The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-17

Communists craweld into bed with
Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey
the other day, their real inside po-
litical strategy was said privately
to have been determined by these
motives: Governor Edison of New
Jersey was fighting Hague. That
threatened a split in the Democratic
party for next year, giving the Re-
publicans a chance to carry the
state in a clean sweep, defeating
| Democratic CongressWoman Mary
Norton of Bayonne, now chairman
of the House Committee on Labor
and decidedly er-liberal ir her
! views. Rather than have that hap
| pen and give the whole state dele
cation in Congress over to ultra
conservatives like New Jerseys Sen
ator Albert w. Hawkes., president
of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce,
the Commies figured they fight
freeze out the decent Democratic
element behind Edison and solidify
the state machine behind Roose-
welt, Hague and Norton.
BEEF lNU ONEh Def
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones's first official order on his
new job was routine matter, citing
ore Roland Mason of Houston, Tex,
doing business as the Houston Cat
tie Company, for having slaughtered
900 pounds of beef in April,
when its quota was only $4,000
pounds. 1t was one of those simple
affairs, probably prepared by some
underling far down the line in
WAS legal department, and showed
at the new administrator to sign as
one of those things that was okay.
This one, however, had a kickback
in it that the judge didn't see. Down
near the end of the order was a
preamble reading, Because of the
great scarcity of livestock for the
fulfillment of meat requirements of
the United States" and SO on. Tex
as Congressman Dick Kleeberg, OF
King Ranch fame, spotted this in
the official Federal Register. Scar
city of livestock? Meat animals were
busting out the fences all over the
country. Kleeberg reached for his
phone and got Judge Jones to ask
him if he knew what he had signed.
Redder than usual in the face, he
had to admit he hadn't known that
phrase was in the order. 1t was cor
rected, quick.
WALLACE-JONE TIFF
A rather conscious but strained
effort is being made by hackers OF
both Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace and Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones to build up their recent
tiff in to a preliminary bout for the
coming economic battle of the cen
fury. Jones is thus pictured as the
symbol of conservative business,
freedom of enterprise, traditional
American way of life. Wallace is
billed as the champion of the future
and the new order, with co-opera-
tives, planned economy and all the
other New Deal ideas which con-
servatives condemn as state social
ism.
Jones's supporters back their man
as the last bulwark of democracy
if he is scuttled, all is lost. AS a
matter of fact, Uncle Jesse Jones Is
one man in the government whom
the younger intellectuals in govern
ment have picked out to hate most.
But Henry Wallace may have been
inspired to deliver his blast because
he felt his Board of Economic War;
fare wasn't getting enough support
from the White House, particularly
the new East Wing Office of War
Mobilization organization under
Justice James F. Byrnes. Wallace
might have blasted at Jones publicly
just to get the fight out in the open
and line up the White House behind
and in support of his ideas. On the
basis, this is just another inter-ad-
ministration fight for power and not
a struggle of the gods to determine
the shape of things to come.