The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-07

10 44A 1AAC 4OAAA4 OA ~S A~@SAN " of the relief methods pl administration.
 Those who have had a peek at the manuscript say that chief among these plans was one by the ebul1ient Patrick J. Hurley, former secretary of war.
 PATRICK proposed to his Hoover colleagues that hotel and restaurant prOprietOrs set aside the femains of dishes which their guests had not eat- en, nut them i'm special cans separate from unreclaimable garbage, and feed them to the unemployed.
 Colonel Arthur Wood, Hoover's relief lieutenant, promptly turned the idea down.
 Hopkins has dug into the relief files of the Hoover admjnistra- tion and will compare republican achievements with what he had done in the last three years.
 NOTE = Secretary Hurley owns the farm and former racing stables of Ned Mclean near Lees- burg, Va, together with a large office building now rented in large part to the government.
 Al and F.D.R.
 The twin radie broadcast by Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt last week was one case of Al slipping it over on his ex-friend.
 The President first had tried to slip one oyer on AL but Al was too quick for him. The amusing aspect is that both men had worked together for years in crOwding mutual political enemies off the air or the front pages. It is an art which no one understands better than ROoseveIt-UNLESS TT BE AL SMITH.
 Once during the 1882 campaign both managed to pull a fast one on MT. Hoover. Hoover was scheduled to make the most im- portant speech of his campaign at Des Moines.
 Roosevelt, knowing this, snapped into action. He got hold of Charley Hand, Al Smiths press agent, who routed his chief out of a New York bar and hustled him off to confer" with Roose. welt.
 A meeting between two such old and estranged friends was big news. And Roosevelt saw that 1t became even more so. He had the newspapermen notified in ad- vance Late editions were held up. Cameramen were on the job.
 Smith didn't know what the meeting was all about. As a mat ter of fact nothing of importance happened. BUT TT MADE THE HEADLINES AND PUSHED HOOVER'S DIES MONIES SPEECH OVER TO ONE SIDE OF THE PAPER.
 Smith Strategy
 1tCOoCtClD b44CQ JO OO oOAAlCI1AulS similar with Al Smith the other day = but this time with Al on the receiving end of the line. Hearing that Al had one hour en- gagged on a radio chain, Roose- welt took half an hour during the same time, on a rival chain. This was just enough to take away . lot of AIS listeners.
 But Al was a past master at that game. He resorted to the simple expedeint of cutting his speech from an hour to three quarters of an hour, then made the grand gesture that he wouldn't think of taking listeners away from the President.
 so AL FOLLOWED THE PRESIDENT ON THE AIR AND HAD THE LAST WORDS.
 Democratic Confusion
 The confusion which reigns at Republican National headquarters in Chicago is just about matched by that at Democratic National headquarters in New York.
 A great bevy of weIl-wishers and would-be doers are hanging round the Biltmore hotel, but the manner in which they are put to work resembles the worst the republicans have to say of WPA.
 Among them are some star con- gressional speakers, anxious to be out on the stump. But part of the time Edward J. McMillan of the Speakers Bureau does not know where his speakers are speaking.
 They complain that no coordina- tion exists between local com- n1unities and national headquar- ters, that no advance publicity or build-up is given them, and that feeding campaign ideas into the Democratic National Committee is like throwing salt into a churn.
 IF THE DEMOCRATS WIN ON NOVEMBER 3, SOME OF THEIR OWN INSIDE CRITICS SAY TT WILL BE CHIEFLY BY DEFAULT.
 Straw Polls
 Probably no previous presiden- tial campaign has witnessed so many straw polls taken in ad- vance of election. In addition to the widely publicized Literary Di- gest and Gallup polls, here are FAENFN pNsKNvS WNrSN0NRN