Show MerrY Round Merry Merry Merry- Go Round Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN W WASHINGTON Huey WASHINGTON Huey Long is not as cockily unconcerned about last weeks week's inglorious filibuster as he likes to pretend The strutting is nobody's fool in his lis saner moments and he has had plenty of opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to realize that his relapse into exhibitionism exhibitionism was costly indulgence The reasons for this are 1 The I-The Tho affair demonstrated that for all his mental alertness and strident aggressiveness Huey lacks acks balance There was utterly no occasion for forthe forthe the he filibuster No astute leader would have laid himself open to such a mauling That Huey Hucy did so evinced clearly that he lacks self 2 The 2 The incident also proved that Huey is not a dangerous floor fighter that if his bluff is called he has nothing but a pair of leather-bellowed leather lun lungs s to back him up The last was what happened in the filibuster Repeatedly this session Huey Hucy has taken the floor and started a flood of pf rhetorical bombs Each time he scared Democratic wheel-horses wheel into compromise compromise com corn promise or surrender And he almost did last week After up the senate for the entire afternoon he proposed to quit if the leaders would agree to vote on the resolution next day Senator Pat Harrison Harrison Harrison-ex- ex extremely shy gun-shy of Huey moved Huey-moved moved to accept But the progressives refused You started this they said Now finish it w To say that this startled Huey Hucy is to put it mildly The Kingfish goes to great pains to claim po political political po- po and economic brotherhood blood-brotherhood with the progressives and he is constantly strutting this before the galleries Insiders have known for some time that the progressives did not trust Huey But their open act of war served the first public notice of this Or as one of them talking off the record put it We wanted to remove all doubt that the tail is not wagging the dog The incident was not lost on the alleged King- King fish His first n act t after resting from the vocal marathon marathon marathon mara mara- thon was to seek out the progressives and complain com corn plain phlin about their unfriendliness They offered no consolation New Policy Though not generally realized the announced plans of the rural electrification administration mark a distinct departure in New Deal policy In its other great electricity programs the programs the TV TVA A East Tennessee Grand Coulee State of Washington Fort Peck Montana Casper-Alcova Casper Wyoming and Maine the Roosevelt regime is pushing projects in direct corn competition petition to private interests In the case of the R REA E A however it is dif dif- ferent Morris L. L Cooke brilliant head of the new agency is going to great pains to emphasize that the government wants and hopes for the cooperation cooperation cooperation tion of pr private prate ate capital That this invitation is not a mere gesture is evidenced evidenced evidenced evi evi- by the following rules laid down by Cooke 1 That I-That That the REAs REA's construction activities will willbe willbe willbe be conditioned upon what private utilities will do doin doin doin in expanding their rural service In other words if a private company in a certain area is willing to expand its rural lines the REA will keep aloof from that area 2 That 2 That the REA will give first consideration to territory not now served by private interests with electricity or not likely to be to any extent 3 That 3 That in financing rural electrification de developments developments developments de- de the REA will loan not grant the money Cooke is firmly opposed to outright grants rants holds that the activities of his agency can best be promoted if conducted on a strictly business business business busi busi- ness basIs The REA was allotted from the work relief funds According to government es estimates estimates estimates es- es only out of farms in the country are electrified Of or the remaining Cooke figures that from one to three million offer an economically sound juice market And he points out the further significant fact that an electrical farm being served by current at reasonable rates opens a vast field for of electrical appliances and equipment McAdoo's 1 Defeat I. I B. B Dockweiler is in town That doesn't mean much to the average citizen but it means a great deal to California's long-legged long Senator William Villiam Gibbs McAdoo Those on the inside know that Dockweiler's visit here is more than a fatherly callon call callon callon on his congressman son John F. F Dockweiler ler He Heis Heis Heis is setting the stage for revolt against McAdoo in 1936 0 S U. U S. S destroyer last week dubbed the Warrington got its name at the instance of a aman aman aman man who makes a hobby of proposing names for tor navy craft He is W. W H. H Lehigh university university university sity history professor and he dug up the name of an American naval hero named Warrington who commanded the Peacock in Tripoli in 1805 1035 b by bf United Feature Syndicate In Inc |