Show THE DAILY DAny V WASHINGTON Round Merry Round RoUndS Merry S J TraO 2 Mork By DREW V PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN w WASHINGTON Among WASHINGTON Among blase spectators who watch the clash of new deal gladiators even money is now being offered that Donald Rich- Rich ber berg will be out o of the arena within a year This does not necessarily mean discredit to But it does illustrate two things First no no noman man who wins the title of assistant president lasts long second the spotlight of public attention is now upon Rich- Rich berg as on no other new dealer except the pres pres- ident No fo man now has more power power outside outside the White House than House than and no man has achieved that power by a more fascinating meteoric career Business calls him a wise guy while his old labor friends scarcely speak to him The change hange has made the No 2 man in inthe inthe inthe the administration eventually it will cause his downfall It is is' hard to diagnose the reasons for this thi change But it is not hard to diagnose the reasons reasons rea rca sons why he became assistant president S is one of the thc ablest men around Roosevelt He is as as' q quick ick as lightning He has hasa a profound background He has a a powerful l charm charm understanding a sense of humor No matter how much you may disagree disagree disagree dis dis- dis- dis agree with you cant can't help liking him But perhaps more important than all these sees to eye-to-eye wit with the pre president ident Like Roosevelt essentially is a mid mid- the road man As he hc recently described himself My liMy liberalism is less radical than it is re reputed reputed re- re to be and more liberal than some ome say ft It is IS That is penetrating self is neither nor pro Actually he is among the presidents president's left advisers But Buthe Buthe Buthe he is so much more conservative than he used to be that showers of labor abuse have been hc heaped p d upon his head This poo poorly ly concealed conceal d coolness of his old labor friends rankles and to rekindle the old ld warmth he has asked for a private meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing with executives of the executive council l of the A. A F. F of L. L But he will probably fail Assistant President A As assistant president job is that of chief coordinator of new deal activities and chief salesman of new deal s sanity to doubting doubting doubt doubt- ing business men The former is desperately needed and should be able to do it well The latter he also does convincingly but no noone noone one can do it with complete success A few months ago when the N R A was bogged down with complete inertia was busy as assuring assuring assuring as- as suring business men that all was right with the blue eagle Today heis busy at the rate of sever several several sev sev- er eral l speeches per week assuring chambers of commerce that Ro Roosevelt sevelt will co cooperate with business It is a job that cannot last partly last partly because has changed too many times partly because no man can continue to be assistant assistant assistant as president Roosevelt may have one inside adviser for a brief time but he shuffles shuffles shuf shut fles and reshuffles s constantly The title assistant president rankles Rich Rich- berg He would like to shelve it But he has one great goal ahead He has told friends friends' that his dreams are arc fixed on the august tribunal tribunal tribunal trib trib- unal of the supreme court And when sooner sooner or later he steps out as assistant president that probably is where he will go Intimates of Huey Long say they they- know he is is planning ambitious political operations in the future He has recently become a teetotaler From this they deduce that the tIie has his eye on the presidency The plan of certain banking interests to use their N R H A code to put over a national system of service charges on deposits has ha been quietly dropped The scheme when first announced early last s spring ring stirred up a hornets hornets' nest of prot protests S S Arizona's Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst famous for his quIps has a new one He says he heis is a pEptic lieu the opposite ofa dyspeptic I I Copyright UnIted nc v |