| Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY MERRY MERR Y ROUND GO GO ROUND Trado Trl Mark rk By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen AlIen Authors Authora of Washington Vl Round Merry and More Oo WASHINGTON The The people of Washington have now seen quite a little of Mrs Roosevelt and have come to think they know her How superficial is their acquaintance how much of it was based only upon White House teas was revealed last week at the conference on the mobilization for human needs Two qualities in Mrs Roosevelt cropped out which most people had not realized First she is a decided realist She does not hesitate to call a spade a spade Second her jaunts around the country have not been merely on pleasure She has been ob observing observing observing ob- ob serving things and a lot of her observations shared with her husband husband have have had an important important important im im- im- im influence on White House policy It was for instance as a direct result of Mrs Roosevelt's visits to company towns in West Virginia mining regions that General Johnson banned scrip payments ts to miners in inthe inthe inthe the coal code On these trips Mrs Roosevelt does docs not talk politics She talks economics social conditions how now people live How great her interest and how great her realism are were illustrated during during during dur dur- ing her speech before the human needs conference conference conference con con- ference which she concluded as follows Someone recently said to me that I was too sentimental about human want They claimed that people who never had much never suffer much When U I heard beard that I r could not help thinking thinking thinking think think- ing of the farm mother I saw a few weeks ago whose child had just died It had died because it slept on a cold wet wet bed It had to sleep on that kind of a a bed because the family had been evicted The mother told me that she had remonstrated remonstrated remonstrated remon remon- with the sheriff that her baby was ill She said he merely answered I aint here to nurse your goddamned goddamn d kids If the owner of that house had been there and had seen that sick child I am sure he would not have put the family out But he was somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where else SLEEVE SHIRT-SLEEVE DIPLOMACY Two young college men from North Carolina Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina seeking government jobs in the capital were referred to the N R A. A They took up places in the long line of applicants waiting to see Linton Collins personnel officer who does doesN N R As A's hiring After several days of patient waiting and still a considerable distance from Collins Collins' desk they decided to resort to strategy They had noticed N R A dashing about in their shirt sleeves and everyone thus attired passing in and out of Collins' Collins office without challenge Next morning they parked their flivver outside outside out out- side NR A headquarters divested themselves of their coats and hats and went to Collins' Collins of of- of- of fice They walked in without interference told him about their strategy anc and ana were promptly hired TAX PUBLICITY The president has a hidden ace up his sleeve in putting pressure on big gold hoarders profiteer profiteers prof prof- and other foes of his recovery program This is the power to make public income tax returns Most people have forgotten this but the last session of congress voted him such discretionary authority The Progressives WaIted wanted want WaIt ed to make publication mandatory but the Democratic floor leaders balked The president suggested the compromise and it was ac ac- ac f With the battle lines tightening on the Various va various various va- va rious recovery fronts the president has been quietly surveying the scope e of his powers to combat the administration s foes Among his close advisers the little regarded income tax card is considered an ace of the new deal The bureau of internal revenue has recommended recommended mended against playing it Too many examples of tax evasions would be shown I I. I R R. officials say REVERSE GERMAN Dr Hans Luther mayor of Essen former president of the one of the creators creators creators crea crea- tors of the and now ambassador to the U. U S S. S A. A was crossing the he Atlantic recently re- re re-i re with a prominent New York banker Talking about Germanys Germany's future he s sid said id Why look at our resources Beneath the soil of the fatherland we have coal potash minerals Above the soil we have our Hitler Goering and Goebels The American mused a moment and replied I think it would be better if your treasures were distributed in reverse MERRY ROUND MERRY ROUND GO A suggestion has been made to the state department that the little pigs killed in order to get the federal 4 bounty and then thrown into the Mississippi river should have been sent to starving Cuba instead f 5 a Assistant Secretary Caffery in charge of Cuban affairs has a large map of the island on which he sticks little pins to designate the presence of American warships Redheaded Redheaded Redheaded Red Red- headed pins mean destroyers yellow pins mean cruisers A white pin designates the giant battleship Mississippi Pearl pins mean coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard cutters a 0 0 President Roosevelt is much interested in a aplan aplan aplan plan to make rum in the Virgin islands under undera a government monopoly The Virgin islands once made the best rum in the western hemisphere hemi hemi- sphere The governor now charged with or organizing organizing organizing or- or the new rum mill millis is a Philadelphia Quaker who has as been a teetotaler all his life l e. e 0 0 0 The bureau of agricultural economics re reports reports reports re- re ports that while the potato crop this year is 18 per cent less than last years year's prices are per percent percent cen cent t higher Copyright 1933 by United Feature Syndicate Inc |
