The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-17

JedE~Olu JuIllOT senator himself. But with Wendell Willkic, hired as high-priced coun-
 sel to defend the movie moguls, i theoretically silenced and refused permission to cross-eXamine the witnesses, Mcfarland as the "mi- nority" member of tho suh-commit- tee began to do little cross-eX- animation on his own account. And he stole the show, taking the play away from such able debaters as Senators Nye of North Dakota and Bennett Clark of Missouri. What wasn't generally known is that Mcfarland Is an experienced court lawyer. Even though he has been in Washington only since January. back in Arizona he is known as Judge Mack" of the state superior court, and before that as a
 trial lawyer he defended Winnie Ruth Judd of trunk murder fame, getting her death sentence reduced to insanity. As prosecuting attorney of Pinal county in 1928 he secured the conviction of Eva Dugan, the first woman to be executed for mur. der in Arizona.
 JUST LIKE LAYING
 After the first sessions of the movie hearings were over, McFar- land admitted he got a kick out of the proceedings, as he hadn't done any trial lawyering for @ few yeass, but from this 1t should not be d0- duced that Mcfarland is handling the minority end of the inquiry tast as a lark. He agrees that 1t would have been e bad precedent to let Willkle cross-eXamine witnesses.
 Just why Mcfarland was put on the subcommittee, Judge Mack doesn't even know himself. The chairman, Senator Worth Clark of Idaho, and the other members, To- bey of New Hampshire, Brooks of Illinois and Bone of Washington, are all isolatlonists in their lean- ings. Mcfarland has distinguished himself principally by keeping his mouth shut, as e freshman senator perhaps should. He has made couple of short speeches, and voted for -lend, other administrator foreign policies, and he favored conscription.
 McFarland's technique is perhaps best Illustrated by an exchange with Senator Nye on the opening day of the session. Nye had just recited list of films he said were propa- ganda and Mcfarland asked which ones had been objectionable:
 Nye-1t is most difficult. 20 to film tonight and tomorrow my recollection Is hay. But I recall T Married Nazi."
 McFarland-All right, what was objectionable2
 Nye-The injection of scenes that tended to make one hate 0 whole race of people.
 Mcfarland = What portrayal in- duced hate?
 Nye-r suggest you see the plc- ture. There Is in 1t & spirit of hate. |
 McFarland-That's e conclusion. Did you sec 'Escape"2
 Nye-1 can't remember. am afraid am doing terrible injustice 1 to you when I inflict my conclusions | upon you.
 McFarland-Don't worry about | me; I'll take care of myself. DON'T WORRY
 ABOUT THE JUDGE
 That last phrase Is perhaps more | characteristic of the young senator 1 than anything that could be said | about him, for he has been taking | care of himself quite well, thank | you, for almost as long as he can remember, climaxing with his defeat l of the veteran SenatorS Henry F. Ashurst in the Arizona primary in 1940 by a two-to-one vote, after Ashurst had been In Washington 2s years.
 Mcfarland is Democrat, but he's not sure that he likes being called a New Dealer. What embarrasses him most now is finding himself on the same side of an argument with Willkie and some other Republicans.
 He is not making any public statements about the movie hear ings, or condemning his seniors and colleagues on the other side of the fence. Privately, he has expressed the fear that the inquiry is going to drag on and on, one witness after until the hearings become just plain tiresome. When that | time comes, he may have something to say, and it will probably be worth listening to. Judge Mack has the makingS of good senator and the