The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-02

Means Committee. Instead, they are going to bring the measure out and force the boys to line up and say faye" or "nay".
 This is going to cause a lot of secret gnashing of teeth; because the last thing most Townsend camp followers want is to declare themselves openly for or against legislation.
 This is particularly true on the Republican side, where the lead- CTS are fearful of the effect a big COP vote for Townsendism would have on businessmen. The Repub- lican helmsmen were confidently expecting the Democrats to smoth- CT the bill in committee in order to save their own side from going on record. But they have another think coming.
 Reason for the Democrats change of mind was 8 quiet count of noses which revealed only 34 Democrats as compared to 98 Republicans who bear the Townsend brand.
 Not all are outright edher- ents. Some have attached strings of various kinuds of their promises of support. But all were en- dorsed by Townsend and accepted his backing in the 1888 election, so are sure to run head-on into the oldsters' displeasure If they oppose the pension plan.
 With a three-to-one margin in their favor, Democratic lead CTS decided they could well afford to put the COP on the spot even if it entails singeing some Democrats.
 NOTE The Townsend high command has secretly decided not to seek vote on their bill in the overwhelmingly hostile sen ate. Instead, one of their friends will offer an amendment to the Social Security bill calling for sub- mission of a constitutional amend ment by which a transactions tax could be passed to finance the Townsend type of pensions.
 BRITISH HUMOR
 When a party of Canadians came to the White House the other day, Steve Early explained that they were presenting Roose- welt with gift associated with the War of 1812-in which, in- cidentally, the Capitol and White House were burned by the Bri- tish.
 This brought deep-voiced conn., ment from Sir Willmott Lewis, London Times correspondent" ."lll venture it was some charred obj ject," said Lewis.
 COSMETIC CONTROL
 Henry Wallace is sparring for fight with Elizabeth Arden. The secretary of agriculture is about to apply production control to cosmetics, and the famous beauty expert doesn't like 1t.
 The clash is over the use of
 coal tar c0lors in cosmetics.
 Wallace Is not an expert on
 mascara, eye shadow, or tissue builders, but the Food and Drug
 Administration is under his
 jurisdiction, so he is holding aIoft the banner of regulation.
 Last session, Congress gave the agency new powers to control the sale of cosmetics. Most dangerous ingredients. according to its ex- perts, are the coal tar colors. Af- ter a series of public hearings announced, "There will be no cer- tification of any coal tar color for use in any article which Is applied to the area of the eye"
 This strikes hard at all pro- ducers of "cye shadow, including the Elizabeth Arden Sales cor poration. which had applied for permission to use coal tar colors in eye shadows.
 Miss Arden's company stiIi
 has time to protest WaIlace's production control. but FDA is
 cracking down vigorously on
 other cosmetic producers. It has driven enc widely advertised eyelash heautifier out of busl-
 ness and is raising hob with others.
 Meantime, its iaboratories are iurid with cosmetic stricken guinea pigs and white mice. Every new coal ter coloring that comes Into the scene is tested on the rodents. The white inice show clearly what cosmetics they arc