The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24

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 After all the talk about helping those who are making the big sac- rifices on the war fronts and giv- ing them an opportunity to re- establish themselves when they come home, newly appointed war liquidator will Clayton is fighting hard against the veterans.
 The issue came up when broad guaged War Food Administrator Marvin Jones backed proposal to take all the Army and Navy camps purchased during the war and turn them into farm develop ments for veterans after the Arm istice. Both Marvin Jones and Franklin w. T\ncock, Farm &c., curity Administrator and former Congressman from North Carolina, are urging the ioea. They argue that, with military housing al- ready in these areas, they will be ideally suited for getting war torn veterans back to the land and & normal farm life of benefit both to themselves and the nation.
 But will Clayton, until recent ly right-hand man to Jesse Jones and the biggest cotton broker in the world argues that the land should be sold, wIth the former owners getting first crack at it. While Marvin Jones and Hancock don't oppose the theory of letting former owners buy the land back, they point out that, in actual practice, the former owners will not have the money, so that the land would go to the big land syn dicates and insurance companies, thus increasing the concentration of farms into big estates.
 This is what happened when Jesse Jones offered Government housing projects for sale in Wash ington. Only a few big companies had the money to bid, despite the fact that Jesse offered them at loss to the Government of Sev- eral million dollars.
 DIES SLAP-DOWN
 Willy old Congressman Adolph Sabath of Illinois, veteran chair man of the House Rules Commit tee. came through last week with suggestion to which hard-boiled, brazen Martin Dies, John Rankin and Clare Hoffman had no come backs.
 These three have been guilty of more personal attacks on citi- zens of this and other countries than any thre members of Con- gress in recent history. Hiding behind Congressional immunity, they have never resitated to call anyone who has incurred their
 displeaSure the most insulting
 names they could think of.
 Their statements have been preserved for pOsterity by the
 Congressional Record at the tax payers expense.
 When, therefore. they arose this month to demand that broad casters be forced to permit mem- bers of Congress "unjustifiably at tackled" on the air an equal amount of equally good time to reply to thceir attackers. Sa- bath took the floor and declared that the idea was good one. He would extend the privilege of reply to any citizen unjustifi- ably attacked on the air, he con- tinued
 With Rankin, Dies and Hoffman gaping at the unexpected support, the Illinois Congressman then added that he would also suggest that citizens unjustifiably attacked by Congressman be given equal opportunity to reply on the floor of Congress. There was no com- ment from Dies, Rankin or Hoff- man.
 SKILLED WORKERS
 Inside fact about the hot debate on deferring industrial workers is that the President first signed an order for their non-deferment without even consulting his War Manpower Commissioner Paul Me- Mutt. or his Director of Selective Service General Hershey, or the head of his War Mobilization Board, Justice Jimmie Byrnes. To these three men supposed to CO., ordinate manpower problems, the Presidents first decision to ban all deferments of skilled war workers came as bolt out Of the blue.
 What happened was that the