Evening star., 1938-05-06

rillaS. who avenged political treachery,
or even suspicion of 1t. by fearful devas-
tations. Many of them joined Wellington
In his famous penlnsular campaign, and,
after a course of discipline. rendered
signal service as regular troops. In
American military annals, the term
guerrilla" though occasionally used in
earlier campaigns, became colloquial in
descriptions of skirmishes in Cuba,
Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
About a month from now, Rotarians to
the number of some 10000 will descend
upon San Francisco in annual conclave
According to indications reaching the.
Department of Justice, the crowning am
bition Of the average delegate will be to
break into Alcatrax-as visitor
Warden Johnston himself a devoted
Rotarian. expects to have his own trou-
bles in keeping his brethren off the
island, especially as the boss of Alcatraz
is past president of San Francisco Rotary
and a member of the Convention Host
Committee. 1t looks as if Johnston
would have to exercise as much tact in
ratloning the quota of visitors to his
rockbound establishment in June as he
customarily displays in handling his in
voluntary guests. Would-be Rotarian
visitors like everybody else, are notified
of the islands cast-iron rule-no pictures
to be taken or impressions publicly re-
corded
In the campaign of 80 New Dealers
made merry with Herbert Hoover's a.
chicken-in-every-p and two-cars-in-
~1&
cratic leadership on the Hill, in connec-
ton with the $4,500 900 900 lending and
spending bill, think Hoover had some
thing there. At any rate, it's proposed TO
earmark proposal to build at least two
post ofhces in every congressional district.
Manifestly the La Follettes aren't i'm
pressed by the consistent failure of third
parties to get anywhere. In our day and
generation no fewer than three ma jor
efforts of the kind were inglorious f1ops
The Palmer -Buckner Democratic Gold
bugs made sorry showing against Nc
Kinley and Bryan in 1896. In 1912 the
Roosevelt Bull Moosers cut enough ice
at least to smash Taft and elect Wilson.
But in 1924. when the La Follettes' own
father and the founder of the Progress
sive dynasty, headed a third-party
ticket he carried only single State
his own Wisconsin. In 1910, Phil and
Bob plainly believe an altogether I'M
precedented situation will prevail. Their
calculation is that the National Pro-
gressives." just incubated by them, will
be heir to both disaffected Republicans
and Democrats looking for new political
moorings.
Once upon q time book agents were
the pest of householders and business
omces. Then came the vacuum cleaner
agents and the bond statesmen. Now the
persuasive peddlers OF air-conditioning
equipment are the country's chief expo
nents Of high pressure.
Despite the popular theory that New
Deal oppression" is running the public
utilities, no less an authority than
Thomas N. McCarter, president of the
Public Service Corp. of New Jersey and
Of the Edison Electric Institute, spear
head of the power industry, says utilities
are making headway, even in the face
Of concentrated political attacks by the
Federal Government"
+** X
One Of Washington's eminent Chinese,
though . Yale graduate. hasn't COM
pletely mastered the Yankee idiom
Asked by an American friend this week
how Chang Kai-shek's armies are now
<faring with the Japanese, the distin-
guished Oriental put it this way: I'VE
now give them the hell"
(Copyrisht. 1882