The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-20
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY

man, woman and child to live, under the Providence of cod. Q happy life in keeping with the dignity of hu. man nature"
 PEOPLE WONDER
 Though we should never be sur- prised at Soviet policy ones eye brows do rise wonderingly at the prospect of the Soviet, after the long cry for the Second Front and the years of stalemate with Finland, upon the launching of the invasion, turning the weight of its might not against the Nazis on the great Rus sian Eastern Front, but against Fin- land and the four NaEi divisions reputed to be there. Such a policy of course will allow the Nazis to rush endorsements against the invading Allied Armies. But why? There seems to be an unanswered ''Why?" following many decisions of Soviet policy.
 MAN or THE YEAR?
 We read during the week that some organization had honored Westbrook Pegler with the title Man of the Year" and 1t sent us rummaging for couple of para graphs we clipped last month which were written by Paul Scott Mowrcr as a preface to the last column of Pegler before he was fired from the Chicago Daily News.
 Pegler evidently had heard that the News was about to sack him and in the column he charged the paper with attempting to "gag" him. The editor offered his unexpired con- tract to any Chicago paper that would print the column. But these are the paragraphs:
 We publish herewith the last col- umn by Westbrook Pegler that VIII appear in the Daily News IL serves notice on other purchasers or the Pegler column that if they ever for any reason, wish to discontinue 1t, they must be prepared to be at- tackled by MT. Pegler.
 "In the course of the various con- troversies in which he has engaged MT. Pegler has developed ontipithies of such violence that he has allowed his feelings to overcome his reason- ing powers. When the disease be- comes chronic, 1t is serious
 PEGLER AND LABOR
 In his consistent attacks on or- ganized labor Mir. Pegler is doing a great disservice to the people of America. His professed friendship for the labor movement appears pharisaical in the extreme as he parades before the public all the dis reputable people he can find in the ranks of organized labor. Labor mas a most worthy case-despite the racketeers.
 MT. Pegler tells the truth but Mr. Pegler is dishonest. There are rack eteers in the labor movement. There are crooks and there are radicals. But these are the small corner of great social movement, though unfortun- ately the corner into which the ene- mics of labor-Such as MT. Pegler- can dip their brushes for the paint with which they smear the whole of the picture. Mir. Pegler does the smearing-and tells the truth. But by picturing the whole in the colorS of the one corner, as he consistently does, he is dishonest.
 He could as well picture for the public the deplorable political scan: dals of our country. He would teu the truth. But by repeatedly parad- ing these before the world would he be giving the complete political pic ture of America?
 Racketeers, crooks and Commun- ists are heavy shackles on the great movement to liberate the working man. In proper portion the scan- dals are few, but news.