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h Seems to Me HEM BROUN 17" NOXVILLE, Tcnn., Jan. 9.—The fight of men ■*•** against death continues, and at the moment the dead hand leads by a field goal. The high court says by the weight of 6 to 3 that there can be no planned control of agriculture. It is well to remember that the decision in regard to AAA goes far beyond the merits of that mea*ure. The Stalwart Six have ruled that according to the Constitutition the battle between man and the not very good earth is a private fight into which the Federal government

may not enter I was sitting in the office of a TVA man when the flash came, and he put up his hands to his eyes as if he had just received word of a death in the family. And indeed he had. Directly the AAA decision has no bearing on the T V A case which is soon to be decided, but it furnishes a yardstick of the mood and temper of the court and certainly bodes no good to any attempt to bring order into a disorganized world through regional planning. Six of nine old men in Wash-

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ington may be intent upon strict construction and the powers reserved to the states. Unfortunately watersheds and rivers have a habit of bringing in a dissent to this theory of the sanctity of local boundaries. What starts in the Tennessee Valley may finish up at the mouth of the Mississippi, and every year a cubic mile of topsoil floats away into the Gulf of Mexico. Erosion bleeds us white into sterile clay, and the six galloping ghosts in Washington fly dry clauses in the wind like kites while the desert marches on. tt tt a Messengers of Death T TERE there is no water and here a superabundanre, and drought and flood are equally the messengers of death. Only by planning and large scale co-operation can these things be ordered. The potentialities of TVA are magnificent. It is the skirmish line on which the lesson may be learned of mans infinite capacity to bridle and utilize natural forces. Those very forces which have and will destroy him W'hen he stands lonely against the sky are the same agencies on which he can ride to glory. The flood water which would destroy his crops if left unharnessed ran be compelled to furnish him with cheap electric power. In a disordered world we have the perfectly insane condition in which the small farmer who raises sheep can eat no mutton unless he buys it because he lacks the facilities of refrigeration. Man started on the tortuous path of becoming a reasoning animal when the first great lizard crawled up from the slime with a supreme court of nine little lizards clinging to his tail and trying to hold him back. Those things which are right and necessary will prevail in the days when Roberts and Hughes, Butler and Mcßeynolds and Sutherland and Van Devanter have been gathered to their fathers. Bui political evolution is a slow and painful process. It is tragic that the men of TVA should have to give half their time to the job and half to playing political poker. A straight line is still the shortest distance between two points even if the present Supreme Court says ‘'Detour.” tt tt tt How Radicals Arc Horn AND I am not fantastic in saying that this fight in which the foe has a field goal is actually the struggle between life and death. If crops are to be planted which will hold the soil the farmer must have cheap phosphates to fertilize them. The all but idle plant at Muscle Shoals could easily produce them, but there is a legitimate fear that any such enterprise would earn the interdiction of the high court. Accordingly, if any attempt is made it will be to sneak up on the nine old men by telling them that the Muscle Shoals plant must be kept active for the purpose of national defense. It seems quite possible that the Supreme Court would sanction the manufacture of phosphates and nitrates if the suggestion were made that these were needed for the making of explosives and poison gas. But the defense of the very life-giving soil itself would probably be held illegal. “Thumbs up for death, thumbs down for life,” seems to be the motto of the high bench. It has been said that the TVA crowd is composed of rampant radicals. Nothing could be further from the fact. The young men and the old men on the job are economic infants and political tyros. Some of them voted for Hoover. They are technicians who began with the naive notion that the right way to do a job was the best way. I think some of them may become radical. Scratch a technician hard enough and he is apt to say, “Get out of my way and let somebody run who can run.” (Copyright. 1936)

Andy Jackson's Boys

BY THOMAS L. STOKES WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Andrew Jackson, in hc-mespun. peered from a mammoth frame over President Roosevelt's shoulder and saw how easy it is, in this day and age, for Democrats to raise more money than his government could spend in many weeks. Which is to say that the Democratic party at its terrapin-soup SSO-a-plate Jackson Day dinner here last night grossed between $90,000 and SIOO,OOO. with a $lO roast beef dinner here for young Democrats grossing $23,000 and seme 2000 other dinners over the country piling up enough, it is estimated, to pay off the party’s $378,000 deficit. The band played “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Democrats smiled and looked cheerful. a tt tt DABS of ermine showed, diamonds glittered, and’ wine flowed at tables here and there where wealthy Democrats sat—proving that all of them have not joined the American Liberty League. The lesser fry—who found SSO hard to scrape up and grumbled thus privately—peeked out from the nooks and crannies and galleries into the resplendent series of hotel dining rooms, and joined in the deafening applause for Mr. Roosevelt. Glowing and satisfied. Postmaster General Farley presided as toastmaster, with the President on his left, as the assembled Democrats eyed their neighbors and waded through the dinner—ss a plate was its cost—which was led off, shades of dear old Rachel Jackson, will, ‘tomato stuffed with fresh lobster, crabflakes and shrimps. Rachel.” Rachel Jackson smoked a pipe. Sitting in the place of honor at Mr. Roosevelt's left was Bruce Kre.ner, who resigned as Democratic national committeeman from Montana when the President served notice that committeemen who wejre engaged in lobbying here had to give up either their party jobs or their lobbying. Another former committeeman in the same category, Arthur Mullen of Nebraska, was present, but lar back from the places of honor. UK* MR. ROOSEVELT drank only water. Mr. Kremer had a glass of milk at his plate, but other Democrats about the huge dining room were celebrating the occasion with wine. The disappointment over the Supreme Court decision which killed AAA hung over the gathering, and it was noted there was no replica of the new white court building in the parade of shining ice replicas of government edifices which waiters carried high through the suddenly darkened dining room. And Democrats shouted their vengeance, with a will, when the President’ promised that prosperity for agriculture was his continued objective. Perhaps the only dissenting Democrat in Washington did not attend the dinner. Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, here for the national committee meeting today, announced bluntly: "I won't contribute SSO to the New Deal war (best.”

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(FtMirth nf by thf Seri pps-Howard Science Editor.) HK bright, shining trail of aluminum across the world JkiflßK * of industry is a monument to scientific research. The ?1 estigations of a great savant first disclosed the existence ipSfc" lit '• aluminum, the researches of a college boy made the lH -al commercially practicable, and the painstaking work ' i staff of brilliant scientists today, is finding a thousand for the metal. bridges, the girders of dirigibles, fr ennnts. furniture, beer barrels—these are a few of the _ ft ■ * lgs being made of aluminum today. / v;,; '4isL:‘ A wider market for the shining metal and its alloys iron in the new world Su* lling around us bv S. K. day which docs not have from (flp by vice president of the lo 90 per cent . of the structural pp iminum Cos. of America. num,” he says. started exrh laboratories of the Alumi- -We anew that we could reduce Cos. of America at Now Ken- the weight of a bus by 40 per by 5 ton. a suburb of Pittsburgh. cent. The question was whether tlNPtwi' ked with Dr. Francis C. Frary, anVtire.? woul^ 8 jusuf IML ' nnurn with Mr. Colby. 16 11 dld ' JPv V. f his desk stood a little ash 2 - Aircraft. Lightness of pure VMmW v.. . Its inner surface gleamed aluminum, the additional strength Mali . t \ " / f a luster that would have put °. f aluminum alloys, and their re- gSih 'M /r //% vered reflector to shame. Pick- sisLaixtes t you liad shown me that a 3. The rolling stock of railroads. a . iil years ago.” he said, T would Many of the new Diesel-powered, MwMippb vS. t * refused to believe m.v eyes. high-speed, streamlined train , are \ IMg Ik ’here you see a product of re- being built with bodies of aiur.ii- ffMg Mm ch—carried on riuiing the ric- num. The New Haven's Comet, /Wf if sion—that is increasing the making the 44 miles from Boston -j /if if ible use of aluminum some t 0 Providence in 44 minutes, is / Iff if per cent.” such an aluminum-bodied train. .* |' Mff ff tt B u Aluminum also is finding an j Mff ff puts a coating use in j^*j <! cSoi2lttiTl2 1 hard° lransnarenr S USe ° f alum j num Kensington a few years ß ago. 'lt blbk ' nara. transpaient, .noistuiv.- for window frames, screens, doors, hnllt . p? „ n f iko w i lose work f, corrosion-resisting coating. and other items of housing con- ysupplemen^^^ cordmgly if aly object.an ash struction Mr. Colby says, maintained at three other plants iHH lple - Tanks, of the company. ing lamp, is made of alumi- other equipment needed *in these tt u tt U’hirh has hppn hicrhlv nnl- y ttt~>*r>/~\T Ktt lonme onH

(Fourlh of a series by the Seri pps-Howard Science Editor.) bright, shining trail of aluminum across the world of industry is a monument to scientific research. The investigations of a great savant first disclosed the existence of aluminum, the researches of a college boy made the metal commercially practicable, and the painstaking work of a staff of brilliant scientists today, is finding a thousand and one uses for the metal. The floors of bridges, the girders of dirigibles, window casements, furniture, beer barrels—these are a few of the things being made of aluminum today. A wider market for the shining metal and its alloys

is seen in the new world opening around us by S. K. Colby, vice president of the Aluminum Cos. of America. I visited the remarkable research laboratories of the Aluminum Cos. of America at New Kensington, a suburb of Pittsburgh. I talked with Dr. Francis C. Frary, its director, and his expert assistants. Then, back in Pittsburgh, I discussed the future of aluminum with Mr. Colby. On his desk stood a little ash tray. Its inner surface gleamed with a luster that would have put a silvered reflector to shame. Picking it up, Mr. Colby turned it so that the light danced on its smooth, shining surface. “If you had shown me that a few' years ago,” he said, ‘I would have refused to believe my eyes. “There you see a product of research—carried on during the depression—that is increasing the possible use of aluminum some 115 per cent.” u n tt NATURE puts a coating of aluminum oxide. of infinite thinness on any exposed aluminum surface. It is this thin coating which protects aluminum from corrosion. Were it not for that trick of nature, there would have been no aluminum industry. Expert engineers of the Aluminum Cos. have developed a way of doing in an electro-plating tank what nature does of her own accord. They do a better.job of it than does nature, making the coating from 30 to 100 times as thick. It is a hard, transparent, moistureproof, corrosion-resisting coating. Accordingly, if any object, an ash tray, or to pick a more important example, the reflector for a streetlighting lamp, is made of aluminum which has been highly polished and then covered with a coating of oxide, a reflecting surface which never deteriorates is obtained. “This means that we can now do things with aluminum* that never could be done before,” Mr. Colby said. “Here's just one example: More than 30 years ago. attempts were made to manufacture the eyelets for the laces in white shoes from aluminum. But it didn’t work because the eyelets turned the leather black. By the new oxide process we can make eyelets that will never blacken the leather.” tt tt tt IN the forefront of the many fields for aluminum, Mr. Colby sees six great expanding fields in the following order of importance: 1. Automobile trucks and busses. Aluminum has revolutionized the construction of the auto bus, Mr. Colby says. “Hardly a bus is being built to-

Lindberghs to Return in Short Time, Says Writer BY FORREST DAVIS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK. Jan. 9.—The exile of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is not expected by those able to speculate accurately on his future to be permanent. He no doubt will, as was asserted in the original announcement in the New York Times, establish a temporary home in Great Britain. It is not improbable that he may buy a house there—many wealthy Americans maintain residences where they pass a part of each year in Europe. But the prospect that Lindbergh would forever spurn his native shores, transforming himself and family into rootless expatriates is considered highly remote. Indeed. I hazard the prediction here that he will not remain awav longer than one year. —— -

The ties binding the flier and scientist to this country are varied and strong. A son of the middle border, he is attached to that soil by the public service of his father, the late agrarian reformer and Congressman from Minnesota. Charles Lindbergh. The elder Lindbergh is a saint to Progressives in the Northwest. Apart from his role as America's No 1 hero —a burdensome, eightyear old part which he genuinely detests—Lindbergh has contributed incalculably to building up air transport in this country. There, as in his flight to Paris, he has functioned as a pioneer. a tt a NOMINALLY, perhaps actually, a Republican, he inheiits his father’s humanitari?nism, although discarding part of his Progressivism. Shunning strangers, disliking mass contacts, he

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day which does not have from r <s to 90 per cent of the structural work of the body made of aluminum,” he says. “We started experimenting with bus construction during, the depression. “We ttnew that we could reduce the weight of a bus by 40 per cent. The question w j as whether the saving in operating expenses and tires would justify the increased cost of aluminum construction. Experience proved that it did.” 2. Aircraft. Lightness of pure aluminum, the additional strength of aluminum alloys, and their resistances to corrosion have made a field for aluminum here that will grow as fast as the aviation industry grows, Mr. Colby says. 3. The rolling stock of railroads. Many of the new Diesel-powered, high-speed, streamlined trains are being built with bodies of aluminum. The New Haven’s Comet, making the 44 miles from Boston to Providence in 44 minutes, is such an aluminum-bodied train. Aluminum also is finding an important use in the more prosaic field of freight cars. By reducing the weight of the car, it incraesss the size of the “pay load” which a locomotive can haul. 4. Household appliances. To the familiar percolator and frying pan and other kitchen utensils have been added refrigerators, washing machines and dish-wash-ing machines. The efficiency and the beauty of aluminum have made a double appeal that the modern housewife finds irresistible. 5. The housing industry. There is an increasing use of aluminum for window frames, screens, doors, and other items of housing construction, Mr. Colby says. 6. Breweries and dairies. Tanks, storage vats, barrels, pipes and other equipment needed in these two industries are being made of aluminum, Mr. Colby says, since resources have demonstrated their resistance to corrosion. tt tt tt THE scientist who first isolated aluminum was Oersted in the year 1825. But it cost so much to get the metal out of its ores that it was in a class with gold and fashionable ladies who could afford it had necklaces made of the metal. Fifty years later an Oberlin College professor was telling his class that a fortune awaited the man who could devise a cheap method of manufacturing aluminum. In the class was Charles Martin Hall. He nudged a classmate in the ribs and told him he was “going after” aluminum. On Feb. 23, 1886, less than a year after his graduation, he succeeded in discovering the electrolytic process for the manufacture of aluminum. Two years later the Pittsburgh Reduction Cos. began the manufacture of aluminum. In 1907 it

nevertheless concerns himself with proposals for improving the people’s lot. He, too, and in his way, is a reformer; but he guards his political views as studiously as his father propagated his. A number of factors, it is believed, may hasten his return. They include the likelihood that the Lindberghs may find their desire for privacy almost as difficult to fulfill in Great Britain as in America. But more compelling would be assurances—already foreshadowed by the action of part of the press —that the over-zealous newspapers which have failed, equally with the colonel, to differentiate between his public and private life, are prepared now to go on their good behavior. A change in the public's attitude likewise would, it is believed, be influential in restoring the Lindberghs to this country.

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became the Aluminum Cos. of America. Realizing the importar.ee of research, the company built its imposing laboratory building at New Kensington a few years ago. It houses a staff of 150 whose work is supplemented by smaller groups maintained at three other plants of the company. tt n tt SURROUNDED by lawns and _ shrubbery on a 14-acre trait in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains and overlooking the Allegheny River, the laboratory is a monument to scientific research and aluminum. Some of the new uses of aluminum are demonstrated in the exterior of the building. The main entrance is through aluminum doors with cast aluminum grille work framed by aluminum castings enameled in blue, green, white and red. Between the limestone pilasters, aluminum window frames are set with aluminum mullions and separated between floors by cast aluminum spandrels decorated with blue and green vitreous enamel. An aluminum cornice surmounts the building. The conference room is equipped with aluminum furniture upholstered in blue. Throughout the building, aluminum chairs, light and durable, are used. In a large laboratory room on the ground floor is equipment for

Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON, Jai\ 9.—Although the official business of the Democratic National Committee meeting here is to arrange for the June convention, the committee's real concern is Gav. Gene Talmadge of Georgia. The question is what to do about him if he should appear w r ith credentials and ask to be seated. Following the death of Maj. John Cohen, Atlanta publisher and ardent Rooseveltite, Talmadge elected himself and Mrs. Susan T. Moore, one of his followers, to the National Committee. Under party rules only the National Committee itself has the power to elect or remove members of the body. Ordinarily, however, when a state committee designates a successor to a deceased member, the national committee approves his credentials as a routine matter. But with Talmadge and Mrs. Moore, the situation is different. The red-gallused fire-eater of Georgia is one of Roosevelt’s bitterest foes. Among organization Democrats he is anathema. Ever since .Talmadge set himself up as national committeeman, certain Administrationites have been devising schemes to crack down on him. Their most favored plan is this: When Talmadge presents his credentials, they would be referred to a credentials committee which would promptly bury them on the excuse of giving ‘‘careful con-

Aluminv.m flooring for bridges has paved the way for bigger and bolder spans.

experimental melting, casting and rolling of aluminum alloys. Electrically heated furnaces are provided for the study of heat treatments. Special electrical equipment makes it possible to obtain a temperature of 5400 degrees Fahrenheit for high temperature experiments. tt tt tt Microscopic analysis is an important phase of metallurgical research today and there are rooms equipped with the necessary apparatus for preparing samples and with microscopes and microphotographic equipment of the finest grade. Aluminum has been used extensively within the building. The chandeliers are of aluminum. So are the radiator grills and elevator doors. An inlaid aluminum design in the green and white

sideration.” By this strategy Talmadge would be “legally” barred from admittance to the present meeting. tt tt Doubtful WHILE eager to strafe Talmadge, some of the Democratic moguls on whom the proposed plan has been strongly pressed are doubtful of its wisdom. They say the spanking would be too obvious, would enable Gene to raise the cry of “persecution.” What the party chiefs want to avoid above all is the note of disharmony. As much as they hate Talmadge, they prefer to seat him and Mrs. Moore now, wait for a more opportune occasion to “give him the works.” tt tt it Election Bet PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and Senator Bill Borah have entered into a solemn agreement to take each other for a ride. —lt happened this way: Borah sat one seat from the President at a recent White House dinner. Roosevelt leaned over and joshed the Senator about his campaign. “IH tall vou what I’ll do, Senator,” said Roosevelt. “If you are elected President you take me for a ride on the Potomac (the new Presidential yacht). If I am reelected I premise to take yeu on a ride.” “It’s a deal, Mr. President.” said

terrazzo floor harmonizes with the chandeliers. Other rooms are equipped for chemical research and still others with a variety of machines for testing the physical characteristics of samples of aluminum or its alloys. A test can be made upon a tiny sliver of alloy or upon a 10-foot beam. The equipment includes a 300,000-pound hydraulic testing machine. Other machines test the resistance of alloys to mechanical work or chemical corrosion. Wisely, Dr. Frary, director of the laboratory, has embarked upon a program of the most fundamental type of research, knowing that only upon such a foundation can the most profitable results eventually be obtained. TOMORROW—The giant, electricity, is still growing.

Borah, “only don’t forget your part of the bargain.” tt tt tt No Walk Out SENATOR BORAH'S flourishing presidential boom is headed for stormy weather. Far from being dismayed by the seeming tidal wave of rank-and-file enthusiasm for Borah, stand-pat Republican leaders are planning to give him a determined battle in every important primary. At a secret conference held in New York last week, a complete list was drawn up of “favorite son” candidates who could be put into the field with a fair chance against Borah. In other words, if Borah can't be licked outright, the aim will be to split the delegation, taking as many from him as can be won. By this strategy the anti-Bo-rahites, in addition to holding down his popular support, would be in a position to “bore from ■within” his delegation during the convention. In past conventions this boring has frequently been successful. Under the projected plan, Borah would be opposed in New York State by Rep. James Wadsworth, in New Jersey by Gov. Hoffman, in Maryland by Gov. Nice, and in Pennsylvania by ex-Senator David Reed. (Copyright. 1936. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i.

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Fair Enough moon MIR PARIS. Jan. 9.—lt is your correspondent's hope to visit Albania yet. because Albania seems to be an interesting country and King Zog, if he deserves the reputation given him by travelers returned from Tirana, would justify the long journey. It was your correspondent’s intention to go to Albania from Italy, but Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary and eurythmic skater, fell on his nose and broke it in three places while cutting an angel's wing cn the ice in Switzerland and then resigned. This was something on the order

of a crisis, so instead of proceeding to Albania your correspondent started for London, got as far along as Paris, learned of the appointment of beautiful Anthony Eden, the charm boy, and went no further. Travelers who have spent some time in Tirana, the capital of Albania, describe King Zog as a monarch of very democratic habits. They were sitting in a hotel room one night playing a few hands of poker when there came a bang on the door and a man in uniform walked in who looked as

though he might be a policeman. The man in uniform introduced himself as King Zog’s equerry and inquired: “What are you boys playing—bridge or poker? Because the king noticed your card game through his spyglass from the palace, and if it U bridge the house is pinched, as he thinks it is a rotten game. But if it is poker he invites you to move over to the palace and deal him in.” a a a He Remembers Alfonso IT further appears that his majesty, Zog. is a very lonely man, thoroughly bored by the small circle of his court, unable to leave Albania for a few parties in Nice lest somebody ease him out of his job, as happened to Alfonso of Spain. His Majesty Zog is carried on the pay roll of the Italian government and, like Alfonso and the late Alexander of Yugoslavia, squirrels his wages away in gold in a safe deposit vault in Paris against the day when he might have to go away in great haste for the good of his health. He is always worrying about his health, and for a long time his mother was the only one who was permitted to prepare his food. Since her death he has employed an official guinea pig to sample all of his food before he will touch it himself. This is a reasonable precaution, because Albania was Turkish until a little more than 20 years ago. Then it was captured by the Serbs and stolen from them by the Austrians, and finally became a free, independent monarchy .subject to the supervision of Italy and Mussolini. tt tt tt Just Like King Nicholas KING ZOG himself is the most democratic and informal monarch Europe has had since the happy days of King Nicholas of Montenegro before the great war. Nicholas used to get so fed up with the monotony of life that he would go down to the railroad station to see the train come in and see who got off. But in after years, when he was living in Paris on an allowance from the French and Italian governments and his country was overrun by the Germans, he did not give away actual decorations but only certificates which entitled recipients to buy their own insignia at a big jewelry store on the Rue de la Paix. Americans especially were fond of these decorations, which were set with expensive jewels, and the jeweler did a big business and kicked back a commission to His Majesty. Why he needed money is a mystery, because he had made good terms with the Italians when he sent his big. buxom daughter down there to marry King Victor Emmanuel at the time when the Italian royal family was producing too many runts and size was needed.

F.D. R. Gropes Way on Court Attitude BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Those who scan the Jackson Day speech of President Roosevelt to learn how he will deal with the Supreme Court’s fundamental challenge to his program will look in vain. On that inescapable challenge the President is sparring for time. Every one who has attended political conventions knows how speakers are put on the platform

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the real issue was the right of the average man to lead a better and a happier life. That puts it up to the Republicans to declare for worse and less happy lives. 000 MR. ROOSEVELT also said the basic issue would be retention of popular government. But the American Liberty League contends similarly that it is trying to save the country from dictatorship. And the Supreme Court, no doubt, thinks it is rescuing the farmers from excruciating regimentation and restoring all of the little pigs which were not slaughtered to a happy life of rugged individualism again. One Democrat predicted this kind of general speech. The reason, he said, was that last week when Mr. Roosevelt went to the Capitol to deliver his message to Congress he picked up his Jackson Day manuscript by mistake. The speech was revealing as a self-portrait of Roosevelt. He said he was describing Jackson, but that was rhetorical license. Jackson, he said, fought for human rights ... to protect the people against autocratic or oligarchic aggression . . . suffered from intense attacks by his enemies who pursued him with relentless hatred . . . had an overwhelming portion of of the material power of the country arrayed against him . . . was opposed by haughty and sterile intellectualism, and musty reaction ... outworn traditionalism shook a trembling finger at him ... all were against him—all except the people. 000 THAT, obviously, is the role in which Roosevelt pictures himself as the presidential campaign opens. It tells something about the kind of fight he will wage. But a good many dinner guests who had paid SSO to eat in good standing wondered how it came about that as Roosevelt spoke on his left sat an ex-member of the Democratic National Committee who resigned in order to become a political lawyer here. That was as good as a standing pass into any government office in town. The newest candidate for Parley’s job as Postmaster General is J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency. The only trouble is that Frank C. Walker of Montana has a stranglehold on it. Farley's resignation is being deferred until about April 1, while Walker puts his private affairs in shape. The merriest party in the United States tonight will not be the dinner which President Roosevelt is giving to the Supreme Court.. He has to do it..

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to whip up enthusiasm among the delegates while the platform committee struggles in a back room to decide what the party shall stand for. The Jackson Day speech served a somewhat similar purpose. It was natural that Roosevelt would try to rally and hold mass sentiment behind him until he decided how to meet the Supreme Court challenge. He said he would not retreat. But we do not know yet by what route he will advance. To be sure, Mr. Roosevelt said