Show DAlLY DAiLY Merry Go Round Trade Mark MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and RO ROBERT ERT ALLEN I V The WASHINGTON Roosevelt revolution l is now flow over The presidents president's policy ot of hitting lilt hit ting a little left of center is edging in toward the center itself sometimes even e hitting a little right of center The reason of course is that business once supine and sick once openly ready for vital economic change now is feeling itself again Roosevelt's problem no longer is revolution but consolidation It vas vas reasonably easy to accumulate sweeping powers from congress when that stricken panic by the depres- depres was sion-was in a gIving mood Making use of these powers making the reforms stick is harder This is what is behind the White House visit isit of Oswald Garrison Villard and other New York liberals yesterday The crusading contributing editor of The Nation wants to hammer home to Roosevelt the idea that his future future fu- fu ture lies in keeping left t S Probably Roosevelt will concur with Villard Vii Vil- lard about the wisdom of keeping somewhat left But as for going further left that is out The Roosevelt revolution is finished 1 to Ireland Mrs Daisy Harriman most delightful Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat in Washington was lunching the other day at the Women's National Democratic club which she once revitalized Friends were extending extending ex- ex tending congratulations on the move to make her American minister to the Irish Free State Once a great friend of Woodrow Wilson Mrs Harriman was appointed by him as member of the labor board But while she remained most outstanding lady and altho al- al tho h various other Democratic women have been rewarded under the new deal Mrs Harriman Harriman Har- Har riman has continued in the job line Reason She was not a Before Chicago Rooter for Roosevelt In fact on the floor of the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago convention she voted against him Now however there is a real chance that she may join the new deal as a lady diplomat III I suppose if I really get the job she mused Ill have to buy a green dress Wall Vall street 5 otage Behind the refusal of New York banks to accept certain checks on the French Fren-ch and British British Brit Brit- ish governments is the violent antipathy of Wan Wall Street to the Johnson bill The bankers figure that the prohibiting bill defaulting debtor nations from borrowing money in the United will States ruin the New NewYork NewYork York money market They fear Europe will now go back to London as the worlds world's great money center So they are out to make the Johnson bill look ridiculous This was what That Charles de consul con con- sul siti general of France discovered when he turned up at the New York federal reserve bank one day last week with a draft on the Bank ot of France The draft was to pay for the rent of his consulate salaries etc and for years he had been getting it cashed promptly This time however the federal reserve refused We Ve are arc extremely sorry M. M d velle the cashier informed him but the penalties penalties pen pen- under the Johnson b bill ll are so rigorous that we cannot take any chances The terms of the bill are rather vague and until they are clearly defined we cannot take checks on the Bank of France M. M de was flabbergasted We will be glad to take your our own personal note the bank official informed him It will willbe willbe be a loan to you personally and not to France The French government cabled an immediate protest to the state department Unable to interpret interpret in- in the Johnson bill Secretary Hun Hull referred referred re- re tl the e question to the attorney general Upon his opinion awaits millions of dollars of monetary transactions in New York Probably Probably ably there will vilI be a supreme court test before the of the Johnson bill finally are arc straightened out Fooled Again Clarence Darrow has has fooled them again The aged Chica Chicago o criminal lawyer was made head of the N IT R A code review board chiefly because it was thought he and his liberal reputation reputation tation would make good stage dressing No Noone Noone one thought the aged veteran of the McNamara brothers brothers' prosecution the Loeb Leopold case and the Dayton monkey trial would be able to stay awake through the hearings on the monopolistic effects of N R H A codes But they didn't know their Darrow He not only stayed awake but he promptly became a most dominating figure A report dressing down General Hugh Johnsons Johnson's Johnsons Johnson's John John- sons son's codes has been completed The Darrow touch is upon it in a big way The language angua e ei i is so caustic that some persons whisper it will never see the light of da day a a Opposing the proposed slash in railway wages the railroad brotherhoods have sent Roosevelt elt figu figures es showing that net operating income for Class 1 carriers increased per percent percent cent in January of this year over the same month in 1933 Copyright 1934 by United Feature Syndicate Inc J |