Man to Watch?

Of Franklin Roosevelt's four sons, the one who looks, acts and talks most like him is the one who is named Franklin D. Jr. Since his discharge from the Navy, young F.D.R. has made unmistakable motions toward becoming a politician himself.

While still on terminal leave, he threw himself into veterans' problems with familiar Rooseveltian vigor, began a whirlwind campaign to get 20,000 temporary homes for veterans in his native New York.

Mayor LaGuardia put him off, scorning his telephone calls (two a day for eight days), refusing to see him. So F.D.R. Jr. took to the soapbox: "The Mayor claims these houses can't be put up because they will become slums. We don't want slums. We want these temporary houses torn down in two or three years. But we are not so afraid of the future that we are willing to let veterans sleep in the parks. . . ." Last week, the Little Flower invited him to City Hall for a visit.

This week young F.D.R., in his lieutenant commander's uniform, did his political potential no harm by appearing at the American Legion convention in Chicago, to accept a posthumous Distinguished Service medal for his father.

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