Out & In

"As this is being written it seems probable the Reorganization Bill will be on its way to the White House for signature-before this column is published. . . . We may look for a mournful recital of the supineness and rubber-stampedness of a cowering Congress that could not summon enough courage to stand out against an overbearing Chief Executive." Day that the above premature excerpt from his weekly handout. Dispelling the Fog, was scheduled to be released to the press last week, the Democratic National Committee's publicity director Charles ("The Mike") Michelson sent out a hasty request to editors that it be killed as "untimely."

As Democrat Michelson was thus completing the cycle from high-powered mud slinging as an "out" in 1932 to embarrassed fog-dispelling as an "in" in 1938, the cycle was officially recognized by the Republican National Committee. Appointed Republican publicity director was short, burly, bristle-lipped Columnist Franklyn Waltman of the Washington Post, who lost his early enthusiasm for the Roosevelt Administration over the Court

Plan and has been lambasting it vigorously ever since. At the National Press Club in Washington, bar gossips predicted that Out Waltman, who will get $20,000 a year as compared with In Michelson's $25,000, would prove a well qualified mudslinger by 1940.

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