The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-10

or less. These small plants use only five or six per cent of the nations raw material. Therefore, he figures, these 133,000 small companies should be given priOri- ties and allowed to get their metal. It won't disrupt the defense pro- gram to do this, and 1t would disrupt thousands of little firms to do the opposite.
 Next, Odlum figures that the the Army has on its list 25,000 firms which 1t has worked with in past years, and had given them educational orders even before the emergency. He thinks the Army should be able to keep these firms busy, though he has his fingers crossed on this point. Ac- tually, the red tape artists in the War Department have not given orders even to 10000.
 At any rate, Odlum calculates that, excluding the little firms which hire only 20 men, there will be about 34,O0O companies to be cared for. These are the firms to which he will try to shoot some of the $4OO, ,O0O,00O set aside by Under Secretary Patterson.
 Whether or not he can do it depends very much on the red tape boys who love the easy rou- tine of letting contracts to their old friends in the big companies. even more than they love an af- ternoon of golf.
 JUDY O'GRADY AND
 THE COLONEL'S LADY
 Visiting in Washington recently, the Duchess of Windsor met ex- Governor o. Max Garner of North Carolina and his wife.
 "Oh, I just met the incest person from North Carolina" 1" the Duchess told them. "She is Aunt Bessie's cook. And she cooks the best biscuits In the world. I just came from one of her luncheOnS, which was so good that just had to go out in the kitchen and tell her about 1t. She comes from Q little town called Shelby, North Carolina. Did you ever hear of it?"
 Vaguely" smiled Gov. Gar dener. My wife was born there. I was born there, and we still live thcre."
 DO you remember the name of your Aunt BeSsie's cOOk?" asked Mrs. Gardner.
 Rosetta HilI," replied the Duchess, who has amazed every one by her extra ordinary mcm- Ory for names.
 ''Why we practically raised Rosetta" said Mrs. Gardner. "She used to work for my nephew in Shelby"
 Since then the Duchess Is still talking about Rosetta's biscuits. and Rosetta is talking even more about her meeting with the lady who almost became Queen of Eng land. It's a small worldl
 The Senate debate over the revision of the Neutrality Act last cd two weeks. From the sizzling statement that daily poured out over the press wires, particularly from isolationist orators, the country doubtless gained the im- precision that a terrific battle was in progress.
 outwardly the Senate showed no sign of 1t.
 Most of the time during thiI two weeks the chamber was largely empty and as peaceful as a li- brary. An attendance of eight or ten was big crowd. On one occasion, Senator Alexander Wiley, Wisconfin, isolationist, talked practically to himself.
 Only three other senators were present and two of them were not listening to Wiley.
 Even when Wheeler, No. congressional isolatiOnist, dee livered his six-hour speech, there was never more than 90 present on the floor, and most of them were his partlsans.
 Except for the desire to crate. the Senate could have disposed of the legislation within 24 hourg after it was received. t CAPITAL CKzAEF
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