The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-24

W. 44UtCA4 0O44AO OA AbOOOOVOAU 0 Berle has been offered the job of assistant secretary of state, the desk held by Professor Moley when he headed the Brain Trust in the early carefree, debonair days of the New Deal.
 Strange thing is that Berle once rated about as low with Secretary Hull as did Professor Moley-whom Hull fired. Hull and Berfe were shipmateS to- gether en route to the Buenos Aires conference, and on the trip BerIe high hated his chief acted as if he, not the secretary of state, were running the show.
 Hull has changed now, is able to take Berle, but Berle has not changed. He is still the most egotistical young man in any part of the far-flung New Deal. GhOst-Writer
 The other night in New York, Berle was discussing with friends a speech made by Fiorello La Guardia the night before. Berle had been absent in Albany, but yearned from his friends that the speech had gone sour.
 How did you explain that?" someone asked.
 Well" shot back Berle, "I cant be in New York and AL bany at the same time."
 Later the same evening, the young Brain Truster got tele- phoie call from Washington. He put his hands behind his back and paced the floor, complaining:
 'I wish Washington would let me alone. A mans got to have some time to himself. And every evening when I settle down after dinner, they keep tele- phoning me. I wish they'd man. age their own affairs. They can't expect me to get them out of every scrape they get into"
 Mae West Spanking
 The official spanking given Mae West and NEG for her racy Garden of Eden" broadcast bore the unanimous approval of the Federal Communications Commis- sion, but privately the commis- sioners were not unanimous.
 Behind the scenes, some of them weren't keen on spanking either the lady of the broad casting company. Norman Case, ex-governor of Rhode Island, and a good Baptist, was the chief dissenter.
 However, Chairman McNinch put his stiff reprimand across by preparing it privately, then show ing it in advance to Commissioner Payne. Later, when the full EGG met, these two progressives stam- peded its adoption.
 Camera-Shy Hugo
 Justice Hugo Black remains just as camera-shy as he was when he came back from Europe four months ago. He was late a. the White House reception for the judiciary the other evening, be- cause cameramen had planted themselves on the grounds of his home and Black was trying to dodge them.
 After waiting an hour, one photographer grew impatient and knocked on the door, asking the justice to appear for a pose. A servant brought a firm refusal, ordered the whole group of the estate with a threat to call the police.
 Finally at nine o'clock - al- ready overdue at the White House-the Blacks popped out the rear door into a waiting car, and whirled away at high speed.
 The photographers caught part of the retreat, but Black was too fast for them. The shots were no good.
 Ickes Investigation
 The Roosevelt investigation of looking the other way while his important executives tear at each others throats has been coming home to roost in the Senate in- vestigation of the Interior Depart ment.
 Actually the Senate Public Lands Committee was concerned only with the confirmation of E. K. Burlew as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, but some of the Ickes-Burlew enemies within their own department did little whis- pering on Capitol Hill. Now they have a first rate investigation under way which has begun to worry the White House.
 Those who have been seen in suspicious whispering places are