The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-26


There never was a national cleo
ton year in which so many men did
not want to be president, but Sena-
tor Harry Flood Byrd'S expressed
diSintereSt in the move to put him
at the head of the anti-New Deal
wing of the Democratic party has a
real foundation. Most Of the anti
New Dealers are Southerners, who
have taken an extreme position on
the Negro question. Byrd, it is felt,
cannot go along on this position.
The Virginia senator is extremely
proud of the anti-lynching law
which the Old Dominion state pass
ed under his leadership, and his
moderate views on where to draw
the color line are not in harmony
with those Of the lily-whiteS.
On the other hand, Mississippi
politicians say Sen. Theodore G..
Bilbo's recent grafton before the
state, legislature in Jackson, in
which he went all out on race pre-
JUDGE, was just what he needed
to put him in solid with the voters
Of that state. Before that speech,
it was thought Bilbo would ahve
difficulty in being reelected to the
Senate in 1945, because Of anti-poll
tax opposition to his views. Now he
Is considered as good as in.
y
THE ITCH IN LEND.LEASE
Rep. John M. Vorys of Columbus,
O., has at last found what's really
wrong with reverse lend-lease. A CT
in London told him: you congress
men should do something about this
reverse lend-lease underwear we are
getting from the British. 1t doesn't
fit and it scratches"
Thus" says the congressman,
American troops are being brought
in contact with different standards
of living among our allies In a very
graphic although scratchy way,
through reverse lend-lease"
How small business men get con-
verified to postwar planning is re-
lated by Paul G.. Hoffman, president
Of Studebaker and chairman of the
Committee for Economic Develop
ment. The head of little outfit in
Lansing, Mich, says Mr.. Hoffman,
was havg his troubles. Before the
war, he never had more than 20
employees and now has more than
200. In spite of his bigger business,
he isn't making any more money
than he made before the war, and
he looked forward to the day when
he would be able to fire $50 people
and bring to an end the making out
Of a new form every three minutes
every day. hen he got to reading
about the dangers Of postwar I'M
employment end what 1t might lead
to. He came into the Lansing CED,
admitted that maybe he had the
wrong idea about wanting to get
back to the good old days, and is
now trying to work out plans to
keep his 200 employed.
ISLAND IDEA
The Right Hon. Peter Fraser, New
Zealand's liberal and kindly prime
minister who stopped off in Wash
ington for a few days on his way to
London, thinks there should be no
cause for postwar dispute among
the United Nations when it comes
to dividing up the islands OF the
Pacific formerly inundated to Japan.
Personally, he would like to see all
the islands Between Hawaii and the
Philippines put under the U. s. flag.
But even so, he points out that
there are SO many of these islands
that every country could have all 1t
wanted or needed for air bases,
naval bases, or commercial develop
ment and still leave eonugh for
everybody else. The idea Of joint
sovereignty by two or more Pacific
powers he rejects fatty. 1t hasn't
worked out at all in the few islands
where it has been tried, after the
JapS were driven out.