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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31
Cotton Gorb Prices Rise

Washington, July 31 - (UP) - Prices on all types of cotton cloth ing are expected to jump 10 percent soon with additional increases tag ging along within the next few months, OPA. officials disclosed today
 Higher retail costs on cotton clothing will result from an aver age Is percent price boost which the O.P.A. granted cotton textile manufacturers. Although the textile price decision was reached yeSter- day, formal announcement has been delayed until detailed orders are drafted
 One O.P.A. official pointed out that the textile increase was only temporary and that new price hikes on cotton textiles and manufactured products will follow if raw cotton prices continue their upward trend raw cotton prices have increased 28 percent in the last four months.
 During conferences with O.P.A. officials, the cotton textile industry had asked for a 20 per cent price boost on each textile item. O.P.A. IA percent.
 Price Administrator Paul A. Por- offered a price increase averaging ter told cotton textile representa- tives late yesterday that O.P.A and the industry were not involved in collective bargaining" increases granted, he said, would be only those required by the new price control law.
 OP.A. and the industry then agreed to the Is percent price boost.
 In another action, O.P.A increas- ed the price of Makinaws, leather coats. and jackets, hunting and fishing clothes and mems heavy shirts by 8 percent. The increases were granted under the old price control law and acknowledged high CT costs for labor and materials.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31

Agreements for weekly pay ments during disability or for specific payment in case of per- manent injury were approved by Compensation Commissioner Harry KrasoW today as follows:
 Anthony Vaccarelli of 21 Violet Street against U. s. Rubber Con- pany of Naugatuck, S21.57 be- ginning July 15, hernia.
 Meurle R. Worthen of "A Bun- ker Hill Avenue against Water bury Rolling Mills, s2203 for 43 weeks, 100 percent loss of third finger and 90 percent loss of fourth finger of left hand.
 Frank Balinsky, ST, of Nau-ga- tuck against Naugatuck Chemical, division of U. s. Rubber Con- pany, $50 beginning July 20, in- jury to right hip.
 Ronald Desbaies of Torrington against American Brass Company of Torrington, s2557 beginning July l8, injuries to right foot, right hip, and left knee
 Eugene Korzynaski of Union City against American Brass Company S25 beginning July 19, back injury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31

assigned to posts still aren't able to live with their families. Here and at Ft. Benning, Ga, and F't Knox, Ky, committing 50 miles a day is not unusual.
 Morale among men who have re- enlisted is good Among those who are sweating out discharges it is bad The big gripe among both groups is still concerned with the ineaualities of the caste system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31

another soldier now" is heard with increasing frequency. And signs reading No Military Personnel Allowed" are slowly beginnings to reappear in cities and towns near Army posts.
 The housing shortage for the families of soldiers and officers is more acute now than it was before the war Men who have been over seas for several years and have been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31
Chromium PIotinq
 Makes Biq Strides

Addressing the Rotary Club at it's weekly meeting at the Hotel Elton yesterday. Ralph E. Cleveland, plant manager of the Chromium Corpora tion of America, described the ad- Vances of chromium plating through the years since 1929
 The greatest advances, said MT. Cleveland, took place during the re- cent war. He described the various improvements made on war equip ment during the war, and told also of the black chromium used on con- bat ships and submarines.
 Charles A. Templeton. former governor and first president of Wa terbury Rotary, welcomed the guests. Seated at the head table were three of the six charter mem- bers. all past presidents: William J. Pape, William s. Curtis and Dr. Stanley H. Crater.
 Also at the head table were Clarence Bartlett, chairman and other members of the clubs classi- fication committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31
Rigors of Civilian Life Bring Lots of Veterans Back in Army

Editors Note: This is the last of four dispatches on the Army as it is today, based on an extended tour of major in- stallations in the US. for which Gen. Eisenhower's orders were Show them everything if there is anything wrong we don't know about, We want to find 1t out from these report ers." What MEAS staff corre- spondent on this tour found is enough to make Uncle Sam cry, "Oh, My Aching Army,')
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31

Defective vision is the cause of approximately 20 per cent of the accidents resulting in personal in- jury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-31
.I4-Year-Old Lad Held for Hearing

Charged Wlth bTeaNng lnIo Jhe home of Frank Polletta of g Easton Avenue Monday and taking a small amount of money, 14-year-old youth was turned over to juvenile authorities today. It. John Calvin and Detective James Stack said the youth gained entrance through an unlocked rear door.
 The Knights of Columbus has membership of approximately 62o,- 900.
Evening star., 1946-11-03

trian assets under transparent pre-
texts that they were German" re-
fusing to cooperate with the other
Allies in constructive policies and
declining proposals from Washing
ton and London to deal with. the
Austrian problem on diplomatic top
levels. The upshot is that this small
and economically insufficient coun-
try has been reduced to chronic
misery and near-staryation, which
cannot be adequately grappled with
until the present diplomatic dead
lock has been broken. BY calling
the worlds attention to the situa-
ton, the Austrian Parliament has
performed a useful service.
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Cotton Prices

Although some people have been
calling for drastic action to stabilize
It. President Truman seems to be on
sound ground in letting the cotton
market work out of its troubles
largely in it's own way, with the
Government doing no more at this
time than lift OPA regulations
affecting purchases by textile manu-
facturers. On three different days
the major exchanges have been
forced to suspend trading IN face
of wild selling. but at the moment
prices are looking up again. Besides,
there is much to be said for the idea
that they have been too high any
how and have needed to be shaken
down.
Among the primary factors &C
counting for the recent "break" is
the plain and simple factor OF spec
ulation. Last spring trading prices
in cotton were fairly steady at about
% cents a pound. But then uncer-
tainties about the future OF OPA, to-
gether with Government figures in
dicating an exceptionally small new
crop and a relatively meager carry
over for 1947, encouraged a wave OF
buying that sent the price up to SO
cents-the peak that Immediately
preceded the tumble.
In many respects, this tumble
may be regarded as a wholesome
downward adjustment in a greatly
inflated market. Actually. at 80
cents, cotton was selling for almost
five times as much as in 1939-a
far greater increase than that ex-
perienced over the same period by
comparable commodities and farm
products in general. Despite the
small crop and the smaller carry
over for next year, the supply-and-
demand situation did not warrant
this extraordinary price, or at least
that Is how the market apparently
reacted to it, with buyer resistance
developing out of such facts as that
cotton at 80 cents cannot compete,
in the manufacturing field, with
much cheaper rayon.
So the wave of selling replaced the
wave of buying, with the result that
the market was all upset as the price
of cotton dropped more than 10
cents a pound. Right now it stands
in the neighborhood of 80 cents.
This lower level-which is still bit
higher than last springs and great
deal above the Scent level OF 1889
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Be Sure to Vote Tuesday

a map IN GOQayS SLar gives Lne
location of the eighty-seven pre-
cincts in which are located the one
hundred and fifty polling places for
Tuesdays District plebiscite. Find
out where to vote and be sure to
vote on Tuesday.
How you vote is nobodys business
but your own. But there is some
thing in the nature of an obligation
on every qualified citizen to vote.
Those who believe that Washing
tonians should vote will hasten the
day by voting on Tuesday, Those
who oppose the vote for Washington
will be showed under If they stay
at home. The Star would like to
see them showed under. But they
should be willing to get out and vote.
What are we voting for?
The first question, No. 1, is to
test opinion on whether we favor
the right to vote for officials Of the
municipal government. Congress
could grant that right merely by
passing the necessary legislation.
The Star respects the views Of those
who favor this method of bringing
about local suffrage. The type OF
legislation necessary to bring it
about is something else again. The
vital question here is whether the
enactment of such legislation would
produce conflict between local and
national control of the Federal City.
The Star believes the. Federal City
will and always should be under the
control of the Nation.
The second question, No. 2, Is
to test opinion on whether we favor
the right, in Washington, to vote
for our own representatives Ia
Congress and for the President OF
the United States. The reason we
do not have such representation now
Is that the Constitution written
years before anybody knew where
or when the Capital would be
locateO failed to provide method
by which the people of that future
Capital, not living IN a State. might
vote. To obtain such representation
evidently requires an amendment to
the Constitution. Such representa-
ton would not give the District the
status of State. 1t would not en-
danger the control of the Federal
City by the Nation. It would create
a unique voting status for Wash
ingtonians. But that status would
be no less unique than the one with
which they are cursed now, and it
would give to the Washingtonian his
rights as an American to participate
In the Government which taxes him
and sends him to war.
But regardless of how you vote on
Tuesday, the most important thing
Is to vote.
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Austriu as Problem

The long-standing problem of
Austria is being sharply drawn to
general attention by the initiative
of the Austrians themselves. BY
unanimous vote of the Austrian Par
lament, Chancellor Leopold Figl has
been instructed to press for the res
toration of Austria's full sovereignty,
including an end of the Allies mill
tary occupation and acceptance of
the country as a member Of the
United Nations.
The most interesting point in this
legislative action is that it includes
the local Communist Party, which
thereby subscribes to program sew
eral of whose clauses run counter to
the policy of Moscow. Indeed, it is
almost wholly due to Moscow's ef-
forts to swing Austria into its East
European and Balkan zone of satel-
lite states that Austria has been so
vexatious a postwar problem and is
today in so desperate an economic
situation. Those Soviet efforts con-
travene both the letter and the
spirit of a whole series Of inter-
Allied agreements, running clear
back to the big Three" conference
at Yalta and both confirmed and
amplified by subsequent conferences
at Potsdam and Moscow, early in the
postwar period.
The clearly expressed intent of the
Big Three was that Austria should
be considered not as an Axis satel-
lite but as country liberated from
Axis control, its political union with
Nazi Germany in 1888 being held
null and void. Equally clear was the
objective to reinstate Austria as a
sovereign nation with democratic
institutions. The inter-Allied mill
tary occupation Of Austria after the
Nazi forces had been defeated. and
expelled by joint Allied action was
originally proclaimed to be a tenn
porary necessity in order to insure
the liquidation Of Nazi influences
and the establishment of genuinely
stable and liberal Austrian regime.
Despite Austria's small size, the
occupation was on the model OF the
German, the country being divided
into four zones, assigned. respectively
to America, Britain, France and
Soviet Russia, with Vienna, the capi-
tai, under joint inter-Allied control
although geographically it was, like
Berlin, an enclave in the Russian
zone.
The results have not been happy.
The Russians have acted in most
high-handed fashion, stripping their
zone economically. contiscating Aus
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Your Fell01Vmzam'
By Rabbi Solomon H. Metz,
Adas Israel CONGREGATION.

One late winter afternoon the
elderly scholars Of the Bible and
Talmud Glass gathered around the
long table in the synagogue for their
daily study period. The young peo-
pie who came to recite the kaddish,
in memory of dear departed ones,
stood around, fascinated by the zest
with which Reb Mordecai explained
the parallels and wisdom of Talmudic
lore.
We heard the door open and close
and then the sound Of shutting feet.
A seedy individual, with the bloated
face and the unhealthy, forid COM
plexion characteristic of the vaga-
bond, came forward with his palm
open, begging aims.
The young people resented the
intrusion. Some began to murmur.
With a wave of his hand the old
teacher silenced them. He then
passed around the copper charity box
which always stood on the table.
After everyone had contributed, he
gave the contents Of the box to the
transient, who no sooner slipped 1t
into his pocket than he disappeared.
Now the young people became en-
phatically articulate. Just q no
account panhandler';; "Ill wager
that, If he were offered work, he
wouldn't accept the job" were some
of the remarks. To these murmur-
ings Reb Mordecai responded, MY
good friends, even if we were wasting
90 out of every 100 dollars on un-
worthy panhandlers. as you call them,
we should be eager to give to all who
stretch out hand for the sake OF the
hundredth dollar that reaches the
one in need. That hundredth dollar
of charity is so precious and holy
that all the money in our city banks
cannot buy it," Then, turning to
his colleague, the dreamy-eyed Israel,
affectionately known as "the music
master" he said, Now, Reb Israel.
what is your thought?" The latter
remarked, "I looked at the poor.
homeless man and thought: Suppose
his brother were here, what would
his reaction have been? Suppose his
mother, who hadn't seen him since
his youth, when he left, bright-eyed
and eager, for the highways of adven-
ture, suppose she were here? She
would have clasped him to her heart
and cried, My child, my son! Look
what the world has done to my boy!
and you and I would have wept bitter
tears with her"
'How many of U.s." he continued,
show many of us really know our
neiehbors-know them from within,
the way a mother knows her chill
dren? In too many cases our Judg-
ment and evaluation OF our fellow
men are compounded of bias, cussed-
ness and dullness of perception.
Think of any man in your community.
He is seen by different people. Some
see him in one light and some IN
another. But is he seen in any such
light by his children. by his wife, or
by his parents? Only God. who
knows us absolutely, can judge men,
and only when We love our fellowmen
can we fully appraise them"
That's why" he concluded, lit is
written in our holy books that COM
passion must always precede spiritual
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Genetics and the A-Bomb

The award OF the 1946 Nobel Prize
in medicine and physiology to Pro-
fessor Herman j. Muller, geneticist
of Indiana University, may be taken
as an evidence of the increasing
Importance which scientists attach
to the physiological implications Of
atomic energy. 1t is interesting to
note that the basic discovery for
which the award was made-that of
the effects on heredity of radiation
applied to living cells-was an
nounced about twenty years ago. DR..
Muller, in expressing surprise at the
honor conferred upon him, COM
mented on the fact that his "revolu-
tionary" findings are far from recent.
The atomic bomb, however, has
given tremendous new significance
to DR.. Muller's remarkable re-
searches. Starting with expert
ments on fruit flies, he found that
exposure to X-rays of the genes and
chromosomes of these rapidly multi
plying insects caused amazing
changes in succeeding generations
of the flies. Descendants of the af-
fected flies developed weird deformi-
ties, from extra legs to extra heads.
In discussing with local reporters
possible genetic effects of radiation
from atomic bombs, DR.. Muller re-
Trained from predicting any such
monStrous deformities within the
foreseeable future as far as offspring
of victims of the Hiroshima and
Nagasaki bombings are concerned.
He admitted, however, that there is
no reason to suppose that genes in
human cells react differently from
those of the fruit fly. He expressed
the thought, amounting almost to
wishful thinking, that any immedi-
ate changes in the genes OF the
human body may not cause seri-
Gus physiological changes for many
generations after the initial ex-
posure-perhaps not for thousand
years.
What Is particularly disturbing is
that DR.. Muller has found that most
of the changes effected in living
organisms by radiation are of a de-
structive or otherwise harmful ma
ture. He intends to continue to
search for way Of putting the'rays
to work for the improvement Of the
human race, rather than for its de-
terioration or destruction. The
$4,000 which goes with the Nobel
citation should enable him to pro-
ceed more vigorously in this all
important quest.
Evening star., 1946-11-03
Capital Sidelights
By viii P. Kennedy.

While Congressmen are fighting for
reelection work progresses on revamp-
ing the most valuable book published
by Congress. This is the cumulative
Biographical Directory of the American
Congress from 1774 to January 3, 1949,
the close of the Eightieth Congress. The
present edition includes up to 1927 and
1500 additional biographies Will be In
cluded in the new edition now being
compiled. There are only IL present
Senators whose biographies are IN the
current edition, and only 81 out OF 435
House members. Even House Leader
John w. Mccormack was not member
in 1927, which emphasizes the neeo 1or
the revision now going on.
The new edition is expected to be a
two-volume production-one devoted 10
a record Of administrations and the
personnel of each Congress by States;
the other devoted exclusively to biogra-
phies of upward Of 1000 persons VINO
have served in Congress. Some cofrec-
tons will be made Of biographies In tina
present book in the light Of persistent
research. For example, q careful IN
ouiry now is being made to determine
the burial place of John Hanson OF
Maryland, who was first President OF
the United States Congress Assembled,
and died at the residence Of his nephew
in Oxon Hill, Md, November 27, l783. 1t
Is believed that his grave is on the Oxon
Hill Manor estate now owned and oc-
cupied by Sumner Welles, former Under
secretary Of State. Intensive research
also Is being made to determine the
burial place of Representative Ebenezer
7. Shields of Tennessee "a native OF
Georgia) who died at Memphis May 20,
1s46.
The revision of the cumulative bio
graphical directory is being made unoer
the personal direction OF Ansel Wolo.
veteran clerk of the Joint Committee
on Printing, who compiled the 1927 edi-
ton, a volume of 1,740 pages, and VINO
has been working consistently ever since
toward bringing the new edition up to
date. with improvements. He previously
had worked with the late Henry M.
Rose. assistant secretary Of the Senate,
in bringing the 1908 biographical direc-
torv I'D to 1911. In his work of compil-
ing the biographies, Mr.. Wold has writ
ten upward of $4,000 letters, mostly to
postmasters. He has been faithful
Government employe for As years.
+ n \
Elizur Yale Smith, executive secretary
of the Bill of Rights Commemorative
Society, gives his address as Peters
Corn Field 301 East Twenty-first street,
New York City. In 1850 "Old Peg Leg"
Peter stuyvesant had his corn field on
that site.
Evening star., 1946-11-03

truth, for love Is at the core OF au
ethical and religious insights."
At this point related the story Of
Nachman Braslaver, the great
Hassidic saint, and his antagonists.
Boundless and deep as the love and
devotion Of his followers were the
hate and malice of his opponents.
But the saint never spoke Ill OF his
detractors and traducers and always
included them in his prayers. When
ihis disciples expressed their aston
ishment, he replied, There Is an
image in their minds, craven image.
of a diabolically ugly human being
who is hypocritical, greedy, vain and
malicious, and they tremble before
that image and, naturally, hate 1t.
The more they think about that image
the more their hate obsesses them.
Alas, in their pitiable ignorance, they
identify that image, that figment OF
their benighted mentality, with me.
They know not what they hate nor
what they do. They need light and
knowledge. That is why I include
them when ! pray. o, Merciful
Father, enlighten our eyes in Thy
Torah.'"
OF course, this teaching does not
rule out honest differences, religious
or otherwise. When we truly know
one another, we may still disagree
with and disapprove Of one another's
ideas or patterns of behavior. Never
theless, we are on the way to acquire
the redemptive sense of the organic
: oneness and identity of all mankind.
In Hebrew the verb "yodoa" means
both ito know" and ito love" In
our compassionate understanding OF
our felloWmen we discover the su-
preme and holy truth that hurting
others means hurting ourselves and
that as we do unto the least OF the
human family we do unto ourselves
and our children.
Our sages warned us to beware Of
the arch-consumer of civilizations
and souls-Hate.
Hatred has ever been the measure
of mans selfishness, furtiveness and
inadequacy; hatred is the fatal creep
ing paralysis of the spirit, and its
presence in the mind should serve
as the red signal of mortal danger,
which can be averted only by ruth
less self probing, contrition and a
return to God, whose mercy ever Is
at hand to heal us and restore us
through the power Of love.
The discussion was drawing to an
end. The sun was setting. 1t was
growing dark in the house Of study.
The sexton raped on the lectern
facing the Holy Ark. 1t was the call
to evening worship. Our friend, Reb
Israel, began the chanting of the
ancient responsive litanies. 1t is
passing strange how, at times, famil-
lar tones and phrases suddenly touch
our awareness with a mystically
significant fash of illumination. The
first responsive verse intoned by the
gentle Reb Israel came to me with
the wonder and compelling clarity
of a revelation-glorious and re-
assuring:
"And He Who is All-merciful will
forgive iniquity.
The Eternal King will help us on
the day we call upon Him"