Show OR W EA L t Wash D C SOPHOMORE CONGRESSMEN U The Pres dent s heralded meeting with freshmen had an unheralded sequel on Cap tol tal H Hill l Day after the Wh to te House party 19 second term house Democrats held a luncheon m in Speaker Sam Rayburn s private d n ng room at which there was considerable good natured and some not so good na natured natured grousing about the President dent s relations with congress Object of the luncheon arranged by Rep Oren Harris of at Arkansas was to enable the second to console each other for not being invited to the White House for a party when they were freshmen Among others Rep Sam Russell and Eugene Worley of Texas took great delight in Rayburn I Sam why can t you get us an in on to the Wh to te House However the luncheon took a se serious rious turn when hen scrappy Rep Ed Edward Edward ward Hebert of LouISIana lambasted the Wh to te House for not consultIng w th congress on new on and criticized his colleagues for submit t ng to Wl WI to te House d Ob Observing serving that only 26 of at the 45 Demo Democrat cra crat t c freshmen of the last ses sess s on survived the November elec elect tons t ens the Lou declared It If a lot of us had paid more at attention to our instead of to Wh to te House ad ads there wouldn t be so few of us here to today today day In the last year of Huey Long s tenure he controlled both houses of the LouIsiana leg slature complete completely ly except for one man But Huey d do t try to ram through any bills wIthout lettIng each man know what was go ng on and making rum him feel like he be had a stake stahe in the program Ve titre m in congre congress s haven t been treated like that Hebert sa d he held no enmity against the House p add adding mg ing to Rayburn I ye ve always been very fond of you but I Ice ve never been able to vote for you on a national ticket I hope I will be able to cast my ballot for you next year either as top man manor manor or running mate on the Democratic ticket Th s brought loud cheers from the and blushes from Ray Rayburn Rayburn burn who responded With a fatherly lecture urging those present not to let personal es influence their act ons m in congress AMERICAN AMERICA BOMBERS Desp to te the crit cism you may hear of American planes USa U S a r men who have stud ed the current bombings of Europe say privately that one American bomber IS worth five of the Brit sh American planes are heavily armed and heavily y armored Able to protect themselves they oper operate operate ate m in the dayl With precIsion bombing whereas the British planes fl flying ing at night must lay down a pattern of bombs over a whole area hop ng that the pal target will be hit bit British planes can carry a heave heavier er load of bombs but the fewer f bombs carried by the American planes are more effective because they go straight to the target Further American planes have fewer losses proportionately than the British both anal and combat losses In fact the American t on is so important that the all out bomb rig ng of Germany must await the ty of more U tf S planes Most people think there IS a heavy concentration of AmerIcan planes m in England now and that the current round the clock bomb are the b g show Ne ther IS correct There was a on of U S planes m in England last summer and fall made w th intended c t ty This had the effect of send ng the NazIs scurry ng all over western Eu Europe Europe rope to mend theIr defenses Tren U S aIr strength was as pulled Olt of England for the miSSIOn It had been intended the for invasion of North Africa U S air strength m in England is isnow isnow now be ng bu built t up again and when the time comes the two air forces combined will stage the show in III intended tended to knock Germany out of the war ME MEXICO ICO BARS MIGRATION No one Is advert sing It but Mex Mexico Leo ico has slapped a temporary ban banon banon on the recruitment of its workers for farm jobs in the United States This was expected to be one of at atour our b g sources of farm labor in inthe inthe the Southwest However no Mexican Mexican can laborers have been imported ill in more than a month despite fever sh efforts by the Farm Security ad administratIOn administration ministratIOn to bring in approximately 50 MeXIco Is not keen about the re eru cru ting program and some time ago notified the state department that It was reserving the right to specify the sections of MexIco where labor could be recruited Rea Reason Reason son given was that MexIco couldn t tafford afford to have labor dra ned from industrial sect ons Meanwhile the Farm Security ad administration ministration has orders for 6 MeXicans but Is at II 11 walt waft waltIng wafting Ing for an okay to beg n Note So far we c have imported 5 Mexican farm workers under 30 to 90 day work ork contracts |