The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-11

dent of the Detroit News, is one of the old-tiTne Hoover boomers. Now he is giving his all for his w-Michigander.
 Cleveland Ga. Round
 "Tieless Jerry" Tolbert, pie turesque North Carolina delegate who never wears Q necktie, is peeved at the Cleveland newspa- pers. When he arrived in town the local newsn1en took his picture and wrote feature stories about him. Tolbert was highly pleased until he saw the published photos. Tn each 6 tie had been drawn in by the staff artist. If these pie lures get down home I'll be ruined," he moaned |. The headquarters of Senator Lester J. Dickinson, Iowa'S dark-horse caI1- didate, is the most popular in town. To visiting delegates and Hlewsmen are distributed a sample size bottle of whiskey, several packages of cigaretets and a cigar Former Senator Jim Wat son, head of the Indiana delega- tion, says he was offered place on the Platform committee but he turned 1t down. Explains Jim: I'm pledged to Landon, but I didn't want to go on the corn- mittee because I didn't want to get into 8 fight with my candidate" .. !. Landonites whisper that the National Manufacturers Associa- ton made strenuous secret pro- tests to them against inserting a minimum wage plank in the plat. form.
 Old Pupil
 Washington-Years ago, when Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Dcvanter taught law classes at George Washington university in the Capital, one Of his students was a young man named Harry w. Blair.
 Van Devanter at that time was an assistant attorney general as- signed to the Interior Department to handle public land cases. Today Blair is an assistant attorney gen. eral in charge of the Public Lands Division of the Justice Depart I11ent.
 During the recent court term, Blair argued an Indian lands case. He was closely questioned by Van Devanter, who is an authority on this branch of the law. A few days later Blair met the justice at a reception.
 After an exchange of greet
 ings he remarked: "Well, MT.
 Justice, I'm still going to class
 under y0u."
 "Yes," was the smiling reply,
 "but I am not the only one marking your papers this time" Potent Lobby
 When 1t comes to lobbying Con- gress, you've got to hand it to the organized farmers. They know and do their stuff.
 Under the leadership of Ches- ter Grey, veteran Legislative rep- resentative" of the American Farm Bureau Federation, this is what the lobby put through in the last two weeks:
 1. Senator Wheeler's bill limiting the interest rate on Farm Credit Administration loans to 3h per cent.
 3. An $e,00oo00 appropriation for vocational education.
 3. The Rural Electrification bill, sponsored by Senator George Nor- ris, creating permanent agency to foster the identification of farms.
 Merry.G Co., Round
 Reno, Nevada, scored highest in a milk consumption survey of 6o cities made by the AAA Con- slimers' Council. Lowest Col1surnp- ton was found in Charleston, S. o. H. H. Bennett, Chief of Soil Conservation, puts his life's aim in Q single sentence: Before de I'd like to know that all our soil is not going to run down in- to the sea-" .. Prize question of the week received by U. S. Infor- nation Service: "What is the best location in the United States for a home" There was no answer Charges that industry is taking on more machines rather than more men have got under the skin of the Bethlehem Steels president Eugene c. Grace. He declares: "There is no basis for the claim that technological developments in industry have created Q per- nanent class of unemployed" Copyright, 1886, by United Tea.
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