Show aTHE a- a THE TilE DAILY WASHINGTON Merry Go Round Trade Marie MarieBy By fly DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Several Several years ago Rexford Tugwell now assistant secretary of agriculture then hen a professor of Columbia university published pub- pub a lengthy thesis Its title was Obsolescence Obsolescence Unemployment and it mystified even his lis learned lerned colleagues Published in the proceedings proceedings pro pro- of the academy of political science the paper aroused some mild academic discussion was vas republished in pamphlet form then promptly forgotten But a few weeks ago Obsolescence Unemployment was given official recognition The presidents president's authorization directing the C C W A Ao Ato Ato to o trans transfer er a million jobless from industrial centers to farm homesteads was based on economic economic economic eco eco- theories expounded in Tugwell's long forgotten thesis In his study Tugwell held that technological cal development creates an increasing permanent permanent perma perma- nent unemployment problem This development development develop develop- ment he called obsolescence unemployment in n everyday language human labor being permanently permanently permanently per per- replaced by machine production As Asa a solution he propos proposed cd that these dispossessed millions be transferred to small sustain self ing ng communities Operating in different ways and in widely separated areas Henry Ford and Mahatma Ghandi had the same idea have used the rural factory and the spinning wheel to diffuse in in- Reed Anti-Reed The administration is keeping a wary vary eye on Missouri's time one-time Senator Jim Reed Although Although Although Al Al- though well along in years the stormy petrel of democracy is manifesting all the signs of reviving political ambitions Recently married mar mar- ried ned for the third time friends report that his bride is strong for his return to the senate If this be the case Mrs Reed is causing the administration administration ad- ad administration ad ad- ministration a lot of worry Roosevelt has no desire to see Reed back in n the senate He is an incalculable factor as turbulent as Huey Long but infinitely more able and effective Reed has poise character character charac- charac ter er brilliant intellect and great fighting ties But he is a pronounced individualist does not work well with others Also he is a decided conservative S SAll All AU these factors were behind Postmaster- Postmaster General Jim Farleys Farley's surprise announcement the other day giving administration blessing to the he senatorial ambitions of Representative Tuck Milligan This was an unprecedented action But the administration strategists f feel el elthe the he situation required it while lacking Reeds Reed's dramatic qualities is a highly able politician He has been in the house since 1920 He is a crony of Vice President Garner was Garner was his right-hand right man when Garner was boss of the house Milligan Mil Mil- Miligan ligan igan always operates behind the scenes but buthe butle he le does docs so with a sure touch and a firm hand Two Men len t J tEdward Edwa Edward d Douglas Stair director of the Detroit Detroit De- De troit Trust company suffered from an all too common ailment when he appeared before belore the senate bank investigation committee His memory went bad Come come now sharply admonished Counsel Ferdinand Pecora Cant you remember remember ber these things No Im I'm afraid I cant can't was the sorrow sorrowful ul answer anwer You see see Im I'm getting well along in years and my memory plays me tricks How old are you sharply demanded Chairman Fletcher Seventy f ive Huh snorted Fl Fletcher having just turned seventy five five himself That's not old Speak up Culture and Da Daniel Boone The office of secretary of the se senate ate is now occupied by an enthusiastic believer in the traditions traditions traditions tra tra- of that august body Colonel Colone Edwin A. A Halsey the new deal in incumbent incumbent in- in has been collecting all the important documents which have been lying around the dusty old files of cf the senate for the last hundred hun hun- died dred years Among these he has brought to o light a neglected letter in the handwriting of ol George Washington and another written by Daniel Boone which showed that sturdy old pioneer to have been a m man n o of culture and edu edu- cation In many cases these l letters tt rs are r almost f falling fall fall- ll ing lag apart with with decay but Halsey has restored i ithem them by covering them with transparent silk I Together wit with the original Monroe Doctrine which he unearthed in an obscure filing cabinet cabinet cabi I net they now repose on n a special senate show show- case Copyright 1934 by United Feature Syndicate Inc I Occasionally headliners describe the thc pres president den as asking more power where he her Is only giving notice Uce that hat at he already has it Washington t. 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