Show washington snapshots 4 the nominating conventions i j ae still months away and more N than halt half la year must elapse be fore the presidential and congressional si onal elections but already it is possible to definitely isolato isolate 1 as sues which will be ham hammelev meled A home duain dui ing the days to come t other issues will liae their place and either president roosevelt ot or J the republican nominee might de clop new ones but right now ily it Is certain that taxation relief and unemployment are definite ly on the agenda fol foi constant discussion during the next seven 3 months 4 t it might be said that these aie certain to be issues bernise they are the points upon which the t present administration is weakest and are arc therefore ther there etoie foie the f points of attack A few months 11 ago the constitution and su preme court seemed destined to 4 be perhaps the dominant domin int issues but public reaction seemingly his compelled secretary wallace and the rest of those in washington washing ton who hasty charges to back away until after the elec 1 tion anyway 0 thus tar far the fhe question of unit employment has been obscured in A 4 the debates but the republicans are bound to reallie realize some time that it is at this clis point that president roosevelt is weakest and that there is J no defense for the fact that so i little has been done to ie employ 1 the idle the fundamental pledge of 0 the present administration was that it knew all the Lin answers when it came to the unemployment i nent j question when it came into of tice fice in 1933 estimates of the jobless were to 15 f last month the estimate 1 I was fixed at above un unquestionably quest ionabel y efforts will be made 0 o ise fise industry ind y as tile whip aping boy tor for continued anem put but it will nill be diali 1 cult to muke this case since in J du leaders have pointed oat 3 repeatedly that ae legislative isla ive expert c men ments ts blocking all expansion i attempts at the same time tima of course the industries dus tries have neve at f gaeir aest I 1 lest point employed more than 8 iA A persons and toda today there I 1 bare are above 6 on oil atie the pay rolls i 0 how hovi far the tax issue will go t is still an open question natural I 1 ly politically wise like pos post postmaster 1 naster general parley are op posing taxes at this session of congress which aill il break th the 3 j bad news to the low income classes but there have been dictations eliat the country is be Tc coming oming tax conscious and worried over lover both the unbalanced alrid t 1 in washington and the dread of taxation in the offing one fifth S of all income aheady already is going goin for f taxes federal state and loal local I 1 and it does not take an economist alto to know that hat this is barting the tl buying power of the con it sunil ng masses |