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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
bv Peter EdSOn

At the Big Three Potsdam conference of Tru- man, Stalin and Attlee in July, 1945 an American point made that one of the greatest causes of in Europe had been restrictions main arteries of commerce-the DardanelleS, the Danube, the Rhine. To this threat the United States pro- posed that all such international waterways be opened to all nations
 As means to this end on the Dardaneles it was proposed that the Monreaux Convention of 1886 should be revised This is the last of the international agreements control of these straits The decision that each of the Big Three-the United States Turkish government on how the convention should be revised.
 The United States led off the parade last Mo- vember by proposing three principles. The straits should be open to merchant ships of all nations It ers-Turkey Russia, Bulgaria and Romania Warships Of other nations should pass through only if given special permission.
 Everybody seems willing to accept these three points. But the Soviet government has couple more Russia believes control of the straits should be the concern of only the Black Sea powers and defense and fertilization of the straits should be the concern of only the Black Sea powers
 To these two points the Americans British and Turks object The American position is that defense should be left to Turkey alone because the Turks occupy both shores and both ends In case of war if Turkey were unable to defend the Dardanelles the force of the United Nations Security Council would be thrown to its support
 As matters now stand, the United States takes the simple position that it is willing to sit down and tak about this with other interested parties any place, any time. The Turks say they'd be happv to have the United States sit in on the conyention,s revision.
 Incidentally Japan was a sgnatory to the Mon- treaux Convention of 1886. The United States has good reason for taking over the seat of the Japs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
WISE MOVE IN WINDSOR
(Hartford T'imes)

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 The plan proposed in Windsor to reduce highway accidents and to lessen the incidence of juvenile de- linquency may offer good sugges- tions to other communities. The Windsor Police Commission has the cooperation of other town bodies, and of societies and individuals, in an effort to make the community safer in every way "As the twig is bent the tree inclines," is as sound now as it was when the saying was first uttered.
 By the Windsor plan, high school students will assemble in the the ater in the town each Thursday morning at 10 o'clock to hear ad- dresses and perhaps see motion pie lures dealing with highway safety and moral hazards Pupils from the grammar grades will go to the the ater on Fridays for the lectures. The town now is arranging sched- ule of speakers.
 Laudable as the objective of the plan is, it will be successful only if the talks hold the interest of the boys and girls. Millions upon mill lions of words have been spoken and written on the subject of high way safety. They need to be written and spoken, for death and injury are too common on the roads. But accidents continue. Highway fatal ities are not being lessened appre- ciably.
 So it is also with delinquency. Young people still go wrong. There is no general agreement as to the cause, other than that home condi- tions, environment and bad com- panionship have good deal to do with it. Boys and girls need to be taught lessons as to the law of cause and effect which evidently are not gained in the home. Perhaps too many parents are inspiring delin- quency instead of responsibility Anyway, the experiment which the Windsor authorities are undertak- ing is to be commended. It seems sensible, and should, over period of time, result in great good for the boys and girls, and for the con- munity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
Sweet Dardanella

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S-Behind all the polite passing around of international notes what to do about controlling the Turkish Straits of the Dar- daneles there is one question every U. S. citizen should know the to. It 1S What business has the United States in such affairs?"
 If you go for the Henry Wallace point of view, we could recognize that have more business in the political affairs of Eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of Latin America, Western Europe the United States"
 That this is also the view of the American isola- tionStS is strange coincidence But the of the Dardanelles is perfect example which to test the Wallace doctrine. There a number of angles.
 From coldly practical standpoint, the United States has direct interest in what goes there. The U. s. Army is occupying Austria. The Danube River flows through Austria and east to the Black Sea. The Black Sea gets to the Mediterranean and the rest of the world through the Dardaneles Free movement of commerce all international water ways is primary U. S. objective ir promoting world trade
 This whole problem is hangover from World War II. The United States was a major Allied power in that It has assumed responsibility for trying to clean up some of the messes that left lying around. It is committed to finishing the job.
 In. broader sense, the United States agreed un- der the United Nations Charter, :" to take col lective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace :. To bring about by peaceful means adjustment settlement of international disputes situations which might lead to a breach of the peace To achieve international co-opera- on in solving international problems of an economic character"
 There is no question about the Dardanelles being for the last ITO years and historically for centuries before that The question is, How come the United States got mixed up in the Dardanelles problem in the first place?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
"A Picture of Peace

We were interested to the Christian Science Mon tor this week duplication of "A Picture of Peace which the subject the of the current United Nations Weekly Bulletin
 The picture presents the peaceful village of Powna Cen ter familiar to those who travel by automobile Route through Connecticut Massachusetts and Vermont in the Spring. Summer Autumn of the year. Presently the must be worth seeing peaceful always, and agh the colors of Autumn The town lies between Williams town Mass and Bennington Many rate the view looking Powna equal to any along Massachusetts, famous Mohawk Trail Seen from above the little village lives up to the opposite tte "A Picture of Peace"
 The surrounding mountains not stupendous as
 many others but there is grandeur and strength them and Vermont furnishes much of that quality peacefunes f it's villages lakes mountains and rural aspect in general
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Drew PearsOn's column today takes the form of letter to his brother in Paris)
 Washington,
 October IT, 1946.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
Your Health By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

A lot of detectives, as one should expect, and some degenerates, I am sorry to note, have written more or less revealing complaints or pro- tests against Bradys teachings about the effects of alcohol and about addiction to alcohol.
 In the first place most of these defectives and degenerates went of at half cock, probably under the in- fluence of alcohol. They jumped to the conclusion that I used these terms as epithets or in the ire sponsible way in which the cub re- porter, the yellow journal editor or this weeks best seller uses them. Now, children, listen carefully to the real meaning of the terms.
 A defective, says Webster, is a person who is lacking physically or mentally.
 A degenerate, says Webster, is a person who has declined or de- teriorated to a state or condition lower than ones former state or condition-physically, mentally or morally.
 Here we are concerned only about health, physical health, and mental or moral questions are beyond our province except when they have di- rect bearing on physical health. For instance, the question of drinking. The defective is Subnormal or in- ferior because his or her physical or mental growth or development is retarded or arrested short of normal. The degenerate is Subnormal or in- ferior because he or she has de- clined or weakened in one respect or another, whether from aging o1 premature aging, from disease, from nutritional deficiency, from injury or deprivation Gas of sunshine ol Skyshine).
 Every one past middle age,' that is, past the time of full ma turity, is a degenerate.
 The moron or Sophomoron rlev. CT has attained and never will at- tain full mental growth of develop ment, regardless of the state of his or her physical development. A moron has the intelligence quotient of normal child 8 to 12 years o1 age. A sophomoron has the intelli- |gence quotient of a normal child + to IT years old. Only few of the 'steenteen million moronS in the country worry much about theil feeble -mindedness but most of tht 'steenteen sophomorons strive con- stantly to conceal thaeir lack of in. telligence-and. that is their infer. iority complex. A defective may be. lieve he or she can cover physica deficiencies by means of various ar. ticles, but if he or she is not a low lgrade moron the defective is pain. fully aware that lack of intelli. gence is difficult or impossible tt conceal for any length of time.
 This inferiority complex of th' lsophomorons accounts for the grea
 populatity of the cocktail habi
 among the defectives in America
 Under the influence of alcohol fo
 an hour or two they forget thei Iinferiority and feel equal to every
 body else. Alcohol, remember, is { narcotic. In any less than poison
 ous ddes it penumbs sensibility.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
A Hereford Landslide

It's too late to do anything about it but both the Democrats the Republicans missed good bet by not altering the identifying birds which tradtonay printed at the top of their list of candidates on the ballot
 The Republican eagle and the Democratic rooster are all right occasions But this year the other party should have thought to substitute the head of white faced steer.
 For it isn't gubernatorial administrations congress siona voting records that most peoples minds today
 isn't the eagle the rooster the donkey or the ee- phant that stirs their political emotions It's meat!
 To have substituted the portrait of beef crer would have given the party which did it tremendous psychoogl cal advantage we are sure One look, and many steak hungry eector would have voted the straight ticket beneath the picture without further ado
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18

foreign policy"
 Pat Hurley is a snowman He marches grandly over his adopted state like Shakespearean actor on tour. Some have expressed doubt about how eff fective his foreign policy emphasis may be in this state
 Pat bought ranch and took up residence off, caHy here some years ago, but he has not lived in the state to great extent Senator Chavez stresses that by speaking of MT. Hurley as lon weekend visit" However, you can't toss rock here without hitting someone who has come here from somewhere else, so the issue may not count much.
 Republicans are making much of the war-veteran caliber of their state ticket here It is studded with veterans.
 Republicans point to the Democratic ticket, bS contrast 'payroer" ticket This hits sensitive nerve This state has small population and small vote. So the Democrats have the advantage of . machine but it's grown rusty and its leaders have fallen out, that it has lost of the usual ad vantageS of a machine.
 Gov Jack Dempsey, long familiar figure about Washington, in Congress and administrative office, Is at outs with Senator Chavez, who beat him for the Senatorial nomination in the primary. He could be helpful with the state machine. But not only is he failing to lend hand but his henchmen are out working against the Senator. The Democratic candi date for governor, Thomas J. Mabry former Statk Supreme Court chief justice, is banging away at Governor Dempsey, too.
 Senator Chavez chief hope Is perhaps the fact that he is native and of Spanish descent, which is important among many voters in this state. The word is being passed around that these people must keep a spokesman in Washington
 Two House seats are at stake here, both at-arge and to be filled by statewide elections. Democrats seem to have an edge for the two Seats and slight edge for the Senatorial seat. But Republican up- rising which party leaders think is in the making. might sweep all G them to tine Republicans.
 The contest admittedly is close and few votes will decide,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
Leon Pearson, International News Service, Paris, France.

 Paris, France.
 Dear Kid:
 Well, we are in for some interesting times in this country A meat-mad America has been threatening to tear Harry Truman limb from-lmb politically un less its appetite for red meat was met, and poor Harry has finally surrendered felt sorry for him. But feel Sorrier what may be ahead for all of us. We may be ready to follow the French road to imitation.
 Something has been happening in this country something that doesn't jibe with our usual good and patriotism Several weeks ago this normally sane nation suddenly went mad over meat, and it has stayed mad ever since. I have been trying to figure out the reason.
 Actually we ate more meat during the war than before; 4O pounds per person per year. which 12 pounds more than we ate annually before the started. And as I look back it, never used to be nation of such passionate meat-eaters.
 Remember when we were kids? We never had meat more than three or four times a week Mother said it was too expensive and that vegetables were just as good, anyway. Remember what big event it was when, once week, we had round-steak ground?
 At that time chicken was an even greater del- icacy. We always had it on Sundays, and guess most every family did, for when Herbert Hoover wanted to promise the American people the super duper of food, he told 'em they'd get "a chicken in every pot" they elected him President. It got him elected all right, but that Harry Truman has given chicken in every pot, and sometimes
 turkey to boot, we're not satisfied Now it's to hell with chicken and Truman. We've got to have beef
 
 Sitting there in Paris you will hardly believe some of these things And if you came back quick trip you would hardly recognize of your fellow Americans They simply went berserk over meat.
 took 8 quick trip through the Middle West last week, and that was all they were talking about meat Our dangerous problems with Russia the hopes of the Peace Conference the relative merits of po- ltcal candidates all were forgotten in the rage meat.
 Of course, part of this was purposely whipped up " fhn ctr tIoy,1i Republican candidates drove oudspeakers up to lines outside butcher shops and made the most of it. N got so bad that fine, able Congressmen like Mike Monroney of Oklahoma were in danger of defeat
 But in addition to the politics involved I am afraid that patriotism and unsefishness and the things that have made this country great have slid into a terrific backwash.
 It began it usually begins near the top And it filtered down. as it always does, to the people below. When folks see their leaders in Congress put hand out, they wonder why they shouldn't put hand out too And the last session of Congress saw the greatest greed-grab have ever witnessed since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was written under
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
ADVERTISING VALUES
(BoStOn PoSt)


 The suspension of the four news papers in Springfield, now in the third week because of a strike by the mechanical force, has brought to light one interesting angle in the value of radio advertising as compared with newspaper adver- tising. Stores and business houses, as well as the theatres, f1ocked to the radio and every moment of available time was snatched up. after couple of hectic days, there was plenty of time available and no takers. The advertisers learned to their disrnay that radio adver- Using was not producing the re- suits. When the strike is settled, there is no question that the value of a newspaper will have consid- ably increased in the minds of the citizenry generally.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
AIR SAFETY
>(New York TimeS)

The remarks on air safety by James M. Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, illustrate a sometimes forgotten fact about machines-that is, so-called me- chanical error almost always has it's roots in human error. When operating under the conditions for which they were designed and test ed today's precision-built aircraft engines do not just decide to quit on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
MISSOURI FORMULA
(New York Sun)

The Missouri formula for dealing with trouble may some day be as famous. as the Missouri Compro- mise.
 First step in the formula: Deny the existence of any trouble. Sec ond step: Admit it's existence, but deny that it has any substance. Third step: Admit it's substance, but deny that it has any durability. Fourth step: Admit it's durability, but deny it's paternity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-18
Self-Imposed Punishment

The large number of Americans who feel that the yapanese people not being sufficiently punished for their wartime sins rest better private firm has applied for license to operate radio stations in Tokyo and Osaka Perhaps it would have been fitting we our selves had inflicted the singing commercial van- qushed should the less torturous Em being sef-inficted
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
FROM MINNESOTA

Robert Bast, Fairmont, Minn., is staying at the Baranof during his visit here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
.ACS Officers
 Awards

SEATTLE, Feb. 20-Two Alaska
 Communication System officers - i It. Col. James E. Rice, Jr., and 1 Capt. Fred w. Kerr-yesterday re- ceived the Legion of Merit for out standing performance of duty dur 1 ing the war The medals were pre-
 sented by Col. Fred P Andrews,
 commanding the ACS.s
 Colonel Rice, in charge of the
 Engineering Division, won his award in connection with modernizing and extending the Alaska cable system from March 28, 1942, to Aug. 8, 1s44. He entered the service in 1941. He is a Virginian.
 Captain Kerr was cited for work as commander of several cable ves- sels during "perilous submarine ex- petitions in support of defensive and offensive operations against the Japanese in Alaska and Aleut-
 ian waters from October, 1942, to January, 1944. He entered the ser- vice in 1942. He lives here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
ELMER E. REED,
 ALASKA PIONEER,
 DIES IN SEATTLE

Elmer E. Reed, oldtimer of AL aska, died last week in Seattle af- ter long period of ill health, ac- cording to word received by Mrs. Harry Stonehouse. Funeral services were held in that city Tuesday, and interment was in Evergreen Cemetery
 Reed was born in California Jan. 9, 1851, and came to Alaska in June, 1900. making his home in various parts of the Territory since that time. An expert accountant, lle held many responsible positions with government offices.
 He was for some time Chief De- putty with the U. s. Marshals of flee here, later going to Nome where he was clerk of the court. After his return to Juneau from Nome he was chief clerk with the Federal Emergency Relief Agency and also served as a clerk in the office of the Secretary of Alaska.
 During his years in the Interior as we'll as while he was in Juneau he followed his hobby of taking pictures, and made several lecture trips in the States, illustrating his lectures with his collection of pie lures. Another speciality of his was the making of Christmas cards with Alaskan scenes.
 He became resident of the Pioneers Home in Sitka in August, 1886, and in October of the same year became bookkeeper for the Home, position he held until in- creasingly poor health forced him to discontinue. He came to Juneau in November and entered St. Anns Hospital, then in December went to Seattle for further medical att tention.
 Surviving are three daughters, Ruth Green of Los Angeles; Olive and Betty Reed; and two sons, Charles and Goffe Reed of Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
PA BRINGS E
 IN FROM SEATTLE

Pan American Airways yesterday flew the following passengers to end from Seattle:
 To Seattle: Jack Cone, Anne Lip- pincutt, Charles Douglas, Glenn Robinson, Helen Halliday, Arthur Anderson, Jack Thompson, Charles Ostrom.
 From Seattle: Frederick Braun, Roger Smith, Naureen Costa, Eva Fusaro, Eileen Ball, Walter Mahon- ey, Kathleen Costa, Aurelio Rossi, Gertrude Conway Mark Blake, Ray rnond Petite, Walter O'Sullivan, Jesse Kimball, Robert Cunningham Robert East, Harriet Kimball.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
UN5URRENDERED LAPS HUNTED ON
 LUBANG ISLAND

MANILA, Feb. 20-A hilippine army regiment landed on Little Lubank Island, 70 miles southwest of Manila today, to destrop rem- nants of an unsurrendered Japa- nese garrison which have been terrorizing Filipino farmers and villagers.
 Army patrols have attempted un- successfully to find the Japanese, Brig. Gen. Macario Peralto, Philip pine army chief of staff, reported This time, the entire First Tarlac regiment will comb the island.
 Peralta said the Japanese have killed many farmers and pillaged many villages in past weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
GALLANT MEN OF
 AIR IN FEATURE
 AT 10TH CENTURY

Out of the welter of motion pie lures devoted to telling the stof- ies of our various fighting services, it remained for goth Century Fox to bring us what is by far one of the most thrillingly exciting and heartwarming human epics of them all, in the screens first great dra- ma of our aircraft carrier force in action. The film, Wing And A Prayer-The Story of Carrier X" opened last night at the 20th Gen. tury Theatre and is on for the last times tonight.
 Starring Don Ameche, Dana An- drews and William Eythe, the pie ture is stirring salute to the gall lent Navy men of the sky whose home is a flat-top
 In the first hot flush of indig- nation against the treacherous Jap sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor, an unidentified aircraft carrier is sent into the Pacific for a rendezvous with its planes. But when the planes land aboard the flat-top, the rarin' blight flyers are told that their orders are to avoid com bat with the enemy--to run away and not fight back-and the car- rier, with it's bewildered and frus- trated crew, sets out on an ap- parently aimless course through Jap infested waters. It is against this setting of suspense and drama that the saga is unfolded, reaching smashing climax that scores a new high in film excitement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
Sailors Union of
 Pacific Gets New
 Agreement, VISA

SEATTLE, Feb. 20 Y Business agent Ed Coester of the Sailors Union of the Pacific said an agree ment had been reached with the War Shipping Administration and ship operating agents providing for first class passage home for crews of ships sold abroad.
 Last week Coester said the union would refuse to man such ships until first class return transporta- tion was assured. He said the &C., tion was the outgrowth of charges by returning crewmen that they had been quartered in ships holds and forced to work enroute or Ego to the brig"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-20
TAxICABCARAvAN
 SNOW HAMMERED
 ON TRIP TO EAST

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20.-Hamper- ed by snow ranging up to a foot in depth, the 148-car Chicago-to- Washington taxicab caravan was scattered all along the Pennsylvania turnpike today, with a few mem- bers already heading through Maryland for the nations capital
 State police along the route said the weary trayelers-550 former service men and their wives riding in their own taxis-took hotel rooms wherever they could find them.
 The motorcade is composed of veterans protesting a Chicago or dinance limiting the number of taxis to 5000. They want to drive their cream-and- white taxis in Chicago.
 The former servicemen hope to get relief through Federal action.
 The drivers ran into snow and sleet when they crossed the West Virginia Panhandle from Ohio into Pennsylvania yesterday. The main body arrived in Pittsburgh around noon and left in snowstorm in the evening, splashing through two inches of slush.