The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-26
At The National Capitol
Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY, WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington.-Sena J. Boom- boom McWhorter, who has been thinking things over, says many things must be changed and a lot of theories revised before this country will ever be getting any where.
 First, the senator says, some thing had better be done about Thanksgiving.
 Everybody knows that Thanks giving Day was founded and has been observed since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers as an occasion for giving thanks for bountiful crops" declared FcWhorter in very ex- elusive interview.
 Well, nature has been bountiful this year, darn her. but you cannot any longer persuade the farmers that 1t IS any reason to give thanks.
 "The farmers are not hanging around the big end of the horn of plenty anymore. They want the short end and the shorter the bet ter.
 Nature gives us a perfect com bination of sun and rain and we get bountifuI crops. Nature Is just fool. The cotton farmers try to outsmart her, however, and cut their acreage 10 per cent. Then they get the biggest crop in 20 years.
 Mature has been so bountiful that the federal farm board urges the farmers to ploy one-third of her blessings back into the ground. The boil weevil which everyone thought was such curse turns out to have been q blessing in disguise.
 And just try to get the wheat farmers to give thanks for bounti- ful crops!"
 All of which must be recognized in future Thanksgiving proclama- tions, says Senator McWhorter. or else we are a nation of hypocrites. No nation, he is convinced. should waste any more time giving thanks for it's affiliations. The only pos- sible theory upon which we can give thanks this year Is that we are | thankful the crops were not twice as large.
 Future presidential proclama- tions must call upon the people to give thanks for sparse crops and not plentiful crops" the senator insists" And the people must pray that one blade of corn shall grow where two grew before. If the weevils, the corn borers and the wheat rust ell have a good lusty year, then is the time to give thanks"
 McWhorter. always the farmers friend, Is not enthusiastic about destroying third of the cotton crop or any othe rcrop. If the idea is any good at all. 1t doesn't go far enough, he says.
 What is fair for agriculture Is fair for industry" he asserts, "and If industry would destroy third of it's products the farmer prob- ably would be willing to go along. | After all, industry and agricul- ture are both suffering from the same malady--overprod Of course don't suppose the presi- dent will be calling on the country to give thanks because there aren't SO many automobiles being made this year, but don't know where on earth he will find any other pretext for proclamation.
 Let the steel companies take a third of their ingots and dump them into the ocean. Why not tear down every third building as soon az 1t is completed? Give a third of all the coal mined to the police and the communists to throw at each other in the winter riots. As soon as the barber has shaved a patron and cut his hair let him glue third of the hair right back on again. When pub lie official has made speech make him eat 33 Ia per cent of his words. Burn one out of every