Show This Week In Washington D. D C. C Washington June Juno 16 Tho Tho Townsend Townsond Plan for Federal pensions of 50 a month to every oyer- everybody b body P d over 65 years cars old was finally brought to tho the floor of the HOuse of oC Representatives and knocked on the head as everybody expected it would be once It came to a aoto vote oto Dr Townsend and his followers had been trying for or several years nr to get Congress to LO act net on the line project project project and many members elected last Fall had given pledges to bring the measure to Lo a n voto vote They kept kopl that pledge but only n a few Cew of oC them theta voted for the Townsend Plan was beaten by a vote voto of or to 97 As an offset to the defeat of or the IJ Townsend TO Plan the House Ways and Means Committee brought out outa a proposal to amend tho the Social Security Act so BO as to make male It pos pos- nible for the tho dependent aged people o oc cC tho iho nation to receive old old old-api- pension up to as high as ns 40 10 40 a month if tho the states will carry carr halt hair the load Now both both parties are trying tring to tot t put ut the blame on the other for or tine tuo defeat t of the Townsend bill Nobody Nobody No No- bod body knows haw man many votes oles thero ther aro are behind the Townsond Townsend program but nil all the tho politicians are arc afraid there thore are aro more than Ulan they know about Therefore tho the Democrats are try try- I Ug Jg to snake make capital out of tho the fact that two thirds of or the Republican r of or the House voted against Inc Uio bill whilo tho the Republicans fro uro ro roI I g that SD SG percent of tho the Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- opposed It Both statements are aro truo true tho the voto yoto was Republicans l 1 1194 91 1 Democrats and aud one QUO Labor Farmer member against tho bill E Eye c On Election Such tempest In disputes are ale tho lie sort of things that Indicate to experienced observers that a national na na- political campaign Is ap nil and that politicians of all and of or opinion are aro r grasping at al which may help their e I r 0 own civil n ca CaUses u 3 0 or h hurt II rt tho other 0 t h f fellow I t nt IB Is done in those these 30 days day's by br Congress Con Con- gress or 01 the Iho While hite bH Is dono done Wll oct an ron eye cye on the Presidential election of 19 1910 O. O The itc belief Is 12 rr that President Pres ident Roosevelt will pul P r himself I foran for for- ward an as a third term though no prediction about the Presidents President's actions can cun be be- certain The rho opinion of or practical professional professional pol politicians n 8 IB is 1 that hat 1 Mr r. r Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- el e- e l velt It cannot bo ho nominated d unless in- in personally insists upon a tion po positively l Hin and amI definitely definite That point of or view suggests that Mr Garner stands a heifer belter chance o of becoming the Democratic 1 1910 10 candidate te than does Mr 11 Roosevelt even eyen If the thu latter wants 11 It 11 But Dut with will Continued on last page This Week Neek In Washington DC D.C. Continued from page one the President In opposition to the Garner candidacy talk is swinging around to some candidate whom hom the President would ho he morally obliged ed to support and who could also get et the whole hearted support of oC the Southern wing of o the tho party The Theman Theman Theman man most talked o of In that connection connection connection tion is Cordell Hull o or of Tennessee the Secretary of ot State A Hull Bull Respected Mr 11 Hull has been growing in stature stat re as a statesman and an gaining Increasing respect from leaders o of both parties in the tho past year ear or two Ho does not play polities politics inthe in inthe inthe the usual sense and there nas teen been no suggestion of or any political implications im implications im- im in his proposal of or a n way to settle the vexed question of American neutrality In case of or a European war Mr Hulls Hull's proposal Is that American American Amer Amer- ican lean neutrality legislation should enable mablo o oUr r government to keep kOCl t u h free ree hand where our national interests inter inter- interests interest's ests est's are aro concerned and should not put the tho United States In a n position where it might Injure Its friends and help Its enemies Mr Ir Hulls Hull's program which he has suggested to Congress would prohibit prohibit pro pro- hibit American vessels from entering entering enter enter- ing InS combat areas and American citizens from traveling In those areas There would be no restriction on any sales of or any kind or of goods to any belligerent nation except the Munitions Control Board Doard might decide that certain types of military u. u u 1 equipment should bo reserved for lor our own use A AJi i purchases bY uy foreign nations should be paid tor torIn In cash and taken away aWny by the buyers in their own ships No loans or credits of any auy kind to any nation nafton at nt war 1 be p permitted to solicit funds in America to aid any nation nalton at war warThe warThe The Tho demand for tor some amendment amena- amena ment of or the present neutrality law lawis lawis is 15 so strong and Increasing that tt now seems certain that Congress will not adjourn until some such guch law Is passed N Nothing or of consequence seems to have come out of or the much heralded led dinner party parly which the President gave to a n group o of business leaders They talked about the Labor Relations Rela Rein Act and told the Prest President tent I how they thought It should be changed According to Secretary 01 of Commerce Hopkins the tho President didn't say nye aye yes 05 or no to their Will Run Ran Politically the sensation of or she he hour Is the open avowal oil ot his Presidential candidacy by hY Senator of nC Michigan coupled I with the declaration that the tho 1940 candidates of both parties should be I pledged to a single le term ao so that It lI succeeds UI ii Rooseve J will be free tree to act net regardless of or tho political consequences to himself All Washington agrees that tho tha next President Is going to have a tough time of it especially if ho lip tries to cut down Government Go spending and Increasing taxes l which would have to be done if IC tb tb public debt Is not keep on grow grow- ing Only a man with no further further- political ambitions could afford to toI tread on the number of corns that I would have haye to be trod upon ui on to carry carryout carryout out any such program |