The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-28
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columns first prize Tor stupidity.
 Second prize goes to a Command ing General (of the Oklahoma area) who decided to purchase hearing aids for the Nazi prisoners 0t war under his control Nazis who were deafened by our nawty artil- lerymen's shell-fire overseas These hearing aids cost the Army $60 per set, which your grandpa and grandma cannot get because the batteries and other parts neces- sitate priorities.
 Moral: Be a Nazi War Prisoner and Enjoy Yourself.
 For those who think Hitler was only anti-Semitic-refer them to The KalendS of the Waverly Press, to wit: Nothing will prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch We are not out against the hundred and one dif- ferent kinds of Christianity, but Christianity itself. All people who profess creeds-are traitors to the people. I myself am heather to the core.-Adolf Hitler
 Newspaperman Stuff: Henry M. Stanley, hero of a celebrated jour nalistic exploit, quit newspaper work after he had found Living stone and began writing his remi- niscences Rumors reached his former associates that he was hav- ing domestic trouble. It was even said he had beaten his wife, and a reporter was sent to investigate. :. .. It was a ticklish assignment. Stan ley was an iraScible man For a time the two chatted ami ably, and then the reporter, gath ering courage, blurted out his Ques- tion.
 Stanley clenched his fists. After a tense half minute, relaxing, he said, God! To think I used to do this sort of thing myselt!"
 Although Joe Ramp was indicted on contempt charges and his out fit was named in Federal Sedi- tion indictment as tool for al- legged conspirators-he continues to spread his propaganda venom Just the title of one of Ramps pamphlets shows him up for the type of thing he is The title is: The Hell With GI Joe"
 Irony Dept: About six months ago labor leader wrote in ma national mag: Countless strikes, many of them shocking in their essential trivialty, have disrupted and are disrupting the nations war effort, but neither leaders nor strik- CTS have been named and pilloried" :. . This labor leader who was per- turbed about shocking strikes dis Iupting the war effort and Won- dered why those strikers weren't denounceo-WaS-you'Ve guessed it.: John l.. Lewis.
 The death warrants of the two recently convicted Nazi spies are now on the desk of the President ;. Some clowns are suggesting that life sentence oe given to the traitor Colepaugh-the American member of the pair On the ground that Colepaugh is an Ameri- can citizen It is your reporters iopinion-that Colepaugh, the Arneri- can, should be the first of the two Nazi spies-to die |. <. But not until he has been taken on a sightseeing tour of American cemeteries in Nor- mandy and Two lima.
 Dr. G. w. Hartmann, formerly of the Peace Now movement Gone of those negotiated peace" outfits) recently declared that President Roosevelt should be tried as war criminal along with Hitler, Goeb- bels, ct al.
 How long, MT. Attorney General, oh, how long?
 At a recent meeting of one of Chicago's hate outfits, the President was vilified with ugly epithets. La- ter one of the speakers suggested the Nazis be sterilized. The audi ence reaction was significant. They wanted the speaker thrown off the platform" and suggested that the English and Americans, NOT