Roosevelt Week

Though most nations have their official newspaper, the U. S. managed to get along without one until last week. Then appeared the first issue of the Federal Register. Published by the National Archives every day except Sunday, Monday and days following holidays, printed in the Government Printing Office in the format of the Congressional Record, its aim is to publicize the orders and utterances of all executive officers of the Government, which thereupon become official. Cost: $250,000 per year. Price: 5-c- a copy, $10 a year. First article in the 16 pages of No. 1, Vol. 1 was an account of the plans of the Department of Agriculture to make Bull Island, S. C. into a migratory bird refuge. Author of the article was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

P: Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime editor of the defunct New York World, last week marched into President Roosevelt's office to keep an appointment for luncheon at the Presidential desk. The President, at work on a large official document, did not seem quite his usual cheerful self. Spotting the paper before the President as a Federal income tax blank, Mr. Swope calculated that under the revenue bill which the President had Congress pass last summer, the tax on Franklin D. Roosevelt's $75,000 salary could hardly figure out less than $15,000.

P: To newshawks the President confessed that plans for a Federal housing program were in a sad mess. The Federal Government should aid private builders, should subsidize slum clearance--but how? Full responsibility for the mess was placed not on the Government but on private contractors, housing experts, financiers who could not agree what the New Deal ought to do.

P: One afternoon last week, the President received a fresh and odorous wreath of flowers to wrap around his neck. Three mornings earlier, the same flowers had been growing to their native roots in Hawaii. New air transportation over the Pacific had made it possible for Governor Joseph B. Poindexter to get unfaded Hawaiian leis to the White House in record time.

P: Having cut out many an official function, the President last week inaugurated a new one. He attended for the first time in history the annual dinner of his sub-Cabinet, given at the Willard Hotel. Routine of the Assistant Secretaries' function: no speeches, no ladies, black ties.

P: Following an" encouraging message on the advantages of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway sent to a conference of Sea way boosters in Detroit, the President announced that if he was in the White House next year at this time, he hoped to send a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty to the U. S. Senate and try again for ratification.

P: Senator Barkley of Kentucky received a call from the White House one morning canceling his appointment to lunch with the President that day. A preferred luncheon guest, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, had arrived unexpectedly in Washington.

P: With WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins and Budgeteer Bell, the President got down to serious work. Their job: to figure out how many billions Franklin Roosevelt should ask for relief, before departing this week for his spring fishing trip off Florida.

P: To Millard F. Dunlap, 78, onetime president of a Jacksonville, Ill. bank who has just completed a two-year sentence for violation of the National Banking Act, President Roosevelt sent a present: remission of a $10,000 fine. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen had interceded for Bankster Dunlap, who was Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee 36 years ago when the late William Jennings Bryan was making his second unsuccessful run for President.

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