Show e T SEEN HEARD around the National Capital s 3 r By Py CARTER FIELD Wa Washington Iwo Two tremendously Important Important Im Im- changes chances In the known factors factor of the Fur Eastern situation are seriously seri serl worrying every enry nation which hits has any gny Interest In that part of ot the world Th These e 1 Proof that Japanese can ran make malic good flyers flers as its proved In the recent ho hostilities In two widely sep separated po portions of old China Chinn 2 The fact that the Japanese are slowly but hut extending northward until they are within striking distance of the Uie line of ot communications across Si beria a. a Until recently when the he Japanese began becan begun be be- gun can their latest drive rhe In north China the Russians had hall a very powerful argument nr- nr against Japans Japan's provoking war This was that the line Russians had a strong bombing leer fleet of ot aircraft at Vladivostok tok and other points not too far from the big Japanese cities They still have Hut tut conviction cOlI among military experts now Is Japan Jalan would ouM have hate to endure only one or at most two bad bombings After that there would be no HO more bombs For In la Inthe Inthe lathe the meantime the Jap army and Jap flyers Ayers starting from north China ChInn would effectually block the line of supply from European Russia sla to the I ports A glance at the map amp In connection with the next news story about Japans Japan's Japans Japan's Ja Ja- Ja- Ja pans pan's aggrandizing movement mo In north China Winn will wll be very fery Illuminating on ou this Still another disturbing fact falt Is that the Japanese commanders In the OeM held seem to have ha more leeway than allY generals since the Invention of tele tell graph They do not bother bolher to annoy Tokio with questions ns as to whether they should seize this or that territory There Is nothing new about this It has hos been going on ever Ince Japan began b to expand her Influence In north Chi Chinn mi In iii her long drive to take control control control con con- of ot first one ono Chinese province and aull than another Misleading Which has bas made matle It possible for the Japanese ambassador In Washington or r for that matter at Geneva a to deny ny lIany any things for tor weeks after they had hall really happened Then It would develop de- de that had Imd misled the ambassador ambas 6 dor because It had received no report re re- report port from the army In the lIel Held field So much so that aides under former Secretary of State Stinson used to complain with a trace of sarcasm that there should be a n better u understanding and exchange of communication between between be be- tween the war and foreign offices In The Immediate Importance of this situation which seems to still exist Is Ss that at any moment there thero Is apt allt to tobe tobe tobo be bo some clash dash In hl the tar I East Kast ast between and Japanese duo dim to sonic some Jap movement mo utterly unanticipated by bythe bythe bythe the Japanese foreign office And when something of this sort starts sometimes sometimes some some- sometimes times It Is Impossible to control It Optimists say fOay that Japan has discovered discovered dis dis- covered that Ilo does s not want to tight light now and therefore there will be beno beno no war for some time to come COUll Their theory Is that Japan Is very busy digesting digesting di dl- gesting the big pieces of north China Chinn she has hns bitten oft off and acquiring addi additional pieces pieces pieces-a a process which may take several se years ars Pessimists point out that the Kiis- Kiis know perfectly well what the reason for tor Japans Japan's extending her troops so 0 far for northward has been to been to threaten the line of communications of Russia's Far ar Eastern astern air fleets So they believe be be- believe lieve It unthinkable that Russia Hussla has not made some moves s to circumvent this danger All of which the which the arguments of ot both pessimists and optimists optimists-Is Is probably true And Anti the situation s as thus summed up might readily mean only that there Is a fair chance of continued contin contin- continued postponement of real hostilities The fly 11 In the ointment Is that unanticipated unanticipated clash which may limy touch off ort the fireworks Then the big questions will be be ran can tile the United States and the rest of ot the big nations sta stay out Important Question What Is going to happen about July 1 I when Chester C C. 1 Davis ls 11 retires from running the Agricultural Adjustment administration Is perhaps the most Interesting interesting In in- question mark lUark In the government govern govern- ment went at the moment Davis ls now has a free hand with the backing of ot both resident President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Henr Henry t A. A Wallace He lie was permitted to throw out the tho radicals and others he thought were ere obstructing the carrying out of his policies But Iut what will viii happen when he lie leaves The point of course Is that the brain trust so far ns ItS AAA Is s concerned Is temporarily In complete eclipse but that no one knows definitely whether It will stay In eclipse or not ls Da Intends to build up an organization ration planned to be permanent during dur dur- ur ing fag the 11 five months he Intends to serve sene yet He lie thinks that by July 1 thin this organization will be capable of going ahead without an administrator But Iut of course It would be bo very simple for fur some follower of ot Dr 0 O. O Tugwell Tugwell Tug Tug- well to reverse all this after Davis ls Is out The question Is whether the President Pres l dent ident and Wallace will permit It The Ibl answer lies ills entirely In will happen between now and then If It removal removal re- re moval of some somo of the theoretical policies poll poli des cies which proved d restrictive on business business business busi busi- ness results In improvement In business bust busi ness In la the lines Hues affected the 1 Davis ls policies will continue triumphant long after Da Davis ls has gone If It there should shou tw be I no Improvement it Is g likely that the ther r brain will he be given n a chance by the President to try tryout out another scheme For or the most mst Important problem now nowa a and nil for some time hue to come corne nn on President dent Roosevelt's mInd Is ha how to get more men n and women employed by by- private ate Industry It Is III no secret that he Is la somewhat disappointed at the failure of nil all his efforts to reduce substantially sub the number of So that thaI any allY scheme which without doing too much violence to his tiffs reform Ideas promises stimulation of private employment Is vr very appealing Indeed And will continue so lO Whereas on any proposed handicaps on business which might result In a n do- do crease nse of employment have ha to lie he mighty Important to his reform program pro pro- program gram ra m to Matte make nay appeal at the this mo laio ment went Jars President This attitude on un the part of the Ille President President Pres Pres- ident tins has reached n a new peak In u II way II In the last la t few tew days Ilas That flint vote tote In Inthe Inthe inthe the senate Semite appropriations COlli committee which t Up upset lt the cart so 50 far lr BS os his big work relief relIct program Is concerned sari W a n bigger Jar to the President titan than the Ille vote vale on the tune World court ourt Fur lr wor worse l' l And Aud the vote VII was wasso wasso so close dose because some of till the senators voting against t the till White louse House were anxious to hold down the total debt of ot the government go They were worried about the Ito governments credit The President has tins not been een cen much worried about that He lie Is convinced It Is oil nil right So Is Secretary Mor Mor- gentium Rut Hut he Is very ry much worried over o such an attitude developing l' on Capitol Hill It may rise to bother Lother him In uny any number of ways was before this congress Is over So that the problem has hat been heen made more difficult It was could the go government gov gor- v- v spend speed Its way back hack to prosperity prosper prosper- ity lIy before the danger point of ot spending was reached Now row It Is can cnn the gov gov- government government spend Its way bitch back to prosperity pros pros- prosperity before congress thinks the danger danger dan dan- ger point hns been reached It Is a n avery very ry different question and one to cause nusI grief not out only to the resident President but Public Works Administrator ekes Ickes Relief Director Hopkins Housing dousing Director Di 11 rector Monett 1 and last but not flot least Jesse Jones S So Ro much has been about government go opposition to this and antl that In business proposed new taxes harsh hursh treatment for tor holding etc ec that It was fIlS thought a aery very ery good Idea to Indicate Indicate- that In at nt least one Important governmental unit dealing denting with some pretty Important lines of business the government o should take tale on oil a conservative conservative u tinge Work Relief Cash New peal neal by senate and house hawse committees as to what would be done with the 1800 lump sum pum being asked by Pres Pres- PresIdent President ident dent lt Hoose for tor work worl relief relict have hll been blen compared by critics to moun witnesses ls l's In their vagueness and anil contradictions of testimony Rut Hut the answer Is Isery very ery simple Putting Putting Put Put- ting a man under oath am and grilling him with great solemnity does not add anything anything any any- thin thing to his Information If It he really does not know It Is 11 pretty hard for forthe forthe forthe the shrewdest examiner cross to find out The rite thing Is complicated by a 0 factor ns liS old as tribal government go but vs which has hns Il led to newspapers news getting things wrong In their stories ever since the early chiseled bulletins on stone This Is the tho human desire on the tho part of not to admit adult that they really do not know what they are going to be bl told toM to do that do-that that they are n not t real really really I ly on the Insl Inside In this particular case casl there Is no I Inside so Inside so far Mr Hoo Roosevelt elt himself does S not know what he Is going to do da with the money lie He admits It frankly frank ly Iy but the boys on Capitol hill do no not believe e It They think he knows butis but bu buIs Is not willing whiling to tell them lest they hamstring him b by earmarking too much mud of the money But Iut there Is that curious human tendency on the part of ot Dla ninny many of or hU his lieutenants not to admit they do no nut not know perfectly well what Is going to tobe tobe tobe be done Especially after utter one of their thel number has hns given n the tho Implication b by his apparent evasion that he real really knows all about It It but hut cannot b be forced to tell For or the next fellow I then Ihen to admit that he be did not know would be to give ghe the public the ide Idea that the first witness was really on th the I Inside but the second did not know kno what was going on was no no- longer beIng being be be- belag ing lag consulted by the President and had generally lost his place In the sun Remember Wilson Era Old Washington correspondents remember remember re re- re- re member the era lra of Woodrow Wilson and Joseph P. P 1 In the tho White While WhiteHouse louse House In the days das after Joes Joe's contacts with his chief had begun to wane Old friends In the newspaper business business busi busl- ness would a ask k what the resident President would do on some som Important matter would reply tilt he I could not net discuss s that Which was literally and actually true Then the 1 correspondents by shrewd leading of of the conversation con around a circle and anti bringing It back would find out what Joe thought ought to be done N Next ext morning would appear long positive pos Ithe stories about what the President would do They would be based on what Joe had said Sometimes In fact quite frequently they were right For I had bad studied Wilson so closely I I and admired him bum so tremendously that he at least achieved what might be I called a approach to a given subject Hut often they were wrong and then there was no recourse It was us the tile fault of the newspaper men not lie He bad bud not purposely misled then D. 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