The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
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 NewsphOtOg Joe ROsenthaPs un. forgettable shot of the Marines al Two Jima raising the Stars anc Stripes atop Mt. Suribachi rates tho acclaim it has received. The photo is a classic However, most ho. cus-focuS dare-devils seldom receive the recognition their exploits de. serve. As an illustration, there! the story of AP photog Karl J. Eckelund: Some years ago he photo. graphcd the Jap entry into Canton Then he started hiking toward Hong Kong-which had facilities fol transmitting his pix to America. Or the way bandits fleeced him of his money, clothing and camera, but he managed to salvage the films Eckelund swam two rivers. Snipers bullets whizzed past his skull many times. But he was finally forced to return to Canton. Through il all he preserved his pix. They were published in American newspaper; months later without comment Most gaZettes didn't credit Ecke- fund for taking those photos!
 There Is a cOffee-pOt owner 1r town who has this sort of sensa- yuma c.. At 11:45 nightly he raises . photo of Jimmy Byrnes. The pro- ceeding is done in a solemn manner ,. Very curfunereal, too.
 License Commissioner Paul Moss of N. Y. c. recently banned play called Trio" because of its theme |. . Perhaps MT. Moss should read the words he wrote for the 1914 amy issue of Variety, to wit:
 Tt is not a matter of censorship or personal views as to what is decent or moral, but rather that a public official should be tolerant liberal and mindful of the tendenc; of the times"
 We've heard it for a few years Chis time the story goes: That the Treasury Dept is very sensitive :. .)ver 1872 billion dollars in currency cached in safe-deposit boxes, vaults etc., by black-marketeers, tax-dodg- CTS. etc. :. The govt Git is rumoreO Intends bringing this money out from under cover (perhaps within the next two months or so) by call- ing in all big paper money-as well ~as fifty and hundred dollar notes :. To be replaced by new cur- rrency with an orange-yellow tinted overprint .. After the deadline date owners of the old hidden stacker money" will have to answer many questions.
 .. A letter to the editor in one ga. zette claims that one of our re- cent paragraphs was unfair to la bor and chideS us for not raising our voice against industrialiSts who obstruct the war effort The paragraph in question blasted John L. Lewis-but pointed out that the miners claims were justified We have also raised our voice against industrialist Sewell Avery. .. Only a few days ago the same paper revealed that labor leaders hao lauded this newsboy as one of the few who always treated labor fairly. a Note for peacemakers: Nazi crim- inals are attempting to crawl through loopholes in international law by alibiing that they were merely tools for higher-ups Remember when Goebbels urged Nazs to lynch American fly CTS? The following is an excerpt from his blood-tnirsty address American flyers can not invoke the. fact tthat they were obeying orders from higher-ups for there is no ar- ticle of war that stipulates that a soldier guilty Of vile action is guilt less by the simple fact that he wa% obeying superior" .. The quote can be found in a New York news. paper of May 27, 1944.
 Our Wrist Skipping Dept: The Army has decided that Nazi war prisoners must accept substitutes for foods on the critical shortag: .list--just like civilians. Imagine that! By heck, 1t is sad com- mentary on the Army's handling of war prisoners when tough" treat sment consists of feeding them like civilians It should be remem' oered that civilian menus are su- oerior to the food American sol- diers in the front lines have!
 :. Movieville Stuff: Hollywood has always been burdened with a short age of acting skill. But what do they do with talented thespians? Among the supporting cast of Lau- rel and Hardy,s latest double -fea- ture bait are Mary Roland and Philip Merivale-two of the thea ,ers finest believers.
 Memo for a Scrapbook: This is one of the most delightful bits oi literary lace we have ever come across. It is by author Susan Ertz. So calm and settled was the day that it seemed its beauty must be universal. One imagined that the blue sky stretched and stretched un- til it covered the whole surface of the globe with a seamless mantle. Far out in the Atlantic on such a day, a petal might lie as quietly as upon duck pond; wheat would be standing motionless in the great 'aimmering fields of Kansas; the