The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-27
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
By DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT 5. ALLEN

CT. LOUIS. Sept. 27.-The political
- sand dunes have been shifting
here in recent months. but the
President will find that this mule
state of the Midwest probably has
undergone little net change in its
support OF his New Deal despite
that shifting.
Folks grouse and grumble. COM
plain about waste and expense. But
when you pin them down. the ma
jOrity admit that. barring some
political hara-kiri by the Admins
tration between now and November.
1896. they will mark an TX" in the
Roosevelt column and he will carry
the state by as large a majority as
in 1882.
All this despite the fact that the
Missouri Democratic machine is en-
Ioying anything but Salubrious sail
ing.
Since it took over state control
from the Republicans several years
back. things have been going from
bad to worse. There was one shoot
ing scrspe among Democratic lead
ers There has been endless internal
diSsension.
OF course, Roosevelt always has
" that vitriolic old veteran. jim
Reed. to contend with. Missouri
has an abiding affection for Jim and
his satanic tongue. And in recent
months that tongue probably has
Spat more venom at the New Deal
than any other in the Midwest.
But Missouri has got into the
habit of discounting the Senator's
rancor. 1t remembers that Jim is
still smarting over the treatment his
new wife, dresSmaker Nell Donnelly.
got from the NRA on the manufac-
ture of her dresses.
Also there is Bennett Champ
Clark, young Senator with an old
tradition of which Missouri is proud.
who pays allegiance to Roosevelt.
ATONE Of this. however. gets down
~ to the real reason why people
out this way still are for Roosevelt.
Perhaps that reason can be sum-
married in the words of a grocery
clerk who. after a critical analysis
of the Presidents spending program
and the waste of relief funds, con-
Guided:
But I'll say this-he certainly has
tried hard And a lot of what he's
done has helped. After all, a man
can't be right all the time. Any
way, who have the Republicans got
to offer that's any better?"
This is quite a general expression.
There is a feeling that Roosevelt
and his New Deal must be given
more time. There is much criticism
of the Presidents judgment, of his
breaking of campaign promises. of
red tape and ineficiency. But al
most in the next breath, the critics
alibi.
Out in the state, sentiment is the
same.
Farmers complain that the AAA
is only helping the professors, that
store goods have sky-rocketed. But
in the end they admit they're for
Roosevelt.
Were in an awful jam, us farm
erS," drawled one of them, leaning
against the post Of a broken-down
wire fence he hadn't had money to
repair. I'VE sure are. But by
crump, it weren't Roosevelt that got
us into it, now, were it? That fell
low Hoover sat around four years
talking about raising prices, and he
didn't do anything neither.
This fellow has got prices up
little and he's giving us some cash
benefit payments That amt enough
to pull us out of the hole. but it's
better than we was doing before"
IN more sophisticated or well-to-do
i circles, of course. it's a different
story-sometimes a bitter, vehement
story.
Such was the story told by the
good looking, well-tprned-ou young
lady in the cocktail lounge of the
hotel.
Its a racket" she opined, moth
ing in the world but racket.
know some of the biggest men in
politics here, and in Illinois and in
Indiana.
so let's be frank The pretense
is that we boost prices so that bust
ness men all along the line will
make more money, and can afford to
pay their workers more money.
The prices have all gone up.
Way up. The business men are
making their profits. But do they
pay higher wages? You bet they
don't. It's SO a week for waiting on
table in a restaurant. It's IS a
week for shop girls, and maybe as
high as So for factory jobs where
you work sometimes II hours a day.
who can live on that? I voted
for Roosevelt last time. but won't
do it again
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