The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-17
CHAPTER XXI


 Sanderson-Smith invited him to join the CCCCC in Washington. D. c.
 Peony yelled, "Oh, do it! Wash ington! Wen meet senators and generals and the President. and maybe it'u lead to your finally going into politics-Saaaayl When did our plan to make you senator get lost in the shuffle?"
 On the surface. the Cizkon was so idealistic that 1t dripped, and this was the department to which Dr. Planish was particularly as- signed. In lectures and pamphlets it shouted the best battle cries: The traditional American right to work unhampered by labor rack eteers," and The menace to fun damental American institutions, by foreign atheism and Jewish inter- national socialism" and The Founding Fathers ideals of Free Enterprise, an Economy of Abun- dance, and Free Competition un- checked and sumptuary laws. so that the Poorest Citizen may have his chance in the race for fame and fortune against the wealthiest corporation or the most aristo- cratic and highly educated indi- vidual," and The Cross and the Stars and Stripes or the Assas- sins Dagger and the Crossed Ham, mer and WHICH?"
 All that Dr Planish had 10 do was to take the slogans he had be- lieved in and turn them inside out. He was still in the Ideals and Pub lie Improvement business, even if he had gone over to a competing firm, and his salary was now comfortable S4,500 a year. They , had a thin tall house in George town and they entertained sena- tors - perhaps twice and he and Peony and Carrie were happy - anyway, Peony was happy-any- way, Peony said she was happy.
 The Cizkon's chief operative, Mc. H. Sanderson Sanderson Smith, was an esthete.
 If the sort Of beefy, Hamilton Frisby, football-squad, Skull-and- Bones, Meadowbrook- Club million aires who always intimidated pr, Planish also despised Sander son-Smith, in revenge he knew how to make them tremble with his inside news about Jewish. c m m nist, and Scandinavian Irish farmer labor conSpiracies against them, and radicals now known to be manufacturing sub machine guns in a cellar near Ss. Sebastian, North Dakota. He pan icked them into giving him funds with which, as he caressingly put it, he would put Bibles instead of tommy-gunS into the horny hands of these sons of well - of toil!'
 THE bad luck of the Planishes Il seemed over. The Doctor had been in the new job only year when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President, and during the experimentation of the New Deal, so alarming to the Better People, who liked to have the objects ot their charity grateful and tran sient, the Cizkon became impor- tant as a safeguard against loose spending and the horrid heresy of maintaining that Democracy also included people who did not live in your block.
 Years later, in the l940s even after America had entered World War II, pr. Planish was interested to see that, though H Sarderson Sanderson-Smith himself was ill prison on the astounding charge that he was a Nazi agent, othe- bodies were carrying on the ameli- orative work of the Cizkon, with the slogans The American Way of Life, and The Sacred Right to Work" and The Pounding Fathers who laid down the principle Of Free Competition still frequently meaning that employers did not care much for union wage scales, THROUGH all the Planishes' pros Il perity and social magnitude in Washington, the Doctor had spirit nal trouble.
 Whenever his former colleagues, Chris Stern and Dr. Kitto and Natalia Hochberg and Professor BuchWald and George Riot all Of them Reformers at whom the CiZ- kon had heayed a paragraph or two, came to Washington, the Doe tor felt uncomfortably that they felt uncomfortably that he was no longer a Liberal. He tried to eX- plain to them that, really, he was more of a Liberal than ever; he and Sanderson-Smith were all for Constructive and Enlightened La Dor Leadership and they opposed only the misleaders who made a living out of Labor. They seemed highly unconvinced by him or by the feryors of Smith for whom they adopted Peony's name of "Sneaky sandy
 pr. Planish tried to be joyial about it; All right-all right! You get me as good a job with some liberal outfit in New York, and I'll leave Sneaky Sandy fiat!"
 He had, he felt proudly, called their bluff" But he was still dis quieted and he tried to explain it all to Peony, when she came in from a cocktail party to celebrate the anniversary of the repeal oi Prohibition.
 Nov get this, Peony To be realistic, I must admit that the first purpose of any uplift organiza- ton must be to support the eXecu-