The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-01
PORTRAIT OF A MAN TALKING
TO HIMSELF


PORTRAIT OF A MAN TALKING
TO HIMSELF
ION The Chief, Via A1huquerque,
N. Mex.l
Wonder who writes FDR's punch
lnesP In his speech he had one
mat could easily have rounded out
q colyum or broadcast--so much
sock did 1t have. I mean this one:
We cannot have all we want If our
soldiers and sailors are to have ali
they needl" Say, that's worth
money Wonder what the re-
action Of other readers was to that
photo In Life last week? 1 mean
the one showing the papa of an
infant, holding 1t over q precipice
with the baby's fists clinging to
a stick Made me sick !. What
Kind Of father Is that, anyhow?
Well, every now and then
get foolish over something, and this
time 1t is the way Roy Shields or
chestra plays "A Sleepy Lagoon and
You" =. get so limp !. :. don't
care II 1t is an old concert piece
music teachers give the piano stu
dents. 1t is lovely thing to hear
-. II 1t weren't for the magic of
the prairies, I'd have had this done
hours ago.
In Washington the other day 1t
1t was a thrill to learn the source
OF certain hunk Of criminal libel
=. Right out Of Ham Fish's office.
Some day, old boy, some dayl :.
He who laughs last laughs loud
and don't ever forget it, sweetheart
-. How come Fish, who threatened
to get back into the Army, had his
picture taken in uniform-and then
forgot the whole thing? Leon
and Eddie'S certainly know where
to put photos Of Hitler and Benito
=. How about putting picture of
Fish in the same place? Thanks
-. II I were a pSychiatrist and I
wanted to be sure patient suffer-
ing from melancholia would laugh
again-I'd prescribe a Is cent copy
of ~The Best of Damon Runyon"
/. +. Had me in stitches again last
night, and had read it all before,
too.
4 Wish that district attorney in
Louisville, who helped send away
| two Nazi agents named Boden-
Schatz, would tell the news wire
services about he evidence he has
connecting these two with giving
financial contribution to Elizabeth
Dilling. That sort of news should
get wide circulation, gol' darn it.
. First thing thought of when
stepped out OF the Union Station
In Kansas City was the massacre
there When a bandit named
Nash was being taken to Leaven-
worth by G-men-and his gang
;ried to rescue him by machine
cunning a Federal man to death.
T1l0y got away but not for long,
all paying the extreme penalty :.
The G-man's widow is now work.
ing In the Kansas City branch of
the FBI which is as it should be
Harvey's in the depot has the
fastest sirloin steak I sighted
deeply passing the Orpheum Theater
which Still has big-time manner
ab0ut 1t 9 I thought could see
George M. Conan and Will Rogers
standing in the alley.
Rete Wellington, the night city
editor Of the famed Kansas City
Star. looks like an editor :.
First one I ever saw who did, too
:. Everybody on the paper from
the publisher down to the copy boy
sits out In the open. NO offices for
anybody :. ut sure looks like the
kind OF newspaper office you see
in the Edward G. Robinson movies"
/ said . Nov and then, it has
one bad feature, though" said Mr..
wellington, there's no place to hide
from one Of those bores with
causel" When I spoke Of the
late Kansas City Journal-Post,
which died and left the field to
the Star crowd, Wellington said
seriously: II can't truthfully say /
was glad 1t quit. When 1t went 1t
took something with 1.-THE fun of
q fight"
Sound and Fury" by Francis
Chase, Jr, is something for the
historians Kept me up nearly |
all night with its eyebrow raisers |
>. The one about Coughlin laid
me low Chase relates how |
Coughlin once was FDR's biggest |
booster. His was the voice that yelled |
Roosevelt or RUM" Only to
later call him Franklin Doubleeross
Roosevelt And why? Chase re-
ports that they fell out over diff
ferences regarding monetary pol
Icy Il. Then, after Coughlin went
on the air and berated FDR's crowd,
saying: The restoration of silver
10 its proper place is a Christian
concern" the govt came out with
the amazing revelation that Cough
Mn lthrOugh his secretary was the
holder OF more silver than any per-
son In Michisan-five hundred
thousand Ouncesl At this time
C0ughliu was demanding that the
smOney lenders" be driven from the
temple WAL STREET. II was
then revealed that the priest was
playing the stock nlaFket-and his
defense (that he was simply In
vestipg money was identical with
the defense Of those he condemned,
WhewI
That = MeEeIy one Of the many
exciting parts OF Sound and yhFy"lI