The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01

wrinkles of his own in A
 He has put his ll-year-old son on the Congressional payroll as an office clerk at a salary Of $S,A0O, plus 10 percent for over- time, Actually, son Robert is in school in Missouri, but he draws this lush salary just the same
 In addition, Mrs, Dies is on her husbands Congressional payroll to the tune Of $500, plus lS per- cent for overtime,
 However, neither Mrs, Dies nor son have much opportunity to eol- leet overtime, nor does Dies him- self, He and his family have been absent from Washington ever since he debated with Walter Winehell last March, In fact Dies has one of the worst absentee rec. ords in the entire Congress,
 Apparently, Dies took q tO.hell. wlth-publlC-opinlon attitude after he announced that he would not run again, Up until that time, he had his secretary, Mrs, Hazel Boise Cooper, on the Congressional payroll at $500, She was paid out of the secretarlal allotment given to each Congressman. Hut after Dies decided not Co run again, he transferred Mrs, Cooper Co the payroll Of the un- American activities committee and put his ll-year-Old son on in her place.
 Thus, the total take for the Dies family from the taxpayer is, Sl6,S0O, not counting the fact that Dies personal secretary Is paid out of funds for the committee supposed to be Investigating un. American activities,
 PARALLELS TO
 LAST WAR
 Sometimes history repeats, sometimes 1t doesn't. Anyway, here are some interesting parallels to the last war.
 On September 20. 1918, Bulgaria surrendered In this war, on August 2e, ls44, Bulgaria sued for peace,
 On October 6, 1918, Turkey, then a belligerent, proposed peace, Tn this war, Turkey, a neutral, broke with the Axis on August l, l944.
 On September go, 1918, the Ger man Supreme Command asked the Kaiser to propose peace though the Allies didn't know 1t at that time. This probably was analogous to the move by Ger man army officers in July to force Hitler to surrender, resulting in their purge,
 In the last war, when the Kaiser delayed answering the Sep. tember 20 demand of the German Supreme Command Hindenburg, on October 2, sent an urgent message to the Kaiser which read:
 "The Supreme Command insists on its demand of Sunday, 29th September. that . peace offer to our enemies be offered at once.
 However, the Kaiser did not heed. Like Hitler, he continued in the war.
 On october l9, 1918, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re- ported to Lloyd George that "the Greman Army is capable of re- tiring to Its own frontiers and holding that line against equal or even superior forces . /. In the coming winter, the enemy will have several months for recuper- atioYi, So we must conclude that the enemy will be able to hold the line which he selects for de- fense for some time after the campaign of 1919 commences"
 Instead of the campaign going into 1919, however, 1t collapsed three weeks after Haig sent the above report to the British Cabinet.
 DANIELS ON ARMY. NAVY MERGER
 No one was more pleased than Josephus Daniels, grand old man of the wilson Administration. when Roosevelt and Truman de- clared for a postwar merger of the Army and Navy into single department under unified com mand.
 As far back as July, 1884, Daniels. former Secretary of the Navy. wrote a letter to a high Washington ofacial, saying:
 we must be alr-mlnded. ! strongly believe we shall not solve the modern need until we abolish the Army and Navy portfolios and combine them under . Secretary Of National Defense. It would save much money. They duplicate unnecessarily. In war, they must cooperate. In peace, they should be trained e work together. The WaanrazlKht eNmnaramena attllMde