Washington. — It nearly always happens in the second term of any President that the Congress congress begins to Balks show signs of as- serting its own will, This is perfectly natural. Members of the house and senate recognize, or have recognized in the past, that when a President enters onto his second term he has little more in the way of trading to offer them. That is to say, the President has about exhausted political appoint- ments and, except for special pieces of legislation, the Chief Executive cannot compensate house and sen- ate members with political plums. The New Deal congress in Mr. Roosevelt's first term was subserv- ient, indeed. It gave him everything he asked. But now there are en- couraging signs of a more independ- ent attitude on the part of congress. I use the word “independent” to mean that congress has begun to examine legislative proposals from the White House in the light of the viewpoint of individual representa- tives and senators instead of an examination solely in the light of the argument of the President. The Supreme court reorganiza- tion proposal brought the first sign of independence by congress. This sign broke out in the senate and there are many who believe that the senate will never yield on the President's proposal to pack the court with any additional justices of his own choosing. It is possible that, as we view history from, say ten years hence, the Supreme court reorganization plan will be shown to have been the straw that broke the President's control over a con- gress in which his party has more than two-thirds of the members. Several other legislative proposals from the White House have met or are meeting real difficulties. One of them that must be regarded as im- portant is the relief fund proposi- tion. I imagine that, in the end, the President will get the full billion and a half that he has requested for relief purposes but the contro- versy over relief funds is significant. For instance, and as an example of the undercurrent of feeling in congress, the house took a nasty slap at Relief Administrator Harry designed to make Mr. Hopkins peev- ish. It cut his salary as relief ad- ministrator by two-thousand dollars a year. Now, a cut from $12,000 to $10,000 probably is unimportant as far as the monetary affect is con- cerned, but it was the same thing as if the house had turned Mr. Hopkins across its knees and had given him a couple of good spanks. What it does, actually, is to show Mr. Hopkins that the house is still its own boss and it demonstrates as well the house has some spunk left. In addition to the relief fund con- troversy, congress is giving evi- dence also of more constructive op- position to control from the White House over all national policies. For example, the new farm bill is under- going very critical analysis by the house agriculture committee. While this measure to establish what Sec- retary Wallace calls the “ever-nor- mal’ granary and to revive con- trol over important farm groups was not sent to congress from the White House, everyone understands it has White House indorsement. House leaders accept it, at least, as rep- resenting the principle of AAA and, therefore, as being representative of the President's ideas. Leaders of the farm bloc in the house are quite skeptical of the plan. Naturally, it is too early to forecast what is going to happen on this piece of legislation but it is important to note that the house is giving close and independent study instead of rushing the legislation through merely because the admin istration announced it was favor- able to the proposition. There is discontent in the senate also. Mr. Roosevelt's far-flung gov- ernment reorganization bill has touched so many sensitive spots that some doubt actually exists whether it will get through at all, even after revision. The feeling in the seante on this matter is so widespread that Dem- ocratic Leader Robinson made a statement the other day to the effect that ‘failure of the senate to pass the bill will be no public calamity.” If their skepticism leads to a more systematic and thorough scrutiny of this bill and other pieces of legis- lation, it seems likely in my opinion that some costly blunders may be avoided. . ® » The trouble with congress, how- ever, when it gets into the humor a HH ih 1 Roosevelt does not require a billion and a half in new money for relief. But the house apparently does not have the courage to take an out and out position in accordance with its conviction. So it is trying to dodge the real issue by holding out for a provision in the bill that would set aside half a billion of the total for use exclusively on permanent pub- lic works under Secretary Ickes as public works administrator. (Secre- tary Ickes and Relief Aministrator Hopkins long have been snarling at each other.) To get down to cases on this he needs the whole amount for re- lief or he does not and there is little around the rosebush to cover a feel- shown in a rather bad light. If it has and if it does not believe that the President needs the full amount he and stick to that position? There is another phase of this ought to be examined. I mentioned earlier that the house and senate no longer expect- ed political plums from the White House. Now they are trying to get close to the political pie counter in another manner. If they can get for permanent public works, they trough of the old pork barrel. There is a natural reaction for politicians when money is to be passed out and the house has been displaying that reaction to the full est on the relief funds, The proposi- tion, simmered down, is, however, pork barrel methods can be tolerat- principle of representative govern- ment and it is not economical On the other hand, it seems to me that Mr. Roosevelt cannot escape responsibility for revival of the pork barrel custom. Throughout his first term, he allowed congress plenty of pork barrel packages and now that he is attempting to stick through his own ideas without providing the usual sop for congress, the politi cians resent it. * * * While the congress has been fuss- ing and fuming over legislation, in downtown Wash- Treasury ington, the Treas- in Trouble job more and more genthau found himself in a position where he had to go into the money market for an additional eight-hun- dred-million dollars. He offered new government bonds in that amount and from the proceeds of their sale, he will have in the Treasury suffi- cient funds to keep the government going. Incidentally, this new loan will put the national debt almost to thirty-six billion, the highest point in all history, The Treasury's latest borrowing of new money caused some sur- prise because it had been thought that the June 15 income tax pay- two. Notwithstanding Mr. borrow more operating. It is impossible to discuss the la- test Treasury loan without linking to it the question of the admin- istration’s gold policy and, it is im- possible to mention the gold policy without relating that the United billions in gold. The United States thus has approximately one-half of all the gold in the world. This would seem to make our nation the richest in the world, but having all of this gold stock is a very expensive prop- csition under the administration's gold policy. No one seems to know how the administration will untangle itself from the gold policy. If the United States continues to maintain the present price of gold, just so long will other nations ship gold to the shores of America. We have seen ‘Way Back When By JEANNE AN OIL DRILLER LARK GABLE was little differ- ent from any other small town boy. Born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1900, and later living in Hopedale, Ohio, population 500, Clark Gable was a regular American boy, fond of the outdpors and all sports. Mother- less from the time he was seven months old, he was raised by his grandparents until his father re- married. He held a deep love and respect for his stepmother. Like any other normal American boy, Clark Gable was not sure what position he would like to hold In life. He thought for awhile that he might be an architect, and Iater he studied medicine at night echool. the time he was seventeen He was time-keeper Clark Gable might have been anything but a motion picture actor. stock cle in which won “It Happened One Night,” the Motion Picture CARL SANDBURG NEVER WOULD SETTLE DOWN someone say, ‘lI don't know what to do about that boy of mine; it looks like he never will settle down''? Carl Sandburg was like that. A boy who skipped from job to job, and gave his simple Swedish immigrant parents many a worried hour! He was born in 1878 in Gales- burg, Ill, of people who were un- educated and kindly, simple and poor. Forced by poverty to go to work when he was thirteen, he be- of jobs that gave him such true understanding of the common peo- He drove a milk wagon in Gales- burg and he blacked boots in a barber shop. If you could have some day Carl Sandburg would be a great poet, they would have laughed you out of town! He be came a scene shifter in a cheap theater, a truck handler in a brick in a pottery shop. Cheap manual labor, nothing skilled about most of mid-western hotels, a harvest hand in the Kansas wheat fields, and a carpenter's helper. Carl Sandburg was learning the painter's trade when the Spanish- American war broke out, and he enlisted. A comrade persuaded him to go to Lombard college and he worked his way through as a bell ringer, gym janitor and college cor- respondent for the Galesburg Daily Mail. In college his literary ability developed and he became editor of the school publications. After grad- uation he supported himself as ad- verusing manager of a department store and sales manager of a busi- ness machines firm. He entered politics, became a re- AAA TAR RAR AAAAAR STAR DUST Movie « Radio * %hk By VIRGINIA VALE %k% LWAYS a dauntless trail blazer, Sam Goldwyn has just announced that in future all of his productions will be filmed in Technicolor. Where Sam leads, others feel that they must follow, and the chief drawback is that it is going to be very expensive, because Technicol- or film costs considerably more than black and white. First of the Gold- wyn Technicolor films will be “Fol- 320 26 0 20 20 26 2 26 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 26 2 2 0 2 2 ballerina, Virginia Verrill, beloved = Robert Young got a wonderful play opposite Claud- ette Colbert in “I Met Him in Paris.” His own studio offi- cials who lately had been rather like a com- fortable old shoe, went to the preview and came out rav- ing about him as if he were a new dis- covery. Right away they went out and bought the screen wen There is a pretty thrilling story of grit and courage connected with the Hal Roach picture Star.” sina sings Lawrence who as a child as the result of a back injury. After months of consulta- tions, her mother located a doctor who thought he might improve her agile—much more so than other a chance to walk and dance, ain There isn't a busier girl in all Hollywood than Dorothy Lamour, which is a break for film fans, but bad news to the many radio fans who have been wishing she would find time to sing regularly on a radio program again. She has just finished roles in ‘High, Wide, and Handsome’ and “The Last Train From Madrid" and will start any day now on “Her Jungle Love.” Her first big success, you will re- call, came when she played “The Jungle Princess” and Paramount has been looking for a sequel to it ever since. We Connie Boswell is the latest radio singer to succumb to the pleas of motion-picture producers. 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