, 1935-09-18
WASHINGTON
BY Ray Tucker


Tugwells. Wallaces. Cohens. Corco-
rams - are too loyal to President
Roosevelt to express their qualms
publicly. but they are mildly disturb
ed over recent trends toward the
right. Having almost no political
savvy it's hard for them to under
stand that an administration must
be right as well as left now and then.
What they think they detect Is
an accumulation or evidence that
their leaders flair for pioneering and
experimentation is slowly disap-
pearing under the pressure or Co
nomic and political realities. They
have In mind such things as the pro-
clamation Of a breathing spell to
business. the rough note TO Moscow.
the emphasis on economy, Hopkins
curtaiiment OF advances for con
struction Of public power plants. the
emergence OF advisers known TO be
ultra-conservative in their views and
viewpoints.
Whenever Mr.. Roosevelt veered to
the right in the first fine, feverish
days his enthusiastic liberals assured
friends not 70 take II too seriously.
His legislative demands at the last
session seemed TO prove they knew
what they we're talking about. But
now they're not so sure.
symptoms - What worries them
most Is Dan Roper's c~loseness to the
throne these days. They have good
reason TO know that the Secretary
Of Commerce feels little sympathy
for the more revolutionary aspects
OF the New Deal. They noted that
he dropped into the background
while they trod the stage but that
now he occupies a prima donna role.
Mr.. Roper. however. Is the presi-
dents contact nan with Big Busi-
ness. He has nursed along the con-
servative boys with promises as gen.
erous as his Cabinet critics have Civ
en- to the liberals. With some sue
cess, too. On hts recent trip to
Hyde Park he reported 70 the pres
ident that his financial friends we're
disposed TO accept the offer OF an
armistice In good faith. II was the
best news Mr. Roosevelt had heard in
q long while.
Mr.. Roper expects to placate his
Business Advisory Committee when
they meet here within a few weeks.
Chairman Harry Kendall visits
washington several days a week and
the Secretary takes him in physical
and spiritual tow. When they Quit
the Capital In June they were threat
ening TO resign In q buSinesSlike
body.
Losses - Great BrItain's audacity
In defying MuSsolini at Geneva was
breath-taking TO insiders who sus-
pect that the empire" suffers from
a secret but little suspected diminu-
ton OF man-power statesmen,
diplomats. military leaders and pub
lie servants. The same applies to
Laval's France In less degree.
Each year England used TO train
an official class Of 5000 boys and
men. The began In private and
public schools. continued at Harrow
and Elton (where Waterloo was won)
and finished In public office. But
for eight years - 19l4-1922 - this
reservoir Of man-poWer was drain
ed dry by war losses and postwar
impoverishment. There are great
gaps - perhaps 10000 men - in
the trained line which England once
threw athwart the continent - and
the world. II explains why young
sterS and oldsterS - Eden in his
thirties and Hoare In his seventies
now speak for England in the worlds
councils.
Mussolini and Hitler benefited
from Franco-British experience.
They have foStered youth movements
and nothing was ever too good for
young offshoots of dictatorship.
Now, they must have felt. was the
time for them to strike against a
Britain and France impoverished
IN man-power. But II may not turn
oct that way.
Bogging-The National Youth Ad-
ministration has proved a distinct
disappointment TO its sponsors and
friends. AS Whirligig reported. II
was framed and promulgated with
almost no pioneer blowing.
1t was supposed TO draw up a per-
manent. longtime program in the
interest OF youngsters who cannot
afford an education or who quit col
.lege only TO stare at the blank wall
Of unemployment. So far IL has
drawn on its federal endowment Of
$4,000. 900 70 furnish s6 a week to
needy students. 1t stands in danger
Of becoming Just another work re-
lief and lending project.
Changes In executive personnel
may be forthcoming. Aubrey VIII
liams. the actual boss, has too many
other jobs for him 70 think out and
direct a worthwhile educational pro-
gram. Moreover, he is slightly tenn
peramental. Miss Josephine Roche,
advisory head. cannot find time from
other duties In take ON this extra