Show Borah's Dry Views Traced to Long-Ago Long Event in Idaho WASHINGTON By Paul Mallon l The administration is only fooling around with Senator Borah His dry views will be incorporated In the Republican prohibition plank with a big but behind them Then it will be explained that a referendum dum might not be a bad thing That much has been agreed upon by the administration counselors with White House assent a 8 a a aThe The inside battle is over the phraseology phraseology phrase phrase- of this referendum angle How to hold drys and wets at the same time is the problem A new plan is under discussion It would indorse referenda in each state to instruct congressmen how to vote vote for for repeal beer state option or whatever is in ir your mind That would require 10 years or so The idea has a Democratic origin but there is no copyright on it Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Dill Dm of Washington is promoting it for the Democratic platform The Democrats probably will go further than that a aBorah Borah has a good private reason for being so dry that he hc crackles The Idahoan has had no more than three drinks in his life He managed managed man man- aged to get through the silver dollar bar days in Idaho drinking only when he had to On one occasion he and an old timer were riding the range in the rain Borah refused to nip at the old mans man's bottle despite persistent warnings that it was a sure cure for pneumonia That night the tight half ranger pulled a pistol and held It at Borah's head insisting that he be cured of pneumonia one way or the other Borah looked at the pistol and then at the bottle and took the bottle a a a What sold the prohibition idea to the he senator was an incident during the Big Bill Haywood labor trial more than 20 years ago All An the saloons in Boise were closed for the duration of the trial by order of the court Borah was largely instrumental in bringing it about Afterward all aU the wives in town wrote him thanking him for keeping their husbands sober that long Jong That personal background explains why he is unwilling to give an Inch no now a a aA A dry leader here had several con con- with the president recently He turned to his confreres with th this announcement Mr Hoover would woul be all an right for us if those other fe fel lows would let lot him alone The other fellows include Postmaster ter General Brown Treasurer Nutt o othe of the national committee Charles D D. Hilles of New York et a al 0 How grown up men can act th the way they have in the senate stock stoc market investigation farce is one o othe of the inexplicable mysteries Democratic Angel Raskob was wa called caned for a little political frying Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Norbeck thought it up but no noby not by himself He promised a sensation sensation sens sensa sensa tion Raskob's private market playing play play- ing was disclosed Democratic Senator Glass and nonpartisan nonpartisan non non- partisan Senator Couzens screamed about a White House plot or political machinations Net result Three billion words o of argument and nothing done about the th stock market a a a Washington looked on the Iowa pr primary mary contest yesterday as a battle between chicken stew and bologna Senator Brookhart s e r i o 0 u s sly 1 y charged his opponent Fields with improperly improperly im im- im properly cornering votes with chicken stew dinners Fields confessed th the use of chicken stew He said he ha hato had to because Brookhart had the na natural nat nat- ural advantage of so much bologna Whispered tips about the Republican can prohibition plank have driven th the Washington correspondents dizy One On day the president would be dry th the next day wet That is part of th the crafty political game Jame of promoting misinformation for personal ad van tage Careful politicians circulate the stories stories sto sto- sto ries to watch public reaction Then they know what to do a a It a aMz Mr Hoovers Hoover's nominator Joseph L. L Scott is a Catholic who helped to suppress the Idea that religion had anything to do with the 1928 1926 campaign cam cam- He is given credit with having done yeoman service along that line in New England four years ago Mark Sullivan the writer is still a daily breakfast guest at the White House working on the plat plat- form They will wUl need a novelist not a political author to write the prohibition uPI plank which Brown has announced will please everyone While Sullivan writes James R. R Garfield Garfield Gar Gar- IfIeld field chairman of the resolutions com corn is collecting ideas on what the platform ought to contain He Helas has las held heid long conferences with al all interested senators and cabinet off cers Senator George Moses Mose brought rought half a dozen different tion lion planks to the White House recently recently re rc re- re just to help out Nine were torn up and one was filed med away |