The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-06

 administration and for the per- mament benefit of Hartford that they should be 50 doing. He would have a pretty unhappy time of it if the Councilmen were eating of his leg.
 
 Danger Ahead
 If MT. Epellacy is going to give his official salary to the poor and to continue throwing luncheon table conferences for his council men out of his spare cash he is bound to upset political Hart ford's whole scheme Of things. No one will be found to run for mayor and everyone in the tele- phone book will be 6 candidate for the council. In more ways than one the prediction that Mayor Spellacy is going to make a fine record in office gives every sign of coming true. He can well afford to ignore what q picky partisan press may say about his actions and pooh-pcoa any capital that press may attempt to make of his open-handed generousness. The walters and the bus boys of Hartford will be his friends to the limit. So will be all others who like sound innovation in nlu- nicipal matters and who admire pluck in the innovator.
 Don't Write Letters
 In his Atlanta address Presi- dent Roosevelt gave the financial pack which is snarling ct his heels something to chew upon. Commenting on the attacks be- ing made by the monied big shots upon what they like to call his spending" policies and the yowls being emitted that he has exhausted the finances of the nation, Mir. Roosevelt wisely put the burden of proof on the other side. He directed the attention of the yowlers to the fact that when he took office they told him and wrote him that the country's capacity to pay was many bill. lions greater than his own esti- mate. According to the figures they furnished him the stratos- phere was the limit, Right away there was 6 flood of denials that any such messages, verbal or written, had been delivered. When the President was called upon to give the names of the financiers who had counselled him to go the limit because the national check could be paid no matter how big it was, he smiled. When, as, and if the occasion arose to make names of the Shoot-the- Mooners public they would be forthcoming. In the meantime the clamorers might spend Q lit- tie time with valuable education. al results to themselves by study. ing their own letter files. Since then the hunt is up in the finarl. cial centers of the country and filing clerks are working over. time looking for correspondence which will show that the Presi- dent was wrong in making his statement. MT. Roosevelt con- tinues to smile undistiirbed in the realization that his own filing system is fairly complete and that he has the goods to produce when the psychological moment to do so arrives.
 Bad Memories
 The eagerness with which the monied powers leaped to deny the Presidents retort is another ill- dication that big business has Q bad memory. In the agony of the depression when the only hope of financial salvation was in him, they wrote and told him anything that panic prompted. So great was their desperation that they do not recall what they did or said. The knowledge that they performed exactly as President Roosevelt charges is the explanation for the present hunt through the letter files. There is something Job-like in the quality of the Presidents patience. He can afford to wait remembering that another sorely tried man once exclaimed, My desire is that mine adversary had written a bookl"