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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
Bogus Remedy

Railroad freight rates have been re-
duced. The action of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in cutting railroad
rates in conformance with the announced
intention of the OPA to roll back prices to
the level of the spring of 1912, may have
left the impression with some people that
the reduction would contribute substan-
TALLY to easing the high cost of living.
They will escape establishment if they
abandon that impression promptly.
Freight rates are so small part of the
retail price of almost all articles of daily
use that it would be impossible for the
merchant to translate this reduction in
rates into reduction in price. On most
units of sale the reduction would be SO
small there is no coin in which it could
be expressed. Even on a ton of coal it
would be only five cents.
AS one expert points out: &c. 1t
would be we'll if people realized how small
a part of their total cost of living goes
for rail freight transportation. Unfortu-
nately, when economists and government
representatives speak of the high cost
of distribution, they mean not just trans
pOrtatiOn but all the other costs involved
not just the part paid to the railroads,
but the usually larger part paid for local
handling at both ends of the rail journey.
To the public, however, the words, trans
portation cost and distribution cost are
pretty nearly synonymous with railroad
freight-Whereas actually railroad freight
is, in most cases, among the smaller items
of transportation and distribution costs"
So don't count on a noticeable reduc-
ton in living costs as result of any pos
Sible reduction in railroad freight rates.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
Congress And The New Deal

There are broad differences of opinion
among public men on the question of
government subsidies. New Deal phil
osophers have upheld subsidies ever since
they gained control of the Government in
1888. The other day Senator Tydings,
Democrat, of Maryland backed-up Sen
ator Danaher, Republican of Connecticut,
in denying the Commodity Credit Cor
poration's authority to use any of it's
funds for the roll-back. The Tydings
amendment opposed the roll-back ban to
every government agency, and the Sen
ate adopted it by vote of 26 to 38. Tyd-
ings had told the Senate: "If you 60 to
bed now with the subsidy issue, you're
going to have shotgun wedding and
have to stay with it,"
There has been an earnest attempt in
both Houses of Congress to compromise
with New Deal plans about subsidies and
price roll-backs. Congress doesn't seem
t. be afraid of the cars these days, but it
recognizes the fact that it has very mar
now margin Of strength to meet possible
vetos from the White House. In way
that gives the President the whip hand.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
European Importations Not Wanted

In any postwar planning, says Cen
eral Counsel BOynton of the Illinois Tele.
phone Association, we face duty of
making this country prosperous, of
keeping it a country of individual initia-
tive, free enterprise and private business"
Mr.. Boynton then points out that the
National Resources Planning Board cree
ommends large expenditures of govern
n2ent money for domestic projects and
greater participation of government in
business. In addition to the extension of
government ownership, it proposes new
kind of governmental business partnerships
through mixed corporations .. formed
by private and public funds with part
OF the directors elected by private invest
ors and the other part of the directors
appointed by the government Euro
pean Importation"
Why should millions of our soldiers
who have given up years of their lives
fighting to keep this nation free from
the countries that perfected the mixed
corporation" ideas in order to dominate
every act of their citizens and their in
dustries, come home to a planned econ
omy of the type they have been taught
to hate?
The last twelve months have seen
American enterprise out-produce the
world, including the government-owne
"nlixed corporation" systems which are
now proposed for this country Mr.. Boyn-
ton well says: eve can continue to do
our job in the American way"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
Praise From A General

Lieutenant General Lesley James Nc
Nair, commander of Ground Troops IN
the United States, wounded while visit
ing the African front, had the following
to say of American doctors in that scene
of action: "The medical service was
superb. I know at first hand the speed
and efficiency with which they worked
I was wounded at 2:30 in the afternoon.
Within ten minutes they had me at
Battalion Aid Station There two
medical officers put tourniquet on my
shoulder to stop the bleeding bandaged
me, fixed me up so I could be taken to
the rear. went from there in jeep to
the Division Clearing Station, where they
gave me blood plasma and checked my
dressing. They put me on litter in an
ambulance and started me farther to the
rear. At $50, only three hours later, l
was In field hospital, had been treated
twice, had had X-rays taken, and was
ready to be operated on. That evening l
came to in a warm bed, with no after
effects from the operation. L didn't
get this sort of treatment because I was
a general officer Buck privates were
getting the same care"
The medical men who attended Cen
eral McNair in Africa were merely civil
ian doctors not many months ago follow
ing routine medical practices at home
The service which they are now render
ing to the troops - general and private
alike - they were then rendering to
civilians. On the military front, as on
the home front, these medical men know
only one kind of service-the best posi-
Bile. That is the tradition in which they
have been trained
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
Tapering Off

Ambassador Winant, in London, reveals
that two million Americans have been
sent to fighting zones in 18 months - a
lot, but no more than we transported
overseas in similar period in World War
l. Then our men under arms did not
reach 5,000,000; now they surpass
100000.
This might have something to do with
Secretary Stimson's concession that the
War Department is studying the desirable
ity of tapering off the induction of new
trainees. If we can't use them in uni
form, we surely need them on farms and
in factories.
DR.. Minnie L. Maffett, president of the
National Federation of Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Clubs, complains that
the war is being slowed down because
the government is not making use OF
Women's brains. Not to be bitter, and
conceding that there are many exceptions
there are those who hold that the war
is being slowed down because of the gov
ernment's failure to use brains.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
We Hate to Mention 1t

The recent speech of Secretary of In
terror Harold Ickes was perhaps the most
untimely and ill-advised public address
that has been made by any member OF
the Presidents Cabinet in recent years.
After reciting lot of trifling incidents
concerning his own uninteresting career
he took the position that the best work
done in Washington has been done ny
New Deal bureaucrats. He did not try
to prove it, because he said they weren't
running the war anyway. He told his
audience, and through them the country,
that those who think the Administration
OF the war effort is being bungled should
direct their criticism at dollar year
men" He named a number of them.
They are men who were called to the most
important posts in the Government by
the President So far as we know every
one of them has made a great contribu-
ton to the war effort, and proved to be
dependable props on whom the President
has depended for the administration of
the most intricate and important afafirs
of the war.
The President made an example OF
Wallace and Jones when they broke out
in a feud. The President told admins
traitors at the time that III future when
you have disagreement with another
agency as to fact or policy, instead of
submitting it to me or submitting it to
the Director OF War Mobilization, you feel
you should submit it to the press, I ask
that when you release the statement of
publication, you send me letter of res
ignation."
It is pretty difficult to understand
after reading Mr.. Ickes New York speech
and the explanation of the way it tripped
around the Office of War Information
without getting full clearance, why ne
should be exempted from the Presidents
rule We hate to mention it, but it seems
to be perfectly clear that Mr.. Ickes' reslg-
nation would be in order.
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months, l venture nevertheless to
call the attention of my readers to
that fine statement which appeared
In the article II Confess My Faith"
published by the Methodist Church.
Madam Chang tells of the first
period of her life, when she wanted
to do something for her country but
realized that her life lacked some
thing. Then came the second phase,
when she was driven back to her
mothers God and knew that there
was a power greater than hers.
THUS I entered into the third
period where I wanted to do not
my will but Gods. l used to pray
that God would do this or that.
Now pray only that God will
make His will known to me .
wait to feel His leadership, and His
guidance means certainty.
with me religion is a very SIMPLE
thing. means TO try with all my
heart and soul and strength and
mind TO do the will of God"
People have been prophesying fol
some years that the day would come
when China would send missionarie.
TO America. 1t has come sooner
than we expected.
ALI Rights decentralization News
paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

The Presidents Fair Employment
Practices Committee is taking action
against both employers and unions to-
ward ending discrimination against
workers because of race color or national
origin" The announcement specifies
Negroes and Mexcans There are tens
of thousands of persons available for
skilled work, both industrial and agricul-
tural, needed to prosecute the war, who are
ignored by employers and banned by GER
tain unions because of race, color and
national origin, for whom the FEPC has
yet to speak a public word. They are
citizens, Japanese Americans against
whom there is not even suspicion of
wrong doing
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

worry about whether these girls
were going back to their homes
or would remain In the exciting
cities.
So he sent each girl letter
thanking her FOR the time and
loyal work she had given her
country. And as hint that she
should go back to her mother he
suggested: anyone who will ap-
ply at my office can receive a
railroad ticket back home"
Baruch also attached to each
letter a $40 bill.
The railroad tickets were paid
for out of his own pocket since
the Government does not pay
for personal transportation, and
it cost Baruch many thousands Of
dollars. He was little fearful
that some of the girls might have
taken the tickets, then turned
them in to the railroad. However,
he hoped that he might have
helped to get at least fair pro-
portion out of the city and back
home.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Friends of Wendell Willkie have
been probing COP Governor Earl
Warren Of California about run
ruling as vice presidential can
didate on a Willkie ticket One
thing President Roosevelt talked
to President Avila Camacho
about while In Mexico was per-
hitting 10000 Polish refugees to
enter Mexico from Europe. Mex
leo has consented Congress
man Mike Monroney of Okla
homa is trying to rent Bill Bull
Tits palatial Washington home
now that the ex-Amba.ssador will
run for Mayor of Philadelphia.
-. Philadelphia's Jacob Bill
kopf recalls a statement by Gift
ford Pinchot: II have Just so
much steam in me and If I put it
in too many pipes, not one will
get enough heat" THAT" says
Billikopf, may be the trouble
with many jobbed lessee Jones"
-. Burnet Hershey Of the Over
seas Press Club was one Of the
first to predict categorically that
Sicily would be a complete push
over If the Allies invaded
John Carlsons book Under Cow
er" on American fascism Is really
going places.
Copyright, 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
Current Comment

When I went to the United States
eight months ago, America was not
geared to the war effort. But when
left, there had been a great
change. The American people are
beginning to fell the full impact of
the war.
Madame Chang Kai-shek.
We are consuming the oil content
of major oil field every five days.
Petroleum Administrator Harold
l.. Ickes.
Parents are building a wave of
gangsterism after the war for a
few paltry dollars now.
Frank x. Keller, st. Louis pro-
BATON officer.
The mothers, fathers and all
adults must share the response
bilit1 for the present rise In
youthful crimes.
-FBI Chief j. Edgar Hoover.
We are not going to lose this
war, but we are going to prolong 1t
unless we are willing to abandon
the idea that our country owes us
living and that we are doing all
we should do by working when and
where we choose.
Roger D. Lapham. former VILE
member.
The man with an ! O. Of 155
must be discouraged from seek
inf retreat into a mental job, ano
the I. @. OF rs must he dissuadec
from trying to study medicine.
Carl A. Gray, Connecticut machine
tool manufacturer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

What the President is up
against is overriding one of his
top and ablest administrators,
Judge Fred Vinson, new Economic
Gtabilizer, or facing a possible
strike Of RR clerks, machinists,
telegraphers and shop-workers.
What happened was that
special emergency panel appointed
b. the President recommended
a blanket wage Increase for the
Incorporating railway workers.
But Economic StabiliZer VinSon
turned the recommendation down
as inflationary and contrary to
the War Labor Boards Little
Steel wage ceiling formula.
wilson has compiled a care
full study of wages and prices,
contends that prices actually have
been rolled back more than labor
realizes; also that labor's total
"take", figuring IN overtime rather
than just the hourly wage rate,
is higher than the price rise.
SO he "hcld the line" against
the special panels recommendation
Whereupon William Leiserson,
chairman of the Mediation Board,
and George Harrison, head of the
Railway Clerks, went to the
White House and held a long
session endeavoring to overrule
Judge Vinson. They came away
confident that they had succeed
ed. The President seemed SYM
pathetic, and Harrison reported
back to his union that he was on
their side.
Actually, however, the Presi-
dent sent note to Judge Vim
son asking him to check re-
garding the situation, and it
doesn't look as if he would
override his Economic Stabilizer.
If he stands pat, the President
and the nation face the danger
OF serious railway strike. How
ever. White House advisers are
confident that rail workers will
be more patriotic than John L.
Lewis; also are shreWd enough
to see the terrific national re-
action against labor which re-
suited from the coal miners
strike.
MILO PERKINS FUTURE
One of the really top men in
the war picture, whose advice
is generally needed, telephoned
Leo Crowley the other day re-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

garding Milo Perkins. He urged
that Crowley, now administering
the Economic Warfare duties of
both Jesse Jones and Henry
Wallace, should retain Milo Der
kins, former executive director
of BEW under Wallace.
Crowley listened sympathetical-
ly to his friends advice, but re-
piled:
"MiI0's done tremendous job
against terrific obstacles. And
he's had very unlucky break
as a regard for 1t. 1 would like
to keep him on because 1 know
he would be of great value to
me. But have virtual orders to
get rid of him."
The orders, naturally, could have
come from only one place-the
White House.
NOTE: Jesse Jones really hated
Milo Perkins more than the Vice
Vice President. Both from Texas,
Perkins worked his way up from
a job with a grain bag company
and Jesse referred to him as that
smart little bag salesman" Per-
kins, whose only two sons have
been killed., was one of the most
passionate pushers of the war eff
fort in all Washington. He Is
now going to Mexico for rest,
after which he is through with
government for keeps.
FATHER" BARUCH
Gaunt, grey Bernie Baruch,
whose relentless prodding of the
war effort has saved more lives
than anyone can estimate, Is wor-
ried over a lot Of things besides
tanks, airplanes and machine
Among the other things he is
worried over the human problem
of readjusting the lives of people
who have flooded the cities, who
have been thrown out Of point
by the war.
Sitting on his park bench in
Lafayette Park, where he holds
"Office" conferences, Bernie sees
the stream of girls, thousands of
them from all over the U. S. A.
dumped into government offices,
into crowded boarding houses, and
wonders what will happen to
them when the war Is over.
Baruch won't tell you - but his
friends will about how he
handled this problem after the
last war.
He had employed several thou
sand clerks and stenographers in
his War Industries Board, and
after the Armistice he began to
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

should be reason
ably happy, b u t
they're not. They
are clamoring for
m ore pl a n e S,
buses, true k S,
b a r es, boats,
locomotives a n d
cars to take care
of their increased
war business.
They W i'll be
clamoring We n
after the war is
over to get addi-
tional equipment
to replace that
worn out in war
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
TRAGEDY TRAINING
New York Herald-Tribune)

N4NCW L Va n 44S4 aAA- AAbdAAC/
The death from thirst of three SOL
diers on maneuvers in the Imperial
Desert Is, of course, shocking ira
gedy. But 1t Is no more so than
the casualties, also on maneuvers,
from the use of live ammunition and
may be put down as price Of the
very realistic training which the
Army has instituted for its men and
by which it purposes, and has dem
onstrated that it can, save lives In
battle.
To keep ones head down, to make
the best of every available means of
shelter are essential items in the
education of every soldier, essential
to tn success of an attacking force
and more essential under the with
ering fire of today's machine guns
than ever. 1t is an education that
can best be instilled under anthem
tic battle conditions with hail of
steel three feet above ground. Dis
obedience of orders failure to follow
instructions means death or disable
ment, but for the few that are sac
rificed the many learn lesson they
can never forget.
1t was in the Imperial Desert that
General Patton trained his armored
forces for their North African cam
paign. In desert warfare thirst may
be as great hazard as scrap metal
and the ability to cope with 1t as
important to survival as lodging
bullets. The platoon to which the
three unfortunate soldiers belonged
had after several days run out OF
its water supply. It's commander de-
cided to go himself n search OF wa
ter and ordered the platoon to stay
put until his return. All but the
three obeyed and were rewarded
when within a reasonably short
time" their officer returned with
water The three, however. strag-
gled away on a search Of their own
got themselves lost and persisted
We can deplore the tragedy while
realizing that hardly otherwise coulc
our troops in training have received
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
THE GLOOMY SAGE
New York Herald-Tribune)

(NeW YORK Herald-Tr1bune)
Mr.. George Bernard Shaw's skep-
ticism respecting the postwar world
has a characteristic flavor whose
pungency proves that at eighty-seven
he has lost little of his capacity to
startle and amuse. And as Amer
leans we can thank him for his
tribute to our generosity" to his
country and our war effort In gen.
eral, including our astonishing feat
Of shipbuilding." But one may take
him to task for the implications Of
his remark that this feat has won
for America command Of the seas,
and that I'VE (British) shall have
to look to our step between the
United States Of America and the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republic
If we are to keep our eminence
among the powers" Here crops
forth the ugly suggestion that the
brotherhood Of arms will not even
tuate In better international order.
that we must look forward to a re-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
Selected Poem
EVENING BIRDS

Zurich Troubetzkoy in the Christian Science
MonitorD
Ont of the canebrakes now, the Woodcock rise
Whistling wings;
white -throated sparroWs sleep in Spanish MOSS
his clear night call The robins changing
sWampS;
the wood ducks cry
and flute like from each lagoon and pond the
reply.
Grackles and blackbirds roost in delta marshes
vultiures take heavy flight,
and, deep in the swamp, the great horned owl
speaks his lonely word to night.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
A MISSIONARY TO AMERICA
BY EARL L. DOUGLASS, d. ID.

When the history of these signi-
gcant days is written, the name of
Madam Chang Kai-shek will stand
out in luminous letters of light. She
Is not only a woman of great charm
and beauty, OF high patriotism and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

vival in peace of the national jeal-
ousies and rivalries that are the
seeds of the national jealousies and
rivalries that are the seeds Of war.
OF course he may be right, but
it takes a tough mind to agree
with him that Atlantic Charter
are not worth the paper they arr
written on" Even abstract phrases
may lead to concrete measures this
make words mean something. Come
Mr.. Shaw, we are capable OF shar
ing the command of the seas, givel
little encouragement, especiall
from wise patriarchs.
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n o D l e purpose
best of all she is
a true daughter Of
the living God,
W h o gladly &C
knowledges t h a t
all she is and has
comes from His
hand.
Although it has
appeared numer-
GUS times in press
and m a G a ri n e
d uring re cent
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Transportation
Problem Up
To Congress
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

When Congress comes back to
Washington in September, one Of
its more immediate problems, not
directly connected with the war eff
fort though related to it, will be
what to do about the U. S. system
of transportation. Not just the air
lines, but the railroads, the water
ways and the bus and truck lines.
ALI of them are making money now
as they never made it before and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-03

Daily Almanac
Moon sets at 9:35 p m. (war time).
Sun rises at $40 a. m, sets at 8:07 p m.
(war time).
Vehic..s must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
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