The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-22

two ChlngS WOFFylI1g HILL minute about the outcome He said he was sure to win.
 But he was worried about (l) balancing the budget and in- imitation; (2) about the very real danger of war in Europe.
 Regarding the first, he said he was going to do his best to bring down prices of durable goods, which had been hiked artificially. He was also determined to bring the budget absolutely into line in 1888.
 Regarding the international situation, the President felt that It was up to the British and French to get together on some arms limitation program, following which the United
 States would be glad and anxious to back them up.
 The President is convinced that it would be bad policy for the United States to make any move first. He remembers taking the initiative in the spring of 1883 to save the Geneva Arms Con- ference, only to be slapped in the face by the French, and he doesn't want to be slapped again. British Reluctance
 This time, however, the French are reported ready to welcome any American move, while the slap probably would come from the British. Reports which American diplomats have sent Roosevelt state that the British are determined to push through want to talk limitation until they are well abreast of Germany.
 Anyway Roosevelt says he doesn't want to risk slap from the British, and he will do noth- ing until the French and British pave the way. After that he will throw the entire weight of the United States into the move for arms limitation.
 Only something like this, Roose- welt is firmly convinced can head off the onrushing tragedy of an- other world conflagration.
 Cowboy Sage
 The foremost authority on American folk lore is on the rolls of WPA. He Is John A. LorllaX, collector of cowboy songs, who brought from the obscurity of western cainpfires that famous ballad, Home On the Range"
 Lomax is not a relief client but one of the bosses of relief clients. He is running q project for collecting American folk lore, and spends part of his time in southern prisons.
 Lomax has found that the best way to get the old work songs of the negroes is to visit peni- tentiaries. Most of the good negro singers are serving time some place." says Lomax. The old work songs he wants to catch are best preserved from adultera- ton with modern jazz in the minds of negroes who have been shut off from society for 9 long time.
 These are an almost untapped reservoir of folk lore-secular songs, entirely different from the spirituals that have grown out of the Negro's religious life.
 Strangest thing about Lomax is that he is no singer, must de- pend on mechanical devices to catch the songs he wants. He carries in his car an electric re- cording instrument, drives up to a prison cotton patch where men are singing, and turns it on.
 'Uh-Happy Chandler"
 Senator LaFollette's astpuhd- ing disclosures ot murder and terrorism by coal operators in bloody Harlan county have made Kentucky's young Coy. Happy Chandler most unhappy.
 Among other things they put a definite crimp in Happy's vent to step into the senatofial shoes of the states veteran Alben Bark ley.
 The william of the LaF0llette revela ton was Sheriff TheDdore R. Middleton. who admitted tO the Senate Comrnittee that his wife was one of four stockhold- CTS in a company store earning ITO per cent profit, that Il coal operators signed his surety bond, and that many of the deputies he appointed were
 either ex-c9nyicts or indicted for various 0ffenses.
 Middleton also admitted that he himself had served a five month term for liquor violation.
 But when these same facts were laid before Chandler by the United Mine Workers, a month before the seante revelation, the governor, in one of his happiest and most blithesome moods, com- pleteiy exonerated the sheriff. He even pronounced him an "exccl- nA,aA neRsnmssO