The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14

part or which he usually dT ping wherever he takes a no Court, not even his Secretar But on the day President Roosevelt made a crack about the court taking a vacation with out finishing important business, a long distance call suddenly came to the Supreme Court.
 It was the chief justice.
 "I understand that the preSi- dent has made some remarks about the Supreme Court. What were they?" he asked cryptic ally.
 He was told what they were. During the recital there were audible sniffs and shorts at the other end of the phone, but no comment.
 The chief justice said, THANK YOU" hung up the receiver and vanished into the Obscurity of his summer vaca- ton.
 Please Remit
 Dr. Francis Townsend is pass ing up no bets in his effort to obtain possession of the $16,O0O prize fund for subscription gath erers for the Townsend Weekly.
 The money was impOunded in a safety deposit box by Editor J. w. Brinton, when he and practically all the other execu- tives of the Old-age pension movement resigned because of TOwnsend's attacks on the presidents court plan. The good Doctor" tried with threats of legal action, to scare Brint0n into turning the cash over to him.
 Brinton refused to scare. He held on to the money, claiming that 1t did not belong to the Townsend organization but to the winners of the circulation contest which he had conceived and con- ducted.
 Baked in this direction, Town send has resorted to a secret stratagem.
 He has sent personal letters to the five winning clubs, in Wash ington, Minnesota, California, Indiana and Illinois, appealing to assign their prizes to him in or der to carry on "the good work for our cause"
 Career Diplomacy
 Hugh Gibson, U. s. ambassador to Brazil, has become the victim of his own oVer-zealousneSS. He was too anxious to be transferred to more agreeable European post - Belgium = and got the transfer agreed to before the post actually was vacant.
 Meanwhile the post has not be- come vacant. Ambassador Morris declines to leave Brussels. And now that 8 successor has been appointed to fill Gibson's shoes in Brazil, he is out on limb with no place to go.
 AS A RESULT HE HAS BEEN ASKED TO RESIGN.
 Shaky Fences
 Senator Burt Wheeler has en- countered some rocky going in mending Montana political fences. Burt rushed back to his state at the urgent suggestion of friends who told him he was los ing out with laborites and liberals the backbone of his support because of his hostility to Su- preme Court reform. The warn ing, apparently, was not exag- gerated.
 A big rally arranged for him in Great Falls came close to being an outright flop. Only 800, less than one third of the ca- pacity of the hall, turned out to hear him, and loud-speakers that had been Optimistically hung outside, in anticipation of an overflow crowd, blared to empty streets.
 Next day he got an even sharp CT rebuff. He addressed a banquet in his honor, at which his lieuten- ants had arranged secretly for resolution assailing the president. They expected it would be adopted with whoop. But they counted their chickens before they were matched.
 Labor leaders invited to at- tend the affair got wind of the plan and sent word that if the resolution were offered they would walk out. Faced with this threat and the likelihood of stormy row, Wheeler's friends abandoned their scheme and made no attempt to take any slapS at Roosevelt.
 Wheeler spoke in a distinctly defensive vein, his speech being a recital of his past record as 8 friend of labor and liberalism.
 Mail Bag
 c. T., Madison, Wis. - Reports that John L. Lewis receives a fabulous salary are untrue. His pay is $12,0OO a year and has been that figure for a number of years. The United Mine Workers nK@R@ pV<ENF% nHNnnn