The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-25

The memory of Woodrow VII sons unhappy experience still is too fresh in the mind of the country. The wartime President journeyed to Europe under entire ly different circumstances, but with world conditions what they are, a Presidential junket even for social purposes would be cer- tain to arouse suspicious as to what was behind it.
 Certainly the Axis powers would view the trip with deep misgivings and charge ulterior motives.
 In the end the Presidents decision will depend on 8 com-
 bination of factors: the state of
 Europe, public sentiment at
 home, business trends and pOli-
 tical developments.
 Whether he goes or not, how ever, it is significant that Roose- welt has discussed the idea with intimates and manifested the liveliest interest in the venture. It appeals strongly to all his highly developed instincts for drama. Even though it may re- main only dream, it is glamor- ous one that he will null over in many secret moment.
 OvERWORKED SECRETARY
 The President of the United States is a powerful person, but he is no different than any other boss when it comes to trouble with a temperamental clerical staff.
 The other morning as Steve Early, overworked White House secretary, was holding his daily conference with newsmen, his phone rang sharply and Steve shouted to his secretary in an outer office. Take care of that" A moment later she dashed in saying Its the President, he wants to talk to y0u.'
 'Tell him I'm not in," snapped
 Steve.
 The girl departed but was
 back in another moment. "The
 President says he wants to talk
 to you," she said, land for you
 to drop whatever you are doing
 and to get on the phone"
 Sc0wling, Steve picked up the receiver, said grumpily, "Yes." .. SUPREME COURT NOTES
 All nine chairs behind the Su- preme bench are now occupied. Save for one week in February, there has been at least one va cancy since December, 1887, when Cardoza first was taken sick The head rest on Justice Frank furter's chair is different from all the others; 1t is a tight, round pad like chair arm. Two newsmen who cover the court daily switched from disliking to admiring Justice Hugo Black ... Though Justice Reed is moving very gradually from left to right, he is still far from McReynolds and Butler, the lone dissenters of today ... During recent hear ing, Butler yawned three times in five minutes {. Black sent a page boy for glass of water ... Stone, on Blacks left, whispered across Black to Frankfurter All this by-play was needed by Donald Richberg, wearing striped trousers on the sidelines.
 ROOSEvELT'S NEXT SPEECH
 FDR will make what promises to be his most important economic speech of the year on May 9 at convention of the American Re- tail Federation. Behind that date is this:
 Roosevelt declined an invitation from the United States Chamber of Commerce and expects that or- ganization, as usual, to start throwing brickbats at his fiscal and spending policies. The Cham Der of Commerce crowd is plenty sore that the President refused to address them.
 Roosevelt decided to make his big speech before she Retailers largely because the Federation has progressive and forward looking record. It backed social security and other New Deal legislation, and, of course, is mainly interested in promoting consumer purchasing power.
 Tommy Corcoran and Harry Hopkins secretly investigated the Federation and recommended that "the chief accept the invitatoin. As . result. Roosevelt phoned Louis E Kirstein. Wh0 fa an official nf