Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-03-06 | Page 4 | New Deck for the New Deal in Washington

NTev Deck for The New Deal In Washington By BTBON FBJCE Chief ef Bares a. the Aaseelated Frees. Waablaglea Out ot an abundance of politic gossip concerning Mr. Roosevelt's final cabinet selections, several Indication Indi-cation (Und out with reasonable car- Ulnty: 1. He mean to be hi own man In the Whit House, leading the cabinet rather than being led by It 1 He plana to keep hi liberal-Insurgent following, even It It aliens tas the Democratic old guard. J. He Intends to neve a free hand In hi relations with such orgsnized groups as labor, industry, the farmer and the exaoldier. 4. He is Uking tpecisl pslns to insure in-sure acceptance of the Rooaevelt policies pol-icies by the new congress. In brief, the signs indicate that the deck aa well aa the deal will be brand new, and that Mr. Rooaevelt himself will do the dealing. The new president will hsvs to be hi own man. because there 1 no on in the new csblnet suspected of any design to become a "power behind ilhe throne It probably would be going too fax to ssy he had broken with the Democratic Demo-cratic old guard, but cerUlnly be haa left It on the sideline. There haa not been the slightest IndicsUon, for InaUnce, thst in his csblnet choosing he consulted directly or Indirectly with any of the three living former Democratic nominees Smith. Dsvls or Cox. Such men' as Baker and Ritchie sesreely were mentioned for the csblnet csb-lnet and there is no sign they were considered at all. The same Independence, apparently, appar-ently, marked tha Rooaevelt dealings with organised groups. For the first tune, the secreUry of lsbor Is not a recognised lsbor leader. A lawyer, not an Industrialist, becomes be-comes aecretsry of commerce. Neither a farm organisation official nor veterans' vet-erans' leader siU at the csblnet Uble. No one InterpreU this as showing sny lack of interest in the aspirations of these groups, but it is taken to show that Mr. Rooaevelt has kept swsy from sny close officisl link with ny of them. ' Few presidents, on the other hsnd, hava gone further to cement a working work-ing compact with congress. Three senators go Into the cabinet, and at lleast two other cherish the memory i of having been offered cabinet lobs they did not feel they could accept Thi all will help. In general, then, the cabinet selections selec-tions are pleasing to those who wanl Mr. Roosevelt to exercise (weep ingly independent leadership, and wield the big stick over congress; but not to those who fesr depsrlures frorr the old esUblished order and wht shiver at the mention of Mussolini And thst difference of view will b most enlivening element as the as tion moves on to as interesting a po lineal experiment as this generstion hss witnessed.