| Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON I Round Merry 1 err y G 0 R 0 tl n d l Trado Prado MarkBy Mark By DREW PEARSON PEARON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON General Hugh Samuel Johnson sensitive bulldozing boss of the Blue BlueEagle BlueEagle Eagle Eacle is yielding his scepter but he is abdicating abdicating abdi abdi- cating eating in his own way That is the chief chic significance of what has been transpiring behind W WAs the the past several weeks As early as May Johnson began privately discussing with staff executives plans for a complete reorganization of administrative cork con Cod Codification was rapidly drawing to a close It It was only a matter of a few months before the work of the NR A would become al almost almost almost al- al most entirely administrative instead of creative No man knew this better than Johnson The question then arose How would this best be done ruler commis commis- done done-by by a single or a sion On this issue a personal element clement was in in- in Wholly aside from the merits of a one or man five-man command there was the matter of of Johnsons Johnson's highly touchy pride It was this factor that kept him grimly trying trying try try- ing to ride here on a job that was no rio longer possible for one man to handle and which was Knocking him groggy with fatigue and tion Johnson just could not see a successor stepping stepping stepping step step- ping into his place And h he was wa that if he got out the president would appoint someone else to take takeover takeover takeover over the job Speeches Trimmed Down So while friends began to fear for his health he hung on long enough to work out a plan for a commission control The president wanted wanted wanted want want- ed to initiate the reorganization he sailed Johnson demurred He hadn't completed his setup Abe president did not insist Genuinely fond of The ex cavalryman he lie agreed to wait watt But he lie ordered Johnson to rest and showed that he meant it Likewise he suggested that Johnson curtail curtail curtail cur cur- tail his stumping tour In doing the president was acting on the strong counsel of Democratic congressional i leaders With them Johnsons Johnson's truculent type of oratory is not appreciated A number of Democratic members told the president they did not want Johnson sounding off in their states The rhe same advice was given the general by his former boss Bernie Baruch and by Professor sor Ray Rny Moley The former told Johnson bluntly he was talking too much and too violently That is js why he is making only three or four speeches speech s instead of the twelve or fifteen he had planned Bubble Politics Polities There is more more than one way to skin a cat also more than one way to get procrastinating politicians to attend campaign conferences James Hamilton Lewis was made chairman of the national senatorial senatorial sen sen- atonal campaign committee He had trouble getting his group together to plan the fall aU battie battle battle bat bat- tle tie i in iu senatorial elections in tn my vanity explained the senator I took this position knowing full well it would be difficult to handle It is always hard to get et public men together in the summer So I called the meeting meeting for for Chicago Why Chicago he was asked terrifically hot in the summer isn't it Ah Au the senator with a twinkle of the eye Chicago may be hot It may be crowded But Sally Rand is doing a bubble dance Haven't you heard I rather thought if anything could draw them anywhere any that that- would S S e 0 Miss Frances Robby Robinson secretary to General Hu Hugh h S. S Johnson continues to dazzie dazzle dazzle daz daz- zie feminine Washington with her attire Her latest is an ensemble New York consisting of ot a red hat white jacket candy- candy striped blouse that looks like crepe pa paper er but isn't n navy vy blue skirt and white blue-and-white shoes k S S S Mary Roberts Rinehart famous novelist has hasa a typewriter news ticker machine installed in inh h her r home At any time me of the day she can pick pickup pickup pickup up the ticker tape and find out what's happening hap hap- pening ning from Shanghai to London S 0 S Representative Harold Harold McGugin once introduced introduced introduced intro intro- a bill in the Kansas legislature prohibit prohibiting ing lug the eating of mince of-mince mince pie McGugin had nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing against pic pie in fact was for tor it But Bu he wanted to show how how silly was the states state's law lawa a against 0 4 S S SAt At last comes the explanation I According to Deets Pickett legal brains of the Methodist board of temperance prohibition and public morals the cause of ot all the current labor disturbances disturbances disturbances dis dis- dis- dis is the repeal of prohibition Copyright 1 1934 3 b bj Feature Syndicate In Inc |
