Show National Whirligig By Dy GEORGE DURNO DunNO WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-If If lou you could take a peck peek Into the inner office 0 of Democratic Treasurer Frank C. C Walker r and his assistants these days you'd see a group of gentlemen perspiring de despite despite despite de- de spite the temperature outdoors Walker and his lads if you rec recall ll are tre busy hammering the National Emergency council together so no knocks will be detectable in the motor They arc are finding out rapidly it is a job of heroic pro pro- portions 0 The council is President Roosevelt's new super-organization super designed to make information tion on all phases of government available to the citizenry fast and accurately In time tune it will absorb the duties of protecting consumers and enforcing codes Its ramifications will extend into every state and county That is what Republican critics have predicted predicted predicted pre pre- would happen Right after its birth some of the more important G. G O. 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P newspapers newspapers pers pel'S sniffed suspiciously and allowed as how they smelled the makings of a political machine machine machine ma ma- chine pure and simple This inspired the president to take a hand handin in personally checking over nominations for forstate forstate state directors But even such a move didn't solve the problem altogether Washington discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered suddenly it was was' getting a little unsolicited unsolicited unsolicited help in several states S S 0 f fIn In at least three instances Senators were vere sounded out about the qualifications of men to tobe tobe tobe be state directors paying directors paying up to a year The senators apparently took the appointments appointments appointments appoint appoint- ments for granted and wired their constituents they were on the payroll Headquarters here first heard of the appointments appointments appointments ap when scouts reported the men in question were building up what looked more like delegations to the next convention than state organizations for 0 0 0 The Roosevelt loosevelt administration n Is made up of very very practical politicians but these little were a alit little too raw The three men in question were called off without ever having been formally appointed l. l AH All of which may explain the tle dela delay iI in announcement of the f full ll roster of state directors The boys are still looking for t talent lent in certain sections PIECE KEY-PIECE Reports come from the to the department that a a shakeup of sorts in the Reconstruction Reconstruction Reconstruction Re Re- construction Finance corporation is impending Just which director will go and who will re replace place him has not ot been ceen ascertained as yet except that the status of Jesse Jones as chairman is understood NOT to be involved Some observers ers era are speculating on the possibility of Harvey C. C Couch's retirement but it might be one of the other three S 0 0 S Various moves by the administration through and with respect to the have convinced those close to the sidelines here that Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt is planning a vast new national credit or organization organization organization or- or with the corporation as a key Again th the president rit hasn't taken ken enough people people peo pea pie into his confidence e yet for the nature of the scheme to leak All AU the same the banks that woke up to find out that henceforth the government intends t to dictate directorates wherever wherever ever it has a stake must be doing a lot of tall U thinking STEWART Now that the administration has decided I living costs are not not sufficiently increased d to warrant restoration on of the 15 per cent c cut tl t it perhaps wont won't solace olace government workers much to hear about another champion of their cause This one deserves mention though because of his former official connection He is Ethelbert Stewart commissioner of labor statistics under the la las last administration i S S The grand old man who man who looks like Mark Twain Twain takes takes violent exception to using de department department de- de of labor cost of living s statistics as as a yardstick for wages He says the department can only measure living cost standards while wages are what of necessity create those standards Whether a man will wear an overcoat a year two two- years or or five years depends upon ho how much he earns avers the former commis And to fit his wages to any anyone one of these possibilities only pe perpetuates that standard standard standard stand stand- ard ossifies conditions paralyzes progress ANXIETY Senate Floor Leader Joe Robinson tipped off the administration strategy in controlling congressional appropriations in the course of answering an attack by the Republican Robinson Robin Robin- son of Indiana the other day He said no one versed in federal fiscal af aff affairs at- at f fairs irs can fail fall to view our our government debt without anxiety Then he threw in an adroit threat of increased income and capital ta taxes es if the budget was further upset Every time a money bill gets into the hopper that isn't on the official schedule this lament will be intoned NOTES Huey Long says he didn't have a thing to todo todo todo do with Mrs Boliver Kemps Kemp's candidacy for congress in the Sixth Louisiana district and isn't interested in the outcome of her contest But a a. lot of people are wondering why he has been making so man many trips to the house hous i office oHice building lately S S S SOne One piece of legislation that scooted through In a hurry is the District of Columbia liquor bill giving congressmen and Washingtonians ns the right to buy and drink liquor in the national capital at last S S S So far the session has been pretty colorless What debate there has been couldn't be called scintillating S S I Special Attorney Pecora's illness is taken seriously by those closest to him Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate |