The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18

OpcCU1dLlOu IS IeQ not &S CO whether FDR will retain Jesse Jones, the man whose nephew led the anti-RooSeve1t faction in Texas; also what he will do with Vice President Wallace, Jones' chief Cabinet enemy, who was FDR'S chief support during the campaign.
 At every Cabinet meeting, the President always goes the rounds, asks each Cabineteer what he ha3 to report. When he made the rounds just after the election and came to his Secretary of Com merce, the latter said he had sev- eral questions he wanted to take up with the President personally. But the President suggested no conference, did not say he would see Jones soon, instead brushed him off with 6 wisecrack to the effect that he was glad Cali fornia was still in the Union even if Texas wasn't.
 When FDR got to Vice Presi- dent Wallace, he made Q very complimentary reference to the work he had done in the cam paign, adding:
 ''I hold you responsible for the demise of Ham Fish,"
 At this point, Foreign Economic Administrator Crowley interrupt ed, remarking that Wallace had also done some very effective work in Minnesota and Wisconsin (the latter is Crowley's home) and was in large part responsible for the big Roosevelt vote rolled up in those States, though Winsonsin was carried by Dewey.
 NOTE: Despite these strawS in the wind, 8 lot of people who know FDR well are betting that, later this month, he vii lbecome engrossed with the prospective Stalin- Churchill meeting, will let his Cabinet drift pretty much as is.
 'eTIRED OLD MAN"
 President Roosevelt got 8 laugh when White House assistant Da- vid Niles walked in the other day and pretended to be surprised.
 ''What, MT. President!" Niles said. 'I'm surprised to sec you here"
 "Why, Daye?" asked FDR.
 "YOur opponent, who claimed he was fresh and young and wig OrOus, has had to go down to Georgia for 8 long rest, whereas you, who arc supposed to be the tired old man, are hard at work
 just as if nothing had hap pened!"
 REWARD FOR
 CAMPAIGN ECONOMY
 When hard-hitting Republican Representative Everett Dirksen of Illinois hung out his shingle for Vice, President last spring, the folks in his home town of Pskin, inspired by the. Pekin Times, raised a fun of about $5.- 900 to help his campaign.
 Dirksen, however, is very economical person. He handled his campaign so carefully that he spent only about $l,OO0. So after the Chicago Republican conven- ton was over, he wrote a letter to F. F. McNaughton, editor of the Pekin Times, saying he had about $500 left over and wanted to return it to those who had been so generous,
 Whereupon editor McNaughton suggested that it might be diff cult to parcel the money out in the right proportions among those who had given 1t. Instead he pro- posed publicly that the town of Pekin send its congressman on a trip abroad to enlarge his back ground and help him in his du- ties in Congress.
 The people of Pekin okayed this and, when the time Is ripe. Dirksen will take the trip.
 "COLONEL MCCORMICK" TOM REYNOLDS
 On election morning, when Roosevelt was to vote in Pough- keepsie, N. Y, delegation of lady journalism students arrived from nearby Vassar College to cover" the voting event. Pencils poised over notebooks, they mingled
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