Evening star., 1933-07-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM EILE.

'The New Deal is the name Of q
| fanciful motion picture allegory now IN
production at the Warner Bros. Studios
| in Brooklyn for early exhibition, with
! the official blessing Of the National Re-
cCvery Administration. Burnet Hershey
former American newspaper corre-
spondent in Europe, who wrote the
scenario. submitted it for final approval
at Gen. Johnson's headquarters IL
Washington this week. The picture de-
picts President ROOsevelt's campaign
against depression and Is designed ia
| stimulate popular interest in the recov-
cry program. The story opens with the
| dash of the -Four Horsemen OF DepreS-
sion''-"Gloom. Crime. Famine and
Death"-as the Nation plunges head
long into the crash Of 1929. after which
the changes are dramatically rung on
the whole distressing aftermath-"pros-
perity around the corner" unemplOy-
ment, bread lines, soup Kitchens. falling
wages. ruined farms. bank runs, bank
rupt businesses and all the rest OF the
oountry's sad history during the past
| four years. Finally the Roosevelt era
dawns, with its promise Of "happy days.
The President enters the picture In per-
son. with sound-picture reproduction
of his inaugural address and later with
one of his radio talks to the people
Meantime are flashed In succession
the sessions of Congress in the act OF
! legislating his emergency program. In
Guiding beer and repeal. The aliegory
winds rlp with the Summer OF 1888. re-
fecting industrial recovery In full tide,
showing the conservation camps, smoke
belching from the chimneys of throb-
bing mills and factories, men and women
streaming back to jobs, roaring railroad
trains and busy steamers. all telling in
| their own way the story OF rev1vlng
prosperity. The -Four Horsemen" are
conquered and destroyed as the picture
fades out amid symphonic cash regis
ter" chorus of "We're in the Money
from a current movie. chanted and
played at terrific tempo, symbolical OF
the triumphant New Deal.
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Bernard M. Baruchs cronies are
quoting with gtsto current remark at
tributed to q member OF the admlnls-
tration, who said: "Barnch Is the spin
ach of the New Deal-wholesome. put
most of the time damned unpalatabie.
The fact that Barney" sailed yesterday
for his annual "cure" at Vichy seems
evidence enough that he is not, as re-
cent report persistently made out, the
Pooh Bah of the Roosevelt regime. Ba-
ruchs friends insist he has no more
position In the .present Government
than any other private citizen who Is
supposed to possess authority ana IN
formation on certain subjects. 1t Is no
new experience for a President to con-
suit the New Yorker. and Baruch con.
fesses he likes just exactly the KIND OF
Government job" he now. holds.
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Apropos the impending doom OF the
eighteenth amendment, passage IN
Representative James M. Becks stirring
history of the Philadelphia Constitu-
tional Convention is Of timely interest,
He narrates how proceedings opened
with a dinner given on the eve OF the
convention by Benjamin Franklin:
Franklin, as always the. unitarian
philosopher, recognized that the cur
rent Of good feeling frequently runs
with the flow Of the gastric juices, Tor
he invited all the delegates who had
reached Philadelphia by May 16. 17SI'
to dine with him. He had recently re.
ceived cask Of porter. and this helped
him do honor to the occasion. The men
of that day were heavy drinkers, and
If the genial Doctors dinner guests, or
later the Constitutional Convention, had
suspected the possibility OF the eight.
eenth amendment, the convention would
probably have adjourned sine die"
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