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C FOURTH TEn TERM DATA Not much has been said about it I publicly but already the question of 01 I the Fourth Term has come in for a alot alot alot lot of backstage discussion Republicans worried about it want to do everything possible to block it And in the vicinity of the White House some of those who would like to stay around indefinitely indefinite indefinite- l ly want to do everything possible to encourage it But those thoe closest to the President are convinced that there will be no Fourth Term Even if he could get it they say that this is the last thing Roosevelt wants Or even if there should be a tremendous tremendous tre tre- demand on the part of the public against changing horses in midstream they dont don't think the President would yield His ideals for preservation of the democratic system are too rooted deep-rooted they say for him to continue in office for what would be a total of 16 years However the President does docs have one very definite political goal and that is to retain control of congress during his two remaining years in office He remembers all too clearly when he was assistant secretary of the navy the chaos which the country country coun coun- try faced when Woodrow Wilson Vilson lost I control of the house of tives He also remembers the troubles troubles troubles trou trou- bles faced by bj Herbert Hoover Calvin Calvin Cal Cal- vin Coolidge and his cousin Teddy Roosevelt when they faced a rebellious rebellious rebel rebel- lious congress during their last two years years years' in office So the President is out to win the house and win it at all costs next November ember To that end he will leave Washington Washington something something he hasn't done since and 1940 and take a swing through the Middle West some time in October JOBS TO REPUBLICANS Some of political advisers among them Democratic Chairman Ed Flynn tell him privately that the battle to control the house in November will not be easy One trouble is patronage Patronage is a word which may bring a bad smell to the public but butto butto butto to the politician it is like the smell of raw meat to a circus lion He will not perform without it Back in the early days of the New Deal Jim Farley kept a little card index of how every congressman congress congress- man voted on important issues and what jobs he had received When the congressman stopped voting right he stopped getting jobs for his constituents That system worked like a charm for charm for a while But in recent years Roosevelt himself himself him him- self has given more and more jobs to Republicans while Leon Henderson Hender Hender- son the greatest job dispenser ol of olwar war times has placed everything in inthe inthe inthe the han hands s of state governors a large larce proportion of them Republicans So today the Presidents President's political friends say that his definition of patronage patronage patronage pa pa- is Something which you hold out to your friends but use to reward your enemies enemies' And these friends have had the short end of the patronage stick for forso forso forso so long that as November approaches approaches ap ape ap- ap is finding a lot ol of the old unwilling to go to bat for him while the rewarded enemies ene ene- enemies mies wont won't stay put So the congressional elections are going to be tougher than a lot ol of people realize and you will probably see certain seasoned political sea sea- dogs among them Ed Flynn resigning resigning resign resign- ing from the picture before many weeks are arc over Note Pat Patronage under the old congressional system had a lot ol of faults but it was not half as bad as asunder asunder asunder under the present year dollar man system where somebody gets a key job or a cellophane commission commission commis commis- sion merely because he is the friend of a big accounting firm or a partner part partner ner of a Wall Street broker WHERE CREDIT IS DUE One of the best jobs of AmericanIzation American has been done by the Illinois State Register of Springfield in hi it its series of editorials and radio programs programs pro pro- programs grams paying tribute to the big contribution con corn foreign groups have madE to the culture and progress of the U. U S. S A. A The radio program called Americans Americans Amer cans All Immigrants All All AH told the story of how the men of many races had contributed to this country country the the Italians including men like Frank C Capra pra LaGuardia and Ernest Cuneo Cuneo Cuneo Cu neo the Welsh including Charles Charle Evans Hughes the Slavs Slavs Louis Louis Ad Adamic Adamie amic amie Joseph Josept Pulitzer from Hungary John Philip Sousa from Portugal George nas from Greece and thousands ol of others CAPITAL CHAFF C. C According to minded fair Senator Styles Bridges who sits on the Republican Re Republican publican side of the aisle nisle Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois I is one of the coming men of the thc I country C. C When Henry Kaiser first got his hh big shipbuilding contracts he had Tommy The Cork Corcoran a as his Washington contact man Now No he doesn't Kaiser isn't making much headway with his planes Buy Buy War Bonds |