The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-28

ye Cultivation of the yucca plant. -i Destruction of grasshoppers.
 Making theatrical drops out
 of bed ticking-for a PWA
 drama project in New York
 City. s
 Manufacture of tOboggans. ON A LIMB
 Huey Long has administration masterminds almost talking to themselves in the senate regard ing his resolution to investigate Big Jim Farley.
 They don't know which way to turn. s&
 They have the votes in the Post Office committee-to which his resolution is referred-to bring out an adverse report.
 But If this is done, Huey would raise the hue and cry that, the administration feared to face a probe. FurtherrAoFe, there is serious doubt whether the com mittee could make its negative !. vote stick fn the senate.
 Republicans and progressives would vote as bloc for an in- . vestigation and there are enough 3 ! regular democrats, .such as Massachusetts David I. Walsh, privately peeved at Farley, to make it a close count. L :, The alternative to suppressing <. the prObe-allowing it tOs pro- ceed-seems too disastrous for tthc administratiOnites to ponder.
 Huey has amply demonstrated that in such proceedings he is practically irrepressib1e. He would use the hearings as a sounding board to launch a ter rife tirade at the entire admin istration. Farley would just be an incident to the Kingfish.
 UNIEARNED Senator Pat McCarran of Ne- vada interrupted Carter Glass during the debate on the work relief bill the other day, and dur ing the course of his remarks referred to the peppery Virginian as "the learned senatG".
 -"I wish I were learned" shot back Carter. And I might be induced to believe I was, 1carAed' had not the senator from Nevada made 1t . habit ot speaking of some other sena- tors as learned whom I know are not learned" t' sEs < ~yr,A ~xY,ccArr, sg
 Two things stood out clearcut in the, presidents message to congress urging another two year least of fife for. the NRA. F.. Il. Despite RooseveIt's as- ssertion that the MIRA has ren. dercd usNful service and its abandonment is "unthinkable", he was not willing to say that | 1t. has graduated from the ex. ? perirnental stage.
 2. Politically Roosevelt. con-,
 slders the MIRA issue so dyna.
 mite Loaded that he does not
 want to go into the 1886 cam-
 paign saddlcd with sole respOn. sibiiity for it's record during the | next two years. ' E This explains the ,vagueness &nd ambiguity of his message l in which the only definite recom.' mendation was. the suggestion that the, MIRA be. continued for another two years. s4
 Aside from this, Roosevelt dumped the whole problem in I the Ian of congress.
 This fact is realized fully on Capitol Hill.
 The result is going to be a fierce struggle, particularly in the senate, where a large bloc is fully convinced that the Blue Eagle should be killed and will leave no stone unti4ned to bring that about.
 Outside of congress, 1t is not generally known that no legisla- | tlOn is necessary to kill the MIRA. ss <
 All that is necessary to ac- complish this is to prevent ac- ton until June IS, when the existing act automatically ex- pires. S
 MIRA foes are thoroughly aware of the powerful position this gives them in the fight. If they, can stave off a vote untiE the tag end Of the session, 8 l filfbnster might xiii the NFiA. by I default. s J MERRY-GO-ROUND 2. ,l Cheek up another aspirant for