The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-11

NOTES OF A NEWSPAPERMAN
 President Truman took a stroll around the White House grounds the other foggy midnight In the mist he came face to face with E D. R. Why, Frankl" ex- claimed MT Truman. "Is that you or am I seeing things?"
 ''Yes, Harry" said the late Presi- dent. "Sorry to have startled you but I wanted to congratulate you on the way you pulled the nation through to victory. I knew you would do 1t; I'm SO glad"
 sThanks, Chief" said Truman, rbut I don't understand-finding you here like this. I though you were, er-er-er ."
 ''Dead?" said P. D. R. with a sigh. "Yes, but I have been having quite a tough time of 1t. Some of my political enemies won't let me rest in peace!"
 When Ed PauIey was at Potsdam with President Truman he im- pressed the Russians and British with his common sense and Yankee Doodle business enterprise. Truman himself told intimates upon his re- turn: "Pauley drives g. hard bar gain. He stepped in there many times with Now, just 0 moment, please. Let us try doing 1t this way we have stake in this war, too .. Matter of fact" Truman add ed, T took a lot of bows that be- long to Ed Pauley."
 Two Democrat -haters were were discussing the opening of Congress .. According to my confidential newsletter from Washington, con- fided one, "the people are putting lot of heat on some of the boys for passage of the Full Employment Bill. And Labor is pressuring for government operation of war-pro- duction plants for making peace time goods, if private enterprise won't do it."
 "Yes," sighed the other, shorter hours. higher wages-pretty soon they'll want to be paid for not work ing at all! This country sure is go- ing to the dogsl"
 Say" rnurmured the other with tears in his eyes, don't you often wish for the good old days-when we had the New Deal?"
 There's been a lot of discussion about a suitable monument to P. D. R. The best would be map of the U. s. showing it's boundaries in- tact Paintings of Roosevelt will be revered in millions of American homes long after the smears of him have been washed away by his- tory . The assolationists are try ing to alibi their guilt for Pearl Harbor by accusing Roosevelt of not preparing the nation for the things they said would never hap penl
 Under MacArthur's curfew the Japs must disappear from the streets after dark "Still," adds Izzy Elinson, tits better than before when the streets disappeared" |. Contrib from a reader: Senator Bilbo should be reminded that you need the black keys as well as the white to play the National Anthem M. Milton Rubin observes that on Election Day the isolationists al- ways wind up with long faces when the results show that the American people have long mem- ories Irony: Tens of thousands Of Allies lose their lives fighting the Japs in a bare-fist war-then we turn around and treat the Jap emperor and his Japastards with kid gloves.
 Brlgadier Douglas Storms, a for- ner Toronto building contractor, distinguished himself with the Can- adian Army by creating the PES" Ca material for covering air fields in England-agairst rain) which helped shorten the war |. A group of war correspondents interviewed him about 1t, and Brigadier Storms, in demonstrating the technique, cut bits from long roll with q big sharp knife so the scribes could examine 1t e. During the demon- stration the knife slipped and gashed his hand.
 Major Harry Clarke, also of Tor onto. hlirriedly put a big ker- chief over the wound and told the reporters: That Is what happens when you give 6 brigadier a weaponl"
 Irving Hoffman says the editor of the Catholic Digest swears on a stack of digests that it's true |. when the Germans surrendered, the Parker Pen company sent Genl Eisenhower two pens with which to sign equalization documents, Sug- gesting he use both, retain one and send the other back to the company for It's historical collection Tn the signing, three signatures were necessary. and General Ike used both pens and had to borrow arl- other He sent one pen to Pres. Truman, another to Winston Chur- chill Then, remembering the Parker Pen people also expected one, he sent them the borrowed pen .. It turned out to be pen made