The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
IMerry-GO-ROu

WASHINGTON, Nov. ss--assa ammslne sasAa oA the MNrxysC Co-Houna scgne ooaaS ts me Uentse scramble ol the sociass the loehyis ana tne aecea power politicians to get religion m haExs, m tnk case religion R better enowa as she cor. After N years of Democratic rule the Republicans were 70 4ar down the socal list they almost developed an inferior ity complex But nov they are staemg grand come back me invitations to once~scosmea Republican senNtor and oonf1ussmen have doubled and eaplea hcstesses bid for the newly~woa psestige ot oOR solons
 scores of wasAsnrsonians are now racklng thear brains to figure out whom they know who knows someone who knows someone high In Republican ranks.
 Always In step with she times ls populer rgssl- dental court jester George Allen who never hestates to tell a joke on himself If yoa walk Into Allens private office first thing you win see Is an auto rraphed picture of his good friend, Harry Truman. Second thing is a newly hung autographed photo ot Senator Arthur vandenbuEe. A glance at the wan shows however, that although the picture was re gently hung, it was not recently autographed. It says For my dear friend, George Allen. With best wishes A n vandenbere" The date Is June Q. 1888.
 Asked whether he hung the photo on the day aft CT elections the ever-lovahle court-5ester replied
 'Noh, no. didn't wait that long. hung it up at quarter past eight on election night Sure was dusty, but had it all polished up" Aheut swo weeks before elections, Mlsslsslppss rOotln' sootln' Congressman sohn Rankin Democrat and New Jerseys witch-hunting , Parnen Thomas Republican put their heads together and agreed that with Republican elec0iOn ceTbAan now was Nne to sweep out of the Government all the liberals whom Rankin and Thomas do not like
 TO this end it was agreed that New Jerseys Thomas was to be chairman of the On-AmeEacan Affairs Committee while Rankin was to continue as the driving force Thomas was to carry the ball just enough to retain some semblance of being chairman but most of the work was to be done by the so-caeo gentleman" from Mississippi
 The agreement was sooner reached than Rob- ert Stripng former chief investigator under Martin Dies and three times deferred from the draft was re-employed Striping given the promise that he would become chief investigator under the Repubn- can Congress beginning in January. Since his return Stripping has been slipping into the old House office building by the southeast en- trance wearing dark glasses to conceal his identity Tn addition a sun-tan picked up in the Army has helped disguise him. For three weeks he has been busy going over the files of the old Dies Committee working up a master list of those in the Federal service whom the Rankin Committee will smear al the first opportunity.
 Prediction Congress is in for more xdtch-hunt- ing than since the days when ex-CongreSSman Ham Fish of New York followed hot lead to an old trunk \ in a Baltimore warehouse supposed to be tul ot Soviet documents When he lifted the lid. he found only cabbages.
 There was only one major dispute when the House Republican Steering Committee held its closed-coor caucus on legislative policies the other day This was over whether the Republicans should accept all oi