The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06
Walter WincheII \ On BrO0dw0y

1 Via NEG the other morning the Tex McCrarys (Jinx Falkenberg) on their MT. and Mrs. program mentioned this observers Sabbath night broadcast Said MT. McCrary: Lots of grimly familiar names and faces and places in the headlines this morning, and also proving lots of people in Wall Street believe what Walter Winchell says. On Sunday night when he returned to the air he really turned on the gloom. He predicted the grim pos sibility of war before the end of 1946."
 What we said was that DeGaulle, in Paris Gin an off-the-record talk to others), had stated he retired because he couldn't avert another war, which he predicted would come before the end of 1946.
 The most dangerous sort of iso- lationism is the refusal to meet the truth. A reporter doesn't make good news bad or bad news good. He reports the news whether good or bad When a reader asked reporter why he didn't try to be little more optimistic, he re- piled: "A war cloud has no silver | lining" MT. Mark Sullivan of the N. Y. Herald Tribune this week, for instance, reported: Rare ly within so short time and from such widespread sources have come warnings so grave as came to the U. S. over the recent week end. From the Far East the warning by General MacArthur, etc" .. The noted observer added gloomy reports from a Congressional con- mittee just back from inspecting | the situation in the Far East .. His newspaper headlined his text thus: Week End of Grave Warn ings Stresses Rising Fear of Rus sia."
 Of the big dive in the stock mar ket one New York financial writer noted: Perhaps my inStinctive de- nial of Wall Streets signals may be traced to my refusal to believe America is composed of 40 mil lion lunatics" Whats the odds? Wilson Mizner once said: Those who play the market are called bulls and bears when they should be called goats and jack asses"
 Colyumists are criticized for crow ing about scoops. But all the news services take bows for their beats. Frixample, late every night reports are carried on the UP wires from bureaus telling how many UP stories were used on page one of the local papers as compared with the op- position press associations.
 NewBboys who occasionally fluff and are pummeled by critics should remember this bit of journalistic history: Years ago 8 distinguished educator analysed a New York gazette systematically for three months, during which time he charted the news as follows: De- moralizing, 2,295 items; unwhole- some, 1884; trivial, 2100; worth while 3,9o0-or 3s percent of the total.
 The New York World replied "The educator made out fairly good case for the newspapers. Thirty mine percent of worthwhile news is up to the average quality of achievement in most human ac- tivities such as the preaching of sermons, painting of pictures and the writing of novels"
 He has his publishers seal of approval"
 you mean his trained seal of approval"
 Many of the misund ndings between nations can be traced to lack of knowledge. Some news papermen in an enlightened city such a~ Paris know very little about the United States Several months ago gazette in Paris re- ferred to "a village of 200 souls in the half savage state of Texas" "
 During the Iranian squabble the striped -britches bunch babbled about the rights of small nations" At the time we remarked that such idealistic breast beating was strictly diplomatic Sanskrit. Be- cause the nations involved were bat ting for control of Iranian oil.... The other day the British admitted they were ready to use military force against "any threat to the Iranian Oil Co.,"
 Kluxer Bilbo's mouth operation seems to have been a flop. He can still talkl