The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-12


 the rumorS crop up. First, Henry Is scheduled to go to Spain as ambassador, then to Paris, then to some other place. There is Q new batch of rufnors almost every month.
 Thls Is shopworn but sometimes effective strategy. Tn tho game of politics, such Q ruHnor may "gew Q man in the end.
 And because of the consistency of these reports, some quiet but efficient sleuthing was done to track them down. The trail led to tho door of one Boston banker, one Wall Street banker and two officials in tho Treasury Depart ynent.
 There seemed to ho reasonably good evidence that these sources were waging e definite campaign to dlscredit and oust Morgenthau. Unpack
 At the height of this campaign, Henry Morgenthau received Q little scratch-pad sheet of paper such as that on which the Presi- dent scribbles inemos. It bore the singio word "UNPACK" and 1t was initiated "F. D. R."
 Puzzled as to what this was, Morgenthau called up Presidential Secretary Marvin Mcintyre, asked him for an explanation.
 "Oh, don't you know that famous phrase?" joshed McIn- tyre. "That was Che message Al Smith was supposed to have Cabled Che Pope after his dc. feat In l92S: 'UNPACK." No resignation
 Real fact Is that there is about as much chance of Morgenthau reSigning as there is of Roosevelt himself.
 No one stands stronger ct the White House. No cabinet member confers oftenVr with the president. Henry is one of the few still privileged to attend early morning bedside conferences.
 AS Secretary of the Treasury, Young Henry has been as effi- cient on executive as he has been hated by Wall Street.
 Rumors about hls resignation probably will continue. But they wlll not Do fulfilled.
 Periodic resignations of his Under Secretaries also will cone tinue,
 REASON, It b impossible to find aR Under Secretary who hes the support Of the bankers and at the same time believes in Roosevelt's monetary policy.
 In the long run, Young Henry, is going to have to be his own Under Secretary.
 Farm Bill Repartee
 Senator Cotton Ed" Smith, chairman of the Agriculture Conl- ynittee, was making Q warm de- fense of the new farm relief bill.
 we must not lose sight of the fact" he orated, "that this is Q soil.erosion and soil.conservation bill"
 "Wil the distinguished sena. tor from South Carolina" broke ln Senator Charles McNary, keen-wltteN republican floor leader, 'please look serious the next time he makes that state' xnent?"
 1T must admit" replied Smith as he joined in tho laughter, "that lately I have reached . point where 1t Is impossible to ho serious"
 White House Mall
 If Mrs. Sara Delan0 Roosevelt writes Q letter to her son in the White House, she takes the chance of having 1t stacked with the thousands of other letters in the morning mall and run through an electric cutting machine to have its edge chopped off.
 But there are two men in the White House offices who know her handwriting and try to de- liver the letter to the President unopened. They are !. R. q. smith and ,. H. Hherrerc, who look ct every piece of first class mail to ferret out letters from ths Presi- dents personal friends and save them from the knife.
 All others-no matter # marked Special, Personal, or Private 90 into tho hopper and are dealt out to the thirteen readers who make up tho staff.
 Tho staff works in the base- inent room of the White House offices, and most of tho Press- dents mall never gets any closer to him than that. A reader sees the phrase: ~ want my boy to 60 to Annapolis''-- and zip, the lot. ter goes into the pouch marked .. 6. N. or he sees the phrase: Mortgage on my farm"-- and the letter is tossed into the Farm Loan pouch.
 The speed of handling is inter- yupted only when c reader eti- counters such c phrase as; T am coming to Washington and get revenge for the way I have been treated" That let0tr is laid care. fully aside for the special atten. ten of the Secret Service opera- tors.
 White House mall today Is not