The Washington times., 1936-08-04
PRESIDENT FIT,
READY FOR
CAMPAIGN
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt is in the
pink of condition, with the little
lines all gone around his eyes and
ready for the hardest political
campaign of his experience.
He has been loafing in old pants
and a sweater, fishing a lot, hav.
ing the sort of fun he likes the
best with his sons in a sail boat,
and is now about to take charge
of his own campaign.
AS far as his health is con-
cerned, take it from DR.. Ross T.
McIntire, his official physician,
the President is now 100 per cent,
with a deep tan, and a deeper
and louder laugh than ever. DR..
McIntire was with the President
during the entire sailing period of
his vacation and has just returned
to the city.
He also gives Col. Marvin McIn-
tyre, the Presidents assistant Sec
retary, a clean bill of health and
says that for the first time Mac"
found out that he couldn't work
1S hours a day and not take a
beating from Old Dame Nature
herself.
No Sunday Fishing
Incidentally it is disclosed that
President Roosevelt is an observer
of the Sabbath Day on a fishing
trip. There vas no fishing, no
sailing on Sundays on this trip.
The whole party in three boats
lay-to and rested. Religious exer-
ciseS were held aboard the Po-
tomac, which is the Presidents
official yacht accompanying the
Presidents sailing vessel.
President Roosevelt's greatest
political problem today, it is be-
lieved, is the politics OF the
drought area.
Although the President is I'M
willing to discuss the coming
presidential tour of the drought
regions as a political matter,
many of his political aids are
worried over the fact many
drought7stricken farmers are
blaming their troubles on Presi-
dent Roosevelt. That is the gen.
eral history of politics of a
drought in all administrations;
the current President got the
blame. The reasons for this pc
culiar situation are explained by
a farm leader, who will be on
the Roosevelt side of the cam
paign, in these words:
"The farmer who goes
through a drought experience
is sick at heart. He is bitterly
hurt and he is so desperate
that he wants to lash out at
the first thing that comes
to hand. He votes against the
administration as general
protest against all his hard
luck. This is the experience of
us all with several drOughtS
in several administrations.
"Of course, President ROOSe-
velt's administration is doing
a big relief job in the drought
area, and the anti-ROOSevelt
feeling will be ameliOrated in
some degree by this work. The
more of it and the better it is
administered, the more it will
ness politically"
Finding Fault
Farmers in the dry areas are in
a state of mind where they are
finding fault with the current
relief plans; and this is one of the
things the Democratic high COM
mand must work out.
President Roosevelt will be out
in that area in about three weeks
There is some speculation as to
whether or not he will double or
even treble the amount of cash
relief now being administered
from here. At any rate, his
drought committee of experts in
Guiding Morris Cooke, and some
of the officials of the ReSettlement
and Works Progress administra-
tions will probably meet the Pres
ident at Rapid City, S. D., about
August 26. Meantime politicians
here say that Republican Senator
Capper is making it hard for Re
publican candidate Landon by
asking for full Roosevelt style
drought relief for Kansas, while
Governor Landon, of Kansas, is
trying to work out Statewide
drought relief problem which he
can administer without asking the
Roosevelt administration for a
thing.
VOTE AMERICAN
Census in Sweden
STOCKHOLM G.N.S) The
total number of Swedish industrial
workers is now approximately 438,-
400, Of whom some 10000 are
women. The engineering indus
tries employ $500 and the saw
mills $4,000. The City of Stock
holm has 41,0OO, Gothenburg
nearly $4,000, and Malmo about
10000 industrial workers.