The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-04-05
BysIGRID. .ARNE
AP Feature Service Writer


 Naturally. In 1920, New York Dem oerats were rallying to meet that years standtrd bearers, James CoxI and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 It was the usual frantic, crowded political scene. The young FarleysI were showed around. They didn't get near the reception line. The brideI wanted to go. The bridegroom said no
 Afterward the bride said, in a. hurt tone, That nonsensical scene! I'd never have married a politician if I'd known they have to go| through such things"
 Bess Farley never did get used to the political hurly-burly. Jim Farley became the center of it in the most frantic eight years of this century. And yet theirs is such a securely-eemented marriage it gives onlookers the oId-fashioned warm feeling of home.
 They're both big, energetic blond i people who look as if they'd just been scrubbed. Their lives. politics notwithstanding, reYolYe around the three children: Elizabeth, IT, att Wellesley; Anne, 15, at prep school, and young Jim, 13, at military school.
 He Phones Every Day
 The family has stayed in their comfortable Fifth avenue apartment in New York For two reasons. Mrs. Farley wants to keep an eye on the children in school. And she doesn't like Washington social Whirl al- though she comes down for the must" affairs. Farley keeps a hotel room here for the working days.
 He's quite a sight with a tall daughter on each arm. Beaus them around quite proudly. Sends them eorsages. Took them to Europe. He made a bet with Elizabeth that he could pick an American anywhere in Europe. He won. Whats more, he knew a good many of them.
 Daughter Ann seems to be oppOs-l ed to his political career. The fam fly is faithfully Catholic and Ann often prays. The night her father gave the Jackson Day dinner address here this year she listened via the radio. He made that much quoted introduction. MT. President, MT. Tive President and-Fellow Can- didates-."
 Fifteen-year-old Anne got it. She turned to her mother and said, Were going to have to pray just twice as hard"
 He Doesn't Like Dinners
 The family's quarrel with poll tics is the fact that it takes father out so much. He doesn't like endless dinners, either. But when the Party calls
 Farley was in the building sup-I ply business before he joined theI Roosevelt camp back in 1880. They lived quietly. Small group of friends. Occasional theater for the Mister and Missus Occasional boxing match.
 But he'd wanted a political cal reer from his high school days. He won his first public office in his early 20's-town clerk of his home town, Haverstraw, N. Y.
 Even then Farley had his win ming political philosophy worked out. He felt that the personal contact meant more than anything else. HeI went around and talked to every, one he could reach He started the hand-shaking for which he is now famous. He started the Gall me Jim"
 To Remember Him By
 He started signing his letters in green ink. He says quite simply he did it because he wanted people to remember him.
 He's signed 2,UOO an hour at night after the telephone stops ring ing.
 One of his old letters he treasures is from an old school teacher who knew his mother. She wrote, How proud your mother would have been"
 He started helping his mother support her five children when he was 12. The father died suddenly. The widow had little money so, af- ter much worry and advice, she in- vested it in a grocery with an ad- joining saloon. Jim worked behind the bar. That worried the mother so much he took a pledge never to smoke or drink. He never has. Washington hostesses remember to have milk for him. But he never lectures others. He relaXes once a week by slipping away to Turkish bath. The job seekers even turn up there.