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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

One of the Legislative proposals to
limit the Federal Income Tax rate is
Joint resolution before Congress propos-
inc an Amendment to the Constitution to
limit the maximum income tax rate to
25 per cent. There is no end of sugges-
tons in Congress that some sort of cell
ing should be placed on these income tax
rates. But when newspaper man looks
them all over, he is unable to find any
answer to this great question of the
future.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Current Comment

The war cannot last much longer
nj myl opinion. We have sunk very
low. -Goebbels.
We cannot build the world of to-
morrow on hate, however much
apparent ground there may be for
hate.
DIR. J. E. Morgan, editor The
Journal, National Education As
ISOLATION.
We cannot have prosperity in the
United States if the rest of the
world is sunk in depression and
poverty.
Secretary Of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr.
The only way we can win the
peace is to promote economic secur-
ity throughout the world.
Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of
California.
Whatever the views of others
may be, I feel certain there will be
much hard fighting before the Ger
mans are forced to lay down their
arms.
-Undersecretary of War Robert
P. Patterson.
When the war is over we shall
face task almost as great in mag
nitude, though happily different in
kind, from the war effort itself.
We shall be short of almost every
kind of thing that people need to
use and wear.
John Wilmot, parliamentary Sec
rotary British Ministry OF Sup
ply.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

gives a terse analysis of the prcb-
lem of blighted areas that every city
dweller, every New Yorker in par
ticular, should read. The bill re-
moves constitutional doubts as to
the rights Of the cities to acquire
land for purposes Of clearing and
replanning substandard districts.
The Governor holds that 'munici-
palities should have the right to
repian and reconstruct their own
blighted areas" and that they
should have it free from narrow re-
strictions. His memorandum touches
briefly on the social evils which
make slum reclamation imperative.
1t makes clear that the economic
grounds for eliminating blight are
as compelling. The existence of
these areas" the Governor writes,
speeds the movement of popula-
tons out of the city, leaving the
developed sewers and public util-
tiles, streets, schools, police and fire
houses a waste behind them"
The bill was no doubt occasioned
by Comptroller Joseph D. McGold-
risks proposal that the city acquire
and rezone blighted areas adjacent
to Brooklyn's replanned civic center.
However, it is addressed to the far
broader issue Of municipal re-
sponsibility, and specifies no par
ticular project. 1t very properly
leaves the choice of areas to be
acquired and the uses to which
they are to be put with local author
tiles. 1T must be assumed the
Governor says, that the municipal
authorities will use the power (of
condemnation) responsibly and in
the public interest" Mr.. McGold-
rick also has the broader issue in
mind The City Planning Commits
sion, he suggests, is equipped and
in a position to designate for re-
development slum areas in many
parts Of the city. 1t is the prospect
of such Wholesale development
that makes this purely permissive
bill both salutary and timely.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

CIldU w e T e ever
held before. In
a d d i t i o. to a
C GU p e hundred
honest = to - gosh
W ork in G news
people, an equal
number of lobby
lists and the idle
curious drift in,
making the whole
affair a fantastic
mob scene rom
some bad dream.
At Foreign Sec
r e t a + y V. M.
Molotov's first i'll
tnry,iouy ~, G q y,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

Jones executives Though the
Russians suspected a deal be-
tween the Nazis and U. S. to let
American troops get to Berlin
first, real facts are these: HitleI
and Nazi leaders had 5ci.t 1heii
most fanatical party members 20
the Eastern Front to block the
Russians. Regular German Of
ficers, frequently at odds with
Nazi fanatics, we're on the west.
ern front facing U. S. and British
troops. The Nazi leaders had
refused to let the German High
Command capitulate several
months before. So with the Hit
lerites busy in the East, German
regulars had no objection to sur
rendering in droves in the West.
Copyright, 1945, by
The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Your Health
Bv DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per-
sonal health and hygiene. not to
disease, diagnosis Of treatment,
will be answered by DIR. Brady II
a stamped self-addressed envelope
;s enclose, Letters should be brief
and written in ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address Dr.
william Brady, National News
naper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago. Ill.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

False peace rumors failed to upset
Waterbury, The reaction last Saturday
was not that of a rabble-loving people.
There were those who were willing TO
celebrate, but the majority of people &C
copied the news calmly and soberly.
When you still have loved ones IN the
thick of fighting, you don't go IN much
for shouting or reveling.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Press Conference
Screwballs
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA WASH
ingtOn Correspondent

San Francisco, May - At nearly
every press conference held thus
far in connection with this United
Nations love feast, some screwban
has popped up with trick question
that darn near wrecked the pro-
ceedings.
Of course these press conferences
aren't like any press conferences
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Daily Almanac

Moon rises :57 p m (war time)
Sun rises $50 a. m; sets 7:48 p. m. (war
time)
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes after sunset.
Moons phases-last quarter May 5, :54
a. M; new moon. May H. Alb p, M; first
quarter, May 49, 6:04 p M; full moon, May
g. 9:41 p. m. (war time)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Selected Poem
THE BARN AGAINST THE SKY

THE BARN AGAINST THE SKY
(Helen Eckert in The Christian Science Monltor)
The barn against the sky
was strong and sturdy.
It had buffeted many wind
Its tin roof shone there in the sun
and the silver cock spun jauntiy on the vane.
The barn stood on the land,
it gazed proudly over the land;
the lands acres and seasons brought wealth to its
mows and bins.
The clouds rolled above it, the blue sky was bank
above it,
moon spattered silver on its roof.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
NOW SEE HERE, STUPID

We were going along happily
with no serious rows for the noncs
and not more than a few doze
matters put over to be ATTENDED I,
tomorrow and omorrow-seems az
tho there are more tomorroWs III
nv program than should clutter up
a. well ordered life-when this re-
buke from graduate nurse ooo'
bed up:
"You are very unfair and un--
kind in your attitude toward
Graduate nurses. You said that
less than ten percent of gradu-
ate nurses can write a letter
that reflects better education
than that of a person with one
year of high school. had four
years of high school and one
year of college - but we don't
spend three years learning how
to write letters-the things we
learn in nurse training school
are nursing procedures, how to
follow doctors roders, how to
make the patient comfortable.
Incidentally I detest letter
WTlUlIS
But you write a mean letter, lady
Darned if I can find a wee little
fault in it. Except, of course, your
unfair and unkind attitude toward
health column conductors.
My purpose in commenting upon
the poor spelling, punctuation and
form of letters I have received from
graduate or registered nurses II Is
to show that, after all, more than
two years of highschool work does
not necessarily make a young Wo-
man filter to study nurs!7'~ than Is
a girl who has had only "a or two
years of highschool education. I'd
selecty the II or 10 or 20 year old
girl who could write a good letter,
in preference to the college girl who
couldn't, no matter how little high
school work the girl may have had,
as a girl fit to study nursing.
I have the highest regard for
nurSes-I married one once, and
I'd do it again if I could find one
as lively-What am I saying-1 was
trying to explain that the hospital
racketeerS play 'scurvy trick on
pupil nurses, keeping them a full
year in bondage to the hospital
after they have really become per-
fectly qualified to practice nursing
If girl good nurse after two
years of hospital training she never
will be good nurse.
A Rare Treat
We visited your city three months
ago and we stopped to watch lot
of men playing lawn bowls. One of
them pointed you out to us. Well
have to revise the picture of ''Ol"
Doctor Brady which you have man.
aged to fix in our minds. Here
after We'll think of you as cheer
full young man who gets from his
bowling more fun than barrel
of monkeys. IL. H
Answer-Yes, sir, on the bowling
green I talk a fine game.
Save Your Hands
My hands itch terribly, and crack
open and bleed, mostly in the
palms. MRS. L. L.
Answer-For the hands of per-
sons whose work involves handling
solvents, strong soap, alkalis, etc,
a few drops of mixture Of equal
parts Of fresh caster oil and lanolin
should be applied to the we'll
washed and dry hands just before
beginning work, again just after
finishing work. The itching and the
fact hiatt the trouble is on the
palms would suggest that yours may
be type Of ringWorm or funglS
infection (foot itch). For pampn-
let about foot itch (Which some
times affects other areas of skim
send stamped envelope bearing your
address. Do NOT send a clipping.
Copyright 1915 by John F. Ollie Co.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
GREEN LIGHT FOR
REPLANNING

New York Herald Tribune
Governor Dewey's memorandum
on signing the Desmond Mitchell
bill to facilitate slum clearance
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
A CANADIAN ASKS
A SILLY ONE

Fortunately, not all the silly ques-
tons come from this country. 1t
was a Canadian, an eX-memeer of
Parliament named G j. Carrick, of
Ottawa, who threw the monkey
wrench at the British Deputy Prime
Minister, Clement Attlee, at Attlee's
press conference earlier in the week.
Noting a line in biographical
sketch put out by the British Min
istry of Information, saying that
Attlee had been influenced by the
views of John Ruskin, this Carrick
got up and asked Attlee his present
opinion of quote from Ruskin
which began, when tell you that
war is the foundation of all the arts,
1 mean also it is the foundation of
all the high virtues
The reporters tried to howl Car
rick down, but he went on undaunt-
ed: The common notion that peace
and the virtues of civil life flourish
ed together, I found to be wholly
untenable found that all
great nations learned their truth
of thought in war"
And so on. Imagine this at a con-
ference to end wars!
SEATING OF THE GENTLEMEN
OF THE PRESS
Never was there such a press GAL
lery as this. Gallery is right! First,
second, and third gallery. Only
few of the photographers are al
lowed on the delegates floor. Wire
services, spot radio men and news
reels are in the boxes. Special cor
respondents are in the tier above
them, and up under the roof is an
assortment of legitimate but dis
grunatled foreign correspondents,
string correspondents from every
shopping news throwaway on the
west coast, contributors to unheard-
OF labor weeklies in the east, liter
arily inclined ladies with social
backgrounds who wheedled some
publisher to send them out here,
and - no kidding even a girl
reporter from the magazine of the
Junior League.
Well, it all adds to the merriment
and they're all welcome in this free
country with a free press.
A bird isn't supposed to foul his
own nest, and casting aspersions on
some of the colleagues isn't a nice
thing to do. But the U. S. press is
on exhibition at this conference and
lot of the shoWoffs in the business
aren't doing it any good. The wild
predictions about what's going to
happen and the utterly irresponsible
exporting by amateurs and coocoos
pouring millions of words out on
this conference, seemingly with in
tent to put it III the worst possible
light in order to make it fail, GER
talnly don't reflect any credit on
the once-proud fourth estate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Says New chutes Not Yet Issued Combat pots
SoIon Aid Held for Aock Marshall Aims War;
Visitin Crock at Ia Luce.
BY
DREW PEARSON

this dealt with the refreshing at
example to peacestr-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

Francisco, one of the few he has
ever given, a smart alecx Broadway
columnis5 bobped up to ask the dis
tinguished leader of the Soviet
Russian delegation whether he pro-
nounced 1t vodka" or vodka
Now this would undoubtedly rate
as a cute trick in night club in
New York or Hollywood. But at a
United Nations Conference the gag
fell flat as one of the contest cracks
ever uttered. Obviously annoyed,
Molotov broke off the interview
with a number of other more i'm
portant questions still unasked.
This kind of monkey business
gives the American press an awful
black eye, but some of the hacks in
this business never seem to learn.
With the press corps accredited
to the conference now numbering
1875, while the delegates and ad-
visers number only 1920, there is
now one and forty-tWo one-hun-
dredthS of neWshound present
for every official. This makes the
publicity delegation itself something
worth COVERING
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-01

Copyright, 1945, by
The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Although half the Uord apart they're still "0VOrkng Ogeher

TIHERE'S a lot more difference between
Il India and Indiana than is represented by
spelling and geography.
No one knows this better than u. s. Army
Sergeant Roman Kowalski, now sweating
it OUT as a radio operator in the steaming
Obi theater, thousands of miles from his COM
Portable home in South Bend.
q Until September, 1912, when he entered
the armed forces, this young man had been a
team mate of his father on Studebaker auto
motive assembly line. And the two have con-
tinued to work together" for victory because
the father has been busy building Wright
Cyclone engines for the Flying Fortress in a
Studebaker Aviation Division plant.
One reason for the exceptional endurance
of Studebaker cars and trucks is the quality
of the craftsmanship which family teams such
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26
'I sent for Haym SaIomon- .
Meaningless English

Obsc,Irity now parades as
profundity.
Crusty pedantry now masks
itself as learning.
Freudian inSanities now are
called mysticism.
To write clearly. tersely and
simply is 10 be stamped child
iSh."
There is an idea afoat that
all is chaos" all is anarchy
that we approach universal
paranoia. So many writers try
to mirror their age" by being
as obscure. as muddled. as jab-
berwocky as things seem.
Now If you want to read the
last word in befuddlement, OBJ
scurity. pedantic rubbish, ''mys-
ticaf' yelping and meaningless
English. / recommend the 619
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26

pages Of a poem" entitled
Tail" by Jeremy ingalls,
(KnopO. It's Marry DOatS
come back TO us.
Chanticleer crowed. The sun
rose. Therefore Chanticleer con-
cluded that his Growing caused
sunrise. That's what we call
''free-will."
The most important and
trouble-making question OF all
time Is this: Is man free, has he
free will. or Is he subject to
fatal laws. -decrees Of Cod"
kiSmet!
Judge Jerome Frank In one
OF the most brilliant, learned,
witty and specious philosophi-
Cal books of the present time
has the hardihood To tackle this
subject once again-"Fate and
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26
No FriIIs Of Style

That sort of thing the re-
volt of the individual soul
against the mass, against au-
|thority always gives me a
thrill. Rene Kuhn has no fancy
|frkApf style, no Freudian frib-
|bt PThis is her first novel and
iii Sa good one.
A few weeks ago, in this de-
|partment, i put in a boost for
Henry David Thoreau for the
Hall OF Fame when the election
comes up, next October. IT is
incredible that neither Tom
Paine nor Thoreau (nor Emily
Dickinson is numbered Off
'cially among our "ImmortalS."
Nov there's another great
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26
Wilson a Pedant

The divinization Of Wilson
the FALLEN warrior" the
savior OF the world" and all
hat kind Of ackermerackusl is
citing pretty smelly.
Wilson was a pedant. a
|ook-soaked egomaniac who
hould never have been let out
II Princeton. There isn't a
|cintilla OF evidence that our
|ntry into the League OF Ma
lions would have prevented
World War III. There is every
|eason to believe, in my midget
hind. that IL would have has
|ened world war. for the mill
Ia hugs Of Europe and Asia
EiAklways go places" when
hey know that Uncle Sam and
bis bottomless treasury and his
'inexhaustible resources" are
With them
But, this time. they'll get US.
SO, Woodrow Wilson can thank
lis stars he's not president
how. for he'd be led 10 the
Stain barbecue by the hair.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26
Revolt Of Youth

We are all born in a strait
ack parental thou-shalt-
bots, religious dogmas. conven-
ional morality, call il what we
Eill. If We attempt TO get out
bf these molds, we are branded
thereto" rebel" anarchist"
I have always looked on the
Revolt of Youth as the greatest
bf literary themes. and IL is on
his text that Rene Kuhn has
built fine, simple. honest. un-
Rarnished tale-"34 Charlton"
kAppleton-Ccntury).
II Is. specifically. the revolt
|T pew Greenwich Village
against the staid old village OF
rules and regulations. but IL
tells a far more universal tale
That Of katherine Conan
Throwing her hat over the mill
|hnd genteeIy thumbing her nose
Bat her "Ohi God-hclD-us"
Family. Katherine falls in love
with an artist fellow in the vii
page, of course. and we leave
|her on the way TO his studio at
might.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26

hat It's about how Wilson
hd the League Of Nations
OF their come uppanee from
he American people In 1920
and helped to do it).
Well. here's the whole sob
(ory over again in Thomas A.
Failey's Woodrow Wilson and
he Great Betrayal" Mac
fillan). Bailey. I'll admit. has
|one a good. although senti-
hental. but. In the main. a fair
job.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26

American-although, like Paine
and William Penn. the latter of
VIII Om is in the Hall of Fame.
he was not born here-who
ought to go into the Hall. I
mean Haym Salomon. the pa
triotic Jew from Poland who
did so much TO finance the
American Revolution.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26
The Great Betrayal Tells Again
&ob Story of Woodrow Wilson

HERE old wheeze that you have probably heard to
wit: you wandering around idly IN any forest in
Europe (before the war; and you tall old with long,
ray whskers, seated tree stump all alone in silent
edtaon and with thick stick his hand 1t would always
e the king OF Sweden.
And So if you the title page of a book something
bout the Great Betrayal" you bet all your red points
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-26
The Fighting Jew

I've been reading the amaZ-
Ing ana exhilarating story of his
life again In The Fighting Jew"
by Ralph Nunberg tForeword
by 0lrs Ress). published by the
Creative Age Press. This is the
story Of the Jews in waF from
Old Testament days until to-
day. Every anti-Semitic should
read IL II is good for what
ails him.
SaloEnon was a fugitive from
the British In New York and
escaped to Philadelphia, where
he even stopped Yom Kippur
services In the synagog 10 col-
leet money for Robert Morris.
WaShington's superintendent Of
finance. In Morris notebooks
there are these words over and
over.
sent for Haym SalOm0n-"
And Salomon never failed.
He should 60 into the Hall Of
Fame, Mrs Angel. Not only
does he belong there but what
a gesture that would be 10 the
anti-Semites and Eazi-Bunders
among US!
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-13
NEGRO PHYSICIANS
ON RED CROSS
HEALTH BOARD

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANP).
Appointment of two Negro ply
sicians and a Negro nurse to an
advisory board on health services
to coordinate activities of the
American Red Cross in the health
field has been announced by Basil
O'Connor, national Red Cross chair
man.
The two men are William Roder-
ick Brown Jr., Md, Pittsburgh,
and John w. Chenault, Md, Tuske-
gee. The woman is Mrs. Marion B.
Seymour, assistant director of nurs-
es, Freedman's hospital, Washing
ton, D. c.
The committee consists of 109
men and women from 25 states and
the District of Columbia, represent
ing every speciality in the field of
health. In addition to physicians and
nurses, dentists, health educators,
medical and psychiatric social work
ers, hospital administrators, med
ical publicists, nutritionists, pedia-
tricians, public health administrat-
ors, and sanitary engineers have
been included.
The new group was appointed as
a result of a recommendation made
by a special medical and health sur
vey committee which Mr.. O'Connor
named in October, 1914, to study
Red Cross health programs and
make recommendations. Chairman
of the board is Lewis H. Weed, Md,
of Baltimore, who is also chairman
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-13
10 RED CROSS AIDS GO
TO PHILIPPINES, EUROPE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANP).
The American Red Cross has an
nounced the assignment of 10 Negro
workers to assist American troops
Sweating it out" in the Philippines
and another to the European thea
ire, bringing the total of Negro
workers abroad to 270. The new as
sistant field directors and staff as
sistants are: James Larry Gaines,
indianapolis, assistant field direct
or, Philippines; Roy c. Gibson,
Lockland, O., assistant field direct
or, Philippines; Dorothy w. Chance,
Washington, staff assistant, Philip
pines; Virginia o. Collier, Railway,
N. j., staff assistant, Philippines;
Jessyca P. Divers, Birmingham,
staff assistant, Europe; Gertrude
NJ. Hawkins, Birmingham, staff as
sistant, Philippines; Beverly Heath
Low, Chicago, staff assistant, Phil
ippines; Juanita Samuels, Atlanta,
staff assistant, Philippines; Mel
vyne L. Sanders, Chicago, staff as
sistant, Philippines; William H.
Scott Jr, New York, assistant field
director, Philippines, and William B.
Walker, Webster Groves, Mo-, as
sistant field director, Philippines.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-13

ristown where she retired in 1880.
Born in Ohio 88 years ago, she
came here from that state in 1867
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Braden. Her father was the presi-
dent of Walden college out Of which
has grown Meharry Medical college.
Known as "Miss Mammie" to her
students at Walden and Morristown,
she was described as ga perfect
Christian character" by several of
her former pupils. Her body laid in
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-13
Hollandia, N. E. I.

Hollandia, N. E. /.
We are now headed for Manos Is
lands in the Admiralty group and
after five hour layover for refuel-
ing, we will be on "our way" to San
Pedro, Calf.
Expected to make the mainland
within 16 days, after leaving Manos,
our ship is manned by the Navy.
All GIs are berthed together, re-
gardless of race or creed-and the
same goes for eating and washing
and taking showers.
There is only one Negro officer
aboard the ship and he has been the
only Negro officer at the Casual
camp for the past six weeks.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-12-13
WHITE WOMAN, WHO
DEDICATED LIFE TO
NEGRO EDUCATION, dies

NASHVILLE, Dec. 13 (ANP). =
Miss Mary E. Braden, the white
woman who dedicated her life to
Negro education, was buried here.
She passed away Saturday at Nor