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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
Quo VadiS, DemmieS? 1y TAomas Stokes

WASHINGTON-The yippng chorus of glee from Southern Democrats and Republicans that greeted the custer of Henry Wallace from the Truman Cab inet tells accurately what has happened to the dynamic party of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 For long tirne even before MT. Roosevelt passed on the conservatives had the whip hand in Congress through the coalition of Southern Demo- crats and Republicans that blocked his domestic program in his later years. The coalition continued to operate more effectively when Harry Truman espoused the Roosevelt program.
 Circumstances have eliminated all vestiges of effective New Deal influence in the top bowers of power around the President. The purging process has been going on long time Henry Walace's departure puts period to the shaking out, and also to an era
 The party is sliding back to the state of courte- ous and comfortable conservatism far it's ruling elements go to which it has returned often after among the plain people. Back to the state where it can still make noises but not win elections. Back to the state where it plays its tweedledee to the Repub lican tweedledum as MT. Roosevelt put it so aptly.
 AS any student of politics knows the Democratic party does not win elections as the party of con- servatism If the country wants conservatism it goes Republican to be certain about 1t.
 It is possible to suggest analysis of what is going on in the country without first-hand inquiry which this writer is planning to make soon on a tour of the country.
 The public mind is confused and naturally after great war The problems of peace are many People are tired of government restrictions They can't buy what they want, and the price of what they can get is often beyond all They look to Washington for solutions only to find foundering admnistra- tion unable to give positive All this disturbs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
A Thought for Today
Honoring the Veterans

For once we find ourselves pretty much in agreement with the publisher of The Waterbury Republican in his ad- vice to the Veterans Day Committee that they drop the effort to raise provide elaborate celebration honorng the citys veterans.
 From the inception of the plan there has been divided opinon as to it's wisdom Veterans organizations are aligned on both sides of the question: and the czeny of the com munity also differ to the desirabilty of such pan Without united community behind the effort it is fore doomed to failure in any event.
 The wishes of the veterans themselves should be the governing factor influencing any decision in such matters Attempts to honor reluctant dsnerested guest seem somewhat futile in the present instance the veterans attitude is one of rather general apathy.
 They resent and rightfuly any attempt to exploit their achievements On the other hand, they insist on acknowledgment the communt and the countrys debt to them Surely the effort enthusiasm and money spent in some practical way will afford them more realistic proof appreciation of the real contribution they made the countys in time of dire need
 The spending of millions for their housing their education and their welfare easily used $250OO for party IS considerably less easy to become enthused about
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
Theatrical Forecast

We aren't familiar with the Russian theater, but we feel safe in predicting that Russian paygoers in for dreary For the top propaganda command riding herd again the paywrghs and producers These ropa gands though politicians and not artists not only criticize plays books music painting etc., but lay down rules for the production of those artistic commodities
 Their latest order paywrights of being apolt ca of condonng emphasizing bourgeois standards and of nsuffcienty gorifyng Soviet aims accomplishments and culture also takes the producers to task for pre- senng unworthy dramatic fare This last Is little sur prising. For the group of English and American plays singled for special condemnation includes two compara lively and familiar works which could scarcely be said to glorify capitalism.
 One of them, Somerset Maugham's 'The Circle" is a bitter and brilliant Announcement of the wealthy de snob bish superficial branch of Engands upper classes And Marx himself could hardly have been contemptuous o the mddlecass e philosophy and virtues of capitasc society than the principal character of the other George Kaufman and Moss Harts "The Man Who Came to Dmner
 But be that as it may Messrs. Maugham Kaufman and Hart plus any Russian admirers and mtators, have now joined the lustrious and growing group in the Soviet doghouse The government censorship that put them there is invoked in the of education. But it clearly stems from fear of competition and truth Thus anything that pictures capitastc life for the Russians anything peasaner than hell earth is the object of official scrutiny and action.
 This makes it tough the Russian playwright The rules which govern his creative action and so political that he scarcely know what oends until he gets the official word his completed product natural con- sequence of such restriction is stiffness seconscousness and fear which in turn produce bad writing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25

them and leads them to look elsewhere for leadership
 This Is natural and primary advantage to the Republicans. For campaign purposes Republicans have dug up old boggey that always seems 10 terrify that is except in depression years That IS Communism" It's good whipping boy, particularly now when many people have more than they ever had before Republicans tie it up with the adm1nls- tration helped along by the presence of Communists in liberal organizations, in few labor unions, and by Russia's tactics in Europe.
 The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is m
 state of shelIshock all this and seems to lack lost its leader and it has lost its last direct contact with the administration
 There is talk of third party, but the liberal groups seem too dsorganized for any such effort. Furthermore practical regard such a solution as a will O. the Wisp They know what Wendell L. Willke discovered when he contemplating bolt That is that leaders of both major parties In the states have been most careful to revise election statutes to it difficult for third party since and the LaFollette Independent movement in 1924
 The danger out of the present confusion is that old guard Republicans will hear from It call to them and act accordingly. That is certainly delu- son The times demand continued progressv1sm, and that the people still want to move forward Is eW- denced by the way many of them, in the pols still cling to all they get-which is the mik-and- water highly diluted progressvism to which the Tru- man administration gives lip service
 This s rather an opportunity for solid, continu- ing progresSvism. Some Republican leaders sense that There is historical precedent for such leader ship in Teddy Roosevelt It will be too bad if Re- pubcans don't recognize their responsibility along with their opportunity They have & splendid chance if they will take it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
Robinson Should Be Ousted

All of Waterbury will applaud the efforts of the local delegates the Cleveland Convention of the CO. Mne Mill and Shelter Workers Union rid their organization of Communist influence The public is all too ready to cast gratuitous aspersons fanced utilization between Com munism and the CO aspersons which actual facts rarely substantiate.
 In advocating definite stand against Communism within their national organization state council Secretary John Drisco executive board member John Mankowsl are striking blow to restore public confidence in the real obectives of their organization nationally well as locally President Reid Robinson the other hand has persistent ly resisted efforts put the MMSWU record op- posing the nftraon of travellers into the fibre ot his organizations being
 Opposition the Scov Union and the Watch Work CTS group from U. S. Time has prevented united front being raised by Waterbury delegates to counter President Robnsons policies. We feel however, that reluctance on the part these groups ous Robinson stems less from disagreement the Communism issue than from desire not to disrupt the unions organization.
 Messrs Drisco and Mankowsk to be following the preferable cause for should Robinson be beaten the coming election the M.MSWU. will have served unmstak- able notice the public that for 100 American ism within it's ranks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
LAST VISIT TO HARTFORD
Springfield Daily News

A sea-going LIST 512 bearing a jungle warfare exhibit has aroused lively interest in the city of Hart ford, Conn, where it has been tied up at a Connecticut river berth. The ship came upstream a few days ago without serious misadven- ture, although its radio antenna was damaged somewhat, in passing beneath two bridges on the voyage north.
 Appearance of this ship at Hart ford demonstrates rather graphical ly the advantages that city enjoys from the fact that the Connecticut is naWgable for certain types Of ocean commerce to a point within it's borders. Oil, coal and many other products reach Hartford by cheap water borne transportation flor redistribution throughout many parts of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts.
 With proper salesmanship and united action by Massachusetts, the | federal government can be induced to make the Connecticut river nav | igable to Springfield and perhaps to Holyoke. At the present time a commission created through action by the Legislature is examining all factors pertinent to making the Connecticut navigable from Hart ford north to this region. The ex- istence of this commission and it's ultimate findings should prove help ful to a cause vital to this section. More than that will be needed, however. Both the governor and the Legislature must get behind 1 Connecticut river navigation mlll- tantly. And the congressman from the 2d district, whoever, he may be must plug constantly to bring sea- borne commerce to Springfield Representative Charles R. Clasor during his years in Congress has not made much headWay in the sporadic attempts that have been made to focus attention on the de- sirability of making Springfield the terminus of an inland waterway direct from Long Island Sound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
Million Dollar Profits
by Peter EdSOn

average profit of $89O00 In the Kaiser-Vancouver yard which built only two Liberty ships, however, the cost per $2665 900 and the average profit was $110OOO the highest on record
 On the other hand St. Johns shipyard in Florida operating six ways built 82 Liberty ships in an aver age of 88 days, twice long it took Perma- nente And though the average cost $2,10O,000, the average profit only $23,0O0 per ship-about fourth of that at Permanente '
 This comparison poses the question of what the government wanted for it's money-speed, low cost and high profit slower work, higher cost and lower profit
 Between these extremes are the records Of the other shipbuilders
 What constitutes fair costs and fair profits, con- sdering the demand for speed will be extremely diff cult for the Bland committee or anyone else to ap- praise All yards were of course built by the govern ment Shpbuiders put up little capital of their own. and reaped high profits small investments oper- atng mainly on cost -plus-fixed-fee contracts 70 If the intent of Congress was to take the profit out of war; this result may not show in these records of the Liberty -shipbuilding program:
 Alabama-2o ships, $1,2ooOoO profit. Bethlehem Fairfeld384 ships, $29OO0OO0 profit. California-3o6 ships $21 100000 profit. Delta132 ships, $50OO000 profit Jones-151 ships $5 100000 profit Marinship- 15 ships, $90O00O profit New Eangland-236 ships, $10000000 profit North Carolina-126 ships, $l0OOO 900 profit Orego-330 ships $27 10000 profit South eastern-8S ships, $2,6Oo0oo profit Todd Houston POS ships, $10,OO000o profit Kaiser Walsh-1o ships, $340000 profit.
 It must be borne in mind that these profit fig ures before taxes and before renegotaton Taxes took roughly SIP out of every $10O profit Renegotia tion, not yet completed may take some more. "
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 So when final accounting is made it may be shown that the shipbulders didn't make such tremendous Killing after all. And if ships carried the men and materials that the war; the cost may be made to appear even more reasonable
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
Views of the Press

of the office. If proper regard is shown for Civil Service require ments, that alone should be suf- ficient to insure MT. Dillon's eleva- tion. He has earned the promotion by every accepted standard of pub lie service, and there is no justifi- able excuse for the long delay that has attended the filling of the va cancy.
 But despite what a decent con- ception of the Civil Service dictates, this postmastership appears to have become involved in Democratic politics to the evident embarrass- ment of Congressman Kopplemann an embarrassment that certainly was not relieved by his having backed the unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination of his party. MT. Dillon should not be made the innocent victim of inter- necine strife among the Democratic politicians, nor should the public itself be victimized in this unseen ly fashion.
 If the matter could be left to a vote of Hartford citizens, who can doubt that MT. Dillon would be their choice for postmaster? He i; well and favorably known to them In all his relations with the pub lie he has striven to be courteous and accommodating, and no en- ployee of the department car truthfully say that he has been 1T any way a martinet while seeking to maintain discipline and efficien- cy. It would be little short of dis graceful if he should now be de prived of the office through tht machinations of partisan politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25

WASHINGTON Sept. 2S-ThOugh 1t never flared openly, there was near brush between Secretary of Commerce Wallace and Secretary of State Byrnes last year.
 Wallace was speaking at a small dinner given by the national committee to abolish the poll tax. He has always felt vigorously about the poll tax and believed the United States should do better job of spreading democracy at home before 1t breaches too much about democracy abroad.
 At the time of the poll-tax dinner, publisher Marx Ethrdge of the Louisville Courer-Journal was ill the Balkans investigating the extent to which Rus sia permitted democracy there. Prompted by this and by the discussion over the poll tax Wallace spoke out bitterly.
 Jimmie Byrnes," SC said, would do a whole lot better if he wants to make report on democracy if he called Mark Ethridge back from the Balkans and sent him to South Carolina"
 The remark never got into the newspapers, but it did spread sub-rosa around Washington until finally it reached the Presidents ears. Truman was so worried that he called Wallace and asked him to make every effort to keep his remark from being circulated.
 Wallace said he would do his best and carried out his promise On one occasion he even granted spe- cial interview to New York Herald Tribune report another subject condition the reporter would not quote his crack about ByrneS.
 Lighter side of the Wallace Truman -Byrnes feud a special Texas conference called by Solicitor Harold Young, who became acting Secretary of Commerce the minute Wallace resigned.
 A cigar-smoking, easy-going Texan Young inl- mediatey summoned Texas newspapermen for an exclusive, highly nationastic Texas press confer ence He wanted advice from Texans, he said, on how to run the Department of Commerce. Do you think I should call trump Cabinet meeting?" he asked with large wink It was suggested that Young also resign, thus becoming the second Cabinet member to resign in one day. But Young replied that he was more con- cerned about trying to pass law which would make him Secretary of Commerce permanently, without the consent of either the President the Congress I'm just an entrenched bureaucrat at heart" i" opined the acting Secretary of Commerce. When one Texan proposed that Young have a picture taken while member of the Cabinet he | replied:
 That's OK you get photographer up here right away. But he stops for drink, you'll have picture of ex-acting- Secretary of Com merce."
 It didn't make headlines, but conscientious Sec retary of War Patterson and Undersecretary Kenneth Roya have stepped into the Ltchfield brutality trials | in order to give fair break to two GI'S. They have suspended the six-month jail sentence given Sgt. James M. Jones and have reduced the three-year term given Sgt Judson H. Smith to nine months-the time he had already served. The War Department also states that with the ratification of these two harsh sentences the punish ment given to GIs stacks up about even with that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
Remarkable Agreement

We where the French Constituent Assembly passed the short space of day the first two clauses of the country's proposed new constitution. They were:
 France ndvisible lay (non-clericaD, democratic and social republic The national emblem the tricoor flag blue white red in three vertical bands The republics motto is: Liberty equality fraternity"
 We'll that's something, in these days of disagreement especially coming from Paris But we'll bet that if Mr. Molotov had been member of the Assembly the ricoor would be cut up into small squares by now with Mr. Mootov threatening walk out the flag weren't redesgned in red-white- -and-blue checkerboard pattern.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
FAST MAILS
CNew Haven Journal-Courier)

(NeW Haven JOurnal-COurler)
 Same-day delivery of mail from coast to coast, and for a three cent stamp, is the aim of Second As sistant Postmaster General Gael Sullivan.
 First will come a fve-cent air mail cost October 1. Long-range air transports will be augmented by use of local helicopters, already operat- ing in Los Angeles and Chicago, Sullivan, once a school teacher, dreams of all flrst-class mail being flown. It would take ten times the 600 planes now flying the mails to achieve this. But post office and aviation authorities see this com- ing, soon.
 Of course there's a lot of mail a person wants to get as soon as pos sible. But there are other communi- cations that can Wait-billS, income tax forms and the letter from the relatives wanting to spend their va cation with you Sullivan needn't get himself worked up into a lather over these.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
HARTFORD'S POSTMASTER
(Hartford COurant)

The postmastership of Hartford has now been vacant for little
 more than a year, and it is high time that an appointment should be made. The functions, duties and responsibilities of the office have been ably carried on since MT. Ran kin's death by Edward J. Dillon, who has the title of Acting Post master, and who was for twenty five years designated as Assistant Postmaster. No one could possibly be more familiar than he is with the conduct, rules and regulations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25

My sympathy goes to the sneezers
 who sneeZe When pollen goes roaming the air, Who mournfully weep and out
 rageously wheeze In the throes of fevered despair. They're a sight to appeal to the
 hardest of hearts, The very archtypical wretch, Whenever the cloud of calamity
 starts
 To swirl, with the breeze, from the
 vetch.
 They sweat and they steam and
 they swear and they stew, They lisp and they choke and they
 cough,
 And they pray-or at least I've heard
 some of them do- For something to carry them off. They hack in their legions, and
 medical men Can offer no form of relief When goldenrod's love life is start
 ing again
 And daylight begins to be brief. I'm never a victim, take pollen with
 grins,
 Discount the affliction of friends But I get a cold when the season
 begins
 That never departs till it ends. The Soviet government has cracked down on widespread graft and inefficiency in its gigantic system of collective farms. Some of the systems leaders, with un- becoming reasoning not worthy of of a selfless Communist, apparent ly decided that the objective of collective farming was to collect. The United Nations Security Council has decided to drop the whole question of Greece from its agenda Now does. that leave AL bania or Montenegro the No. l col ossal threat to world peace?
 After granting a parole from price ceilings to dairy products, the Price DecontrOl Board issued a warning Friday that it would keeI an eye on future price trends Oi butter and cheese. The board is going to get crick in it's cOllec. tive neck from looking up.
 MT. Wallace is private citizer again. He was caught in trap O. his own contriving-the one ht couldn't keep shut.
 IN. E. Population to Hit 10,560,' 000''-headline Given good holi day week end with all cars out, anc it could be done, too.
 Pan-American World AirWayS an nounces as imminent a new de lux passenger service in planes that vii travel 430 miles an hour. We pre- dict that the day will come whel airliners will have to be equipped with a reverse speed so they cal back up when they overshoot Flu rope.
 King George will officially Opel the huge Britain Can Make I Exhibition" in London this week There apparently is no intention il Washington to send anyone owe with, now, word from the spOn Sors.
 There's rumor around Detroi that a revolutionary new automo bile will be out before long. I is so revolutionary that prediction are being freely made that it ever will be deliverable.
 HARRY AND HANK T think you're wrong, but to CT
 is human"
 Said Henry Wallace to Harry Tru Said Harry Truman to Henry Wal
 lace,
 You may be right, but das is
 alleS."
 A decided increase in the sal of hOrsemeat has been noticeable il the last two weeks, according t | meat rofai Hers "T,nn raftiuv gick an,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25

A decided increase in the sale of hOrsemeat has been noticeable in the last two weeks, according to meat retailers. Pm getting sick and tired of this" says the imfuriated husband. Mag, nag, nag all the time"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
The Firing Line By D. N. T.

Send letters to Dr. Brady in care of the National Newspaper Service, 326 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill.
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