The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15

Us We . AGoS AbChtS
 New "Brain Trust" Takes
 Away Republican Talking
 Point Sad Lack of Re- search Is Shown in Attacks
 on New Deal Projects.
 Washington, April 15-The sooner Governor Landon-or whoever the nominee is-gets to Washington to take over republican national head quarters, the better it will be for the Grand Old Party and all concerned with its immediate future.
 An almost incredible series of pub- licity blunders within the space of few days has made the present national committee management a laughing stock among the news paper correspondents-not to men, tion the gleeful democrats.
 Partisan republican newspapers in the East already are commenting in tones denoting great pain. If you hear further repercussions, here are some of the reasons:
 1-After many months of banning the brain trust" of the New Deal - with choice sarcasms for Professor Felix Frankfurter of Har- yard Law school and his numerous pupils employed by the administra- tion - the national committee sud- denly hired nine professors with a large staff, at the head of whom 1t placed, former pupil of Dr. Frank furter, Professor Olin Glenn Saxon.
 Not content with this, the conn., mittee called press conference to introduce Saxon and issued p0n- derOus announcement. The result,
 of course, is that no Republican
 orator will be able to inveigh against the democratic "brain trusp or Dr. Frankfurter without
 inviting loud horse-laughs.
 Chairman Fletcher denies his group is brain trust" but Wash ington correspondents can't think of any other name for it and many republican members of congfiress are tearing their hair over what they consider an unprecedented pleCe oL StuplulCy.
 COlumnists Get Boost"
 7-Mr. Theodore Huntley, boss
 press agent of the national committee, broadcast a notice to newspaper editors that he was pre- pared to furnish news stories and propaganda in accordance with whatever was wanted. He stood ready to arrange a weekly or daily Washington letter If there were sufficient demand, but suggested that most editors would prefer to run the syndicated columns of and then he named four Washing ton correspondents with anti-New Deal leanings.
 This official endorsement did
 those cOlumnists no good and the
 reaction wasn't so good for MT.
 Huntley, either especially when
 Democratic Press Agent Charlie
 Nicholson dwelt upon the implica-
 tiOn that the G. o. P. had taken
 the four correspondents over. 2-Either two or three young men claiming to represent certain newspapers or news agencies called around at Dr. Tugwell's Resettle- ment Administration to pick up in formation. It was discovered that they were employed or commis- stoned by the republican national committee.
 Whatever you may think this made the national committee look like, you may be sure that it made the newspapers and agencies whose names had been used good and sore.
 Wrong by a Year
 A-One of the national commit
 tees most ambitious recent publicity blasts purported to ex- pose the fact that the New Deal would fall short a billion dollars or two of spending its $4,0OO,00O,- 900 work relief appropriation. The go.p. publicists explained that all the money must be spent by the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1886. Next day they had to apolo- gize, having learned the money was available until June 30, 1897.
 S-Another blast concerned a sub