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Evening star., 1946-12-31
After Dark
September Song in December;
S. Lucas Has an Opening at Last
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

monico's. Mr.. Heller is a dynamic
young man with the polished style
of q performer who has sung from
many stages for a number of years.
BY this time he knows just what
ne can do with his voice and he does
it to perfection. Listening to Mr..
Heller Is a guaranteed pleasure.
The new Delmonico's show also has
an accomplished dancer named VII
ma Sherry, whose spins are sensa-
tional and sort of comedian named
Lou Nelson, whose jokes are elderly
We may have caught him on an
off night, of course.
The Club Cairo has as its head
liner Jerry Wayne, a young man
who is well known, among other
things for his Hit Parade" sessions
on the radio. Mr.. Wayne gets
along fine with his singing Of popu-
lar songs until he comes up with
an imitation of Jean Sablon, which
sets the Jean Sablon admirers to
snarling. There also are Tito and
Corrinne Valdez, a pair Of skilled
dancers and Ted Taft and the Debu-
tantes, he also being an able dancer
and the debutantes being four pretty
girls who help him with his work.
There's a comedian here. too. His
name is George Kaye and his jokes
also are elderly.
Holiday attraction at the Old
New Orleans is Helen Penn, lyric
soprano whose voice has won her
a Julliard scholarship acclaim at
a recent Town Hall concert in New
York and the attention of Maggie
Teyte, who Is coaching her now.
That should give you an idea.
X \
Now, about that way to avoid
feeling the way you are sure to be
feeling tomorrow, even II you did
not ask for our advice. This is no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
Systems and Results

Tn his aledctorv address as retiring president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Eric Johnston called for thew national fervor" for the new capitalism which he advocates-a human institution vibrant and evolution ary capable constantly adjusting itself to new condtlons
 This thesis which Mr. Johnston argued with good sense and realism is But it hasn't been common o1 aCe 4o hear man in public life urge positive aggressive pride in the capastic system, and at the same time ao l'S shortcomings.
 There are many course, who will take an aggressive stand for the status quo, and who consider capitalism closed and perfect system of life resting congeaed ana untouchable dogmas," as MT. Johnston put it.
 There are others who the defensive, who apolo gze weakly for the system or, more extremey carge @ capitalism fundamentally wrong that 1t Is gettng worse and that might better be scrapped than overhaued It they who tell that must show Russia that works better than Communism, else adopt Communism.
 To be sure capitalism not at the top of the economic heap today The British people have elected pledged modified Socialism And most of the nnefateo countries of Europe turning either toward Brltans ne" course or toward Russas Communism
 But does that that capitalism is wrong in theory Or have Europeans their collective back capitalism because they blame it, practced in their own cou tries for many of the msforunes that befe them? cap- tasm hasn't worked fairly and justly in Chma for example must we then call it wrong for the United States?
 The results are important And if the results are bad people tend change the technique when they are free to do so But famine famine whether under Communism or OIigarchy-and it has occurred under both
 Let us ook then at the material results of capitalism III America They imperfect but what other system more in human comfort? And the mperfectons are belng remedied though there is still long way to go.
 Todays capitalism the capitalism of 50 or even zO years ago It not the capitalism of the Jay Gouds and the Jim Fsks the sweat shops and l2hour days ana tne public be damned" Gradually freedom of opportunity ana and realization for the many has been the expense of freedom of exploitation for the fe though some have fought all advancement bitterly.
 By all the evidence around capitalism works Tn Amer ica-not perfectly but we'll It will probably work Deter with little of the national fervor Mr. Johnston sug gest considerably less apology seshness class picker ing, and defeatism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

even Staunch conServatveS It mas sCarted no reVo- lutionS
 But there has been movement in Congress from the right easily overlooked because 1t involved seem- ingy complicated matters, at least made to look complicated Their purpose however, is simple. that is, to protect and strengthen entrenched economic interests to the detriment of the rank ct- gen. Monopoly or private government by private in terests, is what 1t all spells out
 The irony is that this threat to our competitive. blatant about free enterprise. But they know what they are up to.
 
 Reference has been made here before to the at- tempt of the great insurance industry in the middle of the war; to exempt itself from our laws and thus deprive the public of its champion against extortonate rates and charges They won out in the House but were checked in the Senate-and through compromise-by the alertness of Senator OMa- honey (D, Wyo0 who knew what they were up to.
 Another campaign to break down the antitrust laws is now on even more farreaching in its effects on all of us.
 This is the attempt of the railroads to get out from under the antitrust laws through the so-caed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
Monopoly Rides Again By 1Homas Stokes

3ulwinAe bill It, too passed the House, often a most undiscernng body But the Justice Departments anti-trust division, and such others as Gov ElllS Arnal of Georgia laid before the Senate Interstate rate fixing by railroads and allied transportation agencies drawn within their orbit, which this bill would perpetuate and strengthen. So the conlnlttee has had its eyes opened. tNs Z
 The bill would exempt from anti-truSt action agreements on rates among railroads through rate bureaus or conferences that are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The point about such rate agreements, which the Justice Department has demonstrated in actual cases is that they are controlled from the top by one organization, the American Association of Railroads which itself. in turn, has tie-ups with great New York banking houses. It is private empire above the government and people
 This top stratum has tremendous power because the banks in turn, affiliated with the nations great industries. By the way it fixes railroad and allied transportation rates for example, 1t not only raises the cost of living for you and me, for freight rates are important item, but 1t also can hold back development of certain sections such as, Tor example the South and West. This it has done It's interests lie with vested industrial enterprise Tn the East.
 So powerful was this hierarchy that it refused reductions in rates to the government during the war in many cases and those excessive charges all come out of our pocketbooks taxpayers New freight claSSifcaons devised in some cases to get higher rate During the war, too, and before. this railroad hierarchy stretched its influence. other forms of transportation in the effort to get them to raise their rates to the railroad level thus leaving the hapleSs shipper, in many cases no com petitive recourse
 Because of it's importance to the average citi- gen. the story will be told here in series
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

Then the bills to abolish the poll tax and to create a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission came up in Congress. Bilbo took out after them. And choice crew Of northern news paper columnists and radio commentators. aided by the CIO Political Action Committee, took out after Bilbo All during the poll tax and FEPC fights these professional bleeding railed while Bilbo ranted
 The result was that the people of Mississippi reacted as anyone with grain of sense should have anticipated They decided that if the north didn't like Bilbo, he must be all right. He became hero. and he practically cinched his own reelection
 Actually, it isn't the November election that counts in Mississippi Since there's Is no Republican opposition few people bother to vote unless it's 8 presidential election year. If nominated, Bilbo will probably be returned to the Senate by vote of little more than 5OOOO, out of votng-age population of a million of which white voters compose one-hah
 The primary on July 2 is something else again. That's what counts, and Bilbo will have to stay home till it's over From 15OOOOY to 100000 votes will be cast in the primary.
 Before Bilbo left Washington, he confided to one politician that he had -four opponents. but no oppo- sition" The only thing he had to be afraid Of was that the northern coumnists and radio oraces would stop attacking him. And if the CI!O.-P.A.C. ccntin- ued to be against him, he was safer still The only way to beat Bilbo say the native Mis- sissippians is for the damn Yankees 70 shut up and let the people of Mississippi deal with him n their
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
Views of the Press
THIS ISN'T BARGAINING

(The Christian Science Monitor)
 That the coal strike is not only threatening but actually doing shocking damage to the economy and the general welfare of the Ma tion is evidenced on the front page of every American newspaper. In SC doing it is undermining the entire structure of collective bargaining built up painfully over the years.
 Labor has won better pay and better working conditions, and at the same time gained public ac- ceptance of the right to organize and bargain collectively, because, in the main, both labor and manage ment have found ways to reach settlements short of pulling down the house around them. There have been some notorious except ions, but within the general bounds of such a framework has collective bargaining grown. The coal strike has alfeady broken through the farthest reaches of these bounds.
 It would not be fair to say that, in the issues involved, all the right is on one side. Back of John L. LewiS's safety and welfare talk lies g. real need for improvement.
 But from what leaks out from the closed doors of the coal parleys, it is the UNIV. which Is refusing to bargain. MT. Lewis demands, the operators say, blanket acceptance 'in principle" of a welfare fund, but will not discuss how it might be administered and safe-guarded, and for what. The operators assert they have made counterproposals, which MT. Lewis brushes off and his policy committee now denounces. To the public, MT. Lewis says noth- ing.
 Does his silence spring from a complete and callous disregard for public opinion and public welfare? Is he willing to push his dilatory vagueness to gain a tactical ad- vantage at the cost of crippling his country's whole economy? What great issue is at stake which could justify such 8 price?
 In what of enlightenment from MT. Lewis, his fellow citizens can not but hold him and his union chiefly responsible-and it is a very heavy responsibility indeed.
 The AZ. of L. has made much of it's record of gaining wage in- creases and better conditions with minimum of strikes. It seems strange that William Green should go out of his way, as he has done, to associate his whole Federation publicly with strike whcih threat ems to bring upon union labor the greatest wave of popular resentment in many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
Music Week in Waterbury

The importance of music in the community is being stressed this week Waterbury in observance of National Music Week Once again have returned to the prewar pace musicay and events of infinite variety have been pre- pared for the enjoyment and education of the musiovng public.
 Music Week in local observance to bring to the attention the musical at hand We reminded that there not two musical worth while but great number all capable of handling their pro- grams with neatness and dispatch.
 It is fine thing for community to appreciate music and to educate themselves in such matters Surely Water bury which has long been musical city, has to the front in such matters They entertain during the season from their store of amateur taent likewise professional
 manner in that artists of the first rank visit the city year. Waterbury is servced with the Mattatuck Musical Art Society that in turn is affiliated with national organ zaon that has been boon to artists in the making And Waterbury likewise has Civic Orchestra of dimensions and artistic worth that have identified leading organization of its kind; organization that has advanced steadily musical value to the community that firm and lasting foundation is sought to make it permanent thing in community.
 So in consideration of Waterburys musical appreciation shall sa it is unusual that the city should go aout
 the celebration of National Music Week. musical talent willing and the public receptive to what the city has c offer in musical way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
Bad Setting for a Tantrum

FYorelo LaGuarda has really pitched in and started things moving since he took director general or UNRRA. But besides bringing to his new job the dynamic energy which he displayed mayor of New York; he seems also to have retained of the less winning qualities of temperament which also marked his long term in ofce
 For instance he recently warned congressman during
 broadcast that this legislator and his colleagues must propriate $6OOOOOOOO UNRRA "gracousy He threat ened to quit Eff there is haggng any bitterness any controversy or bad taste this appropriation"
 Surely there any lack of congressional gracousness over this appropriation it will not be directed at Mr. La Guardia personally And surely Mr. LaGuarda rather petty offer to resign the tons of congressional de- bate did not please him will neither frghen Congress nor solve any difficulties that may be encountered in the UNRRA matter.
 Mr. LaGuardia cannot overestmate the importance of the tremendous and Hateful job which he has tackled and which he has seemed to do well to He can vastly overestmate his personal importance in that job
 The $500 100000 which MT. LaGuardia asks for UNRRA intended buy food for starving people, They do not whether the money appropriated with bad taste good They only want the food which the will buy Getting that food to them task which Mr. LaGuarda has bravey undertaken We hope he will not permit the picayune conditions which he laid down to turn him from that task
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
In Today's Mail
WAR TORN EUROPEAN BLIND IN DESPERATE NEED OF
 REHABILITATION

WdUCA Ou4yS SOAAA'
 May 9, 1946 Editor of The Democrat:
 The blind people of the war torn countries of Europe are in a des- perate plight. There has been no organized work done for them dur ing the five years of war. For many, the once familiar surroundings are now rubble. They need appliances helpful to the blind, as well as food, clothing and rehabilitation assistance toc newly blinded soldiers and civilians.
 The American Foundation for Overseas Blind, 598 Madison Ave- nue, New York 9, has been or ganized to bring this help to the sightless abroad. John Foster Dulles has been appealing to the Ameri- can public in its behalf. AS funds are made available, braille printing presses will be set up abroad and constructive rehabilitation programs established. Checks from those who wish to help, may be sent sto the American Foundation for Overseas Blind, 598 Madison, New York p. ROBERT B. IRWIN, Executive Director American Foundation for Overseas
 Blind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
BilbO's Four PeckerWOOdS By Peter Edson

own way It's his northern, out-of-state opposition that re-elects Bilbo every time.
 As for Bilbos -four peckerwood" opponents in the primary ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins of Meridian and Jackson is the best known Collins has served 10 terms in Congress. He and B1lbo were great pals in their early yearS and capalgned from the same buggy Collins was state attorney general when Bilbo lieutenant governor. Later they fell out over settlement of a state antitrust suit and they have been enemies ever since.
 This is Colinss third try for the Senate He ran third in the 1884 primary Bilbo winning the run-off Collins also to succeed the late Pat Harrison in 1041 but was beaten by James O. Eastland Collins will probably have big campaign fund for his race against Bilbo in this years primary but Bibo will get the votes.
 Of the other candidates Douglas Smith is a landscape architect and greenhouse operator in Jack son. He ran for Congress once and got less than 1000 votes in the primary.
 Nelson Levings is just out of the Navy, in which he was 8 lieutenant commander. He saw no battle action, but he to it that the flag of Mississippi was flown from the mast of the USS. Missouri when Macarthur came aboard to accept the Japanese sur render Levngs was in Washington recently, and ar ranged to have himself photographed riding on the trolley-car with Bilbo Levngs once ran for ieuen- ant governor of Mississippi, and was defeated
 The fourth candidate is Frank (Peachtree) Harper great hitch-hiker, he is B years old and weighs 90 pounds He used to carry peachtree seedlings around. selling them and got his nickname from that He served in the state legislature for while and gained fame by introducing bill to plant peachtrees along the state highways.
 Just before the election lists closed, sixth can didate got into this for the Senate in the per- son of Tom e. Ellis, of Water Valley, Miss, g town of about 2O00. Ellis for the past 10 years has been clerk of the Mississippi Supreme Court, g job to which he was elected and reelected overwhelmingly. He has been all over the state apd has wide acquaintance. Tom Ellis may give sBlho and Ross Collins little trouble
 Another source of hope is that with six candi dates in the field, no will get majority on tn first primary, and run-off between the two hgl men will be necessary In such rlin-off comhinet opposition might beat Bilboy But it's doubtful
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

Inspection Act empowering annual inspection of mines by the U. s. Bureau of Mines. However the coal operators lobby in Congress succeeded in win- ming its battle against compulsion In other words. the operators don't have to carry out Bureau of Mines recommendations. The Bureau can only ad- wise.
 Larger mines however, usually do carry out these recommendations and it is the small mines where most accidents occur
 Conflict also. exists between state and Federal inspection, with the operators preferring state n- spectors, who more lax, more politically minded and sometimes secretly conspring with the oper- ators.
 State laws also vary greatly And the Bureau of Mines cannot make flat recommendation con- trary to state law For instance, the big mining states of Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia have laws to determine, by use of flame safety lamp, when mine is gassy This lamp can pick up deadly methane the most common mine explosive gas down to a minimum of around percent.
 However the Bureau of Mines insists that a mine is gassy and dangerous if there is as much as one-tenth of percent of methane present, and the Bureau, not trusting the safety lamp makes its test by laboratory analysis which is foolproof.
 The day after last Christmas, there was an ex- ploson in the Beva Mine near Pinevile, Ky. Twenty six lost their lives. This mine was not "gassy" under Kentucky law, which meant that men could work in it with open (carbide) lamps. The Bureau of Mines, however, held that 1t was gassy and sug gested the of closed (eectric) lamps The Bureaus tests had shown onertenth of 1 percent of gas, but the mine had been closed for three days Christ mas and the gas had accumulated.
 Result: The bodies of 20 men still lie buried in the Belva Mine.
 Unquestionably the miners deserve 8 uniform National Mine Inspection Act giving the Federal Government full power of enforcement Also there is lot of merit to the idea of welfare fund but not when controlled by one man, and not when rammed down the throat of the American public at the point of 8 gun. Nearest thing to welfare fund in any other industry is the fund administered by the Railroad RetireIpent Board which was created by Act of Congress
 If there was more leadership in Washington, the ground would have been cut from under John L. Lewis long ago by move to meet the miners safety welfare demands by legislation instead of allowing the situation to strangle the nations economy
 
 Democratic National Committee Chairman Bob Hannegan tried to submit his resignation to President
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

We crease hat to fit the per- sonality of the man who's going to wear it"-From a matters ad in the New York Herald Tribune.
 ORDER SUBMITTED I am expansive in my mood,
 Or just the opposite, and I Am gently spoken, also rude,
 And sometimes forward, some times shy;
 I'm generous, and to a fault,
 And there are days when I'm so
 tight,
 I almost seem to count the salt,
 And swear the switches off at
 night;
 I'm joyful as the winging lark,
 And yet I'm sad and drown in tears
 And often mourn from dawn to dark,
 Or so they tell me, it appears; One day I beam the next I'm gruff;
 One day I scream, then next I purr
 One day I'm smooth, the next I'm
 rough,
 As many witnesses concur. So crease it, flair it, get it whirled, And match me well, and then I'll swear
 That it will look, for all the world, Like nothing save the one I wear. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen wants the Government to seize, own and operate the Nations railroads. It's hard to understand why; that would make the trainmen Federal em- pl0yeS-whO get a raise about once every six administrations, if that often.
 Washington is considering rais- ing the ceiling prices of grain. The idea is that grain will get out of the elevator, if the prices get in.
 The House Appropriations Con- mittee cut the Interior Depart ment's budget request in half. Prob ably with the mental regret that Harold Ickes wasn't still in there. l From London comes the news that the House of Commons over- whelmingly approved the Govern ment's proposal to withdraw Brit aims entire military establishment from Egypt. We don t know when the troops will leave, but judging from the lack of alacrity with which other projects of the same nature are being undertaken, they'll wait for Moses to lead them out.
 Secretary VinsOn insists. that the law provides for fair and equitable margins of profit to business, in his argument for the continuance of OPA. Apparently American businessmen are just Sulking because the Allies upped and won 8 war for them while their backs were turned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

diSproVe this theory and show, m- stead, that amid all the bowling about the danger from the left, forces on the other side have been moving in quietly to consoli- date themselves.
 Since before the war Congress has enacted no new law of the new deal stripe, or "leftish", If that designation is preferred, with 8 single exception. That was the watered-down version of the so- called Full Employment Bill. In itc final form if vUnn annr0va1 0f
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

of -four peckerWOOdS" who were trying to take his job away from him.
 Prominent MississippianS who follow closely the way politics is played in their native state claim that year or so ago Bilbo was beaten. The word had got around that BiIbo was doing his state no good in Washington, that he had no patronage to speak of, and that he had got the state little or nothing in the way of federal money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

Laundering, coal and metal mining cost more lives per work ing hour than any other indus tries in the nation. According to the National Safety Council there are sos disabling injuries for every 100000 man-hours in the coal and metal mines, compared to 1446 disabling injuries per 1,OO0,O 900 man-hours of work in the entire nation.
 As late as 1041, Congress passed the National Coal Mine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-10

Although there are fewer cars registered (than in 1941) and travel accommodations are crowded, re- ports from all over the country in- dicate that almost everyone who owns a car is planning trips-El- mer Jenkins, manager AAA Touring Board.