Show SEEN and HEARD around the they y National C Capital pital By By CARTER FIELD FIELD- FIELD SS Democratic gray grav graybeards beards its e a not 3 et recovered from the shock of Roosevelt's pronouncement In fn or of direct and bul ed ship subsidy The Dem ty his hns been on record d against ship su subsidy since Its oldest member can remember In fad fact It seemed to h the l the popular side or of the theIs Is Issue ue for tt It had the Republicans In 1 is hy the Berns who ho a s fen favored ored ship sub sidles them under the term mall mail subventions This later be- be became became came mail contract at which point It became ridiculous for the slip lInes were el e not for fOl carrying the mall mail but because they could carry it-In it short t for military tary 1 with a small economic flavor or added about encouraging aging exports ts PI President Wilson who ho had much the same Ideas about pi h ate profits that President elt hold was as early com concerted to the necessity or of an Amer AmerIcan scan Ican merchant marine manne for national defense e and economic 1 e He talked talI of a department store s permit permit- permitting permitting ting Its Clies to be made by a 1 competitor as illustrating the absurd absurdity absurdity ity of tIllS this s 's expecting to get geta a square deal In foreIgn trade if Its exports ts were carried In foreign ships But to lilt hit nt at private ate rl profit he pro proposed proposed posed government gO Cl 0 ownership of the shipping lines to be subsidized Roosevelt swings S back to ship sub subsidies sidles but coats the pill for the theold theold old line antI by hitting lutting air airmail mall mail subsidies at the same time The White House posItIon bOiled down is that ocean lines still need gO nt SUb subsidy because of higher rates of pay etc whereas aviation has passed the swaddling lothes stage Air Mail Problem In view of President Roosevelt's 11 flank anh admisSion in announcing cancel cancel- cancellation lation of the air marl conti acts that he and Postmaster Postmaster General Parley and other ad bad not yet made up their minds whether the gO government should operate the air permanent permanently ly or whether hether at the en end of the emet emel genc the business should re revert ert to ate contract It Ls is rather surprising ing hors little sentiment for op ration has der de eloped reasons members of the hou house e and senate who ho normally are sery ery stron strong for any form or phase of action by the government shrink from the idea l el of the go el operating planes lot fOt carrying carr mg the mall mallOne mallOne One reason of course IS that unless the gO government should decIde to go gothe gothe the hole hog thel there e would be an ab absurd absurd surd duplication of facilities Thus TIlliS If the government O should haul the mall mail 4 1 In its planes but should not carl carry y pas passengers passengers of 01 press express then presumably private ate airplane companies would con continue t handle the passenger and ey e press bU bua ies while the gO gOel government el would haul the marl mall Mead of the house post postoffice postoffice office committee that if the Post e a department paid the army the precise cost of operating planes to handle the marl the cost to the government go would be mote mOle than tWice the cost to the government gO esen eHn under the absurdly in high the vlen of Mr Mead and most government gO of cost of the pl ments under the contracts Just cancelled According to l It the cost to the government go If the post office paid the precise cost of handling would be 30 a ear vy the cost to the government govel under the contracts ju just t cancelled was only T n a sear ear Lindbergh Episode GOSSip is 15 rampant here as to the Clu cause e of the extreme e irritatIon at the White House against Col Charles A Lindbergh h resulting In the slap nt at the colonel by l Stephen T Early one of the s secretaries Three stories are going the rounds two of which tl ate e a of record and the third a report the truth of which has not been confirmed Zhe unconfirmed and most interest interestIng Ing repol report t Is s that Colonel Lindbergh I was as invited by President Roose elt to come to Washington and head the army mail carr carrying ing lUes the lD in Hon being extended immediately after r the President the nu au mall contracts The first story dates back to the 1 1932 32 campaign In hi which h Lindbergh championed the 10 losin lU cause of bert 1100 Hoover er erThe The second Is that while Colonel Lindbergh was IS in Rusta HIlS an appeal was as made to hun hum J by the administration Uon tion to nahe an address l es 0 over er the radIO to the AmerIcan people in behalf or of Lindbergh scat bad back word ord to Gen General General eral John Johnsons Johnson's ons on's office that lie he did not feel lie he enough about to tomake make mahe a speech on that su subject To those who knew Lindbergh well ell enough to call him Slim lIm this cuts t It reminded them of the day he 15 to set out on his mak makIn In lag t to Paris bark back In May l 7 Represent ihs es of a grain cigarette eUe comp lilY my told him they w would ul pay him 1 If on his Finding in Paric Ills hits first voids Old 3 were GI e Give m mo a blank w It dh 11 the nam of the cigarette In the blink Lindy Shocked I Indy U listened In The fiure offered seemed like a alot alot lot of money lIe He realized of course that the cIgarette company was not gambling amblIng much If he did not reach I ParIs it had lost nothing It If he did succeed the ad would be worth probably I ably a lot mOl mote e money than that Most of nIl all he realized that it would cost hIm nothing to say the magic words that would put In his jeans But I don t smoke e was his answer answel And the cigarette mens men's argument that this made no he dIfference could smoke c one ODO cigarette for couldn't he etc made etc made no He just didn't tale take the proposition Lots of people ew the conclusion from this story punted lt at the time that Lindy was an anti tobacco fanatic Ic U by bv anti cigarette sod sod- ates praising hIm were passed He began benn to get pretty sick of a tape t pe of which luch seemed to him to be making him a goody goody good So o he went ut out of his way to smoke a few fe cigarettes in front of camera camera- cameramen men an and that particular anno anCe stopped But the curious part of the present I epIsode seems to be that lot fOl the fist time since InauguratIon the White While Whitehouse House publicity machine backfired The whole Lindbergh thin was a nus mis mistake take For instance rh cling attention on it by hl Ming lUg administration leaders block its printing in the Congressional Record resultIng lU in an adjournment of tie the house bouse because It could not function function tion Just which one of the reasons is the thereal thereal real hI at the White House so faras hI far as Colonel Lindbergh is 15 concerned is not being disclosed and WIll not be But it Is Ident C to those who have been admiring one of the best pub pub- publIcity machines e ever eer er on display in the NatIOnal Capital that hate er cause caused the irritation was a distinct liability in that It resulted in a blunder Public reaction judged by White WhiteHouse Rouse House mail mul mail at CapItol Bill let let- letters letters to newspapers and radio discus son SlOn seem to be rather evenly divid- divid divided divided ed But this IS the first time any ex- ex es of sentIment has not run at least ten to one for the White House side I Fear Big Cotton Crop Republican leaders me ate perking up for a of reasons but always s wIth tile the resel while this and that have re now become obvious ob the people has ha hae e not realIzed It yet ot example ample the therm farm rm situation government go efforts ts to restrict re- re strict crops have re not been crowned with Ith an like what might be called success The cotton situation Is that the crop was as almost as large as some experts ts think It would have been had the government taken no DO action achon This is open to dl of course It all depends on whether hether the 10 lower er prices which pi would hl hue e prevailed had the government gO kept its hands off would have haye been as the e as government payments to farm farmers farmers ers to plow crops un under er is no authorIty that can answer that ques lion to es e era cr body body's satisfactIOn But more bID IS the fear that the cotton ClOp next year will he be a that humdinger there will be whole wholesale hole sale cheating with ith the connivance of county and agents that as a 1 result all the kings king's horses and all the king s men Ill w ill not be able to hold the prIce up I Even Ien en the United States treasury critics point out would not be strong enough nough for that unless the war ar cloudy cloud should blacken up sufficiently to pro pro- provide provide vide a war demand for cotton Which IS not qt all impossible Leaving mg out thIs wat m complication the of the situation Is Just this The plan of the new dealers may not be working It will not work without some drastic changes of a nature which at atthe attic tic the moment no one Is able to figure But the farmers in the cotton belt seem pretty pleased about It all An And i when hen the answer er is that they are Democrats an any how the further point IS made that the big mail order houses are tickled to death wIth the new farm policy money paid to the farmers was passed along to them to t 1 considerable able degl degree ee and with great celel ity The same with Ith the au- au automobile automobile manufacturers and the steel and rubber men and a host or of others who ho supply them they benefited sety el y quickly from the stream eam of gov- gov government government checks s pourIng from Wash Wash- WashIngton Washington Ington throughout the farm country Question of Politics So while the thing ma may maybe V be all the long Republicans admit a little there Is as not much use talking about It yet Wait till the taxes ta begin to bite In they cay ay grimly then John Tapay er will III hate ha e something to say sa But ol old timers have seen elections lost because fortuitous clr circumstances um made It impossible for the orators and editors of the lo losing mg side es e een en to mention men men- mention tion cel cei tarn Issue e t the e et t two 0 paramount I issues sues of the 1910 DIG cam cam- campaign were ere Jarred barred to every orator In the tho state of Ohio Sell er Speakers from other states were ere met metat metat at the state line told the must not mentIon them as it would the Republican congressmen t Cunning for re electIOn Result OhIO went Democratic Had it gone Republican nobody c ex except a casual bl historian would hate e cared how California went ent in that fa famous election Moral Are the Republicans get getting ting themselves In the same fix Was there more logic than thanas was as apprecIated here when hen Uncle Joe Grundy refused to permIt the G 0 P district con en Von ton even cn to a candIdate for the tho house In a district which lead had gone more than Republican In the free of the Roosevelt Hoose landslide Copyright |