Show I STUFF By Br PAUL AUL MALLON MALLONi i WASHINGTON N Feb 2 The 2 The president be s subtly wooing ing the to dent ent appU appears w chieftains chieftain in congress bloc v veterans rans w With posies paste One Onel such vet leader luder gets a bouquet iver ver iver so often olten In the the form of a T Ten Ten- n- n project valley Jr Improvement for far for his bli home district I If the court- court jIp lp lasts much longer even the air airI I will will be electrified for his home folks Such flowers are Veterans Veterans M May y favorites with all alls s Sharpen Axes congress congressmen en They For are guaranteed to 4 win the hardest po- po utica heart hert t Nevertheless some sone stronger woo- woo may be necessary to keep con congress gress from from of ry to Mr MF Roosevelt's W wishes regarding veterans economies It is a dangerous subsurface issue one me ne on which the the administration a a chance of ot being beaten 0 T Mr Roosevelt Rooseve t g gave ve in in a little by restoring estorg about one third of what the American legion wanted That failed to t to quiet the clamor With congressmen congress congress- men coming up for election In the fall all the he veterans veterans' vote is eagerly sought 1 Republican senators are arc guaranteeing guarantee guarantee- ing rint that the issue will be forced before the senate for a vote Action in the house has has' been delayed Chairman Rankin of the house veterans committee commit commit- tee tee- has postponed hearings several tines 0 t- t i. i Administration mouthpieces have kept kept comparatively ly Iq quiet iet about the thet pact t fact that Mr Roosevelt has had a tariff m-ess m message ge to congress to-congress congress on his his' desk k Kaow 7 oW for days 4 As a matter of ot fact he had a tariff if r m message prepared I Tariff Issue for the last session Be Beng nr Dodged of congress and id President n not 0 t c choose h 0 0 set to 0 send it This current one is supposed to be bela la the form of a report from George Gcorge Peek Peck who has been investigating trade possibilities 0 M lt's backwardness about i releasing Kis tariff plans is based do doI on ontie I I th tb tie k knowledge edge they will r raise tse a fuss ln m congress l If tore up his first tariff because his con con- leaders told him the session W v i ld Abe endless if if he he- raised that I SUe Issue They They arc are telling him bim th the same ame thing now i In such cases the president usually a sch scheme me whereby he can canfie fie get w what at he wants want without arousing th ith ithe opp opposition H He is supposed to tobe be bethi bethinking thi thinking king along that line now f 0 1 I. I Complete lack of c comment r ment from national national na na- na Republicans on the Ogden Mills season off keynote speech was not due to disinterestedness but to dismay The brilliant New Yorkers Yorker's oration i in Topeka was in in- Speech by his Was Vu So Much p par party a r t y colleagues G. G G 0 OP P. P Hooe Hooey here privately as snore funereal than necessary They say the party must offer the farmer something besides the tariff tariU and the country something beides belides be- be ides lides generalized opposition They did not realize what Mills was Up against He hod had to say something Simulating politically and yet avoid p specific issues I The truth is the Republicans have franchise on politics They must Stun nm run a street car over the line every tn o O. O often or they will lose loSt the fran fran- chIse The Mills speech was just one of ot that kind o of cars F 00 POLITENESS Public works directors have adopted adopt adopt- ed d a slick scheme for turning turn down projects r jed th they y d donot not like i. i T They ey cannot afford to reject offers fo for fear of arousing resentment so they attach impo impossible ible demands to j projects they do donot not favor I In one case recently they approved a project with ith a proviso so that 50 per percent cent of the money should be raised by private C capital They knew it t would be impossible to raise any such any such amount privately In that wa way they g get t around unsatisfactory projects project W which ich are strongly backed politically by prominent Democrats RED TAPE A typical political red tape yarn arn arnof of Washington Is Is' the one about the aviation 1 tion ground school location The Issue has been up in the air for years The a army y has been recommending site near Dayton Congress h b a b n failing tailing to follow the f for r s sO long that General Genera h has tossed his hands UP and d said saId he does n not lt care wh where e it is cs- cs cd it if will just please establish it somewhere Some y yea ari aE ago congress authorized c Construction of the chool FIeld I Ill Th war a department de dc- dined elined tunca to 10 spend send th tha money Assistant Secretary Trub rub e P said the appropriation wa was Later General Fechet of the air carps mended Dayton but i committee a again j selected elected f. f Chanute Field in the Garner rd el bill biU or of 1932 L t That selection was r the house floor Meanwhile there is no school J f Copyright l 1934 by a I |