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Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by . CARTER FIELD Congressmen Worried By Public Attitude Toivard Necessary War Measures . . . FDR and Willkie Both Interested In Neiv York's Election. Bell Syndicate WNU Features. WASHINGTON. There is much uneasiness among members of the house, and among the senators facing fac-ing renofnination and re-election this year. It is due to increasing evidence of popular resentment resentment re-sentment not leveled' at the conduct of the war itself, but what so many people think is amateurish bungling. As it comes to individual congressmen con-gressmen (always remembering that your average congressman is' the best listener at the keyhole key-hole for what his own constituents constitu-ents are thinking; that he is a professional at this business, not an amateur) the irritation is not over the fact that sacrifices are imposed, but at what individual citizens regard as lack of intelligence intel-ligence in imposing them. Your average voter is likely to be a little unreasonable as well as not too strictly confined, in his mental process, to logic. For example irritation ir-ritation on the part of many Easterners East-erners on the gasoline rationing because the folks close to the oil wells can have more despite the fact that the only trouble about gasoline is not production, but transportation. trans-portation. So the only valid reason for restricting gas consumption close to the wells is to save rubber, not fuel. But, the mail to, congressmen shows, too many people are getting get-ting sore over too many details of government administration for the good of candidates this year, so the boys on Capitol Hil are worried. New York Battle Has National Aspects Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Wen-dell L. Willkie are beyond doubt the two meri most interested in New York's gubernatorial battle this year who are not themselves candidates candi-dates for the office. Yet each of them, desperately anxious for HIS party to win that contest., is putting put-ting obstacles in the way of that development. President Roosevelt would regard the election of a Republican governor gover-nor in New York this fall as little short of a calamity. It would distress dis-tress him not only as a sort of midterm mid-term repudiation of his national administration ad-ministration by his own state, which happens to be the most important state from the standpoint of electoral elec-toral votes, but because such a "repudiation" "re-pudiation" might be misconstrued abroad. Not only in Germany, Japan and Italy but in Britain. The British learned a lesson about American politics from that League of Nations experience, when they paid no attention atten-tion to the Republican off year victory vic-tory in 1918, and then saw what happened to the Versailles treaty. So it could be that they would err in the other direction by overestimating overesti-mating the importance of a "repudi-ation" "repudi-ation" of the President in New York this year. With this very sound premise in mind, one would figure that the President, if he took any active part in the selection of the Democratic candidate to succeed Governor Leah-man, Leah-man, would be interested only in choosing the strongest candidate possible the man MOST likely to be elected, almost regardless of everything else. But that is precisely what the President is NOT doing. He IS taking tak-ing a very active interest, and he is thumbs down on the two men most New York political leaders think would be the strongest candidates These two are James A. Farley right bower politically of FDR right up to the third-term episode, and States Attorney General John J Bennett The President is realiably reported to prefer Owen D. Young former head of General Electric anoWailing there, Sen. James A.' Mead's Advantage The big advantage of Mead's can-didacy can-didacy is that, not being up for re-election re-election as senator this year he Z T, ri5k WS chair at the Cap" tol, while, if elected, he could be counted on to appoint ,100 per cent admimstrat.on supporter as his sue! The President is by no means certain cer-tain that Farley, if elected, would be so compliant should a vacancv occurs the senate. Nor couM there theastyatrChUreneSSas - what the state administration in New York might do with respecfto the Democratic national convention of cat" ITC Democrat . can carry New Yor tj" fall even if they do not nominate the best vote getter available SenVt Mead has no illusions that Ht He has confided to many thai h is glad he is not running for election this year, figuring e" vote for a pension for congre.m |