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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
Representative Wright Patman of Texa
by Peter EdSOn

The may" is important because it leaves che com mission free to name a civilian.
 If the commission does decide to name an Army or Navy officer, watch for little rivalry between the services. Maj T. P. Farrell deputy to General Groves. was in command at T1nian air bases for application of the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasacki. But he resigned from the Army to return to his civilian job as New York state engineer. and his Manhattan District job has not been filed
 In the meantime the Navy took over for the Bikini tests. Adm. w. H. P. Blandy the show and is, therefore high in the running for the job Of director of military application.
 Atomic bombs have to be dropped from Army bOmbers of the B-29 bigger styles however so the Air Forces can be counted to produce a candi- date. Maj.-Gen William E. Kepner was air deputy at Bikinil and under Maj. .-Gen. Curtis E LeMay now director of Army research, Brig g-Cen John H Davies commanded the 313th Wing of the Fist Bomber Command. which dropped the two bombs on Japan
 The easy compromise for the commission is to a civilian. Civilian scientists have to tell how to apply the bombs. anyway. (
 In addition to the director of military applca- tion Military Liaison Committee is created under the atomic energy act This committee it to be named by the secretaries of War and Navy how case of a difference of opinion, with Chairman L1ienthals commission. the Military Laison Com mfttee may report to the secretaries of War and Navy. and either of them may buck the issue to the President. His decision may overrule the commits sion, and 1t in any event is final.
 Another important group still to be named by the President is nine-member general advisory committee. Its members will serve six-year terms and be paid $50 day when they work They must meet four times year. On this advisory com mittee will be leading scientists and industriasts
 These are just a few of the problems ahead of the Lilienthal commission. It is unqueStionaby go- ing to be one of the biggest and most powerful agencies of government. It will be months before the commission take oyer from the Army, but when 1t does, watch it grow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
Delinquency Continued

When reads reports of rowysm in cities and towns of the state donot feel that Waerburys record is too bad Neither is the community Utopia. We have our major and minor vandasms In respect curbng juvenile vandalism the punishment should fit the crime and too much enency should not be tolerated On the other hand harm. less pranks and fun may be overlooked when there is injury to person property,
 The Hartford Times comments editorialy 8 situa- tion at Stafford Springs when the firm alarm system had to be disconnected for several days because of the number of false alarms rung in. Various communities of the state have announced programs of entertainment well plans to curtai juvenile and adult vandalism and rowdyism.
 In the of juvenile delinquency too much eniency should not be shown the other hand enency should be shown in certain cases.
 District Attorney Frank s. Hogan, former Waterburian stated this week that the Youth Part of the Court of Gen. era Sessions New York has been successful since it start ed three years ago. This court has given boys and girls from sixteen eighteen years of associated with felony charges second chances in certain instances and in many the rehabilitation of the offenders has been assured
 Waterbury did not report many major acts of vandalism or hoodumism Halloween. Things seemed pretty much under control and neghborhood noise and activities for the most part of harmless nature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
Atomic Politics

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-(NEAD-First big job for the Atomic Energy Commission headed by David l. Liienthal will be the selection of a S15,OO0-a- year general manager, who will run the works The commission itself is like board of directors
 The law says the general manager shall be ap- pointed by the President with the advice and con- sent of the Senate. But the commission may make recommendations to the President. Naturally, the commission will want someone with whom it can work in harmony.
 This again brings into the imeght the name of Maj j.-Gen. Leslie R. Groves who was in com- mand of the entire atomic bomb project for the Army. At first General Groves was openly can didate for the general managers job Then when he got tangled up with Congress and the politicians on drafting the atomic energy legislation, he said he didn't want any part of it. His latest position is said to be that he can't comment on the sub ject.
 Whether or not General Groves would get Sem ate confirmation if he appointed to the job will be a topic for much speculation. Sen. Brien McMahon of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate Committee on Atomic Energy which drafted the atomic energy law and also chairman of the new Joint Senate House Committee Atomic Energy created by law is openly hostile to General Groves because McMahon is opposed to any military drec- tion of atomic energy development and because he doesn't like Groves personally The general could never understand why but the feeling is probably mutual.
 Next to General Groves the most likely mili- tary candidate for the general managers job is Col Kenneth D. Nichols who was district engineer for
 
 most of the hard arih dirty work of organizing and administering the big plant at Oak Ridge though he got little publicity.
 After naming the general manager the com mission will have to name four assistant managers" to be directors of divisions of research production engineering, and military application These are not presidential appontees The pay is S14OOO a year
 These first three directors will probably be civilians, but the director of military application may be an active or retired Army or Navy officer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
.Merry.Go-ROund

WARRINGTON, Nev, b-Unlike FDA, Harry sieoIlon iesulIs and tucked away in drawer Of hB desk Co be opened after the voting b ovef However, President Truman ald receive Q cOnfdens
 al report c ths seccns outcome rom ,, Senator. m % IWhite ff0tse with Alabamas Governor, Big jim" Folsom, and new Alabama Congressman Bob Jones who s taking Bpefkmans place in the House TO them the President expressed confidence that the Democrats would win both Houses of Congress, Despite newspaper polls indicating COP con- trol of the House and tough battle fof the Senate despite pessimlgslc statements by Democrats like Governor Arnal Of Georgia, Truman predicted . dotbie-barfeled victory. spaFkman, Chairman Of the Democratic National Committee speakers Bureau drew him out by de-. clafing that reports from the field indicated the Republican trend he'd run its course and that Dem. ocratie candidates we're steadily picking Up ground In meet districts.
 personally, I don't think We are going to lose either house, Mf President" asserted sparkman.
 "Neither do l." said Truman.
 Admitting that the Senate was the safest for the Democrats, he observed;
 However think we'll hold our own in the House"
 Truman said that Q number of Democratic seats conceded to Republicans . few weeks ago-and he named six seats specifcaiy-are not being conceded now
 Senator, sparisman then went over the country, state by state, and predicted that the Democrats would retain 2Si House seats, majority of 1s.
 We will lose between 10 and 12 seats all told in the House and not more than fin the Senate" Sparkman forecast The present make-tip of the Senate is: Democrats 56; Republicans, 30; Progress. sive, l.
 "0ur candidates are in safely In Washington, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, Rhode Island and Maryland" Gparkman continued "and we have an excellent chance of taking away two seats from the Republicans in California and Kentucky"
 sparkman named eight doubtful" states-Mas- sachusetts, Delaware New York Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Missouri and Idaho
 The Democrats he said, have a fighting chance in ali eight In West Virginia he added Senator liar ley Kilgore would win.
 Truman flashed big smile when sparkrnan mentioned Missouri as among the doubtful" states St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial Iaunding Demo- cratic Senator Briggs was on his desk
 T think you can take Senator Briggs off the doubtful column" the President declared Hes going to win"
 Husky, 6-foot-4 Governor Folsom reported that the Democrats had raised twice as much money in Alabama as ever before in an off-year election.
 Despite the fussing we do among ourselves" he said 'the party as whole Is sodly behind you Mir. President, and will continue to support you.
 "one reason the Republicans are losing ground in this campaign despite all the balyhoo to the contrary, is because they won't take stand on anything" Folsom contended. They're fighting a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05

than anywhere else in our country It meant some thing to all these when MT Roosevelt in setting up sucn an agency as WA to feed people also included neAp Tor those who worked in the arts made obs for them that they loved In this he touched the spirit as well as the body So he did in many other ways m planting trees and building dams and restoring our national heritage.
 But these millions here are also something else They are also Italians and Poles and Jews and Cath olics and White and Black and Brown and Yellow And now. because of the dark things that happened in Europe to their kind and to old instincts in the blood going back through the centuries now kindled ana aroused, they are splitting away from old political royalties which once in less kindly times drew them together as human beings in need.
 The Jews are deeply hurt and angered by the failure to rescue those who suffered under Hitler open refuge for them in Palestine The Poles are reSenfM over what happened in their land The Ital- ians have their grievances The Catholics are stirred up about Communism which has been draped falsely "a grisly shroud about the Democratic Party. Ac- cordingy, many of those who voted so long for Franklin D. Roosevelt are deserting the Democratic Party this year. They must strike at something and 10 Is the natural target They encouraged insidi ousy to strike by some who have selfish purposes of their own.
 Liberalism, because it springs from highly sensi- tive nteligences, creates its prima donnas and they ultimately disagree amongs themselves on fine points Of procedure methods. ethics ideology Some are Democrats, some New Dealers some further left and some few Communists. They divide among them selves. making what Tom Dewey calls "the Splinter party'-Democrats. American Labor Party Liberal Party, Communist Party. Their leaders can't agree and the man who united the leaders, who somehow kept them all at work for the New Deal Party that ne punt rom the Democratic Party. is no more.
 That is part of what is happening in thfs election in New York. So there will be sweeping Republi- can victory
 An era Is ended. Another beginG
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
Your Health By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.
WATCH THAT GRAVY

Your article titled. Gravy or his Vest" was interesting but il seems to me you left your readers out on a limb. Having been through all the clinics wouldn't a medical examination be a repetition and wouldn't other symptoms besides gravy" have indicated previous small apoplexies? Anyway what should the poor geek" do about itP
 e. O. S.
 In the article I said:
 When a man or woman who
 has always been neat in habits
 and passable in conduct and
 manners begins to be notice
 ably careless about these things
 it is time to stop bumbling about
 age, overwork, nervous exhaust ion, indigestion. ."
 If that paragraph was printed, take a firm hold on the limb while you finish reading it:
 - the patient may com
 plain of any or all vS these
 things but they are all symp-
 toms or effects, not causes of
 the patients trouble. I do not
 believe or imply that such changes
 in one of mature age point to-
 ward small unrecognized apoplex-
 ies( cerebral nemorrhages, strok-
 es) in most instances, but they
 do warrant at least a general
 medical examination to deter
 mine what ails the poor geek"
 That the patient has been through the cline" or several of them is imnlaterial. Two many guillible customers of clinics" are similarly overawed by the machin- cry of the clinic" and come home with the notion that everything pos sible has been said and done by the quacks in the clinic and ordinary doctors back home of course can only repeat" what was done on the assembly line at the clinic. This absurd idea, that a medical examination would be a mere repeti- ton if the poor geek has already been through the clinic, brings to mind the story of the fellow who politely declined a book offered him as a gift, as he already had book. The machine or laboratory tests occasionally give a clue to the na- ture of the customers trouble, but nine out of ten such routine check ups" are negative" so far as a diag- nosis or good treatment may be con- cerned, although they do impress the customer with the thoroughIfess of the clinic method-and back home the family doctor usually would have to talk himself black in .he face to persuade the same<cus- -omer to have this or that test if it costs anything.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
In Today's Mail

Even if this policy would mean less profits for industries, raising wages now would be wise and farsighted on the part of employers in general.
 To fall to increase wages, which are low in terms of what they will buy, will be to abandon the people of this nation to the present low standards of living and to strangle business to death. Unless the work CTS earn enough to buy more than the barest necessities, they cannot, no matter how desperately they de- sire to do so, buy the full fruits of American industry. Industry's wheels, under such conditions, must grind surely to a halt.
 Real high wages without higher prices) can save this country from an economic crackvp toward which we are heading.
 With industry now fully convert ed for peace time production it should be easier for our productive machinery to turn out an ever-in- creasing volume of goods at @ mounting pace and at falling cost. Ab bCCO1AiCS dAl CdSACA Hl1bbCI AAOW for employers to raise the wages of employees in order to give them the purchasing power needed to provide the incentive for full production.
 Workers should be able to secure high wages without going on strike. Workers do not like to strike They know full we'll the hardships, the sacrifices and the sufferings of striking. And they would rather despite the talk to the contrary settle their differences around conference table. But when the workers demands have meant the difference between a wage that means an un-American standard of living and the high American stand ard, they resorted to strikes to gain the better wage.
 It seems about time thatt he nee cessity of strikes Is done away with. and that working people secure the economic justice to which they are entitled, through the process of cOl- lective bargaining in the spirit of cooperation and good will.
 ROBERT B. BICKEL.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
End of the New Deal? by Thomas Stokes

NEW YORK, Nov 5-AH the reasons for the collapse of the once dynamic and powerful New Deal Party-for it was more than the Democratic Party found here in New York and in such exaggerated form that they stand out
 Here you see all the reasons. Tn other places they are seldom all present.
 All the fine tensions of brilliant minds and highly strung nervous systems which when directed and CO., ordinated by the hand of master. performed so well in the New Deal, suddenly have snapped The din of the discord is terrific.
 In desperation the managers of the Democratic Party here try to revive spirit that is gone So We have photograph records of Franklin D. Roosevelts voice So we see his widow and the who bears his name rushed frantically to the front line to make speeches in the final days of the campaign
 But it won't do the trick
 Such a fine frenzy we experienced once in Washington and all sthe land can't last forever strain of dealism and noble aims They must eo back to material and understandable things and indulge once again in their little brides and preju- dices their hates and fears.
 This is the end Here you can see that so plainly here in this great city, America in miniature and yet more than America for here concentrated heavily some elements found only sparsey in the rest of the country.
 It is a city of great wealth. It is also a city of great poverty. It has millions of people who must worry daily about their food and their clothing and their lodging When depression struck the land it was heavy blight here. Consequently the millions who worked here, who sat at machines to make shirts and suits and shoes and hats who sat in neat dresses and har-6o and nicely fitting suits in the outer offices of great corporatons-a these were grateful to man who came along and took care that they could eat again, and have a job again. and secure and sure lodging for the night
 This, too Is city of culture Et honorx those who write and paint and compose and perform music and enjoys what they create The understanding and the enjoyment reach down among the millions here more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
Nazi Job Hunter

Although his references highly unfattering, Franz von Papen wants another diplomatic ob T would be will ng says the foxy old master of Naz intrigue to experience in diplomatic affairs to help Germany place respectable member of the European family of nations"
 government is also known by the company it keeps And Papen has real interest in seeing future German government welcomed into the bosom of the Euro pean family he will betake himself secluded spot and allow the German people to forget that they hung around with the likes of him.
 We are inclined however to doubt the sincerity of Rapen expressed interest And should be happy for he good of all concerned to the democratic element of Che German people take legal steps to him the secu- gion which he might not seek voluntarily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
ANOTHER WAGE BOOST ASKED BY WRITER
35 Fairview Street, Waterbury 76, Conn. November {, l946.

l 70 OO EdiAflSW 0blcGb, D Waterbury 76, Conn.
 November {, 1946. Editor, The Democrat:--
 Recently an official of the Brass Workers Union stated that the workers will see pay increases in keeping with the increased costs of living. Since the QPA was wrecked by short sighted politicians and scuttled the Administration, the cost of living has shot upwards.
 Bare necessities today take so great a portion of the wage and salary earners' income, that the American standard of living has fallen to a new low. Business people handling merchandise other than bare necessities are growing ap- prehensive. Their fears center around the fact that workers are not earning enough money to bny the so-called luxury items. The solution, of course, is more buying power in the hands of the people.
 Instead of certain newspapers recognizing this fact and pointing out the need for' wage increases, they have been quick to raise strike storm warnings and to parrot the line that higher wages win mean that manufacturers will have to raise prices.
 Now this is not the case. If it were true, it would mean that the American free enterprise, system has OutwOrn its usefulness and is no longer capable of working for the benefit of all~ the people.
 But most people prefer to believe that our business system, if handled rightly, can in peace give. us a sustained and stable prosperity. It saved us in war by turning out an overwhelming supply of weapons for defense and destruction. Surely, it can be put to the good work of providing the people with radios, washing machines, refrigerators, automobiles and homes.
 In the present condition of things, with prices of milk at 21 cents quart, bread at IA cents and other necessities so high that food for the family takes more than half of family budget, the best paid work CTS find it hard to make both ends meet. Many people are taking a terrific beating in trying to live on their present income.
 Wages are too low, when compared with prices. An adjustment is necessary. It is either to slash prices or to increase wages. Price slash ing would ruin many businesses, lead to disastrous losses, and bring on great depression when the na- ton is struggling under the greatest debt in its history. Indeed lowering of prices would increase the burden of our debt.
 Increasing wages-a policy that former President Hoover recognized and called for often during hiss un- happy term as means of fighting depression-is policy needed now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05
Views of the Press
WOMEN JURORS

For a quarter of century the Massachusetts Legislature has de- bated the wisdom of allowing women to serve on juf1es. Attempts to enact legislation awarding women this privilege, always sup ported by the feminine members of the General Court, have been de- feated, chiefly by 19th-century arguments
 Srhe issue finally has reached the voter in the form of a referendum question on the Nov. 5 ballot. The question is:
 Shall the General Court enact legislation requiring jury service by women, with such reservations as it may nrescribe?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-05

negative NHhh nttacklnB what We co. Why, the Ne- policy, % we had to debate that out among our- seves1
 apls Jln,o didn't have to mention Henry wallace by name when he said this. The President beat him to t with broad smile.
 Peoples memories are short.
 During the past two weeks the crash in the cotton market lost the South millions Of dollars and gave the cotton belt serious jolt
 pew peope remember, however that this was exactly what Chester Bowles then economic stabizer warned against last March At that time he sought to increase the margin cotton trading in order Go prevent runaway cotton prices.
 powies remembered the economic catastrophe which hlt the South after the last war when cotton climbed to s highest peak, then dropped to iss low est.
 r,ut nowles' attempt to keep cotton on an even keel ran into serious trouble. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, Democrat didn't like it He ranted and raved glance at the Congressional Record for last Spring Is revealing. Senator Thomas fumed and illuminated from page after page.
 Nov Mr Bowies comes along and says that these margin requirements are not sufficiently high" de- claimed the Democratic Senator from Oklahoma, "and 90 to keep the price of cotton from mounting he has issed an order that anyone who desires to sell or buy cotton must put tip $50 bale.
 "Tf this order becomes effective and if N does what Mfr BoWjes thinks t will do-namely, drive the price of cotton down cent-that will amount to S on a bale of cotton" Thomas ranted on for thousands Of words But what he did not tell his colleagues that he had been purchasing cotton the exchange through members of his family. Naturally therefore he want cd cotton to go up Anyway he got his wishat least for q while.
 Shortly thereafter, Mir Bowles was eased out of the Government the Office of Economic Stablization virtually abolished and the p.ice-control act thrown on the scrap heap
 Meanwhile the price of cotton skyrocketed. Sen ator Thomas of Oklahoma had hiss way all right Cotton scared Up and up and then hassng reached the almost record price Of 30 cents found cotton started down to level near where eowles wanted to keep it.
 A. lot of people got seriously hurt in this crash. And judging from the loud screams of anger from Senator Thomas he one of them. If so it was not the spectators whom he accused but he himself who was largely to blame.
 Representative Wright Patman of Texas, for whom the Library of Congress is preparing a diag- noss of Fascism is trying to get the full text of the Rogge report, well two highly secret reports now in State Department files The first is list Of American firms which aided the Nazi-controlled n dustriasts right up to Pearl Harbor. The second is the texts of number of treaties between the Nazis and Spain. Italy The UlSS R. and other coun- tries Fu details these agreements have been released.