The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-21


 It has quietly purchased over 100000 yards of mosquito net ting. Areas chiefly plagued by mosquitoes arc Alaska, Newfound- land, Greenland and Latin Amer ica. Only decoration on tn, walls of the inner sanctum of brain truster Tommy Corcoran is d group of six pictures of the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Corcoran was his sec retary for several years.
 Senator Charles McNary is one of the nattiest dresserS in Con- gress, also the best bean baker. The Oregonian loves to bake beans over an open fire, using bacon, molasses, sherry and eleven hours of simmering .. One congress sional defeat Democratic leaders are not regretting is that of Rep- resentative Elmer J. Ryan, Min nesota Roosevet-hater, who cre- ated an anti-third term scene at the Chicago convention. A former law partner of Governor Stassen, intimate Willkie adviser, Ryan never mentioned the President during the campaign but did con- fer with Willkie.
 WILKES NATIONAL UNITY
 Willkie failed in his post-elec- tion broadcast to convince Ad- ministration chiefs that hhe was sincere about wishing to promote national unity. Rightly or wrongly they suspected willy maneuver by Willkie to continue fighting the New Deal through national pressure group" =. In the opinion of Don Berry, editor of The Indianola Qowa) Record and campaign aide of Rep. Cliff Hope, COP farm chairman, Willkie's de- feat was probably due to his neglect of the farm vote. MT. Willkie had with him advertising men They should have used their good sales sense in selling the farmers a president"
 Dr. Francis Townsend, long faced mogul of the old-age pen sion movement, never lacks pro- motoinal ideas. Soundly trounced in the election, he has popped up with a proposal to organize a new party, to be known as Power Age- Pension Party, whatever that means Cincinnati, Ohio, home of Senator Bob Taft, has the dis tinction of being the only city over 100000 that went for Willkie. He carried it by few thousand votes. Roosevelt won every other me- tropolis by considerable margins. THAT BOMBSIGHT
 When they take their seats in January, two new Republican sen- ators, from different sections of the country, will resume an old friendship. They are Ralph Brew ster of Maine and Harold Burton of Ohio, once roommates at Bow doing College The Army's widely publicized bombsight is now being built into bombers des- tined for Britain. However, U. s. forces have new and better one = developed, incidentally, by the Navy, which is the originator of all bombsights used in this country. It supplies them to the Army Chess champion of Congress is Oklahoma's Represen- tative Wesley Disney, cousin of the famous animated cartooner. He also collects antique chess sets.
 One election gift Roosevelt brought back from Hyde Park was a puppy Scottie, presented by a neighbor and named Fall" by the President, after a Scotch an- cestor Between congressional sessions, Representative Prank Horton of wyoming manages a dude ranch A good bet for one of the vacancies that will open in the Securities and Ex- change Commission after the first of the year, is Dr. Luther Haar, Controller of Philadelphia. A for mer University of Pennsylvania economies professor and State Banking Commissioner, Haar man. managed Senator Joe Guffey,s successful reelection campaign and played a big role in put ting Henry Wallace over at the Chicago convention.
 TWO GARNER PICTURES
 out-goilng Vice President Jack Garner is the only man in history to have his picture hung on both ends of the Capitol. An oil paint ing of the former Speaker hangs m the House lobby. and another