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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

 The conclusion drawn was that the Army thus contributing to the present U. s. transportation crisis
 Investigation reveals that Col Johnson's charge is the truth but not the whole truth by long shot The unit referred to consists of 115 They were members of the two railway operating battalions in- volved in the Paris black market scandals last win- ter They stole Army gasoline and sold it to French men for $7 gallon, cgarets for $10 carton choco- late bars at $1 each One hundred fifty men were caught, court-martialed and convicted Thirty five got 20 to 50-year sentences.
 The other 115 men were given chance to clear their records by service in combat All accepted and further agreed to forfeit their pay until the value of the stolen goods was made good They were put in an artillery unit for combat training. Then the war ended in Europe and the unit which had seen no action was assigned to the Pacific to give the men chance to win honorable discharges.
 Gen. Eisenhower made this decision and its wis., dom is hardly open to question if it does deprive U s. railroads of 115 men.
 While the War Department comes up with clean nose in this first instance the record isn't good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
Pensions Or Gravy

There is much current local discussion of Waterburys Municipal Pension Plan embodied in the charter change the Governors desk awaiting approval Most of the talk naturally originates with those directly affected by it or those who would make political football of it. Knowing the complicated mathematical and actuarial problems in volved, may we'll wonder how many of qualified to grasp it's full import.
 It should be n-partisan matter, wholehearted effort by the people of the city, through their government to provide reasonable retirement benefits and security to faithful public servants Long of service and attain ment of retirement after which their efficiency would decline, merit such benefits
 Curbsone gossip would indicate that local Repoticians trying to the pension program to stir up dissent They to forget their haordnary share in it's sponsorship their representation the Statenaed mission and ther criticism of the existing order.
 There be political backfire of atomic bomb propor tions those who would advocate too much gravy in municipal pension plan The cost of general retirement plan for all city employees is necessarily high that the increase in taxes to meet it will be carefully weighed by homeowners and taxpayers who, incidentally, happen to be voters.
 Municipal pension programs, like those of private en- terprse be actuariay sound must pay for the added benefits Like life insurance they must be based on mathematical computation over span Of years It IS customary for the participants to contribute the equivalent of savings deposit at interest saving for rainy day.
 The people of Waterbury have the satisfaction of know ing that the proposed plan calculated by the exper fenced scientific authorities wo know the possibilities and equities of the situation If time shows what insurance people call unavorable experience there is no good reason why amendment would not be in order.
 To most of the full importance of this plan is large order for sitting little consideration by city employees ard homeoWnlng taxpayers coupled with careful study or fence after it is in operation may we'll convince most of us that we like the flavor of it. We may conclude it is fa reasonable, equitable and meritorious program
 None of likes to grow old Some do not like to pro- vide in the present for the days of Autumn and Winter which always lie ahead. Nonetheless it is wise or woman and wise community which does so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
A BURP FOR THE HAYS OFFICE

(New Haven Journal-Courier)
 An emphatic burp might appro-. priately describe the reaction of most Americans to the recent an- nouncement that the Will H. Hays office has declined to approve the documentary European war film, ''The True Glory" because occas- ional words of profanity are on the sound track. As most readers know the Hays office is the censor1ng agency for f1lmland.
 Most people know, too, that "The True Glory" represents the collec- tive efforts of some 1400 camera men who followed Allied armies through the mud and blood of France and adjacent nations to Berlin. Many of the cameramen were killed in action in the effort to provide. through pictures and sound, the story of how victory was won. Our belief is that most Amer jeans want to see that historic record-the record that the Hays office will keep from them if 1t has its way.
 This, of course, does not condone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
By Bill Cunningham

today that he has great personal affection for the British war leader as we'll
 Winant said he saw Churchill in every crisis of the war. He was with him when the Hood blew up. when Singapore fell, when the British took tneir every bitter blow Never once he said did the brtlsn leader finch nor to lose his conviction that victory would come This was all in answer to ques- Eons of mine about Churchill the man and had nothing to do with politics.
 This was social visit not an interview and the only opinions expressed were about personalities, not policies Winant spoke in very high terms of Clement Attlee and was especially complimentary concerning the new British foreign minister, Ernest Beyin ne said he knows Bevin intimately and that if he nad to characterize him in three words they'd be-cour- age, sincerity and loyalty
 While he was talking about Churchill. however. hsvs he the ssa te foer and his wife are obviously still sweethearts. They aren't bored with each other They still are in love- The Churchill children he said consider tner % la.nss him and he gives it back to them Family dinner at the Churchills is a delightful experience in seeing what closely knit @ family can be- he saio % ks ssr ss and Sullivan. The daughters will take 1t up ana they'll all go right through to the end.
 The ambassador who's had ringsde seas .sss..a ~ to Gen. Marshall our chief of staff, and likewise to Gen. Eisenhower. Autographed portraits Of potn gentlemen were on his desF close to where we were enjoying our coffee and cigars.
 1 told him heard . ranking student oS United States military history say that Marshau D ou! greatest chief of staff since George Washington ana Is possibly greater than Washington. The ambassa~ dor said he wouldn't necessarily confLne the com. parIson to United States history that Gen. AaFsnsn h probably the greatest in the history of the world
 saw digests of American press cpnion on tns recent election. Much of it Was deeply concerned. can't find anybody here who expects to see Lord Nelson take . swan dive into the Thames from tne top Of his lofty pillar nor hls famous Hon slink away with hls tail between his legs hecause labour. e they opoi over here. has gona n. Why don't 70 Wnit and aee This is sheiE bahg nn' TT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
The Roof Has Caved In

Hakko Ochiu-iterally translated from the Japanese that all the world is similar to eight under roof and the roof is Japan (We presume the benev olent jantor is the honorable Hirohito.)
 Which brings to the point that the superiority myth of the aps but of many indications of the fact that Japans unconditional surrender necessary world security.
 Sressng the dangerous insuarity of such creeds are the following quotes from of her statesmen which of trend when stop to realize that her government has attempted to put such beliefs into effect
 Japan is the sole nation qualified to convey to the world the blessings of the Way of the SageKng said by Fuwasa Professor at the Oriental Cultural College
 War is the Father of Creation and Mother of Culture as stated in Japanese Ministry of War pamphlet.
 These and many other similar contentious must be ob liberated if possible from the Japanese mind the peace loving people of the world to enjoy such state in the postwar world.
 Coupled with these ideologies been such malicious vncibty her ngo aggressivenesS of the past centuries her crimes of debauchery and savagy her economic expoaons her fostering of the drug and white slavery traffic. These are but to name some.
 From such far distant Waterbury it is un- common for to be thoroughly acquainted with such traits and deeds of enemy mentioned here We think of the Japs in terms of her soldiers and their military tons We often fail to place equally level pedestal the evil background of her economic social and religious life
 We pressing her hard these days with the night marish atomic bombs and the attack by Russia She is doomed to defeaand if she doesn't say quits soonto de- strucon We must remember her past in the considera tions of her future. hard peace is imperative.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
EDUCATIONAL NIGHTMARE
(The Bridgeport Post)

(1ne bIlQSCpOIt 3OoO
 Occasional glances at the coun- try's educational picture will show one significant thing: Educators are continually preparing and offering new courses, more so than ever be- fore, in an attempt to meet the par ticular needs which have been thrust forward as result of world shaking events. Before 1889 we in this country were moving along more or less complacently, except for the ramif1cations of the New Deal, not dreaming that we were eventually to become involved in the greatest of all wars.
 We had no idea of the emergen- cies which were to be suddenly thrown into our faces, and still less understanding of our vital relation ship to the outside world. We had among us large numbers of people who believed that the two giant oceans were ample security for us for evermore, and that we could toddle along minding our own bus mess at least for the next hundred years.
 Since that time, however, lot of water has flowed over the dam, and our young people have been sub- jected to some of the worst shocks and upheavals any young genera ton has had to face. Among those shocks have been the blows to edu- cation, some of which knocked it out altogether, while others were suddenly switching it from cultur- al studies to speedy, practical pro- duction.
 Now the question is, what will the young people who are able to con- tinue their educations want? What will their parents want them to study? What will be the greater pub lie demand? In what direction will the tremendous events of the past few years turn the country? In what way can education meet the need and serve its fundamental pur- poses?
 Educators are trying to find out the answers to these and other questions, and in the meantime they are coming forward with new courses, prepared with today's na- tion-wide and world conditions clearly in mind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
Views Of The Press

profanity for profonity's sake. But certainly it is silly, and insulting to imply that the feelings of most Americans are so delicate that they cannot listen to and see the sound and picture record made at the price of thousands of American and Allied fighting men. The Hays office is making itself ridiculous by the stand it has taken, apparently with out the realization that neither it, nor anything else of human content, can survive long in the face of ridicule.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

 2250O00. killing 65,585 people and injuring S6175 And these figures are from the London Civil Defense Area files.
 This Americans holiday here started with a luncheon with U s. Ambassador John G. Winant. He hasn't been home for eight Christmasses. He's evidently relaxing little, too At least in the matter of more comfortable living. During the war years he said he slept in room over his office at the embassy because his day started at a. m. due to the various differences in tme He said he used to begin 1t in his bathrobe and slippers. The embassy is an impressive looking building that dominates 0rovenor Square, historical location of embassies and ambassadors. What used to be the Japanese embassy is down the next corner. De- servedly enough it was whacked by a bomb and Is weary looking piece of untenanted property at the moment. Mir. Winants new place Is extremely inc teresting It's the property of Q friend of winston Churchills and 1t was originally the stable of his huge town house hard by. But with the passing of stables he fitted t up as private rookery for hinn- self.
 Portraits of his ancestors. many of them famous in British history, hang on the walls Bronzes of the Sculptor Claire eheridan including one of the young and boyish Churchill are along the window ledees and in other places Of prominence. Churchill has often been there He1l probably still 60 there for there's very warm personal frlendehip between Churchill and Winant. atufally their professional relations were unusually close through the var ona it Wns evident from the ambasseacEs conversation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

land hayfield to unleash 100000 troops along the Siberian border.
 Next came the second atomic bomb, the Japanese surrender, and so on--untl have concluded that was right after all, and should have taken vacation. But being only IS miles from Washington, am going back to work-at least intermittently.
 However, there is one advantage to being out in the Maryland countryside where the phone doesn't ring every five minutes and folks are interested in other things besides what change President Truman will make next in his cabinet You can get clearer perspective of today's tremendous events and what they mean to future mankind.
 have been thinking, for instance about the history of war. In the old days, wars didn't hurt SC many people. Knights in armor had their tilting jousts Fair ladies applauded Those who could afford 1t sailed off to the Crusades. Wars were more local ized, affected fewer people, and that they dragged on for years without people rising up and revolting.
 Then, gradually, wars got so they affected almost every man, woman and child. Actually we in this country were the first to practice total warfare When Sherman marched through Georgia for the express purpose of destroying the ability of the South the same principle as the atomic bomb It took him longer to root out the agriculture the industry, the economic structure of the South but the objective was just the same.
 Then Tn world war ana now world war II, we went on to bigger better, and more fendish instru- ments for spreading destruction, until today the civilian population suffers most of all
 No longer. as in days of old when knights were bold, do the men who make war go out and fight the wars which they create. They stay behind in bombproof shelters with their charts and their tel ephones, while vast conscript armies of men who have no choice in the matter, plus their women and children who starve and are bombed out behind them do the fighting and the dying.
 So now. as of Aug 5, the day we dropped our first atomic bomb on Japan, we have reached the point in warfare which was absolutely inevitable, the point at which either we stop going to war mankind reaches its own end.
 Already scientific planners for the next war had been working secretly on such weird things as bases on the moon from which they could launch huge
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

This was really a front-line town for five terrible years. It came under fire in August. 1940, and the last rocket borsb hurtled out of the sky onto Orpington at 4:54 p. m. March 27. 1945. kill- ing one person and wounding g. Tn the meanwhile and in three phases-the blitz, the VI and V2, plus the piggyback planes-the Germans rained 75,000 tons of sud- den death down upon England. destroying. beyond repair. more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

recent incidents illustrate the point.
 A recent charge that the Army was taking railroad battalions and converting them into combat ar- tillery seemed worth checking. The charge was made by Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation. Its apparent purpose was to show that the War Department was resisting efforts to get experi- enced railroad operations men dis n1a ~vnI f~Av-a %I.A n~vnaAA rn~,vSna-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

'sst EWitnins day, decided to take a vacation.
 But what a time to take a vacationI
 Out of all the days in the year, President Truman chose the first day of this alleged vacation to announce the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Japan.
 Then Joe Stalin, after keeping the world waiting three years, chose the exact moment when this ex-typewriter-pounder was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
Scene

LONDON, Aug. 13-Londoners are bouncing back with remarkable resiliency.
 It's hard to exaggerate what the London citizen went through in this war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
Waterbury Of The Past

25-Years Ago
 State guard units were encamped ct Mantle in annual summertime maneuvers.
 Unemployment in Waterbury was beginning to rear its ugly head.
 15.Years Ago
 An automobile stealing wave kept the police department busy.
 Three cars in a garage on East Main street were damaged in c fire which burned the building to the ground.
 5.Years Ago
 Mayor scully endorsed Wilbur |. Cross for the Democratic guberna. tUrial nomination.
 b2o job placements were made |rere by tho iocal State Employ |ment ssvice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
The Firing. Line
 By D. N. T..

The White House has ordered junketing congressman to pay their own transportation bills unless their trips are authorized by specific res olution.-New item.
 THE CONSEQUENCE Oh, how will Congress roll on To sundry shores and distant For chores on which the solon Has always been insistent? Are all our funds so scanty- .. A thought that well may fret us That congressman must ante A head of travel lettuce
 To get from here to wonder, From home to foreign station, When feeling they must ponder Upon a foreign nation?
 Will congressman be rooted. Nor scan our far defenses
 To tell what others booted. Because of the expenses? The answer, the solution: Atlantic or Pacific,
 They'll go by resolution And it will be specific.
 Point values on all cuts of beef, lamb and veal are being reduced. It's 3 long pull, of course, but be- fore you know it, you'll be cooking them i'm a nice little sauce made of gasoline, soap flakes and nyIon.
 Thousands of American soldiers will spend furloughs in Switzerland this summer, each paying $35 for a weeks vacation. That's one coun- try where the old question of choos- ing between the beach and the mountains is purely academic.
 That rotation train, in which re- deploying soldiers take turns sitting up in the coaches and sleeping in the Pullmans may be working out OK, but we'd sure hate to be a deck of cards on it.
 A large grocery chain is sponsor ing campaign to discover the ideal chicken. Almost anyone would be willing to supply the information gratis; it's the one they bring to the party at the next table.
 Public members of the War Labor Board tentatively propose to ease the wage controls that have obtain ed, by and large, during the war. We want to see it, though; what this country needs is Little Cellophane Formula.
 And now comes the report that three WAVES are going to teach at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The situation is be- coming alarming: we foresee the day when a raging Army man will storm through the line and into the backfield, only to be confronted with an adversary not subject to tackle.
 They're talking about transport ing race horses to Maryland and Florida tracks by boat, in order to get around the ban on transporta- tion by train. Imagine . four legged railbird!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
Merry Go Round

GAITHERsBURG. Md.-In weak moment this writer yielded to the importunng of the wife. and after five straight years of pounding out column every day, Sunday, Fourth of July. Christmas and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-In these uncertain times of reconversion it behooves responsible public off, cials in charge of this shift from war to peace to know what they're talking about or else hush up Two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
A Thought for Today

Let deceive himself If seemh to be wise in this world let him become fool that he be wise Corinthians 3:18. Tennyson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

Already scientific planners for the next war had been working secretly such weird things as bases on the moon from which they could launch huge rocket bombs on any nation; plans which would
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-06-04

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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-06-04

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Evening star., 1945-08-16
Victory
Continued From First Page

the Capital should begin planning
for the event.
A similar celebration was held in
the months following the close of
the last war, but this Victory Day
will be on grander scale, because
this war was bigger by far and in
volved the most colossal forces in
the country's history.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
and Chairman Connally of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations COMMITTEES
summed up the feeling Of congress
sional leaders who could be reached
during the vacation recess.
II think such a celebration in the
Nations Capital would be most ap-
|propriate," Senator Barkley told
The Star. cit should be held at q
time when the boys who have
fought and won this greatest of all
wars are able to participate, which
probably would mean some months
after hostilities ceased"
Senator Barkley pointed out that,
while great parades undoubtedly
will be held in New York and other
cities, he believed that the Capital
City should be the center of a Vic
tory Day on national scale. One
Of the features, he felt, should be a
military and naval parade, with ap-
propriate ceremonies at the Capitol
The victory of the United States
and its Allies" said Senator Con-
nally, "is an outstanding event In
all history. It should be celebrated