The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-22

does not prove them correct. Mir Taft has a habit of saying things that are not refined. For a man of his education, he's no bargain.
 ''The 'Coughlinites' are smart They refrained from such pedagogic forms of sabotage. "Coughlinites' are now fighting and dying on the battlefields to make this country safe, for those who wanted war, but who are not fighting. Instead, many of them are in fine paying positions in the government, or in the Army and Navy non-combat posts"
 Certainly the implication of the above taunt is self-evident. The sly tnnuendo is: that followers of Social Justice need to be advised this year that their colors be Red White and Blue. Clever, but 1t does not make sense:
 Now just why is this not too subtle smear campaign going on? Why should any eIldeavor be made to discredit a group which in national emergencies has done at least its share of the enlisting, suffering fighting and dying?
 There are many Americans oi Irish descent In Waterbury who will not allow to pass unchallenged any attempted smear as to theil patriotism because: for one reason they are well aware of their record in enlistn1ents in the armed forces of our country both in the present and in past wars. Read your hls- tory, Horace. The American one
 It is shameful that loyal Ameri- cans are denied the privilege of answering such untruths and slan- der as appeared in MT. Taft,s letter of April 18th to the Waterbury American. Does MT. Taft pay more for his copy of the American than other readers of the paper? \ II seems SO, because he has a strangle hold on the editorial staff, whereby he can have all criticism suppressed What are the advertising rates in the American, or Is it permissible to answer this man through the medium of a paid advertisement?
 If not, we shall personally lead a movement to petition His Excel lency, the Most Reverend Bishop to place this unfair newspaper on the index and have 1t banned from all Catholic homes in Connecticut We don't have to read your paper, MT. Pape.
 There are other newspapers in Waterbury, whose editors are broad minded enough, and big enough to print both sides of a question, although they are not always in agreement.
 A continuation of such attacks might some day, create a demand for publication of the percentage of enlistmentS of Americans of Irish decent in the armed forces of the country in this and previous wars. Such a publication would prove who the real slackers and saboteurs are in this nation.
 We have no room in this country now or at any other time, for edi- tors or college professors who wrap Q foreign flag around their miser- able carcasses, and then cry out indictments against those who have always advocated that America comes first.
 Only recently Q radio address de- livered by a New York Rabbi on the subject of Democracy chal- lenges Its children" shows how bigoted and n-American some groups can be.
 The Rabbi's heart bled, he said as he walled for the inhumanities com initted against his fellowrnen by the Nazis -- especially when these fel- lowmen were Jews. But he didn't say that his heart bled for the Naz persecution of many thous- af1ds of non-Jews. He wasn't inc terested-4n that.
 He was melancholy. he said, and sore at heart for his felloWmen, deprived of their goods by a ruth- less German Reich. Yet that noble soul bent under the weight of such great, inhumanity, did not have the capacity to feel for the victims of AANCo tAh0AASA aAAA WVkGG AAA ktJloOAts for 20 long years; nor for the butch- cry Of innocents in Mexico.
 And here is tho payoff. The Rabbi intoned the prayer that the words of the late Holy Father Plus xI, be inscribed on the doorpost of the "Salrine of Royal Oak" to assist the areliglonist" Coughlin in overcoming his temptation to in- dulge in his evil thoughts Of anti Gegnitlsns
 Very interesting. If the Rabbi would lift his eyes above the door, post, he would see an inscription" i, suspended from . cross high upon the tower of Royal Oak.
 The next time he and his CO., religious hold c convention they should remember to denounce Coln- Inunianl ill tho same sentence with Na1lsni, foE both ore eQuaily un- American.