Show Round Merry-Go-Round 8 By DR DREW W PEARSON ana and ROBERT S. S ALLE WASHINGTON Whatever WASHINGTON Whatever happens in the bitter Pennsylvania Democratic primary election elec elec- tion on one thing is certain Governor certain Governor George Earle is all aU washed up as ilS a 1940 presidential white hope Even I if he wins the senatorial nomination he now seeks he is finished as a White House aspirant forever His role in the odoriferous hor trading horse trading e-trading be behind behind be- be hind the scenes that led to the present Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic battle capped by the disclosure that he had borrowed from Matt McCloskey dapper multimillionaire Philadelphia contractor cas cast a blight on Earles Earle's prospects from which he le can never recover Potent Joe Guffey and placed high ed admin- admin are lire sore at Earle Th The C I 0 O has las vowed to get him Even McCloskey and the state politicos who ostensibly support him ridicule ridicule ridicule ridi ridi- cule him behind his back I With this up set-up Earle has no more chance of winning outside backing than Haile Selassie has of getting help from the British empire Only a few months ago Earle was a national figure He had a strong pull at the White House was the of labor leaders Coming Corning Com Corn ing from Pennsylvania second most populous state in the union he was a very real possibility for 1940 But all aU that is finished Today as a potential potential poten poten- national candidate Earle is d deader ader than a a kippered h herring W v P A ana and Politics The question of whether the W P A should engage in iri politics developed consider considerable inner friction before the Mississippi State Guide went to press Cause Caus of the friction was Mrs Ellen Woodward's Woodwards insistence that the Guide be use used to to give a puff to Democratic politicos in the state including herself As assistant administrator of W P A and boss of the federal writers project Mrs Woodward an art appointee of Senator Pat Harrison a q position to lay down the law In other Guides W P A editors have t taken ken pains to be nonpartisan In writing about Dutchess county New York they made only a passing historical reference to the Roosevelt homestead But when copy was being prepared for the Mississippi Guide Mrs Woodward let it be known that she he wanted the book to boost all allgood allgood allgood good Democrats including W P A staff workers Her insistence resulted in this reference to herself in the chapter on Oxford Mississippi Of Senator Sullivans Sullivan's five children only his daughter Ellen Sullivan Woodward has followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed in his fo footsteps Then it tells Jells of her election to the state legislature the beginning of a career of outstanding service to her state in key positions U. U S. S Company Town The U U. U S. S housing authority is not the only federal agency providing government funds for housing for labor cheap-labor employers F P H A has underwritten the construction of an entire company town in Crossett Ark a little lit lit- tle the community which to all intents and purposes is owned by the Crossett Lumber company Miles L. L Colean deputy administrator of the F H A frankly admits that the Crossett houses are company houses and that the corporation could evict a tenant because of union activity Scared Stiff The flowers may bloom in the spring tra-la tra but not for Senator George of Georgia The sonorous Georgian has far more serious matters on 01 his mind these days I specifically his chances for reelection in view of the smashing new deal victory in Jn Florida George has been one of the most persistent administration foes in hut until lIntn Vio tA I J Florida prim primary r it it looked like he he might slip p through without opposition Since that election however the new dealers have been making strenuous scenes the efforts to get a candidate candidate can can- into the field against him hint and George is js scared I stiff tiff He le is so 50 jittery that when several of his conservative conservative conservative con con- pals approached him on the plan to filibuster against the wage hour bill he excitedly ex ex- ex- ex told them he would have nothing to do with the scheme although scheme although he bitterly opposed the original measure There is very good reason for Georges George's fright Georgia is conceded to be one of the strongest Roosevelt pro states in the South and a White indorsed House can candidate would just about spell finish for George Roosevelt's choice to run against George is Governor Ed Rivers Copyright 1038 1938 I fo for The Telegram 1 |