Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-10-14

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Roosevelt's nomination. Farley
brought Joe to New York headquar-
tiers and found him most valuable.
So after Inauguration he made him
assistant postmaster general.
Farley thinks he helped put O'Ma-
honey in the senate. Actually Joe
had lots of friends up and down the
wide spaces of thinly populated Wy
oming, acquired when he was Sec
rotary to the late Sen. John B. Ken
drick. He had become political
power in his own right, or Farley
would not have been so solicitous
when he was delegate hunting. But,
human nature being what it is, Far
ley thinks he tmade" O'Mahoney.
So he and Roosevelt were pretty
sore when the youngster decided to
fight the court change.
AS the presidential train neared
Wyoming it developed that the Pres
ident had invited Sen. Harry H.
Schwartz, the governor, and lots OF
other officials to ride on his train,
but had not invited O'Mahoney. The
intention was obvious.
But Joe appeared, smiling and
happy apparently, and climbed on
the train! The President paid prac-
tically no attention to him, and lots
to his colleague, Senator Schwartz,
to the governor, and the other DEM
ocratic organization leaders.
But Mrs. Roosevelt didn't under
stand about the purge" She made
quite a fuss over Joe, as she is apt
to do about anybody she likes, and
she likes lots of people. This was
all in plain sight of the ordinary
citizens, who could see the First
Lady and the recalcitrant senator
hobnobbing on the back platform at
every stop!
"The Peoples Lobby"
The words "The Peoples Lobby"
do not mean very much to most of
the folks out in the country. 1t
might be exaggerating to say they
meant much in Washington, though
the acute and personable Benjamin
Clarke Marsh who heads it is not
only we'll known but loved by hun
dreds of newspaper men and Off
Gals.
Also it is rather difficult to CLASH
fly ''The Peoples Lobby" as to
whether it is radical or conserva-
tive, New Deal or anti-sometimes
even as to whether it is humorous
or serious.
But Ben Marsh has just made an
appeal to President Roosevelt,
which on it's face is as liberal as
all out-of-doors, but in it's implica-
tons, as they are taken by some OF
the conservatives, as reactionary as
the Ten Commandments, or the re-
minder that man shall eat bread in
the sweat of his brow.
1t is a double-barreled request
that Marsh made of the President.
One barrel demands a subsidy for
consumers. 1t insists that the fed
eral Treasury shall make up to the
consumers of this country in regu-
lar checks something like the old
AAA checks-or the new AAA
checks, for that matter-what the
various New Deal agencies and
schemes add to his cost of living.
Without word of criticism for
the idea of paying farmers not to
raise crops, or to restrict their acre
age, and apparently conceding that
the government owes it to the farm
ers to guarantee them prices which
assure them the fruits of their toll,
the petition insists that this increase
should not come out of the hides OF
the consumers, many if not most
of whom are just a little further
down in the underprivileged class
than the farmers, and on whom
these benefits for the farmers are
now a heavy load, and likely to be-
come back-crushing one.
Puts Wallace on Spot
Then there is polite inquiry
about the ever-normal granary
Marsh and his aides want to know
if the Henry A. Wallace plans for
this institution are calculated or
normal consumption, or whether
they are calculated on the amount
of farm products this country would
consume if price were no object
1t is hard to figure whether the
petition or the question is the more
embarrassing. If one carries the
petition for a consumer subsidy tc
it's logical conclusion, shaping il
with New Deal concepts as to what
the underprivileged should have, il
works out to either Utopia or chaos
according to the mental slant Of
the person doing the calculating.
On the other hand, the question
certainly puts Secretary Wallace or
the spot. Of course he has calcu
lated his estimates as to the ever
normal granary on consumption
which may practically be expected
mot on possible consumption if ev
cry man, woman and child should
have all they need Nothing else
obviously, would aid on prices
But it is asking rather much O.
the President, or Secretary Wallace
to acknowledge that their ever-nor