New Britain herald., 1930-04-07
HARTLEY ID FIGHT
 CONGRESS- 100000
Youngest Representative Hopes
 to Kill 0f-Year Jinz

washington, Aprll i.-iho est member of congress is still freu Allan Hartley of Kearny. N. J., but tho eighth New Jersey congression- al district, which he represents Is a trick district. For Is years no congressman from that district has succeeded himself. Each one has had . tyO-year job. In presidential years the district has always elect ed a republican and two years later in the off-year, replaced him With a democrat. Hartley is repuoli- can, elected along with Hoover Tn 1928.
 Hartley was 25 when elected and became 27 last Washingtons birth day, but he is still young enough and active enough to be confident that he has a. fine chance or up- setting tradition and coming pack here for the second time. When he left for Washington to take his seat he whispered to his friends that he didn't want to bear the disgrace of heinz a. one-termer.' Directly and indirectly, he has been cam paignins for reelection ever since he arrived.
 That "On-Ycar' Jinx
 Already he is assured that there won't be any opposition to him Tn the republican primary, which leaves him up against the fact that in off years the district customarily goes democratic by from 10000 to 15,ooo votes. The 1923 figures, how ever show that Fred Allan, even running for the first time with the opposition calling attention to his youth, was no weak candidate car ried along on g. Hoover landslide He won an recount of 1SO,OOl votes by about 300, whereas the na' tional ticket lost by some 2oOl votes and the republican state ticket by from 5000 to 40o0.
 As congressman, Hartley ha: been about as industrious a little doer of chores as this capital has ever seen. He has employed extra office help and takes some of hi: work home at night to hote room. Week-ends he goes back te Jersey and begs for more chores Sometimes he gets some that arc hard to do. For instance, a claim for food supplied to George Wash ington's army originally amounting to $500 but now good for $14,00O,' 900 if the interest had been com pounded semi-annrally. Another constituent, weighing 104 pound. and only four feet 10 inches tall wants Hartley to get congress tc recognize him officially as the smallest member of the A. F. F.
 But Hartley realizes how i'm portant 1t is politically to give 2 constituent lift, to help one mar with civil service examinations, ge a job for someone or arrange officia passes to Sandy Hook. By goo luck he is running for reelection in census year and has had extra patronage to the extent of 500 cen sus takers to pass, around. There are many racial groups in his dis trict and he has made friends b, getting the state department inter ested in the case of Yaroslaw Scyz the American Jkrainian leader who was seized in eastern Galicia by saving Spaniard from deporta tion, getting a Jewish rabbi's sor through Ellis Island, and helping out in few Italian cases.
 Fights for Veterans
 Hartley's main efforts have beer toward helping disabled veterans For two weeks last fall he Spok. every night in his district, announc ing that any veteran who had { claim should come to him for help He even placarded the announce ment in public places. A thousand cases, most of them claims for com pensation, have piled up in hi office and Hartley has been pushing them personally before the Vet erans' Bureau and it's boards witt considerable success. Sunday after moons he holds office hours at hi home for consultations and has hac as many as 100 constituents confel with him in a day.
 His one speech on the Houst floor, made last January, was [; plea for justice for veterans and al attack on the Veterans Bureau fo it's refusal in many instances tt allow compensation for service connected disability. He described instances in his own district whicl indicated that the government Wa prone to regard disabled applicant as so many grafters. He is no satisfied with the new bill reported favorably by the House Veterans committee and will try to have tn, presumptive clause on service con nection cover the period up t' 1880 in cases of tuberculosis ant psycho-neurosis.
 Hartleys district takes in part of Jersey City and Newark, plu kearny, Bayonne and other places and he says he already has the en dorsement of 72 organizations il that territory.
 His democratic opponent will b. former Congressman Paul J Moore, whom he defeated on th recount in 1928.
 PAVING PROJECT STUDIES
 The matter of paving Stanle.