Show M Round Go By DREW PEARSON and ROn ROBERT RT S. S ALLEN 1 WASHINGTON Now WASHINGTON Now Now that the election is over you will see the he justice justic department nt focus attention on certain ridden graft cities chief among them being Detroit There a group of up high-up politicians are sure to be indicted for operating a liquor ring They will be charged with diverting funds from irom from state liquor stores Basis of the indictments will be tending sending hot money through the U. U S. S mails an offense which the justice department used for the first time with definite success in in Louisiana Since then the supreme court has upheld the justice department so this new means of cleaning up local scandals will be used extensively Most Republicans will not believe believe- it but the justice department had the indictments all prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared before elections But since some of the higl Republican leaders of Michigan politics are I going going to to be indicted justice pro prosecutors decided to to withhold action until after November 5 They didn't didn t want to be accused of playing politics Roosevelt's Weakness Roosevelt's difficult time during the last we weeks ks of his campaign goes back to his chief fault as an executive reliance executive reliance on those for whom he has a personal fondness regardless of their ability In this case his reliance reliance- rested upon the frail frame of Harry Hopkins former secretary of commerce and closer than than- any other man manto manto manto to Franklin Roosevelt However charming and likeable as he is had two strikes against him to start His His physical condition is is un unable ble to withstand any any great strain of work Second Harrys Harry's bungling of Chicago convention convention convention conven conven- tion strategy was enough to raise the red flag of warning against furth further r political responsibilities Inside fact was that Hopkins was deluged with suggestions from various presidential adl advisers ad ad- l but was unable to assimilate them or deleS delegat delegate dele dele- S gate gat responsibility He Heas was as acting as the funnel fo for Pf presidential i ideas and d wa was o over over- o whelmed He bogged down under it all an and did Iid l l not get capable men to help him Ro Roosevelt sevelt however carries personal loyalty to the nth degree Any man who has been with him for a long time and whom he likes stays with him Roosevelt wont won't fire a friend Thus it was that the much-loved much Claude Swanson remained as secret secretary ry of the nav navy until until until un un- un- un til he died at the age of 78 He was so much ill of the time that he could not be an active sec see secretary secretary of the navy but p personal loyalty kept him on despite the national national- emergency And in the war department Roosevelt could not bear to fire Harry Woodring as secretary of war though everyone knew that the chief initiative for national defense came from Assistant Assistant As As- Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson Real fact is that Roosevelt far from having the dictator complex is just too downright soft-hearted soft to be a good hirer and firer of men TV TVA A Second Major Victory I IThe The defense commission isn't saying anything anything any any- thing about it but T TVA V A Athe the new deals deal's great southern power project has just scored its second major victory in the defense program program- after a hot inside battle battIe First T TVA V A triumph came last spring when the defense commission by unanimous vote asked congress for to expand T TVA V A power facilities to supply the greatly enlarged needs of Aluminum Company of America and other big private industries Previously for several years every T TVA V A request for authorization authorization ration to expand had met bitter con congressional opposition but the defense commissions commission's recommendation recommendation recommendation rec rec- rec- rec went through without a murmur The latest issue arose out of a war department depart- depart ment plan an to to tospe spend d to produce more ammonium nitrate necessary for munitions at the Muscle Shoals plant which is under T TVA V A jurisdiction S T TVA V A insisted that the army's contract contain con con- tam tain a clause providing that when the emergency emergency emergency emer- emer emer emer- gency ended the enlarged nitrate plant with a ton s a day capacity should not be shut down and taken out of use but sho should ld be al allowed allowed al- al lowed to continue for the manufacture of low- low cost fertilizer In i its is s seven seyen years of operation under under-T TVA V VA A Muscle Shoals has bbs produced Ions ions of fertilizer a year year This fertilizer contains around 48 i 48 per cent plant food as compared to 17 1 percent per per- S cent in in private quarters S American Du Pont and nd other large g fertilizer makers protested vehemently Jo Joining them in hi In the fray was the Mellon In In- te closely connected with the Aluminum S company I Generalissimo of these forces was Gano D Dunn nn head of the J. J G. G White Engineering company and an old T V A A. foe But T V As A's spokesman was Chester Davis time one-time A A A boss and the Farmer Fanner member of the defense commission Vigorously backing Dunn was Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward A. A ONeal Oleal head of the powerful farm farm Carm bureau federation The d debate ate within the commission was amicable but sharply drawn On the showdown T TVA V A was upheld five to two The two dissenters dis dis- dis senters were William Knudsen and Edward R This adverse vote didn't sit well with several several sev sev- eral m. m members bers of staff of of which Dunn is S a a member and they grumbled about r resigning But Knudsen and promptly prompt prompt- ly put a quietus on that They moved that the commissions commission's split vote be revised e s so as to record them v voting ting with the mJ majority Th This s w was s done thus making the com corn mission m action achon 10 in f favor vor of T V A unanimous Distributed by United Feature Syndicate |