The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-20

JUDICIAL ORATOR
 One of the most interesting spectacles of the United States supreme court is when Justice owen J. Roberts, youngest mem- Der of the tribunal, delivers an opinion. Never looking at his manuscript, he speaks-as if extemporaneously-in a loud, clear, resonant voice, reminiscent of the days when as a brilliant prosecutor he conducted the gov- ernment's case in the oil scan- / da1s. {. CWA authorities have taken under consideration a plan proposed by Ernest H. Lindley, chancellor of the University of Kansas, for government aid to college students and those eligi- ble for college... .. Dr Lindley proposes that the CWA spend around $2,000,00O a month dur ing the school period, to be di- vided into $15 to. $20 monthly wages for campus work. This would enable around 100000 students to obtain college edu- cation, the cost for each one be- ing one-sixth of what 1t costs to maintain one eco member per month.
 EXCLUDING VEHICLES"
 Congress went out of its way to make sure in the new District of Columbia. liquor law that there should be no doubt of it's objection to intoxication in the capitol city. Section 28a of the act reads: ''No person shall be drunk or intoxicated in any of the places, including vehicles ." or at any public gathering and no person shall be drunk or intoxicated and disturb the peace of any person anywhere" JUNIOR BRAIN TRUST
 A number of Columbia's uni- versity's bright young intellec- tuals who compose the junior brain trust have set up a bach elor residence in 8 handsome four-story house in the capitoPs swanky ambassadorial section. They call the place "Lion's Den," in honor of Columbia's patron animal. The place is run on cooperative basis, with only Columbia men eligible for residence. Washington tea-tab1es are protesting to see much significance in the fact that while the MIRA is listed as an emergency organization in the latest edition of the Congress sional Directory, the AAA is recorded as @ permanent sec- tion of the department of agri- culture. Actually. the dis tinction means nothing, because while the AAA is a part of the department of agriculture, the MIRA is an independent agency. [. >. Senate colleagues of South Carolina's Ellison D. Cotton Ed) Smith say that the one way to "get a rise" out of him is to inquire if he is the author of the agricultural adjustment act. As chairman of the agri- cultural committee, Smith was nominal sponsor of the measure, and floor leader when it was be- fore the senate. Actually, he strongly disapproved of the bill, took little pains to hide the fact.
 BRITISH DISMAYED
 British diplomats were dis mayed, almost horrified at the ingenuity Roosevelt showed in putting across his devaluation Of the dollar. With one stroke he removed British hopes of stabil- izing the pound at a low figure as against the dollar. Roosevelt did this by creating a stabilization fund of 2,0OO,OOO,- OO0-just trifle larger than the British fund of $1,8O0,O0O,O0O. With so large an amount at his disposal, Roosevelt can buy and sell dollars in such a way that 1t should be almost impossible for the British to hammer the dollar up or down. Francis White, former assistant secretary of state in charge of Latin Ameri- can affairs, has accepted job with the International Telephone and Telegraph. This com. pany has concessions in many of the Latin American countries whose relations once came u9der White in the state department. Mariner s. Eccles, new as- sistant secretary of the treasury, looks like @ good appointment. He is a big banker from Utah, but one who fits in with the New Deal psychology that bankers should not run the show and that sooner or later the govern ment may have to take over the entire banking system. Eccles Is a Mormon, a hotel operator, coal miner, beet sugar executive, rail- road director, banker and former lumberihan.
 SCANDAL COMING
 One. of the big government scandals due for an airing soon is the leasing of government wharfs to private shipping com- panies. They were leases made bv the army and the shipping board under the Old Deal and are now being investigated by the shipping board under the New Deal. Ex-Governor Bilbo of Mississippi apparently has regained so much prestige since he became chief newspaper clipper for the AAA that he IS telling friends that he will run for governor of Mississippi next campaign. noosesvI eA poets to aDanuoH HIS PoiSy oA l quotas for wine and liquor at the end of the trial period. A few l trade concessions have been gained in general but the plan has not worked out well. Roose- | welt hopes to gain even more trade preference by negotiating c | sliding scale of duties with low CT rates to countries which give preference to American trade.
 Meanwhile reciprocity treaties with most countries are
 being held up until Roosevelt gets tariff negotiating powers from congress.
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