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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
Fight for Right

On the of National Newspaper Week, which is being observed Sept 30 to Oct the nation given forcetu demonstration of the for right and used by the American free press. When the Allied Control Council Berlin that reporters would be barred from the executions of Naz criminals, the United Press n stituted campagn-at once taken up by individual news papers throughout the United Statesto effect reconsid eration of that curious decision.
 Wiring Secretary of War Robert P Patterson in Wash ington Earl Johnson UP vicepresdent and general manager urged the lifting of the projected backout stating the for full reporora coverage o the execu tons Patterson replied that he would request Gen. Joseph T. McNarney American member of the Council to explore the desirability" of altering the original order.
 Few intelligent persons entertain reasonable doubt that "desirabity The Councils original decision to exclude reporters could have been based only the ancient military custom of secret execuonsa custom scarcely picabe in this case the Nuremberg trials them selves without precedent But the obvious fact remains that without press intervention the decision would have un challenged and unaltered
 Certainly, the millions of who fought these mass murderers and the vicious military machine they created entitled to full of the executions with which the Naz warords pay In but the smallest measure for the crimes against humanity Certainly, the survivors of men who gave their lives destroy Nazsm should be grant ed at least this pathetic privilege And just surely that much to the countless victims of Nazdoms non military outrages.
 Beyond personal obligation however, the world itself has compelling interest in the lifting of the Nuremberg ban reporters. If the German killers executed secretly there could not but be flood of rumors surround ing the affair The German people inevitably would be told that this that leader escaped death; that this that butcher preparing underground return to power ot the Nazi system.
 These would enrage the free people of the earth And they would gravey endanger the of the Allied occupation The cooperation of German democrats would be crippled by fear of retaliation the Allies had with drawn their armies the recactrnce of unreconstruced Nazs would be depened by hope of approaching
 As for the criminals themselves their understand able preference for secret executions surely not worth sideraon While democratic concepts of justice cannot init accept the belief that they drowned all their rights in the blood of their victims yet surely cannot permit their suddenly squeamh stomachs to dictate the mode of their punishment.
 The nation and the entire world debt of gratitude the United Press for protesting in time arbitrary de- cision which might have caused harm and which is totally devoid of logical justification The American press again has scored heavily it's ceasees fight for right
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-SenatOr Jim Mead, now seeking to retire Governor Tom Dewey from the top job in New York State was honored last week at 8 cocktail party given by members of the Mead Com mittee-formerly the Truman Committee, now the Kilgore Committee.
 One of the early arrivals was General Harry Vaughan the Presidents military aide. Glancing around the room, Vaughan immediately began to kid Mead because of his Senatorial colleagues had yet shown up. committee aide countered that most members of the committee busy campaigning for reelection, with one of them helping Jimmie Byrnes in Paris.
 Vaughan apparently had forgotten that Senator Tom Connally of Texas is member of the commit tee, and remarked: T seem to remember that Tom has not been the most constant participant in the doipgs of the committee, anyhow.
 rom comes around when you boys have Texan on the stand" Vaughan continued. Any time you wanted to get Tom to hearing, all you had to do was call Jesse Jones' and you'd be sure to have Tom there to hold Jesse's hand and counsel for the defense"
 Senator Mead remarked that he has always been impressed by the loyalty of Texans to each other and Vaughan agreed with him.
 Why when the President fired Henry Wallace last week. one of the first things to come in was wire from Tom Clark (the Attorney General, who is from Texas) urging that Harry appoint Jesse Jones Secretary of Commerce"
 Vaughan also remarked that state pride was es- pecially strong among GI.s overseas.
 "Over in Potsdam last year." he said "the Presi- dent reviewed the 84th divsion-thats the rasplitter boys, mainly from Illinois and Kentucky. Well, the President, Jimmie Byrnes, General Boiling of the 84th and myself were riding in a when someone mentioned that the 84th had been trained in Texas
 "The President and I started to kid Byrnes that everywhere we went we saw troops from Texas Mis- souri, and other states but that hadn't heard of any Caronians up the front. We really laid 1t thick.
 "Al of a sudden, the buck private driving our car just couldn't take it any He turned around to us and it sort of burst out of him.
 "I can't keep quiet any I'm Carolinian-
 live right across the street from Secretary Byrnes And there are plenty more of us right up here'
 We sure got bang out of that kid The Presi- dent told General Boiling he not to be disci- plned for opening up, and then Jimmie Byrnes and this kid talked about South Carolina"
 Most interesting fact about Stalin's widely broadcast and widely hailed as -concatory state ments to London newsrnan last week is the date The date was September A
 For on exactly the day Stalin was telling the world that there danger of another war, he was sending note to Turkey which sang another tune.
 The note to Turkey not made public until four days later Thus Stan publicly put fears to rest while simultaneously warning Turkey that she must
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
by Peter EdSOn

shrtpocket point up and they always left their mark Mrs. Hull gave up trying to break him of that habit years ago.
 Berding takes the revisons and from them con- denSes and arranges the story He has already written enough for four volumes. But it will come down to fit in two.
 Hulrs memory is amazing. He will say, Such and such a thing happened at 103O in the morning on November 4, 1892"
 Berding has two research assistants. They will check and Hull will be right He kept diary, but after every conference with diplomat, tary would automatically come to Hus office and he would dictate memorandum of what said. There is mountain of these memoranda to provide source material in unfolding the story
 By the time Berding reaches HuPs apartment to begin the days work, the secretary will have read three four newspapers. He awakens about T but doctors orders he reads the papers in bed He wants to talk about the days news before he begins dic- tating.
 Mrs Hull-with dfficulty-stops the work before l. Hull eats his big meal of the day then, with lighter supper at night His appetite is good and he can eat practically anything. They have maid who prepares the meals in the apartment under Mrs Hulls careful supervision.
 The devotion which the secretary and Mrs Hull have for each other is close to the ideal They few intimate friends and then, and when An thony Eden or Leon Blum some other world figure comes to town, call on the Huls is must
 The volume of his mail still is tremendous. The number of people who call but whom his health does not permit him to is enormous
 For relaxation the secretary sometimes takes a morning walk, sometimes an afternoon automobile ride. He has had to give up his favorite game of croquet too strenuous He always considered cro- quet great game of strategy, figuring his shots for several plays ahead usually beating opponents Frequently he played round in a four-ban match without losing his turn.
 Now his favorite sport is putting. He goes to Columbia Country Club practice greens of an after noon and plays for an hour so He likes to sink em in Shot-Still Tennessee squirrel shooter at heart for all the richness of his long life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
by Dreze, Pearson

yield to Russia on the Dardaneles and that she must permit Russian troops on Turkish soil. If not, the implied threat was war.
 Thus despite Stalin's attempt to woo the world his aims remain exactly the Furthermore, they remain exactly the same as those of the czars before him. Finally they remain today with his allles ex- actly the with his old sparring partner Hitler.
 For in 194O when Russia and Germany were under non-aggression pact, the same MT. Molotov now dickerng in Paris went to Berlin to dicker with Ribbentrop for terms under which Russia would come into the against England. The terms Molotov wanted were the Dardanees Iran, Iraq the Balkans, and the mouth of the Red Sea. Hitler wouldn't give these terms, and Russia finally was forced into the war the side of the Allies, not against them
 Now that the war is over, Stalin and Molotov are right back where they were in 194O-trylng 10 get the Dardanelles and other long-range Russian objectives
 Many people are sympathetic with Russia's de- sire for an outlet from the Black Sea- They compare the Dardanelles to the Panama Canal This colum- nist for one, believes Russia has every right to guaranteed outlet to the sea- However, the world has come long way since the buccaneering days when Teddy Roosevelt euchred g. lease on the Panama Canal, and today the U. S. has been discussing joint Western Hemisphere defenses with Pan-American nations. Thus the time may come when joint Pan- American army guards Panama, the Galapagos Islands, and other strategic Western Hemisphere areas.
 Russia however, now goes back to cutthroat buc caneering spurns the United Nations, and wages war of against Turkey to get what she wants.
 That is why Russia, despite palliative statements by Stalin, is still serious hazard and will con- tinue to be until have way of ensurng peace by making friends with the Russian people.
 While privately discussing the meat shortage and other matters with members of the Democratic National Committee, President Truman came in for another kind of beef-the verbal variety-concernng his recent vacation cruise to Bermuda
 Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Island com plained that Truman had given his states famous resort, Newport, black eye" by staying there only day and half before skipping for Bermuda.
 "Ill admit that we had unusual spell of bad weather at Newport while you were there, said Green with dead-pan seriousness, but ordinarily Newport is much to be preferred to Bermuda in the Summer"
 "Oh, wasn't trying to snub Newport" replied Truman, thinking the Rhode Island Senator was serious, but bad northeaster up while was there, of the worst I've seen"
 "Just the same, it mighty bum ad for Newport for the President of the United States to run out like that on such short notice" persisted Green good-naturedly.
 "Okay, you win, Senator-Iu try to make it longer the next time" chucked Truman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
by ThomaS Stokes

corn palace a big gaily- decorated building in the middle of town where there exhibits and vaude- vile show for many thousands who come from the whole region One street blocked off for the mid way. People visited with friends from far away The spirit of holiday everywhere.
 But even here trouble had crept in to mar the holiday briefly. The restaurants had closed for time early in the morning, strike" of different kind This directed by business against regional OPA order to roll back prices to those in effect when price controls were lifted last Summer This was an example of the tensions, exploding in a sort of shoot-from thehip performance both on the part of the government and business This Mitchell episode part of plan for general close-down of restaurants all over the state which, however, did not come off when calmer counsel prevailed.
 
 A lot of food is required for visitors at corn carnival time, and other facilities added. We found that the ladies at the Methodist Church had run out, but the Presbyterian Church block away could still provide handsomely for late luncher.
 It was pleasant to spend the afternoon with MT. Ronald and members of his staff It was pleasant. too at the end of the day to meet another friend, one of long standing, Bob Lusk the alert and influ- ental Huron newspaper publisher and to drive with him the 50 miles to Huron to spend the evening at his home The next day it good to meet the people the newspaper, to see the sights and have lunch with some businessmen, directors of the Huron Chamber of Commerce. There was talk there of the forthcoming pheasant season which attracts 100 900 hunters to the state from all parts of the country
 As we drove to Huron straight into gorgeousy speckled sky at, dusk, Bob and recalled the days, long ago, when we worked together in Washington during the Coolidge administration the United Press night-side under the late Ray Clapper Those calm days under Cal Coolidge remote now. Ev- erything looked simpler then, though we found out later, when the depression hit that it wasn't. The corrosive influences were at work underneath, some of them right out here through lack of attention to the farm problem. And they were at work also all over the world, as we learned long after when broke out in Europe for the second time in gem eration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
The Principle of Faith

This newspaper has always maintained policy of watchfu and cautious waiting in terms of dealing with Rus sa simply because in estimation Russia must present than the heroic record of her defense against Nazism before accept her nation of principles.
 Yet we look about in land and wonder if per- haps Russia doesn't view with the outlook simply because to be relaxing the matter of principles Today in America there to be less trust and faith between Americans than before in history.
 Lack of faith and trust nsdious thing It is like the genie let out of the bottle; it develops sometimes only from mcrosome of discomfort and swels into gigantic controlled proportions We have labor members who dis regard contracts management forces who seshy tonary and refuse forward with reasonable progressive phosophes racial and religious hatreds class distinction that breeds distrust All have created dsproportion
 If can't trust each other how expect other nations be trusu? Our country has seldom known such unsettled conditions such unrest is prevalent today and can't trace the blame to socaled normal postwar on We have forgotten else refuse to remember how to trust each other Let's return to principles including the one of faith in our felowman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
Views of the Press
THE ECONOMICS OF PEACE
(New York Times

In his first statement as Secre- tary of Commerce MT. Hartman expressed full support of the foreign policy of President Truman and Secretary Byrnes as being in con- formity with the principles and objectives of President Roosevelt and
 as the road to peace. At the same time, he displayed an understand ing of the problems involved by emphasizing that the essential basis for lasting peace lies not only in political settlements, important as these are, but also in a sound. Am erican and world economy. And his idea of a sound economy is an ex- banding peacetime productivity, available for the needs of all our people and for export as well, in order to provide a foundation for prosperity at home and for our ability, in cooperation with other nations, to order a continuing help ing hand to the peoples of the world.
 In short, what MT. Hartman sug- gests is that production, which is another word for getting down to work, is an essential part of the solution of our economic and poli- tical problems. There can be no doubt of the need and wisdom of that view, at home and abroad. The uncertainties of our labor situation and the handicapS imposed on pro- duction have already produced tre- morS in the American economy which have attracted worldwide stable and expanding American economy is of primary importance in world reconstruction. At the same time, worldwide relief, financed in the main by the United States, is coming to an end with the passage of the emergency period, and world reconstruction must again be put on business basis. We still proffer our help and cooperation, but MT Hartman puts the emphasis not on relief but an exports, which pre- sumes healthy financial and trade relations with nations desiring our help. The first condition for that kind of help is the determination of the other nations to help them selves, so that they may become not clustering military machines but good business partners and sound financial risks.
 If MT. Hartman is able to put such policies into effect at home and abroad, he will do much to cement the peace for which the American delegation is now working in Paris.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
The American Elm

We concerned about the elms in immediate vicinity around the state and throughout New England We The sad story though that the complete destruction of the American elm is likely if remedy is not dis covered The Dutch elm fungus is the for alarm in New England and the Middle West
 A writer in the New York Herad-Tribune discusses the situation from many angles and describes the boring in of the small one-eighth inch insect, something like the boring-in methods of "unfriendly enemy
 The writer states that Connecticut is concentrating just few towns the study of the intrusive enemy We had idea that detailed experimenting and oberat ing the wholly diseased were in order
 There is question that the American elm blight is
 serious matter We have experienced the loss of prized trees city, We would like to contem plate New England without the traditional ems that line our streets and decorate woodlands. The falling of every elm is grave matter to dyed-in-the wool New Englander.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
TIMBER DECLINE (NeW York Times)

F'ignres furnished by the Forest Service of the United States De- partment of Agriculture show that our timber resources are steadily declining. Officials point out that our lumber shortages during the war and at present are not entirely due to labor shortages, equipment short ages or Government price regula- tions. These had an effect, but the basic hindrance to production is more fundamental. It is the growing scarcity of suitable and accessible saw timber in the nation. Each de- cade for the past half century the mills have had to locate farther back in the less accessible regions, aggravating problems of equipment and labor.
 The country today has 40 percent less standing saw timber than it had thirty years ago, g percent less than in 1888. According to a statement from Lyle F. Watts, Chief of the Forest Service, among our experts there is a feeling that very likely the real decline has been much greater than that" During the re- cent past great numbers of six-inch trees have been cut to meet emer- gency needs. Foresters say we are not growing new timber fast enough to replace the drain on our forests. When the long awaited building boom gets under way the nation will need about 40 billion broad-feet a year. Present estimates indicate that the industry cannot produce more than 33 billion feet.
 The Forest Service program is in- tensifying it's efforts to strengthen education as to the how and why of forestry, to increase it's services and research program to private owners, to foster the establishment of more national, State, county and town forests. There are 460 ,00O.0 900 acres of commercial timber in the United States, much of it in run down condition. Some 75,000,0O0 acres are sparsely stocked with in- ferior trees, or practically denuded Forestry officials say that educat- tional efforts for better practices have been more successful with the big forest land owners and com- mercial concerns than they have with the 57 per cent of the small owners who control 260OOO,OOO of the total acreage of commercial timber. A strongly sustained educa- tion program among the 100000 farmers and small owners of forest lands is practical way to stem the ] decline in this imnnrtant reSnllrca
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
COrden Hull Is 75

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-(NEA)-Corden Hull is 75 years old today He probably is spending his birthday in Naval Medical Center, the outskirts of Wash ingon Nothing seriously wrong Just there for check up and rest his doctors ordered several weeks ago
 When the great Secretary of State resigned from his office in November, 1914 after nearly 12 years in Franklin Roosevets Cabinet he spent seven months in the hospital He physical exhaus- tion Even his lean Tennessee mountaineer body could not keep up the pace set by his keen statesman's mind through all the troubled experiences of Span ish war captain, judge, congressman, Democratic National Committee chairman, Senator and guardian of foreign policy.
 Since January of this year CordeI Hulrs first no his second interest-has been the writing of his memoirs. His first interest is still the state of the world and the keeping of the peace.
 Cordell Huls memoirs will be published by Mac milan time next year. probably before Corde Hull is 76. They will be in two volumes-fully 350O0O words. The title has not yet been selected. Volume one will carry the story up to 1889 Volume two will the years. The two volumes will appear at the same tme and they can't fail to become an American classic.
 Tennesseean, who earned the money for his first law books by rafting logs down the Cumberland to Nash vile and went on from there to become the real father of the United Nations. This child is his chief concern.
 Hull's memoirs will be told first person singular It will be his story of his times, but helping him with the manuscript is big, blond Andy Berdng, Asso cated Press correspondent assigned to the State De- partment before the He served in the European theater OS.S.-the cloak and dagger outfit-coming out lieutenant colonel Then Cordell Hull spoke for him to help in the writing of his book
 Four mornings a week since he took the assign ment, Andy Berding has worked with Cordel Hull at his Wardman Park hotel apartment. Berding takes down everything Hull tells him. in shorthand On his next visit he brings back the transcript. Hull goes over it word by word. He marks corrections in red pencil with strong clear hand. Hull has always been great on red pencils He carried them in his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02
The Firing Line By D. N. T.
WEATHER NOTE

I'm fond of the weather in Bangor, St. Louis, Nantucket, l.. A., When the mercury's high in New
 Haven or Chi, I envy their mark for the day Miami's statistics intrigue me, The figures of Hatteras haunt, And love to pore over Portland
 in Ore. And Burlington's day in Vermont. I'm mad for the weather in Frisco, It sounds so attractive, in fine, And I'm held in the throes of the
 Buffalo SnoWs, So much more appalling than mine Oh, I am hound for the weather, But the Bureau should heed my
 complaint: If it shine or it rain, from Seattle
 to Maine, It does what I want where I ain't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02

MT. Truman said that the Ma tion is fin just as great an emer- gency' now as in the days of Pearl Harbor, in talking to group Of Democratic congressional nominees the other day. Ballots may look as dangerous as bullets, but only to certain people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02

Henry Wallace is said to have received more than 800 letters a day since his retirement from the Cabinet. We don't know whether they're from friends or from people who read his statement that he doesn't like to receive or write let ters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-02

The Governments Fish and Widife Service in Washing ton states that close to million sportsmen will emulate Johnny Get Your Gun and hunt wild ducks and geese this year. The way Uncle Sam found out about this ducky bus ess was through records and reports of Hunting stamps previous years and up to the present time.