The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-30


 will let him.
 Joe is not in very good health, is a bit bored with the job, and also he has been a little too frank for the British. His statements in- dicating that the Empire might be in for a tough time before this war was won, did not sit so very well in London.
 Finally, Ambassador Kennedy is in wrong with the British for fail- ing to carry out the traditional duties of Walter Hines Page. KEEPING COTTON KING
 Next week, Henry Wallace and Milo Perkins will take the first step along a path which some economist S think eventually will lead to solving the cotton surplus problem.
 This is the cotton stamp plan which on May , will stage it's world premiere in Memphis, Tennessee. For the present, the plan will operate only in this area, and only on an experi- mental basis. There will be mod est expansion later.
 In it simplest terms, the cot- ton stamp plan is a means of talk ing idle cotton out of warehouses, making it into shirts, and putting the shirts on the backs of the poor. As with the food stamp plan, the Government gives a needy person free book of stamps in ad- dition to eacfr book that he buys. He uses the stamps to buy cotton goods -- any kind of cotton goods at all.
 There is a substantial differ ence between the food and cOt- ton stamp plans. It is that only 10 or IS cents of every dollar spent through the cotton stamps will go to the producer of cot- ton.
 In the food plan, when a re- hefer buy a pound of butter, half the price returns to the farmer who made the butter. But cot- ton involves spinning and weav- ing, SO the dollar has to be divided among the entire industry. EXIT TUGWELL THEORY
 Nobody in the Agriculture De- partment admits it yet, but act- ually the cotton stamp plan marks an important departure from the original Tugwell- Wallace theory of restricting acreage. Instead of growing less cotton and boosting the price, the effort will be the use more cotton.
 What WaIlaceS' experts nave been up against is first the fact that Brazil, Argentina, and Peru are cutting in on the curtailed American market. Second, war born purchases are bound to de- cline.
 Thus no amount of acreage re- duction can solve the problem of surpluSes specially when yield per acre continues to in- crease. The only alternative is to put an extra shirt on the backs of about 1O,0OO,O00 persons who live in the domain of King Cot ton. Tn this case Cotton can re- main King.
 SUBSTITUTE FIRST LADY
 It may or may not be Signific- ant, but the Cabinet wife chosen to act as White Houe hostess, during the abence of Mrs. Roose- welt at the Nobel Prize winners reception, was vivacious Mrs. Robert Jackson, wife of the Att torney General. .
 Her husband has become the closet man in the Cabinet to the President, next to Harry Hopkins. And now Mrs. Jackson is subbing for Mrs. Roosevelt. Looks like the Jackson might be going other places.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the Washington Post publisher, and Washington Times Herald pub fisher Eleanor Patterson have been intermittently warm friends, vig- orous enemies. But when Mrs. Pat terson arrived at the Meyer re- ception for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, at least they could not quarrel over clothes. Each was wearing an attractive evening gown of black crepe waist, red ash and skirt of white chif- ion. They were identical = and comparing notes, both laugningly admitted they wore last years models. These are economical day for publishers. .. On the night Hitler invaded Norway, his charge d'affaires in Washington, Hans Thomsen, had invited the NJo,..,,an.la.. .,nt,.ika~ %o al,a,.a,.