The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-10

the fact that fifty percent of it's planes are "obsolcte." Strange as it may seem, this is unavoidable. Air develop mept is so rapid that the aver age plane is obsolete from the army viewpoint eighteen months after it's completion. These planes are kept for instruction and training. Genial Harry Healy, dean of the Georgetown school for training career diplo- mats, rivals Assistant Secretary of State Sayre, as 'the most decorated man in Washington" =. Healy got his eighth for eign decoration this week, the French Legion of Honor. Career diplomats appearing be- fore congressional committees are careful not to wear the tra- ditional white spats. But Cali fornia's Thomas r. Ford, chief state department critic on the house foreign affairs committee wears 'em. Despite Honest Harold Ickes' war against legal lobbyists, he and Bob Jackson, ex-secretary of the democratic national committee, are good friends. Cherubic Ross Col lins, tine Mississippi congressman who strikes fear into the hearts of generals, is working on a new plan for deflating the army. He proposes removing all over-age officers, with which the army is Uttered. Due to the promo tion jam, some lieutenants will require eighteen years to attain the rank of captain.
 TARIFF BATTLE ..
 The president will have to put some string in the party lash to keep democratis behind his rev. olutionary tariff program. Some of the most vociferous be- raters of republican high tariff iniquity are grumbling most. One is Utah's wordy Senator William H. King, always in the fore front of an attack upon repub- lican tariffs, but who never has opposed a sugar tariff in his life. Administration leaders are confident that the tariff bill will pass, but admit privately it will be a battle royal with every dem ocratic vote needed. Sena- tor Bob Wagncr's momentous bill creating an independent na- tional labor board with extensive powers, gives promise of being another federal reserve act as far as authorship is concerned. No less than q score of Wagner's friends already are claiming they wrote it. Ac- tually over 50 authorities were consulted in the bills prepara- tion.
 HOLC IN HIGH
 The Home Owners Loan Cor poration has advanced $266,- O77,985 in loans on 93,595 homes. About 95 per cent of these advances were made in bonds bearing 4 per cent interest. Colonel Edwin A. Halsey, secre- tary of the senate, has published an interesting little pamphlet that ought to be in the hands of every student of public affairs. Titled Enactment of a Law" it tells the legislative pro- cess of enacting a statute. Representative William M. Ber- lin, Pennsylvania democrat, cre- ated q stir in the house the other day when he produced four quarts of liquor and placed them as exhibits on the speakers table. Representative Bank head. acting floor leader, wanted to know if it was "a new subter- fuge for getting quorum" Berlin charged National Distill- CTS and Schenley with conering lat least" 75 per cent of the American whiskey supply before repeal. He asserted that whiskey bought by these giant concerns for $l.50 gallon now is being sold wholesale for $20 a gallon.
 CalifOrnia's k epr c sentative John H. Hoeppel, known in the house as Corporal Hoop-ala," is at it again. He has mailed every member of congress a letter announcing himself the country's greatest authority on veterans legislation. The manifesto caused no stir in either wing of the capitol. John Collier. crusading head of the Indian bureau, has just been given a new title by the Sioux. They named him Iron Man, because, although slight dnu IIdll III dppcdIdHCC, IlC CA- hausted all their interpreters in q recent pow-wow. Sena- tor Borah has finally bought q seen the animal, knows nothing about it except that it is thor oughbred. A friend obtain ed it in Virginia. Borah says he doesn't know what he .r,;I1 nf oJ hpf iS sidering New Deal" His last honor of Al Smith.
 HOG-TIED
 Representative Charles V. Truax. Ohio democrat, in his congressional directory biog- raphy records that he has sold hogs in every state in the union, Canada, South America. Aus: tralia and Japan, auctioneered at 26 public hog sales between the years 1913 and 1923, and is editor of the Swin World. .. Representative James G. Polk, another Ohio democrat, modestly claims to be lone of the few members of congress whose sole occupation is farming" The dramatic staging or the preS- ident's MIRA speech this week, was the work of Miss Mary Frances (Robby) Robinson, Gen. eral Hugh Johnson's hard-work- ing secretary. The demand for tickets to the affair was so great that spectators were offering fancy prices. A. H. Lauter- bach, newly appointed federal milk administrator. is a Wiscon- sin dairyman, has operated CO., operative creamery associations for 15 years.
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