The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-18
Observations
Lame Ducks i'm
High Places in
Administration
BY Charles p. Stewart

Administration
By Charles p. Stewart
To get a fat presidential ap-
pointment:
Be a member OF Congress. Plug
industriously for presidential pol
icies. Get into them, il possible,
on several pretty bitterly.fought
issues, concerning which the
White House needs all the legis-
latiye help II can muster. See
that you are on the executive
mansions winning end OF the
fight. Then be candidate for
a lawmakers denomination and
reelection in your home state
or district and be beaten by some
observation-disclosures, in the pri.
maries or at the polls a bit later.
Stick 10 that prescription and
IL you are not indicted shortly
Into some succulent federal job
by executive selection. you will
be the rare exception. indeed,
As is we'll known. New Dealer
ishness was strongly predomiu-
ant in the last Congress. As also
is well known. the New Dealers
suffered a corking setback at the
last election, not only from the
Republicans but also from the
antiNew Deal Democrats. This
meant that a lot OF voters wished
a lot OF the New Deals Capitol
Hills supporters into the discard
on all economic questions.
The ants" remained as pro-
war as anybody. but they were
not by any means in accord with
the administration way OF wag-
ing it.
The administration has de-
manded approximately a 80 per
cent fighting front effort. where
as its critics have insisted that
that was OVERRIDING matters that
We can fight more effectively by
utilizing 20 per cent or so to
furnish supplies, fodder, ct cetera.
in our home midst. 10 keep the
actual scrappers in operation.
This. OF course. is not TO mention
little babies, octogenSrians and
miscellaneous other noncombat-
ants
Between economics and the
war, last Novembers domestic
row was pretty bitter.
The observation-disclosures did
not outright win it, but they left
It doubtful.
Between New Dealers. on one
side, and anti-New Dealers on the
other side. including opposing
groups OF strstegists in both fac
lions. It has been a matter OF
guesswork.
Let anyone who doubts it con.
suit speeches by Senator John H.
Bankhead OF Alabama and Sena.
tor Burton X. Wheeler of Mon
tana, both Democrats but both
ferociously anti-administration in
today's emergency, and Senator
Gerald P. Nye Of North Dakota,
with them unequivocally in the
present emergency though
dyed-in-the-wool Republican.
Well. OF half a dozen admins
trationistic representatives-lick-
ed by their own districts voters
an even six have won federal APP
poiHtments since then, at pay. at
least as good. as they got prev
iously as congressman.
SO have several senators. In
fact. three
Local communities, though.
have been overruled by the
White House.
Their home folk turned these
chaps down electorally and the
victims have been rewarded for
being victims by juicy executive
berths.
The senators include Josh Lee,
Prentiss Brown and Clyde l..
Herring. George W. Norris was
another OF the beaten ones, whom
the executive mansion would glad
" have provided for, but the
aged Nebraskan declined what
ever offers were made to him. He
admits that his feelings are badly
hurt, but he is too old land per
haps has not the. incilnation) to
do anything about It,
A few OF the presidentially-pro-
NOTED legislators were not beaten
for observation-disclosures they pre-
viously had been defeated for re-
nomination in their own party's
conventions.
This makes the anti-New Deal
Democrats exceedingly hot under
the collar Republicans do not
expect TO get appointments from
what calls itself a Democratic ad-
ministration, but an antiNew
Deal Democrat considers himself
as good as any other kind-not
TO mention being, in his estima-
ton. a heap-sight better one. SO
he regards himself as insulted.
as well as injured.