Show 1 P NEWS BEHIND H I ND TH THE E NEWS rS I I Written it n for The Fhe rel Telegram By Ray tucker lucker WASHINGTON James A. A Farleys Farley's pals are so worked up over White House crisscrossing that the victim of this presidential sabotage must have treated himself himself himself him him- self to a private explosion They think Jim is being played for forthe forthe forthe the sucker championship of present present present pres pres- ent day politics Its It's too pat an explanation to believe that the president and his national chairman have deliberately deliberately deliberately arranged to work both sides of the primary street at the same sama time Nobody in the know swallows swallows swallows lows that bromide But in almost almo t every municipal and state contest I New New York City Florida Georgia Georgia Geor Geor- gia gla Kentucky Colorado California California California Califor Califor- nia F. F. F D. D has etc R. R schemed to smash the Democratic party while Jim has worked to save it The president has sponsored insurgent candidates while Jim has backed time old-time Democrats Son James and other family members members members mem mem- bers have also fought Farleys Farley's friends The most amusing inside act of this domestic melodrama will be staged in November elections Then almost every measure poor I old Jim has lobbied for wage for wage wage- hour and-hour the recovery billions the new judges' judges bill will bill will be used against him by the Roosevelt- Roosevelt Ickes Hopkins-Ickes faction The billions billions billions bil bil- bil- bil lions he wangled will sink him and his friends including the very men who for them Most plausible explanation for Mr Farleys Farley's tolerance and sufferance sufferance sufferance suf suf- ferance is that the time is not ripe for him to step out or talk up He figures he can do more for his political cronies on the inside looking out out even even though the other insiders slam the window window window win win- dow in his ruddy face It may be different after the congressional elections next fall Then begins the last stage of the battle for 1940 control of the party between new dealers and old dealers dealers deal deal- ers between the Roosevelt-Hop- Roosevelt deal 1 kins-Ickes kins battalion and the Gar Gar- ner-Farley-Harrison ner outfit Fence sitters wont won't be tolerated in either camp camp Moreover Jim will be better fixed economically for asserting asserting asserting as as- his independence His book will bring him as a starter and if it sells he may double that in a few months Every anti new dealer will probably probably probably ably buy it for that reason alone Several fine posts may be offered offered offered of of- to him in 1939 provided it becomes known that a fat salary would free him of economic economic and and political political ties czars like Movie Man Hays and Base- Base bailer Landis are getting along in years for instance and those entertainment entertainment entertainment en en- industries couldn't find a finer fan than Jim When fans he-fans em they stay fanned Madame Perkins has been known to suffer from twinges of feminine jealousy and she tossed her head when congress refused to place the N L R B in her departmental departmental departmental de de- de- de arms But her friends deny that rancor underlies her private complaints against Board Members Madden Smith and Smith She seems to have a case against them them them-no no not on them Her federal federal federal fed fed- eral mediators have reported that in many many instances the more aggressive aggressive aggressive ag ag- and crusading N L R Bers Bers Bers B- B ers have interfered wIth prospective prospective prospective tive settlements Just when the negotiate an acceptable agreement between employer and anti the vote boys bOYd walk in in scrap the terms and demand demand demand de de- de- de mand a noisy roll roU call Then both C CIO I 0 and A F L organizers hop hopin in and theres there's the devil to pay Theres There's worse still still from from her viewpoint Sometimes when medIation mediation mediation me me- negotiations have gone so far that an election is obviously unnecessary the N L R ers B-ers take taka credit for what they record in their report as a settlement by agreement Miss Perkins thinks that's no way to treat a lady who was working for the forgotten man before the two other Smiths were born The Smith she worked with was named AI Al Cordell Hull will never corral the delegates from Alaska if he becomes a contender for the 1940 presidential nomination Hell He'll lose e out out outon on the issue of fish Months ago Alaskan fisheries protested to the state department against invasion of their waters by the Japanese The victims threatened then to take direct action if Washington didn intervene Mr Hull negotiated but nothing happened Tokyo explained explained explained ex ex- ex- ex smilingly that its fishermen fishermen fishermen fisher fisher- men were catching crabs not salmon there must be some mis mis- take They made that same reply back in 1930 when Secretary Stimson complained against the original invasion of Manchuria They told Henry smilingly that they were simply sending in soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers to help harvest and transport transport transport trans trans- port the soy bean bean crop They're still harvesting the bloody beans Now the tha hardy Al Alaskans have sent out ships armed to the gunwales gunwales gunwales gun gun- wales for self Washington Wash Wash- ington and ington-and and Tokyo Tokyo move move too ob obligingly for them Several Severas offending furriers are striving violently but vainly to duck the federal trade commissions commission's commissions commission's commissions commission's commis commis- sion's new rabbit punch The smart boys in the trade suspect suspect suspect sus sus- that kind-hearted kind ladies would shun a f labeled rab rab- bit So they dub it arctic seal or dyed coney coney anything anything except rabbit But officially a rabbits rabbit's a 9 rabbit whether caressing the underbrush underbrush underbrush un un- un- un or a soft cheek in a night club Copyright 1938 for The Tle Telegram |