Evening star., 1934-04-01
BY OWEN L. SCOTT.

A vigorous Red hunt in Wash
ington, pursued by a disinterested
congressional committee, quickly could
make interesting, even astounding,
discoveries.
1t would find the original brain
trust" which did research work for
Mr.. Roosevelt during the 1882 cam
paign. long since dissolved.
There would pop into the limelisht
new young liberals" ranging up to
73 years of age, and averaging well
over 40.
Back Of the exciting experiments
with the country's money. and loudly
crying for more of them, would be
discovered the Committee for the Ma
ton. composed Of leading big business
men.
AS a supporter Of the Presidents
monetary policy would come TO light q
member Of the House Of Morgan
1ndorsing the principle of the c. w.
A. and the p. w. A., with their heavy
outlay Of public money for relief and
construction, would appear some lead
ing lights of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
Discovered would be a Congress
itching to show the world that II
there Is any prospect of q presiden-
tial dictatorship in this country, II
knows nothing Of that prospect.
Also discovered would be about 200
college professors. These professors
are in Washington because, finally,
the Federal Government took a leaf
from the book Of experience of indus
trialists and called in the service of
disinterested experts. Back in the
days Of prosperity, industry drained
many colleges OF their best men.
Probably the biggest discovery Of
all, though, would be the trail OF q
big red herring.
If followed, this trail would lead
to the disclosure that some groups
believe that the Nation now has de-
voted enough attention to reform and
should turn all Of its energies and
attention to recovery.
This simply means that opposition
to the Presidents program is crystal
lizing.
That it should crystalline in the
form Of hunt for Reds" and for
revolutionaries has seemed inevitable
in Washington for some time. It
seemed so because every time any
thing new was proposed In Congress
opponents Of the President tried TO
tag it with the stamp Of the brain
trust" and of the young liberals" !"
and declared that the ideas came
from Moscow.
But Just where the Reds" are func-
tioning IN any responsible quarter in
Washington is profound mystery
that newspaper men here would like
to have solved.
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration and the Department of
Agriculture are supposed to be a ha-
ven for revolutionaries and revolu-
tionary ideas
Yet the domestic allotment plan of
farm relief. now being applied, was
urged by Henry I. Hartman. presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce Of
the United States. Likewise it was
backed by prominent officials of the
Committee for the Nation and by
other big business men.
Administering it are found Henry
Wallace, 43. of old American stock,
a Sunday school teacher, Y. M. G. A..
partisan. property owner. and Chester
c. Davis, ~. quiet. conservative. or
thodox, hard-headed farmer. school
teacher, editor. Both are lukewarm
to the idea of compulsory production
control
Or there is the brilliant Rexford
Guy Tuswell, original brain truster.
AZ, an excellent executive, believer
in economic planning. once q visitor
to Russia. Prof. Tugwell has the ear
Of the President. But his pet project
is a plan for strengthening the Fed
eral pure food and drug act, and that
project has been kicked around 30
much that he Is disguised.
Mordecai Ezekial. IS. q member Of
the Department of Agriculture under
Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. is
another under fire. Ezekial Is quiet,
difident. far from wild-eyed radi-
cal His chief misfortune was that he
devised a way to determine the cycle
of hog prices by the use Of loga-
rithms. This was too much for Con-
eress, and every time It wants q laugh
some member reads the Ezekial for
mula. The mere fact that it works Is
lost sight Of. The idea is that any
one who can apply logarithms to hog
prices must be dangerous.
II r
Jerome Prank. As, for 20 years q
corporation lawyer In Chicago. Is
linked with Tugwell. as radical. He
Is a product of the University of Chi
cago. In his ONCE are q number Of
young lawyers from the Harvard Law
School, where they attracted the at
tention of Prof. Felix Frankfurter.
Prof. Frankfurter is friend Of the
President and 1t may be that he Is
the font of radicalism now being as
sailed. 80.
Then there Is DR.. Fredric G. Howe,
67 fhs rongA1ners' rn,inse1 for the