"Perfectly Awful!"

Grassy Point, a village near Haverstraw, N. Y., gave the world four Farleys: Bill who is a Manhattan insurance man; Phil who is in business with Brother Bill; Tom who used to be sheriff of Rockland County; Jim who is Postmaster General of the U. S. High were Jim Farley's hopes last week of carrying his home State (see col. 2), but higher still were his hopes of carrying his home district. In Haverstraw only fortnight ago he had opened a shiny new $65,000 post office. In Haverstraw last week his own flesh & blood, plump Tom Farley, was running for County Supervisor.

Unfortunately Brother Tom is decidedly persona non grata to Victor Jerome Shankey, rival Democrat. Consequently Brother Tom faced not only a Republican opponent but also "Vic" Shankey running as an independent. On election day Brother Jim Farley lent assistance on the spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected. "All reports from Rockland County," said Boss Farley's message, "are most encouraging. . . . Please continue your efforts until the polls close and make results definite."

Definite they were. The Assembly candidate whom Jim Farley was "particularly anxious" to see win was trounced by Republican Laurens H. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J. P. Morgan. Brother Tom, for whose success Brother Jim was equally if not so openly anxious, took a licking not from a Republican but from his anti-Farley rival. Bellowed Haverstraw Supervisor Shankey: "Against me I had the Postmaster General, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee and I licked them all. Jim came here yesterday, visited every polling place and went away thinking he had it in the bag for his brother. I'm the real Democratic leader of Haverstraw--and always have been-- not Jim Farley." Groaned Brother Jim: "Awful, per- fectly awful!"

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