Show SEE SEEN SEEN Na and u HEARD around tho National Capital Capitali I Dy i By CARTER FIELD be beh between h tween heen een this gO government and I f ranee rance are unofficially under way wa n loot ing toward one of the new mw tariff treaties problem has been that France ns ns most e ether ei Ier er to sell Its wares In the Uie United States but hut hu has found what hat seemed to be Insuperable Insuperable able In the way of m h lag Ing any cone concessions In return In fact some of our wore more cynical dip diplomats diplomats diplomats commented ce several times during the preliminary overtures o that trance ns so eo used to getting her own sweet way with this coun country country country try she cite could not understand that the Idea of ot this reciprocity treaty business was that both sides had to tomake tomake make concessions As It Is France will not be able I I to mike any proposals to this tills coun country country country try which would lIa base ha e a n chance In III Inthe Inthe the world of ot being accepted unless she re revises her very bery cry def definite policy since the war ar about being pr ly self supporting so far as food Is concerned Actually France could absorb a avery avery avery very considerable amount of ot Amer Icon wheat and a fir larger pro pro- proportion proportion portion of ot such fruits as apples with wILh actual net benefit ben nt fit to her clU tens zens The point Is that the cost ot of producing sufficient wheat heat to teed feed the French people and visitors to France Is s excessive e e It Is pushed only nt at a very ery considerable cost to the French housewife and the French ta taxpayer ayer Want Cheaper Bread So a n move mo Is under serious con liff the tho French government go so Washington ashington has been Informed looking to changing ch this policy The thought would be beto beto beto to let American foodstuffs wheat and fruit In n with a rather moderate duty and thus at atone atone atone one move reduce the present sub subsidy burden on the French treas treasury treasury ury and reduce the cost of ot bread to the French consumers The move mo would not have base been possible a year ago But two changes In the situation hire have b e come about In that time One Is tint that there has bas been some clamor bout about the rising cost of ot living In France Already to meet this popular popular tar lar sentiment the French gO gOern ern went ment has taken such e means nc of dealing with the middleman that th the price of meat has been sharply reduced to the housewife But nut this Is not enough The peo pIe are still clamoring So the Idea ot of making bread cheaper per by reducIng reducing ing log the high go gos eminent sub subsidy on French grown wheat t and permit permitting permitting ting tang Importation of ot a n sufficient amount of American wheat heat to make mahe makeup makeup up for the falling taIlIng oft ocr In domestic production which would Immediate Immediately ly ensue Is under consideration This Tills placation of ot the populace Is second only to the urgent necessity of balancing the budget so as to keep France on the gold st on which the government O Is deter determined determined determined mined It possible The second re reison lson Is that tb as the French leaders see the situation the urgency of the original l reason for producing all the wheat t consumes Inside her borders Is not as Impelling as was the case one ye r ago At that t at time the fear r of war In Inthe inthe Inthe the Immediate te futures future was s far great greater greater er than right now hence the ne- ne necessity necessity ne necessity of being self supporting on foodstuffs But nut HItler s gyrations In Germany have Italy until then probably France s most bitter enemy Into Frances 5 arms and the fact Is that at the moment Italy Halo French relations are more pleasant than at any time since the armistice And what with the French w lne Ine and brandy brand rankers makers not to mention the perfume men the jewelry tab fab fabricators rica tors and whatnot who ho are now due to the high exchange and high higher higher higher er tariffs of America unable to sell their wares In the worlds world b s best mar marlet marbet let bet there Is quite a different feeling about the wheat subsidy Negotiations 1 have not approached the public stage In fact fact they probably probably probably ably will not for some months New Dealers Chuckle Certain Republican blasts at t Pres PresIdent PresIdent dent Ident Roosevelt Hoose Insisting that he be betell tell the American people what he told Upton Sinclair In that two hours so they would understand what he was planning and here the country was headed have caused loud chuckles from New Few ew Dealers here The point Is that there has never ne been much doubt about where the New Deal was headed except on the part rt of those those those-ot of whom hom there are a great who simply do not be- be believe believe be believe lieve what hat they see much less shat hat they read and hear And one of ot those who ho ho believed es to be In the dark Few ew Dealers point out Is none other than Upton Sinclair himself elf Other Otherwise Ise they hint how bow could he have been surprised at Roost loose elLs belts Ideas now How low could he have thought so many of ot his own ideas new and then learn as na Sinclair said lId In Ills iii rational National Press club speech that they were sere ere not not I For of ot course Federal Relief Relict Ad Administrator Hopkins has been doing In part just what Sinclair proposes to do In California for tor some time Not only that t but since last winter there have hate been the outraged pro pro- protests protests I pro 1 tests of business Interests whose toes toe were trampled on Some of these activities and lint th protests of business s about them t were ere chron chronIcled chronIcled chronIcled In these dispatches shortly after last Christmas the proposed manufacture of ot mat mattres mattresses mattresses tres tresses s by unemployed cd etc bo So far there ther has been no propos proposal proposal proposal al on the part of the federal govern government ment meat that the farmers coull pay their ta cs with Ith farm products which would otherwise other I e rot on the ground round But nut there Is n a good reason for this omission Farmers In ed In of that thit sort cort do not pay y Income taxes or my other direct cs ties to the federal got o Loans to F Farmers But the federal government has been doing better than lan that by the It has been loining lowing them money to ply pa pl their state taxes It has been loaning them money on theIr unsold crops particularly cot cotton cotton ton and wheat cheat heat It has been loanIng loan loanIng Ing In them money to buy seed And Antl Andall Andall all this for a long period prior to the drouth and therefore unconnected nested with drouth relief relict And It has been paying them good AmerIcan currency for tor such sup supplies plies piles as It bought to feed the un- un unemployed un unemployed employed cd not giving them cafes cates which could be exchanged only for tor some product produced by bythe bythe the unemployed In state factories as proposed by Sinclair By y the same token the federal government laid itself open to tho rge ch of ot direct competition with Industry by this same difference lead d It exchanged furniture an and mattresses and whatnot produced by the unemployed for the food products of the farmers to feed those same unemployed the pro pro- procedure procedure procedure would ha have hate e been more near nearly nearly ly that of the EPIC PIC plan of ot Mr Sir Sin Sin- Sinclair Sin Sinclair clair and the manufacturers would tease have had bad n a harder making their case For the answer In either cither case Is that the unemployed are not buy buying In now no noso so the manufacturer Is not losing a market rhet when they produce something for themselves It Is only when their product Is put on the market that this competition arIses and private Industry Is Ie hurt Patronage Worries With literally lIy hundreds of or mem members hers bers of ot the house and senate te fight fightIng fighting lag Ing either cither for or re- re reelection reelection election re-election election calm Judgment Is that more of them are In trouble about patronage matters than th anything else elce 1 let et this situation Is present despite the fact that never In the entire history of the countr country have havo so many jobs been parceled out by purely political endorsements ot of these same representatives es and sen senators senators senators For never ne at any time sInce the establishment of the civil servo service service ice s system stem has s that UI system less to todo todo todo do with filling filing governmental 10 l post than In the last two years The destruction of the civil servo service Ice for ice for that th Is what It is If It It con con- con continues did did not be begin ln with the noose Rooseselt elt The evo evolutIon lutIon has lias been n It be began began began gan with what hat might be called the emergency measures me It came first So far tar ns a volume Is concerned with the farm board rd spreading Into the of or Agriculture with the farmers seed teed loans ns etc Under the direction of ot Secretary of Agriculture Hide de the old civil servIce traditions tr began to drop Into the waste basket as ns far as was concerned From that time on It has been n a debaclE most of the new agencies and ad adminIstrations administrations administrations minIstrations and authorities set up being specifically exempted from the civil service Getting a Job It Is rather rattler curious that this came cameon cameon cameon on the heels of ot what had been sup sup- supposed sup supposed posed to be a great civil service reo re- re reform form applying form applying Its methods of pro promotion promotion promotion motion and selection to the diplo tIc mitic service ser except occasionally ot of course for more Important am ambassadors ambassadors and ministers And the career career diplomat came Into hIs own to the great groat annoyance or of many senators and representatives who sneered at the spats and canes and pink teas polite name duro dur- dur during In ing prohibition for cocktail parties ot of the career men Young men and women wanting government jobs today do not both both- bother bother er about taking civil service exam exam- examInations examinations however The fhe procedure ls Is very clear First one must be cleared through his Democratic county committee l Then hen one must be certified by his Democratic con congressman congressman gressman If It there Is one If It there Is no Democratic congressman then both senators tors mu must t endorse the applicant ap- ap ap applicant Ibis Is the situation In Massa Massachusetts for Instance where here there thero are more Republican members In Inthe inthe Inthe the house than Democratic tlc but both senators happen to be bo Democrats It If the applicant runs this gaunt gaunt- gauntlet gauntlet let successfully the only remain remainIng remainIng lag Ing hurdle Is the Democratic na n ni- ni national l committee where the eagle cagle eyed Emil Is the deciding ex examiner acting of ot course for tor Na Chairman Parley Farley But the curious point about the whole business Is that senators and members of the house fight min n manfully tUlly fully to get more than their share ot of appointments It if possible yet I yetI nearly c every cry one of ot them will tell you that he lie wishes to high heaven that the civil service sen Ice were aIrtight and that everyone knew that n a sen senator ator or congressman had hatI no influence Influence ence so far as getting a n political apo ap was concerned W lt wW W U U |