The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-09

to go out and fight. Tn baseball, apparently, the athletes are instruct ed to go out there and remember the customer is always right. Not over at this deskl
 It looks like Sunday all the time since the Govt put the limits on motorists. Even on the speedway streets, like Park avenue and 8th, the pedestrian now has an even chance of making the other curb stone alive It will look like 8 tank town when the stiffer ra- tioning comes The new one has got the cabbieS panicky. They hear they will get only five gals. of gas daily, their present needs for a two-shift cab) being IT The tightening up will put a lot of hacks in storage and the drivers out of work That must make the gas hogs feel great !. The wires they pulled to get additional helpings of gas for pleasure -lotor- ing probably yanked the food right out of the mouths of hungry kids of unemployed cab drivers Prov ing that everything that's done against the war effort hurts your neighbor.
 Here come the Prohibitionists again, yelling for padlocks. They shuttered the saloons during stfe last war, and now they think they can repeat with the 1918 tactics. =. They are agitating to close the bars near the Army camps. That makes hit with the soldiers par ents, but actually 1t means the service men will have to spend more carfare (which they can't spare) to enjoy a few beers The Drys have short memories. Already they have forgotten what Prohibition did to the country It corrupted the biggest cities, with hoodlums hold ing all the high offices. It start ed a decade of bloody gang wars, with the courts helpless to punish the killers. It enriched criminals who got more dangerous with every dollar The trick didn't work because the best people didn't want 1t to work. Knowing what Pro- hibition can do, the people now want 1t even less.
 Burleycue men resent "Star & Garter" claiming the $40 show is pulling didoes that padlocked their 35-cent attractions. The Star & Garter" defense is that its shippers take off their clothes amid more cultured surroundings |. Holly woodites. are going into the army and navy just like other Americans. Remember all the blah-blah in Con- gress when it was said the actors would rate deferment? 7. Movie town was recently criticized for making films about the war. Now Variety complains because they don't make enough war films. Ho, humph! The dimout doesn't mean much to New Workers, but 1t robs the visitors of the thrill of seeing the Incandescent Belt at it's gaudiest'. |. The White Way was Broadway's trademark, and the first peep at it always left the locker gasping :. Best comment of all on the sight was offered by G. K. Chesterton, as A. Woollcott once reported. Ches- terton, started and marveled, then said: "What a thrill this must be for anybody who can't read!"
 Fine State of Affairs Dept: Ray mond Clapper points out too many votes in Congress are forced by high pressure. He adds: "A Sem ator or Representative can't always stand for what he believes to be best, because he might not be re- elected" The Trib spoke up, too, when Sen. Butler (Nebr) cheered the puncturing of the price ceiling in favor of the farm bloc. He might as well be raising a cheer" acided the Trib, lover another de- feat like Pearl Harbor"
 Approximately ten tons of ore must be taken from diamond mines for every one-carat diamond en- .ln~A-