The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-13

whose appropriation bill wa The house ripped $200, 900 out of it, with Chairman James Buchan- an and Representative Thomas McAGillan, democratic leaders of the house appropriations commit tee, taking particular glee in yielding the axe.
 Sole cause of their sudden zeal for economy was the grudge which congress holds for the lone lady in the cabinet.
 Miss Perkins feminine haul teur, her love of featuring com- mittee members, her lobbying last year to get the social Se- curity and labor relations boards under her mOtherly wing, sOured the good 0ld-fashiOned legis- latOrs on Capitol Hill.
 The sad thing is that several of the most valuable and efficient agencies of the government part of Miss Perkins department are innocent victims of the feud. Of the $200, 900 cut, $136,000 was taken from the bureau of labor statistics and $26,000 from the women's bureau. Both agencies are performing outstanding service and their loss of funds, if per- mitted to stand, would be disas- trous.
 NOTE-The age of chivalry is not dead. Senatorial friends of the two bureaus are determined to restore the cuts.
 J. Ham Lewis
 The pink whiskers of J. Ham Lewis are turning white, but there has been no change in the Illi- nois senator's sense of humor.
 When recent senate debate turned to the subject of oleomar- garine, Lewis rose with serious mien and declared:
 "Mr. president, may I be par doned for saying that in one of those cases was counsel; and may I add that before the Su- preme Court I made an argu- ment so commanding in logic, so powerful in elOquence and so persuasive in presentation that at the close of my argu- ment the court decided the case for the other fellow with out hearing from him."
 SEC
 The securities and exchange commission has decided to stand pat on a personal scrap which may develop with the president himself.
 Not long ago the SEC sent a mo- tice of dismissal to Andy Ten Eyck, who had been Roosevelt's secretary while governor of New York.
 Andy appealed to Louey Howe, another Roosevelt secretary, who advised him to sit tight, that everything would be O. K.
 But the SEC has stuck to it's first notice, which takes effect in a month. It remains to be seen what Roosevelt will do.
 Distinguished Hitch HikerS
 If the city of Tallahassee had known in advance, it would not have let the daughter of the pres ident of Brazil walk through its streets at a. m. lugging her own suitcase, looking for a place to stay.
 But senorita Alzira Vargas gave them no advance notice. In fact it was all surprise to her. She was on a trip to get really ac- quainted with the United States. With her were three other Brazil ian ladies-the wife, the daughter, and the sister of Ambassador Aranha.
 In the town of Williston, Florida their car broke down. Impatient to keep moving, the ladies took a public bus for Tallahassee.
 It was all a lark until they were dropped in Tallahassee at 1 a. m. Deserted streets, no taxi, no porter. They picked up their bag gage and trudged single file down the main street.
 But anyway" says Senorita Vargas, "we got to know the U. s. A."
 Whose Constitution?
 A new book, written by cap- inet member, will be tossed into the political melee just in time for the national convention. It will handle controversial subjects with the gloves of.
 The author is mild-mannered, two-fisted Henry A. Wallace, sec- retary of agriculture.
 Probable title Whose Con- stitution?"
 Persian Diplomats
 The withdrawal of all Persian diplomats from Washington as result of Minister Djalal's having been handcuffed for speeding by the Maryland police is no great blow to the state department.
 It is supposed to be a diplo- matic secret, but the Persian minister who preceded Djalal was recalled for alleged dope snug gling.
 Mirza Davoud Khan, the gen. tleman in question, denied this. He claimed that one of his dip- lomatic assistants, Prince FirOuz, had instructed a friend in Persia to mail the minister a package of opium, following NF>E> TLC nT>COnN