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Washington.—Never very potent,
either as an orator on the floor or a
manipulator behind the scenes in
the senate, Joseph F. Guffey is be¬
ing advised by close friends to run
for governor of Pennsylvania. They
contend, as diplomatically as they
dare in their advice, that following
Guffey’s denunciation over the radio
of the “ingrates” among his col¬
leagues, his effectiveness in the up¬
per house is destroyed.
Guffey is a very unusual figure in
public life. His importance for years
was due largely to a general con¬
viction that he played along with
Tammany Hall ip the days when
Tammany was pretty nearly New
York. At any convention he was
much sought after, on the theory
that he would “throw” the Pennsyl¬
vania delegation whichever way
New York decided to go, and it was
much easier to get a deal or a story,
according to whether the inquirer
was a politician or a newspaper
man, from Guffey than from any of
the tight-lipped New York leaders.
So Guffey was always in the
news, in the days just before and
during a national Democratic con¬
vention. After the convention he
subsided into comparative obscuri¬
ty, save for occasional visits to na¬
tional headquarters, when he would
tell every politician and every news¬
paper man with whom he talked
that Pennsylvania would be “in the
bag” for the Democratic nominee if
only he could get a liberal cash do¬
nation from the national committee.
His success in wheedling contribu¬
tions for these forlorn hopes was
astonishing. In 1928, for instance,
he had John J. Raskob convinced
that A1 Smith could carry Pennsyl¬
vania if Raskob would just let Guf¬
fey have enough money.
“It’s surprising,” said the late
Joseph T. Robinson, down at Hot
Springs, Ark., for his notification
ceremony, “what favorable reports
we are getting from Pennsylvania.
I believe we are going to carry
that state.”
“Don’t let Guffey kid you,” said
a newspaper friend. “He just wants
some of Raskob’s dough.”
Four years later, however, the
sun really began to shine on Guf¬
fey’s political fortunes. Right at the
outset he came out for Franklin
D. Roosevelt, breaking the hoary
tradition (never apparently very
much justified by developments) of
his alignment with Tammany. He
was credited with winning a major¬
ity of the Keystone state’? delegates
for Roosevelt. In a way—assuming
he could have delivered the same
number of delegates to any one of
the “allies”—he nominated Roose¬
velt.
For all of which Jim Farley was
profoundly grateful. And so was
Roosevelt. Guffey rolled in cam¬
paign contributions for Pennsyl¬
vania. He didn’t carry it, but the
gratitude carried on. He was given
so much patronage that there was
a real revolt amo'rig the Pennsyl¬
vania Democratic representatives,
led by no less a personage than
Pat Boland, of Scranton, now whip
of the house.
As senator, Guffey has simply
been another pro - administration
vote. His speeches had a canned
flavor. He was accused of having
them written for him by the Brain
Trusters, and he has never denied
it. But he fumbles the reading!
Now he has arraigned against
himself every Democratic senator
who revolted on the Supreme court
enlargement, and, less openly, ev¬
ery Democratic senator who has re¬
volted on anything. They don’t like
this reprisal idea. They suspect the
President is accurately represented
by Guffey, but that does not endear
the Pennsylvania senator to them.
So Guffey may decide to accept
the advice of some of his friends,
and run for governor.
Garner Manipulates Bill
Vice President John Nance Gar¬
ner’s holding of the sugar bill after
all the formalities had been com¬
plied with — preventing President
Roosevelt from getting it in reason¬
able time for a veto, was one of the
most interesting, if unnoticed, de¬
velopments of the closing of the ses¬
sion of congress.
Garner held that bill until late
Saturday afternoon—virtually Satur¬
day night—before sending it to the
White House, although if he had
been in a real hurry to get it there
it could have been delivered Friday
evening. is why Gar¬
The point of course
ner did it. It must be remembered
that the President had sharply re¬
buked Senator Pat Harrison, chair¬
man of the senate finance commit¬
tee, for his proposed “compromise.”
The President had publicly de¬
nounced the lobby of the refiners in
mainland America as one of the
“most pernicious” in history. When
the final compromise was put
through, in form totally unsatisfac¬
tory to the President, it merely
vided that the provisions affecting
the refining of sugar should expire
ten months before the end of the
three-year period during which the
quota system should prevail.
Questioned on the floor as to why
this had not been made a full year,
Senator Harrison frankly admitted
that it was because he intended to
induce congress, if possible, to ex¬
tend these provisions in that first
two months of the third year. In
short, as Senator Harrison and his
friends viewed the situation, it was
not a compromise at all, but the
winning of all they contended for the
first 26 months of the law’s life,
with a chance to win everything
also for even the remaining 10
months.
Vice President Garner doesn’t
talk very much, but he knew what
the President had been saying and
how the President felt. Also he
knew the temper of congress during
those last few days. And he knew
the extreme probability was that, if
the President should receive that
bill on Friday night he would veto
it. In that event, Mr. Garner fig¬
ured, there was little doubt as to
what would happen—congress would
rush the bill through over the Presi¬
dent’s veto.
This would have been another set¬
back fqr the President’s prestige. It
is the kind of thing that a good
party man does not like. Garner
is above everything else a good
party man. Whether he sympathizes
with the President’s ideas or not has
nothing to do with the case, in most
instances. The paramount motive
with Garner always is that the Dem¬
ocratic party must be supreme—
must continue to present as solid
a front as possible to the foe.
So smart “Cactus Jack” decided
to give the President' a breathing
spell to cool off. The President of
course would know that congress
had passed the bill in the form he
did not want. Secretary of, the In¬
terior Harold L. Ickes could be de¬
pended on to rush to the Chief Ex¬
ecutive with a little oil for the fire
even if no one else carried the bad
news. But the President could not
veto the bill without having the bill
to veto, and Garner saw to it that
the White House did not get the doc¬
ument.
As a matter of fact, if the Presi¬
dent had vetoed the bill when Gar¬
ner let him have it, assuming the
veto message was dashed off with¬
in five minutes of receipt, the rftep
senger with the veto message would
have had to hurry to get to the capi
tol before the final gavel. And at
that stage Garner could probably
have gaveled his way to adjourn¬
ment without most of the senators
knowing what the “message from
the President” was all about.
Fight Only Beginning
President Roosevelt’s legislative
program for the congress, as out¬
lined in a conference with senate
and house leaders on June 5, is very
interesting reading now, but it
would have been a rash prophet in¬
deed who would have dared predict
any such percentage of failure as
actually developed.
Not that this means permanent
failure. Many of the things that
were caught in the stampede for
adjournment or went over for other
sound reasons may be enacted next
year. Only two defeats seem sure.
One was actual enlargement of the
Supreme court. The other was re¬
organization of the federal depart¬
ments and bureaus.
The President has not given up on
either of these'. Actually in the Su¬
preme court case he has won,
though he is not claiming victory.
He has the substance, but he want¬
ed terribly to have the technical
knockout, shadowy as such a vic¬
tory might possibly have proved.
On government reorganization, as
predicted in these dispatches many
times, he can have a great deal
when congress finally gets around
to voting on the bill—but not the
things he particularly wants, not¬
ably executive control over such in¬
dependent commissions as inter¬
state commerce and federal trade.
Wages and hours regulation will
of course go through next session,
but the chances are now that the
bill even then will be much more
moderate than the President
wished. The little sawmill and fac¬
tory owners of the South have felt
their oats, so to speak, and will be
even more outspoken from now on
about things they do not like. ,
Crop control was not mentioned at
the June 5 conference. It really
was on the agenda all the time, but
intended by the White House to
come after the bill enlarging the
Supreme court had passed. Obvi¬
ously the only satisfactory plan for
contracts not to grow crops with
individual farmers would not pass
the hurdles set up in the old AAA
decision until- the court was
changed. But the probability now
is there will be sufficient change on
the court before any such measures
can be gotten through the next ses¬
sion to assure fair promise that
this legislation will be upheld.
Indeed the President for quite a
time was for holding back the wages
and hours legislation until the court
bill had become law.
National planning, as to water re¬
sources for the various regions of
the country, was another item on
that June 5 program. While the
President has not specifically en¬
dorsed Senator George W. Norris’
seven TVAs measure, this is gen¬
erally understood as being in ac¬
cordance witl\ his ideas.
On that bill there will be a real
fight next session, but the Presi¬
dent has a better chance of victory
there than on getting his own tar
ideas enacted.
© Bell Syndic ate.-—WNU Service,
CLEVELAND COURIER
'Way Back When
By JEANNE
FROM LUMBER YARD WORKER
TO VICE PRESIDENT OF U. S.
'T'O KNOW whether you have cho
sen the right vocation for suc¬
cess in return for your efforts is
sometimes difficult to decide. But,
once it begins to dawn upon you
jthat you could go further in another
occupation, it is time to change.
jThe greatest advancement lies
where your talents and interests are
.greatest, Charles Dawes, who made
jthe under-slung pipe famous when
he became Vice President of the
United States, might have been rel¬
atively unknown if he had not
changed his mind about the occupa¬
tion he would follow.
He was born in Marietta, Ohio,
in 1865. He attended the public
schools there and entered Marietta
College, graduating at the age of
nineteen. During the summer
-months he worked in a lumber yard,
shifting lumber. It is easy to imag¬
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sis, he might have set the proprie¬
torship of a lumber yard as his
goal. Dawes was always fond of
•music. He played both the violin
and the piano, and music has been
,his chief diversion. ' He composed
“Melody in A Minor” which Fritz
Kreisler, famous violinist, included
’in his repertoire.
After college, Charles Dawes went
-to work in the engineering depart¬
ment of the Tpledo and Ohio Cen¬
tral Extension railroad, working up
-to chief engineer in charge of con¬
struction. He decided to study law,
or he might have been simply a
' good civil engineer. Graduating
from the Cincinnati School of Law,
he practiced for ?ome years and
became interested ip politics. Presi¬
dent McKinley appointed him comp¬
troller of currency and, after four
years of service, Dawes organized
the Central Trust company of Chi¬
cago. He was general purchasing
agent for the A. E. F.- during the
World war, and director of the
budget bureau under President
Harding. In 1924, he was elected
Vice President of the United States
under Coolidge.
* * *
FAMOUS AVIATRIX ONCE
DROVE A TRUCK
'X'HIS is a note of encouragement
for “tom-boys” and particularly
for parents who may not under¬
stand fhem. Girls who fall into the
classification of “tom-boys” spirit usually of
simply have a stronger
competition or a greater streak of
adventure than other little girls.
■Their greater activity may be early
expression of a sense of leadership
which may later lead to fame.
Amelia Earhart, queen of avia¬
tion, was a tom-boy. Born in Atchi¬
son, Kan., in 1898, she was an un¬
usually active little girl. She loved
rough and tumble games, and she
could beat most of the boys her
age in sports and contests. She
graduated from Hyde Park high
school in Chicago and went on to
a girl’s school in Rydal, Pa. From
school she went to Canada where
she worked as a nurse’s aide in a
Toronto war hospital. Stories of
World war pilots appealed to her
sense of adventure and daring; and
Amelia made her way to California,
determined to learn to fly.
Here her self-reliance and “tom¬
boy” courage was -helpful, for she
had to earn the money for her in¬
struction. Amelia Earhart worked
for the telephone company and even
drove a sand and gravel truck. Lat¬
er, she attended Columbia univer¬
sity. She held 28 different jobs while
perfecting herself in the art of fly¬
ing. In 1928, she won the plaudits of
the world by being the first woman
to fly the Atlantic. As a result of
this flight she gained recognition as
the foremost woman flyer, became
aviation editor of Cosmopolitan
Magazine, and vice president of two
important commercial airlines.
©—WNU Service.
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Rare in Crochet
An opportunity to combine ele¬
gance without extravagance—and
all with your own nimble fingers
and crochet hook! These lovely
10-inch companion squares of filet
crochet, done in string, are hand¬
some used together. Repeat each
different design in a cloth, spread
Pattern 1402
or scarf. You can make smaller
squares using finer cotton. Pat¬
tern 1402 contains directions and
charts for making the squares
shown and joining them to make
a variety of articles; illustrations
of. them and of all stitches used;
photograph of a single square
about actual size; material re¬
quirements.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
Please write plainly your name,
address and pattern number.
If Early State Names
President Thomas Jefferson
had had his say-so, there would
have been more than the present
states comprising the Northwest
Territory and most of their names
would have been tongue twisters.
As you know, the Northwest
Territory consists of Ohio, Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and
part of Minnesota, but Jefferson’s
suggested names were Sylvania,
Cheronesus, Michigania, Asseni
sipia, Metropotamia, Illinoia, Sar¬
atoga. Washington, Polypotamia
and Pelisipia. These names can.
be found on the early maps.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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