The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
WASHINGTON, March |

1CNOAAGAJ WAOAA SAA0 NM " Fortune Magazine, about the all- important question which absorhs all Republicans-whom to select to defeat FDR.
 "A day or two before the Re- publican convention" said Hamil- ton, my law partner (George Wharton Pepper, former U. $. Senator from Pennsylvania will call Justice Owen Roberts and ask him to say that his statement to the effect that we would have to sacrifice some of our sovereignty after the war to an international police force was an inadVertence which he did not really mean. Af- ter this assurance, Justice Rob- erts will be the Republican nom- inee for President"
 Mrs. Luce, however, did not agree with John. She maintained: "The only man to run against the Commander -in- Chief is man who can be classified in the pub- lie mind as a commander, name ly Douglas Macarthur"
 However, Elliott Janeway went over to the bookshelf, took down Sandburg's Life of LincOln," and turned to the page where New York editor is informed of Lin coln's nomination.
 "'WhO is LincOIn?' the editor asked. That's the kind of can didate we've got to have" said Janeway. Someone who isn't known - someone with no flaws or blemisheS they can pick holes in.'
 All of which, according to the Democrats, is an illustration of how the Republicans are franti- cally fumbling for a candidate. MRS. ROOSEVELT'S NOSE
 Nobody seems to know who wrote it, but here is the jingle which spread like wildfire after publica- ton of Mrs. Roosevelt's picture rubbing noses with native Maori woman in New Zealand.
 "A poor benighted heather, with
 jungle for home,
 Who'd think my fame would
 spread afar, to lands across
 the foam?
 wasn't very handsome, was
 not very bright;
 But now they come to see my
 nose, the islands greatest
 sight.
 My nose was once a simple nose,
 a little flat and bent.
 But now my nose is not a nose,
 it is monument.
 So, tourists, take your place in
 line and, for a modest fee, Rub the nose that rubbed the
 nose of Mrs. Franklin D. A thought has just occurred to
 me which I find rather
 stunning;
 Since my nose rubbed the ROOse-
 welt nose, will it too keep on
 running?"
 ANZIO ORDNANCE
 Although the problem of supply on the Anzi beachhead has been emphasized another factor which the public doesn't realize is the problem of ordnance.
 Inside that slender foothold in Italy, there must be not only kit- chens and temporary hospitals, but, even more important, am- munition dumps and repair shops. This is the job of ordnance. A tank is no good unless it is kept in repair and it is the job of ord nance not onl yto build tanks, but to train men to go along with them into the field of battle to see that they are kept running. The same is true of artillery and every other type of weapon, That is why the Anzio beachhead has to maintain machine shops. repair garages. plus large num- Der of trained ordnance men to keep the weapons at the front op- erating. All of this has to be lone under the terrific hazard of enemy artillery fire, because NazI pig guns are never out of range.
 ParadOxical fact ts that the man responsible for the good Job being done by ordnance is q former Navy man. He Is hard ably their faces also. toward thos' sactinne of the wall where thel