The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-19
'TRON QUILL" WANTS FIR. COUGHLIN TO ANSWER -"UN-
 ANSWERED" QUESTIONS

'' oct. IS, 1886
 Editor of The Democrat:
 As Mir. Dooley used to say. q see by the papers, etc." what would MT. Dooley say to-day If he read in the papers how that champion of the "peepul" Father Cough lin had got into fuss with one of them, peskyl reporters, who he accused of sticking his nose in his private business
 Now the American newspaper re- porter is famed the world over for his tireless energy in getting all the news there is sto get. He is the faithful servant of the people. tire less, faithful and loyal and many of him have been loyal unto deathl Nothing stops him from digging up the truth: exposing fakes. charla- tans and false prophets. He, more than any other individual knows public men for what they really are. Knows the dual individuality be- hind the mask the MT. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll, and can penetrate the most clever disguise adopted by those who have an axe to grind for their own personal ulterior motives at the expense of the public.
 So almost all successful public men and politicians make sure that they treat the representatives of the press with the utmost courtesy. It is not the personality of the re- porter that counts, it is the tre- mendout power he is the incarna- tion of THE PRESS! So when any individual who is in the limelight and caters to the public for its favor, lets his temper and impatience get the best of his judgment in insult ing gentleman of the press, it is a sign that there is something wrong somewhere in his pSycholog- ical makeup, and that the pene- trating light of publicity has got his goat.
 It is a fact, and one that has been borne out countless times over and over again, that almost always when reporters have 8 hunch, that the hunch. is right. This may be because they have 8 seventh sense, a kind of .clairvoyance, which grows from their mission as light bearers and guardians of the peoples rights and liberties.
 Believe it or not as Ripley says, there are times when a reporter is not wanted, when he is very much in the way for fear, that he might learn of things that are going on behind the scenes that might cause an explosion, if printed in the news papers. So there have been re- porters who took their lives in their hands to catch conspirators against the public veal in their secret con- fabs. ss X x ,ss N.
 There are other times when the presence of 8 reporter IS badly needed by those who seek the lime light of publicity for their own schemes. At such times the repor- ter is made much of, and s treated like a prince, and urged to give the publicity desired all the space he can. That is as long as he repre- sents a newspaper, if he happens to be out of a job, that IS another matter. He is ignored as Il, he was just what he is. Henry Dubb, one of the unemployed, who represents no influential newspaper or medium of publicity. His usual news soiirc- es don't notice him any more, and pass him by as if they had never seen him before. He is like e Ienl- on that has been squeezed of all it's juice, and useless to the men who seek to climb the ladder of fame and privilege.
 But as an active member of the Fourth Estate. that is also another story, and all doors are open to him, from the portals of q pres- ident's mansion to the hovel of the pick and shovel man. So when he stumbles upon a secret conclave, panic seizes the conspiratorsl
 Somewhere behind every success full public man., every noted politi- clan; you will find 9 reporter whose name is never known perhaps, but who was the Warwick, the king- maker, that placed the crown upon