The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-27

cuSSlOn III the Inner clrcle Ol
 Appointed by President Hard- ing, the ffteen-year term of the heavy-set, Windsor tie-wearing Nebraska Republican expires July l. Under the law he cannot be reappointed.
 Some of the militant left-wing New Dealers are after McCarPs scalp. They charge him with try- ing to hamper the Tennessee Val- ley Authority, the Public Works Administration and other New Deal undertakings. They are urg- ing that he be busted from the government service.
 Others For Him
 Other AdministrationiteS take an entirely different view.
 They make the surprising sug- gestion that McCarl should not be dropped, that instead his unex- celled knowledge of government business should be utilized In the office of Budget Director.
 This job has been vacant since Lewis Douglas broke with the President in the summer of 1884. Daniel Bell, a Treasury career man, has been filling tho post as acting director. Roosevelt offered him the appointment but he de- clined, preferring to keep his high rank in Civil Service.
 Real Sympathy
 Retorting to the complaints against McCarl by the left.wing New Dealers, his friends in the inner circle group contend that he has been cooperative and sym" pathetic.
 They point out that Harry Hopkins as Relief, Civil Works and Works. Relief Administra- tor, General Hugh Johnson as NRA boss, Morris Cooke as head of the Rural Elcctrlficatlpn Ad- mlnlstratlOn, and other tOp-rung New Deal executives have never had difficulty with the Comp trolIer General. !
 The argument is also advanced that if McCarl, noted as Q watch- dog of the Treasury, became budget director, the Administra- ton would have ai1 effective af1- swer to Republican attacks about extravaganza and reckless Spend- ing.
 NOTE--McCarl and the Presi- dent are old friends, have been on cordial personal terms throughout Roosevelt's incumbency in tho White House.
 Convention Program
 Charley Nicholson, political pundit of the Democratic Natioi1- al Committee, is planning Q 2O0- page program for the Philadelphia Convention. That is 100 pages more than was ever dreamed Of before by either party.
 Advertising In the Democratic Convention Program will cost S2,50O per page, and Is being sold by Q stan of high. pressure sales men to space-buyers who know on which side their bread is but. tered. Advertising alone is sup. posed to net $26O,OOO.
 Charley hopes to sell 100000 copies ct Philadelphia. Guests and delegates will be invited" to purchase special copies at S2.6O.
 Since the textual matter is ob" tained free from various govern. ment press staffs, the net profit per copy should be around Sl.bO, which may earn another e1b0, 900 for the Democratic Party, making c total of S40O,O0O.
 NOTE-Jim Farley is following the policy of raising his campaign funds from the masses.
 James Landis
 Jim Lands, on the whole an ex" cellent chairman of the secur" ities-E Exchange Commission, has one nasty habit which he cannot baniSh. f1e has a long memory for those who have thwarted him.
 Way back in the days when the Securities Act was being admin" istered by the Federal Trade Com" mission, Andy Ten Eyck, ex-sec' retary to Roosevelt and later on adviser on the SEC legal stan, was requested by Chairman March to draw up Q memorandum show ing why the new Stock Exchange Bill and the Securities Act should be administered by the Trade Commission.
 Landis, Q member of the Com mission, ct that time had other ideas. He wanted to set up Q separate Securities and Exchange Commission, of which he hoped to be Q member. So Lands coun- seled Ten Eyck not to write tho report.
 "But," replied Ten EyCk, 'T have to. March is Q Commits sioner.
 "Oh that's all right" suggest cd Jim Landls, "there are ways of letting the dregs slft to the bottom"
 "What do you mean?"
 "Oh, there gre ways of just not doing anything about it."
 Despite Landis, Ten Eyck wrote the report. That was two years ago.
 The other day, after previous warning, Ten Eyck received Q succinct letter, signed JAMES M. LANDIs". It ordered him to