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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
ALessOn From Germany

Throughout Europe to-day the popularity of statecon sroled ndusfFy grOWing The prevalent opinion seems fo e that the system is not ony just and efficient but that h offers the q1icesi route tO recovery and general pros PertE.
 AH Of wsich kndS addad interest a booklet recently Eased by the Army Air Forces 1t contains the testimony eiyen by Albert Speer former Nsz Minister Of Arnamens to Aeroan Intelligence officers in Germany. And read fng with the conviction that the iD Europe would have beD considerably Specr had not replaced GemsDys tightly nstiOnaIized industry with some thing closely resembling demOcratic capitalism.
 Speers efforts are nOt entirely unknown. The United States SEstegc Bombing Survey Of him: Tn February. 1882 6per appointed Minister d Armament Produc' fiOn with EiGe powers nteD about replacing the ex ting machinery Of oontros with organization manned by people sd from the production managers and sf increasing production and Of rationaiziDg German war industry. ..
 ID ibe nourse o two and half years the military out, pst 0f Germany sjrrTsft. weapons and ammunition was raised than thrsefOId; jD tanks. seyeDfOd"
 Those tEO and half years M course. 2 steadily growing weight @ Allied bombs fsI Germany, That German output increased almost t the end speaks clearly enough H the superiority S speeTs system,
 The Nszs had carefully worked oV s tber production pr"enos Q" paper nog bore the invasion of Poland sgl the highly nsfiOnslzed highly bDreaDcTsijzed plan d6nt S0k P'nsST. ln desperation Hitler called 70 speer a0d gave him free hand,
 The result was q program which Speer called "Tbe Al, tODOmy M Industry t sort Of freereDtevDrjse sys, ten SOrDz D sODer-nstl01slzed economy, speer freed production and production planning from poitjco'mjIay n0DtFO abolished penalties against DdUstajstg for quota failures and turned O the principle of incentives, By Oer sDg German War industry 0ncO as American var industry f10eteopeo be Ae0eVs0 ET"HDE @DeecY % t0@ 1'1si m growing disaster
 ser tod our officers that be believed the "eEtended
 eWeteaJ preparation O mainly EeepODsi be for Ow ley5 O) production 1DtJ t912" e also said fst he had told Hitler that Russia aDd the United States to be eByed baaDse tey had been fo4ed O "mpO, vlse" their war industries program,
 The SDeet report s interesting commentary OB tbe fe0ry pat forth teTe vel abroad, tba government b0oNIsDHe DsDDOg wjD sh,F s economic problems, But, MsD that, the report Way be Og immediate and practical Vs1ge,
 4 s being cjted by seran industry representatives 0 beaf1oHs SlstOy 9etejps bj tO establish Hatl0DaD AU Policy Board, Ger0aDYs Lesson under fire give the seast0ry slOebjDH D fjDk sbOg when they GDdoy ibe tgfye relationship government s0d private industry 70 terms O( national defense,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
What Must a Father And Mother Think!

In the above question have asked which al some ane CT almost everyone We ask the ques- siun today sympathy and coDdOlence O Mr. and Mrs Lohn l. ssrey death of whose sen. Captain John w zGney E z A.. flashed "Di of clear sky yes serday md yicsi. but of pooyelitis. affc- aam reSres "f the earth What. again we ask does nober think Had been in the heat rf aslr oosd foT IOhn father and mother. BD with Mzr all hBt yeaT 00ly answer as we IDdge Iobn l. GsDy sDd Mrs Gsfpey have already mnswprad. Thy Eil he done.
 Ou- oE fhe have come many crosses and hesrtzres Boys ffe Bush O yODh were killed by Inc fhousznds Ye1 under fire fighting for their coun fry zoria9 fneY dear oDes sscrhce Ii as they thought but for the endorsement of human iy. derent wrd ise Sebeing and DrOfheTly 'oVe
 HOEezer months after the last shot in World War u $ Aexzzting conflict has suded the Of another casualty. young with everything to look forward to- suocubed silent that could have stricken him here iusr as readily as zOn. He wasn't war casualty: all Of Him wO disTeards tITne place age His says he devious. but they certain as t0uOrrOws Ei rise Captain John ". GsffDey did not live in vain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
Pres. Truman Switches

President 1EnmaA alleT lamhasllRg bls lah9T leadevk and nnl0ns involved 70 the strikes which nearly paTalgaed the nation recently, beRan 10 tak fnl Of the other side of hla mouth last weekend,
 In a commencement addgeas ~ Washington G0l' Gee m ghesierl0wn, Md, be turned hk attention i0 big aggTeRal0ns 0I capital dominated by feN Men7- banks, Insurance companies and steel
 T have aala many llmes that ! would much rather 6ee \ lh0llAaDd insurance n0mpanlfA With [ mllnn ln aaseL lhAn one insurance company slu ( bllllDn,' be aald sI would failleV see hundred steel n0mpanes than 0ne United iAies Steel Corp ! would rather sef thousand banks bsn one Ma ll0Dal ollg hank"
 About hA speach lbele was lhe D0slslRle yeaFDlnR e0mBo0D l0 s0 many Ag IA iof ihf simple He W h small community, TelIeal Into pasi see she0 ell SlnD E. e0DlI0l 0nT economic He today, Tbsi was lNM lime aR0
 Msnan s hsVe. And we semshew havs e Ags wilh e. As . matter 9f fact one 0f the prime ipnc' l0nA now 0i Government representing all the peDplf, a p yaenlaa such hnAlnaAA % protect The public from too great power and influence tD Government
 Was President Truman merely lnaklIe a speech, 0g a he again alert l0 the eylk 0l monopoly Of which he showed himself 70 eonAnlolM as ehairBan Of the wartime Truman Senate Committee which laid bare m0nap0latG apaFatA0na9 They FAmily lD many aFee' l0na, There was an lntaFeatlns development only q teW days aa0,
 The War Assets Corr. approved sale Ol Lhe c, R Steel Corp i0F A7h00 000 the steel plant at Geneva Utah. which cost the Government le0 million. The Fea Eeyleg board 0f Waf assets held this the best of seven oferA Another bidder was well.esablialled western concern Colorado Fuel and IF0n once the nEonsFly oi the Rockefeller nieEaAis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06

WASHINGTON, Sane s-n h now possible ta give play-by-play account ef what happened inside the White House during the "lost weekend"
 This columnist hes been around Washington a good many years. but the events preceding Harry Truman's labor message to Congress were the most bizarre ever witnessed. They prove that Harry Tn. mans worst enemy is his own loyalty to friends. Here Is what happened:
 On Friday morning just after the rail strike started Truman held a cabinet meeting. He was hop- ping mad at 4. P Whitney and Alvaniey Johnston. Secretary of Labor Schweenbach equally burned. ID. but not At the strikers He at likable John Steeman the White House labor expert and John Snyder the reconveEteF for messing up the negotiations.
 At the cabinet meeting. Postmaster General Iannesan wanted Truman to go on the air with an appeal to the public. but no crackdown labor Secretary of War Patterson wanted the President to take over the railroads at once, even produced blueprint for the Arnys strke-breakins operations Secretary ByTnes said he thought settlement could be reached but not by steeman, in whom the union had lost faith.
 M the cabinet meeting also. Secretary Of the Treasury Fred Vinson asked how much money sep- arated the railroad workers and the operators--n other words how much would l. take to satisfy iabors unmet demands Steeman who had been conducting negotiations for more than . week. said he didn't know So did Schwellenbach. So did Byrnes But John Snyder volunteered that they were between 300 and 800 million dollars apart This very large estimate led Vinson and ByTneS the conclusion that there possibility Of negotiated settlement and they then cast their weight with the Secretary of War
 
 After the Cabinet meeting Truman lunched with Snyder and Steelman. They uged him 10 force to break the strike also to go before Congress and ask for new legislation. After lunch. therefore Truman called a special meeting of certain cabinet members and advisers. including Secretary of State Byrnes Attorney General Clark Secretary 0f the Treasury Vinson. John Steelman. John Snyder. Secretary Of Labor Schwelenbach. and the President Truman in- formed them he had decided CD To go on the air that night, and i2D address Congress the next day He then outlined the general nature of what he wanted to say-some Of 1t drastic
 At this point. Secretary Vinson, realizing an im- portant break with Roosevelt precedent was im- mnent once again asked whether Snyder was sure Of his figures regarding the distance between the railroad operators and the brotherhoods Snyder then sheepthly admitted that only between g and 90 million dollars separated the two
 Steelman also confessed that the three import ant rules changes the union really insisting on would only cost the railroads ls million dollars
 At this. both ByrneS and Vinson hiG Che ceiling They claimed 1t was fantastic let the whole coun- try be tied up when both sides 50 close to agree ment settlement. they insisted. was both possible and probable and it unwise in the light of this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
A NEW HORROR
fThe Hartford CouranD

fThe Hartford CouFanD
 AS though warfare had not al- ready reached the acme Of horror, with the threat Of the atomic bomb hanging over the entire world, 0Inin- Ous reports of an even grisller wea- pon are now being heard, Some of 0uT less responsible Congressmen have let slip word that this country has developed a germ spray capable of wiping out whole cities or de- stroying entire crops as readily as DDT dlspOses of insects The pr0s- pect of germ warfare. 0f course, is nothing new, For many years it has been discussed and written about by the morbidly inclined and those enam0red of the spectacular. All the major nations have been ieVerishly investigating it's possible ities, supposedly for their own de- iense, In January the War Depart menl reported that we were ahead of the Axis in this field, and were prepared t0 use it or to defend 0ur- selves against it.
 NttfAalfo NAAN tAfA@NAfN BfAEAN*AeAtAN were referring 10 this, and were leI' ting their lmaginati0nS run with what they heard in confidence, But even allowing for exaggeration, it is dlsquietlng to be told that we are in . position t0 use germ spray SO highly contagious that the p0pu- latl0ns of whole cities could be wiped out in one liendlsh attack, There Is speculation that the germ is a particularly virulenl type of bus honic plague, which once carried of almost half the worlds p0pula. ton back in the s0.ealled Dark Ages,
 Like the atomic b0mb. which has already demonstrated lls terrifying potentlalities, this latest horror must aeeentuate the delhrMlnal ln 0g aaeh one 0l us that war simply must mol happen again, II men sink t0 the level 0l using deadly germs to slay whole peoples mdls. erimmately, the human race might lnsl aa yell call ll a day and be- gnealh this S0rely tried planet l0 the lower forms Of lie, ln every past crisis, Manklnd has somehow managed la rise t0 the occasion and ayerl dsslIuell0n Of the species, The need has surely never been greater lhan today,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
By ThOns0S Stokes

teE \ leAs lLns lhs Mssl haS haeD Interested lp deveieptne Us 0ND steel industry and waS aDkl0nk far some 0f lis 0Nn people t0 get this surplus wsr plant, But t goes t0 U s Steel the giant which has 70 many ties D big industry and finance, all 0f which 70 combination previously have blocked development I, the West
 Tbis was br0ushl 0u before the Trnman Com mltee % le12 by wllAess, HeDfy !, Lapdsh, q he PaflicsAMelieaD Steel Iron Corp Of Beilingham, Wash He testified that every attempt ie establish steel industry n the Wes was 'fTnslFeiad through steel corporations and eglstlng flnaDelaD combine tons MT, TgumaD explored a this and Is thoroughly familiar with the problem,
 This Is n0l 10 Aay that the U $, slAsl offer f0r Geneva was mol the best Obviously H gaf Thf corporation N powerful, has tremendous resources and vas eble to make numerous RnaTepiaeA about operation 0f the plant, ID the ease of aluminium tbf Government was able 70 break A0mewbat into the Aluminium Company 9f America monopoly by helhng soms of the waT pIanlS ie ohsg Interests
 Thew s Sns TaaeSgAs lH lhls sissi eaas, Al Aelaf 0i Aufpls property amounting Q oyer million 9ol' laFs Inlbt be approved by the Justice Department nndeF pIoylA0 inserted ini0 the surplus property net by Senator oMabones 10, wgol the depart ment nov A looking Into thlk kale 0f the 0eneve plant from the standpoint 0f monopoly.
 President TFnDanh reference e V, ~ kiael ln bb aTleech May, then, kave s0me Aenifleanea, Me M familiar, too. wlth the say the blg steel eempanlas have prevented the lowering 0f railroad rates 70 points within the South and West, anetber example 0i the nef0rklns eonneeil0rb Of railroad steel sad big hew York hnskx,
 The President has the opportunity l0 rsyeal anp check monopoly poweT just as he' nieEvensa wlih @e labor unions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
Farmers Hold Up Their End

A0EgeaG aEtleDjigye s Dd OD normal Dasls, due t0 lsbW sp1a2es, he aeb M (srB Baeb0hry, IgterIGDees tOp the tiera Government impose artificial restraints OD ErsOs, et, dairy sJ topg Dr01Ds and operations Of our fAeNs,
 Tue SD0 does jts Dsr, MEg I0ay come men Igay 70, eg HsT sgkf byt the aDd keeps witt production, and agriculture keeOs supplies nlDg tO the maVesdespie noDtgsgE WstH0s 0f elDirn, OpA and interference by
 fsss hss N| mFtpoGs eballeDge tbe very foundations M what Is eslleG competitive economies,
 W e0yge toe producers anxious tO keep ln step with tbe sims and principles fl Or economic s, BUt how Ssaer Oe the mark aDd obey s the restrictions tha are imposed ODN him b1 b0sr1s organizations and directors tst make the ebarts sO6 enforce them from Washington
 Farmland ls turning fast aBd average increase 10 prices g almost 70 DereeDt sbOve prewar. That's higher percentage than jn World War which brought boa tba forced thousands Of farmers into bankruptcy H ssD bsGpeD again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
By DresU Pearson

Information for the President to taks the sirons action he contemplated.
 John Snyder however insisted that ll was to late Word had already gone out to the public the the President would address the nation and talk A Congress. He could not turn back. Truman agreel with Snyder and asked those present to return sA o'clock with drafts Of the speech he vas to delivs! at 70 F. Ma pitifully short time for any chieg executive Co prepare such . momenton pronounce. ment
 shortly after T:so the group re-convened at ths minutes left with union leaders whitney ans Johnston.
 Principal speech writer turned out to he slow- moving, good.natured, Presidential Secretary BA Hassett, known flair editor but terrible speech writer. He vas only second string man On the Roosevelt team.
 Snyder showed up for the meeting. feeling nc pain He interrupted the speech-writing from time to time With inane cracks which served no useful
 Several times vinsOn and schwellenbach tried to balance the speech by pointing out that the rai- Each time Snyder and steelman vetoed the proposal Each time Truman sided with Snyder.
 schwellenbach and vin.on hssh oppossa Trumana personal denunclation of Whitney and Ssmsasn. but Snyder shouted wildly that the two union leaders were trying to destroy 'rhe Chief" and that they had to be named Truman agreed.
 Finally, the speech completed only % minutes before the President went on the air. At the time he made tt. Truman didn't even know what kind Of O0z#k@28 next day. It vas in this confused uncertain aamos- phere that the President Of the United States made the most important political decision of his career
 
 Henry Morgenthau telephoned Henry Wallace much to the latiers embaFrassment and discussed his blast et the Truman Administration before de- vering it Wallace thought his old cabinet colleage was being too harsh. There Is more unity in the American labor movement right now than ever before in recent history. In Dayton. Cincinnati and Lima Ohio AF.L, CIlO. and Br0therhoods Unions uill all demonstrate gram. Original plans called for two-hour general strikes. but 1t finally decided to stage the de- onsirationS between shifts. At long last the State Department has halted the sale of all surplus property to Spain. TTumans friend. Ambassador Ed Pauley, has been getting rough treatment from the Senate Pauley asked permission to visit Soviet Korea Tor IS days The Russians countered with q three-day permit When Ambassador Beetle" smith protested. the Kremlin compromised with five days. but barred Pauey from the war plants and military installations which the Russians have been denudne .. Uncersecretary of Commerce. Al Schndier-vne of the Missouri boys by ad0ption-wil resign soon. Schindler hopes to become Undersecretary of the Navy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
CONsCRIPTION OR NOT?
tSprinefield Republican,


 The selective service law vii expire July l unless it is renewed in some form by Congress. Condi- lions are 20 much worse in inter- national relations than could have been anticipated few months ago that the continuation of the draft system seems too imperative to question, The extension should be limited in time. yet the country cannot do without il.
 There are several familiar rea- sons. One is the need for the main tenance of the occupation armies abroad according to standards which will silence European specu- lation as to whether the United States will quit Europe entirely and relapse into isolation. Another is voiced by Senator Austin of Ver- mont in saying that the state de- parlment's pOlicies in international conferences are weakened by the steadily shrinking military power Of our government Secretary Byr. mes is said iO feel very strongly that he cannot he really tough" if he is not backed ID by adequate force fit to fight al an hours notice,
 We are not so badly 0fI now, as may be alleged, For our naval and air forces arc still formidable, while We remain in the sole possession Ol 2 stOokpile Of atomic bombs, But, that aside, il IS safer 10 go ahead, for while at least, with the estab- ilshed draft system 70 long as the administration v0iclne the view of thf military and diplomatic experts, insists that the United States Is in danger Oi a serlOlls loss of lnfiu. ence m the international field,
 The sooner Congress acts the het . ter The talk Of 8 possible new outbreak of war between the great powers has reached such a point that strong antlwar sentiment may develop, excited by the SurE yiylng lsOlatlOnists, Here Is John Poster Dulles, in an article on S0r ylei foreign policy in Life maga- zine, saving Soviet leaders as- snme that peace and security de- pend upon quickly achieving w0rld- vide acceptance of Soviet n0litlal phil0e0phy" The easy inference Is that they may be cooking np ans other war tO attain that objective -'guiekly" Or may not our own government take the aggressive n preventive" warq
 MT Dulles lndulees 10 sensational ak, One effect Of li may he tl persuade many Amerl0anS that the surest way 10 prevent our own g0g' efnmenl ir0m going t0 war agaln 70 soon after the last one, Is ta deny ll the necessary facilities i0l hshllnR and SO why not abolish the mllllary draft right n0wq
 4 reaction of that s0gl would hf fegfetlablf in lhe end By our aG'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
Waterbury Of the Past

2b Wears Ago ~ Che Garden 1bealer Ffank Mao appeared 70 "1be blaslns TTaii"
 "I An Gullly," aArriDg lAlllae olaiDD appeared aithe ItlaIt0 fhe' aifT
 % Years Ago Anthony Miller 0i ManeheGler gIiG Helsn kaslaukas 0f Sunny yslde Ayennf aDD0lIllf theler maFFlass lpfEnfl0nf
 Ai the Riah ThaeieF Winnie lAehiDsr aarred 70 "fI0ld I9Dei fBfFflf"
 6 Years Ago Tbraf e0wilOs pictures weFe on ille 0ne blll at the Garden, G. Margaret Ladies Ala Society held ( card party.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
Views of the Press

tive, powerful belligerency in the last war, we helpec. nightly to crush Germany. and thus incurred responsibilities for EurOpe's recon- struction that cannot be honorably evaded.
 We must go through with the business. If the administrators advisers are sure 1t must have con- scription continued, as a support for it's foreign policies. there is no escape from it on an adequate scale.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-06
By WaLtes. WincLteLL

Refusing to fight for Germany tin the first World WarD he spent years in and out Of prison. hunted. America, the author of The Machine wreckerss and Masses and Man" hanged himself in q Neg York lotel room. His last act had been an attempt to lep the starving children Of the revolution in Spain
 NoeI Ceward. writing an introduction to an omnibus volume of his own plays chose "Bittersweet" his favorite quoting William Bolitho to justify the oper- Ssass % SsSa no so ohO s s n % tor but we poor humans have to be compensated" Speaking Of Private Lives. still running in London. Coward admits that there's no plot and no action can keep the baube glitteFing When he was in it. however. he says T had the inestimable advant- age Of playing 1t with Gertrude Lawrence. and % three quarters Of the battle won before the tain went np,"
 FsFene Melnsr wrote articles from Budapest during the first World War, which were syndicated in enemy newspapers even the N Y. Times and the London Post When M0lnars biggest hit. "LAIli0m," was produced he was 3i nov he is es and. as "carousel he's still collecting royalties from t.
 EHFipideS considered by many the ggeatest Of the Greeks, wrote 92 plays but enjoyed small Fepute ia his lifetime His death was as melodFanlstic as any he assigned to 8 hero Driven from Athens by gossip and jealousy, he found refuge in the Maee- donian court Here legend has |. the kings hounds tore tore hlm to death @ Socrates was said to @ irsssl gagged that ne Socrates the philosopher had really written them" Oh well. You've heard that Bacon Shakespeare
 ksphseies. who hunanixed AesehyluS and added bis own legends, not only acted in some 0f his 0En dramas but even appeared a jnggler. Only vocal lnadeauaees prevented his becoming Q great actor ,T0dayA dramalSt wii moan to learn he was im- p0ftant 10 civil and military affairs being enee . director Of the treasury The worst sorrow he suffered vas through . son Eho sought 10 have his father declared incompetent, 60ph0ees defended him. self sDd wQD bIs by quoting from his latest lines
 Gi00my August klginAbeTg ged aS morbidly eS he wrote, Tortured gth marriages gbieh wouldn't gork, he pTaeteed hlS own brand Of back maglc,' al- tempted fantastic experiments with chemlealh, be- came 0hAhk6ed atlA spiTitualism and q psychic aD asylum Much lateE ct es he married his third glfe yOnne actress appearing in q plsy af his authorship, II ended as mlssTabIy e the 0lhsr two