| Show Merry Merry- Merry Round Merry Go Round Trado Trade Mark Mart MarkBy Marky By y DREW PEARSON and nd ROBERT ALLEN W WASHINGTON One One ASHINGTON-One One important criticism Is being hammered home on the president by his advisers advisers advisers ad ad- these days until it has beco become e almOst an anvil chorus These critics urge the absolute and immediate necessity of administrative efficiency of curtailing the he the cumbersome machine of government which has las grown to such giant proportions Rex Tugwell who is trying to drop of his resettlement workers has urged this on the pres pres- ident So has Harry Hopkins who is now curtailing curtailing cur cur- tailing his surplus FERA workers Even Mrs Roosevelt has lias emphasized this point to o her husband On on one occasion after Barney Baruch had impressed her with the dangers of New Mew Deal inefficiency she arranged a conference rence between B Baruch ruch and Roosevelt even went to the extent of having both men in inor for tea and kept pt all Jl calls calls' or r messages aYl away y from the president while they hey talked As a re result there has been some attempt at increased in increased increased in- in in- in creased efficiency and at curtailing the elephantine tine ine New Deal Deal but but not much There are two reasons for failure One is the obvious fact that no no other administratiOn administration adminis adminis- n in history has launched s so radical and multiple multiple mul- mul tiple a program m. The other is that Roosevelt himself cannot let go the personal reins This This' is partly because he hel doesn't doesn t want to partly because there are so many weak spots and prima donnas donnas' in his cabinet The number of administrative details which I flow low across the presidents president's desk is amazing C Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- ol- ol idge had nothing like it Ev Even n Hoover whose eight years in the department nt of commerce gave him lim such an intimate knowledge of government that hat he was more familiar with many details than his lis subordinates would not have dreamed of tackling ackling the minor matters which come up to Roosevelt Until this changes the anvil chorus around Roosevelt will be about as s effective as rain pray ers era in iIi the northwest drought Gang Informer It is against justice department policy to admit admitS it but the tip which sent men G-men directly to the shallow grave of gangster John Hamilton two weeks ago came from om a woman She is Helen Gills Nelson wife of Baby Face Nelson and a member of the Hamilton Dillinger-Hamilton gang ang Mrs Nelson is now now in the federal penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary for women at Milan Mich and is being re released released released re- re leased this month after serving a minimum sen sen- tence Elliott Roosevelt Behind the Texas squabble ver Elliott Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt veIt second son of the president was a n neat at plan to run him for congress in in 1936 The Th idea was sponsored chiefly by Amon Carter Carter Car Car- ter publisher of the Fort Worth Telegram Star-Telegram intimate friend of the Roosevelt family He wanted Elliott to oppose Fritz Fritt Lanham congressman from Fort Worth and to that end boosted him first for the presidency of the Young Demo Democrats rats of Texas However Elliott did not go over very well in inthe inthe inthe the Lone Star state He was too looking good his too his bis i alti attitude ud just a trifle sit su- manner LOAL JJ suave suay J.- J. s manner LOAL JJ suave suay J.- J. s Also friends of Fritz Lanh Lanham m set out to knife him hint So after a knock-down knock and out drag-out fight figh among Texas Young Dem Democrats rats Elliott l lost st out outon on the he presidency compromised and got the vice presidency But with opposition to the elder Roo Roosevelt evelt growing in Texas Elliotts Elliott's chances for congress ap appeared appeared appeared ap- ap futile Also his spot in the limelight wa was not helping his father lather There is too oo much re resentment resentment resentment re- re against the Roosevelt family So Elliott Elliott resigned even his vice presidency Little N R A One piece of ot legislation post in the last hectic shuffle of adjournment ent and which the administration tion is more than provoked about is the defeat of ofa a Little N R K A AU bill This would have required companies selling goods to the government to pay code wages and maintain code hours The bill was especially urged on congress by Roosevelt's special message following the supreme e courts court's blast of the N R A in the sick chicken case It was aimed to be a concrete foundation upon which the administration could build a bigger and better N R B A. A The defeat of the bill was due to one small slip by Speaker Joe Byrns whom many New Dealers would like to present with a booby prize labeled Star Bungler of the Session Good old Joe Joe his his mind probably on getting home to his Tennessee mountains mountain sent sent the bill not to the house labor committee which should have received r it but to the judiciary committee one of the most reactionary in congress bill The slept there soundly ever since j ns b United U Syndicate e. ins inc I |
