The Washington times., 1935-03-22
COLLEGE BOYS
FROZEN OUT
BY SHIFTS
Lack of Teamwork and
WrangIing Believed to
Have Forced Move
BY EARL GOODWIN
What's happening to the New

Deal team?
Is Quarterback Roosevelt call
ing the signals? Has he lost the
ball? Is he furnbling? And how
IS the team playing together?
Are these rumors of strife, jeal'
ousies and contentious correct?
The most conspicuous move in
the spring training Of this foot
ball team is the fact that Quarter
back (and Captain) Roosevelt Is
sending the Left Wingers to the
showers.
Rex Tugwell, head and fore.
front of this group, is sore and
hurt. But Captain Roosevelt finds
that, no matter how good indi'
vidually these left wing boys may
be, they don't know how to play
together. Team work Is some.
thing in which they haven't ex'
celled.
Seriously the New Deal Is find
ing that the Brain TrusterS are
largely critics, dissenters and in.
dividualists. One practical diff
ficulty is that many of them, in
positions where they have to deal
With the public, don't speak the
language of the business men who
come here to the NRA, the SEC,
the AAA, etc.
Mistake Admitted
One Of the mistakes the Ad-
miniStration admits it made in
the NRA is the appointment Of
large numbers of young Brain
Trusters who are over their heads
when they try to deal with ex-
perienced business men. These
are among the crew now being
sent to the showers. And by no
means will they finish the season
on the team.
Over in the SEC (Securities
and Exchange Commission) the
last place where one would ex-
pect to find Left Wingers, there
were several appointments which
have turned out to be fairly poor;
men whose theories were New
Dealesque in every way, but who
never had worked in an exchange
or a brokerage house and who
didn't understand the language
of various investment bankers,
exchange officials and others who
came in to get information.
These Left Wingers are being
replaced with men experienced in
the brokerage business, and who
are sympathetic to the ideals Of
the Roosevelt Administration.
.. Purge of the AAA
The purging of the AAA, a
move which brought tears to the
eyes of the Brain Trust, was in
the interests of administration
and team work.
Now the team which is left and
which is being shaken together
appears to be doing less disput-
ing, jawing and more playing.
There was a time few months
ago when the rumors about the
1ckes-Farley row were perfectly
true.
Postmaster General Farley be-
lieVed that Mr.. Ickes' man CLAWS
was tapping his telephone wires.
Mr.. Ickes, who denies the charge,
was so sore about it that at one
time he threatened to sue a lot
of newspapers which had printed
o rumor story about it, a story
which he believed reflected on
him.
The fact that Mr.. Ickes had
no use for Emil Hurja, of the
Democratic national committee,
interfered with perfect team
work. Instead of being brothers
in arms, Messrs. IckeS and Hurja
exhibited all the antipathy one
would expect from two strange
bulldogs. Then there was flare
up between Mr.. IckeS and James
A. Moffett, Federal Housing I'd
ministrator. 1t took President
Roosevelt quite a while to smooth
that row; but it has been COM
pletely forgotten, it would seem.
Anti-IckeS Move
There was actual basis for the
rumor some time ago that con.
certed move was being made to
push Mr.. IckeS out of the Cabi-
net. It was real enough for
President Roosevelt to call in
several congressional leaders to
find out about it.
That was during the time when
Members of Congress were scream
ing loudly that they'd never vote
for the Presidents public works
measure IF IckeS had anything
to do with it." This hysteria
was Gained by the discovery Of
the fact that the anti.Ickes pro-
paganda had been Matched out
by some public utility press
agents. 1t should be recalled
that few days ago the Senate
passed the bill extending for two
years the life of the PWA with.
out a peep about Mr.. 1ckes, and
with little opposition to the ball.
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