The Roosevelt Week

President Roosevelt last week greeted one of his regular gatherings of newshawks with the statement that he had paid his Federal income tax. The tax, he remarked, looked like more money than he had. Also, he hoped his check would be found good at the bank. After such routine playfulness the President gave the Press a real piece of news. Henceforth, to avoid political repercussions, officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue & the Department of Justice will not decide whether a taxpayer has deliberately tried to cheat the Government. That decision, in all cases big and little, will be put up to grand juries. Inasmuch as 80.000 to 100,000 tax returns are incorrect or subject to dispute each year, many a citizen is likely to find himself in hot water. P: Herbert H. Lehman, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York, called at the White House along with the leaders of both Houses of the New York Legislature. Chief topic was the passage of a bill asked for by Governor Lehman and thrice rejected by his Legislature to revamp New York City's government, put it into better financial shape to care for its unemployed (TIME, Feb. 26 et ante). In the presence of Governor Lehman the President told the recalcitrant legislators that he personally wanted the city's economy bill passed. P: On St. Patrick's Day President Roosevelt got into his official limousine and was whisked off to Washington's Union Station to meet the Florida Special. St. Patrick's Day is one of the few days in the year when a busy President can take time out. It had been selected 29 years ago by President Theodore Roosevelt to go to Manhattan and give his favorite niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, in marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Florida Special was a few minutes late. A crowd collected before Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, fresh from the Caribbean (TIME. March 19) reached the official limousine. She and the President posed for photographers. When he thought cameramen were all through, the President turned and kissed his wife. P: With the President's approval of the design, the Philadelphia Mint last week began striking off the official Presidential Medal. Five hundred official copies will go free to Government topmen; others will be sold to the public at $1 each. P: Exercising his power "in the public in-terest'' to order patients who pay their own board to be admitted to Washington's Naval Hospital, the President last week sent thither his son John. Mrs. Roosevelt went, too, waited until Son John was reported resting comfortably after an appendectomy.

P: Doing his best to keep Congress from forcing unwelcome silver legislation on the Administration, the President had the Treasury announce that its special adviser, Professor James Harvey Rogers, would be sent at once to China to study the silver problem. This announcement, how ever, did not prevent the House from passing (257-to-112) a bill for the Gov ernment to accept silver at 25% above the world price in payment for exports of U. S. farm surpluses.

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