The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
PORTRAIT OF 4 MAN
 GRUMBLING TO HIMSELF

Seeing films such as "Bataan" and faction in the North Atlantic" and then reading about that Nazi spy in Hawaii Who tipped the Japs about bombing Pearl Harbor .. Sends the blood rushing to the head And races the pulse .. The Nazi's dirty work doesn't make me mad |. He did his duty as a good NaZi !. I'm sizzling at the judge over there .. Who first Sen- tenced the bum to be shot And then got feeling sorry for him and changed it to a prison term That nearby judge. too The one who boo-hooed all over his bench at the very thought of sending a boy of Is to the chair '. For at tacking and then murdering child of 4 He also changed his mind And sent the filthy thing to prison for life And the papers next day displayed the punk'S smirking likeness, quoting him as sneering: They let you out in about IS, don't they?"
 Elmer Davis gets pushed around by some of the New Deal-haters in both Houses It happens to be Elmer's turn He enjoyed such a healthy press when he was new . I wondered then how long it would take for both sides to get fed up with each other So Elmer finally pops off about a number of neWspapermen in Washington, who sell their publishers only what their publishers want to hear, and some Senators and CongreSsmen fight back and try to smear Elmer Davis, one of the honest scribeS in Washington The story that makes you wonder and wonder is the one about the poll-taker who was ordered to turn in sour re- port on FDR's chance in the South Here's the stuff showing the Solid South no longer being solid, boss" she said, "but it just ain't so!!lp She was fired.
 That story about the sailor who recently got up in the House Gal lery He was fed up with all the oratorica1 bigotry during the poll-tax debate . And he inter rupted by shouting: MT. Speaker, I would like to know why man must pay tribute for the right to vote when he can fight without do- ing it?" Guards seized him. A psychiatrist looked him up and down . And then he was released To which NeWsWeek delight fully observed: "The sailor paid the inevitable consequence of asking a sensible question of Congress-and had his head eXamined!" Lowell Thomas sum-up of which Nazi big -funs would be tried after the war was interesting, but you know as well as Lowell does that nobody's gonna be tried, nobody's gonna anything can't feel sorry for the New Workers I pass on the streets I mean those who swelter and look so mournful . :. They don't have to have novacaine, too, do they?
 thought the adverts for the forthcoming moving picture, For Whom the Bell Tolls" were done with dignity and good taste .. At any rate, they were certainly orb arreSting, which is the Big Idea :. So many of the other amusement advertisers bring on the shudders With their congregations, I mean Talk about getting the creeps Encountering a few of the sos "favorites" in the Stinko Set, and seeing how they've de- cayed in only a few years-made me shiver a little . One of them was no beauty, but she was attractive and that can't be longer ago than ' years Maybe they shouldn't go to the same places that attract the refreshing young women of the town The Cabin in the Sky" musical at the Criterion is delightful entertainment Ethel Waters artistry is something to feast on and Lena Horne's beauty makes some wolves wish period.