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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
by Dreze, Pearson

NOTE-Mayor Kelly of Chicago, Ed Flynn of the Bronx, and Gov. Bob Kerr of Oklahoma were the hottest the meat situation during the cosed-docr meeting Kelly said he didn't care who was responsi- ble but he knew the Democrats were going to lose lot of votes didn't do something about the meat situation in a hurry Governor Kerr favored dropping meat controls until after the election while Flynn agreed with Mayor Kelly.
 When members of the State Departments new National Commission for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation met with President Truman last week. they shook hands and were carefully intro duced at tme by Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton.
 The handshaking concluded Benton explained that he had not intended to make individual intro auctions but that the President insisted. Then he added MT. President, here is your group-an demo- cratically elected"
 Most delegates did not hear the President say under his breath: With big D or little a. BillP"
 In normal voice Truman then explained that he had requested the individual introductions because I've got to keep my handshaking arm in trim in an election year especially like to give 1t workout on bipartisan group"
 The President told the group he thinks its con- tribution to world peace be great as that of any other agency in the world He concluded his remarks by saying what he most desires is peace m the world and unity at home"
 The Chief Executive, who ordinarily goes in for coorful haberdashery, was wearing solemn black tie As he finished his plea for domestic unity loud whisper came from the group Of educators
 
 Henry Wallace"
 Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson picked an ideal time for his vacation, the moment of the Wal lace-B -Byrnes feud. He the happiest man in the Administration to have missed the fight. Sighed Mildred Eaton, of Wallaces secretaries when informed her boss had resigned, We haven't got through unpackng from our last move yet Devout Catholic Phil Murray has had some interest ing experiences with the Russians. Murray has been entertaining Russian trade unionistS finds them bursting with ideas for keeping the peace Murray is trying to get more Russians to visit the USA. and vice versa. |. President Truman is urging Jimmy Byrnes to take vacation after he returns from Paris . Mrs Truman refused to use White House while vacationing in Missouri She drove her own all around Independence, gave her chauffeur vacation.
 Swedish correspondent Else StrOhm went down to the Tennessee Valley Authority recently to inter view David Llienhal the AgencyS directing genius. Miss Strohm enormously impressed by the IVA miracle. Informed that it had been entirely con- ceived and developed under the Democratic Admin stration following Cooidge-Hoover opposition, she asked:
 What will happen the Republicans get into offce?"
 Well" replied Lilienthal, they can't blow up the dams"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
MAIL BOX THIEVES
Boston Post,

Postal authorities report that thefts from mail boxes of private homes and apartment houses con- tinue abnormally high. Thieves have found that they can time al- most to the minute the delivery of government checks for War-relaed obligations and because the ease with which such identification med iums as social security cards, driv- CTS licenses and other aids to forg- cry can be adapted to their use find little trouble in cashing the checks. For the public's own protection, banks and stores have every reason to be strict in the cashing of every check.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
w Peter EdSOn

Tt is an awfully complex problem that working on' Chairman Deupree explains. Its solu- ton must not however, be complicated. It must be simple. Not simple to the point of being plan for push-button war-that just can't be. But detailed enough so that know what has to be done. The 1889 M-Day plan failed because 1t not spelled out clearly enough"
 The problem of stockpiling critical war materials has already been given to the Army-N Munitions Board by the last Congress. The board had recom- mended spending 360 million dollars in the first year of operation Congress appropriated 100 million dol lars More money will probably be asked for when Congress reconvenes The whole stockpiling program is expected to cost about two billion dollars, over five-year period.
 The question of plants is, the surface, Q little involved. Generalization of plants began the minute the shooting stopped During the war the government had built some 1,5OO complete plants for munitions production plus additions to some 1,5OO existing, privately-owned plants These latter, in- tegrated facilities are in general being disposed of to private owners.
 Of the governments wholly-owned munitions plants all but about 400 have been released by the Army and Navy for disposal by the War Assets Ad- ministration Within a month the Army-Navy Munl- tions Board hopes to have this number down to per- haps 50 60 It will recommend these be retained in standby condition.
 months ago named Donald M Nelson former WIPE chairman, to make an independent study Nell sons job is apparently to review the findings of the Army Navy Munitions Board, with which he has been in consultation. Nelson may recommend to the President that or fewer plants be kept
 Chairman Deupree came to the board in April. In private life he is president of Procter and Gamble, of Cincinnati But he devoting half his time to this government planning, and he meets weekly with the other two members of the board, Undersecretary Of War Kenneth c. Royal and Assistant Secretary of the Navy w. John Kenney.
 Serving with MT. Deupree executive com mittee, handling the boards affairs full time Brig-Gen. s. P. Spalding and Rear -Admr. R. w. Paine. They have small organization of about 50 officers and civilians, collecting data shaping poll- cies, stimulating the armed service branches into action on mobilization plans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
Westward, HO!

CHICAGO, M.-Why is it that when you wait here, poised for trip Westward there is always the adventurous thrill of getting ready to enter and different land?
 The telephone rang in the morning My wife call ing from Washington
 q got your letter. I knew you hopping off tonight. So caed'
 Hopping off" That tells it.
 We EasternerS!
 And yet it's than that.
 You just get on train and go Westward over the sort of country for awhile, rolling into the same sort of towns seeing the same sort of people. And if you of those hurry-u up fellows and take plane, why it's all done in few hours
 But there's more than that, at least for fellow who's railroader at heart.
 This is the gateway to new and bright land somehow-and I won't let it be any different ever.
 Perhaps it's something that runs deep in the blood of an Easterner-meaning by that who was born and nutured East of our great river. That back to pioneering and pioneer days, covered wagons Indians and cowboys.
 For it is pure adventure to me- and confess it proudly.
 On this trip I had planned to follow my nose moving from here to there, and also to take chance like any newspaper reporter. But I lost my nerve when thought about railroad reservations. At least that the But it was probably that other thing, down in my bones, that led me into the Con- soldated ticket office here the desire to look over train schedles and imagine my way Westward.
 Once, some years ago, during the depression went into of the railroad stations here and found fellow who didn't have anything else to do-nobody riding trains in those days-and he patiently worked out my itinerary. You didn't have to worry ahead then about Pullman reservations. They were exclusive only for newspaper reporters on expense
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
by ThOmas Stokes

account and few others.
 I remember that experience, but I hesitated bit to try it again Railroad people busy these days, and anyhow I'm a timd person about bother Milwaukee roads counter found a man not busy at the moment and sort of olundered into what l wanted.
 But Elmer Moll was a railroader, like myself and a most kind and considerate So together for quite while we had our fun and our release into adventure. Porng over the schedules we worked out itinerary, and he arranged for my sleeping ac- commodationS. It's refreshing these days to find courteous, considerate and patient person In so many places we to have lost those traits during the war. Everybody tired and snapping, at nerves end. hope get them back.
 But MT. Mon never lost them, and-I predict he will
 I think he enjoyed it much as did. And he's efficent-Say that man can take a railroad folder, and even one of those big books, and thumb right to what he wants at once You could tell he was born raroader So arranged my way to the Pa cific Coast and back and I'm sure he saw what did
 Those endless flat plains stretching away, with beef cattle (now so timid about dying for OPA) standing away to the horizon. And-for I'm going through South Dakota-the jack rabbits that pose pertly their launches and watch the train go by And the bad lands with their gaunt treeless humps marching along like starved elephants And the first glimpse of the Rockies, shining far away like some thing from a childhood dream of fairyland And the dark mounds of the cascades in the Northwest, like big, furry bears ambling by and the view of the Golden Gate from the hills about San Francisco.
 Thank you, MT. Moll!
 It's nice to be boy again, lying on your stomach before the fire reading about pioneers and the di 
 Let there always be West. promised land
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

MT. Truman, momentarily aband- oning his role as President of the United States in order to assume that of Democratic party leader, has provided the national Congressional campaign with as formal an open ing as it is likely to have He has received little group of hopeful Democratic aspirants at the White House and told them that the "wel- fare of the United States" depends upon their election. He has blamed all our troubles upon the "obstruc- tionist tactics" of the opposition-in this case the Republicans-and as- sured the home team-in this case the Democrats-that it will be necessary to have unemployment" if their 1944 platform is carried out. Thus the balderdash season defin- itely begins. One need not blame MT. Truman; he is, after all, vic- tim of the ancient custom of the country, and as for the balderdash, plenty more of it will be contributed from all quarters before we reach the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
 Yet there are issues behind the campaign oratory, and even MT. Tu- mans conventional little exercise hints at them in spite of itself. There has been "obstructionism," and everybody knows perfectly well that it is not only Republicans from which it has come. The promise about no more unemployment "if' the 1914 platform is carried out is chiefly interesting for it's proviSo. Everybody knows that it has not been carried out by the present Dem ocratic majorities, and that MT. Tru- mans best efforts to get his oddly assorted party behind his own in- depreciation of it were an almost to- tai failure. That this or any other program would succeed any better in a new Congress dominated by the same warning Democratic fission fragments is question which may not bulk very large in the campaign speeches-especially the Democratic campaign speeches-but that will be active in the minds of the citizens at the polling booths.
 Like all Congressional elections this one will, of course, be affected by a great number of local and spe- cial issues. But it will have more truly national character than is usual in most "of years" The New Deal is long since dead, whatever of it's effects may have lived after it; We have learned that great nation cannot be run upon a legend even a Roosevelt legend and no matter how carefully it may be nurtured: there are only fragments left, as dis
 parate as Bilbo and the Political Action Committee, and the time has come for the American voter to de- termine whether it is possible to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
New M-Day Plan

WASHINGTON Oct. I-(NEA) )-"People don't go around skipping Joe Louis in the face" says Richard R. Deupree chairman of the Army Navy Munitions Board That's why thorough industrial mobiliza ton plan for the United States will make others hesitate to attack It will be the greatest insur ance for peace the greatest preventive of war, that the country can have"
 For little over a year the ANIME, reconsti tuted by President Truman, has been working new industrial mobilization plan Eventually the board hopes to write an M-Day manual which will outline complete plan for mobilization of U s. in dustral resources, in the United States should again be attacked and have to go to war
 No would bet money today that this will come in one year or two years, or even five years" says Mr. Deupree. But if you bet money against war, you have to know what you're going to do if you lose your money on that bet"
 The United States had an M-Day plan back in 1889, prepared with the advice of elder statesman Bernard Baruch and his mobilizers of 1917. But World War II closer, President Roosevelt decided that other arrangements would be better So the M-Day plan scrapped, and with it went the original Army-Navy Munitions Board set up in 1922 Its duties were absorbed by the War Production Board.
 Gradually, these other arrangements were found unavoidable, there return to organization closely resembling the M-Day plan of 1889 And to- wards the end of World War II the War Production Board and the procurement branches of the arme> services functioning with what appeared to b reasonable efficiency.
 If should come tomorrow the government would have to go back to the organization it had in effect year ago. "The last war industrial war" says MT. Deupree, 'and the will be an industrial war. The assumption is that the country best prepared to supplies of materials plants, and procurement policies will have the ad- vantage
 The M-Day plan now in preparation has nothing to do with planning the strategy of conducting the shooting That is entirely up to the armed ices Theirs is the decision to what the weapons will be- where and how they will be produced All Munitions kP sure that adequate materials and plants are ready to produce those weapons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
Views of the Press

limp along further on the remnants of the past or whether it is neces- sary to reorganize the political life of the country on fresh and firm CT basis. The thought peeped even between MT. Truman's words; it will lie behind the local issues in every Senatorial contest and every Con- gress district this fall
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01

Ceiling prices do not seem to be impeding the need production of any agricultural commodity :" Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. It's just that deplorable lack of steel for the manufacture of beef cattle that is the trouble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
Our British Brethren

The sensational London trial of mutilaon slayer Neville George Heath revealed again that British brethren for all their soried truly emotional kin Thrill seekers lined up priority numbers and a outside the little courtroom night themselves of chance the morning. at of the 35 seats open to the public And hawkers displaying what often termed typical Amer ingenuity sold Heaths biography in the streets for shilling copy
 Yes, the British attached to this trial holiday atmos phere unmsakaby similar to that with which Americans accustomed to surrounding most lurid cases.
 But-and the exception seems very important one while the British people generally reacted do Americans under similar circumstances the British authorities example which might well be followed often here They ignored the gallery and conducted the trial with American speed got guilty" verdict in just hour and immediately sentenced the killer to be hanged Execution in England usually follows within three weeks of sentencing
 We've been waiting a long time for Ronald Blair of Jackson Mch Ronald refused admittance to classes at Western Michigan College because every classroom taken caused the ban to bA lifted He brought folding chair with him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
THE GREATER THREAT

From the cradle to the grave, The devils set to misbehave, With his yen for deviltry Plain as day for all to see.
 His intention through his life, Palpable to maid or wife, S egregious all admit
 Who become aware of it. Curse of husband and of swain, He's an omnipresent bane, And they ask why he should live When he grows demonstrative. If the lady be not blind, She can always tell his kind; Since he's openly intense, She can build her devils fence. But the greater peril lies For her in averted eyes, In the still, indifferent sort, Tn the angel kind, in short.
 William z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party in this country, warns that the et-tough-with Rus sia policy threatens to plunge this nation into war. If Moscow wants to find out what that policy has done to us in the past, We refer it to any biography of George HI. ...
 A large railroad has installed an automatic ticket vending machine that, according to an AP story, Adoes everything but announce the trains How in the world did they ever teach it not to answer the sta- tion telephone2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01
The Firing Line By D. N. I.
PERENNIAL COMPLAINT

The end of Daylight Saving
 Time
 Finds that no less sleepy I'm. Henry Ford says that at present there is a shortage of "the right kind of labor" There doesn't, how ever, seem to be any shortage of the Left.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01

It is MT. Truman's considered opinion that the Democratic Party is the only party that has ever worked for all the people of the United States. For instance, re- member how Abraham Lincoln and his Republicans let the South down?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01

Here and there, there is still a gleam of hope and encouragement Everyone got through the sweet corn season without applying his choppers to a well-oleoed ear.
 A psychological columnist asks if the aim of modern science is merely to enable people to live longer. At first glance anyway, it appears tc be to enable them to die less hap oily.
 The War Department has i'm formed the meat industry thai the Army will take One-fourth of the United States meat supply Any day now they'll be backing the jeep up to haul it away.
 A new type of grass that repels insects of all kinds has been dis covered. But it has come too late te do anything about that incessant slumber- -shattering nocturnal con- cert this year.
 Dan Tobin says the membership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is 866,820, making il the largest union in the world. That must be more teamsters thar horses.
 The rodeo has returned to Madi- son Square Garden for thirty day stay. There, MT Jacobs, is youl logical opponent for MT. Joe Louis
 pr. Frank D. Packenthal, acting president of Columbia University recently advised new students tc forget slogans during their col. legiate careers. First prize will go tc freshman who thinks up something startling and original to take tht place of Hold that line"
 A War Assets Administration off cial has been suspended. Strange ly enough, it wasn't because he solo something for price approaching the value of the item, either.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-01

Here and there, there is still a gleam of hope and encouragement. Everyone got through the sweet corn season without applying his choppers to a well-oleoed ear.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1946-02-01
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Philadelphia Penn. Gets First
Colored High School Teacher

Pennsylvania from which she re-
ceived both her Bachelors and
Masters degrees in Education. She
attended Ohio State and Columbia
Universities, and also travelled In
Europe. She taught In Arkansas
State College; Dunbar High, Day
ton. Ohio; Armstrong High. Wash
ington. D, c. and Sulzberger jun
ior High, Philadelphia. She comes
from a family of educators. Her
father Bishop Wright, began his
professional career as professor OF
Hebrew and Greek at Wilberforca
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Wilberforce Holds Mass
Meeting For Permanent
F. E. P. c.


Mrs. Anna Arnold Hedgeinan.
executive secretary Of the Council
for Permanent F.E.P.C.. was the
speaker in mass meeting held at
Wilberforce University on sunday.
January 13. More than eleven hum
dred Wilberforce students and
many Of the faculty of the Uni
versity filed Jones Memorial Au-
ditorium to hear Mrs. Hedgeman
tell Of the great necessity Of or
ganized action to fight for a fair
employment practices law.
In the audience and participat-
ing on the program were students
and residents OF nearby Antioch
and Wooster college communities.
Following the address Of Mrs.
Hedgeman there was spirited
question period after which rally
was held in which more than $155
was raised for support Of the fight
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1946-02-01

for permanent F.E.P.C. A large
part Of the collection was contrib
uted by fraternities, sororitiss and
other organizations on the campus.
Mr.. Arinend B. Walker Of the
Cincinnati Council Of Social Agen-
cies. DR.. Charles e. Stewart. Dean
Of Religion at Wilberfofce Univer-
sity. Mrs. Ernest Morgan Of yell
low Springs. Ohio. Mr.. Waliick Of
Antioch College, and Rev. 8. Amos
Brackeen. pastor OF Zion Baptist
Church, xenia, Ohio, also appeared
on the program The Wilberforce
Girls Ensemble, under the direc-
tion Of Miss f. Isabel Askew, fur
nished music for the occasion. Mrs.
Mary r. Valentine. Of Wilberforcc.
Is the chairman Of the Greene
County F.EP.C. Committee under
whose auspices the mass meeting
was held,
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1946-02-01

no Negro was ever employed to
teach In the mixed high schools
except temporarily as a substitute.
She will teach English.
Mrs. Hayre was an outstanding
student in the West Philadelphia
High School and won place In
the dramatic group at that school
attended at that time almost who'll
~ by whites. She made the Ma
tional honor society, and won both
Pennsylvania state and Philadel-
phia city scholarships aggregating
5000 q year to the University OF
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1946-02-01

erett S. Hughes. He had been sta
toned at Theater Service Forces,
European Theater (TSFET) Head
quarters In Paris.
General Davis, who was retired
as q Regular Army Colonel on
July 81, 1941, about eight months
after his promotion to the tempo4
rary rank Of brigadier general (Oc-
tober 25, 1940l, was recalled to ac.
tive duty the following day. He
was assigned to the European
Theater In September, 1912, for
a months temporary duty as ad-
visor on Negro problems. He re-
turned to Washington and was as
signed to the Office Of the Inspec-
tor General.
General Davis returned to the
European Theater on July IL,
1914. and in November of that year
became Special Assistant to the
Commanding General, Con1muni-
cations Zone. ETO, with Head
quarters at Paris.
For his service in France the
French Government awarded Gen
eral Davis the Legion Of Honor
and the Croix de Guerre with
palm, In addition he also wears
the Distinguished Service Medal
awarded to him for his exception
ally meritorious service to the
United States Government as spe-
cial War Department consultant on
matters pertaining to Negro
troops.
He was cited for conducting
..(Continued on page Az.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1946-02-01
Ruth Wright Hayre, Daughter Of
Bishop Wright. Appointed
Former Dayton. Ohio, Teacher.

Mrs. Ruth Wright EIayre. for
mer teacher In Dunbar High School,
Dayton. daughter Of Bishop r. r..
Wright, Jr, former president OF
Wilberforce. is the first colored
person to be appointed regular
teacher In q Philadelphia, Penna.,
Senior High School, as result Of
8 city-wide examination In which
more than 1000 persons took part.
Up to Mrs. Hayre's appointment