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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

Pearson Hirohito was only prince regent, this coumnist made several trips to Japan, got ac- quainted with one of Hirohitos intimate aides, and heard many complimentary things about the young man who was to become "The Son of Heaven"
 Actually, the recent history of the Japanese Emperor is closely interwoven with the history of American troops in Japan. We helped give the Em- peror a new start in life when Commodore Perry first opened the doors of Japan in 1852, and if it had not been for the landing of Perry, there might be no royal family of any potency in Japan today
 Now, 93 years later, American troops once again landing in Japan, scheduled to operate through the Emperor-perhaps also giving him new lease on life.
 almost as revolutionary the steamship, which opened up Japan to U S. troops the first time When Commodore Perry and the US.S Mississippi first steam-propelled man o'War to circumnavigate the globe arrived off Japanese waters, the government of Japan was split between Emperor Osahito, then the weakest of weak figureheads, and the Shogun, or premier then the real ruler of Japan. Perry knowing who the real ruler was signed treaty with the Shogun not the Emperor whereby the hated foreigners were permitted to come ashore and enjoy commercial privileges.
 This started a wave of resentment against the Shogunate The merchant princes and feudal lead ers already down on the Shogun because of high taxes, rallied round the Emperor as he led verbal attack against Perry.
 A virtual prisoner in Kyoto the aged Emperor broke forth in verse:
 
 some dark well,
 But let no foreign foot
 Pollute the water with its presence here"
 And with childs misconception of the tremen- dous power of Perrys ''big, black freships," the Emperor issued an order that foreigner could set foot Japanese soil wearing hats or any article of ''barbaric" clothing.
 This was the for the feudal lords to build up the Emperor at the expense of the Shogun and few years after the Shogun signed his treaty with Commodore Perry, the war lords assassinated him. Tokyo at that time was crowded with "Jo-I" or ''alien haters" that insurance companies would take the risk of underwriting policies on the lives of Americans in Japan
 This of alien-hating plus the strategy of the feudal barons in strengthening a rival to the unpopular Shogunate, took the Japanese royal fam- fly out of virtual Imprisonment and started them on the road to their present powerful hold the Jap anese people. Much of this build-up was synthetic It would have made Ivy Lee, publicity genius who sold the American public on John D. Rockefeller green with envy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
Views Of The Press

try, many of them of an emergency nature.
 Tn his statement Senator Barkley enumerated five major measures. High on his list is revamping the Surplus Property Disposal agency, increasing unemployment benefits, and continuing such war agencies as may be naeded during the period of reconversion. Of lesser degree of urgency is the Full Employment bill and the Presidents request for authority to reorganize the execu- tive agencies of the Government. Congress must also soon direct its att tention to reshaping the budget and drafting a new tax bill. Nor will the so-called liberal group of Senators headed by Pepper of Florida and Kilgore of West Virginia fail to press for their legislative program.
 Some of these measures. to be whipped into shape by committees between now and the reconvening Of Congress are likely to pass with out extended debate. Others face stiff opposition. President Truman will soon be forced to take stand as between the Pepper liberals and the traditional Democrats of whom Senators Byrd and George are rep- resentative. The end of the war and the decreasing emphasis on foreign relations will terminate the Presi- dents honeymoon with Congress. His appointments and some of his pro- nouncements have indicated that he would steer slightly to the right of President Roosevelt's "a little left of center" philosophy. President Truman will be politician of un- usual and unexpected wizardry if he can unite the widely diverse factions of his own party behind a legisla- tive program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
BUssEs ON GUAM
(Bnston Postl


 Over roads built by members oi the American armed forces, busses now travel in Guam to replace the rickety, two-wheeled carts drawn by plodding water buffaloes which formerly supplied the islands trans port. Receipts reach as high as $200 a day, and already native en- terpreneurs are offering sums they never before dreamed existed for the concession for Guam's first civil ian bus line.
 The bus service is only one phase of modern life Americans have in- troduced on Pacific islands. AL ready the natives know there's dif- ference. big difference, between what the Japs promised them and what the United States can give them,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

Cunningham I don't know how true or false the shop windows are to the story of actual v ing nor just what is the difference between being visitor in an American uniform and living as regis tered subject of the King and Queen but from what can see they've got greater variety of general merchandise than they had in Boston the last time looked There's meat in the windows of the butcher shops. Their restaurants serve everything ours do. haven't any citrus fruits or fruit juices, but they stew plums pears, apples, peaches and prunes
 There doesn't seem to be much butter, and haven't seen any cheese except golden yellow wedge on Ambassador John c. Winants dining room table, and he forgot to ask me to have any. have yet to see any cream come up with my coffee. yet the first whipped cream I've seen since the last time was in Vermont came up unexpectedly on my trifle the other night
 It Is carefully explained to me- however, by those who are afraid I will misunderstood, that restaur ants give no true picture of the British situation They say 90 per cent of the food is ratoned. and the restaurants can play around with the other 20 per cent Being an American military visitor Is one thing, but if came here as a civilian and stayed more than c week, I'd have to take out . food card and then I'd really have to eat by regulation.
 How can you be Q gentleman and eat like . dogq How the hell can you look like Q Yank or anything else but bum. when they won't dole you even Q used paper napkin? keep dropping whole helpings of pot roast on my pretty pink pants and you've got moro chance oi finding Hitler than of get- ting sm dry cleaned. or any ether Kind Of cleaned
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
NOTE ON DISSENT

New York Herald Tribune.
 NOTE ON DISSENT Lives there the man-oh, well, there
 must!-
 Who never took a road on trust, But had to back mile, alas, To let another auto pass? I well remember other days When lovely, but too narrow, ways Into deep sylvan beauty ran; Remember how they scraped the
 pan?
 Remember boulders that were not DiScernible, but got you caught And kept you trapped and raging
 there
 A thousand miles from anywhere? A thousand? Well, two miles, at
 least,
 To get the farmer and his beast To pull you off-and ask your blood. Remember how it was in mud? You take the little roads. and I Will watch the billboardS whizzing
 by, For though full many bards have
 sung them,
 I'm silent; I grew up among them. <. Of course, there's one way of abating the serious soap shortage. They could cancel out Saturday night.
 American military police in Paris are conducting drive against Joy riding in jeeps. We knew that they could get an awful lot out of a jeep, but joy wasn't on the list or extractables we had in mind.
 The Toko radio says that our Superforts dropped booby traps on Japan disguised as top airplanes Maybe they were just a few B-l7s that shook off in rough air.
 Ouisling is reported to have pre- pared a 5o-page oration for his de- fense on the charge of treason. We have an idea that after he's through delivering it, it still will be difficult for him to clear his throat.
 MT. Morgenthau says that MT Truman asked for his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury. He declares that he would have liked to stay on the job until v-J Day This news may even give Harold Ickes pause; when President T re6eploys, he really redeploys.
 Foreign Minister Spaak of Bel g;um charges that King Leopold declared in -1940 that the Allied cause was lost. That opinion was kicking around pretty generally IT those dark days but having voiced it must be what is making kings wild in these happier times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

goes on III the U. 5. capICaI IS still leaving his friends at home unbelieving.
 He was most shocked at the way high-ranking Navy and Army officers were treated so indiffer- ently by the man in the street as they went about their daily busi- ness.
 His most oft-repeated story is about the vice-admiral who was riding to town on the 18th street bus. He was amazed to see such A dipnitarv IlSe the common car-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

occasional damage over the rest of the town.
 There'd be a store gone here, and an apartment house knocked apart there, but the retail shop ping centers wouldn't have been bothered very much. Famous streets would look about as they always did, shops would be open, sidewalks crowded. There was great damage here, but it is only a kiss compared to the slugging that pulverized Berlin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

70 make lC our JOD 70 knOW HI" most as much about Tokyo,s gov- ernmental system as we know about our own-if we are to build Japanese democracy which we won't have to fight again.
 This writer happens to oppose the views of certain Emperor appeasers in the U. s. State De- partment. Nevertheless, it is only fair to examine the facts on their side carefully.
 About 20 years ago, when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
A Russian Sees Us
WASHINGTON, Aug

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-Recently young Rus sian officer who understood and spoke English was sent here on special mission. It was his first visit to America and his astonished reports of what
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

Printing of 187,000000 new ration books for shoes, w and food halted by the OPAL There's leading sentence Any objections?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

may be trivial to remark just when such power z things as atomic bombs occupying the attention 0 men and child that the apple crop in New England Is W going o be what it ought o be- Just look at some of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
HirOhitO'S History

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S-whether we like 1t or not the American people are going to hear lot more about the Emperor of Japan. In fact, during the next several years that Japan we ought
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

LONDON, Aug. 15-If New York had been bombed the way London was a visitor would find Wall street and the docks down that way flat, but just
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

For there's lot of scenery and green living going to waste on little roads. From an editorial in The New York Herald Tribune.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

Patience became virtue this week when hot, dis acted tired and dsheveed editors and reporters as veil as radio commentators marked off the hours waiting for the official news-the war is over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

The days preceding the end of the are so raught
 with incident that it's hard to know what to consider first the atomic bomb the General Eisenhower visit to Mos cow the Tanger Congerencc in Paris President Trumans pedecon for souvenirs the owness o the Japanese to surrender, or the weather
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
Waterbury of The Past
25-Years Ago

25-Years Ago
 The regular monthly meeting Of the Society of the Friends Of 1re- land was being held.
 Musler and Lieheskind were offer ing e special on automobile dusters up to size 4s. at sS to SIP.
 15.Years Ago
 After s5e hours of tree sitting. two local boys planned to attempt breaking the record of 1000 hours ie.O00 gallons of mash were de- stroyed in c raid on a Yale street still.
 5.Years Ago
 The East End Community Club players were attending Q three act play. There's Always Juliet. in Litehfield. A safety week exhibition at ihe KMcA ana 4he N|lon Vas attract
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
City Planning Of The Future

City planning the postwar period will be something before equaed venture to say In fact city plan ming already started New York City and Boston in the East have presenting architectural budups of great possibilities Bostons facade will be considerably changed if the plans for it's re-doing materiaize.
 In book just published, by Henry S. Churchill "The
 City the People, the author architect has this to say and find his words furnish food for thought He says about planning: Ut is only another for social con- o the of the and In other words the curve of the staircase the size of the living room will be secondary the suitability of the structurer calculated to satisfy the particular needs of the individual
 All of us are interested at the present time ill he use of the land" Speaking individuals not architects we know what sort of building is suitable for type of con- munity.
 For instance, in Waterbury know the lay of the land We appreciate favorable building improvements as do the failures along this line Some day going to start building again large scae hope, as will be the every other city, town and village We need more housing simple but adequate homes, and aug ented apartment building plan Apartment buildings are
 limited since building stopped about the time we were going places in that respect
 City planning of the future feel certain will be big of Waterbury, important industrial center but at the same time typical New England community whose progress stemed from the plantation at the start then the town and finally the city, built around Characteristic center comnon to New England-The Green
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
15.Years Ago
5.Years Ago

A safety week exhibition at the KMcA and Xn1 N|Io1 Va1 attract InN Hns* EfnX2'1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

Quisling is reported to have pre- pared a 50-page oration for his de- fense on the charge of treason. We have an idea that after he's through delivering it, it still will be difficult for him to clear his throat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

The Toko radio says that our Superforts dropped booby traps on Japan disguised as top airplanes. Maybe they were just few B-l7s that shook off in rough air.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Elliott S Loans
Sifted by us.

WASHINGTON. July u CUP)
Treasury representatives have
questioned Brig. Gen. Elliott
Roosevelt at New York in connec-
tion with his income tax returns
and loan transactions involving his
Texas radio chain, a House ways
and means committee member
said today
He said it had been disclosed
that Roosevelt was being inter
viewed yesterday while the treas
ury was submitting a progress
report TO the committee on its in
veStlgatlon.
The committee recently asked
the treasury for a report on a
100000 loan made to Roosevelt
by John Hartford, president OF the
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. The
4 & flln
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
French bid
To NfOSEenlS

PARIS, July u tfNSt ThC
Boy OF TunlS viii arrive in Paris
tomorrow on "A ceremonial visit
that was regarded in political
circles as significant in the light
of current French-MoSlem rela.
tons
France is believed deSirous of
making her peace with the Mos
lem world. which is Seething from
Morocco 20 India.
Frcnch-NloSlom relations were
strained recently as a result of the
crisis IN the Leyant and the riot
ing IN Algeria
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Stole i. 5. Clothes,
He Admits, 10 Fish

Samuel p. Coils. 3S, OF Battle
Creek, pleaded guilty to a charge
of stealing government property
valued at $500 upon arraignment
before Federal Judge Frank >
Picard today Coils, a civilian
truck driver at Fl. Custer. said
he needed the clothing TO go fish
ing. His case was referred TO the
probation department for investi-
CATION
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
YOu1EHS Attack
w OErraE,. 20

Two tCen-aCcd youth, r.drc
bicycles early today turor1 @ -,-
Near-old woman 10 The rear O.. the
nurses building iD the Ca'C..o
housing project 1918 orm0i
where both criUina.iy assaulted
her.
The victim treated at Ecc,Aog
Hospital for Sceip laycHtiors and
other injuries, told police that ore
OF the aSSallant> appearing 90 b,
about 10 hrandlShed q Euu
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
Alarm Clock Thief
Finds Racket Ended

An alarm clock racket resulted
u rude awakening today tor
Walter & Taponen. So oi 67o T..
Willis
BE pleaded Saily before Fed
c-1 JUdgo Frank A Picard of
te..t of IL alarm clocks rom
au interstate shipment, Hc and
1 companion. now m prison sold
tra clocks to factory. workers,
according to Assistant l. = Atty
hcuncth ". Smith, Sentence
uaS deferred
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
SIFT BAD DEBT ANGLE

The committee wanted 10 know
the circumstances under which
Hartford deducted the loss as d
bad debt on his income tax return.
The treasury revealed it had not
yet approved a S227, ,000 item for
bad debts in Hartford's 1912 tax
return.
The committee also wants 20
know what RooSeveltS tax returns
show about his financial position
in regard TO the loan.
The ways and means committee
member said the treasury inVesti-
cation also would embrace other
loans To Roosevelt.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
OTHER LOANS OF $4,000

Two New Jersey businessmen
have reported making loans total
Jng $4,000, and committee men,
berS have expressed interest IN
reports that other loans were
made by Texas business men.
Investigators also have been
sent to Texas, the member said,
and to Chicago to interview Ca
ruthers c. Ewing, A. & p. counsel,
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13
w Omen's Dresses

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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-13

\ convenient, comfortable bed
which can be folded and rolled
away when not in use. Spring
construction. Pad included at
this special price.
The Lincoln times., 1945-11-29
Piedmont Scout
Leaders To Meet

The executive board of the Pied
mont Council, Boy Scouts of Amer
lea, representing the counties of
Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Cataw-
ba, Cleveland, CASTOR, Iredell, Lin
coin, Mcdowell, Polk and Rutherford
will hold dinner meeting at the
club dining room of the Hotel Charles
in Shelby Tuesday night, December
4th, at 7:15 o'clock. The meeting
will be the last business meeting of
the organization for the year and
plans will be perfected for the hold
ing of the annual meeting and BAN
quet of the council during January.
Captain Robert L. McCauley, a U. S.
Army Air Forces Training Liaison
Officer recently assigned to work
with the Boy Scouts of America in
North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, will be a special speak
er at the meeting. Captain McCau-
ley is former Scout leader and has
been assigned to aid the Boy Scouts
of America in the development of
the Air Scouting program which is
a part of Senior Scouting.
Reports on the progress of Scout
ing and Clubbing in the eleven coun-
ties of the Piedmont Council will be
received at the meeting and other
routine business will be transacted.
The Lincoln times., 1945-11-29
Eastern Star Chapter
Honors Visiting Officers

The Circles of the First Methodist
church will meet Monday, December
8, at $3.50 o'clock, as follows:
No. l, with Mrs. Summey Alex
ander. Mrs. W. F. Elliott and Mrs.
Robert Goode, Jr., associate host
esses.
No. 2, with Mrs. N. E. Sappen-
field. Mrs. Wilbur Lowe, associate
hostess.
No. 8, with Mrs. Jimmy Cooper.
No. will meet at the North State
Hotel, with Mrs. Karl Lawing. Mrs.
A. C. Byers associate hostess.
No. 5 will meet at the home Of
Miss Eva James Tuesday evening,
December 4, at 7:3O o'clock with Mrs.
Carl Edelblut, Jr. Please note change
in date.
The Wesleyan Service Guild will
meet Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock
with Miss Eva James. Miss Ruth
Beam and Miss Margaret Ferguson
associate hostesses.
The Lincoln times., 1945-11-29
Book Clubs Have
Joint Meeting

The Mentor and the Maids and Ma
irons clubs held a joint meeting
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. B. P. Costner, with Mrs. Cost
ner and Miss Sallie Lee Nixon as
co-hostesses.
Mrs. Edgar Love, Jr., presided and
a Thanksgiving poem was read by
Mrs. R. S. Reinhardt. Mrs. Jas. A.
Abernethy, Jr., reviewed Archibald
Rutledge's book, "Home by the
River"
Both clubs voted to send the usual
Christmas donation to the Veterans
hospital at Oteen and to send a
Christmas shower to the Moore Cen
eral hospital at Swannanoa.
Mrs. Myra Turley assisted the
hostesses in serving delicious salad
course.
The Lincoln times., 1945-11-29
Emmanuel Lutheran
Circles Meet Monday

The afternoon Circles of the Mis-
sionary Society of Emmanuel Luth-
eran church meet on Monday as fol-
lows: Circle l, Sister Clara, Mrs. T.
F. Corriher and Mrs. Ted Lewis,
hostesses, Mrs. M. C. Quickel, leader;
Circle 2, Clara Sullivan, Mrs. T. H.
Cansler and Mrs. Tom Wilson, host
esses, Mrs. H. P. Shidal, leader; Cir
Gle 8, Jessie Cronck, Mrs. NJ. L. Sipe,
hostess, Mrs. ]. L. Hallman, leader;
Circle 4, Maude Powlas, Mrs. John
Schrum and Mrs. G. H. Costner,
host. .sses, Mrs. Paul Rhyme, leader.
The evening circles meet Monday
evening as follows: Circle 1, Mrs.
Jack Mitchem, hostess, Mrs. William
Bynum, leader; Circle 2, Miss Sara
Yoder, hostess, Mrs. John Cromer,
leader.
The Lincoln times., 1945-11-29
N. c. Farmers Are
Warned Not To Buy
Midwestern Hogs

Raleigh, Nov. 29 = North Carolina
farmers have been warned by the
Department of Agriculture against
the purchase of hogs from the Mid
die West for the local markets.
More than 1900 hogs a month are
being purchased from Midwestern
markets, the department said, and
listed the following reasons why
North Carolina farmers should steer
clear of such transactions:
l. Although the 1914 corn crop
was a record harvest, hog prices
dropped and hundreds of farmers
sold out their entire stock.
2. Aside from the unprecedented
yield of corn, many farmers are find
ing it more profitable to "hog" pea
nuts than to market them-a situa-
tion which is temporary at best.
3. The extremely rainy weather
of the summer and early fall, hit the
peanut crop to the extent that it was
fit for swine consumption, rather
tnan Tor marketing.
a. State farmers are paying an
average price of $22 per hundred
pounds on the hogs imported from
the Midwest, while should they be
sold later on local markets, the OPA
ceiling is a flat SASS per hundred.
5. Hogs brought in from the Mid
west are run-of-the- mine stuff, tend
ing to weaken the existing strains,
besides possibly importing diseases.
Emphasizing the lack of foresight
in the present-day policy, Lenoir
Gwyn, department cattle marketing
specialist, said "hegs are being i'm
ported from Kentucky and Tennessee
at about 500 per hundred. saw
pigs selling in Rocky Mount in late
1914 for 81 each"
The Lincoln times., 1945-11-29

Sorosis Meets
With Mrs. Jonas

Sorosis Meets
With Mrs. Jonas
A lovely meeting of Sorosis was
held Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
c. A. Jonas at her home on North
Laurel street.
Roll call was answered with a
Thanksgiving verse. An interesting
paper on the life of Toyohiko Kaga-
wa, prepared by Mrs. A. H. Keck,
Jr., was read by Mrs. M. s. Beam.
Mrs. Jonas invited her guests into
the dining room where a two-course
turkey dinner was served buffet
style. The table was covered with
a beautiful lace cloth and centered
with pumpkin filled with fruits and
surrounded by ears of corn and min
iature turkeys, carrying out the
Thanksgiving motif.
Mrs. M. S. Beam, president of the
club, poured coffee and Mrs. T. H.
Cansler, Mrs. L. E. McQuinn and
Mrs. J. Frank Gamble assisted in
serving.
Special guests were Mrs. R. F..
Beal, Mrs. T. N. James and Mrs. T.
H. Cansler.