Chicken Feed

P: Last week it developed that when Franklin Roosevelt helped Elmer Thomas to beat Gomer Smith in Oklahoma (see col. 1), he put some cash into Son Elliott Roosevelt's pocket. Correspondent Bascom Timmons on the President's train was offering 3-to-1 on Smith until Elliott's father spoke for Thomas at Oklahoma City. Then Elliott sent for Timmons, who protested the odds had changed, were now 8-to-10. Elliott agreed to the odds but refused to bet "chicken feed." badgered unhappy Timmons into betting $800 to $1,000.

P: In the San Francisco News (Scripps-Howard), Cartoonist Douglas Rodger used the biggest political news of the week to make a bum out of the G. O. Pachyderm (see cut), captioned it "Memories."

P: Boarding the President's train like scores of other Congressmen, Representative Maury Maverick of San Antonio, unlike scores of other Congressmen, frankly gave his reason for doing so: "I like the President, and he likes me, and I want something." What Mr. Maverick wanted : help against hot-tongued Paul J. Kilday, close at his heels for the 20th District House nomination.

P: Cartoonist Carey Orr of Chicago Trib une Syndicate published the fourth of a series of cartoons obviously modeled on the vicious tiger drawings with which the late great Cartoonist Thomas Nast once drove Tammany out of office. The Orr creation: a black panther labeled "New Dealism." A none too brilliant imitation, the black panther wore a collar variously labeled "Communism," "Hungry for Power," "Radicals," "Tyranny" (see cut}.

P: Found unconscious beside a country road near Paris, Tenn., was one of six as pirants for Senator George Berry's seat from Tennessee. Candidate Edward Carmack "could not explain" who had beaten him up.

P: Two years ago Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, Republican 13-termer, beat Author Owen (The Var mint) Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass, who ran against him as a New Dealer. Last week, Author Johnson announced he was out again for Congress. Mr. Treadway, 70, said he would run again.

P: After being taken for a tour of TVA dams, power plants, etc. as a member of Congress' joint investigating committee, Republican Representative Tom Jenkins of Ohio snorted: "These great inland seas . . . may be beautiful playgrounds, but they will cost . . . more than the Panama Canal."

P: ICC approved a fee of $32,000 for SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank for 3,830 hr. and 45 min. work done as counsel to a trustee in the Missouri Pacific R. R. reorganization between 1935 and 1937. During his MOP service, Frank also counseled Government agencies. Now working full time for SEC at $10,000 a year, he says Government salaries should not be commensurate with private fees because Government jobs bring "inner satisfaction," outer prestige.

P:. "I don't know any more than you do. I have never heard him mention it. He has never even hinted it." So said Frank lin Delano Roosevelt's well-schooled, 83-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, queried in Portland, Me. about her son's attitude toward a third time as President (see p. 7).

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