The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-25

said .. Passersby in the In- teiiorsbuilding stop 10 gaze these days at the spectacular advertis- ing device set up by the new Rural Electrification Adminis- tration. A. revolving stage set, it shows a rural home lighted .'by dim oil lamps, then turns to show the same home lighted by electricity. The caption is "Elec- trify Rural America Now" After visiting the senate gallery. a lady from Philadelphia de- clared, T just wish I could show those senators how to run the government. Only a dozen there, none of them listening, and noth- ing happening except little boys running around the floor" <.
 Departing a':.
 Tn inner Commerce Depart ment circles the report is cur- rent that Secretary Dan Roper and his Assistant Secretary Secretary Ewing Y. Mitchell are soon to part company. Privately the two men have been at odds for some time, and a new, job now may be found for Mitchell. FIorida's doughty Duncan U. Fletcher, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and virginia's peppery Senator Car ter Glass have been having, a hot setto-via. the malls. Fletcher wrote Glass a snappy letter call ing on him to speed tip hearings on the administrators Banking Reform Bill. Glass sent back d sharp answer-but at least he has increased the pace of the proceedings by holding afternoon hearings .,. Government re- ports shows that electric refriger- ator sales for the first three mouths Of thiss year exceeded, by 53 per cent those of the first aaurter of 1924.
 Gov. Ely Boom Y <, Friends of Massa chusetts' ex- Governor Joseph B. Ely, militant anti-New Deal Democrat, have launched a presidential boom in his behalf. The idea is for him to head conservative democrat-republican fusion tick ct next year. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair is chairman of the MIRA Consumers Division and a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, but that cuts no ice with EZRA chief Harry Hopkins. Despite her protests against Matthew 8. Murray, of Kansas City, Hop- lsins appointed him as head of the Federal work relief unit in Missouri. Senator Harry I,ru- man, who backed Murray, was !. unified at Mrs. Blair's opposi- ton, pointed out that her family draws $23,600 a year in salary from the government = Mrs. Blair $l0,000, her husband, "a Justice Department official, $10,- 900, and a son $3,6O0.I. ". Making a speech In drought ravaged Kansas; Currency Comptroller ''Jefty' O'Connor opened his remarks with the following effusion: Nature dealt lavishly when she apportioned her blessings to that part of the earth embraced by the state of Kansas"
 Embarrassing Report
 The Planning and Research Division of the MIRA has com pleted a. study. of industrial 2 trends which the embattled rtil- CTS of the Blue Eagle are pretty sure to suppress until after Congress has decided upon the MIRA extension. The report re- veals that recently there has been a. pronounced increase in industrial mergers and combines. -. When the next farm pile grimage descends on Washing. ton, local hotel and restaurant keepers will know what to ex- pect. During the recent march" of the pro-AAA growers, Capital eating establishments were un- able to supply the demand for big steaks. With press section of go, the Federal Hous- ing Administration has the larg- est publicity agency in the goy- ernment--and with least result. {. The MIRA is not the only body that will expire eutomatic- ally June 10 unless new legiala- ton is enacted. The National Labor Relations Board, and three other independent hoards automobile, textile and etocl--- aIl so out unloss Che Wagner Tn b0r Di1putes Hili Or other c0n- Ialtslsfl,u lnrsfslnffe.tl ln .e ahn1. . l