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Show J THE WASHINGTON SCENE Senate Committee Chairmen Are Enperienced Legislators (Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles on new congressional mittees and their chairmen.) E3SCREETKRADI0 . com- Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU W&thincton Corretpondent. Rosalind WASHINGTON. Experienced legislators are at the helm of senate committees of the 80th congress, a survey disclosing that 'the committee chairmen have served an average of 11 years in the upper house. Their length of service ranges from four years for Sen. Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia to 28 years fonSen. Arthur Capper of Kansas. One of the first problems before In age, the new Republican chairmen average 61 years, five years old- the judiciary committee under Wiley will be advisability er than senators as a whole. Youngof repealing emerest of the group is Sen. Styles who is New of gency war powers Bridges Hampshire, not affected by the 48, while the oldest is Presidents procCapper. lamation of the end The list of committees and their of hostilities. In a chairmen continues: report to the .Reconferpublican Agriculture stated ence, Wiley ARTHUR CAPPER (Kas.), chairin view of the that, man of the senate agriculture and nationcontinued forestry committee, is at 81 the oldthe al emergency, est mail in the senate and ranks secvaried ,and comond only to Kenneth McKellar plex nature of the (Dem., Tenn.) in length of service. wartime controls and the chaotic He was elected to the senate in effects of immediate termination of 1919, after serving two terms as controls, the problem should be studgovernor of Kansas. ied by the senate committees conNow dean of the farm bloc, Cap- cerned with the various types of per has been an important figure controls before the judiciary comin agricultural leg- mittee draws up overall recomislation for the last mendations. 20 years. He voted Wiley, bom in 1884 in the town of for the McNary-Hauge- n Chippewa Falls, where he still lives, bill in 1927, is a lawyer. He also owns and operadthe agricultural ates a farm and has been a direcjustment bill in 1933, tor of a local bank. His only pubsoil conservation in lic office before his election to the 1936, crop insur- senate in 1938 was that of district ance in 1938. He for Chippewa county, voted in 1942 to in- attorney which he held from 1909 to 1915. clude the cost of The judiciary committee deals farm labor in comwith courts and judges, anti-truputing parity prices and for the Russell problems, bankruptcy laws, patents, amendment to the same effect in immigration, civil liberties and constitutional amendments. 1946. Capper was for the y 1934 1930. in In tariff he voted for reciprocal trade agree- Interstate and ments but by 1940 he was against Commerce extending them. He supported cre- Foreign ation of TVA in 1933 but is against WALLACE H. WHITE JR. (Me.), the proposal for a Missouri Valley new chairman of the interstate and authority. In q recent speech he foreign commerce committee, is one announced that the parity price sup- of the few Republicans who have port program needs revision to pre- had previous experience as a convent accumulation of unsalable surgressional committee chairman. pluses. White was chairman of the house Capper has a wide influence in the grain belt through a number of committee on merchant marine and from 1927 to 1931. In addinewspapers and magazines which fisheries to tion and general transportation he supervises from Washington. He entered the publishing field by be- bills affecting commerce, Whites a typesetter for the committee handles radio and comcoming Topeka Daily Capital, which he now munications, civil aeronautics and owns. His other publications are merchant marine bills. White was also minority leader of Cappers Weekly, Kansas Farmer and Mail and Breeze, Household senate Republicans in the 79th conmagazine, Cappers Farmer, Mis- gress and now souri Ruralist, Ohio Farmer, Pennmajority sylvania Farmer, Michigan FarYn-e- r leader in addition and Kansas City Kansan. He also to commerce comchairman. owns radio station WIBW in mittee He was strenuousTopeka. ly opposed for the Public Works committee job by ' st Smoot-Hawle- es CHAPMAN REVERCOMB ' (W. Va.), still serving his first term, becomes chairman of the public works committee, which will take over the old committees on commerce and public buildings and functions grounds and of post offices and pot roads. Revercomb is 51 years old. He was born in Covington, Va., served in the army in World War I, returned to Covington to practice law and moved to Charleston, W. Va., in 1922. He was a member of the Republican state executive committee from 1932 to 1936 and was president of the Young Republican league of West Virginia from non-person- 1934 to 1936. He was elected to the senate in 1942. He is a former president of Charleston Bar association. On public works matters, Revercomb voted against an appropriation to continue the national resources planning hoard in 1943, against an appropriation of 75 million dollars for a postwar planning fund in 1945, for the full employment bill in 1945 and against an amendment the same year to reduce federal aid for airports from 500 million dollars to 250 million dollars. On most issues, Revercomb has followed Republican party policy, lie voted with the majority of his party on 82 per cent of controversial roll calls in the 79th congress. Judiciary WILEY ALEXANDER (Wis.), chairman of the judiciary committee, is a regular Republican who voted with his party 85 per cent of the time in the 79th congress. In the second session he was absent for only 10 per cent of roll call votes. Clyde M. Reed, (Rep., Kas.) who was represented as having the support of the railroads while White was . t backed by the radio industry. White is 69 years old and has been in congress continuously since 1916, when he was elected to the house. He went to the senate in 1930, and is the third ranking Republican senator in seniority. Before entering Congress, White practiced law in Washington and Maine and was a senatorial secretary. Labor and Public Welfare ROBERT A. TAFT (Ohio), new chairman of the labor and public welfare committee, has endorsed changes in labor laws to enable employer and employee to meet on a fairly equal basis. Specifically, he will seek enactment of legislation to hold unions responsible for contract violations, to require union financial reports, to establish mediation machinery outside the labor department to outlaw secondary boycotts, and to exempt foremen from the Wagner labor relations act. Most of these provisions were in the vetoed Case bill last spring. Taft, a lawyer, is the son of former Pres. William Howard Taft. He served in the Ohio house of representatives from 1921 to 1926 and in the state senate in 1931 and 1932. He was elected to the United States senate in 1936. The labor and public welfare committee will handle bills on education, health, veterans hospitals and medical care, in addition to the subjects covered by its name. cer- russell monotony! In Columbias The Guilt of Janet Ames she wears one costume consisting. of 3 about pounds of diamonds and 2V2 pounds of tulle, net and are set in sequins. The diamonds and sea earrings a huge necklace, ries of bracelets. Quite a change from her Sister Kenny costumes, and from those shell wear in RKOs I t 'W '! , 'GOING PLACES . . . Planning a trip is almost as much fun as actually going, the Camp Fire Girls in this picture attest. The teen-ag- e Horizon Clubber tells two Blue Birds about a trip her group is planning this summer. AGE NO SECRET Camp Fire Girls Go Places, Resume of Services Reveals WNU Features. 1 Camp Fire Girls, your birthdays are showing! Yes, they are them! But instead of growing older ,with the years, you remain young in spirit and mind, eagerly looking forward to new horizons. Camp Fire Girls! Perhaps that brings to mind a group of girls in Indian ceremonial gowns, adorned with beadwork, rub- ROSALIND RUSSELL' 35 of bing two sticks together to make a4 fire in the woods. Well, they do that, too, but its only a fraction of what -J the girls do! ;On March 15, 1912, the organization was incorporated. Two years prior to that, a group of progressive educators, naturalists and woodsmen NOTES g founded the agency, to formulate a plan of constructive CHATTER leisure-tim- e activities for young girls AIRPORT school students in the Chats-wortHigh from 7 to 18. 111., aeronautics class have a . These people realtextbook on wheels a retired AT-- 6 ized that character is formed plane, purchased for $200 as a war predominantly during the recresurplus item. . . . Two other surplus life. ational hours of a childs have been purchased by Renplanes They outlined a program of work ton Vocational school . of Renton, and play, based on the finest Wash., for mechanics training. The ideals of civilized living. Cessna transplanes, During 35 years their wise plan- ports, are being overhauled by the more dividends. For ning has paid 140 World War II veterans now enthan two million girls have enjoyed rolled at the school. . . . The navy has fun and friendship in Camp Fire activated a new air reserve unit at since the organization was incorpo- Denver. Ultimate is to have goal rated. At present, more than 360,000 400 men, 70 officers, on fullincluding 222 councils scattered time members in duty there, with about 1,500 from Maine to California provide trainees at the taking their proof that Camp Fires program field. . . . Theres notraining in the doubt offers the recreational needs girls are Wisconsin state senate that the air seeking. age has arrived. It received a bill Fire proposes to allow air minded state Every year Camp employees a project particularly geared to of 10 cents per mile. plane mileage 1947 The service and citizenship. Persons now using their own planes anniversary project has as its theme, for state business are reimbursed at orAlthough the Going Places. the car rate of 4 cents per mile. ganizations youthful members have ever since been going places 1912, they now will plan to go even Snowbound for several weeks, farther afield. the Earl Weber family of DunAs an example, in Reading, Pa., lap, Iowa, was able to eat, thanks 100 Camp Fire Girls received a to a flying brother who dropped training in business supplies at their isolated farm as they took over various jobs for home. The brother, Harvey one day in one of the citys large Weber, 33, operator of the Dundepartment stores. They went forlap airport, made several trips to ease the plight of his brothward, not only in learning how a big business is run, but also 'in the ers family, dropping groceries, field of human relations. fuel and other supplies even ice cream and candy for the chilAnother instance of how Camp dren and the Sunday paper. Fire members are alert to new trends occurred in Dayton, Ohio. Thirty girls recently enrolled in FLYING FAMILY k a course in child and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Adkins and baby care. Now Dayton moththeir two sons of Elmo, Mo., rank as. ers of young children will feel a flying family. Both Mr. and Mrs. secure in using Camp Fire Girls Adkins and son, Keith, 17, are qualias baby sitters. DonOut in St. Paul, Minn., Camp Fire fied as pilots while Girls went places in a big way dur- nie is waiting to solo when hes 16. ing the Community Chest campaign Flying their own Cub plane, Mr. by caring for children of volunteers and 13Mrs. Adkins bagged 29 foxes coyotes in two months. When while the mothers were out col- and the funds for shooting starts, Mrs. Adkins the drive. lecting Alert to other community needs, takes over the controls and Adkins Klamath County, Ore., Camp Fire handles the shotgun. Girls volunteered to work in public health offices, bringing files up to date, at the same time getting experience in business procedures. Adopt War Orphans. Promoting ihtemational good will always has been a part of Camp Fires program. In Washington, Ore., Horizon Clubbers (Camp Fires senior group) have adopted a French war orphan and regularly send him clothes and food. A similar undertaking is being accomplished in Sacramento, Calif., where another teen-ag- e group also has adopted a war orphan. From these few excerpts maybe gathered a small idea of the vastness of the Camp Fire program. Rubbing two sticks together to make SOLID COMFORT . . . These moose a fire is not the half of it! and a deer, flown from Ontario to The vision of the world and all New York for a sportsmens show, the wonder that would be, which were content with their the founding fathers of Camp Fire hold inperfectly a cargo plane and refused had back in 1912, has indeed been to for their owner, Joe budge realized as Camp Fire Girls show of Gogama, Ontario. the world they are going places! er' A. &?' XVIAnON youth-servin- h, version of the ONeill play, Mourning Becomes Electra; she spent a couple of weeks at Palm Springs resting up preparatory to working in that one, set to go before the cameras just about now. 1947 picture is all at Thats present, set; called, Life, it revolves around the central character of a professor of serious music who becomes involved in an academic analysis of jazz. We hear itll be Kayes most elaborate musi- Danny cal so Kayes far. far-seei- twin-engin- ed behin- d-the-scenes four-wee- . La-flam- m Pat Buttram, comedian of the Saturday Night Roundup, wanted some patchwork quilts for his home, but the prices asked in antique shops appalled him. So he wrote to friends in Alabama who used to make quilts by the dozen, found he could buy them for $3.50 and got started ordering quilts and couldnt stop. So now tl situations reversed hes looking for customers for patchwork quilts. Ezio Pinza, Metropolitan Opera star who has added greatly to his popularity by doing guest shots on the radio, has signed with United Artists for three years. Youll see him in Carnegie Hall before long; after that, in Babes in Toyland. Rise Stevens, star of the Sunday tells this one on herself. One season when she was leaving Prague for an opera tour of Europe, Walter Surovy, whom shed met there, said Write to me when you have a chance. Im collecting stamps. Not a line did he get from her, not a stamp. But he must have learned a more romantic approach somewhere she finally married him! Family Hour, Hi Jim Backus, best known for his Hubert Updike III role on the Alan Young show, plans a club called Millionaires Anonymous; says itll be made up of busy radio stooges whose names dont mean much to the public, but whose weekly incomes pass the four-figu- re mark. Take Jims case; besides his Friday night stint with Alan, hes frequently heard with Fibber McGee and Molly, Bob Burns, Jack Carson and Jack Benny. Marcia Anne Northrop appears in Samuel Goldwyns The Bishops Wife. Her mother, a Goldwyn Girl, appeared with Eddie Cantor in Palmy Days way back in 1931. So Marcia Anne has been enrolled as a" Goldwyn Girl, Five-year-o- ld class of 1960. -- Hi- Three years ago Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy broadcast from Mexico City, the first time a major commercial program had originated outside the U. S. Now, on March 16th, theyll do it again. The entire troupe', including Ray Nobles band and singer Anita Gordon, will be on hand for the broadcast. - Professor Quiz .(heard now on Saturday evenings) tells the inside story of how he got his first sponsor. Ten years ago the network was trying to sell an elaborate, costly program; since its godd policy to offer an alternate program with the one theyre trying to sell, it was decided to offer Professor Quiz as the sacrificial goat. So the sponsor heard both programs, chose the 4 |