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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
Government Medical Aid

With President Trumans assertion that the health ot the nation is national concern few will quarrel The high percentage of rejecons for health which seecve service boards have reported gives enough for na tona The point stressed too that returning vet erans become used thorough going attention from competent physicians and using the best of equipment will not relish the idea of anything less when illness strikes them in peacetime.
 President Truman is at great pains to point out that ms plan socazed medicine under which all doctors would work for the Rather it plan which will en- able individual doctors and individual patients to proceed much they do in of sickness the Ill choosing their doctors the doctors developing individual sls objection to national health plan overcome-he objection that it would shield and guarantee livelihood to the lncom potent medical who could not survive the competition o unregulated medical practice
 The lion of controversy which suspect the President has by the tail is rather concerned with the method or securing funds effect such program he advocates The obvious the he suggests added payroll deductions such as are now aid social security Salared poyes and aboring generally will not welcome fur ther reduction their takehOme These reductions are at the point where they involve real hardship Tn many n and be quite realistic about it. these deductions motvate much of the current agitation for higher Even though those deductions expenses which the wage would be subject the psychological reVuson at arbitrary pay deductions is positive
 It be expected that industry realizing the deVaStat ing effect further payroll deductions will have wage ne goatons is almost certain to this pan even though it be completely praiseWorthy in theory.
 Just how else raise the necessary not easy to figure Taxes won't reach all of those who will need the service Even medical the $6000 00000 of income which taXeXempt groups like labor and coopeatVeS enjoy annually will not do it.
 The President had handed Congress rather hot one It remains to be just who will be scorched in the process of resolving the issue
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
Views Of The Press

mobile with attachable wing and tail surfaces, this hybrid is designed to be equally at home on the ground or in the air. The engineer whose brainchild it is explains that the Roadplane will make it possible to drive to the nearest airport, attach the wings and take off on beeline for ones destination. After landing, one will simply remove the wings, step on the gas and drive to town. Even the versatile helicopter can't quite match that performance.
 The unique vehicle that can per- form in this wondrous way was giv- en it's first public unveiling in San Diego recently but such details as it's price and the anticipated cost of operation, it's flying range and the expected rate of production have not as yet been forthcoming. Assuming, however, that a few of them are produced and sold as cur iosities, the onlooker who first en- counters one of the Jekyll and Hyde affairs bowling along the highway on it's three large balloon tires one at the pointed nose and two to the rear, will probably either take the pledge or else rush off to buy one for himself, depending on his mood at the time. Completely streamlined, with windows on all sides and in the roof, the Roadplane should be spectacular sight even in country accustomed to viewing startling vehicles on it's thoroughfares.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

closer to a microphone.
 The first two witnesses called, Admr Inglis for the Navy and Col Thieen for the Army-both vealed they not Pearl Harbor Dec ', l94l, which of course made them experts
 At 1O:3o the lights on. And at the same time the word passed among the 200 reporters assembled for the Pearl Harbor orgy that President Truman would hold a special press conference at the White House in half hour. That could be for only one thing-to announce the results of the U. Canadian-British conference atomic bomb tro
 Now it may have been that President Truman was smart enough to announce the results of his ference with Prime Ministers Attee and Mackenzie King to take the news play away from the opening day of the Pearl Harbor probe. But probably not. A better guess would be that the President made his atomic energy announcement just he had it ready-no sooner and no later. Anyway, few of the reporters left the Capitol for the White House because Pearl Harbor with its possibilities for sensational disclosures, looked like the bigger story
 But was it? What happened at Pearl Harbor four years ago is nothing compared to what may happen at the start of the next war Whether or not there is another Pearl Harbor a bigger scale to start and finish World War III doesn't depend anything the Pearl Harbor Investigating committee does in the next six weeks It depends what is done about controlling atomic energy. Truth is, the atomic age simply has not fully dawned on Congress the people they represent.
 The issue of what to do about controlling atomic energy-the most potentially destructive force created by mankind-has been at large in the world for three months For half that time it has been before Congress The House apparently feeling itself up trying. And the Senate is just now beginning to go to work the problem by sending the McMahon Committee to Oak Ridge, Tenn. where some of the material that went into the bomb was made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

Dakota. Gurney, a sincere and able gentleman devoutly believes that the rises and sets in the War Departments Pentagon building across the Potomac. Some of his friends suspect that he takes out prayer rug and does obeisance in the direction of the Pentagon every moaning To him brass hat can do no wrong. Thus the Army's plan for air tight control of the atom bomb to him was perfect
 However he listened politely to Oak Ridge scen- tist Burton Burton wanted to outlaw the atom bono altogether, but the Senator from South Dakota mained unconvnced. Finally, Burton pulled his trump card. He unfolded the danger of setting off the nitrogen chain. This is thing the scientists have been deadly afraid of.
 You realize, Senator explained the scientist that if enough bombs dropped, of sufficient size, they might set off the nitrogen chain and the entire world would go up in flames. We would simply be another flaming star in the heavens, later. a barren desert. People from other planets would look out and say Aha, Nova new star!'"
 Scientist Burton was deadly serious So are other scientists. They say it is quite possible that suffi cient number of atom explosions would ignite the nitrogen in the atmosphere and the entire earth would be burned up, just other planets are today
 Another Oak Ridge scientist, Charles D. Coryel went to work on the family of Sen. Kenneth Me Kellar of Tennessee So also did William Pollard, professor at the University of Tennessee, but working in New York McKelar powerful getic figure in the Senate. had not wanted to appoint liberal young Sen Brien McMahon of Connecticut chairman of the Atomic Bomb Study Committee, even though McMahon introduced the resolution. And when McKellar finally consented to go along with McMahons appointment, he stacked the committee with reactionaries.
 However, when scientists Coryell and Pollard finished explaining the dangers of the A-bomb, the Tennessee Senator actually got down from his pre- siding officers chair to make of the most states manlike speeches the Senate has heard on atom con- trol
 Another Senator who has how "a cut-throat international to get control of the atom might wreck all civilization is Republican Sen Alexander Smith of New Jersey Smith spent several weeks a New Jersey speaking tour both educating and sounding out public opinion regarding the bomb He reports that the people generally ahead of Wash ington in believing that the secret must be used of working out international cooperation and permanent peace.
 two chief criticisms of the Truman-Attlee Control Plan. They say CD that the plan must be worked out by the heads of states not by the foreign min
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
UNPLEASANT POSSIBILITIES
Hartford Times

The United States attitude tow ard hostilities in Java, where the native population is seeking inde- pendence and the British are put ting down the revolt ooecause the Dutch have no military or naval forces adequate to the JobJ is that the affair is strictly military
 We hope it will continue to be military and not political, for we could get into q most embarrassing predicament were the British, our allies, to call on us for aid in dis arming the Japanese in Java and Indonesia in general
 The United States does not ques- ton Dutch sovereignty in the Dutch East Indies, British sovereignty in Malaya or French sovereignty in French Indo-China, but the Amer ican people have no liking for en- forced subservience of any people. Whatever the eXigencies of diplo- macy may dictate to Washington, the American people, it is safe to conclude, would be glad if freedom
  So Washington, according to re- ports, hopes there will be no call on it for assisting Britain in her policing operations.
 That Americans are sensitive on this subject was made clear when objections were made to the use of lend-lease materials against the Indonesians. Our allies were in- structed to remove the letters "USA" from the material that aroused complaint. Since then there has been no incident involv- ing the United States but the Brit ish have found it not too easy to put down the independence move ment. They, too, have difficulties with their own people for the Aus tralians are opposed to British pol icy in aiding the Netherlands and Australian troops are having no part in British operations.
 Were the British to ask us for manpower. there would be an up- roar by the people of this country. While we do not question foreign sovereignty of Indonesian territory we would be well satisfied if the na- tives could become masters CT their own lands. The British will get no real help. practical or moral, from the American people in any opera tions that perpetuate the old colon- ial system, either of Britain or the Netherlands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
Atomic Hypothesis

The Moscow publication zvesta reports that Russian sci entists in Armenia have succeeded in knocking protons out of lead atoms by of cosmc rays Being sadly unscen tfc guess what effect if any, such discovery might have the technique of atomic fssiOn.
 But let that this reported discovery de- yeopment of should add significantly present knowledge of the atom Suppose Russian scentcs should discover method of making atomic bombs which would avoid the tre mendout installations and tremendous expense of the present method which, gather, form important part of tsecret."
 What then The Russians would have secret of their It might be that the present keepers of the atomic secret her would be seeking rather than offering knowledge All this is merely talking through the hat but theoretically such turn of events possible Perhaps the possibility has occurred the heads of the American British Canadian governments.
 new, simpler technique of releasing atomic energy night toss out the window any idea of attaching conditions
 the revelation of present atomic secrets Certainly would add another twinge the headache which with possession of this frightening source of power
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

WOrld war III.
 On Capitol Hill one hour earlier, l0-man joint congressional committee-three years and II months behind the times-began long -wnded, full dress nquisition to find out what happened at Pearl Har bor at the start of World War II.
 What in the world could the congressman hope to do about Pearl Harbor now? Pass a law that would prevent Dec. ', 1941, from ever happening? Mo- this was more like the paying of political hounds the trail of some poor goat to skin and sacrifice the altars of history in atonement for the con- gressmens own past shortcomings.
 The committee got away to characteristicaly befuddled start fuse had blown in the big Sen ate office building majority caucus room where the hearings being held The only illumination came from two spotlights set up by the newsYeel men. While congressman are used to being dazzed by their own brilliance, they positively blinded by the movie spots. Chairman Barkley ordered them doused.
 In the echoing, cathedral dimness, Committee Counsel William D. Mitchell and began to intro duce the exhibits of translatons from Japanese secret code diplomatic and military messages. He couldn't be heard, told to sit down and get his mouth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
PALESTINE AND EMPIRE
(New Britain Herald

In Palestine, where there has been shooting and martial law, the situa- ton has improved but for how long? The failure of Jews to obtain more liberal interpretation of their rights by the British government, which Is operating Palestine under a man. date from the defunct League of Nations. has been a tremendous disappointment and has stimulated the rioting in Tel-Aviv. The Arabs, whom it might be thought were favored by British reluctance to open Palestine to more Jewish im- migration or as national home, also are not pleased with every thing and to vent their spleen they staged riots in Tripolitania and prior to that in Cairo. Naturally one might ask how is the matter ever to be settled with satisfaction to all?
 The outlook is that 1t cannot be done in view of the necessities of empire. The British like to stand in well with the farflung Arabs or Mos- lems and won't risk trouble along the great lifeline to India. Thus Jewish rights and humanitarianism are trampled under foot, likewise previous promises. The evils of im- perialism and empire-maintenance is made manifest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
By Bill Cunningham

materials the Netherlands Indies.
 Britain has tremendous stake. Both are there by right of conquest Both knocked loose by the Japs. The natives have always hated them for theirs has been rule by the riding crop Java, one of the densely populated sections of the globe with 40 million inhabitants mostly Moslem, is fight ing their return with Nationalist movement. The British say it's Japanese-inspired and mostly Jap anese- armed. They've even arrested some Japanese generals. lot of Japs are still there. They were by-passed in campaign of the Pacific, and they probably do have arms they can sneak to the patriots but trying to give 1t Japanese angie Is blind
 This Nationalist movement is far older than the war. Its leader is man named Soekarno. who calls himself that and no He agitating for freedom for his people long before the started. agitating He's wired Prime Minister Attlee, President Truman and even Marshal Stalin for help Nobody's done anything and the British are shoot ing.
 clear claim to the title of George Washington Of his people but for the fact that he let the Japs make a puppet governor of him when they had the place. Thus his particular squawl for freedom doesn't ring entirely true, because he traffcked with the Japs for personal power But the cause stands up
 What do we do? Continue to keep our backs turned, and figure 1t none of our business?
 What should do if we meant what we said while fought and If we've got guts enough to take the initiative for once is to demand that all our lend-lease supplies be turned back to us at once. We should then insist that the fighting be stopped. and that the entire district be nternationalzed With it's tremendous developed and used to dis charge some of the enormous obligations of war. Then, as long range program, target date snoula be set and the people meanwhile prepared for the test of self determination, and self rule if they can qualify.
 Our precedent9 A perfect one-our own Philip pine Islands.
 Our justfication2 The fact that neither the Brit, ish nor the Dutch would be in position to shoot ana bomb their former holdings but for the American blood that reddened that long trail all the way from Australia to Okinawa. ~-4s.-$
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

ter The Four Freedoms, President Trumans l2 points ct al-and after all the solemn amens we've responded to the lofty sentiments expressed by every sonorous spokesman our side Of the recent fight ignore the fact that the British the Dutch and the French, using the weapons We loaned them to protect their lives for the conquest of territory and the murder of poorly armed people, whose only crime is that they want to be free?
 We were fighting to stop all aggression. Time and again told that fight of subja- gation anywhere, was fight; that nobodys free dom was safe unless all freedom was safe can quote you these official professions of faith from every authority from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the patriotic posters hung in war plant wash rooms
 Hearken for example. to Winston Churchill when Britain declared war: C. . . This is no war of domination imperial aggrandiZement or material gain; no war to shut any country out of it's sunlight and means of progress. It Is war, viewed in its inherent quality to establish, impregnable rocks the rights of the individual and it is war to esab- fish and revive the stature of man"
 Yet in Socrabaja, Java British guns are shelling the city British planes straffing, which means killing indiscriminately, and the entire battle is be- ing waged by the British in behalf of the Dutch and in conjunction with the Dutch, armed with our lend- lease weapons. The prize is not humanity freedom, not to establish on impregnable rocks the right of the individual" The prize at best is strictly punder exploitation control of the coffee tobacco, kapok, sugar. oil coal, copper, tin iron gold and diamonds of one of the worlds richest repositories In raw
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

At the White House, at Il a. m. President Truman-with an able assist from Prime Ministers Attlee and Mackenzie King. Sem ators Connally and Vandenberg, Congressmen Bloom and Eaton, Dr. Vannevar Bush and Admr. Leahy-issued the important U.S.- British Canadian statement on atomic energy and atomic bomb control policy The obvious aim was to point the way toward no more Pearl Harbors-toward dis armament and the prevention Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

man-Attlee plan to snare the atom secret if other nations re- ciprocated would have been con- sidered revolutionary. Now some Senators and many scientists think it doesn't go quite far enough.
 Chief reason for the rapid change in public opinion has been the education campaign staged by the scientists and some senators.
 For instance, scientist Milton Burton of Oak Ridge Tenn. went tO caa Ca,, C1aa,, G,,1-,,at x1f Co,tfl,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

Y gets SIlfI enough III Jne HECK to duck. We, who ought to be prime custodians of the bird are rattling our pocket change and looking the other way.
 We're standing around, in- stead of taking stand. and in the meanwhile a too reasonable facsimile of war has roared loose again.
 How can the United States of America, after all we've said we were fighting for, after all we've mt on record-the Atlantic Char
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
I5 Years Ago

The driver of a shoe truck re- ported to police that the door Of his vehicle had opened and spilled sey- eral dozen shoes on the road. He said that he returned to where the shoes had been dropped after he discovered their loss, and found that none of the shoes were there But" he said, they won't do the finders any good because all shoes are shipped, not in pairs, but all for one foot"
 A west end child, l3 years old, was seriously injured by car when he ran across Watertown avenue to catch a football.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
Waterbury Of The Past
25 Years Ago

A six year old boy discovered what he thought was a harmless lizard, and ended up in the hospital being treated for blood poisoning caused when the unidentified crea- ture bit him.
 A missing Woodbury COW was dis covered relaxed and happy in the rear Of a neighbors car-munch- ing the upholstery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
|Merry-GO Round

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o-Public and Congress sional opinion regarding the atom bomb has moved so rapidly that the Truman-Attlee statement just barely caught up with 1t few weeks ago. the Tru-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
OUTGOING THE HELICOPTER
(Hartford Courant)

(Hartford CouanD z Before you make a down payment on that helicopter for your family joy-riding, give a thought or two to another potential means of post war transportation, dubbed by its inventor the Roadplane. An auto-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
U. s. in Far East

The dove Of peace is not. as yet pin feathered squab and it's not impossible the way matters are running at the moment that some ra- pacous buzzard won't snip its Wobby neck off before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
CAFE NEWS

I notice this Tn going To any small cafe, When you are prone to be alone, To hide yourself away. To eat and read your paper And hurry to your job, You find it teens with pals, 1t
 seems; They're on you in a mob. notice this: In going ITO any small cafe In hopes you'll find the friendly
 kind To pass the time of day, You do discover absent Acquaintances and friends; In every nook, where'er you look, The alien elbow bends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
Atoms and Pearl HarbOr By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-The page telling what happened in Washington on Thursday Nov. IS, should be permanently dog-eared because its record is SO utterly fante ctic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20
5 Years Ago

The Holiday spirit was getting an early start with three local charac- ters who told police, when arrested on an intoxication charge, that they were just getting in the mood for the hazards of Christmas shopping
 A grocery clerk. delivering articles to a Cooke Street home. discovered a stolen bicycle that he had missed several weeks previously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

Some day. somewhere, we hope to see this public notice: After this date I will not be responsible for debts contracted by anyone except myself. In fact, I will not even be responsible for them.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

Three train robbers stole fifteen cases of whiskey from a sOuthbound freight just south of Washington, D. C., one day last week. There are many mysterious aspects to the case, not the least of which is how the fifteen cases ever got beyond Wash ingtOn,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-20

Eighty eight Germ a n atomic bomb experts have arrived in New York. If they had been as expert as our experts, there probably wouldn't have been any New York for them to arrive in.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-25
Gilbert House to
Have Active Week

Members OF the Townsend Club
Auxiliary. under the leadership OF
Mrs. Mary Johnson will meet at
Gilbert House for luncheon and an
afternoon OF sports today At $50
they will be joined by the male
members OF the club for refresh
ments and social entertainment.
The Crescent Ladies Aid Society
will meet with the girls OF the Jun
Tor and Teen Canteen at . o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, 10 make sur
gical dressings. Girls between u
and IS may attend. Women in
charge are. Miss Marjery Hurd
Mrs. Ada Holmes, Mrs. Charles
Hartman, and Mrs. Charles Har.
den.
At 1880 Thursday, the Junior
Canteen Progressive Party under
the leadership OF Miss jeanne
Whitmon will enjoy an evening OF
outdoor activities, with dancing
and refreshments later in the eve
ming.
Friday at soc, Teen canteen
boys and girls will meet for outdoor
activities and dancing. Miss June
Tackman will be in charge
The Junior Canteen will hold
their weekly meeting in Gilbert
House. Saturday morning at 1000.
The Mexican young men will meet
with the Gilbert House hostesses
Saturday evening at $50 sor a So
cial evening.