President's Week

Last week the President:

> In a speech to the Boy Scouts, who were celebrating their 31st anniversary, made a statement that many a businessman would like to believe: "The Government cannot and should not pre-empt those fields of private endeavor that have become an indispensable part of life in America." This remark, so opposite to the oldtime Roosevelt denunciations of entrenched greed, gave color to reports of his new attitude of "sweet reasonableness" toward industry.

> Conferred with Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner of Public Roads, on plans to construct a series of national superhighways as part of a post-defense program of vast, self-liquidating projects which would cushion industry against a postwar collapse. The President said he would ask Congress at this session for authorizations of projects.

>Donated his ancient, battered, good-luck campaign hat, a twelve-year-old grey fedora, to the motion picture benefit relief fund's raffle.

> Puzzled over a job for Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy--although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years.

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