Repose

Church on Sunday, drives over his ancestral acres, an address to the local Improvement Association, a picnic on the estate of Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr., open house with family and guests coming & going--these were things that served last week to remind Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park that he was on vacation from his job. But vacation or no vacation, he was still President of the U. S., still a practicing politician half of whose acts and more than half of whose hospitality was grist for newshawks:

P: House guest of the week was Relief Administrator Hopkins, still working on the Rooseveltian promise to end the dole, give 3,500,000 men employment.

P: The news that Standard Oil had canceled its Ethiopian concession (see p. 17) brought forth the portentous announcement from the Squire's study that now the world might see that U. S. dollar diplomacy was at an end.

P: Fourteen veto messages skimmed from the Squire's pen denying special favors to old soldiers, Indians and others for whom the late Congress showed a weakness.

P: At one day's luncheon table sat four potent political bigwigs: 1) Postmaster General Farley bringing tidings of the state of Democracy as far west as Hawaii; 2) Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago; 3) Democratic National Chairman Charles E. Broughton of Wisconsin; 4) Robert H. Jackson, Counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, power in upper New York State politics.

P:Other luncheon guests were retiring Federal Housing Administrator James Andrew Moffett & Wife Kim. Another guest, on hand to receive his engraved commission, was Mr. Moffett's successor and good friend Stewart McDonald. A hale & hearty Scot with the shrewd ways and natty attire of Wall Street, Stewart McDonald has been FHA's acting chief in Mr. Moffett's summer-long absence. Marrying into the St. Louis wagon-making family of Moon, Stewart McDonald fathered one of St. Louis' most popular debutantes (Daughter Carol, now married to a son of Missouri's late Governor Gardner) and the Nation's first flashy cheap automobiles (Moon, Diana). After divorce and Depression, Mr. McDonald went to Manhattan with motor-making, speculating William Crapo Durant.

Under him, FHA has accelerated its insurance on construction and repair loans to the rate of $60,000,000 per month, takes part of the credit for the current up-curve in the building business.

P: A written order from the Squire put seven agencies, including AAA and FERA, under authority of the Budget Bureau, from which they were the last of the ''emergency'' organizations still exempt. Reason: The emergency is over.

P: Some $27,000,000 was officially allotted for the relief of the arts: music, drama, painting and literature.

P: No man has reviled and vilified Franklin Roosevelt more than Huey Pierce Long. Nevertheless when the President heard that his bitter enemy had been shot in Baton Rouge (see p. 15), he publicly declared: ''I deeply regret the attempt made upon the life of Senator Long of Louisiana. The spirit of violence is unAmerican. .

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