Show washington snapshots by james preston it waa aure a shock to tho the caal tol hill corps last week to hear joseph V 1 kennedy suggest blat tile the united states sanu d Marat Mura time com coin slon might bo be granted e pe perales ralls klott to contract for construct construction loa of abw american ritan merchant t ships in III foreign fore ign ports porta because american labor and material costs coats were pro proa imitative IlItA tIve 1 I the sug gealon was contained in mr air final report to the before lie he formerly re signed us tia chairman of tho the commission tu to rem accept qt tho the alp to great britan mr kennedy cited bias recently submitted c d by amer american lean shipyards to the coultaus coult commission als shoil as aa cyl delleo of tills agh cit of living in the iho merc stant marine and qualified ills his suggestion ot foreign by that material auld mi imi aboard Is considerably cheaper ch capor and wo vc thought all along that higher lil glier wilk for our workmen ew ahk yvo always received the law highest lit in thu the world which includes those producing materials wa was the american goal but maybo maybe weve welve an all edition of the impera I 1 tho the trw ury departments cou con fund has gained a dime because a missouri farmer passed up a drink of ir beor in a letter accompanying compa nying the gift tho the farmer explained lie ho had resolved to send a dime to tho the fund every time lie ho was waa tempted to drink a bottle of beer th i 3 paying the whole sum to help balance tho the bud atit instead of juat the tax on a same game it lins liaa been suggested that the furmer lo 10 advised that lie he jaust je tempted with more bottles of beer if he wants to wipe out tho the red ink for the current yeat year go of aitho he W week ce k j olin johni L lewis liaa has refused an invitation to break bread with will lam green at the labor departments twenty fifth anniversary dinner march 3 8 cho vho invitation Imil tation had been extended to the two labor loaders leaders by secretary frances perkins ter general parley farley revealed that he Ls bi the latest ot of ahe washington inner circle to turn author ile has contracted to write a series of mag azine articles will later inter ite be pub published lIshA in ill book form ills ilia subject vt Is a secret tho wisconsin and new york delegations tattled battled t lit in the senate and later laler in the senate restaurant over tile tho qualities t I 1 of each states respective cl uv d abo cheese conflict fol lowed close on the heels of a maine idaho potato debate dubbed dubix d the tuber tourney ly by follow fellow congressmen tho bho grapefruit war aud and the lowa iowa squabble over liams hams come next juno 30 and alid relief expenditures expenditure s ot of the government since 1033 will total treasury accountants inform UA its beking into account the OW being asked of congem for relief work and nil fill the money being used by tile aiho alho COO the old civil works and for rollet VC lief quotes of the eclie week rep harold Mit Knute itson of this polley policy of making bigger and bigger and nd lowrina 4 smaller may lead to national bankruptcy homer martin president of tho the CIOs united automobile workers Wor kera yam bain must again they must spend and affix spend and heavily I 1 dont care where they got get the mic money got to got get it rep joseph starnes of ala AIR baneat the time lins lias come to do our policy on relief andi and I 1 am not ono one of those who believe wo we can keep kap up tills program permanently we cannot go on spending two to five bil lions hons of dollars annually without ruining the credit of the nation at requiring a program of unparalleled taxation |