The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
NOTES OF A NEWsPAPERMAN

NO1ES Ok "A NEWSEAFE
 Vice. President WalIace's predic- ton (abollt the election) was right on the. beam. Two weeks before Election Day he said that FDR would win by three million votes and would carry three-fourths of the States. Yet the critics of the Vice. President, who made that accurate forecast claim he is impractical ... The recent scandal" about Chiang Kai-shek and Mime. origin ated (according. to press services here which reprinted every word of it) in the eSteemed London Mail, Lord Rothermere's paper, old chep. The old keyhole peekers The Sunday N. r. Mirror ran this re- porter's flash revealing the scene z and hour of Col. Roosevelt's and Faye Emerson'S merger. .One Man. haitian gazette used the Associated Press reprot which stated thatt he Marriage would not be held durnig thA weekend. Had a colyllnist been so misinformed, wllew! An editorialist discussing Cecil B. De Miles quarrel with a union re- marks: "Mr. De Mile is paid $5,- 900 week for his Monday nights on the air. This is probably the top return for one-night stands. But 1t isn't Martin Dies, who quit Che said) because he was i'll, never felt better.
 The Saturday before Pearl Har- Dor, Gerald L. K. Smith made re- cording of speech in which he revealed "the great friendship Japan had for the U. S% And that there'd be no war, etc. He planned to have the transcription put on Detroit radio station the next afternoon at 2:30 The Pearl Harbor flash broke at 2:26 =. In the final week of the campaign the Demnly's spent $70O,000 for radio time The San Francisco Examiner managing edi- tors wall has this: Don't Teil Me Anything In Confidence!" An editorial calls upon Congress to rid itself of its archaic ideas" to keep up with the world =. We can remember when if we said anything like that the charge by few solons always included the word Smear"
 whenever we come across books made up of paragraphs from this ,colyum and other sources (not all ways with credit) we recall Wil- son Mimer's wonderful crack:
 When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism, but when you take 1t from many writers it's called reSearchP = It's been reported that Hambo Fish is making come pack plans by holding confahs with wall Streeters. We trust the Wall StreeterS won't waste their coin by backing a has-was. Invest your money in war bonds, Bub. It's safer. more patriotic and more profitable.
 The Trolley Song" is one of the few ditties that doesn't sandpaper the ears when given brassy treat ments. Have a news odditee- -hee: Pvt. James H. Mills, who just won the Congressional Medal, was orig inauy classified 4-F! Irony: Some of the Allied leaders who have doEe so much to win the war are nov going back to the diplomatic jungle that helped incite the war NewScaster Frank Kingdoms S comforting observation: Even if the Sedition trial is stopped by the death of Judge Richer, neither the time nor the money spent on 1t has been wasted. It has made a part of the public record the ac- count of how Nazi-F -FaScism planned coldly and skillfully to undermine our democratic institutions. ]"
 We hope that the documentary films which have done so much for the war effort won't be dis carded when the last shot is fired They can serve as the most potent weapon for winning the peace: Edu- cation There has bene no finer example of courage int his war than the valor of the four army chap lains who gave their life jackets to others aboard a sinking troop trans portland then died in the icy seas Two were Protestants, one was Catholic and one was Jewish. That act of heroism can provide the basis for a vital film. It offers . lesson in mericanism no Ameri- can should ever forget The Na- tion mag gives shameful illus tration of bigotry: Some colleges aret now offering nnail-order cours- es for soldiers. But one college turned down an American soldiers request for enrolment in course