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The Questions
1. Which cabinet member was
born in a log cabin?
2. What is the smallest repub¬
lic in the world?
3. How long is the San Fran
cisco-Oakland bay bridge?
. 4. How long following her mar¬
riage does custom allow a wife to
be called a bride?
5. Who was the author of the
following aphorism: “Laws do not
make reforms; reforms make
laws”?
6. How long is the world’s long¬
est chain?
7. What casualties did the Unit¬
ed States forces suffer in the Span
ish-American war?
8. In what European countries
do the most Americans live?
9. What does it cost the govern¬
ment to educate a student at West
Point?
The Answers
1. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull.
. 2. It is San Marino in northern
Italy, with an area of 38 square
miles.
3. The total length is 8% miles
and the length over water is 4 V>
miles.
4. One year.
5. Calvin Coolidge.
B. The world’s longest chain is
a 4,200-foot chain made of 12,500
nickel steel links, used in planting
ocean cables.
7. Killed in action, 498; died of
wounds, 202; died of disease,
5,423; died of accidents, etc., 349;
total deaths, 6,472.
8. On May 13, 1938, Italy had
more Americans living there than
any other European country.
There were 25,616 at that time.
Great Britain and Northern Ire¬
land ranked second with 12,447,
and France third with 12,384.
9. The adjutant general’s office
says that the cost to the federal
government of sending a student
through the entire course at the
United States Military academy is
$9,715.45.
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cent, or the third largest, number
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frequency with which they were
injured: arms, 11 per cent; head
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AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Too much build-up is
turning Harry Hopkins’ or¬
atorical efforts into a dud
... Cutting federal expenses
and balancing the budget is
seen a virtual impossibility
. . . New Deal will feel the
loss of Joseph B. Keenan’s
political sagacity .
WASHINGTON.—Whatever else
may be said of Harry L. Hopkins’
“appeasement" speech, intended to
start the wheels of prosperity turn¬
ing again in this country and to
pave the way to his own nomination
and election next year, very little
poker strategy was shown. The
build-up was wrong. The timing
was calculated badly. And finally,
it became evident that Hopkins sim¬
ply does not have the golden radio
voice of his chief.
On this last point, one wonders if
Mr. Roosevelt is really doing his
Harry
Harry was not big time so far as
broadcasting is concerned, and that
he could be improved quite consid¬
erably by a little training.
Most people, for instance, figure
that Herbert Hoover would like an¬
other try for the White House brass
ring, but nevertheless he did advise
Thomas E. Dewey, just before
Dewey entered the New York guber¬
natorial race, that his oratory sim¬
ply must be improved. And no one
should know better than Hoover,
who as secretary of commerce and
as President was one of the worst
ever known—until Alf M. Landon—
but who turned himself, in the opin¬
ion of many observers, into the best
orator the Republican party has by
the time he had been out of the
White House for four years.
Promised His Head Off;
Final Effort Became Dud
Coming back to Hopkins’ strategy,
or lack of it, it is possible that he
could not avoid one big mistake.
Looking at the whole affair coldly,
it is probable that if Hopkins had
made that same speech three
months earlier it would have been a
wow. The whole country would
have talked of nothing else for
weeks. Business would have been
electrified. Everybody knowing
how close he was to the President,
it would have marked a dramatic
and spectacular milestone.
What had happened in that three
months to make it seem an anti¬
climax? To have made it, frankly,
a disappointment to business as well
as to Hopkins’ boosters?
The answer is simple. There had
been too much build-up. The trou¬
ble was tbht Hopkins meantime had
been nominated for secretary of
commerce, and had to get himself
confirmed. Not only that, he had
to go far enough in his campaign
to get confirmed to avoid any seri¬
ous fight over his confirmation. Any¬
thing else might have thrown him
off what seemed like a clear track
leading to the White House before
he could get steam up.
So he promised his head off, not
in one interview but in dozens. He
had'half a dozen “spokesmen” on
the conservative side in the senate
telling their colleagues, and news¬
paper men, and business men back
home, just how safe and sane Harry
was going to be. He was specific
in his pledges, left nothing to the
imagination.
In fact, he said so much, and it
was relayed so widely, that it is no
wonder his final public effort was a
dud.
Balancing the Budget Is
Seen Virtual Impossibility
The virtual impossibility of cut¬
ting federal expenditures and bal¬
ancing the budget is clearly dem¬
onstrated in the recent senate vote
on the proposal to cut $4,262,000
from the TVA appropriation. It is
significant because this was the
most logical place for congress to
cut this particular bill if it were to
be cut at all.
The point is that the house, in
cutting more than four times that
amount from the TVA appropria¬
tion, had included in the projects to
be discontinued the Gilbertsville
dam, on which the government has
already expended some millions of
dollars, and which in addition is
recognized by all engineers as im¬
portant not only to the navigation
and flood control of the Tennessee
river, but to the lower Ohio and
Mississippi rivers as well.
In short, it is easy to see that the
most determined man to cut appro¬
priations in all congress might eas¬
ily have been swayed to vote for
the Gilbertsville dam money. On
this particular point there was no
roll call. It was approved by a
voice vote.
But on the four-million-dollar ap¬
propriation there Was no such argu¬
ment calculated to appeal to sena¬
tors who want the federal govern¬
ment to balance its budget. Yet
the vote to put the appropriation
into the bill—to go on spending—
was 49 to 31. As four additional
senators were paired in favor of
the appropriation, the total strength
for it was actually 53, four more
than a majority of the entire body.
Really Is Part and Parcel
Of Old Pork-Barrel System
The really discouraging phase of
the whole matter to those who see
the necessity of budget balancing
has nothing to do with the merits
of this particular appropriation. V In
fact, it is not unfair to say that most
of the senators who voted for it
were not primarily voting on its
merits at all. Some of them were
voting for the additional dam be¬
cause they believe in the govern¬
ment going further into the elec¬
trical business. Some of them did
so because they knew the White
House wanted it. Some of them
want to round out the TVA project.
For example, had Arthur E. Mor¬
gan been a member of the senate
when this vote was taken, he would
of course have voted for the appro¬
priation, despite his bitter criti¬
cisms of David E. Lilienthal, and,
inferentially, of President Roose¬
velt, in the conduct of TVA affairs.
But the really discouraging point
is that it is part and parcel pf the
old pork-barrel system. It will be
noted that the senators from many
of the states which hope for more
federal spending on dams and river
control projects went along with
the majority.
What so many people who hope
for economy from congress do not
think about in their wishful talking
is that it is good business for poli¬
ticians to spend public moneys. In
fact, that is how politicians live.
Sometimes it is crude, as in the
case of local contracts, with atten¬
dant graft. Sometimes it is more
difficult to trace, as in the pork
barrel type of federal spending.
There the objective is not graft, but
“bringing home the bacon.”
New Deal Feels Loss of
Keenan’s Political Wisdom
The stepping out of the New Deal
circle of Joseph B. Keenan, who
has been assistant attorney general,
leaves really no one on the inside,
so to speak, whose knowledge of
practical politics and political in¬
telligence commands very much re¬
spect on Capitol Hill, with the nota¬
ble exception, of course, of the
President himself.
It has frequently been a matter of
comment that Mr. Roosevelt, frem
the day he yielded to Alfred E.
Smith’s urging that he run for gov¬
ernor of New York in 1928, .did not
make a single serious political mis¬
take until he had entered on his
second presidential term. It is also
frequently pointed out that a great
many positive actions, which were
of the highest order of political
sagacity, contributed to his success
in the period a little short of seven
years which is included in this span.
His first political mistake, accord¬
ing to the consensus on Capitol Hill,
was his proposal for the enlarge¬
ment of the Supreme court, made
in January, 1937. Then followed
the purge, and a long list of actions
which approach the definition of an
old-time political leader that “It
was worse than a crime, it was a
blunder.”
Many critics insist that it is not
merely a coincidence that during
the brilliant—always measuring 'by
the test of pure political judgment,
and not by whether the actions were
otherwise sound or unsound—period
Mr. Roosevelt had the advantage of
the advice of loyal Louis McHenry
Howe, and that the period since,
when blunders have been frequent,
came after Howe’s death.
F arley Definitely Excluded
From Political Councils
Be that as it may, the adminis¬
tration is recognized as having def¬
initely excluded James A. Farley
from its political councils almost
ever since the 1936 election.
The President actively entered
three of the purge contests himself.
In one case, Mary¬
land, Farley is
known to have
hoped that Senator
Millard E. Tydings
would be defeated,
though his judgment
was that it could not
be done. In fact, he
is known to have
told close friends,
during the Mary¬
land primary, to bet
Senator on Tydings. In the
Tydings other two cases
where the President
personally spoke his wishes to the
voters, South Carolina and Georgia,
Farley not only thought the purge
could not succeed but did not agree
with it. In short he would have
opposed fighting Walter F. George
and Cotton Ed (E. D.) Smith even
if he had been sure he could beat
them.
Considering the whole picture
after Howe died, and when Farley’s
political judgment was being ig¬
nored, Joe Keenan, who was the
ace politician of the New Deal, so
to speak, did not make a very fa¬
vorable record. But Keenan is not
blamed for this. He did not make
the big decisions. He simply tried
to carry out the orders once they
had been given.
Farley is not apt to regain his
political leadership. The New Deal¬
ers regard him as a candidate for
the presidency himself.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
best by this, his sec¬
ond candidate to
succeed him in the
White House—wheth¬
er Hopkins, like
Robert H. Jackson,
is not being “given
a run" like a candi¬
date at a presiden¬
tial convention. For
it would seem to the
most casual student
of mike oratory that
the President must
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By
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‘Pegleg’ Smith
C'OR an example of chilled steel
" consider the of Thom¬
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Jim Cockrell, were trapping in the
Green river country of Wyoming in
the 1820s when Smith fell over a
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“Guess we’ll have to cut ’er off,
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• • •
A Perilous Journey
APT. RANDOLPH B. .MARCY
halted with his party of 40 sol¬
diers and 25 mountain men at the
junction of the Uncompahgre and
Gunnison rivers on his way to Fort
Union, N. M., in 1857. “Me no guide
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American history.
♦ * *
The Scholar-Builder
| N 1798 Gabriel Richard, a French
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