Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W labine congressional patronage grab shoves political Wheel horses into justice commerce jobs EDITORS NOTE when opinions are arc expressed in these colun columns tris they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily ot of this newspaper released by western newspaper union CABINET patronage an able economist republican willard L thorp was borrowed from dun bradstreet to be advisor in the commerce departments bureau of foreign and domestic commerce next harry hopkins named republican thorp chief of the bureau but a patronage minded democratic congress turned him down this was secretary hopkins first conflict with patronage but another was destined soon in which attorney general frank murphy would also learn about patronage up for simultaneous congressional consideration came two appropriation bills one to give mr murphys Murp hys department for thurman arnolds SENATOR mckellar he smelled patronage or newly stimulated antitrust drive mhd other to give mr hopkins department for employing a staff of experts to consult with business busine Ss and industry neither expansion plan called for political wheel horses but hopkins and murphy must take wheel horses or nothing sponsored by Tennes sees sen kenneth mckellar who can allegedly smell patronage further than any other seven men in congress a proviso was adopted requiring congressional approval for all men hired under either appropriation at a salary of or more almost incidental to this ruling was the fact that congress cut mr murphys Murp hys bill from to and mr hopkins from to murphy grudge to proceed with detailed investigation and prosecution of antitrust cases thurman arnold needs smart young lawyers minus business or political connections one good reason is that wheel horses would instill new deal ism sm into the drive at a time when the aan administration Lini needs business friendship political lawyers are notoriously ineffectual mr arnold believes be Leves hopkins grudge special assistants created under the commerce bill would work with business representatives senta tives directly on whatever problems might be presented a job obviously requiring men who have been too busy with economic affairs to meddle in politics SPAIN friendly relatives last march 17 dictator francisco franco accepted a friendship pact with portugal whose mere moral support against the loyalists was slight compared with the guns planes and men of rome and berlin observers immediately predicted a cast iron military pact with the axis but weeks dragged into months until the world suddenly realized general franco would be no pushover like a smart politician he was playing both democracies and dictatorships for au all they were worth staving off an axis pact so long as possible mid june found francos brother inlaw in m law and minister of the interior Hr ramon 00 serrano surer visiting in italy with persuasive aunt count galeazzo ciano foreign minis ter and son in law although their relatives seemed near agreement 11 II duce and el caudillo were not yet francos id dependence was not co comfortable needing peace above all to reconstruct his nation the generalissimo must nevertheless be imperialistic like other dictators this means a strong hand in tangiers Tan giers which all good spaniards demand be regained from france it also means reestablishing establishing re lost world prestige necessitating an increased influence in spanish speaking latin america this program plays right into the axis lands hands stimulating conflict between spain and the democracies and thus assuring aid should rome home and berlin declare war EDUCATION consolation not since 1928 have graduating college students found jobs await ing ng them though this years crop of seniors will fare somewhat better ter than a decade of hard uck luck has revolutionized the graduates outlook made him glad to take any job and placed an entirely dif ferent erent interpretation on the signia acance cance of a college degree sample to the university of Chi cagos graduates president robert maylard lard hutchins addressed this gloomy message we know now that hat graduation does not carry with it the promise that the graduate will ever be able to earn a liv ing ng we must recognize that you ou may never make a nickel that you rou would not have made if you lad had never come here that your education will not hoist you by so much as a single rung up the social ladder then to soothe parents who wondered d why their youngsters should be ie asked to waste four years president hutchins offered the following left handed consolation higher education should help the graduate make intelligent use of the leisure which thoughtless engineers and a blind economic system have given iven him TREASURY hoard india was the sink hole of precious cious metals before the world war BY mid june of 1939 a cellar under fort ort knox ky appeared to be the new sink hole for there was kept much of the which represents 60 per cent of all the worlds monetary gold stock most alarming to financiers who see gold becoming coming ie cheaper and cheaper is the he fact that since january 31 the U J S has absorbed more than one and one third times the worlds estimated gold production for 1939 reason Eu ropes war scares on december 31 1934 U S gold holdings were comparatively mild totaling only harmonizing mon izing with mobilization they began zooming when czecho czechoslovakia slovakia mobilized zed against germany last may kept rising unil til hs conference slackened off during quiet january then zoomed during this springs war jitters to the current mark biggest loser is england which since 1933 was shipped OKA 0 FOREIGN GOLD england En glands loss is meatiest heat hea iest to the U S and which in the first four months of 1939 sent but some of En glands shipments have exceeded her national banks gold reserve indicating that for eign gold has first fled to london then to the U S france which lost in ir 1935 offers the only encouraging picture in gold problem while other countries bordering bor derin germany Li ermany have frantically shipped their metal elsewhere the strong arm government of premier bedou ard deladier Da ladier is now enjoying an in flux of gold and capital biggest reaction in the U S is a stead steady increase of adjusted demand de posits in federal reserve banks in early june as gold hoar hoarding dings reached their new peak reserve bank deposits also hit a high wa wate ter mark czechoslovakia trouble Bre brewing iving contrary to popular belief germany did not annex bohemia and moravia when czechoslovakia czecho slovakia was dismembered last march moreover the new land of slovakia remained independent though well under berlins thumb outright annexation of all these lands was confidentially fidentia lly predicted by european observers in late may when czechs czecho their patience broken apparently began a passive resistance campaign against their nazi overlords by mid june czech protector J GEN VLADISLAV for resurrection of the she nation 11 konstantin von neurath got der fuehrer to send fearsome heinrich himmler of the gestapo to prague other reports had it that german troops would woula invade slovakia incorporating the entire defunct nation into the reich just as active however were counter plans that reeked of adventure and mystery in prague it was whispered that anyone wanting to join the czech legion being formed in poland could enter the coal mines in gaerisch O ostrau and emerge across the border hundreds of young men disappeared showing up in poland where gen vladislav who commanded czech troops against hungary last winter was forming a campaign for resurrection of the nation warsaw gossip said scores of former czech officers have sailed tor for france where they are forming special czech legions controlled by french military authorities the spirit spread to slovakia which has learned its old czecho slovakian nation was not so bad after all a reported slovakian troops crossed the border into poland fol foli lowing three military planes though much inspiration for these moves came from within bohemia moravia and slovakia much also came from the strong czech organizations abroad with 12 legations and 70 consulates still open with such men as ex president eduard benes mobilizing worldwide czech senti sentiment genf tor for revival of the republic germany indeed had a problem on its hands meanwhile london and paris feared der fuehrer might solve the problem by casting out the czechs czecho as he had the jews |