Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Renewed by lIy CARTER FIELD residents Presidents personal strength with uit voters voter still high ig notwithstanding his defeats in purge attempts in primaries Reorganization bill may appear again in modified form Activities of Lewis and Smith in Mexico stir up Secretary lull Hull WASHINGTON A A recent poll shows hows that despite the victory of ot very every one of the nine Democratic senators who opposed President Roosevelt on the Supreme court Isue issue Is Is- sue ue in their battles and nd the failure of such hundred per per- centers enters as aa William G G. G McAdoo In California James P. P Pope In Idaho William H. H Dieterich In Illinois Herbert Her Her- bert bent E. E Hitchcock in South Dakota and nd George L. L Berry Derry in Tennessee the Presidents President's personal strength with alth the voters Is la still affil high In fact tact the he sampling ballots taken indicate that hat he has more than 50 SO per cent of the total vote of the two major parties The discouraging point about this o to opponents of the President Is la lathat that more than a majority of the major potty party p voters favor the Preat PresIdent President dent as II against an ideal deal opponent For Tor example had they been asked Instead of ot If It they still favor tavor the President whether they favored him against Herbert C. C C Hoover a certain rain tain a In number of those who recorded themselves against the President would have switched to the Roosevelt Roose velt side Probably a very considerable considerable consid consid- erable arable number Or Ot I If t th the e voters questioned In this sampling poll had been asked It If they hey favored Roosevelt or Alfred Allred M. M Landon jandon undoubtedly many would have lave moved over to the Presidents President's aide side Not the same group group II as would have lave moved had the choice been but Hoover but a different group Sim- Sim the President would have gained had any conceivable opponent opponent nent vent been made the alternative Fight on President in Primaries Not Personal This is la obvious on its Its face tace Alsot Also Als o It t Is la obvious that the Democrats Democrat wh who o voted against the Presidents President's wishes in Georgia Maryland Mary s land South Carolina and Iowa and the two leading Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic organizations organizations organizations' in Illinois that die regarded his wishes and refused to consider consider con con- sider elder Senator Die Die- lerich ferich cannot be lumped In any group as opposed to the Sen ben Byrne Byrnes President For example Sen James Jame JameF s F P. P Byrnes of South Carolina has haa frequently fre fre- been mentioned at as one o othe of the closest men In the entire senate senat e to the President Many lena senators tors a so 10 regard him despite the fact that the th e President favored Sen Alben Alban W W. Darkley Barkley over Byrnes Dyrnes and of course also ov over r Sen Pat Harrison a as Democratic leader of the senate Yet strongly pro-New pro Deal an and d even more strongly Roosevelt pro t Senator Byrnes threw every ounce e of influence he could bring to bear ben to aid the of Sen Ellison Ellison Ellison Elli Elli- son D D. Smith whom the President t wanted purged No one thinks think that the Nash Kelly organization Ir in Chicago or the Gov Henry Horner Homer machine in state down-state Illinois is goIng go go- ling Ing to be against the President from Iro m now on on just because they ignored Ignore d his hlo wishes in their own cat and do dog g fight for control of the Democratic Democrat organization in to Illinois No on one e thinks that Sen George L. L RedcUff e close personal friend and a business s associate of President Roosevelt b before before be be- o- o fore tore he entered politics who managed managed managed man man- aged Millard E E. E Tydings' Tydings fight for is going to b be e lined up now with the opposition t to the President just because the PresIdent PresIdent Pres Pre a Ident dent fought what Radcliffe was tryIng try try- tr tring y Ing to do In Maryland The big question now is whether the President goaded by his no nonpolitically nonpolitically non non- politically minded Inner lazier circle w will ill show his resentment against th themen the themen e men who helped beat him in n the pr 1 mantes marles but are actually still for to r him The general opinion is that h he e I will do nothing of at the sort Bureau Chiefs I Breathe Sighs of 0 Relief Now Lots of important cogs in the ac administration administration ad ad- ministration were rooting and under their breaths for the senators President President Pres 1 dent Roosevelt tried to retire to pr private private d' d vate life We These bureau chiefs an and d assistants are breaU breathing ng sighs of r relief re re- e lief now and their relief relict has nothing to do with whether Mr Roosevelt Rooseve g wants a U third rd term or whether he would still like to enlarge the S Supreme Supreme Su Su- u preme court What has been bothering both bog uh h ering them I I. I the reorganization bl blIt bill U It will b b. b recalled that the reorganization reo r bill which virtually ga gathe gave ve the President blanket powers to ah shift Ut and change any government b bureaus bureaus bu bu- U. U and commissions he liked like d passed the senate but was defeated defeat by a narrow margin tour margin four votes votes- votes votes-In in inthe the house bouse One government agency agent y took no chances The army en engIneers engineers engi engI- seers are old timers old at this sort of of thing so they moved in on the s sate senate senate sen sen- ate and it was discovered when th the e bill emerged from the special committee com corn mittel that handled It that the army en engineers were specifically exempt from the new powers the President was wu to have been given by bl the bilL But Dut most of dt the worried agencies bureaus and commissions did not know how to do likewise Some of them knew but did not have the pow pow- er The army engineers have a curious cu cu- cu ri rious ous series aeries of at personal ties flea with the theelder theelder theelder elder statesmen on Capitol Hill not possessed by bl any any nonmilitary non division divi atop sion of the government Some of the ranking officers of the corps were appointed to West Wet Point Paint by bl se senators still in the upper house Some were appointed by former senators sen send st ore but the ties still affil exist And the ranking yanking officers of the corps have been in close touch with neatly nearly all ail the present senators and members mem memo bers berg of the house of representatives They have discussions with them over projects during committee hearings They meet them socially and gravitate together at otherwise dull parties to talk about subject of common interest generally Interest generally some lome river or harbor project back In the le legislators legislator's home state that the army officer has studied Continuing Friendships Friendship Are A re Thus Built Up That sort of thing builds up continuing con con- ti friendships The men getto get getto getto to like each other They get to adire admire admire ad- ad ad ad- m mire ire each others other's work especially as a. there Is la no friction and no element ele dc- ment men of competition So naturally the senator or representative lends a w willing illing ear when the officer comes round with an urgent plea that the administration a be not allowed to mess mesa his job up up-as up as he sees area it There is fa the further fact tact that the legislator legisla legisla- t tor or risks nothing by granting this fa fa- v vor or It is to not an issue at home If It Itt it t were made an Issue he would probably be on the right side of it But Dut there has hll been every indication indica ton tion that the President would renew h his hla is fight to get the reorganization bill and was willing not to antagonize antagonize n nize ize the powerful lobby of the army e engineers by including them in it So the other bureaus and commissions commis commis- alone and end agencies have been worried wor tied ried ever since congress adjourned With one or two exceptions the senators that the President would have liked to see beaten because i they opposed him on the Supreme I court issue opposed him also on the reorganization bill Enemies of 0 Labor Boa Board reI Plan New Line o of 0 Attack f A new line of attack on the national nation nation- al labor relations board Is about to open as a result of the recent trip to Mexico City of John L L. Lewis r rid rfd jd Edwin Smith a member of tile the board The new attack by enemies of the 1 labor board and of C. C I. I O. O may 1 have the support of Cordell Hull i secretary of state It is charged 1 that it was the influence of Lewis i and Smith with certain other Americans Amer Amer- I leans cans that has made the task of the state slate department so difficult in dealIng deal deal- 1 Ing tag with the Mexican government on the issue of Mexico's seizure of aI j American and end other foreign oil prop ertl I s. s Reports reaching state department department department depart depart- I ment officials show that the newspaper newspaper news news- paper accounts of the Mexico City meeting attended tended by Lewis and Smith did not give glue an adequate in indication In- In of the lengths to which the American visitors went in approving ing everything Mexico has done One dispatch spoke of the venom with which Edwin Smith attacked everyone everyne every every- one o ne opposing apposing extremist labor legis la lotion lation Smith praised Mexico as the only country having a capitalistic structure presumably lure ture presumably the only country except the Soviet republic which republic which has the enlightened courage to Insure insure In in- in insure sure the rights of all workers Reports indicate that Mexican officials of- of of of- prepared an elaborate buildup buildup build build- up for Smith prior to and after his speech which was translated Immediately immediately Imme imme- into Spanish and repeated to the meeting for the benefit of ot the delegates unable to speak English Declares Mexicans Lead LeadIn Leads In n Forward Movement Smith left no doubt in the minds of the delegates that Mexico was Inthe in inthe the lead in the forward movement with the United States tagging along but en route John L L. Lewis according to the reports agreed with Smith in supporting supporting sup sup- porting every action 1 the Mexican government government govern govern- ment men has taken Four million workers workers work work- A ers era in the United r i States he told the t delegates had sent him to good t wishes and encouragement encouragement l to the Mexican Mex Mex- Mexy y 4 l ican ean workers Problems J d J lems Tema of workers in all countries are JI similar he said arid and John L L L' Lewis the tactics of big employers the same in io no matter what country they may be The two great statesmen on the North American continent he said are also the tho two great humanitarians ans Roosevelt ans-Roosevelt Roosevelt in the United States and Cardenas In Mexico Most of the delegates came away with the notion no no- tion lion from Lewis' Lewis speech that the alms alma of both Roosevelt and Cardenas on behalf of the downtrodden and andIn andin in n the rho desire to develop national resources re re- re resources sources for the benefit of all the workers are such luch that Roosevelt approved approved ap proved pro Cardenas' Cardenas action in n seizing sassing the oil properties This last lut statement according to reliable State department officials is just about burning up Secretary Hull Bull C e Bell Ben Syndicate Service ervle |