Five Points, 47 Words

"I am not familiar with the political situation in California in so far as the election of a United States Senator is concerned, but personally I know enough about California as a state to know that of course its voters will return Hiram Johnson to the Senate."

With those 47 words emitted last week by Postmaster General Farley, his politi cal mouthpiece, President Roosevelt, master politician, achieved no less than five major political points:

1) He rewarded 67-year-old insurgent Republican Johnson for his assistance in the 1932 presidential campaign by offering him Democratic endorsement and strength in the November elections.

2) He delivered a telling blow to Herbert Hoover, whose followers in California have lately been working like beavers to root Senator Johnson out of public life.

3) He knocked the political wind out of lanky, hatchet-faced Senator William Gibbs McAdoo. Mr. McAdoo, for all his dramatic assistance in winning the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago, has been out to build a Democratic machine for himself in California.

4) He put other Insurgent Republicans in the Senate on their good behavior throughout the rest of the session.

5) He served notice that in future battle lines would not be drawn between Democrats and Republicans, but between Rooseveltians and anti-Rooseveltians.

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