The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-08

'" having given 40 valiant anC
 Looking out of his window upon the magnolia trees, gorgeous in the Spring, Hull thinks back to the days when he was a circuit judge in Tennessee, then a mem- Der of Congress; to the days when he helped pioneer the first in- come tax law: to the fight he made against the sky-high dlSaS- trouS tariffs of the Smoot- t-Hawley days; and to his briefer career in the Senate.
 Looking back over that vista, Hull has thought many times he might retire. But two chief things have held him on. One is his ambition to see his trade treaties continued and renegotiated Cthis blll Is now pending ln CongreSs). The other is Mrs. Hull, who, nurs- ing his strength carefully, is de- termined that he not resign.
 Hull frequently finds, however, that he simply does not have the physical strength to carry on. The daily grind is too much and he absents himself Q part of each week. Last year he was forced tO spend a total fo six months away from Washington.
 NEW SECRETARY or STATE
 As a result of these absences and the fact that MT. Hull moves more slowly now, the President has found himself calling upon Un. deFsecretaTy Sumner Welles, who has now virtually become Secre- retaFy Of State. More and more frequently now, when the Presi- dent picks up the telephone he calls Welles instead of Hull. He finds that WelleS has the facts at his finger-tips and works faster.
 Hull's answers of late have grown more vague. This is part ly his cautious temperament, part ly age. Once Hull was proud of the fact that he was the only member of the cabinet maintain ing daily contact with the press. But now sometimes a week goes by without a press conference.
 All of the recent speeches have been made by Wclles, which makes the old gentlemen a bit touchy. En fact he wondered why it was that Welles rather than he was asked to speak for the State Department in the Herald- Tribune Forum. The answer was that the President specifically requested Welles to do the job.
 But the Secretary is determined to stick it out until the last horn blows-and he may be able to con- tinue.
 CLAUDE WICKARD
 IN OR OUT?
 Two men from Coon Rapids, Iowa, met in washington seven weeks ago and made a bet about tie demise of Claude Wickard as a Cabinet officer.
 Said A. E. "Red" Bowman, sugar expert Of the WPB: "VNickard Is on tho skids; he won't last till the first of May"
 Said corn farmer Bob Garst, sT admit he's on the skids. but here's ten deIlars that says it .. wiIl take longer than May Ist."
 Last week, the two men met again in Washington, just after the President had stripped Wick ard of power and put Chester Davis in control.
 Here's your ten bucks" said Garst tO Bowman.
 "But Wickard isn't cut yet" responded Bowman.
 'Aw, he'll" said Garst, "I won't stand on technicaIity."
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Grace Fully. private secretary to the President, calls her office Union Station. "If that door opens once a day. she says. "it opens a hundred times" Gays Major Ruth Streeter. head of the Lady Marines, q wish we could serve overseas. For one thing. it would give us a chance to earn service bars. and they certainly would brighten up the uniform" Washington is about to see the greatest string of visiting foreign Presidents in history. Beginning Map s. and spaced one every two weeks. they are: President Penar- anda of Bolivia, President Bar clay Of Liberia. President Morinigo Of Paraguay. and most important of all-President Rios of Chile. PARK BY ANOTHER NAME
 WyonIng's erudite Senator Joe O,Mahoney is blazing mad at his old friend Secretary Ickes for turning the famous Jackson Hole hunting and grazing area into a