Show UND R R hm DOLLAR YEAR TROUBLE washington defense chiefs chier arent advertising it but they are quietly y trying to ward off a blowup blow up over the host of dollar doliar a year men now working for the government gov emmenT some 00 of the one dollar men n are conscientious ann and sincere public pc servants others arc less scrupulous while th ahting representing ting the government govern government meni they have sold goods to the govern ment exerted inside pressure fissure in fa vor csan of their he industries represented clients before fore government agencies all a this has bem been 1 no secret on 0 r capitol t hill where the steadily growing corps of one dollar moguls has been eyed with increasing resentment sent ment recently this undercover indignation took form in a bill by sen kenneth mckellar veteran to ban such business men from government service and to probe their operations mckellard McK eUars ellars plan is to await en of the lend lease bill before re pushing his measure but meanwhile ile defense chiefs seeing the handwriting on the wall have quietly started cleaning up the situation themselves this has been done in a series of apparently unrelated moves under cover of transferring the original defense organization to the new office of production management several one dollar men have been eased home with the high sounding face saving title of advisory consultant pinned to their coattails coat tails others have been shifted to jobs not directly connected with their own industries dus tries also several noncommercial commercial non experts have been brought in to replace one dollar men in important sections of the and more house cleaning is still to come note among noncommercial commercial non experts who have been brought into the e are dr ernest M hopkins president of dartmouth college dexter S kimball former dean of cornell university engineering school william E president of case school of applied science dr IV S A potts pott pre president st i of elmira college and dr S S stratton harvard professor of economics MR SMITH sanin GOES TO LATIN AMERICA it looks as if senator barkley was right when he denounced the box office smash movie mr smith comes to washington that film is now causing all kinds of headaches for the U S A in south america where it is used by the nazis as one of their deadliest propaganda weapons john hay jock whitney has just made this report to the rockefeller branch of the national defense commission the story of a graft grafting irig senate ganging up on a young reformer whitney says is being circulated through latin america as an illustration of U S government graft graf t whitney has been pressuring hollywood to halt further foreign distribution of the film another big problem for whitney is newsreels news reels just how damaging a new newsreel can be to the good neighbor policy if even a slight detail of sequence is overlooked was illustrated in a recent report to the state department by norman armour ambassador to argentina in a buenos aires theater one night armour was witnessing american newsreel shots of an air raid on great britain immediately following the raid pictures a bathing beauty contest in california was flashed on the screen the letdown of the audience was terrific armour reported pointing out that the newsreel made it appear that united states had its mind on bathing beamut tad t of defense 4 0 THE TAA tax tar william howard tafts boys bob and charley are ard at odds again charley having been in washington more than a week in his new job before he got together with bob reason is the job charley has taken from the hands of roosevelt it sounds harmless enough assistant coordinator co of recreational activities tivi ties for defense but its a sufficient tie up with the administration foreign foreia rn policy to leave anti intervene zionist bob a bit chilly what hurt more perhaps was that charley who has long quarreled with his brother over domestic policies accepted the job just the week before the historic lease lend debate opened in the senate bob knew where brother charley stood long before namely with the therom com cittee to defend america by aiding the allies but this brought the split into the public gaze you dont have to agree with your brother all the time do you is bobs shrugging comment 0 0 MERRY GO ROUND you can reach hardworking hard working john R steelman head of the U S conciliation services service practically any midnight in his office afric e working on S some labor dispute but not between 7 and P in he always takes this time out to listen to a favorite daily radio program the budget is full of unique little iter items such as for a fence on border the texas mexican for personal funds for inmates ol of federal narcotic in institutions for sea food inspection |