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D THE NEWS NEWS' 1 1 Written for The lel ra By Ra Ray tucker lucker W WASHINGTON Glenn WASHINGTON Glenn Franks Frank's dual personality has the Republicans cans on the anxious seat rocking to and fro They realize that the former president of Wisconsin university and the present Republican Republican Republican lican program coordinator may hold their fate in his slender white hands In the old days the days the Harding- Harding Hoover Coolidge-Hoover period the period the professor professor professor pro pro- fessor was regarded as a radical Indeed after listening one eVening evening evening eve eVe- ning to a Frank attack on his dictatorial tendencies President Roosevelt read the old record on his oratorical antagonist It seems that the Wisconsin man once wrote for the Nation not Nations Nation's Business an article entitled If I Were Dictator It purported to set forth the tax economic and industrial policies he would have promulgated in 1931 if he had been the big boss The likable haired black-haired G. G O. O P. P platform writer in his magazine maga aga agazine zine pie piece e. e anticipated President Roosevelt's taxation philosophy by four years for it was not until 1935 that the Roosevelt-Oliphant Roosevelt theory of undistributed profits levies was unveiled Lately however however however how how- ever Mr Frank has been much more orthodox in his public speaking no matter what he may think privately So the G. G O. O P.- P. ers may be excused for wondering wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing which Frank the 1931 or 1938 model will write the tentative 1940 platform Professor Franks Frank's major thesis in 1931 was startlingly similar to the presidents It differed only in a few nonessentials The Republicans' Republicans literary ghost held that the depression resulted primarily from of wealth The lack of purchasing ing power he said had halted the production of goods His specific remedy was higher wages than we have yet paid shorter hours than we have yet set and lower prices than we have yet set It was his hope that private economic economic eco eco- leadership would correct those evils But if they didn't then Dictator Frank had a name name and and a game game for for them He would have imposed a vast tax bringing in more money than Uncle Sam actually needed for revenue He would have informed the economic leaders that he wanted them to beat the tax by pouring out their profits in inthe inthe inthe the form of wages shorter hours lower prices If they did a nice job of social cheating then he would reduce the tax as unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary sary because they had learned their lesson resson Mr Roosevelt in his rebuttal saw no difference be between between between be- be tween the Frank and the new deal schemes Neither do the That's why they hope that their professional prodigy has re reformed re- re formed formed or or recovered If the government wins the Harlan HarIan Harlan Har- Har lan Ian county coal trials in Kentucky a lot of people will hitch their political station wagons to the star of handsome Brien McMahon the federal prosecutor Though a Homer Cummings from Connecticut his youth has handicapped handicapped handicapped handi handi- capped him politically until now This is his tryout Apparently accidental the timing timing timing tim tim- ing of the trial may help the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration in a critical test in in- in prestige A victory victory vic vie tory may win votes in the mining districts for Dear Alben Barkley Barkley Barkley Bark- Bark ley the presidents president's personal choice for senate leader last year Hardworking Hardworking Hardworking Hard Hard- working and studious Mr McMahon McMahon McMahon Mc Mc- Mahon has been grooming for this legal battle ever since the La Follette Follette Follette Fol- Fol lette civil liberties committee turned up the evidence of alleged collusion between county authorities authorities authorities ties and coal operators Mr McMahon may not be ready for the senate yet but a court triumph triumph tri tri- would make him a likely prospect to oppose Lonergan not always a loyal new dealer And in view of signs of bipartisan political crookedness which a couple of fighting editors have turned up in the McMahon McMahon-Lo McMahon McMahon-Lonergan ergan bailiwick the new dealers will have to put forth their best man in this puritanical commonwealth Alva Adams is Capitol hills hill's exhibit exhibit exhibit ex ex- ex- ex hibit No 1 in the politicos politicos' conclusion conclusion con con- elusion that the White House purge is on bigger on-bigger bigger and better than they ever expected Few weeks ago ago Mr Adams' Adams Colorado friends dined him in honor of his announcement that that he would seek reelection Though administration progressives were even then seeking an opponent for him the Adams toastmaster produced produced produced pro pro- letters from National Chairman ChaiTman Farley Fanley and Secretary Ickes praising his legislative record record rec rec- ord and urging his reelection Mr Adams noted then and since that with a few exceptions he had supported the key measures of the new deal So he thought the feud had been forgotten Now however his Washington foes have apparently dug up a arival arival arival I rival candidate in Benjamin C C. Hilliard The latter is a state supreme supreme supreme su su- su- su preme court justice a personal friend of the president conferred with F. F D. D R. R before announcing his candidacy He will also run runas runas runas as a strictly new deal c candi date That's what the Florida and Oregon air has done to F. F D. D Rs R.'s political planners planners planners-or or to those more susceptible to salt sea breezes The things which the liquor boys are saying to and to-and and about about- Henry booze experts experts experts ex ex- ex- ex wont won't bear a public print print- ing They believe that they have been made the victims of the rawest rawest rawest raw raw- est sort of ingratitude Their indU industry try they insist is the only new activity which President President President Pres Pres- ident Roosevelt has created since he entered the White House They have furnished both direct and indirect employment restored such forgotten arts as singing and smiling and lying to your wife and paid over a billion dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars in more taxes than they can keep track of And yet they have been harassed into drinking their own stuff so as to forget For instance in William Howard Howard Howard How How- ard Tafts Taft's time there were only two types of liquor Before prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- there were only four Now under treasury rules and regulations there are 69 That means extra costs for manufacturing manufacturing turing tuning bottling labeling advertising advertising advertising adver adver- and for 69 other activities They dont don't like to criticise their godfather the president president- president but but they wish hed he'd let them out of their doghouse of drink Copyright 1938 for The Telegram |
