The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-30

else gets any comfort from the dis tinction, for the effect is to brand Roosevelt as the prize bonehead of all time.
 And many here figure that, since F. D. obviously isn't going to oblige Johnson by discarding the whole New Deal and it's personnel, John- sons next logical step would be to repudiate Roosevelt himself-hoW- ever reluctantly = and oppose his reelection.
 The current surge of belief in Johnson's presidential ambitions is, in some small part, sired by wish, New Dealers feel Johnson is mer- curial, unstable, and poorly in- formed.
 But they'd rather pin him down as an actual presidential aspirant, where he could be shot full of holes, than to let him roam at large as wild man failing in all directions, who couldn't be held to responsibility for his utterances.
 On the other hand, Johnson's iron-clad faith in his own infalli- bility and superior attainments en- courages the belief that in the back of his head is an ambition to take over the whole show.
 
 Trips Up on Frankfurter
 There's much truth in John- sons description of the New Deal as 8 "mess." But his insistence on blaming virtually all the innumer- able New Deal mistakes on Dr. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Law School and the Frankfurter grad uates in the administration, whom he calls the Happy Hot Dogs" is commonly regarded here as dem- onstrating the generals notorious lack of memory and devotion tc facts.
 Quite a few insiders here seem to remember the time when John- son was begging and storming ir an effort to get Frankfurter, in- stead of Donald Richberg, as gen. eral counsel for MIRA.
 Anyone can recall the occasion when Johnson, in an ill-advised public moment, said every step o1 MIRA, had been taken in consulta- tion with Justice Brandeis, whose intimate relationship with Frank. furter is generally known. (Brandeis subsequently, voteC with a unanimous supreme court against MIRA in the Schechter cast and was known to be mortified 8, the way 1t had operated under Johnson.)
 Now Johnson boasts that he kep the Happy Hot Dogs" out of NRl and the framing of MIRA.
 He F0rgets the Past When Johnson planes tn, Roosevelt Horse and Buggy" tall on Frankfurter influence, he fail! to recall that the was haunting the White House in the days aftel tn. Schechter decision, that he hae a substitute MIRA plan which would in effect defy the decision, ant that Frankfurter was advising Roosevelt to forget about MIRA. At meeting of New Deal law. yers, Frankfurter had long befor. advised that the only possible chance of getting MIRA by the SUI. preme court lay in keeping out O the courts until the law could b. revised.
 Johnson now attacks that advice which his lawyers ignored wher they demanded action on tn, Schechter case.
 Stirs Ickes Crowd Ire The Ickes-PWA-Interior crowd i just as indigant as the Frank urter boys, because Johnson say l he had a fine PWA plan worked out, which he says Ickes ignored a! r. proceeded to make PWA a com plete failure.
 Various Ickes subordinates re member making feverish search fo that celebrated plan" and beinl able to discover no records of i {, whatever, except that Johnson hat said once that most of the $500, 100000 should be spent on mechan izing and motorizing the army. l Copyright, 1885, NEA Service, Inc.