"Why Not?"

P:Said Harry Hopkins last week of his relief clients: "These fellows are not a lot of robots. They are 3,000,000 American citizens and they all have political views. And, incidentally, I think I know pretty much what their views are. At least 90% of them would vote for President Roosevelt if he were up for re-election--why not?"

P:One afternoon, Democratic Speaker George Schroeder of Michigan's House of Representatives spent five sociable hours at the home of the manager of Michigan's State prison farm. Guest of honor was Convict No. 39359, State Senator Anthony J. Wilkowski. Reason: Mr. Schroeder would like to be Lieutenant Governor, needs the Polish votes controlled by Convict Wilkowski, who is serving four to five years for fraudulent vote counting.

P:The animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third-term tuna playfully leaping over Franklin Roosevelt, as he fished with a bobber for the small game of this year's election.

P:In New Mexico, handsome Governor Clyde Tingley halted a move to endow a hospital named after his late wife. Reason: the campaign headed by Mrs. Oliver Harriman to endow the Carrie Tingley Crippled Children's Hospital consisted of a lottery.

P:Flying Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania went up one soupy morning on a solo flight in a Waco cabin plane belonging to the State, could not find a hole to descend through, finally cracked up on the campus of a school for orphan girls. Results: 1) Colonel Camille Vinet, chief of the State's Aeronautics Bureau, grounded Student Earle for two weeks, 2) Citizen Earle promised to pay his State a $2,000 repair bill, 3) a prominent New Deal Governor very nearly made a sudden exit from the political scene.

P:"Naughty" Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, fighting for his renomination against a candidate backed by the White House, piously ejaculated: ". . . That great and good man, Franklin D. Roosevelt."

P:For the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, onetime (1934-36) chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, produced an apt allegory": "Life in an Iron Lung"--Uncle Sam in an artificial respirator, with Drs. Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau and Nurse Democracy experting and little John Taxpayer manning the pump.

P:Aboard the Roosevelt third-term band wagon stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first. . . . We may have to draft the President for four more years of leadership."

P:In De Queen, Ark., home town of State Auditor Oscar Humphrey, who is armless, three Democratic candidates are campaigning for the office of tax assessor: Ed Lee Cox, Ed Shipman, Cathell Hendricks, each minus his left arm.

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