The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-01

Wd1IO41 nOOIC, 6AoOAoLdAlL OS has a delicious sense of hur a very grave mien.
 Referring to Hitler's remili- tarization of the Rhineland, he said to Ambassador Luther: THAT CHANCELLOR OF YOURS IS CERTAINLY RAIS- ING HELL IN EUROPE"
 'Mr. Secretary" replied the German ambassador, not catch ing the twinkle in Moore's eye, 'T am afraid I cannot listen to anything derOgatOry to my Chancellor"
 "The hell you can't" shot back Moore. You sit right there and listen to me-"
 "Mr. Secretary" replied Luther, in almost a plaintive voice, Chancellor Hitler is a very fine man, one of the finest leaders Germany has ever had. If you must persist in discussing him in those terms, I must ask you to excuse me-"
 NOTE-Dr. Luther, himself once Chancellor of Germany, also min- ister of finance, was heartily out of sympathy with the Nazi move ment when Hitler seized control, narrowly escaped exile, instead was kicked upstairs as ambassa- dor.
 Contrasts
 The new 1897 appropriation bills carry some interesting contrasts in expenditure:
 Amount spent by Navy
 per day ...........Sl, Sl,0lU,45S.oS Amount spent by State Department per day. $42,O51.1O Amt spent by EZRA
 for relief per family,
 per day ........ SO.S2 Hard-Boiled
 Senator Royal s. Copeland wears a red carnation and has an in- graduating smile. But there is nothing soft about the New York CTS legislative methods.
 Copeland is author of ship subsidy bill. It is warmly ap- proved by shipping interests and violently opposed by senate lib- erals, both democratic and re- publicans. They claim 1t is a bare faced poodle raid on the public till.
 For weeks, Copeland has been trying to get his bill reported fav- orably by the Commerce Commit tee, of which he is chairman. Finally he staged marvellous feat of conjury.
 There were eleven committee members present. Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania, author of 8 rival measure opposed by the ship operators, moved that this bill be substituted for Copeland's.
 The count was ] to 4 in favor of Guffey's motion. Whereupon Copeland announced he held the proxies of five absent mem bers and voted them for himself, making the ballot 9 to ! in his favor.
 But after the committee ad- journed, members learned that at least one absentee, Senator Err nest w. Gibson of Vermont, had told Copeland he was opposed to bis bill; that several others whom Copeland had voted actually in- tended signing Guffey's minority report.
 Horse Encouragement
 The new Army appropriation bill provides $72,155 for the "Encour- aging of breeding of riding horses suitable igor the Army"
 Simultaneously the amount al- loted to the State Department for Promotion of Foreign Trade" was $70000.
 Man-Hunt
 Uncle Dan" Roper is engaged in a grim man-hunt.
 He is out to scalp the official responsible for the leak to the press that gave out the report on how the end of the NRA had heightened hours and reduced wages.
 Submitted to the White House by the NRA committee, the re- port was turned over to Roper by the Presidents secretary, Marvin Mcintyre. Roper took one look at the document and, ever -solicitous of the sensibili- ties of business interests, promptly locked 1t up.
 There 1t stayed for six weeks until, very mysteriously, a copy found its way into the hands of the press.
 No department in the govern ment is as secretive and gag ridden as Roper's. Hardly a month goes by that he does not suppress, or attempt to suppress, some re- port. This time he swore ven- geance on the "leaker".
 The files of the Commerce de- partment official who had charge of the report actually were brok- en into during his absence and the number of copies counted to see If any were missing. They were all there.
 An innocent member of the committee then was accused. To clear himself, he had to get writ ten statement from newspaper men stating that he had not giv- en out the report.
 Several other officials have been put on the carpet and quizzed-withou result. Roper is still on the trail, but it is growing cold.
 Publication of the above, how ever, doubtless will lead to a new ha1x1f