Show I W SIDN N LUTE LtTIE THE POSTMASTER FOST GENERAL Gt UN UN- UNBUTTONS UNBUTTONS BUTTONS HIS VEST EST SOUTH SOUTHERN ERN tEN POLITICAL DOSS BOSS IS NEGRO 2 JEW AND CATHOLIC By RODNEY ROD oEY DUTCHER BUTCHER NEA tA Service Writer WASHINGTON July 4 When Postmaster General Harry New com corn commissioned commissioned Commander Richard E E. Byrd to carry sir air mall mail across tho the At At- Atlantic Atlantic At- At lantic antic i a dream began to come true in ina a a. big way New reminiscing the other day re recalled re- re recalled called c that as long as ten years ears ago he had discussed with Byrd the b of an air mall mail service ice and other othe angles a of the future of aviation Both had confidence in the air mall mail idea Byrd was still a naval aviator nod and New was then a senator from In In- Indiana Indiana In- In Indiana diana trying to sell air mail mall legis legis- lation l to colleagues who wouldn't take It i t very cry seriously The postmaster general claims vir yin paternity of ot the air mall mail service He fie nursed It in infancy and brought brough It i t up It may seem as If he had sub sub- laid the child on somebody's by surrendering the service o private operation but New doesn't ed that way ay Its It's still the govern govern- mall that's being carried and predicts a n great future for the Your correspondent developed a er ln respect for tor New when he him in his office on a warm ay with his vest completely Other cabinet officers are ere to be seen In such a state of un un- sin sin- ress Now If New Ne would only shed is vest est completely completely- Interesting characters come to from Louisiana the home f Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell dignity and personal rectitude te so great that he is called Saint oe though not to his face For Fer Instance there is Congressman Pugh Martin who has one term as a Progressive one erm as a Republican and four tour terms a Democrat He will continue to er e as a pe Democrat o in the t e seventieth e tI h half that although I h Republican candi- candi dates In Louisiana are as scarce as chicken in a a. veal stew his district de- de 1 clops marked Republican tendencies c ce every ery e ery time there 13 is talk of reducing the he sugar tariff Then theres there's Walter Waller Cohen the states state's negro Republican boss and col col- collector lector ector of the port at New Orleans Cohen whose father was Jewish has solidified the vote rote of his maternal race and nd carries the Louisiana Republican delegation In his pocket so he Is one of f those southern negro politicians who can have anything he wants want In- In Incidentally he is credited with consid- consid considerable enable rable ability Walter Cohen was in Washington when the Ku Klux Klan agitation was WIlS wasat at t Its height I sure hope those never get et after me because it will be hard hand he remarked Im a negro a Jew and a Catho Catho- Catholic lic lie I All of which somehow was as true |