Evening star., 1940-02-21
Washington Observations
Glenn Fronk Emerses as Potent Compromise


Rooseveltism, improve it where pos
sible, and discard the rest. The
G. o. p. program chairman revives
that once-famous New Deal will O.
the wisp, the forgotten man. "The
New Deal leadership" says the
Frank report, has talked much Of
the forgotten man. But, unless
Government pays attention to what
for seven years. under the New
Deal, has been the forgotten factor
in the national problem. the factor
Of full recovery, the forgotten man
will be worse than forgotten-he will
be betrayed by Government that
led him to expect all sorts of social
benefits which Government will, in
time, find 1t simply cannot provide,
because 1t has neglected to make
economic America going concern
producing enough wealth annually
to foot the bills. This is the blind
alley into which the New Deal has
led and is still leading America.
And this is the basic blunder which
the Republican party must, in the
interest of the social welfare Of the
American people, set itself boldly
to correct. This is the first step
toward a sound and permanently
feasible social program"
Budget Balancing.
New Deal harpoons are likely to
be launched most violently and ef-
fectively at DR.. Franks Utopian
plan to balance the budget in 1912
by simple 20 per cent cut in pres
ent Federal expenditure. Concrete
and constructive in most directions,
the Republican program builder in
vades the field Of glittering gener-
alities in forecasting that slashing
national outgo by one-fifth will au-
tomatically put Uncle Sans balance
sheet on an even keel within three
years. That's q very pious aspira-
ton, but one which even Republic
cans would find it far easier to
espouse than achieve, when they
got down to brass tacks. President
Roosevelt never tires of telling about
the big businessmen who periodi-
cally talk budget balancing at the
White House, but who promptly
find themselves up tree when
F. D. r. challenges them to say
exactly how, where and when the
money saving is to be accomplished.
4 4 =
"Greengrocer" Diplomats.
Apropos the charge by one Of
Mussolini's newspapers that the
American diplomatic service consists
chiefly Of boneheads with more
dollars than sense, this observer
asked the State Department for
facts and figures on the career"
men now in our foreign service.
We have SO ".chiefs of missions"
abroad, ie.. ambassadors and min
listers. Twenty-eight, or more than
half, are professionally trained for
eign service officers, with careers Of
many years in the diplomatic or
consular branch. In Latin America
we now have 10 career ambassadors
or ministers, and an exactly equal
number Of non-career, or political
appointees. outside this hemi-
sphere Uncle Sam is represented at
18 capitals by career diplomats and
at is others by non career officials.
Woman Diplomatic Chief.
With appointment of Mrs. Ella A.
Logsdon as chief Of the Office of
fiscal and budget affairs, the State
Department has just been given its
third woman divisional chief. The
others are Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley,
capable chief Of the passport divi-
sion, and Mrs. Blanche Rule Halla,
chief of the ONCE Of coordination
and review. Mrs. Logsdon is
North Dakotan, former public school
teacher and War Department clerk.