National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mention: Sep. 29, 1924

In Southampton, L. I., Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a meeting of women Democrats. Said she: "Republicans go into the Cabinet to make money; Democrats get out of the Cabinet to make money." In Washington, Mrs. Mae Nolan, of California, only woman member of Congress, announced that, in the event of the Washington Baseball Club's winning the baseball championship of the world, she will introduce a resolution in Congress to make Walter Johnson's* birthday a legal holiday throughout the District of Columbia. In Manhattan, John K. Tener, one time Governor of Pennsylvania, one time President of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, one-time baseball pitcher, spoke as follows to a newspaper reporter: "Suppose the manager or owner of a big league baseball club suddenly developed radical ideas about how the game should be played and how the rules should be interpreted, and insisted that in his park the spectators should make the decisions instead of the umpires. Can you imagine the chaos that would result?

"Yet that is just what LaFollette would do, in effect, if he had his way about the Supreme Court and other vital parts of our government machine."

Clem L. Shaver, alleged ineffectual Chairman of the Davis campaign, together with the Republican Chairman (William M. Butler), was soundly rebuked by The New York Times, chief Davis organ. Said the newspaper: "It is significant that protests against the political gush which the Chairmen of the National Committees have been so freely exuding are being heard within the ranks of their own parties . . . Republican complaint about the rosy optimism of Chairman Butler is reaching and disquieting Washington. The President is urged to mobilize that famous Advisory Committee which was to hold the too sanguine and too arbitrary Butler in check . . . There is no corresponding body to watch over the outgivings of Chairman Shaver of the Democratic National Committee, but he, too, has been worrying his own party more than cheering it, by some of his interviews. . . . The Chairmen should get it into their heads that their chief function is to work, not to talk."