Evening star., 1938-04-27

consulted by both Congress and the
executive branch. has said at Washington
within the month that as long as Mr..
Roosevelt consistently and persistently
prefers impractical idealists to mere
business men as advisers the outlook
Tor any economically sound govern
mental leadership in battling depression
is bleak
Upon Representative Samuel B. Pet
tenglll. Democrat. of Indiana a signal
honor has just been conferred. He was
chosen AS the typical Congressman" for
the forthcoming March of Time radio
and neWsreel presentation of the crisis
in the relations between Capitol and
White House. A pioneer in both the
Supreme Court and Reorganization
crusades, Pettengill spent a whole day
this week posing before sound cameras,
while going through the routine of what
the average member OF Congress does
from day to day. A proad-shouldered
husky Oregonian who reversed Horace
Greeley's advice to young men and went
East to Vermont - Pettengill after
graduation in law from Yale headed for
the West again and hung out his shingle
Congress he feels he needs to resume
practice and has decided not to seek re-
election. Though New Deal forces were
arrayed against him in 1896, Pettengill
carried his district by a record majority
OF $4,000. He is an uncompromising ex-
ponent of the theory that Congress must
assert. and prove by it's works. that it
is an independent branch of the Federal
system.
Senator Wallace H. White, jr., Re-
publican. of Maine is fond of recalling
an experience with the late Representa-
tive Henry Allen Cooper. Progressive, of
Wisconsin, whose courageous and pic
turesque one-man advocacy of Fighting
Bob La Toilette at the 1924 Cleveland
convention remains political classic.
once upon time, while White and
Cooper were both in the House. the noble
Roman from Racine, a combination in
looks OF Robert E. Lee and James G.
Blaine, showed White faded photo
graph Quoth Cooper: Who do you
think this is?" White, sure of his
ground, replied instantly: That's Henry
Allen Cooper Is years ago. Said the
Baoger Congressman: We'll, it isn't.
That's Jesse James"
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One OF Washington's recent distin-
guished visitors was Gladstone Murray,
general manager of the Canadian Broad
casting Corp, GEAR" of Dominion radio.
British Columbian by origin and
Quebec Rhodes scholar at Oxford, Muir
ray was an officer OF the Royal Air
Force in the British Army during the
World War. He commanded the squad
ron which brought down the famous
German air ace, Baron Won Richthofen,
so long the terror of the allies in the
sky. After Murray's planes had put him
out OF action, the young Canadian flew
over the enemy lines and dropped a
message, couched in the terms of fight
ing mems respect for skilful and brave
foe, that Richthofen had made his last
raid. Until Murray (whose full name
is William Ewart Gladstone Murray
entered upon his present post at Ottawa,
he was director Of public relations
for the government controlled British
Broadcasting Corp, at London. He once
did newspaper work in this country.
Col. George v. Strong, U. S. A., just
promoted brigadier general by President
Roosevelt, is the general staff intelli-
gence expert on the Far East and the
Sino-Japanese war. He also rates as
our outstanding specialist in the field
Of military disarmament, having been
on duty at Geneva for varying periods
during the past IL years.
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