Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-03 | Page 6 | The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round

1 ITIE DAlLY DAiLY WAS INGTON Merry Go Round Trade Tude Mart Mut Muty By y DREW PEARSON and ROBERT RODERT ALLEN W Behind the veterans veterans' veto landslide which en engulfed the administration last week was a thick jawed heavy indi- indi vidual who chews the end of a cigar talks in ina a loud voice and would buttonhole Queen Mary if he met her ina senate corridor He is John Thomas Taylor of the American legion e ion and the most effective lobbyist on Capitol hill since the days of Wayne B. B Wheeler and his dry cohorts Taylors Taylor's motto ts is Were right our opponents opponents are wrong Right always wins and that's that Using this motto Taylor has been instrumental instrumental mental in slipping into the pockets of veterans one dollar out of every four spent by Uncle Sam His own salary is plus traveling ex- ex Taylor learned the legislative e racket as Undercover undercover un- un man for Boies Penrose famous boss of Pennsylvania During the war he won 13 decorations decorations deco deco- rations came back to help found the American legion was law partner of Thomas Miller Hardings Harding's alien property custodian later sent to federal penitentiary The method of Taylors Taylor's success is no secret His weapon is direct action He has behind him an army armp of legionnaires which can ring doorbells And many an member ex-member of congress congress con con- gress knows how effectively they can ring Taylor has but to threaten to get a recalcitrant reca- reca recal- recal congressman and that congressman knows that he faces one of the election battles of his life This primarily was what overrode Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose- Roose velt's veto Uncontrolled Inflation Roosevelt now has the not distinction altogether altogether alto alto- gether unique among White House incumbents of being kicked from both sides of the street Hitherto conservative business interests have led the attack But the veterans veterans' veto velo onslaught of last week was led from the opposite camp In fact it was a blow at business almost more than the president For the whole Roosevelt policy is based on the plan of a balanced budget by 1936 The government cannot continue borrowing money with its budget unbalanced On this conserva- conserva tive elements are per cent for Roosevelt in fact go beyond him With the veterans veterans' vote however a balanced budget is out the window This brings up another thing l inflation is fine as long as it is controlled But once a runaway con congress ress runs away with inflation inflation in- in as it did with veterans veterans' compensation we may find ourselves hauling money in wheelbarrows wheelbarrows wheel wheel- barrows a la ha Germany after the war Unquestionably that is the most significant signpost in the veterans veterans' veto reversal rig Problem A county a agent ent coping with the problem of reducing the little pig crop has sent the department department depart depart- ment of agriculture a letter received from a farmer in his county The farmer was doing to raise fewer pigs and to this end had put his prize sow Esmeralda in one pen and his boar in another another an- an other adjoining But unfortunately tely the boar broke through the fence I think the damage is done wrote the farmer Can you recommend anything I can cando cando do Japanese ExclusIon Behind last weeks week's exchange e of bouquets between be be- tween Japan and the United States is a real diplomatic triumph for that old Tennessee mountaineer Cordell Cordeil Hull The secretary of state has set up as one of his greatest ideals the reestablishment of amity between the two great rivals of the Paci Pacific Pacific- ic- ic Japan and the U. U S. S A. A The president has not differed with him on this but busy with other things has handed Hull the Pacific as his pet baby Hull has worked out a philosophy unique in international relations He figures that genuine gestures of friendship get reciprocal gestures of the same brand To this end he has been making a quiet study of the Japanese immigration barrier He finds that if the Japanese exclusion act were canceled canceled can can- it would not affect the United States Not a single additional Japanese would land landin landin in California On the other hand giving Japan the same status as other nations would make a great dent in the armor of the Japanese who preach war in the Pacific It would give a powerful argument to the moderates who favor Japan merican f ese American So Secretary Hull is quietly working to this end C C S 'S In the past twelve years eleven cleven bills relating ing to veterans have been vetoed by presidents Of 01 the eleven cleven three were vere bonus masures of which two were passed over the vetoes copyright 1034 by United Feature SyndIcate ate Inc