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C WASHINGTON America faces its second crisis under Roosevelt Whether America knows it or not not not- and by the time this reaches print the last doubt may be removed the removed the President knows it now The first crisis was the peak of the economic panic The present one is the valley of allied fortunes The VP A and the were two of the institutions which the President President President dent created to meet our economic problems in 1933 Since then many manyan an outstanding member of the New Deal palace guard has had his hour to strut and fret upon the stage and then be heard no more General Johnson and his blue eagle now eagle now a amere amere amere mere columnist Donald his successor back with his law books the professors Raymond Moley Moley Moley Mo- Mo ley once in the state department today today today to to- day behind an editorial desk in the seat of the scorner and Rexford Guy Tugwell still loyal but silent a partner of industry We might go on But two men one a veteran of another of have been chosen to sit at the right and left hands of the Chief in crisis II Harry Hopkins head of the program t fi 4 E Ew 8 w r rw r w L ctrl NV r i S S 7 HARRY BARR Y HOPKINS under the lend-lease lend law and Leon Henderson officer of price ce administration administration adminis adminis- administration and civilian supply The two men are alike in few characteristics except that both were poor farm boys both have aNew a aNew aNew New Deal slant on lif life and neither has much interest in the art of a Fifth avenue tailor There is no doubt that the defense program if we must still use that euphemistic label for this anything but negative undertaking has passed out of the joint power of the dollar- dollar year a-year men and into control of these two staunch supporters of the Roosevelt administration The rise of Harry Hopkins' Hopkins influence influence influence ence has been steady interrupted only by periods of ill His relationship with the President started started started start start- ed from a sympathy of viewpoint concerning the duty of government toward its underprivileged It has grown into an intimate friendship bastioned by propinquity that comes from sharing the same rooftree and many leisure hours before nine in inthe inthe the morning morn and after six at night since May of last year vear That was when n Hitler's blitz across the low countries showed the President that the possibility of peaceful intervention in the cause of democracy in Europe was over In his despair he called his friend to the White House for a week-end week of comfort and counsel Hopkins has been there ever since Perhaps the barefoot boy driving a neighbors neighbor's cows up a dusty lane some four decades ago dreamed of the White House House every every boy has a chance to be President we know But how many boys dream of being a Presidents President's chief advisor and bossing bossing boss boss- ing seven billion dollars' dollars worth of supplies for d democracy harry narry's s tamer lather was a harness maker He had a harness shop in Grinnell Iowa and it was in Iowa because Mrs Hopkins was ambitious ambitious am am- for her children and there was a college there Harry earned some nickels and dimes herding sows cows and then worked in the shop Later he worked his way through college Money never meant much to him He never handled much of I his own But he has bossed millions I Ifor for other people people people-in in the Red Cross I during the World war with the Association Association Asso Asso- for the Improvement of the Poor in New York where he got to know Governor Roosevelt and then with the relief organization of the federal government Hopkins lean slight amiable grew up with the New Deal So did Leon Henderson but he reached the inner circle by a more roundabout way He is thick set and dynamic and he blustered into the confidence of General Johnson inthe inthe in m the as an economist who could punctuate his theories with the salty expletives that appealed to Old Iron Pants When the blue eagle folded its wings Henderson plowed his own furrow and got out of the way when he was not needed but always managed managed managed man- man aged to bob up when he had a chance to say something important He predicted the bust as he called it the it-the the slump of 1937 In 1938 he warned against price rises He kept warning Prices went up Now he is czar over prices Like Hopkins Henderson worked his way through college Like him too the jobs lobs he has held since his matur maturity ty were all outside the marts i of trade and commerce These two self-made self rural boys see the same dreams of America when they look out of the WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House windows side by side with the Hyde Park Squire Early Morning In a Nations Nation's Capital Six o'clock in the morning From a Saturday to a Monday spring changed to summer in Washington Wash Vash ington buds turned to blooms and bare branches burst out into full full- leaved green In a city the first walk under this newly spread canopy of green greenis is a strange delight There is nothing quite like it Leafy curtains shut out the harsh cold stone and steel about you as a drawn shade shuts out the night from a lit lamp-lit room Washington does not wake early I At six in the morning there are so few people on the streets that the I folks you pass seem as friendly as asa asa asa a neighbor you meet on a lonely lane The red and green traffic lights still have their eyes closed and only the yellow bulbs blink sleepily sleepily sleep sleep- ily at you as they have all night But these days the sun is well up and andas andas andas as you walk west to east the light strikes you square in the eyes It always reminds me of a prairie prairietown prairietown prairietown town and that always reminds me of how I was reminded of my prairie prairietown prairietown prairietown town when we used to be marching eastward in the dawn of a murky French morning when the sun suddenly suddenly sud sud- suddenly denly burst on us and made us long for the old wide-brimmed wide campaign campaign campaign cam cam- hat instead of the little cloth rag of an overseas cap You dont don't see many campaign n hats any more As I came down the ave avenue ue this morning empty almost-empty buses passed me I saw a colored man watering a pathetic little patch of lawn in front of his two-story two cottage The rest of the family were still asleep the bedroom windows were open I saw an old-fashioned old ornate oil lamp in one All rooms seem to be bedrooms in Washington The fine old residences residences residences resi resi- dences are turned into rooming houses many houses of them them and and many early in inthe inthe inthe the morning the windows are open I i In an hour thousands of government government government govern- govern i ment workers will be hurriedly dressing behind carelessly drawn shades then jamming the now- now I empty buses with all the roomy I i comfort of steers in a ti Between old transmogrified residences residences resi resi- dences rise the new apartments resi-I resi Here and and- there are a few that sprang into being when 1917 filled I Ithe the city with war workers They are frequently impressive looking on the outside built to suggest suggest suggest sug sug- gest a French chateau Inside tiny little boxes of rooms with low ceilings ceilings ceilings ceil ceil- ings that the third floor windows can hardly see over the stills of the second second second sec sec- ond floor of the residences next door But the modern apartments that are springing up like dandelions these days do not go in for French fa fa- fa- fa cades They are the same boxes in in- side Outside there are ugly flat walls with plenty of glass the whole entrance is glass They look too much like modern Moscow to please my old fashioned eyes |