The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-14

Arthur Krock, able Washington correspondent of The New York Times, charged the relief admin istrator with making the statement at a racetrack. Hopkins wrote a, letter to The Times denying auth orship and demanding that Krock reveal his source. Krock refused, saying he was pledged to secrecy, but insisted that the informant was reliable.
 Now intimates of Hopkins say the original author of the state ment was Berney Baruch, million aire New York financier and bit- ter secret foe of Hopkins; also that General Hugh Johnson, ex- MIRA boss and one-time business associate of Baruch, publicly quoted Baruch as having said 1t.
 As their proof, Hopkins friends cite . speech made by Johnson September B, 1883, at . Merchants Association ban- quet i'm New York, i'm which he said, Some months ago one of our greatest liberal statesmen, Bernard Baruch, said in . speech advising action, some thing like this-"Tax, tax every body for everything spend, spend for unemployment .." Washington
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 Washington is not the only place where the government main- tains a Merry-G Go-Round.
 Governor c. s. Ridley of the Canal Zone says in his annual report: At Farfan Beach, in ad- dition to numerous improvements, such as grading, etc., merry go-round was installed (by the government) and is now self-sup- porting"
 Spanish War
 Decision of the United States to propose a settlement of the Spanish Civil War by Pan-Ameri- can countries is the first move made by the New Deal independ- ent of the Chamberlain govern ment in many months.
 The strategy was mapped by the American delegation to the Pan- American Conference before Cor dell Hull left for Lima. Word also was communicated to London and Paris well in advance of the conference opening.
 At first, diplomatic representa- tives of European democracies were inclined to belittle the power of Spanish American countries to help settle such a bitter battle. Later, however, they realized that the psychological effect of the American proposal would be a telling blow against Fascist-Nazi dictators.
 The proposal may not get very far, but at least it will show the definite interest in the USA in re- storing peace in Spain.
 Lady Representative
 Miss Jessie Sumner will cause a sharp drop in the average age of the lady members of congress. Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jersey is 63, Mrs. Caroline ODay of New York is 63, and Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts is 57.
 But Miss Sumner, Republi- can, of Illinois is only 39.
 Yet she has been around. She graduated at Smith College, stu- died law at Oxford. England, opened law office in Chicago. and worked for the Chase Na- tional Bank in New York on in- come tax and trust cases.
 Then she went back to Iroquois County, Illinois, and became a county judge.
 The lady is modest withal. She wrote letter to Washington, in advance of her coming. saying, T am afraid that you will shortly discover. that I am not . very sparkling person."
 WPA Conflict
 Whether New Dealers like it or not, the future of WPA is go- ing to be thrust on them imme- diately Congress opens. This is because funds of WPA will be ex- hausted February IS, and in or- der to obtain a new appropria- tion by that time Roosevelt will have to send 6 message to Con- gress as soon as 1t convenes.
 To prepare for this message. Roosevelt already has received three sets of recommendations from his advisers. They are split into three groups.
 GROUP 1 urges drastic slash ing of relief expenditures. They want the jobless problem thrown