Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY ROUND MERRY ROUND GO Trade Mark lark By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen Alien Authors Author of Round Merry and Moro More Ioro Round Go V WASHINGTON The The drive against liberal forces within the new deal now looks like adeath a adeath adeath death battle One side or the other the other the left or orthe orthe orthe the right right right-is is going to have to get out Yesterdays Yesterday's Yesterdays Yesterday's Yesterdays Yesterday's Yester Yester- days day's dispatches regarding the visit o of Geor George e N. N Peck Peek to the White House were significant in m regard to this situation The fight at present is centering on two things One is the securities bill branded by bankers bankers bank bank- ers era and brokers as stifling the money market The other is the agricultural adjustment ad ad- ad ministration In the latter are two distinct groups One the the liberals liberals liberals-is is headed by Secretary of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture Wallace The other the other the conservatives is is headed by George by-George Peek of the A. A A. A A. A Wallace Vallace has gathered around him a group of progressives some of the hardest fighters in the new deal They include Pro Professor Legal Counsel Jerome Frank Economic Adviser Ad- Ad Ezekiel Consumers' Consumers Counsel Howe Paul Appleby and Gardner Jackson The drive against them is being led by groups of meat packers tobacco companies and milk dealers whose codes they have opposed The strategy of the attack is to brand the Wallace group as reds The plan is to pick off one man at a time The attack is now centering centering centering cen cen- on Tug Tugwell well Various interests want him out out of the picture They have two big things against him He is author of the pure food and drugs act and nd of the liquor control code Wh What t few people know is that in both of these Tugwell is the goat He was merely carrying carrying carrying car car- out instructions Roosevelt himself ordered ordered or or- or dered him 10 o draw up the food and drugs act The president is its chief supporter The liquor control plan was ordered by but Wallace Wallace but Tugwell Tugwell Tugwell Tug- Tug well got the blame So Tugwell is branded a dangerous red Confidential business letters are broadcasting this Several business concerns are putting out press releases with the s same me implication Both Wallace Vallace and R Roosevelt however are arc backing him per cent FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE The fundamental issue between Wa Wallace lace and Peek is simple Peek is an old McNary-Hau- McNary gen man He believes in boosting farm production production tion finding foreign markets Wallace Vallace claims there are no foreign markets to speak of Present Present Present Pres Pres- ent statistics bear him out He says the only solution is the limitation of crop production Chief outside criticism of the A A. A. A A. A is on delay The meat pa packers packers' kers' kers code has been held up for weeks The issue here boils down to whether the A. A A A. A. A should accept a code which it considers unjust to both farmer and con con- sumer The packers refuse to permit A. A A. A A. A access to their books although they grant the same privilege td to the bureau of internal rev rev- It is granted to the A. A A A. A. A A. A by other coded industries Wallace refuses to be bulldozed into a code unless the packers yield He points to the consent consent con con- sent decree handed down by the supreme court the federal trade commissions commission's report on the packers claims the packers packers' have the evidence stacked against them Peek on the other hand wants the packers' packers code rushed through His friends in big business business busi busi- ness accuse the reds around Wallace of delay General Johnson is siding with his old friend Peek They once the ran Moline Plow com corn pany together Johnson says says the codes should be pushed through even ven through compromised He e thinks the Wallace Tugwell-Wallace group are u un n reasonable extremists mists He He- demands a show down i The show iown is coming coining soon But it probably will not please Johnson It looks as if his friend Peek would lose out BIG SHOT Ambassador Josephus Daniels secretary of the navy under Woodrow Wilson has a large fund of maritime stories One of his latest is about two former service m men n who were boast beast ing about their employers My liMy boss bois said one was a big shot in the navy once Yeah Well what was his official ca Capacity capacity ca- ca Official capacity Oh Fd rd d say about four or five quarts when he was feeling good The Daily Worker official organ of ot the American Communist party did not print a line about the banquet tendered Commissar Maxim Litvinoff in New York City by big business business busi busi- ness leaders on the eve of his his' departure for Russia Copyright 1933 un by United Feature Syndicate te Inc |