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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
By Thomas Stokes

CfatS,
 MT. Hannegan has trouble trying to do some thing about President TrumanS program and, at the same time, to get along with the Southern Dem- ocrats which is also part of his job. Yet he Is professional politician So perhaps one should be charitable about the young woman who only worked there and hadn't learned all the tricks.
 This incident. and the Taft-Murray tilt, and the broadside of Senator Morse (R, Ore0 against the whole tenor of the Republican National Commit tee session here at which Representative Carroll Reece of Tennessee was elected party chairman, show the tensions in this town and the churning in both parties.
 It goes deeper than war-frazzled nerves, Basic ally 1t reveals the conflict between two theories of government going on in both parties and with no bitterness the New Deal in the years before the war The end of war released 1t all again-and even bitterly,
 There k, on one hand, the theory of New Deal Democrats, and Progressive Republicans that the Federal Government, representing all the people, should itself sponsor broad measures and fix stand ards relating to the welfare Of all the people. On the other hand there Is the theory of Southern Dem ocras and conservative Republicans that extension of federal authority should be severely restricted and that the government should withdraw from some fields 1t has entered
 There variations and Shadings within eacn general philosophy.
 Congress is only the mirror Of the conflict gong on among outside interests.
 President Truman, 1t is known, is appalled, py the concentrated attack of great economic and fna cia interests on his program for promoting the well fare of all the people. It has become matter or serious concern
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
Stuck Either Way

The American Car and Foundry Company of St. Lotus found itself with strike it's hands when an empoye re- fused to join the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen GAfL which represents the workers in this open shop The com nanv in an effort to end the strike asked the man to o and fired him when he wouldn't. Then the National LaDo Relations Board took over. .
 The board ordered the company to cease encouraging
 men to join the BRC any other union 1t ordered tne company to rensate this empoye with full seniority ana " reimburse him for any financial loss incurred
 Technically the NLRB seems to have been right It IS probably as much of interference for company to urge a man to join union not company ydomhat ed as it is to threaten him with discharge unless he stays out But what was the NLRBs motve-to protect the l divduas choice of action to protect the union from dom nation" or penaze the company for strike-setng ta ties which must have been agreeable to both management and union?
 Obviously the individuals right to choose wasn't the prime consideration since that choice is denied in the NLRB-sanctoned closed shop. And as for domlnaton t would rather seem to outsider that the NLB might It. self be trying the company and interfere in aDo
 management relations by it's action For, if the company is to avoid similar and further penalties the only solution is closed shop which the worker has no choice but to join the union.
 In other words is all right for the union to force union membership under threat of company ds- mssal. But the company can't do the same thing Ana the American Car and Foundry Company meanwhile is in the unenvabe position of being damned by the government if 1t does, and damned if it doesn't.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
Call to Honorable Arms

Today is Army Day. when the United States pays its annual tribute to the great military organization to % wen There will be parades and speeches and enthusiastic nS for CT Joe
 We like a parade, rally, oration as much, we think does any other American. But we can't help feel ing that this year the celebration should be marked by se and responsible thought well as by eferVescent emo tion For 1946 of crisis-a year whch may well shape the destines all for generations to come.
 After four seemingly endless years of war, We enJoy peace But face perhaps harder battle to aihtah that peace than compelled to undergo to win it. Ana face it. with not the fantes resemblance o the unity and clarity which characterized our war effort As a result have not at present an Army sufficiently strong and sufficiently aggressive to win for us the current struggle for survival.
 The national commitments occupationa and otherwise in the prosecution of which the American Army now so ntensvely engaged rrevocabe and a-mportant our success with them may well determine whether the cream of our youth will again be required to extngush with it's blood the blaze of foreign So too may our wisdom in refusing to renquish the position ot world leadership which acquired only by the force ot our arms and which retain largely by retaining our martial power.
 Congress has permitted the Army to dwinde from over "hemlng authority to Irlghtenng Weakness oy l"pla @ @ seemingly uncontrolled demobiizaton And has not pro vded essential repacemen either by the enactment of uni versa military training by appecabe extension ot the draft, scheduled to expire May l5.
 The issue s therefore squarey up to American youth They yet mold the national destiny and spare the world the mtess devastation of still another armed conflict By enstng in sufficient numbers they can earn the u dying gratitude of generations yet unborn.
 Army life has never well fitted to the individual stc American character Today no less than ever oe1or it offers challenge But successive generations or our men have that challenges and because they have walk as free citizens of free country.
 Our Army offers the highest pay the finest food and quarters the best medical treatment the most appealing jobs provided by military organization It ofters too the pride of membership in team which has never been vital task the opportunity to receive the thanks of grate fu nation and war-weary world We hope the young men of the United Satesand their mothers and fathers their senators and think about these things on Army Day, 1946.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
Upheaval

The tidal wave disaster that wrecked havoc the shores from Alaska California and in Hawaii follows along the line of major caasrophes which neverending Had it happened year ago. say when the atomic bomb expendng its energy the would have been less spectacular and caused less reaction which hard to be- lieve.
 The descriptions of the enormity of the waves. their subsequent destruction of and the general upheava are frightful and frightening
 We have only recall the tidal of 1888 which ac- companied major hurricane in nearby to appreciate what the giant tidal in the Pacific have done The extent of the waves travels aso is hard to visualize Nature works in devious ways at times The tidal off the Atlantic that when hurricane travelled the coast rolled over Providence and shore that vicinity We are still looking at the wrecage along Long Island shores of that day and month when southern New England ex perenced the most terrific of disasters of that nature.
 So we can picture perhaps something of the wreckage in Hawaii and along the Pacific coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
Views of the Press
ATOMIC CRAFTSMANSHIP

as originally proposed, and thus will not have Q parallel status to the civilian commission The effect of this change will be that the board will advise and not supervise the civilian commission. In virtue of It's appointment, 1t will report back to the Secretaries of the Navy and of War, not to the President. In other emendationS the llaison officers are restricted in their counsel to strictly military applications of atomic en- ergy. All in all the basic principle of civilian and presidential responsibili- ty for defense is reserved, and the country is relieved at worst of mlli- tary supervision and Rt best of a feud ridden administration working constantly as cross purposes.
 In agreeing to this change Of wording the 10 committeeman showed the statesmanship requisite to the occasion. The original reso- lution was the first misStep of Sem ator Vandenberg in the tortured hiS- tory of atomic legislation. We rec member him well kor his vision in proposing a joint committee of Con- gross for a study of atomic energy and what to do about it His views, alas, did not prevail, with the re- suit that two bills are now In com- petition. As against the McMahon bill the House may haul out the discarded May-Johnson bill, which would put the scientists In a mili- tary straight jacket. We hope the House will ask themselves whether they want the scientists to work or be policed. They cannot have both, Ten years of research lie ahead of the scientists in improving the man. ufacture of plutonium. You will no more get such an improvement out of the scientists under the May Johnson bill than Gas Senator Me- Mahon put iD you could have or- dered Shakespeare by act of Parlia- ment to write one of his sonnets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

The offending sentence appealed for voters to let their Congressman know that the passage of the restrictive Case bill was a vote against the American people" This was the labor measure, sponsored by Representative Case (R, SD), which a coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans put through the House Recently 1t has been toned down somewhat by the Senate Labor Committee
 Mrs Jane Heldt. author of the article, who left the committees employ few days ago before the storm broke seems to have overlooked the fact that Southern Democrats not Republicans even though many of them vote rather regularly with Republicans It's an understandable error, one that the layman often makes,
 Mrs Heidt should have been better informed about the Democratic Party and should have learned that 1t means one thing to President Truman and his administration and lots of Northern and Vest ern Democrats and quite another thing to many Dixon line It often means different thing to Bob Hannegan from what 1t means to Southern Demo-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
By Peter Edson

ed to the SEC and an assistant-secretaryship of the Treasury and if Charles A. Jonas of North Car oina had not risen to remark that Hanes had never been known as anything but Democrat in North Carolina.
 Then it was that Mrs Bertha D. Baur of Iln- rois in a gorgeous big red flower-covered picture hat got up and said, Let's open the windows. The temperature in here is about 30 degrees"
 But it was when the Republicans got into their platform consideration that they really showed how conservative they were going to be in the coming campaign Last December the Republicans met in Chicago and adopted an interim platform which was masterpiece of generalities. They also appointed a seven-man committee, chairmaned by Barak T. Mattingly of Missouri, to fix it up good
 Mattingly made his report at the Washington meeting Nobody paid much attention while it was being read but the effect that everybody thought the platform was dandy. Only recommendation was that they make it even stronger for conservatism. Mattingly closed with ringing statement that the American people were entitled to choice between the CTruman) administration policy and the Amer ican form of government" He said the issue should be clearly drawn
 All this is most instructive. It needs, however, to be tied up with the announcement made over the weekend by ex-Governor Harold E. Stassen or Mm- nesota. The governor came to Washington to open headquarters for his new Republican Open Forum. new idea in American politics. and possibly just as important to the COP. as the birth of the CLIO Political Action Committee was to the Democrats ID l044
 What Stassen is shooting at is nelghborhood or block block organization of voters to study eur- rent issues and come to some definite eonelusions on what the Republican platform should say on such controversial questions as labor policy and policy towards Russia.
 Probably the most interesting thing to watch during the coming months. up to the November eIee- tons will be whether the Republican voters endorse the platform as dictated by the National Committee or whether Gtassens grass roots study clubs Wl1 come up with really progressive platform ana soms new Ideas that wiil guide the party to success tn lele and iels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

 criticizng his program But when Bowles asked the retailers to keep their shirts on, 8 voice from the audience sang out We haven't got any" That was the payoff
 The Republicans also elected new national chairman, Congressman B. 0or Brazlla) Carroll Reece of Tennessee, to succeed Herbert Brownell, Jr But if the choice had been up to the retailers it probably wouldn't have been any different and couldn't have been any more satisfactory. Either of the other two candidates. ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut and John H. Hanes of New York, would have been equally okay. It was field day for conservatism
 
 Hanes was darkhOrse candidate, nominated by Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts. but he ran a good third. He was born in North Carolina and cast his first vote for Woodrow Wilson in 1916 Four years later he switched to Harding. He lives in New York now, is registered a Republican and the COP. claims him as one of It's own
 Among the secondng speeches. Kentucky's young committeeman J0uett Ross Todd made an impas- sloned plea that the Republicans should get the Democratic conservatives like Hanes in here-the people who feel the way We do in the National Com mttee" That was probably the keynote of the whole meeting. A bid for conservative support
 Hanes might have had chance # at this poiA Harrison spangler of Iowa had not asked nnocently fl Hanes wasn't the man Roosevelt had once appoint
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
(The Washington POst)

The McMahon bill providing for the setting Up of an atomic energy commission is now complete and will
 soon be sent to the Senate, where, we hope, 1t will receive prompt at-
 tention. PromptnesS is vital because the development of atomic energy iS now virtually at standstill, The scientists are leaving their work, either because Of uncertainty about
 their status or because of unwilling
 ness to work under military direc- ton The creation of the new coiii-
 mission as now proposed might recall them to lanors which would pave the way for the new age Of alchemy.
 A last-minute hitch occurred when the so-called Vandenberg a. mendment was tackled onto the Dill, The amendment, which was agreed to by 10 out of the il members Of the McMahon Committee, would have set up a military Jason board in addition to the civilian controlled commission. Evidently the commit teemen except for Senator McMahon thought the amendment was harm less enough. Senator McMahon took strenuous objection to 1t, and his lot as chairman Of the committee was, in consequence, unenviable. He was attacked as Q stubborn obstruction ist. The fact IS that he had the root of the matter in him. 1n our view McMahon Is that rare bird in Wash ington--a man who relates current measures to our basic institutions. This was obvious when the scientists and the eXerts in administrative management took up his protest The scientists pointed out that under the amendment they would be tied to military leading strings, and in- weighed against 1t as @ device which would not deliver the goods and which violated the American tra- dition. The administrators charged that the amendment would be un. workable. To this joint case The Post subscribed. We felt that the amendment in it's original form would have been tantamount to a dual control of atomic energy, with the military element in the role of obstructionists, so that the civilian commission would have been con- demned to work in a monkey house
 Either the reasoning or the pro- tests were sufficient to persuade the committee to change the phraseo- logy so as to take account of the objections. In the revised version of the Vandenburg amendment the military liaison board is to be a. pointed by the Secretaries of War and the Navy, not by the President
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

. urged py U.N.RFtA officials and also by some experts in the Army and Navy. How ever the plan has run up against several snags, chiefly that of U. S. meat packers.
 The big packers don't want the American public to get the idea that horse meat is processed in their plants They fear that the suspicion would finger in the consumers mind even after the emergency that horse meat might be mixed with beef and pork To get around this the Agriculture Department has been buying small amounts of horse meat from smaller meat packers, many of them State-lcensed. However, Harry Reed who does most of the meat procurement for U.NRRA. in the Department of Agriculture, leans toward the big meat packers and they never have wanted small state packers to get into the interstate business.
 Another source of opposition is expected to come from the many horse lovers throughout the country who probably would claim that the United States was being de-nuded of horses.
 Officials point out, however, that several hum dred horses are slaughtered weekly all over the United States to feed the of the nation Further more, the United States today has larger surplus of horses than ever before in history. Agriculture Department estimates are that S.o00,O0o surplus horses are now on the ranges and farms of the country. The grain which they alone consume would go a long way toward feeding Europe,
 officials estimate that these 300000O surplus horses would supply total of two and half billion pounds of meat also give fats for soap, together with hides to ease the scarcity of leather,
 NOTE-Whe prices of almost everything tended upward during the war the price of horses did not Government buyers purchasing draft animals for ONtINA FePoFV dlaI tI4e CouHViy laS ulouSaHuS ol four to siX-year-old horses which have never been harnessed. Farmers haven't had time to'break them h. would like to sell them if prices were right.
 
 Twelve years ago. famous Filipino General Emilio Agunaldo sent President Roosevelt nine and ore- haf-foot carved table of Philippine hardwood de- signed to serve as 6 Cabinet table. It was so large however that 1t couldn't get through the doors of the Cabinet room and has remained in the main executive office lobby ever since
 The table Is beautiful piece of workmanship with four large carved buffalo heads originally at- tached to the four legs For many years these buffa. 10 heads were admired by all White House visitors even though someone occasionally bumped their knees against them,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
MACKEREL
(Boston Post

The report that the first mack erel catch is the biggest for an opening season In the last six years is cheerful note. Nine Gloucester vessels raced into Cape May, N. J.. with the record haul of more than half million pounds. From now on, as regular catches are landed fresh mackerel will be another item for the dinner table. With a short age of some varieties of fresh fish, the housewife will welcome the news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

over the proposed new federal health bill, and the Ohio Sena- tor stalks angrily from the room.
 A young lady puts a sentence into an article in the Democratic Digest. publication of the women's division Of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, and many Southern Democrats are so out ragged that they hold 6 protest meeting and demand that Demo- cratic National Chairman Bob IHannegan take 1t all back publicly and fire the author.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

the Gridiron Club was holding 8 rehearsal for its next show. But this couldn't be any more satirical than the acts put on by the Re- publicans and retailers.
 It wasn't a conspiracy, but both the Republicans and the re- tailers came to the same conclu- sion on OPA. That's right. They were both against 1t. The retailers were little more broadminded, however. Because they invited Chester Bowles to come in and give his side of the story before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

"Erratum: The editors of the SRL and not MT Roger Butterflelo were responsible for the erroneous characterization of Louise Dickin- son Rich, author of We Took tc the Woods as the late In Mi Butterheld's article, What Pocket Feed On tissue of March 9, page 8. AS Mark Twain Prom the Saturday Of Literature.
 GREAT APPROPRIATIONS An error in the daily press
 Is more or less foregone,
 guess,
 And in a magazine, as well,
 That's printed weekly (sRL) The monthly, quarterly review And annual are steeped in rue When proof, beyond the proof
 rooms word,
 Shows someone should be dis-
 inferred.
 But every editor is red
 About the prematurely dead
 Who are vociferously quick
 When Hated" in a pulp or slick However, laymen, spare your
 Scoln;
 To fallibility we're born,
 And march, in error, to our
 doomS.
 I've seen the names misspelled
 on tombs
 A Boston paper recently head lined it's story of Douglas COrrigan'' candidacy for nomination to thu United States Senate thus " 'WrOgn Way to Run for Senate. And anyone may draw his own con- cIuSi0n at the final sentence In thu story: "He filed on the Prohibition ticket"
 The new chairman Of the Repub- lican National Committee IS Southerner, Representative Carol Reece of Tennessee. Will the bane do what 1t can to rise above thC clamor from the Solid South ant play Yankee Doodle DiXie?"
 Black Market operations in butter are increasing steadily, according t( Agriculture Department reports Those vicious operators bette watch out; their addresses arr known - apparently to every on' except us.
 Washington soon will name a neV United States ambassador to Ar gentina. There's no use crying ovei spilled milk just because we lost th' election down there.
 It is said that the total average yearly supply of matches in thi country is five hundred billion That must be nearly as large as th' number of lighters in the prOu' possession of our citizens.
 Mickey Owen, star catcher of th' Dodgers, has jumped to the up-and coming Mexican League. Dem says Brooklyn, "Nonbums!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

and certain countries, especially France and Belgium, have re-. peatedly informed the United States that they would like to buy more horse meat here. If two and Q half billion pounds of horse meat could be sold to Europe-which is the amount available In the U.S.A.-it would take care of most of Europe's feeding problems and eliminate any need for U.S.A. rationing.
 Such Q program has been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
Waterbury or the Past
25 Y ears Ago

Fifty men were employed by the city to dig a ditch at the isolation hospital on Watertown Avenue in the start of a Help The Unem- ployed' drive.
 The Apothecaries Hall Company held a one-cent sale,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
6 Years Ago

Ruth McGinnlS, womenS world ehamplon billiards player, appeared here in a match with . local youth Bobby Whitaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
|Merry-Go-ROun

WASHINGTON, April o--An important debate the Administration regarding the use of horse meat for feeding Europe
 Horse meat is Q type of food which Americans know little about Within Europe 1t is standard diet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
Capital Dog Days

begins to look like dog days around Washing tOn except they are human beings, in the political
 Senator Murray (D. Mont) and Senator Taft (Rn Ohiol snarl at each other In Q committee room
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
15 Years Ago

Miss Harriet Peasley oi Cheshire was visiting in Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
COP. Crossroads

WASHINGTON, April 6-The Republican Na- tional Committee and the American Retail Fedora ton held meetings in adjoining rooms at Washing toras Hotel Statler Monday In a third smaller room,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
A Thought For Today

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

Win Rogers appeared on the Fox Poli Palace Theater's bill in "rhe Connecticut Yankee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06

Today was Easter sunday