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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
2 Japs' New Propaganda Tack

An interesting article from Tokyo newspaper, broadcast by the Domei news agency, calls upon the Japanese people to emulate the unity of the Rus sian people behind Marshal Stalin's leadership in order to defeat the Anglo American capitalist aggression" It also says, with apparent frankness, that "the crisis now confronting Japan seems hopelessly serious" and that it is inn possible ito repulse the enemy outside Japan if there is no perfect unity within Japan" It would be we'll to digest this confession of Japans troubles with a heavy seasoning of salt. No one doubts that the enemys position is "hopelessly serious" But the Tokyo papers doleful sentiments are almost too candid to be swallowed whole. It is more reasonable to assume that the article is not-too- subtle attempt to relax the full force of our drive against Japan and to flatter Russia in the hope of keeping her out of the war.
 Certainly this invocation of Russia's example, while reasonable is an abrupt tack from the usual course of Japanese propaganda with it's heavy accent on in- tense nationalism and racial superiority. By using the word capitalist in the statement about Anglo-American aggres- sion, the articles author seems to be making naive bid for Russian friend
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

cherishing the memory of a boy who went away in health and strength and concerning whom noth- ing more will ever be known but the brief message received from the War Department.
 It makes us ask ourselves with greater solenlnity than ever before whether We cannot stop this fearful succession of events which, genera tion after generation, leads to such immeasurable sorrow. It is hard to find the key log which causes the jam of international relations. It may lie in differences of cultural levels, national aversions, or enmity arising out of suppressed economic development. We can be sure that dreadful amount of misunder- standing conplicates the situation.
 Worst of all we have not read and pondered out of the Word of God the plain statement that God has made one blood of all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Ignorance in Schools

grammar school student writing a composition on the difference between public utility is something usually owned public utilit ys something usually owned and run by the government that is for all the peoples convenience, as street cars, busses, post office, electric company, etc. All differerent classes of people are allowed to use them. Public ownership is when the whole city or county has charge of the utilities but private owner ship is when person controls it and gets rich on something the whole population needs. The money in public ownership goes to the city while in private just chosen fe Wget rich" The author of this essay received high mark.
 Apparently many parents and teachers are disgracefully uninformed on the simplest fundamentals of American life. Public utilities in the United States are not usually owned by government. Over 80 per cent of our electric industry is privately owned-but instead of chosen few who reap tremendous profits at the expense of the people, it is owned by hundreds of thousands of persons and institutions, such as life insurance com pdlheS, WHO nave lnVeSIeo llulVluudl SoV ings in electric company stocks and bonds to the tune of twelve or fifteen bil lion dollars These billions have given the United States the cheapest and best electric service in the world. AS far as profits are concerned, that is laugh! When the tax collector and regulatory authorities get through with the average private electric company, the so-called chosen few" are left wondering whether the reward is worth the effort-they hold the sack while government gets the gravy in taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

ship by marking back to favorite com munistic catch-phrase in the days of the Russo-German non-aggression pact. It is natural that the Japs should recall the splendid defenseS of Moscow and Stalin- grad to gain what comfort and inspira- tion they can in their growing crisis. But it is no slur on the Russians exemplary courage and unity to say that these quail ities alone did not bring Russian victory. Unfortunately for the Japs, they have no allies to supplement their curtailed in- dustrial production, to open a distant, diversionary campaign, to bomb their eneny'S factories and transportation and personnel, heavily and repeatedly.
 Russia, while justly proud of the skill of her commanders and of her soldiers magnificent fighting spirit, has not heSi- tated to give America and Britain the credit they deserve in helping the Red Army to turn back the enemy from their gates. The intelligent Japanese surely can see that their position today is not comparable to the Russian position in the winter of 1942-43. Their islands are not the vast expanse of the Soviet Union. Their major raw materials must be sea- borne, and the waters that they control are rapidly receding toward the home islands shores. Russia's decision to enter or stay out of the Pacific war surely will not be affected by Japan's unctuous flattery. And whatever that decision the Japanese government knows that it faces nothing but total capitula- ton, with or without total destruction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Fatal Loquacity

1t occurred to us, during the dying days of the Third Reich, that escape for many of the Nazi big shots might not have been too difficult. Not by the elab- crate hideaWays or submarines to Japan, either. What, we though, could be simpler than adding or subtracting whiskers and glasses, dying or shaving hair, putting on a Wehrmacht private's uniform or non- descript clothes, and joining the anony- nous thousands of bedraggled, confused, homeless soldiers and civilians?
 Well, Heinrich Himnler tried it. He almost got away with it, too. The fact that he didn't can be credited partly to British Army Intelligence and general alertness. But another reason was that torious Nazi failing: he couldn't keep his mouth shut.
 The fact that he was perhaps the most hated man in the world seems not to have occurred to him. He was a big shot, even though his bigness may lie ln the fact that he seems destined to be mentioned from now on in the same breath with Attila the Hun. So he had to end his masquerade and proclaim to his cap- tors, "I am Heinrich Himmler"-as if 1t were actually something to be proud of.
 All the conflicting stories of Adolf Hit lers death by some of his associates lend credibility to the notion that he is still aive Perhaps he made an escape similar to Himmler's. But if he is still alive, there will come day when he cannot longer resist the temptation to shoot off his mouth. And then he'll be doomed, wherever he is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
A Thought for Today
These Are the Dead

We come to another Memorial Day with casualty statistics that appall when we glance over the figures. This country has mourned their dead through the years. Families have accepted their losses with great courage and Christian tortitude The bloody battles of our own Civil War took away lives and we have arrived at day when there are few sur Wvors of that war in this land of ours.
 This year of 1945 came as in previous years since World War 1 started, those left to mourn at home are still looking at the figures. Hardly a family has escaped bereavement. Just few short weeks ago the fighting ceased in Europe and now we are confidently hoping that the war with Japan will soon end. We have been living in the midst of war that has never been equalled in all his tory. In the worlds greatest war for civilizations greatest stake this country has already paid the greatest price Ill history Today we must count the price as we pause in the midst of war to honor those who had paid it to bring victory near, the more than 3O0,000 dead and missing of our million casualties.
 How best can be honor them? That question was given an incomparable an- swer by President of the United States and Commander-in-C n-Chef of the Army and Navy who paused, nearly 82 years ago, in the midst of another war to pay honor to those who had fallen in battle:
 "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died ln vain. ."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

though Mrs. Anderson does not entirely agree with him. Under cross examination, he admits that he has paid up to s400 for volume or set. But from Mrs. Anderson it is learned that with the help of his secretary, Rose Koenig, she has kept him to a weekly allowance for books. Dur ing the past few months, how ever, Anderson has been SO busy investigating the food shortage that he has not used up his book allowance.
 SAN FRANCISCO M. P.'S
 Security precautions have now been frightened 100 per cent at the San Francisco Conference. Military police, formerly lax, are now under orders to admit no one without scrutinizing passes.
 The other day, Secretary of State Stettinius was meeting with the powerful Steering Committee and led British Ambassador Lord Halifax and Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong from one conference room to another on a different floor. At the door of the elevator, the three delegates were stopped by two M. P's.
 Where are your passes?" they asked.
 Why I don't believe have mine," answered Stettinius, funb- ling in his pocket. Soong and Halifax were equally embarrassed. So were other members of the Steering Committee, as the soldiers barred the way to the elevator. Finally, Stettinius spotted youth ful Conference Secretary Alger Hiss.
 Hey, Alger,' called the Sec retary of State, ''cOme over here and help us get in"
 Hiss came to the rescue, ar ranged for his chief and other top United Nations colleagues to pro ceed. The delegates agreed, how ever that the Military Police were right, appreciated their efficiency.
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

As Memorial Day dawns we find few of the Grand Army of the Republic left. Waterbury has none, and with the death in New England of several during 1914 and early 1945 there are few left in this section; you might say few left all over this broad land of ours. There is one member left in New York City, He is Henry Washing Speight, age 99 years, and he lives at present on Staten Island. It is said he has good health and occas- ionally goes fishing, but he does not feel equal to taking part in the parade tomor- row, so New York will be without rep resentative from the Civil war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Views Of The Press
GEORGIA PENAL REFORM
(Hartford Courant)

(HartfOrd COurant)
 The tSate of Georgia's penal sys- tenn for many years was so bad that many Governors Of other states re- fused to honor her extradition pa pers becaues they did not want to send man back to wear leg irons and to suffer floggings. But under the leadership of Governor Ellis Arnall Georgia has at last cleaned house. Nearly two years ago a new penal statute was passed, and many of the reforms outlined therein have now been put into effect.
 The chain gang has now been abolished and all forms of shackles, manacles, leg irons and chains are barred. The whipping of inmates is now unlawful, and violators are subject to punishment. Gone too is the old familiar striped convict un- form, which has now been replaced by olive drab cloth. Thee, and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

EdSOn three gOOQ WeSC- erners just named to the cabinet, the West is getting a political lift such as it has not had in years.
 Already requests are being made to have President Truman put in a few political appearances on the side
 Older heads in the Democratic or ganization are counseling against too much of a purely political party celebration. They realize that Tru- man is still in his political honey moon and too much partisan whoopee might be bad thing. Ar effort will be made to have Truman see many of the party stalwarts or his western trip, but do it in such given that the President is playing politics. There will be plenty o1 time for that later on, when the honeymoon is over.
 SEE BRIGHT FUTURE
 But there seems to be no inclina- ton to feel that the future of the Democratic Party died with Roose- velt In fact, just the opposite.
 While Roosevelt kept number of diverse West Coast elements inside the Democratic Party, there was al- ways lot of factional jealousy. And it was not at all uncommon to have various individuals going around the state party leaders to take issues direct to the White House.
 All his era of short circuiting state political machines by direct pipelines to l,600 Pennsylvania Ave- nue, now seems to be ended. The amateurs, the crackpots. the labor politicians now appear to be in the position of having to work through the party machine or pass out of ex- iStence
 Henry Wallace and the extreme left-Wingers are considered as good as dead by the regular Democrats. If this is true. only place the New Dealers can go is into a third party, for the regulars hope that the day is over when some irregular could lead the state Democrats into new and untried paths. In 1882 it was William G. McAdoo who did this. In 1886 it was Upton Sinclair. In 1888 it was John Olson, and it was 1922 before the regulars began to get things under control. Even though Republican Earl Warren was elected governor that year, Demo- crats now count heavily on the tra- dition that no California governor has ever been elected for a second term, with the exception of Hi Johnson
 DENIS HAVE 17-6 EDGE
 Nationally, the California Demo- cratS gained five congressional seats in 1914 to give them a representa- tion of r, to six Republicans.
 Washington representation is, of course, important, but what the California Democrats would partic- ularly like to see is recognition of their own machine here in the West. There are over 150 federal agencies with state or regional headquarters here in San Francisco. Key person. nel in many of these agencies don t even know each other.
 If western Democrats could get a deputy Judge Vinson established here to serve as what State Attor- ney General Bob Kinney calls "a great oilcloth shoulder" on which they could all cry whenever prob- lems of particular interest to the West come up, it would make a great many people happy.
 President TrlIman'S maccooa to Congress, requesting broad power for a business manager" type of national administration may pro- vide some hope for what is obviously one of the major headaches of the West - lack of federal and state cooperation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
EATING CAKE
Boston Post)

tBOStOn POSJ)
 An ironic aspect of the current food crisis is that certain luXuries are available while so many of the necessaries of life are impossible to find. A person can feast on straw berry shortcake but he can't have meat. He can have broiled lobster with blue berries for dessert, but he can't have boiled egg. It recalls the French Revolution when Marie Antoinette, on being told the people had no bread, said: Why don't they eat cake" Many Americans to- day are eating cake" but they'd rather have an egg-or hamburg CT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
Selected Poem

CHOICE (Oma Olna Martin in The Christian Sciense Moni-
 tor) million roads or more upon the earth, And am free to choose my own! I've seen Strong hills lift roads into the yellow sun, And bed them on the moon at night; seen green, Broad plains thread roads through leagues of space and stitch Them fast to friendly towns
 The sea will take road and twist its course through storm flashed trees, And grasses where the curews nest, and make It bvouac on cold, gray rocks-an yet The road that wanders by the lonely sea Is flesh and bone with every ship that sails The wide, blue main and that's the road for me.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

States move for immediate en- actment of the regional security compromise and ignore the Rus sian response.
 We've waited four days" vandenberg fumed, and that's long enough"
 It fell to Assistant Secretary Jimmy Dunn, himself no Russian lover, to put Vandenberg in his place.
 -Four days is not enough Dunn said. You may not know it, senator, but diplomatic com munications are very slow. It takes us 72 hours to get a com munication to our Embassy in Moscow and back by cable. what with coding and decOding. So you can see, the Russians just haven't had enough time.'
 My godoness." replied Vanden- berg, T had no idea it takes so long. In that case we must give them more time. Why in hell didn't someone tell me about that?"
 NOTE: In the end Moscow re- piled with a formula permitting regional security operations which was acceptable to the Confer ence.
 NEW SECRETARY
 OF AGRICULTURE
 Tall, curly-headed Clint An- Gerson, newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture, nearly left Wash ington for good last year. Deter mined not to spend more than two terms in Congress, Anderson sold his Washington home, shipped his saddle horses back to his New Mexico ranch and told friends he would not run again for Con- gress.
 It was when he returned to New Mexico a few weeks later that he was finally convinced he should stick it out for one more term. Anderson was the most popular Democrat in the State, and
  Republican money pouring into New Mexico might turn it against Roosevelt.
 This argument was potent one, for Anderson has long been a devoted admirer of the late President. Even before coming to Congress, he spent his spare time collecting all sorts of literature about Roosevelt In his office to- day are two large book shelves containing books and articles on FRD. His collection of Roosevelt documents at home is one of the most complete in any private li- brary.
 "I never went in for special printings and private editions" says the new Secretary of Agriculture. What motivated me in the case of Roosevelt is that 50 years from now he will be as important in our history as Lincoln or our other great leaders possibly more so. simply felt that a library of what is written about Roosevelt
 by his contemporaries will be of great value generation hence. Just think how interest ing library on Lincoln would be today
 Book collecting is not new to Anderson. Ten years ago, when he was travelling New Mexico as Assistant WPA Administrator, he began to haunt bookstores, brows- ing through old volumes on cat tle-raising, banitry in the Wild West, gold strikes, etc. As a re- suit, the new Secretary of Agri- culture now has a library of over 5000 volumes, generally consid- cred one of the finest private collections on the history of the West.
 One further collection is in Anderson's office-a set of official records on wartime budget hear ings which Anderson keeps be- cause he feel the details of how our Government spent its billions in this war will be of value for future study.
 NOTE-C Congressman Anderson claims that he. doesn't go in for expensive collectors books
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

U n i t e d Nations Conference gives the whole West a chance for better a ca u a i Il tance. Truman made 8 vi c e presidential campaign speech here last year, but it attracted little attention a n d so did he. But as President, W i t h both the war and the peace efforts centered on the Pacific a n d with . -A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
I'll Run Him Down

I thought that Ol Doc Brady would like to know that another horse buggy doctor here in advises rheumatics not to take cal cium sa he says it gathers in the joints and causes arthritis. IF. R. G. Answer-I have only the one horse. Otherwise I'd drive over there and tear his hind wheel of. Sound him out an old folks bones, will you, please, and let me know how he explains their increased fragility. I'm afraid the old boy has neglected to keep his library dusted these past few years. Send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for pamphlet Calcium and RhelmatiZ."
 Varicose Ulcers
 Happy to say l have had flne results from the sponge and borlc acid treatment for my varicose ulcer. had about concluded there was no cure. CMrs. H. Al
 Answer-On the contrary, vari- cose ulcer is always curab le if properly treated. Trouble is that so many sufferers fool with this, that and the other nostrums which pur- ports to 'heal,P and do not even seek medical treatment. Ser d stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, and ask for (do not send a clipping the pamphlet "Varicose Veins and Varicose Ulcers"
 BOwlegs
 Can you tell me how to have bow legs straightened? (K. O.
 Answer-Prevent the deformity by giving infant or child enough vitamin D daily Instructions in The Brady Baby Book, for which send ten cents and stamped self ad- dressed envelope. Tension splints sometimes correct lowing of legs in young children. Rowing in persons over years of age can be correct cd only by operation.
 Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

Graduation days are with us. Some have already finished their prescribed courses; others will in the days to come. Right now most graduates admit they know about everything. Ten years from now they will admit that they did not know so much as they thought they knew; and twenty to twenty-five years from now they will admit-some of them that they knew nothing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

passed. Now that the war in Europe is over it hardly S e e m s possible that the holocaust has Subsided and that the roar of guns will no longer be heard throughout the l e n g t h and
 breadth of Europe. In millions of hOr,ee roeor,1o arc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

And with June approaching, weddings and graduationS notwithstanding, don't forget we are committed to the Seventh War Loan Drive which must go over the top with your help, and yours and yours.