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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
SHADBUSH
lNew York Tirnesl

(New York TimeS)
 Shad have begun their spawning runs up the rivers, and on the river banks and back on the rocky hill- sides the shadbush gleams creamy white with opening blossom. Shad- blow, some call it, or Juneberry or serviceberry. Botanists identify it as Amelanchier., one of the dozens of variants in the rose family, cousin of the apple and the haw. There are, indeed, almost dozen different shadbushes in these northeastern United States, varying from mere shrubs to trees twenty five or thirty feet high.
 Most conspicuous is probably the tree identified as Amelanchier standing like a plume in the wood canadensis, the big shadbush now standing like plume in the wood- land. Its blooms have hastened out of their buds before the leaves, urged on this year by unseasonably warm March. Bees are buzzing around its sweetness, which has suggestion of rose fragrance but with a wild spicy tang. Its slim up- lifted stems are full of blossom. not as brilliant as the dogwood will be, but bright and catching at this season. And there is an almost softnesS to the shadblow's slim petals.
 The bloom will not last long Leaves will soon take its place. But by June there will be berries all along those stems now so whitely petaled, fruits the size of a small fingerend, crimson and then blue as huckleberries and finally pur- pie black when the are ripe. Boys will eat them and wish they had more flavor. And birds will eat them gratefully. For shadbush belongs to the open woods and its people. use its wood now and then for tool handles or to make fishing rods or umbrella handles. But when they do they call it lancewood, retaining only a scrap of its Latin name and simplifying even that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

world and on the next day cali for immediate scrap ping of military might
 Tt is no answer to say that We do not need a large army in the atomic age No knows yet precisely what we shall need-in terms of infantry artillery pilots, paratroopers ships radar, planes rockets or bombs
 It takes General Macarthur few more words to speak his piece. but Ii you wade through his long paragraphs and involved sentences you come up with these points:
 GENERAL MacARTHuR-'"The United Nations Organization admirable is it's purpose, great and noble as are its aims, can only survive If 1t abolish (es) war as a sovereign right. Such a re- nunciation must be simultaneous and universal. lt must be all or none.
 'sThe present lnstFumentallty 70 enforce It's will the pooled armed might of its component nations --can at best be but temporary expedent 90 long as nations still recognize co-exsteht the sovereign right Of bsllgerency No thoughtful man will fall to recognize that with the development of modern science another war may blast mankind 70 perditlon but atil we hestiate-sti e cannot, despite the yawnng abyss at our feet, unshackle ourselves rom
 'Tiiercln Hes the chidlIke faith ln the fntuIe-- faith that. as m the past the world can somsno~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
'Unkind to Truman Week By Thos Stokes

President last weekend to our two chief allies against playing old-fashioned power politics in the Middle East
 It is measured, too by the happy concord at the end of terrible and the discord created by Russia in the United Nations meeting in New York.
 Yet, wthnn the year, and this is not to be for gotten, the United Nations created ratified by Senate with only two dissenting voices, and is functionng organization, whatever troubles be- set it. And too created the international bank and international monetary fund, now functioning, and so also various other agencies for keeping the peace by promoting international stability and well fare.
 The distance between that day when Harry Tru- man became president and now is measured also by the distance between those days when Congress wished him 50 well and now when it is fighting him many fronts.
 We are in of great chance.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt started it in our domestic economy, not only because he in- tentoned, but because he had to- He rode the storm
 Harry Truman Is the victim of the transition, for it is still going He inherited it. Never the clash sharp between what politically, is called the right and the left. Extremists making the big noises.
 On the right are those who would take us back to that age for which Vincent Youmans created his most entcing songs, the hilarious 20s Youmans died the other day, but that age had passed long ago On the left are those who would hurry us forward dizzly to bright age, and Americans don't like to be hurried.
 Harry Truman is the middle in all this caught between the conflicting forces. So, in truth would be any other man who succeeded to the pres idency in these times Someone might have done better. Someone might have done much worse.
 Perhaps it's good occasion, citizens, to wish him luck for the next year in the toughest job in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

It's the fashion-so here goes another.
 Nobody has been really mean unkind to the President because it's practically impossible to be. That tells something about the man. and about his failures in his fist year, and his successes Nor can he be unkind to anybody He's not built that way Which tells something more about him.
 It's been long year because of all that has happened To Harry Truman it porbably seemed like the longest in his life.
 It has been long time since that day when President Roosevelt died at Warm Springs and MT Truman came down from the Senate to take the oath. He stepped first and foremost, into the man. agement of a war which then appeared likely to last much longer in the Pacific than it did.
 It seems years since that day five months later when the President walked out on the White House lawn with Mrs. Truman to announce the end of the war with Japan.
 Yet the distance from that day to this seems even longer when it is measured by the distance from the joyful concord at the dawn of peace among the three allies and their peope-this country, Bri tain and RusSa-and the warning issued by the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
Enlistments Curtailed

Congress has passed of exceedingly generous bills which make the American enlisted unquestonably the postpaid bestclothed besthoused and bestcaredfo soldier in history Government officials have pleaded for volunteers the basis of national need and of ad vantage The and the radio have skfuy beaten the drum for enistments Unsettled and uncomfortable cond Yet enstments have not and not coming in anything approaching the required proportion.
 There must of course be reason The current Llch- fed England Army court-martia revelation perhaps pro- vdes good idea as to just what that s It gives eshandblood reality to the caste system" which former enlisted repeatedly cite the for their reaction to all things military
 An Army captain has resigned assistant prosecutor of the Lched trial charging that the has been flag ranty mishanded in apparently deliberate attempt to and junior officers.
 The itself is interesting-and enlghtening. The defendants stand accused of participating concerted policy of brutay mstreatng American prisoners confined at the Lchfeld Reinforcement Depot.
 This story is neither puzzling to discharged soldiers Rightly wrongly they emerged from wartime service with impression that extraegal protection is cherished privilege of officers And having seen rough treatment of GI prisoners the accepted practice at Army posts they feel that the Lched guardhouse proce- dure probably was in no sense revolutionary.
 Here is revelation and practice which may we'll be brought to the attention not only of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- 0Wer but also of the vigorously pubcZed board of former officers and enlisted men concerning itself with tiOns for "democratizaton" of the Army.
 For the United States does desperately need large Army at present It reasonably expect it's youth to rce personal comfort and personal saeyn order to implement the national gains so recently purchased with blood and ears the battlefield of the world.
 But it cannot expect young men brought up in the American heritage of equality before the law and of pro- tecon for the rights of the most hardened criminal voluntarily to surrender that heritage by ensting in m tary organization which guarantees them neither.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
ByPeter EdSOn

survive yet another universal conflict In that r- responsible faith lies civilizations gravest periil
 In defense of the Truman philosophy, it may be said to be utterly hardboiled and realistic After World War I the United States put its faith in disarmament. Even Soviet Russia, through Maxim Litvnov, made an appeal at the League ot Nations for World disarmament and renunciation of war.
 As the world well knows, these policies did not work Disarmng the peace loving nations only gave the aggressors better chance to do their dirty work The United States forced into second foreign war. Soviet Russia was actually invaded. Small wonder there is strong feeling in both coun- tries that the peaceful way won't work.
 The fear that the peaceful way won't work haunted every delegation at San Francisco to Wrlte a charter for the United Nations. That Is why you find strong language on the remuneration Of war in the charter finally adopted.
 To all practical purposes the LIN charter recog- nizes that war is here. and the inference is that it's here to stay Trumans Army Day speech backs it up.
 From this viewpoint, any utterance such as General MacArthurs Is ideaIstic, visionary HoN- sense. But is 1t?
 Why worry about a lot of involved inspection systems and complicated denaturants for atomic bomb materials when the only real solution in the end Is going to be renunciaton Of use or the oomp itself? Bombs aren't going to be the only things that will need renunciation Rockets, guided missiles, ana bacteria warfare will be just as deadly. If there IS to be any future world, the whole works will have to be done away with.
 "There can be no doubt" says General Mac civilization (are) dependent upon world leadership which does not lack the moral courage to indictment the will Of the masses Who abhor war and upon whom falls the main weight Of wars if the RspnbIicanu were iust smart enough to plck t up General MacArthur has here hanefa q them for free c foreign policy plank upon Wnlen they could line up millions q so'eA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
The Firing Line
 By D. N. I.

Reading the news these days, millions of people follow with anxiety the sayings and doings of eminent men. -from an editorial in the New York Times.
 ROSTER
 The millions hang upon the word That issues from the ready tongue Ot those above the common herd, From whom cur destiny is sprung, The millions eagerly await The shape of fancy or of fact That comes from the resplendent
 Great;
 And also case their every act, TAa anxious hordeS of little men Peel eye and cock an avid ear When Titan clears his throat again To rouse risible or tear.
 And who are those who bell the
 flock,
 Who capture us, by day and night, Who find us famished for their talk, A thirst for everything they write? The Aliens, Winchellas, Claghorns,
 Hopes, The CroSbys, Bennys-on and on And not the heroes (or the "dopes') Inhabiting the Pantheon.
 President Truman is finishing his first year in office with rec ord of repeated refuffs, only ten of his twenty five major proposals having received the approval Of Congress. MT. T. is learning the bitter truth of politics; apparently you can't be right and President.
 The League of Nations Assembly opens its final session at Geneva this week. About the only consola- tion left the League is that it never tried to locate in Greenwich, Conn
 American military authorities have discovered a two-billion-dol- lar hoard of precious metals at the bottom of Tokyo harbor, We hope they leave it there; it sounds vague Lly infiationary to us.
 A group of progressive leaders from sixteen states met in Chicago Sunday to discuss the possibility of forming a third political party Someone always seems to be giving the bipartisan system a tri.
 The Government has lifted tht ban on some of the clothing frilE forbidden to women for the las three years. Were getting back tt "normalcy" bit by pit. Pretty soor Lucky Strike green may have enough discharge points to cont back from war.
 Russia demands that e~Securit! Council wash its hands completel! of the Soviet -Iranian issue. Int ablutions appear to be hamperet by the absence of a solvent to ge' the oil off said hands.
 Kenny Delmar of the Fred Alle1 program will write daily Senate Claghorn column for Syndication according to Columnist Leonard Ly ons. Somebody'll knock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
POTATOES FOR BREAKFAST
(Boston Post)

(BOStOn POSt)
 New England potato interests were quick to capitalize on the Presidents wheat conservation ap- peal. Instead of slice of toast for breakfast, they urge, eat a small potato. Although the potato contains starch, iron and other important minerals, and has about the same value as slice of bread, they solemnly assert there is no truth to the story that the potato is fattening. That, they insist, is a gross libel. It is the gravy or the butter which is fattening, they de- clare. The potato men do not miss trick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
GOLDEN HARVEST
(New Haven Journal courier)

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 In Vermont, where the maple sugar bushes grow, the sap run has ended with the first warnf days of spring. The buckets have been taken down from the maple trees, the fires are out in the little gray, weathered shanties where the sap is boiled down to golden brown syrup and sweet, Hat maple sugar cakes.
 And the sad news is that the warm sprinug, which was so well come, elsewhere, shortened the sap gathering season, again in the New England hills this year and that for a second successive season, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

settled back majeStically in their best analyst pose, and let go at the President.
 This is a democracy, isn't it?
 Some with a flair for econo- mics have drafted pieces about his wage-price and labor policies, and their inadequacies. Experts on political matters have treated of the widening split in his party, the moral being drawn according to which side of the split yor sym pattize with. Some have dealt with Truman the man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

You will find the guts of the conflict in these two condensed quotationS-aud they're something to paste in the hat:
 PRESIDENT TRUMAN-"We must remain strong because only so long as we remain strong can we ensure the peace of the world. Peace has to be built on power for good. Justice and good will and good deeds are not enough.
 We cannot one day proclaim our intention to prevent unjust aggression and opposition in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

about the manner in which he has done that job. Among those close to Roosevelt there has also been speculation as to what would have happened if Senator Sam Jackson of Indiana had not rap- ped the gavel on that hot July night @n Chicago, a a'journing the Democratic Convention just as the Wallace band-wagon seemed on the verge of rolling him into the Vice Presidency.
 In other words, if Henry Wal 1aoe had heen President of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

Colleges and universities-our whole educational system-muSt go beyond producing the best doctors or lawyers or engineers. Peoples must learn to live in peace with other peoples whose basic philos- ophy of life are different frcm their own.
 General Eisenhower.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

Douglas Corrigan, the famous wTong-way flyer of l93s going to for the U S. Senate in California on che Pro- hibton ticket Perhaps Mir. 0ocigan has been watching fha postwar drift of international relations and has decided that the world at last is going in his direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
Merry Round

WASHINGTON, April 12 =. It has been one year since Harry Truman rushed down Pennsylvania Ave nue to a saddened White House and the awesome task of filling the shoes of Franklin Roosevelt.
 great deal has been written, and more will be,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
Truman vS. Macarthur
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April 12-(NEA)-No two speeches were ever farther apart than President Douglas MacArthur's opening statement before the Allied Council for Japan in Tokyo the day before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

This is "be unkind to Truman" week. The occa- sion is his first anniversary in the White House today Consequently most of those here who make living by writing for the papers have oiled their typewriters
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
Waterbury Of the Past

6 Years Ago
 Plans for the "beautifying of Library Park" were approved by the Board of Aldermen and agents of the Silas Bronson Library. Miss Anna Mclaughlin won first place in a contest for the selection of the city'S most popular clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
2b Years Aeo

A seryicemens tag day was held here, the proceeds Of which were to go for buying gifts for inductees.
 The Road to Zanzibar" starring Bling Crosby and Bob Hope, was presented as Warmers state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12
15 Years Ago

15 Years Ago
 Dixie Dugan of the comics wore her hair in bangs while Freckles was still a grammar school pupil. Two companies of firemen respon- ded to a roof fire at the Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company on Bank Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

Kenny Delmar of the Fred Allen program will write a daily Senator Claghorn column for Syndication, according to Columnist Leonard Ly- ons. Somebody'll knock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-12

Russia demands that the Security Council wash it's hands completely of the Soviet -Iranian issue. The ablutions appear to be hampered by the absence of a solvent to get the oil off said hands.
Evening star., 1946-09-17
World Title al Stake
AS Junior Mines TILT
In Downs Benefit

The world junior baseball cham
pionship will be at stake tomorrow
night in Griffith Stadium when
Washington's Police Boys Club No.
S tangles with Boys Brigade OF Bal
timore ut o'clock.
The Baltimore nine, champ Of the
All-American junior circuit. reached
an agreement with the police club
men, titlist in the Intercity Police
League, to put a world title on the
block in this benefit encounter.
The Touchdown Club Is sponsoring
the contest, from which all revenue
will 30 to the widow and four chill
dren Of Donald w. Downs, District
policeman who while directing traffic
was killed by = hit-run driver.
In special ceremony at home
plate just before the game, Donald
w. Downs, jr.. 4-year-old son Of the
policeman, will be awarded a schol-
arship to Georgetown University
which will be made available as soon
as his scholastic training is COM
pleted.
Big league scouts will be on hand
to get a gander at Billy Kallas, Sec
ond baseman of the Police team, who
already has been trailed by the
Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees
and st. Louis Cardinals.
Bernie Myles, Eastern High Schoo,
pitcher and star OF the recent inter.
city tournament, will start fol
Washington, and Johnny Colbert
whose slugging broke up two Of the
title contests, will be his battery
mate,
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Bower-MeckIey Match features
Women M. A. Title e1oIf Toduy

Mrs. FOXES started with a birdie
three on the first hole and raped
hops q putt for a birdie deuce
on the 18th to protect a slim lead.
Hardest working player of the
fAy was Mrs. Ed Widmayer of
kenwood, who finally won a place
in the first flight after a play
on with Mrs. A. F. Pierce and
Jean Wagner Of Baltimore c. c.
Mrs. Widmayer won on the third
hole. They tied with 97s.
Pairings:
tss( vs.. Mrs. T. I. sehludsfSsrs. B. e. {.
Il: 1o:ob--Je.nette Myers, suburban ts4,
es95 rs: Mn. n.YEe II f. aa.s: Ds: rg.ss; Msss
=. 1S;IsaMrs e. s., g; Pray; colqms,. ,a ,asS,
sDra. 5s s. Mr.. B..., SSss, S.eEl.y. lne,an R.n
"oHS fS:ss@Mr,. $50, NJ, Louis. n,l, x.n,ood
||ssSS} vs. Mrs. c. i. kiehsrd'' &C. Z. c. - q NJ" Nd
M: k.. Ar #s,sfs Dsrns. x:,.s.s sS
Mrs. Ed Widmayer, Kenwood (97).
| Second F1ight.
1SaoMrs a.. osIs pnsn a ae pierce G. c. is7)
o.oq:es a9;esMTs, ns, O. SSm.. XSouns paxss PTns'
/ .1O:15-Mrs Frank Mirth, Indian
Spring (99! VS.. Mrs. John Long, Indian
s'i'St 81 5S;ss@s5:;. 9ss; 4; / LACEY. x.ns, qol,
11:00-Jean Wagner, B. c. C.. (97l, vs.
MIS-: William Wurzberger, Rollins Road
| 104.
| 11:0b--Mrs. r. q. Await. Congressional
u00) VS.. Mrs. M. M. Alexander, Wash
iG:i0.Hrs. Miliard Braun, Suburban
G00) vs.: Mrs Robert Smith, Rollins
Road 005).
| 11:16-Mrs. George Rice, Rolling Road
102) VS.. Mrs. Clinton Easton, Rollinl
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Fonder, MeAndrews Top
Midqef Race Card Toniqhf

George Fonder and Shorty Nc
Andrews, who finished in . dead
heat at Philadelphia's Yellow Jacket
Speedway last night in q special
15-lap event, will continue their RI
valry tonight on the 7-event midget
auto racing program scheduled for
West Lanham Speedway.
Fonder went on to win the 25-lap
feature race at the Philadelphia
oval, while McAndrews placed NTH
and National Champion Larry
Bloomer, who also will race at Lam
ham tonight, took second.
A pair of lightning fast OfYen-
hauser cars may steal this eve
ning's show at Lanham. however,
when Wild Bill Holmes wheels his
powerful new $500 job into action
and Rex Records turns up in a re-
built speed special powered by the
hand-constructed "Ofne" motor.
Evening star., 1946-09-17
|Shriners' Horse Show
|WiII Offer CoIorfuI
Program Sunday
By Lorry Lawrence

Among the better entertainments
Of the fall horse show season is the
second annual Shrine event, spon-
sored by Almas Temple, to be held
at Meadowbrook Show Grounds on
the East-West highway Sunday.
1t will start at 10 am. with full
section OF junior events, including
road hacks, jumpers, hunters and
model hunters.
In the afternoon, there will be
road hack, warmup, hunter h~ n
open jumper, novice -..cer, sky
scraper, open hunt costume, work.
ing hunter, -.fodified Olympic,
Corinthian and groom's bareback
classes with jumper and hunter
championships.
The costume class will be fea-
ture with prizes for most beautiful,
most comical and most original,
while the skyscraper class will bring
together the top open jumpers of
this locality. They will attempt to
break the local record of feet.
The usual four ribbons will be
awarded in each class, as well as
numerous trophies and cash prizes.
Arrangements have been made for
ample parking space and refresh
ments will be available. Box seats
may be obtained at Almas Temple,
1927 X street NV. The proceeds
will 60 to local charities of the
temple.
For further information, inquire
Of Al w. Lee, chairman Of the show,
1908 Thirteenth street NV, Wash
ington. D. C..
Evening star., 1946-09-17
Spseiel pispoteh 10 The Ssur


CATONVILLE, Md, Sept. IA
first round match between Mrs. A. b.
Bower Of Indian Spring, the District
champion, and Kenwood's Mrs. Betty
Meckley, the defending titleholder,
featured the Middle Atlantic women's
championship today at Rolling roar
The golfing girls settled down 70
play after a stormy session folio ing
yesterdays qualifying round. ,xhich
was featured by a medal-ws ming 70
by Mrs. Walter r. Stoke.. OF Manor
Country Club. No me ser what sys-
tenn Middle Atlant' <iolf Association
Secretary Dr.. A. Keilty used in
~ rpairings, the players did
not like it. The draw finally an
nounced was the third of a hectic
afternoon.
DR.. Keilty brought out his USGA
rule book and started the pairings
by the prescribed No. / player meets
No. 16 method. That put some OF
the top players against each other
In the first round and was unsatis-
factory. Then he paired No. l against
No. 9, and 2 VS.. IS, ETC., but that
brought a chorus of Nos"
DR.. Keilty then called USGA Sec
retary Joe Dey in New York fol
the very latest word on pairings ano
although the parent golf body
backed Keilty's stand, he finally
made a third set. At that the
unfortunate draw finds Bower VS.
Meckley and two other top play
ers, Mrs. Stokes and Mrs. T. E
Schluderberg of Baltimore G. C.
as fisst-round opponents.
Mrs. Stokes round topped Mrs
Bowers 80 by stroke. with ar
81 by Mrs. Maurice Click, ths
Maryland champion, third best