The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-19


 united front against a great
 The exact opposite is the case. Far from bringing them together, the ballot explosion actually has ! intensified their jealousies and grudges. The inner circle today is still torn by dissension than ever before.
 Final vote returns were still trlcknng over the press wlres when henry Wallace, wincing un- der the accusation that his farm poIic1es were major cause of the defeat. lashed out publicly at Harold Ickcs for sending up third-term balloon.
 Behind the scenes, Wallace and Ickes long have been at odds over the latter's attempt to shift Henry's Forestry Bureau to the Interior Department. But this was the first time their feud boiled over into the open.
 Ickes made no retort, but it's a safe conjecture that at the op- perfume time he will even ac- counts. Honest Harold" is not the type to take kick in the teeth lylng down = even from Cabinet colleague.
 This episode was followed by a series of others, all indicating an extraordinary state of inner tur- moil.
 Assistant War Secretary Louis Johnson is openly boasting that he will soon repiace his superior, Secretary Woodring. A White House intimate primed promin- ent newspaperman to print a story that Commerce Secretary Dan Roper and Attorney General Hom- CT Cummings would shortly be on their way out. And so on.
 BittereSt Row
 Greatest fury is Jim Farley's. directed against Harry Hopkins and the little band of brain trusters who are the WPA chiefs close allies.
 Jim planes them for melting the purge campaign, which he tried vainly to stop, then threw up his hands in disgust and went junketing to Alaska. He also diSlikeS their cruSading ten- dencies and considers them trOu- ble-making crackpots.
 Above all, Jim is intensely jealous of Hopkins intimacy with the President, which has become very close since Jimmy Roosevelt was forced by illness to leave his fathers side. Farley seems a serious menace to his standing with Roosevelt and to his own political future. He is determined to get the aggressive brain-trust crew before they get him.
 In his undercOver attack, Jim is joining hands with the anti Roosevelt faction in the Demo- cratic party, the chief figures of which are Vice President Jack Garner, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Bernard Baruch, multi millionaire Wall Street operator, Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana, Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina, and Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia.
 This wing is after Hopkins scalp. Through him they hope also to axe the WPA and drive the brain-trusters out of Wash ington.
 The Democrat attackers will have wholehearted COP support, and this will be one of the major conflicts of the coming session of Congress. Its outcome may have a decisive effect upon what hap pens in 1940.
 Vandenberg's Dog
 Senator Vandenberg, possible Republican contender for the presidential throne in 1940, has a chauffeur named Lambert, also a pet police dog named Boots.
 vandenberg frequently brags to his friends that Lambert is always on time, has an un- canny knack of always being at the head of the automobile line after a White House reception, has never fallen down on the Vandenbergs.
 Not long ago, the Senator drove to the theater with some friends, and in the front seat with Lam- bert rode the big police dog, Boots. After the theater, Vanden- berg told his friends that his car would take them home, and he added some details regarding Lambert's unfailing punctuality.
 But this time, the Vandenberg car did not show up. The theater party waited and waited. Lambert, the car, and Boots all were mis- sing.
 Finally they returned. "Where