Show TIlE THE DAILY WASHINGTON Mer Merry Rou r y G 0 R 0 u n nd d dT 1 T Mark Mork MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT RODERT ALLEN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH Wherever you go in this the industrial eart of the nation you yon will find universal universal uni uni- versal agreement that business is better People People Peo Peo- pIe knock on mentally when t they say it as if they were afraid the big bad wolf of the depression would pop out from around the corner the very next instant But they do ad admit admit admit ad- ad mit it Wherever you go also aiso you will find that Roosevelt is slipping and with him the en enthusiasms enthusiasms enthusiasms en- en once pinned on the New Deal The light of in peoples people's eyes one short year ago no longer r kindles This undoubtedly is the opinion of the tle majority in the area around Pittsburg and extends into western New York in Buffalo and md Rochester On one hand i 15 the fact that one-fourth one of the population of Allegheny county the county the city of Pittsburgh and its suburbs suburbs suburbs-is is on relief Every Everyday Everyday Everyday day a total of 65 is spent for feeding them On the other hand har stand the balance sheets of the big Pittsburgh companies and more striking still are the figures of the Mellon fortune Mellons Mellon's Millions These have been droned out day by day in inthe inthe inthe the dull voice of H M. M Johnson Mellons Mellon's confidential confidential confidential con con- secretary and not one of them has been missed by Mr Mellons Mellon's townsmen On December 31 1931 he set his personal wealth at This did not include 63 68 in Coalesced company the organization which tho government claims Mellon set up in order to reduce his income tax This did not include also the art collection valued at given to the capital a day or two before th the income tax case opened Also it did not include the given to his children Paul anc and AlIsa in 1927 Again when he was appointed ambassador to London Mellon gave his two children On the eve of sailing he gave them an another another an- an other Then from London he cabled them shares of Gulf Oil stock worth plus shares of Standard Car Again he telephoned from London and ordered to be given fiven to them In Pittsburgh Mr Mellons Mellon's income tax maneuvering has depreciated hi his personal stock to a low ebb Mellons Mellon's Guffey Mr Mellon of course had nothing to do with the New Deal But see no great political di diff difference except for party label between him and the effulgent Joe Guffey For years Joe has played the Mellon game and voted the Democratic D ticket Today he has not changed He lie campaigned for Roosevelt and the New Deal simultaneously is bein being credited with thwarting New Deal policy by preventing a labor election in the famous Weirton Steel mills case casc Crusader Earle However ge Earle Pennsylvania's first Democratic governor in years h ha a turned out to tobe tobe tobe be the one real asset aset to the Roosevelt adminis adminis- Earle is winning a reputation for or dy dynamic dynamic dynamic dy- dy honesty and ard ability He captured many Pittsburgh hearts when he withheld a state tate grant from the University of Pittsburgh until he could investigate Chancellor Bowmans Bowman's suppression of freo sp speech ech Earle exercised his right of officio ex member of the board of trustees trustees trustees trus trus- tees to tell the university authorities what he thought of them III If this democracy is to continue in Ame- Ame ica he said there here is nothing more important than freedom of speech and freedom of the press If were we're going to have communism it will result from this suppression Our greatest great great- est cst danger is from Iron reactionary private interests concealing the truth from the thc people and giving demagogues a chance to distort it George Earle is the one asset Roosevelt has hasin in Pennsylvania l 1322 3 by ki United feature Syndicate |