The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14

Most interesting revelation from this survey is that while a lot of folks in these states are Sore as boils against the Roosevelt Ad- ministration, most of them tend to exonerate the President him. self. They blame everything on the brain trust or the cabinet or the politicians, but they still speak of Roosevelt as 8 man who is trying, who may make mis- takes but by and large is doing his best for the country.
 Nevertheless there is also pro- nounced underground murmur against Roosevelt personally. What is particularly significant about this is that it does not come from the usual die-hards so numerous in Wall street, who be- lieve that nothing good can come out of Roosevelt.
 It comes from such fair minded persons as school teachers, farmers, professional people, who approve of a lot of things Roose- welt has done but believe it is time for him to do some house-clean- ing and concentrate on efficient administration.
 "Get a Cabinet"
 ONE THING that particularly antagonizes these independent thinkers is the cabinet, which they generally regard as a fossil ized collection of boll-weevils, so inept that Roosevelt himself has to run the show. This, they say. is obviously impossible when he is at Hyde Park all the time.
 Roosevelt's fishing trips and frequent vacations are not re- sented. But his failure to have strong cabineteers around him is.
 Either he should give up
 fishing or get cabinet was
 the way one Colorado farmer
 put it.
 ANOTHER THING you hear a lot of grousing about is insincer- ity-the tendency of men around the President, and the President himself, TO TALK HIGH IDEALS AND THEN STOOP TO PETTY POLITICS.
 WPA also comes in for a lot of banning, not because folks don't approve of relief but because local administrator have put so many of their non-needy friends on the payrolls.
 Suspicious of Europe
 FINALLY, there is considerable suspicion that the President is kowtowing too much to Neville Chamberlain and the British Tories. People are doing more thinking than ever before about foreign affairs and the danger of war, and they fear that Roose- welt, although well-intentioned during the Munich episode, was given the complete double-cross by Europe.
 They don't understand why he plays ball with Chamberlain in squeezing out the Spanish LOyalists.
 According to present trends, MT. Roosevelt will have to do some awfully steady pitching with much better support from his in- field and outfield if he is to hold the voters. OTHERWISE, GOOD BYE NEW DEAL.
 Welcome, Boss
 In Spanish there is a phrase to describe lavish entertainment that goes, "They threw the house out of the window" That is just what the Cuban embassy did for their strong man, Colonel Fulgen- cio Batista, during his Washing ton visit. The irony of it was that the embassy staff, just before his arrival, received notice of pay cuts ranging from 40 to IS per cent.
 Farley's Ghost
 Prickliest thorn in the side of the New Deal on power policy is giant Associated Gas and Elec- trio plus its roly-poly president, Howard c. Hopson, who success fully dodged a Senate investigat- ing committee for weeks, more recently has been investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 However. when Jim Farley compiled his memoirs he hired as his ghost writer the public relations agent of Associated Gas and Electric. Fred Hume, the agent, got $3,00O from Jim for writing My Own Story" Jim got $75,OOO.
 Proud of the job, Hume had the check photostated before cashfng