The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-30
Walter Willcheu
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must face an agony of effort-it is at last free from the torture of doubt There has been long debate as to whether Fascism and Com munism are the same in theory That debate is over Now we know that they are the same-in factl Nor are we in doubt as to their major plan For a long time, only a few believed that the dictators intended to divide and rule Now we know they intend to | separate and slaughter But the criminal rulers also face a new situation If in the last crisis ' trembing families feard what the dictators might bring - then in this crisis they are calmly resolved upon what they shall not take! For Mankind has survived plague l and pestilence Its spirit will survive their greed The dicta- tors have, pinned their hopes upon their armies-but Humanity's long refuge is in its Faith What the next day will bring no man knows But the next Century will prove-as all ages prove-that he who rises | against Civilization-must die.
 Vera ZOrina hit New York fully costumed, making a tramp of her press agents promise that she would travel around the world n-k-d !. :. She washed her paws of it like it was a treaty-instead of treat.
 If that woman who offered $75,- 900 for the Ku Klux Klan will wait while, she oughta be able to get the Bund (with Fritz Kuhn thrown in) which carries the same line of atrocities-for about dime.
 The crawling in The Old Country has made itself felt most strikingly on that floor of the Ass'd Press bldg, where all the foreign news agencies keep house The head of Tass (SovieD, who is an Ameri- can, arrived at work Tuesdayem to discover that his cronies, Reuters (British); Havas French)' and the Polish news bureau were making faces at him The Domei (Jap- anese) correspondents were too dazed to know who their good neigh bors were Domei and Tass have been official enemies for years, and since the Nazis have no bu- reau here they are the lone wolves of the floor The Tass boss is not made any happier by the swas- tikas painted all over the shop by the clowns The affair has set them all ajbbering in their native tongue - and that doesn't help the picnic mood, either.
 Eddie Meade has been hailed be- fore the boxing high court for pos- sible skipping because he popped off that his scrapper, Henry Arm strong, lost his title to Ambers in fix It's now the fighters turn to holler: "Go in there and keep punching, you big lug. They can't hurt us"
 In all fairness to Mickey Rooney let this be recorded Coasters conn plained that Mickey took all the bends for the song, Oceans Apart" which was written with Sidney Mill Ter, his best pal The fact is this: The Feist Music people who publish it, planced using a photo of of both on the front cover-but then without consulting Mickey used a photo of Mickey and Judy Garland, instead |. And so scallions to the Feist people and orchids to Sidney Miller.
 Add Picturesque Reporting: From the N. Y. Post on Lepke's surren- der: After two years in the wall less prison of the hunted, etc" -. Bill Corum of the 'Journal-Ameri- can: "War is a Passion Play per- i formed by idiots" .. Harry Grayson describing cream puff: He couldn't punch his way out of Ladies' Aid Society meeting" /. James Cannon's on the execution of an undertaken at Sing Sing: "The undertaken died calmly. To him death was an old friend and busl- ness associate" When Goodman Ace covered a murder for The Kan sas City Journal Post, he wrote this about a slain racketeer: "The de- ceased was very fortunate. Two days before his demise he deposited all his money in the bank. He lost practically nothing but his life" And then there's Billy Glason's gag about the man who went into a restaurant and instructed the waitress as follows: Bring me some warm orange juice, no ice. Burn the toast to 8 crisp. Also a couple of sloppy eggs fried in grease on dirty plate and cuppa coffee that tastes like mud and be sure and m9s}2Ehr