| Show f INSIDE N S IDE i I- I IN STUFF f Politics Pol Po I i tics t i and Finance n nce e r 1833 BT BY P Paul ul WA WASHINGTON ON J By Dy raul Paul Mallon lallon T This s move to Co put all postmasters under tinder the civil service has hs more be be- it than Chan meets the Che naked eye e. r. r Such a step was badly needed at athis his hS time to kill o off r a a. a whispered story I olDe around the co country un try that the Democrats at last lut were ready to throw Chrow he the Republicans out oat of the Ices vengeance vengeance that that the spoils 85 em was to be restored h. h It did not take postmaster General tarl arIey y long to hear about it t- t c e a o 0 t. t Hot Bot deni denials were verc issued b by Mr Fariley Far iley The whispered story however was vas as nowhere publicly printed so so no if one one except the insiders knew what the the postmaster general was shooting l fat t and his d denials nills did not aUr attract ct much attention Something else was necessary The new postmaster movement move move- ment z ent filled filled- the bill bm better than you ever suspect t r It may be true that it takes take's politics out jut of the postoffice as much as it itcan ran can be pending an administration by angels But there is Ls more to it than that What it will d do first is to take out of the postoffice and put ut civil service Democrats in 1 L j Also Iso it will put the Democrats In permanently The Thc next Republican administration if there is ever one i must change the thc civil service law Jaw to toi i get them out At lt least ast that Is the interpretation i being put on it by cheering heering congressmen congress men and job The practical way it will work Is Described by a competent Democratic congressional authority privately as follows ri All fi first fist st second and third class postmasters in jn office now mus must take service examinations They are all R Republicans p Democratic candid candidates candi candi- d dates t f s for foL the jobs also will take exam nations They will be graded 50 per percent percent percent cent on business ability Democrats will do the grading The three with the highest marks will vill be considered final Inal candidates Their names will be submitted to the Democratic congressman congress- congress man Irian He will make the make the final choice A A Republican might squeeze through under that system If It he did it would be an oversight 0 e eThe The Democrats lS are arc a actually tu liy not beIng be be- trig Ing mu much h mote more ruthless n now w than successful suc sue parties u usually are arc Th The th thing g jat makes D k Jt seem ee worse h i nc is that th they are F going down th line than the Republicans did 12 years e rs a ago ago so so o-so so many people ople are o out t of jobs tOd today y that any kind of oVa ofa a government govern govern- ment m position is legitimate spoils 9 The offices of ot those thos who are supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to fo h have e influence with wilh the Dem Dem- administration look like Uke basement base base- nent ment bar bargain aln counters these days Many l seeking jobs are obviously in want nt The offices of or Senators Byrd Byrdo o of Virginia Harrison of f Mississippi 1 and King and King of Utah are swamped all the time Senator Kings King's position Is probably probably ably b r th the worst He lie Is trying to keep keel all those jobs which ex Senator ex-Senator Smoot rot got ot for lor forthe the citizens of Utah e C 0 o The most artful patronage fer er of them all is William F F. F Steven Steven- son Eon He is chairman of the Home HomeOwners HomeOwners' HomeOwners HomeOwners' Ow Owners Owners' rs' rs Loan association His old South Carolina friends call him Seab Seaboard Seaboard Sea b board ard Bill Bm but the reason is obvious His new intimates here have switched it to Steamboat Bill for no reason at alLIn alLIn all In an admiring wa way a Democratic politician recently suggested Mr Stevenson should be charged with de depopulating depopulating de- de J populating the state of South Carolina Caro Caro- lina He was trying to infer that Mr Stev Stevenson had installed most of the citizens of that state in his government govern govern- ment agency Mr S Stevenson has nas already announced an an- that the merit system is all aU Continued on Pace Page Two 1 I I INSIDE STUFF Continued from irom Pate kue One Ont right in its place He is 13 also the theauthor theauthor author of the line which is a slogan for the seeking job-seeking arm army Naturally we are not choosing Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans to carry out policies of a Democratic administration o C o 0 oThe G The smart bo boys s 's who are buying baying rye instead of wheat heat are not so smart mart They have figured out oat that the processing tax ta will vili co go o on wheat but bot not Dot on rye rt They do not know that the law Jaw permits the t taxing of any aDY competing article The brain trustees do know It and ma may act C a aThe O The story going around the country that Mr Mn Roosevelt might make up a composed of Hoover Meyer and Baruch is a pure invention The highest administration tion officials considered it a good joke when they heard It Ito o Q o Q oThe The excuse that Professor Berle Is only working out regulations for the Glass Gla bank law sounds somewhat thin There is Lc lan l'an an army of technical regulation experts in the treasury who can take care of ot that and will e jt Railroad officials say will soon be running a week and more The They see sec no reason to stop che e ring NEW YORK By James Ic 1 McMullin Copyright McClure Newspaper r Syndicate New York insiders whisper about a i prospective deal to keep the dollar fairly steady around to the pound It ma may drop to 5 temporarily tempo tempo- chiefly chiefly to give e the British Tories lories Ie a scare scare but but Chamberlains Chamberlain's prediction may keep the speculators on the buying side The story is that working orkin arrangements as necessity arises were reached very reached very unofficially unofficial unofficial- ly Iy of course course In In return for Britain's support in prolonging in the conference The important point is that this would not be stabilization The pound would simply be cut loose from the franc and tie to the dollar Instead Both the pound and the dollar would almost certainly continue to depreciate ate In terms of gold rold o e as a's The deal has advantages both ways From our angle it is less costly and more satisfactory than a currency war with England Either party can call it off practically at will so it will not hamper our price rL rise program From the British viewpoint It is preferable to a 3 continued drop of the dollar or a depreciation race Also Alro it averts a serious ruckus with the do do- minions England still has her preferential prefer prefer- trade agreements with the empire empire empire em em- pire so she Jsn isn't t as badly handicapped as might appe appear r. r There There- will There will be bea a good deal o of Anglo Anglo- American team work behind the scenes from rom now on in this and other matters The British government will avoid committing itself publicly but has decided it can promote domestic recovery best by playing the Roosevelt Roose velt system Both governments will express pained surprise if asked whether such an agreement exists They cant can't be called coiled Anani es either The nr or- will be h handled by the central banks and no one officially will vill know anything about it But Butth th the evidence will lie he in for foreign J n exchange ex cx- change quotations The experiment will probably be continued until internal price levels satisfactory to both nations h have ve been reached C C CSome Some New Yorkers thought the they detected an odor of fish when Winston Winston VInston Win Win- ston Churchill Conservative Herbert lien Her bert Samuel Liberal and Geor George e Lansbury Labor all got ot up in the house of commons common and said Id the American raising price program was simply swell It was about the first time these three have hae ever err agreed on any anything thin The Tho political situation makes them bedfellows A New York observer who has just returned from England says sas that sentiment sen flen there in favor of ot cooperating with us to raise prices Is leaping up u. This Is the reason why the British government Itself Is trying to o hedge hede If it didn't you 00 might wake up some morning and find find- that England had hada a surprising political crisis 0 o 0 C Rumored cornering of the whisky market by a nationally known corporation cor car is stretching the facts That concern will have stiff stir competition from at least three others with cash backing of three to sixteen million apiece piece a Last week wed a well vell known British whisky agency was sold by a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York man for at at percent percent per perl c cent nt profit C Plans Plan to establish a free gold market market mar mar- ket here have been shelved Experts d disagreed fervently about abou what its probable results would be but the majority contended that natural forces would make the dollar dolIar rise rice rather than fall faU That argument killed it It may be revived if they can can find how to get around that ob ob- ob stacle stacIe The decision sets ets American gold producers to singing the blues They larent arent aren't allowed to sell to anybody but the treasury and they get the same old price in depreciated dollars The world is out of joint for them and wont won't somebody please hold hoid their hand Some of them are trying the stunt lof of not putting the metal through the thelast thelast last stage of refinement That wa way it isn't gold and they are not liable to penalties for holding holdin it They aim to have a supply on hand i if a break comes in their favor Canadian producers are giving their American competitors the laugh lauh Their government pays t th them thema m ma ma a premium for the difference nce between between be be- tween the Canadian dollar and the world price of gold New York gets Inside information that Japanese British cooperation is gradually a zone Jon across Asia The purpose L Is b partly to tri extend ex cx tend territory and partition China and Dartly to Isolate what will be left of China from irom the s soviet union The first move from the British h end nd was wa's was the capture of Chinese Turkestan by bv the so-called so Mohammedan dan reb reb- eta els These forces are are re trained British-trained and At the same lamp time the Japanese have driven Into Kalean This Is b a desolate desolate deso duo late re region lon useless for Income bo bu u efu l strategically as a. i A off either north to Siberia or to o Kansa the anso the last province pro on Ih th tb caravan route t tn Turkestan Both oth oth Britain pid nd Janan JaDan Are fronD Th Tb- n wM d relon elon slowly hut v fake or everything fr from Tibet In fn ManchurIa through northwest northwest north north- west China |
