Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-07 | Page 4 | Two Birds with One Stone

the lame time get rid of the cabinet'! Number One nuisance. If Catton'i rumor of Ickes' resignation threat U right, all we have to do la convince the president and the congress that transfer of the forest service would stir up a regular tempest of protest and dissatisfaction tn the west, thus Insuring denial of the likes plea. Then Ickes would carry out his threat to resign re-sign and everybody would be happy. Two Birds With One Stone ACCORDING to reports from Washington, Secretary of the Interior Ickes is making another effort to get control of the forest service. It Is said Ickes Is putting heavy pressure on President Roosevelt to authorize the transfer trans-fer of the service from the department of agriculture agri-culture to Ickes" department of the interior prior to January 20. On that date the president's presi-dent's powers under the reorganization law lapse. Bruce Catton, Washington correspondent for NXA service, in a recent column, adds an Interesting bit of information. Says Catton: "As one of the new deal's oldest undercover rows, this has brought out a new flock of rumors. ru-mors. Latest of these says Ickes told F. D. R. he'd resign if he didn't get the forest service. According to one version he was told he could have It; by another, it was denied him and he'll be out shortly. You can believe either ... or neither." Veil, we don't know what to believe about the behind the sccnes tug-of war which Is going on in Washington over the forest service, but there's an Idea In Cation's report. Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone -keep the forest service safely out of the hands of the kkaa school of political manipulators and at