Evening star., 1938-02-14

making OF single picture. Twenty
seven thousand miles of film every day
pass through the hands of the distribu2
ton exchanges in this country alone, as
our 1900 theaters are served and 12,-
oOU,UoO Americans see motion pictures
the principal amusement of all the peo-
pie in the world and the sole recreation
OF millions and millions"
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Definite earmarks of a budding presi-
dental boom accompanied the unortho-
dox Lincoln Day address of Gov. George
D. Aiken Of Vermont. He was principal
spell-binder at the National Republican
Club dinner in New York and was broad
cast over Nationwide network One
OF the straws showing how the Gov
ernor's admirers hope the national wind
may blow in 1910 is the circumstance
that Senator Ernest w. Gibson Of Ver-
mont circulated to Washington news
paper correspondents an advance copy
OF the Governors talk. including care
fully selected high lights" for headline
hunters. Aiken's theme song was the
donothlngneSs of the G. o. P. high
command. Some Of his thrusts were: ITO
represent the people, one must know
them. Lincoln did. The Republican
national leadership today does not
The people will stand for neither the
cratic wanderings of the New Deal nor
the self satisfied smugness Of old guard
Republicanism Give the country Re-
publican leadership-warm, human, un-
derstanding, sound-and it will turn to
us. Fail to do so and you will see
third party just as sure as you saw it in
1912 And fhic will la
greatest praise can give to Lincoln is
to say that he would be ashamed of Re-
publican leadership today"
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Former Republican Gov John H.
Bartlett Of New Hampshire. one-time
Assistant Postmaster General and now
member of the International Joint
Commission, is the author of 1.-The
Bonus March and the New Deal" 12S-
page narrative of the tragedy that made
history in Washington in 1892. It in
cludes graphic illustrations Of the most
stirring events of what Bartlett calls
"the cruel drama that contributed to
usher in the New Deal" He condemns
the unnecessary eviction of the bonus
brigade by the United>St Army un-
der President Hoovers orders"
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Friends OF national defense are dis
turbed over the fact that the Army bill,
now before a House subcommittee, cuts
the item for Citizens Military Training
Camps from $2,275,000 to 100000, and
the number of trainees from $4,000 to
14,25O. The institution acclaimed by
Gen. Pershing as zone Of the two finest
schools of citizenship in America" an
nually has to fight for its existence in
Congress. The c. M. T. c. is one of the
pet aversions of the organized pacif1sts.
It's Just come to light that one of the
famed Boardman Robson mural panels
in the Department of Justice, depicting
the history of law, had as its model DR..
James Brown Scott celebrated interna-
tional law authority. The trustee and
secretary Of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace at Washington is
portrayed in the garb of Dominican
friar. He posed because no likeness OF
Francisco de Victoria was available. That
great Spanish jurist, born in 1888, en-
tered the Order Of Preachers in early
youth and was sent to Paris to study
law and theology. He became an in
innate adviser of Charles v, who sought
his opinion on the validity Of Henry
Wits arguments for notification of the
latter's marriage to Catherine Of Aragon.
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