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Show THE licans NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Stalemate in house dooms action on new legislation and amendments .. . New | Dealers using Ohio defeats as third-term argument ... Criticism of F.-B. I. is history repeating itself. WASHINGTON.-There is a staleIn fact the mate on Capitol Hill. administration decided last session that this session should be just that. The opposition knows all about the decision, but is powerless to do anything about it. The truth, which was realized beis fore adjournment last summer, not does administration the that new anything put to have the votes of representathe house through tives, and the opposition does not any existrepeal to votes the have to matter that for ing law-or amend one. That is the reason there will be national the to amendments no session. this act relations labor Neither those desired by the administration, which are trivial, nor opposition, the by desired those which might be sweeping. And in between these two the amendments desired by the American Federation of Labor will also fall into the discard. That is the reason there will be no amendments to the wage-hour law-neither the inclusion of other groups, as desired by the White House, nor those intended to eliminate useless bookkeeping both by firms and the government, as desired by the opposition. The administration can block almost anything it wants to hold up. The opposition has the same power. It is true that the reciprocal trade agreement making power of the administration will be extended, despite violent opposition. But this cuts across party lines. A great many Republicans favor it. A few Democrats opSenator pose it. Nobody Vandenberg knows, for instance, what the attitude of the Republican candidates for President will be on it. Of the three leading G. O. P. candidates for the nomination, Thomas E. Dewey has not expressed himself, whereas Sen. Robert A. Taft and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg have widely different notions. Hard to Discover What The Administration Wants Apparently the biggest battle is over appropriations, but it is by no means so simple to discover what the administration really wants in any of the test votes. It will be recalled that President Roosevelt, in submitting his budget, called for new taxes calculated to raise $460,000,000. Nobody on Capitol Hill thinks the President actually wants those new taxes before election. They think he actually wants congress to cut $460,000,000 from his budget in order to make them unnecessary. Obviously it would be next to impossible to get any two people in the country who could go over the whole budget and reach a perfect agreement as to where cuts totaling nearly a half billion dollars should be made. Each would have to yield a little, here and there, in order for the two to approve the result. But congress is definitely determined that there shall be no new taxes at this session, and it is just as determined that there must be drastic enough cuts in the budget to prevent the necessity of boosting that forty-five billion dollar debt limit before election. Using Defeats in Ohio As Third Term Argument Talk about turning defeat into victory-those Ohio Roosevelt men are really making history! They are turning a crushing New Deal defeat in two Ohio congressional districts into the best argument they have found yet why President Roosevelt must run for another term. One point of their bitter criticism of Gov. John W. Bricker for calling the special elections is now turned on to show their Democratic brethren, in other states as well as Ohio, *why Roosevelt must "sacrifice'' himself and endure four more years in the White House. Their attack on Bricker was twobarreled-first, that it subjected the State treasury to a heavy expenditure, about $170,000 and second, that it forced a vote at a time when there were no national or state-wide candidates to bring the vote out, and hence gave the Republicans an advantage. It is this second point which they have been talking ever Since. ‘In November,"' they are saying to antithird termers, ‘unless we have Roosevelt on the ticket you see what will happen-the Republicans will carry Ohio, If we have Roosevelt on the ticket we will carry the Buck. eye state, and if we do the Repub- might well as not make a campaign, for they cannot win with- out Ohio.' tIncidentally it is rather interes overing, and the Ohio boys are not Ohio but either, point this looking of has been on the winning side every presidential contest for a good Of course it went for many years. its native son, William McKinley, It went for 1900. and 1896 in both Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, for Taft Wilson in ow in 1908, and for Woodr 1912. Seems to Fit in With Lewis' Gloomy Comment Much more important, it went for Wilson in 1916, the last close presidential election, although every state bordering on Ohio, except Kentucky to the south, went for Hughes. Altogether, the third-term boosters think they have a mighty good argument. Obviously, the G. O. Pr: victory in the seventeenth congressional district by some 4,500 plurality can be construed only as a sign pointing to a Republican victory in November. The point is that this particular district has gone Democratic in every election since 1928. Most significant, however, is the fact that this district went heavily Democratic in 1938, which is the year Senator Robert A. Taft and Governor Bricker, on the Republican ticket, swept the state. Projection of this curve, as the political. analysts would say, would mean that Ohio's 26 electoral votes would go Republican in the presidential election-unless-the ‘‘magic name of Roosevelt'"' is on the ballot. Incidentally, what is worrying some of the New Dealers no little is that this pair of elections in Ohio, in each of which the Republicans did better than in 1938, when they carried the state, fits in with John L. Lewis' gloomy comment that IIlinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey are all set to go Republican unless there is some new hope given to the country by the Democrats. Criticism of F. B. I, Is History Repeating Itself After what the British called a ‘‘good press'' for all these years, a turning in the lane is to be detected with regard to the Federal Bureau of Investigation-to wit the G-men of J. Edgar Hoover. Criticism is beginning to appear in newspaper editorials, and on the floor of the house and senate. Significantly enough, the first bit ,of open criticism on the floor of the senate came from Senator George W. Norris, who hung the label "Ogpu'' so close to the neck of this outfit that it provoked no smiles at the de- partment of justice. genator Norris In a way it is history repeating itself. Back in the reign of the first Roosevelt there grew up a_ suspicion' on Capitol Hill that Theodore was using the secret service to get dirt on individual senators and representatives, presumably to provide a further argument, when such_gentlemen should be called on the White House carpet, to persuade them to vote ‘piehte This naturally aroused a good deal of indignation. In fact, so strongly did the legislators object to being shadowed that they wrote a restriction into the next appropriation bill providing that the secret service operatives should in the future have just two functions, and only two. These were the detection of counterfeiting and the physical protection of the President of the United States. It was years later, in the Harding administration, that the next shudders ran through Capitol Hill. This time, instead of the treasury secret service, it was the department of justice which was accused of digging up dirt on congressmen. The particular instance was that Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, wishing to hamstring Senator Burton K. Wheeler, at the time pressing an investigation of Daugherty, put some of his sleuths on the Montana senator's trail. But while this proved a grand talking point for the critics of Daugherty-and incidentally for the defenders of Wheeler-it did not result in any legislative action. F. B. I. Chief's In Florida Seen Activities Unfortunate It is unfortunate in many respects for J. Edgar Hoover that his activities led him in certain directions this year. Notably his vice crusade in Florida. The whole point is that it is not regarded as a smart addition to the functions of the federal government-at a time when economy is the watchword and the FBI chief is trying to get more money for his bureau while most other governmental bureaus and agencies are being slashed-to go after ambling, and purely intrastate gambling at that. The Florida authorities announce every so often that the lid is on-ne more casinos. But time passes, and for one reason, or another, or perhaps no reason save loss of interest, gambling in the smart winter colony is resumed. Just why any one in the government of Florida should care particularly to stop the gypping of wealthy visitors is something else again, but the point is that Florida officials have plenty of power to stop it if they want to. (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) oe MOAB, TIMES-INDEPENDENT, ‘Tommy WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK Secretary the Cork' Marries ared Him Who (Like All Girls) Once Fe and By DREW PEARSON ROBERT S. ALLEN atures (Conyrig® wees it Newspaper aa Syndicate, af Western Union.) ASHINGTON. - This is the story of a lovely symay bol of the modern Girl Frid few -Peggy Dowd, who a days ago married her brain ortruster boss, Tommy Corc to an, and thereby brought of many persons in and out Washington a breathing spell for as long as she can keep yhim away on their hone (Consolidated The morning after Director Cowles, Peggy's boss, resigned and left for Iowa, the head stenographer, faced with her daily headache of finding a secretary for Corcoran (she called it the ‘‘suicide assignment''), summoned Peggy Dowd and said gently, ‘‘Report, please, to Mr. Corcoran."' "Oh, no,"' said Peggy, ‘‘not me. There are other jobs in this world.'"' ‘For my sake, please try it for a Wears Down chief forces, of the have the company, and self-respect, with why his men have been held in check behind lines instead of attacking the enemy across Germany's famed Westwall. The answer, say Frenchmen in the ‘‘know,'' is that General Gamelin is playing a waiting game intentionally, having learned from experience that action is too often confused with mere agitation. Whereas Fuehrer Hitler is said to have delayed an attack because his army was not ready after the blitzkrieg in Poland, General Gamelin is merely following the battle tactics he has developed in a lifetime of military experience. Possessing peculiar qualifications for a military commander, Gamelin spent his youth in water-color Age-Old Puppetry Art Demands ‘Personalities' CHICAGO.-A puppet is only a puppet to some people. But to Walton and O'Rourke, pupeteers extraordinary appearing in the Palmer House here, any puppet worth his weight in wood must live up to the personality his designers have intended for him. This 3,000-year-old perfected to new and O'Rourke. art heights has by been Walton if company aR BRIDE AND r l No. Corcoran, G. GROOM-Thomas "brain- truster," poses with his bride and former secretary, Peggy Dowd, psc agr nly their surprise marriage at Leesburg, Va. Peggy feared tim (and what was also Irish. secretary didn't!) few days,'' pleaded the head stenographer. ‘‘After all, he's Irish and you're Irish and you can handle him if anyone can. Just don't argue with him. Let him do things the way he wants to, even if they do seem crazy. Who knows, perhaps there is a method in his madness."' So Peggy went up to the lion's den. In a short while Corcoran's buzzer rang and Peggy went in. "Get this telegram off right away," he ordered, without looking up or giving her time to sit down. Then for two minutes he reeled off a long wire so fast that Peggy didn't even get the start of it. For a few moments she stood there helpless; then, with a jerk of her head, she started for the door to tell the head stenographer it was ‘‘no go." The Day Is Saved. As Peggy turned, there burst into the room one of the Harvard law school boys, J. Raburn (‘‘Food'') Monroe, now a successful New Orleans lawyer and a power in the new anti-Long group, who flashed a telegram before Corcoran. "That changes everything,'' Corcoran shouted to Peggy. ‘‘Kill that wire I just gave you."' So Peggy just walked back to her desk, pretending she had the wire but was not going to send it. The fortuitous interruption had saved her. And today Peggy has one extra name among her patron saints. The name is St. ‘‘Food."' The first crisis thus survived so fortunately, Peggy decided to test her luck further. At seven o'clock that night, Corcoran nonchalantly instructed, ‘‘Go out and get something to eat and-meet me at the Capitol in the legislative counsel's office at 7:30. We've got a little 9 sketching. To this day he is a student of philosophy, which, paradoxically, may hold the key to his success. Criticized in Syrian Campaign. Best illustration of Gamelin's tactics is found in his conduct of the Syrian uprising in 1925, when he was sent to suppress the Djebel Druses and relieve the besieged French outpost of Soueida. While the French press cried out bitterly, he spent weeks in apparent idleness while more spontaneous generals would General have attacked imGamelin mediately. Gamelin has run the war so well that he may become the only French general to retain his command throughout a conflict. Parisians say he reminds them of the famous old General Joffre, World war commander under whom he studied. But they also recall that Gamelin was chiefly responsible for one of the major World war victorie s generally credited to Joffre. This happened when Gamelin , as a major in charge of Joffre's miliary establishment during the battle of the Marne, detected a weakness of the German position, recommended an immediate attack and helped draw up the famous September 4 order. It launched a battle | which altered history. the other discovered until each job to do tonight, won't take more than an hour or so."' It took most of the allotted half hour just to get to the Capitol, but Peggy was there on time. And there she met two other turbines of the brain-trust, Ben Cohen and Jim Landis, later to become SEC chairman and dean of Harvard law school. Big ‘Little Job.' The ‘‘little job'? was something about a ‘‘securities bill'' which had to be ready for a congressional committee the next morning. It was 4 a. m. when she pulled the last sheet out of the typewriter and the three men, after a critical reading, pronounced it ‘‘okay."' "‘Yes,'' added Corcoran with a cheery smile, ‘‘that's a swell job, Miss. What did you say your name was?" ‘"‘Margaret Dowd."' ‘Well, Margaret Dowd, tomorrow morning you tell the head stenographer that I said you'll do."' Thus Peggy Dowd got her start as the Girl Friday of the brain-trust, and began seven years of thrilling work carried on at about the same hectic tempo as her first day. Side by side with Corcoran, Cohen, Landis, Douglas, Jackson, Foley, Rowe, Dempsey, Rogge and others of the ‘‘family,'' she went through the epochal legislative battles of the New Deal-the securities act, the federal housing bill, the fierce TVA clashes, the tremendous holding company fight, the wage-hour bill, the historic Supreme court struggle, the Jackson-Ickes offensive against monopoly. No More She was always in ways Parties for Peggy. in the thick of them all, the background but al- on hand, the confidential sec- retary of these confidential men-atarms of the President. It meant no parties, no planning for a week or even a day ahead. Every waking hour was devoted to the job. And Peggy thrived under it all. Whether it was because she and Tom Corcoran were falling in love, Peggy became more and more beautiful. In the last few years she has been conceded to be one of the most beautiful women in Washington. Exquisitedly attired, a honey-colored blonde, with big gray-green eyes (‘Vivien Leigh eye'' Corcoran calls them), and a delicate complexion that her favorite pink camellias light up beautifully, she was the prettiest picture in working Washington. At the occasional play they went to, all eyes turned toward Peggy Dowd. But if the onlookers got an eyeful, they never got an earful. Silent As a Sphynx. For one of the most amazing things about this very amazing young lady is that, flattered, courted and cajoled by everyone seeking the inside lowdown, no one has ever been known to get anything out of her-except coran for his own wanted something But there Peggy when Tom Cor- devious purposes to ‘get out.'"' was one secret that did ‘"‘spill.'"' She whispered it to her mother at the weddi ng party just before she and Tom slipped out of town on thir skiing héneymoon It was this: That the last man who kissed her before Tom Corcoran gave her his bridal kiss at the ae ee little church in i eeae urg, Va., was the President i al- Leesof the Note-Peggy will continue to be Corcoran's secretary. Also, the famous Corcoran-Cohen penthouse menage by Cohen will be continued, occupied alone. is officials of BABY CHICKS HATCHING White, youwig mean free air for the people- a ‘Free-Air' that it would provide space for all comers to say their say, that no government or wave-band monopoly could block it, and that it marked a tremendous gain for free speech. The sociologist said the innovation came at a time when the air was loaded with international snarls and _ whines, worse than static. For good or ill, it is Maj. Edwin F. Armstrong, Columbia professor, who brings in the change. More than 20 years ago, back in the days of the cat's whisker and crystal sets he has been crowding the future with new radio devices. Wars are apparently propitious for his inventive spirit. In the World war, we couldn't catch German signals. He caught them, with a rig which brought along the super-heterodyne, and other fixings which led him into a 20year legal battle with Lee de Forest. He was a hayloft radio experimenter, and has been a professor of engineering at Columbia since 1934, This writer drives by his great steel tower on the cliffs at Alpine, N. J., on which he staked $300,000 to bring through today's frequency modulation. We never understood it, but, hung with red lights at br DAILy d buff - Leg Hampshires, White and Bera Orphingtons and TURKEY Poultry electric all leading oy POULTS equipment, and coal), wa (gas, Call and see a real modern ehigy' ternity hospital. Visitors always wa, made HIS courier heard an argument the other day between a radio technician and an amateur sociologist. The radio man said this new modulated, or staticless radio, just 4 now starting, in BABY CHICKS, TURKEY poi rieties. which I must regard as a repudia . tion of proved successful policies of 1930, year In the depression Mr. Hill fanned up sales to a figure for his 00 $2,283,0 him yielded which In 1938, his was the year's work. top salary of American executives- $331,348, in addition to his bonus. , He did nicely in the years between and reminds his stockholders that, presihis of years 14 during the dency, the company paid $358, 660, 431 in dividends and increased its management thinks He surplus. like thatineeds ‘‘incentive."' If it comes to a strike, it won't Mr. Hill never be a sitdown strike. help if he can likes to sit down His staff discovered that when it. sing adverti he was pioneering radio with his personally supervised orchestra in which he ran rehearsals and whipped up a terrific pace. He has put a fast tap-dance tempo into his promotional work, and has fielded more hot advertising slogans than probably any man in the business. Several of the most famous and durable are his. He is a rather small, good-looking man with a vivid personality, highly energized, the Daniel Boone of new sales ideas. Mr. Hill was graduated from Williams college, joined the American Tobacco company in 1904 and became president in December, 1925, succeeding his father, the late Percival S. Hill. -- New Radio Idea Has Possibilities grease in antifreeze mix grape-seed oil in soaps, butte in paints, and eggs dressing processes, Buff cannot, in the is them } oysters, gq, and lobsters. For example, corn is used in, ing adhesives, potatoes in Ja, starch, soybeans in plastics ,, of which he a resolution percentage decision a among -o--= of the Ameri- says, "T continue live, Products of the farm haye », than 400 nonfood uses in indyw) engagement argument with five top of the bonuses Foes by Stalling British-French wondered as they narrowed down to an intra - mural can Tobacco company, He fights is president. profit the reduce to Gamelin, Allied War Chieftain, ARIS.-Critics of General Gamelin, commander-in- tinue to increase in size ag} trees, fish, shrimps, crabs trusion, in George W. Hill's certain w tackhondects dashing Secretaries came to his office and departed like the days. None ever stayed longer than a week. There was a ladies' room legend, which persisted though Corcoran denied it, that he had once jerked a phone right out of its socket and tossed it at a secretary who insisted on going home at three o'clock in the morning. His constant cry to the head stenographer was for a male secretary. Although most creatures }, definite growth limit, others .F Features-WNU Servic Cash Incentive Is ‘Spark-Plug' For Executive urly-haired bridegroom. Peggy Dowd is al° i Waakingeok waysassociated with the brain-frust. a brainBut long before there was heard trust or the world had ever Corcoran, Peggy Dowd of Tommy job. important was holding down an of She was the personal secretary Hoover one of the big men of the Cowles, Gardner administration, owner of the Des Moines Register of the director and and Tribune RFC. She Liked Midshipmen, Until- and It was a very pleasant job Peggy thought her boss was a grand But her only interest in govman. prom-hopping with was ernment He also had a lot of crazy ideas about short-cuts through the telephone. He didn't care how big his phone bills were so long as they saved time. And around him he had a crowd of young fellows out of Harvard law school who were just as wild as he was' and who, like him, telephoned all day and dictated all night. Continuous Growth Versatile Products © | Mail Must Go On! comYORK.-"Incentive EW ied ias n frequently cited pensatioion," in the sparkplug of business nmental inter's resistance to gover It's a romance as colorful the as the eventful career of work. Girls frankly were afraid to work He had come for Tom Corcoran. down to Washington from a big Wall Street law firm, and just could not get used to the deliberate civil servHe conice ways of government. sidered dictating to a shorthand book a waste of time, insisted that his secretary ‘‘take it down'"' on the typewriter as he talked-and he talked a blue streak. Tommy Was a Tough One. f By LEMUEL F. PARTON e.) moon. Annapolis midshipmen. 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