The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-14

national debt limit has not been raised.
 WORDS, NOT ACTION
 The economy bloc also has
 another idea up its sleeve = or at
 least some of them have. That
 idea is to make those amor them
 who talk economy but practice the
 opposite, toe the line. A lot of
 Congressmen are good at making
 speeches on government waste, but
 when it came to an appropria-
 tion for their districts, or job
 for their constituents = that is
 another matter.
 One remarkable phenomenon
 of the current economy wave is
 that all the antis are redhot for it., but not one has specified a
 single item to be cut. So by re-
 fusing to raise the 45-billion-dol-
 lar debt limit, economies would be
 compulsory and both Roosevelt
 and Congress would have to toe
 the mark.
 PAT HARRISON PLUM
 Pat Harrison of Mississippi, one
 of the most vehement demanders
 of economy, issued well-timed
 blast on this theme the other day.
 Thanks to the help of 8 news
 paperman from Mississippi who
 collaborated with him, it made big headlines.
 But a day or two before looS-
 ing his blast, Senator Harrison
 was taking with the Treasury
 Department about continuing the
 job of Comptroller of Customs at
 various ports throughout the
 country. The Treasury long . 7,s
 wanted these jobs abolished, says that the Comptroller does no
 work, that one comptroller goes to
 his office only twice month to
 receive his check. But whenever
 the Treasury has urged abolition
 of these jobs, Congress, with an eye to patronage, has continued them.
 This -ituation was carefully explained in Senator Harrison the other day. And Pat, per haps remembering that he helps appoint customs comptroller
 in Mississippi, replied: Well. I'm III for economy - but can't you find some work for these comptrollers to do?" Note The Comptroller of Customs in Baltimore, Scott E ck, has not been out of his bed for four years.
 DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE A foreign dilomat in Washing ton wanted to find his way to Mount Vernon, but his English was poor. Wherever he stopped
 his car to say, Where Is Mount Vernon?", he got only puzzled look and |: shake of the heeS. Finally, with the aid of sign- pos.s, he found the shrine of Washington, but later complained, These people I have asked are not intelligent people. They are yokels, or they would have un- derstood me. My pronunciation is excellent"
 When the party returned to g Washington hotel for dime the diplomat said to his friends, 'T'll wager these waitresses will uu- derstand me when I say Mount Vernon" He summOnes one, said with heavy accent, Have you been to Mount Vermont" The girl nodded her head and immediately went to the kitchin. In moment she returned with 8 sl..--c If watermenlo-.
 PEACE CRUSADEF
 Abe Don't ..-...se - phone) Pickus of Cleveland, who .ele- phones the heade of foreign gov ernemnts to urge peace, blew into Washington the other day; but all he got ws a rtln-around. At the White House he was told the President was out of town. Secretary of State Hull sent wo ] he was too busy e the sel.- appointed sace- promoter. @ did COP Chairman John Hamil- ton and Capitol Hill leaders. Finally Abe made come e-tion at the Japaneg, Embessy, but 1t didn't last long when they learned that ell he wanted was to induce Ambassador Horinouchi to sit down and "talk things over" with Chinese Annr 'sador IT.. Hu Shih. Though Abe's sortic at the