Evening star., 1938-11-21
Washington Observations
HitIer's Silence Held Ominous and
BIust at u. S. Wouldn't Be Surprising

the Federal bench In the Virgin
Islands. Another is on the municipal
bench in the District Of Columbia.
Two Negroes are special assistants
to the Attorney General Of the
United States. Herr Hitler ostenta-
tiously turned his back on Ameri-
can Negro winners at the 1885 Ber-
lin Olympic Games. It may interest
him to learn that Negro players, as
usual, distinguished themselves on
some of the United States leading
college football teams this Fall.
Former Representative Meyer
Jacobstein, Democrat, Of New York
dopes out the result of the recent
elections in up-to-date terms of
automobile traffic. In a public ad-
dress at Rochester DR.. Jacobstein
has just said: "On Tuesday, Novem-
ber 8, the traffic lights changed.
Many Slow Down signs loomed up
on the roadside, and in large letters
at the main cross-road Turn
Right For business generally, all
we could see was green lights mean
ing Go Ahead But make no mis-
take about 1t, the roadbed is here
to stay. No one has thus far rec
commended tearing up tile New Deal
concrete foundation built at terrific
cost The roadbed will be repaired
in spots. especially where there was
no previous provision made for ex-
pansion and contraction, the Wag-
ner Act and the Social Security Act
in particular. Traffic lights have
changed and new engineers are
controlling the lighting system, but
the roadbed will remain intact"
Word is forthcoming from ad-
ministration quarters accustomed to
speak by the book that Senator
Wagner is entirely favorable to de-
sirable revisions in the National La
Dor Relations Act and that he is
also not inclined to look with dis
approval upon certain changes In
the personnel of the board.
White House press conference re-
porters seldom catch President
Roosevelt mapping, though they
sometimes try to do SO. Prize trick
question of the season was fired at
him the other day by Julius c. Edel-
stein of the United Press. who piped
up: Mr.. President have you
changed your mind about not going
to the Lima Conference" Smil-
ingly. F. D. r. replied: Don't you
think that's rather based on a
false premise?"
Apropos the emergence Of young
Republican leaders like Taft, Dewey,
Lodge. Saltonstall. Stassen, ct al,
somebody has just facetiously re-
ferred to Senator Arthur H. Van
denberg. a mere youngster of 54.
as an "elder statesman" Neverthe-
less, the Michigander, particularly
after the recent G. o. P. sweep of
the Wolverine State, looms in the
estimation Of his admirers as the
most towering 1910 eligible now in
sight. Jim Farley seconds that mo-
ton. The hurdle which Vanden-
berg's friends will have to take, they
say. is his cast-iron reluctance to let
them boom him for the next presi.
dental nomination. He insists It's
said, that he will quit public life
when his present Senate term ex-
pires in 1941. Others aver that the
Senator's somewhat pro-New Deal
ish speeches during his 1884 cam
paign for reelection are evils that
would live after him in case he
aspired to the White House. But
it's also remembered that in a nota-
Bile Lincoln Day address at Boston
last February Vandenberg divested
himself of utterances that aligned
him unequivocally as foe of Roose-
veltism.
tcopyright. 1889