The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-28

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 Borglum came to Washington rasler late in the session, and with hardly anyone realizing it, passed a new bill for his Mt. Rushmore, S. D., Memorial. Also he got a $100,000 initial appropriation, with three times that much authorized for the future.
 The figures which Borglum is carving into the face of Mt. Rushmore are Washington, Jef- ferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Past work was going so slowly, because of lack of funds, that it would have required eleven more years to finish it, on top of almost that much time already put in on the job.
 Borglum also was having trouble with his committee, and succeeded in kicking most of it out and ap- pointing new one completely friendly to him.
 The new group will include Senator Pittman, of Nevada; Isabella Greenway, ex-congress- woman from Arizona; Senator Bul0w of South Dakota ;Sena- tor Norris of Nebraska; Herman Oliphant, counsel of the Treas ury; Russell Arundel, collector of "doodles"; Kent Keller, con- gressman from Illinois; Cover nor Hanna of North Dakota, and William Williamson, Rapid City, s. D., attorney.
 One feature of the new bill which Borglum lobbied through congress is provision for room to be carved out of the mountain and which is to be filled with present day records day records (including copies of The Wash ington Merry Go-Round), then sealed for posterity.
 Borglum proposes that the room remain sealed for 10000 years, but other members of the committee believe folks will get curious in only a couple of hundred years and open the room up despite Borglum's instructions.
 NOTE-Wonder what the papers would have said if John L. Lewis had tried to pass a bill like this? Here's That Man Again
 Charley West, one-time glad handler for the President on Capi- tol Hill, now has another job spotted which he hopes to land. It is to replace William I. Meyers as head of the Farm Credit Ad- ministration.
 Myers has recommended as his successor the deputy governor, F. F. Hill, a nOn-politician. But various politicos, smelling 8 lush job have been beating a track to the door of Jimmy Roosevelt. Among them is Charley West.
 If Meyers has his way, Hill will get the job.
 Dollar Devaluation
 Inside story behind all the talk of devaluing the dollar is that the talk began in Germany. The Nazis have been trying to keep both France and the French franc in a perpetual state of jitters, thus prevent any action by her when the crisis arrives in Czechoslovakia.
 French financial jitters ceased When France devalued the franc. So pro-Nazis in London approached Prime Minister Chamberlain with the idea of devaluing the pound, which would throw the franc out of gear once again.
 Chamberlain replied that he had had enough criticism because of his pro-fascist leanings and de- clined. He suggested, however, that they might do something in Washington.
 So Nazi elements adopted the strategy of circulating rumors that the dollar was to be devalued. Starting rumors of this kind are the easiest thing in the world< A whisper dropped in London's City or along Wall Street will grow and expand to unrecognizable proportions.
 Result of this whispering cam paign was immediate heavy sell ing of the dollar and buying of gold, forcing both Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau to issue emphatic denials that any dollar action was contemplated.
 These denials were bona fide. No one in the New Deal has any idea of devaluing the dollar except, as one high official put it, "those fascist blankety-blanks in the State Department"
 Civilian Bombing
 You may have noticed that not much came of the British sugges- tion to send a committee to Spain to investigate civilian air bomb- ing.
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