Show washington snapshots by james preston ily nil all tile old political philosophies chies it Is 14 unwise to to net contrary cont iary to to public dos desires tres menning meaning in other words onah that tile wise public ot of flohil follows public opinion lit in deciding on oil public questions I 1 however lo wever lit in washington tills week ack one no of if the strangest arnu indents ever amr witnessed by capital observers ol Is 14 going on oil in ili official high places the arkil Is over tho of that philosophy it Is strange because washington Is 19 supposedly a center of political ill all the question lit in effect Is to follow public opinion or public opinion I 1 be ann damned inear it fill started recently when certain officials took up till the to to do battle with alth congress mid find the public over the question of ing ln tin the national labor relations ket aft advisors were quickly caicea lit in by these aliese officials find and together hey tavy began planning strategy to convince congress and the pub lk lic that the lie net act should not hot bo be amended thear task was not to bo be lilt easy one they found na as they studied tit the various national polls or of public opinion on oil the quest question loll 1011 without except exception lon the polls show vil cil ophelon berm helming in favor of or oven even outright repeal tin inic ine method thoi to bo be used to con it has a s apparently aven decided upon it la Is the simple expedient of ignoring public opinion in ill official VIal circles a and not hoping that tin s branch of KOV gov will follow sult suit at least tills was indicated recently ahn members of the na labor board ap feared tit at secret M ailt hearings at the cil pitol and testified in effect that they were aio oio unimpressed by tho the public desire that the act Is in tin the public interest ln without being in ill the Iri meantime cantline other officials find anil board sympathizers are busy oil tile telephones telling tiny any con gre who lw will listen that public it opinion its as important as might be suppose supposed P I 1 S no strategy lias has been perfected to to convince the public I 1 kilt whether public opinion la rc acot I 1 or not hot the national 11 council still lifts has a largo inigo stuff of pulse wheelers on the job to wit the lins hils just reported to government clit officials an analysis of reaction to recent proposals of continued effort to spend the nation back to prosperity binately tely newspaper editorials wore digested by the pulse fool feel luff ing staff after governor El eccles ecles of tile tho federal reserve hoard board took to the radio to defend the spending philosophy only 0 6 were found Il illuming luding tile lie stand of moro more spending all tit alio other bent beat the drum druin for a abidance the philosophy us is that biot likely to stimulate re comry ciery PROJECT OF THE WEEK IM A administrator ickes announced bounced purchase of six spec specially lally tank trucks to transport alve salmon from one spot to another as part of the program pr for control of salifon sa linon in ili the columbia stiver tit nt orand grand coulee dam the trucks will cost each there Is moro more significance than most people mould collid suppose poW attached to the lie recent routine announcement of the lie burean of and domestic commerce C that US exports export materially teri ter ally hilly lust last year icar the d n 12 per cont cent increase lit in ilits to foreign countries I 1 fiell lice foreign roily ii dictators who iiii ridi ciale falsely fill sely alii 0 r lea I 1 I 1 biting llull standards s tire are in ili reality en eil ions of americas ability to pro allce better made gobas and are lin portIng more american machan mael iIii ali IT in ill lilt an effort to improve Ill their 1 I living hi liis stant standards lards the burean of I 1 printing and engraving litchi which lit cli PH prints tits all tile tho paper money sta stamps nips bonds etc toes dots not hot print bills not evell to anyone who ln might have ilse for them one of the congressmen recently had need fur several echal ec ral bills of this large denomination to to demonstrate a point before the house of depre senta tives the largest blank note printed however Is a mere the point he it attempted to vinke make concerned the cost of operating tile the small independent branches of government for ono one year in ili his liana hand lie ito held bield a voluminous book of about 2000 L pages the book was the alie off official iclal transcript of hearings on oil the independent offices bill it if it u bill was pasted on oil of tile rages pages pointed out tile the congressman when he get the bills to demonstrate the point nore more clearly alie total amount of money ioney pasted lit in the book would bo be just nebout what the bill called for in ill the way of expenses for these agencies |