, 1935-07-09
WASHINGTON

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week q short, nervous figure alights
at Union Station from the crack
overnight Boston Washington ex-
press and says TO q taximan,
white Hcnse." The colonial ON
muter Is the presidents one-man
brain trust-Prof. Felix Frankfurt
CT OF Fair Harvard.
The erudite educator has not
been seen around Washington for
two weeks. His absence explains
why no presidential demand for q
social or economic housekeeping
has reached Capitol Hill during
that period. But until late June
his arrival heralded q new demand
for reform legislation as surely as
the first robin on the green meant
spring was around that famous
corner.
Who Is advising the PRESIDENT"
has been the most plaguy and per-
sistent question In congressional
cloakrooms for two years. Senate
and house leaders have fu1ned and
fumbled in the dark. All they know
is that they have not had MI.
Roosevelt's ear. Few have met the
godfather OF the New Deal The
White House never advertises his
presence or philosophy.
Adjustments-But you can fool
people - even senatorS-only so
long. Lately they have studied
Prof. Frankfurter's fine hand Us
revealed in his writings. Here Is
what they find:
Taxation: we must recognize
the profound shift in the very
purposes OF taxation. Theodore
Roosevelt was the first president
ayowedly TO use the taxing power
a a direct agency Of social policy.
More and more It is bound 70 serve
as q powerful means for directing
the flow OF wealth 70 social uses"
Railroads. In one form or p
other, whether through admins
trative action or legislation or VOL
untary Arrangement, or a combin-
alton Of these, we must contract
the capital structures"
Supreme court, public utilities.
NRA. AAA: I'm a period OF rapid
change like ours the pace OF So
rial adjustments must be quicken
ed. Poignant experience has MADE
us realize the public implications
OF interests heretofore treated as
private. Such interests must be
stripped Of many Of their past i'm
munities and subjected 70 appro-
pirate responsibility. The courts
win be called upon 70 make ana
sustain extensive readjustments."
written in collaboration with
Pupil ''Tommie" COrcoran nov on
the house lobby investigating Erill)
Example-Jim Farley may yet
balance his budget on anti-New
Deal mail. The apparent success
OF the utilities chain-letter lobby
has proved an inspiration 70 cor
porationS which n fnrted Win
the White House.
Congressional matlb are
bloated with inspired letters from
stockholders blasting the proposed
increase In the corporation tax.
United States Rubber and a Stand
ard Oil subsidiary wer first TO es-
tabish correspondence schools.
Their messages warn that the is ga
tax might wpe out dividends and
urge stockholders to complain 10
their congressman. The form letter
suggested IN q blistering philippe.
The utilities YER gentlemen by
comparison.
TEL your congressman" said
the master-letter, that you did not
put Mr.. Roosevelt In office 20 So
clalize the United States. Tell him
that Gene Debs used 70 run on that
ticket and he was dIsastrously de-
feated every time"
Warned Senatorial bookies are
are laying heavy odds that Huey
Long won't taunt Carter Glass any
more. Bets viii be paid off when de-
bate starts on the virginian's ON
Huey takes delight IN twittins the
senator from Virginia. Mr.. Glass
disdains to reply In kind-or un-
kind-and his age precludes q pny-
steal encounter. His ~helplessness so
upsets the senRte's financial
pert that he does not always ap-
pear &C his best on the floor The
impish Ringfish unnerves him.
Harry Byrd, who loves his cole
league, finally took matters into
his own husky hands. Crossing
Huey In the cioakroom, he pushed
his big fist under the Louisianan's
pert nose. Listen" growled Harry,
~ you bother Carter Glass again,
this fist lands on your beak." Cor
polite words to that effect.) Know
ing Huey and knowing Harry. SEN
ate fight fans expect to be disap-
pointed.
Headachs - Framing eligibility
rules for work relief offers two
edged problems.
Rule No. ! was that workers
should be taken from the relief
army. Rule No. 2 was supposed to
be that anybody on relief who