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Show and around the NATIONAL CAPITAL Carter Field - A real battle President Roosevelt and the New Dealers, on the one hand, and the conservative Democrats plus the regular Republicans, on the other, seems certain despite the flood of exaggerated reports about the President's conceding the error of his ways and turning kindly toward business. He hasn't changed any. His talks with Wendell L. Willkie, president of the Commonwealth and Southern Power company, and with Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of the Niagara and Hudson Power company, details of which are now known, prove this, giving quite a different picture from that obta ned merely from the news that he had called them in, and from their own Statements just after their White House visits. Actually the President conceded nothing. On the contrary he gamed a great deal for the New Deal objectives. Prom Willkie he obtained concessions as to the Lase which are going to cause the Washington. Le-twt- rate-makin- Utilities a great deal of trouble. More important, its publicity ollVct is to put Roosevelt in the right and the utilities in the wrong as to the Lattle so far. Prom Carlisle he obtained a promise again accompanied by a lot of publicity to spend a great deal of money. Which reinforced Roosevelt's contention that the utilities have been holding back their spending, and thus helping importantly to bring about the present recession, in order to have an ellect on legislation specifically, to force modification of the holding company death sentence. Roosevelt met every point made by either executive with an argument or silence. He disputed every figure cited, and denied or merely smiled at every contention. On taxation the President is still fighting tooth and nail to restrict modification exclusively to the small corporations. Even the house committee (ways and means) has gone further than the President wanted further than he had the Treasury officials urge. Sets Battle Stage In the senate, of course, there is even more sentiment to modify taxes with on eye single to improving business encouraging investment and hence employment. Senators, and many house members, are not concerned whether such modification happens to play hob with planned economy, war against or any of the other New Deal objectives. This temper on the part of the White House and congress sets the stage for a battle which has been becoming more certain since the early arrivals of congressmen for the extra session. But every passing day has actually drawn the line of conflict more sharply. One piece of this White House propaganda has been correct. The President is concerned about the recession. But he believes it due to the attitude of the economic royalists. There are three chief reasons for the recession, in the mind of the President. They arc: 1. Too high prices, containing too large profits, in many commodities, with steel No. 1 on the list and concrete a close second. Lower 'prices, the President believes, would have made greater sales, hence more employment in the industries mentioned (and other similar offenders) and in the industries that buy from them. 2. Hold-of- f in expansion and replacement by the utilities, amounting, according to figures given him by S. E. C, to a billion dollars a year for the last three years. Incidentally Willkie put this figure somewhat lower in his talk with the President, and was argued into silence because he wanted to keep the President in a good humor. This utility thing the President re gards as even more damnable than steel and concrete prices. The last ere due, he thinks, to greed, selfish and unenlightened. But the utility is just a conspiracy to stymie Roosevelt on his objectives. 3. Failure of railroads to make necessary improvements. This is the only one of the three which the President regards as having no ulterior motive. He would like to help the railroads, but does not know how. Nor, apparently, does any one else. One grain of salt must be injected into all this discussion. The President just may decide the battle is unnecessary. He may decide that there is too much riiik involved, and that it would be better to bend before the storm to avoid conse- b;g-nes- s, hold-bac- k quences. Would Revive N. R. A. A proposal to revive all the 900 odd NKA codes as a substitute for the wages and hours regulation bill now pending before congress has been made to President Roosevelt by a group of southern senators. Only in this way, the southern senators told the President, could the legislation be saved. They predicted thct otherwise this bill, which means so much to the progressives and is so integral a part of the administration program, would be sidetracked agaia as it was last session. Not in ti e san e manner, necessarily, but perhaps by some other device. This proposal was made to the President after the blast of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, against the pending bill. This attack by Green was regarded as devastating for several reasons. Ore is that ti e A. F. of L. has a great many friends on Capitol Hill, not only fer;trs and representatives who belifve in the old organization as agami-- t the C. I. O. on pr.nciplf or economic theory, but personal friends of long standing with A. F. of L. leaders. More important is the ditV.citlty of meeting Green's objec tions. n of any type of governmental board to supervise enforcement of the law would seem simr !e. It would seem as though the law could be enacted just as any of - r LTAH PRE.-5-. LEHI FREE H0V9.SM Ihrklmas Morning Mothers'. hp-- Kuth wyeth apears Picture M 4 i a a T?. C0U father. acc Vjand safet I K 4 "42, J in,"' w..T , - a: statute, leaving prosei-ut.cviolations upon the federal govern- an same 3 greater d: because "I - the a - j it. i v CO i Safety died in first the Z ir.creas officials warned most .faction yet X Contest b 9 de the i r V fed- That would be s :ri.!e were it r.ot for the d.fTcroN'ual cue; i on. P. is next to impossible to get ar.y law passed fivng minimum wages and maximum hours without provid-nsome arrangement win n by the South will continue to have trie present d,!I' under which it may continue to pay slightly less wages and work its labor slightly longer hours than the competing industries in the North and West. But how to fix such an arrangement without a board, which would have discretionary authority, is a problem. Complicating the situation is the Aremainder of the program. lready the senate has shown what it can do in the way of Discussion of the bid dragged on and on until the farm bill was reported. Every one knows that the report on the farm bill would not have been made yet by the senate agricultural committee were it not for pressure on Chairman E. D. Smith to rush this measure out so as to head olT the ant bill. Otherwise, Senator Smith was informed, he would be blamed for not doing his part in battling the bill. But whether any time was really saved by this pressure on the senate agricultural committee is something else again. As Senator Smith said, under the pressure, he would bring the bill out if it were a blank piece of paper, and leave the working details to the floor of the senate. Means a Struggle The administration will be forced to fight with all its strength to preserve as much as possible of the social and economic reform objectives of the New Deal, while the offensive, caring nothing about the New Deal ideals or Brain Trust theories, will be considering only how to case the strain on business sufficiently to produce prosperity and employment. Roosevelt and his senate and nouse leaders will face a new problem. For five years the White House has fought an offensive war, reaching its high tide and its first serious reverse on the Supreme court enlargement bill. Now, however, with the business recession, plus the demonstration in the court battle that the President could be beaten, plus the fact that the politi- cians on Capitol Hill are now con- vinced that the folks out in the country, strong as they may be for the President, are not excited by specif- ic votes against his recommendations, the picture is different. 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U a: ( .j'M J ,'A It s Monday alter Christmas but wash day doesn t last long for the modern young a rl v with a in , .i !? v: lhoroughly bv modliens - 1 f the apple k it on; ci ibine the e blend wil it i u e. soiled lA i she , a 1 cranberry Tlv ' on chop e ly aroun' l, .It m the get e wrinnr, ioiaing ironing board and a dryer. can ei can. j r-- U TT-Tfc- O lis - i V vX M 1 I he Uionne quintuplets are three and a half now and ?anfi Claus kept pace with the years of these international idols. S.nce they're not babies any more, he had to perfect "grown up" toys. Hence this see-saon which vonne. Cecile. Annette, Marie and Emilie play under the eves of a watchful 'mother." As last year, the world-famouquints will be promi rent m 1':'.7 Christmas doll circles. of strategy a type which the history of the relations of Presidents with congress shows is frequently unsuccessful. Unexpected fireworks may enlive the situation as the President tries to change the battleground. A master political strategist, he realizes keenly the difficulties of a defensive battle. So he may be depended up- on to inject new proposals, make new appeals to the country over the head of an obviously recalcitrant congress. In short", he may be expected to make every effort to resume the offensive, and attomnt to whip congress back into obedi- - ence. rid of nag up . Evi grdu i -- T - v 4 V w Chief Prcbbm But the President's chief problem is that he is fac-nop?osit;on on so many fronts. He is fighting his farm control battle now. The wages and hours battle has taken on a more serious tinge in the last few weeks, especially since William Green denounced the national labor relations board, and after a group of southern senators warned him that the bill would be side- tracked again unless he consented to reviving all the 900 odd NRA codes as a substitute. Then will come the tax bill, on which the President and congress ore absolutely at loggerheads, and seem destined to stav there. 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