Show washington snapshots tm duj washington is about to greet great a new year and a new congress one will make its bow with noise making the other with speech making and there are a lot of people in washington who alio will not participate in either event they will be burning the midnight oil around the inner circle trying to iron out a knotty problem they are the strategy boys their problem concerns spending they are trying to figure out the best way to continue the spending and yet make it popular with the guy who pays the bill john Q public they decided several weeks ago that an armament program being popular with john Q at the moment would be the spending outlet most likely to be acceptable the first step then was to divert the unpopular spending toward national defense public reaction was immediately favorable although favorable opinion is generally believed to have cooled some as it became evident that defense was being linked up with new pump priming however that only partially solved the problem for it popularized only a portion of the spen spending d the are seeking to justify there are other unpopular spending programs the strategists want to continue so as the straten str strategy ateo y boys sit up late nights they will be trying to figure out a way of making john Q believe that plowing under crops killing pigs and operating a score of alphabetical agencies is is in in realf reality ty vital to a rearmament program As one washington ob observer sever wisecracked at ikast that would confuse the enemy 00 the new year outlook for one of those agencies incidentally is becoming an uncomfortable uncertainty for some in washington the agency is the AAA which has suffered a crushing defeat of the plowing under policy at the hands of tobacco and rice growers these growers by referendum have decided that they want nomore no more government control of their crops the AAA claims solace in its one victory acceptance of control by the cotton growers underneath der neath the surface however there is wonder whether the do dc feats are a sign of a brewing revolt against the theory of scarcity and some say that after all restrictions stil strict chions ions are needed far more in cotton than in tobacco an and 1 rice this jibe with a pre pra ref statement by secretary wallace however who said several weeks ago that the problems were interrelated 00 to add to the worries the national grange oldest and perhaps most potent of all the farm organizations has served stern notice that it will not stand by let liberty be driven from the farms the tha grange notified the AAA that it will permit no I 1 legislation egi to be adopted which will result in either immediate or eventual regimentation of the farmer 0 0 0 0 0 washington residents were a bit concerned last week when the national geographic society in wash ington happily announced the birth of mosquitoes they had been hatched from dozen mosquito eggs shipped to washington from orlando fla just about the time washington started looking for the fly swater there was a reassuring P S to the announcement the new born insects were said to be of the tha harmless variety and are to be kept in confinement while scientists study their development from the cradle to final swat 0 0 0 0 0 QUOTE OF THE WEEK elliott eiliott roosevelt there is no business but what you have to come coma to washington to find out how to run it |