Show TIlE THIS DAILY WASHINGTON Merry Go Round Trade Trado Mark Macic MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON Arthur WASHINGTON Arthur Mullen can be given credit for one thing He does docs not surrender surrender sur stir render without a struggle In the case of his membership on the Dem national committee from Nebraska it must be admitted that Arthurs Arthur's struggle was terrific He did not quit until the president of the United States himself had laid down the law Some time ago Roosevelt indicated that members of the Democratic national committee commit commit- tee should not be in the position of using their influence as Washington lobbyists Most of them immediately resigned But not Arthur Mullen As a youngster he had come out to Nebraska in a prairie schooner He had battled battled bat bat- tied against tremendous odds He was not one oneto oneto oneto to quit without a fight So he held out Finally however a meeting of high members members mem mem- bers hers of the Democratic party was called They ruled against him called for his resignation as a member of the Democratic national com corn So Arthur Mullen the man who managed the Roosevelt campaign from the floor of the Chicago convention is out But in getting out he insisted upon laudatory letters from Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt and Fancy Farley Exodus A wholesale exodus of N R A executives is about to take place The impending event is a deep secret ac actually actually actually ac- ac it has been in the making for some weeks The resignations would have occurred earlier but in order to avoid any appearance of a rift during the period of General Johnsons Johnson's code re rev revision revision re- re v vision sion and his critics field day the retiring officials have withheld action Those planning to leave are Dr Leo Wol- Wol man chairman of the labor advisory board and anda a member of the national labor board Professor sor Paul Douglas of the consumers' consumers advisory I board Deputy Administrator Richard B. B Paddock Paddock Paddock Pad Pad- dock and Division Administrator Arthur D. D Whiteside There is no c connection between the individual individual indi indi- vidual decisions to resign Each is leaving for reasons of his own Paddock and Whiteside are going because they feel their work is done The important codes in their divisions have been disposed of and with excellent business jobs awaiting them they are returning to private life Douglas is resigning for the same reasons that prompted his colleague Professor Ogburn to do so months back He has come to feel that the work of the consumers' consumers advisory board is futile ineffectual that he is wasting his time He is p particularly bitter over the lack of Support Sup sup support port for consumers' consumers councils he was supposed to set up all over the country olman and Wagner Vagner at Outs Volman's decision to throw up his membership membership membership member member- ship on the national labor board and return to teaching at Columbia university is not new He has been threatening to do this for several several several sev sev- eral months Several weeks ago following a bitter session over the Weirton steel case Wol Wol- Volman man sent in his resignation Under pressure from liberal friends he withdrew withdrew withdrew with with- drew it 24 hours later But the breach be between between between be- be tween him and Senator Bob Wagner Vagner chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the board never healed Volman is charged with repeated failure to support an aggressive pro-labor pro policy with undue sympathy toward the soft-pedaling soft at attitude attitude attitude at- at of industrialists Indian New Deal DealA A fierce fight is brewing behind the scenes over a program to bring the new deal to the Indian The battle centers around a bill drafted by the Indian bureaus bureau's crusading commissioner John Collier and sponsored by Nebraska's Edgar Edgar Edgar Ed Ed- gar Howard chairman of the tile house Indian af affairs affairs affairs af- af fairs committee to restore the pauperized red redman redman redman man to his economic independence Opposing this effort are interests which for a century have battened on the Indian and his property The drive against the Howard bill already has reached large proportions As a result Collier has taken the issue directly to the tribes The bill proposes two basic reforms for the Indian 1 Complete economic independence 2 cultural and political self Under the first the allotment land law of 1887 which Collier estimates has resulted in the I theft of acres of Indian lands is I re repealed outright Instead of individual ownershIp ownership ownership owner owner- ship at present resulting only in the pauperization pauperization pauperization pauper pauper- of the Indian tribal ownership is proposed pro pro- posed To restore their lost heritage the bill provides for the repurchase of land at the rate of a year Under the second phase of the bill bilI bureaucratic bureaucratic bureaucratic bureau bureau- cratic domination of the red mans man's cultural life by white officeholders is wiped out In 1 its place there is to be self-government self through tribal councils One of the amazing features of the bill is that for the first time in the memory of Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington a government agency voluntarily proposes proposes pro- pro poses to shear itself of power Copyright 1931 tj Feature Syndicate In Inc |