Evening star., 1938-04-25

while he was lambasting pump printing
prof1igacy." The alliterative assault
causes Mr.. Vandenberg's cheeks to puff
out as if he were blowing up a bag,
instead Of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Brand-new political stuff drifts down
from the granite hills of New Hampshire.
One tidbit is that George H. Moses,
veteran of the Old Guard may yield to
entreaties of friends and aspire to re-
trieve his old seat in the Senate as
Republican opponent of Senator Brown,
Democrat, whose term is expiring.
Meantime, Mr.. Moses is being doomed
for the presidency of the New Hamp-
shire constitutional convention at Con-
cord, May IL. Representative Tobey,
one OF New Hampshire's tWo-man House
delegation, has announced his candidacy
for the G. o. P. senatorial nomination.
The other item concerns the ambition
of Foster w. Stearns, now member of
the State Legislature, to succeed Mr.
Tobey in Congress. Mr.. Stearns is the
son of the late and celebrated Boston
merchant-prince and Calvin Coolidge
devotee. Frank Stearns. Long his
fathers political secretary, he played an
important behindthe scenes role in the
Coolidge political fortunes. Amherst
'O3. Mr.. Stearns, jr, has a fine World
War record as member of Gen.
Pershlng's staff. Later he was in the
diplomatic service at Paris, and in Tur-
key, under Admiral Bristol
One of the cleverest introductions
given any recent public speaker in WASH
1ngton was the presentation of former
Russian Premier Alexander Kerensky
to the National Press Club luncheon by
President Harold Brayman of the Phila-
delphia Evening Ledger incidentally,
Mr.. Brayman sprang a yarn at the
expense Of Gov. Earle of PENNSYLVANIA.
When the Keystone States more or less
tavorite son was in Washington to sell
President Roosevelt new and expensive
recovery scheme, one of the White House
neWsmen ventured to chirp: "What you
need, Governor, is to read an elementary
textbook on economics" When Gov.
Earle regalned consciousness, he asked
another reporter: "Who is that reac-
tlonary?" Mr.. Brayman, in introducing
Mr.. kerensky, recalled that the famous
RUSSIAN in his time had been dubbed
py several names-a reactionary, a radi-
cal and a liberal. He said he wasn't
gong to apply any of these epithets to
the guest of honor, but simply proposed
TO describe him as distinguished man
VINO once, even though f1eetingly, was
at the head of one of the worlds great
governments.
William o. Douglas, chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commission,
will smoke the pipe of peace with Wall
Street moguls on May 16, when he will
be guest speaker at New York dinner
OF the Association of Stock Exchange
Firms. The devotees of the big board
attribute significance to the occasion be-
cause it will mark the outset of a new
administration on the exchange It
will bring together the man (Mr. Doug
las) whose criticisms of exchange or
ganization and practices caused the
retiring president, Charles R. Gay, to
take active measures for reform. The
dinner will also signalize the attainment
OF practically every object the securities
chairman espoused with respect to the
brokerage game. Mr.. Douglas will find
the exchange with a paid president, SIM
plif1ed administration machinery,
board Of governors and progressive in
clinations.
Postmaster General Farley has issued
handy little reminder of the reduced
airmail postage rates now in effect for
nearly all parts of the world. Airmail
Is now carried daily to Mexico, Cuba