The Washington times., 1937-02-08
INSIDE BOYS
SC00PED BY
PRESIDENT
BY EARL GOODWIN

FTeSlQ6IlC HOOSeVelL showed WIN
dramatic clesrneSs that when it
comes to keeping an executive Of
flee secret he is superb. There
was not one so-called "close ad-
wiser" of the President who antici-
pated the Presidents cracking l5-
man Supreme Court message-and
the thing burst on an unprepared
world Just in time to add great
authority to the White House
"kibosh" which had been draped
upon the shoulders of DR.. Stanley
High, who had been spreading
serious and pontifical information
about the President in widely CIR
culated magazines.
All Missed Story
"Close advisers" had been telling
the world all about everything the
President has been thinking ana
intends to do-but the whole tribe
of "close advisers" and other al
leeedly wellinformed persons
missed the biggest bit of inside m
formation at the White House
since the beginning OF this Admin
istration.
Not even Jimmie" Roosevelt,
the executive office odd-jobs man,
nor Col. Marvin Hunter Mcintyre,
assistant secretary, knew what was
coming.
The "close advisers" who really
know and who are out OF the puo-
lie eve, who never burst forth into
print, selling their inside stuff to
publishers, are probably the men
who helped the President with ms
message. This may be wild
guess, but indications point to
Donald Richberg, former NRA
chief, and to Felix Frankturter'
Harvard law head and always at
the White House, as conceallng.
and, of course. Attorney General
Cummings.
President Roosevelt shows more
and more antipathy to the news
paper discussions of his plans in
advance of their complete an
nouncement - more often than
not by himself.
Labor and Industry
Take the specific case OF the
Administration plans toward the
settlement or alleviation of the
serious unemployment problem.
Labor and industry have got to
get together on this job-the Presl-
dent has made it very plain TO
industry that taxes for relief, ETC.,
will remain where they are unless
and until industry begins to en-
ploy more men-more men over
40 specifically.
Well, the President has talked
on all sides of this subject with
many groups of labor leaders, in
dustrialiSts, bankers, chamber OF
commerce officials, his own Busi-
ness and Advisory Council, and all
told he has discussed large num-
ber Of subjects and wide variety.
Whenever anyone of these groups
has talked enough about his con-
versation with the President to
break into print, there has been
marked irritation in high Admins
tration circles.
The President is the master Of
the news at the White House. He
has managed to quiet down even
the most voluable of the Senators
and Representatives who come to
see him, and inasmuch as few
members of Congress, aside from
the leaders who have their hands
on the throttle, get into the Presl-
dents office, they generally man
age to come and go with a mini
mum of interesting information.
Going 1t Alone
It is now difficult for even the
remainder of that once formid-
able Brain Trust group to predict
what is going to happen, as the
President has cast off all prior
attachments and is going it alone.
The radical, parlor-pink variety
Of New Dealer is now as much
in the dark as any Republican
might be.
The President was seriously up
set about the pretentions of DR..
Highs publishers. DR.. High was
o factor in the campaign, but by
no means major factor.
When DR.. High, as close ad-
visor of the President, predicted
that the President was about to
crack down on unfair newspapers,
correspondents, who could find
no constitutional method of
White House censorship of news,
wondered who was looney now.
They wired Stephen Early, Presi-
dents well-known press secretary,
at that moment chasing a golf
ball across Florida.
Mr.. Early, not advised of the
High plan for the President,
thought the query was just one
more joke-and wired back in
kind. But this statement of DR..
Highs was brought to the Presi-
dents attention and started the
train Of thought which ended in
the official firing squad for the
late "Close Adviser to the Presi-
dent"