The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-27

we spent 20 per cent of our tn- come in interest on our private debts. Compared with this Roosevelt, in boosting our pub lie debt only 10 billions, is just a piker.
 STARVED COMMISSION
 One of the biggest mistakes of Bicycle Riding Budget Director Douglas is to hold down the ap- propriation of the federal trade commission. .. That body has become one of the most i'm portant in the New Deal but is expected to operate on a shoe- string. It is charged with en- forcement of the securities act, has been made supreme over MIRA codes, and now will have charge of watching the stock market. Despite this, Douglas would give 1t less money than the bureau of fisheries of the bureau of mines. Com- plaints have been coming in to Jim Farley about opening the library of congress to democrat ic patronage. You'll never be able to get book after this" grumbled one complainant. "You,n ask. for Caesars Com mentaries and they'll hand you out Franklin Roosevelt in Ac- tion'."
 NEW WRINKLES
 It has taken Congressman j.. W. Robinson of Utah to demon- strate some new wrinkles in nepotism. He not only hase his son on his own payroll as a sec- retary, but also got him a job with the coast and geodetic sur vey at $1,60O. Hard-hitting Senator Bob Wagner, chairman of the MIRA labor board, is intro ducing legislation in the senate
 calculated to give his board real power. At present 1t Is handicapped by the fact that it's powers are chiefly prestige and persuasion. It cannot actually force either employers or em- ployes to come to terms. Wagner's close friend, Young Bob LaFollette, is contemplating some fireworks from the senate floor regarding the personnel Of the NRA. He believes. as does anyone who takes half a look at the situation, that the NRA is permeated with representatives of big business who have been putting things over on Johnson that he does not have time to know anything about. La- Toilette, just back from a lecture tour, is hot under the collar about the way politics has per- meated the New Deal. He re- ports that in many cases even technicians have to be democrats before they can be hired.
 FASCIST PROPAGANDA
 Massachusetts bull voiced David Ignatius Walsh is one sen ator who insists on the letter of his senatorial prerogatives. When Walsh gets on the private elevator in the senate wing of . the capitol, he requires that 1t first take him where he wants to go, regardless of how many others are in the car ahead of him. This is according to the rules, but most other sena- tors waive them. Brook lyn's Tammany Representative Andy Somers, chairman of the house coinage and weights com rnittee, nominally was floor lead- er-when the presidents gold re- valuation bill was under consid- cration. But it was the St Louis veteran Representative Cochran who actually did the managing. Somers was Iost in the maze of rapid fire parlia- mentary dueling and Cochran repeatedly rushed to his assist ance to prevent the republicans from outmaneuvering the admin istratiOn.
 WORRIED
 Commissioner of Education George F. Zook privately Is worried over & survey of war propaganda in the public schools. One Of the leaders of the sur yey, Professor Carlton J. Hayes of Columbia, has intimated that some of the findings, soon to be made public, will be most un- favorable to the bureau of edu- cation. One disclosure is that RIO. T. c. units are being used for Fascist" propaganda. The Louisville newspaper, owned by Robert W. Bingham, New Deal ambassador to the Court of St James, is violently fighting ratification of the child labor amendment. Dr lsa- dor Lubin, brilliant commission CT of labor statistics. is the most be-jobbed man in the adminis- tration. In addition to heading the labor statistics bu- reau, he is chairman of the labor board of the PWA, admin istrator of the CWA unemploy- ment survey, department of labor representative on the bu- reau of standards, Q member of the central statistics board, sta tistical adviser to the NRA, labor adviser to the federal railroad co-ordinator, and adviser to the bureau of census. He also has wife and family.
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