The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-22

PreSlQel1C,S nome state. \ At present there are three New Yorkers in; the cabinet, Jim Far ley, Henry Morgenthau and Miss Perkins. And they are going to stay in the cabinet, despite the recurring rumors of their early departure. None has any inten- ton of resigning, and Roosevelt does not contemplate asking them. If Miss Perkins should quit vol untary he wouldn't try to stop her. Privately he might like to re- place her, but he will make no move to do so forcibly.
 From time to time Farley has talked about getting out because of straitened personal finances. But the $75,0OO he got recently for his political memoirs cleared the skies, and with his eye on 194O, Jim is sticking around. MOrgenthau would leave only if Roosevelt asked him to leave. There is little likelihood of that ever happening.
 Thus with three New Workers already in the cabinet, the presi- dent must think twice before adding any more. And that puts him in. a dilemma because the two heutenantS he is most anX- ious to elevate, Solicitor General Robert Jackson and Relief Ad- mfnistrator Harry Hopkins, have their political roots in New York, although born in Pennsylvania, and Iowa, respectively.
 Five out of ten cabinet mem bers from one state is bad poli- tics and no one knows it better than Roosevelt.
 Geographic Hitch
 Were it not for this factor, Jackson, young liberal, outstand- ing in four years with the justice department, would be as certain to step into Cummings shoes as day follows night. But because of the geographic problem, it is quite possible that Roosevelt will decide to give the prize to Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, who went down in the recent election.
 In ability and crusading fer v0r there is little difference be- tween the two men. Also, like Jackson, Murphy is one of the presidents band of left-wing intimates who have been trying to pry open a cabinet place for him for a long time.
 Significant of the presidents indecision is his silence. He hasn't said a word to either Jackson or Murphy about the attorney generalship.
 Hopkins Preferred
 In. 8 choice between Hopkins or Jackson going into the cabinet, Hopkins will get the preference.
 The bond between the WPA boss and the president is very strong. Next to son Jimmy, the president is more warmly at- tached to Hopkins than to any other man. Because of this, when Commerce Secretary Dan Roper is finally pried loose from the government payroll its good bet that despite the geographic hand- icap Hopkins will get the job.
 It is also a very good bet that Roper will be out before the boys on Capitol Hill open their i, batteries on the WPA. Ropers statement last week that he was not contemplating resignation should be taken with large grain of salt. He is on his way to . long overdue exit, and the chances are very good that he will make it before the first of the year.
 Reformed
 The COP is. demanding a re- count of the vote which narrowly reelected Senator Fred Van Nuys, but in 1926 Indiana Democrats did not challenge Senator Jim Watson when he was declared the winner on returns from a county withheld until all other tallies were in. Asked to explain the paradox, Franklyn Waltman, Re- publican publicity director, re- piled cheerily, That's different. We are for honest elections this year."
 Capital Chaff
 Noticing a group of tourists clustered at. a corner of the Treasury Building, a policeman found them trying to pry loose a plaque commemorating the sign- ing of the Webster -Ashburton treaty of 1842 fixing the boundary between Oregon and Canada. .. Assistant CCC Director McEntee sent d cameraman out to get some imposed publicity pictures of eco boys at work. The photogra- pher brought back, among others a picture of two CCC boys, one sitting on a truck smoking, the