Show Round Merry d. d Iati By y D DREW EW PEARSON EARSON L and nd OB Rt ALLEN WANTED WANTED fly V By United Sta States cs treasury ono one reputable conservative banker r with bond experience Cn ence sympathetic with Roosevelt lt administration in Zi fi fiscal clil l p policies ll ie Salary V WASHINGTON You You ASHINGTON-You You won wont won't t 5 find this 5 1 ad In in the Help Wanted columns but it is the language President President President dent Roosevelt and Secretary are using mentally in n looking for someone to fill fil the shoes of Undersecretary Thomas Jefferson Cool- Cool idge The Bostonians Bostonian's resignation is a serious blow to the new deal An able experienced banker and bond expert with a high st standing in fin financial circles circles cirdes cir cir- cir cir- cles des Coolidge's departure leaves a bad hole holin in the treasury I Morge thaus thau's dilemma t is isto to find finda a banker who has las the confidence of the financial world and at atthe atthe atthe the same time is deal It is like looking for a needle in in a haystack Treasury wags suggest that yoUng oung o ng Henry put the secret service on the trail What makes matters worse is that Coolidge is the third man who has quit this post ost Because of disagreement with new deal fiscal policies As far b back ck as last spring word leaked out that Coolidge vas Was at odds with his chiefs chiefs' and wanted to quit u d him fo to stay and C Coolidge yielded But his vi views ws became in increasingly increasingly increasingly in- in critical Climax came when the president vetoed Coolidge's Coolidge's Cool Cool- idge's suggestion that the budget message contain contain con con- tam tain a recommendation to stabilize the dollar Instead Roosevelt issued an am executive order re renewing renewing renewing re- re for another year his power to raise or lower the value of the dollar doUar A few days later Coolidge sent in his resignation Mor is looking for his new assistant in inno no non Wall street quarters He wants a banker unsullied by the big money marts of the east hopes to find his man in the west or south Eleanor and anti Edward Mrs Roosevelt is accustomed to having people brag about sitting next to her but the theother other day she was the one one to do the bragging At her regular regular reg reg- ular press conference she was asked Did you know King George V No But the Prince of Wales of-Wales Vales was wash h here re someone give a dinn dinner r for the Prince of Wales 1 Mrs Roosevelt Interrupting At which I sat next to him When did the president meet the king He met the king during the War when h he went over to the front in 1918 1018 What did you talk about with the Prince of Wales Good heavens My gracious that was 16 years ago Note Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy in 1918 Exit Drama Official reason why Jake Baker W P A censor killed the W P A theatrical production on Ethiopia and Italy was the state department and fear ar of offending Ital Italy This of course course had something to do with it Inside reason however ho was was the he fact that the next W V P A theatrical project was to portray the plight of the southern share sharecroppers share croppers This is an extremely sore point with the new deal The cotton colton curtailment program has made niad the plight of southern tenant farmers worse The Thelast last thing the administration wants is publicity publicity- especially through its own W P A. A S Italian complaints to the state department could have been ignored The W P A actors depicting depicting de de- Mussolini and Emperor Halle Haile Selassie were using exact quotes from these two gentlemen Sixteen unemployed newspapermen were u used cd in checking the quotes and the state department admitted ad ad- they were O. O K But the share-croppers share offered a greater lem It now looks as if the only thing the W P A theatrical project can put on the stage is mUrder and gang warfare Otherwise they will step on some diplomatic senatorial or bl big business toe Note Jake Baker Bakert W P A czar who killed the Italian Ethiopian-Italian drama once nce lived in Greenwich Village W was S considered a gre great t Bohemian follower fol foI- lower of ot the stage New G at Men Mild-mannered Mild desk men in the department of agriculture have taken on the job of bouncing some of the toughest racketeers in the country country- those in the poultry business The job is more nearly one for G men When congress gave them the job of regulating the poultry mark markets ts of the big cities it sounded simple The plan Was to issue licenses to all commission commission com corn mission men dealers truckers and feed merchants in the regulated cities Licenses were to be withheld from any who could not show s sound und ledgers or had served prison pris pris- on t terms Within the past two years Trouble de de- v large number of ex-convicts ex were discovered operating in New Yorks York's famous Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington street market Other had managed to go in and out of ot bankruptcy very successfully The department offers to hold hearings in questionable questionable ques ques- cases But rather than subject themselves to scrutiny some operators prefer to default on the license and secretly shift shUt their business to some other firm I J t 1038 by e Feature Inc Jt J I |