The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-08


 State of the United States, Secretary of State of Argen
 Both desire to lead the Vest ern Hemisphere toward permanent peace at the coming Pan-Ameri- can Conference. Simultaneously, both have other conferences im- portant to their political and per- sonal future.
 IN GENEVA, Saavedra Lamas desires to attend the League As- sembly in early September, has been promised the exalted posi- tion of League President.
 IN PHILADELPHIA, Cordell Hull has been drafted by Roose- welt to put important party prin- cipals before the democratic con- vention in June, keep in line con- seivative Southern Democrats.
 Iii order that he may get away to Geneva, Saavedra Lamas wants to hold the Pan-American Confer ence early. But in order that he may remain in Philadelphia, Cor dell Hull wants to hold the Pan- American Conference late. Result has been polite tug-of-war be- tween the prima donnas of peace. British Boat
 So far, provisional date has been set for July Is in Buenos Aires. MT. Hull thinks that by June 27 he can finish holding the democratic party together in Philadelphia and set sail.
 Only trouble is that the ship sailing on June 27 flies the Bri- tish flag. An American ship sails on July 4, but this is too late to get to Buenos Aires.
 So MT. Hull is in a predicament. He can ask Comptroller General McCarl for special ruling per- mitting him to use British ship, but McCarl is likely to reply that the Democratic National Conven- tion is not government business and no excuse for MT. Hull's dilly- dallying in the U. s. A.
 So 1t looks as if MT. Hull has three choices:
 l. Dig down in his jeans and pay his own passage on an Eng
 fish boat.
 2. Forego the duty of hold ing the democratic party to- gether at Philadelphia.
 3. Persuade Saayedra Lamas
 to forego the honor of being tArngi<aKaf <f I
 ply, thus hold the Pan-Ameri- can Conference at later date.
 Several weeks of secret cabling to Buenos Aires so far have failed to dispel the quandary.
 No Hero to Her
 President Roosevelt has just had proof of the old adage that no man is hero to his valet. Only in this case, the valet is a woman, in fact "g0ody".
 Goodies" are a classic stratum of humanity about one notch above charwoman, who make up the beds of Harvard students.
 Their sobriquet is officially recognized by the university and they have been immortaIized both in fact and in fiction by a strike they staged against the University for higher wages, and by a book written by Travis Ing ham (who, incidentally, is 8 Yale man) about a go0dy who for several years had been making the bed of her long lost son.
 Anyway, a former goody who took care of the room used by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Senior, while at Harvard, is violently anti-New Deal.
 And as her little contribution to the republican cause she has been spreading the word that the President, because of his capri cious, superficial nature while a student, was nicknamed by all the goodies, "Feather-Duster".
 Short Rations
 The expose of the Townsend Movement has almost dried up the once lush flow of money into na- tionai headquarters recently as much as $100,000 8 month. Townsendites lay the drastic loss of revenue to two causes:
 ]. The oldsters already en-
 rolled have stopped coming
 across with their nickels and
 dimes.
 2. Few, if any, new members
 are being acquired.
 Tn New York, where the move- ment was spreading like wild-fire, recent weeks have seen no now clubs. Similar tidings have come from other areas.
 And this Is not all. In num- Der of states there are rumb- Ilngs of revolt, and open threats to quit the organization.
 The national generalissimos are greatly alarmed over the situa- ton. They have been in almost continuous secret conference since Dr. Francis E. Townsend's arrival in Washington ten days ago. Tax LO0phOIe
 Treasury chiefs have received confidential word that certain cor poration lawyers along Wall Street have already jimmied legal loop to circumvcnt the administrators tax program.
 The purpose of the tax plan aside from revenue-ls tO force corporations to distribute idle surpluses to their stock holders. Spending of these huge funds is expected to spur recOv- cry. The scheme of the Wall OEE THP REcORn