The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-09


 to Senator Walter George.
 The Administrationiets have quietly and thoroughly surveyed the Georgia situation and this is what they are going to tell Roose- welt:
 The only way George can be licked is
 1. The President must make an uneluivoca1 declaration against the anti-New Dealer. There can be no pussyfootlng or punch pulling about the state ment. It has got to be clear cut, emphatic and dramatic.
 2. The President has go to put the screws on Governor Ed Rivers to "come clean" on the fight on George.
 The Presidents political advis- CTS see Rivers as the key to the fight to lick George. Rivers pro- fesses to be a great Rooseveltian and last spring promised the Presi- dent to throw his weight against George. But to date the gover- nor hasn't lifted finger.
 Inside truth is that he really wanted to and held conference with his lieutenants to map plans to get into the anti-George cam paign. But the boys flatly said nothing doing.
 Although publicly redhot Ad- ministration adherents, actually they are aligned with the same powerful business and utility in- terests who are beind George. Rivers generalissimos are no more for Lawrence Camp, the White House candidate, than they are for eX-Governor Gene Talmadge, the other aspirant in the race.
 Tn fact, they are using Talmadge as a bugaboo to alibi their se- cret sabotage of Camp, claimig that If George is licked, Talmadge might skin through over both George and Camp.
 White House insiders say this ar- gument is only stall; that the real reason for the undercover hos tility of the Rivers camp is the influence of the powerful ele- ments who are financing Georges campaign. The survey made by the Administrationites has con- vinced them that Talmadge will draw more votes from George than he will from Camp and thath te latter can lick both Old Guarders 1.-the President makes the elec- ton of Camp a clear-cut personal issue and Rivers will make good on his word to take off his coat for Camp.
 Snappy Dissent
 Justice James McReynolds, bachelor, receives $20,000 year salary for life. But he most en- phaticallydoes not believe in gquanledirng his money-evcn for pleasure.
 Vacationing recently in San Francisco, the crusty old Ten nessean decided to motor up the beautiful coast to Seattle. So he approached the transportation agent of the hotel where he was staying and asked about the pos sibility of hiring a car and driver.
 "Yes. sir, we can arrange that" said the agent.
 What are the tcrms?"
 The driver will cost $5 a day, the maximum mileage are car can be run day is 100 miles and the rental of the car will be $25 day. These charges will include both the trip to Seattle and the return of the car"
 "Hmmph," snorted MeRon- holds. "Young man, I want to rent machine, I don't want to buy it.
 Blood Is Thicker
 Several months ago the PORT LAND OREGONIAN, one of the leading dallies of the Pacific northwest, asked the President for a letter of greeting on special commemorative edition 1t was publishing. The request was turned down.
 Any communication and state ments which the President makes to the press" was the White House reply. "he makes to all--treating the press collectively and on basis of strict impartiality or par fly.
 A few days ago the POST INTELLIGENCER of Seattle, pub lishcd by the Presidents son-in- law, John Boettiger, put out 18th anniversary edition. On Page l, in three-colubn facsimile. was 6 personal letter from the President beginning Dear John" and say ing "The 18th anniversary of the Post-Intelligencer is an event of interest not only in the life of the community of Seattle but in