Good-by Again

The last time that Lewis W. Douglas said an official good-by to President Roosevelt there were no tears in either's eyes. Way back in 1934, making the first big break in the New Deal front, Lew Douglas* quit as Director of the Budget because he was aghast at New Deal spending. A young man then, he felt deeply disillusioned.

Last week Lew Douglas resigned as Deputy War Shipping Administrator, this time with the assurance of the President's "warm regards" and the warm plaudits of U.S. shipping men. He had done a first-rate job in bringing order to WSA by setting up a cargo allocation and routing system for the war-swollen U.S. merchant fleet. He quit last week because: 1) he had long neglected a chronic sinus infection; 2) ship traffic is now so well organized that it virtually runs itself. Mr. Douglas will stay on for a few more months as Shipping Boss Land's deputy on the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board and as chairman of its employment and policy committee. What other time he can spare from sinus-mending will go to his private job as president of huge Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York.

* Not to be confused with William O. ("Bill") Douglas, a Term II palace favorite and since 1939 a Supreme Court Justice

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