The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-10

J However, Fly has to spend an- other month winding up some special work for the Bonneville, Oregon, Dam, and in the interim Roosevelt feared that while the cat was away the mice would play.
 So he went to the unprecedent- ed length of sending a letter to the other members of the Federal Communications Commission tell ing them, in effect, not to pull any rough stuff while Fly was ab- sent.
 Reason for this move was a secret tip reaching the White House that several EGG mem bers planned to do a little lush patronage grabbing. One had his eye on a S7,500 job and an- other on a 5000 plum within the Commission which he want- ed for a friend. Also the White House got word that the com missioners were planning a major policy prOnouncement which was most controversial.
 NOTE-When Roosevelt offered Fly the FCC job-recognized as one of the most difficult in the government-he assured him of full support and took this means to back him up. Incidentally. the letter to the EGG went out of its way to refer to Fly as Chair man."
 GOERING AND HOOVER
 Herbert Hoover, who has bet- ter sense of humor than most peo- pie realize, is still telling friends about one incident during his trip to Germany. This was a luncheon with Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi Air Minister and Hitler's right-hand man.
 Hoover has the habit of look ing, not at the man to whom he is talking, but straight ahead. Noting this, Goering thought Hoover was fascinated by an or nate gold female form in the mid- ale of the table.
 That's gold, you know, real gold," remarked Goering, Ob- viously pleased at his guests interest, land those are real
 pearls around her neck"
 "Yes," he added, that's an exact image of my first wife" LITTLE BLUE INDEX
 In the early days of the New Deal, James Aloysius Farley kept a little card-index of congressman and how they voted on important New Deal measures. This file was the key to the jobs of con- gressman got. If he was with Roosevelt, he got lot of jobs. If he was against, he got none.
 While these are hard-boiled tactics, they are the tactics used by any successful administration, whether Republican or Democratic for the simple reason that the key to almost any congressman's vote is Pie. Pie-federal jobs-spells success back home in his district. It is essential to his reelection.
 An important key to the House
 revolt against Roosevelt at the
 end of the late-lamented session
 was Pie. There were other fac-
 tors, such as the usual disaffec-
 ton against any President to-
 ward the end of eight years. es-
 pecially at the flag end of long congressional session. But basically important is the fact that the little card-index of James Aloysius Farley is no more. Other Cabinet members went around him, under him and over him, so that Jim long ago got discouraged. There was 8 time when he was often up on Capitol Hill rounding up votes for "the Boss" on crucial ques- tions. But not during the recent session. Jim let "the Boss" row his own boat.
 EMPTY THREATS Basically, also, the President has himself to blame for the pres ent unenticing status of Pic. The trouble is that he has made a lot Of threats about Pie, but his threats have been empty. Hhe has never withdrawn Pie from hts enemies.
 For instance. during the purge campaign of last summer. the White House stated categoricaily that those senators who failed 10 cooperate would set no more Pie.