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Show TlMsijiRQlifh Washington, D. C. THE NEW VICE PRESIDENT Senator Vandenberg of Michigan dropped into the vice president's private office just.before Henry Wallace Wal-lace was girding himself to make his debut as president.of the senate. He found Wallace with the senate chaplain. Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips. Vandenberg looked at the two men, apparently trying to decide which was the more devout. Joshing Josh-ing Rev. Phillips, he said: "We won't need you any more. Henry Wallace Wal-lace can offer the prayer." In senate circles it is generally agreed that Wallace will be everything every-thing that Garner wasn't. Garner used to make his appearance for the opening at noon, stay for 10 minutes, then disappear. Wallace will start at noon and stay on the job, really running the senate in a conscientious conscien-tious manner. But what Garner did after he left the chamber, Wallace will fail to do. Garner was a mixer, a mixer of men and a mixer of drinks. His backstage work was enough to put any bill across or to kill it. As one senator put it, "Garner's office was the only place in the senate sen-ate wing where we could always count on getting a drink. We know we can't count on Wallace for that." HOPKINS' SURVEY Harry Hopkins went to Britain as the personal emissary of the President, Presi-dent, but he also had a private assignment as-signment from Mrs. Roosevelt. . She asked the ex-cabinet member to make a first-hand survey of the activities of English social welfare agencies, both private and public, under blitz conditions. Hopkins is particularly fitted to make such a study because of his many years as a New York social worker. Note Mrs. Roosevelt has decided to break her recent self-imposed plan to stick closer to Washington. Following the election last November, Novem-ber, she made up her mind to abandon aban-don her speaking tours. But on the strong advice of friends she will resume re-sume her practice of getting out in the country, feeling the pulse of public pub-lic sentiment, soon will visit the Midwest. WILLKIE CLUBS It wasn't made public, but that meeting of Willkie club chiefs in New York recently named a committee com-mittee of 14 to draw up a plan for the future of the movement. Actually no one could agree on a definite policy. Some state leaders reported that there was little hope of keeping the clubs alive in their particular bailiwicks. Others, particularly par-ticularly in Pennsylvania, disclosed that a plan already was afoot to set up a permanent organization of county units to be financed by sustaining sus-taining membership, running all the way from 25 cents for rank-and-file members, to $100 for founders. Members of the group are Robert G. Allen, ex-Democratic congressman congress-man from Pennsylvania who bolted to Willkie; Mrs. Henry Breckinridge, Breckin-ridge, N. Y. ; Henry A. Budd, To-peka, To-peka, Kan.; Arthur Bunker, N. Y.; Mrs. Marie Jay Cady, Grand Rapids, Rap-ids, Mich.; Russell Davenport, Willkie Will-kie "discoverer" and campaign brain-truster; James H. Douglas Jr., Chicago; John W. Hanes, former for-mer Roosevelt undersecretary of the treasury; William H. Harman, Philadelphia; Phil-adelphia; Richard D. Logan, Toledo, Tole-do, Ohio; Oren Root, head of the Willkie clubs; Howard M. Wall, Portland, Ore. ; Cloud Wampler, Chicago; Chi-cago; and James K. Watkins, Detroit. De-troit. INCOME TAX CONSCIENCES With the arrival of open season for income taxes the public conscience begins to hurt. People send money to the treasury, with no name attached, at-tached, to square old debts. From San Francisco came a letter let-ter containing $193 and the words, "A mistake in 1935. Penalty and interest in-terest at 6 per cent." From Norwich, Conn., an anonymous anony-mous taxpayer sent in $15. From Morris, 111., a blind contribution of $8. From Phoenix, Ariz., $1.80 this coming from a regular and frequent contributor. All such money goes to the treasury's treas-ury's "conscience fund." Total receipts, re-ceipts, since the time of President Madison, $647,563.98. MAIL BAG H.D.S., New York The horoscope reading on John L. Lewis which was sent to us was to the effect that, "there is a good deal of conflict and discord in his life between January and June, 1941. After that, however, there are some very sudden changes, with the return of old contacts con-tacts and associations, and very definite def-inite financial increase for this labor la-bor leader." P.B.H., Milwaukee The words used by TV A Director Lilienthal in warning Wisconsin against soil depletion de-pletion were: "The same process of depletion of minerals in the. soil that has brought the South to ts present unhappy economic status is at work steadily and inexoraDfy in Wisconsin and the Middle West.'!. J.S.H., Westport, Conn. Thanks for your letter noting that the Continental Con-tinental Congress came within one vote of making German, rather than English, the official language of the Colonies. |