Evening star., 1932-07-29

If there's going to be any substantial
Improvement in the economic situation
this year, the Democrats would lot
rather have it turn up now-aS 1t seems
to be doing-than three months hence,
on the eve of election Anything In the
shape of better Stock Exchange and
farm prices, or diminution Of unem-
ployment, lust about the time the coun-
trv goes to the polls, would be the
kind of a boon for Hoover that Demo
Gratis admit might be fatal to Roosevelt
For weeks past Democrats have been
limiting warningly at plans and plots
Of the c. o. P. to rig" the security
and produce markets along around the
end of October, in order that the elec-
ton might take place in an atmosphere
of fake prosperity. This weeks per-
fornances in Wall Street and the
wheat pit are not at all to Democrats
political liking, although they're not
afraid that the upward movement VIII
attain sufficient proportions or dura-
bility to take the peoples mind on the
Hoover depression"
Former Senator Atlee PomereneS
selection for the chairmanshlp OF the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Is
the third appointment the ONO Demo-
crat has had in succession from as
many Republican Presidents. In 1878
President Harding sent him to Santiago,
Chile. as a member of the United States
delegation to the fifth Pan-Amerlcan
Conference. In 1924 President Coondge
named Pomerene as associate govern
ment counsel with Owen j. ROBERTS, IN
the Teapot Dome cases. Now President
Hoover puts the Cleveland lawyer at
the head of the r. F. c. Senator
Pomerene had ranked as a 1924 Demo-
cratic presidential white hope OF the
first magnitude until the dry women
of Chic encompaSSed his defeat for
reelection to the Senate in 1922. Pro-
hibition times have changed in the
Buckeye State since then.
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When the presidential campaign gets
into full stride, watch for republican
attempt to smear Jack Garner as the
foe of the farmer. In the hurIy-ourly
of the late sessions closing days the
Norbeck farm-reIief bill, or so-called
domestic allotment" plan, which would
have clothed the Federal Farm Board
with far-reaching additional powers TO
help agriculture was passed by the
Senate. 1t was blocked in the House
because Speaker Garner refused rule
necessary for a vote on the bill, Later
the Senate itself, after a motion TO
reconsider, destroyed its own child, but
farm leaders hold the Democratic vice
nresidential candidate mainly to blame
for the measures fate. In due course,
according to present plans, Garner 5
alleged responsibility for the failure OF
agriculture's principal 1882 legislation
measure is to be pinned on MN Dy hAS
friends, the enemy.
This observer recently reported that
another version of the celebrated three
RS" might again be used to land a
Demccratic Governor of New York in
the White House-"Ro Roosevelt, Recovery
and Repeal" A Republican voter VINO S
been sloganizing ON his own account
writes in to say that the G. o. z. might
we'll counter with three DS-" "De1arna-
ton, Demagoguery and Danger, or with
a d and two G'S-"Don't Gamble with
Garner" If the Democrats take the
! field with the three RS. the ardent
apostle Of the elephant thinks the Re
publicans might hang on the donkey S
| tail" two additional RS and taunt the
! foe with Roosevelt, RadicaliSm, Repeal
and Rum Rule"
One of the effects of depression and
unemployment is an enormous increase
| in the pressure on members of Congress,
| especially Senators, for Government
Jobs. Senator James ]. Davis, Repub-
| lican, of Pennsylvania, testif1es that
hardly a day passes that doesn't see
men who used to earn executives SAL
aries of $4,000 to $25 900 a year turn
| ing up on Capitol Hill eager for Federal
work worth a mere $500 a month.
When the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration was formed in February job
! seekers nearly ran members of Congress
ragged. Now a similar rush is on in
connection with the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board. Six commissioners and q