The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-22

Washington, April 2 - The new republican brain trust" is getting up steam at a rapid rate. Already it has spread over two floors and a half of handsome ofice building less than block from the White House and couple of dozen Stenographers are whack- ing away at their machines there all day long.
 Eventually there will be staff o1 about 60 persons brain-truHting ol helping brain-trust for the g. o. D at the rate of about three stenogra- phers for each professor, with all signs indicating pleasant summer A fine library Is being built up and Dr. Olin G. Saxon of Yale, chosen by 2. o. p. Chairman Henry Fletcher to head this inter esting experiment in research for a political party, indicates his ex- pectatiOn that the "brain trust" will be a fixture and not mere flash in the pan for the campaign of 1856.
 The only ripple in the ointment is disquieting indication that Dr Saxon and some of the other brain trusters may insist on being scien- tific rather than political in ther work. This suggests the horrible fear that republican brain trusters may get along no better with republican politicians than democratic brain trusters have been getting along with democratic politicians.
 
 Shock to Politicians
 Fleacher tossed a party the other night 50 some of the hard-boiled congressional republicans could meet Saxon and his first assistant Professor Niles w. Carpenter.
 The politicians now fear the worst. Carpenter turned out to be little better than a liberal and some of the ideas he and Saxon suggested for a republican pro- gram caused some of the shud- dering politicOs to assert that it sounded almost worse than the New Deal"
 Saxon Is an able, impressive economist who gives you the idea that he will try to be honest and objective" in his efforts to show by statistics and other evidence, that the New Deal has been destructive.
 He has divided his work with the aim of complete non-partisan sur veys" of the phases of labor and so- cial security, banking and currency public finance, including taxation agriculture, and government rela. tions with business.
 He'll Cover Whole Field
 Before election Saxon expects tt have issued factual studies in al those fields-eventually to be madl into a book-and pamphlets of argu. mentation to go along with them.
 The 10 full-time professors to be employed will present various alternatives to New Deal meth Ods of doing things-which Is ex- actly where they and the politi- cians probably will clash.
 Saxon apparently, believes in ar economy of abundance which would create unemployment by expanded production at lower prices. He think. the New Deal price-program hai been awful.
 'ThOrn-in-the-Side' ZiOnchecl
 Congressman Marion Zionchecl of Washington was arrested fo ringing all the telephones in al apartment house from a switch board early New Years morn. H is unusually on the verge of fisti cuffs with Tom Blanton of Texas with the whole house hoping the, will mop each other up.
 Now he has been arrested on a charge of speeding up and down Connecticut avenue at 70 miles an hour. Ordinarily, Zioncheck Is ra- ther a nuisance on the house floor,
 but occasionally he is rather amusing.
 Congressman Boylan of New Yorl was making a long, ponderous ad dress on the birthday of Thoma Jefferson and incidentally promisin, to promote Jefferson memoria