The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

maze.
What these commitments are
remain military secret. How
ever, certain moves which are
known to all, including the Japs,
should give Toyko plenty to
worry about. For it is no accident
that Admiral Nimitz, commander
in the Pacific, has been recalled
for conferences; or that the in
satiable Australian Prime Minister
has now said he was satisfied;
or that Attu was taken; or that
new promises have been given to
Chang Kai-shek.
All these straws in the wind
point to hitting Japan from many
different directions - Alaska,
Australia, Burma and the Central
Pacific.
This offensive in the Far East
may be one substitute for
Ind Front in Western Europe.
1t may not knock Hitler out of
the war quite SO soon, but 1t may
make the two wars - in Europe
and Asia - finish at more near
ly the same time.
AMERICAN TAXI-DRIVERS
Some political prognosticators
say you can predict the outcome
of U. S. elections by the re-
action of taXi-drivers. However,
the character of taxi-drivers may
go even further and be an index
of the general honesty and tenn
permanent of the American peo-
pie.
Owls Katherine c. Blackburn
struck a hopping mad taxi-driver
in New York the other day. He
had just found $1,000 in war
savings stamps which somebody
had left in his cab. When he
traced the "fare" and returned
the stamps, all he got was con-
gratulations on his honesty and a
25-cent tip.
"Ill never be honest again.
i he declared grimly.
This brought him and Miss
Blackburn to the Ritz Carlton. She
got out, paid her fare, and tripped
into the hotel. While she was
in the lobby, somebody tapped
her on the elbow.
Excuse me, miss" said a
voice, but you left your furs in
my taxi"
coal. MERRY-GO-ROI
Hot quotes from the White
House conference between Secre-
tary Ickes and the War Labor
Board over the coal strike =.
Ickes: "You can't mine coal with
bayonets. The fundamental prob
lem is to settle the strike. would
have settled 1t if the War Labor
Board had let me alone" :.
WLB member Wayne Morse: "Mr.
President, either your Secretary
of the Interior is ignortant or he
is maliciously disappearing the
facts. The fundamental issue
is whether one man, John l..
Lewis, shall be allowed to defy the
sovereignty of the United States
government.
ARMY DISCRIMINATION
The story OF Army discrimina-
ton against men with liberal
record has many chapters. We
wrote one chapter on June l, when
we told the story of Malcolm c.
Dobbs. Here is another chapter
about TncoyNI n cnlHhnro
Apparently not because he is a
Jew, but because he contributed
to funds for the Spanish Loyal
lists - and is proud of it - Gold
berg has been cashiered from Of
ficer Candidate School at Aber-
deem, Maryland, and put to work
helping plant lawn around the
post exchange.
Goldberg was one OF the out
standing officer candidates. His
company commander praised his
work and his fellow candidates
elected him to the "honor board,
which metes out punishment for
violation of the rules.
After nine weeks of training,
Goldberg was summarily dis
missed, without explanation.
BY intervention of the chap
lain, he got to the commandment,
who merely said that the dismissal
order came from higher author
ity" and the reason for his dis
miSsal was unknown to him.
This is the star chamber method
used by the Army when they OBJ
ject to a mans liberal beliefs
especially when 1t comes to 10y
alist Spain.
COLLEGES AND CONGRESSMEl
Harvard. Yale and Princeton