The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-10

isolationist leanirgs, is quietly trying to Wan9le Q top wartime job. Kennedys overtures, SO far in- direct, have been through friends with influential Administration ties Best editorial so far of 1922: Joscphus Daniels an- nouncement that after eight years as Ambassador to Mexico, he is resuming editorship of the Raleigh (N. O. News and Ob- server. It is with some temerity," Josephus wrote, that this anna teur undertakes to succeed the more sedate editor Jonathan Worth Daniels this som who has responded to the call of the gov- ernment" Sometime ago the Nazi threw into concentration camp President Seip of the Uni versity of Norway, man of 60. Now the Norwegian Legation in Washington learns that Seip was sentenced January to four weeks in a dark cell British censorship If U. s. mail from South America makes it almost as slow as mail carried by sea. The British still demand to see our mail at Trinidad though we have our own censor . The House stationery room ran short of rubber bands and appealed to a former member of the House, Maury Maverick of Texas, now with Nelson, to secure priority for them Through an error in transcription, The Merry-Go- Round last week made it appear that the censorship board had tried to bar unfavorable comment on Hull's appeasement policy with the Vichy government in France. The fact is that the State Depart ment representative tried to bar criticism, but the censorship board turned down the request. POET GHOSTWRITER
 Colleagues Of Rep. Earl Wilson, loquaciouS exponent of 10 D. m. curfeW for government stenogra phers (to make them more eff ficient in the mornings), blinked their eyes when the Indiana rookie rushed into print with a rhymed statement cn the issue, reading in part.
 five asked the girls to obey the
 curfew,
 And be in bed by 10 p. m.
 Now Hollywood has crossed
 me up
 "And sent us very handsOm
 men,"
 However, Archibald MacLeish, poet-Librarian of Congress, would have been even more astounded had he known the circumstances behind Wilson's poetic effort, which lamented the difficulty of persuading government stenogs to turn in early because Robert Montgomery and other handsome movie stars are holding down war jobs in the Capital.
 Actually, Wilson's poem was written by an cnterprising news man who needed a new angle on the story. The reporter sug- gested to Wilson that he make lot of mimeographed copies and send them to the newspapers.
 Swell idca," enthused Wilson.
 "WhO wrote this thing?'
 Archie MacI4eish," replied the reporter nonchalantly.
 Who's hc?" asked Wilson.
 "Oh, you don't have to worry about him." said the reporter. He's the outstanding poet in the government"
 AMERICA FlRSTER
 A federal grand jury in New York recently indicted Werner von Clemm, naturalized Prussian, on charges of acting as agent of The Nazi High Command in snug gling large quantities of stolcs gems into tue U. s. to finance subversive activities. Married to a prominent Eanker's daughter, von Clemm is related to Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop.
 Sensational evidence about von Clemm's operations will be re- vealed by the government at his forthcoming trial. One item in the governments possession is evidence that von Clemm was an active undercover leader of the