Evening star., 1938-02-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VIE

Hardly will the ink on President
Roosevelts signature to the crop control
bill be dry before another farm bill will
be on the way. AS George A. Benson,
well-informed Washington observer for
the Farm Journal. puts it, the so-called
permanent" agricultural legislation just
enacted seems to be something like wars
to end wars-"neither ends anything"
The additional measure about to be
tossed into the congressional hopper will
comprise various amendments to the
Smith Jones bill The explanation is
that, under the rules. no changes could
be made in the Conference Committee
some alterations in an entirely separate
bill Rural leaders. headed by Edward
A. ONeal. president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation. have been in
conference here for the past 10 days on
details of the extra program. King Cot
ton. under the plan now okayed by Con-
gress. bags the lions share of funds
available for the soil program, which are
to be divided among commodity groups.
Dixie's staple gets approximately 27 per
cent of the swag, corn is per cent, wheat
IA per cent, and other crops. the balance
Gratis voted against the bill on Monday,
including Roosevelt stalwarts like Pitt
man Of Nevada. McAdoo of California
and Wagner of New York. Only two Of
the Republican minority remnant of Is
Senators-Capper of Kansas and Frazier
of North Dakota-were for Secretary
Wallaces brain-child
No one, with the possible exception of
Senator Glass, mournS the passing Of
Admiral Cary Grayson more than his
other fellow Virginian, Secretary of the
Navy Swanson. 1t was Swanson who,
while chairman of the Senate Naval At
fairs Committee in 1916, was requested
by President Wilson to sponsor legisla-
ton which created the rank of rear
admiral in the Navy Medical Corps and
gave 1t for the first time to the White
House surgeon. Senator Swanson later
led the bitter fight that ensued against
wilson's proposal. Grayson was the
bosom friend and private physician Of
Carter Glass for Is years. The Virginia
veteran ascribs his continued well-being.
despite the march Of time, to the affec-
tionate care given him by the surgeon
admiral, whom Glass almost looked upon
as a son. Grayson was at the Senator's
elbow on that famous occasion in No
yember, 1892, when Glass broadcast his
famous election-ev advocacy of Frank
lin D. Roosevelts election-a speech ad-
mitted by F. D. r. to have done more
to bring him victory than any other
utterance of the campaign. The late
admiral's ancestor, William Grayson,
was one of Virginia's first two United
States Senators, serving from 1889 to
1871.
In view of the fact that it's exactly
half a century since Indiana supplied a
presidential candidate, Gov. Paul v. Nc
Nuts admirers think it peculiarly ap-
nropriate that 1898 should see the
launching of boom for Hoosier favor
ito son. Indiana for so years was forest
to which both parties habitually went
for national timber. From it came
Thomas A, Hendricks, Tilden's running
mate in the ill-starred Democratic CAM
naion of 1875. In 1880 Hancock's vice
presidential nominee on the Democratic
ticket was William H. English OF In
diana. In 1884 Hendricks was elected
Vice President in the first Grover Cleve-
land campaign. In 1888 Benjamin Har-
rison of Indiana was elected Republican
President. In 1904 Charles w. Fairbanks
az indiana was elected Vice President
with Theodore Roosevelt. In 1908 John
w Kern of Indiana went down to defeat
ss Bryan's tail-ender in the Nebraskan's
second try for the White House. In 1912
Tnm Marshall of Indiana was elected
vice President on the Woodrow Wilson
ticket and reelected in 1915. With such
Z record, McNutt's fellow citizens think
they've I right to expect the country