The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-26

chicken expert in the administra- ton. .. pr William I. Myer, able, hard-working, new gover- nor of the farm credit adminis- tration, is also a fowl authority, owns and operates an S4-acre farm near Ithaca, N. Y. It is equipped to handle 10000 chicks and has a flock of 5000 hens. Myer, like Warren, comes from Cornell university, where he taught farm finance and eco- monies.
 POSTAL SAVINGS
 Comptroller of the Currency "Jafty" O'Connor's observation : that the deposit insurance act would make the postal savings system unnecessary, was noth- ing to get excited about. President Roosevelt has not the slightest intention either of abol- ishing or tampering with postal savings. O'Connor was expressing fiatly stated that on this matter they have no weight with the president. The importance
 
 of deposit has been steadily in- creasing. Figures for November show 8 total deposit of approxi- mately $1,185,000,000, an in- crease of more than $2,000,000 over October.
 HARVESTING TIDES
 Dexter Cooper, brother of Colonel Hugh Cooper, who has built several of Soviet Russia's greatest power projects, has sub- mitted a plan to the public works administration for harnessing the 27-foot tides along the northern coast of Maine. Cooper says that over 100000 horsepower could be generated. Representatives of the lead pencil industry made so many contradictory statements regard ing wages and hours at their code hearing that Deputy Ad- ministrator R. B. Paddock Ct- rected them to submit their sta tistics under oath. This is the first time that sworn state- ments were demanded at an MIRA hearing.
 HOTEL CODE JOKERS
 The recently promulgated ho- tel code has Q number of jokers in its labor sections. One of the worst is; clause that nominally grants bellhops 20 per cent increase in wages. As in most large cities this class of hotel hire receives no pay, lives on tips. The above section is just so much hokum. Dr. ganized labor, backed by Secre- tary Perkins, vigorously opposed the code, but it was approved notwithstanding. =. The only redeeming feature about 1t is that 1t runs for 90 days.
 NEW NAZI TACTICS
 According to confidential in- formation that has come to Washington authorities from Germany, the Hitlerites are or ganizing another phase of their program to woo American public opinion. A number of American writers have been hired to do articles on the glor- ies, of new" Germany. An other angle of the campaign will be an invitation by the Nazi gov- ernment to a dozen American journalists to visit Germany at it's expense to see for themselves how well things are going there, and above all, how pacific the Brown Shirts are. Since his illness last spring, Senator B0rah now only rides horseback onp leasant days. <. His doc- tors insist that he remain indoors on indictment days. Huey Long is member of three senate committees, judiciary, interstate commerce, public buildings, but he has yet to attend a meeting of any one of them. Texas blatant representative Tom Blan- tant, following a defeat for the senate, staged a successful come back to the house by running on a platform calling for cheaper congressional funerals"
 SCRAPPY SENATOR
 Tennessee's scrappy. Senator McKellar, who has set one defi- mite goal fo rthe coming session of congress, which is to "get" J. Edgar Hoover, hold-over chief of the bureau of investigation of the justice department, recently called on Attorney General Cum mings to register a vigorous pro- test against Hoover. A week after the visit, thre of Me- Kellar's constituents in Hoover's bureau got the axe. Drys have launched a secret move- ment among church-goers to boycott newspapers carrying liquor advertisements. Dr Daniel V. Polling, Hoover-sup- porter and prohibition crusader, is the reported leader of the drive. The idea was con- ceived by the secretary of a wet senator, whose boss doesn't know he is a rabid dry.
 A JUDICIARY MIRACLE
 Supreme Court Justice Suther- lands recent decision upholding the admissibility of wife's testi- mony in criminal cases, is being hailed as miracle" in court circles. It is the first time in the career of the jurist that he sided with the liberals on the tribunal. Chester Davis, new AAA chief, once edited newspapers in South Dakota and Montana. |. Everyone enter ing the lobby of the executive offices of the White House, unless known, is questioned as to his business. The doors to the inner offices are always under guard by a plain Sec ret Service man.
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