The Roosevelt Week

When Franklin Roosevelt took office he was deliberately backward about naming deserving Democrats to office. Instead, he dangled appointments before Congress like clover before a mule, easily guided legislators along the road he chose. After a time when they began to bray in protest, he allowed them to nibble his succulent provender. The New Deal has now created some 70,000 Federal jobs outside the Civil Service and cries of "too much patronage" are now rising louder & louder. But hungry Congressmen remain unsatisfied. Last week as prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched into the White House to inform President Roosevelt that Representatives were not getting proper service on their requests for patronage, that one prominent official had actually insulted patronage-seekers by telling them to "go to hell." The President said he would investigate. As the delegation marched out one Representative grumbled: "That's just a stall."

For breakfast one morning last week President and Mrs. Roosevelt had as their guest the world's only female trans-atlantic-&-pacific flyer, Amelia Earhart.

In session four weeks, Congress sent the President its first bill for his signature. It appropriated $777,000,000 for the Independent Offices of the Government. Among its provisions was restoration on April 1 of the last 5% of the Federal pay cut made in June 1933. The President told Congress that there was no excuse for the restoration before July 1.

The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their annual reception for members of Congress. The Associated Press, after a canvass of costumers, reported that 120 full-dress suits were rented for the occasion.

Newshawks asked President Roosevelt when he was going to sign the Cigaret Code. He answered that he did not know; it had been sent him five days before, had been lost in the White House offices.

To Congress the President sent the report of his Federal Aviation Commission, headed by Publisher Clark Howell. With it he sent a message advising Congress to ignore the Commission's chief recommendations.

Wearing a blue woolen chiton, black stockings, classical sandals, her red hair in two braids, Mrs. Angelo Sikelianos of Greece, who 32 years ago was Eva Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2DEG to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi.

Representative John McDuffie of Alabama, who once came within an ace of being House Speaker, fought, bled and nearly died politically putting through President Roosevelt's 1933 Economy Bill. Last week the President rewarded him with a nomination to be a Federal Judge in the Southern District of Alabama.

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