The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-04

AHNAA8 PASHSA l. W. EttaPAtRtCk ly pooh-poohed
 such a possibility, beetled his brows and is reported to have de- clared with the most complete sangfroid, ''Why, I'll chop his dad- gummed head off," Just what Q "dad-gummed" head is the pulpit- humping exponent of direct poe litical action, as interpreted in the back reaches of Darkest Louisiana, failed to explain. It may be Q generic term for those who follow the strange gods of the Union Ticket. Or 1t may be the head- piece of one who fails to reoog- nize that in the armory of the Rev. Gerald there is a weapon more deadly than his tongue, ale though 1t is difficult to imagine such a machine of destruction. In any case 1t would perhaps be just as well if we all united in prayer that Mir. Lemke fail to get himself elected. He would then keep his neck unsevered by the Smith sonian axe and the country would also be spared the revival of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in Washington. President Roose- velt's head may be all that his haters say 1t is, and Gov. Landon's dome may be as vacuous as his critics declare 1t to be, but at least both are on the shoulders where nature placed them. As Q choice between them and Con- gressman Lemke, plain humanity demands that the latter be defeat- cd. We cannot permit the des- tinies of the nation to be put into the hands of Q president who ul1- less he keeps faith with the Rev. Smith, is to be turned into Q Pennsylvania Avenue re-incartlas ton of that Headless Horseman with whom every schoolboy read- CT of Washington Irving's delight- full tale is acquainted. Every vote cast for the Dakota legislator brings him that much closer to cutting edge of the Louisiana preachers threatening axe and we have had too much axe-wielding already.
 Just Impulse
 Last Friday night in Q At of pique because her mother declined to get an early supper for her, Q Bayonne, New Jersey, schoolgirl buried the family hatchet in her fashioned parents head while "the boy friend" held the Hnoth- CTS arms and advised the hungry lass to Hit her again." Revolt- ing as the crime Is to ordinary people in It's gory horror and whatever explanations psychi- artists will offer for its comnnis- sion this much is certain: Noth- ing that can be, or I should say Is sure to be, offered by defense counsel at the trial can reach the height of absurdity attained by the preacher who visited the Sev- enteen.year. Ynurd0ress and her accomplice in their cells Sum- day.
 "My impression was that they
 were very fine young people,,
 babbIed the chaplain, mot tho
 criminal type, but lmpulsive."
 The sort of impulse no doubt of which the Rev. Gerald "share- the-Wealth" Smith would be the victim if he hacked the offending "dad-gummed" head of Canal. date Lemke in a moment of irrita. ton over Q broken promise or two.
 
 Jersey Love
 Not so long ago an impulsive married woman from the same state of New Jersey, which seems to be fertile soil for the matching of diversified atrocities, awearied of her mate and engaged a pair of bus drivers to chuck him over the Palisades, 6 short toss of two or three hundred feet. The bus drivers did their part aS trusty hirelings and delivered the con- tracted-for chuck. The husband, who was obviously an old meanie, grabbed hold of Q projecting bush on his flight downward and was subsequently, rescued from his plight. The good wife welched on her promise to pay for the chuck ing on the grounds that the con- tract had not been fulfilled, the bus drivers squawked, the hus- band awoke with Q bang from his uxorial paradise, a snooty pros-
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