The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-16

majority of the people. While gtarvation has ntNlked through Puerto Rico more than nny otkor American ponsenelon, they WerD sleek, fat, and prosperous.
 The object of the visit--care- fully dieguieod, of ooufge--wae to persuade Wallace to permit them Co grab oR the major share of the proceeding tax, which the government. under the recently onaeted sugar act, Will pay hack Co U. S. growers.
 The callers were gonotounlv introduced:
 'scnor go-and.go. ef thle Ccntraln, "genur @U-nmd-sp, 0g that Central"j "6enpp 8D.nmu- s0, president Og this bnnkn, "senor s0.and.so, head Ok that bank.w And go on.
 Wallace bowed gravely, shook hands cordially with each. When tho introductions were over, he waved them to chairs, remarik- Ing quietly:
 "Gsnltmen, am worry glad to meet you. I have long wanted to meet the mon who are repponsi- bie for Puerto Rico being what 1t 10 today"
 sIfAKiD-UP
 Another shaks-up impsnas for the NItA.
 This time 1t will not be among the executives. The latest Nxo is being sharpened for the cler- teal ranks.
 General Johnson has decided that the Hue Eagle roest is over-manned. Going over last months payroll he discovered tho startling fact that no has an army of 2,400 under him.
 He could not figure out hnw his stan had grown tO such pFO. portions. A flow months before it had been around t,eOO. A fifty per cent increase in % short Q dime Is streamlihe syyeed even in these days 0s govern. lnent expansion.
 Johnson ordered m immediate -.''rooIassiflchtion" is the technical term. Whether heads fall remains to bo eeon. Moans while thore are many l0wly NRAers who so about their tasks in q very unoasy franc of mind,
 CEAiENT CLEVER
 Honest Harold iekes has evolved q uniQuo way of thwart- ing the cement trust.
 For months he has known that the eement companies were pooling forces In their govern- mont bids. Whonev0r they bid on q public works project 'thelr true whether they had to ship their coment 1000 miles to the project or only ton miles
 He suspected they had an ar- rnnKoment among themselves that no matter which plant got tho contract, the cement would como from the plant with tho short rail haul.
 So Ickes, tired Of being rOOk. ed, decided t0 utrn tho tables on tho cement trust.
 Next time they submitted idontic bids, he accepted that of the company furtbest from the projeots But he inserted in the contract n proviso that the ce- mont must Dc delivered from tho plant which signed the contract.
 Whom tho cement arrived, sure enough, it came not from the fnrnway. contracting plant, but from tho plant nearest the project.
 contracting firm, returned the cement.
 MERRY.Go.RoUND
 Larry Richey, most conildon- tial secretary of Herbert Hoov- or, hopes to get of on q big game hunt to Africa. .He just onme back recently from q trout fishing trip with that perennial juvenile, Young Teddy Roose- welt. .. .F. D. Iioosevelt has dis- covered new word. It is ''sup- posltitlous" and according to Webster 1t means "spurious". ... Anyway the President rolls it off his tongue as if he wore saying stock market prices is not wor- irving tho administrations. It is convinced that 1t was iargc- Iy broker inspired, for propa- ganda purposes in last futile effort to prevent enactment of the Stock Exchange control bill. 1.-The fact that few days bee fore the downward trend started, brokerage houses sent out warn ings to clients, Is held by au- evidence of their belief that the affair was carefully arranged plot