The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-10-14

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 a political
power in his own right, or Farley
would not have been so solicltous
when he was delegate hunting. But,
human nature being what it IS, Far
ley thinks he made" O'Mahoney.
So he and Roosevelt were pretty |
sore when the youngster decided to
fight the court change.
AS the presidential train neared
Wyoming 1t 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 trainl The President paid prae-
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 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!
1.-THE Peoples Lobby"
The words 1.-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 hum
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 its face Is as liberal as
all out-of-doors, but in its implica-
tions, as they are taken by some OF
the conservatives, as reactionary as
the Ten Commandments, or the re-
hinder that man shall eat bread III
the sweat of his brow.
1t is double-barreled request
that Marsh made of the President
One barrel demands subsidy fol
consumers. 1t insists that the fed
eral Treasury shall make up to tht
consumers of this country in regu
lar checks something like the ole
J, AAA checks-or the new AAf
! checks, for that matter-what thu
various New Deal agencies ane
schemes add to his cost Of living.
Without a word of criticism TO
: the idea of paying farmers not t,
: raise crops, or to restrict their acre
! age, and apparently conceding tina
9 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 increas
should not come out of the hides @
i, the consumers, many if not mos
It of whom are just little furthe
II down in the underprivileged elias
n than the farmers, and on WHOM
g these benefits for the farmers ar
) now a heavy load, and likely to be
} come a back-crushing one.
Puts Wallace on Spot
a Then there is a polite inquir
- about the ever-normal granary
"a Marsh and his aides want to kno'
: if the Henry A. Wallace plans fc
, this institution are calculated Q
! normal consumption, or whethe
= they are calculated on the amour
4 of farm products this country woul
consume if price were no objec
n It is hard to figure whether til
10 petition or the question is the NOR
ye embarrassing. Ii one carries til
ID petition for consumer subsidy
ID its logical conclusion, shaping
/ with New Deal concepts as to VIII;
il the underprivileged should have,
n works out to either Utopia or chat
IS according to the mental slant
a. the person doing the calculating.
re On the other hand, the ouestic
se certainly puts Secretary Wallace {
the spot. Or course he has Gale
m lated his estimates as to the eve
ar normal granary on consumptic
in which may practically be expectt
n mot on possible consumption if G
n. cry man, woman and child shou
Or have all thev need. Nothing els
I'd obviously, would aid on price
But it is asking rather much