The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-17
The Firing Line By D. N. I.

by U. IN. l. "A famous novelist recently said that all a woman needed to make l her popular with men was just to have a vocabulary of two words. ."- Dorothy Dix.
 CAN'T WIN GIRLS The rareSt of the rarest birds, The women rationed to two words. May we'll, when single, find they
 are Enough to make them popular, As swains who hear too many speak Of them as marvellous, unique, The lovely sort and not complex, The very flower of their sex. Two-worded girls who marry,
 though, May find this simply isn't so, As husbands who refuse to soften Declare they use them too darn
 often.
 The Secret Service recently got the biggest haul of counterfeit money that it had unearthed in ten years. Bogus money operators are getting less and less active as the value of what they produce tends to approach the value of what they are trying to initiate.
 Our Government is planning a $150,O00,000 program to put Austria back on her feet by 1947. If we keep it up, we'll really be getting some where-and it won't be on our feet, either.
 The seamen have a new chanty to sing at last" When you walked in, honey, somebody else walked out" The State Department has decid- ed that withdrawing UNRRA aid from Yugoslavia would be retalia- tory act that would place us in the position of dishonoring our inter- national commitments" So we won't give Tito the air, even though he took it away from us.
 An AP report recently said that meat is the scarcest food item in the Nations cupboard" Cupboard or iceboX. what's the difference; the nonexistent can't spoil on you in any event.
 Ted Williams provided a new wrinkle to the old baseball strategy of hitting 'em where they ain't when he poled out a homer to left field as Cleveland's Lou Boudreau called for the celebrated Williams Shift in the game that clinched the pennant | for Boston Friday. Ted hit it where they weren't not supposed to be. Albania has called on the United Nations Security Council to prevent an attack upon her by Greece. It's hard to imagine the Greeks attack ing anything, outside of good meal, these days.
 Jules Brenner, a Philadelphia mu- sician, couldn't cross picket line of striking musicians even to attend his own wedding the other day. There comes time when the most faithful member must get little tired of rendering unto J. Caesar the things that are J. Caesars.
 OPA announces a tWo-cent-per- pound boost in retail sugar prices. Maybe that will increase sugar sup plies-and with the customary logic | that rules our destinies in these parlous times, after the demise of the open season on Tom Collinses.
 NOTE ON MEAT
 Perhaps it soon may happen that The family's lucky with a cat.
 Union leaders in New York see little hope for a quick end to the truck strike. If it keeps up much longer, the truck drivers, before they do go back to work, may have to take a refresher course in the lan- guage used to address those who maintain their own right of way.
 Chile can't quite make up her mind whether to abandon the goose step in her military training pro- gram. It's a form of locomotion which certainly never got it's inven- tor anywhere.
 A Philadelphia woman left $10,000 in her will to send football player through the University of PennSy- lvania. Obviously she didn't have much of an idea about current prices; that isn't enough to get one to quit West Point