Show f I STUFF Politics a and d Finance f 11 1933 BT 27 Paul Mallon t. t WASHINGTON By Paul Mallon 2 1 president Roosevelt Is saying It with flowers to all the discouraged ed mcm mcm- bers ets of his official family who want wantE t E to It quit The latest was as tossed rU la wireless to State Secretary Hull aboard ship It expressed the all aff affectionate c- c c- c regard and confidence of Mr in his No 1 cabinet man By the end of the he week the president hopes to have all th the quarreling boys wearing gardenias s. s He lie probably will The Hull message came after Mr 1 Roosevelt received a private fill in on whit what went rent on backstage e at London He called tailed each of the returning delegates dele gates ples to the White House Douse before he left for Hyde Park He buzzed zed them One was kept on the carpet lI Until a. a m. m relating ever every detail ibe bite could recall S The delegates all alt sang praises of Secretary Se re rf Hull HuH T They e a admitted hIs i Imperturbable disposition probably J i-J Led ved the American f each others other's nos noses s. s before they got rot through Also most of them had their exes axes es out for lor Professor Holey Moley f. f 1 v j But what h hurt rt most was their warn warnS inri nE that H Hull ll was as returning with blood bOOd in his eye e They hinted he would demand that Moley resign or orbe oribe ibe be transferred or that he he himself be permitted to resign That was astound ing lag because Hull is such a mild man man it would be almost impossible im im- possible ible to conceive of him with blood blood- hot orbs orbi 1 Apparently the conference was nothing but buta a collection of standings landings Most of them centered about bout Hull Th The London newspapers treated nim im as as' a rate fifth-rate actor in the international international inter nati national nal drama The They gave all aU the limelight to Moley In addition Moley Maley appears to have sent a wireless massage massage mas mas- sage lage to the American emb embassy y at London which was subject to Continued on Pate Pue Two o so- so 11 INSIDE SID E STUFF STUFFS S Continued From Pate Page Pae One Some interpreted the message as suggesting that tat the embassy em tm bossy bassy bay keep an eye on the American delegates delegate S There was wa also alo the inner trouble about bout Molcy's Moley's proposed currency agreement agreement Hull Hul declined to sign Ign it until he heard from Mr Roosevelt It I W was well wel he did Mr Roosevelt sided with Hull Hul The These e things led to mutual embarrassments which all aU parties now agree are just as asIel well Iel forgotten Actually the they were not much more marc important than other squabbles back backstage ce in the American delegation The hottest one was between ex ex- Governor Go eror Cox and Senator Couzens Cox accused Couzens o of whispering whis the news that a temporary fy stabilization agreement was wa near Couzens Couzen laughed at him at first but Cox was serious Couzens Investigated ed and found Cox himself had been the leak leak of course i A certain newspaper man drew the news out of Cox by a series seres of trick questions To this day Cox does docs doc not realize that tat he was wa duped by a smart reporter He and Couzens fought over the matter mater co continuously Thc They would have put on boxing gloves if i both had hadnot hadnot hadnot not passed the age when then retirement from rom the ring is obligatory S The whole conference appears to have been on a similar plane plane Most Mol of the returning and near delegates confess privately that they w wish h they had remained in Washington That makes it S S Some near insiders have ha the Idea Ideatha that tha the state department Is not big ble enough enouCh to hold both Moley oley and Hull huh lul hereafter Those who should kno know the presidents president's mind do not agree arree The They whisper that Mr Roosevelt did not expect the two to work vork together Hull Hullis Hul is Internationalist nation nation- an Moley oley a naton alist What Mr l Roosevelt Roosevel wanted from them is a balance between these thee two views and not personal harmony lie He will wi maintain the o team if I possible A trade mission may be started short shortly toward Moscow Mr Ir Roosevelt Roosevel has ha recently turned lamed his mind to that topic Professor Moley oley Is I handling It I for him Moley also will wi handle the ticklish war wa debt question queston later The question of personnel peronne for such a mission mis mis- slon sion was wa up before Mr r. r Roosevelt Roose el left let last Frida Friday Several men were con con- suited suled An announcement ment may be made shortly shorty S 0 You can drop Senator Couzens off oU your list of possible treasur treasury Thoe Those close cose to h him m say ay he e will wJ resist resit the temptation if i it is I offered He would like to get into the treasury treasur and manhandle the internal revenue bureau He has hac been ben trying to do it Il from the outside for years ears He would retire happy if he could make the big fellows pay more taxes However it H would mean abandonment of his Republican Republican Re Re- publican affiliations That is i too high a price to pay considering the things he has ha in n mind for the Republican part party aSS There is plenty of work in the state department for lor both Hull Hul and Moley with wih Hull Hul the coming tariff negotiations and Moley handling debts debt and Russia Rusia They are arc both too valuable to lose from Mr Roosevelt's standpoint stand stand- point poin t S S S I I That currency stabilization truce was wa actually agreed on at one time despite despie what you have h heard ard to the toe contrary It I provided a sliding scale for lor the dollar dolar and the thc pound and did not peg them at as reported 0 All Al these troubles are making an impression on o Mr Roosevelt Before he left lef for Hyde Park he was much more serious than in the early days of his hi administration but he had not lost hi his good humor A caller caler was amazed at the amount of detail he carries in his hi head S NEW YORK By James Jame McMullin Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate Some business groups are Trying to cOnert convert the Blanket Blanke Code Into Int a patchwork quilt quill qui tailored to their ther own order They claim caim It doesn't fit ft snug as a Is and leaves them exposed to chilling drafts drafts Take the New York banks bank for lor In instance stance They The went In on the code because because be be- cause cuse the they dont don't wish wih to give rive anybody the Impression least leat of all al Washington Washing ton that they are high hatting g the Blue Hawk But they lament to o the skies akle In private that they ot guarantee their ther a a- a af f hour r hour y-hour week If Ifa Ifa I a clerks clerk's cerks cerk's books book arent aren't balanced at quitting time the clerk cek must Ita stay anIn until un un- til In t the they are code or no code And they say sy the they cannot pay overtime o ertme for tor such luch work Otherwise no clerks clerk's books would balance until far ta Into the night S S The thought of ot mounting labor costs pains them no little The They are looking hard for loopholes on the unfair handicap principle Some banks bank are looking harder than tha others The Federal Reserve banks will wi probably step out soon with wih a suggested sug aug ested wage age and hour system for tor the general enera use of banks The They are arc working work work- Lag ing ig on it i now The suggestions will willbe willbe wl be as binding in effect as a Stalin a decree That way all al the banks will wi start even and pleas for tor special exemptions ex cx wont won't register Some departments in the larger banks ban are absurdly under The Te foreign department of ot one of ot the biggest biggest big big- gest rarely goes home before nine nie p. p m. m and sometimes later lter Plenty of new jobs can be created by a revision of such conditions according to the code code S S Then there are the utilities utUtu Like Lik the banks bank they want to stand standup standup up and be counted counte Their main worry Is II whether their operating staffs come under the head of mechanical workers workers work work- ers en or service employee The former rate a e thirty five hour bout week and the latter a fort forty Most 1105 utility companies companie are arc practically cally caily cly on a hour forty week now So 80 Soa a 1 change chance to fort forty would only represent ent tnt a ten per rent cent Increase In wage ware costs which they say lay they j They claim cai he tho thirty five fv hour ar ar- ar would sink them without a trace So you yon on can see how anxious the they are to prove that their motto moto Is I serIce service service ser vice Ice The American Gas Ga association ton will wi play a leading leding part In trying to line lineup lineup Ine up the utility groups on a common policy toward wages ware and hours hours This Thi association corresponds to the Edison Edion Institute In the electric field feld It I has ba had I less limelight but Is 15 more em effi dent clent cent It I Is not Carlisle s 9 S S Utility men are plaintively but privately privately inquiring just how they are supposed to make up the thc additional cost Involved in accepting the code Industrial corporations are allowed to add it io to the price of their product But the utilities are not kidding themselves themselves them them- selves that a rate increase will wi be per per- They Tey do hope to use the code as a lever to kill ki off of agitation for rate reductions They Tey will wi be well wel pleased on the inside if i they can gain that much ground o e Also Alo there thue are th th lh railroads Their Ther present plan Is I to sit alt out the party Nobody 1 hn has asked them to play and that tha may do that New Neo York gets get Inside Information that the railway brotherhoods will wi make no fuss All Al hands will wi stick by bythe bythe bythe the current agreement until the first frt of the year yer and th then n the real rul fireworks fireworks fire fire- fre works work will t-ili wi begin What with wih rapidly mounting earnings earn earnIngs ings Ines and Immunity to codes the railroads rail railroads rai roads are getting a break brek which stirs str the cn envy of their Industrial brethren But the best authorities say their break brek Is I only temporary Legislation Is I already be being In planned for the n next d session of congress which will wi bring direct public ownership of the roads toads much closer It I Is said sodd to have the of Federal Co strong strone basking tor Eastman Easman S S The Te Federal Reserve board didn't stress its is latest figures but they the are arc Impressive They Tey show that business activity only has ha to gain seven per cent t to get back b-ack to the 25 1924 normal But employment would have to gain by six forty-six per cent and payrolls by one hundred and thirty four per cent over their present level to recover to the same normal normal That's Tnt's the purchasing ing power story in a nutshell A New York authority has worked it out on the basis of these statistics that if business were allowed to revert revert re re- re vert ert to t i noral normal without an efort effort to re- re stimulate purchasing power we would have a permanent unemployment rollof rollof roll rollof of more t than an nine million people These facts have begun to sink in deeply amon among the industrial and financial fi fl fi- fi They account for fora a remarkable change of attitude inthe in inthe the thc last two weeks You find very few left who still maintain that nature should lef be allowed sti to take its is course I |