The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-26

perience in diplomacy in the United States. He served as mill tary attache of the German En- bassy during World War I, and was active in plots to blow up the We-land Canal, the International Bridge and various munitions plants.
 Since then von Papen has ris- en high, has served as Chancel- Tor of Germany, and is now the man who has been trying to per- suade Turkey to remain neu- tral.
 The bait which vOn Papen used to get Turkey on the hook was the promise of the restOra- ton of the Turkish Empire = French Syria, British Palestine, and everything also right down to Iraq. This would include some of the richest oil fields in the Near East.
 Meanwhile the British were pulling vigorously in the opposite direction.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 State Department has hired a new officer for haison work with War and Navy Departments-Ken- meth Anderson, the man whom Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky fired after long time service as clerk of House Mill tary affairs .l Ex-Senator King of Utah visited the Senate the other day, sat in his old seat, and itched with the impulse to rise and address the chamber :. |. Blind ex-Senator Gore of Okla homa came into the chamber on the arm of page and listened with uplifted face and rapt ex- pression to the debate The statue of Huey Long still wears shroud, awaiting formal pres entation to Statutory Hall in the Capitol . =. The Sergeant at Arms of the House offers Con- gressmen the assistance of two ex- perts in preparing their income tax Following isolation demonstrations in the Senate gall leries last week, Capitol police keep all visitors lined up on the lower floor and admit only a few at time.
 U. S. TURKISH EXPERT
 Cordell Hull has just elevated to Assistant Secretary of State the man who comes closer to be- ing a monk than anyone in the State Department.
 C. Rowland Shaw is bache- Tor of 47. Born a Protestant, he was converted to Catholicism as a young man, and even af- ter he had entered the foreign service, he considered leaving diplomacy to study for the priesthood.
 Before tackling the worldly business of statecraft each morn ing, Shaw goes to Mass. He never goes out socially in the evening, but stays at home to study.
 Shaw has dealt with young peo- pie all his life, and he combines the worldliness of a diplomat with the tenderness of priest. He and homes for delinquent boy. He uses his holidays to visit prisons and homes for delinquent boys. He is director of the Children's Village (for juvenile delinquents) in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y, and of the National Training School for Boys in Washington.
 Shaw's interest in prison re- form began when he was serV- ing as a foreign service officer in Turkey. and he became so identified with the problem there that the Turkish Government named its island prison "Shaw Island"
 DEFENSE HOUSING
 Typical of the failure of the defense housing program is tiny Charlestown, Ind. where the government is completing Q giant powder pant and preparing to erect a rubber-bag plant. For- merly Q hamlet Of less than l. 900 Charlestown now has over i2O00 construction workers liv. ing in trailers and other inakeshift dwellings, or committing from Co miles away over icy roads.
 Congress appropriated several hundred millions last summer Co provide emergency housing, nnd Palmer was appointed De. fenSe Housing C00rdlnaieF nt sO.00O q year fog the express purpose ef seeing lha! ihs job