The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-06
NOW
Election Year
ECONOMY
OH! MR.. FARLEY!
by HELEN ESsARY

Springtime Notes along the Pc
tomac: Quiet little Senator Hat
tie Caraway. Arkansas. has bios,
somed forth as an excellent pre-
siding officer at Senate hearings.
Counsel Samuel Becker, of the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, has been sternly shouting
"Come, comet" at big officials OF
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, causing them to
break down under the impulse OF
the parental complex.
Eastern congressman and gov
errors are busy embarrassing
each other in order to grab pub
Hcity on flood relief.
But most entertaining OF the
Washington,April phenomena is
the sinister implication that econ
omy is afoot among us in an
election year.
The case of County Attorney
Woodbridge, Of Oldham county,
Kentucky, hit on the head by a
falling 10-gallon keg of whisky
and denied satisfaction by an I'M
grateful Government, is a case in
point.
The deplorable accident to Mr..
Woodbridge, for which he is ask
ing $4,000 from his country, Is
succinctly and carefully explained
in a report from the House
Claims Committee.
The accident happened at 2:30
on the morning of January %.
1894, during a raid at the resi-
dence of Citizen r. G. HargiS, Of
LAGRANGE, KY, Mr.. Woodbridge
assisting at the ceremonies.
The Government agents had
discovered a more than ample
supply of moonshine whisky. THE
whisky was being thrown from
the second floor by investigators,
and rolled away to be destroyed
by county authorities. The claim
ant was so engaged in rolling the
kegs when one dropped by 1nvesti-
gator Campbell struck him across
the head and face, seriously injur-
ing him at the time" explains the
House committee in simple, ap-
pealing language.
The Treasury Department, It
developed, with its usual absence
of finer feeling, found Attorney
Woodbridge had been warned to
keep away from the dropping
kegs and so urged nonpayment Of
his claim which included $40 for
o new pair of glasses.
when I look up. any object
appears double" he plaintively re-
ported to Congress.
ATTORNEY Woodbridge was
awarded only $1,000. Plainly
Congress is beginning to econo-
nize and in an election year,
too! Oh, Mr.. woodbridge, you
ought to know that a cracked
head never had the market value
Of a broken heart.
With political speeches and
vituperations to get us all upset,
with worry and wondering II the
country is going down as fast as
the Republicans say, or hoping
it won't blow up as promptly as
the Democrats indicate-Should
the Republicans come into power,
here's a reinsurance that all is
not topsy turvy but, as a matter
of fact, pretty sane and unex"
ceptional.
Down at the Government Print
ing office, which daily turns out
its thousands of publications, it
is the old standbys-not the
romantic thrillers on the trap.
ping of horse flies and the love
life of amphibians-that are In
high demand.
Superintendent Of Documents AL
ton p. Tisdel says that five best
sellers (number Of copies sold fol
low name of publications. are: In
FAINT Care, 1,517341: Prenatal Care
673 1854: The Child from One to
Six. His Care and Training, 655.
$50: Healthy, Happy Womanhood
O Pamphlet for Adolescent Girls
and Young Women, $50. 800; and
Child Management, 1885.
Administrations may come and
60 but the child problem in its
various phases never loses an cleo
ton!
How about it, Postmaster Gen
eral-Democratic National Commit
Tee Chairman James j. Farley?
When a subscriber to "The Dem
ocratic Digest" publication Of the
Woman's Division of the Demo
cratic National Committee, SEM
her check recently for renewal Of
her subscription she addressed Il
to "The Digest. Democratic Com
mittee Headquarters, N at ! on
Press Building"
It was returned to her marked
SAddressee Unknown"