Show Merry Go By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON Key Pittman of Nevada may take the senate floor as a matter of personal personal per per- privilege to deny this but it has just leaked out that he offered to compromise his long and bitter fight against the confirmation of E. E K Burlew as assistant secretary of the interior To get the full picture of what this means remember that the Nevada senator has been waging one of the most vitriolic battles in recent recent re re- re cent senate history against a man who has been in government service for 27 years and who enjoys a record for strait-laced strait efficiency Pittman however has objected to rounding out Burlew's career by promotion to one of the key posts in the interior department and for nearly six weeks has sat in the public lands committee subjecting Burlew to the most withering with with- ering cring fire One suspected reason for Pittman's animus was an old incident involving a bronze plaque on Boulder dam which listed Burlew as one of those contributing to the birth of the dam whereas where where- as Senator Pittman's name was omitted Pittman became extremely roiled about this last year made a speech on the senate floor about it and actually introduced a senate resolution resolution resolution reso reso- lution demanding that this injustice be r rectified Peevish as Key Pittman can be at times it was believed that this could not have been the theole sole ole reason for or his wolf lone-wolf attack on Burlew and now the rest of the story has come out Since a large part of Nevada is public domain the interior department has more to do with that states state's federal jobs than any other department And apparently Pittman was worried about Burlew's interference in this For despite the withering fire he leveled at Burlew publicly the Nevada senator recently made a discreet private suggestion that he would withdraw his attack if Burlew after becoming assistant secretary of the interior was not placed in a position to rule on patronage mat mat- Presidential Censor Franklin D. D Roosevelt aristocrat was educated educated educated edu edu- at Groton and Harvard Lurton R. R Ender Ender En En- der clerk in the western division of the AAA was educated at Ames college Iowa But when Ender doesn't like the presidents president's language he changes it One day Enders Ender's division chief George E. E Farrell sent a letter to western committeemen in which he quoted a letter from the president on the subject of the farm bill The Farrell letter came across the desk of Lurton R. R Ender He read it decided the president president dent had committed errors and the letter When it was pointed out to him that he had taken liberties with an official letter from the White House Ender defended himself warmly He said I cant can't help it This is not in ac accordance accordance accordance ac- ac with the government style book Note The Note The style book is a manual of rhetoric and grammar put out by the government printing printing printing print print- ing office Ender had found differences between their rules and White House practice Colonies for Germany Probably it will be denied officially but the Roosevelt administration has been making some the scenes suggestions to the British that the best way to ease the tension in Europe is isto isto isto to give colonies to Germany Strategy behind this this to to use very diplomatic language language language-is is to buy the Germans off If Hitler can be weaned away from Mussolini even for only a brief interval it will give the British time to come nearer completion of their rearmament rearmament rearmament ment program also to take a stronger stand in inthe inthe inthe the far east Roosevelt and the British both are playing for time This has come to be the essential all-essential factor in Europe today Today the nazi-fascist nazi war lords figure that from a military point of view they they- are at the top of the heap But time tune is playing against them Every passing month gives Britain a chance to catch up Also there is the American big navy program now looming across the western western west west- ern era horizon Both Britain and the United States have the money and the raw materials to build the fascist war lords reason and it may be better to precipitate precipitate precipitate pre pre- war before time has reversed the military military mili mili- tary scales That is why some confidential reports re received received received re- re by American naval and military intelligence intelligence intelli intelli- gence predict the possibility of war this summer after the crops are in And that is why Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt has been secretly goading the British into buying the Germans off with the return of colo cob nies Note Note Latest Latest reports are that that the British have not been averse to this but are trying to find some saving face-saving device so their colonial surrender to Germany will not look like sur sur- render Round Merry-Go-Round Passers-by Passers in the department of commerce gather in crowds to watch a bureau of fisheries exhibit which shows miniature live game fish swimming upstream California grape growers will have a new competitor in the winter market market market mar mar- ket this year Department of agriculture has is issued issued issued is- is sued a permit for importation of South African grapes to be treated for fruit-fly fruit infestation by refrigeration in transit Copyright 1938 for The he Telegram 1 r |