The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-29
NEA service Writer

washington - NOTES from our
nations capital:
Senator Hattie Caraway's habit
of doing crossword puzzles from
time to time in her back row seat
on the senate floor has not. es-
capped a certain amount of super,
cilious criticism from other wom-
en- who are not senators, but there
are two schools Of thought on
Mrs Caraway's crossword puz-
zles I. After all, she is faithful
in her attendance and sitting in
the senate is a terrible bore at
least nine-tenths of the time.
The men are, FOR the most part,
usually not to be found in their
seats at all. If they happen to be
spending the afternoon in the
chamber, they may go off in groups
for a couple of hours at lunch, or
saunter< about the chamber drap-
ing themselves wherever they like
or pile. out into the cloakroom to
tell stories and smoke. Mrs
HCafaways remains a rather lone
some figure and it SCENES to be
a mean person who would deny
her those puzzles.
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LOBBYISTS MULTIPLY
Seldom, in recent years has. the
capital so teemed with lobbyists.
They are even thicker than the
movie stars and s radio crooners
who call on the president. Taxa
ton and proposals to write tariff
items into the tax bill have
brought the largest number. but
these are days when every organ
lied group has some scheme or
other which is recommended to
restore national prosperity through
favoritism for or salvation of one
particular industry. class or sec
ton.
Delegates to recent conventions
of wet women and of dry women
here also turned to and did a
great deal of personal lobbying.
AL Smith announced that the
only complaint among hundreds
of kilograms following his Jeffer-
son Day dinner speech (about war
debts, Governor Roosevelt, etc.,
was one from "a man didn't
know who asked if / would tell
another bedtime story tonight for
his boy" But the complaint hard
ly counts. The imam" was a
couple of newspapermen attend
ing an alcoholic party. who heard
AL on the radio and decided 1t
would be funny to send him the
wire. ;. They sent wires to other
democratic speakers, too.
MOSES BARGAIN CIGARETS
SENSATIONAL foibles: George Moses
of New Hampshire smokes cigarets
that cost 10 cents per package of
20. =. Marcus Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts arises every afternoon
from what he calls the ''suffocat-
ing atmosphere" of the senate and
takes a brisk walk around the new
plaza over toward Union station.
Henry Ashurst Of Arizona can't
do a lick of work in his office un-
less every picture is hung exactly
evenly and every piece of paper on
desks is arranged as II by try
square. The famous pink
whiskers of ]. Ham Lewis of ILL
inois are almost white now, but his
hair Is the color unusually called
red
It's hard to tell which were the
most disappointed-the republic
ans when they couldn't find the
names OF John j. Raskob on the
stock exchanges list of short sell
ers or the democrats when they
couldn't spot the name of Secre-
tary Of War Patrick J. Hurley.
Hurley was supposed to be the
cabinet member" who, accord
ing to unfounded published reports
of mysterious origin, was on the
list.
NORRIS MAY LEAVE TOWN.
There'd be more congressional
investigation perhaps, II members
didn't know their lives would be
miserable by unfortunate persons
desperate for jobs as investigators
or helpers.
Senator George Norris Of Ne
braska, who is kind-hearted, has