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Show Washington Comment I.a-t Monday morning, long before be-fore the average Waahinjrtonian was astir, while mist still drifted over Capitol hill from our languid Potomac, a little group of people ! I'i'gan to collect in front of the lately Ionic pillars that guard the United States supreme court. Long efore m.on the queue had extend-I extend-I from the street to the door of 'he court chamber a queue composed com-posed of men and women who had onie to see Hugo L. Black, former senator from Alabama, take his eat on the bench of the highest ri'junal in the land or otherwise. . Ml the world knows the rest. Jus tice Black took his seat. His seating seat-ing was announced in three ' rusque sentences by Chief Jus-ice Jus-ice Hughes, who said Justice iilaok had been confirmed by the enate and had presented his com-nission com-nission which would be filed. The whole thing was anti-climactic. Only a drab, 21-minutes of dried !-g:il procedure marked the session which had begun in tense expec-:ancy expec-:ancy at 12:01 p.m., when the white iraperies behind the bench parted and Chief Justice Hughes walked in ahead cf his associates. Justice "lack wore his new black robe. He had received a huge bunch of chrysanthemums from an undiscovered undis-covered well-wisher an hour before. " I e had successfully eluded the press through a door barred to :hem and he must have been feeling feel-ing pretty good. Since he'd taken the oath in the office of the secretary secre-tary of the senate on August " 19,- . .: ; he didn't have to repeat it. Mo- ; ; tions assailing his appointment- r. which might possibly result in his-lisoiualification his-lisoiualification appeared not to disturb him. Justice Black took ' . " "art in the court's deliberations on ' " i75 pending cases last week, but " it is not known whether he sat in on the discussion of the two mo- . . tions questioning his eligibility. All Washington is amused by the gesture that appointed as his office of-fice force a Jew and two Catholics, Catho-lics, one of them a Negro. Shades r.f the Klan! ith the Black affair success- : fully relegated to the limbo by the administration's dangling of the red herring of a new foreign policy in front cf the public's nose. Washington is buzzing again with excitement- A bit languid about the threat of foreign entanglements en-tanglements (our diplomatic set is so utterly charming and not very formidable around a tea. table) still the town has not forgotten for-gotten the stormy April night when Woodrow Wilson journeyed to the capitol to ask congress to declare war. Nor has it forgotten the eager dreamer who would have united the whole world in an idealistic peace . . . Nor the broken man who left the 'White house and who rests now in the Washington cathedral. It's the handful of congressmen, here for extra session next month, who are the most excited about the administration's admin-istration's change of foreign policy. Some of the legislators have been hanging around town ever since the regular session closed, feeling (Continued on last page) Washington Comment (Continued from first page) perhaps 'that it was too late in the season to go vacationing or possibly pos-sibly they were sure about a special session being called and congressmen con-gressmen and senators have to pay their railroad fares out of their own pockets when there's an extra session. It seems assured now that the middle of next month will find tho harassed legislators once moro under the big dome listening to the crack of the white house whip when tho farm and crop control program and the wHgo-and-hour bill come up. Here's something new under the sun! Ijist week patent No. 2,094,-fill 2,094,-fill was issued by the United States patent office to a Memphis inventor for (of all things) a process pro-cess for treating cigarettes to give off colored smoke to match milady's mi-lady's evening gown, lipstick, fingernails, toenails, or what-have-you. Just how this will appeal to the mere man with only a red nose, a blue jowl, or a purple funk to match hasnt been divulged. n |