The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-03-02
Pushing Rickenbscker
Into 1914 Picture
Say He Acts Like
Hoover in 1870
Fear FOR lambsstine
May Be Roorbsek
Summers Warns lsbor's
Top Men


their eyes on Eddie Rickenbacker.
They wonder what the young man
IL up to and particularly whether
he thinks he sees a chance to
barge into the 1914 presidential
campaign in a large and personal
way.
Their worries are not acute yet,
but here Is the way their minds
run: II the conflict should end
before November. 1914. and the
returning soldier vote should be-
come an important factor. the
aviator with the nine lives might
have to be reckoned with. he APP
parently got religion" during his
horrifying experience and the in
SEPARATION may impel him 10 take
. fling at politics.
He is talking issues which are
popular with the people and
should appeal 10 youngsters back
from overseas. He has denounced
the alleged inefficiency with which
the war is being conducted and
the excuses of labor leaders.
Right or wrong. he has the boys
n q other.
Rickenbacker's role resembles
that Of Herbert Hoover in 1920.
No one knew whether he was a
Republican or a Democrat and he
wouldn't tell. The flyer does not
set forth his partisan affiliations
IN who's Who"
Anti-Roosevelt Democrats on
Capitol Hill detect soft-spoken
warnings of q clever counterat-
tack against congressional assail-
ants in recent cryptic utterances
bv President Roosevelt and White
House Aide James +. Byrnes.
They now suspect that they may
create sympathy for F. d. r If
they lambaste him too violently.
and especially II they do not con-
IIHf LfftlI dncddAlE "
and important issues.
In his speech before the Amer
lean Society of Newspaper Edi-
sors, recently released for publ
cation by owl. the Economic
stabdiizer urged his hearers, fell
low officials and Republicans to
cult their internal feuds and de-
vote their belligerent energies to
fighting the Axis.
In his Monday night radio adj
dress the chief executive. for al
most the first time in months. did
not siap the legislators or some
bloc at the eastern end of Penn
sylvanla avenue. He exalted the
patience Of the first president in
the presence Of adversely and
criticism. and paid tribute to the
meek. the humble and the pure
IA heart.
Hatton Summers Cd recently
delivered the most forceful warn
ing to the top men of organized
labor yet heard on Capitol Hill
The veteran judiciary committee
chairman. q power in the house,
appeared before the rules COM
mittee to urge favorable action
on the Hobbs misunderstanding
hin. which had been approved pre-
viously by his group by a twenty
to-two vote.
81 have been down in Texas
Salking with the folks" drswled
ne leading legal light Of the
congress, land I know what they
are saying and thinking. They
are alarmed by certain excesses
committed by the rank and file
and apparently condoned by their
superiors.
ssUnion heads should not forget
that politicians viii 60 along with
any crowd SO long as that policy
keeps them in office. But the mo-
ment they find it doesn't, they
ret off the band wagon and travel
in the opposite direction. They
are beginning to desert labor be-
eaure the voters are. So the
bright men in the movement
should be careful and get behind
this measure"
The Hobbs scheme is designed
Ia plug the loophole in the law
AGAINST racketeering which was
carved by the supreme court de-
c,sion holding that Green-Murray
organizations were not subject TO
the provisions of the old statute.
me ruling, ironically, was writ
tan by Economic stabilizer James
=. Byrnes when he wore the black
robe.
Price Administrator Prentiss NJ.
Brown aims 10 make friends of
the politicians and the press. IN
like Leon Henderson, he recog-
uixes that he needs both groups
an his side If he is TO avoid the
hurdles which endorsed his pre-
decessor.
The Michigan man has follow
I'd UP his discharge Of local aides
who ruffled congressman by fir
ing Robert w. Horton. chief pub
Iicist Of OPA. The press agent
IN q protege Of Lowell Mellett.
his old newspaper employer. and
Lowell has kept his former re-
porter in one post after another
Unfortunately. Mr.. Horton is a
radical-minded New Dealer. who
frequently criticized more or less
openly his superiors' policies.
Worse <fiU- ne developed an I'D