The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-15


 ter-minds have been trying to find the equal of cagey Charley Michelson, whom the democrats hired away from the old New York World for $20,O00.
 About year ago they selected Ted Huntley, formerly with The PittsburRh Post Gazette, and s1O,O00-a-year secretary to ex- Senator David A. Reed, also of Pittsburgh. Ted is 3 hard-work- ing little man, whose sense of humor dried up through long years Of contact with tho lugu- briOus Reed; and Q fervent be. llever that God fights only on the side of Republicanlsm.
 As g. 0. p. chief, Ted was Q little inclined to trust God more than the IniYneograpl1 machines, but on the whole he managed pretty well until w. B. Bell, trigger-tefn- pered president of the American Cyanamid company, conceived the idea of @ Brain Trust.
 Brain Trust HOOtS
 When this brought hoots and catcalls from the galleries, Bell, who is also chairman of the g. o. D. finance committee, blamed Huntley, and wanted his scalp.
 However, Henry P. Fletcher, then chairman of the national committee, said No. He thought Huntley's demise would provoke new cutbursts of publicity. Then Bell demanded that Huntley be muzzlcd. This was done. Poor Ted was ordered to lock up his mimeograph machines. At Cleve- land he was kept on tho shelf.
 Simultaneously, and even bee fore the Cleveland Convention, Alfred Kirchhofer. managing editor of Tho Buffalo Evening News, had been spotted by the LandOn forces as their publicity man In case Land0n was noHn- mated.
 After the convention, new Chair man Hamilton told Huntley to go to Washington but refrain from any activity. Other members of the g. o. p. publicity staff marked time, did not know whether the! were on the payroll until last week when Kirchhofer's appoirlt- ment was announced.
 Old Stuff
 Dire threats of secession made by "Bully Bill" Hutcheson If the A. F. of L. Executive Council did not oust the insurgent Lewis group, are nothming new from the 300-pound president of the Car- penters' Union.
 Hutcheson has never actually taken a walk, but in 1921 he took his 100000 carpenters out of the A. F. of L. Building Trades De- partment in jurisdictional row with the structural iron workers. After a few years the dispute was settled and Bully Bill' marched his carpenters back again.
 But the storm petrel-EIutch- eson made Q pass at Lewis last year at tho Atlantic City cOn- ventlon and got flOored for his pains-was soon at lOggerheadS with another union over Q juriSo dictiOnaI issue. Again he took Q walk and remained out until 1884.
 NOTE-The Carpenters Union, largest craft organization in the A. P. of L., is having jurisd!c- tional difficulties with other unions at present.
 Fit As a Fiddle
 Senator George W. Norris, Me- braska's famed liberal champion, was 76 years old last Friday, and Dr. George W. Calver, congress sional physician, pronounced him fit as Q fiddle.
 Calver'S examination of Norris was an achievement in itself.
 Never Ill in his life, Norris ale ways has pooh-poohed the sugges- ton of his family that he have 0 physical check. But 6 few days after the recent adjournment of congress, Calver called up Norris and said:
 "senator, you will be leaving town in q few days. Drop In to. morrow morning and let mo look you 0ver."
 To Calver's amazement Norris agreed. Next morning Calver took him to the Naval hospital and, as he says, gave Norris "the works.
 After three hours of probing and plumbing the examining doc- tors pronounced Norris in perfect health, declared that his heart and other vital organs were those of a man about ten years his junior.
 Merry.G Go Round
 West Holland, the photograph CT who took Q picture of the Presi- dent allegedly weeping" over Q crop report, is now employed to take pictures for Rex Tugwell's Resettlement Administration. The weeping" photo attracted much comment and the official censure of the White House Every member of the Diplomatic Corps has received an invitation from the Republican National Commit tee to hear Governor Landon'S &C.,