The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-24

of-war::
 l. The persistent effort of state officials to shift the burden of caring for the jobless to fed eral shoulders, in order to hold down state expenditures and tax es, thus enabling them to bal ance their budgets.
 2. The effort to abolish relief work and substitute the dole or as it is more euphoniously called, direct relief.
 The desperate troubles of Chi cago and Cleveland are graphic illustration of the first of these two issues.
 Both the Ohio and Illinois state treasuries have ample funds to handle the relief needs of their hard hit industrial cities The Illinois treasury has some $9,000,000 available for this purpose and the Ohio treasury several times that sum. Yet, in spite of advance warnings and pleas from city officials that they were heading for trouble, the governors of the two states made no move to call their legislatures into session to ap- propriate cash on hand.
 While they were holding out, the federal government, under the pressure of local authorities, con- gressmen and senators, was doubling its outlays to these com- munities.
 Un-American Dole
 While all this was going on, of- ficials of the two states, par ticularly Governor Davey of Ohio, were busy agitating behind the scenes/ for the dole form of re- lief on the ground that it would be much cheaper than work relief and permit a greater spread" of federal funds.
 In this drive they met with no success. Roosevelt is adamantly against the dole, holding that 1t is un-American and destructive of national morale. ,
 The WPA has now increased it's rolls in Chicago from 60,OO0 to 10000 since January, and in Cleveland from 21,0O0 to 10000. But Harry Hopkins has warned that this is the top. No more money is available rom WPA ap- propriations, and from this point on the two cities will have, to pony up themselves.
 Garner and the Beauty
 The visit of the Queen of the Azalea Festival here last week disclosed to some of Jack Gamers colleagues an incident which took place when the vice president was in Charleston, s. C., last month.
 It fell to the grizzled Texan to crown the AZalea queen. And she, an extremely beautiful young lady immediately rose and planted luscious smack on the cheek on the vice president of the United States.
 Whereupon the vice president, giving vent to his ecstasy in the middle of the stage, proceeded to cut an old fashioned pigeon wing.
 Peace Obstacle
 How seriously Democratic mas ter minds view last weeks Penn sylvania primary is revealed by the fact that within 40 hours af- ter the slate of John L. Lewis went down to defeat, two national party leaders secretly cornered with him regarding a rapproche- ment with the victors.
 The New Dealers did not con- ceal their ear that unless he buries the hatchet and lines up behind the official Democratic slate. it is doomed to defeat in the November election.
 Lewis attitude was that the national Democratic leaders have nothing to offer that would interest Pennsylvania labor in this fight. The peace 0vertures must come from the state party bosses. It is up to them to submit their wares.
 Lewis conceded that his fol- lowers would no swallow Judge Arthur H. James, the Old Guard Republican nominee or governor. But while he made it pointedly clear that they would not vote for James, this, he said, did not mean they would flock to Charles Alvin Jones, conservative Demo- cratic standard bearer.
 "Labor might follow the ad-
 vice of a certain eminent gen-
 tleman," Lewis remarked acidIy,
 "and say, "A plague O both your
 hOuses'."
 The effect of such a hands-off attitude would mean the certain election of James as a Republican governor of Pennsylvania.
 Every Democratic vote withheld