1933*
We regret to inform you that the Fifth Congressional District has not been kept safe for Democracy. The insidious forces of reaction have slipped in through the back door and our national dissolution is only a matter of months. As a candidate, we made a lot of friends, but failed to influence enough people—or enough Democrats, at any rate. There were certain centers of wild-eyed partisanship—New Milford, for example, where Howie Porter tried to persuade a few Democrats to throw one in for their own candidate—but, on the whole, the writhing and mouthing of the principal figures was received by the voting public with a complete and impenetrable apathy.
So, now we're back in the law business.
MERKT AGAIN
The Merkt annual: "The news of myself is not unusual, except in one item, to wit, in the very recent past the engagement of Miss Nona Emily Francke to your correspondent was announced. Miss Francke is an alumna of the Packard School and attended Hunter College and Columbia University. No definite date as yet, but it won't be many months. I still wander through the mazes of the Associated Gas & Electric System on the staff of the trustees; am not, at the moment, a member of the armed forces (though how long this condition may persist is problematic).
"Of other Thirty-Three-ers—saw Mr. and Mrs. Herb Moatz and Ed Lapham at New Haven, not to forget Ed Hird and DaveEvans. I also spent most of the afternoon sitting on the feet of the latter pair at Princeton. Of others, Dick Bradshaw looked fine the other evening. I have also joined a weekly downtown group which meets Fridays for luncheon. Jack Manley and Jud Pierson and various others turn up, anybody else who might want to come around can find out what the password and countersigns are by calling me—Whitehall 3-4220, or one of the others any Friday morning."
Friends of Okie will be glad to learn that he has been promoted. He is no longer stooging midgets—his occupation the last time he was in Waterbury. He was back in town again last week, but, as befits the father of two children, he has a more dignified position. It has something to do with sugar hoarding and the production of soda water—but he wouldn't give us the details for fear we'd "rag" him in this column.
From Apt. 703, 1909 19th St. N. W., Washington, D. C. writes Gay Milius: "I have a commission in the Naval Reserve. I am stationed here in Washington working in the Communications Dept. at the Navy Building. My amateur radio activities got me the job, I guess, certainly not my law. I passed the October bar exam and was admitted last Wednesday while on a short trip to New York. It's a futile thing now, but when it's all over, at least I'll have something to do, I hope.
"While down here I've tried to find George Mondell but to no avail. No one seems to know where he is, and the addresses he gave you in a recent letter were old ones. I saw Archy Lade just before leaving my old Westchester home. He is building a new house somewhere in Conn, near Greenwich."
A card from Ned Lord. The address: Co. G, Officer's Candidate School, Camp Lee, Va. The message: "After five months as a truck driver at Camp Edwards (I hold a license to drive any vehicle in the Army) I transferred to the Quartermaster Section, VI Army Corps Headquarters, Providence, R. I. With this outfit I lived through First Army maneuvers last fall in Carolina. Now, and until May ist, I'm studying for a commission. After that—what?"
Ford Sayre sends a clipping re: Burbank as follows: Roland W. Burbank, of Andover, president of the New Hampshire Unitarian association will address a meeting of the New Hampshire Unitarian Ministers' Association in Concord tomorrow.
He will discuss the association's "growth policy and other matters of State policy."
Ford's letter also included this item: "I happened to be with Foley the day war started and he was naturally somewhat perturbed by orders to proceed at once to Wake Island. He never got there."
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lum of Wallingford, Conn, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Margaret, to Edwin C. Knapp, of Rye, New York. Miss Lum attended Wheaton College and Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. Mr. Knapp is with the Aetna Insurance Co., having gone with this company after his graduation from the Harvard School of Business Administration.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Schmitt announce the marriage of their daughter, Edna Isabella, to Mr. Alston Beekmanjunior, on Saturday, the seventh of February, Nineteen hundred and forty-two, Rumson, New Jersey.
Secretary, 111 West Main St., Waterbury, Conn
