Evening star., 1938-02-02
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

New Deal brain truster, DR.. Winfield w.
Rief1er, professor OF economics and pol
ltlcs at Pr1nceton-has just been drafted
by the League of Nations. The Council
at Geneva this week appointed him to
committee of seven specialists to study
ways and means of preventing and
mitigating depressions Distinguished
British and French economists are among
DR.. Rief1er's colleagues. Native of Buf-
falo, Phi Beta Kappa Of Amherst and
World War veteran, Riefler was at
tached to the Central Statistical Board
and the National Emergency Council in
1933-4-5. President Roosevelt used to
describe him as the White Houses "in-
terpreting economist"
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With retirement Of j. F. T. OConnor
from the controllership Of the currency.
another Texan is slated to enter the
administration high command, already
literally sprinkled with Lone Star sons.
He is Marshall R. Dggs, hitherto O'Con-
nor's assistant in the latter's capacity
as director of the Federal Deposit In
surance Corp, and is expected to sue
ceed him as controller. Nothing much
seems to be known in Washington about
Diggs except that before coming here
he was in the contracting business at
Dallas. With the vice presidency, House
majority leadership. r. F. c. and 1. C. C.
chairmanships and at least a dozen key
Senate and House committee chairman
ships in Texas hands. the biggest State
nils a place on the Potomac commen-
surate with its size.
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Among the forgotten men-the "lttle"
business men of the country in confer
ence at the Department of Commerce
today-is Dewitt M. Emery. president of
the Monroe Letterhead Corp of Akron.
Ohio. who has just formed the National
Small Business Mems Association. He
began operations two months ago by
sending out letter which opened:
"The sheriff is about to get my business.
How are you doing?" Mr.. Emery says
Things aren't so good in any small
business today" and adds: THE ma
jority of small business men don't want
the Government to hold an umbrella
over their heads. They just want to be
left alone"
Thomas E. Dewey, New York City's
new broom, being himself still on the
sunny side OF 40, pins his faith on
youth In the herculean job Of cleansing
the Augean stables Of Manhattan. Early
this week he appointed 18 aides, whose
average age is barely 30. Salaries range
from $500 for the principal assistant
district attorney to between $500 and
$4,000 for the others. The complete
STAN will number y. consisting of 20
full assistants, 48 deputies and law
assistants. The Nemesis of the rackets
also believes in -partisanship. His
helpmates include five Republicans five
Independent Democrats, three American
Labor party members and five without
political af1iliations. Republican Deweys
chief lieutenant, Herman j. Mccarthy,
"a, Is Princeton man and an independ-
ent Democrat. The staff is also inter-
denominational. embracing Protestants.
Catholics and Jews. A wag suggests that
the slogan of the Dewey organization is:
God help those who help themselves"
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DR.. William E. Dodd, late Ambassador
to Germany, has just received the 500
cash prize award for the outstanding
work of the year by Southern author
on Southern subject-"The Old South:
Struggle for Democracy" DR.. Dodd is
North Carolinian.
(Copyrisht. 1938.)