Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON During During the week before elections and for several days thereafter one of the Merry Go browsed through the states of Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Colorado sounding out sentiment on Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt the Republicans and the new deal in in general Most interesting revelation from this survey survey survey sur sur- vey is that while a lot of folks in these states are sore as boils against the Roosevelt administration administration administration admin admin- most of them tend to exonerate the president himself himself- They blame everything on the brain trust or the or the politicians but they still speak of Roosevelt as a man who is trying who may make mistakes but by and large is doing his best for the country Nevertheless there is also a pronounced underground murmur against Roosevelt per per- What is particularly significant about this is that it does not come from the usual diehards diehards diehards die- die hards so numerous in Wall Street who believe that nothing good can come out of Roose Roose- velt It comes from such minded fair-minded persons as school teachers farmers professional people who approve of a lot of things Roosevelt has done but believe it is time for him to do some housecleaning and concentrate on efficient ad ad- ministration Get a Cabinet One thing that particularly antagonizes these independent thinkers is the cabinet which they generally regard as a fossilized collection of weevils boll-weevils so inept that Roosevelt himself has to run the show Roosevelt's frequent vacations vacations vacations va va- va- va are not resented But his failure to have strong rs around him is Either he should give up fishing or get a cabinet was the way one Colorado beet farmer put it Another thing you hear a lot of grousing about is insincerity the insincerity the rity-the the tendency of men around the president and the president himself himself himself him him- self to talk high ideals and then stoop to petty politics W P A also comes in for a lot of panning not because folks dont don't approve of relief but because local administrators have hav put so many of th their ir friends on the payrolls Suspicious of Europe Finally there is considerable considerable- suspicion that the president is kowtowing too much to Neville Chamberlain and the British tories People are doing more thinking than ever before about foreign foreign foreign for for- eign affairs and the danger of war and they fear that Roosevelt although well-intentioned well during the Munich episode was given iven the complete complete com corn by Europe They dont don't understand understand understand un un- un- un why he plays ball with Chamberlain in squeezing out the Spanish loyalists loyalists- According to present trends Mr Roosevelt will have to do some awfully steady pitching with much better support from his infield and outfield if he is to hold the voters Welcome Boss BossIn BossIn In Spanish there is a phrase to describe lavish lavish lav lay ish entertainment that goes They threw the house out of the window That is just what the Cuban embassy did for their strong man Colonel Fulgencio Batista during his Washington Washing Washing- ton visit The irony of it was that the embassy staff just before his arrival received notice of pay cuts ranging from 40 to 75 per cent Prickliest thorn in the side of the new deal dealon on power policy is giant Associated Gas and Electric plus its roly-poly roly president Howard C. C Hopson who dodged a senate in investigating investigating investigating in- in for weeks and more re recently recently recently re- re has been investigated by the securities and exchange commission However when Jim Farley compiled his memoirs he hired as s his ghost writer the public relations agent of Associated Gas and Electric Fred Hume the agent got from Jim for writing My Own Story Jim got No Evening Gowns One of oL the chief problems government buyers faced in selecting the women's clothing that W P A is giving to the needy was to keep manufacturers from running in evening dresses opera cloaks and similar luxury garments Overstocked with these articles they tried to unload them on the government at bargain prices Average price paid for mens men's and boys' boys suits and overcoats was for women's and childrens children's garments for infants' infants The government buyers were specialists loaned gratis by a number of big r retail tail firms among them Sears Roebuck Filene of Boston Macys Macy's and Gimbel Brothers of New York As the law does not permit uncompensated work for the government the buyers were given 1 l a year They were very exacting in their official roles rols Supreme Court Puzzle Paul Freund one of the government lawyers lawyers lawyers law law- in the current T V A test case made his first appearance before the supreme court as asan asan asan an aid to Justice Stanley Reed then solicitor general The case was a suit by the government government government govern govern- ment to collect duty from an importer of jigsaw jigsaw jig jigsaw jig jig- saw puzzles who claimed they were not games games under the terms of the tariff act The tall looking distinguished-looking Freund was Yas presenting his his' ar argument when when- Chief Justice Hughes broke in jovially This court is not a game so we will adjourn for lunch We will be glad to have you continue when we reconvene Thank you Mr Chief Justice Freund responded responded re re- re- re and if I may add it is true the court courtis is Is not a game but sometimes it is a puzzle Hughes joined in the suppressed laughter that greeted the sally Copyright 1938 for The Telegram II |