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Show illli .Mi Durlnr Mr. Winrhcll's absence on vacation vaca-tion hi column is being conducted by guttnt culumnilH. CAPITOL HILL Ry LEON HENDERSON Iliad oj Office oj I'rice Adminislrulion. Senator Barkley and Speaker Ray-burn Ray-burn both came as congressmen witli the Wilson administration in 1912 Recently they jovially debated debat-ed rank. Barkley, because "B" is alphabetically higher than "R," was named to committee memberships ahead of Rayburn. But Sam claims precedence now because if he should die the President would attend his funeral, but would not be obligated to do so if Alben passed on . . . Senator Barkley, as perpetual keynoter, key-noter, claims to be an authority on key words At the 1932 Chicago Democratic convention he says it was "beer" In Philadelphia, 1936, it was "New Deal" At Chicago again in 1940 it was "Roosevelt" . . . Our tomorrows look brighter because be-cause of a growing group of young Southern congressmen, such as Hale Boggs, Al Gore, Wilbur Mills, and Mike Monroney, to mention only a handful . . . I wonder if the American public will ever realize the debt they owe to Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan. Michi-gan. WASHINGTON VIGNETTE Recently Don Nelson and I acknowledged ac-knowledged tribute to Scotch grandmothers grand-mothers for their training in discipline disci-pline Sidney Weinberg thought we overdid it In a bridge game later, when Sidney set me two tricks, he gleed, "Your Scotch grandmother is no help in bridge against a Brooklyn Brook-lyn ward leader like my dad was." I interview my share of rubber substitute inventors, as do all WPB members, because I believe in miracles mir-acles I ought to, I married one. But, one long haired scientist took the cake: "These other fellows make synthetic, Mr. Henderson, my process proc-ess makes REAL rubber" . . . One of my rationing staff heard complaints daily for two weeks from traveling business men "Two weeks with the traveling salesmen," he reported, "and not a single new risque joke" . . . The solution of our transportation problem requires a miracle-worker, and Joe Eastman is the guy who can do it.. THINGS I NEVER KNEW TILL NOW That according to the squawks there are more landlords than tenants ten-ants it couldn't be . . . That there really are a high percentage of statesmen in congress . . . That it's amazing what you can-get for nothing noth-ing nowadays It would cost us millions mil-lions to get the services that our rationing boards are giving us for nothing and it wouldn't be as good . . . That a staff of 30,000 can get one into disproportionately more trouble than a staff of ten . . . That Claude Wickard is really a top-notch top-notch corn-hog producer . . . That the average height of three of my deputies is 6 feet 5 inches if they were laid end to end the lawyers say a lot of people would cheer and the deputies say that if all the lawyers were laid end to end they'd reach no conclusion . . . How fast a $1 a year man can become a temporary tem-porary bureaucrat . . . That Maria Ma-ria Alencastro at the Brazilian embassy em-bassy would be a star on any radio program . . . That Senate Sec. Ed Halsey was such a peacemaker, pacemaker, and life saver . . . That 16 per cent of the people had no Gallup opinion on OPA since it sometimes seems like everyone has written to me and the mail was 77 per cent favorable like Gallup indicates in-dicates either, some days. THOUGHTS WHILE STROLLING ON CONN. AVE. AT MIDNIGHT What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel ... I wonder where I can get a good second-hand tire for Lube ... I wonder whether our rent division can keep me from being be-ing dispossessed . . . It's good to see Marvin Mclntyre with so much zing again ... I expect Sidney Hill-man Hill-man to zing again. Wouldn't it be fun if Harold Ickes was in the senate sen-ate ... If OFA can only get by the canning season and the elections . . . Wait till our new pursuit job ties in with the Zero . . . Sure was funny about the male tenant from Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh who reported on Form CCD-2 that he "shared a bathtub with his landlady" ... I wonder what ever became of the NRA visitors who wanted a floor under prices ... It isn't true that Don Nelson and General Gen-eral Somervell phfft they've phfft, phfft, phfft and always made up. . . . Big men . . I wonder if the Mayos will check up on Charlie Mi-chaelson's Mi-chaelson's no-trump play while he's there . . I miss Pat Boland . . . Dick Lansburgh . . . General Johnson John-son . . . What some of these wage debates need is Jerry Frank and Sumner Pike ... I wonder where the Peoria Chamber of Commerce found my Australian hat I gave it to Sir Give Baillieu and 1 dared him to wear it . . . Who trained victory-gardener Leon, Junior, age four, to ask me not to ration seeds . . . My candidate for the United Nations beauty contest, Mrs. Soong i |