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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06

CEDTTORS NOTE-While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by several distinguished guest cOlumnists-tOday's by John Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06

Senator Bilbo of Mississippi has been suffering from inflammation of the mouth. The medicos had no trouble with their diagnosis; it was an open and unshut case.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06
In Today's Mail
IN MEMORY OF V-J DAY

Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass.
 September 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-17
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Evening star., 1946-07-05

battlefields OF France certainly are
spiritually significant.
Perhaps there should be two vari-
eties Of memorials: Useful structures
not unbeautifully designed nor
starkly unadorned with works of
sculptures and painting, recalling
the devoted services of all members
OF the armed forces who survived
the struggle with the Axis powers,
and monuments of the strictly ideal
istic type favored by Mr.. Fraser for
those who did not survive. In any
case, the whole public we'll might
take under consideration his Sug-
gestion that: There should be a
difference in our manner Of COM
memorating our dead and our vet
Grams which reflects the very differ
ence between life and death ITSELF"
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Life Without BOwles
By Raym MoIey

In our new life without Chester
Bowles. July seems much like other
Julys, after all. Mr.. Bowles Is missing,
and so are most of the events which
Mr.. Bowles predicted.
He said that the cost Of living would
double in 20 days. But on the first
day the increase was 3.5 per cent and
on the second, less than l per cent.
Even that may be because what used
to be paid in the black market is now
openly acknowledged and recorded by
the Government.
up 25 to so per cent. However, there
same excessive rates on the black mar
ket. Cattle and hogs brought more
and began to appear at the slaughter
houses. The net outcome in meat may
be above the former ceiling, but much
below the black market.
In textiles 1t seems that some smaller
manufacturers were inclined to boost
prices by Is per cent or more. But they
ran squarely into refusal by big buyers,
such as department stores, to pay any
such increase, and business is going on
with no great rush. The best estimate
in the textile business is that sales re-
sistance and decline in demand will
hold things in check 1t must be re-
membered that the veterans rush is
over They are clothed somehow, and
their needs will be less urgent from
now on.
Predictions that steel would rise by
81 to $8 ton have not materialized.
The industry says it sees no reason to
consider price changes at all. The auto
mobile industry has announced no in
creases and it has practically prohibited
it's dealers from increasing the margins
to the historic" percentage.
1t is too early to be clear about what
Congress will do. But with every day
that passes without catastrophe, Con-
gress will be more sure of itself, and
the Presidents face will be redder, This
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Swedish Mission to Syria
By Perfinas

British was to approach the French and
to attempt to be relieved Of their prom
ise. but in that endeavor the British did
not meet with any success. Then the
Syrian government thought Of asking
the United States to send military
mission of its own. In Washington,
however. for one reason or another, the
Syrian request fell upon deaf ears. RI
nally, the Swedes were called on to fill
the gap.
The entire incident may be taken as
pertinent instance Of the political
wounds the French and British can in
f1ict on each other by indulging in their
old-fashioned quarrels. In 1916 and
again in 1941 France would have been
wise to leave Syria alone, since it is only
too clear that British officials are very
touchy and impatient whenever other
countries, however friendly, try to build
up the political interests of their own
in the lands which lie on the high road
to India
But once the French, with British ap-
proval after all, were in the saddle it
was a grievous error on the part of
Winston Churchill to accredit to Syria a
man like Gen. Sir. Edward Spears, who
did what he could to arouse native hos
tility toward the French and even went
SO far as to offer the Damas government
a British alliance against the French.
This step caused Anthony Eden to re-
call Gen. Spears.
In the Near East the British and
French still are working at cross pur-
poses-at the very moment that new
interests are forcing their way into
the areas which, from time immemorial,
have been under Anglo French influ-
ence
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Prayer for Breud-1o46

o Lord, Who multiplied the loaves that
DAY.
IN these lean years succeeding years
OF strife,
Giue US, this day, our daily bread, we
pray
Bread. homely bread. the simple star
OF life
And teach US tOe can help You multiply
Each little loaf by hourly taking care
No crnn1b is ,ousted-,Dhat is LETT put
by
That, in all lands, all men may haze
their share.
Man cannot lipe BY bread alone, ,pe
kno,D:
Nor, 1uholly lacking bread, can man
SurDive
In rduished countries Uhere no ,Dheat
1UiH QrolU
And tamished children totter, half
dlipe.
Gipe such. this day. our daily bread in
part,
Lord Of the helping Hand, the generous
Heart!
VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.
Evening star., 1946-07-05

relative shift in attitude may bring
about a compromise nearer the posi-
ton Of Congress than that of the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Bowles and his friends got
the President out on a long limb the
other evening. He may have less faith
in his economists hereafter.
A new bill should re-establish rent
control 1t should also find a way,
through the Department Of Agriculture
to bring equilibrium to our agricultural
economy. For the remaining part of
our economy, the absence Of control
should be more marked in a new bill
than in the one vetoed by the President
y X
The outcries Of union leaders are un-
derstandable. But Mr.. Reuther may
be bluf1ng in his threats of broken
contracts and new strikes His follow
ers have felt the pinch of last winters
strikes and probably have no desire to
quit again. Certainly they win not
quit If prices for food and clothing do
not rise sharply. There is q limit to
the control Of labor leaders over their
people. But there is no limit to the
ceiling on their talk.
It was further claimed by friends OF
the Bowles OPA that Wall Street would
make enormous profits from decontrol.
Here. too, predictions failed. The first
day saw a rise of between and per
cent. The second day saw a slight
decline. The market is lower than it
was two weeks ago, when Bowles was
on the front page.
Political predictions based on the OPA
situation are mixed and "iffy." But 1t
is clear that If another bill is passed
and signed and conditions are good in
the fall the Republicans will gain. If
no bill is passed and no catastrophe re-
suits, they will gain. If the situation is
mixed, as 1t may be, with some prices
higher and others lower but with en-
ployment fairly full, Mr.. Truman's party
may do very well despite its bad record
In prophecy.
{Released by Associated Nevspapers, Inc)
Evening star., 1946-07-05
On the Record
BY Dorothy THOMPSON

As the atom bomb was released over
the ships at Bikini, the radio emitted
an unearthly wall, like one last moan
ing cry from the heart of mankind.
Afterward, Vice Admiral William H.
P. Blandy, commander of Operation
Crossroads, said of the experiment:
I'VE had carriers and destroyers sunk
in the war with Japan, but we didn't
stop building them. We continued to
build them because we needed them
and that's what we will do in the
future"
And that is what all the powers will
do. So man, standing at the cross
roads with that unearthly wall in his
ears chooses, or permits his leaders to
choose for him, the way that points
to anarchy and war
X X
Time is running against u.s." a
leading American authority on atomic
fission, writes me in a personal letter.
But what is running faster is the dis
integration of our country, economical
ly and spiritually"
If our spiritual deafness is needless
even of the demonic wall of the future,
shall we expect the human walls of the
present to penetrate to consciousness?
Mrs. Anne O'Hare Mccormick, one
Of the few whose sensibilities have
been quickened, rather than calloused,
by the dreadful facts of our times,
wrote, apropos the bomb:
Humanity is helpless against other
forces than atomic energy More peo-
pie are being destroyed Or dehumanized
today, in a world nominally at peace
than were killed in all the bombings
Of the war" And she spoke Of hunger
Forced deportations, slave labor
compounds, concentration camps" as
the commonplace of life in Eastern
Europe"
For instance, there is Czechoslovakia
where generation ago, Thomas G..
Masaryk founded a republic based on
humane and liberal principles. Gen.
sorship may distort or blot out what
American correspondents write from
there, but as long as Czech newspapers
reach this country. it cannot blot out
what few brave Czech publicists still
dare to write in their own papers about
their own country
On May 19. Ferdinand Peroutka,
leading Czech editorial writer, a gradu-
ate of Buchenwald, wrote in Svobodne
Noviny:
"If we write of things that have
nothing TO do with the Communist
party-for instance, that experts should
not be carelessly expelled from indus
tries; that mistakes of workmen's coun-
Evening star., 1946-07-05

PARIS, July 5 (By Radio A Swedish
military mission will go to Syria shortly
on the invitation Of the government
at Damas and will devote itself to
the task OF welding together the various
elements of the Syrian Army and the
Syrian police into efficient forces. Thus,
barely a few weeks after French and
British troops have been withdrawn
from Syria, there comes from the Syr-
ian cabinet an open admission that 1t
needs outside help to overhaul the
Syrian state and to bring 1t up to some
thing approaching modern standards
Of government.
Besides the Army, the constabulary
and the police, other branches OF Syrian
public administration require external
assistance. 1t has already been re-
corded that high ranking officers Of
the British Army were authorized by
their superiors in London to retire
from the service with the colors-per-
manently or temporarily-and to accept
assignments as advisers to some min
isterial department - transportation,
foreign trade, wheat board, and so forth.
Others are taking up posts OF respon-
sibility in private businesses.
The impending arrival of the Swedish
military mission tops the transforma-
ton which has been going on all
through the springtime in Syria. The
position once held by the French-a
position rooted in special relationship
through the centuries-falls to the
Scandinavians and British. This will
probably be the first contact Of Swedes
with Western Asia and it will be in
teresting to watch the results.
Why the Swedes have been chosen
in preference to other foreigners is
quite story in itself. 1t testifies to
the frictions continuing between France
and England in that part of the world.
British representatives in the Levant
were quick to realize and to report home
that the Damas government, left to
itself, was not strong enough to hold
together the several ethnic components
of Syria. For instance, the ages-long
separatism of the Druce religious sect
and the Alawi tribesmen had asserted it
self very markedly upon the termina-
ton of the French mandate. Therefore,
the wish OF the British imperial stan
which always takes serious view Of
all Asiatic Observation-Disclosures to keep
on the spot the British military mission
which had been active in Syria since
1941.
The London government, however,
had entered into an obligation with the
French to arrange for evacuation Of
Syria by all British troops, to take place
at the same time as the French with
drawal. Ths only way left open to the
Evening star., 1946-07-05

cils should be rectified; that crimes
committed during the revolution should
be punished; that certain public ON
cials are unfit for office by reason OF
repeated criminal records; that we want
liberty; that our police should behave
more humanely than the Gestapo; that
our life should be based on humanity;
that the innocent should not be pun
up contending that 1t has been hit.
Shall we then be better citizens
II we hold our tongues? When, from
the building that houses police head
quarters, such moaning comes that the
neighbors must shut their windows IN
order to hear, is it our duty to plug
our ears?"
How far can the means of the tor
tured and dying be heard by the sensi-
tive ear and heart? Would that the po-
lice headquarters, the OZNAs, NKVDs,
and all the other Gestapos of progress
and democracy" as we'll as the prisons
and concentration camps and the roads
along which trudge the exiled and ex-
propriated, could be wired, like Opera
ton Crossroads, to sound!
How many then would hear, or un-
derstand what they hear?
The cry of loved ones torn apart. I
know Czech citizen, Sudeten Ger
man, loyal to the Czech republic, and
married to a Jewess. When the Ger
mans came they recognized him as
German and demanded of him only
that he divorce his wife. This he re-
fused, so he and she were sent to sep
arate concentration camps, for all the
war years, and miraculously both lived
through 1t and rejoined each other, in
liberation and love, in their own home
on the same day in Prague.
Now he Is arrested, this time because
he is German" and he will be ex-
PEELED from his country, while she is
told she may remain, on one condition
that she divorce her husband. And this
she will not do, having learned from
him that love Is stronger than death.
So, If they live, they will tread the way
Of exile and misery once again. Who
cries shame? Shame and double shame?
For millions, the atom bomb holds no
terrors whatsoever. Death, am told,
for those in it's direct wake, comes so
swiftly that the brain cannot record it;
one is dissolved entirely without pain.
1t Is terrible, clean and utter. "Oh,
come, sweet DEATH" cry millions.
That is the cry we think we heard
out Of the wind and the whirlwind over
the ships at Bikini
released by the Bell Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star., 1946-07-05
FRIDAY, July 5, 1916
A Luxury Service

Final congressional approval of
the bill for another years operation
of day nurseries for the children of
some working parents is tribute to
the persistence of it's small group of
determined advocates. But 1t is
defeat for common sense and a
strange commentary on the way
Congress runs the local government.
Begun as war project, financed
by a Federal grant. the centers were
designed to enable parents to fill war
jobs. But when the money ran out
after the war, Congress refusing to
renew the grant, the centers sud-
denly became welfare project. The
Community War Fund, which had
failed to meet its goal during each
year of its war appeals, was some
how able to find $4,000 with which
to finance the centers to the end
Of the fiscal year, June 80.
The Commissioners opposed add
ing the expense to the District
budget, as the District is now spend
ing more money than it is collecting
in revenue. The school authorities
opposed saddling the day nurseries
on the school system, one reason
perhaps being that the nurseries re-
quire some seventy teachers for 410
children in system which fire.
quently must assign the education
of forty and more children to a
single teacher. The Board of Public
Welfare tried to dodge the day-care
center, for the Board of Public We'll
fare is at the moment engaged in
seeking to reduce the number of
children for whom 1t is legally re-
sponsible, the reason being that it
lacks adequate facilities for their
decent care.
Yet the Board now has the day
centers to operate, no money to
operate them with and no zest for
the job. The service offered in these
centers is, in reality. luxury serv-
ice, we'll enough, perhaps, for COM
munity that can afford it, basically
wrong as an undertaking for COM
munity that is falling down in the
discharge Of far more important
functions. 1t Is no wonder that the
Commissioners are going to ask the
President for a veto.
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Representing His People

On the basis of the most recent
but still unofficial and incomplete
returns, Senator Bilbo seems to be
doing better and better as a vote
getter in Mississippi.
In the 1884 primaries, which
resulted in his first election to the
Senate, he received only 1882 votes
to the 106,244 divided between his
two chief opponents, Ross Collins
and Senator Hubert D. Stephens.
He won the runoff with 101 ,7O2 votes.
Six years later he got 81 1884 votes
in the primary, without runoff.
And this year he seems to have
added over 5000 new admirers, get
ting 96,847 votes to the s2,745 divided
between his four opponents, giving
him a majority of 4,1O2.
Mississippi's 1910 census gave the
State population of 2,183,7s6, of
which 1,l06,327 are white. While
some Negroes voted in Mississippi
this year, Senator Bilbos nomina-
ton, OF course, resulted from the 8
per cent Of the white population
who wanted him back in the Senate.
The Senator says he is sorry he
wasNot running for the whole South.
Perhaps his theory is correct and
perhaps he might have shown up
as well in Southwide primary as
he did in Mississippi If so, it would
only add emphasis to the fact
already we'll established, which is
that Senator Bilbo's doctrines are
thoroughly agreeable to the people
who do the voting. Nearing seventy,
Senator Bilbo is not apt to change,
and, as he has demonstrated so often
in the past, he thrives on abuse. The
hearts, the minds and the per-
centages of the people who are
interested enough to vote are the
things that must be changed If
future Bilbos are to be kept at home.
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Administrative Nightmare

II ever the Government were pre-
sented with the prospects OF an ad-
rninistrative nightmare, the terminal
leave pay bill recently passed unani-
mously by the House and now pend
Ing before the Senate looms as such
a specter. This extraordinary meas
ure would require the Government
to reimburse 100000 enlisted men
and women of the armed services
for all unused furlough time since
September 8, 1899. figuring furloughs
at the rate of 2Ka days month and
allowing up to maximum Of 120
days in ALL Reimbursement would
be in the form of cash payment
based on the pay rate in effect at
time of discharge.
The administrative difficulty
would arise in trying to determine
how much used furlough time each
of the 100000 prospective bene-
ficiaries should be charged with,
preparatory to calculating how
much unused furlough time he
should be paid for. The trouble here
is that the furlough records of most
enlisted personnel are in state of
utter confusion. Since there was no
limit to the number of days of an
enlisted man could take-subject, of
course, to his superiors' approval
records in many outfits were loosely
kept Many of the records are in
complete. They are scattered In
many places. Because of these con-
siderations, the bill was written so
as to authorize the War and Navy
Departments to accept the enlisted
mans own computation or estimate
If official records are lacking. De-
partment officials concede that In
most disputed cases the claimants
figures would prevail.
If the veterans thus are to be
permitted, in effect. to determine
the amounts due them. the ultimate
cost becomes a matter OF sheer
guesswork. The estimates so far
range from $4,000, 100000 to se,ooo,-
100000. The write your own
check" invitation implicit in the bill
justifles, moreover, the opinion Of
some critics that the measure is
little more than a bonus bill in the
guise Of adjusted compensation
which is what it was called after
World War I. The legislation pre-
sumably was intended to accord to
enlisted men benefits equal to those
accorded officers of the three lower
ranks, who had the distinction of
receiving not only officers terminal
leave pay but also the $500 muster
ing-out gratuity given enlisted men.
To that extent, at least, the bill was
well-intentioned.
But there are number Of things
about the measure that are de-
batable, despite the fact that there
was no debate In the House-only q
rush of seventy-seven Representa-
tives to speak in favor Of it. It Is to
be hoped the Senate will be more
deliberative. If it is the intention of
Congress TO find = practicable way
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Two Kinds of Memorials

James Earle Fraser, former presi-
dent of the National Sculpture
Society, conceivably might be re-
garded as an ideal representative of
those citizens who, whether artists
or laymen, believe that it is not
necessary that a monument should
be utilitarian in purpose and effect.
The group for which he particularly
speaks is concerned with the deco
ration or ornamentation OF the
world as they find 1t. A statue,
obviously, is luxury OF a sort. The
same observation properly may be
made with respect to the carved bas
reliefs of such structures as
churches, court houses, libraries,
schools, etc.
But Mr.. Fraser, quoted in the
Journal of the American Institute
Of Architects for July, argues that
the purpose of memorial is-as
Archibald MacLeish puts ito
make the minds Of men remember"
If that objective is to be primary,
then he contends that the best way
to commemorate those who served
in the Second World War and espe-
cially those who died in it would be
to erect monuments Of beauty
fashioned in enduring materials"
rather than Giving memorials"
which, because they are Giving"
soon may disappear.
Mr.. Fraser cites the Pyramids of
Egypt and "the monument honoring
George Washington in the city bear
ing his name" in support OF his view.
without question, they do make
the minds of men remember" And
they also are more lasting than
stadia, recreation halls, swimming
pools and other such indubitably
useful but definitely ephemeral con-
veniences. Notably for the fallen,
the element of reverence is wanted.
Mr.. Fraser asks: Can handball
court or cinder track, no matter
how many memorial plaques you
may post around it, induce that deep
response of sacred remembrance"
The answer, Of course, is: No. On
the other hand, the monuments to
the Allied armies in the World War !
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Freedom of Choice
By David Laurence
From the Berkshire (Mass1 Courier

From the Berkshire tMass) Courier
II we pause for a moment and face
the fact that our lives are being directed
more and more from Washington, we
come up against the inescapable fact
that most of the infringements of our
liberty, which began as emergency or
wartime measures, are still with us,
along with some new ones. Whether or
not we, as Nation. will be content to
be subject to the Government, or make
Government subject to us, will be indi-
Gated to a considerable degree by the
action we take in the elections this fall.
That action will show whether we want
our liberties restored, or whether we
want our lives planned for us.
Evening star., 1946-07-05
Proud Record
rom Quebec Le Soleil.

During the six war years the farmers
have increased the production of their
farms by more than half Of the pre-
war rate. They are running q primary
business valued at five billions, the reve-
nues of which exceed billion and a
half every year. A summary review
shows that in 60 years the rural popu-
lation, which has decreased in COM
parison with the urban population, has
nonetheless succeeded in cultivating
an extent of land four times greater:
to produce 16 times more wheat and
cereals, times more hogs and cattle
and 4 times more dairy products.
Evening star., 1946-07-05

Enthusiastically and financially-
Of rectifying an injustice done en-
listed men in the rehabilitation
process, that is one thing. But II
Congress wants to grant all enlisted
men a bonus, it should not be
camoufaged as something else.