Evening star., 1933-06-05

The President, in the execution OF his
broad powers Of economy and reorgan-
ization, has retraced his steps-back-
pedaled, II you please-in several I'M
portant particulars in recent weeks:
First, as respects cuts in pensions ana
veterans compensation. The regula-
tions originally promulgated are IN proc
ess of revision and the cuts originally
imposed are to be materially modlned
In many important particulars, rre-
spective of congressional attempts OF
the moment to hamstring major items
in the new schedules Of pensions and
compensations Second was the matter
of economies In the naval establisn-
ment. Closing on wholesale scale
OF Atlantic Coast navy yards, originally
projected, Is not, 1t seems, TO mate
rialize. New work under the pubic
works bill will be provided to keep the
wards in operation. The rotation plan
for our battleships and cruisers, where
by two-thirds of the feet were to be
laid up In rotation and one-third only
kept in active commission, has been
abandoned as impracticable and un-
economical. The order previously Is
sued has been revoked by Secretary
Swanson. Third, there Is to be no re-
tirement of Army officers on any
wholesale scale 1t now develops that
the operations of the Civilian Conser-
vation Corps are going to keep busy
the Army officers whom 1t had been
proposed to dismiss.
Last but not least of the shifts in
administration direction, the drastic
realignment of Government bureaus
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ON a
wholesale scale-is to go forward SLOW
ly and in piecemeal rather than in one
fell swoop. Furthermore, 1t now appears
that though tremendous administrative
economies are being effected through
curtailment Of certain Government &C
tivities and reductions in personnel,
nevertheless, reorganization, as the
Congress and public understood 1t, has
been found to contain less economy In
dollar values than had been originally
forecast.
Donald Richberg Is another musician,
along with Secretary Woodin. to sit in
the seats of the mighty in the Roose-
welt administration. The newcomer,
however besides his musical talents
and fame as a novelist, is lawyer who
has fought for progressive principles
for more than twenty years-a veteran
of the Bull Moose and La Toilette
campaigns. He has long been attorney
for the railroad brotherhoods - he
helped write the industrial control bill
now before Congress. The President
calls him Donald. Mr.. Richberg is to
team up with Gen. Hugh johnson in
administering Federal control over in
dustry. He is destined to WELD enor-
nous power. He was graduated from
the Harvard Law School in 1904 "a
classmate of Franklin DIS. His home
is in Chicago. He is known everywhere
in the college world as the author of a
famous Phi Gamma Delta song, Smoke
Dreams
Mrs Roosevelt "let the cat out of the
bag" the other day with respect to one
detail of her husbands vacation plans
not previously disclosed-that he in
tended to visit Marion, Mass, and board
the yacht Amberjack II, on which he
will cruise along the Maine coast, at
Marion rather than at Marblehead. DR..
William Mcdonald, friend and medi-
cal adviser of long standing, summers
at Marion and the President hopes to
pay him a brief visit and sail around
Buzzards Bay for a few days" before
ScttlIiB Ill Otl tllC Vi uloC Will SOllo.
This plan Is still contingent on the ad-
journment date Of Congress, according
to the White House. No hint Of the
Marion visit had come out of the White
House until Mrs. "F. D." told Of it to
some feminine news gatherers.
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The annual congressional base ball
game Is scheduled to be held next Sat-
urday, weather permitting. The Demo-
cratic and Republican teams are alleged
to be already in training. The line-ups
have not yet been announced. The
President may toss out the first ball
The Democrats have the manifest ad-
vantage, in that they have a so much
larger field of candidates, outnumbering
their Republican brethren In the House
more than two to one. Representative
Charles J.. Millard of New York is
manager of the Republican team and
Eddie Kelly Representative Edward A.