The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-19

AASby OAV VI VAAO AV4OAAVS9 SAAA$A paign literature is a picture and beside 1t a picture of push cart peddler being seized by Storm Troopers on the streets of Berlin.
 Caption for the two photos is "It Can't Happen Here," with the word "Can't crossed off and the word Did" substituted, making the corrected caption read: "It Did Happen Here.'
 Under the two pictures is quotation from President RooSe- welt in l936-"In 3i months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of the peoples Government, this power Is wholesome and proper. In the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy, such power would provide ShackleS for the liberties of the people," LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
 Those who knew Martin Dies, Senior, were not at all surprised when his son, the ebullient con- gressman from Texas, suddenly pulled out of the race for Con- gress. Dies father, who repre- sented the same Texas district in Congress from 1909, did almost the some thing. The elder Dies playe q to the galleries, was a fiery fig ure in Congress and rowed in- cessantly with Woodrow Wilson. Then suddenly, he withdrew under fire and did not choose to run again.
 His son Martin, Junior, actually withdrew not because of throat ailment, but because, as reported long ago in this column he faced a tough reelection race. It was not merely the CTO-AF'L combin- ation against him in his district and the attacks of Walter Win chell. but also the fact that Judge J. M. Combs, his opponent, is a sort of Sam Rayburn type of fel- low, neither radical nor conserv- ative, who went barefoot until he was 21, knows Texas from the T down, and is an even better campainger than Dies.
 Also word had percolated round that the Dies Committee main- tained more than one paid em- ploye in Dies own district. This meant one of two things: N that Dies was using his committee for patronage at home; or (2) that he thought the home folks needed investigation for American &C., tivities. Neither went down well in Texas.
 NOTE: Martin Dies, charming and likable whether you agree with him or not, will always be remembered in the House of Rep resentatives for taking up a col- lection for the wife of the Un- known Soldier.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, once Secretary of War under Hoover, is reported flirting with Dewey friends about hitching to the Dewey bandwagon as candi- date for Vice President. Hurley has been on some special missions in the Near East for Roosevelt. .. Secretary of State Hull testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that he worked 400 Sundays in his office before the war started Martin Dies has spent over s460.OO0 of the taxpay- CTS money to date . The Chi- cago Tribune, which constantly pooh-poohs Elmer Davis and Con- gressman Fulbright of Arkansas because they studied at English universities, has been a big boost- CT for Congresswoman Jessie Sum- ner of Illinois. Apparently they don't know that Miss Sumner completed her education at Ox- ford University, England.
 CANS SWAP HORSES
 No one ever would have sus- pected that dignified, shy Attor- ney General Riddle was the man to pull it off but. the other night. he staged sixty-manpower stag dinner which brought together Northern and Southern wings of the Democratic party-all root ing for Roosevelt.
 The dinner was given for new Democratic Chairman Bob Han negan. Mayor Ed Kelly of Chi- cago came all the way to Wash- ington to attend. Also present were leaders of the filibuster against the anti.poll tax bill charming Senators Eastland Of Mississippi, Russell of Georgia and Connally Of Texas: also the chief battler for the anti-poli tax bill. courageous Senator Mead of New York and his colleague. Senator Bob Wagner.
 Keynote singers lnot speakers) at the dinner were Congressman