The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18

job as postmaster and likes to carry the mail. He will be the first to step aside though, if he thinks Truman wants to reward Bob Hannegan by making him postmaster general.
 Secretary of Labor Perkins. She has resigned twice before and will resign again. This time it will be accepted. Miss Perkins has definitely wanted to step out and Truman will take advantage of this opportunity to make his first cabinet replacement. First on the list as Secretary of Labor is his old senatorial friend and colleague on the Truman commit tee, hard-hitting Harley Kilgore of West Virginia. Another pos sibility is Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia. Some of TrumanS friends think he should appoint a liberal southerner to the labor post and thus influence conserva- tive southern leaders. Friends of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black have even let it be known that he would be willing to leave the supreme court to help out in the emergency.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard-One of the kindest hearted men in the cabinet, Wickard was . a political accident, due to the retirement of Henry Wallace. For a time he was in conflict with Food Administrator Jones, and his Agriculture Department was partially stripped in favor of the War Food Administration. Now plans are under way to consoli- date the two again and bring in new, strong face as Secretary of Agriculture
 Secretary of State Stettinius- Whereas Roosevelt was his own Secretary of State, Truman frank ly admits knowing little about foreign affairs. StettiniuS Was put in the State Department by Harry Hopkins, who argued that Roosevelt would run things any, way. Now the situation is re- Truman's old congressional friends verSed. AS a result, many O. are urging that eX-Justice Jimmy Byrnes take over the State De- partment. Truman will send him to San Francisco as a start CT, and probably ease him into the State Department later.
 You can write it down, there fore, that three cabinet members most likely to be changed are
 Stettinius, Miss Perkins, and Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard.
 NOTE-If Byrnes becomes Sec~ retary of State, Stettinius might become U. s. representative of the United Nations Council.
 TRUMAN'S OLD
 STAMPING GROUND
 It has been a long time since a President of the United States went up to Capitol Hill to con- fer with congressman. However, it didn't seem at all unusual when President Harry Truman came up tot he Senate for lunch on the first day he served as Presi dent of the United States. Also he didn't act any differently.
 T feel just as if someone had hit me over the head with a six teen-pound mallet,' he said. "I don't know whats happened tO me yet.
 This morning." he continued,
 "I wanted to come up on the Hill to see my old friends, and they tried to tell me it wasn't done.
 Done or not" I replied, I'm going to do it.
 But when I went out to get my car, I found it surrounded by motorcycles. They took me up to the Hill and caused 8 ter rible cOmmOtiOn on the street. They even stopped people from crossing the street.
 At this point, Majority Leader Alben Barkley said:
 That's just what happens to a country boy when he gets in your spot"
 Truman laughed and concluded: Some day I hope they'll build . tunnel between Congress and the White House 50 the President can,