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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
Mr. Petrillo's Solo

As things now stand James Caesar Petrlo president of the American Federation of Musicians free to indulge in the nraces which have won him. in two separate polls of public opinion place among the three most unpop""i union leaders in the United States.
 Chicago federal court has held the Lea Act unconsti- +utiona Accordingly MT. Petro continue to tell nol vdua and network broadcasers how many musicians they must employ and call his musicians out on strike ne % not obeyed He keep blocking the development V feuuencv meditation by demanding double pay or oouDe employment for simultaneous AM and FM musical broad, casts He can continue to levy private tax on recoru manufacturers for his unions Unemployment fund
 The test case which preceded this decision grew out of one of Mr. Petrilos mder actions He had ordered Chicago radio station to hire three more unlon S record turner's When the station did not comply he called out the three already handling the record turning
 U S. District Judge Walter Labuy had to confne him self to this particular case in which the stations operations were not seriously affected The fact that Mr. Petro couo just as we'll call all the countrys organized radio mus clans and virtually shut down the Droadcasrng huusS was, unfortunately beside the point
 udge Labuy ruled that the Lea Act violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution which deals with czens rights before the bar and also the Thirteenth which prohibits slavery and involuntary servtude m could we'll confuse the layman who might be orgven TOT imagining that the broadcasers not Mr. Petros muscan S were victims of involuntary servude by being required t follow MT. Petrlo's orders regarding employment.
 The more old-fashoned thinkers, who had always be- eved that person who conducts uusness ght woU der at Judge buys complaint that the Lea Act sets up no guide standard by which the number empoyeS could be determined. /. .
 But no one could fail to understand the judge when he said that under this act broadcastng employees are placed in class separate and apart from those oi all O.ner e poyes in the United States This segregation and class caon plainly falls within the arbitrary class of group eg islation" ~ ..
 That fatal weakness apparent when the Lea Act was passed When the elected representatives of all the people set about tailor piece of legislation to the
 ons of one arrogant catoa citizen they are obviously approaching their problem from the direction The Smith -Connay Act directed against John L. Lewis was similar case and Mr. Lewis quickly found of using the law to his advantage.
 Mr. Petrio and Mr. Lewis have simply taken advantage of laws which dscrmnated in their favor The Lea Act m narcuar was simply an attempt to curb them by attacking one type of group legislation with another.
 The need has long evident for some new sane ana fair labor laws designed to all the people and their welfare Perhaps the lesson of the Lea Act will not be lost upon the Congress when undertakes to remedy te present legislative deficiency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
Fishy Deals

WASHINGTON Dec 7-(NEAl-FrOm the little island of Iceland comes a fish story which reveals better than book some of the international shena- igans now going on in reconvertig this world from war to peace
 Iceland's whole economy is wrapped around fish. From the sale of it's fish catch foreign countries, Iceland gets the money to buy coal and lumber and machinery and other things 1t needs to keep going. When the Nazis moved into Norway and Denmark. most of this fish trade was lost Icelands fish were sold to England during the war and accounted for about a third of the British fish supply.
 When the United States got into the war and Iceland became an important base on the lifeline to Europe American troops took over from the Brit ish the Army built big airfield ct Keflavik. and in fancy three-way deal the U. s. bought Icelands fish catch, LendLeased 1t to the British. supplied Iceland with American coal and such other essen tial civilian goods as could be spared.
 Except fore the fishing business, Icelands econ- oy practically stopped dead Prices scared. the cost levels wages advanced by law as prices went up
 With the end of the war came the end of Lend> Lease the British found they could buy fish else- where at lower prices Iceland stuck with good fishing industry, built up at high prices and no place to sell It. The United States couldn't use the fish. There was market for herring oil for margarine and for cod liver oil. but not for the fish.
 Then last August there appeared in the Icelandic capital at Reykjavik five-man Russian purchasing mission. It came empowered to buy the entire Ice- ladc fish catch Prices offered for frozen ets were about 90 percent higher than had been offered the Icelanders in wartime Prices offered for herring oil were 60 percent higher. Prices for cod liver oil
 were roughly comparable to U. S. prices but the Rus sans smartly dickered that they would buy the fish only they got the oils That froze the D. S. out oi the market.
 Not only that, but the Russians also offered to supply the 1csiandszS win GU thE coal ana iamne'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
U. Ms HOME
CHerald Tribune)

It is melancholy news that New York seems to have slipped in the running for permanent headquarters of the United Nations. The subcom- mittee has returned from c search and finds that Philadelphia and the Preside of San Francisco suit best, although the Harrison area in Vest chester is also well regarded. In the months since the young world organ ization first settled at Hunter Cole lege ana then at Flushing and Lake Success, there has been a fond feel- ing in the hearts of many New York CTS that this was the right place for U. N. to be at home. We have be- come old friends.
 We believe that New York, with all its vast facilities for the dissemina- ton of news and ideas, has furnished a responsive and sympathetic forum for the world. Here has been and is a real challenge to our city to give the best, and we hope we are doing the job. It has been said often that we have way of taking everything in our stride, which may be true enough, but somehow as the capital of the world this cosmopolitan city of ours has never been more exciting.
 No matter what the final decision of the General Assembly. which probably will be made some time this month, we are glad to have the United Nations headquarters with us for short or long and feel the excite ment of being physically close to the hopeful beginnings of the new world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
LITERARY REVOLUTION
trlartford courantl

NharMOTu COuEa1O
 The periodical eruption against the teaching of Shakespeare in high schools has once more occurred. At the recent meeting of the National Council of Teachers it was urged that not only the Bard of Avon but Keats. Shelley and other English classicists be given a back seat fin favor of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe. Walt Whitemaf and other American writers. This is kind of provincialism one would not expect to find among those who shape American educational policies. whether a writer is an American, British or Q native of Afghanistan is not nearly 50 important as what 1t Is he has to say.
 Who cares when he reads book. listens to music or adinires a paint ing whether the creator was born in Baltimore or Budapest? The advocacy of a strictly American diet of literature is a petty kind of ma. tionalism. Although there is little danger that William Shakespeare WILL IO3e Ca3DC III CuuCuOO1as OhNlSOs the very fact that such suggestion could be made with seriousness in high academic circles is disqueting.
 If there can be any criticism of study of Shakespeare. 1t is that this literary diet is frequently fed to minds that are too immature to grasp the context. The result IS an antipathy that deprives that indi- vidual of the richest literary mine known to man.
 It is no disservice to the memory of Mark Twain and other American writers to say that Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley have written some of the most beautiful sentences and verse in the English language. To deprive students of this rich heritage under the questional guise of de- veloping an American culture IS ur1- thinkable. This move has been described as a literary revolution But it is a revolution against rea- son, and therefore doomed to fail- ure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
Views of the Press

absorbed in his favorite book, flank. cd on one side by his newspaper. devouring daughter and on the other by mother, busy with her eyer-present fnending; while Junior stretched before the cracking blaze, does his homework c la Abraham Lincoln.
 But the fireplace has proved more than acongenial warmth center. It has contributed in no small measure to the upbuilding of the Nation. Tn Colonial days 1t provided not only warmth and light, but likewise serv- cd as kitchen range. Wherever the pioneer went, the fireplace followed. Seated before it's compaf1ionable flame, the lonely and discouraged homesteader found his mountainous problems resolving themselves into molehills, and so was able on the morrow to tackle his tasks with rec newed determination. Likewise to- day many Q harassed householder, confronted with similar difficulties, finds his courage renewed and boise and perspective regained. A deep obeisance, then, to the friendly fire- place. May 1t long endure = and never snokel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
by Thomas Stokes

council of other agencies. 1t would be purely ad- vlsory Any nation could accept or reject the pro- posals for improving its economy.
 To help finance projects all over the world he would increase the capitalization of the International Bank from 10 billion to 100 billion If this makes you pause. listen to him as he reminds you that the nations altogether spent DO billion a year for war; that the United States alone spent slightly more than S7 billion for war between July l. 943. and June 3o 1044, and that the capitalization of 45 of the nations corporations with resources of over 1 billion each was more than 10l billion as of Dec. 3i, i945.
 He thinks private capital could help and would De ready to help.
 He has quite prospectus, nicely gotten up and written which tells of the vast resources of the world and how they are utilized; of the capacity for producing food for everybody with many mil- lions starving; of the capacity of manufacturing everything everybody needs with SO many people without bare necessities Beyond all this he would harness the atom for peaceful purposes.
 TO achieve universal tranquility and effectively to harness the atom We must divert the hatreds rising from everywhere and channel the tremendous energies unleashed by World War II into a con- structve program for world development" 1t says somewhat formally, but with meaning.
 "A well-fed busy world would be the least likely to start war" 1t says in another place. But a world which struggles outside doors may try to break down those doors"
 It's not so much what the young man says-and it makes plenty of sense-but the fact that he is say ing 1t, and that thousands more like him have in- erested themselves in various projects for ultimate world government.
 When the young opened the door he said with conviction in his voice and flame in his eye:
 I've got the greatest story in the world for you
 think maybe he was right.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
Your Health
By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.
AMpULATORY TREATMENT
 OF OLD AGE

Speaking of the palliative for decrepitude the other day 1 said that I myself feel just fine and dandy and therefore have not yet tried 1t on the dog, and one of my playmates, aged S7, who throws his weight about the bowling green without fear of any opponent who ventures to compete with him, has not vet felt the need of palliative. In both instances, 1 believe, tthat accounts for 1.-the game Of bowls (not tenpins but lawn bowls, ct least in part.
 1 have often recommended atl1- bulart of aInbulatory treatment ot hernia, hemorrhoids, infected tone sils and varicOse veins. For the benefit of any reader who may not understand, ambulant or ampula- tory treatment means treatment the patient receives, usually in the phy- slcian's office, without confinement to bed or hospital--that is, the patient remains at his or her usual work or activities throughout the course of treatment. Ambulant or ambulatory means literally walking or moving about.
 In order to play game of lawn bowls the man or woman must walk to and fro on the bowling green from fifteen to twenty times, cover ing in all perhaps one-half mile. At each end the player must bend down pick up from two to four bowls ana deliver the bowls in competition with the shots of his or her opponent. As exercise this is pretty mild stuft. As recreation, diversion and fun l do solemnly declare that in my opinion that no daily activity a mature adult can cultivate is more healthful than bowling on the green.
 Activity. I said. That's the secret the interest one takes in playing the game keeps one active, even though only in a moderate degree, but that is a vast improvement up- on the way so many of you follow sitting around listening to your arteries hardening.
 Where winter stops the game for several months, the best substitute diversion, I think, is walking - a daily walk of from six blocks to six miles, according to your tndivioual condition and requirement.
 Golfers who take up lawn bowls generally neglect their golfing and some give up golf altogether, m fovar of the new though historically much older game. Some golf addicts turned bowls addicts say bowling IS more strenuous than golf; others say golf is more strenuous than bowling. It is a long while since h played a game of golf, but as ] recollect it, there is little differ ence between the two games so far as physical activity or effect goes: I could mention several reasons why some such moderate activity or daily exercise keeps you in the running and beyond the clutches oi that relentless character who ts following on your trail with the de- termination to creep upon you and ride you to an early finish. Never mind now-those reasons will appear later.
 The important thing to bear in mind if or when you begin to feel at all ancient or decrepit is that you must keep up some kind of physical activity as a regular daily habit. fol otherwise you're on the toboggan and every day as old as you feel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
THE FRIENDLY FIREPLACE
1christian science Monitor)

America, these December days. IS witness to considerable log rolling of a strictly nonpolitical variety as hundreds of nome fireplaces, inac- tive since spring, are lighted. The process involves considerably more than touching a match to a gas- or oil burning furnace. Chunks Of wood, carefully chosen and dried in basements, must be brought up. and kindling must be expertly placed to assure a successful blaze.
 Mid-evening finds father relaxed in his accustomed armchair and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
by Peter EdSO1l

and other civilian goods needed Prices at which the Russians offered to sell these goods were far below prices at which similar supplies could be delivered by United States Government private business exporters.
 All of this happened at a time when U S. nego- lations for peacetime rights to use the Keflavik airfeld were at their height Communists in the Ice landic Althing. worlds oldest parliamentary body. were objecting violently to letting the United States have any rights.
 Late In September there was . three-day general strike in protest against U of the field In the end the Athing ratified the treaty U. S. troops will all be out of Iceland by April U. s. planes can use Keflavik field long U. s. occupation forces re- use the field. But few days after the Aithing ap- proved this agreement the cabinet of Prime Minister Olafur Thors had to resign. What happens next b m the lap of the gods
 If the United States had been able to bolster the Icelandic economy by buying its fish and selling coal and lumber. the American bargaining position would have been much stronger
 The Russian deal was of course too good to turn down. The Iceanders had to take it Since It was made the Russians have been right on the dot with their deliveries Supplies of coal and lumber move out of Baltic Sea ports. They may or may not be reparations from Germany Finland or other Russian occupied of Eastern Europe Only the Russians know where the stuff comes from
 Nobody knows either where the Iceandic fish go except that recently some of them turned up in Czechoslovaa for sale to the Czechs at prices low them, and at prices lower than other fish on sale in Czechoslovakia.
 The moral for the United States is that in its International trade arrangements for the futufes is going to have to meet more competition of this kind. and such fishy deals gre pretty hard e Beat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
Innocent Bystanders

In the diplomatic storm the shooting of Ukran- ian delegate to the LIN in New York decatessen hodup now fortunately subsde there is little reason to question Urainan Foreign Minister Manuskys sincerity Tn cnars
 Probably 1t is inconcevable to Soviet official that political figure might just happen to be shot because he raled into store and interrupted busheague sckup n fact Mir Manulsy may have been mystifed as the ordinary American politician would be to Rnd that in tne Soviet Union c0mrade might nst happen to be shot TOT g0ieine the wrong political opinions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Hard Nails

Please advise how many times and how often one may apply the 5So caustic potash solution to dense hard nail to soften them enough for trim ming. CM. J.J
 Auswer-scrub nails first with hot soapy water, then dry and swab nails only (keep of from skin with the solution (LAq. Potassium Hy- droxide, 5ss) and let 1t dry. Repeat the application night and morning until the nail becomes soft enough to cut or file.
 Saccharin Again
 Due to the sugar shortage I know many people are using saccharin tablets to sweeten tea and co1ee. M. Told a prominent physician ad- vised that saccharin should not be used unless prescribed by the phy- sician, as 1t may result in loss of eyesight. (H. c. W0 Answer-Any one may use up to 5 grains Of saecharan c, day inde- flnitely without risk cf any injury to health.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-02
Ma Slovensku neni proticeskych
Stvanic.

Praha (CTK) - 0 Zajezdu
ceskych novinaTG ma Slovensko
pise 'Svobodne Ceskoslovensko'
toto: "Cestf novinari Sc pre-
svedcili, re dnesnf Slovensko
nema zadnych predpojatost1
vGci CechGm a re 81 je vedomo,
re Cesi a Slovaci jsou ma sebe
vzajemne odkazani a re je je-
jich povinnosti budovat a haiti
iednotnou a spolecnou republi-
ku. Nenf tam proticeskych
stvanic. Nikdo ovsem nezapf-
ra, re by ma Slovensku nebylo
reakcionarskych zivlG. Zastup-
CT vsech stran dokladaj1, re by
bylo n~euvefitelne, kdyby naraz
zmizelo vsechno, co do nedavna
tvorilo l'udactvf, inklinuj1c1 k
Polsku, jindy k Madarsku a jim
dy a opet k samostatnemu Il
tvaru. Jest vsak jisto, re my
slenka demokracie a souzit1 Slo
vakG s Cechy ma Slovensku ma
naprostou vetSinu a re sill Cd
stfedivych jest tam miziva men
sina."
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-02
MfROVE


Parfzska mlrova conference
byla zahajena 20. cervence pro-
jevem francouzskeho presiden-
ia Bidaulta We 4 hodiny odpole-
dine historickem Lucembur-
skem palaci.
Avsak Timed prvni Tecnik, au-
stralsky zahranicni ministr DR..
Herbert V. Evatt Sc postaral o
malou sensaci. V naramne tenn
peramentni reci pTi ktere tloukl
pestf do stolu sc stall mluvc1m
vsech malych narod1. Prohlasil,
re tyto male narody uplatnuj1
pine pravo ma spolurozhodova-
nj O mirovych smlouvach, a re
Sc ma zadny prfpad nespokojf
tim odkyvati to, CO jim velmoce
nastoll.
Dodal mohutnym hlasem do
lslovne: "Nepreji 81, ably o tom
byly nejake pochybnosti."
Projevu Evattove p~fedchaze-
la kratka rozprava O utvoTen1
Ijednaclho vyboru. Omen vybor
ina urciti jednacf rad pro kon-
ferenci a ma urciti jake vetsiny
Dude treba pro ucinen1 doporu-
l5en1 4 velmocem Americe, Rus
ku, Anglii a Francii.
| Pr konferenci Sc .jedna O u
zavTenf mirovych smluv S Itali1,
Rumunskem, Bulharskem, Fin
skem a Madarskem.
Evatt, ktery sc stall mluvc1m
malych narodG cd dob projed-
mani charity Spojenych NarodG
" San FRANCISCAN Sc asi Ottawa
toho, re by pro rozhodnut1 kon-
ference mohla byti urcena dvou
ItTetinova vetsina. Kdyby k to-
mu doslo tax by Rusko mohlo
blokovati kazde rozhodnut1.
Jelikoz staty hlasujf S Ruskem
"a vsech okolnostl drz1 vice nez
Ijednu retinu vSech HAST.
Ma konferenci Sc seslo 1900
delegate re z1castnenych zem1.
Bidault sc We SVEN zahajovaclm
projevu zmfnil O prfcinach, proc
mlrove d1lo versailske melo tax
kratke trvan1. Jednu z pT1cin
vid1 v tom, re tenkrate staly
stranou 2 r~ozhoduj1ci velmoci
Amerika a Rusko, vyslovil ma
deji, re tomu nynf tax nebude.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-02
klement Gottwald O moskev
skych ujednanich.

Praha (CTK) " patek, 26.
|:ervence vratila Sc z Moskvy
csl. vladni delegace. Minister
sky pTedseda Klement Gott-
valid ucinil pc pr1letu z Moskvy
rozhlasovy projev, v nemz pra-
vii: "Zjistili jsme, re sovetska
|vlada pine chape a podporuje
nase spravedlive pozadavky VII
|ci Madarsku, ktere nase dele
GAGE vznese ma m1rove konfe-
renci. Sovetst1 cinitele v pod
state souhlasili S nas1 zadostf o
likvidaci vzajemnych pozadav-
XII souvisiclch sc skoncenim val
ky. Ceskoslovensko ma narok
ma majetek, ktery Sc naleza V
sovetskem okupacn1m pasmu a
jehoz majiteli byly fysick6 nebo
pravnicke osoby ceskoslovenske
prislusnosti bez ohledu ma ma
rodnost. Sovetska vlada jest o.
chotna nam pomoci pri vyzbroji
a vystroji csl. armady dlouho-
dobym uverem krone vyzbroje,
kterou nam uz dala zdarma.
V brzke dobe uzavreme de-
finitivnf obchodni smlouvy Sc
Sovetskym svazem Sc zretelem
ma dvoulety budovatelsky plan.
Podepsali jsme 1mluvu letec-
kou a pripravili jsme 1mluvu
zeleznicni. u vsech cinitelG
isme nalezli pine pochopen1 pro
nase nazory a pozadavky."
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-02
POHRRY.
C5 Garvnnco ~.

- 25. cervence zemfel pan
Angelo NJ. Petrarca, manzel pf.
Elsie P~etrarca, 1886 E. Eager
st. We start 60 rok1. Narodil Sc
V Italii a I'll v Americe 80 roxy.
Pohfeb konal Sc v pondel1,
20. cervence re SchimGnkova
Pohf. Domu do kostela sv. Ka-
teriny a odtud ma Baltimore
Cemetery.
= &c. cervence zemrela vdo-
va p1. Mary BIGGER, 6O3 N. Lake
wood Ave. We start 70 let. Ma
rodila Sc v Nemecku a do Anne
riky prijela pred 65ti lety.
Pohreb konal sc v 1tery, 80.
cervence re S~chimdnkova Pohr
Domu do kostela st. Elizabeth's
q odtud ma Lorraine Cemetery
= 20. cervence zemrela vdo-
va p1. Catherine Buettner, 42E
N. Milton Ave. We start 68 let
Narodila Sc v Baltimore.
Pohfeb konal Sc We ctvrtek
J.. srpna re SchimGnkova Pohr
Domu do kostela st. Elizabeth''
a odtud ma hfbitov Nejsv. Wy
kupitele.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1946-08-02
SpOrtOvnf Hlfdka.
KRfzKOVE ZAPASY
v COLISEUM.
DOUBLE WINDUP

Pro prfstf 1tery, dine 6. srpna
Mr.. Ed Contos poradatel kTfz-
kovych zapasG v Coliseum pri-
pravuje velice zajfmavy pro-
gram ma nemz podfl brati bu-
dou vynikaj1c1 zapasn1ci.
V hlavnfch dvou zapasech
ktere urceny jsou ma dobu jed
ne porazky 1cinkovati budou:
Ivan Komaroff, 22O ID. (Sen-
s%ational Russian) VS.. Chick
Garibaldi, 218 Id. re St. Louis.
Herbie Freeman, 275 ID. (Je-
wish Champion) VS.. Jan Blears,
27O 10. champion of England)
AUSTRALIAN TAG TEAM
MATCH
Mike Heller, PIP Id. z Jamai-
ca a Stu Hart, 208 ID. z Kanady
utkaj1 Sc S Angelo Savoldi, 22O
10. z Hoboken, N. j. a Abe Stein
PIP 10. IN. Y. Jewish Starr.
Vltezi z1skati must dive vltez-
stv1 re tTech utkanf.
Pat Welsh, 218 ID. z Atlantic
City VS.. Matte Brown, 228 ID. z
Washingtonu.
Zapas tento urcen jest ma do
bu 30 minut aneb l porazky.