The Washington times., 1938-07-01
HERE'SAR REASON
why PRESIDENT
TOOK JIMMY IN
Wanted to Get Son Out
Of All Business
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt hlmSel1 LOOK
Jimmy" Roosevelt into the White
House fold to get him away from
the insurance business which is so
freely discussed in an article
called "Jimmy's Got 1t" in a cur
REM weekly. The reason he
W ted his son close to him, so
h yaer-upS say, is because the
f ident wanted to cut down the
gossip connected with Presidents s
son in any business.
Stories of Jimmy in the insur-
ance business have been whirling
around the United States ever
since the Roosevelt Administration
started; many of them have been
stories of ruthless methods that
would have put Jimmy in the hi
jacking class if the stories are true.
Many of them have been circu-
lated in insurance circles for two
or three years; and it is under
stood that the most damaging
stories, at least, are untrue.
SENT TO HYDE PARK
However, it will be recalled that
not long before the President ap-
pointed Jimmy to be a White
House secretary, the young man
suddenly rusticated on the Hyde
Park farm, the story being given
out at the White House that Son
James was going to attend to a
little forestry program on the
estate.
The belief is that the President,
seeing that his active son was get
ting considerably more business
than the average young man just
starting out, wanted to remove
him from the area in which every
movement a Presidents son makes
is looked on with jealousy and
suspicion and is likely to become
a personal or political liability.
ELLIOTT'S TALKS
Elliott Roosevelt, in Fort
Worth, Tex, friendly to Southern
oil men, has delivered several
radio talks over a Forth Worth
newspaper-owned radio station,
which could have been taken right
out Of the Liberty Leagues hand
book.
When the tenor of these re-
marks became known they were
peddled about to various col
umnists and special writer's and
received considerable publicity in
the East. They were not at all
helpful to the New Deal-and the
whisper goes around the White
House battlements now that it will
not be long before son Elliott is
out of Fort Worth and away from
the job he holds.
OIL MEN DELIGHTED
Elliott Roosevelt is looked on
as the sort of young man who
takes on the color of his sur
roundingS. He is the son Of the
President; the oil men surrounded
him; he talked their language
over the radio concerning the
Governments antitrust drive
against certain oil corporations:
the oil men were delighted-and
the White House disgusted.
The New York gossip columns
had it that there might be a
divorce in the family of Franklin
Roosevelt, jr., law student at
the University of Virginia. Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt, jr., was for
merly Miss Du Pont. This ugly
rumor spread around; it was
camouflaged and shot through the
ether via radio. 1t was about
three weeks ago, President Roose-
velt left the White House unan-
nounced and turned up at Char.
lottesville-where he visited his
son. Within few days the gos-
sip columns began to reverse
themselves. They began to say
that, after all, there probably
would not be any divorce.
James Roosevelt says he will
consult his lawyer when he is
asked about the current magazine
article about his insurance bust
ness. He also says he is no longer
in the insurance business.