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The sub., 1945-08-23

Because he had written to me couple of months ago and asked me to give him a break. He was always good man with horses so l sent for him to come along out here."
 No one could find fault with that" said Murphy. He only stayed with you a couple of weeks. Did he tell you he was leaving?"
 .'%Yes, he and another fellow by the name of King said they wanted to start out prospecting for gold. Whatever they did after they left here is none of my bus mess and I don't care to hear any more about them.'
 Suppose we let 1t go at that, " Murphy said. If anything comes up in the future we will look you up"
 "AI right" Jack replied, "but come by the road the next time you come looking for me- The partners mounted their horses and started to leave just as Byron Edwards drove up leading a well loaded pack horse.
 Let's have a word with him. Glancing at Jack he said, Do you mind?"
 Why should. I keep a couple of horses for him? That Is the only business he has with me"
 Byron raised his hand to them as he rode up to where they were.
 "I had not expected to find you boys up here," he said, in a very friendly manner. But he was quick to see that there was not too good a feeling between the partners and Jack. A thought darkened his eyes. Were you looking for mel" he asked.
 No, we were just having Jack answer a few questions. He in- forms Us that he keeps a couple of horses for you," Murphy said.
 "Yes, this is the most conven- tent place I can find" Byron turned to Jack and asked if he would have one of his men throw a pack on the sorrel." I got a very late start today and would like to. be on my way as soon as possible. I brought out your mail. There was only the papers"
 If yesterdays papers were just getting here how could Jack have read in the paper about Halla get ting bumped off? Jack was in so much of a hurry to get the papers out of sight that he dropped one on the ground. Before he could pick it up the partners saw in large print across the top of the page George Halla, the Old Opal Hunter, Murdered"
 The two partners kept straight face. Jack took a quick glance at them when he picked up the pa per.
 He turned away toward the cor ral and called back to Byron that he would have one of the men get the sorrel ready for him.
 Water is my big problem" Bly, ron said to the Nertners, unaware of the paper incident T carry a keg on the pack saddle to help out. I would like to have you boys ride out to my camp and look it over and see what I have found out there"
 (TO he continued)
The sub., 1945-08-23
A. F. of L. TO AID VETERANS
Executiue Council Demands Fair Break for Seruice Men

Every Central Council Urged to Help; Assistance to Supplement Cooperation Already Offered By Unions
 Chicago-Alout aid to service men in finding jobs was pledged this week by the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. at it's quarterly meeting here.
 Every central labor body in the nation called upon by the council to set special committee to help out veterans.
The sub., 1945-08-23

who are to return won the war with those weapons"
 They and we must win the peace together" the council add. ed. They want no special favors. All they seek and expect is an even break and opportunity to make up for lost time. Labor is determined they shall have it.''
The sub., 1945-08-23

(To be continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Construction Help Wanted

The Republican Congressional Food Study Committee, now some two years old, has renewed it's demands for one- man food boss in Washington following the announced 12 per cent cut in civilian meat supplies for the next three months. In repeating the demand, Republican member is quoted as telling the House that this administration "has done every thing possible to discourage food produc- CTS, to drive them out of business and create 8 food shortage. This is silly and insulting exaggeration. But it's sub- stantially what the committee has been saying ever since it formation. Of course the handling of our food problem hasn't been perfect, maybe not even good. But one would think that after two years the committee might have some suggestions for improvement as well as examples of administration shortcomings.
 A food boss isn't the only answer to the complicated problem. What seems to be needed is a new, coordinated, cooperative program that will do away with the red tape, divided authority and obvious in- equities that have made our inevitably tight food supply even tighter. The Re publican food committee, on the basis Of it's long study, could perform real serv- ice by suggesting such program, instead of sticking to name calling and wild ex- aggerations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Interesting Relics

American soldiers in Germany have come upon some interesting old relics of a bygone time, living in comfortable se- clusion until disturbed by the advancing invaders.
 One of them was the Princess Hermine, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm. "He was a poor old man with the wrong sort of chill dren," she said of him. "He loved Ger many"
 Another was the ancient, massive, iron- visaged Marshal von Mackensen, idol Of two generations of PruSsian JunkerS and perfect symbol of German militarism Cant you do something to stop the Russians from killing my chickens?" was his complaint to his American captors.
 There were others, too, including a few fatuous, Nazi-loving HohenzollernS But these two are enough to provide an- other compelling reason for uncondi- tional surrender and the pursuit and punishment of war criminals.
 Heaven forbid that Adolf Hitler should escape to grow old in half-forgotten, half forgiven sexile and one day be called a "poor old man who loved Germany" or that Himmler or any other top Nazi should live to complain, at 96, that the citizens of country scourged by his own country's mass murderers were actually I-illine b% chickens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24

ist influence upon the White House. Direct object of his at tack, of course, was the National Housing Act. The goodwill earlier generated by the lobbyists vanished. A dozen got up and walked out while LoG- tus was speaking, the attack especially incensed young Walter Huber, promising freshman con- gressman from Akron, Ohio.
 Huber got to his feet as soon as Loftus finished and declared:
 "It comes with i'll grace two days after the burial of our great President to make a per- sonal attack upon him and his bereaved widow"
 The room became hushed. Near ly everyone present, including Re- publicans, nodded agreement with Huber.
 "As neophyte member of the Public Buildings and Ground Committee" continued Huber, T don't claim to know all there IS to know about houSlng-puDllc or private. But I've heard mention this evening of dreaming and O. bathrooms in farmhouses.
 "As look about me, I see here many who recently opposed the confirmation of one of the ablest administrators we have ever had as the head of the REA Aubrey Williams). I'd simply like to point that with. out the vision and dreaming that created REA and a number of other Federal projects since 1882. you gentlemen wouldn't even have the home to build SO that you can put bathrooms into them"
 The housing-loan lobbyists will have a hard time staging another dinner in the future.
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Bootlssusrs and Black Marksss

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 Daniel P. woOlley is the oPAs head man in New York City. AS such he has certainly picked up considerable knowl- edge of the black market, along with the headaches incident to his dificult and thankleSS job.
 We wouldn't pretend to pit our black market knowledge against his, any more than we would envy him the headaches he got in acquiring it. But we would suggest that some fears he voiced in recent speech may be groundleSS. He said that if the racketeers, chislers and shady manipulators get firm foothold in any industry, "they will do lasting damage to legitimate people in that in- dustry."
 That naturally brought to mind pro- hibition and the bootleggers. Those mer- chants of synthetic popSkull fitted MT. Woolley,s La Guardia-eSque description, and then some. But we don't recall that they lasted long in the liquor business after repeal, or that they did any perma- nent damage to the legitimate manufac- turers or purveyors of legal liquor. Our guess, based solely on past history and without MT. Woolley's specialized knowl- edge, is that the black marketers will give even less trouble.
 People who patronized bootleggers never felt obligated to admire them or accept them socially, even when boot leggerS seemed permanent and 1ndlS- pensable part of the American scene. And after repeal the fact that person had helped keep the Capone gang in existence by his purchases didn't prevent his clamoring for the government to round up the Capone gang and put them out of business
 And of course bootleg liquor and black market meat or cigarets are quite differ ent things. Nobody was taking food or smokes out of his neighbor'S mouth when he bought quart of bathtub gin.
 We doubt that most purchasers of point-free, over-ceiling steaks are deeply proud of themselves today. We don't think they are going to be any prouder when the war is over. And it seems log ical that some day they might transform their own shame into Scorn of their black marketer.
 That can't happen yet. The black market customers conscience is still out shouted by his Stomach'S clamorouS de- mand to be fed as elegantly as ever, no matter how illegal, selfish or expensive that demand may be.
 But it seems inconceivable that some day when steak and cigarets and gasoline are available to all with money to buy, we should hear a neighbor say, "Weu, he was my black n1arketer during the war, and I'm going to be loyal to him now"
 We can't imagine that merchant with a wartime black market reputation will find the world beating path to his door when abundance and free competition return. No, we think today's legitimate merchant will do all right tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
The Visit to BuchenwaId

The American people have been ac- cused of reacting coldly or indiffcrently to stories of atrocities, even of atrocities against their own country men. This is not wholly true. And, it seems to us, there is an explanation for the measure of truth the accusation contains.
 First of all, it might be recalled that the atrocities of Hitler's Nazis were what turned most Americans against the Third Reich in the days of peace, even when they were ignorant or incredulouS of the sinister Nazi plan for world con- quest. It was HitlerS black heart as re- vealed through pogromS and concentra- tion camps that first reused our indigna- tion against him.
 As for American coldneSS and indiffer- ence, it is likely that numbneSS would be a better description. We are all familiar with the fact and sight of death. We know how it comes on the battlefield. But death by slow starvation and un- Speakable torture we cannot visualize, even though trustworthy reports and photographic evidence of the result is before us. Nor can we visualize or inn agine the inhuman cruelty that decrees it.
 Hence our reaction as incredible story after incredible story of atrocity is brought to us. Our indignation becomes impotent and intellectual. We are re- lu0tant to credit such deeds to members of the human race. And, confronted with unaSSailable proof, we remain stunned and little incredulous.
 In that we are probably not too differ ent from other peoples of the earth. Surely the middle-aged civilian German, even after 12 years of Hitler, has been reluctant to believe the bestiality of his own kind and kin. He may have had to turn his head to avoid the evidence before his eyes, and yet he might well per- SiSt in his disbelief --- especially since the American invasion of his homeland, when the urge for fawning innocence has been upon him.
 It was this German, his wife and young children and friends, to the number of 1,200, who were made to journey from their homes in Weimar, hallowed city of German culture, to the infamous Nazi concentration camp at nearby Buchen- wald. There they were made to look and smell and retch and faint at the evidence of the incredible, Subhuman deeds of their master race". Enough of the dead, dying and maimed remained there to convince the most stubborn patriot" among them that there was not much use in lying any more
 We cannot expect miracle from the visit to Buchenwald But the tortured and forgotten there have not died without purpose if enough Germans can be brought to see the place of their pain and ignoniny. It is profound pity that every German cannot be made to see .Buchenwald as the Americans found it. But at least those who did can never again extol the German race with the same conviction, however fiercely they may try to forget
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24

certain type of preacher often plays on the emotions of people and causes them to rush to the mourners' bench. Some are gen. timely converted, and if only a few are, the thing of course is worth while. But many lose their en- thusiasm quickly, and their spirit ual life within a few months is as dry as the sand rivers in the vest ern desert.
 This disposition to vacillate be- tween high enthusiasm and no en- thusiasm at all has produced re- action in the minds of many people against the emotional element in religion. There is not enough emo- ton in present-day religious experi ence. It is only natural that when the deep truths of God touch our hearts we should be emotionally stirred. But because some people have gone to the extremes of folly, they have given any manifestation of emotion in the religious experi- ence . bad name. We need emo-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Hopeful Signs

Probably no President has ever re- ceived the friendly, hopeful and generally uncritical political psychoanalysis that Harry s. Truman has been subjected to during his first few days in office. The nation, appreciating the tremendous task of replacing dominant world figure at a critical time, has not only unanimously wished him well, but has sought reasons to convince itself that he cannot possibly fail
 Perhaps this puts a greater pressure on MT. Truman than if he were con- fronted with an implacable opposition waiting for him to make the first wrong move. But so far the new President has met the tests and withstood the pressure admirably, showing himself calm, alert, authoritative
 If we may succumb to the temptation of analysis, we should say that he is consolidation where President Roosevelt was an innovator. And he appears to have a talent for conciliation, without Compromising his course of action. , President Truman's talent and reputa- ton for conciliation may have been re- flected in the recent White House visit of eight of his former colleagues from the Republican side of the Senate. And when one thinks of the powerful, final voice that the Senate will have in this country's participation in the world se- curity council, that visit was welcome dgn.
 It cannot be denied that personal feel ing toward President Roosevelt clouded some senator's views of peace, security, and other matters. Perhaps MT. Tru- mans personality and past experience nay help them to see the issues more clearly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
Pearson To Cover
 Frisco Conference
 Drew PearsOn's article for re- lease tomorrow will be on the United Nations Conference which MT. Pearson is covering in San Francisco.

ing Molotov to San Francisco is because this May meeting of the Big Three is now thrown off bal ance by Roosevelt's death.
 Some of Roosevelt's bitterest enemies clamored to get aboard the funeral train to Hyde Park. One was Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, who has voted agains' almost every Roosevelt domestl; policy. Also Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana, who fought him so bittersy on foreign policy Some senators frankly admiGtLd that they were up for reelection and to get aboard the funeral train would help them politically.
 John w. Gibson, head of the Michigan CIO, is in g quandary. He was supposedly appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor shortly before MT. Roosevelt died, but the papers were never sent to the Senate. Gibson does not know whether he will be Assistant Secretary of Labor or
 The Axis propaganda line has switched. After long saying Stalin was the man who domLl- ated the Big Three, the Nazis now claim Roosevelt was the man WHO really ran the Big Three. His death, they say, destroys all chance of Big Three cooperation for permanent peace Ber- nard Baruch, flying back from Europe for the Roosevelt funeral. reported that we had captured one underground Nazi factory 28 kilometers long. In other words a factory 19 miles long was com- pletely underground-built with captured slave labor.
 LOAN LOBBYISTS
 About 35 congressman got roped in on an off-tne-record dinner at the Hotel Statler last week. They came to have fun but some of them went away boiling mad.
 Their hosts were the National HOmebuilders' Association, re- gently active I'm lobbying among COngressmen to keep the Gov ernment out of the postwar housing picture. Despite failure to provide adequate l0w-cost housing in the past, many fi- nance companies specializing in home loans are doing their best to block Government operation.
 No speeches were scheduled for the Statler dinner, but senators and representatives were asked to take bow. COP Rep. Frank Keefe of Wisconsin took this oc- casion to tell how his own bank ing business planned to issue home loans to the veterans, while COP Rep. Reid Murray of Wisconsin urged more bathrooms for farm houses. He said farm. CTS were able to pump water into their bathdooms because of REA Rural Electrification Adminis- tration).
 Then came the big event of the evening. After all the solons had taken their bows and every one was in relaxed mood, Lob. byist Daniel A. Loftus of the National H0mebuilders was in- troduced as the Associations forensic star." Then only five days after Franklin Roosevelt had breathed his last, Loftus launched into bitter attack on the late President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
 ROOSEVELT ATTACKED
 Roosevelt" denounced LOf- tus, twas a great dreamer who started to s0cialize things, aided and abetted by his wife, who rushed around with her rubber boots and her little blue roadster-which was . Cadillac"
 He followed this with 8 trade about the ''socialistic schemes" ef the New Deal and the Commun-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
HOW TO SAVE A THOUSAND
 DOLLARS

For a year or more have been distributing as widely as possibles to dentists who are courteous enough to ask for it. the No. l Little Lesson in the Ways or Health, titled SAVE YOUR TEETH" This is the newly revised edition. Dentists who ask for 1t on their professional stationery or with professional card and a stamped self addressed envelope will receive it with my compliments. Other readers must inclose twenty-five cents with stamped self addressed enevelope with their request.
 I hoped that by putting the book let into the hands of a good many dentists throughout the United States and Canada might get some sort of assay of professional opinion or at least an expression or present attitude of practicing den- tists in regard to preservation of the teeth. Dentists have been so readily articulate in regard to my animadversions on the trade use of the title Doctors" that antici- pated 8 lively and instructive re. sponse, indeed begged many den- tists to whom I sent the booklet to handle me without gloves, to tell me just between friends where l am wrong. to criticise anything say in the booklet, in the same confid- ential way my own dentists does when he finds me going wrong.
 The impressive, almost unanim- ous silence with which these den- tists have received the booklet was at first disappointing, and then as it continued unbroken it became perplexing. Were the dentists all so irked by my carryings-on that they would not deign to have furth- CT truck with me? After all, do manage to maintain a speaking ac- quaintanceship with several den- tists and exchange the customary polite mutteringS with them when we meet in the bowling green, yet Withal-
 From now on, be it known, den- tists are just people. If 8 dentist should by any chance feel any curi- osity about it, he may have a copy VI 0AAC NOOAACI 0dFC 4Ou4 4OCtAA on the same terms as those men, toned for other readers.
 In closing this chapter I am de- lighted to report that at last have received from dentist a frank and detailed criticism of the teachings in the booklet and some of the teachings concerning preservation of the teeth that I have stressed in this column. shall pass along to our readers some of the practical suggestions this dentist gives, in talks to follow. Unlike some letters I have received from dentists, there is nothing in this one that my own dentist would hesitate to say, I am sure. Not a hint that the dentists nose is turned up while he insinu- ates that must be a filthy person. Instead, this letter is full of sound observations based on solid scienti- f1c Knowledge. It practically can- cels that ominous silence bestowed upon me by the other dentists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
In Today's Mail
CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL STATE HOSPITALS, AS WELL AS PATIENTS, SORELY NEED
 ED IN CONNECTICUT

W Newtown, Conn.
 April q, 1945 Editor Of The Democrat:
 The admirable efforts of MT. E. B. Willard of Everett, Mass, crusading in behalf of the unfortunates locked up in our State Mental Hospitals should find congenial ground in our social structure to germinate and be firmly rooted.
 In the present state hospital ad- ministraticn the grossest inequality is sanctioned by law because of the lack of proper laws and intelligent understanding and practical ap- plication of such understanding on the part of those entrusted with re- sponsibility.
 Reformation demands. Legislature to enact laws forcing the classified ton of patients in state hospitals. The classification of patients is a necessity because of the admixture of different ailments, severity of ill., ness. criminal types, ages and etc..