The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10

they could not refrain from carry ing on the eye-rolling business in offices, department stores, and trolley cars. Society matrons spent long hours rolling around the par Tor floor following the Macfadden method of doing away with bulg- ing hips and longer hours lying in bed trying to get their toes to touch the headboard in accord ance with the Macfadden pre- scription as to the most effective way of getting rid of excess ab- dominal fat. Prosperous business men who had loved their chow abandoned steaks and chops, good wines and soothing cigars and went in for raw carrots, barbe- cued hay, de-nicotinized stDgieS, and sour milk. Incidentally MT. Macfadden, of the Scotch Macfad- dens, became a millionaire, the owner of a tabloid newspaper "The Graphic, 8 couple of pure food restaurants, 8 health farm or two, and number of maga- zines whose front covers were in- variably decorated with eye filling blondes whose shorts proved alto gether inadequate to conceal the physical charms underneath.
 No Limits
 But the Macfadden ambition to be of service to his fellow mortals could not be restricted to athletic and dietary limits. His crusade, through the columns of the new- defunct Graphic. to secure jus tice for poor little Peaches" Browning from that bad old man, the late Daddy" Browning, is too well known to necessitate more than mere mention. In that one case alone MT. Mac- fadden demonstrated that he was force for good that could not be underestimated. Now that he has turned his talents loose in the sphere of political controversy and against the New Deal 1t looks as if all predictions on the out come of the presidential election will have to be revised. Until yes- terday could not see how 1t was possible for President Roosevelt to lose. The opposition to the Pres ident on the part of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufac- turers, the Sentinels of the Re" public, the Crusadsrs, and the du- Pol1t Liberty League thought codld only be effective among those who are already aligned against him. The Literary Digest poll could also be discounted for 8 variety of reasons. The voices of Hoover, Vandenberg. Knox, and Landon sounding the Republican chorus of disapproval and minus all its ear-splitting discord could fall on nothing but deaf ears. Nicholas Murray Butler. president of Columbia University, a vigorous opponent of the Roosevelt policies. might say what he liked and 1t would not change . vote. But with Bernarr Macfadden out to scalp the Chief Executive ! just don't know what to think.
 
 Never Been Estimated
 It has been necessary in the post for political statisticians to take into consideration the labor vote, the business vote, the conservative vote, the stay-at-homs vote, the wet and dry vote, and the feminine vote. Now the Mactad- den vote will have to be figured in and no one can possibly know It's proportions. No census has ever been taken of the uncooked vege- table eaters, eye rollers, parlor floor acrobats, bed gyrnnasts. body builders and no-hat wearers scat tered all over the country. There must be millions of them. MT. Macfadden is the idol of every man with hair on his chest In these United States. At his call all the un-numbered Tarzans of the wilds, the woods, the cities and the hamletS will come leaptng from bough to bough tp cast their ballots against the New Deal. Think of all the photographers who have been making a fat living by taking pictures of Macfadden- developed backs. Add up the number of artists who paint blondes in shorts for the front covers of Macfadden magazines. Count up the growers of raw carrots, the manufacturers Of Health Hay flor Humans, the po- tential Peaches" Brownings of voting age all over the place who logically look upon Bcrnarr as their only friend in time of stress and who must therefore be guided by him in their choice of presiden- tial candidates. And when you have finished send the result to Emil Hurja, the Democratic Ma tional Committees election result forecaster, for serious study. Per- sonally this department is not afraid of the any sort of vote ex- cept the Macfadden one.
 
 What Did He Say
 Oh, you would like to know what MT. Macfadden said to the luncheoneers of the New York Board of Trader I haven't the remotest idea. All I read was the headline. did not have the courage to do any more. It was