The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-05

farm bureau administration un- der an agricultural council.
 Many old-time Republicans are rubbing their eyes. Here is Dem- ocratic candidate for governor talk ing up farm problems and talking as if he were familiar with them Rural sentiment in Connecticut is perhaps still too Republican fol Hurley to win many small-towr votes on these issues, but even the change of a small percentage oi these votes to the Democratic side might prove vitally important in the campaign.
 With election day o1ly four weeks from next Tuesday it's in the next few weeks that the fur will really fly. As the campaign grows nearer its end, nerves get frayed, tempers snap and there comes the height of the name calling and abuse. It's then that campaigners often appeal more to- uassions than to reason, though 1t does them more harm than good with thinking voters.
 Democratic candidates in thi section will have to get going soor cn their campaigns, or it'll be tot late to get an impetus. Roosevelt may be able to win reelection bI taking only a nominal part in thu campaign, but that doesn't ofteI work for the boys running for ofic' in staid old Connecticut.
 If Frank Johnson, the Repubh- can candidate for congress, keeps the tempo of his campaign up to that of the week since his nOmi- nation, hen be gasping for breath. Frank is an aggressive campaign CT, and he knows he has 8 fight on his hands trying to unseat the popular incumbent, Democratic Congressman Joe Smith. The fifth district campaign should be one worth watching.
 The week-long session for maxim, of new voters starts at the city hal Tuesday, with Town Clerk Mar, Kilmartin in charge. An unotn cial city hall guess as to the amour of Waterbury's surplus for this yea is $4OO,000. A very tidy sum, in deed. Nick Zappone of the loca Young Democrats was host to tn executive board of the county or ganization here last night. ;. May or Scully had to change several ap pointments to the local draft board when the governor gave late instruc tions that no doctors were to b named.
 Local Republicans will hold a town convention Thursday night Co choose two candidates for state representatives, with Mrs. Viola Amelung favored to get one of the nominations. The G. O. F. probate district convention will be held the same night with Attorney Maurice F. Wrenn far in the lead for the probate judgeship nOmina- ton. There'l be some more Fireworks in the Italian Republi- can squabble, while the Democrats face some trouble with their Ital- ian constituents, too.
 An epochal struggle in the Gen eral Assembly next year is in tn making through the efforts of tn s Connecticut Committee to Max Birth Control Legal to force the re peal of present statutes. Congress man Joe Smith made a smart nov in securing Joe Mulville as one C the three members of his campaig committee. There's quite bi og talk over the wearing Of a Smit button by one of the men in tn editorial rooms of local paper (nc The Democrat).
 Tie field Of politics will miss 1oe Gt. Louis, our repOFt0Fial as- aDoiate, whose untlmeiy death came this week. J0e's fight against Inc public utilities. iR the days when the utilities wore "DO NoI DIStuFb" signs, made political hls- tory in Waterbury. Joe lived td see many Of the reforms Iie adVO. aaieA, hailed then as radical, bs iaken fos granted.