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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27

man Mruk of Buffalo run for re- election, thereby bringing down on his head the charge by Congress man Sadowski of Michigan that Jaeckle discriminates against Poles and Catholics.
 Herbert BrOwnell, who came out of Nebraska to prctioe law in New York, was Dewey's campaign man. ager in his successful race for gov- ernor in 1942 and continues at the steering wheel now. For sev- eral years a member of the New York Legislature, he helped put through the racket-buster's crin- inal reform bills.
 J. Russell Sprague, as smooth as the oysters his father used to hoist from Long Island Sound, is the chief backstage operator for Dewey at Chicago. Born and bred in New York politics, Sprague has been COP boss of Nassau county, Long Island, for years but has little experience in the big poli- tical world outside. Except for George Medalie. he is the oldest of the young men around Dewey. His age 57.
 Herbert Hoover was not enthusi- astic about Dewey when he be- longed to the liberal La Guardia group. But gradually, the ex- President has become one of Dewey's ardent but silent admir- CTS. In fact, his enthusiasm for Dewey for a time became so en- barrassing that Hoover issued a public statement that he was not pushing Dewey or any other COP candidate for nomination.
 When asked about his associa- ton with Hoover, Dewey has a prompt answer: "You can quote me as saying: MT. Hoover is a fine old gentleman and am fond of him. But Dewey has always surrounded himself with men who look toward the future
 Republican senators, talking with Hoover last winter, got the distinct impression that he was slated to be Secretary of State int he Dewey Cabinet, but the Governors friends have now made 1t clear that this key foreign affairs post is more likely to go to John Foster Dulles, attorney for J. P. Morgan and keen student ofb foreign affairs. CONVENTION CHAFF
 James Garfield Stewart, Mayor of Cincinnati, will nominate Bricker for President Brick CTS friends don't call him "Jack".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27

He prefers the more dignified "John' D. Bricker has been duck ing charges of draft-dodging" in the last war because he served as a chaplain t. Lem Jones, recently resigned press aide to Wendell Willkie, served as Dewey's press buffer during the le40 pre-con- vention campaign Mindful of the gag about changing from Roosevelt to Dewey as a swap of a horse for a Shetland pony in mid d-stream," packers of Illinois Governor Dwight Green for Vice President got this rebuff from Democrats when they proposed a Dewey Green COP slate: "What! Two Shetland ponies?"
 Republican conventions usually nominate their candidate by the fifth ballot Coolidge, Hoover and Landon all made 1t on the first show of hands. So did Lin- coin in 1864. Willkie'S nomina- ton took six ballots .. Longest convention was the Democrat con- test of 1924 in New York, which lasted 17 days and l03 ball. lots before the .Smith-Ma- Adoo slugfest broke with John W, Davis getting the nod |. .. Longest Republican contest was the 1880 convention in which Garfield fin ally won on the 36th ballot over ex-President Grant, who was try ing for third term.
 Chicago is city of shortages as far as convention -goers are concerned: short of walters, ele- vator operators, switchboard girls Mayor Kelly's hospitality Sto the visiting newspapermen has been cut way down. He used to hand out gold press cards which were the keys tot he city. Boost CTS of candidates are burdened by the whiskey shortage. Several brought cases of liquor all the way home, rather than pay black market prices on large quantities in Chicago =. Delegates still being wined and dined for their ballots are eating as well as ever this year !. More than one hun dred foreign correspondents are covering the convention for the first time in history {. They include British, Australian, French, Chinese, Swedish and Soviet writ CTS Burly Governor Warren of California toots sweet cari- net.
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 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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Views Of The Press

type have exceeded in impressive fashion those for steam engines.
 The public probably thinks of the Diesel locomotive chiefly as the motive power of the lightweight streamlined trains which. provide long-haul luxury services in the South, Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. But it is not only, or per- haps even chiefly, in the passenger fliers that the Diesel is working a revolution in American railroading. The freight locomotive of this type has proved itself beyond question in the war job, and a bright future seems to be in store for the Diesel switching engine, which can per- form on one tank of fuel work that would need twelve cars of coal for steam. Savings in basic natural resources. although not quite so high as in the switch engine, also reach major proportions in the Diesel freight and passenger loco motives. ttt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Selected Poem
I HAVE SEEN SILENCE

(Cosette Middleton in The Christian Science
 Montor) have seen silence lying on the hills In mauve consistency; and once, long Long time ago, saw three whippoorwills Sit quiety. yet sculpturing song. have seen liquid sunlight palning boulders In mute affinity between the tah Cold sky and earth. Upon the nights dark shoul-
 ders
 Moonlight became a tangled. silver shawl. know the autumn's bronze and saffron tide, And springtime's plum and wild crab-apple snow; At twilight have watched the shadows stride Thus find strength in silence can see: Eastward and lose themselves in indigo The constant hills. the dusk the towering tree.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
THOSE EGGS
CBoston Post)

(Boston PoSt)
 The American housewife's ready willingness to comply with every reasonable request for cooperation in the matter of wartime food pur- chasing was pretty well demon strated two weeks ago. Through no fault of hers. the War Food Admin stration then found itself with 25,- 900. 900 dozens of eggs on hand with no possibility of finding adequate storage for them.
 In its appeal to the nations house wives to purchase an extra dozen of eggs in June 10, the WFA could not help but betray it's anxiety at the tremendous wastage 1t faced The crisis was met with pretty close to 100 per cent cooperation and the waste was averted. The main credit goes to women who know a lot more about over-buynig and under buying than many highly-placed bureaucrats.
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with his windows So arranged that he can look only up to the sky and not down to the busy and painful life of humanity, then idealism of that kind does the sweltering world little good.
 Our Lord went up on a mountain top one evening and there had 8 great experience known as the Trapsfiguration. The apostle Peter urged Him to remain there and suggested the building of taber- nacles in which they might finger. But there was work to do at the foot of the mountain, and the suggestion was rejected.
 Woe be to the man who lives in a house the windows of which allow him only to look up to the sky.
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dows are arranged in such a way that he can see only the sky. He cannot look down on the street or on the broad expanse of homes, mills. and tenements which stretch out on all sides.
 It is fine to be an ideaiist, pro- vided one can bring his ideals down to earth and make them work. But if one live sapart from the world,
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QelegdCeS.
 Across one ocean, men are bat ting in France after landing that seemed almost impossible. Across the other, the U. S. Navy is edging closer to Japan than anyone dreamed would be possible at this time. News of the war pushes news of the convention to one side, makes the clash of per- sonalities, the ebb and flow of po- litical rivalry seem petty in the face of death.
 Some delegates whisper half
 j0kingly that perhaps Franklin
 D. Roosevelt scheduled the sec-
 Ond front and the Pacific bat
 ties purposely to push the COP
 convention out of the headlines,
 though actually they rejoice at
 the victories and know that
 weather, our allies, and military
 factors-not politics-shape the
 decisions. 2 But though this convention seems incongruous, in reality 1t is a tribute to the, strength of Amer ican democracy. Perhaps no other country would dare try to weather a wartime election. Britain has adjourned politics, so has Latin America. Canada has held only provincial elections, Four years ago, certain newspapers predicted that Roosevelt would never permit another election until the war was over. But now the first hop in electing a president has begun.
 Furthermore, what this conven- tion does, no matter how incon- gruous on the surface, actually will help to shap the destinies of the nation. The Republican plat form, how far 1t goes regarding international cooperation, to say nothing of the candidate selected will help to shape not only the nations next four years, but prob- ably the peace of the next gen. eration.
 DEWEY'S FRIENDS
 Here are the men whose patient years of building Up Tom Dewey will crash or succeed in the next hours.
 Closest man to Dewey, and the man who has known him most intimately during the years, is his secretary, able, amiable, bluff, hard-working Paul Lockwood. An ex-New York newspaperman, Lockwood guided Dewey through the early maze of political pit falls which threateRed the young racket-buster. He is what Louey Howe was to Franklin Roosevelt, and if his young protege makes it this week, to Paul Lockwood will go a large share of the credit. Destiny" says Lockwood, waits on no man." explaining the neces- sity for Dewey to run now. By 194S, an Eisenhower will come out of the war. This is Dewey's year."
 Political mentor to the young COP hopeful is buffalo-heavy- jowled, tough talking Edwin F. Jaeckle, chairman of the New New York State COP Committee. Born of German immigrants. Jaeckle waxed wealthy on the job of collecting back New York tax es, became New York's shrewdest, though not most diplomat icup- State COP leader. He would like to forget, however. that he once drew up the interpretations papers for the German-American Bund, and he has tried to atone for it by helping to found the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
 Considered something of a poli- tical bull in a china shop. some Republicans think Jaeckle will have a tough time if he gets into though not most diplomatic up- fused to let Polish COP Congress-
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Clare Boothe Luce will be rather inn portant at the Convention this week for two reasons One, her ability, and the other her style. She is one of those wo- men among our ranking "best dressed" !" who isn't afraid to wear not too short dresses She evidently prefers to look more like woman and less like ballet dancer or junior miss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
DIEsELs ON THE RAILS
(New York Tines)

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 One of the important factors in hte extraordinary wartime perfor- nance of American railroads has been their growing employment of Diesel power. Tn fact. there are experienced railroad men who be- iieve that the war job could not have been done on some of the more difficult mountain divisions of rail- roads like the Santa Fe and the, Great Northern had it not been for the mighty Diesel locomotives. which make so light of grades, ban- ish to such degree the impeliment of water stops and represent such greatly simplified problems of main tenance. Each year since 1887 or ders for locomotives of the Diesel
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that If the gov- ernment were left in his hands he might be pretty impractical in his procedure.
 c u r i O u s l y e n o u g h. this writer h as his study built atop a great building in one of our l arge cities, and it is said that his win
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Your Health By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per. sOaal health and hygiene, not to disease. diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if . stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News- paper Service, S20 West Madison Street. Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27

It isn't difficult to believe that Long Island Sound could be seen on clear day from Wolcott as stated in the intro auction to excerpts from Bronson AL cott's Journals" We know of residents somewhat north of Northfield who could see the Sound on clear day from their own particular hilltop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27

Chicago may be the place you would like to be, but it is doubtful if you get there for the next few weeks unless you are a part of the Republican and Demo cratic convention. The hotels are not boasting of special room service. You make your own bed if you happen to have secured one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27

Churchill a S S ur- ances the United States would come to the i'd of Great Britain in case British got into 8 war with Germany.
 As this story will probably become one of the slnok- ing car and cock tail bar classics in the coming po- litical whispering campaign, 1t is worth going into. If haa haaY1 Ooa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
ARE YOU AN IDEALIST OR A
 SENTIMENTALIST

There is a certain well-known writer in this country who is be- lieved by his associates to be some- thing less than a realist. He has his head well up in the clouds. He con- stantly spanlss the American people for their low ideals, yet many feel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Current Comment

Satisfactory as is the progress of this (invasion) battle to date, h magnitude 1t. is but a mere begin ming to the tremendous struggles that must follow before final vic- tory is achieved.
 General Eisenhower.
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Washington Merry Co., Round
BY
 DREW PEARSON

Convention Seems neonsuous in Foee of Bitter Bottles overseos Will Help Shape Desnes of Nation and Next Generotion Deweys Named Much Credit Due Paul Lockwood His owe
 Hoover Now Played No Longer Viewed Secretary ot Michigan which months leased
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Kent Case Is
 Feeble Weapon
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Republican Senator Henrik Ship stead of Minnesota has just dragged into the open the old Tyler Kent case, reviving charges made in the British Parliament that in 1889 President Roosevelt gave Winston
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-13

that is why they have been trying so
hard to get into Kowel 1t Is quite
possible that, having the stronger forces,
the Russians may move first, in an
ttcipation of a German counter effort,
and start thrust for Brest Litovsk.
Meanwhile, the Russian operations
for the recovery of the Crimea are pro-
ceeding at a pace which suggests that
the German forces in that peninsula
are either weak in numbers, or dispir-
ited or perhaps both. The Germans
may stand siege in Sevastopol; but they
had chance to do that in Odessa, and
they chose to abandon the place instead.
Abandoning the Crimea, of course, can
be done only by sea and the ability Of
the Germans to find sufficient shipping
for such a purpose is uncertain, though
they apparently had some ships for
such uses at Odessa. The Russian Black
Sea fleet has not yet-as far as we know
appeared on the stage-except for a
single mention in a Russian communi.
que.
But the fate OF the Crimea Is for the
moment Of considerably less Importance
than what is happening north Of the
Carpathians. The Crimea will swing
back into the strategical spotlight again
when and If the Russian effort swings
back toward the Balkan peninsula.
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Dapid Laurence

cupation it was difficult to get any new
legislation passed.
Today the rule Is that all below the
age OF rs will be indicted unless some
special and unusual skill is demon
strated to require deferment. Few
Will be deferred. 1t is unfortunate that
so many able-bodied persons below the
age OF rs should not have been In train
ing long ago for the armed services
when men in the sos who are obviously
not good military material were drafted.
That's how the existing system to date
has prevented us from getting the most
efficient military force.
But the draft mixup has hurt In other
ways. Employers have not been able
10 plan their manpower arrangements
because they couldn't tell what the
basis for selection really was. Local
draft boards were in the dark, too.
These local boards In the main have
done remarkable job and are not to
be blamed for the mixups and con-
fusion. Somewhere In the administers
ton the fault lies but it may also be
found that congressional pressure had
much to do with the failure to get q
well-defned policy before this.
Now the policy at last is headed in
the right direction. When all the bows
under 20 except few technicians In
war industries have been indicted, the
draft rule will be pushed up to 28 and
then to 80 and so on as manpower
needs require. Above 80 perhaps many
unmarried men, physically able to serve,
Will continue to be drafted, and 1t will
be up to local boards to determine
whether married men not engaged in
essential occupations should also be in
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A Constant Threat

Practically speaking, the United
Nations have already won the battle
OF the supply lines on nearly all the
seas and oceans of the world, but
that does not mean that the U-boat
menace has been eliminated en-
tirely. There is still the possibility,
even the probability, that Hitler will
again cut loose with this weapon in
a last desperate effort to make it
yield the decisive results he once ex-
pected of it.
A warning to this effect is clearly
implied in President Roosevelts and
Prime Minister Churchilps latest
joint report on the subject. In
March, according to the report, Al
lied shipping losses to Nazi subma-
rlnes-diSpersed over a vast area
from the Barents Sea to the Indian
Ocean-Were slightly higher than in
February, and, although still low,
they indicate that the strength of
the U-boat force remains consider
able and, calls for powerful. efforts
by surface and air forces"
The same warning, but in even
stronger terms, has been voiced by
Secretary Knox, who fatty predicted
short time ago that the U-boat
will undoubtedly come out en- masse
soon" Although we have been bomb
ing their installations and factories,
says Mr.. Knox, the Nazis have by no
means stopped producing subma-
rines, but are, on the contrary, con-
centrating on the construction of
this weapon ito the virtual exclusion
of all other kinds of vessels" In
other words, despite the heavy losses
1t has been suffering since our Al
lied air and sea techniques first
began to master 1t, Hitler's undersea
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name had been entered In the Nebraska
primary. Much work had been done for
him there, particularly by those Repub-
licans who were opposed to the nominal
ton Of Mr.. Willkie, the only other en-
trant in the race. Mr.. Wilkes with
drawal probably was timely-for the
Nebraska Republicans were, with some
exceptions, not strongly favorable to his
candidacy.
Gen. Macarthur had no difficulty In
the Illinois primary. His popularity
with the people as really great mill
tary leader showed itself again, as it did
in Wisconsin. His only opponent in the
Republican primary was Riley A. Ben
der, an unknown, Chicago real estate
man, whose slogan was Take bender
with Bender"
The Stassen boom may have the effect
Of making him serious contender for
the Republican vice presidential NOM
ination, even if he gets nowhere in the
race for first place on the ticket. Comdr.
Stassen has been three times elected
Governor of Minnesota, though he is
only 81 years old. He made an excellent
record. He Is progressive. He gave up
the governorship to enter the Navy. He
has been strong supporter of interna-
tional collaboration after the war for
the maintenance of world peace. He
would, indeed, be an excellent running
mate for Gov. Dewey. Together they
would provide an up-and-coming ticket
that would be difficult for the Demo-
Gratis to defeat, no matter whom they
nominate.
X X X
More and more discussion has arisen
in recent days as to the future political
plans of President Roosevelt, largely in
fuenced by the fact that the Presidents
health has not been good. His physi-
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away, depriving the Germans of any
met gain" in their Withdrawals. The
Russians now threaten a complete
break-through between the Carpathian
Mountains and the Pripet marshes, to
prevent which the Germans must take
effective measures, and take them
promptly.
A few months ago. the Germans dis
posed of a certain number of reserve
divisions in north Poland. Some of
these probably have been drawn into the
current fighting. But it is quite posi-
BILE that there are still some forces in
that area, and a few additional divisions
may have been garnered from the
northern front after the withdrawal
from the Leningrad area.
The determined German resistance
around Kowel thus takes on additional
significance. Kowel would be directly
on the line which German counter
move might take, striking southeastward
from Brest-Ltovsk against the northern
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clans, however, have given him a good
report. His health generally has been
declared satisfactory" If it continues
so, there seems little reason to believe
he will not be renominated and run.
Indeed, State delegation after State
delegation to the Democratic National
Convention has been chosen favorable
to him.
The Democrats have figured that the
President Is not only their best bet in
the coming national election, but their
only bet. His appeal as Commander
in Chief in a great war they expect to
put him across. Should he be removed
from the picture as candidate for re-
election, the Democratic cause would
be desperate, they frankly admit
The only other possibility, who would
have great national appeal, Is Gen.
George c. Marshall, chief of staff. He,
too, could be advanced as a great COM
mander, to lead the country in the war.
Gen. Marshall, it Is reported, wants no
part in this political race. He wants to
remain military man. However, there
will be many Democratic leader who
will look with favor toward the general
in the event President Roosevelt should
eliminate himself.
The announcement by Vice President
Wallace that he intends to make
trip to China in the late spring or early
summer Immediately aroused specula-
ton as to whether he was moving out of
the political picture. On the contrary,
it looks as though such a trip would
provide a new buildup for the Vice
President, either for second place on the
Democratic ticket, or as possible New
Deal candidate for the presidential
nomination if Mr. Roosevelt does not
stand for fourth term.
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in Missouri, where delegates at large
were chosen; in New York, whose big
delegation now appears to be solid for
Dewey-with one possible exception.
Word brought back from New Eng
land States by returning members Of
Congress was that their delegations
were turning fast to the New Yorker
indeed, that even before the withdrawal
of Wendell L. Willkie from the presi-
dental race, the Republicans in New
England had become FESTIVE and in
clined toward Dewey. Connecticut,
Massachusetts,, Maine and Vermont, it
was said, will go along with Gov. Dewey.
The booms for Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and 1t. Comdr. Harold E. Stas-
sen, which took on added life in the
Wisconsin primary were pushed ahead
by the presidential primaries in Ne
braska and Illinois Comdr. Stassens