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Show I NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS 1 Written for The Telegram By Ray Tucler nation' of the need for spresdlng tha revenue load by hitting harder at the middle brackets and tha little fellows probably as low as the f lOOO-a-year-claae. Rough objective ob-jective would be to obtain at least (8,000,000,000 annually none too larga in view of permanently rising government costs. Full onus for boosting taxes in a presidential year an unpopular political act would be shifted by recruiting big outside names-representatives names-representatives of capital, labor, agriculture, consumers for the research body. Congress would let ths other fellow prescribe the bad medicine. James A Farley's apparent attempt at-tempt to smoke out F. D. R. on a third term Irritates ths president's presi-dent's inner circle of best minds. They figure that Jim's repetition of his stand-aslds warnings to potential candidates bears a hidden hid-den barb. Several White House worshippers worship-pers privately insist that Mr. Farley Far-ley quit either the postmaater generalship or ths national chairmanship. chair-manship. Holding both cards gives him too powerful a hand, in their opinion. There is quiet talk of introducing a measurs barring a cabinet member from holding a party job, but so far nobody has been discovered who would touch it: It's too hot to handle at this state of ths poker game. It would probably infurite Jim snd try his loyalty to the White House. He haa told friends that eve nif he leaves Washington he will retain his political post Only tha national committee can ouat him and that is highly doubtful. doubt-ful. Copyright 1939, McClure Syndicate. WASHINGTON Cordell Hull's name has been mentioned frequentlyand fre-quentlyand slyly as a posaible successor to Charles Evans Hughaa if the chief Justice's 111-neaa 111-neaa forcea him off the bench. Some of the reasons given for such a promotion strike ths cabinet cabi-net member's friends as curious. It would as they note effectively effec-tively remove him from the field as a presidential possibility for 190, though aome strategists regard re-gard him as a sounder bet than either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Garneras Gar-neras a compromise whose ee-lection ee-lection might fend off a party split It would also permit the elevation of the more aggressive Bumner Welles to Mr. Hull's place a move eagerly awaited by certain cer-tain young Rooseveltlans. Mr. Hull s age he is 7 prs-sente prs-sente an obstacle. But ha la physt-cally physt-cally fit and has stood the strain e fa Hitler-Mussolini, killing kill-ing grind. Although he has scant bench asiperieace, ths C J.'s job aasumaa a more adminiatrative aspect every year. It would grieve Justice tSanley Reed if he loat out for he wants it too. President Roosevelt and Mr. Garner are saying nothing publicly pub-licly about their 190 chances, but their militant friends are talking plenty. There will be a show-down surs if the latter can promote it The twin silences fool no politicians. poli-ticians. It wss Baacom Timmona, a prominent Washington correspondent corres-pondent and ths V. P.'s first newapaper friend, who planted the Garner-will-run atory- On the White House elds of ths fence Messrs. Corcoran and Ickes have done soma "planting" of their own. It was a toss-up whether Mr. ' Timmons" inspirational" story would reach the papers before be-fore Mr. Ickes' "I want Roosevelt" article was dumped en the mega-sine mega-sine atands. Mr. Timmons seas Mr. Garner ' also his nswapaper boss, RFC Chairman Jones almost every day. Mr. Ickaa and Mr. Corcoran shadow the president So draw your own conclusions on whether these promptings and pushings were entirely accidental Detailed replies to ths Geneva international labor conference on general adoption of a 40-hour week paint a dismal plcturs of world conditions. Soms reports were cleverly phaaed to gloss official of-ficial anxiety, but little Slam's no-thank-you note tells the real atory: "It is not useful to reply." The British dominiona generally prefer to reduce working houra by regional regulation, not legislation. legisla-tion. Franca cannot act until other nations, prssumably Germany and Italy, have adopted the French schedules, far lower than tha dictators': dic-tators': Great Britain doesn't regard re-gard the shorter week as "practicable' "practi-cable' because of its effect on , wage and the standard of. living. Esthonia and Finland entertain the aame fear. A note of economic terror and rivalry tinges most of the answers. an-swers. Shorter work houra without with-out thinner pay envelopes, the shrewd Dutch and Scandinavians point out might cut into export trade by Increasing prices for their goods. "Domestic and foreign for-eign aituation too unstable," yo-deled yo-deled the Swiss. Tax Maater Ellsworth Alvord's ways snd meana auggeation of a broad survey of the revenue ratea during ths next recesa has taken hold on Capitol HilL The achems has a buck-paaalng twiat that pleasea ths boys on both sides of the congressional aisles. Under ths proposal members of the taxing committees of house and senate would examine the economic an dincome-producing effect ofall ratea, particularly aur-tax aur-tax and corporation. A apecial aasignment contemplates determi- |