The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-21

try. IT we d0nt Cake our Snare " will go somewhere else" Plain citizens making no pretensions to the possession of supremely an- alytical minds have already esti- mated, and will continue to esti- mate, this alibi at its true value. The country at large would be more influenced by republican at- tacks on MT. Roosevelt if some signs of common honesty could be discovered in his attackers. If there were more members of the g.o.p. in high places who would do what Justice Van Devanter did about his AAA check there might be some chance for the partyS success at the November polls. As it is no one is going to take any stock in the virtuous indignation of those who denounce alleged democratic villainy while at the same time practice the ethics of the professional fence.
 Dynamite
 While the American Newspaper Publishers Association is meeting in New York this week every thing under the sun will be up for discussion. I would suggest that, when the editors, business managers, and proprietors get tired talking about the high crimes and misdemeanors of the printing crafts, and the assaults being made on the freedom of the press by the malcontents of the Newspaper Guild, 1t would be a good idea to devote little serious consideration to the Sentinels of the Republic. It appears that the Sentinels are not merely march ing Up and down day and night defending the republic from Com munists, Jews, and Democrats. They are also furnishing editorials to thirteen hundred newspapers throughout the United States urging a return to American principles in government and enn- phasizing the importance of the Constitution as a bulwark of lib- erty." I don't know what news papers print the stuff ground out by the Sentinels' hopper but from the sublime thought, the perfect English, and the complete ab- sence of political bias which dis tinguish their pages it looks from this corner as if most of the re- publican journals in Connecticut got their editorials right off some Sentinel's bayonet. There would be no objection to such vicarious aids to a harried editors daily labors were it not for the unpleas- ant fact that from the window of the newspaper business office, anything which has the remotest connection with the Sentinels of the Republic means dynamite to advertising solicitors. For some correspondence unearthed by the Black committee in Washington last week leads to the impression that the Sentinels are stealing the anti-Semitic stuff of the Ku Klux Klan.
 Don't Write Letters
 The president of the Sentinels is Alexander Lincoln, an invest ment banker of Boston. MT. Lin- coin last month got letter from w. Cleveland Runyon of Eliza beth, N. J., in which the writer announced that since President Roosevelt took "the Jewish bri- gade" to Washington "there is no reason why the real issue should be smothered any longer. This fight for Western Christian civil ization can be won; but only if we recognize that the enemy is world wide and that it is Jewish in or- igin." j. P. S.-The people are almost crying for leadership" Whereupon MT. Lincoln, pres- ident of the Sentinels of Amer ica, after two days delay, replied that he was doing all he could as an officer of the organization and that he thought, "as you say, that the Jewish threat is a real one. My hope is in the election next Au- tumn, and I believe that our real opportunity lies in accomplishing the defeat of Roosevelt" Twenty four hours later MT. Runyon wrote to MT. Lincoln that the people were still crying for leadership but not getting it, and wound up his note with the sensational news that "The old-line Americans Of $1,200 a year want 8 Hitler"
 Contradiction
 I neglected to say that in his first message of alarm to the president of the Sentinels or America, MT. Runyon wrote:
 "AlI we need here is money.
 It is pitiful when I see money
 put out to discuss foolish, trivial
 issues, while two of the principal
 publishers of the real literature
 are unable to get sufficient
 funds. I find it easy to awaken
 0ld-line Americans of S500O in-
 come and less, but hard among
 the rich ones ."
 There is a slight contradiction noticeable in MT. Runyon's letters. Tn one he finds it easy to land the $500O old-liners and in the other that the $l200 crowd that want a Hitler. Does this mean that the $5O00 group wants four Hitlers and two hundred dollars change for their money while the $l20O outfit will be content with a single Adolf? Or does the whole corre- spondence demonstrate that what ever the old lire Americans want "the two principal publishers of the real literature" want money2 You pay your money and you take your choice" Tn the mean time while we are awaiting the downfall of MT. Roosevelt and the arrival of Mir. Hitler, the Amer ican NeWspaper Publishers Aseos