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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Political Action Needed By Thomas Stokes

subject for discussion is What Shall Our Policy Toward Russia Bep" And the second, What Shall Our Labor Policy Be?" Those who participate would fill out questionnare in the form Of ballot which would be sent to national headquarters here. These would be correlated and the results announced.
 "It furnishes method by which the people in neighborhood, or in college, or in club or in precinct increase their knowledge of vital issues of the day and also express their individual viewpoint through ballot and in very definite way influence the policy making of the Republican Party and of the nation," he explained.
 There is no reason why 1t shouldn't be adopted also by Democrats. It is suggested here for both parties.
 The most practical and effective mechanism is discussion and action by people n their capacity as members of one the other major parties for 1t is through these that we get ultimate action in Congress and in government policy. E
 Ours is great country for all sorts of organiza- tons-none like 1t in the world. There seem to be more now than ever. letterhead and cubbyhole sometimes all that is necessary. Sometimes such little influence, some have much Often minority Is effective because 1t is zealous Communists are effective that way for example. They never let up.
 But, whatever other organizations people may belong to, whatever influence they may have, the most effective avenue in the end is through the two principal political parties far the great rank and file are concerned This is not to dsparage other organizations, for many accomplish a great deal Of good, and they york; too through political parties. But more discussion and action through political parties is needed. t"
 MT. stassen has an idea that Is worth copying and extending
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Delay and the Draft

Enstments have failed to bring our peacetime Army to the size that national strength position and safety seem to require This has been pointed out to Congress and the public by most of top military and it has been clearly implied by the Secretaries of State War and Navy Their advice and warnings have pointed toward unpleasant but unacceptable souoneXtenson of the draft
 Yet Congress continues to temporze and dodge the issue The latest delay is the Senate Military Affairs Committees decision to hold two weeks of public hearings extension of Selective Service, which expires May 15.
 It is difficult to what these hearings accomplish beyond the delay itself Certainly, opposition to draft tension be found The continued calling up of young men, in relatively small numbers is painful and popular But when all the objections in it likely that the necessity set forth in expert testimony will remain
 And than the delay it us is the way that congressional opinion has shifted with shifting international currents When tension with Russia highest years extension of the draft seemed forgone conclusion After Prime Minister Stans conciatory statement the emporz ing resumed.
 We cannot trim military requirements to the un- practicable changes in Russian policy The size of Army ongterm consideration It must take into account the fact that there will be disturbances and tensions for time to It cannot shrink expand Mr. Stan coos or busters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

Mauldin, for instance requested secret hear- ing fearing that some parts of his explosive testi- mony might embarrass CT. friends who fid,red in his disclosures However the greater part of his re- marks can be revealed. He hammered hard ion two caste-system evils: Censorship of GI. publications and inequalities in food quarters dress, courts mar tial, and other favoritsnn.
 Regarding censorship, Mauldin bIuntly told the board that the brass hats had created false issues in the case of two CT. editors who were fired from the Tokyo edition of Stars And Stripes"
 They tried to make It appear that this paper was dominated by Communists or serVcemen affili- ated with Communists Maudin told the caste-sys- tenn probers. If the whole story were told the pulp lie would know that this i5 not the truth It seems strange that shortly after the two editors fired seven or eight others the staff asked reassgnment in protest.
 "These were not Communists by any stretch of the imagination. Censorship of this nature does more harm than good in an army If Stars And Stripes were allowed to function unhampered, so that soldiers could blow off steam occasionally morale would benefit and you wouldn't have these CT demonstrations"
 When Mauldin was fighting and CartOoning in the Army, he had several hot rtn-ins with Lieu tenant-General John ('Court House'D Lee com manding general of the Mediterranean theater who recently caused the entire staff of Stars and Stripes to resign in protSt against his censorship.
 General Lee" Mauldin told the board 'is pub licly on record as stating that we do not have a democratic Army, but career Army, and that there Is no place in 1t for soldiers who pop off"
 The soldier-cartoonist also took General Douglas MacArthur into camp for being great advocate of the caste system" which he said operated the theory that officer "breathes special air and is gentleman, while enlisted man is not"
 Mauldin added most G.I.s have desire to in- terfere with military discipline obviously essential to army, but they bitter over behind line social pleasures and special privileges Such inequa ties do not occur in combat, where the immnence of death makes all men equal. They occur when an outfit is pulled off the line and returns to the echeon. where GI.s must eat different food, live in nferior quarters and gaze sulenly at officers only" signs theaters and restaurants.
 Another thing am opposed to-" testified Mau-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Denaturing the Atom
By Peter EdSOn

reducing the danger that those materials will be con- Verted into bombs.
 The report prepared by committee working with Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson is not complete plan on how this might be done. The committee started with the usual approach, trying to control the use of bombs either by renunciation an elaborate system of inspection Both methods were discarded as impractical
 The next step was to try to control the one in- dispensable material-uranium-at It's source. That suggested that the ownership of all uranium deposits should be transferred to international organiza ton, world corporation under the United Nations. The AcheSon report merely outlines how this might be done
 Denaturing is just step by which uranium could be made relatively safe for licensed in the production of power, in research and in medicine. What happens next is that the Acheson Report w.s be studied by Congress and by the State, War, and Navy Departments. They may throw it in the waste basket and come up with something better.
 On the other hand. the Acheson Report may be used as basis for determining the U S. policy. The report is not declaration Of policy in itself It re- qures no legislation to make 1t effective, though 1t may influence legislation now being considered by the Senate Atomic Energy Committed Ntt
 When the U. s. policy is determirjad, It win be submitted to the United Nations Atomid Energy Com mission, on which Bernard Baruch is the ss rep- fesentatve The UNI Commission may accent. or lt may reject the Acheson Report retommPpdatcns-
 Whatever action the UNI. Commission takes will have to be referred to the United Nations Assem- bly, and Security Council Whatever action the UNo. adopts will then be passed to the member nations with the recommendation that they enter into q treaty 10 put the plan into effect.
 obvloutly lts going to be q long time before the Aeheson Report becomes world policy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Postponement at the Crossroads

Those who are inferrng from President Trumans post ponement of Operation Crossroads that the Bkni atomic bomb tests designed to frghen Russia credng this government with cynicsm bad faith and beger ent pOsurng than the muchcrtczed Russians have yet shown.
 Not only is the inference unfatterng to us but also somewhat Illogical Since Russia is not naval power any musceexing display of atomic bombing would probably have been made land objective if the purpose to Brighten the Soviet Union into good behavior.
 It seems perfectly sensible that Operation Crossroads planned for the announced purpose of measuring power which we have already used against the equipment of branch of our national defense which has felt that power.
 It also sensible and important that congressman should have the opportunity of seeing first hand the de- ructve power of atomic weons against naval vessels be- fore voting appropriations for future Navy The Bkin experiment will be costly but might have the effect of saving the American people considerably larger sum It's results should have drastic effect naval design and Construction.
 Quite possibly the Russians and the rest of the world impressed by the destruction two cities by bombs than they will be by the atomic bombs effect upon warships Nevertheless would that this country should proceed with the Bkn test the new date if only to banish the notion that the planned as threat and withdrawn with the improvement of international rea tions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

quite that good.
 How the denaturing is done is not revealed but the process is not It is explained that material already made for use in bombs be denatured, as well as fssionable materials still in their original form.
 Denaturng of fissionable materials does make them useless for bombs This has been proved. A bomb made out of denatured materials is dud Otherwise. the importance of denatvring atomic en- ergy materials is decidedly limited.
 It Is nov explained that it s possible tO "unde- nature" the denatuFed materials and to make the bombs out of the stuff reprocessed. But this denaturlng is a complicated business. It can't be done overnight in the back room Of any drugstore
 And there s no guarantee that some new pro- cess may not be discovered whereby the denatured materials could be exploded in bombs IL can't be done today, but tomorrow-who knows7
 The important point ls that dehatlrlnR offers partial means for controlling the manufacture and licensing of fashionable malpFinls toF peacetms uses,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
In Today's Mail

sewers to replace an overflowing cesspool, or to someone who has to return home late at night in the dark due to lack of street lights, he can't be blamed for asking for these improvements before erecting an airport.
 And now a word of congratula- tions for the editorial in your same paper, in regards to the suit of the Republican American, which was withdrawn last week. Members of the Council of Clubs knew from the start that the suit was a phony, and stated 1t time and again at several of the meetings. That was the reason that they warned the people not to be fooled by the nicely written headlines, about be- ing the first to come to the aid of the small taxpayer. am glad to notice that of late months that the editorials of the Democrat are be- coming more l1on-partisan and that where once everything that was proposed by the administration, received the Democrats blessing, things have changed and we hope for the best. After we are all in- terested in our city, and want to make 1t our home, but if we are not checked in some of our undertak- ings, the way that the Council of Clubs are doing in regards to tax review, and the like We are likely to overstep the bounds. and before long matters have grown worse in- stead of better. Thanking you very kindly, l remain,
 Very truly yours,
 A Community Club Member,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
A BOOST OR A KNOCK WHEN SINCERELY GIVEN WORK FOR THE,
 GOOD OF ALL
 CONCERNED

MbLSAl oAI 40TV
 Editor of the Democrat:
 read with interest in Saturdays edition of the Democrat in the Politics in Passing" column sus- picion that If the city fathers de- cided that the time was ripe to start work on the sewage disposal plant that the Council of Conlmun- ity clubs, would immediately cry out that the project be postponed in favor of sewers, street lights and the like. Does the writer re- member a few years back when the Community clubs jointly, but not organized as today presented a pe- tition to the Board of Aldermen, asking for an ordinance for the municipal collection of rubbish and garbage, and also for the erection of an incinerator? Does the writer know that with a place for sewage disposal plant that there must be a place for disposing of the offal from the said plant9 No, The Coun- ell of Community clubs are not against anything that is going to be benefit to the taxpayers of the city, and perhaps if some of the figures that members of the Com munity club staff have in their pos session, of the cost of maintaining an air field not very far distant from Waterbury, were made known perhaps the opposition to the pro- posed field would be still greater than at present. The late Vincent Scully agreed that there was need of municipal collection of rubbish and promised that as soon as funds were available that something would be done about 1t. But now this plan is rated about eight or ninth among the projects listed for the six-year plan. In other words 1t has been placed there just to say that 1t is still being kept in mind. Take a ride around the out lying districts any of these fine days. and see the amount of rub Dish that is being allowed to pile up on our highways and see if collection of rubbish does not come ahead of an airport. It takes action like that of the Council of Clubs to make the city fathers sit up and take notice, as the average tax pay CT would just be given a hearing, and in @ few days the whole mat ter would be all forgotten and in the case of the tax review the cost to the average taxpayer would be prohibitive. Certainly to a person who has been waiting for years for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

sion may have arisen that all of a sudden a good fairy had waved its magic wand, so that now, by golly, the work of the gremlins who first invented the atomic bomb could be overcome. The idea put out was that through a new process of "denaturing" fis-, sionable materials. atomic energy could be released for peaceful purposes like generating power or curing cancer, but not for nasty purposes like making bombs.
 Unfortunately, the news isn't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Views of the Press
TOO MUCH OPA? (ThA R0st0n pOstl

There should be no relenting on efforts to stop imitation in the United States. But just how far the OPA and other government agen- cies ought to go to regulate business and stifle the healthy, normal ele- ment of competition is more than @ moot question. Boston's automo- bile dealers have something when they object to arbitrary fixing of prices they must pay for used cars, sight unseen. Too much detail is bad regulation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

Let us not forget that there are two systems in the world com peting for the minds of men. These two systems are on trial. One is the most state-minded, the most collective-minded in existence. Ours Is the most private-minded and the most individual-minded, but our system can only flourish and grow in an expanding world economy. Eric A. Johnston, president U. s.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

maJor domestic and lnternatIonaI issues of the day.
 The town n-meeting type of democracy long ago disappeared except in some New England com munities, and for well-known reasons-the growth of big cities. concentration of population, and the manifold demands of modern civilization.
 This had tended to remove government farther from the peo- pie, to make 1t sort of a closed corDoration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

testify at the War Departfneflt's secret hearings.
 The CT. cartoonist gave the Army probers a blazing earful on officer class distinctions and why this has undermined morale and efficiency in the armed forces.
 Incidentally the secrecy sure rounding the testimony of Maul- din and other witnesses was not the doing of Secretary of War Patterson or fair-ninded chair man of the Investigating board General .Tif,ny1nv noniihkIaT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Heaven Forbid!

We where the Brooklyn Dodgers varsity is travel ing north by Pullman while the second squad making the trip by bus.
 We hope for the sake of the Ebbets Field faithful that the second stnRers won't follow the current custom by ngnR charges of "caste system and perhaps even n-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

WASHINGTON, April 3-The best official advice the new Acheson Report for international control of atomic energy is to take it easy.
 In the first stories that leaked out from members of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee the impress
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

"Wrinkling the nose is one (facial posturing). AS cute as the habit is, stop it.'-Alicia Hart in The Wa terbuNy Democrat.
 RE: LIE NEE
 Pretty creatures, pretty creatures, Watch 1t, watch it, watch your nose; Most expressive of the features, Danger haunts 1t when 1t goes Into wrinkles to denote your Pleasure or your plain distaste: Things you do not give a groat for Are not worth the wanton waste Of the beauty that endows you, And forthrightly, l must add The impressive thing that VOWS you For your nose is just as bad. It looks cute, I'll grant, when
 crlnkled,
 In your sweet and lovely phizz, But when permanently wrinkled, Ladies, 1t but seldom is. .4 It's a peril as a habit,
 So 1t always has been deemed. (Still never saw a rabbit With a face exactly seamed)
 We have no interest at all in the Governments decision to subsidiSe the Smelting industry. It would be somethiI4g else again, If 1t were the fronting industry, however.
 That odd Fuller House continues to interest us as the most engag- ing of the fabricated abodes. It looks like Quonset Hut that some- one sat on after doing a simonize job on 1t.
 oregon anticipates that within five years the tourist trade will re- place numbering as the states prin- cipal industry. We doubt that, judg- ing from the way Oregonians have treated the advance scout for Rus sian visitors.
 A billion for this. another blI- lion for that, three billion for sOme- thing else. As far as the taxpayer Is concerned, the main trouble with the Ship of State Is that she never has come back to port from her shakedOwn cruise.
 Doubleday, Doran & Company, the publishers, have decided not to ship any copies of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County" to Boston. Their Memory of Suf- folk County undoubtedly had some- thing to do with the decision.
 Matters are disturbed because Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, recently chosen one of Americas ten best dressed men, has only one hat. It matches the head count, though.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
WATERBURY DEMOCRAT WATERBURY, CONN, WEDESDAY APRIL 8 l946
.Merry-Go-R Round

WASHINGTON, April s--The Army caste sys- tenn hearings are held behind closed doors, but the CT heroes of Bill Mauldins war cartoons would have been proud if they had heard young Mauldin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03

One of the most serious defects in our democratic system today, perhaps, is the lack of a medium for periodic and regular discussion by the people of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
THE DIFFERENCE

Whenever I says, Ut is me-" The jurists rise to disagree; When Churchill says it, they arise To laud his lingual enterprise.
 MT. Truman is feeling a little better about things. He recently got an appointment through without anyone demanding a check on the appointee'S fingerprints.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-03
Waterbury Of the Past

25 Years Ago
 Mary Pickford appeared at the Rialto in The Love Light" The Strand presented Cecil B. DeMille'S Forbidden Fruit"
 15 Years Ago The Feast of the Passover was ob- served by local Jewish residents. The City Manager Plan was a topic of conversation in local politl- cal circles.
 s Years Ago The annual report Of Building h. spector John T. Hartley revealed that the cost Of construction here in i040 was five times less than that to date for ie4i.
 Plans were discussed for the com- Ing statewide convention Of the Young C. o. P. to bs held here April 26, % and 27.
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