The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-16

president for governmental inter- vention. All these roads have obtained government loans, and the protesting workers propose urging on him and congress that if the carriers persist in their defiance they should be classed as outlaws" and taken over by federal authorities.
 STUDIED TO PLEASE
 Leland Stowe, European cor respondent of the New York
 Herald Tribune, was in Berlin recently and sought an interview with Dr Goebbels, Nazi minister for National Enlightenment and Propaganda.
 In preparation for the inter- view, Stowe, who speaks little German, had hired a tutor and studied assiduously. When the time of the great event arrived, he could reel off few stock phrases with a glibness compar- able to a real German scholar but that was as far as he could go.
 The first three seconds witt
 
 cessful. The Nazi leader said he was delighted to see him, Stowe said he was even more delighted. Then Goebbels let loose a question which caught Stone completely off balance. He could not understand a word. However, the Nazi minister smiled affably, and in order to please him, Stowe replied with equal atfability:
 "Ya, va, ya."
 Goebbels' face fell. He scowled at his visitor. What he had asked of Stowe was this:
 "WelL I suppose you have seen many atrocities on our streets?" NO BIRD-NO LIQUOR
 The Blue Eagle still counts for something in Philadelphia. At least that was the experience of the Merchants Warehouse, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Quaker City.
 The former company was about to get a huge contract from the Pennsylvania State Liquor Control Board for the warehousing of liquor. In fact one newspaper carried an an- nouncement of the award, when it was reported that Pennsyl- vania's subsidiary did not show the Blue Eagle.
 Judge Gawthrop, head of the Liquor Control Board, called up George Richardson, manager of the Merchants Warehouse, and asked him about it. Richardson said the report was untrue.
 But Judge Gawthrop decided to telephone Washington. There he found that the Merchants Warehouse was not listed as a supporter of the N. R. A. A membership in the organization was rushed through but it was too late.
 1he Pennsylvania company did not get the contract.
 TARIFF MESSAGE
 The president has delayed sending his all-important tariff message to congress until after action on the St Lawrence Wa terway Treaty. He does not want to be in the position of risking two difficult votes at one time.
 By personal lobbying, he has won a host of senatorial con- verts, and is now within about two votes of the necessary two- thirds majOrity--unless some votes shift before the roll call.
 Meanwhile, however, the en- tire tariff bargaining program is delayed. Time is valuable. At the special session of congress , last spring Roosevelt waited so long in asking for powers to negotiate tariff treaties without subsequent senatorial approval, that he had to give it up. Con- gross was too rushed to give 1t serious treatment.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Gangster representatives of Dutch" Schultz, famous New York Beer Baron, are in town looking for a good lobbyist who can "fix" the income tax case of the underworld king Now that his vice-presidential duties are over, Charley Curtis is having more leisure for poker. Dolly Gam still drags him out to an occasional big-time social whirl, but Charley much prefers cards T never played poker while I was vice-presi- dent" Curtis says, ".but I played it before, sometimes play now, and don't care who knows it." Ted Joslin, White House press secretary under Hoover, is issuing to businessmen confi- dential weekly news letter on Washington lowdown Cur tis' private law office is some- what similar to the ornate Throne Room" which he occu- pied on Capitol Hill. It is adorned with Indian relics of Charley's boyhood days with the Kaw Tribe in Kansas Din- ner guests at the White House must stand in line according to rank before greeting the presi- dent and his wife About a dozen stiffly starched aides, sometimes called "Gold Braid Boys," prevent anyone from get ting out of line in order to greet an old friend.