The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-14

OnarleB Atleu . . ~ of Kansas, the ,. W, FsmPAss.sh alleged ghost
 writer of the Hoover oratlons, must have had Q tough two weeks prior to February t2. MT. Hoover has said 60 much in quantity anu so little in quality in 90 many places, attacking the DemocrAtlc national administration that MT. Allen should be almost out oE am" munitlon. However, since no ono pays more than passing attention to what Mr. Hoover says about anything anywhere, there B no reason why this department should be interested. Senator Ar thur H, Vandenherg of Michigan madc his initial bow to an auul- ence of New Workers ct the Gold. on Jubilee Lincoln Day dinner of the National Republican Olup thus afsordlng the ciFete East Q chance to give the Up-and.down to e man who may have to carry the party's bod in the next cleo. ton, Senator Vandenberg iB not nltogether viewed with eyes oE calg-Iike admiration by the hard. ened conservative plunderpunu which runs the Republican party in these here parts. His liberal (Y) ideas are considered more or less heretlcai by Eastern 70" aetionagies. There were times in tho past when the senator voted for measures sponsored by PrcSl. dent Roosevelt and although no made open confession of his sins from the mouFneEs' bench and ex. nIalned that he was no longer 70 10 along with the national au. minlstration, the memory os whas he dld is still too fresh to wln complete absolutlon from his party's bosses. His obvious esiort to carry water on both ehouluere on tho agricultural problem ana his equally obvious lack of . dct. mite plan to solve 1t should make him no friends either in the East
 or the WeBt. Tn the language oE the theator it was not Senator Vandepberg who stole the show ln New York but a woman, MIs' George D. Simmons of Marsh@h' Missouri.
 Goodbye Precedent
 Mrs, Simmons is "a farmers wife" according to the pregB. Some months ago she took time oR from fecdlng tho pigs and the chickens and cooking for the hired help 70 take . rolling pin to the New Deal As a result she busted into the llnelight and at the seme tine blossoIned into . speIlbinder TOT the Republican National Commit. toe, The enthusiasm with which she has been welcomed py R, 0, D, newspapers, Hagavlnes, and getteTs.up of get-together po" llticai dinners Is quite understand. able. It is no job at ell to round up Q Hoover or Q Knox or Q Lasa- don to speak. All that is needed b to press Q button and these aspar- ants for the presidency run on ae the mouth ad lib. But cooks on the rampage are hard to get. Housewives with the bread dough hardly dry on their elbows are as scarce as the kilialoo bird. kitch. en mechanics with theories or government right out of tho dish. pan soapsuds constitute an asset which cannot be ignored. So t is not to be wondered at that for the first time in the entire history os the National Republican Club precedent was abandoned and 2 woman was permitted to sound on to the assembled banqueteers. Wo. men have sat at the speakers table before February i2, 1898, but they were there for decorative purposes only. It remained Tor Mrs. Simmons to be the first ot her sex to make the grade to the oratorS' dais and to demonstrate afresh tho Iate Mr. Kiplings the- ory that the female of the species politically speaking is more deadly than the male.
 Rank Discrimination
 Due to the fact that American