Evening star., 1938-05-04

assemblies and conferences. On the
third floor are guest rooms and accom-
modauons for the personnel. A garden
affords privacy for the members of the
delegation household and commands
splendid view Of adjacent Rock Creek
Park. The building will be ready about
November l. The architect, Frederick
Vernon Murphy. F. A. l. A.. of Wash
lngton was member of the commits
sion responsible for many of the Capitals
Federal buildings and has himself de-
signed notable Catholic structures
throughout the country
New Deal differences end at the en-
trance of the Washington baseball park.
At any rate merry group that saw
the Yankees trim the Senators, to 3,
this week included that now recognized
spokesman Of the Roosevelt admin
lstratiOn in Congress. Senator Sherman
t"Shay' to his friends Minton, Demo-
crat, of Indiana and those two all
powerful sons of Dixie, Vice President
Garner and Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
who aren't supposed nowadays to burn
any incense before the New Deal throne.
Renewing ties of official days in
Washington this week is William c.
Deming of Cheyenne. Wyo,, president
of the United States Civil Service Com
mission under Harding. Coolidge and
Hoover. Deming. Kentuckian by origin,
succeeded in life concurrently along
four lines. Over period of 30 years he
made State institution of his daily
newspaper, the Wyoming Tribune. at
Cheyenne. He also built up the Wy
oming StOckman-Fa Then he Or
ganized his own realty company. owner
and operator of Office buildings and
apartment houses. In his spare moments
he was public speaker and lecturer
and held various State and Federal
offices. Deming sold his Wyoming papers
year ago, but retains an interest in his
first journalistic love, the Tribune, of
Warren, Ohio
&x*
It's not the echo of anvils that's
making the Washington welkin ring
this week. It's the chorus of business
disapproval of administration policies.
finding vociferous and almost universal
expression among the industrial, COM
mercial and financial leaders attending
Commerce conclave. Their temper is
manifested almost every time a section
speaker directly or indirectly lampoons
some of the -hampering habits
OF the New Deal and it's assorted
vagaries and visionaries. On all hands
there's hearty acclaim of Henry Ford's
recent refusal to succumb to the Roose-
Veltian charm.
X
Bets are being offered in a certain
congressional quarter that before the
second Monday in September the coun-
try will learn it's suddenly been decided
to revive the supposedly dead and buried
Passamaquoddy project for the purpose
of influencing the Pine Tree State con-
gressional elections. Maine and Ver-
mont-the two commonwealths on which
Jim Farley guessed wrong in 1936-re-
main the only States in the Union with
solid Republican delegations. The
Democrats would rejoice beyond words
to capture one of the three House seats
at stake down East, in order to gloat
that as Maine went in September, so
the country will go in November.
Including 100000 appropriated by the
American Red Cross in April following
Presidents Roosevelt's appeal for
$l,000,000 fund for relief of civilian
victims of war in China, it is estimated
that the amount contributed by indi-
Hduals, church and other groups, plus
funds handled by the Red Cross, has
now reached the grand total Of 81, ,53o 900.
II (oopvrtght 1889