The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-20

of holding hearings on the famous prisoner, but few pec is any doubt of the outcome. Certainly there is no doubt in Governor Olson's mind.
 His pardon statement is re- view of the American bill of rights, with a reminder to Mooney which really is intended more for the public than for him that the dictators of Europe would have shot him long ago. So the American people can be grateful, Governor Olson's ad- vance message concludes, that it has a system of justice temperate and sane enough to permit par- don after two decades of impris- onment.
 NOTE - Reports are that the Communist party will run Mooney as its presidential candidate in 1940, though some of Moneys friends say he is too shrewd to get mixed up in that sort of thing. kerenSky Roosevelt
 Herbert Hoover, speaking in- formally at a business mems luncheon not long ago, was asked whether he considered Franklin Roosevelt more like Hitler or like Stalin.
 Neither" the ex-President is reported as replying. Roosevelt is the Kerensky of the United States"
 Miss Perkins
 George Creel, chief dynamo be- hind the Gold Gate Exposition, was taking Secretary of Labor Perkins out to see the government building, for which he is U. s. commissioner. Miss Perkins seem- ed to be enjoying herself.
 She was telling Creel how she had solved some of her adminis- trative problems, had arranged for her daughters wedding the year following, and worked out some other matters which were troubling her. In fact, Miss Per- kins appeared to be in an unusual ly pleasant frame of mind, when suddenly that which she hates most appeared beside her.
 "GeOrge!" she exclaimed, "there'S a newspaper phOtOgra- pher."
 Miss Perkins was not mistaken. 1t was a photographer. But George Creel explained, some what to Miss Perkins embarrass- ment, that it was also his son.
 NOTE The government build ing being erected by Greet at the San Francisco fair covers twice the ground of the government building at the New York fair, but will cost half as much.
 Judge Denman
 Leading lawyers of San Fran cisco are urging the appointment of Judge William Denman to the present vacancy on the Supreme Court. Denman is one of the Roosevelt appointees on the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has won wide praise for the manner in which he has speeded up the work of that circuit.
 Once far behind with its work, the court under Denman's tireleSs energy has now brought the docket up 10 date. Last year he wrote 88 opinions, twelve of them on important New Deal cases. This was double the number of opinions written by the other 42 active Circuit Court judges of the country.
 Calif0rnians point out that they have not had a justice on the Supreme Court. since the death of Justice McKenna in 1926, and that the present va- cancy is due to be filled from the far west.
 Denman was chairman of the shipping board when Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the Navy, and there are closef friends. OCAAAAA0AAo Q NAAACA 4Aa4lOANuR 70 AAAo age, which is 66. Friends claim, however, that this is offset by the vigorous manner in which he turns out opinions.
 Government Spending
 Best government spending story on the west coast comes from vi- vacious Ernest Mendenhall, Jr., neighbor of Herbert Hoover's in Palo Alto. He was telling an Ital- ian huckster about Roosevelt's disdain for budget-balancing.
 Don't you know, Tony" he said, "that it will take years for us to pay off this national debt? We keep on spending money, and spending money. Whats going to be the end? Why, our children are going to be paying this the rest of their Iives."
 'Tt's all right with me-" was