Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1936, Page 20

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 6, 1936—PART ONE. A—20 * 2 e e e e N S B e e e e e R e B L e R S e eyt HAMILTON TO GET CONFIDENCEVOTE Chairman’s Plan to Ask Showdown Hailed as Clever Move. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Chairman John Hamilton’s an- nouncement he intends to submit his resignation at a meeting of the Re- publican National Committee in Chicago, December 17, is interpreted here as meaning that he is seeking & “vote of confidence.” He will get it, in the opinion of ‘Republican leaders in Congress now in Washington. Furthermore, many members of the National Committee who will have to support or reject Hamilton's resignation have already signified they will support him and give the vote of confidence. Hamilton's determination to call the committee together and ask for & showdown was a clever move. Already there had been some “sniping” at the national chairman, with demands here and there that he retire. Representa- tive James Hamilton Fish of New York, in a recent radio address, de- manded that Hamilton, as & defeated leader, step out. Hamilton Willing to Ge. Long before the Fish speech, how- ever, Hamilton had let it be known that he did not care to remain as chairman if the Republican leaders, the national committmen, the State chairmen and the leaders in Congress wished him to get out. As he put it in private conversation, he did not care to remain if he had to fight Republicans as well as Democrats. Senator Borah of Idaho, who has been an outspoken critic of the Re- publican “old guard,” said yesterday: “In view of the men who would select a successor to Hamilton, I see nothing to be gained by a change in the chairmanship.” The Idaho Senator was unwilling to amplify at this time his comment. Borah occupies an extraordinary po- sition as a result of the recent elec- tions. He received three or four thousand more votes in his own state than did President Roosevelt. McNary Also Cautious. Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re- publican leader of the Senate, who was re-elected while Roosevelt was carrying his State, although his margin of victory was less than that of the President, was unwilling to comment upon Chairman Hamilton’s offer to resign. It is believed, how- ever, that he sees no good purpose to be accomplished by driving Hamilton out of the chairmanship at this time. So far as could be learned here to- day no successor to Hamilton as chair- man has been put forward. The members of the Republican National Committee have almost two weeks in which to discuss the matter before they meet in Chicago to vote on Hamilton's resignation. Hamilton himself, it was said here, has no in- tention whatever of seeking to in- fluence the members in the matter. ‘The meeting will be untrammeled and unbossed, so far as he is concerned. No effort will be made by Hamilton to line up the members to vote for him. Old antagonisms in the committee may be smoldering. Charles D. Hilles of New York, a veteran member of the committee, has not always seen eye to eye with the youthful chair- man. But Hilles is anathema to Rep- resentative Fish, for example, and to others of the more progressive group in the Republican party. For Hilles symbolizes to them the “Old Guard.” Hilles has always had a following in the committee. But that the Na- tional Committee would follow them in an effort to substitute & new chair- man for Hamilton is so doubtful as to appear an improbability, or even an impossibility. Hilles has been reported in dispatches from New York as re- serving comment on the proposal of Hamilton to resign. Ol Guard ¥s Out. If there is to be a selection of a new Rational chairman for the G. O. P., the new chairman will not be picked from the Old Guard, or from those who may be considered as affiliated with the conservative group. The demands from many sources are that the G. O. P. shall be liberalized. This feeling has grown apace since the national election. To put it baldly, Republicans in important places believe that the future of the Republican party depends upon re- gaining the confidence of the farmers and of labor. Some of them frankly admit, off the record, that the party did nothing for a number of years for either the farmer or for labor. It may be expected that in the eoming Congress Republicans, includ- ing those who have in the past been regarded as strongly intrenched in conservatism, will be found supporting measures which are advocated both by the farmers and by labor. For example, if a bill is put forward to limit hours of labor, even to the 30- hour a week limit, many of the Re- publicans will get behind it. But while the Republicans are leaning to such legislation, they will insist that 4 be constitutional. Must Appeal to Business. ‘The Republicans have always stood Wwell with business because they have stood for sound money and for the protective tariff. Doubtless they will continue so to stand. But if the party is to stage a comeback, it must #tand for measures which will appeal also to labor and the farmers, in the opinion of Republican members of Congress. In the recent campaign the'G. O. P. generally had the support of business, although many of the “small business men” went over lock, stock and barrel to the New Deal President. But the support of busi- ness alone is not enough to win a na- tional election as has recently been demonstrated. In the election, a huge per cent of labor, a large per cent of the farmers and of the colored voters all lined up for Roosevelt and Garner. ‘The Republicans are out to bring back to the party not only the farmer and the laborer, but also the Negro. It is likely that the Republicans bring it to a vote, they will at least make a lot of noise about it. Republican leaders are saying that Hamilton did the best job he could they are very much in the minority, There are those Republicans also who believe that Hamilton made & mistake when he was willing to have Al Smith snd other anti-Roosevelt mocrats take such prominent parts in the Landon campaign. The cam- paign, they say, turned into a hymn of hate and abuse of Roosevelt which reacted against the Republicans. Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, the Republican presidential nominee who picked Hamilton to manage his cam- paign, is understood to be unwilling again to stand for a presidential nomination. Gov. Landon will be in ‘Washington for a brief period Decem- ber 21, when he will attend the dinner of the Gridiron Club. Pope (Continued From First Page.) to allow performance of a small blood- letting operation caused preoccupied Vatican officials to summon a special- ist, Father Agostino Gemelli, from Milan, Father Gemelli, rector of the Cath- olic University at Milan, is famous as a physician. He has often been received by the Pope and is president of the Pontifical Academy Lincel. ‘The Pope’s valet, Malvestiti, was the first to discover the pontiff's afflic- tion when he went to assist him with his vestments in the early morning. The holy father was unable to rise from bed. Vatican physicians were summoned and found the pontiff barely able to stir the left leg. Later they noticed heaviness of the limbs had spread to the right leg. High Blood Pressure. In s preliminary diagnosis, they said his condition was aggravated also by a combination of arterio sclerosis and high blood pressure. Official notices called his iliness “a slight disturbance.” The sovereign of 300,000,000 Cath- olics declined a . blood-letting opera- tion to relieve the blood pressure. The pontiff had a message prepared to cardinals, archbishops and other church prelates awaiting him for yes- terday’s final ceremonial after a week of spiritual exercises. He excused his absence because of his illness and charged Cardjnal Eu- genio Pacelli, papel secretary of state, to congratulate the prelates for hav- ing observed the important religious exercises. The churchmen replied with ex- pressions of fervent hope that their sovereign shortly could resume his ac- tivities with “unchanged energy.” The churchmen replied with ex- pressions of fervent hope that their sovereign shortly could resume his activities with “unchanged energy.” Resigned to Decline. When the message was read, those present recalled that the Pope had given extraordinary emphasis to the exercises when they began a week ago, refusing all audiences and remarking to a high Vatican official: “Owing to our great age, we must always be ready and prepared for the final call”—presumably referring to realisation of his own years and dey clining health. Official Vatican eircles held opti- mistic hopes for his complete recov- ery, but it was recalled that the limb trouble had been foreshadowed by his general physical condition the past three years. An’ unrelenting worker, he ate reg- ularly but lightly during this time snd was visited only rarely by his doctors. “Worries” of recent weeks, over threats of widespread strife in Europe, were responsible for the pontiff’s con- dition, the Vatican newspaper Ob- servatore Romano reported. “The Pope remains in his private apartment by council of his doctors and because his age, fatigue and pre- occupation of the past few weeks have weakened his physical resistance,” (he newspaper said. ‘Worried by Spanish War. Vatican prelates said the holy father had been worried greatly by the Span- ish civil war and its possible expan- sion into s “class war” through all Europe. , All audiences with the pontiff were canceled. Hundreds of persons, many of them newly married couples, who were to have been received yesterday, were told the audiences might begin Mpnday. No definite time was set. Six cardinals and a group of other churchmen read the ceremony of re- treat, closing the week of religious devotion, in the pontifi’s bed room when he was unable to join them in larger audience. The holy father continued to per- form many routine functions and re- cetved the prelates who are closest to him in his daily work. Cardinal Pacelll was closeted with the Pope for some time, as were Msgr, Tardini, undersecretary of state, and Pizsardo, undersecretary of mulhtr extraordinary ecclesias- of credentials for Archbishop Lunardi, accrediting him as the new apostolic nuncio to the government of Bolivia. At the Vatican it was said the Pope’s {llness was a defect of the blood circu- lation. This produced blood clots at the knee, causing the paralysis, Threat to Heart Action. existed, the Vatican source said, that the defect might affect the holy father's heart. The Pope was lifted from his bed for a short while during the after- noon and placed in an armchair to help the circulation of blood. The Pope was reported as rebelling at his physician's insistence that he remain in bed for at least five or six days, keeping his left leg stiffly straight. While an official notice stated the pontiff was suffering from a “slight local disturbance,” it was recalled that both his mother and elder brother, Permo Ratti, were stricken in the same way. The illness was believed to have been aggravated by the holy father’s rig- orous observance of the spiritual re- treat. Daily tre pontiff attended four services of worship. He spent the rest of the day at his devotions, praying or reading sacred literature. The holy father, Vatican officials said, never has shirked the least of his duties even in the face of encroach- ing age. Built Strength in Yeuth. Despite his knowledge that his strength was declining, the Pope has continued the hard, unrelenting duties he assumed when he became the two hundred and sixty-first Pope. Much of the holy father’s gieat re- serve of strength was stored up through his youthful hobby of mountain climbing. ‘The young priest, Achille Ratti, who afterward became Pius XI, was famed throughout all Italy for his alpine exploits. Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc, the Jung- frau and the Matterhorn, famed peaks of the Alps, were all conquered by Father Ratti. He was considered by Italian and foreign alpinists as a “professional” and a brochure he wrote on the science of mountain climbing is atill consulted as authoritative. His holiness discovered the first pathway up the icy slopes of Monte Rosa entirely on the Italian side. That pathway, symbolic of the hardihood which the pontiff always has shown, is still known as “the Ratti Path” and at Macugana a marble tablet commemorates the exploit. e Park Nearly Finished. The Irish National War Memorial Park at Islandbridge, Dublin, is near- ing completion. WIVES TO BANQUET WITH INHABITANTS Music Featured at Annual Event of Association Tomorrow Night. Music will be n feature of the an- nual banquet of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants tomorrow night at the Raleigh Hotel, where for the first time in its long history the mem- banquet has been | & “stag” affair. George H. O’Connor, well- known aitorney | and entertainer, will sing, accom- panied by George H. Wilson at the piano. Duncan C. Thompson will present a series of Scotch songs, accompanied by Prank Rafferty. Paul E. Lesh, attorney, will make the principal address of the evening, and there will be a number of die- tinguished guests, including Commis- sloner Melvin C. Hazen. A reception will start at 7 p.m., to be followed by the banquet, to begin promptly at 7:30. Lesh GRANDSON OF HUGHES WINS COLLEGE HONORS Placed on Dean’s List of High Academic Standing at Brown University. Charles Evans Hughes, 3d, grand- son of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, has been placed on the dean's list of high academic standing at Brown University, it wes announced yesterday by the university. Chester A. Slater, jr., of 5206 Four- teenth street, this city, has received similar honors. Slater is a graduate of Central High School. Hughes is a son of Charles Evans Hughes, jr, of Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y, and graduated from Déerfield Academy. The Chief Justive is & graduate of Brown. Both Slater and Hughes are mem- bers of this year's senior class at the university. — Woman Police Asked. Women police in large numbers throughout the Irish Free State may be the result of an intensive cam- paign now in progress. The drive received impetus at the recent meet- ing of the National Council of Women of Ireland in Dublin. 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