Evening star., 1939-01-11

LOnGWOrCn oOeS not plan 10 take |
the lecture platform until next fall.
She has no present intention Of re-
Stunning newspaper writing. Peren-
nially vivacious and militant, she
denies the soft impeachment that
she is to be either the Joan Of Arc
or the Molly Pitcher Of the Repub-
lican minority, though, being q
Roosevelt, it's a lead-pipe cinch that
T. RS daughter will continue to
follow the game Of politics with
abiding zest. OF course, she revels
in Ohio's return to the Republican |
fold, including the recovery Of Nick's
old Cincinnati district from the
Democrats, who held it during the
Seventy-flfth Congress.
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During that mythical radiophone
conversation which President Roose-
welt told the Jackson Day dinner
he'd recently held with "Old Hick-
ory," a constituent of this column
points out that F. D. R. evidently
didn't take the trouble to learn
Andy's views on lavish public ex-
penditure. If the President had
consulted Marquis James Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography, Andrew
Jackson-Portrait Of a President"
he would have discovered that Jack
son in a letter to l.. H. Coleman,
dated April rs, 1924, wrote: Il am
one Of those who do not believe
national debt is a national blessing
as 1t Is calculated to raise
around the administration a money
ed aristocracy dangerous to the lib
critics Of the country"
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Little birds whisper that young
Senator H. Styles Bridges, Repub-
lican. OF New Hampshire is destined
to bulk increasingly big in the G. o.
P. opposition picture in Congress
from now on. He has just made his
debut as gadfly by stepping out
in front in the fight on Harry L.
Hopkins appointment to the secre-
taryship Of Commerce. The former
Governor Of the Granite State, only
in his 41st year, is decidedly one Of
the younger sons Of the elephant
whom congressional opportunities
during the next year and half may
easily elevate into 1910 presidential
timber. Except for the Washington
newspaper correspondent who sug-
gested at Cleveland in 1886 that
Landon and Bridges ticket would be
unfortunate because some one would
be sure to write a campaign song
about 'Landon Bridges Falling
Down." the Senator might have been
named for second place.
X
One of the current Washington
news mysteries is how it happened
that the "blacklisting" Of Japan for
purchase Of American aircraft and
bombs, publicly disclosed for the
first time January 8, managed to re-
main q secret for six months. It
was known to the Toxic government
as long ago as mid-July, 1898, the
ban having become effective July /,
and the news was widely published
in Japan. Not generally understood
is the fact that the embargo was not
the result OF any formal order by the
National Munitions Control Board.
1t ensued from the voluntary action
Of our aircraft industry, In response
to request from Secretary Hull to
desist from supplying planes and
ammunition to any country guilty Of
bombing civilian populations.
One Of Prof. Felix Frankfurter's
long time associates in the teaching
Of law at Harvard, Thomas Reed
Powell, Langdell professor of con-
stitutional law, will speak on Re
cent Trends in Constitutional Law"
at the North Interior Building to-
morrow night. He will address a
forum meeting of the District Of
Columbia Chapter of the National
Lawyers Guild. The public will be
admitted without charge. Prof.
Powell will be introduced by Prof.