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E j t I By iy PAUL MALLON i WASHINGTON W Feb 22 22 The The big ss have quieted down the last f few ew w days day for a reason reason- a A real cool headed faction among them Decided the industry vas was wrong in the we ay ay it handled th the Roosevelt Far ley airmail c cancellation program at t the He lUrt tarl This faction action h is confessing sotto voice that the A Airline i head Lindbergh protest Q Down n and the New New York Our OTer Contracts court suit SUlt were tactical blunders Such Sueh actions merely infuriated the ministration authorities and put them in a a. a position where a a sensible c compromise would be embarrassing lathe Inthe fa face e of ot such tactics the admin admin- could not hot concede an anything thing without surrendering Its whole po po- cUon The air boys may br break alc ak out in a a r rash a aln ut not as long as they believe there h Is a chance to get their contracts back They will ivill take a stiff still cut tt ut in rat rates and promise to b be good r r The hie e new pew Ie Belgian king Le Leopold was 1 d. dby by hI his his' family rather strictly permitted to sow any wild 1 He He lie Is h Popular r. r S King Kine among his people i V j Back Bek for tor ins instance nce In n the r r.- r. Leads same way the BritT Brit Brit- T ish know the thc theL I r 6 For or that na reason he hei n not i t L had a c chance nce to be r revered ered i the oe same me wa way his father was jHU ascendancy will make little little- dif dif- z or Pate Two SIDE it-SIDE STUFF Continued tram from Page Fate one onel ference in international pc policy There is no chan chance for the Germans S to tr gain gaina a foothold in Belgium although they would like to e Statesmen have theIr their bad days too The day Democratic House Leader Byrns announced a soldier bonus bill was going to pass pasc was the day he happened t td tO have a a heavy cold That day everything seemed black back to him All AU w was s lost for the administration Such announce announce- Soldiers' Soldiers Bonns Bonus ments lIe are common commonIs Is Surprise to in Washington In InHouse InHouse InHouse House Leader winter they are called influenza statements In Iii summer the name for Cor them th is weather hot announce announce- ments The fact at that time was that a soldier bonus conus bill would certainly p pass Ss the house if a vote could be obtained There was wu some doubt about the pros pros-j p cL of of an an early vot vote One or two duplications duplicatioN were discovered on ot- the theote v vOte ote te petition four orLive five Live additional Only Ony or or- membern members mem- mem bern bers ers had signed during the previous two wo weeks How the necessary additional addi- addi ional signatures signature were going to be ob obtained lined was not stat then apparent S 0 Even if U the bill bilI should pass the h house wc it would stil be a long way f from rom enactment On IOn the soldier issue the senate would not be so amenable to outside political pressure presure Not because sen sen- tors are any more noble than house mem r but only third one of f them are rup up for reelection this year All AU members of ot the house must face lace the soldier vote Then if jf the sen- sen n. n Hard Struggle ate should foil the Still SUIl Looms in a administration n is tr atlon Bonus Payment there is always always' in inthe I the background the insurmountable obstacle of a veto The he administration might permit nature lature to take its us course in con congress ress 5 so o that the congressmen could place place I themselves on record in favor o of the I s soldiers before election time But there is no indication on yet that it h has s any ny such intentions e eIt It happened some weeks ago but only four people knew about the story and nd they kept it under cover A representative of the ih electric power companies offered his code and i on maintaining its provisions One provision would have hav given the code control board Bit Big Bad Wolf jurisdiction over For or Utilities in fD public utilities Mr fr White Mouse House Roosevelt put his foot down on tha that tha The representative Uve insisted he could not change the code because he was only an emissary under specific instructions in in- to accept no no changes He was ivas run run around town from office to office for several days day crying Wh What t shall I tell my people He lie used th the same ame line finally in a conference with Mr Roosevelt What That shall l my people The e president leaned back in his chair stroked J Oh just t tell s 's bi biz bad wol wolf volf in the White House NOTES Ina house committee hearing a cOngressman congressman congressman cOn cOn- con con- gressman gressman kept asking an an aviation tion of- of tidal iclal what contracts his company had with The official denied denied de de- nied he had any contracts with anyone like that After an argument it was discovered dis covered the congressman meant Czecho e S The man who has more influence on congressional adjournment than anyone anyone else I. I is the congressional physician phy phy- Dr Calvert He tel tells the congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen how ill they are and when they need a arest rest There have been indications in in- lately that he has been work work- ling ng with Mr Roosevelt to get congress out of town a Statements by Farley and Early have always used the word annulled annulled annulled an to de described the cancellation of the airmail contracts The a ump Hon tion is that there may be bea a legal difference difference dif diC ference between the word annual and the word cancel so that th the companies may be permitted to bid again within the year five probationary perI period d. d A telegraph comPany company says say its Valentine Val entine da day business this year yea was 50 per cent more than last year which indicates either that there is more love this year or more money to express ex cx X press it I Copyright 19 1934 for The Telegram legram |