Show t IA tIA 1 Washington Daybook By HERBERT PLUMMER IER I I I 1 I I I WASHINGTON Jan 22 No 22 No one perhaps has more right to voice that thai time tune honored phrase We have met the enemy and they are ours than the Honorable Sol Bloom member of congress from New York Representative Bloom is the man mart who is striving to make the country George Washington conscious As associate d director rector of the George Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington bicentennial Bloom heads the movement for the nationwide celebration tion lion of Washington's birthday this year The manner in which he has gone about the thc job hasn't exactly pleased some people around the capital There h have ve been charges of com corn too much ballyhoo and anda a cheapening of the Father of Our Country Some members of congress have been gunning for Bloom for tor a long time The first time the storm broke on the floor noor of the house h he hg was ab ab- ab sent But he heard about it it and the very next day came to the hill to face the music BLOOM I EMERGES VICTOR VICTORI He was pelted from all sides in inthe inthe inthe the attack But not once did they get the Uie best of him With the skill of a sharpshooter he picked them of oU one by one And when he was through he left the well of the house amid cheers Some of his adversaries apparently were out for the purpose of getting the Bloom scalp But they failed to reckon with the resourcefulness o othe of the owner of 01 that scalp TURNS TilE THE TABLES The climax came when the scholarly scholar scholar- ly Iy Beck of Pennsylvania charged that tha Washington was being made an advertising advertising ad ad- medium and that the most mos sacred name In American history was being commercialized Here was a critic to be feared in deed But Bloom showed him facts about the people of ot Pennsylvania am and their knowledge of Washington that tha must have overwhelmed even Beck Bee the the houses house's scholar At any rate when Bloom returned to his bicentennial offices uptown within less than an hour later h he found a letter from Beck It expressed ex cx- pressed admiration of Blooms Bloom's ability abil abilIty ity and the way he had met the situ situ- But Beck reiterated his hope that tha the memory of Washington would no nobe not be commercialized |