The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-25
PORTRAIT OF A MAN TRIPPING
BORES

&OHTRAIT OF A MAN TRIPPING
BORES
The Presidents request for a ma
tional labor draft law has got some
of the editorialiSts trying to bite
themselves in the hip pockets.
First they'll come out with a Scold-
ing for labor, warning them that
the soldiers are pretty sore about
all those strikes, etc. What do you
suppose the men at the front think,
ask these editorials, when they hear
that production on the home front
is tagging? Watch out, brother, for
their wrath! Then the same
word-juggler will attack the ma
tional draft law as needless be-
cause our record of production is so
magnificent turning out equip
ment for 100000 troops, supply
ing USSR, China, England and just
everybody How do you like that
sleight-of-hand wizardy? For the
soldier, labor loafS-for the Presi-
dent, 1t works overtime And
yet these same editoriallstS, who
issue to speak for the soldier,
haven't been using any ink and pa
per to urge the soldier vote-to let
him say whom he loves.
The Sun has a pretty theory
about the national draft law. That
paper is wondering if the President
really wants it a lot. Else, it asks,
why did he put it last in his re-
quest to Congress fifth among
the items of his program? Since
the Sun raised point, let us raise
one. Does the Sun think the Tenth
Commandment can be busted more
legally than the First? Or that the
third strike is less important than
strike one on the batter? Or that
he advertiser who buys the last
page of the Sun is getting less for
MS dough than the client who gets
a spot few pages ahead?
The will of the people got a little
attention in Washington last week
when the movement to give the
vote to the armed forces made some
Roadway. The Senate took the first
step, ordering the matter to the
floor where a little air can blow
through it Some of the states
men who were roaring about the
unconstitutionality' of the measure
are still anti, but they've subbed
whispers for bellows and are no
longer saying positively. Maybe
because they've looked around and
seen a lot of men and women with
petitions in their hands - with
others putting in writing the will OF
the people . Once they claimed
democracy would totter if the armed
forces voted. The longer they looked
at the petition circulators the less
they feared the totter of democracy
What tottered most were some
OF the two and six year snuggles
on the public payroll.
1t wasn't only the petitions /
When the Congressman. all tuckered
from demogoguery, went home for
Christmas they wore their ears
kinda close to the ground. What
they heard wasn't very musical, it
was Earring on the ears The
parents, brothers, wives, ETC., of the
men in uniform had a face-crim-
soning way of querying: Look, |
Honorable, how come soldier un-
der IRE in the South Pacific. Eu-
rope, Africa, on sea or anywhere |
hasn't got stake in the govt? Did |
you draft away his vote when YOU
put him in uniform?" They
report that in some districts the
hens and the "hawS" outnum-
bered the Merry Christmases" But |
lots of honorables came back to |
washington loving the soldiers pas
Sionately.
The public looked swell during
the whole affair, and still does
PEOPLE don't know much about red
tape, but thew don't tbiply ~ rho,,,.i