Evening star., 1938-04-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Roosevelts, because the theme song was
that Government spending is the way
to balanced budget. At least three
people were certain it was the Presi-
dent himself who was turning on
familiar oratorical charm Hardly any
one in the group was sure, one way or
the other, until the announcer at the
end Of the talk revealed that You have
been listening to an address by Mr..
James Roosevelt. the son of the Presi-
cent OF the United States, at a delayed
Jackson Day dinner of Democrats in
MlddletoWn. Ohio Undoubtedly jim
mie has something on the ball as a
politician. a spellbinder and a chip of
the old block.
Thoroughly conscious that resentment
OF further pump priming on the billion
dollar scale is Nationwide. the admin
lStration is omitting no effort or op-
portunity to drum up public sentiment
Tor the program among the folks back
home. To that end it will tonight in
augurate pretentious propaganda pro-
gram by radio. At the invitation of the
broadcasting division of the Democratic
National Committee, a SUBJ b-Michelson
division, 20 State Governors have agreed
to comment publicly over the wave
lengths on behalf of the Roosevelt re-
covery proposals. The stunt will set in
tonight with a talk by Gov Frank Muir
ply of Michigan
From Cleveland comes a character
iStic story of Mrs Roosevelt. though an
episode in which she's not the leading
lazy. Her lecture contract, said to call
Tor Sl.o00 an appearance, provides that
she be permitted to enjoy complete pri-
Vacy before and after taking the plat
form. Notwithstanding, she was pre-
vailed upon in the Ohio metropolis not
long ago to 60 to the home of leading
cltlzen to meet 100-odd people for a
late evening impromptu reception. Her
hostess having explained that she had
couple Of sleeping boys, who'd be end
lessly sorry not to have met the mis-
tress OF the White House, Mrs. Roose-
velt said: We'll, why don't you take
me up to see them?' The mother sug-
gested she'd rather yank the youngsters
out OF bed and bring them downstairs,
Presently, sleepy-eyed and pajama- clad,
the tots appeared. Fond mama, pre-
said: Boys, this is Mrs. Roosevelt"
Thereupon the younger of the twain
eJaculated: well, my mother is mar
rled to a famous man, too." The gentle
man IN question is one of Cleveland's
distinguished divines of national repu-
tation.
Not long ago new Senate doorman
stopped MidWestern Senator at the
entry to the chamber and said: "You
don't belong in here The Senator re-
piled: Il know it, and a lot of people
In my State know it, but how in hell
did you find it out?'
J.. r. Virgins, Washington correspond
ent of the st. Paul Pioneer Press and
Dispatch and ace agricultural authority
among Capital scribes, writes in the
Farm Journal for May that "the T. v.
A. inquiry is about as popular on the
Hill as the itch" One of the Senators
upon whom Jack Garner failed to pre-
vail, for service on the investigating
committee, Virgins says, alibied his re-
fusal as follows: If nothing irregular
Is found, the committee will be cruci-
Ned for giving T. v. A. a whitewash.
II anything irregular is discovered, it
will be crucified for giving T. v. A. a
political smearing."
X
One OF the political sensations Of the
week is Gov. Phil La Follettes allega-
ton in speech at Madison that the
Roosevelt administration could have
prevented the current business slump if
the President had adopted certain re-
covery policies vainly recommended by