The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-21

Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins
Harry actual
lives under the executive mansions
roof, eats at its table. virtually is
a member of the presidential fam
ilv. Persons who want +. D RS in
dorsement of plans and policies
they're interested in promoting
know from experience that they
can get it in no other way quite so
certainly as by enlisting the aid Of
Harry the Hop provided he'll
lend such aid.
Individuals and organizations
whom and which he's helped natur-
rally swear by him. There are 9TH
ers, however. that he's turned
down. Just as naturally they swear.
not by. but at him. Also there are
politicians, some of them OF consid-
cradle consequence, who resent the
fact that 100 per cent official out
slider has a lot more pull az 1900
Pennsylvania avenue than they
have themselves.
plustratiYely. IL q senator or rep
resentative, for instance, has in his
bailiwick an important constitu-
ent or company or association with
a proposition it seeks to have IA
vorably presented to the nations
chief magistrate, it angers him to
have Harry initially consulted
over his head It raises hades with
his prestige at home.
Hopkins Bad Start
With the public generally Harry
got off TO a bad start as head of
relief. It practically was a huge
welfare workers job (Harry'd been
professional welfare workerl and
welfare administrator never is
popular. Undeserving woud-be re-
liefees, who are turned down, Of
course are frightfully sore. And
those who are relieved usually are
sore, too, on the ground that they
didn't get enough
AS secretary of commerce he
wasn't a bowling success, not hav-
ing had a bit Of training for that
sort Of a position Besides, he was
q sick man.
So when he resigned, on account
Of the state of his health, a lot OF
the folk he'd had contacts with,
both politicians and businessmen,
assumed that he was out Of the
picture permanently, and were
nightly glad Of it.
Instead, as the presidents most
trusted friend, he Immediately be-
came more powerful than ever, and
absolutely free of having to answer
to the disgruntled bunch. too Then
he was dispatched to England, to
do precisely what nobody but
F. D. r. had any idea Nobody out
side the White House knows yet,
either.
That likewise miffed Capitol
Hill. which thinks itself entitled to
be asked to confirm our diplomatic
appointments. with a chance to
veto them if the senate sees fit. To
be sure. the presidential position
was that Harry's wasn't a diplk
matte appointment but plenty Of
the solons think it was They're
normally jealous of the executive
branch Of Uncle Sans govern
ment, anyway
Now He's Back
And, now that he's back in
Washington, they say he's more po-
tent and more irresponsible than he
was before. =======
There isn't a cabinet member,
from State Secretary Hull on
down. it's asserted. who's presden-
TALLY listened TO as conhdingly as
Harry is.
All this isn't TO argue that he's
all-around unpopular The big bust
nessmen in the defense organiza-
ton get on with him admirably.
Hes pro-defense and speaks for
them to the White House tenant
more effectively than they can do
it for themselves, because F. D. r.
likes him so much.
The original New Dealers are for
him also. They've been pretty COM
pletely drowned out by the ire
mendous volume Of the aid-Britain
and domestic defensive chorus re.
Gently Harry continues to stand
pat for their socio- economic phi
losophy. though and they rely
on him to keep the boss from
drifting away from it in the
world emergency Of today.
HaFFy-s smart n the line Of his
speciality. which is welfare work
mainly That doubtless was why he
made a hit with +. d. r., at the