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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
A Thought For Today
Fulton Lewis, Jr.-OPA Nemesis

Several weeks ago the Town Hall program when the debate concerned the merits of OPA Fulton Lewis Jr stole the show. He put such convincing argument to the desiraby of abandoning most of the OPA program that Leon Henderson his principal opponent probably wished he had "sood in bed' that particular evening" Lewis vr tualy gave Henderson the lie many of his statements and statistics and made the charges stick.
 Last night, Lewis again joined issue with Chester Bowles during his regular broadcast WATR. He com mented the withdrawal of Bowles from radio next Tuesday which the recently published book by Bowes was to discussed by the author and undent fled questioner Bowes withdrawal Lewis alleged, fol- lowed that the able economist Henry J. Tay Tor to be the questioner.
 In withdrawing Bowes said the White House had asked him to refrain from public discussion of economic matters while continuance of OPA still being considered in Con- gress. Lewis last night reported having checked with the White House and learned that President Truman had issued such request.
 This dupcy MT. Bowless part, if true, furnishes example of the kind of dsngenuous tactics the part of OPA and it's sympahzers in the government to which all of should object and which OPA critics base their demand for it's dscontnuance The feeling that OPA perpetuate system of price control entire variance with the American economic system growing prevalent almost daily
 Certain price controls should be continued in opin ion When Stabzer Bowes induges in the sort of coward y doube-tak of which Lewis has accused him. he does disservce to OPA and furnishes it's critics with potent munition and additional recruits in the drive to eliminate all OPA controls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
W Dre1e, Pearson

tEis cOmnen&atOr and after CPA alegedly issued tt denial of permit, CPA inspector found that Tan foran was continuing work on stables, grandstand clubhouse and paddock to the tune of about $132OO0 obtained by dismantling temporary war buildings d the race track went to build new gambling hous' at Lake Tahoe, New, owned in part by E. w. Heple Tanforan'S contractor. The Tantofan people claimed all this lumber went to veterans, hut this was noa true Actually part of it went to the gambling joint in direct violation of a CPA order.
 This is just one illustration of how and why the boys who lived in foxholes stiN looking fol
 NOTE 1-CPA officials say that veterans hous- ing is also handicapped in part by some federal judges who don't cooperate in helping to enforce CPA regulations among them Judges Adolphus St Sure Michael Roche and Martin Welsh in Northern California In contrast, Judge Louis Goodman, in San Francisco, gives vigorous cooperation in enforcing CPA construction permits
 NOTE 2-One race track which went out of its way to cooperate with the Veterans Housing Pro- President, A. j. Unack, released all his building ma teTaal. ordered many months before, to veterans.
 Most people won't believe t. but in CzechOsIo- vakia, a country not unfriendly to the US.A, the people have idea that the United States had any, thing to do with defeating Japan They think 1t was Russia that did 1t all.
 Reason is that the Russian radio and propaganda machine has done sklful job of propagandizing the CSechoslovak people, while we have done absolutely nothing to counteract 1t.
 
 that Congress has ham-Strung the State Department on short-wave broadcastng. Led by that great states man from Crosse Point, Mich, Rep. Louis Rabaut the House Appropriations Committee cut the heart out of the State Departments appropriation for propaganda, especially radio broadcasting.
 The other day. however, the appropriation bill came before the Senate in secret hearing. And believe 1t or not, the man who knifed his friend Secretary of State Byrnes in the back this appro priaton none other than the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Connally of Texas.
 An idiotic waste of money" shouted the gentle man from Texas devised only by someone who does not understand world affairs"
 few days later the gentleman from Texas sailed for Paris with his friend Mir Byrnes, to try to offset Russian propaganda and diplomacy in Europe
 How" remarked one State Department official who had listened to Connally, "can you fight some thing with nothing? The Russians are fast turning the people of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Finland, France and Belgium, against us. C7echoslovakia founded in the United States with the help of Woodrow Wilson. But are fast losing that basic friendship because do nothing to counteract Rus sian propaganda"
 NOTE-Should the Senate OK Byrnes' appro- priation bill while he is In Paris it would greatly strengthen his hand at the international conference table,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
They Do Not Choose To Run?

One help but be interested in the seeming y of available gubernaoria and senatorial candidates in the Connecticut ranks of both major parties Among the Democrats Chester Bowes and It. Governor Wbert Snow the only candidates seriously mentioned although there is marked disagreement among Democratic hgherups to which of them should stand for which of the top posts
 In the Republican camp, Joe Talbot alone admits he wants to Governor Baldwin is setting high in the number of retirement needed to convince and frankly, still think he'll for something. An occasional bow the charms and abnegon of Clare Booh Luce gives her the distinction of being chosen to play the part of Bark Joe Tone Democrat and former Congress- Miller Republican, destined to be reported as scratches"
 What is the real behind this apparent reluctance of oceseekers to declare themsves? One suspects that the Democrats waiting for Economic Stabzer Bowes to fall fiat his face before convention time and thus auto macaly leave of the top places open Snow hardly be kept off the ticket in place or the other.
 The obtuse machnations of the Republicans defy an- ayss From here it looks though the parys only hope for centered in the group which comprises the Baldwin, the frank Talbot, the hopeful Luce and the bilious Miller. Other starters sombrehued to be ndstingushabe in the Stygian preconventon darkness
 So aside from the aforementioned it appears that other among Connectcus statesmen and daughters shooses to run-yet!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22

Europe and Asia still seem far away.
 Yet we must know that they are not-ttat it only by the Grace of God that we escaped last time. Next tirne-n there Is one, and there will be unless we wake up-we can't escape. Then our own cities will be laid waste and own fields ploughed with fury from the air.
 Which brings us to that instrumentaIity through which we make our decisions- politics This Is year of politics, year of decision. It can't watt yet so many people don't seem to care. In several elections this year the issue is at stake There are choices between those who want to slip back into slrnber and those who want to be alert to protect Us from another war by joining sincerely with other nations
 There was such choice, for instance, in Me- braska. And majority of voters turned their eyes backward They didn't seem to realize that this was not just another election.
 Some people had grown tired of Governor Gris- wold who had been Governor three times. He had made enemies in the state as any governor wtu Yet there was only one issue there.
 It was not question Of personal feelings, of mere men, but Of what men stood for. Governor GriSwold for doing something positive to maintain our leadership for peace in the world. Nebraska was electing man to sit and vote in the Senate for six years in which many decisions must be made That the big question. Such individual votes will de- eide our future. Yet Nebraska chose man. Senator Butler, who looks backward
 There Is the same issue, clear and clean, in this state Minnesota), previously pointed out here.
 These are no ordinary electons-or they shouldn't be- These are our future. It is the tragedy of olR times that our people thus far have not seemed to sense that In vain the young men who saw it all are calling:
 WAKE UP. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
Draft Extension Accord

At long last, conferees of the House and Senate to have found the controversial issue of draft ing teenagers The recommendations of the joint commit tee will be that drafting eighteen old youngsters n- advisable but that they become nineteen they ripe for induction.
 We could have confidence in congressional judg- ment and show enthusiasm for this conference political expediency Four hundred and iryve seats in the House of Representatives will be filled ct this Falls cleo ton ergo the House heates to offend the mothers of the nation by drafting youngsters Only about onehrd of the august senators will be up for reelection they by trast be little realistic and consider the draft necessities in the light of facts rather than sentiment
 While the compromise is far from satisfactory it seems the only workable solution of the problem of gaining con- gressona approval for draft extension and should be passed by the House next Tuesday when it will be voted The compromise bill at least avoids the buresque which the rent stoppage making of selective service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22

WASHINGTON June 22-A group of Cabneteers and White House advisers were gathered at the nome of Undersecretary of the Navy John Sullivan the other day, comparing notes as to who was going 70 see0 the Louis-Conn fight in New York.
 It turned out that the following were going, and all taking the same airplane to New York: Secretary of the Treasury John w Snyder; Secretary of Agri- culture Clinton A. Anderson; OPA Administrator Paul Porter; War Reconverter John Steelman; White House Press Secretary Charles Ross; White House Personal Secretary Matt Connolly.
 What a chance for the pilot to pull the pllgl" wise-cracked ex-Congressman Joe Casey of Massa- chusetts, vice-president of IVA.
 "YeS" shot back OPAs Paul Porter, land become. another Colin Kellyl"
 Biggest scandal in the veterans housing program is the way non-essentia race tracks roller coasters and bowling alleys divert thousands of feet of pre- ciouS lumber and carpenters time, which could be used homes for veterans
 Among the new or refurbished race tracks are those at Atlantic City and Monmouth, N. J., with the Arlington, H.. track also attempting to wangle some new reconstruction and quite battle raging over the Tanforan Track near San Francisco
 The fight over rebuilding Tanforan is an illus tration of how energetic race track owners and sleepyeyed OPA officials cooperate to give veterans housing the go-by
 On April 26 San Francisco contractor filed complaint with CPA (Civlian Production Administra tion) that the Tanforan Race Track was getting carpenters by advertising overtime and as result his veterans housing projects were at standstill
 OPA, however ruled that Tanforan was merely IOrIneT NdVy was permissible About this time, however, Tanforan applied for new construction permit and, accord ing to Guy Standifer president of the track he encouraged to go ahead by Ed Haloran, Regional CPA Construction Manager.
 Halloran denies ths but Standifer testifies that Halloran was very sympathetic and virtually told him to go ahead with the work pending action on the permit
 Meanwhile, this columnist, on June 3, publicly called attention to the reconstruction of Tanforan and asked CPA Administrator Jack Small why he was permitting it. Next day. June 3, Gilbert Kneiss District CPA Construction Manager, claimed that the Tanforan application had been denied the previ- ous Friday, May 31.
 His superior, MT. Haloran, however, knew noth- ing about this Stop-order and, of Monday, June 3, had not made up his mind regarding the Tanforan construction permit.
 This illustrates one inside reason why OPA lets race tracks bowling alleys and roller coasters get built, while veterans housing is sdetracked Kneiss who wanted to stop the Tanforan reconstruction is ana engineer and former district manager of the War Production Board Halloran, his boss who want ed the track built is contractor. Contractors usually sympathetic to the desires of other tractors, and many of the CPA local committees are from the building industry
 However, three days after public comment by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
bv Peter EdSon

the time his resignation Secretary of the Interior accepted, on Feb. Is.
 While it may be literally true that the four sec- retares met, it is known that there have been conferences this subject of island government at lower and more expert levels. The State, War, and Navy Departments were apparently able to agree. but Interior dissented That may or may not let out of the bag the caty deduction that Ickes thought all island government should be under Interior but nobody else agreed
 The hope of breaking this stalemate now lies in the fact that there Secretary of the Interior the job. Incidentally he is ex-Navy officer, Comdr. J. A. Krug. If he goes to the Philippines for the independence celebration on July 4 he may get first-hand look at of these islands and come back with ideas for some agreement on how they should be governed.
 In the meantime. two bills on this issue have been introduced in Congress, by Andrew J. Biemler of Wisconsin and Henry Jackson of Washington Both bills would transfer responsibility for the government of island possessions from the Navy and War De- partments to the Interior Department. Those por- tions of the islands used for military bases woud however, be left under the armed services
 Biemillers bill goes little farther. Any time one-ourth or more of the inhabitants of any island group except Hawaii Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands signed petition requesting it. his bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue 1t
 charter for local self-government, with guarantees of American civil liberties and rights included. Tn effect, this would put the Secretary of the Interior above both the President and the Secretary of State
 The House Committee on Insular Affairs, after considering both these measures has decided to take no action before the coming Congressional recess. In the next session. however. Congress will have to act
 YearS ago, 1t was decided that the Philippines would be directed towards independence and Hawaii towards statehood. Both policies are being carried out.
 But no such decision was ever made on Puerto Rico Guam and Samoa The hare tEaeg and pulatical turmoil those islands have been through are sorry reflection on this lack of decision
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
ARE THE SENATOR'S POOLING?
(Springfield Daily NeWs)

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 Much as we dislike to agree on anything with Senator Pepper of Florida we'll have to admit that the Bridges-Eastland plan for ''un- packing the Supreme Court is about as silly as they come. We assume the senators from New Hampshire and Mississippi who suggest it are just having their little fun and getting themselves a sounding board but they are big boys now and shouldn't want to play all the time. Let's take a gan der at what might jokingly be called their idea.
 They say it is bad for one Presi- dent to appoint all the Supreme Court justices as MT. Roosevelt did in his somewhat extended tour of duty, and they are probably right. They further say that three should be the limit of any one executives appointments to our high bench and this being less than a major ity they are doubtless still in the groove. But when they refuse to be satisfied with making the future safe for jurisprudence and want to make their dream oactiVe, the whole thing goes over to the comic page. It wt have to be an amendment to b. Constitution, you see, and would require the ap- proval of both branches of Con- gress and ratification by 36 states. Congressional amendments come once in a dogs age and only on dynamic issues that strike deep and broadly into the public conscious ness.
 The way the thing would work if, presto chango," it went into eff feet tomorrow, is this. Justices Douglas, Murphy, Jackson and Rut- ledge would step down, being the last four of MT. Roosevelt's seven appointments and therefore illegal ly in office MT. Truman, having used up two of his appointments with Justice Burton and the un- confirmed Vinson, could name one more with the other three vacant spots to be filled by interim ap- pointments by the House of Rep resentatives. When new President came in, in two or six or 10 or IA years, he could replace the in- terim boys, or stand-ins, as Petrillo would call them, up to the limit of three and then the House would function again until another Presi- dent came along. It's just as simple as this, or isn't 1t? We're too con- fused to know.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
Short Daydream

You lot in the papers these days about competition in the field of organized labor. The AFL and ClO. competing to organize workers in the South Officers and divergent political groups compete for control of individual unons and so on. All of which fills with a hopeless yearnng
 Remember competition back in the days of peace and plenty? That usually business competition It had way resulting in markdowns gveaways free candy for the kd free chinaware for the movegoer Maybe it sometimes carried to economically unsound lengthsbut boy, how the customers loved it!
 Now, if the unions could only arrange such popu- Iar moralebuldng dividends to embeish their current competition. But noguess we'd better open our eyes, take our feet off the desk, and get back to work
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
Views of the Press

Chicago to serve summons on Petrillo to appear in the Federal district court there on the charge that he has violated the Lea act, passed last April. Petrillo invited the action deliberately, so one as- sumes he will appear asscommand- ed and, as he has said, fight the action up to the Supreme Court, if necessary, and subsequently, if the law is upheld, issue orders from his prison cell to cripple the radio net works.
 The Lea act forbids, under crim- inal penalties, several of the coer- cive practices which Petrillo and his musicians union have pursued. Among other prohibitions-against the banning of foreign music pro- grams over the air, of programs of school and college bands and or- chestras, and the exaction of royal ties on records-it forbids them to force 8 radio station to hire more musicians than it needs. Petrillo de- cided to make test of this latter provisions, ordering Station WAAF, in Chicago, to employ double the number of librarians" already on it's pay roll and directing strike for the purpose. Very dramatically he has defied the lightning of the law, calling 1t unconstitutional.
 The only trouble with the Lea act, as we see it, is the extremely narrow range of it's application, for which reason 1t is also known as the anti-Petrillo act. It deals merely with organized labor extortion in the radio broadcasting field. The principles behind it's provisions, however, are sound enough and de- serve extension to labor as a whole undoubtedly Petrillo has been ad- vised that 1t approximates bill of attainer, since he happens to have been the only one guilty of the offenses it enumerates, and is thus unconstitutional It will be interest ing to see how the courts handle this contention, and whether at last this archetype of labor autocrat has met his Waterloo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
Surplus Islands

WASHINGTON, June 22-EffOrts to arrive at 8 decision on how the several hundred populated and and liberated islands of the Pacific are to be gov- erned are getting nowhere fast.
 The islands are now administered by the Office of Island Government in the Navy Department, Capt w. F. Jennings commanding. Under Captain Jen- nngs are some 300 naval government officers and 500 enlisted men. The Navy hopes to reduce this number by than half.
 The U. S. Commercial Company-an REC sub sidiary-is trying to the islands back to eco- homie health. but it's a slow process.
 Since shortly after the end of the war, the Navy has been making statements as to which of the nb- erated islands 1t wants for permanent bases Kwa- jalein, Eniwetok, Majuro, saipan, Tinian. Manus. and Palau the list, plus. of course, the old bases at Samoa, Midway and Guam. The NavyS war time investments in these bases run close to billion dollars. They range from $5OO0.0O0 on Majuro to $275 100000 Guam.
 The Navy is now in the process of turning over to the Army control of the Ryukyus. Okinawa and the Bonins are already under General MacArthur. But, aside from these, the War Department refuses to give any indication as to what bases 1t considers necessary for ground and air security in the western Pacific.
 Last October, the President named a special cabinet committee to prepare report on what the U S. policy for administration of the islands should War, Navy and Interior. So far, nothing has come out.
 On Jan. IS the President was asked at press conference whether not these Jap mandated islands would be retained by the U S. His reply was that those islands not needed by the U S. would be placed under United Nations trusteeship For those islands needed by the U. g., application would be made to the LIN for authority to establish American trusteeship But no decision had been made on what islands were needed.
 In recent speech in which he blasted the day. lights out of the Nays pre-war government on Samoa and Guam. Harold Ickes declared that the Presidential cabinet committee had never met up to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-22
Wake Up This Year Or By Thomas Stokes

ST PAULA sharp contrast has been observed on this trip through the Middle West, giving vividy sad impression of the tragedy of times
 There the American Veterans committee convention at Des Moines Across it's stage went serious, earnest young men dSeply concerned about the trend of events in the world.
 The spectacle resembled a puppet show. The young men moved and spoke at the pull of powerful forces-the war they had seen the death with which they had lived, the ruined cities through which they had fought. They danced frantcally under the im- and hurry hurry, hurry" to recognize our peril.
 The audience the rest of l,s sits and watches for time We listen, but do not hear. We observe, but we do not see. We wander away from the spectacle to go about our small ways, never knowing that we may be headed down the path of inevitable doom.
 It is understandable if tragic War never touched us here There blocks of blasted buildings and homes, and piles of ugly debris in the cities and towns out here nor anywhere else in land There no bomb holes in the fields but only the freshly growing crops deep tracks of those fighting behe- mothS modern tanks across the landscape, still so familiar in Europe.
 Most of us have seen none of that, so we can not feel nor understand. Many of people suffered bitterly through the loss of loved But most of saw war vicariously though that was an ordeal of kind. To most of largely meant regimentation of lives for time
 Now we want to forget it al to go back to normal lives. To make some money, to take trip, to go fishing-all understandable desires That is what is happening all over our land. But, with it, insidious thing is cropping up out here-men insist ing that should not have mixed up in the wars of Europe and Asia trying to justify old positions Again, as before they are saying that the ocean and