The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-04

mean the indefenSible habit or stating thing as a fact without offering the slightest proof that It is fact. Whatever Col. Knox's education may have been he must have encountered somewhere along the path of knowledge the axiom that What is asserted with out proof may be denied without proof"
 But Not Col. Knox
 It might be all right for Joe DokeS, republican candidate for,
 Congress from Goose Crick to tell &n audience of yokels that for Nseven lean and miserable years" the country has faced economic Stagnation". But for Col. Knox to unburden himself of such noll- sense in Waterbury, where as Congressman Joseph Smith re- gently pointed out the Scoyill Manufacturing Company has treb- led the amount of its quarterly dividend, is, to use Candidate Knox's own elegant language, "plain nuts" If the colonel had said that, prior to 1882 the years were lean and miserable he would Have been talking turkey. But to make the leanness and the mis- cry include the period of the democratic regime is unintelligent because everyone knows the in- clusion to be untrue. It would be all right for some fast-cracking wiseacre to assert that, Mot many of the leaders of the administra- tion were concerned with a to- talitarian state. A good many Of the New Dealers couldn't even utonounce it.. But for an aspirant 6rr the vice-presidency of the 7 limited States to descend to this adaptation of small-time vaude- vile monologist's gag is a trtfie unbecoming.
 Not Slightly"
 An inexpert in the use of words or fakir in the upper reaches Of knowledge might say that the New Deal has failed in practice because it is wrong in science" Col. Knox however, is the pub- fisher of a live, big city news paper and he should have at least a working knowledge of the Eng fish language. The sentence sim ply does not make sense. But to continue and say that, American industry and agriculture, enl- ployment and wages, investment and credit" are controlled '"by natural forces of fertility and cli- mate and resources and solar en- ergy" is, to quote Col. Knox again, ''as the plain man says, slightly cuckoo. The plain man would even say that the statement that control of wages lies in the energy of the solar system is plain bug house chatter. Typical
 I have not the space to direct the attention of the readers Of these columns to other and sirn- liar gems in Col. Knox's modest" expression of his social, financial, economic, and political ideas. If you have not read his speech dig 1t up and go to it. You will ind that 1t is the typical campaign utterance of 8 candidate who has no definite idea for the solution of any of the problems which con- front the nation. It is studied refusal to supply to the electorate what Attorney General Cummings demanded of the republican llomi- nee, "a bill of particulars. Col. Knox made the only answer pos- sible to the demand when he told his listeners on Monday night, 'The republican party has a plat form and program. But even if 1t did not have platform, even if 1t proposed no specific issues, it still would be essential to the well fare of the country that it be put in control. The country must re- turn to sanity and honesty in government. The inference is plain: --only republicans are hon- est, only republicans have all their buttons. Nuts, colonel nuts! What Again?
 I don't like to jog the readers memory too often but I can't help it. You remember Good Old Bill Pape's stories of lost pocketbooks at the g.o.p. national convention in Cleveland? And the sad experi- ence of the local Young Republi- can fish dealer who lost his poke at the outing last July at Villa De- Bisschop? And the warning issued by this department for all repub- licans, young and old, to keep their hands on their bankrolls when they attend the party's ral- lies, clambakes, Galnbols, ct cet- era? Very well then read the fol- lowing from the Wednesday Re- publican,s Lost and Found" ad- vertisement section:
 Lost-Monday. About $35. In Hamilton Park or on Con- necticut Co. bus.
 LOst-Purse at Hamilton Park
 Monday night. Contained
 sum of money and other
 articles. Reward.
 Found-Small alligator on Mid- dIebury Road. am informed that the alligator was living in one of the Hamilton Park pools and when 1t learned that there was Q g.o.p. rally to be held that night, decided to save its skin. It started out for the safety of Charley DeBisschopS fish and fowl sanctuary and got oil the road. The finder may re turn the alligator to the park if 1t is willing to take the chance of another republican gathering be- ing held there.
 Current COmEmenke