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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
Spring!

Those typical signs, meadow and brook voets coWshs daffods do not herald the season that officially 3egms W dav But Spring has arrived by the calendar The most trying and seemingly lengthy of the year With s many unpleasant as well pleasant aspects will soon De a memory. - . ,r.oL and Anr will have their quota of days Winter VIII do plenty of lingering, chilling "the lap of May.
 The first call of Spring arrives even carrier @ t r'orrnV @ inning of the birds suggests the ahead when an oc casiona unreasonable March day hits new high as o las. week and when the first hint of green can be seen you look for it deep in the woods where some of the wild plants are pushing through the ground just recently rid ot n characteristic and that custom prevails not only as to one personal but in the cleanup of private and property. .od
 From the West comes word that the swallows returned on time to the Captrano Mission St. Josephs feast oa March 19 .,.
 Spring will assert itself in our own valley oy aks M faroff and nearby hills will be green and greener as the season advances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
Exit the ProgresSiveS
By ThOmaS Stokes

moved over control of Congress by conservative ele ments of the Democratic Party in coalition with conservative Republicans.
 The failure of President Truman to get much done in Congress on his program-qargely leftover measures from the Roosevelt regime-offered Bob IaFollete his best argument against joining up his Progressive Party with the Democrats as some ot his followers wanted to do He seemed to be rationalizng to fit his political problem but his statement that he Democratic Party was stalled on dead center accurate enough.
 Throughout our political history third parties have cropped up under two conditions: Either when the old parties controlled by the same conserva- tive economic interests, when depression spreads over the land and people grope for savior. The original Republican Party out of the first con- dition.
 Out of the second came that group of progressive or radical movements in the Northwest during the 2Gs and early sos The farm depression gave birth to the Non-Partisan League and the Farmer-Labor Party This reflected itself in Congressional elections far back 1922, an omen which Republican lead CTS failed to heed until it blew up in their faces few years later.
 In 1924 the elder LaFOlette left the Republican Party decade later his sons created the Wisconsin Progressive Party Phil LaFoette tried to expand 1t into a national party, but got nowhere
 What happened about that time was that the Democratic Party under MT. Roosevelt literally swal- lowed up various regional independent political move ments often by direct alliance as happened in Wis Roosevelt program which appealed to their rank and file.
 Now these groups are getting restive under Pres ident Trumans leadership. Bob LaFolette carries his, for temporary expediency, into the Republican Party. But his and others will be mischievous and unruly clements in both old parties They may get some reforms, or, if not they may fuse later into another party
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
Views of the Press

enemies in an invasion of Russian territory-might easily fail to com- mand the support of the Russian masses; 1t might even arouse old revolutionary fires very dangerous to the present regime at Moscow Stalin and his inner group of bureaucrats and Communist polit- icians must appreciate the danger of such popular reaction among the masses who have but recently undergone greater hardships and sacrifices than the peoples of either Britain or the United States.
 AS for ourselves, a new war in the near future would be a fantastic project. Assume that pending dis putes involving Russia and Britain which the Security Council of the LIMO. is expected to take up, at its coming meeting, had proved to be beyond adjustment and that the failure of the JUNO. as a reconcil- ing agent had been demonstrated at least for the time being. In the face of Russia's veto in the Security Council, the United Nations could adopt no measure of coercion. If the United Nations were to suffer disintegration, however, and this country were thrown back upon it's old status as a sovereign and in- dependent nation, there would be no casus belli presented to our gov ernment because there were still some Russian troops in Iran or on the frontiers of Turkey.
 The American people will not be readily whipped up into a war fever over Anglo Russian rivalries in the region of the Persian gulf so soon after the last war ended only these eight months-after piling ur a national debt of nearly $300,- 000, 900, 900 and suffering 100000 casualties in fighting Germany Italy and Japan. This prospect based on inherent probability, can not fail to be appreciated by the responsible leaders of our own gov ernment.
 The peoples are against more war If the peoples are against more war, their governments must some how manage to adjust their diff. ferences so as to keep the peace They may be expected to do 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
Ought to Be a Law
By Peter EdSOn

great believer in having the government do it's own law work He so nsistent about this elimination of private lawyers from government practice that about year ago he wrote letter to Governor Tug well, turning thumbs down on proposition made by Tugwen to hire private lawyer to represent the island government in Washington.
 Fortas branded the idea as unwise and unsound. He said it was neither seemly appropriate for the government to employ as counsel any but public Rico, FortaS went on would lead to embarrassment for the government, no matter how unimpeachable might be the character of the lawyer concerned.
 Of cOurse one questions the character of MT. Fortas and the interests of Puerto Rico will doubt be well taken care of by the firm of Arnold ano Fortas, attorneyS-at-law But it is really puzzng how Barrister Fortas talked himself into taking this ac- count in view of his previous horror of such unetn- ical practice.
 This business of lawyers quitting government service and then going into private practice against the government is of course an old story In Wasn- ington. It pays handsomely. Look what 1t did for Tommy (The CorO corcoran.
 There Is a law-Title v. Section 90. of the U. S. code-which provides that no former officer or em- ploye In certain executive departments may act as attorney or agent in prosecuting a claim including a demand for money until two years after he has eit government service. This act passed in 1872 10 check post-Ciyi War abuses But penalty was pros vided and the limitations make the law ineffective
 The RenegotIation Act of iet2 frightened this little by providing that no one in government service between May. i0l0 and six months after the end oi the war could appear in any against the govern ment with which he had previously had official con' nection.
 But still there are big loopholes. The whole bisi- ness s open ts many abuses There ought to be ia~' better law
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
THE PEOPLES AND WAR
(The Springfield Republican,

(The Springfield Republican,
 Of both the Russian and the American peoples 1t can be said, with perfect confidence, that they are overwhelmingly against fight ing another war. Their leaders must necessarily be guided by this fact.
 The common assumption that the small inner circle of Soviet rulers can do anything they choose to do with the Russian people, because the Soviet government is virtual dictatorship, must be seriously qualified. The Russian rulers today fully realize that the Russian masses want peace above all things in or- der to recover from the ravageS Of the German invasion and improve their standard of living, in accord- ance with the latest five-year plan. Russia participated in the recent war only after the German armies had invaded the country. On no basis of nationalist aggression abroad could Stalin have brought the Russian people into complete unity in resisting Hitler's legions marching to the Volga and the Caucasus.
 In Stalin Russia has a leader who well remembers his revolutionary days prior to World War I. He knows from personal experience that there is revolutionary blood in a people who, by popular uprisings, after the defeat by Japan in 1904 1905, forced the cSar to lioeralize his autocracy to the limited extent of establishing the Duma. Stalin can recall still more clearly the circumstances under which, in 1917 the Bolshevist party overthrow the Kerensky government and eStab- lished the dictatorship of the proletariat."
 The moderately revolutionary Ke- renSky government was overthrown because it insisted that Russia should continue in the first World War, as the Western allies desired But Russia had already suffered se- verely and the people had lost all their enthusiasm for the czar's war against the central powers-if they had ever felt any. The Lenin group won the support of the rank and file of the army at the front by promising to make a separate peace and give the land to the peasantry. Thereupon the Keren- sky regime collapsed. The Russian people had reached the point where they would not fight war, which had not been clearly war of de- fense against invasion, for any gov ernment claiming their allegiance. That was how the BolsheviSt revo- lution went to town.
 A new war now staged-unless it were clearly initiated by foreign
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

make it impossible for them to resist Russian de- mands now. So if Russia acts quickly she can get what she wants without risk of war.
 2. If there should be trouble however the Rus sian people will go along with the Soviet Govern ment as long as Stan is alive and at its head That another reason for speed, since Stalins health is falling He has become 8 great symbol and the Russian people will follow him anywhere However, being just as war weary as the democracies and having no real quarrel with them, the Russian people would be loath to follow any other leader into war
 These factors, according to diplomatic dispatches just received from Moscow, are why the Russians rushed troops into Iran, have concentrated on the Turkish border and have a tremendous army in Hungary ready to reinforce T1tos Yugoslav Army in case there is a march on Trieste
 Staln is old and although still the most import ant parsonage in Russia is not nearly as active as formerly Roosevelt incidentally always found Stalin easier to deal with than those around him. So did Hull and Jimmy Byrnes.
 NoTE-Ex-A Ambassador Averell Hartman, just returned from Moscow, reported that Stalin now looks very much Roosevelt did at Yalta, emaciated and not well man.
 When so distinguished a visitor as Leon Blum former Premier of France, arrived at the National Airport in Washington, most people would have ex- pected the State Department to remove red tape.
 Not so, however. The venerable Blum had to go through the usual inspections In fact, so strict was the red tape that when French Ambassador Bonnet held out his hand to greet the distinguished visitor a colonel in the Public Health Service intervened.
 Sorry MT Ambassador" he said, you can't touch him. He hasn't been through health inspection yet"
 But another colonel of Public Health, noticing M Blums hands sad T guess 1t will be all right to shake hands He has gloves on"
 One reason behind Stalins personal blast against Winston Churchill following his Fulton, Mo, speech was an old personal antipathy between the two men which finally exploded privately at Teheran. Stalin, of course, forgot that Churchill had sent Allied troops into Archangel and Siberia at the end of the last war in order to upset the Bolshevk regime And all during the recent war he was irked over the fact that Churchill hung back against start ing the Second Front across the English Channel. It was not until the Teheran Conference that this question of the Second Front was finally settled After considerable argument between Churchill and Stan, Roosevelt threw his weight on the side of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

8 story that IS Sometnlng else again.
 The extra attention the squib deserves stems from the past con- nections of the latter half of the firm of Arnold and Fortas, the Hon. Abe FortaS. Until two months ago, Abe was the bright and shining undersecretary of the Interior. This was in the reign of King Harold Ickes the Honest, for whom Mir. Fortas was in charge of, among other things, Puerto Rican affairs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
GOOD NEWS
(Boston Post)

NOOoOOAl 4SSGP
 Lo sporting fans who remember the good old days 8 generation and more ago, it is good news to hear that Jim JeffrieS is recovering from a stroke of paralysis. The 7O-year- old former boxing champion of the world was a great fighter who in his after years has lived an ex- emplary life. A solid man, not un- settled by fame, to many who re- call his flstic prowess, he still remains "The Champ"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
SOFT ANSWER

Spare the rod and spoil the child, An old and summoned saw, Is most convenient when you're
 riled,
 For laying the parental law, Tact is something parents lack When they deal with children who, All too frequently, alack, Rather seem to lack it, too. Why can grown-upS never sec Virtue in the gentler word, Patience and diplomacy, Ever irritation'S heard? I've seen parents who are kind, Not eXasperated, when
 Almost driven out of mind By their pesky Little Men. Do the Little Men turn sweet Under tact's indulgent pats? They're the terrors of the street, They're the most unruly brats.
 Police are on the lookout for a burgular who tried to pick a lock with a tO0thpick. They'll prObObly find him exploring the cavity in his mOlar with jimmy.
 
 Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard believes that the Russians "know all we know about atomic energy. If some Russian columnist knows all we know about 1t, he'll never be decorated for starting Atomic War I.
 The Wisconsin ProgreSsives, who bolted in 1884, have returned to the Republican fold. It would be i'm possible to adhere to the truth anc still say that they wouldn't know the old place.
 A Midwestern concern is eXperi' menting with houses made out 0! l paper 6eJteT IuCk lO " IiAdA Ael been the lot of those who for years have been building them out ol cards.
 RadiShes, first crop, up and out of the garden, are high in irOr and vitamin c. Eight out of ter people will never appreciate that until some ingenious Burbank dis covers method of crossing the radish with Yum.
 The New England Wild Flower Preservation Society is engaged 1T a campaign to save the mayflower There's a race between selfish mar and Mother Nature, with arbutu' trailing.
 "Stork Visits Queen Mary headline. Warbling, in its vernal de light, Where did you get tha hat?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

and Vice-C Comnlissar Vyshinsky.
 They, even more than Stalin, according to diplomatic dispatch es, are really running top Soviet policy today.
 That policy is: Russia must acquire certain strategic areas, such as Tran and the Dardenelles, quickly and without delay. The time factor is important for two reasons:
 1. The war weariness of the rest of the world and the general sln,,nrAni1inn Han nR Ainn dnNtnnna.n n Ar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
The People Do Not Want War

Elsewhere this page is reproduced an editorial clipped from The Springfield Republican, editorial which distinguished by it's clarity of both thought and expression much of the writing in that distinguished newspaper
 Despite it's completely realistic consideration of present troublesome conditions Cor perhaps because of m the Rpub cans editorial is most reassuring The Democrat recom- mends it to readers. thoughtful reading of it will be well worth the few minutes it takes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

interesting political clues Tor to- day.
 Among other things, 1t comes right in the midst of agitation for a national third party. It throws a damper on such projects to some extent, though it's hard to dis courage enthusiastic groups who profess to see no hope today in either major party. They are minority, but a noisy and belliger- ent one.
 Practical considerations forced Senator poh a Eollatta tn dishand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

Why do parents so seldom use any tact in dealing with their childrenP"-Dorothy Dix in the Boston Sunday Globe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

Marriage licenses issued in cities of the frst-class throughout the United States increased II per in 945 compared with the previous year. And the rate for 946 is hotter s Naturally the Census Bureau lays matrmo nla speed to the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

WASHINGTON, March Disappointment of the new Washington law firm of Arnold and Fortas as counsel for the government of Puerto Rico is proba bly, minor item of news in itself but behind it is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
.Merry-Go-R Round

WASHINGTON, March 21--1ts always hard to find out exactly what is going inside the Kremn, but according to latest diplomatic reports, the chss policy fralners are now Foreign Comnissar Molotov
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
5 Years Ago

A lOcad man, arrested on intoXi- cation ch hArges for the 54th time, told the court that he would quit drinking Of the judge would ''oniy find me a job" The judge did-60 days in jail,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

Dissolution of the LaFOllette Wisconsin Progress sive Party after dozen years brings an abrupt end to regional third party experience that offers some
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

Three members of family ol s'y were injured when the eeilln6 Q. ihelg dining room collapsed while they were eating dinner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
Waterbury or the Past
25 Years Ago

MT. and Mrs. Everett Carriers ot Boyden Street were visitors in New York.
 A near panic was caused when a slight blaze broke out in down. town theater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

his party. The party that once had dominated the state under himself and his brother Philip has dwindled away. The Senator is up for reelection this year. He had to have vehicle His own party no longer provided it. So he decided to go back to the Republican Party out of which his father, the late Senator M. LaFolette, walked in 1924 to run independent candidate for President.
 Practical considerations likewise to initiate against any national third party among them, the fact that state laws have been fixed in so many to make 1t difficult for third parties to get the ballot.
 This still does not close the door to new national third party of course But whether or not that hap pens, both old major parties are being subjected to stresses and strains for reform from within
 Everybody knows that Bob LaF'ollette will con- tinue to fight standpat COP conservatism from within the party, he did from without for so many years. Harold Stassen is doing the same So is a group in both branches of Congress though mnori- ty So are groups outside.
 Similarly the Democratic Party is literally burst ing at the seams with disaffection The disaffected the progressive and eftst groups who joined the party under Franklin D. Roosevelt and it is from them that the third party talk comes. They are an-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
I6 Years Ago

A runaway team Of horses knocked down youth on East Main Street.
 Federal Authorities conducted several raids on local SpeakeaSies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

Spare the rod and spoil the child, An old and often-summoned saw, Is most convenient when you're
 riled, For laying the parental law,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

"Stork Visits Queen Mary headline. Warbling, in its vernal de- light, Where did you get that hat?"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-10-10
RAYMOND

Mrs. Myrtle Jackson spent Sun
day afternoon with Mrs. Blanche
Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnis BuShong
were dinner guests on Sunday of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Bushong.
Mrs. Crystal Davie called on her
mother, Sunday evening.
Mrs. Carrie Shirk. of Somers-
vile, was calling on friends in
Raymond, Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Lowe and
three children, of Columbus, were
calling on relatives in Raymond,
Saturday evening.
On Sunday, Sept. %, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Baughn and family, of
Columbus, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Bonnette, of Marion. were guests
in the home of Mrs. Baughn, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Patton.
DR.. and Mrs. Ray Phipps and
daughter, Sonia, of Oberlin, spent
Saturday night with the formers
mother, Mrs. Blanche PhippS. On
Sunday they we're all dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Herd, and
son, Ronnie.
Mrs. j. w. Forsythe had for
guests on Sunday, her son and
daughter-in-law, Rev and Mrs.
Forsythe and her brother. and Sis
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Kitchen.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-10-10
i. .SOMERSVILLE
BY CLINTON DAVIS

The Friends aid society was en-
tertained at the home of Mrs.
Lawrence Beard, last Wednesday
afternoon.
Miss VeSta Harris spent last
"Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
Clara Seran.
Mrs. Grace Erwin is staying at
the home of her brother, z. f.
Potts, at this present time
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Mcintosh
were last Wednesday afternoon
callers at the home of the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Nichols.
o. G.. Craner, of Marion, and
Mrs. Clara Peoples, of Mt. Gil
cad, were last Saturday evening
supper guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. James w. Davis. Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Davis, of Springfield
were also Sunday evening supper
guests.
Mrs. Anna baltimore. of Chi
cago, and her brother Hollis His
ley, of Kenton, called on Mrs.
James w. Davis, week ago last
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-10-10
: KNOXVILLE
CENTER
By MRS. MERYL GEORGE

A hearty welcome is extended
to all those who are not in Sun
day school elsewhere TO come and
join us, Sunday, Oct. 13. We have
our goal for attendance set high
please come and do your part. A
pot-luck dinner will follow the
services.
Mr., Argo, who was very i'll, is
little better at this writing.
The Book and Needle club met
with Mrs. Florence Penrose, Fri
day evening. Mrs. Ethel Buchan-
an gave a talk on Strauss, the
musical composer from Austria,
taken from Tales from Vienna
Wood"
The w, S. c. S. met Thursday
with Mrs. Freida Johnson
We are indeed quite happy to
have with us once again. our old
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. V. H. Ham
mond, Of Great Bend, Kansas. This
is their first visit back in the last
16 years.
Mr.. Hammond was born in Oar
by township and grew to young
manhood on the farm, now owned
and occupied by Mrs. Nina Adams.
After the death of Mr.. Hammond's
father, the late Mr.. John Ham
mond the mother and children
moved to Great Bend, where they
have been residents for the past
As years.
While visiting here Mr.. and Mrs.
Hammond are making their head
quarters with Mr.. L. O. Mapes, a
former neighbor and friend of the
family. On Monday evening the
Hammond'S were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. E. Penrose and
son, William.
j Tuesday evening found them
reminiscing early school days at
the Smith-Davin home WedneS-
day, they with Mr.. l.. o. MapeS
and Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Mayer
spent the day at the Coshocton
fair. Thursday they were all-day
guests in the Mayer home. Friday,
they with Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Mayer called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Kruse in Columbus. They
also made several other calls while
in Columbus, with other friends
and relatives. Saturday they SO
journed on farther east to visit
relatives in Pennsylvania, for q
few days. They will return here
again before returning to their
home in Grent Bend
On Sunday p. m. Mrs. Allie Am