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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
By Peter EdSon

But many other problems worrying traffic experts Donald $. Berry, official of the National Safety Council points out that thousands oi young sters who normally would have already learned to drive haven't been able to get behind wheel be- cause of gas and tire restrictions As soon as cars are available about four times as many new, inexperl- enced drivers will hit the road than there would be normally On top of that, he points out, the average driver has gotten rusty He either hasn't driven at all during he war or very little and at slow speeds. It takes lot of practice and the conditioning of re- flexes as much as for any other skill to be good driver, Berry says.
 Before new cars hit the market, the old ones will get double duty result of the lifting Of gas rationing. Traffic experts fear that faulty tires brakes and other worn-out parts will Sky-rocket the will reach 50000 Highest peacetme toll was in l94l when 10000 persons were killed on the highway. On top of everything statistics show the fall and first half of the winter the most dangerous for driv- ing because of early darkness, fogs snow and sleet
 There has been much speculation to what re- turning servicemen will do to traffic when they get behind the wheels of high-powered cars. It. Col. Franklin M. Kreml, director of Northwestern Uni versty Traffic Institute has given his ideas on that subject Krem had charge of traffic problems for the Army in most of Europe. He claims the men who drove Army cars, especially jeepS and tanks, will be the best drivers on the road He said the Army pounded safety into them and they will never forget the rules they learned. He isn't so sure about pilots
 Pedestrians too, experts say, have to be re- educated. They have become accustomed to judging speeds according to 30 to 35 miles per hour driv ing. When cars begin getting up to 50 and 60 miles on the roads, faster dodging is necessary.
 Auto manufacturers are planning to incorporate all known safety devices such safety glass, four wheel brakes and sealed beam headlights in the But 1t their thesis that car is only as safe as its driver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
MASSACHUSETTS INTERVIEWS
 (Hartford Times)

Action by the State of Massachu- setts intalsing ove" the management and operation of the Eastern Mass achusetts Street Railway Company, which is largely bus system and serves principally the northeastern part of the State. is evidently an attempt to bring to an end strike which has greatly inconvenienced three-quarters of a million inhabi- tants It seems to be modelled on the federal wartime plan of seizing property essential to the war ef- fort when management and labor disagree and stop production. Gov- ernor Tobin. to whom the Legisla- ture granted special emergency pow CTS, made the first use of them in this strike.
 It will be interesting to watch the Eastern Massachusetts dispute. The union involved is an affiliate of the Amercian Federation of Labor, which has frequently been in conflict with the management of the system. Jus tification of action by the Governor lies in the fact that so many in- habitants of the State are depen- dent on the bus service the company renders that 1t must be maintained, if not by the company, then by the State.
 Just what the State can do, should the men and management remain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
Views Of The Press

obdurate, is problematica1. Manage
 ment says it will not consider de- mandS of the strikers until they re- turn to work. That is reasonable, for the strikers are damaging the public as much if not more than they are the company by remaining away from their jobs. If the tSate is to go into actual operation of the buses there will be novel state of affairs, in which 1t will be accused of strikebreaking. If it merely takes the property away from manage ment and tells the men to return to work, practically guaranteeing them the granting eventually, of their demands, then 1t would be as- suming powers not readily admitted to be those of the State and denying protection of property to the right full owners.
 It Is important that the public be provided with public services, what ever they may be; 1t is equally in- portant that the rights of all parts of the public be preserved. The East ern Massachusetts strike again dem- onstrates the interdependence of labor, management and the public interest. It is doubtful if the State of Massachusetts can be more suc- cessful in solving labor-management quarrels than was the United States government by seizing private prop erty and keeping in their jobs men who had refused to work before gov- ernment stepped in. The State of Massachusetts would seem to run the risk of being a partisan in this case. If 1t can restore service and avoid favoritism to management or to dissident labor, 1t will be doing something exceptional. That's why the Eastern Massachusetts strike should command attention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
And Little Towns"

Of late years we have missed of these because the newer and better highways are routed around them Not long ago while bowling along through Massachusetts field to the left We recalled earlier years when the main highway took right through the interesting old town of panesS houses and arts and crafts Some of our earliest dates be found Old Deered older than in neghboring town of Ltched which is of New England's most picturesque little towns"
 Old Deerfield looked just remembered it.
 surey drive the length its main street showed the old houses conspicuous by their lack of paint braggng as it were of their antiquity There calm and peace about the town in the bright October sunlight of midday
 Such towns scattered all New England and other sections of the country They are-some of them off the beaten path but they not off the beaten path of activities that form part of the pattern of the American way of life Such towns and villages given poetic paint ing in well known verses by Rev Leonard Feeney of the Society of Jesus who recently augmented his earlier vol nne with many more poems that give to feeling for T0Wns and Little Towns those alert little communities &hat form the historical background Of the country
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

the war Another circumstance that set the President to thinking seriously about this problem was report that there were more than three times as many traffic casualties in the U s. during the war than there were battle casualties on all fronts.
 To speed up a national program aimed at nippine the growing traffic toll in the bud desired by the President the National Committee for Traffic Safety has been organized It is composed of experts from the National Safety Council Autonotve Safety Founoa- tion, AAA and other interested organizations
 One of the first aims of the committee is to try to get uniform traffic laws established throughout the nation Tn one state the driver must stick his hand up to signify one kind of turn and straight out to signal something else In another state an arm straight out is the only signal used Other differences concern speed left-hand turns, etc. It is hard to launch national campaign to educate drivers unless there is uniformity of the laws.
 Second most important item on the agenda oi the committee is the recommendation of a highway building program. The safest highways are four lanes wide divided in the middle. Gross roads are elim- mated by underpasses with clover leaf turns. It is hoped that any national program will specify this type of road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

Cunningham reasonably handsome alumna of Eitlers intensely organized Strength Through Joy" and Jugend movements are using It's possible that their spreading of the message may be inspired by some underground, but the message itself is their sincere belief.
 It's the dogma with which they've been indoc- trinaed all the way from their first ability to under stand anything If they're of age for the CT to sit around with, they've never known anything else Thus, wrong as they are they speak with utter sin certy They and do, say to the CT that evidently something about it all must be wrong, that either Germany, or the United States, either the CT there, their brother father sweetheart who died for Germany was wrong, and they appeal 10 the CT to straighten 1t out for them
 The American kid feels in general way that he was fighting to put down an aggressor, to make the world better, but when few direct questions pull him off the plane of generalities so high-soundng that he's self-conscious about them, he floun ders pretty badly.
 How do know7 Because number of them in a half-dozen different places, came to me simply because was an older man and quite shyly began, Hey Mister, straighten me out on two or three things will you? Then they'd tell what frauein had contended with them in extremely serious con- versation
 To understand the problem. person needs to have seen the picture. After what he'd been sub- jected to in terms of feminine companionship in in our part of Germany knocked the average soldier breathless
 The English people had been on short rations for q long time. Their clothes were shoddy and out of style The girls had no stockings. scant heat, Many of their legs were scared with chilblains and even sores They'd had no recourse fo beauty parlnrs They had no coametiea. Their handg weke eoaEse from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
NOT PROVED BY THE DRAFT
 (Christian Science Monitorl

Though the number of draft rejec- tions is frequently employed as an argument for compulsory sickness insurance, in the United States this claim actually contains little sub- stance.
 More than third of the rejeetions for military service sprang from mental ills or deficiencies, Maj.-Gen. Louis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director, recently told Congress.
 No system of compulsory sickness insurance has ever tried to cover mental disease as a part of the regu- lar insurance service. Of course. conscientious general practitioners under insurance have tried to give help advice, etc., but as soon as the trouble interfered with social rela. tions, resort was had to institutional treatment outside of the insurance system
 The draft argument is plausible, but, like other reasons for govern ment medical care cited by enthusi- asts ignorant of the many draw backs, under inspection 1t rejects it. self.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
By BiU Cunningham

hard work. The nails were broken. Their hair was stringy. Their faces were mostly pnched their fig ures whatever the hang of wornout clothing made them
 Italy and France were even worse. They'd had no soap They too had had an insufficiency of calories and vitamins. The point is that Hitler that par of his war He had broken and beaten the others down pretty close to the floor.
 And where were these things that made women beautiful and complete population strong and good looking? They were inside Germany. That's why the others didn't have them. The Nazis had systematca- ly footed and stripped the food the clothing mater as the perfume the shoes the styles from the whole of Europe and turned into the markets of their own people.
 much in the way of military targets the place being 90 per cent rural Thus there was no fighting there, and almost no bombing
 So, undoubtedly as would happen in this part of the world people who could fled into this haven to get away from the bombing In such places as Berlin. Hamburg and the rest. Many young women of means, stenographers from Berlin. young wives of German solders-the better fixed generaly-moved down into this traditional summer and winter vacation land to get away from the war.
 Many don't want to go back where they came from anyway. They have no future, no hope. Their nation, their world Is ended They have only the moment, for what 1t is worth. and here's the lonesome or, with his pocket full of marks he can't spend plenty of cigarets and candy from his Army PIX. The girl can fill out her standard of living simply from what he can't use.
 Furthermore, and here's big point, shell be true to him. She needs him seriously. She can't afford to lose him. She'll wait on him hand and foot. Maybe she gets really to love him They naturally talk about the war. Sine tells the straight Gcebbeils' scrip ture. sNG
 The first thing you knew over there some troubled looking soldier would sdle up and say, I'm playing at fraternization with girl over in the next village who is just as fine and clean my own sister, ghe plays the piano Beethoven and all She speaks three languages She's been everywhere and she's read everything. Why wouldn't even get to meet Rirl like her at home. And she tells me seriously that Hitler was great idealist that his mission was 60 save the world, and that he would have saved it if we hadn't come in on the wrong side. know she'S wrong, but I'm only truck driver from AEkanaas. haven't got the facts to tell our side If te story. and after listen 70 her sometimes wonder K weKe sol any slde,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

 American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars would indicate that there was not the burning re- sentiment against the military system in the last war that there is in this
 Perhaps it is because this war lasted longer. Perhaps it is because in this we recruited bigger Army and Navy. Perhaps also it is because education in democracy; because intelligent, in dependent youth can through military blunderS, and bois with indignation at the unfairness and favoritSm of the military caste system.
 However itN isn't the enlisted men alone who seem bitter against the military system My mail and the men who have come to see me also include many officers. And some of the colonelS and com manders are just as fed up and disilusoned as the enlisted men,
 All this leads to the unacceptable conclusion that before we go ahead with peacetime conscripton for the first time in ITO years of history, we might do well to look around a bit and see what's wrong. Pitiless sef-scrutiny is always healthy And think that before either Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hoover asked the nation to build up 4,000y000-man Army and conscript the youth of the nation in al- legged days of peace, they would have appointed commission of civilians well generals and ad- mrals to study the whole thing and pick the flaws in our present system.
 Certainly if Harry Truman had been clicking as in the old days when Hugh Fulton of the Senate Truman Committee had him in tow he would have done this himself,
 The man who wrote most of President Trumans able speech peacetme conscription was the Chief of Staff, Gen. George C. Marshall, to whom this column many times has paid tribute.
 
 was ill 1918 when a captain he executed the most brilliant military maneuver of the last war in trans ferring 100000 men from St. Mihiel to the Meuse- Argonne front plus 10000 tons of ammunition 34 hospitals 93000 horses 164 miles of railway and S7 depots It was great job.
 Marshall was then Pershings favorite young offi- cer and always has been Some of the -Pershing Marshall clique-and there violent cliques in the Army--are not so generous toward Marshall as his good friend Harry Truman. But looking at both sides it is probably fair to say that Marshall, though Q great military organizer, made serious mistakes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

WAS VU UIIt GI4GCU VIIdV I11S 14UW" leins are propagandizing our troops. One newspaper scaled the heights of zero with ringing non sequitur to the effect that the GI, who outsmarted the German soldier in battle, is not likely to be outsmarted by the guile of German females.
 That's where it qualities itself for this particular subjects J for JackaSs Pennant. The tricky part of 1t is that it's not guile those
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

off, the traffic toll Jumped ZI per cent over the same period last year. After the President heard his he called on the National Safety Council to intensity its studies of auto accidents. He was impressed with the job the council had done on industrial safety dur ing the war.
 Since then, friends who have driven from Missouri and other parts of the country to see him have remarked that driving seems to he Ynnrn hazardous than before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
Waterbury Of The Past
25 Years Ago

Trying to adjust a step ladder while painting the ceiling, an elderly man fell and spilled the paint over his head This was bad enough, but matters grew even more unbearable when the mans three -year-old nephew asked for an encore on the grounds that he had missed the initial performance.
 h a demAnstration of wood chop ping, Bucks Hill resident am- putated three fingers Of his left hand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

IOUgAG TOT HIS country IlOW LIlIIlKS of the military system under which he fought.
 I do not remember that after the last war the men who fought felt the same way. Of course I was in only a brief time, but I would gladly have gone right back into uniform, and I think most. of the others in the last war felt pretty much. about the same way. They had no serious gripes against the brass hats. Ger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

A man on Yale street reported to police that three sheep had dis appeared from his farm. They were discovered wandering around the kitchen Of a neighbor who had left for the weekend and had failed to lock the door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
Traffic Toll

WASHINGTON, Oct 27-President Truman is becoming increasingly concerned the problems of traffic safety
 first is davs after gas rationinR went
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
I5 Years Ago

A local barber clipped the ear of customer. The customer refused to pay for the shave, pointing out that under the laws, If barber drew blood no payment was re- quired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
|Merry-GO-ROu

WASHINGTON, Oct 27--For weeks have been sitting up nights reading soldiers and sailors mail Letters have poured in by the thousands-a sadden- ing sobering cross-section of what the man who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
Germany

One of those young soldier editors, writing in his unit newspaper in Germany, placed his finger on a fact of life as lived under the aegis of fraernzaon in fashion both fearless and fortnight His warning
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
j Years Ago

A local police officer stopped a driver for speeding. Where are you from?" asked the officer. "Cleve- land.' was the reply "Oh yeah" quickly retorted the cop. How do you explain the Ohio markers then?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
DOWN TO EARTH

On the wings of the morn I am sail
 ling,
 A Gable. Johnson, a Ladd, While timorous mortals are quailing And Virtues dilemma is bad, A Cooper or Flynn, I go roaring Afiame with the spirit of youth, To clash with the criminals boring At Honor and Country and Truth. If not where the guns are rat-tat-
 ting,
 Then melody'S realm is my choice; Sinatra and Crosby are flatting, When I'm on the beam and in voice. I'm not at the end, because there is The twinkling delight of my feet, So graceful that Freddie Astaire is Compelled to admit: Il am beat. I'm handsome and dashing and able, But sometimes cannot tell why My wife is so calm a; the table And ready to think that I'm l.
 Mir. Truman proposes that young men, if they do undergo compulsory military training, retain their civil ian status during the instruction period. Army officers shudder to think of receiving an ".Oh, yeah?' in answer to an order they may give.
 American diplomatic officials see great danger in disposing of our surplus war equipment to South American nations. That's because there are so many surplus wars among our good neighbors to the south.
 That house Mayor LaGuardia bought for his return to private life next year has five bathrooms We wouldn't be surprised to read that the neighbors are complaining be- cause he is singing in all five or them at the same time.
 French women voted for the first time in the recent national election. It is reported that polling officials are being swamped under indignant requests from the ladies who want to change theirs for something ht- tie different.
 Jersey to Continue Alternate Day Milk"-headline in the New York Sun. Any word from Guernsey or Holstein?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

Up in the hilly section of Fair mount three youths, celebrating Halloween permaturely, cut the clothes line Of Q resident and one was caught in it--whicl proves that q good line, well employed, will sometimes make worthy catch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-27

Jersey to Continue Alternate Day Milk"-headlin in the New York Sun. Any word from Guernsey or Holstein?
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-18
HIGHWAY PATROLMEN
COLLECT $I42,50O
IN AUGUST REPORT

RALEIGH. Sept. 17.-R-rhe
State Highway Patrol collected a
total of $l42,515.47 in revenue or
its equivalent during August,
Motor Vehicles Commissioner T.
Boddie Ward said today.
Included in the revenue were
$so,o24 representing the value of
cars and property recovered by
patrolmen and returned to owners;
$Sl,oll.60 representing fines which
were turned over to county school
fund; $23, 0s6.27 in cost turned in
to county general funds; and 49,.
1880 representing revenue collect
ed tor overlooking and other in
fractions OF highway regulations.
Wards monthly report showed
the patrol spent a total Of 1880
hours on duty. travelled 3s5,35O
miles on state highways, made
1852 arrests and obtained 2,318
guilty verdicts; inspected 1854
vehicles. 37.251 drivers licenses.
investigated 1888 complaints, cor.
rected 12.459 faulty lights, investi-
gated P3o0 accidents, and issued
3,005 citations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-18

has been ordered by his physician
to forego football.
This leaves only one man of vet
eran calibre, Captain Jack Null,
who will plug the hole at center.
The other positions are open and
their occupations in the making
Among these are Tom Stanley,
from Thomas Jefferson, former
guard now trying for backfield
post; Arthur Obey and 10y Grag-
mani, from Benedictine, who are
hustling for a guard berth; Randall
Little, reserve guard from last
year: Tom Versprille, tiny speed
merchant who has been running in
the tailback position in workouts,
and Bobby Fleming, a windback
hopeful from Augusta Military
Academy.
The schedule:
Sept. 2s-Virginia Military Insti-
tue at Richmond; Oct. 6-Maryland
at Richmond; Oct. 13-Open: Oct.
20-Guilford at Guilford, N. c.;
oct. 27-Catawba at Catawba.
Nov. 3-Open; Nov. 10-virginia
at Charlottesville; Nov. 17-Vir;-
glnia Tech at Lexington; Nov. %
William and Mary at Richmond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-18
Battle EN- Now, Beat EN- Then
Becomes Gridiron Cry Of Richmond

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 12.-P--
the University of Richmond, which
has watched it's fortunes ebb and
flow in Southern Conference and
state football imbroglios since its
more inspiring performances Of
pre-war days, this year apparent
ly is going to enter the coming
contests untried but undaunted,
al with the promise that the les
sons to be learned this year are
to form the foundation for great
err teams in the years to come.
The watch-word and rallying cry
is to be battle them this year;
beat them next year,
And to achieve this, Malcolm U.
Pitt, director of athletics and head
Coach Of the Spiders, has reach
ed down into the saline flats of the
TideWater and brought to the con-
fines Of Westhampton George C..
Hope, former coach at Grandby
High school, who will have the
task of putting together a re-
preventative machine to carry the
Red and Blue through a tough
seven-game schedule, which in
cludes four southern conference
opponents and begins in less than
two weeks.