The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-28
] BEHIND l THE SCENJESI WASHINGTON wV ROONEY DUTcHER-t
 Democrat Washington.
 Correspondent
Frank C. Walker, New Deal Trouble
 Shooter, To Become
 Budget Director

Washington. Oct. 28.-Frank O. Walker, New Deal troubleshooter and mystery man." is likely to be- come director of the Bureau of the Budget.
 The element of doubt about 1t appears to rest in the question whether Roosevelt can persuade Walker to take over the job. Here tofore Walker usually has succumb- ed to the blandishmentS of his close friend in the White House when the latter has beseeched him to take over a difficult administration job. Walker doesn't want to be director of the Budget, but he probably Will be, just the same.
 The budget and the matter of
 balancing 1t have become an in-
 creasingly serious problem In the
 Presidents mind. Ever since Die rector Lew Douglas quit In protest
 against New Deal spending p0li- Cies, in 1884, the budget has been in charge of capable Acting Direc-
 tor Dan Bell, who is guided to 8
 large degree by Secretary of the Treasury MOrganthau, who in turn is so subject to White House Su-
 pervisiOn that Roosevelt some.
 times is called "his own Secretary of the Treasury"
 The fact that neither the udget dictatorship nor the post of comp troller of the currency, vacated by John R. McCarl, have ever been filled is at least partly attributable to the fact that the previous inc cumbent proved too independent and recalcitrant for the Presidents comfort.
 Walker, a lawyer-business man with considerable prestige here and in New York, would be 6 strong fig- ure in the job and his appointment probably would appeal to business men, since he Is considered more conservative than otherwise. On the other hand he always has been com pietely devoted to Roosevelt, al- though as an adviser of the more cautious type, and would be fairly sure to see things in the White House way. One function of the Budget Bureau is to approve or dis approve appropriations by Congress.
 It always has been understood that Walker, close financial and political adviser, could have vir- tually any appOintive government job he wanted. But he never wanted any. Roosevelt drafted him, first to head the Executive Council and seek to coordinate the New Deal, and later to head the National mergency Council, one of whose chief jobs was to set up machinery for WPA appli-
 cations from the states.
 Change in Nationality
 One of the most popular souvenir shops on Pennsylvania avenue, heavily patronized by tourists, was the one which carried the "Oriental Bazaar-Japanese Gift Shop"
 Recently the owners, David Gold burg and Macy Cohen, found they weren't doing so well. The made in Japan" stock was especially slug gish in moving.
 So now the shop has become the Chinese. Bazaar" and no more Japanese goods are being bought for sale.
 The Fear of War
 Attack by Senator Hiram Johnson of California on Roosevelt's new foreign policy" was @ distinct let- down to some of the administration strategists. They had been confident that anti-JapaneSe sentiment on the Pacific Coast was strong enough to persuade Johnson and other far- fest isolationists to refrain from criticism. But Johnson makes no bones of his fear that Roosevelt, exercising his executive discretion, may bungle the country into war. Building Up Hoover
 Preponderant belief among all political groups in Washington is that eX-Governor Ali Landon'g radio address, designed largely as 6 big for support in his feud with Herbert Hoover over Republican party control, did as much indirect ly to build Up Hoover as anything that has happened for long time. Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Icn)