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Show NA NATIONAL TIONAL TIONALAFFAIRS AFFAIRS AFFAIRSReviewed NATIONALAFFAIRS NATIONALAFFAIRSReviewed Reviewed RCVlcwecl byCARTER by byCARTER byCARTER CARTER FIELDSenators FIELD FIELDSenators Senators who beat beat"purge beat"purge beat"purge beatpurge "purge purge " " imy m'lY mlY miy ' find patron patronage patronage patronage age cut off . \ Move l\Iove l Iove to re refuse refuse refuse fuse vote to reliefers relrefers takes takesbeatmg takesbeating takesbeating beatmg beating in m rn New Jersey Jcrsey JerseySupreme J JerseySupreme crsey crseySupreme Supreme court decision IS ISneeded isneeded isneeded needed to chrify chnfy clarify wages wagesand wagesand wagesand and hours icgnlation IegulatIOn legislation lawRulIng lawRuhng law lawRuling RulIngm Ruhngin Ruling Ruhng in m N R Acase A case caseIS caseis caseis IS recalledWASHINGTONWith recalled recalledWASHINGTON WASInNGTONWith WASHINGTON-With WASHINGTON With WASHINGTON WASInNGTON -With With - With few excep exceptlons exceptions exceptions tlons tions the United States senators in involved Involved Involved volved In the purge realize that thattheIr thattheir thattheir theIr troubles with the White House Housewere Housewere Housewere were not ended by their trIumphs triumphsat at the polls Most of them are not notperturbed notperturbed notperturbed perturbed about the elections they theymust theymust theymust must now fice hce fide Of all on the list listSen listSen listSen Sen Guy M Gillette of Iowa Is Isprobably isprobably Isprobably probably in the most danger For Former Former Former mer Sen Lester J Dickmson DickInson whohas who whohas whohas has the Republican nomina Ion Ionagainst ionagainst ionagainst against him lum is an able campaign campaigner er and was defeated in m 1936 only onlyby onlyby onlyby by the overwhelming overwhelmmg character of ofthe ofthe ofthe the Roosevelt landslide He ran way wayahead wayahead wayahead ahead ot of his Ius tIcketSen ticketSen ticket ticketSen Sen Frederick Van Nuys in Indl Indi Indlana Indiana Indiana ana is also in a little danger from fromhis fromhis fromhis his Republican opponent opf op opall , f ponent But qearly rjearly rjearlyall qearlyall all the re't ret reot rest ' of the thes the\ the theDemocrats s \ ' , u ' " uDemocrats ' Democrats w whothe h o ' 1 1dared dared to dIffer 'Ith Ith with 'Iththe withthe " ' the President are nre In invery in7 . I very little fear of . . " ' , J | Jthe the r Republican op opt opt t | ponents y ponentsy ponentsWhat What they have toorry toworry to \\orry orry worry w \ orry about is 1S whatA whatis what A IS gomg going to happen happento - to their organIza organizaSenator Senator when"an Senatorbons bons at home orne when whenan "an an " VanNnys , ? I ! . an uys uysthe the theVh y g \Vh Vh 'iVhto iVhto \ ' te ( g House IS ISdOIng isdoing isdoing dOIng its utmost to build buud up loal loyal loyaland lo > } aland and liberal organizations in their theirI'vn theircsvn theirown I'vn Ivn csvn ( ' states The course the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House will follow is already alrcady clearNormally clearNormally clear clearNormally Normally the senators of a state stateif stateif stateif if their parti part party ) is in m the maJonty majority majorityare maJontyore ore are " very "ery ery potent in their state or orgamzatIons organizations orgamzations gamzatIons ganizations because they can dls dis distribute distribute tnbute tribute so many important federal federalJobs federaljobs federaljobs Jobs But although President Roose Reese Roosevelt Reesevelt Roosevelt velt has had very poor luck in m try trymg trying trying mg ing to persuade the voters in Demo Democrat Demodrat Democrat crat drat c primaries pnmarles and conventions to toreject toreject toreject reject men who opposed h m there1 therei there 10 i no " way "ay ay for the voters to force forceMr forceMr 1\r 1 r Mr \ ' [ Roose\ Roose Roose\elt Roose elt Rooseelt Roosevelt \ elt to assign patrorage patrorageto to the men the theoters \oters oters soters \ oters approved approvedAnd approvedAnd approvedAnd And no one thinks he will do itProffer it itProffer Proffer of oj Juicy Juicl Jll/C Jll C / ) Jobs JobsTempting JobsTempting Tempting Peace OfferingPlenty OfferingPlenty Offering OfferingPlenty Plenty of men in Mr Roosei Roose Rooses , eit elt s splace splace splace place would call the \ war scar ar off and andtry andtry andtry try to make friends fnends of the men he hehas hehas hehas has been fight ng He could do iteas It Iteas iteas eas ly Most ost of them would be very veryglad veryglad veryglad glad to make peace bitter as they theyhave theyhave theyhave have been and as most of them still stillare stillare stillare are Mr Roosevelt has plenty of ofpelsonal ofpeisonal ofpeisonal pelsonal peisonal charm however and In Inad inadd inad3 ad add ion In inn ( ; no senator is going to tof tofght tofght f fght ght too hard against a proffer of offr offr offr fr endsllp endsl ip aeeompan accompan ed by tenders tendersof tendersof tendersof of a whole crop of J ju u cy jobs tor for the thesenator thesenator thesenator senator s political 1 l eutenantsTh eutenantsTh eutenants eutenantsTh Th s may even happen m In a few fewcases fewcases fewcases cases Most observers bel eve that thatthe thatthe thatthe the Pres dent will go more than , . 1 1 I all alf ' vay 'lay lay to meet Sen Bcnnett Bennett C CClark CClark Cdark Clark of Missouri Mlssoun for instance He HeIOvlted Heinvited Heinvited IOvlted invited Senator G Uettc llette to lunch the themoment themoment themoment moment the victor ous insurgent got gotback gotback gotback back from his primary But there thereare thereare thereare are some senators on that onguiapurge ongInal original ongInalpurge originalpurge purge 1 st of n ne with whom the thePresident thePresident thiPresident President simply does not want to tobe tobe tibe be friends He wanted to mo mothem v vthem vthem them do down " n in the primar pnmar es as Ha Hay Haying Having v vIng Ing failed there he will try to mo ithem v vthem vthem them down dO\vn dO vn \ by b } cutting cuttmg off oil the r po 1 t cal po powers " ers All of which wluch foreshadows a lot of ofInterest ofinterest ofinterest Interest ng fights in m the senate be bet bet bet t veen the President and those "ho ho who "hodo whodo " whodo do not . like l1h.e l1he him hlffi hun or rather those he hedoes hedoes hedoes does not . like l1h.e l1he There will be fights fightsover fightsover fightsover over confirma confirmations hons when he seeks seeksto seeksto seeksto to name political enem es of slttmg sitting slttmgsenators sittingsenators sittingsenators senators to important jobs in the r rsta rstates rstates rstatesThis sta states tes statesThis tesThis This " will "Ill Ill wdl not do the senators In Inquest inquest inquest quest on very much good but nel nei nelther neither neither ther w 11 ll it do Mr Roosevelt anygood any anygood anygood good For e e\ e es ecry \ , cry ery t me there is such sucha a fight there will be pknty pJ.nty pJnty plenty . of pub pubIIclty pubiicity IIclty iicity pubhcity Move Hove love to Refuse ReJuse Vote to toRelief toReliefers Relief Reliefers ers Tal Tales es Beating Bealmg BealmgThe BeatingThe BeatingThe The New Jersey women "omen omen " who whowanted whowanted whowanted wanted to refuse the ballot to all allpersons allpersons allpersons persons on rd rel rei et ef of took a terrible terriblebeat terriblebeat terriblebeat beat ng from President Rooseveltand Roosevelt Rooseveltand Rooseveltand and fiom flom from hberals lIberals generally Pub Pub1 PubI I 1 cly c1y very few folks came carne to their theirsupport theirsupport theirsupport support There was a notable ab absence abBence absence sence Bence of pol tical hcal tidal candidates among amongthose amongthose amongthose those publicly supportmg supporting their con contenhon contention contention contentionBut tenhon tention tenhonBut tentionBut But we have not seen the last of ofth ofth ofth th s issue It will probably never neverget neverget neverget get anywhere so 50 tar far as actually actuallybarrIng actuallybarring actuallybarring barrIng those on relief rolls fromthe from fromthe fromthe the registration lists is concerned concernedbut concernedbut concernedbut but it may get somewhere by Indl mdi IndlrecUy mdirectly mdirectly recUy rectly affect ng candidacies and is issues issues issues issuesDespite sues suesDespite Despite the lack of public pubhc sup support support support port there are a great many peo pea peopIe peaple peopie pIe ple in and out of publ c life who whothmk whothink whothink thmk think the New Jersey women have havea a case No politician wants to say sayso sayso sayso so because so 50 long as the rel reI efers efersstay efersstay etersstay stay on the polling lists-and lists and lists - and the theextreme theextreme theextreme extreme probability is they will willstay willstay willstay stay there mdefinltely-no mdefinltely no mdefinitely-no mdefinitely indefinitely - no polItician polIticianv politiciancants politicianwants cants v . ants to go out of his way to alIen alIenote alienetc alienetc ote etc their votes But it is surprising surpnsmg how many senators and representa representatlves representatives representalives tlves tives will admit privately pnvately to thc1r their thc1rfriends theirfriends theirfriends friends that a man or woman on onrelief onrelief onrelief relief should not be permitted to tovote tovote tovote vote ' until untu he or she has removed removedthat removedthat removedthat that part cular burden from the thebacks thebacks thebacks backs of the ta taxpayersllopl taxpayers taxpayersIIopJ payers IIopJ IIop llopl lloplins ! ins ms ' Ar Argument Artrument urnent Does DoesNot DoesNot Not Please New DealersThe DealersThe Dealers DealersThe The best argument for the side of ofthe ofthe ofthe the r.ew rew Isew : . I ew Jersey women has been beenpresented beenpresented beenpresented presented of course by Harry L LHopkIns LHopkins LHopkms HopkIns himself His statement thatnaturally thatnaturally that thatnaturally naturally SO 90 per cent of the WPA WPAworkers WPAworkers WPAworkers workers are for Roosevelt d d not notSit notsit notsit Sit particularly well even with New NewDealers NewDealers NewDealers Dealers It Is one th ng lor for Demo Democratlc Democratic Democratic cratlc cratic leaders to point out that the theHoover theHoover theHoover Hoover administration adrnmlstratlon did nothIng nothIngand nothingand nothingand and about how terrible the unem unemployment unemployment unemploymcnt ployment becime bec'lme beclme became ' and how much muchbetter muchbetter muchbetter better the Roosevelt admInistratIon administrationis IS doing domg That is fine and if people peoplebelIevmg peoplebelieving peoplebelieving belIevmg believing that want to vote on the theNew theNew theNew New Deal side in primaries and andelections andelections andelections elections this thJs year or two years yearshenc.e yearshence yearshence henc.e hence . no one can object objectBut objectBut objectBut But it is quite another thing to toboast toboast toboast boast that 90 per cent of the WPA WPAworkers WPAworkers WPAworkers workers " , will ill support Roosevelt s scandIdates scandidates scandidates candIdates in primaries primanes and elec dice elecbons dicetions dections bons tions because the present adlnJms admmis adlnJmstrduon admmistration admimsration trduon tration ( is feeding them And it be becomcs becomes becomes comcs comes even worse when HopkIns HopkInswords Hopkinswords Hopkinswords words conjure up a picture of rival rivalcandIdates rivalcandidates rivalcandidates candIdates bidding for the relIef relIefvote reliefvote reliefvote vote by promising more and more moreThere moreThere moreThere There are many more people-In people In peopleInclud peopleindud people - indud clud dud ng politicians quiet as they theymay theymay theymay may keep about It- It Itho it-who it who it - - " who ho are shocked shockedby shockedby shockedby by this idea More than that they theyare theyare theyare are genuinely frightened as to what whatit \ whatit hat hatIt It may do to this country if such suchpracl1ccs suchpractices suchpractices pracl1ccs practices are cont cent nued Which IS ISmade ismade ismade made more po nted by the fact that thatnobody thatnobody thatnobody nobody even pretends to see the theend theend theend theendTh end endTh Th s fear is entirely d stinct stlnct from fromthat fromthat fromthat that " wh "h h ch concerns more and more morerelief morerelief morerelief relief hence more and more tax taxi taxition taxition " ! tIon and eventually a financial financialblowup financialblowup financialblowup blowup ending endmg in destruction of ofpresent ofpresent ofpresent present values It is true that it IS ISclosely isclosely isclosely closely rei related a ted and one may lead leadto leadto leadto to the other But there are officialsin officialsm officials m in Washington who ha ha\e ha e hale \ , e defended defendedbig defendedbig defendedbig big relief appropnat appropriat ons ens contend contending contending 109 ing that this was the only way to topull topull topull pull the country out of its economic economicta economictalsp economictAisp ta talsp 1sp n who are genumely genuInely d s sturbed sturbed sturbed turbed over the idea of a perma permanent permavent permanent nent vent relief re'lef relef ' vote to " which "hICh hICh eery every everypolitician e\ e everypolitician \ ery erypolItIcian polItIcian hoping hopmg to get anywbeiev anywherev any"hele anyhele anywhere " v \ ' ould have to caterAeed cater caterAeed \ Aeed l\eed l eed Supreme Court RullTlg Ruling RulingTo RulingTo To Clarify Clanfy ff rr if rrage ifage age Hour flour Law LawThere LawThere LawThere There will have to be some Su Supreme Supreme Supreme preme court decisions before the thescope thescope thescope scope of the wages and hours regu regulat regulat regulat lat on law is fully understood The Thetrouble Thetrouble Thetrouble trouble revolves around the ques questlOn question question tlOn tion tlOnVhat \ What \Vhat Vhat is nterstate nlerstate commerce commerce7 commerce7Admm ? ' Admm Admin strator Elmer F Andre"s Andres Andrews Andre"sfrankly Andrewsfrankly Andrewsfrankly " frankly admits that he does not notknow notknow notknow know " where "here here to draw the div dlv dingIne ding dingI I 1 ne Neither does anyone else elseThere elseThere elseThere There is plenty of op n on as to towhere towhere towhere where the d vid vld ng line should be bedram bedram bedra\/n bedra n dra\m dra m dram \ / but the op nons n ons ens do not notagree notagree notagree agree not even evcn among I\ew I ew r.ew rew Aew : . \ Deal Dealers Dealers Dealers DealersThere ers ersThere There is one very clear po nt ntwh ntwh ntwh wh ch is 1S that t1-at t1 at ti-at ti - - most of the left wmg wing wmgers wingers wmgers ers bel eve the 1 ne should be drawn drawn'er drawnsery drawn\ drawn drawner 'er er sery \ ' er } 1 1 berally considering every everybusiness everybusiness everybusiness business as being in interstate corn cornmerceand cornmerceand cornmerce merce-and merce and - and therefore subject to the therestr therestr therestr restr ctions chons of the wage hour law- law law"hlch lawwhich law lawwhich - " which "hlch hlch in m the remotest degree af of affects offects atfects fects interstate mterstate commerceBut commerceBut commerce commerceBut But most of these same New Deal Dealers Dealers Dealers ers adm tIthout t \ without \\Ithout Ithout ssithout hesitat hesltat on that thatthey thatthey thatthey they do not think the Supreme court courteven courteven courteven even with the recent changes wouldgo would wouldgo wouldgo go as far as they do in 10 this d rect rest onr onEsentual on onEventual Eventual Esentual r : , entual decision of the wage wagehour wagehour wagehour hour adm n strat on will probably probablybe |
