The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-29

the Red Cross is always the first to help"
 From the top of the front page (eight columns wire) of the Holyoke (Mass) Transcript for Monday, November 18th: Red Cross deserves to be helped first because Red Cross is always first to help.-Wendell Willkie."
 Haw!: Recently one of the a. m. gazettes bought soft drink ma chine. One of those gadgets into which you put a nickel and out comes paper cup load of cola. The newspaper didn't want the darn thing in the first place, but the salesman broke down its resistance and so the machine was relegated to the composing room, where it was an immediate success. The boys kept the refiller working overtime.
 Finally the coin collector came. He opened the money receptacle which yielded a jackpot of slugs and a lone nickel. Apparently every body had forgotten that compos- | ing room has an unlimited supply of lead, which the boys get tired of putting into linotype machines.
 Thenx, Ole Chep: "Deah Waltah, , writes c. V. R. Thompson, the cor respondent for the London Daily Express. you were good enough to give London the word Hamburg cred. So, in turn, London gives you their newly coined word: 'Berlimi- nated'."
 OOps!: Paul Harrison, the Holly wood historian, credits Sir Cedric Hardwicke with: That fellows con- science isn't his guide, it's his &C., compiice.' That gem was quoted in this colyum and credited to Readers Digest several years ago and Sir Cedric wasn't the parent The new song, Looking For Yesterday" has a hunk of literary lace in it's word- age, to wit: My heart has stone in it's shoe" If the ditty is hit, one trusts the royalty receivers will in- clude Edna St. Vincent Millay in a share of the loot.
 Heheheh: In the tavern on 48th street Kenny Baker was discussing his new Connecticut farm and the following sign on the barn wall, ap- parently left by the local Dorothy Parker, to wit: You can lead COW to pasture--but it's darn unexcit- ing!"
 Bravo: DNB. the Nazi news group, is backing Transocean News Service which is fighting for control of Havas, the former French news service. in Latin America. The big rival is the British Reuters.
 The pro-American Novedades in Mexico City is among the first to line up with Reuters and has drop ped the Havas dateline for the LIEF" service. The "LEF' is the old Havas organization which es- capped NaI domination.
 But this is the paragraph: The significance in the initials LIEF" !" It is the French newspapermen's $ neat way Ol kccpuuS dANc AlC French battle cry: Liberty, Equal ity, Fraternity"
 Litree Note: Krylov, the great Russian fabulist, according to the New Republic, wrote of the Cuckoo who congratulates the Cock on his great gifts as a singer, while the Cock in turn congratulates the Cuckoo.
 But the Swallow, passing by, in- terrupts them: My friends. even if you get hoarse praising one another, your music's bad"
 Meow: A cat fight almost started at Spivy's roof when a deb greeted ditto, "Oh, helloo, darling! didn't recognize you from the back
 You should" fang'd the other, you've been talking behind it for years!"
 In Fewer Words: Charlie Chaplin says you waste half your life trying to get the crowd and the other half trying to get away from them.