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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

the days OF paved highways and picture shows. But
now whenever farm boy wants to marry some slick
city girl he has TO offer her the comforts she's
used to in town. and the farm boys just can't make
enough money 10 do that.
The implied solution for this problem was 10
raise the oPA ceiling prices on milk and dairy prod
uets
Representatives Of the dairy farmers have spent
the better part OF week In Washington. and through
their National Cooperative MIX Producers Fedora
ton they have been dong quite Job OF lobbying,
spilng soured milk OF human kindness all over the
place, They threw banquet for about go congress-
men one night. just TO make sure the congressman
understood how poor they were.
Next day the spokesman for the group went up
on Capitol Hill 10 make their speeches Of the night
before official Henry Haag was the first witness.
He said thai all the farmers had been able 10 do
during the war was liquidate their debts
Ne said II was so bad that II farmer sat down
and figured up the cost Of his grain feed and straw.
he had nothing left for his labor and nothing with
which TO rehabilitate his plant He explained II was
possible for farmers to keep on going because they
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

..n heading this way are riding tina. route one
~ todays joiners was car from quebec There WaS
another from Vermont. This conscientious five wear
ing Massachusetts, license plates, copied thhe num-
DerS and originally intended 70 INCLUDE them in the
dispatch. in order that their families friends and
aeiahbors might stand advised that they were look
ing healthy and happy with their well-worn vehicle
III carrying on faithfully
But second thought, IL was DECIDED 10 le'
them do their own reporting privately. After an
fellow never can tell There is hardly fight night
passes that some lady doesn't call the sports room
OF a newspaper. along around midnight. or maybe
later and ask at first in voice sweet enough to ponF
on waffle Can you tell me. please, what time the
boxing bouts al the Garden we're over this evening?
II you truthfully report. about II O'Clock
m2am" the sweetness comes OH as suddenly
jeTked, and the lady usually ad lbs why thai
dirty =" After couple of them, you learn that
he lady cares not one whit whether Joe Bio~
Knocked out Eric Umph, how quickly All shes
trying 20 DO is TO check up on her eVerlovn spouse
VINO either hasn't checked in at all, or who had
couple Of hours unsccounted for when he did com
rolling home.
so it may be With some blisSful brother in one OF
long distance herdics not knowing what they tolo.
or TO whom, it seems more advisable TO leave then
what Mr.. Tinney once called 80 many anonymnS'.
II I have one profound warning to register. thai
Be sure to get report on the wind conditions IL
Georgetown. ". c, before deciding TO- pause tneie
for the night.
This paTticu ar expedition put in their last nish'
and was concentrating itself upon the tine luck OF
comfortable accommodations, when suddenly some
thing happened. The sweet evening air suddenly
changed 10 something utterly else that 1t seemed
the room had been rotten-egged while We took
brief stroll A careful search failed to turn up any
open cans OF altar OF asafoetdi. any unsupported
goats stalled under the bed.
called the man on the phone and he said ii
was only that the dad gummed wind had changed
The principal Georgetown industry, 1t developed, Is
a huge paper mill on the south side OF town What
they Go to this particular paper. wouldn't know.
I've been arond paper mills before and never smeled
ANYTHING The aroma OF this one makes an ancient
Billy goat a pre- gardenia By comparison.
Otherwise. things have been utterly swell Here's
the sum- the bags Of oranges the sparkling sea- the
golden sand.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

" packed cars the sidewalks fairly crowded with
strollers and window shoppers. and the restaurants
and dining rooms through their plate glass win
doWS were filled with customers enjoying the cele-
brated foods.
An infallible index to business are the signs IN
front Of the tourist home and tourist camps as the
motorist rolls into the outskirts Of any metropolis
such as this. At night the outskirts OF any metropoh'
The sign is on vacancy is signfied and the weary
pilgrim is thus invited 10 light and hitch. II the
light is out so the travellers chances. That means
all the accommodations have been exhausted
II seems TO be a fact however. that the further
south the traveller gets the more OF these tourist
camps, motor courts, whatever the proprietor
deigns 10 call them. are open for business. MANY
are freshly painted. Some are new since my day
some in fact, are brand new or look II. And enough
of them fly the vacancy shingle make it seem
unlikely that any member Of this thin automotive
;rickle will have TO sleep in his car. They're slower
eetting reopened back up the line and a driver
through the black night go hour after hour with
out so much as one reckoning light.
This far from lonely day on the highway.
In fact after yesterdays solo ride down the length oil
route 49, the road seemed disgustingly populated
There's a rival route 10 the Ocean Highway. They
call il the Tobacco Trail It's the old main road from
New York through Philadelphia. Baltimore, Washing
ION and Richmond From there on they do some twist
ing and turning OF it down through the CaroinaS'
but il pours its flood into the Ocean Highway be-
tween Charleston and Savannah. and from there
on, there's considerably more company
Evidently most Of those from far up who have
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

to impound s0676O02 while the courts were thresh-
ing out the question Of new rate increase, and
gast the insurance companies were able to get 90
percent Of this -Illiondolar kitty returned 10
them.
1t was also stated that The Home Insurance
Company. which made the delightful Mr.. Allen its
vice-presdent during the thick Of the fight had the
heaviest amount at stake in the nine-mion-doar
kitty Although Pendergast was convicted about a
year after Aliens appointment vice-president the
Fire Insurance executives who bribed him were not
convicted.
Further facts in che case have now developed.
And we apologize for this unntentional injustice done
Mr. Allen. 1t is learned that Mr.. Allen not merely
became vice-president Of The Home Insurance Com
pany but also vice-presdent Of three other affiliated
companies all implicated In one Of the worst pieces
OF graft in the history Of American insurance.
Mr. Allen was also vice-presdent of The National
Liberty Insurance Company Of America The Frank
lin National Insurance Company, and The City Of
New York Insurance Company-all Of them partci-
pating in the Pendergast brbe and all Of them hiring
George Allen vice-president and secretary during
the significant year 1885, Just the government was
probing their racket
All the above escaped conviction though many
people considered the insurance executives who
bribed Pendergast just as guilty as the man who
accepted the bride
The column takes this opportunity to rectify its
previous slight to Mr.. Aliens proves as the cham
pion American holder of vicepresidences and drec-
torships-now director Of the RFC.
NOTE-The RFC has loaned millions to nsur-
HIlCe companies III the past, dSO W IdAhVduS dilu
other companies which, If they had failed would have
jeopardized the financial position Of insurance com
panies. Allen Frankly admits that he will Try to
serve two masters-that he will keep some of his
corporate direcorshps while also serving as director
OF the RFC.
When Henry Wallace stated that the school chill
dren Of Washington, D. c.. worse fed than the
hogs of Iowa, he probably didn't know about an un-
publicized pork barrel maneuver which took place
at the last session of Congress, by which school
lunches were put to one side in favor Of federal
building in Nashville. Tenn.
The school lunch program was for the benefit
Of undernourished children throughout the country.
not merely the District OF Columbia And while Con-
gresS chopped this fund in two it approved juicy
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
NEW CANAAN SPEAKS
New Haven Evening Register

New Haven Evening Register
The residents of the little COM
munity OF New Canaan. in special
town meeting. have called upon
the citizens OF Connecticut and
those of the nation TO organize for
the protection of their rights and
liberties. Tney have demanded that
Governor Baldwin. the Connecticut
legislature President Truman and
the Congress take prompt action
20 amend state and national stat
utes in a manner which will inn
pose upon organized labor respon-
Sibiliy!es which should accompany
the privileges labor enjoys This
action by the residents of New
Canaan is TO be applauded They
have set courageous example. 1t
is one which should be given the
united support of every loyal
American citizen.
The good people of New Canaan
were given a first hand dem onstra-
ton Of radical labor lawlessness.
Strikes had been experienced al
TWO New Canaan diaries Picket
lines were formed. Automobiles
were overturned, tires slashed. Phys
ical abuse and !ndignities along
with other forms of abuse were
heaped upon employees and own
ers OF the struck diaries. The peo-
pie ofsNew Canaan were deprived
OF their milk supply. The diaries
We're forced to close An invasion
Of national labor union leaders
was blamed
Unlike many other communities,
New Canaan did not sit idly by and
submit. They did something about
i. They are determined that these
things shal! NOT happen again. at
least in New Canaan They. at
least, show appreciation OF the fact
that State and Federal laws which
extend TO labor privileges and i'm
munities without corresponding re-
sporsibili,y stand as a menace to
American institutions.
These people Of New Canaan are
not opposed to labor, as such. They
take no issue with the right of labor
to strike They merely ask a halt
10 the gross and wanton abuse
which existing statutes. notably
the Wagner Act. have permitted to
become a part Of the expression OF
-hese rights
When a resolution calling for an
end 10 this use of violence and coer-
sion was adopted there were but
TWO dissenting votes. There we're
some $50 favoring votes. II may
safely be said that this New Can
aan vote stands as a cross-section
Of national opinion on this subject,
II is unfortunate, for the cause Of
decent government, that other Sec
TOPS have not been as vocal in the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
By Peter Edison
could live off their depreciation. .

could live off their depreciation"
.. The trouble was Haag went on thai food was the
one thing everybody had TO have, and therefore
everybody wanted 70 get IL cheap as possible No
body ever questioned the price OF luxuries.
He took sharp issue with Bowles on food being
40 percent Of the cost OF living rent 10 percent ano
clothes r. That made total OF n percent, and Haag
said right out he didn't believe II. Why, 1t took 30
percent Of a mans income just 70 support an auto
mobile,
Henry Rathbun president Of the Dairy Cooper
atie League of New York State made a speech JUS
likey a congressman. He said he represented 8OOos
farmers and seven million consumers and he go'
pretty red-faeed about the whole business.
He said the farmers used 10 give their youn.
folks the ear and SO cents to go sparkn'. but nov
they didn't have the so cents He didn't say what
they used the so cents for when they had H. but later
on he complained that people In the city PAID d.
cents for one drink Of liquor and thought nothing OF
II.
Mr.. Rathbun said people living the farm
weren't interested In these Injuries, but they also
weren't interested IN doing things at q sacrifice.
Among the sacrifices he mentioned was that nc
darsen't refuse 70 loan his car to his hired HANDS
when they wanted 70 go 70 town and their car was
TO mind the hard hands children when the hired
hands wives wanted to so 10 town 10 do some shop
ping. II they did refuse. the hired hands left.
Keeping help on the farm was Just as difficult
as keeping the young folks, even though wages Tor
good dairy hands were from 800 10 $500 month.
That was with room. but without board Even 50
that's as much as mos. labor makes In the city. the
hours are longer, though-i0 day in winter. IL to
IL IN summer
one OF the congressman asked Mr.. Rathbun what
would happen II the dairy farmers went on 4o-honr
week He said there Just wouldn't be any milk
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
TEACHING SAFETY
Boston POST

LOSNOt4 E-OsA|
The Use OF moving pictures TO
teach safety TO schoolchildren has
.tecome quite common in resent
years. Now the police in Los Angeles
are launching a similar campaign
by which they hope TO teach grown
ups. A dozen short reels showing,
the principal causes of traffic ac-
cidents are to be produced and then
exhibited at local theaters. The mo-
torist or pedestrian has only TO put
himself in the place OF the careless
people shown in the films TO realize
how easily accidents can happen.
Such a campaign, II would SEEM, is
bound TO make some impression OF
even the most reckless Of citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
OHIO ANNIVERSARY
(Meriden Record

'Merluen RecoruJ
Ohio was admitted TO the Union
IN February 10. 1903. This anniver-
sary is worthy of note even in New
England. where a span of lab years
might generally be considered as
trifiing. For many New Highlander
helped to populate Ohio, and some
Of them stayed there
To recall a bit of history. the
Ohio Company of Associates was
organized in New England in 1887,
and purchased a large tract in ter
ritory northwest of the Ohio river.
Payment in Continental Certificates
issued TO soldiers marked the first
public sale of land by the United
States
Ohio settlers didn't have an easy
time OF it. Doubtless many OF them
wi~aed that they had stayed in this
section. where they knew a few In
dams Well enough to call them by
their first names. The Ohio Indians
caused trouble in large doses. But
Gen. Anthony Wayne finally put
the Red Men in their places (under-
ground mostly in 1894 with victory
over the tribes at Fallen Tim
bers' on the Maumee river MARI
eta and Cincinnati were founded
IN 1913. but Chillcothe was the
seat Of government until admissio,
10 the union.
Ohio has contributed seven pres
idents. and it wouldn't be surpris-
ing II another Ohio man I'VE name
no names reached the White
House. With all that New England
blood TO give it a good start. small
wonder Ohio became so important.
We must concede that the state has
made the most Of its opportunities
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Read and Heed

Even more important than the punishment of German
war criminals is the evidence being produced at the trial
against the German people whole 1t has become
escapaby clear that the horrors described could not
continued so long on vast scale If the German people
as whole had not been morally blind and unstable
We want our boys home and out of uniform. We do
not want to send soldiers than necessary
TO replace them. But the criminal trial proves that
we dare not weaken the occupation until assured
uttery-that Germany can again start another
tons cOnscenceless nhuman btzkreg against the world
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Their Right

Joseph r. mission to Moscow Davies says that Rus
Ba IN sedefense has every moral right to seek
secrets through military espionage excluded from such
information by her former fighting allies In not turning
such secrets Mr. Davies seems 10 feel that we are
"Ranging up on the Soviet Union
we have told Moscow absolutely nothing about atomic
gsIon we have been generous with her she about
giving as access to military information while the war
ualy was on For anybody on Moscow's behalf to find
aut because we DO not trust her with secrets is for
the pot to call the kettle black
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

ONNN VA VIC AeAAA
No sooner had Georgia Con-
gresham Stephen PAGES special
sub = committee on agriculture
started to investigate the short
ages Of milk. butter, sugar and
wheat, than It ran slap dab into
this.
II used 70 be, Henry Haag OF
the Dairymen's Cooperative As
ISOLATION OF Portland. Ore, told
the committee. that life In the
city wasn't much different from
life on the farm. That was before
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

people have arrived at The same
since. A high number
OF thousands evidently have cop
led it at the moment. as this old
est. and close TO the most charm
ing. populated place in United
States is evidently crammed.
Your correspondent reports
from no extended survey. having
arrived not much more than al
hour before this Is written, but
the walk from the hotel to the
telegraph office showed the quain
old streets chockanlock with close
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

inSllfance COMPANY conhDctIobs
which did Mr. Allen en- injusslce,
Il was stated that Mr.. Allen
was made vice-presldent Of The
Home Insurance Company IN ie5e,
at a time when the Federal Gov
eminent was investigating The
Missouri Insurance scandal pre-.
paratory 70 convictlnR Kansas
City boss Tom pendergast, life
long friend Of Harry Truman.
Il was also stated that the
fire insurance companies operat-
inc In Mineotfri had heen formed
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
HUSBANDS CREDO

The lord and master gulps his
grub,
He seldom even scans it,
Nor gives a thought to-here the
rub
The anxious wife who plans it.
It is a thing 10 break your heart
To watch her as she hovers
About the board that bears her art.
How often she discovers.
That what she wrought with love
ard care
The dishes joys impanel-
without the tribute of a stare,
Go down the Irish Channel.
The husband is stolid OK;
By quantity he's beckoned.
He eats and never lauds OF
SquSwks-
Unless there is no second.
7 hereby take the floor to state
am not like the brothers,
Those fail-rS-to -appreciate.
and so do all .the others
The Navy thinks ii can fend of
atomic bomb attacks on the United
states with battleships. We want
to be around the first time the
Missouri solos.
Mr. Truman is shopping around
for the right mar" to run the
Interior Department in place OF
Harold Ickes He wants man
who'll really get things done, not
just an interior decorator.
The United Nations Assembly
wound up its first session Thurs
DAY night by unanimously APPROX
ing the Conpecticut-N New York site
as the new permanent. world peace
capital. There is no Indication, as
vet. as TO when the cruel trek OF
the station wagon Oakies will be-
gin down III Greenwich.
Government approval will be re-
aiTed for all pay increases that
might lead TO higher prices, under
the Administrations new wage
price policy. We can't think Of amy
that might not; il will end, as pre-
dicted, in Peter rObbing John O.
20 pay Paul.
A report from Washington says
that current strikes are affecting
production Of many commodities
from atomic bombs 10 canned
grapefruit. II may b. beside the
point but the latter acts like the
former on Us.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Waterbury
of the Past
% Years Ago

At least three couples celebrated
Golden Wedding anniversaries ~
the city,
Three fractured fingers were the
result when a tWelye-yeaF-old BOY
from BANK St. deiiGd his moihers
orders not 10 leave the back yard.
When he sealed a fence 20 gain his
freedom, his left hand caught IN a
gate and wassegHshed when the
thing closed, thus fraeturing his
hand
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Views of the Press

expression Of their wrath and Of
their determination to bring this
deplorable situation to an end. The
time for a rising of voices is ripe.
New Canaan has charted the way.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Is Years Ago

A Wolcott farmer was slightly IN
jured when a bull charged him.
Three youths were arrested on
South Leonard St. after engaging
I'm what was described as savage
amusement" Police said that they
We're throwing stones through the
windows Of an abandoned house.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
The Firing Line
By D. N. T.

Does man ever appreciate the
hard mental work ard anxiety his
wife goes through Ill planning
meals?' Albert Edward Wiggam
in the Boston Globe.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
5 Years Ago

An excited girl dashed into Police
Headquarters with q handful OF
diamonds" Examination debated
her excitement and disclosed thai
the things were merely cnt-glasf
stones.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

WASHINGTON, Feb 26-In addition to all its
other troubles OPA now gets blamed for making
impossible to keep the young folks and hired hands
farO
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Sand and Oranges

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Feb. 26-Ponce dc Leon
the first traveller TO figure this good place to
spend the night and when lie saw It in daylight. he
elected linger. That back in 1913, Millions OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Carriers. Yale
st.. wegs spending a weekend 81
Indian Neck, Long Island, n. y.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26
Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, Feb. ee-on February ~, this
column published certain facts regarding George
Alien newly Apnolnted director Of The RIG. and ha
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

A report from Washington says
that current strikes are affecting
production Of many commodities
from atomic bombs 10 canned
grapefruit. II may b, beside the
point but the latter acts like the
former on Us.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

The Navy thinks ii can fend of
atomic bomb attacks on the United
states with battleships. We want
to be around the first time the
Missouri solos.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

Evidently most Of those from far up who have
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-26

Mr.. Truman is shopping around
for the right man to run the
Interior Department in place OF
Harold Ickes He wants a man
who'll really get things done, not
just an interior decorator.