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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07

The luncheon was called by sen Pepper of Flor ida and Sen. Kilgore of West Virginia They brought with them a mimeographed five-page document labelled Full Employment Objective of Domestic Policy" Tn this carefully written document, they proceeded to point out that
 American economy has never provided stable full employment under modern conditions Of high labor productivity and production. review of economic conditions between World War l ana World War II makes this clear. In 1889, though we reached the production level of 1929, there were 100000 more unemployed
 '"rhere are some of short memory" the survey continued, "who today urge on the federal govern ment do nothing policy toward ensuring full em- ployment <. We believe that extensive federal ac- tion is essential at this time."
 The federal action" proposed by Sen. Kilgore and Sen. Pepper outlined to the other 10 sena- tors immediately after the luncheon in the form of 12-point program.
 T am tired" said the West Virginia senator. "of seeing the opposition us as chopping block The time has come for some action-and now"
 Each senator then discussed the program. The comment was deadly serious most of them worried over what will happen in our economy after the war Only levity occurred when Sen. Bbo of Missis- sppi whom some senators had not expected to be present, introduced by Pepper as Poll-Tax Bilbo" The gentleman from Mississippi sat grinning as Sen. Ebert Thomas of Utah jokingly remarked:
 We have program here for postwar prosperity Our slogan. in which we expect you to jon Senator is Support the Fair Employment Practices Act.
 Bilbo laughed and replied:
 Jim here has one of those committees in his state" He gestured toward Jim Mead of New York, where Fair Employment Act recently was signed by Gov. Dewey. Lets see how it works out before we start worrying about it down here"
 
 One of the most interesting interchanges took place between Maryand's Sen. Radcliffe and Con- necticuts Sen. Brien McMahon. Radcliffe expressed general approval of the program but added that he knew of no unemployment problem in the nation. Whereupon, McMahon interrupted to say that there was growing unemployment problem in Connecticut
 Were in for a bad time if the war in the Pacific should end during the summer, before ade- quate legislation has been passed to provide for addi- tional employment" McMahon continued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
By Dres0 Pearson

~rt seems to me" he added, ~the administration is on the horns of a dilemma. If we don't spend to provide employment we'll be in bad way: if we do spend our huge public debt will continue to pile up"
 'There is no problem there," interpoeed Rhode Islands agile 77-year-old Sen. Green, himself millionaire There is only one course If we do not being among the people of the country, then we are headed for bankruptcy anyhow.
 This country" continued Green bluntly 'has not caught up with the democratic movement in Europe. The recent British elections good example Those in control over here are not in touch with the changes taking place in the world They are in con- tro of the press in control of vast aggregatonS of wealth. in control of the utilities. But we in the Senate must not be deflected We must go ahead with new legislative program"
 New Yorks Sen Mead who succeeded Truman as chairman of the Senate War Investigating Commit tee remarked
 Its about time this country began to shift from a two-war economy to one-war economy. The Army and Navy have got to stop sitting on billions of dollars worth of materials they don't need and which industry coes need.
 Not only materials" continued Mead. They've got to release manpower we need in the coal mines, the steel mis the railroads. We can't keep our civl ian economy going. At least the Army and Navy can release 100000 key for these industries. We've got to speed up for the reconverson process
 "The Man" Bnbo also threw in his two-cents' worth on reconversion
 T am not politician" he opined "but from a practical standpoint, we democrats had better do something damn quick or the Japanese war will end and we'll have five or ten million people looklng TOT jobs There will be rotous conditions throughout the country and when we come back here for the next Congress, there won't be enough Democrats around for our own funerals. We've got to do something damn quick to provide 6o000000 jobs"
 Bibo, however, couldn't accept all the 12-point program Raising the minimum wage level was too much for him. This caused Sen. Pepper of Florida to remark jokingly that it wasn't proposed to raise wages Mississippi being largely an agricultural state).
 Don't think that I'm dumb' shot back the Gentleman from Mississippi You raise industrial wages and you won't get anyone to stay on the farm. I can't grow cotton today because the hands want too much money"
 The other items the 12-point program which apparently met with Sen Bilbo's K follow
 CD Gearing of reconversion to full employment.
 CD Continuing stable and profitable agricultural at high levels
 (3) Creation of expanded opportunities for bus iness
 (4) Expanding foreign trade.
 (5) National housing program.
 (6) Stabilization of community construction.
 CD A broad national health program and social security system.
 (s) Increased education and training for all.
 (9) Greater development of natural resources.
 QO) Gearing fiscal policy to full employment.
 CID Adequate security training and job oppor- tuntes for veterans.
 Copyright 1945 by The Bell Syndicate, Inc0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
Our Supreme Court Is Above Politics

There is no room for partsanShip where the Supreme Court is concerned The highest tribunal in the land rep reSenS the buWark of berteS through the years It become surrounded with of profound respect American institutions has been kept free from the influence of petty party politics.
 Statesmen of both parties united to defeat the late President RooSeveS attempts to pack the Court Few Will deny the necessity of having the Court entity repre- sent sound progressive American thought regardless of the opinions it's individual members Its decisions should fleet insistence strict compliance with the Consti tuition yet should accurately interpret the changing noic and political thinking the nation They not safely coincide with the philosophy of extremists whether radical or reactonary.
 Without impartiality no Court meet such exactng requirements Once that impartay lost to Supreme Court, our entire American system is endangered.
 All of which leads to the conclusion that the success Mr. Justice Roberts should preserve the balance of the Court One of the unfortunate evils concotant with the extended continuance of any party in power tendency to overload the courts with judges of political be- es identical with those having the apponve power Even some presidents have failed to avoid that evil
 On the other hand there is ample precedent for PreSi dent Truman appointing justice from the opposite party President Taft named two Democrats to the Supreme Court; President Harding named Democrat Pierce Butler Democrat.
 Among the Republicans now mentioned as possibilities for the Court particularly well qualified to bring to it's discussions the liberal thinking of middleof Americans of all parties Senator Harold H. Burton of Ohio followed years of effective service Mayor Cleveland by winning the senatorial nomination of his party in the face of strong machine opponent legislator and who has rendered valiant service in the of farseeng internationasm He would bring fine mind and ability for conscientious work to body Jradl tionally distinguished by such characteristics
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
The "Matnap" Case
By Peter Edson

every crime on the calendar. This is one Of the incidental reasons for keeping the Matnap case open It has yielded rich haul of men wanted for other offenseS.
 The Madison case is one of the two unsolved kid- napings to come within FBI jurisdiction since the Federal Kidnapping Act was passed II years ago The other unsolved is the kidnapping of l2-year old Peter David Levine of New Rochelle. N 1. Tn February 1888. A squad has been kept working on this Levine in the intervening years but so far entirely without success There is no ceW, no scrap of evidence on which to go It will be solved only by a confession by an informer who was In on the crime.
 While these two cases have remained unsoved, PIT other kidnapngs since the passage of the so- called Indbergh Law have been solved. The racket which once made the country's most glaring head lines has now been broken. In all there have been only 16 kdnapngs involving ransom In the l2-month period ending last July l, there 18 kidnapngs. none for ransom and all solved with the conviction of 34 ki6napers for terms averaging more than b years each.
 Such kidnapings reported today arc usually accessory to other crimes Robbery is ordinarily the first motive Usually there is automobile involved. The cases pretty sordid, the victims average people going about their everyday business or pleas ure. They just happen to cross the paths Of low1e characters who take their money away from them, then steal their and take the owners along for the ride When they state line the kidnapers troubles begin, for that permits the FBI to move in and work with local police where otherwise the state authorities would be hamstrung
 The Lndbergh Law has unquestionaby been good thing It has put teeth in prosecution before federal courts. By providing for heavy sentences It has discouraged "snatching" as crime that pays Since 1884 there have been SIT convictions Sentences have averaged more than 10 years. Life imprlson- ment given A defendants and the death sentence to 2 Tn addition, eight kidnapers killed while resisting arrest were murdered by other gang members. two were lynched and one was declared insane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
By BiH Cl1nninghan,

file any copy, the answer, for the most has been no, for few almost none.
 Ask any of these buzzards, or buzzardesses, for there are few of the latter, who he or she works for and it is evidently some European edition of mail order catalogue. I've yet to hear one name anything I've ever heard of before and some Just look at you as uncomprehendingly as if you had asked if their parents were married One very hand some and very English-speaking Dutchman really got my Angora an American taxpayer. He had two hangers-on with him. No one of the three ever wrote line. All made career of each meal. asking for seconds and thirds and hopping the plate with slabs of bread smeared with four five pats of but ter All chiselling and storing K-rations with pleas that they needed them for out-of-town trips
 At long last, when left for Frankfurt. that trio rode the same plane They loaded their loot on in satchels and bags and their chairman explained that ne had a stored in Wiesbaden. that he was Ily- ing down to get it, and then driving home He said 1t would take him about day to get there. Five days later got to Wiesbaden and there they were, still the guests of the United States Army. The mess was good there and it's the place I've seen where they serve hard liquor
 Next day saw the three fussing around an automobile and figured the time had come to say Goodbye" so said. well. see you got your car" t
 "Ah yes,n said the head man. But had little difficulty getting new tires for it. There was some
 sDid YOU get thema" asked, the question being silly, for you could see them.
 "Oh, yes" he said, T got new tires all around
 ssWhere did you have to go to get them?" asked, very innocently They look as if they are of the best"
 T got them from the American officers" he replied blandly Prom the Military Government In fact they were rather unreasonable about it at first
 Next morning heard the captain in charge Of the camp asking the mess sergeant if he had some K-rations he could let three Dutch correspondents have He said they were driving to Holland and they'd put in request So far as know, they lett in the afternoon. That might mean that they'd nave to spend the night on the road The7 probably 1ekeo for hlankeiz cots and maybe even llft N1t4
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
NO HOLDING BACK
Christian Science Monitor)

Christian Science Monitor)
 Senator Vandenberg's proposal for a Labor-Industry- Government conference to chart a cooperative approach to the problems of peace is timely and deserves wide support. Secretary Schwellenbach and the War Labor Board have already commented favorably as have lead CTS in industry and labor. It should serve to give new impetus to the Labor Industry Charter sponsored by Eric Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and begged down by the failure Of the National Association of Manu- lecturers to endorse it and the re- tusal of the A. F. of L. to sit down with the c. I. O. and confer on its lmplementation.
 That such a joint conference is needed requires little elaboration Labor, seeing drastic cutbacks ahead is pressing for every possible safe guard for job and pay security There are disturbing reports that some sectors Of industry look for ward not to better and more work able relations with organized labor out to opportunities to break" the unions.
 The signs of the times should warn the N. A. M. not to view again a move toward industrial peace as premature, and the A. F. of L. to be less choosy about who sits across the table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07

ing specimen The kidnaper left fragmentary tnger- prints on the glass of French doors through which he entered the house. and again at phone booth from which he called to make second ransom demand. The kidnaper seen by the other Mattson children who in the listening to the radio with their brother at the time he was Kidnapped. A sketch was made from composite descriptions by the Mattson children and that has been used as guide in examining suspects
 In all the years since Charles MattSons body was found murdered in the snow near Everett, Wash two weeks after the Kidnapping, 5402 suspects have been reported Of these, 23833 have been eliminated as having no connection with the crime. But the remaining 1569 suspects still pending in an open file steady flow of handwriting specimens, finger print records and photos comes into FBI and local police crime laboratories for comparison Some of the suspects have been taken to Tacoma for possible Identification by the other Madison children, now nearly grown but still remembering that face
 While none of these suspects has thus far been linked with the Matnap case, the dragnet of over 5000 possibilities has brought in hundreds of crim inalS wanted for other crimes. Hoovertowns and jungles and shacks all the country have been combed and the combings have brought in men wanted for arson larceny, bank robbery, and nearly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07

HsAAN of uniformed tramps I'd even throw some of our own. This war corresponding can be as sweet a racket there is in the world At the moment there's just one catch to it. If mans real one and &C., tually is working at it, it's costing his paper lot of money. Every word radio cable, costs his paper six cents That's the commercial transmission rate, but practically everything else is on the United States Army That means all your transportation is free.
 Your room doesn't cost you anything You report to the billeting office show your travel orders and some competent enlisted man rooms you like a hotel clerk in the States The war is over and our army has taken for its use the best hotels and apartment houses in any given community. Usually there sheets on the beds and maids to clean the rooms Some of them even have boots" to shine your shoes.
 haven't yet been able to learn who pays for all ttis but the so-called correspondent doesn't
 That's the way it goes. The living is of the best the Armys hospitality unquestionable You can add in the Red Cross, the USO, free movies It makes a pretty swell life for 80 cents day.
 The word has spread. somehow, and legitimate reporter from the United States can hardly fight his way around through the hungry-ooking, sticky handed. ration -chiselling European hohoes who sew patch saying War Correspondent on their dis reputable-lookin uniforms and line up in front of a dining room instead of a typewriter. None has q typewriter AS 10 the matter of that and Two made n point to ask cf censoFz and others they sxpf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
SUBSIDIES, AND A DEFINITION
(Hartford Courant)

In view of todays purchasing power there is no economic justific- ation for subsidies for the produc- tion of sugar. But, if they must be paid, Secretary of Agriculture An- derson is to be commended for talk ing a long look ahead and boosting them for the 1946 sugar producers in both the beet and the cane fields. The Secretary wants all growers of sugar beets and sugar cane to at tain maximum production next year to forestall a recurrence of the pres ent shortage. His long look into the future is as praiseworthy as his pre- decessors stupidity is condemnatory for not needing the pleas of beet and cane growers early this year.
 Subsidies for production, if high enough, do get results. But they carry the inherent danger of not be- ing discontinued when they ought to be. The subsidy for copper is an excellent illustration. When the SSuIIIly III lllC Cd11J LAOllGAlo O4 bIlC war needed more copper, Congress voted a subsidy for copper miners to encourage the reopening of mines formerly closed because they were no longer profitable. The nation got the copper and now has more than t needs for war materials and emer- gancy purposes. Yet Congress last spring voted to continue the subsidy until June 30, 1946.
 Indeed, the subsidy is an unusual weapon. Its use sometimes is as weird as the economic thinking be- hind 1t. Recently columnist writing in Tax Front defined the subsidy as having "a red herring for one par ent, a wolf in sheep's clothing fol the other, and coming from long line of white elephants" Its use he described as "a formula for han ding you back your own money that makes you think it is a gift, when you've actually bought it back at a 100 per cent mark up through the State matching" He might have added in view, of the copper example that like a cat it has nine lives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
The Peoples Newspaper

Progress is defined advancement If we plan wisely will all enter period of progress and advancement after this war; It will take courage and wisdom, foresight and determination integrity and open honesty and all like pos itive values to bring it to reality
 Aerted to the tempo and moods of such future, the of The Waterbury Democrat pledges itself to fresh determination to match the set of positive values that will constitute the structure of the world to come
 That pledge includes the principle that The Waterbury Democrat will sustain superior standard the vital news paper of this community That pledge includes the solemn promise give public service promised upon the highest of i6eas and dignity
 The Waterbury Democrat is the newspaper of the people, all people It the Community newspaper As such who to guide it's destiny prepared to shou der the responsibilities and to accept all challenges!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
ANOTHER MIDGET COURT
(New Britain Herald)

The,Connecticut small claims court system gained a convert in Mer- iden. which fiddled for years with the idea while these midget tribun- als were functioning successfully in New Britain. Middletown and other cities.
 The Silver City has stuck to the archaic justice of the-peace court for disposing of legal disputes too trivial for the Municipal Court, and until recent years some practitioners found a moderate harvest therein. Gradually the general public has quit law-ing for debts that would be exceeded by the legal costs entailed.
 Hence. at the recent Assembly session there was practically no op- position to a small claims court and the Common Council approved, That will put our near neighbor on a par with N. B. in the number of courts, so that all may fight who so desire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
WHY REASONABLE SPEED PAYS
(New York Sun)


 In some households the warning "If you can't hear, feel" used to carry a meaning to children other wise deaf to oral instructions. In similar fashion, some automobile owners unimpressed by the general advice to conserve their tires might find mathematics instructive. One has experimented with tries made of synthetic rubber and has found that car driven 10000 miles at 35 miles an hour wears out 35.7 pounds of rubber, whereas the same car driven the same distance at 50 miles an hour wears out 61 pounds of rubber. Thus the driver
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
Views Of The Press

who increases his speed from 35 to 50 miles an hour gets 43 per cent more speed, but at the cost of Il per cent more consumption of rub her. In ordinary times, other fac tors might make the disproportion of no importance, but in these times when tires for most civilians are a remote likelihood, the economy ill reasonable speed is evident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
Waterbury of The Past
25 Years Ago

Sgt. James Mulville was named commander of Corporal Coyle Post succeeding E. L. White.
 For the second time in a week the wrecking crew was out fixing a snapped trolley-wire on Willow street, near Ridgewood street.
 Is Years Ago
 New York publishers announced the forthcoming publication of the book-Isabella of Spain, the Last Crusader-written by Waterbury's own William T. Walsh.
 Plans for putting in the dial tele- phones throughout the east were discussed by Harold G. Davis, su- perintendent of the local branch of the Telephone company, speaking before the Kiwanis club.
 5 Years Ago
 The N. r., N. H. & H. Railroad station was offering special excur- sion rates from Waterbury to the N. Y. Worlds Fair.
 The Chase Brass 6 Copper Co, American Brass co. and Scovill Mfg. CO, were each awarded one Of the new ''kelense' contracts by the goVernmeiit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07
The Atomic Bomb

Like something born of malicious fantasy the "atomic homb has been introduced by science into the art of fare Its generazed formula o-one bomb equals 2OOOO tons of TNTs almost too much to grasp for the average human imagination and sensibilities.
 Yet it's positive service is sefevident. Its will un- foubtedy save thousands of American lives it's tremen ous offensive power brought toay upon the Jap home land and people This is the only or reason for use of Sneh weapon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-07

WaSh. Tn FBI TeCOruS anu III IUCdI police headquarters all over the country this Madison Kidnapping has become known as the Mat nap" case. FBI hasn't given up trying to solve it. and won't give up.
 There are three slender clews to go on. When the kidnaper broke into Dr. Mattson's home on Dec. 26, 1886, and abducted his oldest boy, a note demanding S50,OOO ransom was left on the chair That provides A handWrit-