The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-19
GIVES IDEA OF
MANIPULATIONS
in WASHINGTON
ADVICE GIVEN IS NOT TO BE-
COME SATISFIED WITH
WHAT APPEARS IN CON-
GREsIoNAL RECORD
BY PRESTON GROVER
cry Associated Pressl

Don't always be satisfied with
what you read in "The Congress
sional Record"
Take this, for instance: Sena-
tor Russell of Georgia introduced
an amendment to the first de-
ficiency bill designed to prohibit
WPA Administrators Harry Hop
kins from filling executive posts
within a state by officials from
other states.
sIn some of the states" ex-
planned Russell, "there has been
an unreasonable policy on the part
/ of the works progress admin.stra-
ton. Outlines, at the expense of
the government. they have sent
people into states from other
states to take many Of the more
attractive supervisory positions. /
do not accept the implication that
there is a state of this union which
does not have within its borders
citizens of sufficient integrity and
ability to carry on"
| Senator Barley of Kentucky
replied:
81 presume the object is to bar
anybody, regardless of his quail
fications or the need for his serv-
ices, who may be brought in to a
regional office from outside of the
state in which the office is To-
Gated. If that is the object of the
amendment, | am opposed to il"
In Other Words
If Russell had said what he
really was thinking, it would have
been something like this:
ssThe trouble is that Hopkins
sent to Georgia lot of sociaa'
minded case workers who didn't
understand the relationship be
tween the races down there
Now you just can't go down tc
/, Georgia and treat black Jake
Jones the same way you would
white Peter Hawtry. 1t won't
work, and anybody who thinks il
will simply has no place in Geor-
gia."
4 Also if Senator Barley had
really cut loose. he would have
said something like this:
NOW Dick, you know as well
as do that what you are all mad
about is that Hugh B. Fleece from
Kentucky was sent down to At.
lanta as regional director of the
/ Home Owners Loan Corporation
and you thought the job ought tc
have gone to a Georgian. But
pshaw, Dick, Kentucky is in the
same region as Georgia and he
had as much right to the job a:
anybody"
| Glass Moves
Now that is out Of the way, il
seems you ought to know that
Senator Glass of Virginia has LEFT
the Raleigh hotel where he hveC
for 25 years. He thought install
lation of night club robbed the
place of its dignity, Besides, he
couldn't quiet the newsboys
street cars and fire sirens thai
held nightly carnival under his
window.
i He moved over to the May
flower where he amused himself
nights trimming Jesse Jones, RFC
administrator, at backgammon
But he doesn't feel at home there
particularly since Jones went tt
Miami for holiday and his Other
backgammon antagonist, Admira
Cary Grayson, got so busy as Red
| Cross chairman.
He may be back at the Raleigh
.ai&ar awhile. The hotel has of
fereG him an apartment. high III
and fa&ing the inside OF the blocl
where he'Il miss part of the street
| din, of which Washington ha:
abundance.
From his ole Raleigh apart
ment he could Zee the White
House, a sight he would miss from
the new one. But the senator has
not at all times been inspired by
a sight o. the White House any
way.