Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON One One of the most interesting developments in the presidents president's official family is s the various vocations taken up by his brain trust rust after they leave the spotlight of public office Professor Moley Molcy has gone in for publishing and consorting with various big business groups Professor Tugwell has become vice president of the he American Molasses company And Adolf Berle BerIe Jr now nominated for assistant secretary of state re recently represented two mining firms which had some difficulty in getting their stock registered before the securities and exchange commission One was Sunshine Consolidated Inc of Idaho which the SEC would not register until it had held private hearings and required eight clarifying clarifying clari clan amendments One of the amendments read No silver showing of consequence has as asyet asyet asyet yet been encountered in the Gullickson tunnel by y reason of development work done so far Five Months of Jockeying A relatively small number of private hearings hearings hearings hear hear- ings are arc held by the SEC so that officials must have found considerable fault either with the company or with the brain truster's presentation of the facts After five months of jockeying the issue was registered Berle BerIe and Berle BerIe Adolfs Adolf's brother Rudolf appeared before the SEC got gota a fee of which is small for this type of work The other concern concern was Callahan Zinc-Lead Zinc an Arizona c company operating in Idaho for which the Berle BerIe brothers got a fee of On this they did a quicker job but nine amendments were required by the SEC One of these stated The development work on the south vein has been disappointing Another stated The Galena mine is not beyond the de development development development de- de stage Most interesting was an original balance sheet in which the company claimed that shares of Blue Grouse mining stock were worth and that shares of Silver State stock were worth After the SEC had finished dickering with the Berle Benle brothers the final registration listed the above stocks claimed at to be worth only 2 Speech Writer Adolf Berle was the chief author of the presidents president's presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's famous Commonwealth club speech In in n San Francisco in 1932 one of the most radical speeches of the campaign in which he virtually advocated the curtailment of the profit system Brain who prepared this spee speech h were afraid that Roosevelt would balk at it and privately privately privately attributed his use of it in toto to the fact that he had made a quick series of speeches along the west coast and had temporarily exhausted exhausted ex ex- hausted his other material Secret Advice Around the commerce department where echoes of the little business mens men's conference still are reverberating they are wishing they had taken the private advice of Democratic politicos politicos poli- poli to have the governor of each state select the delegates Instead d delegates were selected on the basis of those who had written letters to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House suggesting economic panaceas and this type of writer letter-writer always is inclined to be bemore bemore bemore more temperamental than practical Note Thirty Note Thirty nine of the 48 state governors arc are Democrats and could have been trusted to select less temperamental delegates Hard liard Coal Problem After he left the White House recently Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Earle of Pennsylvania gave the impression that the president was very much interested in his plan for federal purchase and control of the anthracite coal fields Actually just the opposite was the case What really told Earle was that federal acquisition might be the last resort but only after the state had exhausted every other plan of reg reg- The presidents president's view is that anthracite is a Pennsylvania monopoly therefore other states would oppose federal purchase 1 Because they have no anthracite 2 because many of them produce oil and gas which are direct competitors tors tons of anthracite Also purchase of the mines miner would cost the government about In effect Roosevelt told Earle to go back and tackle the anthracite job himself Child Marriages l The first lady thinks something should be bedone bedone bedone done about child marriages but believes the first step should be a comprehensive study of the whole problem of marriage laws Replying to Judge Camille Kelley of the juvenile juvenile juvenile juve juve- nile court of Memphis who wrote her about the advisability of a wide nation-wide educational campaign campaign campaign cam cam- for the purpose of curbing child marriage Mrs Roosevelt said There seems to be little question that it would be wise for women to be interested in studying the question of possible uniform marriage marriage marriage mar mar- laws We are not as yet fully cognizant of the differences that exist between the states under our present laws so it would seem a study of these would be bc the first thing that should be und undertaken by women Afterward they could begin to formulate what they think would be appropriate federal legislation Copyright 1933 1938 for The Telegram A i |