The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-13
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 Wonder why the newsreel audi- ences, even in the swanky Republi- can districts, have quit heckling and hissing the President9 Nothing Is SO pretty to look at as Q hlsser or hooer of anybody in Q newsreel theater--getting a sock on the nose .. l like that woman who goes tc the newsreels just to bang somebody across the face with her pocketbook She's Scotch-Irish and hefty and never loses One sock, one casu- alty :. Benay Venuta's ta-ta on her radio program leaves Q nice taste in the ear If you had fun listening-then the score is even" What a thrill 1t is to have radio phone talk with the reporters in Europe, and not even hold Q phone to the ear A big ger thrill is knowing you don't have 10 pay any part of the charges ei0 a minute ... Never saw a newspaper editorial department SC exciting--and like they are in the inovies--as the newsroom over at the NEG on Sunday nights at e:26 q. I don't believe that "The Amer- ican Way" is closing soon because of the reason announced--to respect the Presidents neutrality wishes, etc The reason any show closes Is that business isn't big enough Wonder why no other fountain in town can make chawklitt ice cream soda like they make where l gop
 Intefestlng to read Pearson and Aliens column yesterday-about the Nazi ambassador once saying that If war broke .out over there--America would be in 1t within three months When I reported that certain Washington insiders believed we might get into the damn mess within four months-some people said l shouldn't have printed 1t Why should have not? I'm in the newspaper business! Perhaps by printing such things enough people will be aroused and try to stop our getting into any war . And since when did I ever give a care what anybody thought of what I did or didn't? Every time anything is taken out of Readers Digest for the column--that mag Is duly credited Wish I could say the same thing for it .. Wish these fools who commit suicide in New York wouldn't do 1t with gas That brings the emergency truck. with the pulmotors and the ear-piercing siren shrieks madly until the truck comes to it's destination. Usually happens about dawn and disturbs the sleep of the III in homes and hospitals-or scares them stiff Why can't people who want to kill themselves do SO without so much advertisingp
 Funny hearing people say: "oh, l remember the armistice. I was a little girl of fl then" Golly Being 42 seems so Methuselaish Too many men like war--especially when they arc restless--unemployetl md hungry That's the trouble
 Too many of them figure a war will give them Q better chance O! making good at something f1ich as being hero--or looking az good as the other fellow in the same uniform Successful peo. pie don't want warrior obvious rea- sons It sure is something tc be ashamed of- realizing that bust. ness only improves in the United states-when Europeans start mur. derisg each other In another few months people won't remember why this war started -. There will be SO many other reasons by them Being a columnist has its re- deeming features-chief among them being the daily mail {. |. Amazing how one person can oppose sonie- thing or a paragraph-which others indorse and think is all right Very interesting, too. are the edi- torials all over the country-sayine how wonderful 1t is being an Amer ican I remember how they made cracks about a New Yorker last year who had said the same thing for six years--since Hitlerites started making cracks about taking over the U. s. one day.
 ! wish Walda would get better Now her throat is acting ur .. Probably the reaction from the ear business She sure was a brave little girl going to the hospi. tai that way They'd nave tc <gsn = ,.aat rrt.af y.iaen itt T9ao dar's