The Indianapolis times., 1935-11-09
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARS son and
ROBERT s. ALLEN.

POstoffice D ep art m G Mt is
making preparations for the biggest
Christmas mailing season since 1929.
Local poStmasters have been ordered
to make ready all reserve equipment
and call into service ell substitute
employees. Railroad labor is
planning an active resumption Of its
drive for government ownership OF
the carriers. A Washington bureau
is being established 10 direct the
campaign. Senator Wheeler, chair
man of the Interstate Commerce
Committee. who introduced a gov
ernment-ownerShip bill last session,
plans to press for action when Con-
greSS recOnvenes. Since March
4. 1888, Big Jim Farley, as chairman
OF the Democratic National Commit
tee, has visited every state in the
Union but two-Montana and North
Dakota. His travelling expenses,
totaling $4,000 year, are paid by
the National Committee. A
survey just completed by the Labor
Department revealed that the 724
cooperative societies operating in
the United States did gross busi-
ness of S478O0,OOO in 1884.
TOR the first time in the history
L Of the Postoffice Department.
stamp Collectors-now numbering
about 100000 in the entire U. S.
A.-forced the postponement OF a
new mail service. Claiming that
the date set for the first trans-Pa-
ciflc airmail flight did not give them
time to get their first day covers"
to the San Francisco postoff1ce, the
philateliSts persuaded postal officials
to delay the take-off two weeks.
. . The large, elaborate crystal
chandelier that once hung in the
center of the old Supreme Court
chamber in the Capitol has been ap-
propriated by the House Rules Com
mittee and will be hung in its or
nate meeting room. Reports re-
garding the political demise of Sec
retary Perkins have been given
much impetus by the recent transfer
Of her closest aids to other bureaus.
Charles f. Wyzanski Jr., Labor De-
partment solicitor, moved to the
Justice Department, and Thomas
Elliott, his assistant, was made gen.
eral counsel of the Social Security
Board.
EOR years, Mrs. Louis D. Bran
Il deis, wife Of the Supreme
Court justice, has been con-
tributor to Commonwealth Col
lege, a Communist institution in
Arkansas. It's new director, Rich
ard B. Whitten, is waging a fight
for economic justice among cotton
share croppers. SECS new
commissioner. j. D. Ross, is a master
of salesmanship. When citizens in
Washington State grew apathetic
about their new public power plant,
which Ross managed, he induced
them to visit it by Illuminating the
cascades and playing music from
the cliffs. The plant is 100 miles
from Seattle, but they came just
the same.
The War Department is trying to
avoid publicity on a certain sore
Subject-eXcess war material still
remaining II years after the World
War. There are several hundred
thousand pairs of shoes not finally
disposed Of. A buyer took them,
but failed to pay. A court decision
next month may dump them back
on the department. TWAS
model town of Norris boasts that
its citizens are law abiding. Norris
police make arrests on the average
Of only two month. The De-
partment of Agriculture is super
vising the dipping" of $4,000 cattle
in a solution of lime and sulphur
to cure them Of scabies. The cattle
are forced to swim distance Of
fifty feet through dipping vat
eight feet deep.
T AUNCHING his fight on "reac-
~ tionary" Republican leaders.
senator William e. Borah soon
plans to invade the home grounds
of the two most powerful in the
East-Charles Hilles and Henry
Roraback, national committeeman
for New York and Connecticut, re-
spectively. The Idahoan will make
speeches denouncing both Old Guard
bosses in their states. A friend
who recently saw Railroad CO.
ordinator Joe Eastman wandering
about the Interior Department in
quired if he was lost. mo"
answered Eastman. I'm Just look
ing for office space" Govern
ment expansion under the New Deal
has made the problem of finding
office accommodations a difficult
task for heads Of bureaus.
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