Show Inside t c j l Stuff I t B By PAUL D MALLON rALLON WASHINGTON Jan 23 A 23 A few conservatives near the thep p p. of the new deal are displeased s they see ee it the president has during the last 30 days das They contend that you youcan youcan as can see it in the b budget dg t. t ned They have noted I what has not been observed namely that e o proposed expenditures for near near- gall all the government departments e 6 being increased rather than hailed They do not mean the expenditures but the ular expenditures To wit Appropriations for war and agriculture were arty any trebled from the 1935 to toe e 1937 budgets interior and labor ere re re doubled justice and treasury 3 35 to 40 90 per cent and even the thet theto ate to t department up 20 per cent I Some but not many of these increases are due to Mr absorption o of the emer- emer ncy incy expenses of former years into o D regular expenditures for tor next ear He has made some emergency permanent His t total tal of all expenditures con- con for 1937 1931 may or ma mays may not nott t lower than during tho the past two ars rs rs One cannot tell from the Relief ReHe expenditures are un un- The AAA farm tin finan- finan an- an id d program was knocked askew the court With the bonus and new now farm gram coming along I it does ap- ap apt aper ir t r that Mr Roosevelt will haye have look around In some other ns ns if it he is not tur turned ed around iouna by t Drees partly beyond his control r. r Unprejudiced lawyers hero rate rate I il court higher than the in ability Only two justices jus jus- J. J L tices are general- general JUS-I JUS tices ly considered by bye e Rated the lawyers la to be bel below par Of Ot theother the theother other seven at att t four are rated as outstanding cd on PI Page PARC O Five Column Five FUe Inside Stuff Continued from Pate Pace One men and the remaining three above the mean average of at the court since its beginning Whatever differences existed between between between be be- be- be tween Colonel Knox and Mr Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver a few months back have been composed At Ac lea least t that is what wha the wise ones arc are saying They feel fee that while Mr Hoover may once have leaned personally to Governor Landon of ot Kansas he is not now entirely pleased by the refusal o othe of the governor govern to be drawn into the stump campaign That may mean much or little tittle Secretary Swanson is just one degree degree de de- gree removed from enough anger to close down his navy department and turn it over to the state department department depart depart- ment merit diplomats He cannot keep his hair out of their fingers He has kept his hat on in all press conferences conferences con con- since the London nava naval conference started His answer to most questions has been Let the state department answer that one But the other da day with his hat on he told his press conference he had hac only a brief announcement to pu put out ut Just a little Swanson routine announce announce- Talks Tallis Out ment mente The names Of Turn of the ships from the fleet which would visit the east coast this year Three cruisers cruisers' and a couple of ot destroyer destroyer de- de squadrons Perfectly harmless harm harm- less less except except it disclosed the main body of ot the fleet would remain inthe in inthe inthe the Pacific this year earThe ear The announcement came the th same day that the Japanese were putting on their high hats a at t Lon Lon- don a Of course it was interpreted abroad as the answer of the U. U S Sto S. S to the Japanese disarmament re re- re Since then Mr Swanson ha has has clipped his telephone wires am and gone into complete retirement An outstanding new deal official was philosophizing among friends friend the other day about the personnel weakness of ot Mr Roosevelt's administration administration administration admin admin- and the burden it has pu put on the president personally S Said ld be he The original basic purposes o oNRA of N R A and A AAA A A could have been written constitutionally The groupIng grouping grouping group group- ing of the larger Jarger Bewails industries to stag stag- Personnel ger c Weakness and e eliminate 1 i m in a ate t e such things as child labor and oppressive hours would have been constitutional i if composed by a couple of men of the legal caliber of Chief Justice Hughes or John W. W Davis Also they could have written a constitutional A AAA A A Ain in the first place The extra failure of the N R Awas A Awas was bad administration General Genera Johnson is one of the best writers in the country and one of the worst administrators The original N R Aidea A Aidea idea never included anything like Jike the blue eagle Think of ot what would have hap hap- I I if that bureau could have hav been administered by Al Smith Chester Davis Mr Hoover or even Mr Roosevelt himself |