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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
No Casualties in Decorations

It was wonderful news that the Queen Mary had survived 100000 miles of war time travel without serious mishap or casualty. And it was also good to learn that the woodwork and murals of this former luxury liner were unscratched and unsullied by the 600,000 wartime pas- sengers-a half million of them Amer icans-that she carried.
 Not one CT bound for war, nor even one jubilant veteran coming home from Flu rope, so much as carved an initial in one of the panels or penciled a mustache upon frescoed nymph.
 This is not in the tradition of an Am erican youth accustomed to adding free hand embellishments to country bill boards and city subway posters. We can't account for it. Perhaps it was the sober ing thought of impending combat on the way out, and a thankful joy on the way back that transcended monkeyshines.
 But we prefer to think that what stayed the hand of the returning veteran, at least, was the sight of little unspoiled beauty after seeing so many artistic creations senselessly and utterly de- stroyed by war. After the rubble of what had once been ancient cathedrals and an cient towns, even the austere elegance of the wartime Queen Mary must have been something to admire and respect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Fraternization

Apparently the ban on fraternization between American soldiers and German civilians never did work very we'll Core spondent5 in Germany sent back word that the ban was unwise, unpopular and sometimes unenforced. Now that it is lifted a lot of people over here seem to have discovered that the whole thing was wrong from the beginning. Probably the restriction was psychological blunder. Most young Americans are naturally friendly and curious-even those who fought fiercely against Hitler's armies and saw or experienced or heard ot the horrors of Nazi brutality. Yet for all their reasons for deSpising that manifestation of German character which was Nazlsm, they could not be forced to maintain that hatred against all Germans for 24 hours every day. The bearing of grudge and the Stifling of spontaneous friendllness can become heavy burden and wear iSOme illustration. It's hard to choke off friendly word to an aged person or child And to a healthy youngster far from home, pretty girl is likely to be just pretty girl, whatever her language and social or political background. So some of the occupation troops broke the no fraternizing rule, through loneliness or mischief or the perverse re action that made teetotalers drink during prohibit tion.
 But would we at home and the corre- spondents abroad have been happier if the Army had erased the score against Nazism with Nazisms downfall? Would we have preferred that the Army, con- tradicting the evidence at hand, had placed all blame on a comparatively small group of provenly war-guilty party mem- bers and absolved all other Germans? Would we have liked it if our soldiers had been permitted immediately to hold hands with the daughters and sweet hearts and perhaps widows of SS troopers who, only days before, were killing Amer jeans in desperate war to avert the trl- umph of decency and the end of Hitler'S sordid Reich? No, we should have liked that either. Perhaps it would have been the simpler way. Certainly it would have been more cynical. But while non-frater- nization may have been an unavoidable idea, it certainly was not a malicious idea, or anything but honest an dpure in motive. It arose from an early manifes- tation of difficult problem that will grow more difficult before it's final solu- ton: What shall we do with the Germans?
 The problem embraces a multitude Of questions. How shall we feel about them? Must we forgive and forget? Can we as- sist them out of humanity and still dis trust them out of wisdom and subjugate them out off ustice? Fortunately these questions will not have to be answered by our occupying forces. They will be an- swered in higher quarters where, fortu- nately, it will be found easier maintain a suspicious vigilance and to remember the past horrors of people whom one doesn't know intimately
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worldly wisdom. He doesn't konw enough to keep his fingers out of a political buzz-saw.
 Eo Joe hied himself down to the White House some time ago and told his old friend Harry Tru- man thaa he was personally Op- posed" to the appointment of Justice Thomas Gallagher of the Minnesota Supreme Court, to be Federal Judge in his state. Roosevelt, just before he died, had the Gallagher appointment on his desk.
 Ex Senator Truman, who once was irked when Attorney General Riddle ignored his de- sire to appoint Congressman Dick Duncan as a Judge. was sympathetic. Ball had support ed the Roosevelt Truman ticket. So Truman let Joe have his judge.
 In the end, Ball recommended Dennis Donovan, who has spent most of his life defending sub sidiaries of the U. s. Steel Cor poration. Truman appointed him.
 At this point the dead cats began flying around Joe Balls head. Many of the cases coming before Donovan's court will in- volve the big iron and steel companies which operate in the rich ore fields of northern Min nesota. Many cases involving workmen's compensation will also come before him. And he has spent his life defending the and steel companies.
 So Minnesota labor has vowed to "get" Bal at the next election. And the Senator, his fingers bad ly nicked on the buzz-saw, is now trying to hide the bandage. Since he became an international ex- pert, Joe hase become adept at diplomatic denials, and he is now issuing left-handed denials of his having dictated" the Judges ap- pointment.
 The labor furore increases, however, and the sad-faced Sena- tor looks sadder than ever.
 Copyright 1945,
 The Rel1 Syndicate Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Selected Poem
ROOTS ARE TALKING

(Bianca Bradbury in The Christian
 Science Monitor) Prone in the grass and fern and clover, If travelling is in your mind, If timothy looks like slim masts lowing Before a sea-salt wind. And ants like wagons trailing westward, Observe on a swaying grass a bee. And what goes on beyond the mountain, Is he concerned? Not he. Cheek to the ground and the world grows
 smaller. Roots are talking. lover the hill There's more of the same. of fern and
 clover Not half as nice as ours. Lie still."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
'Mush and News"

Wisconsin's Senator Wiley complains, and quite justly, that Anglo-American writers are permitted to send nothing but "trival muSh" from the PotSdam con- ference. Certainly such elaborate secrecy surrounding discussions of matters vital to all of us is, by American standards, in- excuSable. But there is nothing wrong with the "trivial mush" as far as it goes It is legitimate and highly saleable journalistic commodity. Most everyday Americans are fascinated with the pri- vate lives of the prominent and Tor great, as our abundance of fan magazines proves. What the famous one eats for breakfast becomes matter of breathleSs Importance, whether he happens to be named Frank Sinatra or Joseph Stalin. Thus your everyday American devours the printed menus of those Big Three state dinners with almost as much gusto as the diners devour the food itself He reads that President Truman played the Missouri Waltz and Beetroven's Minuet 1n c for Messrs. Stalin and Churchill, and wonders how the performance con1- pared with his own efforts with the same compositions during his youthful days of half-hearted piano study.
 Such curiosity is natural and usually healthy. The trouble is that when he has saklsfled his curiosity with tasty journal !stlc "mush," an empty feeling remains. What his system needs-though 1t may not crave it-is the solid fare of news. Tn the case of the Potsdam conference he gets only rurnor and speculation. And they are neither nourishing nor healthy. This dietary deficiency Is not Mir. Tru- H7nt fault. He docsnt like it. But at
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studies for men who later would form a scientific reserve corps in case of war.
 NOTE-As a member then of the House Naval Affairs Commit tee, Magnuson recalls that in 1888 the House appropriated $15,- 100000 for the Navy to use for scientific research, including anti
 submarine deviseS. The bill &C., tually passed the House, but when it reached the Senate, the admir- als testified that this scientific re- search was unnecessary. The! didn't like the fact that it was to be civilian scientists rather than Annapolis men. AS a result, the 5000, 900 was killed by the Senate and when we first entered the war, U. S. Shipping was crucified by submarines.
 SAD-FACED SEN. BALL
 Sad-faced Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota, who always looks as if he had lost his last friend, has been moping around the halls of congress looking worse than ever. The Senator made the mistake of getting in the middle of Min nesota judgeship fight and the fur that has been flying makes his reelection a matter of considerable speculation.
 There is one advantage to being a Republican which only insiders appreciate. With a Democrat in the White House, you don't have to make enemies by getting mixed up in patron age fights. Because, for every Judge, U. S. Marshal and Capi- tol Door Keeper you get ap- pointed, 20 others are sore be- cause they lost out. Most COP Senators, therefore, have been only to glod to sit on the side lines and let their Democratic colleagues suffer these head aches.
 Not, however, sad-faced Sena- tor Joe Ball.
 Having supported Roosevelt last November, he considered himself entitled to some Demo- cratic patronage. The Senator is idealistic, sincere, hard-working; but not overly endowed with
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widespread.
 There are some eople-perhapa millions-who have read of sucE phrases as "60 million jobs" and really believe them. They laugh al Harding's phrase but swallow Wal. lace,s.
 There will be the returning wal veterans, who are not likely to per. init themselves to be pushed around either by unions or employers. Tha men who risked their lives to savi their country are not justified n playing second fiddle to any othei citizens. They will have a terrifical- ly important say in the future poli- cies of the country and rightly SO.
 As for "the law" these can be changed by, the pressure of public opinion-and who says the return. ing veterans won't have . lot oi opinion and exert a1 lot of political pressure?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
GET ALONG LITTLE DoGIEs
(New York Herald Iribune)

Even before the appearance of the first "horseless carriage" which killed chickens, broke plank bridges and sent horses leaping rail fences, buggy and all, most farmers have been convinced that city folks can be relied upon to bring trouble with them into the country. This long standing and not altogether unsub- stantiated belief is not likely to lose emphasis in Hampshire County. Mass, where some meat-famished outlanders are said to have brought in 150 Western steers to fatten on rainwet clover and timothy. How ever, the ambitious city farmers. it appears. promptly learned that an Oklahoma or Texas steer is not to be cribbed, barned and confined in the same manner as herd of placid Holsteins. Steers in the vi- cinity of the little village of Hat field, perhaps in the nostalgia hope that they might hike back to their "home on the range" have been breaking down and jumping over fences and then destroying crops.
 Lassoed steers. one reads. have been dragging six brave citizens of quiet, elm-conscious Hatfield along startled streets. The chief of police and two defenders with shot- guns were called into battle to slaughter prematurely steers bcserk amid trampled corn and chewed oabbages. These are. indeed, des- perate dolngs. 4 few lawn-tethered lambs. it would seem. might fill the red-point needs of Hatfield's city folks more safely than any traffic with western steers which. even if not the fabulous ieuehofn1 rctly syilseled bE lr6f. I. Frank
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lows are generally called fools. There has scarcely been c great servant Of mankind who was not ridiculed in his day and genera ton. The minimizing world has little time for sacred flames and fails to understand how men can foresake their ease to champion some Ideal.
 The people Of hls day called PaEzI q fool because he loved the sacred flame. They called Jesus g foel al-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

The rotation train schedule which would expedite transporting troops seems like quite smart trick when it is operated on a twenty-four hour schedule in Pullman coaches and the same in coaches. However it is pretty strenuous schedule, pretty long ride without stops It might prove workable and it's worth trying. In fact it has been tried in the run from Camp Kilmer, N. J., to the heart of Texas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Your Health By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per. sonal health and hygiene. not to disease. diagnosis of treatment, win be answered by pr. Brady l1 Ia stamped self-addressed envelope Rs encIOses-. 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- paper Service. S2O West Madison Street, Chicago, m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

A pessinist is one who begins to cir culate rumors of bad times ahead, de- pressions, unemployment, and so on, at the close of war. The President dis-fa- vors such persons in promoting and en- couraging drive "to allay fears of de- preSSion."
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desire to b in 6 this sacred flame an d enshrine 1t in his own city.
 Men who inter- est themselves in sacred flame. who are willing to 90 on great pilgrim. ages to secure it and to suffer much that they may enshrine it among their fels
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least the country has his promise of ''no secret agreements" and his assurance that he will report fully to Congress and the nation. So at least the main course seems to be cooking, though over pretty slow fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

New Jersey seemed to get the brunt of the floods this summer, with New York and Massachusetts running close on the overflow. A $4 million dollar loss is re- ported in New Jersey. Farms were buried beneath mud and debris so much so that snow-plows had to be used to clear up the mess.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
LABOR AFTER THE WAR
(NeW Britain Heraldl

NANCW oAAtdAA1 1ACA dAhJ
 V-J Day is approaching. Nobody knows how near it may be. At that time war orders will stop altogeth- CT.
 When this occurs we will be forced to remind ourselves of the phrase of a former President. MT. Harding: Back to normalcy." Of course, a lot of folks nowadays no longer think well of the Harding principles or methods; but they can't deny that a lack of wartime orders will make an immense economic differ ence throughout the entire nation and that there will be period-now being called "reconversion" when justified uneasiness will likely be
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sort of scientist ROTC, or Re- serve Corps for Scientists. They would be trained for civilian life, out could be called back to serve their country in time of war.
 Behind Magnuson's proposal is the tremendous part science played in this war and the fact that scientifically, we were woe- fully unprepared. Had it not been for the hurriedly organized group of patriotic scientists gath cred together under Dr. Vanne- var Bush, the country would have been much worse off than it is.
 What most people don't re- alize is that if the war had not ended when it did, German sci- ence was ready to give us some severe, if not disastrous set- backs. New Nazi weapons might have been able to blow England out of the water.
 While the Nazi buzz-bomb and the V-2 or rocket did ample dam- age, the Germans had even more dreadful weapons in the works. Allied troops discovered, half concealed underground, series Of giant artillery guns capable of firing over 100 miles.
 In the last war, the Big Bertha which the Germans fired on Paris did not do much damage because it became overloaded and had to be rebored. But the new Ger man long-range guns fired small CT projectiles, did not heat up so fast. and were arranged in rows, so that taken together they could dump several hundred tons an hour on London-and keep it up day and night.
 These big guns were ready to go into action when the Allies found them.
 ROCKETS TO MOON
 In addition, the Nazis had been making more and more progress with their long-range rockets, and there was no doubt that they planned to bomb Boston and New York, given more time. Military observers believe that 1t was party the hope that these weap- ons would be developed in time to disrupt the U. s. A. that kept the Nazis fighting so long.
 British experts who have ex- amined the new German weapons more carefully than Americans say that without any doubt the time is not far off when rockets can reach the moon; when they can be built capable of carrying g man and provisions inside. Some military men have already begun studying rocket bases hidden in Alaska, Siberia and Canada which could fire at the great metropoli- tan cities of New York, London, Berlin and Moscow.
 Another German weapon which the Allies found almost completed inside Germany was a high-speed torpedo boat ca- pablo of making around 150 miles an hour. The Nazis planned to man them with one suicide helmsman, load them with ex- plosives, and ram them against
 batttleships. The British say they would have been more dead ly than Jap suicide planes.
 All of this convinces scientists that talk of universal conscrip- tion and big ground armies is just as out of date as old-fashioned cavalry. The war of tomorrow if the United Nations is not able to stop twill be & war of sci- ence.
 NAVY sHUNNED SCIENCE
 Unfortunately. college men have been set back in scientific studies during the last three years. while in the Army. But Senator Mag nuson proposed that the Federal Government now establish educa- tional funds to suhsidize special
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something which should not be re- peated in othe CT parts of the Uni- ted States?
 Only answer to that m u s t come from TWAS ow n re ords. TWAS annual report for t h e fiscal y e ar ending J u n e 30, 1945, is not yet completed. B u t taking t h e 1944 report and adding to it those figures which are avail onarofinoc thnsh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

General Motors plan for research center outside Detroit that will be the size of Central Park is big news in the in- dustrial field this week. The need and im- portance of such a center to carry on re- search activities on technical subjects can be appreciated. Rate this as near the top in postwar progress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Daily Almanac

Moon rises at e:4i D. m. (war time) Sun rises at 6:42 G. n,.. sets at s:i4 D. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must Do lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 High tide today at i2:sR Q. m.. i:0s D. m. Cow tide at e:sl c. n.. l7:OT ?. n. teasiern war tlme)
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Current Comment

Enemy attacks are becommins eyer more violent but let us have absoluate faith in the preparations of our command against enemy landing on our homeland.
 Premier Suzuki of Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Future Of IVA In The Balance
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash ington COrresuOndent

Washington, July 26 = Has the Tennessee Valley Authority 'experi- ment" paid of? Or is it. as charged by the combined lobby of 31 land and water users organizations,
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A Thought for Today

when say unto the wicked, wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will require at thine hand.-Ezekiel 33:S.
 
 Oh how cowardly is wickedness always! .-Statius.
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Views Of The Press

Dobie, are yet difficult to handle in New England without a rodeo or at least one cowboy from a Bos- ton broadcasting studio.
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Washington Merry Go-Round
Special Scientists Needed For War; Nazis Had More
 Secretly Ready; Sen Ball Gets His Fingers Burned
= BY DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON 26 What be the most important pe bill set
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
THE SACRED FLAME
By EARL [. DOUGLASS. D.D.

The people of Florence cherish to this day a fire taken from the shrine of Jerusalem and brought to Florence by a man named Pazzi.
 He was called Pazzi the Fool. because he cherished the passionate
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SO. and st. Paul. the early Christian martyrs. and John Wesley. .. But the flame still burns no the altar of the Duomo in Florence; and everywhere that men light the sacred flame of some noble Ideal. it will Dc cherished by souls who love the good.
 These are things to keep In mind as we attempt to mend broken world and construct Q new one.
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