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Show Washington Comment At this writing two even - of importance aie probably taking I lace: Mr. It o:-,evc!t is. p'M--urri-bly a-kii.g for the r'si"tia'.ion of ' i. airman Morgan of T. V. A., and the house is. undoubtedly -pa-:-irr he 1,250,000,000 navy bill. La,t viek's events in Eur'.p': smashed much opposition that tl.ii-a r-neo ihe passage t,y a dangerous!'.' i !o vote. .Secretary Hul.'s. radio talk pro: atdy did the re- t Aside I urn rnakintr the navy fci'r. -a cer-I cer-I iin y, public opinion heiJabouts i, divided on the tff icacy- j,f the m err tary's speech, boh. -in this: country and abroad. S.me-peopb-ti.ink that it will be. given, widespread wide-spread attention in Europe';' others claim "hat its effect on ' foreign j v.ers will amount to nothing' at all. However, it demonstrated the fa t that .Secretary Hull, who -poke for the adminis.tration, was having to be very, very careful. For the new deal has plenty cf domestic troubles on its hands (Continued n lart page) o Washington Comment (Continued from first page) what with an election for the ' bouse and senate so close and is I therefnro reluctant to stir up sentiment about foreign affairs. Republicans in Ohio are beginning begin-ning to count their chickens the seats they will likely get nwsy from the IVmoorats in the forthcoming forth-coming election. In l'.'.'tti, tho Republicans Re-publicans lost nearly nil there are Just two seats lxlongmg to them In the house out of a total of 24. But the way tilings are going lately, it looks to observers' here that Ohio will be back in the fold in 1938. Political signs point to a Republican senatcr, possibly! from ten to fourteen house seats,; and a governor all f;r Ohio. I And now the poor farmer, embattled em-battled by the new deal on every I front is to be a:taeked from the! air! The Agricultural Adjustment, administration has just announced' that, come the summer, airplanes ' will soar over the farming areas on the east and southeast in a new aerial mapping program. To check results under the agricultural agricul-tural conservation program, 108,-854 108,-854 square miles of land will be photographed by pilots from the air. The contract cost runs something some-thing like this: for Delaware.1, Maryland, and Virginia 5,736' square miles $15,085; for Maryland Mary-land and West Virginia 7,222 square miles $28,888. Echoes of the past are around Washington this weik with the return of the famous "Coalidge horse" once the pride of the White House and the joy of the humorists, humor-ists, now destined to take for a ride tired business men, bankers, cabinet members and congressmen, congress-men, at a popular health club here. Seems that when President Coolidge left the White House, he took his mechanical steed with him to New England, and it was among his personal effects when he died. The trustees of his estate sold the "animal" and thus it returns to the capital, somewhat shorn of its former glory as a hobby horse ot a chief executive, but still able to run. One button, properly punched, makes it trot; another to canter,; an1 n fbirrt tr crnllon with all its good old pep and punch! With war talk on everybody's tongue, it is illuminating to learn that army and navy officers wiil study plans next week to put more than 2,000,000 men under arms within four months of a declara- j tion of war. Fifty regular, na-1 tional guard, and reserve officers who are specialists in personnel procurement, will receive training from March 28 to April 9, for any future mobilization day. The program pro-gram is a part of an enlistment project in preparation since the World war, we are told by the war department. In event of war, the army and the national guard would have about 375,000 men ready and the navy about a third of that number. The navy woula need 500,000 recruits in four months and the army 1,250,000. Officials are concerned with the possible task of recruiting 300,000 volunteers without de'ay, in event of war. Under exis.ing plans this number would be souirht as volunteers volun-teers in the first month before the selective draft system of 1917 is put into operation. A draft of a selective servicd law is alpeady prepared and could be shot to congress con-gress for passage very quickly and regulations have been drafted ana preparations made to print the forms in just a few days time. |
