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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Cunnlngham

NAuHfukHMm Secret Services of the British and French
 The first have been proved no good. mostly because such public agents have no means of get- ting ct secret data They're watched too closely. Depending on the intelligence of our Allies vas no good either. Their reports were naturally coored in their own interests.
 The fact that we've had no Foreign Secret 6eTy. ice is part of the general theory of solationism, which held that We had no interest in the affairs of other nations But that theory is now exploded We've got to take interest in the affairs Of others wheth' CT we want to or not
 We can't operate in the dark. or on some other Interested partys say-s0 any longer We need real information. gathered by dependable men who see with American eyes, in order that we may know what to think and how to act at any given time
 We have these men ln the nation at the moment We have such an organization, but It's now been serapped. Congress was SO completely blind to its achievements that it brushed it off another weird bureau, 6 fancy fad But the bureau" was the of- flee of Strategic Services headed by "wld Bill" Don- ovan. It was really our Foreign Secret service-on the fighting end. The greatest stories of the war are locked up ln It's files.
 But it's now broken up, whittled down. wiped out Its key men have been turned back to civilian life, ts functions handed back to the Army. but its what we need in the new world ahead of us.
 have been talking with one Of the key go of that organization. He prefers to remain encny- nous. Nc wae an important hussneas executive who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Disproportionate Power

At the recent Labor Management Conference in Wash ingto John L. Lewis mnmzed the present of strikes and poohpoohed at the aarmsts by pointing out that only 500O00 of 50000000 workers out at that tme But of that wasn't the whole story Mr. Lewis and all other union leaders know well enough.
 It isn't hard to visualize what prolonged strike of 2OO 900 meat packers could do to the eating habits of this try Europeans who depending shipments of meat this country and to the farmers and ranchers who raise that meat.
 The Secretary of Agriculture has warned of feed shortage And if stock should have to be fed for length of time after it is ready for market this feed obviously would be wasted and the stockmans profits would gm mering
 It is just easy visualize tAs industrial paralysis which could follow prolonged strike of steel coal work Time when onehundredth of the countrys labor off the job would have made apprecabe difference in the counys state of economic health But in this day of production and swift distribution by great corporate industries the story is decidedly different The workers in these industries possess far out of pro portion with their numerical strength And the leaders of these workers pressing their demands for higher through very intelligent and carefully calculated eXpNta ton of that power matter how many dsarming ats0cs Mir. Lewis may produce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Oh, Sugar!

In another six months the Philippine Islands will be- independent and their But the United States is not going to give them up-and the Philippines are not going to give up The population O the Philippines at the time of taking the l940 l635OOO0 and the land of the Islands ,830 square miles
 Reciprocal free trade relations have existed between the United States and the Philippines since 1909 Under the relationship covering the forthcoming independence of the Philippines free trade will continue for ten years The most important shipments of the Islands country has been The Philippines insisting that it's should be shipped without any tariff to the United States, indefinitely.
 But the United States being accused of letting Cuba down by failure to provide the market for all of it's sugar All restrictions the shipments of sugar from Hawaii removed by order by President Roosevelt in 1922 So Hawaii figures in our threecOrnered sugar puzzle
 A lot of people keep right asking why sugar pro- ductOn not developed in the United States take of our own demands. Ah there is the rub! half dozen of Southern States have grown as fine quality of sugarcane and sugabees have been pro- duced in any part of the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Views of the Press

Joyce at the same time that Yama- shita received respite, although Joyce's crimes were of far less serious nature. The same court also turned down the appeal of the traitor John Amery. Legal hair splitting, as attempted by defense counsel, failed completely in these cases.
 Even the Japanese general him self admits that he had fair trial. The American lawyers appointed to defend him performed their dis tasteful duties conscientiously. But their task is finished. After the trial, doubt could hardly exist that the murders and brutalities com mitted by Yamashita's men were countenanced by him without proof, whether or not he gave direct sane tion to the atrocities.
 The next move in Yamashita' s case should not be extended legal maneuvering but the execution or swift justice. No technicantieS should be permitted to stand m the way of the penalty which he so obviously deserves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
By Drese Rs0yyON

arriving in the usA concerns Churchlis ex-son-in- law vic oliver, the famous stage comedian
 oliver s now divorced from churchillf daughter but shortly before the divorce be called at No. A0 Downing Street to see if he couldn't help patch up his matrimonial affairs At dinner with his fathef- in-law and various other notabea, oliver popped question calculated he thought, to warm the sou of the then British Prime Minister.
 "sir," he said, leaning across the table and look ing sWeetly at his father-in-law who, h your opn- icn will emerge as the greatest leader Of this war;"
 But before anyone at the table could come back with the expected answer that Wnston Cnurcnnl himself was the greatest war leader his gicwering father-in-law shot back; Af
 'AEussolini."
 'AEussolinis" countered the puzzled Mir Oliver 'sNhy do you say Mvssolinis" s
 "BecaIse," replied Churchill me st least had the good sense to shoot his sonain.law."
 HIGHER CLOTHING PRICES
 oPA officials are sitting down this week with representatives of the textile industry mems clothing. Nubbin of the problem is increased prices which the textile people demand in oruer to spur production. }t:
 However they are not likely to getit, Inside fact is that profits of the woolen and worsted industry are now 12 times what they were during pre.war years Furthermore, sample of civilian sales shows profits from the civilian trade are twice as nigh as military profits-due to Army Navy renegotatons,
 Despite these lush profits woolen mills want adjustments" before making more fabrics Tor returned veterans also despite the fact that reduced taxes now promise an even better profit
 NOTE-Friends of General Patton, whose family owns one of the largest woolen mills say he would never had favored high profits at the expense Of clothes for returned veterans, were he alive.
 Quipped Maury Maverick following his return from Tokyo: 'The reason Emperor Hirohito came out and said he wasn't God was because he found that MacArthur was"-Maybe 1t wasn't significant. but It seemed reminiscent of another era to have Sena- tor Vandenberg, the ex-isolationist, John Foster Dulles and Senator Tom Connally, now in London to forge democratic peace, go immediately to Clve- den to spend their first weekend. Mrs Roosevelt didn't go Cliveden, home of Lady Astor, was where the notorious Cleveden Set matched their appease- ment plots before the war Progressive COP Congressman Charlie LaFoette of Indiana the man who talks more like VIII Rogers than any Congress man in a dogs age, has announced for the Senate. LaFoette is not playing 1t safe He will give up his seat in the House to battle 1t out with the Partys re- actionaries in the Republican primary Two fst- ed Mayor Hubert Humphreys of Minneapolis. who recently ran ahead of Governor Ed Thye in the Statewide polical popularity poll, will be the Demo- cratic candidate for Governor in l946.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
sHAw'S ALPHABET
(Meriden Daily Journall

(Meriden Daily JournaO
 George Bernard Shaw can al- ways be depended upon to throw a monkey wrench into existing insti- tutions whenever he finds the tool at hand. This time the English alphabet is his target, as it has been on severa! previous occasions. The Shavian proposal, made d. rectly to the British government, IS to ditch the present alphabet en- tirely and replace 1t with one in which every sound in our speech can be written with one graphic and easily written symbol without even crosses or dots"
 No one can deny that our langu- age contains numerous inconsistent cies in spelling and pronunciation Yet phonetic spelling, such as MT. Shaw advocates, always appalls us when we encounter it. 10 our eye it seems rough, crude, unfinished, like a shack built of undresSed lum- Der.
 c. B. s., although an inveterate non-conformiSt realizes that there are limits beyond which even the most arden language reformer should not attempt to pass. T do not propose to meddle with our classic texts," ne declares. What I desiderate as a professional wri- ter is an alternative alphabet which will save millions of hours of man. ual labor"
 The chore of crossing Us and dot ting is does mount up to something enormus in a lifetime as long as Mir. Shaw's. But there are ways of getting around this problem. For instance, the dictating machine. Or. if that device is personally dis tasteful the bearded iconclast might try speed writing" 8 form of easily learned shorthand. Why bother the British government with an appeal so inconsequental? The present alphabet, for all its faults, will serve us vel enough long after MT. Shaw's pcl has ceased to write.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Urge U. s. Retain OSS ByBM Cunningham

was called to Washington as soon as Pearl HaTbor struck We didn't have one man in this type of in- teIgence work at the time Before it was over, we had some $500 operatives in every part of the world
 Now that the is over, we need such an or ganization not to seek information to make war. but to keep peace. What We need to know Is what is happening, what may happen, what the people of other countries thinking what they are planning. not with any Idea of stealing information cutting any corners. but of charting our own course and that of mankind.
 The man was talking with expressed his ideas as follows:
 "An American Foreign Secret Intelligence should have absolutely police function. We want no world wide ?. B. I. We are solely after facts and we want no violence and no incidents. An American Foreign Secret Intelligence would accumulate facts and eyal- uate them all over the world just naturally as it now amasses its tremendous internal data.
 We have a clear option. It is either to create Foreign Secret Intelligence Service or try to live as q nation in the same black ignorance that preceded the war The Munich Crisis of 1888 showed US with crystal clarity that only an American secret ntei- gence, seeing and reporting through American eyes exclusively. to American officials only. can save us in world made up of power intrigue and aFtifice.
 ITO the blind and gEopng unawaFeness Of Mu- nicn we must aad the tragic os'Iocsmsns % Se snowee to Pearl Harbog. post-waT world iu which the Mu- nIchs are not understood by Washington and the real ohjectives of Asiatic or other powers are complete mystery can lead us but to the graveyard of another war
 'The organization necessary for a permanent secret intelligence Is already more than half made. It must completely cover the fields of military nfor- matiOn-land, sea and air-and it must cover polit- icai economic and scientific intelligence well. A- though the Military Intelligence Division Of the U. g. Army (G2 and the Navys Office Of Naval Intel- lgenee set up solely for war functios there are other needs The Office of Strategic Services has done an outstanding job and could readily be made the nucleus Of a continuing service.
 "Knowledge costs and will continue to cost lot .a fa but the protection and the peace Of our couFy. One fASs MNs ezmsn4e wilI pay years hip for knnNledge n any balance ee igsogy, it e wHe and priaeal fngesfmnnkR
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
AMERICAN JUSTICE
(Meriden Journal)

Sometimes the ways of justice are a bit difficult for the layman to comprehend. In Manila, when it was learned that the U. s. Supreme Court had granted a stay of execu- ton to General Yamashita, the re- action was one of surprise and disappointment" It is only natural that the city where Yamashita's $ soldiers committed thousands of atrociOus crimes should ind it hard to understand the phase of legal procedure.
 The Appeals Court of the British House of Lords dismissed the ap- peal of William Lord flaw Haw)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
roRNADOEs-sIGN OF SPRING
(HartIord Times)

NddI 4AAAACoS
 The forces of nature which oper- ate in what Is called weather are SO massive and, to most observers, so mysterious that they haroor both veal and woe in the same demonstration of their power. The destructive tornadoes leave death and distraction in their wake in Texas. Yet they are the sure, mighty harbinsers of spring.
 The tornado which has wrought havoc in the South in recent days, arrives with an element of mystery, but there is no mystery involved Tn the mind of the meteorologists, those men the federal government has scattered over the continent doing the prosiac tasks of reading the thermometer, the barometer, the wind indicator and attempt ing within strict limitations to fore- cast the weather.
 They will teii you a tornado is a  natural phenomenon, just as na- tural as the fairly regular arrival of warm weather in the spring and cold weather in the fall. They will tell you it is surprising there are not more destructive tornadoes be- cause conditions both in the spring and in the autumn are inviting.
 The locale of tornadoes depends entirely upon forces over which man has no control. This year they may be ih the plains area, or they may split the difference and trail through the Mississippi River region. It all depends upon the area over which the last blasts of win ter meet the forerunners of sum- mer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

to put all save two or three or these directives into effect. What these directives and orders are in- tended to do is to force complete revolution in the Japanese way of life.
 The job of the new Far East ern Commission set up under the Moscow communique issued by Secretaries Byrnes, Bevin and Molotov is to review all these di- rectives and see whether they ap- prove what has been done so far. The critics and the experts and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

1. The War Departments of flcial showdown of demobliisation.
 2. Secretary of War patter- sons red-faced admission in Guam that he didn't know the very elementary fact that overseas veterans stopped accommodating points on V-J Day.
 3. Announcement by Gen. Jo- seph McNarney new Euronean commander, that low-poiIt men might now come home quicker than high-point men whose serv- ices were more essential. This. of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

all part of the military machine. In this last war that department was known as the Office of Strate- gic Services.
 But the Pearl Harbor probe. and tragic pages of the past wars early history show how utterly stupid we were before the war in the field of information. Aside from our Army and Navy Intelli- gence branches, our dependence for facts rested upon the reports of our ambassadors, consuls and nfhar iaiihlia aaanks and llnon the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Merry-GO-ROund

wAsHINCTON Jan. 1O--Judgng by the flood of telegrams deluging this colimnist-many of them from Europe and the Pacificthree events lest week raised O. T. wrath to the highest boiling point yet. They were:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

There many men, women and boys and girls violating the laws, in small and big way, that they almost in cass-up from Class Rare to Class DSylish word to you. little and big aw-breakers: Our jas and prisons are already crowded and busy Judge has ao take time to give you what you stick your neck out f
 rou may wind up in dirty jail So, wait awhile and give fer blood pressure chence to drop back to normal In
 nW weeks you may find astsfactOn E keeping out of jail
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

The United States has never had Foreign secreE Intelligence Service In the two Wordl Wars after the fighting began We trained and distributed spe- cialists in harassing the enemy in trying to read his intentions and foiling his plans, but that was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1O-Nearly 40 directiveS have been sent from Washington to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan since vJ-Day The General in turn has issued orders to the Japanese government
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

4 Liberty ship carrying a cargo of rubber was turned away at Portlapd,. Maine, the other day be- cause of lack of harbor facilities to handle her. Shortages are getting worse all the time. but we never thought we'd live to see the day when Maine started running out of Atlantic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
RE RECIPES

RE RECIPES Milady has a shelf of books
 To which she is referring When she-and that is often-cooks, To keep herself from erring. And some are fat and some are thin Some obsolete, or nearly, And some of them are cheap aS sin And others cost her dearly. It seems she will not break an egg Or add a shot of spices, Until she cracks tome to beg
 Its various advices.
 And still, if something calls for fat, note that she'll omit it; She'll add dab of this or that
 When authors have not writ it. With never expert she agrees
 By any act or token; l think the rules of recipes
 Were written to be broken.
 A British scientist says that che Russians have developed an atomic bomb that makes ours obsolete. Maybe they've finally found . way to split the vodka atom.
 The new Kaiser-Frazer Corpora tion has started out by reaching a wage agreement that is completely satisfactory to the union workers il employs. Perhaps we're cynical, but we predict that it will be about as permanent as a permanent wave.
 From Seabrook, N. H., comes the story of a fowl that hitched fifty mile ride on an automobile. Even the most careful of boarding house keepers couldn't make one go farther.
 Business leaders predict that 1946 will be one of the best years in United States history, despite impending strikes and other diff entities. It could be that they were vehturing out of their field and speaking about the weather.
 Temporary Wives Available in Japan for Chocolate Bar"-head- line. With or without almonds though?
 The Bureau of Labor Statistics re- ports that retail meat prices in the United States are higher today than. they have been at any time since 1920. Obviously what this country needs is a good five-cent hot dog.
 If those GIs. In Manila don't get all the fight out of their sys- tenn in their campaign to get back to their homes, they can finish up with the people they'll find living in their homes, once they return.
 4 Liberty ship carrying a cargo of rubber was turned away al Portlapd,, Maine, the other day be- cause of lack of harbor facilities tC handle her. Shortages are getting U0rge All the time. hut we lleVeI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
s Years Ago

A U. 6. Navy bllnp eFIilsed over the city on e training flight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
IS Years Ago

"Open Minds" was the term ape piled to the Board Of Aldermen when they met to consider the newly proposed City Manager Plsn.
 When he finished his East Main Street run on darkened. lonely Eastwood Avenue, a trolley motor man was relieved of @ in cash at the point of a gun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10
Waterbury Of the Past
2H Years Ago

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 4 new highway, designed to shorten the distance between Bris- tol and Waterbury, was proposed. Plans for the opening of a Sum day School were laid by the water Hebrew Institute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

Chamber Of Commerce Secretary Frank 6. Greer warned local eitl- gems to be way Of fake magazine eollcliers Hho had invaded the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

A British scientist says that che Russians have developed an atomic bomb that makes ours obsolete. Maybe they've finally found . way to split the vodka atom.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

Temporary Wives Available m Japan for Chocolate Bar"-head- line. With or without almonds, though?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-10

Business leaders predict that l946 will be one of the best years in United States history, despite impending strikes and other diff culties. It could be that they were vehturing out of their field and speaking about the weather.
Evening star., 1946-01-26


Bishop McEntegart, a native of
New York City, received his bachelor
of arts degree at Manhattan Col
lege, New York City in 1918 and
prepared for the priesthood at st.
Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N. Y.
He was ordained in 1917 and the
following year obtained his mas
ter's degree in sociology at Catholic
University. He graduated from the
New York School of Social Work in
New York City in 1920 and lee
tured on child welfare at the Ford
ham University of social work for
10 years thereafter. In 1899 Man
haitian College conferred on him the
honorary degree of doctor of laws
He was made a domestic prelate by
Pope Plus XII in 1941 and conse-
Grated Bishop of Ogdensburg on
August 3, 1943. Since 1943 he has
served as assistant episcopal chair
man of the legal department of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence.
The celebrant Of the mass will be
the Very Rev. Robert j. White, dean
of the law school of Catholic Uni
versity, under whose direction the
annual observance of the mass was
initiated in the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception at the
university in 1899,
Evening star., 1946-01-26

At the time of the Federal oc-
cupation during the Civil War
Christ Church was the only church
permitted to conduct services In
Alexandria. It's pastor from 1884
to 1860, the Rev. Cornelius Walker
became a chaplain in the Confed-
crate Army when war was declared
The church was restored to its old
vestry in 1856.
Rectors in the present century
were the Rev. William j. Morton
1902 to 1885; the Rev. Harry l.
Doll, 1885 to 1899, and the Rev
Edward r. Welles, 1899 to 1914
Mr.. Welles is now dean of the
cathedral in Buffalo, N. Y
The Rev. B. B. Conner Lille, a
graduate of the University of Vir-
ginia and of the Protestant Epis-
copal Theological Seminary at Alex.
andria came here in October, 1914
He was previously at the Church
of the Ascension, Richmond, Va.
and Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
where he was archdeacon and oi
which he is now an honorary canon
Mr.. Lille is a member of Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity, the Masons anc
the Washington Clericus. He wa.
at one time vice president of The
Cleveland Church Federation. HI
and Mrs. Lille live as Vicar lane
Alexandra, with their 20-month.
old son, John Minor Lille.