Show washington parade washington DC one of the phenomena of the new deal which has passed almost without corn com ay even here in the capitol is shifting in prominence ofle of the various cabinet posts in the past the most important members have usually been the secretary of state and the secretary of the treasury many of the men who held these jobs were already of national reputation like justice hughes william jennings bryan elihu root mcadoo and mellon nearly a dozen others used the position as a stepping stone to the presidency or at least an attempt at the office secretaries of war have been almost of equal importance jefferson davs grant sherman and taft for instance the navy has had its share sat t now the departments deal with external affairs have bali b e relegated to comparative obscurity and secretary ickes of the interior an office still less than a hundred years old wallace of the even younger bureau of agriculture and madame perkins of the baby labor administration fill the public eye and ear and its likely to continue that way through 1938 at least observers here predict that the year will be comparatively biet on the foreign front althou although h they expect an increasing number of incidents in the orient as japan consolidates her china gains and the european tension will not lessen as the fascist bloc absorbs all of the little countries except belgium the netherlands and czechoslovakia britain will make desperate efforts to conciliate germany and france will wiil agree to reasonable concessions for fear that the last of her little central european allies czechoslovakia may be overrun over run for a few weeks it seemed as if general franco and his spanish rebels had made their last ellort but mussolini has sent fresh aid and the struggle will drag on the figures of the unemployment census came as a shock to many of the more optimistic members of congress and when the total had been adjusted to take care of the twenty eight per cent who failed to register it had a generally sobering effect which will shortly become apparent in the ns 3 of the legislators ten taff rhon rh on eight hundred thousand was an astounding number when etwas believed that recovery was already well established but that is not the whole story at least two million more are beli believed eNed to have joined the jobless since the registration took place unless conditions improve markedly before election the next congress will undoubtedly be more radical than any so far pressure of the unemployed those whose jobs are precarious at a bare minimum wage force the passage of measures which will make pre sent taxes on wealth and big busi ney seem negligible |