The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-12

ASSA ~
There are a lot of weeds which
he wants to pull-chiefs of depart
ments and other personnel weeds
and he has been telling friends that
he is going to pull them.
One reason the President moves
slowly in problems of personnel is
not only because he has affection
for his friends, but also because he
says there is no use replacing
man with vacancy. He wants to
have a good successor picked out
beforehand.
So, with Congress away the Pres
ident has been looking forward to
concentrating on getting some new
men in his Administration
problem which his advisers all
agree sorely needs attention.
They predict that some good
plants may get mixed up with
the weeds and get pulled also.
Even Jesse Jones and Henry
Wallace may be subjected to
certain degree of pulling
NOTE: The President has felt
particularly zestful regarding per-
sonnet problems since he wrote the
letter firing Chester Davies. He es-
pecially liked the last paragraph of
that letter in which he told Chester
that there was no use in his re-
naming to formulate the 1914 farm
program since he wouldn't be here
to carry it out, and that would
mean real division of authority-a
subject that Chester had been
carping to Congress about.
1.-THE WOMEN"
When you see Congressional
Glare Luce out at dinner in Wash
ington you can understand how and
why she wrote 1.-THE Women" side
splitting drama of women's catti-
ness at Reno. The men, in Washing
ton, swarm round her. The women
don't
Swishing into Mrs. Edward
Stotesbury's home the other eve
ming swaddled in endless yards Of
pink chiffon, Mrs. Luce was es-
corted by handsome Australian
Lieut.. Gen. v. A. H. Sturdee, head
of the Australian Military Mission.
Mrs. StoteSbury was in the act of
throw a compliment at equally
lovely Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, wife
of Woodrow Wilson's Attorney Gen
eral. Mrs. Palmer, slightly embar-
raised, passed off the compliment
with:
"YOu know, Mrs. Stotesbury
Is really my press agent"
do you need press agent?"
inquired Mrs. Luce, whose hus-
band publishes Time, Life and
Fortune.
"No more than you," shot
back Mrs. Palmer. "You mar
ried pretty good one"
JONES VS.. WALLACE
Re the Jesse Jones Henry Wallace
Fight:
A lot of people have the idea that
Jesse Jones is the great champion of
Big Business and that the Board
of Economic Warfare is the New
Deal fighter for the under-dog But
the inside fact is that the BEW is
just as much for Business as Jesse,
and is loaded down with executives
from private business.
Interesting fact is that the BEW
was about the only outfit which
didn't have its appropriation cut
by Congress, which means that 1t
was the only outfit which didn't
have big lobby buttonholing Con-
| gresham to vote against it. Gun
fortunately, many congressman vote
at the beckon of Hobbies rather
! than at the beckon of conscience)
OPA had the big meat-pack-
ers. the Gamers, the farm lob
| bies all against it. The Office of
| War Information had the Re-
| publican National Committee
against it. The Farm Security
Administration had the Farm
Bureau, the cotton planters and
the big cattle ranchers against
it.
But Milo Perkins and the BEW
| have buttered up business to such
| extent that the business lobbies
were all for them. What Milo does
is buy all critical material abroad
through American Importers. Also
he sells abroad through the export
ers. He buys no matter what the
price and they add their commits.
sions on top of that. incidentally
these high prices plus commission
Is one thing that inks Jesse Jones
How far Milo goes to this end
and daylight, midwinter and mid