Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-02-04
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gle man or woman close to Presi-
dent Roosevelt understands him
completely. Certainly no one has
done much talking around Washing
ton who can understand all his
friendships-each Individual Won
ders why Franklin tolerates
someone else who undoubtedly is on
the inside.
Various of the Frandurter boys,
for instance, wonders how in the
name of all that is holy the Presi-
dent can place such dependence up
on Secretary of State Cordel Hull.
General Hugh S. Johnson does not
understand how in the world The
Chief can stand Donald r. Rich
berg-and Richberg does just
little wondering about how Mr..
Roosevelt can put up with so much
of "Crackdown's'' strutting.
Columns would be required just
to enumerate cases of this sort, but
just to name Justice Louis D. Bran
deis and Senator Joseph 7. Robin
son, who hopes, probably vainly,
to one day be Brandeis' colleague
is to put the idea about as strongly
as it could be put.
At the moment great many of
the Roosevelt admirers and ieuten-
ants are wondering what in the
world the President wanted with the
kind of Inauguration he permitted
Admiral Cary T. Grayson to ar
range. Just as many wondered at
the extraordinary preparations that
preceded the notification ceremo-
MES which were the concluding fea-
lures of the Philadelphia conven-
ton.
What those doing this wondering
and the wondering of last June
overlook is that Mr.. Roosevelt is
one of the most consummate show.
men ever to figure in he public
life of America.
Both that mammoth notification
meeting and this years Inaugural
ton were to the President just
shows, shows put on designedly for
impressing certain elements of
the electorate. Mr.. Roosevelt real
ICES perfectly what great many
of the more intellectual of his
friends and admirers and advisers
do not-that a very large percent
age of the electorate does not do
much serious thinking even on
the plane to which the late Arthur
Brisbane was thought-provoking.
It thrills, and feels, and believes!
Cater to Electorate
But to have this big section of
the electorate on ones side is vital
to any one who would govern.
Roosevelt knows it. Hitler knows
it, Mussolini knows it, Stain knows
it. To get away from comparisons
which may seem invidious, if not
odious, William Jennings Bryan
knew it. Even Calvin Coolidge knew
it, as any one will realize who re-
members that the Vermonter
pitched hay for the movies when
merely to get close to a horse
provoked a form of hay fever which
devastated him for days at time.
Normally reinauguration is not
very exciting to Washington. 1t
could easily become an absurdity.
Yet Woodrow Wilson, who did not
have one-tenth of the showmanship
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, stood for
very elaborate inaugural parade
for his second term, little as he
privately approved of such dem
onstration.
Just so, it was not enough back
last June to know that Philadelphia
would be amply able to pack any
enclosure that could be selected
for the notification ceremony. Phil
adelphia itself had to be impressed
with train load after train load
of outsiders pouring in to do the
President honor-to drive home the
esteem in which people from other
places held the party's candidate.
Other places had to be impressed
by departure of trainloads of pros
pective spectators.
The plain facts are that the Pres
ident wanted to confine the parade
this time to military organizations.
Forgotten Men
The hardest hit class of white col
lar workers, back in 1929, was bond
statesmen. Now that a real boom
seems to be on, with money seek
ing investment and business striv-
ing for new all-time highs-except
of course where there are strikes
the bond salesman is still the for
gotten man.
The supposedly liberal and for
ward looking securities and ex-
change commission is being re-
viled by the radicals and liberals on
Capitol Hill for permitting a two
per cent charge on a new bond is
sue by bankers. Several dissent
ing members of the commission
held that there was not enough COM
petition in arranging this banking
service-that two very large stock
holders in the corporation were al
so interested in the underwriting
firm.
This is taken for granted, but the
old bond selling houses are aghast
at the idea that if this desired COM
petition had been present the I'M
dar,uritinc fec world have been