Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 6 | Merry-Go-Round

Round Merry Round Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN AILEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Next Next political move on the Roosevelt schedule is a bristling relief speech Possibly it will be a fireside chat just before th the president leaves for the west in late September September Sep Sep Or it may be a speech ch delivered during his western travel Whatever the exact time the speech will describe the general results of the economy cuts which congress administered to W P A. A Particularly Particularly Particularly Roosevelt will tell about what has happened happened hap hap- to the relief workers who have b been en dropped from the rolls since July 1 under the act of congress requiring workers employed with W P A more than 18 months to be dropped W P A already has started gathering data for Roosevelt talk Among other things it will ascertain the people who obtained private employment employment employment em em- and what has happened to those who did not W P A rolls now a little over will be cut to around by September 1 This level will continue until the winter months when the again will be boosted up to aroun around Taft vs Smith T. T V V V. Smith speaking radio-speaking Democratic congressman congressman congressman con con- gressman and former professor of the University of Chicago has emerged from his radio debates with Bob Taft with a high opinion of the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican senator The two men debated weekly over the air and got into arguments so that Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Taft acted slightly miffed with Congressman Congress Congress- man Smith when they finished the series However Smith h has s told friends that he believed beS be- be S T Taft ft did a better speaking job than he and that the G Gallup poll was correct in ing this When Democratic in Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver this summer he also made a statement that he considered Taft the best Republican choice for the presidency Apparently Taft hoard heard abo abot t this For when n he met Smith at the Virginia institute of public affairs not lon long ago his aloofness had changed to warm cordiality While paying tribute to Taft personally Smith I also said that he believed Taft made a mistake in lecturing th the senate on almost every subject which came along a practice which did not enhance his popularity with other senators U. U S. S Army When Claude Bowers went back to Spain to fo collect the personal belongings left there while serving as ambassador he sailed on the same boat with Maior Major John P P. P Ratay the American military in Bucharest Sitting in the ships ship's smoking room Ambassador Ambassador Ambassador Ambas Ambas- Bowers was amazed to hear Major Malor Ratay gloat over the success of Hitler in Europe This fellow Hitler is going places said the American army officer Nobody him now Ambassador Bowers a staunch believer in democracy was amazed Finally he protested to toMajor toMajor toMajor Major Ratay that this was not lan language age becoming becoming becom becom- ing a Unit United d States officer Ratay however continued to gloat loat over Hitler's ascendancy Distributed 1939 by United Feature Syndicate