Show r THE DAILY DAlLY W WASHINGTON Merry Go Round A Trade M Mark MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-No No branch of the government government government govern govern- ment needed a new deal more desperately than the department of labor a year ago Nine years of Jim Davis plus three years of Bill Doak had reduced it to the gutter level Labor feared and distrusted it Many employers viewed it with contempt and disgust The public public pub pub- lic lie at large scarcely knew it existed or cared The year that Frances Perkins has ruled over the labor department has witnessed a rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation tation of its repute integrity and efficiency Today its statistics are accepted in the most critical quarters without question The red- red hunting antics of the Doak regime arc are a thing of the past Order decency intelligence liberalism liberalism liberalism liberal liberal- ism dominate its affairs Bossy There was no new dealer not even excepting excepting excepting except except- ing the president whom the press and congress congress congress con con- than Miss gress were more ready to welcome Perkins They had laughed at Davis despised Doak They looked forward to a competent ex executive executive ex- ex at the Hie head of the suffering long-suffering Labor department But Madame Secretary had been in office only a few weeks before the press and Capitol hill hilt discovered that she classed them both in inthe inthe inthe the category of bothersome nuisances Miss Perkins was aloof brusque and bossy When Tacoma's Tacoma's Tacoma's Ta- Ta comas coma's crusading Senator Homer T. T Bone sought to protest her appointment of a reactionary as unemployment supervisor of Washington she curtly refused to see him When Pat Harrison chairman of the powerful senate finance committee called at her office she let him cool his heels for half an hour and then rushed off olf without seeing him Before congressional congressional congressional committees she speaks with commanding brilliance but a distinctly tutorial manner This is deeply resented Miss Perkins has one quality perhaps perhaps' to a greater degree than any of her cabinet colleagues col col- col- col leagues leagues courage She is one of the few who will stand up and tell the pr president exactly what she thinks no matter how strenuously he may disagree Appointments Although no not reputed to be a good organizer Miss Perkins has made several good appoint appoint- ments One was Edward F. F McGrady first as assistant assistant assistant as- as secretary another Dr Isador Lubin commissioner of labor statistics McGrady is one of the ablest mo most t liberal and widely esteemed labor le leaders ders I Dr Lubin former executive of the Brookings Brookings Brookings Brook- Brook I ings Institution is one of the greatest statistical statistical cal authorities in the country For years mu much h hof I of the legislation and data sponsored by the progressives in congress was his work A tireless tireless tireless tire tire- less research man he has been load loaded d down with a half-dozen half jobs in addition to his many labor dep department responsibilities Charles E. E Jr solicitor of the de department department department de- de is a Felix Frankfurter man A brilliant brilliant brilliant bril bril- lawyer and former editor of the Harvard Law Journal he like Lubin keeps out of the limelight but performs a multitude of duties W. W W. W Husband second assistant secretary isa is is' isa a Republican n holdover whose retention is a mystery to everyone except Miss Perkins Hugh L. L Kerwin director of f conciliation an another another another an- an other holdover r but a Democrat came into the department 21 years ago under its first secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary William B. B Wilson Vilson Daniel W. W MacCormack commissioner of immigration has performed outstanding service in reorganizing his bureau Miss Grace Abbott chief of the childrens children's bureau has served d in that capacity s since 1917 Under the Davis Doak regimes Miss Abbott faced a continuous struggle to protect her bu bureau bureau bureau bu- bu reau from political sabotage Now Miss Perkins an old friend has given a new scope and vitality vitality vital vital- ity to the work of the childrens children's bureau Anderson has been director of the women's bureau since 1919 and faced not only the same problem confronting Miss Abbott Under under under un un- der Doak Davis-Doak but also the hard die-hard opposition opposition opposition tion of congressional foes of maternity tion Hon She now has complete freedom and 1 is do doing doing doing do- do ing a grand job l ROUND MERRY ROUND GO Speaker Henry T. T Rainey as ns representative of Illinois' Illinois twentieth congressional district holds the seat filled by Abraham Lincoln in his one term in congress a a Jim Landis crusading member of the federal federal federal fed fed- eral trade commission frequently works all all night at his desk He has a couch in iii his office on which he takes naps cat-naps from time to time 0 There are three Hams in congress congress Sena Sena Senator tor J. J Hamilton Lewis of Senator Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Ham Ham- ilton F. F Kean of New Jersey and arid Representative Hamilton Fish of New York all known as asHam asHam Ham to their colleagues W b y U 4 Yeat JeMaa JD 4 I |