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Show I NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD President Roosevelt's approval ap-proval of the amortization for war profits taxes aids preparedness program . . . Democratic leaders do not seem to be ruffled by Republicans Re-publicans in cabinet jobs. (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) CHICAGO. There is astonishingly little soreness among the Democratic Democrat-ic leaders and followers because their President has so recently appointed ap-pointed two Republicans to his cabinet, cabi-net, or about the fact that, as his original cabinet contained two former for-mer Republicans, it might be said now that there are four non-Democrats out of ten in the "official family." fam-ily." Careful inauirv reveals the reason- ing. Nobody wanted the jobs! That s? - ; is not quite true, for pS'-- ; Louis Johnson not F,;:l S';W3ik !'i cr.iy wanted the job f ' : " 1 ' ' : I Roosevelt gave to r ; Frank Knox, but has bsB;l5:f 'nsisted on many oc-I oc-I ,Js casions that he was L .fJj promised it. And ? f , heaven knows that ' , A, If I Harry Woodring did-"' did-"' n'' want to give it But that's just a Frank Knox swaow in fte sum. mer of the Democracy, and the truth remains that nobody is particularly burned up because he didn't get the place either war or navy himself, or because he wanted it for some lieutenant. Boies Penrose once told a President Presi-dent that he didn't want any $8,000 or $10,000 jobs for his Pennsylvania Republicans. "Give that $8,000 job to somebody from Ohio," he is alleged to have said, "and give me five $1,500 jobs instead." WHAT HE WANTED It later developed that he wanted all the $1,500 job-holders to work in or near Pennsylvania, so that they would keep on playing their part in the "organization." Since that time a congressman's pay has jumped from $5,000 to $10 -000, and most other government sal-anes sal-anes in proportion, so you have to double the figures to apply his ideas to present-day politics. But once this is done there is little doubt about the political wisdom involved Its not the big jobs that help in organization building. It's the little jobs. So very few of the big city bosses were annoved whon t? i. . . c . - - "uwacveu put They didn't have any candidates for the jobs. Most of the other men who would have liked the jobs for themselves had either been taken care of, had become persona non grata at the White House, or jus" obviously didn't fit. CORRECTS THE MORASS of FZSidSnl Rooseve1' has gone part whfch ft? tCrrf ' the s ".to which the national defense program had bogged down. This was if h?s endorsement of the five-year amort iiwhtnf0rCOmpUti" legist on I' lmbdied ta tte new "t!ll . ' be pushed trough to take the profit out of war." The trouble was due chieflv t determination of Secretarv H neck, nd with ,ka,?m,iUed btt,e to make The took jed machinisU the chief IacL 1 aDd,dieS admitt" Preset Roo''s De' f 50.000 planes. weeks .STk" mto months at the 7Z stretched action. treasury without AN ILLUSTRATION tktii-- b- Knudsen but bogs rin g flne with bonds may nav th , hat these one year, maybe for "? 't' tor that, when the defe 'e '-bU' after bonds will C"S1S PPsses, lions tied up i . Tadriir have which, as Mr i addltlonstoplant. '"lly Put it i h ' 50 Ph. stark and idle be landing tr. hhow hav any chance a W?etl,er w Without a loss, to Set out 15 not nearly so i!,mount ' Profit "antee son"' 35 a ln "r shirts PJ against los-pose los-pose a company mlXample' S"P-net S"P-net Profit on a war Qr3 R000'00 under the existing tr?er' 0f that. Ir 5200.000, wou"fax aw. one-fiftn, eay anyhow under th ? 'Cderal t'on income tax nti, . 6 corPra-take corPra-take a piece t" !ed taxes tax will then take Tl prts what is ,eft. Finally fi, Chtmk Presurnaw, wil, 'Uy. the residue stockholders. So what" P U' to the of those dividend? Pcrccnlages near.y thrcer'"8 P t0 individuaU,;"' Bdin c'P"-'nts. will be naiH m?S of l'e re- |
