CAA IHREN NATIONAL PRESS ANP Washington.—*‘The best laid plans of mice and men’ will go off at a tangent, it seems, Congress even when one po- litical party is nu- Is Balky merically in su- preme control of the national gov- ernment. President Roosevelt called congress into extra session with very definite objectives outlined, and he repeated them in his regular message on the state of the Union. He wanted crop control legislation for relief of agriculture and he wanted wages and hours controlled by federal statute for the relief of labor. But congress, or a part of it, has turned out to be a balky mule. It has one foot out of the traces already and the driver is having a lot of trouble to keep the animal hitched. The above is by way of saying that scores of Democratic members of the house and many senators with seats on the majority side have come back from a summer on the hustings quite convinced that it is not popular with the voters to be a rubber stamp. I do not mean by that statement that the President has lost control of his party machin- ery, or that he can not crack the whip and get things done; I mean that Instead of having a few recalci- trants within his own party to deal with, he now has many, and mem- bers of congress are about like coy- their number increases. It might be mentioned in passing that at least half a dozen Demo- cratic members of the house have come back from home with plans to run for their party's nomination to the senate next year. The rea- son given by those with whom I have talked is almost the same in each instance. The incumbent sen- ator who is up for re-election has been too much of a New Dealer. “Our people are calling for some- thing besides rubber stamps.” These potential senatorial candi- dates have records showing opposi- tion to the President in some vitally important New Deal policies while supporting him whole-heartedly in other phases of his program. No one can say how far this movement will get, but anyone who has observed congresses perform in in his second term can not dis- significance. It is the usual prac- tice for sitting members of the house and senate to stick close to the President, as party leader, in his first term-—because they must seek re-election with his support. But now many of them regard Pres- ident Roosevelt as through and they are starting early to make their record look good to the voters whom they will canvass next year. These few paragraphs above must serve to introduce evidence of a much deeper fact. In many impor- tant places and among many power- ful or influential men in congress one hears frequent references and observations to this effect: If Mr. Roosevelt is going to retain his con- trol of the party and carry through on the propositions which he will make from time to time, he must cast aside a part, at least, of his radical advisers and the schemes they concoct. * B * As 1 related, the President out- lined his objectives for the special . session. Two or Different three years ago, Now they would have been received by the representatives and senators with loud acclaim, with ballyhoo. But in the first few weeks of the ex- tra session, there has been just as much condemnation as there has been approval. Nor can we overlook another phase of the situation. Not only have many of the men at the capi- tol declined to affirm the President's propositions; they have gone in the other direction. They have offered programs of their own. They are prepared to battle for them. In pol- itics, that sort of a thing often has proved fatal to the plans of the man who then occupied the White House. It may not turn out that way this time but there are many observers are sure the President is going to be forced into accepting some things he did not want or does not want just now. Take the question of taxes, for instance. Rightly or wrongly, the President is being blamed for the current business depression and criticism of this sort is rolling up like a snowball going down hill. It is being said that two tax levies which were forced through congress are largely responsible. The tax on undivided profits of corporations and the capital gains tax are used as horrible examples of these unsound policies fostered by Mr. Roosevelt. Well, the President is responsible to the extent that he approved of them. They were the product, how- ever, of some of the dozen or so peek-a-boo artists to whom the President frequently has listened as advisors I think it has been generally dem- onstrated that the two taxes in ques- tion have been ruinous, especially to the small business. It is equally true, I believe, that business must be given some consideration if it ever is to tention of legislators with fewer votes. In any event, the bur- Democratic majority. properly fight for these things—and dent's program through. So the President's plans have gone astray. They may remain that way, pending upon how long the back- ward slide of business continues, Of one thing, you may be sure. Partly through his own fault and partly through the fault of the type of ad- visors with which he has surrounded himself, Mr. Roosevelt does not have the confidence of as many members of the legislative branch as he formerly held. * - * It is a little early to attempt a re- port on prospects for the regular session of con- gress that con- venes in January. Yet, since it is quite evident there will be nothing in the current extra session beyond crop control legislation—if even that —] believe we might look forward a bit. is the position congress will take on relief for destitute and unemployed. I believe I see a battle coming in that direction. Looking Forward last two years that congress was dissatisfied with the relief system built up by Secretary Ickes and the professional reliever, Harry Hop- kins, works progress administrator. The requirements, especially for the Hopkins machine, with what has come to be called is, congress has passed a bill ap- propriating two billions or three bil- lions or whatever was thought nec- It was just Congress had no strings on the money, seldom was told a great deal of the details. It destitute. Now, however, some observers think they detect a change. They believe they see signs that congress will put an end to the ‘blank check” method of handling relief. As far as anyone knows now. the President distributed for relief through Mr. tle lines will form. * » » Congress, therefore, will be faced to provide food and clothing and likely the request Money for Relief tofore—for a lump sum. If the any considerable extent, there may President wants it that way or not. You see, in an election year (and tors face election canvasses again their representative or their sena- tor. again. ton bureaucrats waste the taxpay- ers money. On the horizon, there- fore, it is possible to see the line of cleavage between the New Deal and the old line Democrats leading to elimination of the dangerous lump-sum appropriation and a res- toration of relief ministration into the hands of local authorities. There is one further consideration in the general relief situation that attracts attention. I think it is rea- sonable to assume that the far-flung relief machine which Mr. Hopkins has built up is permeated to the core with political appointments. It is only the usual political procedure and is not confied to the present national administration. Assuming, therefore, that there is such a politi- cal machine, it is hardly open to question that it is a Roosevelt ma- chine. The picture then becomes clear: since numerous members of the house and senate want to con- trol their own political destinies, they want control of the organiza- tions for relief in their own juris- dictions. Further, if Mr. Roosevelt should want to seek a third term nomination, those Democrats who want to oppose him would be quite powerless if they had to sit idly by and witness Roosevelt delegates icked from their own stronghold. P © Western Newspape: Union, A. ELLO EVERYBODY: weren't half a dozen people It was on a There and there hadn't He asked for a pack- “It was 3 nap HH a hot day, cold—ice cold.” suit that day and the floor had t down on He had on a nice, new The porter had oiled If Bob sat i % NS S - h FA RN ~ 4 any more. He took another He sat down on the floor. The com- The gangsters took four hun- them get it that easily. ruined suit, A friend The bandits out to lunch. move for five minutes, and left, out the door. avenue. couldn't utter a sound. those crooks. Bob lost He trailed him to At that the thug turned and bolted. the concourse. down through the main corridor and dewn the slippery marble stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, right in front of the ticket windows, he caught up with the thug and there a strange battle took place—probably the strangest scrap in all history. Bob fell on the crook, and when I say *““fell,” I mean that literally. With his hands tied behind his back, there just wasn't anything else Bob could do. He gave a leap and landed on the crook. And the crook went down. Bob, gagged as he was, couldn't yell to attract attention but the spec- floor and all over the top of another man attracted plenty of attention as it was, strange experience. led him away to the calaboose. went back to his store, gathered about the place. seven-year sentences. and a vacation. Bobeat and Lynx Closely related to the Canadian lynx, which it has largely supplant- ed in northern United States, the bobcat has the lynx's short temper, exceptional sight, fatal claws. It lacks the lynx's distinguishing tufts of hair on the ears, is slightly small- er and is spotted. 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