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Evening star., 1945-01-04

realize In what > narrow circle
our kind moves. You'll hnd out that
the farm boys, the Brooklyn boys
and the rest are exactly the same
as you or anybody else"
'The most pleasant part about
coming back" Mary Alice grinned,
is finding my friends exactly as /
left them. What is raaddening
though, is listening to American
women talk about hats and such. /"
A graduate of Bryn Mawr and a
tousle-headed version OF stage sue
cess, Margaret Sullivan, Mary Alice
became Red Cross staff assistant
In September, 1940, before trans
ferring to clubmobile work In South
ern England. She scrambled down
an invasion nett into her 10-wheel
clubmobile, landing from a barge
on the coast Of Normandy two
months after D-day. Mary Alice is
planning to work with veterans at
Walter Reed Hospital for the dura-
ton OF her leave. She may then
accept another overseas assignment.
Evening star., 1945-01-04
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Social Actiuities Are Varied
As Ne1U Year Gets Under Wap

Figuring prominently the social activities
the luncheon
Union Dr. Rowe honor Of the recently appointed Ambassador
Cuba, Dr. Guilemo Belt The the
those the distinguished
General Mr. Francis Bidde the
Embassy
retiring Military Aache of the Embassy Col Felipe Munia
director of the Sanitary Cumming
assistant director
Also members of this interesting
member of the urdcal Committee
Evening star., 1945-01-04
Georgia Society
Party Saturday

The Georgia State Society will
have Its first reception and dance Of
the new year Saturday night. in the
west ballroom of the Shoreham Ho-
tel beginning at 10 o'clock.
Hostesses for the party will be Mrs.
Joseph Howard, Mrs. r. G. Ellis, Mrs.
Evie Walk, Mrs. Marion Hiley, Mrs.
Lawrence Mitchell, Miss Winona
Thurston and Miss Catherine Akin.
Serving on the Floor Committee
will be Mr.. and Mrs. Carey Sutliye,
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Parker, Mr..
Marion Hiley and Mr.. Lawrence
Mitchell and Mr.. Joseph Howard.
Additional information may be OBJ
tanned from Mrs. James w. Thurs
ton, financial secretary.
Evening star., 1945-01-04
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. G.
THURSDAY. T.,
To Visit Friends

Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Kas viii
leave February l for CalifoEnia,
where they will spend monta ii
Brentwood with Mr.. and Mrs. jules
James, formerly of Washington.
1t. and Mrs. Lester G. Haas. SON
in-law and daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Kal, have taken an apartment at
$500 Woodley road following 1t.
Haas return from overseas
Mr.. Wynn Jack Kal. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Kal, has returned to his
studies at Mercersburg Academy,
after spending the holidays with his
parents. N
Evening star., 1945-01-04
Club TO Hear Poet

Robert Penn Warren, poet and
essayist, will be guest speaker at a
dinner meeting of the Arts Club at
Z pm. today. Mr.. Warren, a Rhodes
Scholar and graduate of Wander
bilt University, the University of
California and of the Yale Graduate
School, is a contributor to many
leading publications. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. r. Chapline will act as hosts.
Evening star., 1945-01-04
st. Johns College
Club Plans Dance

Plans for the annual dance spor1-
sored by members of the Mothers
Club Of st. Johns College and the
college cadets will be discussed at a
meeting of the club at 1850 pm. to-
morrow in the school auditorium,
1925 Vermont avenue NV. The
dance is scheduled to be held jan
uary rs at the Statler Hotel.
Mrs. Herye j. L'Hereux will pre-
side at tomorrow,s meeting and Mrs.
w. H. Flannery will be in charge
OF refreshments following the busi-
ness session.
Evening star., 1945-01-04
4 nnuaL Event

The past matrons and patrons OF
the Warren G. Harding Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star, will give
their annual banquet and election
of officers at the Kenesaw Saturday
evening at 7::30 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1945-01-04
Recetfi0n Planned

The Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde
has issued cards for reception
Saturday night from 9 to II o'clock,
when he will entertain in honor of
the Rev. Charles Barker Scoville Of
Fargo, N. Dak., who will be his
guest over the week end
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Sober Second Thoughts

The nation has had time to reflect on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The initial shock of his unexpected passing has worn off. We are beginning to think of the future, one that is not influenced by the presence of the one man who defled tradition, custom, precedent to become a four-time president. There are so many American ways that began with Roosevelt that this nation is sharply divided be- tween those who are Roosevelt-consciouS and those who actually hated the man. Even in the immediate hours after his death there were those in this latter class giving expression to the mob-cry.
 It wouldn't be surprising to find the United States rallying more quickly from the numbing shock of great Presidents passing than some of our allies. In far off countries the American leader was regarded as their hope and salvation in days that were to bring world peace. Even our enemies may feel encouraged now to make last-ditch stands in the hope that this nation may be so distraught as to upset military plans for quick finish Tn the European sectors and renewed Wgor in the Pacific. American resillency, our ability to meet situations like this will assert themselves
 AS naClOn we Will not 1alCer. AS nation we will not go back on President Truman who finds himself suddenly pro- jected from a more or less comfortable post in the Senate chamber to the dan- gerous task of directing nations ener- gies to successful completion of an all- out war effort, followed by the puzzle of restoring peace to world that may not be willing to accept what is offered by dominant powers. The Presidents po- sition is an unenviable one. There are few men in public life who want to be catapulted into the world scene in this fashion.
 It would seem as if those of us at home now have an additional job. We've got to keep the home front intact for the boys along the fighting front. Now we have to readjust ourselves to new leader. President Truman will try to follow the Roosevelt pattern, but he can't hope to pursue every turn and twist that Frank lin D. wove with his magic loom. He has to show himself an individual With thoughts and ideas all his own. Proving these are worthwhile, the new President will find this nation sympathetic ana eager to back him in the fight to restore this world to nornalcy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Philadelphia and San Francisco

Suppose it became known on the eve or the San Francisco Conference that all sessions would be conducted in secrecy behind locked doors, and all information kept from the press. Suppose it should also become known that all delegates would be chosen from among the wealthy, the richest among them to be the presld- ing officer.
 And suppose that, once the conference was under way, it was learned through news leaks that a lot of hard things were being said about democracy and that there was much talk about ways and means of checking any agitation for fairer distribution of wealth.
 If these incredible things came to pass, the results would be catastrophe. There would be great cry for calling the whole thing off. Cynicism would fall like pail over most of the world, and many disil- lusioned countries (this one surely among them) would probably retire into bitter isolation.
 And yet these impossible things actu- ally took place during that has come to spective of history-as one of the memor- able occasions in the history of democ- racy, the American Constitutional Con- vention of 1787.
 To recall at this time something of the proceedings of that convention, familiar as the story may be, is not to reaffirm the odiouSnesS of comparisons or to diSparage the Founding Fathers, but to find some reasSurance out of the past of the victory of good will over human frailty
 Delegates of 1787 were truly the landed gentry, and George Washington was the richest among them They did exclude press and public. They even, in the midst of deadlock, refused Benjamin Frank lin's suggestion that clergymen be called in to pray for divine guidance, for fear that the public might get wind of the conventions difficulties.
 Delegates came to Philadelphia full of sectional pride and jealousy. It took some of them longer to get to the con- vention than the most remote delegate will require this month to reach San Francisco They met to amend the Articles of Confederation. But there grew up smong them the audacious idea of doing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

something new and. by l7e7 standards. impossible.
 They were distrustful of democracy almost to man, though in varying de- grees. Most of them originally conceived of the Senate as body which, as Robert Morris said, should love to lord it through pride" They spent four hot summer months of bitterness, pickering and compromise. They did not expect perfection and they did not achieve it.
 But if the delegates at San Francisco make as good start, after their own Ses- Sions of inevitable disagreement and dis couragement, they can face the world and the future without shame or apology.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

Townsend pushed Hoosier Wick ard into the Agriculture Depart ment. Now Wickard is recipro. eating Elinor Lyon of Lily Dale, N. Y, medium who pur- ports to commune with Woodrow Wilson, recently sent Congress men message from the late World War I President. It read: Received, February g, 11:50 p. m.: Stand firm for God, home and country, sincerely, the spirit of Woodrow Wilson" Speak ing at the honorary dinner to Aubrey Williams, Secretary Wal lace said: ''I begin to suspect that Aubrey's great sin was the belief that human erosion is as import ant to combat as soil erosion Referring to Senate attacks on Williams, Republican Senator Aiken of Vermont quipped: "If one of your friends looks ahead, he is far-sighted. But If you don't like the man who is look ing ahead, he is visionary" Mayor LaGuardia, recently com- menting on the Roosevelt ad- ministration, said, "When I took over New York, it had bad gOv- ernment-bad commissioners. I fired the Commissioners. But here in Washington, they create new offices for their bad Conn missiOners."
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Typical Story

The War Price and Rationing Board in WeStf1eld, N. J., has volunteer price panel, just as similar boards do in most American communities. That is, it did have a volunteer price panel. For the other day that group of representative, public-spirited citizens resigned en bloc.
 And why? Well, not because the bureau cratS in Washington were driving honest merchants out of business, nor because OPA regulations were unfair, unenforce- able and incoherent. No, they resigned because price control hadn't worked in their territory, principally due to the diSinterest and lack of cooperation by the general public"
 Their statement told of two years effort to enlist merchant and consumer support. And it stated their conclusion that while most consumers admit that price con- trol is necessary, they are unwilling to make any personal sacrifice to make 1t work Too many people are willing to pay prices over the ceiling to obtain what they want
 A similar story might be told in almost every town and city in this country. Put them together and you would have the complete story of the black market, and most of the story of our civilian shortages.
 We may berate the OPA for it's mis- takes and unreasonableness, and much of it might be justified. But we can't dodge the fact that if people weren't will ing to pay outlandish prices to avoid the simplest wartime sacrifices, there would be fewer sacrifices asked of all concerned.
 It doesn't help to say, T don't see why I should try to help when the govern. ment has made such mess of things" The governments rationing idea is basic ally right. Cussing the OPA to salve a bad conscience is a transparent and un- worthy subterfuge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

at stake We and our Allies must go on fighting together to ulti- mate victory.
 "In the future we must never for get the lesson we have learned - that we must have friends who will work with us in pace as they have fought beside us in war.
 "It is not only common danger which unites us, but common hope Wherever men love freedom the hope and purpose of the people are for peace - a peace that is durable and secure.
 ''In our disillusionment after the last war, we preferred international anarchy to international coopera- ton with nations which did not see and did not think exactly as we did We must not let that happen again or we shall follow the same tragic road - the road to a third World War.
 Tt is true that the statement of principles of the Atlantic Charter does not provide rules of easy ap- plication to each and every one of this war-torn worlds tangled situa- tions. But it is a good and useful thing - it is an essential thing - to have principles toward which we can aim.
 We and our Allies have declared 1t is our purpose to respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live and to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those forcibly deprived of them.
 The war will not be won unless we accept our share of responsibility for the administration of occupied territories and for relief and re- mobilization in liberated areas.
 Many months of earnest work are ahead of us all, and I should like to feel that when the last stone is laid on the structure of inter- national peace, it will be an achievement toward which all of us in America have worked tirelessly and unselfishly.
 No plan is perfect. Whatever is aQopCed at San FranClSco VIII doubtless have to be amended time and again over the years. Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insist upon 1t and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
 Tn the State of the Union message last year, I set forth what I considered to be an American Bill of Economic Rights. Of these rights the most fundamental, and one on which the fulhllment of the others in large degree depends, is the right to a useful and remunera- tive job. In turn, others of the Economic Rights of American citi- zenship such as the right to a de- cent home, to 8 good education, to good medical care, to social security, to reasonable farm income, will, If fulfilled, make major contributions to achievign adequate levels of employment. |.
 This new year of 1945 can be the greatest year of achievement in human history"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Views Of The Press
MORE WAR ATROCITIES
(Hartford Times

(Hartford TimeS)
 The latest figures on NaN cruel- ties are 90 large and indefinite that one hardly knows whether to believe them in their awful gruesomeness and size or to suspect that they may represent a considerable de- gree of wild guessing. Hal Boyle of the Associated Press finds that in German murder factory" near Lim- berg an estimated 20,00 persons were systematically killed by poison or other means as & way of remov- ing "undesirables" from the scene
 The information is based upon what German residents in the vicin- ity told American officers who en- tered this institution which was former insane asylum. They learned that this was one of six such fac tories" in the Reich. Victims were gassed and cremated or killed by drugs and buried in communal graves.
 An "unbelievably tough old doc tor" was in charge, assisted by a chief nurse who put the death needle into women patients" When 10000 victims had been killed, there was a drinking orgy at which the Nazi celebrants cleaned out the skulls of some of their victims and used them as drinking cups"
 The trouble wit hthis information is that it is almost too horrible to be true. One recalls for example, that in the First World War similar atrocity behavior in Belgium. After the war, the Allies sent competent commission of investigators to as- certain the facts. This body made an extensive report based on track ing down all the information that had been published or rumored dur ing the war. The general conclu- sion was that, except for minor iso- lated instances, atrocity stories were not true.
 However, in the present war, we are dealing with a different breed of Germans. The Nazi regime has trained the German mentality to believe and even to glory in tor- ture and terror as means of obtain ing the ends sought by 8 totalitarian state. The individual means little or nothing; the state is everything. Persons not deemed desirable by the ruling Nazis are made the victims of diabolical methods of suppress sion, suffering and annihiliation.
 How far those sadistic theories and methods have been carried out in this war remains an open ques- ton until the facts have been more completely sifted. Probably tha
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

It's not difficult to conceive that those Jefferson Day dinners the Democratic Party was going to run tonight all over the country may become casualties of the Presidents death. Fortunately the Con- necticut affair was called of feven before the President died, so that there was no last-minute confusion about cancella- ton. Now we wonder if it won't be hard to stir up enthusiasm among party members for some time to come in $25- a-plate affair. Party leaders might do well to consider longer postponement than they had planned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

Waterbury was like most other com munities in the hour of Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. It was hard to find anyone who wasn't extremely upset by the announcement, so much so that articulate statements were few and far between. It was certainly a sad moment for this nation, one that will be remem- bered by all of us for days to come. Not that Waterbury had too many personal recollections of the President. His last visit to this city was simply wave of the hand as his train passed by the Union before that, though, he made noon-day appearance on Library Park that was quite an event both in the anticipation and the actual appearance. But Water bury had liking for Roosevelt, which manifested itself every time he sought the presidency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

Japs years to accmoplish. Vice Adml. John H. Hoover on Two as 8 base. When the industrialists can get the upper hand over these beasts who apparently are from the Army and who now are in control of tho government, they will take over, they will begin to put out very at- tractive peace feelers. To my mind that is the most dangerous period we are facing until peace is actual. ly declared.
 --Adnl. William F. Halsey, Jr. If you let your curiosity be stimu. lated and then do nothing about 1t, the effects of the stimulation -as always with stimulants-wil tend to become less and less, and you will end by becoming dull boy indeed.
 -Dr. Everett Case. president Col. gate U.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Current Comment

About 6.000,0O0 people may be ex- pected to leave the country's labor force when victory comes, while there are only about 100000 vet erans ready to step into their places.
 Vice President Harry s. Tru-
 man.
 The population of Germany, as the result of its responsibility for crimes committed by the Hitlerite clique, will be able to regain its right to be accepted into the comity of other European nations only by years of intense toll and hard trials.
 Moscow Broadcast.
 
 The Japs are tough, individually and collectively, and there are lot of them. With all we have killed, they are stronger than when the war started.
 General Joseph Stilwell. We have been short on people with practical skills and long on people deficient in emotional Stabn- ity under the strain of routine, dan- ger or threat of danger.
 Captain Mildred H. McAfee,
 WAVE Commander.
 
 Their attitude toward us is en- tirely different from anything we encountered in the Rhineland They konw Germany is licked and are prepared to knuckle under, for the time being. but they don't like it and they make little effort to dis guise their feelings.
 Lieutenant Gordon w. Seims
 of Chicago, on civilians at
 Hamborn.
 You must remember that we car do in months what 1t takes the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

So horrible were these phOIOS that Kentucky's Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, dis played them Tuesday before a meeting of his committee.
 He spoke briefly and bitterly about the Nazis' inhuman treat ment of prisoners. Rep. Sikes of Florida seconded Mays senti- ments, then demanded: "When are we going to do something about our own cOddling of Ger man prisoners here? When will we get around to a sensible pro- gram of reeducatiOn?"
 Chairman May fell back upon the old line about "adhering to the Geneva Agreement"
 we are going far beyond the Geneva requirements" shot back Sikes, while our enemies are failing to live up to those re- quirements."
 Here Committee Counsel Ralph Burton chimed in that the Army is doing good job of handling war prisoners, maintaining that well, they will treat our men well.
 Sikes, however, attacked Bur- tons recent report on conditions at the Papago Park, Arizona, prison camp, and his more gen. eral report issued last December. The Florida Congressman es- pecially complained because they were issued as committe reports, when actually they were the work of a single investigator on the committe staff.
 Burton sprang to the defense of his investigator, but Sikes made it plain he will not be satisfied until a full committee study is authorized. BIG OIL SCRAMBLE
 Very quietly the big oil com- panies have already begun angling for one of the most coveted pieces of war property in the U. s. A. the two pipelines built to cary oil to the Atlantic seaboard. On its disposal depends the price which the people of New York and adjoining areas will pay for their cooking gas during the next decade. On their disposal also depends the future consumption of soft coal in many eastern areas.
 There are two pipelines, the Big Inch and Big Little Inch, rushed to completion during the submarine menace in order to bring gasoline snd oil to the
 Eastern seaboard. Altogether they total 2,729 miles of direct line and 453 miles of gathering pipeline.
 The company or combine which gets this prize will have one Of the most important war proper ties in the country.
 At present the pipelines carry 500,0OO, 900 barrels of oil or oil products to the East Coast every day. After the war, 1t is expected that due to the cheapness of ocean transport, the big companies will go back to oil tankerS and that the pipelines will carry natural gas from Texas to the great New York metropolitan area.
 Today, considerable natural gas in the Southwest oil 'egions is wasted-some burned just to get rid of it. However, its use in New York would disrupt a lot of entrenched interests, such as the artificial gas companies, plus John l.. Lewis United Mine Work CTS who supply coal to the New York gas companies.
 SECRET CONTRACTS
 The Big Inch, built by the Government for $42,67O 900, is op-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 10:20 p. m. (war time)
 Sun rises SIS a. m.; sets 7:3O p. m. (war time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- uteS after sunset.
 Tomorrow should mark the last day for killing frosts in this section of Connecticut. Further north it will be another five to ten days before danger of frost is normally lifted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14
Selected Poem
BETWEEN THE COVERS

y Dorothy M. Cahoon in The Boston Post The covers on our precious books
 Are showing signs of wear The treasured pages worn and thin From handling year by year; But even tho the books are old,
 Teh stories are the same, The magic records still untouched
 By Times consuming flame. The years may spoil the covers on
 The wondrouS Book of Life, The beauty of it's youth may fade
 Completely in the strife; But we can keep the vital flame
 Eternal as the sun The scripture of cherished heart
 That's fought fight and won!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-14

Waterbury is making the most of the current summer weather, but such hot spells as we have had in March and April are difficult to understand. After the long, cold winter you don't look for an immediate jump into summer. One pre- fers an in-between season. It is to be hoped that the early summer won't prove a later dud with chills and rains.