The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-03
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT 5. ALLEN

hODEh =. ALLEN
XXTASHINGTON. Oct. Am I'M
w recorded sensa ton was sprung
behind the closed doors of the Re
publican executive committee last
week.
Those who dropped the bombsheu
were a group of Eastern party lead
eIs-chiehy Charles d. Hiues Of
New York: J. Henry Roraback Of
Connecticut, and Daniel z. Pomeroy
Of New Jersey.
What they proposed was a coup
similar to that Of the present ma
tioal government in Great Britain
when it swept the Labor Party out
Of Office in 1881. The C. o. P. would
select a National" ticket. with
Republican as the standard bearer
and a prominent Democrat as his
running mate.
But this is not all To give the
slate a real national flavor. G.. o. p.
strategists proposed writing a Spe-
cific pledge into the tickets plat
form for national Cabinec made
up Of both Republicans and Demo
Gratis.
The proposal was eXcitedlv dis
cUSsed by committee members. and
although no formal vote was taken.
an informal Doll revealed IS Of the
10 members present 10 be enthusi-
aStically for it.
A lot more viii be heard of the
plan. Its hackers are pushing It
vigorously Their latest move was
to dispatch a confidential letter to
a number of key state and local
Republican leaders strongly recon-
mending the maneuver and asking
their support.
ON the surface all was harmony
~ at the meeting of the water
power moguls with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
But underneath there was an at
mOsphere of tension among the util-
ity executives. Obviously they were
still nursing wounds from their bat
tie to kill the Holding Company Act.
Before the deliberations began, the
power men sat for q photograph
with members Of the commission.
Noting a dour expression on the Wis
tiers faces, one Of the cameramen
asked them to please look a little
more pleasant"
To which Sam W. Murphy of
Electric Bond and Share retorted
sadly:
Wen do the best We can-under
the circumstances"
NNTHEN Hilda Smith was dean
Wv of women at Bryn Mawr Col
lege. listening to the tribulations OF
young girls, she thought she had a
problem on her hands. But now she
has traded that for the immense
job of teaching 1900 teachers how to
teach $4,000 workers.
DR.. Smith is a mild-mannered
woman OF so with grazing hair and
soft, kindly blue eyes. Sometimes
she is called Harry Hopkins Profess
sOr of Communism.
We don't teach Communism.
she says, with a faint smile. But
we allow discussion of it-provided
the other side is presented as we'll.
Her job is to take teachers off re-
lief rolls to teach workers who are
on relief rolls. They call it the pro-
gram for workers education, now
two years old.
Some cities don't like the idea of
having workers discuss political and
economic questions But Hilda
Smiths staff ignores this. They
have the 100 per cent backing Of
Harry Hopkins.
In one Southern town. permission
to use the local schoolhouse was de-
MED So the FERA teacher got his
workers together, piled them, plus
blackboard, into his car. and drove
out into the woods. Here he hung
the blackboard on the car and lee
tured to class sitting on tree
Stumps.
TINE real hero Of the coal strike
l. settlement was Edward F. Nc
Grady.
The Woodworking Assistant Sec
rotary Of Labor. acting as the Presi-
dents mediator, got all the brick
bats and none Of the credit. The
operators, particularly, were sore at
him.
You can't win this strike, he
barked. And Ill tell you why.
There was a time when. if miners
quit work and their credit was cut
of in your company stores, they
and their wives and children faced
starvation. After a few weeks the
miners morale was broken and they
went back to the diggings.
But that won't happen this time
Every man. woman and child viii
be fed by the government. Those
old strike breaking methods won't
work"
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