Show THE DAILY DAnlY W WASHINGTON INGTON Merry Merry- Merry Round Merry Q Round MarkBy Mark MarkBy By 81 DREW DREV PEARSON and ROBERT ALLENS ALLEN S WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Harry Harry Hopkins is staging a aon on one man man fight against the threatened bonus army army and and winning Hopkins' Hopkins chief w weapon apon is the one he uses in feeding a part of the population population tion of the U. U S. S A. A federal A.-federal federal relief Although it has not permeated to the general public a group of veterans is staging a drive to assemble a powerful bonus army in Washington almost on the day congress convenes To this end they have their agents in every transit bu burc bure bureau bu- bu re rc reau u ti in the east and south Floaters coming through the bureaus are advised to come to Washington immediately This is where here Harry Hopkins does his stu stuff S Through the transit bureau in Washington he corrals new arrivals They are arc offered the choice of a job in either a ace C C C camp or with an F FER E R A outfit outfit outfit-or or a forced exit from Wash Wash- ington Work Vork or run is Harry Hopkins' Hopkins motto And in this way the converging bonus army is scattered almost as soon as i it arrives New Deal vs Old S Behind the feud between Honest Harold Ickes public works works' administrator and Dapper Jimmy Moffett federal housing administrator is isa isa isa a story of many ramifications I It began at the very start of the Roosevelt administration when Jimmy Moffett first came cameto cameto cameto to Washington He had known Roosevelt when the latter was assistant se secretary of the navy and when Jimmy then working for his fathers father's St Standard Oil Company of New Jersey sold oil to the navy Later after contributing heavily to the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- Jimmy received appointment as an adviser adviser adviser ad ad- on petroleum His first acts were to urge a price-fixing price agreement and to put himself forward forward forward for for- ward as head of the petroleum board Ickes however was already head of or the petroleum board and Jimmy after a row with his this Standard Oil au chief Walter Valter Teagle went back to private business Returning as federal housing administrator Jimmy has won the reputation of being the new deals deal's gift to real estate operators S A provision exists in in- his bill whereby he could go in for low cost housing and slum clear clear- ance That is a part of the new deal program Ickes considers considers' it most important So also in inthe the past has the president Jimmy however has shied awa away from it asif as asif asif if it were the plague His housing program is based on the twin theories of writing advertising advertising advertising advertis advertis- ing copy and running a loan shop He contends that private enterprise given a gentle push can bring a building boom by itself Ickes on the other hand conceives the new deal as a means of doing for housing and slum clearance what business so far has failed to do dp what realtors with realtors with large larg-e investments of their own at stake stake never never can do Humor and Tragedy Harry Hopkins and his relief administration receive about letters a day Probably no mail not even that of the White House contains more pathos more human tragedy and yet more unconscious humor than this this' flow of letters Here are arc a collection of quotes recently collected collected col- col I am glad to say that my husband is now de deceased de- de S. S ceased S This is my eighth child What are you going to do about it Unless I r get my husbands husband's money soon I shall bo be 30 forced to lead an immortal life In accordance with your instructions I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope Co 1 1934 3 United Syndicate lac Inc |