The Washington times., 1937-09-21
nee ABOLISHED
WITH RETURN OF
HAPPY DAYS"
Emergency Over, Says
Presidents Order
BY DORIS FLEESON

nave received the solemn, loEInd
and definite confirmation of the
President of the United States.
Under his hand and seal, Presi
dent Roosevelt made public an Elk
ecutive orGer declaring that the
emergency is ended and that his
famous National Emergency Coun'
Gil, coordinator of the far-flung
New Deal army of the depression,
is therefore abolished.
The President has found, how,
ever, that many functions per,
formed by the council were OF
great and continuing aid to him
and he proposes that this part Of
the councils work shall 60 on.
These permanent functions will be
continued under the Bureau OF
the Budget.
VEXING PROBLEM
One of the New Deal wits has
announced mournfully that the
President has fiery cross to bear
in the appointment of Mr.. Justice
Black. Sentiment in the Capital,
however, is veering around to the
view that while the Black-Klan
issue is veXing and may be inter
mittently troublesome. the country
at large is less concerned about it
than the politicians and Roose-
velt foes believe.
That much-publicized interview
between Michigan's anti-labor Sen
ator Vandenberg and President
Homer Martin, of the United Auto
mobile Workers Union, did not
work out quite as the Senator plan
ned, according to the Capital grape
vine.
MARTIN WARY
Vandenberg envisioned COM
pletely private interview between
himself and Martin. But the ex-
Baptist minister was wary of the
Senator who voted against the
Wagner Labor Relations Act. He
appeared at the scheduled time ac-
companied by an official of labor's
non bipartisan league-the outfit
formerly headed by New Deal Sen
ator George L. Berry-and this
witness remained throughout the
Vandenberg- Martin conversations.
Nothing very unconServative was
said by either side.
The Guffey Coal Commission is
barring its teeth at central and
western Pennsylvania producers
who, after two weeks of confer
ences, have announced they can
not agree on scale Of prices. The
produce representatives are
meeting now with the commission
under orders to find a common
meeting ground-or else.
The "elSe' includes threats that
the commission itself may put a
scale of prices into effect and may
remove the district boards of pro-
ducerS if it finds they have been
guilty of neglect, inefficiency or
malfeasance.
CODE PLAN RECALLED
In a statement infinitely more
restrained in language than their
private remarks about the tagging
producers, the commission points
out that the Guffey law requires
it to see that the industry is placed
upon an orderly and reasonable
basis.
AS the commission'S statement
mentions, an argument between
coal producers and the Govern
ment is old stuff to Washington.
One of the most vivid chapters in
the whole gaudy saga of NRA
under General johnson came
when he undertook to draw up a
coal code. The General outdid
even himself in his off the record
descriptions of his coal troubles.
The Guffey Commissioners are
acidly pointing out that the new
law (unlike the recovery act) has
teeth in it-and that the teeth
will bite if the coal producers
don't watch out.
TOWNSEND A MEMORY
The Townsend National Weekly
still reaches the Washington cor
respondents every seven days anc
its editors still are able to wanglt
some paying ads for false teeth
and trusses but the day of the ole
gray doctors glory is definitely
gone.
Without even desk room now il
washington and with his onc'
vocal bloc in the House almoS
entirely gone over to the riva
General Welfare Federation
headed by disgruntled Townsend
ties, DR.. Townsend is just a me
mory to the nations Capital.
And yet you can get potent New
Dealers, among them the relic
administrator, the ever f n
Harry Hopkins to admit that tn
doctor helped to make the natiol
old-age pension conscious an,
must have some small share O
credit for passage of the Socis
Security Act.
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