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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
The Simple Issue

The seeds of another worldwide armament race among the great powers being planted nowess than year after the end of the most destructive war III history.
 All of the major nations are carrying on extensVe eA periments with bigger and better tools ot slaugnter Potless airpanes-rockets which improvement OH the horribly destructive German V2 ypeguns when re streams of molten lead instead of buetselecrlcay guo ed bombs of nmagnabe forcethese but few of the hdeous weapons the laboratories or the proving grounds. ,d
 Topping them al of course, is the atom bomb Accord ing to authorities the bombs far exploded have deveoeo only microscopic percentage of ther potential force Compared the bombs of tomorrow they are like
 frecracker beside stick of TNT And no scientist pe eves that atomic bomb construction and development can long remain the secret of country No nation mas monopoly on scientific knowledge and intelligence ,
 Here the greatest of all arguments for international understandings international tolerance fair international give and take the interest of permanent peace So long as mistrust runs rampant through the world all the great powers will seek and more terrible weapons Ana every arms in history has ended in war ~
 The issue is simple will have lie or we Will have death will build better world we will destroy it utterly We will have peace between nations or we Will have no nations all Today all mankind faces the great est problem it has ever known
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
b Thon1as Stokes


 For Is months there has been in the Justice De- partnient stack of affidayits submitted by Ken Jennings CS Tenn.) showing violations of the rights of voters by the Biggs machine The three counties Jennings district, but were gerrymandered out at the instance of the east Tennessee boss.
 Early this Spring the Tennessee Republican Con- gressman followed his repeated demands for action by personal conference with Attorney General Tennessee election Rep. Jennings warned in a House speech that the Riggs machine would attempt to repeI by armed force any by veterans to watch the ballot count, which was just what happened.
 The Justice Department demonstrated that it can ferret out and punish violations of civil rights of voters when 1t got convictions, in January l943 of three men involved in east Tennessee election frauds though It took two years and the three men were let OH With fins of one cent each That was in the Roosevelt Administration under Attorney General Riddle.
 It was hailed at the time as the beginning of reform Tn east Tennessee. But it wasn't The Justice Department was kept advised by Rep. Jennings of the continuing violations of law There seems no ex- cuse for the failure to act.
 The storm broke in the recent election as fore- cast and It is not the best thing for preservation of our democratic principles that became pitched bat- ue Nor is what happened in Memphis on election day. as previously described here, conformity with our democracy either
 Evidence of violations of the civil rights of voters should not be hard to find in both cases.
 Isn't it about time somebody did something about these evils in our democracy right here at home?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
POtSdam to Peace-End

WASHINGTON, Aug. .12-(NEA)-The peace conferences now being held in Paris to write treaties with Italy Finland Hungary, Rumania, and Bul- garia were three months late in getting started.
 Last December the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia met in Moscow and decided that these first peace confer enceS should begin not later than May l. But when the deputy foreign ministers and their technical experts met in London in January, they found their task so complicated that they could not meet the deadline.
 It took two other meetings of the Foreign Min isters Council Paris in April and June to break the worst bottlenecks and get the conferences under way
 Even so, the drafts of the five peace treaties being considered are far from finished documents 21 nations that waged against the Axis. Repre- sentaives of the five eXAxis partners also pres ent.
 All 26 of the delegations may make their recom- mendauons for changes. Then these recommenda- tlons Will be given to the Council of Foreign Min isters This Council will draw up the final drafts of the treaties
 This may seem like roundabout procedure, but it's real purpose is to speed up the making of peace At Versailles in 1919 representatives of the Allied powers met without any previous agreement among the Big Four They immediately got into hopeless snarls that made the conference drag on for months
 Today with most though not all of the snarls combed out the Council of Foreign Ministers hopes to complete work these first five treaties within two months It IS hoped that the treaties Will be ready for signing before the United Nations Assembly venes on Sept. B.
 When the peace treaties are signed, the five Axis satellites with which they deal may be non- mated for membership in the United Nations
 But after that will come the real struggle
 Before the last meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers came to an end at Paris in mid July, it was agreed that there should be another meeting of the Council, in Germany, to consider again the making of peace with Germany and Austria If pos sible that meeting will be called before the end of 1946
 Past meetings of the Foreign Ministers Council may have given the impression that Russia and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
Heads and Tails

The executive board of CO has asked the President of the United States to call conference o labor and indus try leaders consider immediate increases That same thing pulled off several months The result was aop Phil Murray still cries out loud for wage increases offset advanced living costs Of course the workers suffered enough serious losses of income as result of strikes But these workers getting top wages while the employers throughout the country not getting comparable increases in prices for their products The plants do receive enough materials to keep the ac tories running full time
 Now all those dckerings prior to the upsets that over took automobile coal steel and railroad organizations didn't help the national economy There plenty of of cia and unofficial conferences of labor and industry rep resentatives. They failures.
 Just because there is continued confusion in the ernment is no multiply the number of different chemesor to apologize for prices while the OPA plays the game of heads win and tails you lose Ii the illogical requests of Labor Leader Murray approved by President Truman the whole economic system of the country will be damaged Then why should the CIO try to make the go ing tougher? this country needs to get back to normal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
Political Confusion

WASHINGTON-In confusing political year devoid thus far of startling issues, Republicans have found a readymade old that might become potent with proper handling unless the Truman Ad- minstration acts to meet it.
 That is the control of elections by political bosses obstructng free exercise of the ballot
 It has been dramatized anew by what happened in Tennessee-boJh at Memphis, where Boss Ed H. Crumps machine performed again this year in it's usual brusque fashion, and at Athens, across the state, where veterans staged armed revolt against the corrupt Burch Riggs machine.
 The Crump and Riggs machines are allied in Ten nessee politics and government so it's the same show
 Nor has it helped the Democratic Party or the Truman Administration to have the revived Fender gast machine in Missouri pubicized at this time as man in the defeat of Rep. Slaughter.
 The machine issue is being exploited to becloud what was a distinct triumph for the President on member of his own party who tried to block from his powerful Rules Committee perch measures that affect the welfare of the whole country It was battle for progresSViSm and party responsibility with in the Democratic Party.
 MT Truman's sponsorship in his early career by the old Pendergast machine constantly pointed out by Republicans Because of that, it had been sur missed that the Administration might seize the oppor- unlty to counteract this issue by acting vigorously in the fragrant violations of civil rights Tennessee This seemed not only matter of good politics. but also of good government involving as it does cher lshed American rights.
 The record thus far is none too good Especially since Attorney General Tom Clark was amply warned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
bv DrezQ, Pearson

ican Commander here, for not letting the Russians outbluff him. President Renner is an old-fasioned Socialist, beard and al the type which the Con- munists have been pumping off in Bulgaria and Germany. Probably they would have got rid of him also if General Clark wasn't even tougher than the Russians
 General Clark, incidentally, has been doing a fine job and it's too bad all that Texas furore over the Rapido River battling should have been raised. It makes the Russians think he doesn't have the sup port of his Government.
 am back at my typewriter in the Bristol HoteI- the same hotel where stayed B years ago and am looking out at the crowded streetcars, the bombed roofs and the unhappy people. I have been thinking about war.
 Twice in my lifetime Austria has been defeated in war-bitterly defeated. Why Is it, then that they come back for more? don't suppose if you asked one of the wretches in the street below, he would admit that Austria ever would go to again. Yet somehow or other war starts.
 am sure the great majority of the Austrian people had no desire to go to war with Serbia when their archduke shot at Sarajevo in 1914. But the Hapsburgs decreed war and waged-four long and terrible of it. leaving Austria in bitter misery.
 am sure also that very few of the Austrian people could have said anything which would have deterred Hitler when he dragged them into their ond war, this one even more terrible than the first They helpless Sitting here looking out at this forlorn city can't help but wonder how long this endless circle of war will continue The only answer l can think of Is that when the people who do the fighting and the dying able to make the decision regarding war, then there will be no more war. As long as there Hitlers or Hapsburgs or Czars or little groups of men who order people into battle regardless of their wishes, then just that long there will be
 
 Last year had hoped that the day had come when dictators ceased to have fe-and- death power over nations. But now we see two three men sit ting in Moscow Who almost with a of the hand can take the Russian people into I sure the Russian soldier walking the streets of Vienna has absolutely no desire for But some day he may find himself shooting at his former allies, simply because he does not control the decision of his lead CTS.
 That is why I have been discouraged about the Paris Peace Conference where the diplomats don't seem to realize that improving the lot of fellow men rather than od-fashoned diplomacy is the only road to peace
 Please forgive this reniniScng. I got to thinking about these things as I sat here looking out the window at the dispirted people and the apartment house across the street One end is blown away but families living in the rest of it. There are potted plants in some of the windows however and where there are flowers there is always hope.
 Please take of my favorite son-in-law
 Love
 YOUR FATHER.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
My dear daughter:
VIENNA.

am in the old and once-beautiful city of Vienna, and being here makes me feel old myself-and rem- iniscent This the gayest and most frivolous capital in the world Your grandfather Count Gizyck lived here for time and when he died he requested in his will that he be buried in his red hunting jacket That perhaps symbolic of those carefree. never-to- forgotten days of the Hapsburgs when
 very privileged few rode to hounds, danced in great castles along the Danube and enjoyed life at the expense of the unprivleged thousands
 Vienna holds many memories for me. first here in 1920, shortly after the last war, when the city was being footed by the Italians but was still relatively gay. The Viennese seemed able smile the cafes were crowded, the opera was in full swing and I had marvellous time even fell in love with American lady whose name cannot remember. That really shows am getting old.
 Then came back in 1923, when I was young newspaperman and you had not entered my life. Vienna was still hungry but still fairly gay and I remember sitting in cafe, listening to forty-pece orchestra play Yes, have no bananas" That song dates the trip
 then interviewing Europes twelve greatest men. Personally didn't think that of them were so great-Such as Mussolini-but it was an assignment and my editors thought differently Any way, in Vienna interviewed President Hainisch and Chancellor Seipel the latter being very busy and not al all anxious to President Hainseh was gracious but remembered getting lost in the of corridors leading to his office and being out of breath and afraid that would be terribly late That was 23 years ago. Since then another has inter vened another defeat for Austria, another postwar period when her people must begin to rebuild the ruins of their shattered lives Today Vienna is like once beautiful woman, broken tired pathetic, un- abashedly peddling her virtue in the street.
 The once magnificent opera house where 20 years ago, heard Jeritza sing, is nowja shambles Its walls still stand but bombs have ruined it's interior The once gay boulevards are heaped with rubbe and the people who move along them walk if they didn't really care whether they reached their destinations.
 Today called the President of Austria and the Chancellor. The old President and Chancellor whom interviewed in 1923 dead. New men have taken their places-new men facing the prob lems.
 Today, instead of cooling my heels to see them, they waited to see me l was late. There had been misunderstanding about the time of my appoint mentS but they waited for They pathetically glad to talk to someone who would listen to the plight of Austria.
 Chancellor Figl is tough little peasant, de- termned to get the Russians out of his country and he pays great tribute to Gen Mark Clark the Amer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
by Peter Eds0n

western powers hopelessly deadocked on future policies for Germany and Austria.
 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes proposed a 25-year treaty for administration of Germany The Russians turned it down
 Secretary Byrnes proposed the immediate eco- homie ulificaton of the American, British French and Russian zones of occupation in Germany. The Russians weren't having any of that, either.
 There is, however, optimistic angle to this lack Of Russian cooperation. Foreign Comnlissar Molotoy did not close the door forever on these American proposals He did not declare these were proposals to set up block against Russia. This was fl very good sign
 Molotov agreed that Germany must be disarmed permanently. He agreed that Germany must be made into single, democratic state with it's own agricul- ture, industry, and foreign commerce
 Where MolotOv dissented was in insisting that treaty of peace should be drawn up with Germany until centralized and democratic German govern ment of proved dependability functioning His point was that it would take several years develop this trllStWorthineSS.
 There is an explanation for this Soviet point of view in what has happened since the end of the war III Italy, Austria, and Hungary. In these countries Russia has found that it cannot communize the people as last as its leaders might have hoped.
 That is also true, to lesser degree, of France Ii there were free elections in Poland it might be true even there. It is not in Bulgaria and Ru- mania, where the Soviet is sitting on the lid.
 It is not true in the Soviet zone in eastern Ger many, where occupation authorities have forced a union of the Social Democratic and Communist par ties But if the Red Army pulled out of this now, this political union would not stick.
 Russia knows now that com.nunizing Europe IS no short-term job.
 Russia will have to occupy eastern Europe for more than a generation if it is to communize the people there. Maybe that's why the Soviet govern ment is resisting the 25-year disarmament treaty and efforts to make peace with Germany in the near future.
 From the American point of view there is hope in this situation. There is reason to believe that Russia will be forced to along on the American proposals by the realities of the situation That IS what American authorities are working f~A at any rate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

So long as men remain human there will always be the possibility that someone, somewhere, may at some time develop an ambition to conquer us. The best that we can hope for at this time is a form of international control which will make it difficult for any nation to wage atomic warfare, and will make it impossible to launch a surprise atomic attack.
 Sen. Brien McMahon CD of
 Connecticut, chairma Sepate
 Atomic EnGRy Committee,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

one WOud thI1lK, long together in brotherhood close and so powerful that the dominating thought of each would be the welfare of the other And yet, this is far from the case Within the individual family itself, haTassed by sickness and slowly being depleted by death there often dsagreements and bckerings that make
 life in the home completely devoid of the peace that ought to be there, if anywhere Within nations, the story the And this national discord is trace able to personal motives, which begin by deranging the home, and spread out, like sour green tide to
 nundate the adjacent lands And artificial borders are no breakwaters for the slow and terrible move ment of the waters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
Catholic Thought and Opinion
Moral Force By REV. JAMES J. SULLIVAN

Probably the history manwhether it history persistence
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12
Merry G0-R0und

(NOTE: Drew Pearson's column today takes the form of letter written from war-t0rn Austria to his daughter in the United States)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

Chancellor Figl is tough little peasant, de- ermlned to get the Russians out of his country and e pays great tribute to Gen. Mark Clark the Amer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

A university is log with pro lessor on one side, student on the other, and a smoothly working saw flowing industriously back and forth between them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

There are far more alumni of the well-wOrn School of Experience than of any other institution, how ever. And we rather like their de- finitiOn of university:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

Today instead of cooling my heels to see them they waited to see me. I late. There had been a misunderstanding about the time of my appoint ments but they waited for They pathetically glad to talk to someone who would listen to the plight of Austria
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

Today called on the President of Austria and the Chancellor. The old President and Chancellor whom l interviewed in 1923 dead. New men have
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-12

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-(NEA)-T The peace conferences now being held in Paris to write treaties with Italy, Finland, Hungary, Rumana, and Bul-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-15

tako ma cestO ne morem; in &c
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vsoto "a popravilo, predno DO
spet primerno "a stanovanje, in
potem Sc morda VISA ia komedi-
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mi janet, da ko drugic pridem
spet okrog, da DO sploh Sc hisa
tam, ola ne DO Sla "a hlevom?
"Daj sem denar! HiSa je tvoja
in lastninsko pravico dobiS ko
Sc oglasiS pri meni." Sci sem
Z MIN V stanovanje in odstel
mi je sto dolarjev.
Kar oddahnil sem Sc kot re
dolgo ne Zdaj je konec jeze in
Seasonal bonn pozabil ma vse te
neprijetne izkuSnje z vlogo his
mega posestnika.
Zanimalo me je kako je novi
lastnik izpraznil hiso. Oh prvi
priliki, ko sva prisla skupaj, sem
ga vprasal koliko sitnosti je incl
S temi ljudmi predno SO Sc IL
selili.
Stvar je sla cisto enostavno,
mi je rekel. Natancno tako kot
je bodeci jez sprawl zvito lisico
il meme luknje. Najprvo so mi
morali izprazniti dive sobi ka-
NOR sem Sc naselil, in potem je
Slo lahkO. Pc enomeseCnem 81
kaniranju, prepiru, kregu in tu-
di pretepu, sem jih sprawl ven.
S hiSo sem tudi prav zadovoljen,
posebno Sc &c upostevam kr-
Scansko ceno "a katero sem 10
dobil -.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-15
RAZPIS SLUZBE
UPRAVNIKA PROLETARCA

Ker je Chas. PogOrelec ne seji
odborov JSZ dine 10. aprila po-
novno izjavil, da resignira kot
upravnik nash publikacij in kOt
tajnik JSZ, (delal DO Sc do 1.
junija), Sc S tenn razpisuje slu-
zbo "a to mestO.
Potrebno je Mi znanje obeh
jezikov, knjigovodstva in v agi-
taciji.
Prijave mai Sc poSiIja pred
sedniku eksekutive JoSkOtu Ov-
nu bodisi ma njegOv n~aslov, ali
pa ma naslov PrOletarca. Kdor
zeli k temu vec pOjasnil, maj Sc
obrne ma podpisanega.
JOSKO OVEN,
predscdnik upravnega odbOra
PrOletarca
Clarendon Hills, Ill.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-15
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dobila Srbija, oziroma Jugosla-
via. George je sci v Beograd in
vprasal tam socialiste, cemu kaj
he store, da Sc hi temu zaosta-
lemu ljudstvu pomagalo IL igno-
rance in %revScine. Pa so rekli,
da Sc ne more mic ukreniti "a
ME, ker Sc vlada ne briga. Sedaj
Sc vlada briga, kar starokopitne-
zem V gorah Bosne in Hercego-
vine ter drugod nj vSec, a posle-
dice bodo dobre "a milne otro-
Ike.
Associated Press poroca il
Beograda I'll. maja) O MiloSu
Mikovu, XII je pregledaval oble-
ko, poslana IL New Yorka po-
trebnim V pomoc. Ko je pregle-
doval kozuh, je zatipal pri ov-
ratniku nekaj trdega. Odstrigel
je podlago in dobil pod MO $500
in hranilno knjizico. V zepu ko-
zuha pa je bill naslov poSiljalke
IL New Yorka. Ko je kozuh Cd
dala, je nedvomno pozabila ma
skriti denar, MiloS je poskrbel,
da ga je dobila nazaj in bancno
knjizico.
V Milanu SO Sc %italijanski
mornarji lotili angleSkih godbe-
nikov ravno ko so hotel priceti
S koncertom V parku. Strgali so
z droga angleSko zastavo in po-
tegnili italijansko mani. Sploh
p~ostajajo Italijani cezdalje boil
nemirni. Pred par tedni so bill
IL Rustic poslani italijanski vol
nj ujetniki. Prvo, kar so storili,
ko SO priSli domov V Italijo, je
bilo, da so poiskali urade socia-
listicnih in komunisticnih casni-
kov in jih napadli. Enega komu-
niSticnega so cisto razbili. Do
kaz, da Sc Jim V ujetnistvu pod
boljseviki nj godilo tako dobro
kot Sc jim pod Anglezi in v
Ameriki, Posebno italijanski
jetniki v Zed. orzavah bi mai
raise tn zmerom ostali. Seveda
ne V ujetnistvu, ampak tako
svobodno kot Sc gibljejo itali-
janski priseljenci.
V Georgia. obnavljajo Ku
Klux Khan z velikimi ceremoni-
jami. Zamorci ter drugi "neza-
zeljeni" ljudje SO V skrbeh. Be
pac vzelo Sc casa, predno bodo
stir svobodScine kaj vec kot lie
lepe besede ma papiriu.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-05-15

potoma umrli in tako je bila ia
ka zalostna procesija bolj po-
greb kakor reSitev. A vecinoma
so vzdrzali, doziveli osvobodi-
tev in NADIA Kraigherjeva je
prepricana, da V Stirih letih Sc
DO. federativna jugoslovanska
republika povsem prenovila in
Sc il ne DO treba vec ~zanasati ma
pomoc cd zunaj. A sedaj pa il je
relif Sc nujno potreben.
Izcrpek tega njenega govora
je objavil minuli pondeljek tudi
dnevnik Chicago Sum-.
V sklad "a otroSko bolnico je
bio prispevanega, kot re ONE
memo, okrog diva tisoc dolarjev.