Show Merry Round Merry Round Go-Round By DREW P PEARSON ARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON The The president is due for some plain talking advice from the inner council council coun coun- cil lieutenants he summoned to meet him at Pensacola where he debarks for his much- much touted sortie sorti into Georgia to put the ax to Senator Walter George The have quietly and thoroughly surveyed the Georgia situ situation tian and this is what they are going to tell Roosevelt The only way George can be lick licked d is is- is 1 The president must make an unequivocal declaration against the new anti-new dealer There can be no pussy footing or punch-pulling punch about the statement It has got gat to be cut clear emphatic emphatic emphatic em em- and dramatic 2 The president has got to put the screws on an Governor Governer Ed Rivers to come clean on the- the fight on an George The presidents president's political advisers see Rivers Rive s sas as the key to the fight to lick George Rivers professes to be a great and last spring promised the president to throw his weight against George Geerge But to date the governor governor gov gov- hasn't lifted a finger Inside truth is that he really wanted to and held a conference with his lieutenants to map plans to get into the George anti-George campaign but the boys bays flatly said nothing doing Although publicly administration adherents adherents ad ad- actually they are aligned with the same powerful business and utility interests who are behind George Rivers' Rivers generalissimos are no nomore nomore more mare for fer Lawrence Camp the White House candidate than they are for far Governor ex Gene Talmadge the other aspirant in the race In fact they are using Talmadge as a bugaboo bugaboo buga buga- boo to alibi their secret sabotage of af Camp claiming that if George is licked Talmadge might skin through over both George Geerge and Camp White House Heuse insiders say this argument is only a stall that the re real reason eason for the undercover undercover under under- cover caver hostility pf of the camp is is the i in irs irs- fl fluence enc of the powerful po elements who wha are fi financing financing fl- fl Georges George's campaign The survey made by the has convinced them that Talmadge will draw more votes vates from George than he will from Camp and that the latter can lick both old if the if-the the president president dent makes the election of Camp a cut clear personal issue and Rivers will make good on his word to take off aff his coat for fer Camp Otherwise they say Camp hasn't a chance and the fight is between George and Talmadge with the possibility that Talmadge may upset the dope dap and take George to the cleaners Snappy Dissent Justice James a bachelor re receives receives receives re- re a year salary for life But he most mast emphatically does not believe in squandering squandering dering his money money even even for fer pleasure Vacationing recently in San Francisco the crusty old decided to motor up the beautiful ul coast to Seattle So he approached the transportation agent of the hotel where he was staying and asked about the possibility of af hiring a car and driver Yes sir we can arrange that said the agent The driver will cost 5 a day the maximum mileage the car can be run a day is miles and the rental of af the car will be 25 a day These charges will include both the trip to Seattle and the return of the car snorted Young man I want to rent a machine I dont don't want to buy it New Deal Expansion The Cola Coca building in B Baltimore and the Negro Masonic temple in Washington stand as dramatic evidence of the expanding ever-expanding forces of of- the federal government The people who work in the Cola Coca-Cola building do not make Cola Coca and the people who work wark in inthe inthe inthe the Negro Masonic temple do not wear solemn robes or ar perform rituals They all are government government government govern- govern i I ment workers with n else to go The Baltimore building provides square feet of af office space for work of the social security board which should sho properly be bedone bedone done dane in Washington But there are no more buildings available The Masonic temple provides square feet of af off office ce space for far the railroad re retirement board baard which also uses square feet in the privately owned LaSalle building and would use another square feet in any building public or ar private if it could be found faund I Social security in addition to being bottled up in ill Baltimore occupies two converted apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment houses in Washington Rochambeau and Potomac and two wo other office buildings the theold theold theold old labor labar department building and the old civil service commission comm building The expansion which began in 1933 then receded receded receded re re- ceded with eviction of af N R A and contraction of P W A and W P A has set in again with a a mighty sweep The government now naw occupies buildings in the District of af Columbia and only half of them are government The government pays a year in in in- i rent to owners of private office space plus another another an an- other million millian for fer maintenance Every day is is moving day in the government Th The most moved most agency is the Indian office which u has had a life as migratory as the race it serves Clay Guthridge the official house hause hunter sa says s the the government is growing so fast and building so slowly that office fice Space will never catch eaten up with demand i All of af which is good news news for the owners of office buildings They command a top price- price as in in the Washington Building and Shoreham building of building of 2 foot per square per year r. r COPYright 38 for far The Telegram 1 |