The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-07

of the P. W. A., has completed carriers are in need of $1,OOO,- 100000 worth of repairs and re- placements. According to his figures:-
 228,277 freight cars need
 extensive repairs. 1O,735 en-
 zines require overhauling,
 hundreds of bridges, trestles,
 and thousands of miles of
 tracl<agc are in sore need of
 Improvements; much rOund-
 house equipment Is obsolete
 and OutwOrn; practically all
 Class roads need new enc
 zines.
 The national industrial recov- cry act contained a specific provision for government loans to the carriers for new equip- ment and repairs. So far $135,- 000,000 has been extended for these purposes.
 The plan now under consider ation is to greatly increase these loans so that the railroads can begin buying. Their wants lie entirely in the capital goods in- dustry-one of the weakest spots in the industrial situation and the result from such large scale orders should be stimu- lating.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Henry L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore, who first lashed the residents of Salisbury regarding their lynching habits. will not spend his vacation on the east ern shore of Maryland. A lot of people have been guess ing as to the chief subjects of conversation between Maxim Litvinoff and Big Jim Farley when they crossed the Atlantic on the same boat. |. The postmaster general is an ardent Catholic. The Soviet commissar is an ardent atheist. The last politically appointed diplo- mat of republican vintage has now been recalled by Roosevelt. He Is Charley Hart, former re- porter for Spokane, Minneapolis and Indiana newspapers. Charley lasted a long time. He was appointed by Harding four teen years ago. served in various posts. Last job in Persia. Billy Phillips, circumspect acting secretary of state, has overflowed his office into four rooms. This is more than his chief, MT Hull has. Phil lips is now running the state department with almost no as- sistance. Irwin Laughlin, Pittsburgh steel king, has moved back into his palatial house alongside Eugene Laughlin In Madrid, where Laughlin served as Hoover's ambassador, he will be remembered 8 long time. He started a Dolly Gam social war by insisting that he come in to dinner ahead of the speaker of the Cortez. .. Spain almost his asked his re- call. =. Genial Ray Baker of Reno, one-time director of the mint, is sitting in his new house in Washington. while his wife, the former Delphine Dodge takes piano lessons in Paris. Ray saws she is studying eight hours a day.
 AND SOME MORE
 Louis XIV chandeliers. plaster cupids, gilded furniture and all the trappings of the Czar will disappear from the old Russian embassy before the Soviets move In. The regal building, once the scene of Washington's gay- est balls, is to be redecerated in keeping with the tastes of a gov ernment which believes in the welfare of the proletariat. Chief decoration in the present unofficial Soviet embassy is a huge bust of Lenin. Word from the midwest is that Span- ish war veterans are placarding stores with pleas to repeal the economy act. Just slight indi- cation of the veterans drive to be made on congress. "Sec" Hull is a Spanish war veteran. Secretary Ickes is gradually opening Boulder dam construc- tion work to negro workers. For a long time they were barred. .. Some of the rubber mon- ey' boys in the treasury depart ment are suggesting that their hard rubber" colleagues be rel- egated to the Island of Tap, where money takes the form of hundred pound stone discs. A pole through the middle of the disc permits 1t to be carried on the backs of natives. Mrs Roosevelt has reduced the staff of White House servants from 32 to 23. She intimates she has to live within her budget.
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