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wt in service one of the retired justices to sit for _ “ri " There are available conservatives Hughes, and Reynolds. toe - FMlling the vacancy left by Mr. Justice Byrnes is going to be no easy job for the New Deal. The present organization of the Benate Judiciary Committee ts controlled by Senators. who fougti the President's Court packing scheme in 1937. They wil} still be there in the next Congress, too and very unsym- Pathetic to judges of the kind the New Dea] likes. All of which accounts for the glum. looks you get these days from Assistant Attorney General Thurman Armold. He has to take the Aluminum case to the Court for argument, IF he can ever get a Court that will hear it. ~ & Lesson to Wendell: NE of the greatest weaknesses suffered by Wendell Willkie is his belief that he {ts the smart- est politician in or out of the Republican party. But he got a new lesson in the art last week during the Republican Mational Committee meeting at St. Louis. # In the first place, while he | was so busy fighting the election of Werner Schroeder, of Illinois, as national chairman, the party regulars got together and put over Harrison Spangler, of Iowa. The only difference between Schroeder and Spangler. idsofar as political outlook is concerned, is that the one is named Schroe- der and the other Spangler. They are political identical twins. But that is not all. Insiders are laughing heartily at an- other trick the committee pulled out of pure dislike for Willkie and with no,other public sig- nificance. ‘ At Philadelphia, in 1940, R. B. Creager, of Brownsville, Tex., was floor manager for Presiden- tial Candidate Robert A. Taft. Creager accused Willkie's organ- ization of unfairly packing the galleries at the Convention Hall, and fn so doing incurred Will- kle’s relentless enmity. In the reorganization of the committee after the nomination, at Willkie's demand, Creager was kicked out of his long-stand- ing honorary position as a mem- ber ot the party's executive com- eek at St. Louis given ni*old job back, To Wy kie that was the most unkindest cut of all, + N