The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-02
NEA ecryicc Writer :

Washington--Anybody can make pot likker, which Senator Huey Long of Louisiana insists must be on the senate restaurant menu. Throw q lot of turnip greens, 6 hunk of salt pork, few turnips into a pot, season with salt and peY,ber, cover with water and boil for about an hour. That's Huey's recipe. N''t1'
 You may then eat the greens and turnips. but that's not com pulsory. The point is to drink the ,llkker, dunsing your corn bread in 1t. Huey says the stuff Is good for every human ailment; that. the Confederate army lived on 1t for four years. 'i
 Long and Joe Robinson renewed the old controversy as to whether the corn bread should be "dunked" or broken into the ltkker recently. The result, as usual, was q tic. Long. of course, championed the rdunkers." e7 ,ss' rl That's n Tot of Money s Unconfirmed report here says Alice Lopgworth has turned down an offer of $2b0 o, ,O00 for writing the story Of her life. Sounds high, l for these times. st E t Economy Is not exactly a new thing here. Take. !, for instance. that automobile which tho depart ment of Justice uses here for shadow work, confidential in- quiries and official business of tho bureau of investigation,
 It was bought 4n 1927 and has gone, aO,000 miles. Bureau Chief J. Edgar Hoover told n congress sional committed about 1t. He Reports that william M. But Ter of NTassac ch usetts, Cal Cool idges old friend, may he drafted to serve again as chairman of the republican national committee are faintly credible because: i. Parties are having a miser- able time raising funds.
 2. Whatever funds they get must be spent more prudently than ever before.s
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 | Butler .is wealthy, has many we9fthy, conservative contacts and, as chairman In 1924, had the repu- tation of n hard -botled tightwad among politicians who came seek ing money for their state activi. ties. And tho democrats can't afford anyone .crcdulouf enough to sink, loads of money In Nich states as Pennsylvania, os | Chairman. Raskob did in 1928 af. ter falling for tho assurance thai smith could carry #. issl Mills Even Sasscs Reporters
 Secretary of the Treasury Og. den Mills, loaded with great and heavy respo poisibillties, often geti pretty fervent these X, days. Ht doesn't mind sassing senators oi even newsppcarmen. S , Aftcr his appearance before tho senate finance committee. undei the admiring eyes of his wife nnt Congressman Ruth Prntt of New York, he was being interviewed and q Correspondent asked a qucs. ton which betrayed skopticism q don't have to stand here ar1f argue with you!" Mills barket
 And n moment later. with tn, qucstioner gone ghe demanded 'Nho ls that fellow, anyway"
 The Key James shera Mont gomery, House chaplain, nppnr' entlv aims his prayers at curren developments. The day. after an oi tariff had been voted into the ta, bill he spoke of .'anoiritlnE witt oii."',and the day the. tax bill wai voted on he asked the Almight! to "bring every member of thi congress Into m experience o that knowledge, understanding and Judgment hitherto unkpown.'
 ft sMs Why She's for Alfalfa Bill | One girl here says she doesn' know why she should have t work so hard when there are s' many unemployed and that sh hopes Alfalfa Bill Murray will b. elected president so we will hay three ops a year.
 Some federal employees worl very hard; others are able to loni The Reconstruction Finance Cor poratton was overtimlng gif clerks into nervous coI1apses un til newspaper publicity discour aged the practice.
 But there's an old story abou the tourist. who was gazing admir- ingly at q big tall bureau build ing and nsked an old. man abou to pass In: ''TIow many .pcopl work In that building ~" The ol
 man grunted; About half . 'emi" ~ %gif S'l, | A SLIGHT MISTAKE.