Show HAT IONAL AFFAIRS reviewed by CARTER FIELD I 1 E LD congressmen lorried dorried by public attitude toward Necess necessary ury war measures and willkie both interested in III new york s election dell bell syn dacate anu features washington thero Is much uneasiness among members of the house and among the senators facing and reelection election re this year it Is duo due to increasing evidence of popular resentment resentment sent ment not leveled at the conduct of the war itself but what so many people think Is amateurish bungling As it comes to individual con gressmen always remembering that your average congressman Is the best listener at the key hole for what ills his own cons titu ceils are thinking that hat lie he Is a professional at this his business not an amateur tile the irritation Is not over tile he fact that sacr sacrifices inces aro are imposed but at what individual citizens regard as lack ot of intel licence in imposing then them your average voter Is likely to be a little unreasonable as well as not too strictly confined in his mental process to logic for example irritation ri on the part of many E easterners ast on the gasoline rationing b because the folks close to the oil wells can have more despite th tha fact that tho the only trouble ab about out gasoline is not production but transportation por tation so the only valid reason tor for restricting gas consumption on close to the wells Is to save rubber not fuel but the mall mail to congressmen shows too many people are getting sere sore over too many details of government administration for the good of candidates this year so the boys on capitol 1111 are worried new york battle has national aspects franklin D roosevelt and wendell L willkie are beyond doubt the two men most interested in ne new w yorks gubernatorial battle this year who are not themselves candidates for the office yet each of them desperately anxious for HIS party pury to win that con contest tet Is putting obstacles in the way of that development president roosevelt would regard the election of a republican governor in new york this fall as little short of a calamity it would distress him not net only as a sort of midterm repudiation of his national administration by b his own state which happens to be the most important state from the standpoint of electoral votes but because such a repudiation tion might be misconstrued abroad not only in germany japan and italy but in britain the british learned a lesson about american politics from that league of nations experience when they paid no attention to the republican off year victory in 1918 and then saw what happened to the versailles treaty so it could be that they would err in the other direction by overestimating the importance of a repudiation of the president in new york this year with this very sound premise in mind one would figure that the president if he took any active part in the selection of the democratic candidate to succeed governor lean leah man would be interested only in choosing the strongest candidate possible the man MOST likely to be elected almost regardless of everything else but that is precisely what the president Is NOT doing he IS taking a very active interest and he Is thumbs down do wn on the two men most new york political leaders think would be the strongest candidates these two are james A farley right bower politically of right up to the third term episode and states attorney general john J bennett the president is ably reported to prefer owen D young former head of general electric and falling failing there sen james A mend mead meads advantage the big no advantage vantage of meads candidacy Is that not being up tip for reelection as senator this year he need not risk his chair at the capitol while it if elected he could be counted on to appoint a per cent administration supporter as his successor the president is by no means certain that parley arley F it if elected would be so 60 c compliant om pliant should a vacancy occur in the senate nor could there be any such sureness as to what the state administration in hi new york might do with respect tc the democh democratic abic national convention of 1914 all ail ot of which would seem to indi c ae e that Is very sure the democrats can carry new york his tau fall even it if they do not nominate MInato the best bettse vote getter available av callable al lable senator sen ator that HE Is 18 illusions mead has no he has confided to many that he be ji glad find he Is not running nning ru tor for re his hl elc figuring that election this year fo for congressmen vote tor for a pension would make him a ather able target |