The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-23

a1rplane bases.
 The deal is favorable to the USA, and results in part from the fact that constant criticism of the State Department for aping the British has got under the career boys skins.
 During the diplomatic dicker- ing, Sir Ronald Lindsay com- plained bitterly that the United States was being too hard on him, that his. government should get a better break.
 What he wanted was permis- sion for British planes to land at Hawaii, en route from Aus tralia and New Zealand. This permission was bluntly refused. And without base at Hawaii it is almost impossible for the British to fly between the South Pacific and Canada.
 In retaliation, the British will not let American planes land in New Zealand. Australia, how ever, always more independent of London, will. Therefore the new South Pacific air route will go via Hawaii and Canton Island to Australia.
 Canton and the adjacent is lands, secretly occupied by the British when they heard the United States was interested, will continue to be British occupied. But the Americans who were land ed on the same islands, after the British, will continue as residents.
 This was the compromise worked out by Sir Ronald Lind say and the State Department: The occupation groups of both countries will continue to live there, and the airplanes of both countries can land. But since the British have no planes, and could not fly the Pacific without Hawaii even if they had, the compromise is all in favor of the USA.
 NOTE-The islands are only three to six miles wide, and smell to high heaven because of the &C., cumulated bird droppings. So the British may get discouraged. The three American residents hope not, however, for then they won't be able to make up rubber of bridge.
 Strange Effect
 Representative Bruce Barton's one session on Capitol Hill seems to have had unique effect.
 The New Yorker is one of the country's most noted advertising authorities. His firm, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, is one of the largest in the game. Yet, in a press release issued by the Republican National Commit tee over Barton's name recently, appeared this pungent statement:
 "Ballyhoo is fun for while, but you can't eat ballyhoo." Tax Expert
 One of the unnoticed episodes in the confusion of closing Con- gress was the resignation of little Lowell H. Parker, chief expert of the Congressional Joint Commit tee on Internal Revenue Taxation, which framed the new tax law that got such a blasting from the president:
 There were number of inter esting angles to Parker's retire. ment:
 l. He left the government to become the income tax expert Of large Washington law firm spe- cializing in tax practice.
 g.. While Parker was working with. the congressional committee behind closed doors on the new revenue act, certain of its mem- bers knew that he planned to enter private tax practice after the measure became law. But they said no word and he con- tinued to sit in the secret deliber- ations until the end.
 3. Several days before Parker handed in his resignation, Repre- sentative William McFarlane of Texas made a blistering charge that lobbyists had loaded down the new tax law with 29 tax-evad- ing loopholes which would cost the government items of millions of dollars in lost revenue"
 4. This attack led to secret meeting of the joint committee at which there was much hot talk about having one of the members reply. But despite their indigna- ton, no one volunteered to talk back to McFarlane.
 5. In filling Parker's place the committee peculiarly jumped over Gaston D. Chesteen, assistant chief expert and the logical choice, to name Colin F. Stam, counsel of the committee and an intimate friend of Parker's.
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