The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-26
Politics
Passing

The National Housing Agency i
peddling its projects all over tn
Omitted States, wherever industrial
needs have demanded this type o
Swelling. 1t Is believed the frs
Afforts to have Waterbury interes
Itself onicially in the existing pro
iects have been made, although a.
yet this city has no duly-constitut
I'd Housing Authority. The Wa
Housing Unit committee Is more o,
less of an advisory board set up b!
The mayor as a buffer between hi
Dflce and the numerous agencie'
and federal officials who are con-
cerned with housing. If Waterbury
federal housing projects are expand
I'd further this year, you can res
assured the MIA will see to it tina
DvertureS are made on city owner
ship and maintenance of the same
According to the press the ur-
bane and ubiquitous Eddie"
UdeIowitz has been chastising
the Republican party for its
failure to provide itself with the
sinews Of political warfare
money. At a recent gathering
he is credited with informing
those present that a Republican
party Of 1900 in Waterbury
ought to be good for at least
$25, 900 on the basis Of $1.50 per
person. theoretically that's
sound reasoning, but when put
to the acid test 1t might be
broken down like this-17,0OO
people won't give $1.50 to the
Republican party or to the
Democratic party or any party;
1900 people, when approached
rs Republicans good for a Sl.5O
donation, would be Republican
in name only. And another
miner item Is this-cOllecting
$1.5O from 1900 people living
in 20 voting districts is here
ulean task. It's doubtful II it
could be accomplished without
an efficient working organiZa-
ton (which would have to be
we'll paid Of several hundred.
Earlier this week the Associated
Press reported that Gov. Raymond
z. Baldwin and COP State Chair
nan ]. Kenneth Bradley had parted
politically. That wasnt
news, because the same thing was
said all during the legislative ses-
,ion and had been rumored ever
before the governor was nominated
Ind elected last year. But the
same dispatch also said that Rep
Clare Booth Luce was being groomed
.or the Republican nomination Of
7ice-president, which like almost
.nything linked to La Luce's name
S distinctly news. And it's more
10 here in Connecticut, for it gives
IS two potential vice-president can
iidates, the other being the COVER
Tor himself. He has more or less
coveted the honor since 1910 when,
rs Connecticut's peripatetic chief
he was likewise grooming
himself for national honors.
democrats Of Hartford are
probably debating whether or
not the die was cast Of them
when the Common Council this
week elected Asst. U. S. District
Attorney Dennis p. O'COnnor
mayor. Presumably he will be
the candidate Of the party this
fall. although his election by
no means assures him Of this.
BY nominating time ex-Mayor
Thomas J. Spellacy might
have ironed out all diff
ferences and be in the running
again. But no such doubts exist
in Republican minds. They be-
Eeve they have the winning
candidate In State Senator VIII
liam H. Mortensen who can only
escape being nominated by NOV
ing out Of the city and estab-
fishing legal residence elsewhere.
OF interest In the Hartford situa-
ion was the fact that the city
,harter there does not provide for
! line Of succession in case Of the
ieath or resignation of a mayor
4ere In Waterbury the charter is
specific on this point and we had
In example of how it works early
his year when Mayor John S. Mon
gan as president of the Board OF
Aldermen automatically became
mayor upon the death Of the late
Vincent A. Scully. The same pro-
;edure is followed in Bridgeport
90, under charter provision. But
n the Hartford charter it provides
hat the Common Council may elect
! mayoralty successor from the
Iualified electors OF the city, all OF
which throws the position open to
One Of the prize remarks Of
the week was that credited to
woman riding in an elevator in
. public building. The coal
strike was under somewhat gen.
eral discussion. AS the elevator
door opened ut the ground level
the person in question said, "All
I hope is that John L. Lewis
isn't over S."
Mrs. Frances Redick, secretary OF
tate and close friend and political