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Evening star., 1943-04-19
TO The man ABOUT TO
GETA PERSONAL loan

THIs is time to avoid borrowing
L If you can. So before you get a
loan, ask yourself this question. Is a
loan the best answer to my problem?
If it is not, solve your money problem
some other way.
Sometimes family can avoid bor-
rowing simply by spending less. Be-
tore you borrow, 60 over your budget
item by item. Strike off the things
you don't really need. See whether
you can't squeeze through without
going into debt. If you must get a
loan, don't borrow more than you
really need-and make every effort to
pay it back as quickly as possible.
Sometimes a loan con help
1t often happens that a loan, repay
able in monthly instalments, can help
family to work its way out of debt.
The loan is used to pay up accumu-
lated bills so that the family can put
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Those Who Write for Public Press Must ReuIize
Thot Their Revelations May Be Used by Enemy

tralia and that he is hopelessly
outnumbered. This came out in
the form of interviews and
seemed public appeal for help.
Meantime, the help has been
promised by the Secretary of
War.
In this case, the press cannot
be criticized. But I cannot think
of parallel case in which a gen.
eral has taken a case to public
opinion instead of taking it to
his general staff. In Britain as
we'll as America, there has been
an impression that Gen. Mac
Arthur is opposing the basic
strategy of the war.
That is his good right, but the
way to do it is to his superiors
and not to the public. A war
cannot be run by public polls,
and criticisms given to the
American public are also given
to the enemy. Gen. MacArthur,s
statement is dynamite in the
hands of German and japanese
propagandists.
Postwar Ideas Sketched.
The press is full of revelations
Of what our State Department
intends to do after the war.
Kingsbury Smith, in the Ameri-
can Mercury, lays down Our
Governments plans for post
war Germany" Edgar Mowrer,
in the New York Post, an
nounces that our Government
plans the dismemberment of the
French Empire after the war.
In both cases the intentions are
no doubt good, but the effect is
terrible.
Both correspondents claim to
reveal Government policy. have
no doubt that they have evidence
that such ideas are discussed in
certain Government circles. But
Government policy can only be
revealed by the Government, and
not by persons on the periphery
who think they know what it is.
am strongly in favor of dis
cussing postwar plans. I am
very against the suspension of
public debate in wartime. But
correspondents have not, think,
the right to commit the Gov
ernment to policy which the
Government itself has not an
nounced as a policy. Inciden-
tally, I do not think these reve-
lations express the policy Of the
State Department. I believe it
has not yet crystallized.
Affects Europe Adversely.
But I do know that such reve-
lations are used by the Axis to
influence the people of Europe
adversely, in a moment when
invasion may be imminent.
In time of war it is not enough
to ask oneself even the ques-
ton, rs this the truth?" One
must ask oneself two further
questions. "Is any purpose to
be served by publishing this at
this moment?" Or, second,
Exactly how can I reveal it,
so as to do good, rather than
harm?"
DR.. Goebbels' agents are avid
readers of American newspapers.
Every person who writes in them
must realize that he is being
read by the enemy, coming his
lines for war material-bullets,
to be used against us.
(Reeased by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1943-04-19

Information should be attempting
to indoctrinate the American people
with the peoples own money and
with book paper that is being denied
book publishers and other publishers
Of the printed word?
The time has come to amend the
appropriation laws so that the funds
Of the Owl cannot be used for any
such purposes again. Evidently the
New Dealers who write the above
type of pamphlets are too slick for
Mr.. Davis, for he can't read all their
copy and devious writings. So the
safest thing from the peoples stand
point is to stop it all and confine
the Owl to news releases such as
those to which the Committee of
Public Information confined itself
primarily in the last war. Otherwise
the Owl will become a suspect
agent of fouth-term politics.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

its finances on a budgeted basis. In
this way all the family's expenses can
readily be paid out of current income.
1t becomes easier for the family to
save something out of each pay check.
How loans are made
Borrowers who will use their loans
constructively can get $50 to $500 at
Household Finance. Loans are made
on furniture, cars or without security.
We never take wage assignments or
require endorsers. Borrowers repay
in regular monthly instalments. They
may repay in advance at any time to
reduce the cost. Households rate is
20 per month on the unpaid balance.
The Maryland Small Loan Law au-
thorlzes a maximum rate of 3129o per
month. If you need loan to put
your finances on a sound basis, ask
for full information about Household
Finance service.
Evening star., 1943-04-19
The Great Game of Politics
Keeping Newsmen From Food Conference Moy Be
Means of ComoufIuging Meaningless Session

The idea for this conference origi-
mated with him. He sprang it on
his press conference almost as soon
as he mentioned it to either his
Agriculture or his State Depart
ment and at a time when he did
not even have a food adminis-
traitor. The State Department
heard about it first when it received
instructions to send out the invita-
tions to 81 nations. The Agriculture
Department, which has to handle
the program, went to the President
to receive the proposals he wanted
made, only to discover that he had
no proposals. All he had was the
idea Of calling a conference.
That was last summer. The con-
ference, originally scheduled for
September, was postponed until
May. But, even now there are no
proposals and the officials who are
going to run the show are in
painful state of confusion due to the
fact that they have nothing con-
crete to lay before the assembled
delegates.
They do not even know yet who
is going to preside and the best
informed opinion here is that, aside
from the oratorical words of well
come, the responses from the visit
ing delegates and series of
speeches by selected authorities, the
only possible outcome of the con-
ference will be the passage of a
set of high-sounding but meaning
less resolutions, all couched in the
most general terms.
No Real Plan In Offing.
In brief, this is one of those in
ternational conferences which lust
might as well not be held. It will
do no harm, but it will not do much
good. No one has a real plan here,
and no one is bringing a real plan
from abroad. Given a chance, 1t
would not take any good newspa-
perman two days after the confer
ence convened to find this out.
knowledge of this situation is the
cause of considerable nervous strain
among those into whose lap the
conference has been pitched. These
gentlemen are laboring hard to
evolve an agenda that will appear
impressive and devise resolutions
that will make the conference
seem worth while. Perhaps they
will succeed.
Every effort will be made to keep
it from appearing that the dele
gates arriving here from foreign
countries found nothing concrete
awaiting them and took nothing
concrete away. Perhaps these Off
cials will be successful in preserv-
ing the illusion that they are on
top of the conference instead of
the conference being on top of them.
Perhaps they can do this if the
Government is the sole agency to
gather and distribute the news"
But, certainly, they cannot do so
if the opportunity to get at the truth
is afforded the unsubsidized re-
porters.
Considering all these things, it is
easy to understand why the Presi-
dent and his aides who have to
handle the job are eager to keep the
press away and bottle up the facts.
1t is easy to understand why they
would like to do this, but it is not
easy to understand why they think
they will be able to do it.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

not be allowed to come into contact
with the delegates nor get first
hand information about any save
the purely formal opening and
closing sessions.
This was the Presidents idea at
the start. When opposition devel-
oped, he backtracked on it. Finally,
he returned to his first position and
the main purpose Of the conference
as now arranged under his orders
is to carry out this idea. That
seems an extraordinary statement,
but there is foundation for it. Ex-
cept as a precedent, the handicaps
placed on the newspapers in this
instance are not very important, but
as precedent they are very impor-
tant.
No such calculated effort to SUD-
press legitimate news and interfere
with the freedom of the press, with
out even the semblance of a mill
tary reason, has ever been made
In America by public official.
Nearly all of Mr.. Roosevelt's better
balanced friends regard it is bad
Judgment on his part. Even the
righteous Elmer Davis opposed it.
The reaction in Congress and in
the country is bad.
Nothing May Happen.
In face of all this, it is natural
to ask what is behind these Roose-
velt orders. The suggestions that
ne is 1rritated with the press; that
the taste he had at Casablanca of
being able to dictate what should
go IN the newspapers was so pleas
ant that he wants to do it all the
time; that he thinks, if unrestricted
IN reporting the conference, the
reporters might play one nation
against the other and thus make
trouble; that he believes better
results generally can be attained If
the Government controls the con-
terence news and gives to the press
only what it considers should be
transmitted to the people-none of
these suggestions really stands up.
some OF them are silly. Unless
there were something more it seems
most unlikely that any President
would adopt a course so clearly CAL
culated to stir resentment and bring
reprisals in the form of congress
slonal action, for so small a gain
AS seen by some of his chagrined
friends the true explanation is verv
simple. The reason Mr.. Roosevelt
Is anxious to keep the newspapers
from finding out what goes on at
the conference is that nothing will
go on-that is, nothing that will
justify the conference. That is a
TACT which the President does not
want made plain to the people be-
cause it puts him in a ridiculous
position, which he would dislike
very much.
Evening star., 1943-04-19
New Attempt to Kill
Clumumus Reported
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 19.-The Ger
man-controlled Toulouse radio said
last night that a second attempt
had been made to kill Jean Cla-
mamous, former French Communist
Senator who became an Axis COL
laborator.
The broadcast, reported by the
United States Foreign Broadcast
Intelligence Service, said three men
sitting in a parked car fired several
shots which missed Clamamus, now
Mayor of Bobigny, a Paris suburb.
The assailant escaped. The date
of the attempt was not given.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

Springs, v a.,
next month, an
interesting the
ory h as b e e n
evolved.
So far, 1t is
t h e on ly on e
advanced t h a t
adequately &C
counts for his
strange insist
ence that, at all
costs, the inde-
pendent news
paper CORE
SpondentS must
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Wheat Sent to Africa

ALGIERS, April 10 (P.-The
Allies already have landed approx
mately 100000 bushels of wheat
and flour in North Africa to meet
the food crisis caused by last years
poor crops, it was announced yester-
day. More shipments are on the
way, the announcement said.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

know to be
relatively un-
important op-
erations have
been a regu-
lar diet for
t h e peoples
~of Europe for
several hun
dred years
ever since
wars began to
be fought by
national ar
mics and not
by mercen-
Evening star., 1943-04-19

arm" is no lie.
Coincidence has
a longer arm
than "the An
gel" Firpo, Jack
D e m psey or
Primo Camera.
1t has the long
est arm in the
world.
I'm convinced
of that after
yesterday when
I visited an air
drome to watch
Evening star., 1943-04-19
This Changing World
War BoIIyhoo, Importation From Old Europe,
Finds Questioning, Intelligent Public in u S.

flee losses due to the pilots who
committed modern hari-kari by
plunging their planes against the
objective-a warship or a trans
port.
This covering up Of unpleasant
news was essential. In the past,
wars were made by a ruler or a
ruling class which sent its people
to war against their own will. It
is still considered important by
governments which have mes
merized their. people and plunged
them into war without their
knowing what it is all about and,
when finding that things are not
going according to plan, are wor-
ried that the people might turn
against them.
But in countries such as the
United States and Great Britain,
the covering up of bad news, ex-
aggeration of strategicauy unim-
portant developments and high
pressure salesmanship OF the for
eign and home fronts cannot
answer its purpose. The masses
in this country, for instance, may
be initiated in high strategy, but
are intelligent and can read be-
tween the lines.
People Wonder.
For instance, official announce
ments such as the existence of a
seven-ocean Navy, are being
smiled at when, in spite of the
policy of the administration not
to divulge losses from submarines
in the Atlantic, it is known that
the Navy does not hold the upper
hand in the fight against the
submarines.
1t makes people wonder why
we and the British, who also
have large navy, have not been
able to detach a sufficient force
to permit Gen. Archibald Wavell
to organize a large amphibious
force and land at Rangoon in
Burma to open up the Burma
Road and supply China with
much-needed equipment.
OF course, we have a Navy
spread over the seven seas. That
has been known to everybody for
a long time and that was one of
the reasons why early in the
war we were not able to concen-
trate the bulk of our naval power
In the Pacific attempt to save the
Philippines and the Dutch and
British possessions in the South
Pacific and thus deny the
enemy a strategic advantage
which makes his position most
enviable.
SSSAoh VI L 10llCSs
We are being told again and
again about the tremendous
almost unbelievable production of
airplanes. Then, we hear, that
we have not enough planes to
send to Australia to enable our
forces to take an offensive even
against the outer fringes of the
Japanese Notifications.
War ballyhoo is an importation
from across the Atlantic and was
invented by those rulers who
plunged their countries into local
wars without the consent of the
people. 1t is difficult for "a STU
dent of history to find that any
OF the European wars of the past
have been caused by anything
else but greed or power politics
even when they gave the appear
ance on the surface of nation
"aggressing" the other.
1t no more fits the American
picture than the thought of
proclaiming an emperor in the
United States,
Evening star., 1943-04-19

misuse of his Of
flee are so nu-
merous that to
protect his own
good name and
the distribution
Of really impor-
tant war 1nfor-
nation he ought
to forbid at once
the writing Of all
books and PAM
phlets on dones-
tic questions by
his staff and re-
" wholly on the
Evening star., 1943-04-19

lens OF the
United Ma
tions.
The pre- S S
is naturally
disappointed.
Newspaper N
men a r 6 u e
that the ex-
G. lu S ion is
unique in the
h i S t ory of
international
confere noes,
that it will
nn1v Oive rico
Evening star., 1943-04-19

HE opinions OF the oriters this page their oDn
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1943-04-19
BY FRANK r. KENT.

Searching for an explanation of
the Presidents attitude toward the
press in connection with the United
Evening star., 1943-04-19
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN,

Colored news, ballyhoo, sup
preston or covering up of un-
pleasant reports and exaggera-
tion of what the military men
Evening star., 1943-04-19
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

1t is announced that the press
will be excluded from the con-
ference in Hot Springs, Va,
which will deal with food prob
Evening star., 1943-04-19
New DeuIism
CoIors New
owl Booklet
Public Funds Used
To Take Sides on
Controversial Issues
Controversial Issues
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Elmer Davis is a non political per-
son trying to do his duty in the
Office of War Information, but the
job is so big and the possibilities of
Evening star., 1943-04-19
McLemore
Finds Old Shipmotes
At Exciting Moment
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE, SOMEWHERE IN ENG
LAND.-Take my word for it, that
old truism, Coincidence has long
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16

lin, Alley Oops artists, to work out
this plot. So cleverly was 1t done
that the climax of the story was
reached at precisely the moment
that the eyes of the whole world
were focused on the sill and OF Sicily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16
NUISANCES MUST.
Be ELIMINATED
Health Department Orders
City to Make Improve
ments on Watershed

The city Of Waterbury may short
~ be obliged to make extensive
sanitary improvements on private
property within the watershed along
he Shepaug river.
The State Department OF Health
nas already notified the city Of the
existence of sanitary nuisances and
has issued orders that they be
cleaned up as soon as possible. A
recent check-up by the Health De-
partment revealed that there were
81 violators of health standards with
eegards to the existence Of outdoor
toilet facilities within a dangerous
distance of the Chepaug river, within
the watershed area.
According to the information re-
seived by The Democrat the duty
Of rectifying these conditions falls
upon the city. 1t will be necessary
Tor the existing facilities to be re-
placed by ones complying with state
health sanitary standards.
Monday of this week group Of
city officials, headed by Mayor John
5. Monagan, and including members
If the boards of works and finance,
inspected the city water-works on
The Shepaug river. The extent OF
the Shepaug watershed has seldom
been realized, but it was brought out
to officials Monday. 1t covers 81
square miles, which is slightly more
than double the watershed embrace
ing the Wigwam, Morris, and partly
built Pitch reservoir
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16

activities conducted outside of
Washington
MIR. SCHWOLSKY - Yes, Mr..
Barry, they are. We have more
than 100 field stations, equipped
to render service in the various
states, to veterans and their de-
pendents. This method of admins
tratlon brings our services closer to
tlose we serve, and makes for
prompt and efficient results. OF our
$4,000 employees, only about 5000 are
IN the Central Office in Washing
ton-the remainder are in the field
stations, and in our New York
Branch Office. might remark here
that more than 400 of our en-
ployes have already joined UP with
the armed forces in the present
war. I think that American mothers
ana wives have a right to expect
that we will render their boys eff
clent and considerate service,
one more question: If relatives
OF person now in the seryice-or
or one recently discharged - would
like to obtain additional informa-
ton concerning his rights to Gov
eminent benefits, would they have to
write to Washington for this?
MIR. SCHWOLSKY-I'm glad YOU
brought up that question Mr.. Barry.
The answer is-the relatives would
not have to write to Washington.
They could obtain the information
from Washington - but it would
probably save them time to write
to the Regional Office here at
NeWington. All they would need
to Go would be to address a letter
to the Manager, Veterans Adminsi-
tration, Newington, Conn.
1t Is our job to serve the veterans
and their families. A relative should
not hesitate about writing us for
any information desired.
MR.. BARRY-Thank you very
much Mr.. Schwolsky for telling our
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16
SAGA OF THE SEA
FROM AN AIRMAN

Washington July 16 - CU.PD T
The Navy Department told today
how nine American airmen risked
their lives in an effort to have an
Raj plane crew forced down at
sea. Eight of them died. The ninth,
L. F.. Pellitier of Fall River, Mass,
lived to tell the story.
The flyers, out on patrol over the
North Atlantic, knew what a chance
they were taking when they spotted
the little Raj dinghy bobbing
among long swells in an icy sea
under a heavily overcast sky.
But the plane commander, Lieu
tenant G.g) Douglas Vierira, Myrtle
Beach, S. c., took that chance. He
made we'll calculated run along
the top of long, broad master
swell. But before the plant lost her
speed, a cross wave hooked wing
tip, swing the craft around and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16

Bolivia ranks second in world
production of tin, producing about
one-fifth of the total supply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16
LESS ROOM FOR
BUS STANDEES
Officials Move to Prevent
OvercrOwding, to Pros
tect Driver

Officials of the North East Trans
portation Co., Inc, the Connecticut
Railway & Lighting Co. and the
Cooke street Line announced today
that all the buses will be painted
with interior lines from the drivers
seat to the loading door. This pro-
cedure is being taken in order to
cut down on the space for standing
room so that the vision of drivers
will not be obstructed by over
crowding.
The white lines will divide the
transients from the driver so that
the three front sides of the "cab"
can be seen by the chauffeurs, A.
j. Drummond, district supervisor of
the c. r. g. L. Co. said. Thereby
the vision or operation will not be
interfered with, he added.
This is the result of the new Or
ders announced this week when
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin suspend
ed the standee rule for six months.
The public utilities commissioners
later will issue regulations giving
the number of standees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16
"Peek Holes" Satisfy
Employees Curiosity

Springfield. Mass. fUP)-What
war workers don't see does bother
them!
And because of this, the Pack
age Machinery Co. here has pro-
vided glass peek holes" in the her
gyrocompass assembly and test
matically sealed aforementioned
rooms of the plant, soon going on
full production of compasses for
the Navy.
According to E. Lowell Smith
chief engineer efficiency is in
creased and output bettered when
workers are able to get an occa-
sional glimpse at what is going on
the plant. The company's peek
holes" are small-only IA by l3
inches-but Smith reports they do
eliminate one psychological hazard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16
Work OF Veterans Administration
Outlined In Interesting Interview

Schwosky Newington Conn.,
Explains Uncle for Disabled
tona Rehabilitation disqualification, Pension Insurance.
~ Death Benefits Explai
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16

flung it headlong into the next
wave.
The wave hit the plane, broke
over it. and split its bow open. The
crew claWed it's way from the sub
merged wreckage, and manned two
rubber life-raftS. Fifteen minutes
later their plane sank.
The men in the Raj dinghy pad
died over, but soon were separated
again by heavy seas and darkness.
The American airmen were wet
lacked food or water, and the wea-
Their was below freezing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16

Allied invasion of
Sicily.
In recent weeks
the action of the
striphas been laid
in Sicily and has
concerned itself
with the efforts
of Alley Oop and
his com p anion,
DR.. j. Oscar Boom
to reach Syracuse
and m e e t t h e
f a m Gus Greek
scientist of 1000
years ago, Archi-
medeS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-16

The day that the Allies captured
Syracuse, July II, wire stories COM
menting on the victory sketched
the history Of the famous old city
and told of the invasion of the
Romans in 212 B. C. and the death
of Archimedes during the long
siege.
That same day the strip pictured
Alley Oop and Oscar Boom trying
to figure a way to get past the
besieging Romans and into the city.
A few days later they accomplished
it-by rocket.
Yes, a rocket. A Goth century
rocket. For one of the charming
things about the Alley Oop strip