The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-04

themselves an old Chinese I
 'He who rides a tiger must never dismount."
 In other words, Roosevelt has reached the conclusion that he did too much compromising with big business in the past, and the policy set this past week will be ridden to thee nd.
 The business recession and the rising tide of criticism has caused another old Chinese proverb to be polished up. It reads:
 ''Kites rise against the wind" Pierce Buffers Fee
 For many years before he achieved eminence as justice of the Supreme Court, Pierce Butler was a railway lawyer practising before the Interstate Commerce Commission and other government agencies.
 One of his cases, the inside facts of which hitherto never has been revealed, was before the War Labor Board when ex- President w. H. Taft was chair man of that body under WOOd- row Wilson.
 Butler represented the St. Paul and Minneapolis railways in a case relating to wages rates and collective bargaining.
 The War Labor Board decision went against Buffers clients, the examiner writing a report propos- ing to throw out the case with out further ado. The report was prepared for release, when Taft ordered it held up. He told in- inmates:
 'T know Buffers got a poor case here and that our final &C., ton will sustain the examiner. But he's an old friend of mine and happen to know he will only get S15,0O0 fee if the case is decided by the examiner. If the board gives him a hearing, he VIII receive S1V,UUV more.
 Frankly, gentlemen, I want to give Butler that extra S1O,- OOO."
 So the case was set down for hearing, while the examiners re- port was held in abeyance. After the hearing. Taft released the examiners report without change. It was against Butler, but he got his $10,000.
 Career Diplomacy
 The old career clique continues to dominate the State Depart ment; latest puller for his own personal pleasures being Fred erick A. Sterling, who is minister to Latvia, and-more important in State Department circles brother-iH Jaw of Mrs. Joseph Letter, of Chicago, whose husband once tried to corner the world wheat market. Mrs. Leiteh, ill turn, was sister-in-law to the late Lord Curzon, Foreign Minister of Great Britain, which counts heavily at the State Department.
 Sterling is an ld-schOol dip lOmat of impeccable social graces who, some say, has not been overly industrious since he took the oath of ffice. The New Deal sent him to Bulgaria shortly after Roosevelt was elected, which Sterling considered a backward Balkan country and vastly below his dignity.
 So he stayed there only a short time, meanwhile pulling wires with his career colleagues for fav- orable transfer. Eventually he was made one of three commissioners to the Paris Exposition, where the American exhibit was a disgrace despite a sizeable appropriation.
 Shortly afterward his career friends at home got him the post of Minister to Jugoslavia. All was arranged for this transfer and the consent of the Jugoslav govern ment had been secured, when Mrs. Sterling changed her mind. Jugo- slavia, she said, would not do.
 So the State Department obliged and gave the Sterlings Datvia. To manage this, Arthur Lane minister of Latvia was transferred to Jugoslavia,t he Jugoslav gov ernment being so irked that 1t de- layed three weeks before giving Lane an O. K.
 UnSatiSfied
 No sooner had Sterling been ap- pointed to Latvia than Grenville T. Emmet. new minister to Aus tria, and Roosevelt's former law partner, died. Suddenly Sterling, who had not yet departed for Latvia, saw a heaven-sent oppor- tunity. The glamour of old Vienna beckoned. It was just the post for Mrs. Sterling, and he took an imemdiate boat for home.
 This last lobbying joureny, for once was unsuccessful. So far MT. Sterling has not yet arranged