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Minority Wiles Can Produce Results Congress Battleground While Hamilton Keeps Party Active. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ECISION of the Republican National Committee to carry on with John Hamilton as chairman, and with a perma- nent headquarters between campaigns and an active effort to maintain State organizations has in it almost s many elements of satisfaction to Democrats as it has to Republi- cans. For the truth §s that the so- called regular Democrats here- mbouts believe so strongly in the two-party system that they would be sorry to see the Republican Party disinte- grate. Rather do they want it to ::‘"thg p‘:"“’l]{ David Lawrence. of furnishing an antagonist in future campaigns. Hamilton started out last Summer on a job which Postmaster General Farley had begun four years before. The last campaign demonstrated con- clusively that lines are formed and opinions are crystallized in the three- and-a-half-year interval between in- auguration and the next national con- wventions. The New Deal has been conscious of this important fact for some time. Indeed, the sense of awareness of what the electorate might think began with Mr. Roosevelt's determination to talk €o the people in “fireside chats” over the radio. No such advantage accrues, how- ever, to the opposing party, which, even when granted the use of radio facilities, appears before the public ax simply interested in opposition for opposition’s sake. Congress Is Battleground. The real opportunity for construe- tive opposition comes in Congress. The Republicans have only 88 members of | the House, but if they act together, | if they work out policies together and | form a nucleus whose acts appeal to | the public, there will be allies from | the Democratic side on enough issues | to warrant attention. | Persons familiar with the history of the House can point to the remark- | sble way that Jack Garner, then | leader on the Democratic side and | later Speaker, did a minority job with only about 120 Democrats at his side. Again and again Mr. Garner was eble by his maneuvers and shrewd handling of bills sponsored by his group to force Republicans to come to | his aid, and on a subsequent occa- sion, the Texas leacer forced the ap- proval by the House of a tax bill he had championed. and there were only 8 votes cast against it Common Ground Essential. 80 leadership in the House can ac- eomplish much, provided it is in tune with public trends. The biggest job ahead of the Republicans is to find a common ground for their 88 members ©of the House. In the Senate, virtually the same | situation exists. Can Senator Van- denberg of Michigan, who is slated to be leader, take up the cudgels of op- position in such a way as to draw sup- port from the Democratic side? This | 1s the essence of successful opposition and it is to the public interest be- | eause it provides those checks and | balances which are so essential to the preservation of our constitutional system. Hamilton's principal work will be| Wwith the State organizations. He will have a considerable task. Many of | the State organizations have undoubt- | edly been floored by the overwhelming character of the defeat administered last November. Also, the Administra- | tion has about 38 State Democratic | machines. Where the party in power has the governorship, it is difficult for | the opposition to get a State political | organization under way. This, unfor- ' tunately, is the history of political or- | ganization work, irrespective of which party is in the saddle. Mayor's Offices Held. Not only have the Democrats con- trol of most of the States, but they | have eommand of the mayor’s office in | most all of the large cities. Against su¢h handicaps the preservation of a | two-party system is a tremendous up- hill struggle. The challenge to Ham- flton is all the greater because added to the usual advantages of party pa- | tronage through the power to dis- | tribute offices—something Mr. Ham-\ ilton cannot promise for years to ! come—is the power to distribute pub- | lic funds. For years to come financial benefits of some kind will be flowing | from the Federal Government to a vase number of citizens. One dislikes to be discouraging to any set of conscientious men who start | out to provide a necessary oppcsmun, | but it does look as if the real opposi- | tion to New Deal policies will come from inside the Democratic party rather than from the Republicans. Likewise, it would appear that these eonflicting factions will get together | on election day “for the good of the party,” as they did last November, and hence it would seem that the Democratic party will be entrenched n power for a long time to come. ‘What is & “long time” in American | politics? The Republicans held power | for 16 years, between 1896 and 1912, | and they resumed their control for 12 years after 1920. The Democrats are assured of eight years by virtue of the last election, and if they extend their power to 12 or even 16 years, it will even then hardly rival the long lease which the Republican party has main- tained on the executive and legislative branches of the Government. (Copyright, 1936,) ROOSEVELT LACKS WORD FROM SOUTH AMERICANS Unable to Confirm Report Presi- dent Augustin P. Justo of Ar- gentina Will Come to U. 8. Br the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt told reporters yesterday he had heard nothing from Bouth American officials whom he recently invited to visit this country. An unconfirmed report from Buenos Aires said that Gen. Augustin P. Justo, president of Argentina and one of those Mr. Roosevelt invited, planned to: sail for the United States next March. » Officials at the Argentine Embasly said they knew nothing of this report. News Behind the News Congressmen Silent, Await Rocsevelt Program— Usual Voices of Opposition Missing This Year, BY PAUL MALLON. HE personal mood of this assembling Congress is not like anything within the memory of oldest authorities. Usually, at this stage of the game, the arriving legislators are making dally announcements about what should be done. They are rushing out with new bills which they will propose to reform the world. There is none of that now. Quiet reigns. A few returning statesmen have announced laws they intend to propose, but the newsmen have not considered most of these sufficiently important to warrant publication. There is only one important thing in the legislative mind. That is the program President Roosevelt intends to offer. The legislators appreciate that they were elected because of him and not because of anything they advocated. Those not in this majority class realize that nothing they can say will make any difference. Even the Southern Democrats are not privately whispering, as they did in earlier New Deal years, that a restraining hand should be placed on one phase or another of the Roosevelt policies. Their private conversation is entirely co-operative. The result is a practical change in the ordinary Government relation= ship between Congress and the Executive. Today, in mood at least, Congress is not a restraint upon NYTHING | CAN DO Lifs anou CATEF, the Executive, but a willing co- operative unit. * ¥ kX Speaker Bankhead and the other leaders have mourned publicly that the sprawling Democratic major- ity will soon break up into blocs. That is an old political axiom, but this is not an old political Congress. Actually, no serious split-up is expected. A few diversions are certain to develop on every issue, but the leaders have such a large majority they can afford to spare & good many votes without losing control. The lamenting leaders are not unmindful that the situation is mostly in Mr. Roosevelt's hands. He lost his hold on the 1934 Con- gress after election by proposing the unpopular World Court issue at the outset of the Senate session. Weeks were required before he regained his leadership, and, in fact, he never fully regained it. If he exerts his usual caution in congressional leadership, and makes no further World Court mistakes, Congress is very likely to contribute its share to an unprecedented “era of good feeling” during the next year. * * ¥ % ~ Republican Chairman Hamilton once said the few remaining Repub- lican legislators would furnish the party leadership. The straggling rem= nants of the Lost Guard on the scene so far does not seem to contain many ideas. The agitation of Representative Hamilion Pish to force & reorganiza- tion of the opposition party is not catching on any better here than it did at the Chicago meeting of the national commanders. His viewpoint is not being actively opposed, tut many who favor reorganization doubt that this is the time to do 5t. Another big trouble, according to one astute Republican Congressman, is that “Mr. Pish has never won a fight.” It is no secret that the chief difficulty of Republican congressional leadership is to decide who is a Republican. ‘The differences of thought among Senators Borah, Capper, McNary, Hiram Johnson, Floor Leader Snell and, Fish make consolidated leadership impossible. The only thing they can do is to meet legislative issues as they arise. This seems to be the only wise course, as they cannot know yet what they will be opposing in the elections two and four years hence. Snell and those of his school will try to hold as many of the Repub- lican crowd as they can to a middle-of-the-road course, taking neither the conservative nor the liberal path. * % % ¥ Mr. Fish is generally assumed to be leading the fight for Mr. Borah, but Borah has been saying nothing aloud. A few days ago, & friend e understood the Idahoan to say he 7 believed part of the Wagner labor act is constitutional. That is, he, as a leading constitutional authority, believed that large cor- porations, like the automobile manufacturers, clearly doing an interstate business, might be sub- ject to its provisions. This seemed to be contrary to the view he ar- gued against N. R. A. It hints at the general shift of legisiative and polit- ical positions which is in progress. k¥ ¥ Top bank circles have been perturbed by rumors that Semator Glass might sponsor a branch banking bill, which would really be an administration bill disguised in his name. This practical maneu- ver was under consideration at ome time to ward off a New Deal clash with the House, but has been discarded. There probably will be no branch bank bill. * x % X The official inside expllnlnon'ol that published story about Mrs. Joe Davies taking a couple of thousand quarts or so of frozen cream to Russia is that it was handed out by an enterprising press agent for a New York milk concern. No objection could be made here, because Mrs. Davies is a stockholder 1n the concern which is advertising the new frozen cream. Nevertheless, State Department attaches threw their hands aloft in horror, and wondered whether the Davies diplomacy in Moscow would be modeled on that of the late George (Short Pants) Harvey in London. (Copyright, 1936.) FIRST OFFENSE SPEEDING. Elaner M. Roosa, 1722 Nineteenth | sireet, $5. | days. John Robinson, 1122 Fifth street, $5. Elas L. Dyson, 1209 G street south- east, $5. John N. Conway, 4323 Fourth street, | davs. 5. Oliver G. Hamilton, 1N. J., 30 days. Philip Cohn, Baltimore, 30 days. days. Dorothy V. Allport, Virginia, $5. Wilber L. Humphrey, 1215 Fern street, $5. Herbert J. McClure, 3700 Massa- | chusetts avenue, $5. | Md., 15 days. Howard Cash, 1324 B street north- | east, $5. Ronald G. Thring, 5517 Oonduit road, $5. | days. Eugene F. Thrailkill, 320 Third street | 4" northeast, $5. PERMIT SUSPENSIONS. ‘The operating permits of the follow- ing were suspended for the length of |itol street, 30 da: time indicated: Robert S. Baber, Chillum Gardens, Md., 15 days. Md.,, 30 days. Charles M. Baker, Beltsville, Md., 15 | days. Harold B. Behner, Hyattsville, 15 days. ‘ days. John D. Oobb, Bethesda, Md., 30 days. 30 days. days. 15 days. {15 days. Young Washington This determined young carpenier at the Capitol Heights, Md School s Richard Brown. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, 901 Central avenue, Seat Pleasant, Md. Curtu Earl Bussinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis B the Thomson School. —Star St Carl Cremer, Alexandria, Va., 30 Andy D. Cupak, Kensington, Md., 30 | Pleasie 8. Dallon, Clarendon, Va., 15 Swedesboro, Andrew J. Homrick, Bellsville, Md., Prederick A. Hungerford, Oxon Hill, Stuart M. Jones, Hanover, Pa., 30 Harry Krevait, 408 Columbia rd., 15 Virginia P. Lane, Chevy Chase, Md., Michael J. Najjum, 1809 North Cap- Harry Plowman, jr, Takoma Park, Carl Ruffin, Bethesda, Md., 15 days. Paul R. Wellman, Baltimore, Md., 15 | days. ud,! Leslie H. Willis, fiysttaville, Md,, 15 H-rry P. Wohlfarth, Brentwood, Md., | WASHINGTON, D. C, THE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be costradictory among SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1936. We, the Peogle themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. G. O. P. Awaits an Issue Public Discussion Might Also Supply New and Effective Leadership. BY MARK SULLIVAN, ITH Chairman John D. H. Hamilton re-elected by the Republican National Com- mittee, what follows? As respects the national committee, not & great deal. Hamilton presumably will set about raising the money to pay the campaign dencu of rcughly a million dollars. That will be full-time job. If Hamilton has any energy to spare, presum- ably he will de- vote it to what : is called “build- @ ing up the or- & ganization.” That means moving about the coun- try to stimulate local, county and State commit- tees, composing differences be- tween local leaders, getting new lead- ers where present ones lack efficiency. That is about all a national chair- man can do between elections, and all he is expected to do. Matters of party polioy arise and develop in quarters other than the national committee. From now on, if Hamilton is & good | chairman, the public will hear little of him. Meanwhile, party policy will emerge in_other quarters. In a party that is out of power and therefore has no spokesman in the White House, the ordinary forum in which party policy develops is Con- gress, especially the Senate. In the Senate was initiated the most impor- tant policy evolved by Republicans during more than 20 years. In the Spring of 1919 the Democrats were in power, with Woodrow Wilson in the | White House. Wilson originated the League of Nations as a Democratic policy. When he urged it upon the | Peace Conference at Paris, a group of 39 Republican Senators came together | and signed a public “round robin.’ "V They warned the Peace Conference that Wilson could take America into | the League of Nations only by a process which must include confirma- tion by the Senate. In effect, they | announced opposition to the League | as a Republican policy. Upon that | issue the Republicans won the 1920 | Congressional election. “Miracle” Necessary. The difference between 1919 and 1937 is that the Republicans in the coming Senate will be enormously in- ferior to those in the 1919 body, both | in numbers and in intellectual foree. Only by a miracle can it happen that | the Republicans in the coming Senate should bring forward a party issue comparable to the League of Nations. The new Senate will contain but 17 Republicans out of a total of 96, and of the 17 nominal Republicans only 11 | at most are real ones. It is almost | inconceivable that a question should | arise with the Democrats on one side | and the Republicans on the other, with the handful of Republicans hlvinzv the side that is popular or can be made so. If a momentous issue arises at all, it is more likely to be accompa~ nied by a division in the immense Democratic majority. | If Republican party policy 1is not likely to be formulated in Con- | gress, about the only other forum is | public discussion among the people. ' Mark Sullivan. | other States are not available. | saying is that the candidate for Presi- | rather than by Landon’s weakness. It Out of such discussion must come not only policies but also leaders. For the plain fact is that the Republican party has a voting strength far out of pro- portion to the number or strength of its leadership. By custom and force of circumstances, the titular leader of the party out of power is its recent nominee for the presidency. But Gov. Landon is handicapped for leaders® by a fact which has had little public attention. Ran Behind Ticket. Gov. Landon in the recent election did not get the full vote of his party. In State after State, the Republican candidates for Governor and Congress got a markedly larger vote than Gov. Landon as the candidate for President, In New York, the Republican candi- date for Governor got about 270,000 more votes than Landon. In Illinois, the Republican candidate for Gover- nor ran about 100,000 ahead; in Mas- sachusetts, about 70,000; in Ohio, most 300,000; in Minnesota, about 80,- 000; in Indiana about 35,000; in Iowa about 30,000. Accurate figures for In the Nation as a whole, it seems probable that the aggregate vote for Republican candidates for Governor or Congress was fully 1,000,000 ahead of the vote for Landon. That is, with Landon receiving 16,681,913 for Pres- ident, it is likely the aggregate of votes for Republican candidates for other office may reach, when fully computed, as much as 18,000,000. The condition reflected by these figures is most unusual. Ordinarily the candidate for President receives more votes than the candidates for other offices. The accepted political dent “carries along” the other can- didates. In the present case, it may | be the condition was caused mainly by President Roosevelt’s strength may be that no other Republican leader now in sight would have got more votes than Landon did. If this is 50, then the thing it means is that the Republicans need new leaders. Poverty of Representation. As respects numbers of voters, the | Republicans compose a formidable | opposition party. The 18,000,000 votes received by Republican candidates for | Governor or Congress are nearly 40| per cent of the total. In several pe- riods during the recent past, the op- position party, whether Republican | or Democratic, has had a smaller per- centage. The Republican body of | voters is exceptionally homogeneous. | (It is aggressive and eager. R.lrely‘ | in either party has there been so| much interest and concern on the part of individuals and groups as now exists in the Republican party. What is unique in the present sit- uation of the Republicans is the pov- erty of their representation in Cone- gress and their poverty in major lead- ership. It might be possible to say they are also poor in issues. But is- sues will take care of themselves. | They are certain to arise. They do not necessarily depend on Republican in- itiative. They may arise from change f mood in the people, or from Demo- cratic failure to estimate the public mood. They may arise out of events not now possible to foregee. Who can guess what new issues and aline- ments might arise out of a boom fol- lowed by a collapse, or out of possible inflation, or out of war in Europe? 5,000 COMMUNITIES PLAN BIRTHDAY BALLS| Henry L. Doherty, Festival Chair- man, Announces Membership of 1837 National Committee. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19. — More than 5,000 communities in the country | will conduct birthday balls for the benefit of young infantile paralysis suf- ferers early next year, Henry L./ Doherty, chairman of the national 1937 President’s Birthday Ball Committee, said yesterday. Doherty announced the members of | the 1937 national committee would in- clude Vincent Astor, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Charles G. Dawes, Edsel B. Pord, Walter 8. Gifford, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, William Henry Cardi- nal O'Connell, Bishop Willlam T. Man- ning, Gen. John J. Pershing, William Randolph Hearst, Will Hays and Col. Edward M. House. Marriage Licenses. Georg ang . Si%both oF New Fors AR Mattingly. . Buck. 22. Arlington, Va., and Rose. 20. Herndon, Va..' Rev. 32, 2014 G st.. and Mary i Rev. Augustus 43 Hunt pl. , 1722 Ver- i oo and Satan z‘nunu mont ave.: Rev. . Ol ‘14 Woneverry ‘Boyd. " N ._and R Jersey ew Pl #8114 q nn, william Jackson. 46, 1305 R cendia. 'm;,e 6, 453 1st st. es. James W. Cheriy. jr. 29. Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mary A Jonu. 29, Picayune, . Rust lemy A nem 2% and Mabel M. Hoover, both of Alexandris, Va.; Rev. A, F. . i Bu:hlnnn "ml’ ueflerfl“ rtha R. Havard, 21, both rris. I d Ma ol Klnlu City. Kans.; . Brookdale. Md.. and ith, 32 "1680 Harvard st.; 3 Pllener. .‘2 Oskaloosa, d l‘l gmlu L. Borda, 25. 3'34 P ly, 2. a'.' 2o, V. Alezunder Blow. 35 1132 8h_ o Wilms F. Gragy, 31, 1438 T Nuck R. E. Mattingly. Timothy A 21 and Ssran E. l Richmond; Rev. wili 'g‘"w ldschmidt, 36, Chicago. and or .0 Callisos, 4. 1510 East Batiol &t eyt OF. Biickwelder 0D, Hice 35, 033 Kenhedy st.. and Rella C. B an, 23. 3927 South Da- kota ave. n.e.; H_ Roach. Reév. E. Robert , 28, Natick. Mass.. Ol?mnlml "’HD Mapie . Ve, s 1~a"&nx’,'n-u'u xnmuwn st.. Orpha lanym- M. 1702 Summit Charles F. b d Sue C. Pe botfiaumm" ”euun“ s Reve s, & chll'lu C and hrnne Hlll and ’I | By the Associated Press. STATISTICS TO BE KEPT ON SALES OF OYSTERS Institute Will Model Service After Crop Production Re- ports of Trade Groups. NEW YORK, December 19—Dr. ! Lewis Radcliffe, director of the Oyster Europe and the Good Neighbor League—World Conferznce Promotion Seen. BY JAY FRANKLIN. AST Spring, when Dr. Stanley High bobbed up in the Roosevelt camp at the head of an organization called the Good Neighbor League, the ungodly gave a short Bronx cheer and wrote off the league as part of the New Deal political holding company organized for the conduct of the campaign. ‘This was & natural but a serious mlauke ‘While the league did help with the election, the election also helped build up the league into a position in which it may become, as designed, a new secular arm of American foreign policy, in the Old World no less than in the New. Since Europe has been playing the diplomatic game with secret so- cieties—the Illuminati, the Jacobins, the Philhellenes, the Grand Orient Lodge, the Jesuit Order, Communists, Fascists and Nazis—for the last 200 years, Roosevelt sees no harm in our Democratic diplomacy working through & non-secret soclety, If Dr. High does not live up to his name in the counsels of the White House during the next four years, it will be aston- ishing. For the extension of the Good Neighbor movement to the Eu- ropean continent is one of the pur- poses of Roosevelt's diplomacy. % . F.D.R. was far from launching & o campaign trial balloon last Sum- mer when he told Arthur Krock of \41‘@5“* the New York Times that he R ‘wanted to arrange a conference be- tweed the real heads of governments—including Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Blum and himself. Dr. High's first post-election article repeated this sug- gestion. In organizing and following up this conference the Good Neighbor League will play an important part. That it is high time for something of the sort is suggested by the latest “inside” book on the Fascist-Communist struggle—Ernst Henri's “Hitler Over Russia?” Henri writes from a rigid Marzian viewpoint. The book describes the politics and economics of a mad- house and prophesies a German “crusade” against Russia under the old “Hoffman plan” for a double offensive on the Eastern front. Whether the plans have reached the high stage of organization which Henri describes, there is no question that the European problem is basically a struggle for access to raw materials, capital and markets. Fascism is simply another and more painful form of the nationalism and imperialism of pre-war Europe under the British balance of power. Just as democracy is the politics of economic abundance, so is dictatorship the policy of scarcity. Both are efforts to secure bread and peace for peoples. The prob- lem is how to broaden the economic basis of political society without resort to war. It is here that Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade agreements play an important part. The big contribution which we can make to world peace—as to Pan-Americanism—is an economic contribution. This means a policy of broader markets, freer trade, easier credit— all of which will widen the economic base of each mation without rendering preliminary conquest necessary and which will build up a common, material state in peace that will render war ruinous as well as unnecessary. The Roosevelt administration feels that the Pascist dictatorships can be melted like lumps of sugar in hot water if the “haves’—Russia, France, America and the British Empire—give a fair economic break to the “have- not” peoples of Italy, Germany and Japan. The chief obstacle to this policy of appeasement is the well-founded suspicion that, at present, any eco- nomic concession will promptly be ploughed into new armaments with which to extort imperialistic priv- leges. Here is where Dr. High and-the Good Neighbor League come in handy. It will be their job to con- vince the world that the New World's contribution to economic and political peace is not designed to promote an American super-im- ¢ perialism and that we will not let ourselves again be used as at the Paris Peace Conference to promote the imperialism of other nations. It will be a world propaganda agency of the first order—as important as Wilson’s Committee on Public Information—if Roosevelt's world policy ever comes to bat. 1f Spain provokes a crisis which threatens a real world war and thus promotes a real world conference, watch the good neighbors go into action. (Copyright, 1936.) Institute of North America, said to- day the institute will begin January 1 to gather oyster sales statistcs de- signed to keep members of the organ- ization informed of general market conditions. Dr. Radcliffe said the service will be | modeled after the crop-producing sys- | tems used by State and Federal De- partments of Agriculture and the pro- duction reports of many trade associa~ tions, ‘The service, he said, will inform oyster growers whether the current market is burdened with an oversupply or if there is a scarcity, and whether a grower is maintaining his proportion- ate sales volume. Accurate oyster crop reporting, he asserted, would | lessen chances of price wars. Institute members, Dr. Radcliffe | said, represent 85 per cent of the oyster industry and will be asked to report their weekly sales each month. After the first year the program contem- plates monthly comparisons. Deaths Reported. UG P':rrmmfl‘.‘, 1419 Clifton st. echariah Coilins, 75. Gallin George F. Hart. 1816 ano" Homm Pra - Swariwott, 69 1% LoRan cil’ch Hursy B Baites. ah Baiiey's Boat Hous Charlotte ‘W. Carpenter. 65. 1661 Cres- Bl Jlm&n‘ Olrrnll, 62, St. Elizabeth's Hos- Di Nora M. Hurley. 60. 514 19th s Walter ‘W. Peacock, 55, 080" Wisconsin Ida Baldwin, 52, 829 5th_sf Annle lyrd 47, Oeorn W-lmnnon Hos- Ame'E Wells. 48, La: Lawee 1'l°'ryu 41. Gallinger Houoi awrence Dugan, A John Kay. 25 Emer en:ym o el l(lme' Grlmes FORGIEY k bert and Gladys 1 and Ann; Rol Earl an a Paul and Mary Rowen. Juhn lnd lubelle aeamond boy. lizabeth hulkner wirl, Ten and Vireinia Car . girl Philip Illnl Horni Wflllm lnd ates. Jacl Edna Wikiam and Dore leukl and Ann Bri lll rence and %‘uh- and Audrey | lleeov. boy. STRIEA™ /e, foc 25¢ HISTORIC MEXICO IS LECTURE TOPIC Burton Holmes Describes Changes by Advent of Railroad and Auto. Changes wrought in historic Mexico by the advent of the railroad, automo- bile and airplane were described by Burton Holmes, veteran traveler and | photographer, before the National Geographic Society last night in Con- stitution Hall. Holmes illustrated the changes by | showing comparative motion pictures and lantern slides made during his first visit to Mexico 45 years ago and during the past year. Although the railroads, highways, hotels and airlines of modern Mexico compare favorably with those else- | where, Holmes said, just around the corner may be found villages, beautiful | churches, donkey trains and busy out- door markets which have changed little since Mexico was & Spanish colony. Mexico, D. F,, the capital city, is an up-to-date metropolis, with thousands | of motor cars, many with American | returned he would invite the Senator | daughter. license plates. Policemen, trained to RETTT o greet foreign visitors, often speak two or more languages and each wears on his sleeve a flag of the country whose speech he understands. Prom the city a network of good roads reaches out to Laredo, Tex.: to the vast pyramids of Teotihuacan: the beautiful mountain town of Tasco, with its famous church; the potteries of Puebla, the floating | gardens of Xochimilco and the Indian markets of Toluca and Cholula. Far in the interior of Mexico, at Patzcuaro, Holmes found a lake region | recalling the scenic Italian lakes. His lecture also covered a trip by air | to the immense volcano, Popocatepetl !and to Guatemala City, gateway to the highland region where the de- scendants of the Mayas of old still wear their native dress and carry out many of their ancient religious and social customs. | BORAH TO GET TRIP tions last Winter, President Roose- velt made an agreement with Senator Borah of Idaho, then being mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for the presidency, that if one of them was | successful in the election he would invite the other for a cruise aboard the presidential yacht Potomac. When reminded of that agreement yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt replied quick- ly that he had not forgotten it and | that just as soon as warm weather to be his guest. “FOR HEALTH'S SAKE, SEND At one of the White House recep- Headline Folk and What They Do David Milton’s $13,000 Brings Control of $218,000,000 Trust. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. HE career of David M. Milton would have made a fine subject for one of those old Beadle and Adams nickel novels, best of all haymow literature of that day or since. In 1924 he was a young lawyer's clerk, polite, reserved and circumspect in an old-fashioned, silk-stocking law of- fice, with a premature touch of gray in his hair making him look even more solvent and dependable. Today there is disclosed Mr. Milton’s mastery of & $218,000,000 investment trust. through an original investment of $13,000. It is not his first coup d'epee, all fast tierce and riposte in the Beadle and Adams tradition of the well-behaved young man on the up-take. In 1925 he married Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, jr. It was made known that Mr. Milton was starting from scratch and that Mrs. Milton would do her own housework. Furthermore, they used a borrowed car, since both were of the pay-as-you-go school. But picayune installment borrowing was one thing, and constructive busi- ness borrowing was something else. 8o young Mr. Milton borrowed $1,000,000 from his father-in-law, built the ele- | gant co-operative apartment house, 1 | Beekman place. with a little niche of | his own, consisting of a $100,000 pent- | house with 18 rooms and 8 baths. ‘This and other real estate ventures | were successful, in spite of the 1929 | crash, and Mr. Milton moved on to 1933, when he picked up the $2,000,« 000 Missouri State Life Insurance Co. The business and financial community is now aware of the fact that voung Mr. Milton is traveling under his own steam and that Mrs. Abby Rocke= feller Milton no longer does her own housework. His father died when he was 13, and, like Whittier's lad, “he early |learned to pay his cheerful self-re- liant way.” He was graduated from | Williams~ College and Columbia Law | Scool. { Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, who wants to be Secretary of War, is the man who, it will be remem- bered, was built up four years ago as the first American “strong man.” | The papers tagged him “America’s first dictator,” this being due to & | sweeping extension of the Governor's power granted by the Indiana Legis- lature. He looked the part, but he didn't do much dictating. Like other Gov- ernors, he got the best break possible on Washington relief funds, and | somehow tooled the State through the | depression badlands and did no vio= | lence to cherished institutions. He | denounced the onslaught on Earl Browder in Terre Haute as a “dis grace to the State.” That's what it came to—‘"America’s first dictator” being the first Governor to defend & Communist’s right of free speech. He is a former national commander of the American Legion, and former dean of the law school of the Univer= sity of Indiana. If he got time and & half for overtime work, he'd be rich. He once made 365 speeches in 365 cone secutive days. | Tall, dark, handsome, with a shock |of iron gray hair and a statesman's |black hat, he is being watched as & 1940 Democratic possibility. The kick- back from Dillinger’s wooden gun, used by his enemies as a political issue, em= barrassed him only temporarily. He was the first Democratic Governor in Indiana since 1916. His term expires January 1. e EX-POWER OFFICIAL DIES W. P. Wallace, 55, Expires at Home in Florida. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., December 19 (#)—William P. Wallace, 55, for- | mer vice president of the Florida | Power Co., died at his home here last night. Wallace, an engineer for the power company, was a native of Key West, but moved to Mexico, N. Y., as a boy For many years he was associated with the H. L. Doherty interests in De- flance. Ohio. He is survived by his widow and a Hester Wallace, of Cleve- {1and, ohio. IT ALL TO TOLMAN" We'll Be Closed Next Friday ~° Saturday In Observance of the Holidays Therefore, Will Have Us Ca You Kindly Il Monday —Or Early Tuesday Morning at the Latest For Any Laundering or Dry Cleaning You Will Require for Christmas? Thenk You—And the Season’s Greetings May the Christmas star gleam with added brightness over your home—and bring to you all the joys and pleasures you could possibly wish for yourself. . MACKENZIE , Awsident 5248 wisconsin.ave. CleveLano 7800