Show THE TOE DAILY WASHINGTON M Go I e err r r y G o 0 Round R o 0 u n d Trade Trado Mark MarkBy MarkBy By Dy DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON Roosevelt's WASHINGTON Roosevelt's departure at this particular moment caused a lot of sub subrosa subrosa subrosa rosa concern in various high places Basis for the concern briefly was this The third seventy-third congress heaped on the time head hend of or one man more power than ever before given to a president of the United States Upon the exercise of that power will depend the Immediate immediate im mm- mediate future of the country With dozens of major bills just passed with several sc important commissions about to function function tion some of oC Roosevelt's best friends felt he had chosen the wrong time for so 50 distant a holiday Labor Labor N N R It A Housing A-Housing Housing Housing- Whether or not they are arc right it remains a a fact that the next month is going to be a crucial crucial cru cru- cial one in Washington Here are arc some reasons reasons rea rca sons why Strikes and threats of strikes have been popping in every part of the country The still unsettled steel strike the Pacific coast longshoremen's longshoremen's longshoremen's long long- d difficulties the time Milwaukee street railways railway's walkout have kept a constant stream of labor disputes knocking at Roosevelt's door The Wagner labor disputes bill passed to settle these has barely be begun un to function It will willm m miss ss the guiding hand of the thc man in the White House The nest of the blue eagle cagle as Roosevelt de departed departed do- do parted south was messier than ever before in its hectic and frequently messy life General Johnson his trigger finger finger er-finger always nervous is ismore ismore ismore more explosive than ever Despite Johnsons Johnson's expletives Clarence Darrows Darrow's reports on art bi big business and little business cannot be laughed off oft Price fixin fixing remains a sore spot A hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred complicated questions are crowding in on ona ona ona a man already discouraged and weary The bi big drive t ta to take up the midsummer slack to help reduce federal relief relic rolls through the gigantic slum clearance housing program is just being launched Upon it depends construction construction construction con con- prosperity next year Loans to Industry The R F C has just received from congress the right to put the government further into business by lending money to industry This new start on the old handout game has just begun S The president has just received unprecedented ed powers to negotiate trade treaties changing tariff rates without ratification by congress A score of nations and several hundred lobbyists have been hounding the state department to begin a For Par the first time in history the government will attempt to make Wall street walk the straight and narrow The commission faced with this task is still in embryo Another commission to control telephones telegraphs and radio also for the tIle first time in inI history has not even rented spittoons and coat I han hangers ers What accentuates Roosevelt's absence is the fact that his is the most c centralized administration administration adminis adminis- ration in years Some of his cabinet officers will scarcely hire an office oHice boy without trotting trotting trot trot- tin ting over to ask the man in the White House So the summer may be hot hectic and at times delirious The component parts of the official family will step on each others' others toes Fireworks should be brilliant bitter Round Merry Honest Harold Ickes always has lies a W war lr bannet bonnet bonnet bon ban net ready in case he hc wants to go on the warpath warpath warpath war war- path against chiselers Given him by Chief Yellow Tail Tall of the Montana Sioux Indian tribe it han hangs s in his private office Congressman Fred A. A Britten representing Chicago's os o's ninth district was not much help to P W V A officials trying to locate a site for Chicago's new housing project His suggestions were vague But of one thing he was sure the sure the site selected should be somewhere in the ninth district Most cities have discarded old-fashioned old open cars on their electric railways But ut Washington dusts hers of off every sprin and gives ives young lovers a h hair blowing holding hand-holding ride to Glen Echo How Its It's Done Senator George Norris knows just how his amendment to abolish the electoral college came cameto cameto cameto to be defeated He withholds the names But this is the story The Tho day the time issue was to be voted on a well- well known mown senator came cam to him George he said Im for your tion I think it is a most desirable reform and andI I w want nt to vote for it But my colleague is against you i I r dont don't want to embarrass him so soI soI j I- I I r understand Norris said An hour later the colleague came to him rind and nd remarked Senator Im I'm in a n quandary Im I'm for your our amendment but my colleague is is not H He is up for reelection as you know I dont don't want to put nim in a hot pot spot so Ill I'll have to be against y you u. u The amendment was lost by a vote two-vote mar mar- mar mar- gin cin 1931 lUI by bl United Feature Syndicate Inc Ine |