The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

chief grammar corrector to Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. IckeS.
 The handwriting, or rathcr the hand-lettering or printing of the name and address on the envelope in which the letter was mailed to Mayor Sparks, has been studied and the identity of the man who addressed the envelope is believed to have been established.
 The missing links in the chain of evidence are establishment of the identity of the actual writer of the letter, and proof of the connection, if any, between whoever wrote the letter, whoever addressed the en- velope, and whoever mailed the let ter to Mayor Sparks.
 Obtaining direct evidence on these msising details may be ex- tremely difficult, for there were presumably no witnesses. About the only way in which the whole case can be cleared up will be by full and open confession by the perpet- rator or perpetrators of the hoax.
 If confession is made, perhaps the motive behind the forgery will come out at the same time. If the idea was to discredit Hopkins, 1t has backfired. For Hopkins, when he is again subjected to personal attack as he undoubtedly will be, can dismiss the charge by saying it is merely another phony letter. DILEMMA OF FARMERS
 DAUGHTER
 A new Hypothetical story about a farmers daughter got injected into the record when Secretary of War Hnry L. Stimson appeared before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs to give this statement in support of national service legisla- ton. After the formal statement, the senators took turns in question ing Secretary Stimson, and Senator Chan Gurney of Yankton, s. D., posed this one:
 We all know that work is linn tied in war time" said the senator. But supposing we get this nation al service act, and some farmers daughter from the northwest is drafted and sent down to Chicago to work in a war plant.
 After time she writes back, Dad, they don't need me down here. You do more work before break fast than they do down here in a full day.
 What" asks Senator Gurney is going to happen them"
 Secretary Stimson couldn't ans wer, or at least he didn't answer. WALLACE ORIGINALITY
 Every time Vice President Henry Wallace makes speech. which is often, he bobs up with an idea that makes good reading and good head lines, whether you agree with what he has to say or not. Too many people, however, have the idea that these theories of Henry's are all brand-new stuff-new pipe dreams, new economic pancakes hot off what used to be known as the New Deal griddle, new schemes for a planned economy, regimentation, specialization and all the other old bugaboos and bogeymen. AS a mat ter of record, however, many of the ideas which the vice president has espoused in the last year are old stuff around Washington.
 The vice presidents December speech at Chapel Hill, N. C., in which he lashed out at cartel mon- opolies controlling the production of medicine was right out of the De- partment of Justice antitrust divi- sion, and so was his October speech in Dallas, when he swung a mean kick at "integrated transportation systems" and his September speech at Chicago attacking international big business.
 His speeches during the South American trip were pretty much the original New Deal line of ending poverty, ending great fortunes for the privileged. Earlier in the year he was merely endorsing the Four Freedoms calling for better living conditions for plain people, pro- noting everyone to the middle class for the postwar world.