The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-25

Not even the High Commis- sioner to the Philippines or the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, next highest paid respec- lively, draw as much as the Cox family.
 Gene Cox also holds another record. He is the No. 1 Congres . sional opponent of higher wages for American labor. No sinlge in- dividual has stormed so consis- tently against the Wage Hour bill which endeavors to set fair stan- dards for labor, than the Con- gressman from Georgia. He raves and fumes against the law on the floor, and Is moving heaven and earth to emasculate 1t with amendments in committee.
 Simultaneously, Cox has six rel- atives on the federal payroll draw ing Sl7,600. Here is the record:
 Lamar Cox, son, gets $4,800 as counsel of the Electric Home and Farm Authority.
 Ode E. Cox, brother, gets S3,180 as assistant disbursing clerk of the House.
 Mrs. Jim Lou Cox Hoggard, sis- ter, gets S2,400 as postmistress of Camilla, Ga. Cox's hometown. She has held this job for some time, and Jim Farley has just sent in her name for another 4-year ap- pointment.
 Charles M. Cox, nephew gets $500 as administrative officer in the north-central division of the AAA.
 Martha Hoggard, niece, gets $1,- 800 in Cox's office.
 Robert E. Cox, nephew, gets $1,- 620 as a clerk in the Library of Congress.
 Which indicates that Roosevelt harbors no purge sentiments toward the man who has contin- ually blasted him.
 McNUTT'S FAME
 It will probably be a shock to Paul McNutt to learn this, but he is not as famous around the Ma tional Press Club as he thinks.
 The other day lady elevator operator in the Press Building asked a newsman, "What's going on up at the Press Club? We've certainly carried lot of people up there the last half hour"
 Paul McNutt is making a luncheon talk"
 "McNutt, who's McNutt?"
 He's going to be our next president-he hopes"
 "WeIl, I'll say this," the girl replied, eff he's as nice man as MT. Hachten, (Arthur Hachten, president of the Press Club he'll make you newspaper men a darned good president"
 HE RULES STATE DEPARTMENT
 Periodically in the State Depart ment a buzzer sounds on the desk of a high-placed official and a voice over the inter-office dicta- phone announces: MT. Welles wants you to know that Francis White will be down from New York tomorrow"
 This news echoes and re-echoes all over the State Department. Francis White will be down to- morrow" until an observer gets the impression that the State De- partment is run by none other than Mir. White, despite the fact that he was out at the end of the Hoover era.
 MT. White was then assistant secretary of state, is now a dyed in-the-w00l Tory, a hater of Roosevelt policies. and privately on the outs with Undersecretary Wells. Yet when 1t comes to for- eign loans, the atrophied hand of the past, in the person of Mir. White, reaches into the State Department and dictates policy.
 Whites official title is president of the Foreign Bondholders Pro- tective Council, and his crusade is to squeeze the last penny of inter . est from Latin American govern ments which borrowed money from the United States during the lush bull market days of Calvin Cool idge.
 Just at present his squeeze play is the subject of considerable in- ter-cabinet debate. with the Hop kins-Ickes- -Morgenthau group arg uing that if the United States is to preserve any semblance of dee mocracy in certain Latin Ameri-S can countries it cannot play Uncle Hhyiock. They point out that the Francis White policy of exacting hlna laak r.naa1aa Gf flanla in Anlulnn