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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

truth regarding the Navys discharge system:
 We want the young men in the Navy. That's why age was included The younger ones are the ones the Navy of the future has to be built around"
 This is the up-on to the fact that young man can have been in the Navy four long yearssince be- fore Pearl Harbor-and if he isn't married he still may not be able to get out.
 Since then, Admr. Jacobs has been relieved as chief of personnel not because of this, but because he had finished his tour of duty Codr of the Fleet Admr. Ernie King baked like steer at having him go however, and submitted three-page memo to Secy Forrestal giving reasons why Admr. Lou Dem feld assistant to Jacobs not the man to take his place Forrestal called Denfeld in, showed him the memo
 "what have you got to say about that9" Forrestal asked with a grin.
 "Nothng," replied Admr Denseld
 Whereupon Forrestal immediately appointed Dem field chief of the Bureau of Personnel This, incl dentally not the first time Forresta has overriden
 Admr Denfeld, however, will have Q hard time changing the Navys discharge system materially as long as Admr. Kings and other Annapolis policies prevail
 Inside fact is that the Japanese surrender caught Admr. King with four different discharge plans in his desk. He had done nothing about any of them One plan would not have discharged any man from the Navy until six months after v-J Day. It was rejected by Secy. Forresta completely inadequate
 Tn Kings much-balyhooed second report, US Navy at War;" he went on record very clearly regard ing discharges.
 "Tor more than @ year." he said on Page A. i've have worked demobiliZation methods and have completed tentative plans We are considering priority for severance and intend when the time comes to give due consideration to length of service, service outside the continental limits, combat service and parenthood."
 ently King forgot all about 1t. For demobEization plans were still e tumble of ndecision on v-J Day. However, the men who fought in the Pacific have not that his promises especially regarding combat sefV" ice and parenthood have not been kept.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
What Of The COP. Leadership

The failure of the Waterbury Republican Party to as yet mayoray and other city candidates for the coming election is indicative of the ineptitude desuetude and lack of cohesiveness of its leadership
 It shouts of lack of responsibility to the community in general in its obviously secondary consideration of demo cratic process the latter is promised upon healthy two party system It indicates with certain accusation those leaders who have apparently pocrasnated to the extent they have made jest of their own party.
 We can't recall local major political party enter ing city convention just few weeks before an election and failing to close that session without full slate of city candidates If healthy intraparty differences had been present at the COP convention of Tuesday night such failure would have been understandable 1t the faith full party workers of the COP again showed patient trust in their leadership and again found that trust to be disre garded.
 The open frankly desperate search, by Republican leaders for candidates Is indicative of or two things They admit of the mpossbity to acquire any suitable candidates for city posts in city of 100000 people who wish to risk opposition to the well proporoned and apty proven efficient Democratic administration Perhaps an obque admission also Is the fact that these leaders them selves fear to tackle this administration.
 It is unhealthy to have disprited attitude among the influential individuals of one political party which re- suits in affairs like these have been witnessing Nothing is healthy for community than aggressive political parties contestng for the majority vote.
 Something constructive for the sake of the commun- ty should be effected within the Republican Party!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Views Of The Press

city's complex emotions concerning the defenders of the Philippines could at least find expression in welcoming their last commander.
 It is the highest praise to say that General Wainwright was emin- ently worthy of standing for his gallant army. The high concep- ton of duty which kept them fight ing to the end was exemplified by the generals fears that, having done his incredible best, he would be cen- sured by his countrymen for not achieving the impossible. Such Q spirit must be hailed with pride by oil the generals fellow countrymen, but also with humility and c reso- lute determination to maintain 0 nation worthy of such self-effacing service and loyalty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Wounded CTS Story By Biu Cunningham

his head and his left eye was burned out-they fig ured he couldn't go far, but they had no conception of how far he was going For he managed to contact the underground and was feeding them much in' formation.
 '"There was an active underground in Budapest" he reported. Tt was sfot as well organized as m France but 1t was separated into different groups that specialized in different things one Of these or course was sabotage. Another was helping U. B. ar. men escape Another forged visas and papers ana worked Germans, trying to persuade them to deser' and join the Russians
 T worked with the sabotage group, and did most of 1t inside the hospital They let me wander around and finally was sort of orderly, helping the doc- tors and nurses running errandS and such Ins gave chance to talk with the wounded or SICK German soldiers brought in. Many of them were only kias. Some of the rest were plenty dumb. From tnem Dy being pretty careful, was able to get information the underground saboteurs could use. It was mostly little stuff maybe but 1t all helped. That's about the way 1t went, but you are asking me anout Hus sians and 1t in the POW section of this hospital that first saw Russians.
 Tt gradually began to fill Up with lot or our men being shot down or forced down on missions from Italy, and with Russians, similarly nrougnt down or brought back from the front over III % Inat direction There just two Russian ters at iSt' but finally there 70 to 50 Russians in the place We spoke the common tongue of men in misery Ac- tually we conversed in the common tongue or oer- mans.
 Tt was immediately noticeable that they were pretty swell guys They shared everything they had with each other regardless of rank, and Witn us. III fact we all shared with each other we were pEaC tcaly on starvation fare in the hospital but they let us buy jam, and such stuff that on the plack market. Our American officers donated 26 per cent of their pay and split amongst Us enlisted men In order to help us out. But the Germans didn't pay the Russian enlisted men anything, and the Russian officers took all their pay, pooled It, and spit v share and share alike with every Russian Tn the place.
 By the time the middle of November came, the Reds were moving steadily toward Budapest and tne Germans decided to move the hospital They took everybody but me, figuring evidently that my Wpe| of treatment was too much trouble to bother wltn I continued to live in the hospital The HungaTians| Stil used it. and they didn't bother much with me- With more freedom, really worked with the under ground, and the underground at this point really worked. We set Up radio station, for instance and flashed German locations to the Russians. We prcpa1 gandized the Germans in German. We did lot Of| things, but we almost starved to death N makes m
 little sick to think of t now, but we actually hadI to kill and eat dogs. ~ era
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
THE WELCOME TO GEN.
 WAINWRIGHT
(New York Herald Tribun,

(NeW York Herald Tribune)
 New York Clty's tumultuous wel- come to General Wainwright was compounded of many clements. The general represented all those men, living and dead, whose desperate stand on Bataan will always be re- rnembersd by Americans. His pres- ence here was c symbol of task accomplished, an atonement in part who took part in the hopeless de- fense of the Philippines endured. some release for the feeling of shamed Illustration with which New Workers, like the rest of the Ameri- can people, watched the end come slowly but inevitabiey on the shores of Manila Bay. The atonement, the release, can never be complete because of those who will not come back from Bataan, from Corregidor, from the prison camps. But the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

 Gushing General Hospital at Birmingham He had never seen Russian, nor even thought much about them, he says, when his B-24 reared the Alps from Italy to bomb Q target in Hungary on the turret gunner. He was an old hand by that time His missions had been many. They were veteran crew, and were considered lucky one
 
 This, however was fated to be the day. F1ack was thick enough to walk on over the target. German fighters wheeled and darted. Their B-24 took ter rife hit and practically exploded into flame Bern hardt wounded in the eg fought through the roaring fire, being burned terribly in the process in effort to Fe5cue the tail gunner To the day of his death, hebear the scar of that heroic effort, but the tail gunner was past need of help when he got there
 Half unconscious from the shock of his burns, he then flung himself from the plane and managed to hold consciousness long enough to pull the rip cord. He doesn't remember too much about what happened on the way down. Evidently his conscious ness came and went but he remembers that 6 Ger man fighter pilot kept diving at him. It seemed as come to the parachute with the belly of his ship. Whether he was shooting, or not, Bernhardt doesn't know. All he knows is that he did shoot he wasn't much of 6 marksman
 of Lake Balaton, this was in Hungary. Wounded, and with his head practically cooked to c crisp he lay blinded and helpless, but the peasants nonethe- less, came running across fields and attacked him with pitchfor3 and sticks. He doesn't remember too much about that. He was too far gone. Neither does he remember too much about how the Germans, or their Hungarian satellites, finally dumped him on Stretcher and carried him to the Royal Hungarian Military Hospital at Budapest
 By November, he found himself strong enough to move around Since he could speak excellent German, the hospital authorities used him as an interpreter and treated him more or less as trtgty Because of his condtion-both ears were burned completely of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
OUR NURSES
(Roston Post

(Boston Post)
 Out of an estimated total Of 242,6 500 active professional nurses In the United States 6 total of l03,S69, or 429 per cent volunteered and were certified for military service That's a record of volunteer service nos other civilian profession can match. .,
 It's a record which reflects itself sharply in the War DepartmentS figures showing that the lives of W per cent of World war II soldiers reaching hospitals have been saved It's record in which these young women and the entire country may well take pride.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

Rural Maine will soon get dia telephones.-NewS
 FIAT NON LUX Tell me not that mournful numbers VIII replace the gay
 Party line that never Slumhers Any time of day.
 What2 Can no one listen into Others joy and pain7 Scientific progress win to ecreey in Maine2
 Will advancement's pressing lahors Finally dethrone
 The intelligence of neighbors, With the dial phone?
 What 0 shame and what c pityl What 0 gag on newsl
 Maine Is saddled with what city People have to uSel
 Black oblivion Is falling On the rural spouse,
 Knowing not when someone's calling Someone else's house.
 General MacArthur believes that 100000 regular troops will be able to carry on the occupation Job ln Jap an. Judging from the way things have gone so far, they could be skinny Wainwright and 1s0,009 WACS.
 According to Washington, 1t will be many months" before motorists get all the tires they need. It's e good thing that the filling station people have rediscovered that there's one located on each corner of car, and are going back to policy of imitation.
 Herbert Hoover is in favor of 0 fiVe-year moratorium on war debts, At least that will be good for the national peace of mind: 1t will give us Q half-decade in which to think someone Is going to pay up, anyway.
 Our state Department has estab- lished an agency ito tell the Ameri- can story abroad" "Wonder howl, It seems there was thls travelling man" sounds In Iranlan.
 Russia Is reported to be asking $500, 0,000,000 in separations from Italy. The question arises as to how far she'll 90 on demands for real damage, when she wants that much for 0 near-nliss.
 A group out in California is await ing for tn, world to end Friday. We refuse to entertain any such silly notion until after the World Series
 There Is Q great and untitled de- lmand for bathtubs in this country. The phenomenon Is even noticeable in families that possess one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

past week or 50, FeceIVeu HS further tribute from a grateful government four socks in the jaw. Only three have been actually delivered, but the fourth punch has been telegraphed ahead and Is now starting It's swing from the floor.
 1. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation cancelled the leases under which Alcoa had been op- erating five government plants.
 2. A Senate Small Business n,.taaaVaa Saalkknn hAaA hU TtAYf1
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
SECOND BEST

New Orleans, (UP)-After futile attempts to crack c safe ct the Karl Hanson Glass co. here, thieves took e1O0 worth of whiskey instead. Police said the thieves succeeded in knocking handles cd the safe, but couldn't break o1 the door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

IIG IGII UIIIVIIB WI5 1VUDOEWEF0I joined them and fought with them. His experience was unique, his personal story one of the great ones of the war. From 1t he can, and gladly does, answer that re- current question, What sort of people are the Russians2" Nobody else in America can answer 1t just his way.
 It is Staff Sgt. Leonard Bern hardt, whose home Is in Boston, but who for two more years will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

Among those sailing for Europe were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor he to visit his home in England she to stop off in France Looks like old times again. and pretty soon our sailing lists will be they before the war which is quite in order to the last gull gorging on whats thrown out the lower portholes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
What Of The Alphabet Bureaus?

Now that the country is faced with outlook for the future many Americans doubtless are wondering how long 1t will be before the government begins dispensing with its many war-born alphabetical agencies.
 Past experience will compel those thinking along this line to recognize that many of the wartime bureaus are likely to be around long time So far many of them concerned they probably will continue until popular demand forces them into oblivion.
 This does not suggest that all war agencies should be tossed upon the scrap heap immediately Doubtless there will be important necessary work for some of them for good many years But 1t is inevitable that every effort will be made proong many if not most of the agences-and the political jobs they represent until long after all real excuse for their existence has ceased
 The most recent evidence to support this prediction was supplied by various agencies created during the de- presson They chung to life with the most desperate tenacity And although the depression was the only excuse for their existence, most of them still were alive and spending vast of money in the midst of the most amazing boom this nation has seen.
 So how long the war agencies likely to continue? Tn most cases 1t will be until the American people make not come through any voluntary liquidation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

n SnlHFG young. TepOTUer TOT the Washington Star, Miriam Ot- tenberg, asked Navy Press Rela- tions for an interview with Jacobs, She was told she could have one if he had no objections. Navy Press Relations promptly phoned Jacobs office that the interview was not to be given, but somehow this message went haywire.
 Miss Gutenberg got the inter- view. It was pip. The admiral really expanded. Among other thinRs. he dronpAd khia niip1ak of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

Going by the season oysters ir-season And good crop In the Long Island Is promised heavy get is reported n the Milford (Conn) Does that mean will he served four instead of three oysters this winter OUT table d1iote ordeIa2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Waterbury Of The Past
25 Years Ago

25 Years Ago Several police and flremen were being accused of ignoring all rules and regulations.
 Local Lithuaaians were holding Q mass meeting in Library Park in protest of the Polish invasion.
 IS Years Ago A motoriSt was crashing into four horses near the silas Bronson Library.
 A local judge was warning, Don't travel lonely roads fl you value life and liberty"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

This is pleasant though sometimes irritating time of year It's hot and it's cold and then it's sometimes rainy and when say rain the deluge type of rain Then there's the question of the moons this the harvest moon? and could this be Indian Summer It could be and is the harvest moon but 1t is not Indian summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

I have now found myself man, brother Amer can, and, as 1t chances, a CT, who can speak with complete authority upon the subject of the Russian oldier Although staff sergeant in the U. 8. Army,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

WASHINGTON, Sept 20-Havng received seven Arny-Navy Els for excellence in producing over 90 per cent of the aluminium used in the war against the Axis. Aluminium Company of America has, in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON Sept. 2O-T1p-off on the Navy's original discharge intention dropped accidentally by retiring Chief of Personnel Admr. Randall Jacobs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
IS Years Ago
s Years Ago

Judge John oaffney showed len. iency in Suspending sentence on young vandalS accused of wrecking parts of elocuni school.
 Of more than 1900 cars inspected at the inspection lane on ThoFnaston avenue, 6e6 failed to pass.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-14
UPTON CLOSE

WHAT does Franklin D.
w Roosevelt want?
That is a question more diff
cult to answer in terms Of Mr..
Roosevelt's nation than II Is
answer for Joseph Stain in
terms Of Mr.. Stalin's country.
But when you answer II in
personal terms ii becomes fairly
simple.
Mr.. Roosevelt wants to be the
top OF the heap.
Viewed in those terms I think
that Mr.. Roosevelt will make
no fight for added territory for
the United States or for any
particular commercial opportuni-
ties that will increase the pros
perity Of the United States.
In fact he may agree to give
away a great deal more of the
wealth of the United States
than has already been disbursed
throughout the world provided
that in this giving away of the
wealth of his nation he keeps
himself on the top of the heap.
Mr.. Churchill's aim in the
simplest possible words Is ITO
save the empire"
That implies, of course, the
saving of the social and econo-
mic class TO which Mr.. Churchill
belongs, because that class lives
off of the empire and would
perish in short order IL the Brit
ish empire were lost.
With Joe Stain holding all
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-14

That is a total negation of
the American political system;
1t is clearly unconstitutional,
violating at least two amend
mentS; il rejects the concept Of
equality Of opportunity. 1t sets
aside a caste Of rulers.
In a country like ours, COL
leges and universities should
have only one test for admis-
sions, namely, scholarship.
The man who passes highest
should have the first oppor-
tunity to enter.
The university in a civilized
society exists only for scholar
ship and when it has any other
purpose, it degenerates either
into a political or social agency
and becomes worthless.
American entrance admissions
to most colleges and univer-
sites, II would seem to me,
need tightening up, but along
the lines Of increased scholar
ship not racial or geographical
imbalance.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-14
THESE nAVS BY George E.
II ASH mn - Sokolsky

IT WOULD seem that while
we are destroying the Nazi,
we are absorbing in many direc-
tons the poisonous Nazi goddess
philosophy Of the inequality of
man, of an elite and the COM
mon man, Of racial superiorities
and inferiorities.
The Hitlerian concept Of
society may not die with mill
tary defeat; certainly the report
Of DR.. Harlan II. Horner to the
American Dental Associations
council on dental education
clearly shows the influence Of
the main stream Of the Nazi
conception of the role Of the
university in the state.
This report advocated that
a determined effort should be
made TO counteract the trend
toward marked racial and geo.
graphical imbalance" among the
nations dental schools.
II is curious that the word
geographical should be used,
for are Californians aliens in
New York, or Iowans aliens in
California?
TVIIS country differed from
Il all nations of Europe for
fully 800 years in this one
respect, namely. that here alone
was the ideal of equality of
opportunity not only preached
but practiced..
We have succeeded over the
centuries in reducing racialism
to a minimum and in permitting
the freest exercise of individual
pursuit Of the benefits of
equality of opportunity.
That Is the American way Of
life.
We went even further.
We granted full citizenship to
aliens and in a short single
generation, through a public
school system open to all chill
dren irrespective OF origin, new
Americans were reared who
could not be distinguished too
readily by objective tests from
the children Of older Americans.
In fact. in this country, racial
ism proved itself to be a fraud
not only by rule-of-thumb OBJ
servations but by the most
astute and competent anthro-
biological tests.
We produced an American
type.
Nevertheless, because of the
energy Of Nazi propaganda and
the sense Of Importance which
satisfies the egocentric, some
men devote themselves TO the
advocacy Of racial superiority.
POLITICALLY, however, the
Il argument is clear. DR.. Hor-
ner's concept Of the role of the
university means that Ameri-
cans are to be divided. as the
Germans are under Hitler, into
an elite element and secondary
citizens; that the secondary
citizens are TO be permitted
only such benefits as the elite
choose to tolerate.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-14
One Word Led to Another
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer =

Ny state used to collect S50,0000O0 per year from
motorists and always wondered where that gravy went
Now wonder where the motorists went.
Manhattan, the city of broken hearts and dented
tenders contributed most Of the compulsory donations
Way back in 1886 said that lot of plunder just for
the privilege Of sticking your left hand out in the rain
l claimed most Of the squeeze spent for painting
detour arrows and other quaint tribal insignia way
side totem poles.
However, there still some determined motorists
driving mostly bootlegged haltoss and wll-power.
And there still traffic cops who will arrest you
just to keep in practice.
No matter where you go, you are fairly certain of
motorcycle escort from the starting gun TO the bell lap
They will cat-and-mouse you to the state line and
then turn you to the cops the border If
those lads nail you will be from aforethought than
from malice
And when they hand you the cold mustard plaster
the rates of exchange will be slightly different Just last
week Massachusetts cop fined me two red points for
passing COW the wrong side.
He has to go IL more before he gets pound Of
butter.