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Show urtn Mr. Winrhrll trnrf n ttn hi- ''lamn li brinf conducted by g ue t rolurr nii. CAPITOL HILL r u:os iicndekson ':. i Vljrr I'ricv Administration Senator H.irkh'.v ;.nd Spciker H.i-burn H.i-burn both can e as congressmen with the Wilson admmistr ition in 11)12 Recently they jovially debated debat-ed rank. Berkley, because "H" is alphabetically higher th;.n "U," was namtJ to committee nu'iiibrrhi. s ahead of Kay-burn. Hut Sam claims precedence nw because if he should d.e the President would attend his f.ineial, but would not be obligated to d ) so if Aibt-n p;i.s:.ei on . . . Senator Uarkley, as perpetual keynoter, key-noter, claims to be an authority on key words -At the I'Xl'l Chicago Democratic convention he says it was "beer" In Philadelphia, 1!K!6. it was "New Deal" At Chicago again in 1!M0 it was "Roosevelt" . . . Our tomorrows look brighter because be-cause of a growing group of young Southern congressmen, such, as Hale Doggs, 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 Drown of Michigan. Michi-gan. W ASIIIXGTON V I G ETT K 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, ns do al) 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 tenantsit ten-antsit 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 stall 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 OPA can only get by the canning season and the elections . . . Wa.t till our new pursuit job ties in wiLn the Zero . . . Sure was funny aboat the male tenant from Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh who reported on Form CCD-2 that be "shared a bathtub with his landlady" . . I wonder what ever became of the N'RA visitors who wanted a floor under prices ... It isn't true that Don Nelson and General Gen-eral Somervell phflt they've phfft, phfft, phfft and always made up, . . . Big men . . I wonder J the Mayos will check up on Charlie Mi-chaelion's Mi-chaelion's no-trump play while he's ther- . . I miss Pat Boland . . . Dick Lansburgh . , . General Johnson John-son . . . What some of these wage debates need is Jerry Prank and Simmer Pike ... I woi'der where the Peoria Chamber of Commerce found my Australian hat I gave it to Sir Clive Baillieu and I dared him to wear it . . . Who trained victory-gardener Leon, Junior, ape four, to ask me not to ration seeds ... My candidate for the United Nations beauty contest, Mrs. Soong |