The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-30

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 One year ago, Victor Christgatl, assistant administrator of the AAA, was dismissed by Henry Wallace for meeting with tenant farmers and agricultural .labUrers at the home of Gardner Jackson, also dismissed from the AAA. Last week, Henry Wallace i, 7, and other high AAA, officials received . delegation from the
 radical Southern Tenant Farm
 CTS Union to discuss the plight
 of fhOusands of dispOssessed
 farmers. Gardner Jackson, prev : iously dismissed, arranged the
 conference. Z.
 What the sfare-croppers sprD-. pose is an amendment to the Wagner labor disputes act, en- 1Arging its scope to include agri- cultural labor disputes. 4 Rex Tugwell and his resettle- ment ofiicials also favor this. The plan, if adopted, would create Q new division in the labor depart inent to handle farm labor.
 NOTE Miss Perkins, iriciden- tally, has been 1ukewarm about getting mixed up in farm labor rows, She was pushed into the plan of sending an arbitrator to adjust the share-cropper war in Arkansas, shed no. tears when Vice President Garner blocked the plan as being against the in- terests of Senator Robinson of Arr kansas. y ~ < x Political st-Master
 The president was discussing Canadian treaty at dinner the 2 other night with Owen D. Young, chairman of the giant General Electric company. :
 f"I certainly stuck nay neck
 out on cream and milk in that
 Canadian treaty, didn't I,
 Owen?" the, president remark 7. cd especially in St. Lawrence county" t a.g si
 St. Lawrence county. N. Y., hap pens to be the birthplace of Mir. Young. Also 1t is 2 heavy producer of milk and cream, on which the tariff is lowered for competing Canadian dairy products.
 Yes" Mir. Young replied,
 land in all three of those north ern counties"
 HBut," laughed the president,
 there's hardly democratic
 vote up there" z
 "Yes," replied MT. Young. "I :. was about to remark that you
 would lose about seven votes in
 northern New York as a result
 of that treaty" . -/y 4 First Government Gazette
 When the initial issue of the governments first newspaper, The Official Register" was pulp lished, only fifty copies were run of the press. f. <
 Of these, forty eight were destroyed. Of the two remaining, one was given to the president, one to the Library of Congress.
 Reason: The scandal caused when, Jim Farley gave away some first-run postage stamps has sent jitters down New Deal spines. Offlcials were afraid first copies of the Official Register might bring fabulous sums. s.t5'y
 Merry GO-Round
 President Roosevelt is having a quiet check made of government broadcasting. Carrying out his personal instruction, the national emergency council has sent a con- fidential questionnaire to all de- pertinent and bureau heads re- questing information on the number, nature and cost of radio programs Sponsored by the government during the past year. Inside word is that these broad- casts have become so numerous that politicians complain they cannot obtain desirable time on the air. :. . It's an i'll wind that blows no good. Before the recent, floods, the house cut the soil erosion services 1897 appropria- ton from $27,5O0,000 to $22,500,. 900. After the floods, the senate appropriations committee upped the grant to $32,500.00O .. One of the facts suppressed by Secretary Dan Roper, concerning incompetence in the maritime agencies of his department, Is the reason why the s. s. Iowa went down of the Pacific coast recently with all hands on board. The ship fiomdered on a shoal which was supposed to be marked with a gas buoy. After the tragedy the buoy was found on the beach four miles from the danger point. :. i. Rex Tugwell has employed Pare Lorentz, well-known movie critic, to put his Resettlement Adminis- tration in the films. Suggested title: Tt Never Happened Here" Mail Bag
 E. w. F., Swarthmore, Pa.-Mrs. Roosevelt uses army horses, usual ly rides through Rock Creek Park. She drives out to the park, meets the horses there. Traffic around the White House is too heavy for riding, Horses once were kept in the White House stables, but Calvin Coolidge did away with this, installed an elec-
 
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