MAY 17. 19 Jt
| The Week in
Washington
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A EESI ME OF GOVERNMKNMKNTAL
HAPPENINGS IN
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
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Washington - -As forecast in this
correspondence a short time ago, the
President is choosing the "right" fork
of tile road to social and economic
; tecovery, rather than the "left." Not
by any positive declaration of policy,
but by putting the emphasis of
matters which appear of more importance
to the conservative element
Of the citizenry than do a good many
of the things about which there has
been so much talk.
More and more it is being born.'
in up on those members of the Ad
ministration who are keen for reforming
everything-?and there are
a fciv who are bugs" on that sub
jsct?that until and unless business
-espon-js to what has already been
put into effect, it would be folly to
try to press any more far-reaching
reforms upon the nation. The President
sees this clearly, and so do a
great many members of both houses
of. Congress. Some of the latter, with
the primaries now starting and the
election of next November staring
them in the face, arc wondering whether
anything that they can do between
now and adjournment will help
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Heed C mst r.v tiyr Critkl'.SIU
I The administration ana its suppoiiters
are receptive to criticism when
:t comes from sources which they do
not repaid as self-seeking. The} pay
' iittte attention to what Wall Street
| thinks, bat they do listen when representatives
of constructive and productive
business speak their minds,
as did the members of the Chambers
i of Commerce of llie United States
recently tn their annual convention.
One result of that criticism is a re:
vision of the Securities Act. with the
. President's full support, to enable legitimate
business to obtain capital
: in a legitimate way from legitimate
sources, without being classed with
. crooks and highbinders.
It i3 probably a fair statement
i that Republican opposition is not
worrying the administration any. In
: the nation as a whole there is nothing
that coin be called a Republican
party today. The Old Guard is reluctant
to let go its leadership, yet is
calling for young blood to rejuvenate
i the party.
So far about the only effort to
shape lip policies on which to go to
the electorate next election time
seems to be an effort to see how
, close the Republicans can come to
; parallelling Democratic ideas. That
creates much the same sort of a sit!
uatio.a that existed in 1896, when both
the Republicans and the Democrats
vied with each other to see how much
they could grab off for themselves
of the platform of the vigorous young
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<e Chevrolet keeps repeating, mm
vertising, "Drive it only 5 And
son: Chevrolet engineers have are
makes of cars in today's low- wor
lave proved to their Complete Che
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crs are proving in their daily own
>re smoothly a car travels with befc
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ith shock-proof steering. How ?cm
ride, in a Fisher Body ear. How
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j third party, the Populists. Between
! the::: they killed the Populist party.
: cut : > doctrines survived and every
C}ic cf them is now the law of the
land, savq only the fiee coinage of
silver; and that seems closer now
than at any time in nearly forty
years.
The Republican Outlook
There are wise old observers hero
in Washington who believe that the
Republican party has a chance in
1936 only if it cocaes out frankly and
squarely on the conservative side. The
radicals have done all the talking
t for the last couple of years, until one
! would be tempted to think that there
j are no conservatives left. Some of
j the members of Congress who are
j coming up for re-election know bet!
ter; there are still a few conserva
j lives icit m tncir homo districts who
J arc likely to vote the Republican tic!
ket next November.
Locally, conservative though is beginning
to express itself. Washington
ha:-: hoard hardly more than echoes
from the back country, so far: out
some smart politicians believe that
i if the national Republican party
! would go on record, not as promising
! the same sort of things that, the
! Democrats are dishing out now, but
j almost precisely the opposite so far
j as Government control of business.
! and expenditures for social reforms
are concerned, it would gather recruits
to itself like a snowball rolling
down hill. It might not win the
Presidential election of 1936, but it
would have a good chance in 1940.
These same observers give President
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Brans from the Ronhs
, Th-:.. ire many in r.s tha; the j
-c-eaU.":.: brain trust is not such a
mting influence as it was. The
t term. ;;t course, is a loose one. but is
j user) here as mean ing: the intellec!
Luals who had little practical experijence
iir administering public affairs
| but were installed here because of
\ their supposed better understanding
! oC public Questions than the m?n wh<y
make such matters their life work.
The Administration has learned
that there are in any men of high
scholastic attainments, thorough
scholars, and with detailed, practical
knowledge of how Governmental
things are done, already in the permanent
Government service. These
men are not party men. but efficient
public servants who, for one reason
' or another, have made public servj
ice their life work. Some of them
jaiv Qi?:n of means, who serve because
i they feel there is more satisfaction
{hi using their talents for the public
jw.jii'are than in piling up wealth for
\ themselves. Seme are men whose
1 tastes are simple and needs few. who
jgot along very comfortably on their
}Cr vernment salaries and who wholehe?,
redly devote their leisure to the
study of social and economic problems
in their national and international
aspects.
Getting a Hearing Now
These men are now being called
Into conference, and some of the
orain-trusters are discovering that
what they have been putting forth
as new and original ideas, are old
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:L?eas have been tried and didn't
some them are jast what
these permanent government serv- J
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ing on for years.
That is one of the indications that |
the running of the gres t business of I
governing the United States is row'
shaking down into older and system:
but a iot remains to be done, before
anyone can say positively just when
the policies in effect are in what
direction we are ultimately heading.
GOYERNOK RITCHIE SEEKS
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Baltimore, Md ? Governor Albert
C. Ritchie of Maryland, who has i
served fifteen years as chief cxecu- j
tive of his 3tate, Saturday announced i
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for a fifth term.
"There are three roads ahead," Rtl-;
chie declared in announcing his de- j
cision to he a candidate i.? the Sep- j
tember primary "First T can retire
from public life. Frankly, I don't
want, to do this. Secondly I can run
for the United States Senate. Third- I
ly, I can run for Governor again.
"It so happens that I had rather
be governor of Maryland than hold !
any office within the gift of the peo- j
pie of tlie State."
Governor Ritchie was a candid a lor;
for the Democratic nomination for I
President at the 1932 Chicago con- \
vention where President Roosevelt
was nominated.
In running for renominat.ion. P.:t- :
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chte said he did so against the advice
of some of his political friends
v. ::u '7-im to see!: the Senate
1 seat lieVl by Phillips Lee Goidsu
Republican. They told him,
he said, that he would have a much
j easier campaign.
'If I an-, taking any risk running
1 for Governor, then I had rather take
that risk than the certainty of being
ejected senator." Ritchie replied.
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