Show Merry Go Round Merry Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-In In the last 48 hours inner circle third have received what they consider their most encouraging word so far They have been assured that the president will say nothing about his intentions until the thelast thelast thelast last moment and that the last moment means right up to the Chicago convention The last thing the he third term tenn advocates advocates- J want is s for Roosevelt to talk now They know no better than the next man whether he is or oris or oris oris is not seriously think thinking ng of running gain again but th they are fir firmly ly convinced that the longer he he w withholds making a decision the better the chances that he can be drafted S For some soni months their chief private worry has been that under the heavy pressure he would break down and declare himself One of the keystones of their strategy has been to forestall any such statement Bombshell Was Big Shock Following Jim Farleys Farley's Boston bombshell bombshell- a big shock to the White House which had believed that Jim could be handled the handled the inner became parti particularly concerned Their fears were inflamed by an inside tip that Farley Parley was secretly planning to demand a yes or no answer after his his' current speaking tour also by bya a report that the president had intimated to a congressional leader that a statement might be expected soon This dread has now been dispelled One of the gr group up ha personally been told by Roosevelt he would not talk regardless of what Farley Parley or anyone else demanded The inner went to the president to urge him not to break his silence Roosevelt listened quietly then smiled and said Dont worry Im I'm not going to say anything until I get ready to do so and that means the last lastS moment Muffed Shiner It doesn't happen often but house Republicans muffed a marvelous chance the other day to hang a shiner on the Democrats Representative Leon Sacks was making a speech castigating G. G O O. P. P misrule and anti- anti labor bias and citing various instances in the past decade Springing to his feet Representative tive James McGranery another Philadelphia Democrat asked rhetorically And how about that governor of our neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring state Ohio who called out troops to suppress strikers striker Wasn't he a Republican He certainly was thundered back ack S Sacks My distinguished colleague and learned friend is absolutely right He was indeed a Republican and there there you have another example o of Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican bias against labor The two Pennsylvanians sat down much pleased with themselves themselves' and their bulls bull's The Republican side sat silent A few minutes later after the house had passed o on to another subject McGranery suddenly poked Sacks in 1 1 fl Hey Hyl he exclaimed Ined out of the side of his hism m mouth uth I j just st remembered It wasn't Bricker Bricker- present Republican governor of Ohio who called out the troops It was Davey his Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic predecessor who lid did that Round Merry S This is th the way the Townsend We Weekly de described described described de- de scribed the aged ol old age age i-age pension czars czar's m meeting eting with Mrs Roosevelt In its 14 studded history-studded decades the White House has had man many an eminent visitor but none more distinguished and none morel more graciously received than the spare white-haired white gentleman who crossed its threshold one afternoon recently The gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man was Dr Francis E. E Townsend beloved champion of millions When Federal Works Administrator John Carmody was forced to cut P W A rolls recently he wrote hundreds of letters to business men seeking jobs for the dismissed He placed over of them The current congress has investigated many things and soon may add the capitals capital's George W Washington hington university to the list Dr Cloyd H. H Marvin university president is under tinder fire because of bf an unexplained dismissal of a woman faculty member and an alumni group 15 is seeking a congressional probe of t the sch school o Distributed by Feature Syndicate S J S i. i i S |