The daily independent., 1937-05-14
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
nAM AARH

Jim Farley Looking For Job But
Turns Down Many Lucrative
Offers; Refused To Be Liquor
Gar; Has Eye On Insurance;
Ambitious For High Political
Office; ChoOsey About His Bus
mess; Congress Will Swelter All
Summer; Air Conditioning Not
Finished.
Washington-There is a lot of
speculation about the future pol
rSical goal Jim Farley has his eyes
on, but whatever it is, Jim is be-
ing extremely chooSey about his
financial preparations for it.
jim has made no secret of the
fact that his personal funds are
about exhausted and that he is
looking for a job. But he is not
taking the first job that comes
along. He has probably turned
down more lucrative offers than
anyone else in the New Deal.
One of the firSS he vetoed was
the job subsequently accepted by
the late w. Forbes Morgan as czar
of the liquor industry. 1t drew a
salary of $4,000.
Insurance MOgul?
What Jim Farley seems to be
looking for is a good job with an
insurance company. Calvin Cool-
idge took an insurance director
ship after he got out of the White
House. Al Smith and Herbert
Hoover also lent their names to
big insurance companies.
Farley WOULDN'T mind becoming
an executive in ore Of the bigger
companies. but he wouldn't be
keen about a direCtorship or some
chair warming job on the side
lines. Insurance is highly respect
able. and would carry no taint Of
liquor or anti-RooSeveE journal
ism if and when Jim shoots al the
GovernorShip Of New York-or
higher things.
Until the right job comes along,
however, he is not budging from
the Post Office Department. jim
is young. only 40, and has plenty
time to go places. Also he is not
INSTRUMENTATION.
And those who have seen him
turn from the raw and heSitating
speaker of 1882 into the polished,
imprompSu wielder OF after din
ner banter and political philoSo-
ply in 1886 think that he may go
a long way.
Note: Mrs. Farley, who is al
ways complaining that Jim would
rather make speeches than make
enough money to buy her a car,
grouses privately against The
Roosevelts. She thinks the PreSl-
dent has not properly recognized
her husbands ability.
Baby Stars
Most interesting group of re-
gistranSS under the Social Security
Act are the child and baby stars
of Hollywood.
The old-age pension system ap-
plies to everyone who works, re-
garlesS of age. So little Shirley
Temple and the other startlets
have a registration number and
pay weekly assessment just like
the oldest actor in Hollywood.
They cannot begin drawing pen
sions until they reach the age OF
65-which for Shirley will be 81
years from now.
Hot Summer
This is sad news for the boys
in Congress.
Air conditioning of the CapEol,
for which they appropriated $4,-
200 100000 last year, will not be
completed in time for use this
summer.
With the certainty of the ses-
sion continuing through July and
possibly August, this means that
the boys are in for lot of heavy
sweltering. The House and Senate
chambers and some of the offices
are cooled, but the rest of The
great legislative plant is not.
Complete air conditioning was
authorized two years ago to make
the Capitol habitable in Washing
tons super heated summer
months. 1t was expected that the
work would be completed by jan
uary, 1896, but when bids were
opened it was found that not
enough money had been voted.
This forced delay until the 1886
session, when the balance was
authorized.
AS soon as Congress quit late
last June, work on the project, be-
lieved by engineers to be The big