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Show p NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS- I Written for The Telegram - By Ray Tucker 4 more demoralized than It waa under "Uncle Dan" Roper. Mr. Noble has come up wttK numerous suggestions for giving giv-ing practical aid to business men, but Harry la either absent from his office or too occupied with other matters to approve or reject re-ject the undersecretary's Ideas. The relationship between the two men Is friendly enough, but the Noble faction Is beginning to (Tumble over the do-nothing spirit on the top floors. , Supreme Court Publicity Man Potter recently heard sweet music arising from the basement base-ment of Charles Evans Hughes' building. He Investigated and discovered that four colored Janitors Jan-itors had formed a quartet and practiced their tunea in off hours. Mr. Potter corralled them and offered their services to the National Na-tional Press club for the annual founders' dinner to the president presi-dent The club's music master gave them a tryout and proclaimed pro-claimed them to be talented sing-. ers. Sp F. D. R. will-listen to mellow music from the supreme court's basement choir a rather symbolic event, too, for the relations between the president presi-dent and the tribunal be once assailed were never more cordial than now. Copyright, McClure Syndicate. WASHINGTON F. D. R.S trigger man Harold L. Ickesv will be shifted from Interior to a major post In the war establishment establish-ment If the conflict threatens to embroil the United States. Circumstances may determine his exact assignment, but the tentative scheme Is to send him In aa a substitute for War Secretary Sec-retary Harry Wood ring. The president figures that Mr. Ickes has many qualifications for the task of warmaker. As he demonstrated In handling P W A. he haa the spirit and the drive to get things done promptly and efficiently and with a minimum mini-mum of waste or graft. His Intimate In-timate knowledge of the nation's natural resources also commends him for the work of mobilizing the mines and farms and factories. fac-tories. Lastly, his P W A experience ex-perience with contractors haa . taught him how to deal with business and industry to the government's gov-ernment's advantage. Nor is it a minor consideration that the secretary of war exercises great authority over water power. F. D. R.'s delay in naming a secretary of the navy lrka the admirals. The explanation is that he has offered the Job to Assistant Secretary Edison, but the latter wont take It. Because Be-cause of his poor health he is content with the No. 2 assignment assign-ment Anyway, with Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt in the White House, any navy secretary would be only a figurehead. He'a the real boas of the fleet ' quick termination of the War-In War-In the spring, say, would definitely defi-nitely remove Mr. Roosevelt from the 1940 scene. Rightly or wrongly, the national chairman figures that the president would be so anxious to emulate Wood-row Wood-row Wilson as world peacemaker peace-maker that he would lose all in-Interest in-Interest in domestic politics. Then indeed, says Jim, the man In the White House would be thinking of his place In history rather than his place on the Democratic ticket By the same token, Mr. Farley Far-ley thinks, the president would not permit himself to become involved in-volved In a convention battle over the nomination of a new dealer or old dealer. He would want a unified party and a Democratic Dem-ocratic triumph aa an indorsement indorse-ment of his world program and would not be Inclined to split hairs over platform or personalities. personali-ties. So Jim thinks it will be tra-la for the party if an armistice armi-stice blooms In the spring. The clash of Ideas between Harry Hopkins and Ed Noble has destroyed the hopes of business busi-ness men and government trade expert that the former's shift to commerce would produce a constructive, con-structive, cooperative program. Despite almost a year at the helm, Mr. Hopkins has brought Industry and the government no. closer than they were tn the backbiting days. Harry's Illness partially accounts ac-counts for the breakdown, but there are even deeper reasons. The former W P A administrator has surrounded himself with new deal reformers of the spend-lend spend-lend type. He is more Interested In advancing and perpetuating long time theories of the more abundant economics than he' is in finding new markets, proposing propos-ing Improvements In methods of manufacture and distribution, expanding research facilities advantageous ad-vantageous to private interests. The department's personnel is Jamas A. Farley entertains a strong suspicion that President Roosevelt does not Intend to seek a third term. Jim haa recently confided to friends that the president pres-ident has never Intimated to him that he would run again. In view of the unproved relatione between the two men, the presidential presi-dential reticence persuades higher-up Democrats that ihe road Is clear. Mr. Farley also believes that a |