The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-23
Fault Finders

mains no hits and no runs. Just errorsl
 Fault Finders
 But leave 1t to the guys who take run-out powders to find fault with the valiant who stay in and take what comes to them. Seeing that the Alley Cats of Printers Court avoided Hartford on last Tuesday afternoon and by that avoidance neglected to contribute so much as a meow to encourage MT. Upson in his sole struggle for The Right, 1t would seem that these felines might Stifie their caterwaulings after the event. Not SO! Thursday mornings Repub- lican news editorially about the hearing. It gives a cat-claw to Strong-heart Upson for his selec- tion of quotation from Holy Writ when he answered ques- tion by one of the committee members whether the Republican party in Waterbury would ever come back by replying, 'The Kingdom of God is at hand"
 Absentee WiSecracker
 The Republican editorial absen- tee from the battlefront would have delivered 8 much Snappier answer if he had been present. He would have retorted thus and so! Which I think Is pretty pur1y moving at J. Warren. Of course the Republicans newer would have been much faster and more opposite in his comeback. As a friend, admirer, and devotee of the deserted Chairman of the Water bury Republican Town Committee rise to inquire why was not The Republicans expert quoter of Holy Writ on hand to whisper in MT. Upson's shell-like ear the quota ton which would have knocked the Spokesmen for the Democratic city administration into the pro- verbal cooked hat? For the same reason that Casabianca's ship mates scuttled to safety and left him standing alone on the burn ing deck. For the identical mo- tive that prompted the followers of Horatius to leave him to defend the bridge all by himself and when that job was done to kick his bleeding carcass all along the Appian Way because he got killed doing 1t. MT. Upson at least tried on Tuesday last. That he landed nowhere is due not to his efforts but to the cause he pleaded. Those who put the bag in his hand and left him holding 1t should be the last to complain that Emily Post would not approve the posi- ton of his fingers. Those who provided him with absent treat ment when he was in 8 spot are small potatoes and few in g hill to pick flaws in his use of the Bible for quotation purposes.
 By the Book
 I think the reason why The He- publican's second-guesSer in scrip tural quotations is dissatisfied with J. Warren's announcement that "The kingdom of God IS at hand" is that the selection is In reality an unconscious admission of z. O. D. defeat next Fall Like many other expresSionS in Holy Writ the one MT. Upson chose IS subject to diverse interpretations. The Kingdom of God is at hano for all of us all the time but the definite setting up of it is some thing else again. What J. War ren had in mind was doubtless the hone for the establishment or Gods kingdom In Waterbury pol tiles which, with characteristic modesty, means of course the re- turn of the Republican party 10 power. But shadowing the hope remained the doubt that any Such longed- flor event would take place. Since all things, which are essen tially possible, can be, Mir. UpsOn is justified philOsOphicalIy m ms quotation. But if the support l0 which he received from his fellow party members and the hand-to- hand assistance (?) rendered Dy the party's local newspaper bosses on Tuesday afternoon In Hartford is any criterion of judgment the establishment of tho Lords king dom in Waterbury (which again 1t must be made clear is the busting of the Democratic administration and the substitution of the ke- puhlican job-staryed to control or IF cikv's aiRairs). is an event tool