, 1935-06-21
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By Raw Tucker

bud Influential progressive
friend wants FDR 70 become the
Christopher Columbus OF American
politics.
This adviser asks the president to
open up by placing all postal APP
pointments the choice cuts OF the
The next step in the scheme would
be to supplant MI. Farley with q
business man whose indifference TO
machine politics would be above sus-
picion.
The proposal has been advanced
as the most powerful issue Mr. Roose-
welt could pull out Of the hat for
1886. Though the president pro-
fesses TO toy with the idea. IL won't
take. Secretary Roper's certainty
Of succeeding Mr.. Farley viii drop
the p. o. deeper into partisanship.
Mr.. Roper's whole family is on the
federal payroll. Some say that IN
Gle Dan invented politics.
SnOOty - Attorney General Cum
mings needs more team work in his
outer office. tim ay save him some
grief next time.
A house committee recently framed
a report which denounced the fed
eIal district attorney at the capt.
tai - a Cummings ~appointCe - IS
incompetent and recommended his
removal. A smart democratic mem
Der obtained an advance copy. and
blocked committee approval while
she phoned the "A. q. Practical re-
publicans were willing TO help out.
The idea was that administration
fixers would use their influence ana
kill the document in CON mittee.
But. MI. Cummings secretaries &C
ted snooty over the telephone. First
they said Ii was impossible TO make
an appointment. Then they vouch-
safed fifteen minutes at m Inconven-
lent hour of the day. Tie disguised
democrat dropped the matter. and
now the A. G. is squirming ever the
revelations.
Three - Railroaders should not
rejoice too soon at the dr'ay ~ nam
ing a senatorial commit ~ TO IntcS-
tigate their financing. The investl-
cations sponsor Burt Wheeler OF
Montana - is pulling his punches
deliberately.
Disclosures OF fantastic financing
mark only the first move in Wheel
er's game. What he seeks Is pro-
paganda to bulwark his demand for
government ownership. He wants
to force the issue into the 1886 cleo
tons. But he Is too old a hand at
investigating he got Harry
Daugherty ten years ago to spill
purple headlines when newspaper
readers are pursuing golf and base
ball o He will do his stuff
next fall.
Coordinator Eastman has already
marked three roads for this sena-
toral slaughter. "A good guess would
include the Frisco. the Missouri Pa
cific and the Denver, Rio Grande
a. Western. There will be others.
LaFollette - Some slick maneuv-
ering in senate clOakrooms revolves
around choice OF the late Bronson
Cuttings successor on the Banking
dlAQ 0~LAlNAlIN GOllAAtllAttNs
ADMINISTRATORS won't say so
openly but they want the post to faI
to Young Bob" LaFollette Of Wis
consin. He favors the extreme Ec-
Giles banking bill and this keystone
OF R~oosevelt's future financial pro-
gram may rock In the balance when
the committee votes. LaFCliette also
sponsors the inheritance taxes Sc
cretly desired by the White House
But nobody dares to father the APP
pointment Of a LaFollettc 10 a BODY
SO important to eastern conserya-
tives.
Joe Robinson told COP Leader
McNary that Cuttings place really
ought TO 60 TO a democrat. But"
said the democrat ~graCiouSly, If
you want the place. Mac. you ear
have II BY appointing LaFollette.
Snapped the republican. IF you
want him SO badly. appoint him your
SELF"
Clinch - Secretary Morgenthau
may have killed two birds with Cne
stone when he furnished dollars to
stem the recent monetary crisis AZ
Paris. Despite prOfuse French
thanks, he acted as a Iirancier ra-
ther than a phiianthropist.
France needs sterilization Of cur
Iency, and the United States would
agree on certain terms our terms
But England In not ready just vet
BY keeping France on its financial
feet this country preserves IN ally
and makes a friend for the day when
the statesmen stretch their feet n
der a golden table.
Here enters the second problem.
The Roosevelt administra on insists
that our dollar has been stabilized in
a practical way. Any world confer
ence. in our view, must accept that
as a premise. In other words, thev
must stabilize on Offr terms rims