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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
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It would be sad commentary on the civilization in which We live If the Allies were to win this world wide struggle only to face an econ. onic war carried on by self-Scekina groups within nOminally organized democratic nations.
 -Dr Nicholas Murray Butler,
 president Columbia U.
 
 Until technical men in uniform are given better training. and until they find rcadler route to positions of command, 1t is certain that the top levels of our military command will not grasp the full implications Of innovations and will not be or ganized to handle them to the best advantage in some possible future highly technical war.
 -Dr. VanneVer Bush, director
 Ofiice Of Scientific Research.
 
 Business necGS to be free from that type of ownership and manage ment that never knaw or has forgot ten that goods and services belong to the people, to all Of the people. Henry J. Kaiser. Shipbullder.
 
 They keep the movie houses go. ing. don't they? Well, for millions of people a professional baseball game is much more normal enjoy ment than going to the movies. Other people like other kinds Of sports. They ought to have them. Navy Lieut.. Vic Bottari, former U. of California grid star. with Pacific task force.
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not yours. You act right on the floor and we want have any trouble"
 Celler started to protest again. but Rankin shouted: Now you stop looking .Ye" my @h,.u'acr" and arose from his chair threat eningly.
 CellCr warned that he Would rec tify anything Rankin cut from the record, and Stalked off.
 NOTE: When Rep. Michael Ed elstcin of New York replied to one of Rankin's outbursts four years ago, he became so excited he died of heart attack as soon as he left the House chamber. CAPITAL CHAFF
 Imitation hit the elections last year. Contributions to sen atorial campaigns in 1940 were only $787 ,OOO, compared with $l,- 5000 in I944. Expenditures were $l,I39, GOO In l040 compared with $l,702, 900 in l944 Lieut.. Will Rogers, Jr., former congressman, and son of the late great humor- Is, is writing to friends with German typewriter. His unit captured a typewriter factory Tn St. With which was turning out machines for the Germans. With Is own portable lost, Rogers adopt ed a German machine Wyom- ing's capable Senator Joe OMa- honey has quietly started study of the disposal of surplus war plants. He wants to insure maxi mum use of our national produc- tive capacity after the war and the stimulation of small business. OMahoney was reSpon- sible for the provision in the surplus property bill prohibiting sale of synthetic rubber, aviation gas. steel, aluminium, and magne- sium plants by the government until after full report has been filed with Congress Public hear ingS to receive suggestions for the disposal of these plants will get under way soon.
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Inc)
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Box Score Released

Military secrecy has made it impossible, until very recently to give good volume picture of Americas production for war. The government, quite correctly, permit ted only an indication of the amount in terms of dollars, instead of number of units, except for certain individual items. But now it is being revealed in a broader way.
 Example was the General Motors an nouncement the other day, covering some of the more important products among more than $500 items that company has produced for war.
 The bare figures tell the story best. Here is the box score: Shells and shell castings, more than 14G, G,000,000; cannon, 180000; machine guns. 1000000; car pines, 2400,000; airplane engines, 180,- GOO; bomber and fighter planes, 5000; tanks tank destroyers and armored cars, 3l 1000; trucks, including amphibious ducks, 740,000
 That's one companys report. It proves that large industrial organizations are among our country's most valuable assets in war as well as in peace.
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can for them and I hold them up continually to God in prayer" It is not surprising that one of these boys has become successful writ CT and the other two are min iStcrs.
 There are certain htings ill life over which we have no control The sooner we learn this lesson and take 1t to our hearts, the sooner we will have peace in mind. Sometimes we encounter people who have about them the calm ness which this godly father ap- peared to his neighbOrs 10 pos seas. And the reason why such people can be habitually calm and filled with a confident sense oI assurance is because they know that powers above their own are taking care of the issues of life. They will do the best they ca1. After that. they will rely upon the strong hand Of God to bring the issues of events to a satisfactory conclusion.
 Tn peace time and in war time. we need to remind ourselves that Gods will is sovereign and that we live within the circ,e of His love. If ye do our part. He vii: do His.
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One of the ablest executives in the American Government is Secretary of War Stimson. But his advice to Congress tc put compulSion behind manpower placements on the home front by enact ing the May-Baily bill providing for com pulsory service-"the work or fight meas ure"-has been side-tracked by the Sen ate Military Affairs Committee Presi- dent Roosevelt made final appeal from across the seas in a memorandum to Sen ate Majority Leader Senator Alben Bark ley in behalf of the bill Congress is absorbing the hope that we will not need many more soldiers to fight Germany, because their armies are surrounded and haven't much longer to go. After all, that is the general opinion in Washing ton among all classes of officials.
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Those who have sat on the in- side say 1t sometimes asks Gen. Lucius Clay to leave so it can dis cllSs war problems without army domination.
 It's backstage debates on the work fight bill were especially significant. Much-loVed ex- Jus tice Jimmy Byrncs requested the War Mobilization Board to en- dorse the May bill. But there was immediate rebellion.
 I'm sorry I cant go along
 with you on that, MT. Justice"
 observed fortnight Eric John
 stOn, president of the U. $.
 Chamber of Commerce. 'It
 hasn't worked out in England and ! don't believe that com
 pulsOry labor will work out here"
 Johnston then proceeded to give q comprehensive picture of his ob- jections to the Work-or fight bill.
 II am against 1t for the follow ing reasons" he said. "ONE, the Army has continued to dump it's war contracts into No. l Labor areas. It has dumped it's newest plane contract in San Diego, the tightest labor area in the United States. It will have to hire 5000 more men and you cant get 5000 men In San Diego. This new contract means more schools, more sewage, more housing and there are plenty of other areas not over loaded with war work.
 TASTEFUL LABOR BOARDING
 SECOND" continued JohnstOn, the Army has made no real cf- fort to get rid of cost-plus con- tracts. These contracts mean labor hoardings. Management doesn't have to worry about the cost and doesn't care how much money 1t spends on labor.
 THREE, there has been TO real effort to conduct manpo"er propaganda campaign on national scale. We had local ballyhoO
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Views Of The Press
THE LAST BIC PUSH ,Hartrord IimeS)

The Germans were the first to say they should knoW-that General Eisenhower has begun grand scale offensive" It is now official. Allied hints had been that major blows were soon to be unleashcd, Secretary Stimson stated this week that large operatoinS were in the offing. There was no hesitation In telling the Germans, in effect that If they have any plans for an of lensive themselves they should not overlook their need for men and weapons for defensive purposes.
 Weather has improved for ground operations in the west. Front dis patches speak of Patton's tanks rolling forward in a c!oud of dust. March is a good month for offen- slve action. The Germans launched their final, aIl-out offensive in March of 1918, were stopped in July and capitulated in November This time they are on the receiv- ing end aS March opens.
 Russian armies are pressing the approach to Berlin from the south
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that date, in which he tried to a n S W CT this troublesome ques- ton by saying that U. s. foreign policy was based on the principles set forth in the Atlantic Charter. Secretary Hull de- clared thta this charter is "an eX- preSsion of funda- mental objectives, but is not a code of law from which detailed answers
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{"
 SPOTLIGHT
No "Nutshell"
 Foreign Policy
By PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA Wash inktOn Correspondent

Washington. Feb. 28 - If you, as a private citizen. had written a letter to the Secretary of State and asked him. What is the Foreign Policy of the United States today, Mir. Sec retary?" you would probably have received varying answers at various times in the past year.
 Any time after April 9. l944. you would probably have been sent a copy of Secretary Hulrs speech of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Sixteen Million Jobs for Women

When President Roosevelt, Henry A. Wallace and BeardSley Ruml agree that we can and must have 6O,0OO,OO0 postwar jobs in this country, it must be so.
 The 60-million figure first appeared in one of MT. RooSevelt's campaign speeches, and some suspected that he was just raising Governor DeWeyS ante of prom iseS for prosperous future. Mr. Wallace repeated it in his plea for the Commerce Department job. But now MT. Ruml, an economist and businessman, has re- moved it from the political arena and dressed it up with logic.
 That logic, much simplfied, goes like this: Full employment requires high productivity and low production costs. A market for this increased production requires more people with more pur- chasing power. More purchasing power means a big national income, and prosperity. Prosperity means full en- plOyment. GOT you can start at this end and work it backWards.)
 Anyway, MT. Ruml figures 600OOO0O jobs and $40, 100000, national in- come as about right. lot of smart peo- pie are now figuring out how to create those jobs. Unfortunately, we can't be of much assistance to them.
 But we did get to wondering the other day about the 60,000, ,000 people who are going to take these jobs. So we retired to a neutral corner with the World Almanac end eventually emerged with some eight cylinder figures of our own.
 The Bureau of the Census estimates that our population will increase about 6.3 percent in the 10 years between 194O and 1850. So armed with that estimate and the official 1940 population figures we projected ourself five years hence when peace will presumably be here to stay.
 By 1850 we should have 43,843, ,15O males and 43,814, ,189 females between the ages of 18 and 65 from whom to draw our 60,000,000 job-holders. Let us discount students, unemployables, and the like, and assume that all the men have jobs. We shall then need 1G,156,850 women to fill up the roster
 Let us also assume that there are still 6,O96, 799 farms in this country, as there were in 1940. We ought at least to allow one 18-to-65 female to each farm as wife and mother That leaves us 37,717,390 women to fill those IS, 6,156,850 jobs. In other words, almost half the women be- tween 18 and 65 will be working full time away from home in 195O
 It is estimated that 17,5O0,0OO women are gainfully employed today. There has been a good deal of talk about tactful ways and means of asking them to go home after the war and vacate jobs for returning veterans But the above figures suggest that the problem will be in get ting most of them to stay.
 It remains to be seen what all this is going to do to marriage, home life, the care and training of children, and the domestic urge in general. We don't know, but we venture to predict that our traditional picture of "the little woman" is due for extensive alterations and that the maid shortage will move into the realm of constant predictables with death and taxes:
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of the village scrapes and were supposed to be
 behind most of the mischief in town. One day someone asked
 this father if he was not WOr-
 ricd about his children. His re- ply was, No, 1 never " orry about my aboys. I (lo tt1n haaf I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per. sOnaI health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment. will be answered by pr. Brady if a stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform. ing to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, National News. paper Service. 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
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to every question can be distilled" Secretary Hull went on to specify that Nazism must be wiped out and that the United States did not in- tend to interfere with the formation Of new governments in France and Italy.
 After the Dumbarton Oaks pro- poSals were announced late last summer, if you had written in to the State Department and asked about foreign policy. you would have been further told that the adoption of this plan was now a fundamental part of this governments foreign policy.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2s, 1945
A Thought for Today

Now we exhOrt you. brethern warn them that are unruy, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. -I ThessalOnans 5:14
 INDIVIDUALTTTES may form communities, but 1t is institutions alone that can create . nation.-Benjamin Disrae
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with unrclenting vigor. Marshal Stalin Spurred his armies on with the challenge that final victory is near. In the customary round figures Moscow is wont to use. 1t Is stated that 1,15O,O0O German troops had been killed or captured in the first 40 days of the Red offensive. That is at the amazing rate of 28,- 75O a day. The Red claim is that total of 9,740,O00 Nazis have been killed or captured during the three years and eight months Of war. Whatever that exact figure, the loss to the Germans Is the main reason they are now near defeat. How near, the offensive from the west may soon help to de- termine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
FIVE-POINT
 STATEMENT NEXT

R. StettiniuS appeared before tho Senate Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of the Presidents ap- pointment of five new assistant sec- retarics, you would have been sent copy of his five-point statement calling for full support of the war, curbing of Japan and Germany, es- tabllShment of a permanent United Nations organization to maintain peace, promotion of foreign trade to further full employment, encour- agcment of the democratic way of life in all countries. For short time that was considered the best statement of U. s. foreign policy.
 But after the President sent his "Statc of the Union" message to Congress in January, that became the best statement of foreign policy, and you would have received copy of the sections dealing with foreign policy in that lengthy document in answer to your question.
 If all these varying replies in the course of the last year and the mail ing out of long speeches in reply to simple queries seem to give the appearance of evasion or seem to be an admission that this government has no foreign policy, perhaps that Is correct. Maybe the Department of State hasn't been able to boil down into simple and sweet language q statement that could be printed on q post card, as brief as the Ten Commandments and just as endur- ing.
 The catch is that no other gov ernment has ever been able to re- duce it's whole philosophy of foreign relations into a catch phrase that is the complete answer to every ques tion that may be asked, such as "Oh Ycah?" or "Nuts!" Not even, 'Lebensraump "Brittania Rules the Waves "Liberte, Egalitc, Frater- nite," or "In God We Trustl' will do the trick, though each says q mouthful.
 TOUGH ONE TO ANSWER
 That is what makes answering the foreign policy question so diffl- cult Too many people want a state ment of foreign policy that will be Ike an index to the prevention and cure of trouble. If something hap pehS in Greece, they would Ike tG look up what 1t says on Greece, and there have the answer, simple as curing the baby's collie.
 The impossible of ever achieving anything as simple as that should be fairly apparent. It ovcrlooks entire- ly the possibility that there will be change in the internal situation in Greece which will make necessary a change in what you do about it. Foreign policy is always fluid. It has to be. But that is difficult to under stand and even more difficult to cX- plain
 The people who keep crying, This country has no foreign policy" mean usually, This government isn't doing what think 1t should do in France Or Argentina, Po- land. Finland, Russia.
 No government official will ever make q statement of foreign policy which will satisfy all such critics at the same time. But some day, some body should get around to stating in postcard size a set of principles of foreign policy which majority Of the people can accept.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL l.. DOUGLASS. D.D

LEACE LEES ISSUE TO GOD
 Many years ago there was a de- vout Christian father whose sons were usually involved ia most
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Eric Johnston Argued Strongly Back Stage Against Compulsory Lobo Mobilization Bood No RubberStomp Group; Ronkin Close to Fistic Before
BY DREW PEARSON

debates of the War Mobilization Board are for the
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Church, the same one where Rutf1s
mother and father were married.
At present the happy couple are
working for Tony Pastor and
lhoneymooning at the same time.
How about these Washington
wolves who f1irt with pretty band
vocalists?" we asked the BRIDE
groom.
"Oh, that doesn't bother me any
more" Dick said, I'm used to it.
The news that there's a descen-
dant of the famous Indian chief
Tecumseh in town, and that he is
to make the story more fantastic
playing a Hawaiian guitar came
out in an interview recently with
Art Hinett of the Neptune Room.
Hinett Of the sub-Earle club re-
vealed that there's so per cent In
dian genealogy TO explain the rangy
rhythm in the soul of his cohort
Howard Budd The vanishing
American was not available for
comment.
Feminine FrillS. Ida Clark OF
Burt's Trans-Lux looking the way
one should look in pale pink with a
black sequin vestee df that's what
you call IT'D :. Tana of the Troika,
we gather, prefers white and gold
f.. A swooping neckline went we'll
with Gaylou Ingrams strawberry
colored chiffon and balloon-shape
sleeves . Seductive is enough to
describe Merry Lands Lorrie Lamm
in her black lace formal job :.
Sharon Terry of Crossroads seems
to favor bouffant gowns :. While
On the subject of wardrobe, if you
missed any of Margaret Phelans
while she was here you really missed
something.
Newest drink around town which
everybody wants to try-the Trade
Winds Java Grog"! Don't ask us
what goes into it, but it's literally
set on fire before served and arrives
at the table with blue flames still
shooting from the glass Joan
Carroll of the Metronome Room
once owned and ran her own dane
ing school in Houston, Tex. She
was Is at the time Ell Patio's
Johnny Longo, having viewed real
estate IN the surrounding suburbs,
has settled for beautiful home in
Silver Spring . Seen Around the
Towns Clubs This Week-Gloria
Swanson, Conrad Nagel and Choo
Choo johnson together, of course)
Joe Martin, Republican leader of the
House; Frank Capra. Jean Hersh-
olt. Justice Murphy and Justice
Black mot together, of course).
Evening star., 1945-01-18

Do we need persuasion? Follow
through" the invasion! One NOR,
bond for GI Joe.
Evening star., 1945-01-18
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs
Registered o. Patent ono.

Spitalny; the girls his flutists and
fiddlers.
Several weeks ago an extremely
winSome brunette with a face tC
match dashed from a Washington
night club and tailed taxicab
The pleasantness Of her manner and
the song in her heart belied the
lateness Of the hour. 1t was 2 am
The taxi driver put his imagina-
tion to work and surmised that only
lady in love could be SO charmingly
gay. With this theory in mind, the
cabbie listened to the songs of his
pretty passenger as he drove to-
ward her destination. When he
stopped at her residence the young
lady opened her handbag to pro-
duce the fare. There was an un-
detected change in her mood as she
hesitantly inquired,
How much do owe you?'
The driver smiled and replied
"Ferget it miss! I enjoyed yer
singin' more than va owe me-"
And to this day the taxi driver
D. G. license number 21-934, doesn't
know that on the described occa-
sion Eddie Jane Poindexter, Mad
rillon vocalist, had forgotten to de-
poslt any money in her handbag.
Note-The above is not merely a
press agents dream. Eddie Jane
sWears that it actually happened
and she "swears" so beautifully that
we just had to believe her.
X X
A fine state of affairs when ma
tive Washingtonians have to go to
Lansing. Mich, to meet each other:
even worse when they have tt
go to New York to fall in love
However, If you think Dick Dyer and
Ruth Mccullough are holding anv
Evening star., 1945-01-18
$4,000 in Gems Lost
By Peruvian Envoy's Wife

Mrs. Josephine Bedoya, wife of Dr.
Santiago F. Bedoya. Peruvian AM
bassador to Chungking, China, re-
ported to police yesterday that she
had lost her purse containing more
than $4,000 in jewelry-including
several family heirlooms-and her
passport in the drugstore of the
Shoreham Hotel Tuesday night.
Mrs. Bedoya told police she had
left her handbag on a chair in the
store, where she and ner husband
had gone for milk shake. She did
not miss the bag until she went to
look for it yesterday morning. DIR.
Bedoya said a liberal reward would
await the finder of the purse. They
are staying at the Shoreham and
are on their way from Chungking to
Lima, Peru.
Evening star., 1945-01-18

Seven women to one man in war
time Washington - you haven t
heard the half Of it! land we do
mean half). Monday night single
gentleman walked into the Embassy
Room with IA beautiful young
ladies.
The Spectator couldn't believe his
eyes. Fourteen women who looked
like that just wouldn't have to share
the same man (not even in Wash
ington). We went into a huddle
with Jean, the head waiter, who
cleared up the whole thing for us
in approximately IA seconds. The
enviable man was Maestro Phil