| Show wa washington ghantt snapshots by james preston Pr eaton lobb lobbies lea are vis us old as the capitol but a new one lids has sprung up for want of almetter al a better ietter hame I 1 it abas has been dubbed dubbell a back door lobby it Is different from most others because it Is bein being g carried on oil quietly by persons within the government who are opposing a government t proposal participating in the lobby aie are navy and anci army officers who do not want to see sec the florida ship C canal allot aind and the tlde harnessing projects revived the two projects both called impractical by engineers were abandoned more than a year ago when congress refused to appropriate funds for their completion about 14 million dollars had been spent on oil the two when they were abandoned and more moie than million dollars fl be required for their completion they have been revived as part of the national 1 defense I efens program reason for tile lobby against these proposals b by y aimy and navy cilas Is iq that they feel this pon money y Is needed for more urgent national defense needs Furt further berthey they me are saying neither of the projects would enhance the strength of our dc defense lense these military lobbyists hobbyists of course supposedly are expending only their perso personal nill views and would find themselves in an em barr berrns issing ieng situation it it became genc generally rally known which of them were ve working against the apropo proposals that is the reason they are using 1 I the buck back door the experimenters 8 in the agriculture C t iture department are not both ering godeny to deny a recent report that the two price plan for foodstuffs haq been abandoned on the contrary they are quite happy liappa to have tills this report generally believed well informed arces sources bo however wever say the two price plan lias has not been abandoned abandond d and that it will again appear in a more subtle form there is an old saying that truth is ii stranger thaw than fi citon perhaps 96 but in washington fiction is I 1 sonic sometimes times more enlighten hig than the truth for instance in recent years the complexities of life for the average business man alave ilave been well known truths hs I 1 but it has apparently taken a fiction fici I 1 treatment of these complexly ties to awaken and enlighten some of the capital spectators the fiction piece Is the jhb work of it ii well known magazine writer who writes occasional stories about tile the trials and and tribulations of a tractor salesman and his boss ills latest story has the bassin wash ington to straighten out his bis 1937 corporate coi borate income tax return he la is about ready leady to return t to 0 his home and office e when ll 11 he discovers that he must stay over oer to explain his re financing to the SEO SEC after icek of postponing his trip dip home he Is about ready to leave leae when he is called to testify briore before a congressional committee then the wages and hours administration beckons him then the treasury digs up some bookkeeping mistakes in his social ty ly taxes ills home office begins to see seem them farther and farther away then n the NLRB hauls him onto the carpet for firing filing a mechanic who distributed tri buted pamphlets at the tractor factory by wrapping them around a rock and throwing ng them through it a window it I 1 t goes on oil and on but he hb eventually does got get home just in time to 0 k h tile hie sale of a tractor to be used in ill helping a federalized colony of beavers beai ers build a daml dam I 1 map makers have n captured about acres of land from canada without a resultant international incident the loud hind was nas unwittingly ceded to canada several years ago by an erang map maker now barnhart island lit in the st lawrence laurence river is back as a part of new york state A reduction in the treas deficit has finally been effect ed by 1000 A belated christinas gift of that amount has been received from ait an unidentified person lit in boston the money was for ali alie e treasury conscience fund |
