Show I I I INSIDE N S I D E E- S S. S STUFF T I U F F The By News PAUL Behind MALLON the News 11 WASHINGTON The The new deal dealis is developing some smart new inside tricks in its political de do- f tense ense program The press agent system for one thing Is being secretly T The h e exploitation or organization organization organization or- or here is being used less and less for heavy work More and more dependence and money is being placed in the tho various state and district promo promotion promotion promotion promo tion agencies out in the tho country countr This keeps the big propaganda activities far far away from the tho the central collection of ot critics and political observers In Wash Wash- ington No one is supposed to know about it but Harry Hopkins Hopkns worked out just such a scheme at a confidential gathering of ot his district publicity purveyors here hereabout hereabout hereabout about two weeks ago He did It so well wen that no outsider has yet discovered that there was a meeting His boys planned a 8 W V P A good will vIll campaign to be bo conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted locally fn In each district through the radio and the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers particularly the smaller ones ones- including the They have already started to work Extras Details arc hard to get but buta a certain W Y V P A publicity agent in one midwestern state is known to have had his allowance in increased increased increased in- in creased to per month He can get a 8 lot of ot extra good will willIn willin willin in his state for the extra a month because his field is not very large or or important Other increases were granted in other states presumably on a commensurate commensurate com corn scale Headquarters hero here will vIlL probably probably ably do little except pull the wires on the he Inside and keep quiet The idea is to keep Mr Hopkins a jump ahead of his opposition in congress the Liberty league the Republican national commit- commit mUte and others who have their spy-glasses spy trained on Washington Washing Washing- ton but cannot annot keep track of ot the nations nation's outlying precincts Necessity Mr Hopkins' Hopkins stealthy tation venture was mothered by necessity For some time It has been evIdent evident evi evI- dent that not only his but the theother theother theother other press agencies here have not been getting results For one thing they are too obvious Whenever Whenever When When- ever they issue a statement or make a move there arc are newsmen newsmen newsmen news news- men and more deal press agents lobbyists and opposition opposition opposition congressmen ready to pounce on It iL These oppositionists opposition opposition- IsIs not only expose but sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times deliberately misinterpret and exaggerate so that even a aroutine aroutine aroutine routine detail sometimes becomes an ogre Thus central publicity exploitation has become a new v deal liability in some wa ways s 's rather an asset But out in th the country it will willbe be different The local press agents will be able to get away with murder or mayhem at least and run little risk of ot getting caught It If they do it will be their own responsibility Cause The Tho hidden explanation for tor many an international development development develop develop- ment mont may be found in the tho list of ot international loans For example example ex ex- ample British banks and Investors Investors Investors tors hold approximately in term long-term German credit and around in short- short term terra credits Italy on tho the other hand oWes only around Foreign offices take these practical matters into lion tion in choosing their friends Bad news has been seeping out of ot Vienna It has not yet reached the publication stage but wise diplomatic authorities here would not be surprised to hear of ot a new uprising before the end of ot the summer Evidence Is accumulating that the tho nazi clement element Is getting out of hand hand even even Hitler's hand ap ap- ap- ap They say der furore does not want the coup just yet for fear it will spoil Britain's Britain's Brit Brit- ains ain's friendship But Austrian nazis encouraged by the ease with which Hitler seized the Rhineland are becoming tient The Austrian government Is supposed to have havo curtailed munitions munitions muni muni- for its own troops lately for lor fear that some of the bullets may shortly be bo fired tired against it Fuse There is a wise vise old bird Inthe in inthe inthe the tallest tree on the capitol grounds who will te tell you ou that Governor Ely the tho Massachusetts Democratic pal of ot Al Smith is considering coming out for tor Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Borah Other similar breaks among conservative Democrats are being talked of of any anyone one of ot which might place a slightly different different dif dit- dif dif- ferent color on the existing political political cal situation President Roosevelt criticised columnists and interpretative writers in his confidential talk with newspaper per editors not long ago saying that it was humanly impossible for any columnist to wrIte a good column out of ot Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington every day He was per percent percent percent cent right about that tha but he ho neglected to add that it is humanly humanly humanly hu hu- hu- hu manly impossible for anyone to tobe tobe tobe be a good editor every da day day or or or ora ora a good president Cop Copyright rl ht 1936 for The Telegram |