Enemies of Magnus

Those Washington newspapermen who are hostile to Magnus Johnson last week scrutinized his senatorial record.

They pointed out that:

P: The Washington capers of "Magnavox" have so far resulted in the introduction of 13 bills. Not one of them relates to the farmers whose salvation he proposed to achieve.' Eight of them are for personal claims or pensions for voters in his state. Typical of the others is his bill to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbia.

P: The peace plan, announced from afar by his big voice, consisted entire- ly of a few whereases and a suggestion that the President call an international conference to make arbitration treaties.

P: Mr. Johnson's most justly famous speech on the floor of the Senate was the one in which he pronounced Mc-Adoo "Micky Doo." The sole disturbance caused by him was an attack on the press gallery for alleged misrepresentation of his grammar and accent.

P: His colleagues have shown him every courtesy. Mr. Pepper took him to his Philadelphia home--a house located in the Colonial street where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and characterized by Mr. Johnson as being "in an alley where Mrs. Johnson would not think of living."