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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
And Security Too By BiH Cunningham

STA to $l71 at home $l36sO to $l93So abroad Mas ter sergeant first sergeant $138 to $2o7 at home. $165.60 to $234 60 abroad.
 This is your monthly cash In addition, you get, of course your food clothing and quarters You get free medical and dental care You get a break in life insurance better than most civilians You get a months furlough each year with full pay and al- lowances, whereas most of us lucky to get two weeks. Ordinary wage-earners who get month are rare as two-headed calves.
 You get five per cent raise in pay every three years without having to try to wiring the extra div dend out of some skinfnt of boss. Yours is auto- matic and provided by law. You likewise get gen. cash allowance-I suppose civilians would call it bonus-for each reinlistment. Under Army aus piceS, you may deposit your savings at good rate of interest. You get income tax exemptions. You can use the mails free of charge.
 And there's lot more dope. There is, for in- stance, at the end of the trah automatic and wait ing for you and yours, what every maturing human being this earth wants most-and few ever attain. That's Security-enough money to live on in your old age. Here's the way the Army says it:
 "As reward for faithful service you will receive monthly income for the rest of your life after you retire from active service After 20 years, and not than 29 years of active service, you may request a transfer to the Enlisted Reserve and retirement from the regular Army. Your retirement pay will be n proportion to the number of years of your active service. If you retire after 30 years service your retirement pay will be 75 per cent of your active duty pay"
 For lot of you young gentlemen, it's well worth considering, especially if you fancy life of adven- ture and derive satisfaction from the fact that you're serving your country in job that really needs to be done and by somebody who's willing to do it. The above is just the barest outline of the subsistence part of the business. There many other angles such the educational opportunities, the travel the opportunity to marry and have your family with you.
 The fight for jobs back here probably VIII be tough wben everybody gets back. There are lot of hopes and plans and promises. but it. remains to be Meanwhile, here's job you're already familiar with and civilian young man can easily become familisr with If want more information, look up here, If you're stuck. And, please understand, I'm, only trying to helpi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Views Of The Press

| land, particularly that section from the New York line to the northeast, as a decadent business section. It is also an answer to those who would like to move our industries and our skilled help to the south and west. New England is a na- tural industrial center and it is going to stay that way because pro- greSSive business men know that we have the plants, the rail and water connections, the available labor and the know how" to produce things that people want,
 Small plants want New England locations, and some of the nationally known concerns are also anxious to join their large confreres here. The market has approximately 58,000 900 people in a 500-mile radius. High quality merchandise in many lines is produced here. Our labor trou- bleS are at a minimm. We have numerous scientific research organ izations, and we have fine oppor- tunities for education and pleasant family life unequaller anywhere in the United States. These are the things that count, and they con- tribute much to the eminent !" know how" for which this section is out standing.
 Just as soon as we can get some order and stability into the wage price situation, and manufacturers know just where they are heading watch New England step ahead to even greater prosperity. That is the only conclusion to be drawn from the appraisal of conditions as they exist in this section of the country today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
A Thought for Today
Waterbury Welcomes Its Veterans

Local residents may take rghtful pride in the fact Veterans Advisory Center long been we'll established and is ably functoning within the city thus than merely needing yesterdays warning of Gen. Omar Bradley that communities should establish such facilities for the returning veteran during the aterS readutmen period
 Assistance to the veteran by local agencies is mpera tive we are to fulfill the pledges have already made to our fighting men, Gen. Bradley declared adding that until these veterans rebuild their civilian lives find gain ful employment and resume their responsibilities the is not ended cannot evade escape duties to them"
 Gen Bradleys declaration that agencies such as the Waterbury Veterans Advisory office imperative to these coroborateS the viewpoint of Mayor Monagan and the CenterS entire committee that aid for these men, and the they tend to turn toward when necessary one of local origin rather than state federal.
 Local agencies part of the hometown these men seek to They be certain of freedom from bureaucratic redape and cold disbursement of their prob That such agency has been established here for over year by the Veterans Advisory Office local fighting of practical and sincere vel come home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Forqet-Me-Not

Early in November World War is recalled with the celebration of AriSce Day, November H. The symbol Of the day is the forgetme-n -not-est we forget
 Mayor John s. Monagan has issued his proclamation announcing the present drive of the Waterbury Chapter Disabled American Veterans which closes on Armistlce Day
 The forget-menot is symbol of memory Memories of the war that closed twenty-five years ago. Now an other becomes past history though not yet memory other veterans be remembered The forgetmenot has this year wofod purpose in that asks us to remember the boys who made sacrficeSSome of them the supreme Sacrifce-in two
 At this season of the year we are remined with the complete passing of of what the forgetmen not stands for It is the of the falling leaf yet the boS somng is not quite vanqushed few last bright geraniums still blooming in window boxes where the bright sun of Autumn Sustains them.
 his proclamation the Mayor states the nations ob Mgaton the disabled veteran who has given part of his body and his well-beng in defense of land"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Four Great Americans

The Hall of Fame elections for great Americans the New York University campus held every five years For this honor chosen famous men and women who in life distinguished themselves in literature the arts oraoy and the sciences.
 Among the four elected this week Booker Talafer TO Washington the first Negro to receive this honor It is also significant that MT Washington led the candidates in this the tenth election Booker T. Washington Savebon Negro has justly mered this great honor through his achievements educator, author and speaker and stout of his race" The life and of Booker T. Washington familiar to most people and his welcomed.
 Three other Americans share the honor, Sidney LAner the poet of Georgia who could also play the ute was lawyer and teacher Walter Reed United States Army medical officer who found out that the mosquito was the of the deadly yellow fever and whose memory is now perpeuated through the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washngton and Thomas Paine who died in 1809 but who wrote such stirring words hese the times that try mems souls" embttered but who gave other
 the idea of liberty and freedom and who receives of the greatest awards America besow on worthy American.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

school. Many of them were race horses Not only did the horses take up valuable space ship which could have carried G.I.s but airplane-load of brass hats flew the Atlantic from Fort Riley to make their steeds got safely aboard The boys who loaded the horses remained in Germany.
 9. Last weekend, top Air Transport Command officers gave No priority for three Army planes to carry football personnel from Nashville to Wash ington. Of course, this in connection with the ATC football game, but the boys sitting Eniwetok or Saipan can't enjoy football, and arpanes could help to bring them home. (Many combat veterans discharged from Fort Lewis, Wash, have to ride $500 miles in day coaches)
 3. The other day Liberty ship the Connie L. Kluxton, arrived in Baltimore from Germany bring
 ing only 47 soldiers but 150O0 tons of sand ballast It's true that Liberty ships are not equipped as troop carriers but soldiers don't much how they travel # they are coming home.
 f. At San Mateo, Calf, two race horses were flown from Los Angeles. This a commercial trip, but the boys overseas wonder why airplanes be spared for such unessential travel when they can't be spared for them.
 5. Down at MacDill Field, Fla, Col E. G. simen- son used two big cargo planes on trip to his home in North Dakota to shoot pheasants. One of the planes was used to fly to the rescue of the other when the first went bad at Terre Haute Ind. The Colonel carried eep inside the first plane to scare Up pheasants after he got to North Dakota.
 Col. simenson had been in Europe for long time, his parents live in North Dakota and nobody would begrudge him visit home-especially since Gen. Marshall and Gen. Hap Arnold also flew out to shoot pheasantS.
 But the thing the brass hats don't seem to realize is the effect all this flying around in big planes has on the men who would like to those same planes to fly home Until rank favoritism is eliminated the generals will have hard time building up the new 4,000 0,000-man Army proposed by George Marshall unless Congress rams it down the GIs throats.
 Eniwetok Atoll in mid-Pacific is just two miles long, one-half mile wide On it crammed nearly 10000 U. S. sailors and marines falling all each other sitting the beach, hunting shells, waiting, waiting for ships or planes to take them home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Waterbury's Six Year Plan

With intense and burning local pride question
 whether any city anywhere the size of Waterbury has ever been offered comprehensive and intelligent plan for city progress embodied in the report submitted to- day by Mayor John Monagan and the City Planning Com mission
 This twenty point program offers the implements to make practical vision of the able bipartisan group of citizens which comprises the City Planning Commission Even casual reading of the brochure in which the plan IS offered brings realization of the months of earnest un- selfish which have gone into it's preparation Every citizen of Waterbury himself the duty of reading for word the intelligent sound yet thoroughly thrill ing recommendations embraced in the Six Year Plan.
 To the City Planning Commission and it's able chair man. Thomas F. Moore to Mayor Monagan without whose wolehearted cooperation formulation of the plan might have far difficult and particularly to City Plans Engineer Theodore L. ScottSmth, from whose eager toll the plans details have been created should the grat tude of this community for duty well discharged
 A sympathetic study of the Six Year Plan (which is
 printed in this newspaper) and unstned help in its execu ton the civic duty of every one of us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

Europe where I couldn't help but see, every day and every hour how sorely all soldiers wanted to come home, and after having been deuged with if there any possible way to hurry the discharge of their particular soldier and having likewise the size of the job there and the obvious need of strong men to stay with it for who-knows-ho many years, I pondered and puzzled and finally evolved suggestion.
 That suggestion was that we reorganize the en- tire idea of peacetme Army, make 1t something real, something worth belonging to, something at- tractve enough, and offering security enough to ap peal to a young man of good character as worth while profession. My idea to make 1t something like fire department police departments state police department-in pay, privileges and pensions and as it could be recruited and trained let it take the occupations which, after all, is police work.
 I duly conceded that it would cost a lot of money but it wouldn't be babys tear in the Atlantic compared to the cost of another war; or even the Lend-Lease in this one.
 the regular Army at your regular grade and offers you the following rewards if you do. First pay: private will receive from $50 to $75 per month for service in the US.A, $50 to $85 overseas private first class $54 to $81 at home 480 to $0 80 abroad Corporal, technical 5h grade, $66 to $99, at home $7020 to 1l220, abroad. Sergeant, technician 4th grade SIS to $l17 at home $93 SO to $1S260 abroad Staff sergeant, techncian Sd grade $D6 to $l44 at home $ii520 to l6S'2O abroad. Technical sergeant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

veterans groups say that conscientious obector should be released until every in the armed services has been discharged-excluding those in the regular Army and Navy.
 Shortly after V-J Day, National Selective Serv- ice began making plans to release Cos" on point system It would have reduced their number at about the same rate as CTS were being released The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars pro- tested immediately and the plan was abandoned. Instead it decided to let the men over 39 years of age out and later those 38 and over Regulations dependency cases were relaxed.
 Now it is up to Congress to decide what to do with the 10000-odd men in co camps. May 15, l946, the Seective Service Act expires and decision will have to be made by that time.
 Although it is known that Selective Service is anxious to get rid of the whole "conchie' admins traton, 1t is generally agreed that it was handled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
NEW LOW
Boston Post)

A new low in attempts to diScredit Gen. Macarthur was the recent report that he was suffering from severe heart disturbances" and might have to retire. Fortunately it was not hard to spike the yarn, since the general is in such perfect physical trim that only recently he had sent his personal physician home for discharge. It shows, how ever, to what lengths some people will go in an effort to prove Gen. Macarthur unfit for the job he holds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
SHOE SHINE BOYS
(Boston PoSt)

The appearance of Pope Plus XII before 2000 Italian shoe-shine boys must have indeed been impressive. His words to them to set good ex- amples to others will not easily be forgotten by these boys. The shoe shine boys are enterprising, ener- getic, willing youths, whether in Italy or Boston. Many a successful man can look back and remember he made his first earnings as a shoe-shine boy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Waterbury of The Past
25 Years Ago

A Huntingdon avenue child, three years old, toppled from the second floor porch to the cinder driveway, and received only minor scratches.
 Police reported that Halloween pranksters were still ringing door bells.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

Of the chances of a draftee seeing action practically nil now, men continue to refuse to don uniforms on religious grounds.
 A fight is developing between veterans organizations and cer- tain religious groups over what to do with conscientious objectors. The church groups have been ag- itating for immediate release of all conscientious objectors. They say they did their job according to the law and, now that the WAT is nver send them home. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

mount 70 a personaI lnSuIt. BLU restrain yourselves, brethren, and read it through, assured that my motives are of the noblest, then stick it away if not convinced, and bounce your eyeballs up and down on 1t some other day be- fore deciding that from now on we're not going to get along.
 I'll break it fast. It's about in the Army.
 This, in brief, is how I chanced to get mixed up with the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

their thumbs in Europe waiting for transportation home.
 Transportation has come to be the biggest bottleneck of the whole discharge system. And what burns men up is to see transpor- tation squandered by officers while they are powerless to get home. Here are some illustrations;
 l. A total of $50 German horses were loaded on the SS Stephen Austin at Bremerhaven for transportation back to Fort Riley KanS the Arnnv's ravalrv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
They Deserve Elm

The Allies thinking of letting Jap civilians estab- fish commercial radio network to compete with the gov crnment~owned Radio Tokyo.
 Since we still in favor of a hard peace we hope that General Macarthur will require this network to lneLzaa A1Iot of singing commeEcIals
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

Sturgeon. which are found in North American, European and Asi- atic waters. are never found in trop- ical waters. ."-The Springfield Union. IF WINTER COMES The sturgeon, not my favorite topic, Taken all in all,
 Never dashes to a tropic,
 Though the tropics call.
 Sturgeon mother, sister, daughter, All incline to hoe
 In their own and temperate water, Roe on roe on roe.
 Even Pa no effort squanders. Getting out of hand
 To be there where summer WanderS By the coral strand. So my view on surgeons dim: it Makes them out as dumb.
 For if I could only swim it,
 Tropics, here I'd come.
 We were a little surprised at the cordial reception President Tru- mans twelve points received aboard Saturday. Judging from the chronic trucuIence of nations in this post war period, we though they'd tell us to keep them for a pound and half of butter.
 General Marshall Warns United States Not to Get Weak Agaln"- headline. So just stop thinking about what an atomic bomb could do to the city, people.
 The Government is taking steps to put emergency controls on but ter. First, though, it'll have to lden- tify butter and judging from some we've had recently, that's going to be the hardest part of the job.
 A Supreme Court justice has talk en over the presidency of Brazil, ac- cording to an announcement from the office of chief of police at Rio de JaneirO. There's one thing, at least, that doesn't bother South | American politicians; they don't have to worry about the weather on what might have been election day.
 Lieutenant Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., is enjoying terminal leave from the Army. And probably thinking about not having to enjoy second terminal leave from the Sem ate.
 Marshal Montgomery's famous beret is now a souvenir of the Royal Tank Regiment. The regimental GIs wonder how in the world they ever made brass so pliable.
 Senator Pepper of Florida de cEares that the United States is mak- ing a mistake" in riding along with England" in her disputes with Rus sia. Maybe he thinks we should ride along with Russia-if Russia would give up any space on the running board or rear bumper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
5 Years Ago

A dog, which bit a two year old child in Brooklyn, was killed by po- lice who decided that the dog was mad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
WASHINGTON, Nov. l.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1-Although the war is over men still being placed in conscientious obector camps. The number has dwinded proportionately
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

Dear CT Joe & Joan: Counting those points, practically decimal by decimal you are and horsin' for home you likewise are, the oversigned realizes that what follows at first flash may tanta-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
Merry Round

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-Navy Day was thrill for thousansd here at home but not for a million
 others going to seed on Pacific islands or twiddlng
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02
IS Years Ago

A man on Easton avenue was blinded in the right eye when a sharp piece of ice flew into the eye while he was chipping the ice for a highball
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

Two Sprague grammar school children found over $500 in a paper bag in woods near their home on Sheffield street. Police had no re- port of this amount being stolen, nor had anyone showed up at head quarters to claim the money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

A man who lost football bet was attempting to push peanut across Exchange plac& with his nose P. S, He was intern Ned by polite.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

Eniwetok- Atoll in mid-Pacific is just two miles long, one-half mile wide On it crammed nearly 10000 U S. sailors and marines falling all each other sitting on the beach, hunting shells waiting, waiting for ships or planes to take them home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

General Marshall Warns United States Not to Get Weak Again. headline. So just stop thinking about what an atomic bomb could do to the city, people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-02

Marshal Montgomery's famou! beret is now a souvenir of the Roya Tank Regiment. The regimenta GIs wonder how in the world they ever made brass so pliable.
The echo., 1945-02-16

With The Army Air Force Enei-
Ger Command in rta7v H liah
-brams Of Columbia, MISS rec
ntly promoted to The grade Of Tech
pician 9Th Grade in his aviation engi-
Ger unit which builds bases for AL
led Air power in the Mediterranean
of Operations.
Technician 9Th Grade Abrams, the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Abrams
of sos Forester ST., Columbia. Miss,
eft his position with Casheeu UtI-
ies Columbia. Miss. 10 join the SER
ice i'm November 1871. Sent over
cas-. he has seen 23 months of active
uty in North Africa and Italy as
fabrication Mechanic with the avta-
Jon rn~.ueers.
The echo., 1945-02-16

Sometime ago we mailed to each
president an agenda that should be
carefully studied So that it can be dis
used with much consideration in the
Convention.
We are confident that at least some
portions of this agenda need careful
consideration nd enactment in our
lext Convention for the protection Of
his Organization for which so many
f us have worked hard to establish.
Many DC ms have been criticized be-
cause Of tle long years 81 toll for the
papetuature 81 tha H p 81
Study the >agenda sent to you by
The echo., 1945-02-16

Although lt is frequently said
that the eyes are the windows Of
the sou" L sometimes believe that
the hands mirror a persons charac-
ter almost as well. In a sense, the
hands move in q wider orbit than
the ewes, and their free and sp0n-
taneous actions perhaps claim other
peoples attention more than we
realize.
We oil notice hands on occasion.
Sometimes our attention is forced
Oh them. Restless hands, tidgety
hands. or quiet hands Weil-grOOmed,
iu-gro0med; the warm hand clasp,
the clammy handshake-We have
them all. There are certain occa-
sions when you especially notice
other peoples hands and your own,
as for example, when You are play
ing cards. You have an 0ppOrtu-
nifty to study the hands OF those
around you and to compare them
with your own hands. You study
their size, length, nails, skin texture,
movements, etc.
When YOU do make such observa-
lions, how do your hands compare
with those Of other women?
Perhaps you wish the fingers were
a little longer and not quite so thin,
and stubby-or that your nails were
more almond-shaped. Very few peo-
pie have perfect hands, but any
woman can make her hands attrac-
tive If she will watch two things :
"a the use Of her hands, and (2) the
care she gives them
The first consideration has to do
with the gracefulness Of your hands.
That doesn't mean you should take
d course lu dramatlcs. But here's
q t.p which comes from the dra-
matte school: Never gesture for
the sake " gesturlng, or feel that
it Ia necessary to do this In order