Evening star., 1935-04-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC EILLIAN VILE.

Every executive branch of the Gov
ernment with the single exception of
the Department Of State will have a
finger in the $4,000. 900 900 work-re-
lief pie. It's even possible that Secre-
tary Hull's establishment will have
to help out with some diplomacy when
the Roosevelt Walker -Ickes Hopkins
big four" is under siege by project
boosters from every nook and Granny
of the land If the President means
to be taken literally at his word that
every community, large or small, and
every fellow, big or little, is entitled
to a hearing before the Allotment
Board, there are already ample indi-
cations that the line will be long
one. as soon as it begins to form.
Members of Congress are likely to be
conspicuous in it. Some Senators
and Representatives, who were nope
full of leaving Washington after ad-
iournment, now expect to have to
spend a goodly portion Of their time
here during the Summer as advo-
Gates of home town and home-State
projects.
Throbbing and busy as Washington
has been ever since the dawn of the
New Deal. authorities are convinced
that the Capital is about to become
even a greater magnet. due to Nation
wide interest in work relief. With all
Federal agencies more or less concen-
trating upon the program. 1885 in
many respects will resemble war days
of 1918, the only difference being
that energies and activities this time
are directed against a domestic foe,
unemployment. President Roosevelt
as commander in chief Of the supreme
offensive against depression. embarks
upon the campaign in fighting spirit.
Coincident with completion Of ar
rangements for setting four billion
of work-relief dollars to rolling, the
National Economy League will launch
its big drive against Government ex-
penditure. The occasion will be
dinner in New York on May 7, at
which Senator Millard E. Tydings,
Democrat, of Maryland. described as
zone of the leaders of the new econ
omy bloc in the Senate" and former
Director of the Budget Lewis w.
Douglas will be the principal speak
ers. The keynote Of the Economy
League campaign Is demand for
balanced Federal budget in the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1886. Tydings
and Douglas are expected to fulmi-
nate vigorously against New Deal
spending.
While detailing the work-relief set
up at his most recent press conference,
President Roosevelt drew a series OF
circles to illustrate his meaning, and
at one time spoke of moving from the
left to the right" F. D. r. did not
have New Deal left-wingers and right
wingers in mind, but saw the point
when the scribes chuckled over the
allusion and wisecracked with them
about it.
With appointment of Charles Edi-
son to the National Recovery Indus
trial Board, another son Of famous
father enters the New Deal. Others
answering that description are w.
Averell Hartman, administrative ON
Ger of N. r. A., and Joseph H. Choate.
jr., chairman of the Federal Alcohol
Control Administration. Omcial WASH
ingtonians who are sons of distin-
= = A. 0~ ~~.kk
Champ Clark, Democrat, Of Missouri;
Senator Robert M. La Toilette, Pro-
gressive, of Wisconsin; Senator Fred
erick Hale, Republican. Of Maine, and
Chief Clerk Samuel j. Gompers of the
Department Of Labor.
Honest Harold" L. Ickes. chairman
of the Work-Relief Allotment Board.
probably thinks it's lucky thing that
he doesn't have to face the guns Of