Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON TOli MERRY MERRY- ROUND MERRY ROUND GO GO ROUND Trade Mark By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen WASHINGTON WASHINGTON order In-order to feel tecI the pulse of the country in m its response to the New Deal one of the authors of this column has spent the past week in a quick swing through the heart of ot the iron and steel belt with a few detours to other areas Below are summarized the results of his observations S S S The he New Deal is being given a lot of new names in the iron and steel celt belt from Benevolent Benevolent Benevolent Autocracy to The Dictatorship with a Smile but whatever it is the people like it There are a few lone voices crying against him but by and large Ro Roosevelt sevelt has even greater support than he h had d immediately after March Mh 4 People believe in him Even though they think he is not always right they admire the fact that he is frank enough to admit it when he makes mistakes But first last and foremost they are arc convinced he is working not for party or politics but for them Right here is the secret of why congress is eating out of the New Dealers Dealer's hand band Any congressman who bucks the president and does doest t t often and vigorously enough to make himself himsel conspicuous brings down on on his head I the wrath rath of the folks at home How Howlong long this p political paradise can last is going to depend chiefly upon how long the man manin manin in the White House can keep business on on the upgrade That however is a question for tor the future For the present here bere is how the richest richest rich rich- est st industrial section in the world orld looks SMOKY Sl PITTSBURGH Smoke has come come comeback back to Pittsburgh For For almost three years the traditional murk of that city had been so scarce that you could wear the same shirt for an entire day Now it is different Pittsburgh has not yet reached the three-shirt three per day apex of real prosperity but buta a lot of the blast furnaces are belching smoke and anda a lot of people are beginning to smile who never thought they would again S S S Those whose income depends on steel dividends divi divi- complain that they are a long way from prosperity but the debutante list is longer this year ear than any time science the days of the Coolidge bull market and miracle and miracle of miracles you you actually have to stand in line to register for a room at at the William Penn hotel boteL S S S Politically Pittsburgh is laughing at its new Democratic mayor mayor who insists on holding court courtin in the lobby of the city hall hail while the big bad business men are cursing Governor Pinchot whom they consider poisonous Pinchot is to torun run against Dave Reed for the senate this fall falI and the chances are he will smother him And herein lies an an n interesting criterion of Roosevelt's popularity Pinchot is not particularly particularly partie- partie popular eith rin Pittsburgh or in Phila Phila- delphia But he will win solely on a Support the President program A leA vote for Pinchot is a vote for Roosevelt will be the governors governor's campaign slogan and it probably will do the trick LOCAL LANDSLIDES The same thing happened in Rochester which has hardly seen a local Democratic ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration since the timers old-timers can remember ber her Now chi chiefly fly on the the manin man manin in the White House Rochester is ruled by the local Democracy Rochester incidentally weathered the depression depression depression de de- de- de better than most of its neighbors neighbors- chiefly due to the wise labor lalor policies of the Eastman Kodak Kudak company and the Rochester clothing factories Long ago they had put into effect the labor benefits which the only now is trying to get universally adopted by in in- in So when the depression hit Rochester its wag wage earners earners were partially b buttressed to weather the storm S S S Buffalo has bas cast off its haggard look of a year ago and the steel city of Lack Lackawanna vianna over which hung the pall of Cf a funeral last year is beginning to stir again A lot of lake boats are still rusting at their wharves wharves mute mute testimony testimony testimony mony to the h high gh tariffs which have hit trade with Canada but t the railroads are doing a a. thriving passenger business and the good old days when you had to come early to get a lower berth are back again S 'S S Around Syracuse and Rochester farmers are counting on n repeal to bring back their wine industry and h hope p that repeal wine will b beven be even more profitable than the wine-in-the-keg- wine aged in the home the home market which Mabel Walker helped to make legal popular and profitable The farmers farmers' are still a little conservative about New Deal benefits but land prices have begun to lift the tiniest fraction and no longer are banks and insurance companies so worried about their farm mortgages Copyright 1931 1934 b br by United Feature Peature Syndicate Inc |