Show THE TIlE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRy ROUND MERRY ROUND GO GO ROUND Trade Mark By Drew P Pearson and Robert S S. S Allen Alien WASHINGTON The The Tammany delegation in congress once a formidable o offspring of or the Tiger is a herd of lost sheep at this session There was a time when this the largest bloc in congress strutted and swaggered about the capital as if they owned it Alas Mas that day is gone Now an nn occasional member of the group will let out a feeble bleat but collectively col there isn't a roar in the pack The reason is easy They are leaderless In the past the Tammany bloc got orders from Brooklyn's rooklyn's veteran Representative ve Tom Cullen who in n turn got instructions by long Jong distance telephone from Boss Curry or Mc- Mc Cooey But since last years year's mayoralty election election election elec elec- tion when some Tammany congressmen stayed regular arid and others bolted to Holy Joe McKee Mc Mc- McKee McKee Kee the bloc doesn't know who is boss They know Curry is through and are paying paying pay pay- ing no attention to tp him On the other hand there is no indication as to who will replace him So being accustomed to taking orders they are completely at sea seta Privately iely they blame Postmaster General Genera Jim Farley for their troubles They know Jim is laying wires for a big housecleaning in inthe inthe inthe the Wigwam and a number of them fear mightily mightily mightily might might- ily that they are arc on the guillotine list Even if they escape the Farley Fancy ax election lection prospects this fall are none too promising premising for anyone wearing the Tigers Tiger's stripes Last November November November No No- vember ten Tammany representatives in the state legislature lost their seats in the fusion landslide landslide and and Tammany congressmen cant can't forget it GOLD BRAID AND EPAULETS For months Marin Mann young and brilliant brilliant bril bril- editor of Porto Ricos Rico's leading lending liberal newspaper newspaper news news- paper paper El Democracia waged an unrelenting war war against Governor Bob Gore At home and andin andin in Washington he carried on his crusade When the president announced that Gore had resigned and that Major General Blanton Winship was was- his successor successor t Marins Marin's friends rushed to congratulate him How do you like the new man one of them inquired Well CI Marin Mann replied hes got more p plu plu- u- u mage DUD DUDI I If there was ever a dud it was was' the th survey of alleged communist propaganda in this country country country coun coun- try solemnly submitted by the A. A F. F of L. L to the president in an effort eUort to balk soviet recognition rec rec- The report just made ronde public contains pages pages with wit 80 so c so called lcd sensational exhibits and is a 1 mass of extravagant scare adjectives unsupported charges and old leaflets that can be bought in any radical book shop Government Government Govern Govern- ment agents who scanned describe it privately as the best joke book published in 1933 rOne r I IOne One of the most sinister exhibits of the collection was a batch of communist literature allegedly obtained from secret sources Actually Actually Actually Ac Ac- the source was a radical book store di directly directly directly di- di across from the A. A F. F of L. L offices Chester Chester Chester Ches Ches- ter Wright President Greens Green's specialist on reds merely strode across the street and bought out out most of the stores store's supply of radical liter liter- It was the shops shop's biggest sale of the year SCARED I To what extent certain cerbin big business interests interests inter inter- I ests live in s secret ret terror of the presidents president's economic economic economic eco eco- and monetary policies is significantly sign disclosed by a story that has just reached his ears Roosevelt's informant a l leader lader ader in the field was approached by a n group of nationally known business figures They told him they came to h him m because he was a friend and supporter of I the president They asked his help In hushed tones they disclosed their e IJ r for the security of the dollar and the privat I I ownership of industry They were con convinced vine they said that the president planned if t actual government ownership ownership-at at least goV- goV J I participation in business They propos proposed d therefore to organize tUx ai aL committee of twenty five of the mo most prominent prom prom- business men in m the country and goto gOIto the White House to remonstrate with Avith With the i president nt urge upon him tactfully but positively positively a more conservative course R friend heard them to the end nd Then told them to go home home and and forget it Not only would their delegation have an ad adverse adverse adverse ad- ad verse popular reaction he said but it was as the thelast thelast thelast last way to sway the president Roosevelt he told them is neither awed nor impressed bythe by bythe bythe the fears fears' and alarms of conservative business interests and does not determine his policies by conferences with committees of big business protest makers GO 1 ROUND MERRY RO 1 Governor William Villiam I. I Myers of the farm credit administration can talk write listen and hold a press conference all at the same time At a a news conference the other day he signed mail answered questions scanned a statistical report ke kept t two stenographers busy taking dictation dictation dic die tation and ordered his lunch which lunch which he eats at athis athis athis his desk Of the additional funds the R. R F. F C. C is seeking for the current fiscal year is for loans to banks particularly savings and loan banks anks Copyright 1934 b by u United ned Fea Feature Syndicate Inc |