The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-24

to address the House for one min ute"
 NO ,,
 OBJECTIONS
 The speaker says, Without ob. jection 1t is so ordered and since no one ever objects, the peoples choice comes front and center tc microphone and fires both bar relS.
 Individually, these choice rnof- sels of oratory don't save the country. They are seldom re- ported. Succeeding outbursts may be as unrelated as consecutive items in 8 tabloid encyclopaedia Anything goes
 Taken collectively, however, a group of these one-minute gems make @ synthetic pearl necklace of the times. From them, you get a string of beads to tell just what marbles of annoyance are rolling around loose to upset what should be the stately feet Of the law makers.
 There was & burst of these minute orations just after Con- gress returned from its Easter va- cation. Many of the boys had been home, mendtng fences. They found other things than crocuses sticking out of the ground, and they reassembled eager to tell the colleagues what they had seen.
 Collectively, they show to Q re- markable degree the temper of Congress today. A few character istic sentences make 8 nice addi- ton to your, collection of great sayings from famous living states men:
 Hon. William P. Lambertson of Fairview, Kan.--1 conducted 18 meetings in my district and the people asked questions and argued issues. They are not scared of Hitler coming over here. They are not for sending conveys nor our boys abroad at all.
 Hon. Hatton w. Summers of Dallas, Tex.-Mr. Speaker, last weekend I went to the coal fields of West Virginia to get some first hand information. I was con- vinced that the heart of the in- dividual coal miner is sound. These are the people MT. (John L.) Lewis says am In favor of electrocuting. Of course, that Is perfectly ridiculous.
 SMILE WHEN
 YOU SAY THAT
 Hon. Robert F. Rich of Woolrich, Pal make an observation in criti- cism of MT. 1ckes, who termed Charles A. Lindbergh as the No. l Nazi dupe. think MT. Lind- bergh is right. I defy MT. Ickes to call me a Tory, or copperhead, or economic royalist, or back-stab- Der, or prince of privilege, or char acter assassin, or some of the other names that he has called other good, honest, loyal American citi- zens. He should know better. (Ap- plause.)
 Hon. Joseph J. O'Brien of East Rochester. N. Y.-Mr. Speaker, I have been the recipient of hun dredS of letters, and every letter strenuously objects to the way the present administration is handling the labor situation.
 Hon. Harry B. Coffee Of Cha6- ron, Neb.-Mr. Speaker, in the c. I. o. news of April IA, Harold Christoffel Allis-Chalmers strike leader) Is quoted as saying: We have defeated the combined efforts of the police, the courts the employers and Washington to break the strikG, and we won a real victory" MT. Speaker, how long are we going to permit these Communistic labor racketeers .. to defy the courts and municipal state and federal authorities?
 Hon. Frank E. Hook of Iron wood, Mich.-Do you know that there are only il factories out of hundreds of thousands affected by strikes? Let us have the facts be- fore blowing off steam.
 Hon. Fred Bradley of Rogers City, Mich.-I suggest, MT. Speak CT, that the committe on accounts should place in the lobby of the House & bulletin board or which should be posted as 1t hap pens the latest spot news 50 we could have up-to-date information on what is going on in the world.
 Sometimes these minute men can't crowd all they want to say into their 60 seconds, and they keep on expounding as they march back to their seats. And as the Congressional Record states i.