Evening star., 1933-05-15

Members of the so-called Roosevelt
brain trust" say there is no such
thing The scholarly gentlemen pop
ularly supposed to comprise it are
little resentful of the extent to which
the alleged myth has taken root in
the public mind What seems mainly
to be objected to is the theory that
| the President has private coterie of
| professcr-advisers accustomed to as
semhle in more or less secret sessions
whereat, amid an atmosphere of pro-
| fundity and mystery, the great prob
lens Of state are pondered and miracu-
| lousy solved. One Of the shining lights
| of the constellation commonly called
the brain trust" assures this observer
that the country has got Mr.. Roose-
| belts professors all wrong. They never
pool their minds en- bloc. They seldom
meet one another. and, when they do
it's usually by accident. The Intellectual
lumjnary, just quoted-he is partic-
ularly near the throne-isn't sure that
he's even read the farm bill. Moley
and Feis at the State Department
Tugwell and Ezekiel at the Department
of Agriculture. Berle at the r. F. c.,
Warburg and Taussig at the Treasury
Dickinson at the Department of Com
merce, and Goldenweiser at the Fed
eral Reserve Board-each and all Of
these experts have been assigned their
| jobs, it is declared for special and
specific purposes. They have no man
date. jointly CT severally, to run or to
save the country.
President Roosevelts assignment of
| 169 Navy doctors to the reforestation
camps may spring from a conversation
he had the other day with Cardinal
George William Mundelein of Chicago
While paying respects at the White
Houce, his eminence told the President
that he was sure thousands of Roman
Catholic boys would be taking to the
woods, and the cardinal expressed the
hope that the Governments program
included adequate arrangements for
looking after the young mems health
Cardinal Mundelein emphasized the
need OF physicians and dentists.
F. D. R. smilingly replied that the
Army and Navy had hundreds Of
medics of all kinds that they didn't
know what to do with. whereupon he
assured the cardinal that the matter
just mentioned would receive prompt
attention.
| It will look like family reunion of
the McNary-Haug old guard when
the administrators of the farm relief
bill assemble for action. George N.
Peek. Moline, ILL.,, plow manufacturer
who will be Secretary Wallace's chief
OF staff in carrying out the fabulous
project was the spearhead Of the Nc
Nary -Haugen equalization fee scheme
throughout the years it held the boards
on Capitol Hill. Mr.. Peek's colleagues
IN executing the new farm deal are also
veterans of the McNary-Haugen war
Chester Davis and Charles j. Brand.
Davis for years has been a power in
Montana agricultural affairs. Brand
left the Department of Agriculture in
1920 to manage successfully the Amer
lean Fruit Growers Association and
the National Fertilizer Association.
Just before sailing for Denmark last
week. Ruth Bryan Owen announced
that one of her assistants at the Amer
ican legation in Copenhagen Is to be
Helen Lee Doherty, heiress to the Henry
L. Doherty Cities Service fortune Miss
Doherty, whose gala debut was society
sensation In Washington couple of
years ago, accompanied our first woman
diplomat across the Atlantic She is
the adopted daughter of the oil mag
nate. described as q graduate of the
University of Madrid, and says her
education was planned by her parents
with a view to her entering the for
eign service. The young lady speaks
French, Spanish and German and told
New York ship reporters that her ap-
pointment to Copenhagen under Mrs.
Owen "is the satisfaction Of an ambi-
ton nurtured since their friendship
began"
| n
Visitors to the Senate gallery almost
always inquire nowadays who the gen.
tleman is on the back row of the DEM
ocratic side, who never wears vest
and exhibits correspondingly wide ex-
panse of white shirt front He is SEN
ator "Nath" Bachman of Tennessee, ap-
pointed in March to I'LL the-uneypiCed