Show 1 SEEN au r HEARD around th the National Capital Capita FIELD ty-By ty B By CARTER i. between p and France are un- un this thI government rt u n r wa way looting looking toward one s U tariff treaties The sew new of i the that France was most ki been ter eID pas bal to S sell ell Its war wares s In to the United Unitt SS eager ager but has bas found un 1 what seemed to tobe tobe States StItes of Insuperable difficulties In the way be concessions In return I In InSE Intact SE making SEone tin one some lome any o of our more cynical diplomats diplomats diplo- diplo tact S commented several times during S. S mats preliminary overtures that France the used to getting her own sweet so 10 0 n. n M this country s she e could not anKS an- an understand with Ith eay KS that the Idea of ot this net reci- X treaty business was that both make concessions bad had to sides Ide 11 France will not be able to As Al it Is any P Fro proposals posio to this country make In the SS which would have e a chance unless she world of being accepted very definite policy since her ber policy revises MM war about being practically self self- the concerned porting so 80 o far as food Is Actually France could absorb a very amount of ot American wheat heat and a far larger proportion of neb ucb fruits as apples with actual net benefit eDe l to her citizens The point Is tot that the cost of producing sufficient wheat to feed the French people and Is excessive l It Is visitors to l France r rance x considers only at a avery very considerable consider able chic cost to the French housewife and the French taxpayer So go a move Is under serious consider consider- by the existing French rench government government govern govern- been beeD Informed informed In In- ment so Washington has formed looking to changing this pol pol- icy The thought would be to let American foodstuffs particularly wheat and fruit In with a rather moderate duty fluty and aud thus at one move reduce the present subsidy burden on the French treasury and reduce the cost of bread to the French rench consumers Want Cheaper Bread The move more would not have been pose possible pos pos- sible a I year ago But two changes In inthe th the situation have come about In that time One Is that there has been some BOme clamor about the rapidly rising cost of living In France Already to meet this popular sentiment the French government govern ment meat has bos taken such effective means of dealing with the middleman that the price of ot meat has been sharply r reduced to the housewife But this Is not enough The people are still clamoring So the Idea of making bread cheaper by reducing the hIgh government subsidy on French French- grown Irown wheat what and permitting Importation I tion of a sufficient amount of AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican wheat to make tip up p for the falling tailing oft olf In ID domestic production which would Immediately ensue Is under consider consider- Elan This placation of the populace Is second sec sec- end ond only to the urgent necessity of balancing bal bal- balancing the budget so 60 as to keep France on the gold old standard on which the government Is determined If possible pos pos- sible The second reason Is that as the French leaders see the situation the urgency of the original reason for producing producIng pro pro- producing all the wheat Franc France consumes Inside her ber borders Is not as Impelling as asas was as the case one year ago At that time the fear of war In the Immediate future was far greater than right now DOW Hence the necessity of beIng being being be be- ing supporting self-supporting on foodstuffs But Hitler's gyrations In Germany have driven Italy Haly until then probably Frances France's most bitter enemy Into Frances France's arms and the fact tact Is that at atthe atthe atthe the moment French Italo-French relations tr Ire are more pleasant that at any time sInce the armistice And ADd what with the French wine and brandy makers not to mention the perfume perfume per per- fume men the jewelry fabricators and whatnot who are are now now due to the high exchange and higher tariffs of America Amer lea ica unable to sell their wares In the worlds world's best market there Is quite a different feeling about the wheat sub- sub sIdy idy Negotiations have not approached the toe public stage In fact tact they probably Wy ably will not for some months But It will be a feather In this administrating tons ting cap if It u can assure our wheat Towers Powers another market for n next t years year's crop New Dealers Chuckle Certain blasts at President President President dent Roosevelt Insisting that he tell the American people what he told Upton Up- Up ton tOD Sinclair In that two hours so they would understand what be he was planning plan plan- ing ning and where the country country- was headed head head- ed have hare caused loud chuckles from New ew Dealers here The point Is that there has bas never j been much doubt about where the New Deal was headed except on the part of those of whom there are a great who l who many simply do not believe what U 7 7 see much less what they read and andar soar ar And ADd one of those who believed themselves them- them selves l s to be In the dark New Dealers P POint t out U is none other than Upton Sinclair himself Otherwise they hint how bow could he have been surprised at Roosevelt's ST How could he be have thought so 10 som m maDy y of his own Ideas new and then learD as Sinclair said old In his National Press MS club speech that the they were not noLt For w of course Federal nelle Administrator Ad Ad- Hopkins has been doing In Inin in ID PIn Part V just what Sinclair proposes to do California for some time Not only b that but since last winter there have been n the hW outraged protests of business Interests whose toes were trampled on N Some ome me of these activities and the theof protests of business e about them thew were ster chronicled ed In these dispatches shortly last Christmas Particularly the proposed of a by unemployed etc ete So far there has haa hen been no proposal on oh the part of the federal government that the farmers could pay ny their taxes with farm products which would otherwise otherwise other other- wise rot on the ground But there Is la a good reason for this omission Farmers Farm Farm- ers era Involved In difficulties of that sort do not pay Income taxes or any other direct taxes to the federal government go Loan Loans to Farmers But Dut the federal government has been beell doing better than that by the farmers It U has ball been loaning them money to pay their state taxes It has been loaning them money on their unsold crops particularly par par- cotton and wheat what It U has been loaning them money to buy seed And Andall Andall Andall all this for a long tong period prior to the i drouth and therefore unconnected with drouth relief And It has been paying them good American currency for such supplies as It bought to feed the unemployed not giving Ing them certificates which could be exchanged only for some II product product prod prod- rod produced by the unemployed In Instate Instate instate state factories as proposed by Sinclair By the same token the federal government government gov gov- laid Itself open to the charge of ot direct competition with Industry by this same dl difference Terence Had It exchanged furniture and mattresses and whatnot produced by the unemployed for the food products of the farmers to feed those same unemployed the procedure would have ha been bren more nearly that of the KlIO ELIC plan lan of Mr l Sinclair and the manufacturers would have had a harder hard hard- er time making their case F For r the answer In either case Is that the unemployed are not buying now so 80 the manufacturer Is not losing a market when they produce something for themselves It Is only when their product Is put on the market that this competition arises and private Industry Industry industry Indus Indus- try Is hurt It may be recalled despite the fact that the episode apparently escaped Mr Sinclair's notice that last winter congress specifically disapproved of Mrs Roosevelt's Idea of ot a furniture factory run by the government for the benefit of subsistence farmers tanners In West Virginia Congress after quite a debate dehate debate de de- bate hate refused an appropriation for the purpose This action was taken on the protests of the furniture manufacturers ers who would doubtless have been denounced denounced denounced de de- by Mr Sinclair If be he had bad been noticing what was going on In Washington Wash ington at the time Patronage Worries With literally hundreds of members member of the house and senate fighting either for Cor or re-election re calm judgment Is that more of them are In trouble about patronage matters than ig tg else Yet this situation Is I. present despite the fact that never In Inthe Inthe inthe the entire history of ot the country have so many Jobs been parceled out by purely purel political endorsements of ot these same representatives and lena senators tors For never at any anytime time since the establishment establishment establishment of ot the civil service system system less to do with filling governmental positions than in the last two years The destruction of the civil chU service service- for that Is what It Is If It continues continue did not begin with the Roosevelt ad ministration The evolution has been nonpartisan It began with what might be called the emergency measures It came first so far as volume Is II concerned concerned con con- with the farm board spreading Into the Department of Agriculture with the Farmers Farmers' Seed Sled Loans etc Under the direction of ot Secretary of Agriculture Hyde the old civil service traditions began to drop Into the wastebasket wastebasket waste- waste I basket as far as Washington was con corned From that time on It has been beena a debacle most of the new agencies and administrations and authorities set Bet setup setup up being specifically exempted from the civil service Getting a Job It Is gather rather curious that this came camton cameon cameon on the the heels of ot what had been supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be a great civil service reform re re- form form applying applying Its methods of promotion promotion promo promo- promotion tion and selection to the diplomatic service except occasionally of course coune for fr more Important ambassadors and ministers And the career diplomat came Into his own to to the great annoyance annoyance annoyance an an- of many senators and representatives representatives representatives who sneered at the spats and canes and pink teas polite names during prohibition for cocktail parties of the career men Young men and women wanting government gov gov- government jobs today do not bother about taking civil service examinations how bow ever The procedure Is very verr clear First one must be cleared through his Democratic county countr committee Then one must be certified by his Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- congressman If there Is one If there are no Democratic congressmen congressmen congress congress- men then both senators must endorse the applicant This Is the situation In Massachusetts Massachusetts for Instance where there are more Republican members of the house than Democratic but both senators happen to be Democrats If It the applicant runs this gauntlet successfully the only remaining hurdle Is the Democratic national committee where the eyed eagle-eyed Emil Hurja Is II the deciding examiner acting of or course i Parity Farley for or National Chairman I Hut the curious point about the whole business Is II that senators and members of the house bouse fight manfully to get more than their share hare of appointments appointments ap ap- If possible yet vet nearly everyone everyone everyone ev- ev of them will tell you privately that he be wishes to high heaven that the civil service were airtight and that everyone knew that a senator or congressman congressman con con- far as u Influence so BO had bad no getting gressman a political appo appointment Was concerned W WITO S lent c |