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Show Behinm By PaulMalloh jy Released by Western Newspaper Union, BEST BRAINS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE VICTORY WASHINGTON. It is very probable prob-able that Mr. Roosevelt will revise his government immediately for victory vic-tory and the fourth term campaign. Now, as never before, he needs brains in the top places. With the chaotic condition of the world, with our ability to survive questioned on every front financial, diplomatic, economic, military the best politics and simplest sense demands the best manpower in government as well as In the army, factories, and field. You cannot win without power at the top. Yet Mr. Roosevelt's own senate leader has now publicly proclaimed pro-claimed what everyone else knew, namely that the cabinet and presidential presi-dential advisers fall far short of representing rep-resenting the best intelligence and experience of the country. In the beginning, to satisfy this deficiency, Mr. Roosevelt brought in the Byrnes, Baruch, Vinson, Jones setup as a super cabinet. As Senator Sena-tor Barkley noted, this has not been enough. Any ordinary man in Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's spot would go out and draft the best men of the nation to handle subjects they know best. A belated move along that line is imminent. Anonymous news has been appearing appear-ing in the papers suggesting a few cabinet changes are under consideration. consid-eration. The question is whether they will go far and deep enough. SOME PROSPECTS: Edward R. Stettinius, the state undersecretary, is receiving some mention as possible vice presidential nominee instead of the left-leaning Wallace. This talk originated with no more inferior an authority than Democratic National Chairman Han-nagan. Han-nagan. Mr. Stettinius has an ex-big business busi-ness background in Morgan business not unlike that of Mr. Willkie. Certainly Cer-tainly Stettinius is being groomed to succeed Mr. Hull, when and if. Foreign Economic Administrator Crowley also has mounted the toboggan to-boggan and a successor is needed for him. A sounding-out rumor has been published that Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones might go to the treasury with Joseph P. Kennedy, ex-ambassador to Britain, replacing him. The rumor is probably off the mark. Mr. Kennedy's finance - business brain is regarded as the best in the country and the place for him is treasury. When big business leaders lead-ers get in trouble, they call on him to straighten them out for an extraordinary ex-traordinary fee which they must pay because no one else can do the job. In the current international financial finan-cial dilemma (Keynes-White international inter-national currency stabilization and even domestic taxes) Mr. Roosevelt could get him for a $10,000 a year cabinet salary, whereas a private corporation seeking his services would have to pay 10 to 20 times as much. Why not? The only objection is political. Mr. Kennedy is erroneously designated by certain contrary political elements ele-ments as an appeaser and conversely con-versely also as an Anglophile. This is world war, and more than that, it is world revolution within war. The people of the country really real-ly care far less whether a man is a good political appointment than whether he can help win for us. The best politics would be no politics. In a life and death world crisis like this, we cannot choose political directions or political appointees, whether leftists or rightists. A thorough change is called for and is imminent. S s WEAKNESS FOUND IN ADMINISTRATION Mr. Roosevelt, speaking in the closed fraternity of his few top advisers ad-visers after his third term victory, is supposed to have complained that the Republican campaign against him was weak and technically defective. defec-tive. As they remember it, he put it something like this: "If I had been planning their campaign cam-paign I would not have made the fight against me, but against the men around me." Mr. Roosevelt certainly knew his weakness. That weakness has now been publicly exposed again by the courage of his own Democratic Senate Sen-ate Floor Leader Barkley. No one has risen to dispute Barkley's theme that the President is at least partly surrounded with men he (Barkley) described as nitwits or worse "a mind more clever than honest." That long has been a glaring Washington Wash-ington deficiency. The public has assumed Barkley was shooting at treasury officials who normally would submit data for a veto message on the subject of raxes. Inside congress that assump-lion assump-lion is rejected. Barkley is believed to have had in mind one particular Roosevelt adviser ad-viser who did most of the work on Ihe veto message a man not in the treasury. The departure of this man from the White House coterie may be necessary nec-essary before a more friendlv undercurrent un-dercurrent of relations with coneres (s possible. |