavy export
w of scrap iron to Japan, Germany and Italy, it
might be we'll to cast an eye two other important
minerals-tin and manganese. The War Department
has asked Congressional permission to buy one million
tons of manganese from Brazil to an emergency
SIOChP1Ie OF manganese Lobbyists prOQuC
ing pitifuly small amount of domestic manganese
are opposed. National safety ahead of minority
selfishness. simultaneously the State Department is
pushing bill to encourage tin imports from Bolivia in
an effort to break the British monopoly. At present.
Bolivian tin goes all the way to England for smelting
then back to the United States which has none of it's
own. No commodity important to the nation as tin
should be left to the tender mercies of any foreign
nation.
IS like Mrs Roosevelt to come out publicly for the
l. franchise for the voteess District of Columbia She
has taken more interest in the city of Washington than
any other First Lady in memory. incidentally,
Mrs. Roosevelt also has contributed interesting
opinion to the Democratic Digest on whether married
women should work
THE Dominican Republic little two by four die
Il tator named Trujillo is making monkey of the
United States, Mexico and Cuba which countries are
trying to arbitrate Dominican dispute with Haiti
Tujlo is charged with causing the slaughter of 5000
Pence Mnchinerv Haitans, but says he will not
+. c.~1 arbltrate the matter. Perhaps
1' 0'""o he is right perhaps a sound