The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-21
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
CUB REPORTER


For the present, this columns
tavorite Congressman Is Hon. Hugh
Butler Of Nebraska, who, 1t would
seem, has been slickered Cong
Butler took a gallop through Cen
trail America and came home
sweating with indignation over
what he called the waste OF USA
funds. down there He named
Nelson Rockefeller's Good Neighbor
Bureau as the big spender BY
the merest chance, Cong. Butler
happened to be cumming around
with staffer from Readers Digest,
who allegedly ghosted his big expose
Back in Washington, Butler
found himself burning with indig-
nation He cooled, however, UNI
til Readers Digest printed the
piece, matter Of weeks II not
months According to Buffers
later accusations, the spending was
gigantic but not gigantic enough
that he couldn't stop until Readers
Digest had enjoyed an exclusive re-
lease.
Once 1t was printed Buffers rage
got the better OF him again and he
popped off He hurled heavy fig
ures around and, although licked to
q fragile by Readers Digest, the
anti-Administration dialies warmed
over the story and splashed 1t big
-. No news Is stale to lots of pa
pers SO long as it raps the govern
ment Then Sec. Hull spoke up.
Buffers figures were crazy, he said,
and so were his interpretations of
what the money was spent for. So
now Cong. Butler Is down to his last
cliches, dragging out charges that
the Administration is Throwing up
smoke screens" to "whitewash" it
sell He'd better call in that
Readers Digest wordmonger again.
You can't whitewash anything with
smoke, Honorable.
Some of the reviewers nh-nh'd
Kit Cornells new drama, Lovers
and Friends" on the complaint that
it read like magazine serial. e.
Is that supposed to be n. g.? Lookit
the others that not only read like
mag serials but as matter Of fact,
were Junior Miss" MY Sister
Eileen" Having Wonderful Time
Pal joey" Claudia" Life With
Father" to name Just few =.
All those were Stoop- shouldered
from the orchids the reviewers piled
on them. Now boys, you mustn't
bless and curse with the same
words.
Ono nf fha y,auc hrao dcacfc u,io1,
used to he the gutsieSt and newsi-
est, Is gradually having all the life
namby- pambied out of 1t. It's
flabbiest in its Washington bulle-
tins so much SO that even its
rapS at the New Deal are almost
apologize Some of us were
listening to it the other shutdown
and wondering if the sabotage was
planned or whether the program
makers were just natural born
milquetoasts. Finally man with
a bunch chirped up: You know"
he guessed, I've an idea they're |
sweetening 1t up so they can sell
it as starring film for Fay Balm
ter"
Here's the route of termite tale,
as spotted by Kenneth Stewart, who
traced it in connection with OWL |
Many of the attacks follow a
familiar pattern" he reported in
New Republic. "They start from
some shady source, are picked up
by anti-Administration writer's,
passed on from there to Republican |
congressman and come back to us
over the air on Axis short-wave
broadcasts."
Russell Birdwell. who has been
hired to de-odorize King Carol of |
Rumania and get him across the U.
S. borders. told newspapermen in
Mexico City, according to dis
patches, that only 'Winchen and |
PM" oppose the entrance of the
FaScist-adoring King E. Well, sir,
We've never been more flattered,
but as usual Birdweu is talking
King Carol instead of sense |
"A very large section of the Ameri-
can public wants Carol locked out. |
They don't even want his voice on |
the air, as they showed when
DCAiOAAAiVAAV AOASSN A1Lo CtllCclldGlOIl /
from q broadcast. Americans are
at war with some of the crowd |
Carol played footsie with in Eu-
rope and, big as our country is,
it can't hold Carol and democracy
at the same time.
AS press agent for the runaway
King, you can't blame Birdweu for
plugging his unWanted client
That's what he gets paid for, 35,-
600 clans per year, reports state .
Birdwell showed vast surprise when |
reporter limited that Carol might |
be trying to come in to get the royal |
paws on 80,000OOO Rumanian dol
lars frozen here. Perish the |
thought" said Birdwell. THAT
dough belongs to the Rumanian
people, whom Carol loves to the
point Of distraction" Well, SO
did the lives Carols Iron Guard
snuffed out belong to the Rumanian
people, but Birdwen didn't go into
that.
I'VE think" editorials New
'Sagk paper, "the wise tactic for the
Depublicans in 1914 is to run some
:.ble civilian for President-DeWey
or Bricker or Vandenberg or any
one of a dozen others" You
can almost hear r. D. RS campaign
managers implore: do as the nice
paper says, you lovely Republicans,
pleased"
Sen. Pepper Of Fla. by-lined a
warning in the Times mag illus
trating how as few as seventeen
Senators "a third of quorum can
torpedo the plan for world peace,
no matter how great majority Of
the people want that peace plan
Sen. Pepper goes on to say
that this minority can decide: I'VE
know better than the people. Our