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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.
(springfield Union)


 The imagination is staggered by the possibilities inherent in the bomb, the first one of winch was hurled at the Japs on Sunday. President Truman's calm announce ment that we had harnessed the terrific atomic energy to serve us in our war to save humanity left people almost dazed. Here was an adventure into the unknown and unbelievable; Jules Verne and H. G. Wells outdone.
 The possibilities for both war and peace are for the future to tell. Our present duty is to apply our new invention to winning the war quickly. VIII the Japs now give up, knowing they will be wiped of the face of the earth if they do not? Will our new weapon enable us to win in Japan without the need for land forces, even if the Japs still refuse to surrender? We do not know.
 And how many millions of Ameri- cans, hearing of our God-given new weapon, said something like this: Wonder if they still think it was so smart to sneak up on us at Pearl Harbor?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
FARM THIEVES
(Hartford Courant)

So State Police Commissioner Ed Hickey is getting after farm thieves, is he? Well, more power to him. There may be a lower form of hu- man life than those who would go into a mans pasture and kill his cattle, but it is difficult to conceive of it outside of Japan. But despite the success MT. Hickey is having in reducing losses by human theft there is another type of farm thiev- ing going on, and we bet MT. Hickey can't do darned thing about it.
 Some of these thieves travel by air. Others get around with 8 leap and a bounce, while still others travel stoically on their four legs. The man who tries to grow straw berries or other fruits knows who the aerial marauders are, but there's rot much he can do about it. These thieves apparently work while the farmer sleeps But he sees visual evidence of the visitations in the daintily nibbled cabbage leaf, the ear of corn that has been chewed from the stalk and half-eaten.
 No, efficient as MT. Hickey's organization is, it has neither the rnanpower nor the acumen to deal with Messrs. Crow, Rabbit, Wood- chuck and Squirrel, who these days are getting plenty of vitamins stored Up for the coming winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
By Bill Cunningham

ways of life. The Herr,s bed was too good. and up here all alone slept until 10 o'clock Two months ago that would have been a calamity for 1t meant I'd miss breakfast and couldn't get anything to eat until noon.
 But now, merely opened my musette bag. took out packet of powdered coffee and another ol some sort of concentrate, using couple of Frau Wenzis big kitchen mugs, and had pint or coIIeo and another pint of gruel that tasted not unlike the sort we get at home
 The sun was bright. the day lovely, the Rhine gleaming, so I lighted cigaret and sat down on the little balcony outside the French windows stii in my pajamas and slippers. The colonel has hstle signal corps radio here connected with the master down the stairs Tipped the switch, and what was coming from soldier station in Antwerp. but the records of Ethel Smith playing the organ;
 Now I'm old organ man myself and when was in Hollywood couple months ago. saw MS Ethel Smith being glorified in picture out at Me3M. They were rehearsng shot of her feet dartine back and forth across the pedals And here she Was playing it almost seemed for my own especial ben- eft. She even played a couple of pieces II tackle occasionally. There was wreckage below tne rsllts E in the distance German bathers wandering down 70 sit in the sun Miss Smith bowed out in brilliant cascade of dgital pyrotechnics and on came some throaty gal-Joan Edwards would 1t be?-slnging E My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time Well mine were right then. was thinking was nome.
 | often wonder what these dull looking krauts think of it all Some of them don't look as II tney think especially when you get away from the cities and down into these villages. But gent like Hexr Wenz, who had enough of an idea of something nigs ger than himself to hang holy symbol on his waiis must be able to reason.
 If he's not dead he must be sitting out here om a pumpkin hill somewhere, while the military ana affiliated representatives occupy by right ci seizrs the pleasant place he built for himself just to enjoy weather such as this. If he tried to force his way in here now he'd be shot If he even came after ms crucifx. he'd have to stand out in the street Wns somebody brought 1t to him. He may have been q good man. but here I sit in his chair. using ono on his salad dishes for an ash tray, his manoeeny dining room table for desk enjoying his view but thrilled principally by broadcast of my own pecs pies that reminds me of my own house. my ou t in another world another way o< lfo from Hei< Wshzk Nzterside anattHent and Hlz 1s'ex*a HRine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
A Thought for Today
Russia Falls Into Line

It is as yet too early to judge the true significance of Russas entry into the Pacific War Just how active part her huge and highly trained ground forces will play in the final days victory the Nipponese question which few days passage of time will probably answer Her air force strong factor relatively will presumably fill minor role in any event.
 Her declaration of will certainly shorten by months the time needed to defeat Japan Because it may well mean the saving of thousands of good young American lives the news will be welcomed in the United States for other reason valuable but less important gain will be the dol lars it will American taxpayers still not quite used to the astronomical figures which the costs each day it continues.
 Most of us expected Russia to ally herself with
 this country and Britain in the Pacific and complete total Allied victory by gaining triumph her bitter enemy of many years standing The event itself will less interest will specuatons to the price she has asked and been promised for her participation.
 to share the secret of the atomic bomb For the sake of future world security hope not Has she been promised further territorial concessions in Western Europe or price to be paid in part by acquisitions of Chinese Manchuran territory? For the sake of valiant Chinese ally again hope not Is to be paid off in loans de- signed to make her greater industrial nation, bigger customer American goods? That price should of course be glad to pay
 Upon the to these questions will depend the degree of enthusiasm with which America and British cousins as we'll regard the beated attachment of the val ant Russians to armies already the doorstep of final victory
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
Needing MT. Snyder
By Peter Edson'

in the strength of the armed forces. there can't bs much cut-back in military production. one or tne things the Mead report complains about
 As of Aug. l. military production has been cut back IS per cent It will be cut back 9 per cent pX September and B per cent by the end of 1945
 Yet even with a third of the military production stopped, there won't be enough raw matefiaS Uo supply all the civilian requirements
 Mr. Snyder's needing Is inconsistent in other war plants haven't been released for civilian proouc ton SO that privately-owned plants could De 1reed for reconverSion.
 Complaint also is made that surpluses have not been declared fast enough How can surpuses DO declared till the war is over?
 The Army is criticized for slow release or It's great reservoir of raanpower, thus retarding indus try's reconversion On the next page is pious declaration that the first responsibility is to win the war and flor that reason. there should be no diver. sion of production capacity or manpower
 Finally the Office of War Mobilization Is critic cized because it has been too much of policy ana conciation organization and not enough o1 olrect operating agency.
 That's one oWNdR Director Snyder may puzzle over He has been this new big job or his TOT ony two weeks and if he doesn't know what it's all abouts neither does anyone else. He doesn't have fuu or~ ganization.
 In his previous job, as Federal Loan Adminis- rator succeeding Jesse Jones, Snyder showed far for smplification of organization by consolidating lot of subsidiary corporations into the parent Recon- structon Finance Corporation. He can go that way on OWAGR, keeping his staff down to about p tecns nical experts on food, manpower production and SO run the works from the top Or he start to bild up anoher big government agency with thousands of employees, in the traditional Washington bureaucrati0 method. How would the Mead Committee like tnats
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
Views Of The Press
NOW THE ATOMIC BOMB
(New York Sun)

(New York Sun)
 The statements on the atomic bomb issued by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee (the latter written by Winston Church. ilD are as devastating morally as the bomb is physically. The satls- faction of knowing that this weapon is available in the war against Japan is tempered by the thought that in the next war-if there is any next war-it may pulverize all the cities of the world, including our own. If half of what is said about it is true, here is mans crowning achievement in the art, science ana mechanics of killing.
 Though the formula for it's con- struction is still secret, it is not a secret which can be indefinitely kept. Any set of scientists can al- ways initiate. The basic principle has long been known to, or sus- pected by, men of science. They have believed that if atomic fission could be perfected and brought un- der control it would provide the most tremendous explosive force known to the world. Working to- gether and at cost of billions of dollars, American and British in- ventors have evidently mastered the trick of harnessing this power. Ii they have done so, others with bil- lions to spend can do likewise.
 It is quite possible that this atomic bomb was the ultimate secret weapon with which Adolf Hitler hoped to win the war. MT. Churchill indicates that there is every reason to believe that the Germans were working on it. If so, time or money or both ran out on them. This may well be called pro- vidential if such loose use Of that word may be tolerated. That the bomb will hasten the end of the war against Japan may be taken for granted. Presumably nothing built by the hand of man can stand up against this destructive force which mans infinite resourceful- ness had added to his armament. Pre- sident Truman's statement suggests another and happier side of it. Atomic energy may" it says, supplement the power that now comes from coal, oil and fall- ing water, but at present it cannot be produced on a basis to compete with them commercially" That, of course, is but a detail which applied science can be expected in due time to master. If so, this promises to be perhaps the most important discovery since invention of the steam engine or the internal com- bustion engine. Meanwhile timor- ous folk can but suspect that hu- manity has plucked another dan gerous fruit from the tree of knowledge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
GI Education In Europe

Despite enthusiastic editorials recently published in our contemporaries, THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, reports from at least one onhe-spot G. l. observer indicate that the program for army schools in Europe is not all skittes and beer
 These schools are theoretically organized that sol ers continue their schooling regardless of the pont which their education interrupted Says THE TIMES:
 "The plan is further evidence that the nation is aware of it's debt to the young men who have fought TOT the principles of democracy There can be no dsagree ment that education is one of the principles
 As in many of it's nonmitary operations, the army to be ounderng around in executing the gn tneo- it's educational plan Waterbury father submits letter just received from his who went into service during freshman year at college plenty o action and is awaiting his return to the states scheduled TOT next January.
 Here is quotation from the letter:
 "From all indications the big educational program seems to be just big flop when it comes to putting the the table To get to be of the 200 men in the whole Third Army to go to college England you have to have two years of college behind youthat lets out, of Then they supposed to start unit schools of battalion strength and With the OIL cers who qualified as instructors.
 So far our division has taken steps in this direc- tion inclined to think these schools would be only up high school level because of the lack of teaching practice on the part the instructors Then too your choice of subjects will depend largely on the subjects your officers know.
 ''The whole deal is too flimsy sounding to my mind very diScouragng since steps have been taken to program Of you send for correspon- but most of need oral instructions test ec The whole program that you outlined in the pa papers at home is far from what is really taking place You may wonder why your son doesn't get on the ball and get some schooling now that have few spare hours Just remember the Army is always the Army-no matter what the papers say Just another ASTP deal guess and you know how that turned out!"
 While all of must agree that disarrangement of ed catonal schedules is small part of the price we pay o victory the army will do well to first formulate compre hnse and workable program of study for these veterans and second that it's full available resources are put sol idly behind carrying the program out. & America can ill afford any sizable group of educa- tionally- displaced persons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

cliator rather than executive. fails to fill the need"
 The jab wasn't aimed primarily or personally at Snyder, but at the two gents who preceded him Tn office. Justice James F Byrnes who is now Secre- tary of State and Judge Fred M. vinson. who now Secretary of the Treasury.
 Kicking this job around so that three men have held it in the last four months obviously has done the country no good It is also healthy thing for Senate Committee to stir up the authorities and keep them awake to their responsibilities At the same tme it is dirty politics to belabor new official Tor the sins of omission of his predecessors. And the Mead report may be bad thing if it kids the public into believing it will be easy for U. s. industry to get immediately back on the job of making all the things civilians need in hurry,
 End of the war in Europe was just a starter. Unless the war against Japan folds faster than any one now thinks possible, year after VIE Day the Army will still number seven million and the Navy four million. Peak strength for the two was little over 12 million With only 10 per cent net reduction
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09


 moment on the dining room table of the militarily reuisitoned apartment of former inhabitant whose name evidently was Hans WenZ. Herr Wenz evidently has gone where the woodbine twineth, as these are now quarters of Lieut. Col John M Bedding But Col Bedding is on temporary duty in Berlin, and was given the courtesy of the use of his suite.
 The colonel evidently has most of his gear with him. The preponderant percentage of what's in here obviously belonged to Herr Wenz and there must have been Frau Wenz for the little kitchen out there Is full of dshes cooking utensils and the customary gmcracks. The family evidently was Catholic for there's big crucifx hanging on the bedroom wall. and the picture in there is rather lovely one of the Virgin and Child. It bears the autograph appar- ently of the artist. The date on it is 1881.
 This Schierstein, although obviously ancient and built of sandcolored stone with tile roofs and narrow cobbled streets is sort of Teutonic Silver Beach, with the river Rhine obliging instead of Buzzards Bay This apartment of mine, the coonels and Herr Wenz,s, is on the waterfront. The immediate water chances to be sort of dead-end canal cut in here from the mighty river evidently for the anchorage of barges many of which are sunk within sight, and for fishing boats and pleasure craft
 But the Rhine is over yonder not a thousand yards away. can see it from here. through the trees that look like poplars.
 Army life in this place must be slow. but 1t Ike- wise must be pretty nice. People pay good money in the States for considerably less eegent places to oaf
 But couldn't help thinking this morning after HI rose from a too luxurious sleep in Herr Wenzs bed what picture this ail k. what sffange and maybe KncoM0echeNEin'c scramble Q{ two e@nlrssIf4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
A Real Service To Humanity

Announcement of the donation by Alfred P. Sloan of 4000000 fund to promote research provides thrill of satisfaction to world too familiar with the rav ages of this vicious enemy of manknds happiness Curious it should just two days after the story Of sciences dreadful atomic bomb was announced story which em phaszs the results intensive research by able men can ac complish
 Thus inconsistent science seeks on the one nana Io the very lives it destroys readily the other
 This gift exemplfes the generous spirit movatng so many our successful ndustriasts America owes much p the generosity of it's wealthy men An economic system
 which permits the amassng of fortunes is not without it's eompensations.
 Connecticut takes pride in the fact that Mir Sloan is
 native of this state Dr. Cornelius Rhoads heaa of the Hemoria Hospital which will supervise the fight against cancer was born Id nearby Springfield
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

may be due to military expediency. or to the soft peace crowd in the War Department, or to plain ignorance of the rules That is one reason why pulp lication of the rules has been urged so that every American soldier in Germany shall know them.
 For instance. the order for Occupied Germany specifics that the foreign assets of German caTtels shall be seized by the U. S. Army. But when Gen. Lucius Clay wired the War Department proposing the seizure of I. G. Farben assets in Argentina and Switzerland, the War Department ignoring the blue print, said no.
 Again the blueprint for conquered Germany pro- vides that munitions plants shall operate But the drogen peroxide plant to make fluid for U s. buzz bombs, while the Ford plant at Cologne is making trucks for the U. s. Army While these are for the United States officials here point out that the Army has 8 tremendous surplus of trucks. and that if we didn't need the hydrogen peroxide for two-front war, we don't need it now for one front
 It was the building up of German industry after the last war, they emphasize, partly to pay repara- tions. partly through the connivance of American British ndustrialists, which paved the way for Hit iers amazing war capacity in this war.
 These are some of the reasons why this columnst believes that the American people, who contributed SD much to defeat Germany have right to know the rules by which Germany is to be kept defeated Publication of the carefully drafted and thoroughly approved blueprint for governing Germany was be- gun yesterday Other pertinent portions follow today:
 "A"-You will search out, arrest and hold pend- ing receipt by you of further instructions as to their disposition Adolf Hitler his chief NaA assoc- ates other war criminals and other persons who have participated in planning or carrying out Nazi enter prises involving or resulting in atrocities or war crimes.
 "B"-An persons who if permitted to remain at large would endanger the accomplishment of your objectives will also be arrested and held in custody until trial by an appropriate sem-judicial body to be established by you.
 "A"-No political activities of any kind shall be countenanced unless authorized by you You will as- sure that your military government does not become committed to any political group.
 "B"-You will prohibit the propagation in any of
 C"-No German parades military or political, civilian or sports, shall be permitted by you
 "A.-An extraordinary courts including the Volksgerichtshof (people's courD and the Sonder-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

won't. He has a reputation for being tough-skinned and able to take it.
 The sharp stab given to MT. Snyder through the needle was the fourth annual report of Sen. James M. Mead's War Inyesti- gating Committee. The report found that "reconversion has not proceeded as swiftly as it should have" And that "the Office of War Mobilization and Reconver- sioxa acting tnQ nften as A cQI1=
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

any letterS home. l never WrlIe letters. The intention always is there, but expecting a man to sit down and knock out a nice breezy billet doux after moving this daily load of type is like expecting a ditch digger to bury horse on his day off.
 But, anyway. this is a hot, lazy mid-July afternoon of the sort that must be swell on the blessed sands of Nantucket. I'm in little German village called
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

DO YOU own A Scratching mango remedy ad- 
 UNIVERSAL ITCH
 I do not think ever saw
 A dog that didn't scratch;
 There seems to be 8 canine law About the f1eas they catch,
 Compelling tn m to scratch,
 although
 A search, with special care,
 Leads all-except the dogS-to The fieas are otherwhere.
 Who doesn't own a scratching
 pup
 That's scratching's very thrall Does not, I'll say in summing
 up,
 Own any dog at all.
 There's a bill before Congress which provides, among other things, full civil rights for all Indians who are honorably discharged from the armed services. And you could hardly expect even the most rabid opponent to say. "If they don't like this country, let 'em go back where they came from"
 Right now what we need is action - Premier Kantaro Suzuki of Japan. What do you call that stuff you've been getting, Preem?
 Apparently MT. Truman got along very well as a new member of the Big Three. Joe and Clem must have found out by this time that if you pull the wool over Missouri boys eyes, he comes out with new sweater and your knitting needles. There are two kinds of junket. One a baby eats; the other a con- gressman eats up.
 Bill Cunningham in The Demo- crat writes from Germany that Max SchmeIing would like to return to this country and fight again-pos- sibly against Joe Louis. That's a little surprising; last time Max met him, he thought that Joe was Amer ica's secret weapon.
 Note of FrustratiOn
 O, Politics, O, Politics,
 On you my logic frowns;
 I had an Attlee line all set
 That started: Churchill Downs"
 They've got a whistle down in Philadelphia that frightens pigeons away but cannot be heard by hu- man beings. But why all the fancy stuff? It probably wouldn't wake up Philadelphian if he could hear it.
 There's probably nothing to the story of the woman who suffered a shock at Coney Island recently. Il said few hundred people in front of her happened to move at the same moment and she got 8 terrified glimpse of something that looked like a whole, unbridled ocean.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

CACos AAAC AAAAAys caIyp 0s1eC ~ partment, Treasury and Foreign Economic Administration all par ticipated.
 Their aim was to draft a set of rules which would stamp out Nazism and make sure that never again could Germany plunge the world into war.
 What now concerns some of these officials is that several cardinal points in the blueprint for Occupied Germany are being irv,. -,,s,l I,~r ,,aflfkaV~y v,aoVa vTvlhfe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
15-Years Ago
5-Years Ago

Registration and fingerprinting of local aliens was getting underway.
 Probate Judge Patrick Healey an-. nounced his candidacy for renom- inaticn by the peniocratic Party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
Waterbury of The Past
25-Years Ago

ASO A SeAAo v AA9O -t I The weather hit 19 doegrees and local residents walked around with handkerchiefs tied around their throats.
 Waterbury Democrats were par ticipating in the notification-cere- monies attendant to Franklin D. Roosevelt, party candidate for Vice. President.
 15-Years Ago
 George F. O'Connor was appoint ed trustee of the Waterbury Trans fer Co.
 Tree experts say tree sitters are doing damage and advocate a soci- ety for prevention of cruelty to trees.