The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-16
|PostWur Era Troublesome
 
BY FREDERICK e, OTHMAN

BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN
 United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Aug. 16- (UP) Hay. ing rubbed my head in high-tes gas, rolled my A-coupons into spit. balls to shoot at the OPA, thumbec my nose at the newly solicitous req estate agents and eaten can oi preserved, 40-blue point (remem- ber?) peaches.
 Having told off a street car iockey who still thought his seat was a throne and sent back to the kitchen a piece of owl the waiter said was cnlcken
 I am now in the mood to con- sider some of the capitals urgent reconverSion problems.
 PentagOn Building
 Like the Pertagon.
 Whats the Army going to do with that? Use it for six day bike races? Or melt, 1t down with an atomic bomb? I tried to get the boys in brass to tell me; they said they were going to need the worlds big gest office building. Maybe so.
 I am a hospitable fellow and like company as well as the next one, but now we've got umpteem thousand (nobody seems to know how many) British, Russian, French and Chinese purchasing agents and military missionaries. These babies look pretty with stripes down their pants legs and I don't doubt that they're scholars and gentlemen. For the last four years they've used dozens of our towns best apartment houses for office buildings and raced around in limousines with motor cops in front.
 People like me are looking for places to live are wondering when they are going home.
 Ladies' Anatomy
 A problem you might call deli cate has to do with how ladies look from the rear. This town is full of WACs and no matter how trim a female is, put her in khaki skirt and she looks like tug-boat. The quicker the Army sends her back to fluffy-ruffles, the handsomer the world is going to be. As for the stock pile of khaki brassieres, pants and slips, that's the Army's head ache.
 The financial boys are worrying about reducing taxes; there's noth- ing wrong with that idea and I only want to remind 'em there is a cer- tain green sticker that costs five smackers and has marshmallow for glue; it won't stay on anybody's windshield.
 I don't intend to buy another one, congressman, and you might as well eliminate 'em now.
 An office at 1900 Pennsylvania avenue, attached to President Tru- mans house, is surrounded by steel cables, burglar alarms, cops, iron gates, secret service agents, security regulations, red tape, and other bar riers that I probably don't even know about.
 I hate to rush the boys, but the time has come to skip this monkey business; anybody who wants to visit the executive offices ought to be able to do so.
 There is finally the little matter Of the federal handout, whereien the government press agents pro- duce what they are pleased to call information for the press. Day be- fore yesterday the U. s. Maritime commission issued through the OWI a formal statement with strict injunction against publication be- fore this morning. It began: "An additional offering of 1000 small ships bells, ideal for ringing out the victory peal on v-J Day, was announced today by the U. s. Mari time commission"
 That has got to stop or am going to line up some government men and conk 'em, one by one, with my small ships bell, net weight, IS pounds.