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Evening star., 1945-10-21

Here in the United States are
multitudes of kindly acting, mentally
honest and spiritually inclined people.
If they are confused as to just what
these United States were meant to
stand for in this world, it is largely
because many so-called leaders are
destroying or obscuring what has
always been the better and finer side
of America.
The belief, the spiritual principle
which was to make this Nation the
hope of the world was first set forth
in the second paragraph of the
Declaration of Independence. There.
in crystal-clear language, Thomas
jefferson, the deist. wrote better than
he surmised. He was committing this
country to a principle, an undying
principle, namely: The dignity OF
man.
Mans dignity, mans value is not
something that the State confers on
him. 1t is a gift from God. The
conviction that every man has a right
to life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness presupposes the inherent
dignity of each man. jefferson did
not imply that all men have equal
capacity. He did assert that all men
have an equal right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Since these
n O ri inn
from his Creator, man has an in
herent value in himself.
Certain legalists certain professors
are now busy undermining the Decla-
ration OF Independence and thereby
weakening the principle of the dignity
of man. We read that 1T seems to
me probable that the only cosmic
significance of man is that he is part
of the cosmos. The sacredness
of human life is purely a municipal
ideal of no validity outside the juris-
diction." We read that "the Declara-
ton is not wholly convincing. Only
in limited sense, If at all, have men
ever been created equal, nor are they
endowed with any rights except those
they can obtain and hold" These
statements are in line with the
whisper that the Declaration was
only political campaign weapon.
At the same time we hear that
there are no unchanging truths, no
eternally true principles. Ideas on
right and wrong are said to change
according to the views of the major
ity So-called truths are said to be
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Strange But NeedfuI
From the New York Post:

from LNe new 1OEk FQSLs
We shall have to solve the problems
of building new world based on an in
tricate and stable system of relation
ships between America and Russia. This
is an obvious fact in international pol
itics wherever you look, in Europe, in the
Middle East, or in Asia. But it is
revolutionary fact in American thinking.
For over a century and a half we
thought of foreign relationships chiefly
in terms of our relationship with Great
Britain For lot of that time our prob
lem was simplified because the British
fleet tended to insulate us comfortably
from the rest of the world A world ball
anced between Russia and America in
stead of cushioning our isolationist
tendencies, draws us into the interna-
tional political problems of the Dar-
danelles, OF German industry, Of internal
conflict In China. The most dangerous
and irresponsible thinking abroad today
is that of the hysterical elements who
cannot accept the political realities of
the new world left by the war. Instead
OF approaching the emergence Of Russia
as a peace problem to be solved, they are
press-agenting the end of the world.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Mans Dignity
By the Req. DR.. William II. Russell,
mt Professor OF RELIGIOUS Education, Catholic University

IOU, CuLHOLtc UDIDeTSLLy OJ America.
subject to the changing whims of
leaders who interpret popular desires.
That would mean that If the allegedly
leading thinkers outmode the Decla-
ration, then it is outmoded! That
would mean that If many scientists
deny God, then there is no God! If
some professors deny the dignity of
man, we are supposed to accept their
opinion!
The spiritually alert people have a
job to do if the spiritual principle
underlying the American democracy
is to endure. 1t is the task of study
ing the Declaration and of tracing it's
origins. The natural law and the
Old Testament confirm this truth of
the dignity of man. But it was
especially Jesus Christ who had the
power to make it workable and the
courage to uphold the common man.
1t was He who laid the foundations
on which Jefferson could build.
Through His association with publi-
cans and sinners" through such COM
parsons as His allegory of the lost
sheep, through His pronouncement
that God is the Father Of all men
and that "all you are brothers" He
was teaching and living the divinely
given principle of the dignity of man.
Without the assistance of this Cod
Man it is doubtful if American
democracy can survive. Man does
not instinctively respect his fellow
men. Christ supplies the reason, the
incentive and the sense of duty which
impel one to grant all men their
rights. He alone is every inch a
man" Unworthy followers He has
indeed, yet only through homes where
His influence is the atmosphere, only
through contact with His Person and
with dignity-respecting people will
the powerful, the talented and the
wealthy be led to accept the principle
on which Jefferson based our
democracy.
The character of the people lends a
nation its significance. Christ in the
heart of the American people would
make the dream of this country come
true. Not buildings, not roads, not
richly furnished classrooms make
people great. But a Christly ener-
gized people can make this Nation
great. Through such a people will
the pronouncement in the Declara-
tion of independence continue to
function in this world.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
The Bible Now

liz SlDIS INVW
One of the cultural results of the
Second World War is that of an in
creased interest in the Bible. The
explanation is obvious. Thousands
OF men and women in the armed
services of many different countries
have carried "the book of books"
with them wherever they have gone
in the line of their duty. During
long voyages on the ocean or
through the air, during tedious days
and nights of watchfulness on far
flung fighting fronts and especially
during weeks and months of hos
pital experience, the Scriptures were
a source of comfort and courage to
a uniformed multitude of people
who perhaps otherwise might never
have consulted them. Meanwhile,
civilians at home likewise in the
emergency turned to the traditional
fountain of religious idealism.
But the American Bible Society
has urged that readers should fol-
low systematic plan in their study
of the Gospels. Mere dipping" into
the Holy Word at random" may
be confusing Possibly each indi-
vidual needs to build" a Bible
for himself Thomas Jefferson at
tempted something of the sort.
Other persons have compiled an
thologies Of quotations which ap-
pealed particularly to their own
instinct of appreciation. Such a
book is the volume entitled Treas
ures From the Bible" recently pub
lished. It's contents were selected
by chaplains and pastors for Nation
wide perusal while the global con-
flict continued, but they have equal
significance now that peace theo-
retically has been restored. The first
page carries the fourteenth chap
ter of Saint John: Let not your
heart be troubled"-the beautiful
teaching Of Jesus on the evening
before His crucifixion. And the last
page also is from Saint John-the
letter beginning, MY children, these
things I write unto you" and closing,
If ye know that He Is righteous,
ye know that every one that doeth
righteousness is born of Him"
Each of the selections deserves to
be called great literature. Many of
them come near to being great
music. Psalm %, for example, begs
to be sung. The Sermon on the
Mount, from the Gospel of Saint
Matthew, on the other hand, almost
automatically prompts an oratorical
delivery. But it also is magnificent
specimen of organized and disci-
plined logic. The late Justice Holmes
could have expounded it with per-
feet distinction. So, too, any of
score of generals might pronounce
with the impressiveness of their
authority as commanders the Twen-
ty-Seventh Psalm: '"The Lord is my
light and my salvation; whom shall
fear?" Or any of as many admirals
might recite with a special signif1-
canoe the verses of the One Hundred
and Seventh Psalm, commencing un-
forgetably: They that go down to
the sea in ships"
However, a man or a woman need
not be famous or lofty of station in
order to make the Bible his or her
own. 1t is everybody's book, and
the more so now, providentially,
than ever in the past
Evening star., 1945-10-21

run of go miles between 10:04 and 2:23.
THE weather conditions were almost
perfect = " A Is to 20 mile west north
west breeze was blowing" Commodore
T. o. Selfridge was in charge of the
test. He brought the ship into Boston
Harbor after the demonstration Of her
power in the water.
An editorial in The Star for October 10,
1885, called upon the administration of
President Cleve-
Venezuela Problem land to stand firm
And "Doctrine" against viola
ton of the Mon
roe Doctrine by Great Britain. "The
press reports from abroad" it explained,
indicate that the Venezuelan question
is approaching a climax that may prove
to be serious. There can be no honest
retreat from the full measure of the
claim of the United States. This
country must prepare to take hand"
boundary dispute was at the bottom
of the whole trouble. Public opinion in
England supported Americas stand
rather than that of the government of
the Marquis of Salisbury.
xS *x
How the news of Abraham Lincolns
demise was dispatched to Europe was
told in The Star of
Speeding the october 81, 1895, as
Troaic News follows: Tn those days
(1866 there were no
Atlantic cables working, and news of
the shooting of the President and his
subsequent death had to come by
steamer. All night after Wilkes Booths
fatal shot had been fired Reuters agent
at Washington waited for the announce
ment Of Lincoln's death, which was
known to be imminent. The President
passed away at 7:3o the next morning at
the very moment great steamer was
leaving for England. The energetic
agent hired fast tug and pursued the
departing steamer until he was near
enough to cast on her deck tin canister
containing the mournful tidinss."
Evening star., 1945-10-21

was responsible for a fresh era of
growth. The Nazis added to his
pattern two new chairs-"folk his
tory" and "the art of war"-which
now have been discontinued.
Heidelberg emerged from the war
relatively undamaged. All the uni
versity buildings are reported intact.
No program of physical reconstruc-
ton will be necessary. It is exclu-
sively in the realm of ideas that new
endeavor is wanted.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Revolution in Venezuela

hegarQleSS OF Lne attendant cir
cumstances and immediate mott
vation, the revolt staged by the
younger officers of the Venezuelan
Army against the government of
President ISaias Medina would seem
to be an unfortunate development
There is disquieting similarity be-
tween this movement and that in
Argentina which has enthroned the
army in power there for the past
two years. To the outside world the
revolt Is the more surprising because
the Medina government, constitu-
tionally succeeding that of former
President Lopez Contreras, has been
generally regarded by competent
foreign observers as enlightened and
progressive in character.
For the past decade Venezuela has
been convalescing from a prolonged
period of despotism under two
tyrannical dictators, Cipriano Castro
and Juan Vicente Gomez. The for.
mer, ignorant and brutal, seized
power in 1899 and held it until
physical breakdown brought on by
extreme debauchery gave his right
hand man, Gomez, a chance to oust
him in 1908. Gomez was equally
tyrannical, though more astute. His
power was buttressed by the dis
covery of rich oilfields in the Lake
Maracaibo region. Exploited by for
eign conceSsionaires, heavy royalties
soon filled the treasury. Gomez
cannily used this windfall to pay off
foreign debts which had got Castro
in chronic trouble. The dictator
also used the surplus to build mill
tary highways across the country,
thus giving the central government
the ability to suppress local revolts
which had frequently grown to rev.
olutionary proportions throughout
Venezuela's troubled history.
In the spring of 1885 the aging
dictator was overthrown by a revo-
luton supported by all the best ele-
ments of Venezuela, thoroughly fed
up with the despotism of Gomez. A
host of political exiles returned and
a new constitution was promulgated
guaranteeing civil liberties, free
elections and other progressive re-
forms. The revolutionary leader,
Lopez Contreras, served out his term
of Office and was quietly succeeded
in the presidency by Isaias Medina,
whose term of office expires early
next year. Under the constitution,
President cannot succeed himself;
so hot political campaign has been
under way, with several candidates
representing various parties. The
chief objection voiced to the existing
constitutional setup is the election
of the President by Congress instead
of by direct popular vote.
The revolution was the result of
an oIncerS conspiracy, supported py
the party calling itself Socialist
Democratic Action. The Medina
government was not overthrown
without struggle involving consid-
cradle bloodshed, the police and
some of the troops remaining loyal.
The deciding factor was the air
force, which bombed out the gov
ernment strongholds. A provisional
government has been established,
headed by the Democratic Action
leader, Romulo Betancourt, but COM
posed largely of the officers junta.
What will follow on this successful
barracks coup remains to be seen.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

Henry Fielding, the novelist, ought
to be remembered right now in New
York, if only because of the spectacle
on the Hudson. 1t was he who said:
"A fleet of ships is the noblest object
which the art of man hath ever
produced"
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Very Scarce, Indeed

From st. Louis Post-Dispstch,
According to reports from abroad,
self avowed Nazis are now as scarce In
Germany as empty Pullmans in America.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

A reverent man is the song
arranger who night and morning
thanks God for Tschaikowsky.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

a leading part. And in the final
analysis. the men on the individual
lines, possessed of the all-important
"know-how," kept the wheels click
ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24

30 per cent addition to the payroll would still leave very large profits,
 "Also, the 1. automobile industry now is entering a market where, for some time to come, there will be no selling problem. The manufac- turer has only to make the car, and let some eager buyer get Q chance at 1t. Tn the past, cars have been sold under highly competitive con- ditions, so that selling costs have become as great as, and perhaps greater than manufacturing costs.
 This is a mass production indus try, so set up that 1t can make enormous profits just as long as 1t can operate at capacity. Well, for two or three years 1t will be able to operate at capacity and dispose of It's product without selling effort or expense"
 Secretary Schwellenbach has sent l9 conciliators here to try to find some way of reconciling these union claims with the companies as yet unclarlfied counter contentious some way of reconciling the natural human aversion to e take home" pay cut with the fact that there Is Q manpower surplus in sight-some way of keeping the entire national reconversion from being disastrous ly delayed by a prolonged shut down in the key automobile indus try.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24

Secretary of Labor Lewis SChwell.
 enbach, granted new powers by
 President Truman, faces major
 test in effort to get autOmOtive
 production started again.
 90 per cent raise that Is demanded and basic weeks pay would aver- age $6084. This is $l.34 more than the JAW says the average auto worker took home at the peak of the war boom, including overtime and making no allowance for income tax and War Bond deductions.
 The automobile workers conSti- ute only one of many industry groups, generally represented by CIO unions, that are demanding a wage raise sufficient SO that, for a shorter work week, their take home" pay will be as great as dur- Ing the war. More often than not, the same 30 per cent figure is used.
 The Akron rubber workers have announced that they want such a raise. So have the Pittsburgh steel workers and the CfO oil refinery workers and many others.
 Industry conditions differ. It is by no means probable that other workers would get exactly the same arrangement that the JAW even- tually exactS from the automobile
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24

makers, whether that proves to be all or nothing or a compromise.
 But the JAW, powerful, skilled in strike techniques, with a big war chest, undoubtedly will prove to be the bell-wether in the. fight of workers to keep their weekly pay from decreasing now that the war is over and overtime has become rare, instead of being routine.
 The automobile workers have an- nounced Q strategy that adds new wrinkles to traditional methods. They say that they are going to take the Big Three one at time. First, unless General Motors gives . the 30 per cent raise, the JAW says 1t will call out GINS 350,000 employees, proclaim boycott on GM products, permit Chrysler and Ford to continue production, and let General Motors watch It's rivals skim the cream off the big, eager automobile market created by al- most four productionless years. DIVIDE AND CONQUER"
 Then presumably assuming the General Motors will capitulate to protect its consumer good villa second company will be struck in the same manner. Apparently Chrysler has been chosen to lie idle while General Motors and Ford sell automobiles and make friends. When Ford's turn comes the union would not expect him to hold out long.
 Because of the overwhelming ascendancy of the Big Three in the automotive field, and their bitter competition for sales, the JAW IS working in the one in- dustry in which It's announced strategy would appear to have greatest possibility of success,
 If one or more of the big com- panies is shut down very long, the economic nipples thus started would spread far and wide, cur.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24

tailing or sometimes destroying employment by suppliers and raw material producers. The steel industry would be hit hard. The speedy reconversion that is neces- sary to prevent a postwar slump from becoming a postwar depression might prove impossible.
 If the JAW wins all or much of It's demanded increase, that would be a signal for every strongly organized industry, where overtime has given way to normal work weeks, to go all out for a similar raise.
 The companies, thus far, have said little about the unions de- mands. If history repeats, they will say, as many others do say that such raise would neceSsi- tate price increases that would set of the widest imitation. The union denies this, in advance.
 SAY PROFITS FANTASTIC
 A spokesman for the JAW told me that the union contends the 30 per cent increase could be ab- sorbed by the major companies without change in l942 prices and without menace to legitimate pro- fits,
 Certain of the companies make fantastically large profits" he said Tn many years those profits arc equal to the companies payroll. A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24

CnluB elSe He may eACVuiGSA AnVSA
 But If he fails, then in one way or another the explosion here is gc- ing to spread Tn all dircct!ons--a splitting economic atom starting a series of explosions that may well cause incalculable damage.
 The United Automobile Workers (cIO) is demanding that the thrce big automobile manufacturers pay slightly more, for a basic 40-hour week without overtime, than they paid at the height of the war boom for an overtime week.
 The JAW computes the straight time average hourly pay for the inc dustry as SLY an hour, which is $46.S0 for a 40-hour week. Add the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24
New Machine
 RemovesSteeI In War Debris

Brussels, Sept. 24--(Up) Belgian engineers have designed new ma chine to ''de-steel" steel reinforced concrete and hasten the job of clearing Europe's debris,
 They have estimated that their new machine will shorten by as much as six months the job of preparing bombed factory sites for reconstruction. seldom does bomb- ing leave modern factories in the ''rubble- o-dust" state populariSed by wartime descriptions. The Gen. eral Motors plant at Antwerp Is an example. It was totally destroyed, but left heaped on It's site were blocks of concrete, some weighing hundreds of tons,
 To demollsh these steel-rein- forced blocks by pneumatic drills and picks would be an overwhelm- ing job. Dynamiting was out of the question because of nearby install lations in comparatively undamaged states. First estimates were that ct least one full year would be needed to clear the site.
 But the Belgian engineers, ef1l- ployed by the engineering firm, 'Entreparses Blaton Aubert," adop- ted an old French technique, made some improvements, and came up with the steel extractor" This device pulls out the steel reinforcing bars and leaves the concrete block easy met for pneumatic drills,
 The "steel extractor" grips one end of the long steel bars and, ex- erting nine tons pressure, yanks the steel loose from the concrete, The machine actually grips 50 tightly 1t contracts the steel bars diameter by @ fraction of an inch. It weighs only 400 pounds and can be handled by as few as two men,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24
Epes Awoits Verdict
 On Appeal

Columbia, s. O., Sept. 24. (UP)-- The life sentence given Samuel o. Epes, Saturday had no effect on his appetite today as he waited for General Sessions Judge A. L. Cas- ton to rule on his motion for Q new trial
 Epes ate heartily and slept well in his county Jail cell.
 Judge daston will rule this week, If the motion is denied, Epes will appeal to the state supreme court.
 Epes @ former army lieutenant. was convicted of giving his wife an overdose of sodium seconai tabs lets and burying her in Q foxhole while she still was alive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24
FEM EM.

Here's question. Was the late John Mccormack just good singer of Irish songs and popular sentimental but pleasing ballads he great artist who could make such songs works of art but who was primarily great musician and artist whose presentation Of the classics and operatc aras such that he was consd- cred one of the finest lyric tenorS of his day Waterbur ias who heard him several times in Waterbury and jour- neyed New Haven Hartford and New York to hear him at least year will perhaps agree with us and writer to the New York Herald Tribune that McCormack was superb in taste execution and enuncation when he sang the old bel canto airs and also that The was mig nncent in the songs of Hugo Wolf and in folk songs" The writer that mention New York man. was in dis agreement concerning editorial laudatory in some re- specs that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune which evauated the muscianship in somewhat ndif- ferent fashion, that is to say ranking him only as fine
 singer of Irish and popular ballads; that this was his great appeal True this excellent singing of such songs was part of his general appeal and he sang these with the same fine phrasng and depth of musical feeling as he did III mic tesoro" from Don Giovanni" which the writer to the Herald mentions. He continues But who could touch him in Mozart and Handel? Bernard Shaw once captious music critic, said that McCor- rnackS recording of q" mic teSoro" from "Don Giovan- nj" was the photograph record he himself would have chosen to make If he'd wanted to be immortaized by record" Let's be far friends to John Mccormack great Irish lyric tenor, who gave Mother Machree" and sleeping ChristCh with equal perfection to pur ity of tone and mudcianship.