Show business hits its benefactor fight on roosevelt Is personal means huge contributions for republicans by EARL GODWIN politics takes washington the center of ali c stage here bis business bigger and better than ever because of Roosevel ts aid now swells up and demands that roosevelt crawl under the bed let US run the government Is the platform of the national association of manufacturers the united states of commerce the duponts liberty league and countless other business organizations which now come to life little peepers around the edge of the hi pond I 1 want to go into this attack of bis business on roosevelt ant merely on the administration but franklin D personally because it Is getting into the news with bigger and better headlines creating a wider and wider impression that alie country Is all for business and against roosevelt promised 9 breathing spell to business hut business denies any breathing spell to roosevelt elgh business organizations are taking turns hammering roosevelt and when one stops another pops up to lire its round of ammunition to fall back and give way to other marksmen wall street the manufacturers associations and the utility presidents divide into several organizations all playing the same game and each one adopting the same sort of resolutions and getting vast city newspaper publicity thereon nut all the same crowd saying the same old thing they ere gluttons for publicity and eastern republican newspapers apparently crowd out human interest news for column after column of he drab and mournful monotones mono tones nickel nurses produce everybody knows eliat the duponts the steel trust the chambers of commerce and he national association of manufacturers are opposed to the humane regime of roosevelt the national association of manufacturers by the way ran the campaign to defeat the amendment prohibiting child labor and yet when the heads of these cropps sit down to dinner and adopt n set of resolutions condemning the president the printers search the composing rooms for type large enough to grace the occasion now will this hold on the eastern newspapers the liberty league I 1 hear Is going to stage large gatherings in his town with anny prominent anti new benl on hand to speak disparagingly of the new deal every speaker they bring on will have a whale of n salary from some wall street connection because where practically all democratic and new come from I 1 dont know who they are going to have hut they could locate such anti new neal ers as john W nails once a democratic candidate for president today a J P morgan counsel employed to scuttle a part of the new peal rut be would he billed and advertised cot as a paid performer for th mor pans hut as an outstanding patriot but dont laugh these things fall the republican national committee with great joy particularly ticul arly because it portends n good harvest for contributions henry yi etcher political plutocratic playboy now heading the G 0 P announces a republican finance committee from ohp vaults of wall street and by so doing arouses the wild west republicans who know those silk hats will never do to pass around in the open territory beyond the mississippi but it assures henry of a few ready dollars sorely needed seriously there Is a bit of a religious touch to he way roosevelt looks at the tiling he knows this country cant berve rod and mammon too that business Is all right in its place but that its place Is limited there are other elements in the national picture one corp morp observation not one pro posed substitute for the new deul from these business boys has tle human equation into consideration BUSINESS FIGHTS benefactor business makes it appear that Is up against it hut he Is no worse alt than in except nii Elness Is now restored with new deal money and wants to have n ellit with its Ilon welt knows juat what before him in politics and he Is apparently the mastermind master mind in the campaign to come kasht now the are still in leash the his lesht ani not started however re adv be just as bis a row between the two factions of tin party alie liberals and the tough es as there 1 between wall street and the white house velt will wait to see who wins that internecine 0 0 P scrap before he the cleanup clean up campaign for re alie democratic national committee nieces here Jiin imry S which Is jackcon daiy diy that there will be the annual jackson ilay ilir vier at which I 1 expect the president will be the main simler the national committee will choose the convention city while it Is here and dodty looks likely democrats realm they can carry ienn tyl vanla next lime which would he a tremendous victory and they think the convention in would help sometimes but not nl wais a state goes for a candidate chosen within its borders it Is not a sure ire thing maryland and missouri went for wll givlio wa nominated first and second times in those slates california did not go for cox nominated in san francisco in john W dails was nominated in new york city and new york state went for cooledge aa smith was nominated in texas which went for hoover but went for loosevelt noo sevelt nominated in chicago in 1932 ROOSEVELT THE ISSUE the opposition Is making roosevelt the issue and the democrats have it in power to win largely on the roosevelt personality and individual strength the american people are boing poing to be forced to answer this question do we want this man roosevelt or not if the republicans dont choose n roan with a strong appealing personality they are sunk from the start this Is quite well recognized by the republicans Liin don of kansas now appears to have the edge on other candidates among the republicans right now second and hoover third hoover has told several people here that he Is not a candidate and that he desires merely to keep hammering at the new deal until he can dominate ahli party so it will be sure to choose a per cent anti roosevelt new deal nominee hoover wants to see a republican who will view the new deal like the old roman senator cato viewed carthage a place to be attacked torn down leveled to the ground and salt plowed into the earth where once it stood hoover Is not likely to be satisfied with merely any republican he thinks men like borah and are new dealers in republican clothing which lg true to some extent but leading democrats here profess not to believe hoover when he tells his friends he Is not a candidate james parley chairman of the democratic national committee publicly stated that hoover Is a candidate and based his assertion on the hoover speech before the ohio society in new york that says farley Is the speech of a man seeking the nomination hoover Is now talking the sort of talk that big business likes and downtown new boik business men are willing to bet he will by the republican nominee and president but they overlook one little item their own republican n charles D hilles has a feeling akin to hatred for hoover so also other republican leaders it will be almost impossible to get enough practical political support to nominate conver and this coupled with what I 1 believe Is his sincere wish to be left out of consideration removes the former president frum the picture until same extraordinary and unlocked tor event occurs KNOX FADING OUT col franl knos fades out of tha picture as a possibility for the moment and they are beginning to laugh at liaro around here because lie seems to have lost his common sense he Is just as strong for paying the bonus as he Is or balancing the budget he wants to spend and save at the same minute using the same money 0 course knox does not want to spend newly appropriated money or this inflationary printing press money he wants to take it out of the four billion bellef fund distribute it to the veterans and save the taxpayers further strain but Is he right congress appropriated that tour billion for relief purposes to pay via dole or jobs to men who could not find work in industry unemployment still remains if lie government took his relle f money and paid it to veterans most of whom are working or are cared for I 1 am told what becomes of the unemployment problem if paying the bonus uses the relief cash what will the government do dig back tn the pocket for more taxpayers money or let millions starve col knos has never answered this question SAFETY IN RURAL LIFE for the first time some one Is taking an intelligent interest in the heavy toll of accidents and accidental deaths in rural sections there lias been a safety campaign in industry for years and a consequent decrease in accidents and deaths but as far as I 1 know nothing has been done to make farm and rural life safer you may be startled to learn that 27 per cent of all deaths from occupational accidents ci occur on farms falls cuts from farm machinery the use of unprotected hand tools and vehicles are the general reasons for the deaths of 4 farm people in lah in none of these instances I 1 am told does the state law apply if it had wager there would have been a campaign to malte farm tools safer long ago accurate statistics are not kept on this subject but kansas Is one state where they watch such bilings and in that state last year these accidental deaths were reported from farms anil rural communities from farm ma clil nery HC animals 41 kicked to death killed by bulls 25 runaway teams S fallings from horses aa overturning hay racks B kansas sunstrokes sun strokes killed 51 vehicular accidents killed 46 falls 43 lightning va miscellaneous 79 the subject of rural accidents Is a part ot the program now being studied by a group of outstanding public catl sens suggested by the president to secretary of commerce cloper who in turn gave the details over to labert st claar 0 union |