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Show Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON Most members of congress have become hardened to the "various pressure groups the neutrality bill has spawned on Capitol Capi-tol hill. But the latest group Is bowling them over. It's a horse lobby. The American Humane association Is bombarding bom-barding the legislators with fervent pleas to amend the neutrality measure so as to prohibit pro-hibit the shipment of horses and mules to the European battlefields. "We can't burden the bill with any more amendments," quipped Representative John A. Martin of Colorado. "I think every member should vote neigh' on this question." Short Whirls Welkan Chiang, second sen of General Chi-ank Chi-ank Kai-shek, is in Washington preparing for an infantry training course in a U. S. army school. He already has hsd three years of military mili-tary training with the German army. When a Washington newsmen asked him for an interview, inter-view, young Chiang shook his head. "Father told me to keep my mouth shut," he said... Jerome Frank, chairman of S E C, won a gold Phi Beta Kappa key for high scholarship at Chicago university, but doesn't wear it His explanation: ex-planation: "I lost it in a Paris night club IS years ago... British Ambassador Lord Lothian will make his second public address at Swarth-more Swarth-more college on Armistice day. As director of the Rhodes Trust, Lothian has long known Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, American secretary of the trust. Senator Taft Especially hard hit by war and neutrality were the ambitious political plans of Senator Taft It was not supposed to be known, but he had scheduled a strategy meeting in Cleveland for September S. Expected to attend were ex-Vice ex-Vice President Charles G. Dawes and Trubee Davison, former assistant secretary of war. Taft also has been flirting with Roy St Lewis, assistant attorney general under Hoover, to act as his campaign manager, especially in the south and southwest. However, Hitler invaded Poland on September Septem-ber 1, so it was felt unwise to meet two days later. Taft has been absolutely nonpartisan, and a staunch supporter of Roosevelt regarding neutrality. Now that politics is getting back to normalcy, however, you can look tor the Taft campaign to make up for lost time. Mellowing Harold Ickes For six years of the new deal Harold Ickes was the crustiest member of the Roosevelt administration. ad-ministration. The venom which he spewed at big business frequently came out also in his own staff meetings. Government associates were scared of him. Congressmen came out of his office either cowed or disgruntled. "You never can tell." they used to say, "when he is going to bite your head oft" But for the last year a new Ickes has been at the helf of the interior department The old irascibility has passed. It la a friendlier, more cordial secretary who now greets callers. And it was all done through the softening Influence of a red-headed, understanding young woman. She has mellowed the toughest member of the cabinet, and the interior department ia giving Mrs. Harold Ickes a vote of thanks for what she has done for the stata of the union. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, |