The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-11
Wornen's s Democratic
 Club Sponsors Rally
Gathering Hears Mayor, Attorney Smith, Mrs Wallace
 and Others Discuss Campaign Issues

difficult problem. It is' being well handled by. those public-s;lirited men with the courage to attempt so dinicult task. am confident the voters will again repudiate a party whose only contribution to the solution of the problem Is a slanderous attack on those working to solve 1t.
 ssBrain Trust''
 Another indirect method of att tack on the recovery program is the attack on the presidents advis- ers-the so-caIled "brain trust" Unable successfully to attack the program in the formation of which the advice of these able men played so large a part, the repub- lican candidates attack the men personally, referring to them by such terms as "intellectuaI com edians."
 Yet the republican party. which has long claimed to hold a monop- oly of the brains in this country, offers no constructive measures to replace those instituted with the aid of the intellectual comedians" They suggest that fin agriculture you cannot elevate yourself by your own bootstraps, nor can you by executive order make the stun stand still. They fail to mention the utter neglect of the farmer under republican administration. They fail to offer constructive measures to-day. s5N-NF Y
 Reverse Stones
 In the industrial East, they ac- cuse us of favoring the farmer over the wage-earner, in the West, they reverse the story. It is a familiar device of republican campaign strategy. the attempt to stir up sec tionalism. Another old friend is cropping up-the vague threats of economic disaster and unemploy- ment unless the representatives Of republican big business shall run the country, as they alone are competent. We need go back only six years to recall those same threats used as major argument in campaign-takilg the place of any constructive plans for the fu- ture. Hoover was elected, largely on the basis of those threats, and the economic disaster and unem- ployment arrived to confound those who had claimed the ability to prevent them.
 The lesson we learned then was that threats and promises alone have no. magic effect on economic conditions. And in the years that followed we learned that the re- publican policy of inaction, with the high priest chanting prosper itysis just around the corner" was no more effective in curing deep seated economic ills than it had been in preventing them.
 We had been promised two cars in every garage. What we got was two families in every house.
 Action Necessary
 It is possible, we calim, under our system of government for gov ernment to aid industry to recover from economic disaster and to pre- vent it's recurrence. But we learned that leaving all planning in the hands of business, with a little financial aid to big business and threats or promises to the people can neither prevent nor cure de- pression. Action is necessary. Ac. ton is not only the right but the duty of those in control of govern ment.
 Under the leadership of Presi- dent Roosevelt, and with the SUD- port of democratic Congress, we have acted. Relief has been ade- qnate, recovery is under way, and planning for the future has been begun. It is our duty to see to it that this program of action is con. tinued, and to prevent the repubIi- can campaign of islander and fear from returning us to the disastrous inaction of the last administration.