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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
In Today's Mail

f "Now take your own United States. The greatest country in the world. The best armed too. Yet your peo- pie are scared stiff. Of what? Not of the sore spots of Fascism which still fester; not of the rising tide of militarism, but-of Rus l Sia.
 Yours was once the worlds most peaceful nation. It went about its business of building the healthiest, happiest and richest country of the world. It had no time for big armies. It built industries. Be- cause 1t had industries and a free people, it could produce not only the best fighting machine but also. the best fighters.
 But now, you are all falling for that military stuff that fooled and ruined many other nations. I'm not kicking, mind you. Nobody wins war: nobody-but me.
 "Now, your United States which sends me plenty of grafters, chis- lers, quacks, hypocrites, and an assortment of killers, cheats and liars every year, could really lead the world in organizing 8 united states of the world. To do this, it would have set good ex- ample.
 You are not setting that ex- ample, brother. You have what looks like a united drive to stir up distrust and hatred. Hitler tells me that he himself couldn't have done better job. He gets 8 big laugh out of the situation.
 "One thing that pleases him, is all this talk about getting tough with Russia. Your pussyfooting on Spain and Argentina makes him happy. And when your newspaper columnistS talk about the fine broth erhood of men in war, and sheer at your tradition of peace, he howls with glee.
 "Just the other day when he read that Gallop poll shows that more and more people think they are going to have to fight another war, he busted out singing 'Everything's Going My Way"
 4uS guy TlSIlL, you k1IOW. OAe less something unexpected turns up, Hells really going to break loose up there. I'm bit envious, for when things start breaking up there the next time, they'll make this place look like a paradise. Don't think I'm softly, but am worried about helpless kids"
 Yours respectfully, l ROBERT B. BICKEL.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

President Truman and national food and relief authorities are asking the people of Waterbury and America to aid the starv- ing masses of Europe and Asia. Let there be the reminder however that we are not be- ing asked to sacrifice. Our participation In this humane effort, by means of donations of canned foods, is no more than should be expected of us as residents of the Twentieth century. Let us take up the task as just share of the cost of the civilized luxuries we enjoy.
 Millions in Europe and Asia are, faced with starvation and death! These millions are comprised, in part, of thousands of chil-' dren and women and the old and feeble. They are sick, diseased and gripped with the futile despair of entrapping misery. What spirit may be left to each individual is no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
Out of Red.in the Blue
By Peter EdSon

back in the form of gasoline and auto taxes.
 Similarly, when aviation was an infant industry the federal government rightly assumed responsi- bty for giving it every assistance The weather re- porting service was expanded, and air routes were marked for night flying
 Cities built arports to invite air traffic. But AS transport aircraft have become bigger runwayS have had to be heightened. The old Ford tri-motor took 2,5OO-foot runway, but todays four-engined trans ports require over mile of concrete up to three feet thick to take the impact of 5O-ton planes and loads. &N5#8a
 charges are made for landings, but because of these additional expenses there is need for stand ardization of charges And the U. g. government has just stepped in with 50O-milion-dollar appro- priation to build more airports
 An argument can De made that the government the travelling and shipping public all this serv- ice contribution to increased air commerce and national prosperity Also, the airlnes argue that they pay taxes and therefore contribute to maintenance of airports and air navigation facilities But 70 U. S. commercial airines last year showed Q gross operating of 2l4 million dollars and net profits of 34 million dollars They're in business
 The job of studying what services the federal government could charge for and what the charges might be has been turned over to group headed by Hand, director of plans and performance for the Civil Aeronautics Authority His preliminary invest- gaton has shown that charges might be assessed for air traffic control on routes and at airpOrts, radio communication to fields and control of instrument landings in bad weather
 A second service for which the government might charge is safety regulation and licensing Of planes and pilots, both of which are now free Though people who get auto drivers licenses have to pay for Checking safety specifications for aircraft nght-test. ing them, and certifying new planes safe for travel are also now done by government inspectors without char1s.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

Committee chairman, got wind of what was going on he asked the Budget Bureau to investigate. A special committee created by the bureau reported after an exhaustive inquiry that 'the Government not only has paid excessive charges in stupendous amount before and since Pearl Harbor, but it is still paying such excess charges presently moving traffic and will continue to pay them until appro- prfate action is taken to remedy the situation"
 The Government 1t said, "has paid. and is pay- ing many millions of dollars in excessive charges for the transportation of materiel and supplies of the War Department"
 
 In all of this, the phrase before and since Pearl HarbOr" is the key. For an exhaustive examination of the record-of scores of letters and teegrams some "confidential"- that the same closed corporation was operating rates with the Govern ment during the before the war, with the top command in the Association of American Railroads and its henchmen in the territorial associations East West and South.
 To deal with the Government on rates during the a committee created with A. F. Cleve land, traffic vice-president of AAR. as ex-offcio chairman, and three other members, one from each territory.
 The Justice Department contends this was just continuation of the setllp concentrated in the AAR, and MT. Cleveland, which had dealt with the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

1cEoSS the table called across to Lewis:
 How are you getting on John?"
 "Oh I'm all right so far" was the reply.
 Then Mrs. Henderson feeling that she could not altogether ignore Lewis and wanting to make conversation, said to him:
 You know who Mrs. Palmer's husband was2"
 "Am apt to forget man who threatened me with jail if didn't call off strike in 24 hours?" boonled Lewis.
 There was an embarrassed silence To break 1t, the vivacious widow of Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General, remarked:
 What would Emily Post have me say to that?"
 "Who in HellL" responded Lewis lis Emily Post?'
 NOTE An referring to A. Mitchell Palmer's threat to send him to jai Lewis doubtless had in I which resulted in riots and killings in bloody Mngo County, w. Va
 Among Boston -bloOds there is an old saying that the lodges speak only to Cabots and Cabots speak only to God" However, John Cabot descend ant of the John Cabot who discovered Canada in 1497 and who is U. s. Charge DAffaires in Argentina condescended to speak with Dictator Juan Peron of Argentina last week.
 The meeting was most secret one and not a word leaked out to the papers The Argentine Pres- In order that no one would know about 1t, the two men met not at the Presidential Palace but in the apartment of mutual friend.
 Among other things, Peron told Cabot that he had no anti-democratic philosophy, firm advo- cate of democracy, and would not his electoral victory for any aggression at the expense of 1atn- American neighborS
 Cabot immediately asked why then Peron was putting the diplomatic heat on neghboring Uruguay, whose democratic leaders are now quakng in their boots at the thought of Argentine aggression. Peron replied that his Government had the frendliest i- tentions toward Uruguay, and that this was merely side issue.
 The main issue, Peron said, was that the United States and Argentina must stand firmly together in face of the impending war when both would be allied with the British. This seemed to amaze the U. S. envoy, who asked what Peron referred to.
 Why, the war by the U. s. and Great Britain against Russia" Peron replied.
 Peron explained that all his diplomatic informa- ton indicated such war was imminent, and that 1t would be wise for all ant-Bolsheyik countries to unite and strengthen their friendship
 MT. Cabot, however, denied the possibility of any such war. He told Peron that the only basis of friendship between the United States and Argentina rested in Argentina's supporting the Chapultepec Agreement and the other inter-American agreements guaranteeing the autonomy and sovereignty of the democracies of the Western Hemisphere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
WRITER DONS AN ASBESTOS SUIT AND TAKES A LOOK AT THE WORLD FROM
 BELOW

35 Fairview Street. Waterbury 76, Conn. Editor of The Democrat:
 One sees the strangeSt things in the crystal of a dream.
 I was reporter, dressed in one of these new-fangled asbestos suits Interviewing the Devil. Naturally asked him what he thought of the future of the world. He said that it was hard to predict human nature. But the way things looked to him they were good.
 50 you think there will be more wars?" said. Don't you think the people are too scared to let an- other war get started"
 Don't be childish" he said, 'sure the people don't want war. But they never have anything to say about it anyway. Your atom bomb got 'em scared all right. Great thing, that atom bomb. The best thing I ever had a hand in pro- ducing. You didn't know that? Well, fellow, you got scoop there. But I'm afraid you can't get it printed. You know, nobody will believe you. They'd say, even Satan couldn't get into the Oakridge plants.
 T, tell you, the fellows up above had me worried for awhile with all that talk about no more war be- cause it would wipe out everybody
 That kind of talk worried me and Hitler, sure he's here. What did you expect. Hitler used to say: 'Ach, nobody will listen to those smart fellows. They always fall for the politicians Just you wait and see. Those Russians and the AL lies can't get along
 But he was worried too. Now, he sings while he works. He's the only guy down here who is really happy. Just the other day he says his spies reported that the Americans are beginning to be more scared of the Russians than they are of the A-Bomb. And the Russians are scared to death of the Americans because they have the A-Bomb. AS the time goes on more and more people get scared. The funny thing is that there is noth- ing to get scared of. The people want peace. The politicians don't want war. There's no need for war, but you're sure headed for the fire works.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

longer recognizable as akin to civilization; it's identity now is to be found only in the desperate snatching at piece of stray garbage; in the dulled persistence of the woman arm-deep in rubble searching for scraps of food for child; in the puzzled anger of the haunted eyes of the father heIpIessly watching his starving child.
 They that die by famine die by inches! It is a cruel, unsparing force that attacks and defeats all human hope. The people of Europe call to us to save their children and themselves. We must rescue these people by our donations. If we turn our backs on this hunger-haunted with a million sighs- we shall eventually be adjudged guilty.
 GET BACK OF YOUR FOOD COMMIT TEE NOW CONDUCTING WATERBURY'S SHARE OF THE NATIONS CAMPAIGN!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
Working Against Themselves

Half truths and misrepresentation of uttered Kberatey by supposedly responsible persons to whom the public looks for information unconsconabe abuses of
 trust that often result in wasefu confusion and preudced action Union leaders, during the coal strike have accused the mine operators of fragrant careessnes with miners lives. And yet figures published by the United States Bureau of Mines do not bear out such charge The accident rate in mines has been going steadily and substan taIy downward.
 recent item in the New York Times reports that il-
 Mons of dollars spent by the coal industry the installation of safety revices machinery and methods to combat mine fatalities producing results Bitumnous coal mines of the United States established safety last of O64 deaths from accident for each million tons mined This low fatality rate estimated by the Bureau of Mines compares with btuminous fatality rate of 183 million tons in 1944"
 representative of the btumnus coal mining industry haty refutes the mine union leaders charges and
 They know of the improved conditions of ventilation, rock dustng explosionproof equipment, mining design, sprinng systems, improved lighting transportation pro tecve personal equipment and many other innovations de- signed entirely for safety adopted by the operators The safety history of the industry is repete with strikes egs lave battles and plain refusas of the mine workers cept closed lights, smoking regulations safety hats and shoes rules any rules whose only purpose the eafety of the employe."
 When union leaders play politics with such vital prob lem as mine safety they will find it difficult to pub e sympathy when seeking correction of genuine faults
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

son, WIG or t1e t0rmef UFA administrator, and Mrs. A. Mitch ell Palmer, widow of Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General.
 Neither lady was especially enthusiastic about Lewis, but found him about as difficult to ignore as the rest of the nation does today. For 8 time, however, they managed to carry on con- versation between themselves, with John |. sitting mutely be- tween.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

examination to-see if they couldn't be charged for. Uncle Sam is at last interested in getting out of the wide red wonder in this one respect, at least.
 When the Department of Commerce Appropriation Bill for next year was up before the House, Congressman Louis o. Rabaut of Michigan suggested that maybe it was about time some of this flying expense be taken off the taxpayers. Just to show sA s..a..aaA Ras.li.an. sa,a klaar snona o,nalr
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

A Willow Street man, attempting to commit suicide, turned on the gas but forgot to extinguish pilot light on hot water heater. Result He blasted himself out the window unhurt.
 A downtown woman shopper, arms laden with bundles, asked a man, whom she thought to be the floorwalker, to hold her bundles. He wasn't the floor walker, she learned -but he did walk off with her bun dleS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

railr0ad employees did valiant SerV- Ice under trying conditions.
 But 1t was . costly operation to the taxpayers because of ex- ceSsive charges in so many cases to the Government for moving military personnel and supplies. The record is filled with refusal of land-grant rates to the Gov ernment, as provided by law, with denials of other rate reductions for military purposes.
 When Senator Wheeler O., Mont Interstate C0Tnmerre
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
The Firing Line
 By D. N. I.
LITERARY PEEVE

My thoughts in hand I hereby take
 To spurn the odd addiction Of authors toward the female rake
 Who now appears in fiction. I think the Casanovian bent,
 Which many Muse attains to Permissible when it's the gent
 That such bent pertains to. I like my heroine to be As pure as snow or puref; When she embarks upon spree
 I cannot then endure her. I blush with gentle-reader shame
 When odds and ends of lovers Surround her always, and no blame
 Her silly soul discovers. I spurn her beauty, charm and wit;
 I honestly regret her.
 And this may be the cause of it:
 I never yet have met her.
 Winston Churchill urges the formation of "the United States of Europe" Russia seems to be one step ahead of him; already she is starting the revolution against England.
 The C.I.O. Political Action Com mittee has blackliSted ten senators and more than a score of represen- tatives for the 1946 elections. The solons involved probably are resting 8 little more easily about their campaigns, now that they have re- ceived the kiss of life.
 From Atlanta comes word of the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The suspicious of housewives are now confirmed; there must be black market in white sheets.
 Automobile traffic, in spite of the scarcity of new cars, increased to the point where the only time you can find safe place to park for a few moments is when the cop says to pull over to the side of the road, there, you.
 The first watermel0ns of the season are selling in Mic ri for $S.5O each. But don't worry; by the time the good old Fourth of July rolls around, you'll be gett- ing them for $3.29.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
|Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, Hay M-John L. Lewis was being entertained at dinner not long ago by Mrs. EValyn Walsh Mclean of Hope Diamond fame who had seated tho hig miner hebWeen Mrs Leon Hender-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
s Years Ago

A bass drummer at a local dance really "got hep" and banged so hard on the skins that he blasted a hole in the huge drum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

WASHINGTON, May l4-(NEA)-Fifty million dollars worth of air navigation and traffic control services which private and commercial arplanes get for free from the federal government now under
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

Sen Robert LaFolete having led his Progressive Party back into the Republican fod snubbed at the first op pOrunity by the Wisconsin Republican convention which endorsed another candidate for Mr. LaFoees Senate sat- This lack of faed calf for the prodga is one meat short age that the COP can't blame on the OPA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
15 Years Ago

When a milk truck caught fire on Cherry Street the driver was un- daunted: he quickly doused the blaze with milk.
 Ethel Dennis and Claire Naugh- ton, college students, were home for a mid-year recess.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14
Hitch.hikinO to Nraw Haven [

Hitch-hiking to New Haven from the corner of Hamilton Avenue and East Main Street in g heavy rain, an unidentified man refused a ride from rnotorist when a cursory in- spection revealed no radio in the ve- hicle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

Railroads have made much of their performance during the war. From an operating standpoint the record is perhaps as good they claim. Certainly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

The first watermel0ns of the season are selling in Mic ri for $3.5O each. But don't worry; by the time the good old Fourth of July rolls around, you'll be gett- ing them for $3.29.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-14

Winston Churchill urges the formation of "the United States of Europe" Russia seems to be one step ahead of him; already she is starting the revolution against England.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Girl Cadets 10 Vie
For Medal in Drill
Competition tuesday

Washingtons newly organized
high school girls cadet brigade will
hold its first city-wide company drill
competition at l:30 pm. Tuesday
at Central High School Stadium.
Like the boy cadets, who for years
have competed for the diamond
studded Allison Nailor Medal, the
winning girl captain will receive a
gold medal. This was donated by
the Daughters of the American Col
onists, 1t. Col. William E. Barkman
professor Of military science ano
tactics, said.
The members of the winning com
pany will get blue and gold ribbons
the second place company, white anc
gold ribbons, and the third place
company, red and gold ribbons.
Eight companies will march fol
Is minutes each, judged by Army
officers detailed from the War De.
partment. The boys Brigade Banc
will play.
Six of the high schools for white
students are entering the competi
ton. Four of them, Wilson, Eastern
and Western High Schools, ane
Burdick Vocational High School
have no girl cadets.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
Man Held in Sale Of Goods
Without MAKING Deliveries

A scheme by which he obtained
from $40 to $40 as down payments
on tires and other scarce items
which never were delivered was at
trlbuted by police to a 23-year-old
colored man arraigned in Municipal
Court yesterday.
The defendant. Charles P. Nc
Claim of the 100 block of First
street NV. was arrested THURSDAY,
was held for the grand jury on a
robbery charge by Judge Walter ].
Casey, and asked jury trial on four
charges of larceny. Police said sew
eral additional charges would be
brought to court this week.
E. H. Winter, acting precinct de-
tective, said McClain's "favorite
trick" was to tell cab driver he had
tires. radio set, a heater or set of
fog lights from an automobile which
had been wrecked beyond repair,
and offers to sell the article cheaply.
He then would accept a down
payment, the police said, and take
his victim to one of three apart
ment houses he used aS fronts"
ask him to wait, and then leave
through back door with the cash.
A jury trial was scheduled June II
in the larceny cases.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
}. F. Paul Eschner Dies;
Treasury EmpIoye

J. F. Paul Eschner, 60, of Airing
ton and Aquinsic Farms, Bensville
Nd, died yesterday at his home
1924 North Twenty-fourth Street
Arlington, Va.
A native of Germany. he was a
graduate of the University of Leip-
zig. Mr.. Eschner had been en-
ployed with the Lease-Lend division
of the Treasury Department ano
was formerly with the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau.
He is survived by his widow, thu
former S. Eleanor Osterhaus of New
York; a daughter Mrs A A.F.Donahue
of this city; son, J. F. Paul Esch-
ner,. jr., Tacoma. Wash, and two
sisters, Mrs. T. w. Morters and Mrs
E. S. Hauer of Long Island, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held at 4
pm. tomorrow at Lee funeral home
Burial will be private.
Evening star., 1946-05-12
|0PA Asks Housewives Hoey Asks for Data
Here 10 Aid in Fight On Liquor Licenses
On Meat Black Market In Letter 10 Youno

Regional OPA Administrator Leo
G. Gentner today asked Washington
housewives to cooperate in a new
and Smashing" attack to prevent
black market operations in meat in
five States and the District of
Columbia.
Mr.. Gentner promised to make
it impossible for violators to oper-
ate" anywhere in his region, which
embraces Maryland, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Della
ware as we'll as the District.
Announcing that steps already
have been taken to increase meat
enforcement manpower by as much
as go per cent in critical regions.
he said the drive was aimed at
preventing meat black marketeers
from changing their scene of op-
eratlons to communities they be-
heve to be less militant"
"OPA enforcement knows all these
birds and will nail them as soon as
they try a new base of operations, ~
Mr.. Gentner asserted Our drive
will not be confined to just a few
principal cities. We intend to make
ut mighty tough for these fellows
who are diverting the meat supply
to 1llegitlmate channels"
Vincent A, Holmes, District OPA
director, said the Districts part in
the drive lis principally an alertness
to incoming meat from possible
black market slaughtering sources. u
Reiterating his opinion that Wash
lngton has no large meat black
market, Mr.. Holmes said the CITY
has only one nonfederally inspected
livestock slaughterer.
He declared, however. that "in
cases of any discovery of possible
black market meat coming into
Washington, the District OPA office
Immediately wires the OPA district
where the slaughtering took place.
SO that every case is immediately
put into investigation at the place
of slaughter and the source of the
black market meat dried up
Housewives and other shoppers.
it was explained, can best con-
tribute to the drive by examining
price lists to discover overcharges.
"the sign of black Market" and
start it on its way to elimination
by reporting to the OPA.