Show U W g M washington D 0 C FOURTH TERM DATA not much has been said about it PU publicly but already the question ol of the fourth term has come in for or a lot of backstage discussion republicans worried about it want to do everything po possible isible to block it and in the vicinity of the tha white house some of 0 those who ho would like to stay around indefinitely want to do ever everything athing possible possie le to en encourage courage it but those closest to the president are convinced that there will be no F fourth term even it if he could get it they say that this is the last tiling thing roosevelt wants or even it if there should be a tremendous demand on the part of the public against changing horses in midstream they dont think the e president would yield eld his ide ideals s tor for preservation of the democratic democrat c system are too deep rooted they say tor for him to continue in office for what would be a total of 16 years however the president does have one very deff definite nite political goal and that is to retain control of congress during his two remaining years in office he remembers all too clearly when he was assistant secretary of the navy the chaos which the country faced when woodrow wilson lost control of 0 the house of representatives he also remembers the troubles faced by herbert hoover calvin coolidge and his cousin teddy roosevelt when they faced a rebellious congress during their last two years in office so the president is out to win ahe the house and win it at all costs next november to that end he will leave washington something he done since 1940 and take a swi swing ft g through the middle west some time in october JOBS TO R PUBLICANS some of political advisers among them democratic chairman ed flynn tell him privately that the battle to control the house in november will not be easy one trouble is patronage patronage is is a word which may bring a bad smell to the public but to the politician it is like the smell of raw meat ineat to a circus lion lie he will not perform without it back in the early days of the new deal jim parley farley kept a little card index of how every congress man voted on important issues and what jobs he had received when the congressman stopped voting right he stopped getting jobs for his constituents that system worked like a charm cham for a while but in recent years roosevelt him self has given more and more jobs to republicans while leon henderson the greatest job dispenser ol of war times has placed everything in the hanos hands of state governors a large proportion of them republicans so today the presidents political friends say that his definition of p patronage a is something which you hold out to your friends but use to reward your enemies and these friends have had the short end of the patronage stick f for r so long that as november approaches pro aches is finding a lot ol of the old coes unwilling to go to bat for him while the rewarded enemies wont stay put so the congressional elections are going to be tougher than a lot ol of people realize and you will probably see certain seasoned political sea dogs among them ed flynn resigning from the picture before many weeks are over note patronage under the old congressional system had a lot ol of faults but it was not half as bad as under the present dollar a year man system where somebody gets a key job or a cellophane commis slon sion merely because he is the friend of a big accounting firm or a part ner of a wall street broker WHERE CREDIT IS DUE one of the best jobs of America Ameri cani nl bation has been done by the illi illinois state register of springfield in its series of editorials and radio programs paying tribute to the big c con on trib ution foreign groups have made to the culture and progress of th U S A the radio program called amer leans all immigrants all told the story of how the men of many ra races c el had contributed to this country the italians including men like frank capra laguardia LaGua idia and ernest cu neo the welsh including charles evans Huzi hushes lies the slavs louis ad amic se ersky joseph josep pulitzer from hungary john philip sousa from portugal george bour nas from greece and thousands ol of others CAPITAL CHAFF 1 C I according to fair minded senator styles bridges who sits on the re publican side of the aisle de demo m 0 cratic senator scott scot t lucas of illin illinois 0 fe is one of the coming men of the country C C when henry kaiser first got his bis big shipbuilding contracts he had tommy the cork corcoran as his washington contact man now noa he kaiser making much headway with his carat carac planes buy war bonds |