The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-21
By RODNEY BUTCHER Democrat Washington Cores
 pOndent)

by hCtDNE1 I OUlOhEh Democrat Washington Cores. Washington, March 21.-The free civil paintings which Secre- tary Perkins and minions speaking for her refused to allow in the new Department of Labor building have, for the most part, found happy homes.
 It even seems that the half dog en pictures which Miss Perkins, for various reasons, turned back to Administrator Harry Hopkins, the donor, acquired certain ad- ded attraction by virtue of the publicity they received as the only PWAP products which anyone here ever spurned as gift. They were eagerly sought.
 Checking up on some of them, one finds they are now hanging as follows:
 Portrait of steinmetz, the in- ventor, rejected because people would think it was Trotsky": of- flee of Harry Hopkins himself.
 Full-length view of not-over- dressed ballet dancer, unfit for labor walls because it was too gay: office of Edwin s. Smith, National Labor Relations Board, who has named it Spirit of Collective Bar gaining"
 Painting of nude lady hiding be- hind some flowers, sent back with tary wouldn't like that: office of ant attorney general, who thinks it's swell.
 Picture of Lincoln writing Gettysburg address, which might offend people from the south: Lincoln College, Jefferson City, Mo-, a Negro institution whose president wrote and asked off it. Two Make You Think
 Those PWAP pictures are hung in every government building in town, of course. Many of them are beauties and some draw many laughs such as the excellent painting of an unusually cockeyed- looking clown in the office of the MIRA Advisory Council.
 In secret office used by in- vestigators for the Senate muni- tions committee are two striking arrangements by one Lewis E. Rubinstein of New York
 One, "ChIorinc," depicts both
 the use of that article in lab-
 Oratory by scientists apparently
 bent on humane purposes and
 its employment as war gas,
 with girls handling cans of 1t
 i'm a factory and gasping dough-
 boys succumbing to it on the
 battlefield.
 The other ,"Nitrogen," shows first the cotton fields where nitro gen is used as fertilizer, then more battlefields where huge guns are booming forth munitions pre- sumably containing it = with Q layer of helmeted skeletons be- meath.
 His Face Is Scarlet
 One of the most embarrassed men in town is Dr. Howard A. Mills of NLRB.
 Dr. Mills resigned few weeks ago, sore. The boards staff clipped In to buy him a nice e watch, inscribing it with "admira- tion and affection" He was deeply moved. He went back home to Chicago. No one expected to see him any more.
 Then the administration per- suaded Mills to return.
 Now that he's back, his friends at NLRB keep kidding him about the watch. Did he pretend to leave just to get a watch? Is he going to quit every couple of weeks and eventually start a jew- elry store? Mills just blushes and grins and can't think of the proper comeback.
 Other Society Notes
 Jim West, former White House correspondent and boss press agent for the Republicans in the 1892 campaign, superintended re- moval of the Bethlehem Steel Company's many boxes of records from the munitions committee off, fices. He is publicity and general handy man here for most of the munitions concerns. Vice Prcsi- dent Jack Garner, partial to rye whisky for many long years, has come around to a preference for applejack !. Senator Royal s. Copeland. who has on more than one occasion been described as bit of bore, has been making speeches to the Senate about what he calls "Amurricanism." .. Senator Matt Nicely of West Vir- ginia was reading newspaper comic sections during the last Huey Long speech Senator Warren Barbour of New Jersey, not in quite the same physical shape as when he was amateur heavyweight champion, likes. to pull two chairs together and use both simultaneously when he sits down In case you wonder what happened to John Curry, boss of Tammany Hall until Roosevelt and Farley annexed it, he's still in the insurance busi- ness in New York. Down here the other day to see his son, who attends Georgetown University, he found time for visit with Sena-