Show SEEN aheard around the national capital esa CARTER 0 washington Washingto under the he surface very serious consideration Is being behig given to the idea of lotteries for revenue raising purposes dunom dally it has been decided that tho normal prosecutor of all lotteries the rest post office department will look the other way in the ev event ent that the city of now new york for instance should decide to conduct one provided of course that tho the malls are not used for the purpose it might be contended that unless the malls are used tile tho post office depart department meni would have no function anyway but tile the point t Is not that technical one itts it Is the broader question of i national govern government men t should or sl should I 1 not move to prevent any local government in this country from conducting a gambling enterprise even the department of justlee justice would have tho the option of action if the tickets ln in any anny such lottery were told sold across state lines but it Is admitted by those who have sat lu in on the consideration of the question that it would bo be very simple cornew for new york to coTi conduct duct it a lottery lottor yi and for that matter to have plenty of tickets sold la in new jersey massachusetts sacho connecticut or other oilier states without doing anything which would bring it within national jurisdiction naturally tho the malls could not bei bemused sed but friends of the persons desiring to gamble themselves yes could make tile the trip to 0 some point inside now new york state where the tickets might be purchased if the holder of a winning ticket lived in newark or Oci boston he would have to make the trip to collect his winnings because it would be illegal to send ac a check lieck in payment but such difficulties are far from insurmountable reeling among tile the presidents advisors Is that mr roosevelt bilm himself 1 will never stand for a federal lottery it Is 14 purely a political question in their opinion so many people would be outraged that it would be a foolish political move for or any president to make favor lottery idea on the other hand the advocates of the lottery idea have plenty of arguments granted that lotteries are wrong in principle they say and that all gambling gambli nj Is harmful in its pe permanent riv anent effects it Is something like prohibition most alost people I 1 would ngiem agree that the net result of consumption of alcoholic beverages bever agea Is bad that everybody on thelver the average would be better off it if no one nt at all drunk drank alcohol this 13 correct or not it Is certainly true as proved by the record that a vast majority of tile the american people believe this it was only when it was discovered that prohibition was not being enforced that it was a grave question whether more liquor kasnot was not being consumed under prohibition than had been consumed with local option that the fate of the prohibition amendment was se sealed settled tiled the same thing applies to lotteries though of course less imp importantly or advocates of 0 legalized lotteries contend they say that legal lotteries lot will divert to good purposes funds now dissipated in vate gambling rackets flouris ning throughout the country and also check the how flow of funds to canada newfoundland ireland bl exico cuba and other countries need new laws now new legislation must bs be passed by congress before the plans of df tho the administration 1 alth respect to can be finally windily put into effect it Is s expected the tha president will lay the pro program on on the desks of senators and members of tho the house before the session starting ln in january Is very old although it Is not complete now it will have been completed for all practical purposes before christmas the timea of lis its submission to congress will vill be determined by the of the moment for there are all sorts of complications it la Is just possible it if not probable that labor union lead exe era will be found very muth opposed to one of the essential ideas of tile iho now new plan it Is entirely possible that some of the radical elements will be opposed to it although it Is regarded as very radical indeed indea still no one realizes better than the president that it Is very different at times to got get radicals to agree the difficulty with labor union leaders to is expected over the phase of the plan which follows the winant board idea this new board whatever it ii may be called will have very far reaching powers in not only minimum wages and hours but deciding upon the various classifications above the minimum perhaps even more important por tant it will have the decision of the minimum amount of work to be expected from these various classifications each dayl there Is a hitch at first it might be assumed that union labor would welcome such drastic government supervision and control but there Is a hitch the question whether tills this does not tremendously curtail the importance of a labor union leader iader to the men paying the dues nt at once arises the no moment the government begins fixing wages hours and conditions it begins to impinge on collective bargaining not to the point of excluding it as a necessity but certainly as to the vital need for having the aba ablest possible labor union incidentally detally tho the idea la Is not to have these labor controlling policies put under the present structure but under a new board which will be entirely separate and distinct also the next roost most important function which presumably would fit into the picture the compliance section job Is 19 under the new plan to be taken out from under the organization which hugh S johnson has so long dominated and put under the department of justice the biggest surprise of the whole experiment has been tho the complete fall down of the compliance section it if had been thought not only by johnson and his lieutenants but by pretty nearly everybody that once the codes were put into effect they would be pretty nearly self enforcing tips fathers hand conservatives who haye have bellied believed largely because they wanted to belleve believe that president roosevelt did not mean what he said in his is green bay speech and that lie ho was actually going to swing decidedly right instead of left had better pay more attention to the presidents son jimmy it has been james roosevelt again and again who has glen the alie tip on what hla his fattier father tri intended tended to do through tile hla faculty for ca calling fang the me turn or talking out of turn way it may bo be construed and far too little it attention has been paid to his remarks re marLs for instance three full dais before the final triumph of the per kins illenberg faction demanding closer government supervision and control of bu siness business over hugh S johnsons Jolin sons effort to make business self governing james roosevelt in a speech attawa at iowa city said now tho the government Is 13 being called upon torease to cease its efforts and allow business t to 0 follow its own course coarse but bui uio the government h has as a dlf different ferent understanding that was on sunday on the following lowing wednesday the president jupt juat back in washington from park and with the flush of the new deal victory in massachusetts chu against heavy odds still on hla his clie cheeks eks made his now famous references to business men through out the country having too many reactions and too many inhibitions young oung roosevelt said that tho the government contracted not alone with business but with th the e people of tho the united states to establish in the industrial world a security and bap happiness which would mako malco impossible the return of conditions ot of 1932 33 it will not relax he said significantly antly its efforts until business and labor together jether to prove that they can manage the their ir 6 own affairs successfully cess fully and to the benefit ot 4 tho general public and not no t for a favored minority and just it a few days dayl later the president smiled at the questions of the united 1 states chamber of commerce as to the stability of currency interference Interfere with business busin eik government ern ment competition with business and balancing the budget 1 from the record this thesis Is tho the samo same jimmy who it if one would believe some of the folks around the jhb president messed up the sl situation tuition three separate times in 1032 1932 let us look atthe at tho record about those three bulls especially in view of later developments no 1 jimmy was roundly abused b by y some of the roosevelt crowd for having boft started the fight for roosevelt delegates in massachusetts with tames james M curley then mayor of boston as leader fact jim parley farley admitted long afterwards that they knew they were licked in advance but due to necessities ln in other states having primaries and conventions befoul massachusetts should act they had to be making a fight in the bay state no 2 jimmy to tn a public speech in massachusetts declared that it if elected his fattier father would fight at once to legall le galise te beer without walting waiting engfor for repeal this was openly do elored by persons close to the president their disavowals got a lot of publicity fact jimmy wha was not only right at the time but his father did do just that but jimmy prediction was widely believed at tho the time ta in wet states while the were believed in dry sections so that actually the tha whole thing was waa a very shrewd political maneuver no 8 3 jimmy waa warmly attacked for continuing to play with ourley curley after the convention and thus thua risking alienation of senator walsh governor ely and other al smith leaders who had come out strongly for roosevelt fact new deal policies were not down the el ely y alley certainly es as events have since demonstrated tile the setup set up fostered by jimmy at that time paved the way for the biggest at new deal triumph in tills this years pr pre election lection campaign and some people persist la in believing atiat jimmys political activities must be a great gre across cross for his father I 1 copyright sor |