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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
Anticlimax to Victory

Enough evidence has accumulated since VIE Day to permit the reluctant opinion that the American military in Germany has missed doing the job that it out to do and that expected of it. Perhaps it is fool hardyt to venturea black-and-white opinion compli cated situation from distance of several thousand miles But events of the last months tell story of some thing considerably short of
 There was, for instance, General Pattons amazing press conference which preceded his dismissal Third Army commander Later developments have indicated that his with the denazfication program not unique Lghtheared oleraton of NaZi thought and Naz party members apparently chief factor in the unhappy difference between American policy and practice in Germany.
 Then there was General Eisenhowers report of grow ing unrest in the American zone, which he admitted might develop into organized revolt There stories of mstresSes absorbing Naz viewpoints from companions still saturated with Hitler philosophy and Hitler worship
 Now one American correspondent in Germany writes that the Army eager to wash it's hands Of the whole mat ter and act mainly as police force while civilian staff takes over the job of governing Another correspondent re- ports that having accomplished virtually nothing toward re-educating German youth have turned that impor tant task back to the Germans.
 The explanations for this apparent failure reach from the brass hats in Washington to the dougheet in Frank fut It that there dsagreements between top figures in the Army and in various government depart ments It also appears that General Eisenhower having trouble in putting his policies into practice.
 It is not beyond comprehension, either, that the staff of officers who carried out brilliant strategic pro- gram to complete victory might lack the understanding training and inclination to carry out program of military government with intelligence and efficiency
 Then there the anxiety of the forces in Germany to come home and the governments effort to bring them home quickly possible This to have the American command abroad experienced officers and to have left 1t with good many restless dscontented en listed men.
 All this is disqueting to anyone who believes that to allow the German national mentality to remain kogant contemptuous unpurged and unehastened to Threaten world peace Before Germanys defeat almost all Americans military and civilian alike believed that There were great plans to insure that t would never happen again Now those fears and plans seemed to be pushed aside for immediate matters with the net result of Fast getting nowhere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
By Dre1O Pearson
government in consultative capacities,

government in consultative capacities.
 "One 0f the finest and most respected men we had in Washington throughout the war period, Dur ham argued, "is Dr. Frank Graham, president ot the University of North Carolina pr. Graham would not have come here for full-time job on the War Labor Board or anywhere else, and we would nave lost his extremely valuable services
 Sparkman pointed out that the university had called Graham back to North Carolina, but Durham stuck to his guns.
 here the government benefited" he replied I'll 1t had not been for the part-tme arrangement we would not have had him here at al
 Davis of Tennessee insisted during the secret debate that better men would be avahapie on Ine s1-a-year basis .
 you set this up as a full-time commission with a $l5OOO salary and every lame-duck in Washington will be coming around trying to get an appointment This commission is too important for political ap- pointeeS," he said
 But Alabamas Sparkman stood pat.
 "What you will get" he warned, 4is a comms- sion of members who fly in from New forK or OaI- cago once or twice month to sign Q pie ol papers the administrator has drawn up for them Xoure really handing atomic authority back to an Army administrator if you defeat this amendment
 Sparkman also spoke at length of the importance of having commissioners with no royalties to pvate companies-men dependent on no one and deterninea
 Leader of COP opposition Charles Elston Of Ohio who objected most strenuousy to letting Tru- man get chance at filling another group O. high paid jobs. u
 Are all members to be from one party?" he asked.
 sparkman answered Elstons further charge that 2 new bureaucracy would be created by pointing out that if the committee were to vote for single ao- ministrator it would create of the most powerful bureaucratic jobs in all Washington.
 But his arguments were of no avail; the vote against his amendment was 12 to 6.
 While civilian areas are crying for doctors, Gen Norman Kirk surgeon general of the Army. continues to keep doctors and nurses doing next to nothing Here are the facts regarding Seventh Army evac- uation hospital in Germany:
 Though it has a capacity of 400 patients. the hospital averages only GA patients daily But 1t keeps 276 doctors nurses and enlisted men hanging around to care for these GA patients
 For each 10 patients there are four doctors nve nurses and 32 enlisted men-al getting Into eacn others way
 Average cost of taking of these 4 patients is $4547l 21 a month Based only pay and rations for hospital personnel patient costs the taxpayer $2368 a day.
 It actually costs six times more to handle patient today in peace than it did during combat This is because many doctors and nurses have to sit around doing nothing They would much rather come home
 Meanwhile, Surgeon General Kirk maintains l8 evacuation hospitals in the Seventh Army alone plus 3 field hospitals, plus station hospitals, conya- lescent hospitals. and general hospitals.
 Note-In some parts of the Pacific the situation is just bad worse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
By Bill Cunningham

to see him revealed as any Missouri Merlin,
 well about the personal side, They consider Truman honest and certain to give his best but they wonder if he might not be ripped into trouble by his future sraly hailed but from that point 1t began to appear
 little too notceaby that residence in the State or National Guard outfit was requisite to Appointment to positions of trust Nobody questions the integrity Of any Of these sppolntess to date athongh the ss ieism, but II that's the way it's to continue they aren't sure,
 Washington remembers another ex-Senator from the Midwest, who also started with a great Cabinet. He also loved everybody, and evidently did the best he could He too brought state gang and only that eyer shocked the nation and Emeared a name, That man was Warren Harding,
 The other practically ayowsd candidate is the aforementioned MT, Wallace who Is standing by since his fate at Chicago. If matters at that convention had broken another way, Wallace would De President welt was sold the idea that the South wouldn't stand for him, and it was eventually to develop that tne sna ths cro With s s Truman "big city bosses" won against Hilman
 It just chances that America loves graceful through sg s"d guy yAs Wallace n 'Hs ssns by his tireIess and evidently sincere campaigning Tor the Rooseyelt-Trlman ticket He did more travelling body but he was selling himself as well the ticket. In fact his name often got more cheers ulan tnoss Of the candidates, and t was always received With wilder salyo than TFumans,
 And Wallace has taken great care to brand him-s self as a Liberal That may, come ie4e De diffsFent from e Democrat, Wallace started hammering the word Liberal in his speech to the Chicago conven- ton He used 1t i3 times in the course Of an address that probably lasted ib minutes He took particular pains to hurl 1t directly Into the teeth Of the eon- servatlye southerners' who were supposed 10 nave ruined him n the Roosevelt lgurng' Nopoay knoWs iDls but It just might describe third party Unless Wallace changes his plans, or the PAC changes iD vention floor the Liberals may pull out into party of their own. This would really be Labor Party yerging at least to coral in tint, and t would en. deavor to draw with 1t ali the racia mlnoFites and al the left wingsrs. <,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09

Friends also point out that 30 learned men were elected to the French Chamber of Deputies in the recent election; that TO scientists being voted members of the Supreme Soviet; that A. N. Back one of the worlds greatest biochensts is vicepresident of the Supreme Soviet and that Juan Negrin former premier of Spain was professor of physiology.
 American soldiers taking a few days off to the sights of Japan recently, drove toward Mount Fuj one of the most historic and beautiful spots in Japan But when they entered the area around the base of the mountain, they found 1t off limits for all U. s. Army personnel
 Investigation found that the boundary between the U. s. Sixth Army Command and the Eighth Army runs Fujiyama, and the Sixth Army Com mand declared it's area-which includes Mount Fuji off limits in order to keep the Eighth Army out.
 Meanwhile, in nearby Miyanoshita is of the most beautiful hotels in Japan There live the former German ambassador, members of his staff, the cabinet of the puppet Filipino government which collaborated with Japan. and a collection of other Axis diplomats. They interned-but in one of the most luxurious and beautiful resort spots of Japan.
 However American CHS who fought from New Guinea to Okinawa may not enter this beautiful re- sort area.
 Last weeks closed door session of the House Military Affairs Committee was one of the hottest. Ii involved the atom bomb.
 Hard-hitting Representatives Chet Holifeld of los Angeles and John Sparkman of Huntsville, Ala, had managed during the previous week to win com- mitee approval for several amendments liberalizng the atom-control bill. One provided that administra tive power the bomb should rest with the atomic commission, rather than Army-controled admin istrator.
 Proposed but not adopted was another amend ment to cut the size of the commission from nine to seven and make each member full-time atomic energy commissioner instead of $l-a-year man whose chief royalties would be to the private com pany paying his salary Chairman May limited secret debate the latter amendment to half an hour, during which Sparkman and Holified did their best even though facing solid lineup of Republicans.
 In addition, three Democrats also opposed the amendment-Carl Durham of North Carolina, Cliff Davis of Tennessee, and Bob Sikes of Florida. They were fearful that $l5,o00 job as commissioner would not attract the best possible men. Durham, in cidentaly, is sold the idea of having men prom inent in private industry education the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09

The real secret that has 70 De guarued Couay ID the knowhow of this production of concentrates on
 commercial scale It is now generally admitted that the theory is no longer secret That is shared oy many scientists The real secret is in the job of gineering and manutacturing-transating laboratory experiments in microscopic chemistry and physics into mass production handling of thousands of tons of material.
 No budget has been prepared on what 1t would take to operate the two government reduction plants at Oak Ridge Tenn, and Paseo, Wash. guess is that it will $30 900 900 year And when Congress gets through creating the commission that will control atomic energy Congress also faces the prospect of making an annual appropriation of about that amount to keep the works going, The question is, what will the government get for its money and hoW2 -
 The demand for this enriched material VIII oe in direct proportics it's value The big corporations with extensive research organizations unquestionaoy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
A GIFT FOR WORLD PEACE

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 The fund of $500, 900 given by Jesse H. Jones to create at the Uni versity of Virginia a Woodrow Will son School of International Affairs honors the name of a President who foresaw vividly that we would never again, as a nation, be able to live apart from the rest of the world. It chooses, in the campus at Charlottesville, a worthy place for such a center of study; a university rich in historic background, found- ed under the guidance of Jefferson; an educator of illustrious sons, a leading forum for discussion of public affairs and lately the site for training our officers for military government in foreign lands. The former Secretary of Commerce be- came a close friend and admirer of Woodrow Wilson during the first World War, when MT. Jones held high posts in the Red Cross. He believes that Wilson sacrificed his life for world peace" and that his ideals. if consummated, might have spared us the miseries and devas- taticn of a second world war. A better understanding of world af- fairs, which is the object of the newly created school in Virginia, may help to prevent that third world war which all right-minded men hope will never come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
A Thought For Today
Twenty-Five Years of Radio

Radio is twenty-five years old this year but has the fac ulty though one of most firmly established modern business and pleasure inventions of seeming eernaly young It is ever Sprngng fresh surprises in the way of presenting programs and advertising product It extra ordinarily clever the latter but many feel giving radio
 its due and Salutng tops in great many things that there is still nothing like neat advertisement n print to extol the qualities of a given article.
 Twenty-Five years ago many folks that doubted they would be interested in sliding dial up and down to hear bit of squawking which was identified dance music from the Blue Room of the ASterblt Hotel aTd fans who follow everything in radio from Allen to Wagner They have learned all there to learn about tooth pastes and symphonies listeners have been particularly choosey they have picked up good education in music and other arts They have heard Chopin gofed and mutt lated They have picked up lot of general information the easy arm charfresde way They have learned lot about the poets the historians great people living and dead They have even learned how to spell
 Radio is still called youthful invention It has done much for which it should be commended It do still more Commercially it sometimes irrtates. The public is grateful for it's virtues and not too critical of its faults When all is said and done what would do without its cheery good evening everybody it's friendy-goodnght all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09

NufHHb"@W tEHIy lo pc NelkUiIlB HIS OWL ue- sire to resign before national and international mat ters get worse, against the advice of his friends to sit tight and say nothing. The fact isn't apparent to the country, as yet and the sympathetic feeling for Truman is still characteristic Of the general con- sutueney but the story is different in Washington There, the feeling has begun that Trumans valiant effort to keep in the middle Of the road where every country boy knows the walking is best Is not enough Even those who hated Roosevelt say, good or bad they miss his leadership Truman is now charged with waiting for, instead Of forcing, the breaks They're afraid Of a terrible tange ahead,
 Whether this is fair to the little man. nobody stops now to argue, Whether he inherited trouble no mortal could have avoided nor handled is c0nsd- cred beside the point, The entire political concept from the dockside ward to the White House itself boils down 10 one line when the brethren assemble, That line is; Can he be reelected2"
 MT. Truman has no easy row to hoe, Both na- tIonally and internationally, he has inherited tbe difficulties piled up by the previous administration understandings with especially Russia. while the Moseoyites still n great need has lett seran- bed world picture, with Uncle Sam on the spot, TO date. the Truman administration has been unable to get off t.
 Nationally, the free ride given labor, with all speed cops called off has run into the inevitable re will parayze reconyersion Stalled reconyerslon wii mean mass unemployment when all the veterans rec turn This administration promised the people sixty million jobs' It'll be lucky to have six the way things are going
 All these promise trouble for Truman unless ne can come up with miracle. and Washington is Dee gnnlnQ to see him as just an ordinary man hard ht grips with the worlds biggest job and being terribly careful lest he make mistake They aont espscs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
One Military Holiday Is Enough

This years observance Of Armstice Day suggests that next year may find ourselves with an overabundance of military holidays calendar That is said without any thought of dsespect to the veterans of earlier Co those who gave their lives in those But next year will bring the anniversaries Of two momentuous events VIE and Vt Days which the country will not let pass un- noticed
 Thus we shall have VIE Day and Memorial or Decora- tion Day which most states observe falling within the month Three months later VII come the VJ Day obsery ancs, and three months after that Armlstice Day.
 It is quite possible that the very number Of these casons will dlsspae the honor and gratitude with which they should be marked Why might 1t not be better to select day arbitrarily-and the present Memorial Day would do neelyon which to pay tribute to the living and dead Of the Civil War the first World War and the recent eonct7 And why not make further effort to celebrate that day with the dignity and soemnty which It merits9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
A PLAIN WARNING TO TWO
 MINORITIES
(New York Sum


 Though President Truman's talk to the members of the labor man agement conference ran pretty much to generalities, one thing that he said was definite enough for both sides to get. If the people do not find the answers here" the Presi- dent said, they will find them some place else" This was a plain warn ing to labor and management alike to remember that the public inter est is not only paramount, but that. in the long run, the public interest must be served. Representatives or labor and management have an op- portunity to do their part to keep the national economy a healthy and going proposition, but they should bear in mind that both represent minorities whose interests are sub ordinate to those of the whole American public. There was an "or else" flavor to the Presidents warn ing fully warranted by the circum- stances under which this confer ence opened.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
ADMIRAL HALSEY'S VIEW
(New Britain Herald)

(New Britain Herald
 From Admiral William F, (BulD Halsey, the colorful commander of the Third Fleet, comes an opinion about the atomic bomb that we have heard expressed by many, but not by officials The admiral simply deplored the invention of the atomic bomb, saying it meant the world would be in a terrific state as result of it in due time.
 What the admiral means is that if. in another war, the atomic bomb is freely used, goodbye to large sections of the world.
 How to avoid that, admiral2 Well, let the world engage in no more wars! That may be hard to achieve in spite Of the United Nations char ter and the other charters and in- ternational gatherings; but if man. kind has the power to destroy itself --as it now surely has-it had better decide to avoid the destruction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
OTHER UPSETS
Hartford Courantl

Even more unexpected than the defeat of Thomas J. Spellacy for Mayor Of Hartford was the upset in New Haven, where sixty-seven- year-old Mayor John w. Murphy was defeated in his attempt to be- come Mayor for an eighth consecu- tive term. Dean of Connecticut Mayors. Mir Murphy was defeated by his Republican opponent, Will liam c. Celentano, by nearly six thousand votes after an unusual campaign in which the opposition charged that the administration had been parsimonious in spending public money. Apparently agreeing with this thesis, New Haven voters gave MT. Celentano 32,635 votes to MT. Murphy's 26,9ll.
 Tn Bridgeport, however, voters did the expected by returning Jasper McLeyy for a seventh term with a plurality greatly exceeding the total cast for both his Republican and Democratic opponents, Apparently Tn Bridgeport they remain quite content with the kind Of admins tration that Mir McLeyy provides and are quite unbothered by the fact that he runs on the Socialist ticket,
 Waterbury gave Democratic May or John Monagan a bare majority in city that has always been pre- ponderantly Democratic. MT. Mon agan received l6,789 votes and his Republican opponent, Raymond F, Snyder, i4,447, This result was sur- prising only in the small margin by which MT, Monagan won,
 If there is any interpretation of trends in these various local cons tests, including the one in Hartford. it Is the fact that voters are get-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09

TICIltu MdUtIIdI-LIIt CUIICtIIUI dIS made from radioactive ores.
 No accurate data have been given on this concentration. One unofficial figure is that it takes 1900 tons Of ore to make 50 pounds of uranium salts, from which uranium-235 is obtained. Another figure commonly cited is that if and when U-235 in concentrates up to 10 per cent can be sold for less than $25,000 a pound, it can begin to compete with high-grade fIlleS That gives a XaPlIe idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
WEATHER FROM ALL OVER


 From Passport down to Sandy Hook Is not important in my book. I ever saw, and never will, A strictly undecided chill. A sou 'Wester or nor'easter My troubles, the winds the leaster. When weather reports have some
 thing wrong with 'em, My corns quite often go along with
 'em.
 The weather man is sometimes cute; I'd rather have him absolute. Inscrutable as Dali's art I always find the weather chart. I look for something else besides The guys who have to case the tides. Speak the truth and say with sor-
 row.
 Fair today and gone tomorrow"
 There has been a lot of trouble between GIs and French civilians in LeHavre. The Tanks. little wist- fully perhaps. wish that someone in authority would say. "If you don't like it here go back where you came from"
 The conservative Small Holders Party in Hungary won a sweeping victory over the Communists in bhe first general elections since the war ended. Maybe that will give the Bear paws.
 Workers Sit Down on Job in Sky scraper"-headline. That's no strike; it's too high and inside,
 The induction of fathers with three or more children under eigh- teen years of age has been stopped by seleetiye Service, Short Of an- other war, there appears to be no re- lief for them in sight,
 President Christopher of Packard says that the intrinsic value of ma terials in an automobile Is only about twenty-f0ur dollars, with the possible exception of the contents of an inflated inner tube.
 Senator Thomas of Oklahoma wants Congress to establish a school, comparable to West Point or An napolis," to train diplomats for the Government, Apparently the solon thinks it's high time for dollar di- plomaey to pass the buck.
 Souvenir hunters did so much damage to the fleet during Navy Week that naval authorities are said 10 be toying with the idea of making 1t Navy Hour next year,
 SCIENTIFIC NOTE DOT
 For the flea
 On everything that Ignit A pal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09

tInues 10 eXtoI Henry as a haIHI and a genius. But 1t begins to look as if all hands, including Henry, are beginning to fear that some things going to happen to the Tru- man administration between now and l948 and that all connected with it, including Henry. will be hopelessly sunk.
 MT. Wallace is reported now to be figuring that Truman out- smarted him when he rendered the Cabinet appointment, and cur-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-09

ate ktlgore committee when he dramatically urged the only de- fense against atom bombs was world peace. and that atomic en- ergy should become the means of raising living standards the world over.
 Fellow scientists say there is need in Congress for an experi- enced scientist, now that we are entering into the atomic age. All the experts agree no one knows atomic power better than Oppen- hof,,a1V