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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

There's still war on where this gentleman IS concerned. There are Germans to impress and the nien of conquerors to maintain. From my observa- ton, it's regrettable that the entire US Army in Germany isn't ordered to adopt the same attitude. This regimented herd we've beaten react to and re- spond only to hard-fisted discipline.
 was complmenting the general on his Army's smartness in his office here the second floor of what used to be the headquarters building of SS officers training school Wearing his full banks of ribbons, tall and trim quartermer. he sat tilted back in his chair his legs encased in riding boots and jack-knifed against the edge of his desk.
 z "Yes," he said. "it says somewhere in the Bible something about who is diligent in little things being able to take cities or something like that believe in a soldier taking care of little things keeping his helmet on, maintaining military atti- tude making himself look and act like soldier From there he can go on to be 6 soldier"
 Obviously for him the war isn't over, for he went on to explain that he'd never been busier His men are now occupation troops, border-guarding troops and they're spread all over Bavaria and down into CzechosIovakia and Austria He said, Walt Q min- ute" and fshed couple of cards the size of post- cards out of his breast pocket and counted the num- Der of units now in his command. won't repeat the number because t may rate as security secret but It's lot of units and they're scattered over lot of territory. Na
 "Wsre holding maneuvers and reviews with every one of then," he said. q haven't cot free day fntil we'll into August WeTp holding the uanouQers % sIS1lAliAl and te rnliy @nAk Ue learned in .r>
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
Censorship Still Rules
By Peter Edso1s'

to keep anything out of print that might not LOOK S good for the agency continues. \
 Both War and Navy Departments have reiterateo orders to its civilian and military personnel that nothing is to be given to the press that isn't firss cleared through public relations. This idea Of an agency having the vested right to okay any news coming out of it is almost becoming accepted as al fact within the government
 From time to time public-spirited officials come out with something that exposes corruption and 1ns efficiency They feel that their duty to the people they serve is greater than to the bureau head Too often this "leak" is half-truth. planted to knne an enemy in the back. Denias all around VIII foi. low. It usually ends with the aocuser ges'ins lneus or transferred if he has enough pull
 Most interprising reporters have their contacts in the various agencies in order to bypass the pupnc relations office This situation results in much misn formation The iron-clad understanding between reporter and his contact that he will never quote Knowing that reporters are pretty reliable in tnis respect contacts are tempted to hand out bits or III. formation as feelers to further their own enos'
 Instead of having to duck around corners gnu sneak into offices for news Byron Price would nav complete freedom of all news sources. A reporteEl would be able to get statement or information from a government official speaking independently: Hel could check 1t and get the other side or It, Us 1 controversial subject. In light of the facts ne cou weigh the news value and give 1t to the public. '
 With newsprint scarce, much of what has son&l on in the government hasn't been consloered susSs2 ficiently important to compete with war news. Ael a result things which normally would have gocoe9l complete airing in the press have mad ske'cnHt treatment. H
 From now on in 1t will be struggle pecwee44l news-gatherers and the bureaucrats who would nEeI to remain holed up in anonymity in their baihwck
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

.S Rights" coupled with the assumption of responsi- biities they will be about as useful as an arquebuS in this day of atomic bombs.
 During the past four years public services have been limited to minimum needs for education public health and public assistance The physical plants of all units of government highways public buildings sanitary facilities hospitals are in poor condition throughout the nation.
 This presents 8 challenge to state governments to meet needs within their spheres promptly If they do not do SO; they will create vacuum into which the Federal Government must inevitably move in response to urgent public demand. Decentralization is not an excuse for static inaction It will not be accepted as an excuse by the people of the various states The public has strong objections to central ization but 1t has an even stronger antipathy for slothful neglect of vital services
 There has been determined propaganda in Amer ica for 30 years to the effect that state governments were impotent. As Southern governor, was sup- posed to be righteousy indignant on all public oc- casios about the freight rate discrimination that is of the main for that poverty which is the root of all the Souths economic and social ills But 1t was presumed likewise, that action about the matter would be limited to the filing of polite com- plaints with the drowsy Interstate Commerce Com- mission and to the assumption in public of suitable lachrymose attitude. The State of Georgia. it was assumed, could do nothing about the matter.
 Reports from the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Presidents Committee, the Southeastern Regional closed the acute need for smashing the transporta tion cartel That industralization to balance agri- culture, was prime need for the Southern and Western states was strikingly obvious That delay junking of every newly developed industrial facility in these sections would be suicidal clearly ap- parent.
 So Georgia sued in the United States Supreme
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
By DrezO Pe0rsOaE

Court seeking to break up the intricate unofficial bureaucracy that was imposing outrageous transpur- tation rates on the section
 It could not be done 1t was insisted The srprems Court would never entertain such an action Georsia would be the laughing stock of the country The lininary opinion of the Supreme Court. accepting jurisdiction in the case in of the most far-reach- ing decisions ever handed down by that tribunal gave Georgia the last laugh.
 
 This Illustrates the fact that state governments are not ineffective instruments of the publicM they are put to use They possess enormous powers. They can protect the interests of their citizens they set out to do so Lazness has been their curse, and the American public does not like lazy governments
 State governments can exercise a wholesome in- fluence in safeguarding against monopoies, in en~ couraRng decentralization of industry and in pro~ tecting the natural resources of America rom exc ploitation.
 As this country endeayors to organise for re. conversion, it is becoming evident that two Da0 tangles in our domestic affairs must be straightened prosperiy must be better distributed through decen- tralization of industry Cartes and monopones must be eliminated unless we are ready to send free enter- prise to the junkpile for good.
 The various documents of the Special senate Committee investigating centralization of heavy n- dustry (McCarran Committee) are impressive evls dence that the cycles of imitation and boom deIaMon and deuression cannot be broken until every section of the United States is enabled to utilize its full po- tental of human and natural resources.
 only the SCT1Klng O1 @ pdldI1C5 UCowcSh stAC duction of raw materials and their manufacture can enable any section to maintain permanent ana balanced prosperity The wastes inherent In proogat transportation of raw materials half across continent to be processed would have demohshed an economy more mature and static than that of Amer lea; but 1t has inflicted tremendous ana ever" mounting toll upon producers and consumers. .
 
 Monopolies have no place within democracyt They are the implements of the ideologes that nave just cost America million casualties and three huns dred billion dollars of national wealth to supp[ss. No program of decentralization of industry, witn the wisdom of a uniformly prosperous nation, can be realized unless conspiracies in restraint Of trace are rrlthlessy suppressed. Full employment VIII pc just another ringing phrase to go along with staCes rights if the cartel-makers are allowed Tree rem during the reconversion era.
 Tn combating centralizaton and monopoly sn& states have a part to play. They can do much 70 m sure that the highly efficient industrial ments created in the Southern and Western statee to meet war needs, are continued in operation TneN can act effectively to that they are not to fall into the hands of interests that plan to Jun them to remove their productive capacity.
 America needs all of its productive capacity 33 peace which, in many ways will be more severs test of national purpose than was the war \
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
Our War Debt

all the words that have been written about our obl gaOnS to the returning sercemen laid end to end in view of recent experiences and in view of the imminent return of millions more of our war veterans to civilian m |it seems necessary to go over the subject again.
 It would be absurd to think that the average person does not realize his obzaon to the who braved death and too many cases met death that we at home might shells and the terrOrS of invasion and soil We and neighborS do feel indebted toward these But in everyday practice that feeling to be re- pressed, and we have this picture:
 The fighter turns in his gun puts cvves and tries lto find job and home for his family Time after time he's told by indifferent landlords that if he has children he's out of luck If he finds place. the rent too high for
 lis unnlated pocketbook In many he finds his old job filled and he's shunted into insignificant spot which barely complies with the draft laws requirements.
 If he wants to build or buy house. he finds himself snaed in the red tape of the G. loan mess If he's lucky enough to get business loan he's immediately prey for all kinds of SharpShooters
 Is this the reception planned for and huS- peaed instances of such istreament they become bitter and wonder if all those things they todabout fight ing for better word-werent just lot of malarkey?
 There is of course obligation the part of the vet Eeran.
 The young fellow who left job as junior clerk to list in the Air Force became bomber pot commissioned major with the corresponding high pay cannot expect to step into such highsalared job he steps out of uniform Nor he expect that everyone he meets will know how many times he's been decorated and treat him with added deference He must earnr to slow down the tempo of his living and go along with the restrictions that have been necessary in wartime and which will continue in many instances, for many postwar months
 The majority of fighters relieved to be through with killing that they glad to live quietly and ask no av0rs but there few who must learn Just some the home front must learn that debt to these men is not just popular saying, but must be put into daily practice
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
The Harvest At Hand

There is call the length and breadth of the land for helpers to bring the hand Connecticut along with other states in the east need of recruits to assist in picking the vegetables ripe and the fruit to come ster.
 Practically all of counties have been heard from in this respechat boys girls and women, will be needed from to the middle of September to harvest crops The call to harvest nssent that the words from the New Testament to mindThe harvest is plentiful, but the labourers few"
 It therefore important that those who give the time swell the of harvest 'abourers Last summer there reached in this respect because many O. the younger people working in the defense plants also older who ordinarily available Boys and girls under sixteen years of recruited and aborer from the tropical islands in the South Atlantic the latter especially for the tobacco harvest.
 With sufficient help to harvest the vegetables, fruit ce food this country the starving population of Europe the months ahead Much depends the success of harvest work and later in the The call to help in harvesting the crops deserves particular attention
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
Views Of The Press

within the legal directives of the existing stabilization laws. On the other hand it is keeping tight price controls through the OPA and ad- herring to a. reconversion price pol. icy that will subject manufacturers, at best, to red tape. uncertainty and delay, and that may discourage many of them from producing cer- tain peacetime products at all.
 Thus while everyone is paying the most generous lip service to private enterprise our contemplated policies do not reveal a willingness to let private enterprise begin to function or a faith that it can provide full employment. While it should be thinking of beginning to put the budget in order the administration is talking as if its main reliance for employment were on a bill that takes compensatory" spending and deficit financing as its essential basis. While we talk of once more setting free the energies of private enterprise we officially sit on prices while. raising costs of production. While we should be giving business all the confidence it needs to drive ahead we are still Subjecting it to needless price-control uncertainties, produ ction-cost uncertainties and tax uncertainties.
 Fortunately, we can still remove these uncertainties and change these policies before they have done much harm. But at this crucial moment, when it is imperative to get industry into full peacetirne produc- ton, without days unnecessary anxiety or idleness for the hundreds of thousands who now find them selves unemployed, there is no time to be lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
By Bill Cunningham

fighting, and likewise not to forget some of the es~ sons we learned And we hold the reviews to show these Germans that they had no monopoly on mn- itary might, nor military discipline
 The general attends to all these affairs personally
 asked him, near the end of our visit. about his Army until there's no chance of any more fighting and then he supposes he'll get out.
 There were all sorts of runors as to what he might do right while was talking with ,,.aS nun AZ Gen. Patton for Secretary of War; 1t being generaly understood that the aged MT. Stimson is about to resign MT Rankin scarcely rates as an ideai pasro.s but he's at least Congressman and therefore ne can propose.
 "But," said the general flatly T do not know anything about the report and don't want to pe Secretary of War.
 Asked what he did want to do. he said. T want to go sailing When this is over. want to go home and I've got little boat-well she's not so little: either-shes 63 feet long. But Mrs. Patton, myself and one man can handle her. want to get her out of storage. fix her up. .."
 .No." said the general. "Go sailing nowhere-- just sailing. can get enough provisions on her .or a hundred days. had picture of her here yester- day. I'm sorry threw it away. I'd like to show ne4 to you. She's in Pawtucket now in the David ship yard" ~
 The serious part of the generals talk was abon the need for compulsory military training 1n tns United States after the The fact that we alwa disarm and talk about peace and then wind up fsnf ing another war is all the argument needed Tor tE compulsory program. he said
 Somehow. we got on the unavoidable slbject-t1 celebrated face-siapping incident-and the genezA said the true story never had been written r1gzH yet, and he gave few details, including the xsce that there were two soldiers instead of one asked him if he knew what ever became of them, and he said one went back to the front and made quite record for himself.
 'some of the guys cail Patton Our Blood and His Cuts" my jeep driver said, "but I've never seen one who wanted to get out of the outfit That fuurtn Armorod Was something jeeped with cn. know and Patton was right up in there with 'eFn SQne of tm crab Him TOT feInH eo N,1'1t tuf <Enu urx-t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

EDITORS NOTE: Peter Edson is vacation. during which time, DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Washington correspondent, will write his column.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-Technically there is no more censorship of news Byron Price Office of Gen. sorshp head, formally ended it with a nattering statement on the splendid iob the various media of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

"A gOOd way 10 DTeak an engage ment is just to let it die of inani- tion." = Dorothy Dix in the Boston Globe.
 THE HITCH When Cupid's flame is burning
 bright
 And love is up and doing, Its best to see her every night For slated bill-and-cooing. For then, the blithe, untroubled
 heart
 No string of rue can tether, And then, together or apart, You always are together.
 But loves elixir loses strength, You'll learn, as have so many, And you'll discover that, at length, It simply hasn't any. When that occurs, spotless eye Should tag the new condition; It's better, Bud, to let 1t die, And die of hamilton.
 Yet I must say Git has been saiO That she'll be hotly seething. And long beyond the time it's dead Will try to keep it breathing. Mir. Truman has declared an end to the suspension of politics. And the opposition is hopefully waiting for him to do something wrong, even if it's getting his thumb caught in that bow tie.
 Let the ladies rejoice, if they will. at the return of the two-way stretch girdle. We have a pertinacious and lamentable conviction that the yanks will still be coming.
 Times do change. If you could find one of those old-tine eateries where they fairly threw the food at you. you'd probably intercept it in midair.,
 A puzzled housewife has written in to see if we have the recipe for that 600-pound cake the soldiers on Okinawa recently had for dessert. Communications with Okinawa are still a little uncertain, but we have managed to secure the first step from the CT chef: Separate the yolks and whites of one bomberful of eggs"
 Bernard Shaw takes dim view of the atomic bomb. Even in his mellow CD old age, competition dis gruntles him. . A man out in Chicago admitted in felony court that he has had a fairly steady income from robbing church poor boxes for the last forty eight years. He got the idea wrong when he was a boy; he thought the church and the temple would stand 1t forever.
 Overtime pay for work performed on holidays has ben cancelled by executive order. A little trouble is expected from the St. Nicholas Pickup and Deliver Associates, To- cal l. of Arctic Circle, Earth.
 The Navy now reveals that in March, I943, German U-boat laid four mines in New York harbor. The secret did not leak out, although it is rumored that John L. Lewis heard about it and swam out to or ganize them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

news dissemination had done in cooperating with him. Newspapers countered with praise of what Price had done. a It is generally agreed that within his sphere MT. Price did 8 sensational job with his assign ment. It was plenty tough, but he kept a clear head, never got car-' ried away with his duties and everybody ended up happy about it.
 During his period of service with the U, S., however, he saw
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

Third Army Area. Wear Your Helmets. Stay In Uniform" This is strictly a spit-and-polish area.
 Not all the CTS like it. Some who wander in from other outfits dressed as fancy, or the warm weather, dicta tes, and who promptly find themselves tossed in the pokey think it's simply ter- rible. But the outfit is strictly the projection of the personality of the famed fire-eater who bosses 1t, Gen. George s. Two-G Gun, He'll fire A Rrinstona Pattnn Ir
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

almost as essentiaI t0 domestlc ses curity as economic decentraliza- tion, is to be retained or aban- doned.
 The magnitude of the prob lens facing the Federal Govern ment will be increased enormous ly unless state agencies are alert and effective. In the next three or four years there will be the even- tual test of whether States Rights" mean anything at all ex- cept a phrase to be tossed out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

The summer season has produced its finest days this n4st week. They just the gas ration called o and either the sudden spurt of gas he weather or Etth have made for more travel the road. This was a11d a the state and in the large city areas the |'I1fes doing fine te|l business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
Merry-GO- Round

EDET0Rss NGTE-Drew Pearson Is on vaCa- tian, ELLIS ARNALL, famous governor of Georgia who recently led the fight aboshing the poll tax, contributes todsys column as Pearsons guest writer
 ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. sl-The recOnversion period will place exceptional strains upon state governments It win test the efficiency and foresight with which state agencies have prepared for peace. It will de- termine whether political decentralization, which is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
Waterbury Of The Past

25.Years Ago The State Board of Health was holding the city up as @ bad ex- ample.
 Burlesque had returned to Jacques theater with ''The Liberty Girls" |"
 15.Years Ago Waterbury's school children were showing anxious faces because of the opening of school in a week. Morgan J. Burke, IT,, of Water bury. passed the New York State Bar examinations.
 5.Years Ago A survey Of wages of city em- ployes was being made. Plans were being made for the Boy Scout Janaborpe to te hold September s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

The Queen Elizabeth is in the home port, Southamp- ton, England, for the first time Since 1941 the immense boat has been in and out of New York harbor many times 1t hard to keep track by those downtown New York business people who watched her steam in and out taken her 447ooo miles carrying Allied personnel in Seyentyhve crossings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
Patton's Discipline

BAD ToLZ, Bavaria, Aug. 24-This is the head quarters of Gen. Pattons Third Army. and you don't have to wonder where you are when you reach it. Signs prominently posted every entering road say
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24
A Thought for Today

nothing better than should eat and drink and that should make his soul enjoy good in his labOEcces astcs 2:24.
 The stomach the the stomach Cervantes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-24

The Navy now reveals that in March, I943, German U-boat laid four mines in New York harbor. The secret did not leak out, although it is rumored that John L. Lewis heard about it and swam out to or ganize them.
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Next 50 Days Hardest
On Sports, 0DT Says

Japan's surrender may help solv2
sports transportation problem, but
ODT Director j. Monroe johnson
thinks the so days Immediately fol-
lowing the wars end will be a try
ing period.
Stages of relaxation" already are
being studied. johnson said. Cessa-
ton of hostilities will remove the
urgency for transporting supplies to
the Pacific, but rail and airlines
still will have tremendous problems
to cope with.
Baseball Commissioner Happy"
Chandler said he thought there
would be no further doubt about
playing the world series and that
the people will want it as one OF
their victory celebrations.
Turf officials were elated by the
sudden turn of events for it opens
the way for the return of racing to
its normal prewar basis with Florida
and other Southern States getting
back into the picture: Under cur
rent ODT travel restrictions racing
is limited to tracks where horses
already are quartered.
Football officials prepared to go
ahead with plans for bowl games
and other inter-sectional attractions
that have been hanging fire, await
ing a decisive turn of events in the
Pacific.