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SEEN"'* HEARD
around the
National Capital
SS T'T'iBi By CARTER FIELD BSBS
Washington.—During the next tew
months President Roosevelt will seem
to be moving a little toward the right,
on every issue of any consequence ex¬
cept the public utilities. Actually there
will be very little change, but the ap¬
pearance will seem very Important,
and there will be loud cries from the
radicals.
In fact, the left fringe of the brain
trust Is already disturbed. So much
so that it is feeding out propaganda
intended to have a direct effect on
Roosevelt personally. It is certainly
not Intended for anyone else, for the
last thing these particular radicals
want to do is to hurt him. The trou¬
ble with them is that they have not
analyzed the higher polities of the sit¬
uation. They are worried about an
eddy instead of the main course of
the river. And their conversation is
so free, at all times, that even if the
President was concerned about their
attitude he would not dare tell them.
For in that case they would not be
able to rest until they had told their
favorite column conductors, just to
show they were still in the “inner cir¬
cle” and knew what was going on.
The present situation starts, not with
the President, but inside the Repub¬
lican camp. Yes—strange as it may
seem—there is still such a thing. The
Republicans, not all of them but some
of their strategists, are simply delight
ed with the Huey Long-Father Cough¬
lin situation. What they want more
than anything else in the world is to
see a third party—a very radical third
party—with a Presidential ticket in the
field next year.
Their theory is, of course, that this
radical party will garner a few elec¬
toral votes—Wisconsin, the Dakotas,
possibly Montana, and maybe Wash¬
ington and Nebraska: that it will poll
a very large vote In some of the big
eastern states such as Massachusetts.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois—enough
votes in this last group to make sure
that the Republican candidate would
walk off with the electoral votes. They
are not worrying about Connecticut—
which stood by Hoover, although the
majority was very small, nor Rhode
Island, which has suffered so In its
textile Industry that Republicans feel
It Is “in the bag.”
See California Safe
Nor are they worried about Califor¬
nia, whose big electoral vote is now so
essential. The Golden Gate state’s re¬
jection of Upton Sinclair, and Its out¬
raged protests about the reciprocal
trade treaties, makes them sure of It
Altogether, they think, their only
problem is to get the right candidate
and the right platform!
Of course, in the Roosevelt view
that is just where they fall down hard.
Who, Roosevelt’s friends Inquire, cyni¬
cally, would the candidate lie? And
what could the platform say?
But It has never been part of any
Roosevelt strategy to underrate an op¬
ponent, nor to leave any stone un¬
turned just because it did not seem
necessary to move it. As witness the
efforts in last fall’s election.
So Roosevelt is maneuvering into his
favorite middle ground position, be¬
tween the Tories and the radicals. And
to make this more secure, he Is going
to seem a little conservative for a
while. He confidently expects to scare
the Republicans to death by this
course, for the natural reaction will
be Just what they have been planning,
with one important exception.
Roosevelt plans to have the radicals
grow in strength, while he grows in
strength with voters who are normally
Republican! But who are frightened
at the radical menace.
Meanwhile the radical fringe of his
own supporters, trying to figure his
course out, have come to the conclu¬
sion that the trouble is that Louis Mc¬
Henry Howe has been sick. So they
say M. II. McIntyre, the secretary who
makes all the President’s appoint¬
ments, will not let anyone except con
servatives see him!
“Scotch” Tied Up
Millions of gallons of fine—and per¬
haps not so good—Scotch whisky, are
lying in government warehouses, under
the eagle eye of Uncle Sam’s customs
officers, and with little apparent pcps
pect of being marketed through ori
nary channels.
This stock offers a fine chance for
bargains, if one could only appraise
the qnalit»of the liquor in some fash¬
ion. But how to do it? How to tel!
what is really good liquor, so to speak,
anil wiiat would have no appeal what¬
ever?
For the trouble is that this whisky is
what the trade rails “unknown brands.”
It is perhaps the best argument in
favor of heavy advertising for brands
and labels that has ever been present¬
ed. For, while this whisky is lying un¬
solicited and unwanted in the ware¬
houses, running up storage charges and
threatening to add freight shipment
charges home, the regular brands are
moving about as expected.
Normally, such a stock of any com¬
modity hanging over the market, would
play hob with everybody iD that par¬
ticular trade. But the owners of this
whisky cannot dump it on the market
at whatever the market price happens
to be. for there is no market price for
an unknown brand.
The man who drinks Scotch whisky
normally prefers a certain brand. He
may like half a dozen brands. But
whec he is buying whisky he buys
what he thinks is one of his favorite*.
He is not interested in some brand that
he never heard of before, except at a
great sacrifice in the price. And with
an import duty of $5 a gallon, plus an j
excise duty of $2 a gallon, plus stamp
and other taxes, it is not possible to
offer these unknown brands at what
looks like a real bargain. The tax col¬
lectors are not offering to share the
loss. They insist on their $7 to $9 tax
on each gallon regardless of quality or
marketability.
Tried for Clean-up
This big undigested stock of Scotch,
much of which is in New York. Boston
and Baltimore, is the result of two at¬
tempts at speculation when the pro¬
hibition ban was first lifted. In the
first rush, a great many foreigners saw
a good chance to make a clean-up.
They knew that Americans had been
buying—from bootleggers—all possibile
sorts of liquor with apparently very
little concern as to brands or varie¬
ties. And at very high prices, j So they
thousrht they could buy up a lot of
whisky cheap in Scotland, ship it
this country on consignment, and take
their profits. i
Meanwhile an equal number of specu¬
latively Inclined persons in this coun¬
try, who had never been in the liquor
distributing business and knew little,
if anything, about its ramifications,
took out importers’ permits, and ap¬
plied for large quotas. Then they pro¬
ceeded to buy large quantities of li¬
quor, sometimes in bottles and some¬
times having it bottled. All went nice¬
ly until the liquor arrived in the ports
of entry.
Then came the problem of selling it.
And there were no offers. The drink¬
ers. who, during prohibition, had taken
anything that was wet, inside a good
looking package, were imbued with the
idea that thqy wanted particular
brands. The ordinary liquor trade
knew how to handle the well-adver¬
tised brands, and had no: Idea of tying
up a lot of money in' brands that might
not move, and at any rate would have
to he pushed. The real murder, of
course, lies in the fact that so large
a percentage of the total cost of a bot¬
tle of imported whisky Is tax, and
therefore not susceptible of being
shaved. A severe cut on the part of the
price exclusive of tax would not appear
to the customer such a big reduction!
It would not deter him from taking his
favorite brand.
Unpleasant Surprises
President Roosevelt has had a num¬
ber of unpleasant surprises in his at¬
tempt to swat the utilities—particular¬
ly on the Wheeler-Rayburn holding
company bill.
It is no secret that one of the sur¬
prises has made one of the bill’s “au¬
thors”—Senator Burton IC. Wheeler of
Montana—just a little sorry , that he
sponsored it. Then the local yelps!
For instance. Preston S. Arkwright,
president of the Georgia Power com¬
pany, who expressed the opinion that
the hill would “hurt Georgia more ttian
New York.”
Perhaps the Senator Wheeler case is
the most interesting of the surprises.
As soon as the utility crowd realized
what was happening, they got very
busy. Indeed, in Montana. The situ¬
ation is something like this: The util¬
ity interests, alone, are not very Im¬
portant In numbers or Influence in
Montana, hut they are allied with, If
not controlled by, the same interests
that control Anaconda copper.
Now Anaconda Is very influential. In¬
deed. in Montana. In fact, they say
ttiat Anaconda generally gets precisely
what It wants, even on election day.
And It so happens that, as these gen¬
tlemen want not only that their utility
Interests should do well, hut their cop¬
per interests also, they have seen to
it that their utility interests buy all
their copper for wires, etc., from Mon¬
tana copper mines.
Now it happens further that the ram¬
ifications of the holding company In¬
terests involved stretch to many far
distant states. So that bn the whole
it is a very beneficial thing—to the
Montana copper miners—that this hold¬
ing company situation is as it is.
Tf the proposed legislation should
break up the holding companies, and
all the operating companies should be
independent, presumably, It lias been
carefully pointed out to mine workers
of Senator Wheeler’s state that the
operating companies not in Montana
would buy their copper in the cheap¬
est market. It Is also pointed out with
much force that the cheapest copper
to be obtained.' despite the tariff, is
not Montana mined metal, but import¬
ed, whether from Africa or Chile.
Brings Many Protests
All of which has brought a remark¬
able deluge of protests against the
holding company bill from Montana,
the copper miners joining the share¬
holders and bondholders. Montana is
not a large state in population, though
the third largest in the union in area,
but enough people became excited
about the situation to run an average
of about 500 letters of protest a day
to the senior Montana senator’s office.
And not enough letters of approval to
be worth considering!
Massachusetts roughly has about sev¬
en times as many people as Montana.
Presumably it would have an even larg¬
er proportionate number of heavy hold¬
ers of investment securities. But even
the Bay state has been giving its sen¬
ators only a small number in excess
of those poured in on the Montana
senators.
The number being received by Sen¬
ator Marcus A. Coolidge of Massachu¬
setts has been running about 600 a day.
Whereupon the senator announced that
he was for strict regulation, but
against the death sentence !
Copyright .—WSV Servlov.
CLEVELAND COURIER
Uncommon Sense
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By JOHN BLAKE
©. Beil Syndicate—WNU Service
If you live in the country, or even
In a town where there are trees
and grass plots, by
Summer all means "take
Boarders * ri " summer board¬
ers.
Keep rite right kind of place and
there will be no lack of them.
You won’t need to advertise.
They will find the location and
their friends will soon know about
it, too.
They will cost you a little, but
not more than you can afford.
And they will pay their board not
once a week, but all through the
week if the sun is shining or not.
They will he so eager to make ac¬
counts square that they will keep
their part of the bargain, beginning
with the sunrise, and continuing till
it is dark.
But one gets used to almost any¬
thing, and by and by you will be
able to sleep late, no matter what
happens, as you learn to on ship¬
board despite the wash of the waves
and the rumble of the propellors.
* * »
I am now entertaining quite a
number of these paying guests.
They build and make their own
beds, they get their own meals.
They give a grand concert every
morning, and another in the eve¬
ning.
If you want to do a little enter¬
taining this year, build a fence that
no cat can clirub, make the place a
terror to bickering and nest rob¬
bing English sparrows, keep a shal¬
low bathtub out in the yard, and
now and then scatter a little grain
about
And if you have a little patch of
earth to spare from the lawn, go
out and dig into it every few days,
so that the worms will come to the
surface to find out what is going
on, and the boarders will sweep
down and give them the information
they crave.
There will he often a little squab¬
bling over the dining table, but
what boarding house, or what house¬
hold, for that matter is always free
from that? :#
• * •
17v guests of last summer are com¬
ing hack ugain this year. The orioles
have already slung a hammock high
up in the elm tree, the robins as usu¬
al have settled on the top of a porch
column, and a couple of cal birds are
constructing a summer place in the
cherry tree, so they can be close by
when the fruit is ripe.
They more than earn the cherries
they eat, for without them the bugs
would denude the trees of leaves,
and there would be no cherries at
ail for Fourth of July pies and Oc¬
tober cherry bounce.
» * •
Thanks to the motor car and the
trolley, we are not so provincial as
we used to be.
How Other Time was when
Half Lives the cit - v P e °P le re '
garded farmers
and even suburbanites as yokels,
amusing to talk to, but of a differ¬
ent breed from themselves.
Now the city man of a Sunday
or a holiday can polish up the lit¬
tle old bus. or hop on an inter
urban car, and find out something
he ought to know about people who
can only see the city’s high build¬
ings from the top of a hill.
In spring and summer it will do
the “town bug” good to take a Ibok
over the barb wire fences, and have
a chat with the man who is getting
the soil ready, for sowing the spring
crops.
As a rule the latter is always
ready to stpp. and talk for a few
minutes, and if you question him in¬
telligently he will tell you a good
many tilings that will be worth
knowing.
Incidentally you will find the per¬
son who used to be called a “hick”
nonexistent;
* * •
The farmer reads the same news¬
paper that you do, he has a radio
like yours to listen to when he gets
the stock bedded down and the
milking done.
He is as a rule more interested
in what is going on in the city than
you are Interested in what is going
on In the country.
But if you get on good terms with
him he will swell your stock of in¬
formation, and you will begin to dis¬
cover that people can be regular
folks, even if they do get up at four
o’clock in the morning and go to
bed at eight at night.
• • *
Some day, Mr. City Man, when you
are wondering whether you will play
golf or just loaf through the day, crank
up the machine and make a little visit
among people who, even if they don't
know you, will be glad to talk to you
and listen to you.
Bring along the kids if you have
any. It’s time they were getting
over the superiority that most pity
i children feel. They will be better
citizens, and their education will
come easier if they outgrow the pro¬
vincialism that city youngsters
and city men and women suffer
from when they get It into their
heads that somehow or other they
are smarter than the country dwell¬
ers.
Time Brings a Change
As the guest was leaving the hotel
he slipped a dollar into the hand ot
the porter.
“Here’s something to drink to my
health with,” lie said.
The porter grimaced.
"Thank you, sir,” lie said, “but if
I remember correctly, you gave mi
S5 last year for the same thing.”
“That’s right,” smiled the guest
“but tliis year my health is better.”
To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.
Antelope Sanctuary
Since the enclosure of 40 square
miles of Petrified Forest national
monument to exclude cattle, antelope
have begun to return to this area,
reports a bulletin from the Depart¬
ment of the Interior. Now these an¬
imals are finding sanctuary in a re¬
gion where they have ranged from
time immemorial.
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