The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-17

There are rumors around the town that the next chairman of the Democratic town committee will be of Italian extraction.
 Maurice Wrenn can be seen daily around the main stem and from all appearances he and the Re- publican town committee are on speaking terms again. Many feel that Wrenn would have made an excellent candidate for the Re- publican party.
 Roy Rice is being mentioned for an important state job. Roy cer- tainly deserves recognition after the fine battle he put up.
 Waterbury's Congressman J. Joseph Smith has been named to some highly important commit tees in Washington. One of them is the military committee. Good luck Joe, and keep the good work up.
 Atty. Harry Krasow, one of the most prominent young Republi- cans in New Haven county has his eye on one of the juicy politi- cal plums. have heard some excellent remarks about Harry and the work he did during the recent elections '. and these re- marks came from some of the leaders of the state party.
 Charles Summa has been seen around the state capital on numer- 0us occasions Whats the an- wer, Charles? Is it the city court judgeship?
 Judge Howard Roberts of Thom- aston is doing all right by himself in the state senate. Judge Roberts has been handed the chairman ship of the finance committee. A very important assignment.
 John Egan. secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor will be named Connecticut's new labor commissioner. The present commissioner. Joseph Tone will take a position with the federal government. Tone is the most popular labor commissioners this state has ever had.
 A half dozen Waterbury lawyers of the better class are lying awake nights thinking about their pos abilities of being named to the superior court. I have some im- portant information on this sub- ject which I will tell you about at a later date.
 This week will cause flood of bills to be dumped into the legis- lative hopper at the state capital. This will be true especially on Thursday and Friday.
 Senator George T. Culhane has a bill which will completely re- vamp the local city charter. The bill looks very good to me. I have promised George not to make this bill public for while but you will agree with me that the bill has many good and valuable points. This bill will make many new friends for the popular senator.
 Rep. Hugo Gustaferri seems to be of the opinion that the cOntinu- atiOn of a person in public life depends entirely on the number of bills he introduces into the General Assembly. in this he is wrong. It is never the num- Der of bills a legislator introduces but the number that PASS that count. So take it easy, Hugo!
 Guastaferri introduced a bill which would compell all judges of the probate courts in this state to be lawyers. This is ridiculous. .. I'm surprised that any legis- lator would introduce such a bill. After all don't you think the law CTS have things pretty much their own way right now, Hugo?
 The small loan bill has been i'm troduced into the legislature much the same as it was in 1885 and 1887. This time by Senator Thom- as Stammers of Torrington. The small loan companies are already busy raising a "slush fund" to lob by with so as to protect" their interests.
 A Culhane bill would strike the words radio" and newspapers" from the present statute which prohibits dentists from advertis- ing. This bill will have consider able support and well it should. Dentists like advertising but they like 1t, much the same as medical men do, in the way of free pulp hcity.
 The Democratic State Central Committee Is meeting in Bridge port Thursday night to select a new secretary for the committee. I'll pick Philip Hewes, former sec- retary to former Governor Will bur L. Cross for the job.
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