"Be Hard-Boiled"

Forty-eight state directors of the National Emergency Council, meeting last week in Washington, were taken in to see President Roosevelt who gave them trenchant advice about their jobs. Said he:

"This work has nothing to do with partisan politics--nothing at all. . . . We do want you to be absolutely hard-boiled if you find any local person within your own states who is trying to get political advantage out of the relief of human needs, and you will have the backing of the Administration 1,000%, even if you hit the biggest political boss in the U. S. on the head. . . ."

P: Another kind of relief: the Manhattan Board of Taxes & Assessments reduced the tax valuation of President Roosevelt's town house at No. 49 East 65th St. from $170,000 to $165,000. P: The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held the fourth of their state receptions for officials of government departments. Among the guests who arrived in a snow storm was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. She had on a set of gold Hindu earrings in the shape of cornucopias, a red-gold chain about her neck from which dangled a green-gold frog fashioned by the Chiriqui Indians.

P:Counting Senatorial noses the President calculated that the opposition to his St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty had dwindled, that all but three votes necessary to pass it were available. C. To correspondents the President remarked: "When we inaugurated our custom of having informal press conferences last March there were some who shook their heads and said it couldn't last. Well, it has worked fine, and I don't see why it shouldn't continue for the next three years." A newshawk: "Three years, did you say, Mr. President?" For an instant the President's famed aplomb was shaken as he groped for an answer. Then he made his usual effective reply: threw back his head and roared with laughter.

P:Warm Springs Foundation busily added up the "take" of the President's birthday celebrations, found the total exceeded $1,000,000. Last week, in spite of the spirit of the New Deal, Warm Springs Foundation had not yet got around to giving the public a financial statement of its condition or information on how the money is to be spent.

P:Ill with one more of his recurrent colds, the President canceled all engagements, did not "go to the office."

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