The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-13

word said about public interest and low cost. Let the rates be what the traffic will bear was the slogan.
 How effective this new policy may be depends on the inter- state m m commission. Made up of men with strong pro-raiI background their deci- sions reflect the feeling that the bus, the truck, the plane, and the barge are enemies to the public veal. .%
 Joe Eastman, however, de- ,clares: You may dismiss from your minds any thought t h public regulation will remove highway, or water, or air com- petition from the railway path. These forms of transportation meet public needs and are here to stay"
 But Eastman is only One-tenth of the commission.
 CONGRESS ROOKIE
 Bronco busting Representative Burdick from the Bad Lands of North Dakota is cutting pine trees for rail fence, milking cows, milking goats, riding horses, cultivating an orchard. and representing his state in congress all at the same time.
 He lives on 8, 140-acre farm in Maryland, seventeen miles from the Capitol.
 There's no occasion for con- gressmen to get all excited about house rent in town unless they want to be too exquisite" says Burdick.
 'I've got a farm with nine- room Colonial house and twenty acres of orchard, and no telc- phone-and there ain't going to be one! ''. '"-'''.
 Sure, I'm buying the place. One hundred dollars a month. That's less than you pay to rent a flat in town, and I can go out there at the end of the day and have some peace, and be back here in the morning before the rest of these fellows are out of bed--and have a better breakfast than they get, too"
 Burdick belongs to the "wi1d tribe of independent republi- cans in congress, is q friend of the wild tribe of Sioux Indians in North Dagota. He speaks their language, in both senses of the phrase, can be found dic- tating letters in the Sioux lan- guage to his Sioux-speaking sec- retary for the Indians back home who helped send him to Wash ington.
 "The Indian votes were easy." Burdick says. "Just like shooting fish,"
 Unschooled until he was six teen, Burdick was a married man when he played fullback for Minnesota in 1903, now loves reading, has a,collection of 16,OOO volumes on Indians and on pioneering in the west.
 MERRY-Go-ROUND
 When round the world flyer Wiley Post attempts his forth coming ns-continental stratos- phere flight he will carry a full load of stamp collectors mail 7 Toi enable him to do this, the post office department has ap- pointed Post 6 special airmail pilot just for the flight. MIRA board member Leon Hen- derson twhen asked If he was not disturbed by the attempted suppression of his report on the automobile industry replied: "I'd rather be the author of Q sup pressed report than a suppressed desire." Tn one o fhis cam paigns for public office Nor h Carblina's agile-tongued Senator Bob Reynolds announced that he would not kiss babies, but would and did, distribute thousands of peppermint sticks. In the recent senate fight on the World Court Reynolds bitterly assailed the in. ternational tribunal on the ground that all but one of its members were Foreigners" Bu' asa preliminary to one of hi political campaigns, Bob on went to Europe and sent thous. ands of picture postal cards tt residents of his state.
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