Show washington news hy by HOLMES washington correspondent of 0 the park record speaking of crime waves of bandits gunmen arid and racketeers why someone get after old man politics gruesome reading are tales about powers the west virginia bluebeard and others other of his ilk but old man politics Is just as destructive and just as conscienceless as any ot of them 0 00 0 P why in the name ot of all that Is good and charitable Is it impossible lor for either state or to grant a little relief tor for the needy the depressed or the unemployed without dragging a worthy proposal through the slimy mire ol of poll poil tics recently governor roosevelt of new yolk educed deduced a plan to raise to care lor for the unemployed ana and their a m L in the empire state this winter did the state legislature consider t the h e 0 object b J a worthy one it did did it consider the amount excessive it did not did it find any fault with the manner in which tills this large turn was to be ba iaiser it did not what then stalled the legislative machine even dumb dora guessed right the filst time who was to 10 have control of the spending ot of the file money 5 0 the democratic governor of new york li a potential candidate tor for the d cancy llcy the republicans who control the state legislature figured that it if they put through the roosevelt evelt plan without le ie strict ions or reservations it would be playing into the hands of the governor and the democrats in view 0 next years corn campaign therefore the republicans come forward with tolls fills of their own d differing lff cring in certain respects from that sponsored by the governor 0 p Frankl franklin ln ros roosevelt evelt I 1 in n his effort to put through relief men measures bures tor for the state la is experiencing much the same kind of 01 opposition that herbert hoover met dair during the last ladt session of congress when he ought to carry ahr through ugh relle relief measures rr fr the nation and for the drought stricken sections of th the e co country antry congress was wall perfectly willing even aix anxious lol to the money eves even a auch much larger amount than was recommended by the president but congress could not clie itself to the idea of mr hoover hoc having anything to do with trie disbursing agency congress has the utmost con flrence in its own spending abilia abilities es I 1 4 0 O of undoubtedly much the same k kind nd of opposition will have to be faced by the president when congress meets again next december and he submits his plans tor for dealing with the unemployment alt it i bation nationally both parties are obviously catering to the unemployed vote which may be large in next years elections in the game of politics that in i itself may be enough but the thing can be easily overdone particularly it if the republicans Republic aps in the legislature in new york should so deadlock relief I 1 mea i in that state that adequate appropriations tressi for the care of those in dis distress are unreasonably delayed and the same Is true of the democratic and anti hoo ver republican opposition in congress undertakes to cripple the administrations relief plans next winter 0 40 0 C tie mel there 1 thit other problem e esly sl solved were it not for the necessary inclusion of old od man politics of the fin pricing of the federal government it may be said to be closely allied with the problem of relief for the unemployed and looms larger on the screen as the next session ot of congress approaches this government Is under the necessity of deciding whether it will increase federal federa taxes axes in an effort to balance the budget or whether it will run ma along on borrowed mon money e y in the hope that business will take an upturn and bring more money into the treasury under existing tax rates 4 0 0 emerging from the white house where te Is thou cht to have discussed ahe the sad r tate state ot of federal finance with president hoover representative will R wood c chairman of the house appropriations committee admitted that the government had been spending money like a drunken sailor and that the time had come to sober up he would begin with the army and navy why waste money on services for which his inland constituents geographically isolated from all conscious danger of foreign aggression can see little use naturally paying bonuses to ex service men is quite another thing congress chivalrously voted away more money for the bonus in the last session than the combined total of the army and navy budgets W 40 0 0 speculation still continues as to what al smiths political plans are for the future those who insist that smith has desire to run again point to the large popular vote which the former governor 0 of f new york received in the election in 1928 mr smiths total popular vote was to for president t hoover cox lost to harding in 1920 by votes and davis lost to coolidge in 1924 by votes while in much larger vote smith lost to hoover by votes in 1924 however davis probably would have made a better showing against coolidge had it not be been tor for the independent candidacy of the late senator la follette which drew many democrats and independent voters away from rom davis coolidge had a lead of only votes over the combined davis md id la follette vote the argument Is advanced by smith supporters that it if mr air smith were a candidate next year with the 0 0 P under fire of hard times he i would be able to win but there are plenty of democrats who floure that smith would be the weakest candidate they could put forward and there may be enough in this group to make it utterly impossible for smith to gain a nomination if lie he desired one |