The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-11

the living and the dead. It was a problem to veX the ingenuity of the most adroit but 1t was final- ly solved. A banner of the polit- ical campaign model. was strung from one side of Columbus Ave- nue to the other. On lt in letters so big the eyes of Blind Tom could not miss them was this magnif- icent triumph of geniuS:-
 GOOD BYE, RUDY!
 WELCOME, TRUDY."
 Poor Bill
 Our heart and our sympatflics must go out to MT. William Pow ell who rushed from Miss Har- lows bedside after the black k-out, into the arms of MT. Warner Bax- ter who is friend of both par- ties. MT. Powell is reported with what accuracy I do not know since there were no gentle men of the press supposed to be lurking in the hallway with their ears over the transom-to have demanded, "Why did this have to happen? loved her sol" There could be no possible connection between the two sentences. Miss Harlow did not happen to die be- cause MT. Powell loved her so. She died, unless the doctors made bum guess, of uremic poisoning. There is no reason to think that MT. PoWelps love causes uremic poisoning. I would not know be- cause MT. Powell has never beai in love with me, so or so-so. But neither of the Powell wives have died and in justice to their hUs- band 1t must be accepted that he loved each and both when he asked them to marry him. So the Love of Bill must logically be abandoned as the reason for M4as Harlows taking off.
 Strange Omission
 I noticed in the stories of the Harlow career one strange omis- sion. It was the neglect to men, tion that once upon a time Miss Harlow sat in Governor Cross lap or the Governor sat in Miss Harlow's lap. cannot remember which. You see such things in print but they just go in one eye and out the other. Maybe 1t nev- CT happened. If it did it was not Uncle Tobias but the governor Of North Carolina or the governor of South Carolina. However, i'll case it was the Cross lap in which Miss Harlow sat or the Harlow lap in which Governor Cross sat, It would seem that the very least the General Assembly could have done when the news of the motion pie ture stars death reached Hartford was to adjourn while the funeral was going on. There is reason for that violation of all the laws of consideration however. There have been so many legislators sit- ting in the Governors lap since January that the memory of an- other person having enjoyed in the past however innOcently that dis tincti0n, simply overcame their better selves and jealousy did the rest.
 A Lap Full
 Speaking of the gubernatorial lap brings up the unpleasant sit uation in which that section of Governor Cross anatomy finds It. self just now. For six years His Excellency has demanded of the Assembly that 1t permit him, with legislative approval and sanction of course, to name the appointees to the minor courts in the state. As result of dog-fight between the Democratic and Republican lawmakers over the jobs, Governor Cross woke up this morning with hundred and fifty positions to fill. It is all right with me. The Governor asked for the power and 1t was given to him, albeit, not in the way he would prefer. He would like to have had sufficient time to, make his selections, null them over, change his. mind, and change it again. Instead of which decent procedure he now must make hur- ricd decisions and ones which will bring the hornets around his rev cred head in sWarms. In fact the swarming may result in the legis- lators who have been sitting in the Governors lap all through the session being dumped out unccre- moniously when Uncle Tobias rises in irritation over the activities of the hornets and stands up. For, governor or no governor, who knows where any lap goes when its owner stands up!
 Outstanding a
 There is no room to write any, thing about the recent session of the General Assembly. That must wait until later. But one thing may be said now. or all the men connected with the work of the legislature the one who stands out most prominently because of his fairness, his ability, and his refusal to become involved in the faction- al rows of his party is Lieutenant Governor Hayes. He has made an admirable presiding officer of the senate; he handled most difficult parliamentary situations with in- telligence and decisivcness; and those on the party side opposite his own in the chamber are out- spoken in their commendation,