Show I THE DAILY WASHINGTON Round Merry nd Trade MarieBy Mark Marie MarkBy MarkBy By DREW V PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON For For two years ten people have entered the White House regularly every Tuesday and Friday to sit at a long Iong mahogany table with Franklin Roosevelt and discuss with him the problems of the new deal These ten comprise the greatest conglomeration tion of political faiths and economic walks walks' of ot life ever to make up a cabinet two cabinet two Republicans one one New Englander two from the solid south one far westerner one woman one New York Jew and one Tammany Demo Demo- crat How have they come through the ordeal of the first two years Have Hav they developed grown in stature or become deflated Here is isan isan isan an appraisal of them at midterm Cordell Hull Bull Secretary of or State Slate No 1 man in the cab cabinet net Cordell Hull is is downcast because he thinks he does not get proper support from the White Hou House e but ut still is fi fighting for the one goal of his life re life re reduced tariffs And he is finally beginning to get somewhere Aside from his reciprocity treaties Hull is not absorbed in the general foreign policies of the United States and his state department pretty well runs though itself itself though sometimes very badly He is slow roundabout extremely sensitive sensitive sensitive sen sen- to criticism but once he sets his mind mindon on an objective he gets there tl no matter how howlong howlong howlong long it takes Henry 1 Secretary of or the Treasury is one who if asked by Franklin Franklin Frank Frank- lin un Roosevelt to get a slice of the moon would struggle desperately to reach it itlie it He lie remains the cabinet member closest to the president His ideas are Roosevelt's ideas His acts are Roosevelt's acts Morg has got over his initial nervousness nervousness nervous nervous- nervousness ness and has turned out to be a first-class first ex ex- ex He would be better if he did not take too many details to the Vh White tc House George Dern Bern Secretary of or War ar Dern Bern continues to be one of the most pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant conscientious members of the cabinet But Buthe Buthe Buthe he is secretary of war merely in name General General General Gen Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur runs the war department department depart depart- ment has become so necessary to Dern Bern that he urged his reappointment as chief of staff From the army's point of view Dern is an ideal secretary He gives them what they want Homer Cummings Attorney General Cummings is the most genial and na good member of the official family Next to Farley Fancy he is also the most politically Pol Political considerations count more with him than those of merit and as a result his ap appointments appointments ap- ap are arc among the worst in the new deal Cummings' Cummings justice department is more steeped in red tape than any other and important important important tant law cases move forward with the slowness of a tortoise although without that creatures creature's perseverance In recent months Homer has built up a barrage barrage barrage bar bar- rage of publicity regarding his work of coral coral- ling gangsters which has successfully thrown the spotlight away from his other defects James Aloysius Alosius Farley Postmaster General The postmaster general still remains the most battered member of ot t the e cabinet though his unequivocal comeback at Huey Long has partly restored his badly plucked Jim has kept off the political firing line as asfar asfar asfar far as possible and is trying to rebuild the efficiency of ot his postoffice department which suffered sadly during his peregrinations about the country He has adopted the cue of lying low and ond saying little However he is still besieged by jobholders and nd it is doubtful whether anyone who is both postmaster general and national committeeman can long be low Claude Augustus Swanson Swanson is no more secretary of the navy than Dern is secretary of war Not only is hein he hein hein in the hands of his admirals but also he is inthe in inthe inthe the hands of the president Roosevelt for lor eight years assistant secretary of ot the navy cannot resist poking his fingers continually into his old department Swanson is heart and soul a big navy man but probably if he had had his hand on things he would not have permitted collusion in theaward the theaward theaward award of cruiser contracts He has been thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- worried ed by the disclosures of the senate munitions committee Harold E. E Ickes Secretary of ot the Interior The secretary continues to be the hardest working and most uncompromising member of the cabinet Despite the abuse heaped upon his head in recent months he maintains a gorgeous sense of oC humor and just as much eagerness for fora a scrap His tracks have been less deviating toward new deal goals than that of any other cabinet officer Daniel Calhoun Roper Secretary of ot Commerce Without John Dickinson assistant secretary Ropers Roper's department would be completely sty sty- He is fond of talking about the birds the flowers the trees morality morality anything anything except the subject at hand An ardent prohibitionist Roper now fumbles at the cocktail although noone no noone noone one can be quite sure whether any of it passes down his gullet Henry Wallace allace One of the most idealistic new dealers Wallace Vial Val Valace lace ace is not a happy man He has parked some of his ideals on the shelf and has decided to go along on a course of political cal expediency For all practical purposes Chester Davis ad administrator administrator ad- ad of the A A A A. A is now secretary of agriculture Wallace is loved for his charm his naivette his of manner his idealism idealism ideal ideal- ism but he has lost some of the respect ct he once commanded Frances Perkins Secretary of ot Labor Miss Perkins is one of the working hardest-working members of the official family but also one of ot the most unhappy She has done a good job in the social phases o of her work work child child and female labor labor statistics unemployment exchange etc but she has been boxed on the most important important important im im- im- im work of oC all labor all labor conciliation In this field first General Johnson then Donald and to a certain extent Francis Francis FranCs FranC's Fran Fran- cis Cs Biddle have completely thwarted her Copyright 1935 l by 7 United Feature Syndicate Inc |