The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-09

uncavalier manner of Senator Huey Long.
 Just imagine" she said, "I- saw him coming into the White House and he never took off his hat. Merely tipped it and went right up stairs. He even walked into your bedroom with his hat sstill on. Such delightful man. ners!"
 To which Roosevelt replied:
 "That's his idea of the Great COmInoner."
 EXODUS
 A wholesale exodus of MIRA executives is about to take place.
 The impending event is deep secret; actually it has been in the making for some weeks. The resignations would have occur red earlier, but in order to avoid any appearance of a rift during the period of General John sons code revision and his "cri- ties field day." the retiring of- ficials have withheld action.
 Those planning to leave are Dr Leo WOlman, chairman of the labor advisory board, and a member of the national labor board; Professor Paul Douglas, of the consumers advisory board; Deputy Administrator Richard B. Paddock and Division Adminis- tratOr Arthur ID. Whiteside.
 There is no connection between the individual decisions to re- sign. Each is leaving for req sons of his own.
 Paddock and Whiteside are go- ing because they feel their work is done. The important codes in their divisions have been dis posed of, and, with excellent business jobs awaiting them, they are returning to private life. WEAK FUTILE
 Douglas is resigning for the same reasons that prompted his colleague, Professor Ogburn, to do so months back. He has come to feel that the work of the Consumers Advisory Board is futile, intellectual, that he is wasting his time. He is par ticularly bitter over the lack of support for Consumers Coun- cils he was supposed to set up all over the country.
 Wolmans decision to throw up his membership on the National Labor Board and return to teach ing at Columbia university, is not new He has been threat ening to do this for several months. Several weeks ago, fol- 10x I1; Weirton steel case, Welman sent in his resignation.
 Under pressure from liberal friends he withdrew it "A hours later. But the breach between him and Senator Bob Wagner, chairman of the board, never healed.
 Wolman is charged with re- peated failure to support an ag- gressive pro-labor policy, with undue sympathy toward the soft peddalling attitude of industrial ists.
 INDIAN NEW DEAL
 A fierce fight is brewing be- hind the scenes over a program to bring the New Deal to the Indian.
 The battle centers around a bill, drafted by the Indian Bu- reau's crusading Commissioner John Collier, and sponsored by Nebraska's Edgar Howard, the chairman of the House Indian Affairs committee, to restore the pauperized Red Man to his econ omic independence. Opposing this effort are interests, which for a century have battered on the Indian and his property.
 The drive against the How ard bill already has reached large proportions. As a result, Col Her has taken the issue directly to the tribes.
 The bill proposes two basic, reforms for the Indian: CD complete economic independence; (2) cultural and politicalu self determination. Under tho first, the allotment land law of 1887, which Collier estimates has re- suited in the "theft" of S7,OOO,- 900 acres of Indian lands, is re- pealed outright. Instead of in- dividual ownership, at present resulting only in the pauperiZa- ton of the Indian, tribal owner ship is proposed. To restore their lost heritage, the bill provides for the rcpurchase of land at the rate Of $2,OO0,OO0 a year.
 Under the second phase of the bill, bureaucratic domination of the Red Mans cultural life by white office holders is wiped out. In it's place there is to be self government through tribal coun- cils. One of the amazing features of the bill is that for the first time in the memory of Washington, a government agency voluntarily proposes to shear itself of power.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
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