The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-26
I946 Gave Capital More
 ThUn It's Share of LUughs
nY FREpRRICK c. oTHNfAN

W8oAAAAAUb bSsap wv W NO~ ~--S five days more of i04e are left to 70 and must say I'm sorry; doubt if there ever has been wilder-eyed Washington year than this one. It had its tears, of course, but it also provided more than it's share oE smiles and belly-laughs.
 Here's father time with a chuckle in his whiskerB, fsincttoning as the best gag.writer of them all:
 The Public Land Office inves. tiRates, the possibility of deeding . seament of the moon to Bob Burns and his uncle Fuddy. The Con. Rresslonai florist personally pinned ar, orchid on the chest of Jane Rus sell; never saw . nervouser nor. tlcuiturist.
 Russian Llkes Garlic
 The British ambassador imported a private bag-piper. The Russian embassy called 6 press conference, which revealed among other things that the envoy from Moscow Ikes garlic in his stew.
 The six restaurants in the Pen" tagon, biggest office building in the world and now perhaps one of the eu1utiest. baked their bread in five aided Ioaves. The Army brought c iet plane to demonstrate in Wash. ineton. but ct the last red-faced moment discovered 1t had forgot" ten to bring along the kerosene. Oid-fashioned gasoline won't worE in the newest aerial scooters.
 Two Mississippi politicos got into A fist fight in the Senate caucus room and smashed senatorial GUS. uidor on the red velvet carpet. Fred Orsinger placed on his Commerce Department wall stuffed fur-bear" ing trout leopard fur) to prove there is such a. beast. The Government came to the official conclusion that the two-pants suit is not a crime.
 Surplus Boys Red-faced ..
 The surplus property boys sold e60O, 900 worth of new machinery Tor funk: turned out they peddled 1t sicht-unseen because 1t was stored oli a vacant lot, it was raining, ana they didn't want to get their shoes muddy A sunny day might nave saved them some embarrassment.
 Anguished cries echoed through the marble halls when Rep. John Taber, the economical Republican from New York, said he intended to fire about 100000 Federal clerks. F,r coats got so cheap that some ladies of fashion refused to wear the common things.
 The man Bilbo's scheme to puild 2 capitol stadium with a collapsibie roof collapsed. The city father1 uondered anew means n) to proof the local jail against escaping prisoners armed with bed sheets and butter knifes; @, to rid the town and in particular the Treasury De- partment, of Q couple million star iines. Toy balloons wouldn't scare the latter; neither would 70 stra- tegically placed klaxons.
 World War I Agency Ended
 The Treasury Procurement Divi- 9lO0 UluCSQ v AGABGb SANC@ ~~s woven, cotton, red. The publisher of the social register had to print a hurry-up supplement, eliminating the names of numerous Democrats and inserting those of newly fash ionable Republicans.
 The U. 6. Spruce Corporation. . Federal agency organized to help win the First World War, went o1l of business 28 years later.
 Striking pilots of VIVA said theiri was not, either, a gold-plated, ener- ald-crusted labor dispute. Pan American Airways inauguratec Trans-Atlantic movies; l observed the world premiere of same si. months ago and only now do l find 1t amusing. Delicate members oi Congress installed for themselvei an ulsra- private restaurant, wher. they can down the 60 cent special lunch, insulated from the gaze oi hungry constituents And so farewell, l046; l047 may be as fun. ny, but I doubt 1t.