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Washington, July 6.—Just how
far the Presidential picnic on Jef
ferson Island has been effective
in restoring harmonious relations
between the Congressional lead
ers on the Democratic Party and
the Chief Executive is still un
certain; but the probability is
that much of the irritation s be
tween Capitol Hill and the White
House has been alleviated.
Mr. Roosevelt is a master of
conciliation and when he asked
every Democratic Senator and
Representative to come to the
three-day outing at the Jefferson
Island Club, it was a foregone
conclusion that many of those
who went would come back with
less resistance to White House
policies than when they went.
Not everyone invited accepted.
Many members of both Houses do
not want to be reconciled, and
these discovered previous engage
ments which prevented them from
going to Jefferson Island.
President's Persuasive Charm
Even those who totally disagree
with the President on major is
sues have always found it diffi
cult to stand out against Mr.
Roosevelt's personal charm. It is
not stretching the facts to say
that no occupant of the White
House in half a century, at least,
has enjoyed such enormous per
sonal popularity, as distinguished
from political popularity, as does
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The fact that great masses of
the people feel a personal affec
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the movies, or heard him speak
over the radio, gives him a tre
mendous advantage in dealing
with recalcitrant legislators, who
are acutely conscious that, how
ever sharply they may disagree
with the President's policies, their
constitutents back home love him.
Not for many years has there
been n President whom so many
every day citiezns wanted to see
in person and shake hands with,
if possible. According to figures
compiled by the official usher of
the White House, President and
Mrs. Roosevelt shook hands with
16.650 persons at the White
House last year.
In addition, however, to the
ones who had the opportunity
of shaking the Presidential hand,
there were more than 650,000
sightseers who got a look at the
inside of the White House during
the year. About a third of them
called on their Congressmen for
cards of introduction, which are
always freely granted to visitors
from "back home," but the other
two-thirds just walked in and
strolled about the public rooms of
the Executive Mansion.
Third-term Talk
The present White House fam
ily, therefore, has had less pri
vate life than any of its predeces
sors. Besides nearly 2,000 unin
vited guests strolling through the
White House parlors every day,
Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt in one
year have served tea or other re
freshments to 22,353 persons, din
ners or formal luncheons to more
than 4,000 others, and have had
319 persons as overnight guests in
the White House.
One result of the growing rela
ization that the personal popu
larity of Mr. Roosevelt among the
rank and file of the voters has
been in no way diminished is a
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I lively recurrence of gossip cen
tering on the possibility of his
renomination In 1940 for a third
terra. That suggestion has been
put forward publicly by more or
less irresponsible persons, but has
met with no open approval from
the White House. On the other
hand, there have been no expres
sions of disapproval.
Some members of the Cabinet
have been putting out "feelers"
among newspaper men, to get
their opinion concerning the
chance of such a renomination,
provided the President were re
ceptive. Gossip has it that they
are generally reporting that the
chance is slight unless the world
becomes involved in another gen
eral war. Nevertheless, the third
term tallc persists.
At the same time, however,
well-informed observers point to
signs indicating in their opinion
that the Administration is groom
ing Governor Earle of Pennsyl
vania as its 1940 choice, while
Postmaster General Farley has
lately come to the point as a re
ceptive candidate.
It is taken for granted here
that the Presidential election of
1940 will be almost as overwhelm
ingly Democratic as was that of
1936. There is less feeling of
certainty about the Congressional
elections of 1938. The Republican
strategy, so far as that has been
formulated, is to put up the
strongest possible fight for every
Congressional seat not firmly held
and to cooperate with disgruntled
and conservative Democrats in
the effort to put two Democratic
candidates—one regular and one
New Deal—in the field, in dis
tricts where it seems possible to
split the Democratic vote by this
means.
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Meantime, vigorous undercover
efforts of various kinds are be
ing made to bring about a reor
ganization of the Republican
Party and set up a national lead
ership under which party mem
bers can be rallied. Senator Ar
thur Vandenburg of Michigan
comes nearer today to being the
actual leader of his party than
any other one man, not excluding
John Hamilton, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee.
The real hope of the dyed-in-the
wool Republican politicians, how
ever, is to bring about a coalition
WASHINGTON NO. 2
between their party and the con
servative wing of the Democracy.
There is little chance of that,
observers here, say, so long as
the Republican leadership leans
in any degree toward the New
Deal. Therefore, there is a swing
in progress toward the definitely
conservative elements of the par
ty, such as Herbert Hoover and
Ogden Mills. What may come of
it is anybody's guess.
Politicians of all stripes seem to
be only Just now waking up to the
political dynamite which is con
tained in the labor situation.
Its effects are both economic
and political, and extremely dis
turbing in both fields. Open talk
is heard from statesmen who do
not talk loosely, that a domina
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As Thanksgiving Day has be
come an occasion for thanks for
individual benefits and blessings,
Independence Day has become a
time for stock-taking of national
gains and losses. Keeping in
mind that it was the men from
the farms who turned back the
redcoats and gave America Its
freedom, it seems proper now to
consider the status of the farmer
today in our country's march of
progress. And to do so clearly
shows that while the economic
position of farmers generally has
been considerably improved, the
men and women who till the soil
have not shared equally in the
general advances of our people.
This is becoming more and
more evident to the members of
Congress concerned with the wel
fare of rural America and is cer
tain to mean a general speeding
up of legislation designed to help
the farmer. Pending farm-ten
ancy legislation is a case in point.
Other important measures may
be expected to have more atten
tion in the months to ahead.
Striking figures with reference
to the general farm situation were
recently submitted to Congress
and are worthy of the attention
of those concerned with the farm
problem. To quote:
"The movement of population
from the farm to the city indi
cates the decreasing attractiveness
of farm life. In the last 25 years,
while the Nation's _ population
grew nearly 40 percent and while
the percent .of the national land
area included in farms rose from
46.2 percent to 55.4 percent, the
farm population actually declined.
In 1910 it was estimated at slight
ly more than 32,000,000. In 1929
it had fallen to 30,257,000. In
spite of the distress in the cities
during the depression, the farm
population in 1935 was only 31,-
800,000 —more than 200,000 less
than the estimate in 1910. This
decline took place in spite of the
fact that the annual excess of
births over deaths on the farm is
from 400,000 to 500,000 a year.
According to the Bureau of Agri
culture Economics, there was a
net migration of 6,296,000 persons
tion of the entire nation by or
ganized labor is imminent unless
the strike situation is handled
from Washington with much
firmer hand than has been shown.
sion many families went back to
the land in an effort to raise at
least their own subsistence, the
exodus from the farm continued
from 1930 to 1935 to such an ex
tent that 984,000 more people left
the farm than went to It. The
existence of abandoned farms and
the general shortage of labor on
farms In cultivation are witness to
the fact that although the Im
provement of farm machinery
may have diminished the need
for manpower it is not primarily
responsible for this migration.
"The difficulty of success in
farming in recent years has been
primarily responsible. From 1950
to 1920 the average value per
acre of farm land and buildings
steadily increased. Thereafter,
however, it declined preciptous
ly. In 1910 it was $39.60 per acre.
In 1920, after the wartime boom,
it was $69.38. By 1925 it had fal
len to $53.52, and by 1930 to
$48.52. In 1935 it was $31.16
appreciably less than in 1910. Not
only was the value per acre less
but the total value of farm land
and buildings in 1935 was $32,-
858,000,000 as compared with $34,-
801,000,000 in 1910. This decrease
in the total value of farm proper
ty took place in spite of the fact
that during this period the pro
portion of the total national land
area devoted to farming increased
by 9.2 percent. So far as the
Commission is aware, no other
major national economic activity
operates today with a smaller
capital than in 1910.
"Not only has the capital de
voted to farming been partly
eaten away but the farmer owns
an ever-smaller share of that
capital. In 1900, 23.2 percent of
the total farm acreage was oper
ated by tenants. In 1925, the
figure had risen to 28.6 percent
and in 1935 to 31.9 percent. The
number of farm tenants grew by
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