The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-11
NEA Service Writer

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 Washington.-This is an era of harsh feelings, according to Senator J. Boomboom McWhorter.
 If everyone who has been call ling other people bad names were to have h.s mouth washed out. the senator suggests, most of the 6,OOO,O0O unemployed would be as- sured of jobs in soap factories. McWhorter will introduce 6 bill to wash all those mouths but has not hope that it will pass because a majority of the members of congress would be affected.
 Tt has been many months since the newspapers reported an in- stance where someone thought of something nice to say about any thing or anybody the senator observes.
 ''The republican national com mittee is praising MT Hoover, radio announcers pay homage to certain toothpastes and rubber tires and both Washington and Lincoln came in for moderate amount of com imendation on their birthdays this year.
 Everybody Is "SOrc" But in both politics and busi- ness everybody is so sore and fraz- zled that there has been more gen. eral and whole-hearted banning than during any previous period within my memory.
 If every knock were really d boost the millennium would be here now, nobody would have to work and life would be just beautiful bore.
 Diplomats are supposed to be the cagiest, most tactful people in the world and you get na idea how sour the world has turned on itself when even they begin to get nasty. I've exchange ambassadors with Spain and the ambassadors exchange epithets. One day our ambassador there was attacked by the Madrid press because he was supposed to have said that the members of the new provisional government looked like a bunch of jailbirds.' That same day the new Spanish govern ment appointed an ambassador to us who was on record as accusing us of stark imperialism asserting that this country considers the whole continent it's prey and de- manding that we apologize for start ing the Spanish American war.
 Meanwhile, the Haitian minister has got himself into a jam because he was said to have insinuated that General Smedley Butler was. fake 'herO. And Butler, who called Mus solini a hit-and-run driver and was accused of obscene language when he said He'll on the radio, is only one of our public men who gets into one duel of harsh words after another.
 No chapter of history displays so many adjectives used to adorn the word liar as the republicans and democrats used in the big name- lcalling contest between Chairman Fess and Chairman Shouse. No president within the oldest inhabi- Itant's memory has been castigated as has MT. Hoover. And the ana- thema hurled at each other by re- |publicans and democrats is only ex- celled by the imprecations and male- dictions exchanged between regular republicans and progressive republi- cans and between wet democrats and Idry democrats. When you hear re- |publicans like Julius Barnes and MT Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Rail- road cursing the protective tariff you realize how good and mad everybody is at everything and everybody else
 Chicago Sets Records
 "New records of invective were established in the Chicago mayor lalty campaign and every day some- body is piling new abuse on Mayor Jimmy Walker and Tammany Hall only to be branded as bolshevik in return.
 Even President Hoover forsook his accustomed calm the other day to deliver a fearless denunciation Iof Candino. the Nicaraguan rebel.
 T call to mind the good old days