The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-21

Whatever the exact time, the speech will describe the general results of the economy cuts which Congress administered to WPA. Particularly Roosevelt will tell about what has happened to the 650,000 relief workers who have been dropped from the rolls since July l, under the act of Congress requiring workers employed with WPA more than IS months to be dropped.
 WPA already has started gath ering data for the Roosevelt talk. Among other things it will ascer- tain the people who obtained pri- vate employment and what has happened to those who did not.
 WPA rolls, now a little over g. 100000, will be cut to around 100000 by September 1. This level will continue until the win- ter months, when the total again will be boosted up to around 100000.
 TAFT VS. SMITH
 T. V. Smith, radio-speaking Democratic Congressman and for mer professor of the University of Chicago. has emerged from his radio debataes with Bob Taft with a high opinion of the Republican Senator.
 The two men debated over the air and frequently got into argu- ments, so that Senator Taft acted slightly unified with Congressman Smith when they finished the ser- ies.
 However, Smith has told friends that he believed Taft did a better speaking job than he, and that Gallup poll was correct in report ing this. When Democratic Smith visited in Denver this summer he also made a statement that he considered Taft the best Republi- can choice for the Presidency.
 Apparently Taft heard about this. For when he met Smith at the, Virginia Institute of Public Affairs not long ago his alo0f- ness had changed to warm cor- diality.
 NOTE-While paying tribute to Taft personally, T. V. Smith also said that he believed Taft made a mistake in featuring the Senate on almost every subject which came along, a practice which did not enhance his popularity with other Senators.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Arthur Krock, astute corres- pondent of The New York Times, is writing a book on the seven long years" under Roosevelt The man chiefly responsible for putting the LaFollette civil hber- ties investigation through the Senate was Gardner Jackson, mili- tant young crusader. He bounded Senate moguls, including LaFol- lete himself, until they produced the money. Alexander Kirk. Chicago soap king, is doing an excellent job as charge d'affaires of theh U. s. Embassy in Berlin. .. One WPA theater which re- fused to take the congressional cut lying down was in San Fran cisco, where talented young direc- tor Gordon Lange took over the Swing Mikado" from WPA and produced it commercially.
 U. S. ARMY
 When Claude Bowers went back to Spain to collect the personal belongings left there while serving as Ambassador, he sailed on the same boat with Major John P. Ratay, the American military at- tache in Bucharest.
 Sitting in the ships smoking room, Ambassador Bowers was amazed to hear Major Ratay gloat over the success of Hitler in Eur ope.
 'This fellow Hitler is going
 places" said the American army
 officer. Nobody can stop him
 n0w."
 Ambassador Bowes, . staunch believer in democracy. was amazed. Finally he protested to Major Ratay that this was not language becoming a United States oflicer Ratay, however. continued to gloat over Hitler's ascendancy.
 FAMILY PRESERVE
 Representative Lounis c. Ra- baut. whose Detroit district in- cludes the fashionable Crosse