Evening star., 1933-09-04

President Roosevelt resumes the helm
at Washington, to begin the Sc. enth
month of his administration. at a
moment which many authorities con-
slider to be N R. AS critical hour.
They don't mean that the house that
Johnson built is about to cave in, or
anything of that sort. What they have
in mind is simply that the acid test Of
N. r. AS Workabilty or otherwise is
near at hand September has always
been fixed by wiseacreS. inside and out
side the recovery organization. as the
crucial month. Two new drives to
put N. R. A. over speedily and deci-
sively are Just around the corner. Both
will command strong Roosevelt support,
possibly by radio. One is the Buy
Now" campaign, which will be waged
even more intensively than the recent
Blue Eagle crusade for P. p. A. Presi
dents Unemployment AgreemenD.
The other aims at more liberal bank
ing credit for employers anxious and
ready to get behind N. R. A. 100 per
cent, but lacking the ready cash.
Unless rumbles thereof have already
reached him, the President will bump
straight into a crop of circumstantial
reports that the Gates resignation is
only the first of half a dozen or more
deputy administrator leave-takingS at
n. r. A. Some of Gen. Johnson's lead
ing Subordinates, insiders say, will quit
voluntarily: others will be forced out.
Most of the officials in question cherish
only good feeling for the chief. Dis
agreement is described as impersonal,
over policy, and, in some cases, over
alleged lack of policy, or at least con-
sistent policy. on such key matters as
labor and code enforcement. Some of
the generals adjutants have felt that
the Blue Eagle is doing more harm than
good by disrupting the ordinary pro-
cedure of code organization.
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One thing can be asserted with COM
plete aSsurance-that johnson remains
ace high in the Presidents estimation,
and that if there is any attempt in the
name of N. r AS harmony" to un-
horse its cavalry leader, it won't get
very far with F. D. r. The White
House has heard a plenty about john
sons "hard-boiled'' methods and
"roughshod" tactics, but there's not a
tinge of evidence that such remon-
stranceS have made any dent in ex-
ecutive quarters. The general is still
looked upon there as the indispensable
man of the hour. His inside organi-
zation difficulties are held to be normal
and natural, the complexity Of N. R. A.
and necessarily divergent viewpoints
considered.
Aboard the cruiser Indianapolis.
which recently transported President
Roosevelt down the Atlantic Coast, is
a handsome silver service with long
and exciting history. 1t was presented
to the battleship Indiana in 1896 by
the citizens of the State of Indiana.
The set was struck by an exploding
shell during an engagement with the
Spanish Fleet, near Santiago, Cuba, in
bowl is still visible Last year the
battle-scarred service was handed over
to the U. S. S. Indianapolis, where it
has an honored place.
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AL Smith, hitherto merely "raddio''
star, has now entered the commercial
end of the industry. He has become
chairman of the board of the new
Federal Broadcasting Corporation, which
has taken over New York Station
WMCA. The corporation was formed
by a group of wealthy young men from
the New York financial and social
world, among them scions of the houses
of Whitney and Ryan. Broadcasting,
edited by Martin Codel of Washington,
in its current issue, welcomes the Gov
ernor to "raddio" and says that Smiths
alert mind. business sagacity and keen
sense of public relations should prove
real contribution to the business of
broadcasting.'
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Senator Millard E. Tydings of Mary
land is displeased with certain Demo-
cratic leaders in his State who are not
only making life a burden to him on
patronage, but even double-crossing
their own friends. It Is declared they