Show VIA W DOLLAR YEAR TROUBLE washington defense chiefs rent arent advertising it but they ore are quietly trying to ward off a blowup blow up over the host hogt of dollar a year men now working for the government somo some of the ono dollar men are conscientious and sincere public servants arv nt others are less lesa scrupulous while representing the government they have sold goods to the government exerted inside pressure v vor or of their industries represented clients before government agencies all this has been no secret on capitol where the steadily growing corps of one dollar moguls has been eyed with increasing resentment sent sont ment recently this undercover indignation took form in a bill by sen kenneth mckellar veteran tenne oscan to ban such business men from government service and to probe their operations mckellard McK ellars plan Is to await enactment of the lend lease bill before pushing his measure but meanwhile defense chiefs seeing the handwriting on the wall have quietly started cleaning up the situation themselves this has been done in a series of apparently unrelated moves under cover of transferring the original defense defenso organization to the new office of production management several one dollar men have been eased homo home with the high sounding face saving title of advisory consultant n t pinned to their coattails coat tails oth ers have been shifted to jobs not directly connect connected ted with their own industries dus tries also several noncommercial commercial non exports experts have been brought in to replace one dollar men in important sections of the and more house cleaning is still to come not among noncommercial commercial non experts who havo have been brought into tho the are dr ernest M hopkins president of dartmouth collego college dexter S kimball former dean of cornell university engineering school william E president of case school of applied science dr W S A pott president of elmira college and dr S S stratton harvard professor of economics mil AIR SMITH GOES TO LATIN AMERICA it looks as if senator barkley was right when he denounced the box office smash movie mr smith comes to washington that film is now causing all kinds of headaches tor for the U S A in south america where it is used by the nazis as one of their deadliest propaganda weapons john hay jock whitney has just made this report to the rockefeller branch of the national defense commission the story of a grafting senate ganging up on a young reformer whitney says is being circulated through latin america as an illustration of U S government graft whitney has been pressuring hollywood moguls to halt further foreign distribution of of f the film another big problem tor for whitney is newsreels news reels just how damaging a newsreel can be to the good neighbor policy it if even a slight detail of sequence is overlooked was illustrated in a recent report to the state department by norman armour ambassador to argentina in a buenos alres aires theater one night armour was witnessing american newsreel shots of an air raid on great britain immediately following the raid pictures a bathing beauty eau contest in california was flashed on the screen the letdown of the audience was terrific armour reported pointing out that the newsreel made it appear that united states had its m mind ind on bathing beauties instead of defense TIIE THE TAFT BROTHERS william howard taits tafts boys bob and charley are at odds again charley having been in washington more than a week in his new job before he got together with bob reason Is the job charley has taken from the hands of roosevelt it sounds harmless enough assistant coordinator co of recreational activities tivi tIvIt ties les for defense De fensel but its a sufficient focient tie up tip with the administration foreign policy to leave antl anti intervene zionist bob a bit chilly what hurt more perhaps was that charley who has long quarreled with his brother over domestic policies accepted the job just the week before the historic lease lend debate opened in the senate bob know knew where brother charley stood long before namely with the committee to defend america by aiding tho the allies but this brought the split into the public gaze you dont have to agree with your brother all tho the time do you is bobs shrugging comment 0 0 MERRY GO ROUND you can reach hardworking hard working john R steelman head of the U S conciliation cil lation service practically any midnight in his office working on some labor dispute but not between 7 and 7 15 p m ile he always takes this time out to listen to a favorite dally daily radio program the budget is full of unique little items such as tor for a fence on the texas mexican border for personal funds for inmates of federal narcotic institutions for sea food inspection |