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Show THE BULLETIN Finest Needlework In Exclusive Design Brackart's Washington Direct Basketball Goes Big Time Genuine Strain Being Placed Upon Administration Control of Senate gfssmmfto??ywyf iajii WHO'S r.tJJ NEWS President's Appointments to Public Office Are Upsetting THIS To Some of His Followers; Roper Virtually Forced Out As Secretary of Commerce to Make Room for Hopkins. WEEK By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National WASIIINGTON.-Presid- Pren Bldg., Washington, Roose-- Thomas ent velt'i followers in the senate of the United States are finding it increas ingly difficult these days to stay off of a hot seat Indeed, if I read the signs rightly, they are getting rath er restive and there is a genuine strain being placed upon the ad ministration control in that body of congress, whereas, it appeared a month ago that the tion senators would break out of control only on major issues, it now seems that there is a real threat of danger to the President on minor, as well as major, questions. anti-adminis- The new developments have come, and are continuing to come, from ' what some believe to be an unwise course on the President's part in the matter of nominations to public office appointments that must have approval of the senate. Whether the President is to blame, personally, for placing these distasteful names in the mouths of senators, or whether, as heretofore, the condition results from the activities of the "inner circle," the effect is the same. It is a very real problem for the administration advisors to ponder, and it is entirely possible that Mr. Roosevelt will get a slap in the face by senate rejection of some of the nominees for judgeships and other public offices. It is just possible that some senators will gag at swallowing several of the names. If that happens, what will be left Mr. Roosevelt's mastery of the senate thereafter will be meaningless. Observers here in Washington heard many private remarks of a character very uncomplimentary last fall when Mr. Roosevelt named Gov. James V. Allred of Texas to a federal judgeship. It was so plainly political that some individuals who are very close to Mr. Roosevelt were disgusted. They did not speak out then, but they are bolder now. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Roosevelt named Floyd Roberts to a federal judgeship in Virginia. Now, apparently, Mr. Roberts is about as well equipped to be a judge as I would be if we are to believe the public statements of Senators Carter Glass and Harry Byrd, both Democrats and both acquainted with the life and record of Judge Roberts. Roper Virtually Forced Out As Secretary of Commerce Subsequently, Daniel C. Roper was virtually forced out as secretary of commerce in order to make Br D. C. F. Amlie, Wisconsin pro- des-Us- te, In December, 1891, a staff member of the Springfield (Mass.) tratmng school invented a new game by corral ing two peach i oasKets, a soccer oau ana a smooth floor. Thai man was Dr. James A. Naismilh, note a professor emeritus at the University of Kansas. Raiketball, now played by 20,000,000 people each year, got us rem nan ai Lawrence, nan. A member of the first girls' team, organised there, was the future Mrs. Naismith. now deceased. The uparenls" of this remarkable game are shown above, in 1928. " .T 1 mi I unnnc; n vrieuratton in ineir nonor. ML A 76-year--od -1 slap-ban- "co-ordina- artist's the PjVflcm T:'!,jyWS $mKlim W,wjt-mj "Tfe first conception of One never can tell what trades in black, full may be made within the ereat club game, played known as the senate, but surely Mr. tleeve, wool jerseys, with long Amlie will be discussed fully before trousers. The on the ladder was toon re-he is confirmed. And as I said fflf above, he may not be approved at placed by boys in the gallery, all. The appointment may be the straw that breaks the camel's back When Mr. Roosevelt beean mak three or four ing appointments months ago that were upsetting to some of his followers, they had to decide between their lovaltv to him and their convictions. The bulk of them stood bv him. He was the head of the Democratic party ; party unity was. and is. essential, and they justified the votes in confirma tion in various ways. The Hopkins and' Murphy aDDOintments were con firmed because it alwavs has been the philosophy of senators that cabinet jobs are intimate associations with the President. He is entitled, therefore, to have whom he desires to sit with him at the cabinet session and to advise him when he seeks advice. I think there was an inclination to accept Mr. Murphy, too, because it was known he wanted to crush the strikes at their inception and was confronted with White House refusal of supThere were fewer votes port. against him for that reason than against Secretary Hopkins. On the other hand, Senator Vandenberg, the Michigan Republican, said he voted flatketball now attracts more fans than baseball or football. against the nomination because "the Par'ly responsible for this growth is Ned Irish (inset), who brings issues were the same as in Michicollege teams to New York's Madison Square Garden each year. gan's election last fall when Mr. big The tihovm nholo mu taken durinm lh VnrAhnmMmm Xnw-- miiiMn. Murphy was repudiated." When it gets to cases like the sity game in January, 1936, when 10,074 people attended. This tilt d appointment for Texas judge esianusnea a new aiienaance recora. and the Roberts appointment in Virginia, there simply is no explanation available unless as I said, the "inner circle" is leading Mr. Roosevelt into a morass. Senators Glass and Byrd are going to fight the Roberts nomination. Senators Shcppard and Connally were not consulted about the judgeship in their state. As far as it has leaked out, nobody was asked whether the Amlie appointment would arouse enthusiasm or hatred. ball-retriev- er tSJlmStSrfftSt ' room for removal of Professional Reliever Harry Hopkins to a cabinet job. Hopkins thereby was taken out of the line of red hot fire about his spending policies.' Homer S. Cummings quit as attorney general and Frank Murphy, Michigan's lame duck governor, was given the post. Former Sen. James P. Pope who was licked in the Idaho Democratic primaries was named to the directorate of the Tennessee Valley authority from which Dr. Arthur Morgan was so unceremoniously dismissed. Rumor has it that former Sen. Fred H. Brown, lame duck New Hampshire Democrat, is to be given the juicy job of comptroller general of the United States as soon as it is evident that congress will not vote abolition of the general accounting office. Rep. T. Alan Goldsborough of Maryland lately has been named a federal judge for the District of Columbia. It will be recalled that it was Mr. Goldsborough who invited President Roosevelt into Maryland last summer in the attempt to purge Sen. Millard Tydings from the Democratic ranks. In fact, it was at Denton, Md., Mr. Goldsborough's home town, that the President made Shows Disposition his most vicious attack on Tydings Congress and delivered his eulogy of praise To Assert Independence for David J. Lewis in the senatorial The proposition thus settles down to only one possible answer. Sine primaries. There have been other atmnint. the last election removed the rub merits mixed in here and there, ber stamp from the hands of the New Dealers and the congress has some important, some just jobs, and they have not shown a disposition to assert its inmet unanimity. Even the selection dependence of the unelected "inner of Professor Felix Frankfurter as a circle," they pre resorting to a new justice of the Supreme court of the strategy. They can not always conUnited States did not arouse en- trol congress but they have access thusiasm among the senators who to the appointive power vested in voted approval of the nomination. the hands of the President. They I, personally, heard several sena- have this because they have the tors remark that the Frankfurter President's ear and they take pains appointment was so much better to see that none of the practical polthan that of Hugo Black, a year iticians, like Vice President Garner, ago, that it was refreshing to vote or Sen. Pat Harrison, or Speaker for him. Yet, they added a qualifi- Bankhead, wield any influence. .The strategy may work. It may cation. Justice Frankfurter has brains, a fine mind but he is looked put into numerous governmental upon as the father of so much of the posts and judicial positions men who New Deal that his presence on the will continue to execute New Deal highest court appeared none too plans. That, of course, is a brilliant move if it works. There is, howpleasing. ever, more to think about than that. Nomination of Amlie of The trend toward the middle of the Wisconsin Creates Fut$ road, emphasized in last fall's votBut all of these appointments now ing, can be given greater momenseem to have been only a build up tum by the tactics of forcing upon to a climax. They were to be fol- the country policies against which lowed by an appointment that the electorate expressed themselves. In that event, the Democratic party caught the senators in the ribs. It will be the victim. was the nomination of former Rep. C Western Newspaper Union. EW YORK. John F. Stevens was as an engi neer. Therefore, he was an eclectic and readily made use of a retired murderer to ac- Famed Engineer complish a Murderer perately impor-T- o Attain End tsnt end, regardless of the lack of engineering precedent. He is now 86, one of the greatest of American engineers, the first engineer in charge of planning and building the Panama canal, recently awarded the Hoover medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers at its eighty-sixt- h annual meeting in New York. The murderer who came in handy was a Montana Blackfoot Indian. Jim Hill's new railroad, westbound from St. Paul, was rather g impulsively started. It ran into the impenetrable wall of the Rocky mountains. There was an Indian legend that there was a pass over the divide, along the course of the Marias river. Mr. Stevens, a young engineer for the railroad, talked to the Blackfeet about it. There was such a pass. They knew all about it But not all of Jim Hill's wampum could bribe them even to point in that direction. This Marias pass was the dwelling place of evil spirits, of sorcerers, of dreadful demons, and all who went that way lost either their lives or their reason. Mr. Stevens mashed over the mountains with the thermometer at 59 degrees below zero and found no pass. But, by chance, he found a wanderer in the wilderness, a Blackfoot driven out by his tribe because he had killed man. The Indian had been having a difficult time. A few devils and monsters, more or less, meant little to him. They made a deal. The story of d their scramble to the roof of the continent through five feet of snow and bitter cold, with Mr. Stevens sleepless as he kept an eye on his homicidal guide, is one of the classics of the conquest of the wilderness. They found the pass, and their return was another desperate adventure. But soon the scream of locomotives was crying down the demons, who, presumably, moved on. When the Panama canal was Dro-jected, John F. Stevens fought through, against weighty opposition, the lock principle against the plan. The engineer in charge, from 1905 until he was succeeded by General Goethals, he flattened all the .demons of disease and dis order which had licked De Lesseps. General Goethals rated his work as among the greatest of engineering achievements. He was minister plenipotentiary to the Soviets in IS 17, remaining six years and re organizing and rebuilding their rail roads. self-educat- ed gressive and also a lame duck, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission. That nomination went to the senate without even the great progressive, Senator knowing about it, and there are those in the senate who believe that Senator LaFolIeite would have advised against it, had he been consulted. There is a very real possibility although not conclusive that the senate will reject the Amlie appointment. The pressure against him is quite unusual. Even the legislature of his home state adopted a resolution, memoralteing the senate in opposition to confirmation. Whatever virtues Mr. Amlie may have, his qualifications to be a member of the interstate commerce commission cannot be numbered in that list. He knows nothing about trans portation; he is rot an economist. and if his record as a member of the house of representatives here is a proper criterion, he is as lack ing in judicial characteristics well, he simply does not have them. His work in the house was distinguished by the fact that he headed a conglomerate group which was atliberal tempting to thought" in the nation. But apparently the folks in Wisconsin rather doubted his value for they refused to select him as the progressive sen atorial candidate who, incidentally, was doomed for a licking anyway in the November election. Appointments Upsetting to Followers of President LEMUEL F. FARTON sit-dow- n All-re- From old to new. Abovet a ohoto of the famous first girls' basketball team at Kansas university. Rightt a symbol ol the name's growth, announcing the contest . of the Garden. 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Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly piece, set-mea- sures Safety Talks Rural Traffic Accidents Increase Traffic accidents in the rural districts are mounting by leaps and bounds. Since 1924, the National Safety council says, motor vehicle fatalities have increased 172 per cent. In cities over 10,000 population they went up but 30 per cent. Of course, the council points out, a large part of this increase may be the result of rural travel. But most traffic authorities believe, however, that the more favorable city record can be traced to the more effective traffic control measures in much-increas- ed municipalities. In 1937, the loss of life to traffic accidents in rural districts and cities under 10,000 population was 27,400. In cities over 10,000, there were 12,100 killed. While collisions with pedestrians constituted the major fatal accident problem in cities, rural districts had their greatest difficulty with collisions between two or more motor vehicles. 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