The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-11
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 Criticism from a Fort Wayne eii- torial page: "You shouldn't take lnything Walter WinchelI says about international matters seriouely, con- sidertng that he was once a very or ainary hooter, etc."
 Quiteso, quiteso. But Lindbergh started his career as an ordinary parachute jumper, and they come on ahead of the hooters Two Americans who started as amateur hooters (amaterr, by gollyD were former Governor Alfred D. Smith and Supreme Court Justice Ferdin- and Pecora .. IA former hoofer, Rho wound up getting g medal from Congress for his views on in- ternational matters in the song called "Over There" was George M. Cohan Supreme Court Jus hce Murphy started his views on international matters long after he started out as a laundry helper .. And ex-Vice- President Garner and ce-President Walalce started their careers as a cowpuncher and farm hand A guy named Knudsen, whose views on international things nlakeI sense, started as a factory hand A gink named John Edgar Hoover served as 8 grocer's delivery boy.
 :. Joe Stain, if you want to keep this thing going, kid, got to the top of the heap in international in- trigue after he clicked as bank robber And how about that international view-giver who was once house painter? j. District Attorney Dewey, who was considered Presidential stuff, started as a farm hand <. Senator Jim Mead was Q railroad brakeman Senator Bob Reynolds ran a roller skating rink Senator Wagner was the son of 6 janitor .. The late Mayor Hylan, of N. F., WIS a trolley car Hnotorman Mayor Walker was Songwriter Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson was 8 hired hand on 8 farm Mayor La- Guardia was 8 stenographer .. Charles Schwab was water boy in 8 steel mill !. Andrew Car negie was a breaker boy in a Eteel mill The late Walter Chrysler was 6 garage mechanic David 6arnoff, RCA biggie, started as a messenger boy Marcossin, of Parliament was a Marshall Field dept store floor-walker, Henry Ford . bicycle repair man, George Jean Nathan H'ort Wayne's gift to N. Y) started out as critic and still isl!
 From James w. Barratt's book on Joseph Pulitzer, the great newspa- per publisher: "A journalist in UPS (Puntzer) conception, is states man as well as a writer =. The basis of it was something more pro- found than persistent curiosity about people and things. UP, of course, was the most incorrigible busybody of his day and age. His habit of asking questions about everything under the sun and demanding acc curate as well as immediate ans swers was an amusing and often an- moving trait, but it was only a me- ciaanis mthrough which an eager prehensi.e mind was kept supplied with working material. He had an objective which he refused to put aside. As long as he lived, he wnated to inform and mold public opinion--not just for the sake of profits, but for the sake of progress in the direction where he thought America ought to be heading"
 Our Incorrigible BusybOdy Dept: Doesn't Army Intelligence think that Great Britain has a severe case of brass-hat polsoning? Aren't the members of the Supreme Court now all pulling one way--at each others hair? Did you know that the President changed the nickname for Morgenthau to "Six Per Cent Henry? ... What two Cabinet of- ficers are suffering from makeup poisoning? (Their friends make up the stories, and they do the pois- oning) What invention can drop sandbag down chimney at 2O,0O feet? And what Sec'y of War would like to do 1t to what Wash ington eolyumist?
 Why do the Supreme Court Jus tices call their edifice "the Mauso- leum" when 1t isn't that lively2 Isn't it true that the victory of the American Labor Party in N r. has split 1t more completely than three defeats? Hasn't photogra- phy helped the British censors more than 1t has Hollywood2 Wouldn't this be an aid to Britain: To mail the photostats to your friends and let His Majesty's govt keep the originals? At what diplomatic reception did a best friend say: "You can have halitosis or the Jap panese Ambassador, but not both!"1 What Canadian official, who believes the war can be won by low ering wages, will shortly be elevated by a kick in the tail light?
 What size tank is giving the Gen. erals . bigger headache than the Privates who steer them? $. What Ambassador turned in an honest days work recently? Fol what Cabinet post are there more volunteers than for the Marine Corps? Andu which Sec'y of State is vastly amused2 Isn't 1t true that jesse Jones loaned his brother $50? Anyway, isn't Jesse wearnic his brothers gold watch? :. Don't they call Sec'y IckeS personality -