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Show Merry-Co-Round By DREW FEARSON and ROBERT I. ALLEN WASHINGTON Almost every day new gray hair appear In the head of th stste department boy aa a result of the new neutrslity act They hsv tsken over it enforcement from Attorney General Cummingt and they certainly wiah they hadn't Chief headache la th collection of fund for th Spanish war by vartou orgsnirstions. This rsn be regulated under th neutrality act, but Spaniah sympathizer hav posed torn ttiff problemt. , On Is th query on what the stste department depart-ment would do If a labor union dipped Into Us reserve funds snd tent money to tid th Spsniah fovernment Thi would not be "collection" of unds. sine they would be already collected. Another Is the inquiry of th stste department's depart-ment's position in case a collection should be tsken up for the Spsniah government during a church server. Would th atste depsrtmcnt rush in and arrest th paator and deacons? Bishop ea Horseback At a matter of fact, cm group friendly to Spsin I maneuvering lo force th stst drpsrt-menl drpsrt-menl to arrest a prominent bishop, rabbi or labor leader In order to crest a test case on the eol-lection eol-lection of fund. They know that public opinion would boomerang against th career boyt, Th law require that. In order to collect funds for either side In th Spanish wsr, you must hav a license from the stst department Any brother csught collecting fund from hit sister without a liccni la subject to flv years' Imprisonment Real fact it that the stst department, instead in-stead of reguleting the big munitions drslcrs, ha found itself in predurement such thst it will hsv to arrest ntir labor union and church if It I to enforce th law. Funniest angle 1 that the law was written in th stst department lawslcome Gusst Those guest speaker sharing John Hamilton's Hamil-ton's Sundsy night radio progrsms ar not voluntary volun-tary addition. Thy ar forced on th G. O. P. national chairman. Whan Hamilton arranged th four weekly broadcasts (without consulting ornotifying other Republican leaders) he announced that he would be th only tpesker. Th first Sundsy night thu wss true. But thereafter Hamilton divided hit tun with other. Th second week h divided with Hout Lauder Bert Snell and Representative Chtrlet A. Halleck of Indians: last week with Senator H. Styles Bridge of New llsmpshire and Representative Rep-resentative i'rancit H. Case of South Dakota. Reason for thi chang in plant was undercover under-cover pressure by th congressional lesdcrs. Hamilton It far from popular with this group. They not only dislike him personally, but they have a low regard for his political talents. So when h sprang his broadcasting plan they went into a cold (west for fear he would lout an attack on th president's court bilL Q. O. F. Strategy It it a. O. P. ttrttegy on Capitol Mil to keep all Republicans in the background, lotting the Democrat tsk th lead in warring on Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Thia canny plan prevent th admiimtra-tion admiimtra-tion from raising th partisan cry and exerting the preatur of party loyalty on dissident Democrats. Demo-crats. Hsmilton assured the congressional leader he would not barge into the court issue, but they were not satisfied. To quiet them, he agreed to shsr hit broadcasting time with other party speakers. However, a a tlap at th veterans, Hamilton Ostentatiously invited young Republican! to spesk with him. Sncll was th only old-timer; Bridget, Cat and Halleck ar newcomers. Nw Upheaval Th Towntend moguls ar at each other' throata again. Upheavals among them ar getting get-ting to be almost monthly occurrences. Latest row it over Dr. I'rancit Townsend't elevation of his 22-vetr-old son. Robert, to be business mansger of th nstionsl orssnirstion. One Pacific coast leader notified Townsend thst, unless th doctor pulled in hit horns and submitted sub-mitted to a democratic control of the organization, organiza-tion, he would lead four of the largest eastern states out of th movement e e s Hugh Gibson it becoming the ambaasador without a country. Th cmbaaay at Berlin was closed to him bees use of hit connection with the Edith Ctvell case. Then ha was slated to go to Belgium, but Dav Morris, present ambassador, ambassa-dor, refuse to vacate. So it may b that Hugh will have to go back to Brazil a disappointment from which hut wife never will recover. e e e Senator Borah ha been working with Senator Sena-tor Nye on hn proposed investigation of Spanish fascist activities in the United States. Borah think hit young colleague hat torn startling information. see Th neutrslity bill was drafted chiefly in the office of Wslton Moore, about-to-b counselor of th state department. - (Copyright, INI. by Unite feature radiosM, las.) |