Show I I IA A WASHINGTON WASH I NOTON BYSTANDER DEft E- E By KIRKE L. L SIMPSON W WASHINGTON ASU The Tho political shoes state and national Charlie Curtis is isto to vacate to become vice vie president take a lot oC ot filling mUng l Possibly the fact a t th that he wears wear two pair pall simultaneously has hns something something something some some- thing to do with it At any rate the tho question of his successor in th the senate is still unsettled out in Kansas Kan Kan- sas sas while in the senate a three three- cornered battle battlo for inheritance o of Jils llis honors as majority leader is Under under under un un- der way CURTIS STILL ACTIVE Gossip has it that Curtis will Ul re resIgn resign re- re sIgn from the senate before the in inauguration inauguration In- In n of Governor-elect Governor Clyde Reed need In Kansas Kanbas in January in order Older that Governor Paulen incumbent may appoint his successor That's about th the only certain way Curtis men heru hem see ce C of his making sure that lormer Governor Henry Allen Alien doesn't t get tho the job At any tate rate Curtis himself is quite likely to spend his Christmas holIdays holiday b a ahome at home and engage busily in state politics during that period It Its It's s entirely clear that the Kansas Kans s veteran is by no po means looking to his 1115 elevation to tho the vice vico presidency as the tho culmination of his career He has s no intention of re retiring retiring re- re tiring on his honors On the tile contrary contrary contrary con con- not only does he seem to have definite plans for recapturing whatever whatever what what- ever degree of ot leadership in Kansas may have slipped from his grasp in the election of Reed as governor but signs are aie not lacking that hat his presidential ambitions are as hearty and flourishing as as' ever Just how a man of ot Curtis Curtis' Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington experience could live livo in dally sight of the busts of the tIle vice presIdents presidents presidents dents that line the walls wails of ot senate corridors and have navo any confidence that Its It's a Job with a future is not clear In his lifetime only two vice presidents president have advanced to the White House both times through intervention of death to create a n vacancy WATSON NEXT IN LINE Senator Jim Watson Vatson of ot Indiana whose whoso political ambitions have at times ranged from the governorship governorship governorship governor governor- ship to the presidency is the man most Immediately concerned in the struggle to succeed Curtis as majority majority ma- ma leader of the senate lIe He Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now deputy leader a j Job b bearing i about the same relation to the ac actual I fual leadership as the vice presidency presidency presidency dency does to the tho presidency except except ex ex- ex- ex ept that there is Ia no law of suc sue cession If It the senate te does oes nothing about it t when Curtis resigns Watson Vatson become lead leader lJ a automatically lly and arid probably lob bly w will l so function for the tag ag end of the seventieth congress It would be unheard of for party c colleagues to put somebody In over his lis head at this stage When the senate of ot tile the seventy- seventy first congress congress congress' organizes however a different situa situation on presents its itself elf elfand and Watson Vatson already has Ilas two rivals Wesley Jones elf f Washington Washing Washing- ton on hero of the tho unanimous senate senat vote on flood control and McNary 1 of Oregon farm block leader Vatson Waton Watson Wat- Wat son on has not announced his lliS own plans but as one ODe senator puts it Jim is mighty voluble about TV what hat his friends are doing I |