Show EN ENand and HEARD f around the National Capital FIELD BY By CARTER r t Negotiations ington bet cen and france are un ly 1 under way looking toward one onee onee e new tariff The as been that trance was as most to sell its wares in the UnIted 1 but his found what seemed to In the way wa of r ng g any concessions concE In return In some of our more c commented SC several eral tunes times during that rance v overtures o e u used to gettIng her own sweet s let thIs country countr she he could not un tin und tind d that the idea of thIs reel reci ty treaty business ss nas ns that both had had to make conceSSIOns It is Prance not be able to rany proposals to thIs country would hin hace each a chance In the t f of being accepted unless she s her very ven definite policy sInce far ar about beIng self rUng so far as food Is concerned ally I rance could absorb a very elY t amount of AmerIcan band and n a far larger proportion of alts as WIth actual net netto netto to her citIzens The point Is Ise ise e cost of producing sufficient ito to feed the n ench people and to is e It is pushed on only Iv at a very consider st to tile the french house housew lie ife gad ra r each ench h taxpayer ta plyer move Is under serious consider er Ui I by the rench gO govern gOern ern Ine t tso so Washington tins has been In e looking to chan this pol The e thought would be to let Pl can foodstuffs partIcularly wheat lint In WIth a rather moderate r nd thus at one move mo re reduce uce the thet t subsidy burden on the ry y and reduce the cost of bread 4 French consumers ter t Cheaper Bread k move would not have been pos year ago But two changes In InH H have h come about in that b One is that there has been some f 1 r about the rapidly rising cost of ofin In France Already to meet this t at ar sentIment the French govern go has bas taken such effectIve means of g with the middleman that thep theof the PI p of melt meat has been sharply reduced housewife is not enough The people e eill till ill clamoring So the Idea of r i bread cheaper by bv reducIng the tit subsidy on french Tench ci wheat and permitting i f a sufficient amount of Amer heat to make mahe up for the falling r domestic production which would Ei lately ensue Is under consider AI placation of the Is sec i my to the urgent necessity of bal ball balul U ul l 1 the budget so as to keep Rf IEe IE e on the gold standard on which is determined l if pos second reason Is that as the leaders see the situation the they y of the original reason for pro all the wheat France consumes ls her borders Is not as impelling s the the case one year ago sc hat tIme the fear of w ar In the theto to te future was far greater than ow Hence the necessity of be bet t f supporting on foodstuffs But In Germany have its Italy until then probably Js J's es e's most bitter enemy Into Into's Td s 's arms and the fact Is that at MSS tomcat Halo Italo Tench I rench relations ore pleasant that at any time he armistice what with the French wine and makers not to mention the per peren peren en the jewelry and andt t who are no now due to the high ge and higher tariffs of Amer able to sell their wares In the best market there Is quite a at t feeling about the wheat sub have not approached UE bile bUc stage In fact they u II not for some months But It ita a a feather In this ap If It can assure our wheat ci another market for next year s b ss sc s c Chuckle if f In Republican blasts at oos velt Insisting that he tell people what he told Up claIr In that two hours so the they theys s understand what ha t he was plan plant t d where the country was head heade e caused loud chuckles from fromi i here 4 point li is that there has never uch doubt about where the New News 1 1 s headed except on the part of off oft t f whom there are a great ho simply do not believe what much less what they rend and tie ue of those who believed them themI I 11 be In the dark Dealers t Is none other than Upton b himself tl wise they hint how could hE be bec c en surprised at Roosevelt's now could he have thought so this his own O ideas new and then ft s Sinclair said In his National r tub lub speech that they sere ere non nott of course Relief Ad tor Hopkins has been doIng in int t f what Sinclair proposes to do da orals for some time Not only ti tit t since last winter there have bave e a outraged prote protests t of business whose toes were trampled e C ot of thc these e activities and the theof of busIness about them were r ed cd In these dispatches shortly at Christmas Particularly the proposed of mattresses by unemployed etc So far there has been no proposal on the pirt of the federal gt gos that the farmers could pay theIr taxes with farm products which would other w Ise rot on the ground But there Is II good reason for Cor this omissIon ers era im In difficulties of that sort do not ply py Income tates or any other direct taxes to the federal gO Loans to Farmers nut But the federal gO government hits s been doing hotter better than that b by the farmers It figs been heen loaning lo them money to pay pa their state te taxes tates It has been loaning them money on theli unsold crops par cotton and heat It has been loaning them mone money to buy bu seed And Andall Andall all thIs for n a long pet iOd prior to the drouth and therefore unconnected with drouth relief And It has been plYm paying them good American currency for such supplies IS It bought to feed the unemployed ed not lug giving them certificates which could be e changed only for some prod product product produced by the unemployed ed In instate state factories as proposed by Sinclair By n the s sine token tolen the fe federal eral gov eminent laid It itself elf open to the chare e of direct dil competition wIth industry by b this same s difference it e e changed furniture and mattresses cs and whatnot produced by bv the unemployed for the food products of the farmers to feed those same ame unemployed the procedure would have ve been more nearly that of the plan of Mr and the manufacturers would hace ha had ld a hard or cr time making their case For the nn er In either case is that the unemployed are arc not bu buying Ing now so the Is not losing a market when hen the they produce something for or es It is only when hen their product Is put on the market that this competition arIses and indus tn Is hurt It may mav be recalled despite the fact that the episode apparently app escaped Mr Ir Sinclair s notice that last winter con congress ress specifically ed ot of Irs Hoose elt s Idea of a furniture factors facton run by the gos gO for the benefit of subsistence farmers in West Virginia Congress after quite a 11 de- de dehate dehate hate refused an appropriation for the purpose This action was as taken on the protests of the furniture manufacturers ers who would doubtless have been de- de denounced denounced by bv Mr Sinclair If he had been noticIng what was on In Wash Wash- Washington Washington ington at the time Patronage Worries WIth hundreds ot of members member of the house and senate fighting either for or election re-election calm judgment Is that more of them are In trouble about patronage matters than an any thing else Yet this situation is 18 present despite the fact that neu ne u In Inthe Inthe the entire history of the country base ha so many jobs been parceled out by purely political endorsements of these same es and senators For never neer at any time since the establishment of the civil servIce system has that s system stem less to do with filling positions than in the last two years The destruction of the civil ch il service service- for that Is what It Is if It continues continues- did not begin with the Roosevelt ad administration administration ministration The evolution has been nonpartisan n It began wIth what might be called the emergency measures It came first so far as volume Is con concerned concerned wIth the farm board spreading Into the Department of AgrIculture the Farmers Seed Loans etc Under the direction of Secretary ot of Agriculture H de the old civil service traditions began to Into the wastebasket waste waste- basket as far as Washington was con concerned concerned From that time on it has been beena a debacle most of the new agencies and administrations and authorities set setup setup up being specifically e exempted empted from the civIl sen service ice Getting a Job It is rather curious that this came cameon on the heels of what had been sup supposed supposed posed to be a gren great t civil sen service ice re- re form applying its methods of promo promotion tion and selection to the diplomatic service except of course for more Important ambassadors and ministers And the career dIplomat came Into his bis own to the great an annoyance of man many senators and representatives who sneered at the spats and caries canes and pink teas polite names durIng prohibition for cocktail parties of the career men Young men and women wanting gOY gov government jobs today do not bother about taking ch 11 service c how however however ever The procedure Is very clear t one mU must be cleared through his Democratic county committee Then one must be certified by hIs Dem Democratic congressman If there Is one It if there are no Democratic congress congressmen congressmen men then both senators must endorse the applicant This is the situation in l Massachusetts for instance where there are more Republican members of the house than Democratic but both senators happen to be Democrats Democrat If the applicant runs this gauntlet successfully the only remaIning hurdle Is the Democratic national cOmmittee where the eagle engle eyed Emil Is the tho decIding examiner acting of course for National Chairman Farley But the curious point about the whole business Is that senators and members of the house light fight manfully to get more than their share of ap appointments it if possible yet nearly ev ev- ev everyone of them will tell teU you prIvately that he wishes to high heaven that the civil service were airtight and that everyone knew that a senator or con can congressman gressman ressman had no influence so 80 far as was political appoIntment getting n a concerned C |