Evening star., 1933-09-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

Atlantic. Correspondents of European
newspapers in the United States send
ooplouS reports of tce progress of recov-
cry. The London Times features cabled
news from washington under headline
reading: The American Campaign"
In her current article in the Womans
HCme Companion Mrs. Roosevelt ap-
peals to American housewives to apply
N. r. A. principles to domestic servants.
She asserts that "one has no more right
to expect sweatshop hours and wages
in ones own home than in a factory"
Mrs. Roosevelts views have borne
prompt fruit. at least in Cleveland.
where an effort has just been launched
to organize the Household Workers
Welfare Association" It plans to sub
nit an NJ R. A. code for domestic
servants, setting a minimum weekly
wage of 81, with board and room, and
a maximum working day of 10 hours
as its goal.
If you don't think the brass hats at
N. R. A. headquarters lead strenuous
lives, contemplate the schedule Deputy
Administrator Malcolm Muir survived
this week. On Monday. after conduct
formal conferences. he took an o'clock
evening train for Newark En- route
he wrote speech for delivery in Chi
cago next evening. Arriving at Newark
at 1928 am. Tuesday, he boarded
plane for Chicago an hour later, ar
irving at 5:55 am. After a forenoon
of informal N. R. A. conferences. Mr.
Muir addressed a business group at
luncheon. The afternoon was devoted
to more conferences, and at pm he
addressed an N. R. A. dinner of the
American Transit Association. Leav-
ing Chicago at 12:45 am. Wednesday
the deputy administrator hoped into
plane for Newark. arriving at TAO
am. and reaching Washington by air
at 9:16. BY 10 am. Mr.. Muir was
cultural implements code and the rest
of the day (and evening" was immersed
in conferences. In private life, Mr..
Muir is president of the McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co. He counts that day lost
in Washington which doesn't embrace
a working schedule of Is or 18 hours
From the Government Printing Office
there has just been issued a supple
mental edition, in pamphlet form, of
the Congressional Directory, the latest
regular issue of which came out just
before Congress adjourned in June
The supplement includes the host of
new Federal agencies that have sprung
up under the new deal and is an up
to-date tabulation thereof, with full
data on personnel and official duties of
the different emergency units.
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President Roosevelt, despite his cold
and slight fever of the week, continues
in rugged health. He remains the mar
vel of his medical advisers and close
associates in that respect considering
the unprecedented exactions of the
presidency in these times. His hair
seems little grayer than in March,
and here and there are traces of the
tell-tale burrows that always come with
responsibility and anxiety. F. D. RS
Summer vacations were brief and spas
modic, but taken at psychological mo-
ments. and he derived definite benefits
from them. Visitors find the Presi-
dents billion dollar smile and charac-
teristic laughter little less in evidence
than formerly, but he's fit as fiddle
and reveals every indication of unal-
loyed capacity to face the official rigors
of the future, no matter how severe.
The Winter of his discomfort is ex-
pected to set in with the reassembling
of Congress, because it's regarded
strong possibility that the moratorium
on good will for the recovery program
may come to an end when the batteries
of partisan criticism are again mount
ed on Capitol Hill.
Theodore G. Joslin, formerly Of the
Hoover White House secretariat, is now
a professional observer Of national and
international events at Washington. He
represents the Babson business service,
which supplies confideqfial reports on
trends" at home and .broad. As a
one-time Capital newspaper man, "Ted'