Show washington snapshots by james preston preiton wit washington slit always tries to keep tit in season and tills ibis Is the sonson season for football back field Is using football to confuse conf tise the opposition in ill politics ns as tit in football certain maxims tire anro accepted one is araz raz yle dazzle in fit the backfield gets the other fellows eye off the ball another la Is the old favorite A good offense is the best defense just to show how the razzle bazzle bazzle Is working heros heres a sample benjamin former secretary marl ll 11 present kingpin of tile the communist party and it a number lumber of other witnesses told tin the diec committee that certain organizations were fronts for tha the or outlets for bradl radical j propaganda among those enumerated was the american league tor peace beace and democracy I 1 now tile league without sp act fiscally denying accusations boino back with another it a acus ea the dies committee of using illegal le vil methods to get its membership ra list I 1 there ther e art are I 1 nore more important trick plays playa being tried than that it happens li appena that tile alie united states Is interested in fit what happens abroad through the newspapers Anie american rican citizens have their eyes oil europe and while they are watching the other team line up a couple of opposition ends end bucks sneak off toward the sidelines and lie down own on the ground that trick may be old la in football but its still good in politics and heres beres they way lva its work ing now congress has put aside everything for the special session but neutrality that means that it la Is not worrying with other things which the public wants like amendments to various experimental laws meanwhile the boys who are out near the sidelines like assistant attorney general Thur taurman Tb urman nian arnold are trying the sneak play arnold has made it a number of speeches around the country advocating new and drastic laws which lie ho would like to have ordinarily his hia remarks would get newspaper publicity and reaction from thousands of newspaper readers but now ho he goes on tile the inside pages gild and the only people who know anything his plans are the fr ow Y ones onea to whom I 1 he t bilks at the asame same time many many things are aie bellig being put into legislative shape for presentation to congress and the nation as steps necessary for national defense there Is ig even talk about reviving the SRA on the ground that government controls must be set up to protect the nation americans american are able to see bee through the razzle bazzle dazzle a lot of things tire are going to happen to them rather unexpectedly with business I 1 improving in p r 0 v I 1 n g new steps could be taken toward balancing the budget and restoring financial sanity but war news takes the front page so few people know that federal expenditures this his year will set a new peacetime peace time high more than nine and a half liala billion dollars that will mean an eighth consecutive year of deficits another fast play contemplated by the boys on the wings is that of getting gelling the present federal debt limit upped from 45 billion to sonie some high astronomical figure and of course they are hard at work on oil ways waya to raise more tax money for a paternalistic government elie truth of the situation Is that the planners were just about to be taken hiken out of tile alie game because the public was tiring of their tricks the people wanted a little straight football for a change but now europe occupies public attention the tricksters trick are still in the lineup and they feel that they can put over what they want to io the result will depend upon whether the bazzle razzle dazzle trick of transferring issues to european war Is successful stul |