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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
The indispensable Man

At every presidential election this
country is called upon to choose between
two indispensable men, each a candidate
for the presidency. Every four years the
country must be saved from total de-
struction by electing the only candidate
able to do it. And each year is crisis
year.
In 1928 when Hoover and AL Smith
were the candidates, each was the mdlS-
pensable man. Hoover promised
chicken in every pot and two cars in
every garage. Even poverty was to be
abolished. AL Smith promised fair,
fearless, popular government with the
constitution interpreted in favor of in
stead of against the people. Their re-
spective parties had the nations fate
hanging on the election.
In 1882 Hoover prophetically saw the
country doomed if Roosevelt was elected,
the elusive prosperity staying around the
corner and grass growing in the streets
of New York. The Democrats saw
anarchy and chaos waiting only for
Hoovers reelection. Again both men were
indispensable.
In 1886 the Republicans claimed that
the New Deal reforms had scared bust
ness to the point of disappearing from
the country and asked the country to
elect London to save the country while
there was still a country to save. The
Democrats asked for Roosevelt's reelec-
ton that the work of the New Deal
might continue and to prevent the coun--
try from falling back into the throes OF
depression. Once again two indispens-
able men.
1910 rolled around. Mr.. WILKES sup
porters told the Republican National
Convention in Philadelphia that his NOM
nation was Indispensable to defeat
Roosevelt. At Chicago because of the
Willkie publicity the Democrats felt that
Roosevelt was the only Democrat who
could defeat Willkie. Again two indis-
pensable candidates
Now the Republicans call President
Roosevelt the indispensable man as an
opprobrious epithet In the same breath
they say, sit is indispensable to the ma
tion's freedom that Mr.. Willkie be
elected" Again the candidates are indis-
pensable, although the Republicans say,
"This time we mean it," Perhaps, but we
have our doubts.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
The Cost of an Army

Building up an army is expensive
Maintaining it is expensive. It is at best
a necessary burden. But there is one
thing worse than maintaining great
army of your own. It is maintaining
somebody else's army. France knows. It
is estimated that France is now paying
$2,5O0,00O day to maintain the German
army that occupies three-fifths of their
country. That will continue as long as
the war lasts. If Germany wins, it will
continue as long afterward as Germany
pleases. If anybody is worried about
the cost of building American defense,
let them remember that there is one
thing worse - supporting somebody else's
army.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

Marguerite Clark, who won fame on
the stage and in pictures until her
retiremen about twenty years ago,
when at the height of her motion picture
career, was one of the biggest, as well as
smallest, stars. News of her death this
week at the age of fifty-three will recall
to many her charm and winSomeness as
an actress More will remember her sue
ceSSeS on the screen than on the stage,
but in the latter field she was not only a
good actress but also possessed light,
agreeable singing voice which was to her
advantage in the many musical shows in
which she appeared In those early days
before the animated cartoon pictures were
even thought of she scored triumphS in
"Snow, White" both on stage and screen.
In the early days of motion pictures
local movie goers flocked to the old
Princess Theater on Center street and the
old Garden on East Main and it was
nothing to see long line waiting on the
nights of Miss Clark'S pictures. And even
beforce that Miss Clark also came to East
Main street in person at old Polls theater
where she appeared in ''Happyland" and
perhaps other musical extravaganZaS.
It will be recalled that she and De Wolff
Hopper we're together in "Happyland"
and her four feet ten to his six feet some
thing or other was something to see She
had many many stage successes, and on
the screen progressed from one appealing
picture to another supported by sue
cession of personable and always tall
male leads, perfect foils for aer diminu-
tiveneSS
Following her marriage over twenty
years ago Miss Clark left the stage for
good. Her husband, Harry Palmerston
Williams of New Orleans, died a few years
ago in a plane crash and it is said she
never fully recovered from his death. Both
were outstanding for their many charities
which she kept up after her husbands
death, and numerous boys and girls were
given college educations through their
generoSitieS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
What's Your /. O.?

Can yOu answer seven Of these
test questions? Turn to last page
4 for the answers.
/. Does the United States Govern
ment recognize Sloyakia as an in
dependent state?
q. Are there any volcanoes IN the
United States?
8. How many stars and stripes are
in the American Flag2
4. The largest steel center In the
United States 7 is New Orleans.
Minneapolis, Pittsburgh or San
Francisco?
S. What phenomena are produced
by the gravitationaI influence of the
sun and moon on the waters of the
earth? 40
6. Who delivered the keynote
speech at. the 1910 Republican Ma
tional Convention?
z. Basel Is a city of France,
Switzerland or Germany?
8. What. Is the score Of d 40f-
feited game In baseball?
8. Which state is bounded on the
north and east by achusetts.
on the south by the Atlantic Ocean
and on the west by Connecticut?
10. Was Francis Xavier a Spanish
conquistador, Jesuit missionary
or a Mexican President?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
In Obscurity Strange Things Done

One Of the most striking things about
this war - perhaps it is necessary
attribute of any war - is the way IN
which all must shape our courses in semi
darkness. If to know the facts is the first
requisite of forming Judgment, then
the world today is sorry place Tor FORM
ing judgments. And so it is.
The recent official statements on war
casualties are good example. The Ger
mans have announced their casualties for
the first year of the war, including the
conquest of Poland, Belgium, Holland,
Norway, and France. The cost, says the
official German statement, was $4,000
dead, $4,000 wounded, and $4,000 miss
ing = total of 100000 casualties.
Is this accurate? No one can say
with certainty. It may be, for the Ger
man blitz type of attack appears to have
been less costly than old-fashioned
SauSage-min tactics. On the other hand,
the sheer extent of the operations, the
severity of much of the fighting, seems
to suggest far greater losses. But that is
merely a suspicion. No one can prove
the German claims untrue.
When it comes to planes, somebody is
definitely wrong. The Germans claim to
have destroyed $3.50 enemy planes in all
tIlC COuIlUl1CS. 1IlCy Cld41l1 w
have lost only 1850. The British claim
that 3,945 German planes have been de-
stroyed (the German admitting to only
1,05O). The British meanwhile admit
losing 1,012, which leaves large number
o. the German claim of $3.50 to be
charged up to Poland and France What
minimum core of truth can be chiseled
out of these conflicting claims? None,
except that Britain and Germany each
admit losing more than 1000 planes.
What damage is being done in either
country by air bombing? We cannot
know. All we know is the official reports,
the censor passed pictures showing de-
struction, but seldom showing destruc-
ton of anything of military value Either
or both sides might already have been
reduced to state of productiveness
and we would not know 1t.
American press associations and news
papers spend money like water; their
reporters and cameramen risk their lives,
to find the truth. But they can at best
illuminate only patches OF 1t here and
there, like man laundering about dark
room with flashlight. All OF humanity
Is little like that today. II owes debt
TO those who are desperately striving 10
cast their patches Of light on the dark
scene.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
Views Of The Press

have a depressing effect upon our
political speakers. For the cliche Is
the bone and sinew, so to speak,
of the American; orators perform
ance. To rob such man Of his
arsenal of clicheS would be cruelty
of high order; it would reduce him
to a membling, stumbling nincom-
poop. cropping with pathetic futility
for phrases which might even re-
motley express his meaning-if any.
From the days, OF the convention
CT give you that man Of broad
vision" etc. on through the dreary
weeks of the campaign ("My friends,
let us examine the record, = etc.
the cliche is the cornerstone of
every imposing rhetorical edifice
erected by the spellbinder. Take
away the cliche, and what becomes
of those thousands of sentences be-
ginning with that most useless Of all
phrases, '.as matter Of fact? No,
Mr.. Partridge. If he really wanted
to do good, might have waited un-
til the mad season, the season Of
magnificent ftlstian, has passed.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
RANGES Perkins the secretarv of ]

Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor,
reports that jobs have increased 100000,
since defense work was started. Many
cities also report fewer on the relief lists
The employment in non-agricultural
occupations, it is reported, has reached
100000, which is. a gain of such
employment figures in August, 1889. Miss
Perkins expressed it: Expansion in in
dustrial manufacturing material for
national defense continued to highlight
the employment picture" Among those
industries that are reaching new highs
are shipbuilding, engines, aircraft, ma
chine tools, explosives, and aluminium
manufactures Many others might be
added to this including wooden material
for uniforms
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
Selected Poem
LAND O. LURE

LAND O. LURE
Harry Elliot Nettleton in the New Haven
journal Courier)
Far from the scenes of your city streets,
With all their hustle and blare
New England hills, the rivers and rills,
Revive the spirits and Danish care.
Turn from your tills and HE to the hills;
Forget your physician, his powders and pills;
Forget all your ills and early-due bills.
As odor of balsalm fills you with thrills
Far from the scenes of your city streets,
With all their hustle and bare.
Far from the raucous industrial roar
And far from the eventide hum,
When the night dew falls the whipporwill calls
Calls and recalls, ad libitum.
Electrical balls on high city walls
Are naught to the stars DER country home,
Or a sivery moon IN the heavens dome.
When the whppoorwiil calls as the night dew falls
Far from the raucous industrial roar
And far from the eventide hum
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
PLAIN DUTY OF THE AMATEUR
MALE COOKS
New York SUM

Superior Judge Lazarus of San
Francisco recently observed that
Julius Boell, who testified he left
home and sued for divorce becouse
his wife's weight increased in four
teen years from 140 to 256 pounds,
has the reputation of being an ex-
cellent amateur cook and he un-
doubleday contributed to her obess-
ity by supplying her with a super
abundance of his excellent cookery"
An interlocutory decree was granted
to Mrs. Boell for desertion.
It is to be hoped that amateur
male cooks will not be swayed from
the pursuit oftheir hobby by this
example of its possible results. The
masculine not in home cooking is
valuable. 1t is inclined to be more
experimental than is the feminine.
Nobody watches a man fussing
around the kitchen without wonder
ing whether he will concoct new
dish-a vertible culinary tour de
force-that will shake the world Of
cookery to its foundations. A wife
may look upon cooking as a chore;
husband is likely to look upon it
as an art. He has an advantage over
his wife; he comes to the stove with
fresh eye and a willing, though
sometimes extravagent hand. More
over. he may be of actual help to
his wife; and who can say that he
b not better OF cooking than car
ousing Tor relaxation?
Many tactful wives recognize the
superiority Of their husbands cook
ing, and. at the price Of q growing
waistline, take advantage Of It. But
Is It fair TO blame the husband for
this The only real danger that lies
In the cooking Of man Is that he
may not do enough Of II.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

When he turned aside to see, God
spoke to him. It is always true that
when men turn aside to learn the
will Of God, God calls them to high
er things. If Moses had disregarded
the call and had chosen the easy
life of sheep tending to the more
strenuous life of a nations leader
ship. he would have died unknown
and unsung even In his own day. The
men who lead the world are the men
who turn aside to ascertain the will
Of God. TO them God speaks out Of
a burning bush and commissions
them to great ends.
What an astounding message
came 10 Moses out Of the burning
bush. He was 10 leave his sheep to
face death by returning 10 Egypt.
and to assume the leadership OF the
nation. The messages which come 10
US out OF the burning bush are not
always easy 10 heed, but they call
US 10 the deep satisfactlons shared
only by those who mold their lives
after q noble purpose.
All Rights Reserved--Babson
Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

around 5000 in the Bow, which
can accommodate. 81, 900. II
The ony big screen figure pres
/. ent was Robert Montgomery, who
! introduced the candidate. This
was a big disappointment to the
correspondents. They were all
keyed up to see Dorothy Lamour,
Hedy Lamar and other glamour
girls - but none showed UP, and
later it developed they were all
for Roosevelt.
After the big Los Angeles re-
ception Thursday, Wilkes staff
didn't have the heart that night
to show him the latest Gallup poll
figures. Theys let him have a
peaceful nights sleep and pro-
duced the report at breakfast
next morning.
At Bakersfield, where a Frontier
Days" rodeo was in progress, the
local morning paper promised a
crowd of 100000 for WILKES APP
pearance. Only 1000 showed up
for the 10 a. m. meeting. A taxi
driver explained, "They like to
sleep late in this town."
The stop at Modesto provided
a big laugh for everyone includ-
ing the candidate. A local COP
celebrity introduced Willkie. with
a rhetorical flourish that conclud-
ed with this gem: "NOt only is
he the friend Of the farmer and
the laboring man, but also the
great friend of the public utili-
ties"
NOTE -. Willkie has changed
his mind about ghost writer's. Sew
eral months ago he lambasted
their use, but this farm speech
is largely the work of Represen-
tative Gift Hope of Kansas, one
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

of the chief authors Of the COP
agricultural plank. Hope was as
sisted by Don Berry, able In
dianoal, Ia, newsman, and other
MidweSetrn leaders.
HULL'S "DASTARDLY" WORD
Following Cordell Hull,s press
conference in which he character
lied the sinking of the British
refuge ship as "a most dastardiy
act" newsmen asked permission to
use direct quotes. usually not al
lowed in State Department prac-
tice.
Hull was willing, and his press
officer, Sheldon Thomas, brought
the word to the press room, where
the men were already debating
their storeis. Thomas advised
each man in turn, including the
German DNB correspondent, Kurt
Sell.
40. K" said Sell. '.But want
to ask you something. What is
the exact meaning of that word
'dastardly'?"
Thomas drew himself up. I'm
have to refer you to the die
tionary," he said.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Someone remarked to "Cotton
Ed" Smith, unreconstructed Sem
: ator from South Carolina, that
Roosevelt was his own worst en-
emmy. mot while I'm living" re-
piled Cotton Ed -. u. Edgar
Hoover's G-Men have been worked
almost to death with espionage
and fifth column cases, plus nor
NAL activities.
Copyright, 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 2:0S q. m. daylight time).
Sun rises GA a. m. sets 6:42 .. m. day
light time).
All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
septembers FIRST real cold snap was later
than anticipated. II would not be surprising
now 10 ind early october developing into an-
other case OF delayed summer. such a. mid
September produced in very large doses,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
OCTOBER is
(Boston POST

wednesday, Oct. Is. will be day
to be long remembered in American
annals. It will be the day when the
cream Of young manhood In the
United States win respond to the
call to be classified under the ma
tion's first peacetime draft. It will
be registration day.
The day will be memorable one.
As the men 3ile into the registra-
ton stations. 1t will be the feryent
hope Of all loyal Americans that
although many win be called for
military drill that not one Of them
shall ever hear the guns Of war.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

prOVemenC Inere II WenQeu W1llkle
is elected; what he and his CO.
workers are pulling for now,is a Re-
publican, isolationist House.
The senate they have written
Off already. Since only a third of
its membership comes up for re-
election, it'll be heavily Democratic
next session no matter what hap
pens this fall; but it'd be perfectly
possible for the House to turn up
with Republican majority even if
the President should be reelected,
and that's what the isolationist and
peace groups are banking on.
FDR'S FOES
WOULD HOLD REINS
A Republican House would GER
tainly put a crimp in the New Deals
foreign policy, if for no other rea-
son than that some of the key COM
mittees would automatically be-
come dominated by Mr.. Roosevelt's
sharpest critics.
For instance, Hamilton Fish of
New York, perhaps the most out
spoken isolationist in Congress, is
ranking Republican on both the
rules committee and the foreign
relations committee. Understand
ing is that of the two he'd prefer the
rules committee Job; that would
make Charles A. Eaton of New Jer-
sey head of the foreign affairs COM
mittee, and if Eaton should be beat
en- at the polls the committee would
be headed by George Holden Tink-
ham of Massachusetts,, second only
to Fish as 100 per cent isolation
ist.
Naval affairs committee would
be headed by Melvin Mas of
Minnesota, a firm opponent of
swapping off navy equipment to
Great Britain. John Taber of New
York, a convinced budget-bal-
ANGER would run the appropria-
tons committee. The important
ways and means committee would
be in the hands of Allen Tread
way of Massachusetts, an equally
Stalwart anti-New Dealer.
WILL FIGHT
AID TO BRITAIN
Hence the peace groups figure
that the big job right now is to help
get a Republican House. They're
concentrating on that-with the
proviso, of course, that an isolation
ist Democrat would be preferred to
an 1nterventionist Republicarl-and
are letting the presidential contest
slide.
Just what the peace bloc's
strategy will be at the next session
depends partly on the way the fall
elections go. If the elections re-
fleet what the isolationists believe
to be a acknowledgement public OPP
position to CONSUMPTION - the. big
item on the agenda will be an eff
fort to repeal the draft act. A bill to
accomplish this has already been
drawn up, as matter of fact, and
might even be introduced at this
session, although that is unlikely.
Beyond that, there will be con-
tinued opposition to the aid-for-
Britain campaign. The peace groups
are perhaps even more disturbed by
recent U. S.-British conversations"
regarding the use of the Singapore
naval base by the U. S. fleet than
they were by the destroyer deal:
what they're afraid of is the de-
velopment of deal which would, in
effect, make this nation an informal
co-partner in the defense and pres
ervation of the whole British en-
pire. and they're resolved to block
it If they can.
Certainly Republic House con-
trolled by the men mentioned above
would be big help to them in that
attempt.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
NEXT SIcTIAas


The launching OF concerted at.
tack BY German newspapers on the
ewedlsh government probably means
that Sweden y the next victim, The
reason for tho attack Is amazing.
Tho Swedish government failed 70
repflmand unfayoFable criticism Of
Germany BY Swedish neW1papefb
Clearly, the flights OF Europe" arc
not cniy going out but IRE yolcfe 81
her people ere being stilled, NO
wonder Wo ehould oherifh Z free
pfee1s
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

solely with the
congre S sional
elections.
Spokesman for
the peace group
is Frederick j.
Libby, head Of
the N alton al
Council for the
Prevention Of
War. A deter
mined foe of
President Roose-
velt's foreign
policy, Mr.. Lib
by S e S little
reason to hope
for much i'm.
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which appeared, in
spite of the burn
ing, not to be con-
sulned. He turned
aside to see the
great sight, and
when the Lord
saw that he turn
ed aside, He call
ed out of the
midst Of the bush.
This was the
beginning of Mos
es' great service
to his nation
and to the world.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
THE VERY WARP AND wooF
(NeK Work Harald. Trlhunel

(New York Herald-Trihune)
That observant phlloloeist Eric
Partridge, who q few years ago pub
ilshed q monumental volume on
English slang, has compiled q dice
tionaFy OF cliches, apparently IN tho
belief that such a book would prove
not only entertaining but IN eoine
MEASURE helpful 10 al who ilee the
language, But n curious that he
chose this time, Tho year o. q ma
tlonal election, Cor " publication.
Such q book might oofcelvab|y. n
read seriously alld taken 70 heart
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27

The old landmarks pass. We read in
the news this week that the Boston
Opera House was for sale or lease. Oper
attic productions have been in order there
for thirty-one years during which time
much money was lost. It is surmised that
the property might be bought for large
market center or possibly bus terminal.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-27
A Thought for Today

And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out
into the highways and hedges, and compel them
to come in, that my house may be hMed'-LuKe
14:2S.
Doing the will of God leaves me no time Tor
disputing about his plans.-G. Macdonald.