Evening star., 1936-05-07
NEW DEAL UNEASY
OVER PROFESSORS.
Nicholson Puts New Hues
on Role of Idea Pro-
moterS.
BY CARLISLE BARGERON.

| Although the New Dealers have
been having a lot of fun with the Re-
| publican professors, it develops that
they are becoming increasingly ner-
vous about their own.
Charlie Nicholson, their publicity
director, is seeking to get over the i'm
preston through the country news
papers that the New Deal professors
are simply research men who supply
the President with data. Nicholson,
who is in frequent consultation with
the President these days, took the
occasion of Prof. Ray Moley's week.
| end visit with the President, to seek
to inculcate this idea.
Denying that there is any rift
between Moley and the President, not
withstanding that the professor is now
doing everything possible to kill the
pending tax measure and also Is in
opposition to Mr.. Roosevelt's general
attitude toward business. Nicholson
wrote for the information of the
country editors:
"They are still intimate friends and
frequent consultants. The President
does not insist that everybody should
agree with him in all things. In
deed, If he did so, he would have had
to dissolve the So-called Brain Trust
long ago, for in the days when the
New Deal program was at the stage
of legislative enactment there we're
all manner of differing opinions
among the eminent collegians who
were doing the research work for the
President. He discarded many more
proposals than he accepted, but he
valued the opinion of these experts
and drew on their knowledge for the
data on which he based his decisions" !"
Reforms Still Pend.
1t Is noteworthy that the impression
is also sought to be created here that
the reform phase of the New Deal Is
over He refers to the time when
the New Deal was at the stage of
legislative enactment" as If that
were something in the past. AS a
matter of fact, two reform bills are
pending on the must calendar for
this SeSSion-the tax bill and that
striking at the chain stores.
Michelson's picture of the professors
as simply research men overlooks
those of them who are executives, in
cluding Prof. Tugwell, who Is much
in the background these days, and
Prof. Herman Olpihant, who as
general counsel Of the Internal
Revenue Department, is very prom
inent in the consideration of the
pending tax bill. It also overlooks
the influence of Prof Felix Frank
furter, who has had played a prom
inent part in the New Deal and who
is directly responsible for section
in the pending tax bill hitting at the
power holding companies.
Rejoicing and Sorrowing.
Many observers and Republicans
threw up their hands when it was
learned the Republican National Com
mittee had employed professors to dc
research work, because they though II
took away one of the Republicans
best issues.
It develops, though, that while the
New Dealers have outwardly rejoiced
over this, they are more concerned
about their own professors than ever
before. The action of the Republican
Committee, it is pointed out. has
served to throw the whole professor
picture into relief. With the people
thinking more about the professors
than heretofore, those of this belief
hold. the Republicans will have ar
advantage because they are not ir
Office and have no responsibility.
AS on shrewd political observer put
: it: THE party out of power car
7 never make a mistake"