Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-13
News Behind
the News
Behind the Doors
The Ken Man


for a Joint attack on the depression
are being made in deepest secrecy.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury john w. Hanes is still the key
man behind the curtains, despite
earlier discouragements. Mr. Roose-
velt has told HaneS to see what he
can do and the former Wall Street
broker is working diligently and
earnestly. although taking his time
and stunning publicity.
Present plans call for an initial
secret conference-of the countrys
five biggest industrialists," accord
ing to one insider, who refuses to
identify them or even explain how
anyone an really name the five
biggest at which no government
official except possible Hanes, will
be present. Certain labor leaders
will be invited in and consulted.
This meeting will not be held in
Washington.
After induStrialists and labor
leaders figure out what recon-
mendations they can agree ON. the
idea is to call in a few score more
business men, labor men and high
government officials and toss at the
country a program, partly legisla-
tive. which will be presented as the
best combined thought of men in
whom the country is presumed to
have most confidence. Apparently
no one figures on having this con-
vention until after November's elec.
tions.
The whole thing may fizzle early.
Promises of cooperation from busi-
ness men are sufficiently substan-
tial. however. to make it worth
watching.
Mr.. Roosevelt consented to drop
the reorganization bill until next
year because congressional leaders
convinced him that it would be
filibustered to death in the Senate
assuming the House passed it-and
that the filibuSter would threaten
other administration measures at
a time when the President had re-
couped much previously lost
strength on Capitol Hill.
Roosevelt, although he had hop
ed for revival and passage of the
bill consented to let it ride in the
belief that a recovery relief bill
unencumbered with spending re-
structions and assurance of wage :
hour law were much more impor-
tant to him at the moment.
House Majority Leader Sam Ray
burn reported that although a score
or more members would switch from
their previous vote and support the
bill if certain notifications were
made, at least as many other mem
bers strenuously argued that con-
gressmen who had previously voted
against the bill shouldn't be given a
chance to square themselves with
constituents who had protested
Contrary to widespread reports,
Vice President Garner said never
a word at the conference after
which the reorganization bill was
buried His silence may have been
construed as ominous, however.
Congressman Frank Hancock s
campaign charges that Senator Bob
Reynolds had done too much travel
ing in Europe, Asia, Africa and
South America failed to keep Rey-
nolds from winning a huge plurality
in the North Carolina primary
When Reynolds visits a foreign
country, colleagues say, lie sends
thousands of postal cards back to
constituents just to let them know
he's thinking of them. They love it.
Edith NOurse Rogers, congress
woman, appeared conspicuously III
4 newSreel recently shown here. En-
tering the theater to see herself in
action, she fould she had come a
few miutes too late. A full-length
feature picture starring Ginger
Rogers not Edith, flashed ON the
screen. Uninterested, Mrs. Rogers
departed.
Seeking to stem the flow of Jap
anese good into this country, Mr.
Rogers has collected-and indie
Eantly displays-some 20 or more
souvenir articles sold in Washing
ton stores metallic reproductions
Of the Capitol, White House, Lin
coin Memorial, Washington Monu
ment and so on-all marked MADE
in Japan
Mrs Rogers tells how an Ameri
can manufacturer sold cheaply
some glasses which were inferior
because air bubbles had acciden-
tally appeared in them. japanese,
she says, reproduced the glasses
with the bubbles faithfully copied
at a still lower price.
so far, it appears, Mrs. Rogers
hasn't heard that the japanese
lanterns assembled for a big White
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