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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
Thomas J. Condon

The death of Thomas J. Condon who retired a few months ago as superintendent of the Waterbury schools fol- lows closely that of Joseph Kennedy former Wiby High School principal Dr. Condon outstanding educator in this city and section associated with the profession for forty-eght years during which time he contributed much to the importance and stature of the local school system
 Starting as a teacher in the Waterbury High School which became Crosby High he familiar figure for the past fortyve years first schooroom teacher later as supervisor of grades and evening schools school principal and finally school superintendent. His various positions brought him in close contact with pupils and with manage ment.
 Dr. Condon man of strong convictions, firm ot purpose unrufhed by public opinion He possessed keen scholarly mind and his educational background fitted him for his particular duties which advanced him from school teacher to school head which also merted for him the hon. orary degree Doctor of Laws from Vanova College in Pennsylvania where he received his academic and masters degrees.
 In his daily life as citizen Dr. Condon highly esteemed He was friendly and interested and when ap preached for statements from nqurng was aabe and responsive. He first and last teacher and his years as such were perhaps his happest "Yes, was in Tom Condons classes in high school it seems like yes terday" are words often heard Dr. Condon devou Catholic communcan at the Church of the Blessed Sac rament His passing matter for deep regret in the city of his birth and active life
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
Public Responsibility

Some interesting observations came out conference between General McNaney and delegation of enlisted men which followed the i've want to home demonstrations m One sergeant reported that re- placements stepping off the gangpank at Le Havre and inquiring "How go home?
 Another sergeant said the men he represented knew that we had made commitments abroad that had to be met but that they felt it time somebody else took over He also expressed the opinion that an educational oo was sary back home and that Congress should put some sure the local draft boards which aren't meeting their quotas.
 General McNarney told the men that their families back in the States bear down Congress and the draft boards and that Congress got the impression that what the people want is o get the boys home and to hell with foreign commitments then Congress would oblige them and the job in Europe would be left unfinished .
 It does not seem to us that the Army can hold ltse entirely bameless in this situation If repacements are camorng home they reach Europe there IS something badly with the present Army ndocrina- tion program And if the Army can't bear down on Con gres then there has been recent departure rom od pac tices.
 But it is certainly true that the public has the greatest influence with Congress- And it is becoming more and more apparent that the public accept good share ot the blame promoting and increasing the bad military morale and governmental embarrassment which these soldier ae onsraons have caused large section of the public seems be thinking along these nes Sure there is big Joo to do in Germany and Japan and must be dOneas long doesn't interfere with Joes coming back from over seas or take young Johnny away from home:
 Such thinking is natural but it is neither realistic nor safe It is thinking that has powerful influence on egs- ators who vOeconscous than staesmanke Tn an election year It is thinking that influences local draft boards which have fallen short of the national monthly quota of 5OOO nducons in steadily increasing numbers for the last four months.
 The draft expires May 15 and Congress is almost certain not it. The prospects of the Armys achiev ing its goal of l5500O0 by July extremely dim Uni versal military training presently conceived would not help the situation There little to look forward to ex- cept a drastcaly curaied American role in policing the former enemy countries and providing for outpost defenses
 That, of is just what the extreme right and the extreme left in this country want That accounts for the fact that for they the side Zeaousy sup porting the "bring the boys home drive The right wants to walk out foreign commitments The left wants to leave the world wide open to Russia.
 Meanwhile looking increasingly weak to our ene- mics and increasingly foolish, worse to friends. The least the public do encourage rather than block the Armys efforts to repacemens in order that may have military force adequate to defense and destiny in world affairs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

because all through the the market price has been under parity. But the price is over parity more than four cents higher than year ago
 The equity of the situation says OPA, demands that everybody be treated alke Price ceilings can't be kept on wheat, corn livestock if cotton is to go free. If you want to argue that the remedy for that is to take off all price controls then you have to be prepared to the whole sabilization break down and all prices go up. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and others say let em, even if 1t does mean imitation, and that's one way to look at it.
 
 2. But OPA maintains that higher prices on raw cotton necessarily mean higher prices on all cotton in a shirt you may miss the point Cotton mill that by saying there only few cents worth Of cotton in a shirt you may miss the point. Cotton mill operators last week called OPA to protest that they could not pay higher prices for cotton unless the prices on their products allowed to rise and un less these increases passed on to consumers AL ready the mills conVerters fnishers garment makers wholesalers and retailers have absorbed about 250 to 300 million dollars worth of increased production costs which have not been passed on to consumers They
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

and author of While Europe Waits For Peace. He evidently was a friend of Bernard BaTuch Col, E. M House, and others identified with the attempts to make the other peace because he meFons the names of some of them in his story.
 But 'The Pallid Giant" has little tc do with the aetualities of the Treaty Of Versailesat least the surface It appeared to the reviewers Of the time to be little more than an imaginary treatment of the troubles of mankind done in the Jules Verne manner-wth back spin. Nov it's newly red hot, because after all these years it's greater significance seems suddenly to have blazed Whether it's really greater significance amazing foresight or one Of the uckiest freaks in the history of popular writing is s 1t will pull the reader up in his chair befoFe he's through.
 The story concerns the adventures of two Amer lean specialists attached to the United States deega tion working on the World War ! peace treaty in Paris. One was a scientist named Rudge who was especially interested m the histories Of prehistoric peoples. The other, and teller of the story was an economies expert, little interested tn such matters, but an admiFer and close friend Of Rudge.
 Rudge had a theory that the origin Of man. as we know him, was not Asiate, but that the real Fudge toward modern civilization began .n the Cro- Magnon district of Southern France down near the Pyrenees He also toVed with the Idea that there may have been many other civilizations before this one. entire worlds full Of people who attained heights that not the current world full Of people has reached, and that for some reason, they completely dls- appeared and every relic and record of them dis. appeared with them.
 On a weeks vacation, just for the relaxation. the two men decided to 60 down to the Cro-Magnon country and explore the caves. or grottes, as the supersttious and suspicious natives Of the district called them. There. in a dramatic and har-ralzing adventure involving a half-craeked old native Who took them into hk confidence they got into the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
MT. BOWleS Weevil'
By Peter EdSOn

say that's their limit So OPA has to freeze cotton prices or allow the price of clothing to go up.
 B.. If the price of cotton goods is permitted to advance cotton farmers have to pay more for the finished cotton goods they buy. That means an in crease in the parity price formula requiring still further price increases for cotton goods and so starting an automatic upward price spiral that IS amending. That's OPAs side of the story but there are three factors entering the situation.
 1. The higher the price of raw cotton is allowed to go the rayon gets into competition with cot ton If the price of cotton goes higher than rayon cotton farmer through shortved prosperity will have hung himself on rayon moose
 B. The United States raises cotton than it consumes. The surplus has be sold below U. S. prices to be got rid of That done by export sub Sdy which in November, lS44, was set at cents pound If cotton is selling at 24 cents pound it can go on the world market at 20 cents pound, thanks to the 4-cent subsidy from the taxpayers. But with South American and Indian cotton selling at from l6 IS cents U S. cotton can't compete unless the subsidy is raised When U. s. cotton selling at 20 cents it could be exported at l6 and compete. In the final analysis the whole question gets into the field of market speculation in which the cotton growers don't make any more money though specu- lators do With no ceiling on cotton, with lot of loose money around, with great demand for cotton goods, with short crop of only nine million bales in l945 as compared with l2 million bales in 1914, the cotton futures market could have been bid up into boom
 This is just what happened after the last war in July 1919, the price of New York cotton was 4375 cents a pound. Land prices scared, production in creased everybody got rich Then in the l920-2l season the bottom dropped out and cotton sold for 10 cents Everybody went bust It is in effort to prevent a repetition of this catastrophe that OPA says it must step in now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
Views of the Press

months. It has been found that nearly 100000 families plan to buy furniture; that 126,80O persons ex- pect to buy furs, and that 1l0,240 want watches.
 The more interesting data relate to the method of purchase. About 40 per cent of the New Jersey fam lilies that intend to buy household appliances will pay for them in cash from current income; another A per cent will draw on savings, and g per cent will buy on the installment plan. The others were uncertain. But, significantly, only 13 per cent of individual purchasers of luxuries plan to pay in installments. Sometimes a general impression is conveyed by pessimistic economists that about 75 per cent of the popu- lation buys luxuries before buying anything elSe-and never pays out right in cash of ahem. Perhaps New Jersey residents are more than or- dinarily conservative.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
By DresO Pearson

Crossman remarked:
 May compliment you. sir, on the perfection of your language. find myself in hearty agreement with every sentence in fact every word The British members have prepared statement, and, had we prepared one am sure we could not have improved on this. Tn fact am in such agreement that con- fess find no reason for any statement at all.
 Judge Hutcheson bllnked Then in drawi ex- actly the opposite of Mir. Crossmans ncsive accent he said
 "rhank you, sir thank you Never before have had compliment from an Englishman, and appre- cate this one. But confess that am afraid to turn my head for fear would find my throat slit from ear to ear"
 Tomorrow courageous Father Joe OCallahan, chaplain of the stricken carrier Franklin, gets the highest Navy award from President Tvuman-the Congressional Medal of Honor
 Behind this is some interesting back-stage by- play At first Navy politics operated against OCal- lahan, ruled that he was to receive no medal of honor. When this coumnist exposed back-stage maneuvering, however, oCallahan's case was taken to Secretary of the Navy Forresal He reversed the admirals.
 Here are the politics: The Naval Award Board didn't want to give the medal to Chaplain OCallahan without also rewardng Capt. Leslie E. Gehres com mander of the stricken vessel However, Gehres had got in wrong by demanding the court-martial Of six officers aboard the Franklin.
 These six officers it was claimed, had contrib uted to pandemonium aboard the Franklin by jump ing from the carrier to the cruiser Santa Fe along side. Their jumping helped touch off an exodus of enlisted men and officers.
 Contributing to the pandemonium were two other factors handful of enlisted men, drenched and burned from fre-fghting had been permitted to put on officers uniforms when their own quarters were shut off by fire Thus it was difficult to tell who were officers. Also the ships loud-speaker system had broken down. Result: It was impossible to give orders which could be heard all over the ship.
 In the old days, orders were given by boatswain with whistle. But since the Franklins demolished loud-speaker has shown how easy 1t is to lose con- trol of a ship the Navy has installed localized loud speakers so that if breaks down in one part Of the ship others can be used elsewhere.
 All of which indicates some of the wheels-wthn wheels regarding the Congressional Medal of Honor now being given to courageous Father OCallahan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
By BM Cunningham

Grotte Glorieuse a prehistoric Subterranean temple that had lived for countless centuries in the legends and old wives tales of the district but which had never been discovered by anybody but looney old Leon.
 fabulous fortune in gold and jewels had lain in this place for thousands of years That's why Leon had let them in on the secret He needed some- body smarter than he was to help him figure what to do about it, and he didn't dare tell any of the natives for fear that they, or the government would seize his find.
 But this unlimited wealth didn't especially inter est Rudge. What thrilled him was the fact that he was in the oldest room in the world. looking at the oldest picture writing man ever scratched into walls And his joy was complete when he found book with picture-writing neatly drawn prepapyrE material which was unquestionably the oldest writing in existence This he wiazzed back to Paris and, with tremendous difficulty managed, at length. to decode. It's that manuscript" that is currently sensational
 It puFp0Fts to be the autobiography of the last civilized man of an era thousands of years old The earth then was as healthy and as far advanced as t is nov. The great nation in 1.-the one this man belonged to-was known Sra, It had arpanes submarines, sclentsls-eyeFything We have now Everything was all right until the scientists of Sra developed a great secret weapon that would release atomic energy and turn all peoples and things 10 nothing but the dust Of death This made t the most powerful nation on earth, but the power sud- denly turned into great and numbing fear
 If their wise men had developed this weapon how could they be sure the other nations didn't have. or couldn't get the secret. tOo9 This worked into state of terror where they decided they couldn't take chances, 80 they sent out their "air machines loaded with this deadly stuff. known as HolaF and killed the peoples of all other nations Then their leader announced that he'd called all the machines in, had destroyed al but one, which he was keeping to protect the state, and had "m- pTisoned" all the people who knew how to make Hoar.
 The suddenly numbed population took t for granted that he'd execute them. But the people be- came afraid of their leader as long as he had H0laF and he became suspicious that the secret had leaked, and that somebody would try it against him. So they began to fear each other. to hate each other. finally to kill each other.
 Finally they killed each other off down to this last old man. and a faithful friend They were the only survivors Of the last savage fight ana the friend eventually died. Civilization had completely destroyed itself, had committed suicide through fear. 'srhe Pald Giant thus 20 years before lts time. becomes a study of murder0us fear that may destroy tho earth because man has leaned how to ahnlhiale entire populations at 6 bloW
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
ONE STRIKE SETTLED
Hartford Times

(HartfOrd T1meS)
 Announcement of the settlement of the strike at the plant of the Ar row-Hart & Hegeman Go. is 8 most welcome piece of news. The times offers it's congratulations to the management and to the leaders of the strike, or to the strike leaders and the management-in whichever order one chooses to put it-for ar- irving at a settlement of their dif- faculties over wages and contract. It is good news for all concerned, for the company which can now make and sell goods, for the workers and their families whose incomeS-aug- mented by the agreement-will be restored, and for the community which suffers economically from the shutdown of plants as well as so- cially from controversies.
 The settlement is particularly happy for the reason that the whole matter offers a pattern for the way in which strikes should be conduct ed if we must have strikes, point which we do not for a moment con- cede. There was no mass picketing, no pushing of anybody around, no inflammatory or recri m hating statements by anybody on either side. Management and men simply could not agree, and the men quit work. Negotiations went on in an atmosphere of reason rather than of anger.
 Now that a settlement has been reached there are no sores, created either by acts or words, to be healed. It may even be hoped that both sides have gained experience which will enable them to conduct their relations hereafter without strikes. Our compliments to all concerned and our best wishes for many years of prosperity, full employment and of harmonious manager worker re- lations based upon sound good will.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

eISO" Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, and administered an oral spanking because his govern ment did not respect the fifth air freedom.
 The fifth air freedom gives foreign planes the right to pick up passengers in transit In other words an American plane flying from Italy to Egypt could stop in Greece and pick up passen- gers Although this was agreed at the Chicago Air Convention Greece does not adhere to the fifth air freedom.
 Ambassador Diamantopoulos. when spanked re- piled:
 But gentlemen, don't you realize that the Brit ish required us to do this The British run Greece British troops still occupy the country) We would gladly give the United States exclusive air rights in Greece But we can't while under Britain"
 In the end, the State Department ckayed the S25 OOOOO Export Import Bank loan, though simul taneously demanding Greek fiscal reforms. Real fact however is that the Greeks now obliged to pay British banks about onethird of their total revenue most of this going to the Hambro Bank run by Winston Churchill's close friend, Charles Hambro
 If the British to relax on their financial demands, no U S loan to Greece would be necessary
 NOTE Meanwhile, nation in the British sphere of influence has adhered to the fifth air freedom.
 Diplomats who sat in closed-door sessions of the Palestine Commission said that things went much better than expected The British members got along with the Americans, the British being especially en- tranced with the genial personality and Texas drawl of Judge Joseph Hutcheson of Houston.
 Judge Hutcheson opened the private meetings by reading statement of aims and principles which he thought the Commission might adopt. After listen- ing carefully, British Commissioner Richard H. s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
LAST WORD IN STRIKES
(Hartford Courant)

(Hartford Courant)
 A few weeks ago hospital workers in New York went on strike, and now with the strike of coffin-makers the ultimate has been nearly reach ed. It may be wondered what the obstetricians feel about the whole thing. Their telephones are ham, pered by strikes; those new cars they need so desperately are still a long way of because of strikes; the proteins they need so regularly to keep fit are threatened through meat strikes. Of course, a sense of professional responsibility permits them to suffer with no thought of retaliation. But they could be par doned for wondering sardonically what would happen if they too went on strike, thus completing the cycle of cradle-to-grave insecurity
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
WHAT'S ON THE SHOPPING
 LIST

Still far from becoming a science.
 the psychology of public intentions continues to be applied for various purposes. One of the popular uses of opinion polls" this year is to determine what people intend to buy, and how they will buy it. The truly instructive insight into human nature is not always obtained, how ever, from data originally sought, but from secondary information. For example. New Jerseys Depart ment of Economic Development asked 10000 residents of that State what luxuries and household ape phances they or their families ex- pect to buy within the next six
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

put a 24.42 cents a pound base ceiling price on 15-l6-inch mid- ding cotton is about as insulting as attacking the flower of south ern womanhood or proposing to change the name of Arkansas.
 Why did Bowles do this thing? He couldn't do anything else, he says, and for these reasons:
 l. Cotton is today the only major crop not under price con- trol. It hasn't been necessary to nlIt cotton nnder a ceiling before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22
We're Purer

There may be faint yndeation of the racial purity theory to be found in the suicide of Dr. Leonardo Con gently made public. He the Itaansoundng Nazi who helped promote this Naz theory and who ordered the kill ing of hundreds of thousands of foreigners aged sane Germans to put the theory into practice.
 Only when his master was thoroughly whipped did this Jewpurger and expermenter human guinea pigs de eide give up the ghost This decision the cowninR achievement of his For the sadistc champion of racial purity has certainly left the human by his departure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

The rebuilding of Poland is not purely a Polish problem. It is the moral obligation of the entire world. We are the first casual ty on Hitler's long list. We sacrifice ed the most.
 Premier Edward Osubka-Moraw-
 ski of Poland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

Lhe ttVIVaI, or ptIIIapS lIIc ItF- elation, of a weird, and now sud- denly wondrous, novel written 20 years ago. Dug off bookshelyes and out of libraries where it's oeen gathering dust since 1927, US now being passed around amongst the intellectuals and
 iyen a new sort of reading.
 The name of this opus is The Pallid Giant" The author was Pierrepont B. Moves. The title page identifies him as Amer ioan Rhinaland Commissioner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

It is not accurate to say that col- Iective bargaining and voluntary ar- bitration have broken down in the automobile and steel industries. The plain facts are that collective bar gaining and voluntary arbitration have never been put into practice in these industries.
 William Green, president, Ameri-
 can Federation of Labor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

thAtOEo nttouAu haNC tACu up bAAS loan with British commitments not to discriminate against us when it comes to politics and srade.
 Here is one behind-the-scenes illustration which makes Con- gressmen boiling mad.
 The Export-Import Bank gave Greece, Jan. il, a loan of s25,- 100000. But before advancing the money, the State Department called in Greek Ambassador
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-22

President Ferdinand Richter of the new Czechosioyakian National Court has resigned because he cans not find place to live in Prague. Oh, well, all right-eVen if no one asked for 1t; Czech in; Czech out.