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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
POtSdam to Peace-COnt.
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WASHINGTON, April 7- (NEA) - The biggest stumbling block to the Big Four Foreign Ministers in their efforts to carry the Potsdam agreement of a year ago has been Germany itself.
 The general purposes of the agreement were to wipe out Nazism, punish the guilty War-crminals, democratze Germany during the period of military occupation and finally, make that the Germans would be so completely disarmed they could never again threaten the peace of the world.
 To carry out these provisions, Germany was di- vided into four Zones of Occupaton-Russian in the East U $. in the South, French in the West, and British in the North. The Potsdan declaration pro- vided that, So far practicable there shall be uniformity of treatment of the German population throughout Germany This there admittedly has not been.
 The control machinery for the occupation of Ger many under the PotSdam agreement has been set up as planned and 1t has functioned At the top is the Control Council, made up of the commanding gen. erals of the four zones.
 The Control Council has passed considerable number of laws and orders applicable to all zones. Also it has laid the basis for technical discussions on many proposals for the uniform treatment of Germany.
 Frequently the experts get the ground worked out in subordinate committees only to have final agreement deferred by the emergence of political diff ferences in the Control Council proper at higher levels in London Moscow, Paris Washington.
 Within each there are differences in admin istration of the laws and orders common to all of Germany. There are differences in the degree of denazifieation the degree of selfgovernmnt tn atti tude towards German political parties
 For instance, U. s. policy has been to weed out NazlS and bar them from public office The Russians have barred the top ones, but they try convert tt little fellows and make them into good Communists
 The U. S. has encouraged the development of number Of different political parties with divergent views. The Russians have worked towards unfica- tion of the workers parties in their zone through single Socialist Unity Party embracing the Social Democrats and the Communists.
 On disarmament, charges have been hurled thick and fast across the zonal boundaries. The United States proposed disarmament inspection committee but when the Russians objected to inclusion of indus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
Short Political History

Originally, ambitious candidate in white toga who went about looking for votes.
 We are indebted for that apparently exraneous deni tion the Book of Knowledge familiar work which has nourshed the minds of generations of nquistWe American youngsters and which still reward the adult with con- siderable information And mention it here because all of probably get to thinking at time another that politicians variable as politics
 Candidate from the Latin eandidus, which means geaming, white poess. W is also the root of word candid which many people seldom associate with candi- abouespeciay to about in search of votes
 The Roman offce-seeker used to gleaming, white spotess oga when he went eeconeering But apparently this toga often the laundry sorry state the end of hard days campaigning For Roman voters had fortnight way of expressing dsapprova of candidates record promises political affiliations and general qualified tlons.
 The candidate had to meet the people face to face in the Forum. Not for him the safety of the broadcastng studio He had to learn take it. and what he took nfrequenty barrage of and vegetables past their prime, or handful of mud from the gutter.
 Yet this threat of popular dspleasure did always mpe Roman politicians to as pure and spotess their early morning ogas By the time the Republic nearing the end of it's days the Book of Knowledge fraud and the rigging of elections had become political fine art.
 Without cynical ntention might be suggested that of the major changes political technique through the centuries is that the ambitious candidate has learned the de- fensive value of trying beat the opposition the punch by singing the first handful of mud himself The change is relatively minor and the ethical advancement is ques tionabe
 Political issues are constantly inevitably changing tory But the relation between politician and is rela lively static judging from the chronological history of the ambitious candidate.
 Maybe that's good thing to remember in listening to the speeches of another political campaign Voters again will be assured that have they been called make such important choices between rogues and statesmen scoundres and heroes But boast and buster eggs sus soed tOgas and soed regulations still among the mossiest old heritages of democracy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
by Thomas Stokes


 Significant is the fact that the Biggs machine IS in alliance with Boss Ed H Crump here in Mem phis The two work together in election as well as in the legislature, using the same oppressive tactics The victory for reform in McMinn County may have It's effect eventually on Boss Crump's state control
 War veterans also were active in the abortve re- volt against the Crump machine here in Memphis in the statewide election last week Veterans were among the corps of watchers trained by the C.IO. and the Clean Election League to try to keep the count honest in Shelby County. They failed. But hey not done yet.
 For the first time some veterans found out how corrupt Crump machine works by personal experi- ence which included eviction Of watchers from the polls by Crump hirelngs They exercised restraint here to achieve their purpose. There was only one arrest. This was when watcher protested a Crump henchmans making out ballot for a Negro The watcher was attacked, but did not strike back The case against him dismissed by a Crump city judge, Sam Campbell, who took occasion, however as he has done before to deliver political speech from the bench in which he aSSailed coumniSts including this one for criticzing the Crump regime
 Long -entrenched machine bossism is first and obvious target for veterans It sticks plain in tennessee But veterans getting perspective too, on the bigger target of entrenched interests who are represented in many cases by the bosses Some they have learned the racial issue perpetuate them selves ln power or recapture power, such as Gene Talmadge in Georgia and Senator Bilbo in Mssis- sppi
 A most significant thing happened here in Mem phlS the night of the election. The local chapter of the American Veterans Committee voted to admit Negroes, Jo have single, mixed chapter instead Of segregation That was revolutionary departure by young Southern white men who fought in this war
 Hope for the future lies in these veterans who are beginning to see the evils in their native South land
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
Views of the Press

And between weddings, you loosen the soil and give encouragement to the plants themselves. Even the name comes from race of garden CTS, from the old French. But the tool itself is older than the French. Primitive people used it, in one form or another, as far back as there are records of planting. Here in America the first European vis- itors found the Indians hoeing their maize with such an implement, bladed with the shoulder blade of 9 deer or a buffalo.
 It has even embedded itself in the figures of our speech. The inde- pendent person hoes his own row, tends to his own business and gets the job done And the good worker hoes a clean row. fashioned, maybe; but the meanings clear. And somehow the hoe persists wherever man grows his own food. It's as simple as that-a sharp blade on one end of a handle, and you on the other end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
THE HOE
(NeW York TimeS)

A hoe is simple tool. What is it but a blade set across the end of a handle? The size of the blade may vary, and so may the length of the handle, but there it is, a sharpened blade on one end of a stout handle and you on the other end.
 It has been used to symbolic drudging labor and serfdom; but it might just as easily stand for mans communion with the soil. Certainly there is no disgrace nor any deep degradation inherent in the hoe. It is the standby of the gardner, and you can usually tell a good gard ner by looking at his hoe? Is it's blade bright with use? Is it's handle polished by it's owners palm and calloused fingers?
 You plant with a hoe, if you're gardener, and you ply the hoe to the weeds, all Summer long you ply it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
President Truman Goes Home to Vote

After the outcome far of several primaries conducted "Away Down South in DXe Georgia Mississippi and Ten nessee to explicit it is not the most ennobng thing to find our President back home in Missouri lending his ence and weight to slaughter of Rep Roger Slaughter D because has chosen differ with of the Pres dents policies.
 True President Truman could have travelled half way the country just to cast his vote in today primary to show that believes exercising his franchise which we have been told every good American should do But we think that refers city and national elec tons rather than primaries However many of South ern states nomination is equivalent to election.
 Anyway President Truman is honest at least in his intentions He has made the assertion that if Rep Slaugh is right his stand against various administration po ce then he wrong So therefore he has chosen dorse and home and vote for Atty Enos AXte That's his perogave. But is another story which, perhaps in of his being President of these United States best left unmentioned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
OFF TO A GOOD START
(NeW York Sun)

The peace conference at Paris is off to better start than might have been predicted for it only a few weeks ago. Opening remarks by representative of the principal Powers have been conciliatory of the feelings of representatives of the lesser Powers. Secretary Byrnes and Commissar Molotov, for example, touched deftly upon two most del- icate matters. The Russian accepted the principle of full publicity for all meetings The American promised that the United States would stand by agreements arrived at in the re- cent conference of Foreign Ministers, provided that contrary recommen- dationS should not be adopted by two-thirds of the delegates of all the tWenty-one nations. These con- sessions are greater in appearance, however, than they seem to be in fact. Inasmuch as the big Powers control at least nine of the twenty one votes, it is difficult to see how tWo-thirdS vote can be obtained for any proposal to which they are opposed. Publicity for open sessions of the conference, moreover, does not diminish the likelihood that the representatives of the Big Four will keep their own counsel regarding matters which they decide to discuss and settle among themselves Publi- cation of the texts of the draft trea- ties for Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Finland nevertheless gives to the world a fair general idea of the directions in which the thoughts of the Big Four are tend ing Although optimism over the probable outcome of the conference is as yet premature, the beginning is most encouraging.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
Merry-G o-Round

PARIS, Aug. 7-(By Wireless) )-Thousands of words have been cabled the Atlantic about the Peace Conference debate tWo-thirds a majority vote At first blush this debate sounds like | arguing how many angels can stand on the point of needle. You wonder what it has to do with future peace.
 The real fact, however, is that the voting pro- cedure is the and the heart of the Peace Conference In other words, it is the whole works. And the thousands of words regarding the tWothrds debate actually be boiled down to just "A words:
 RUSSIA HAS MANAGED TO WRITE WHAT
 TREATY DRAFTS AND TWO-THIRDS VOTE
 ENABLES HER TO KEEP WHAT SHE'S GOT.
 It's just as simple as that. Under majority rule the anti-Russian nations could rewrite the peace treaties; under two-thirds rule Russia keeps the treaties as they are.
 That's why of the smaller countries are so irate at patient Jimmie Byrnes for not backing them majority rule. They know that under the wo-thirds rule Europe will be partitioned the way Russia wants it. not as the best interests of peace require it. and that this conference had better have the word peace" struck out and the word war" inserted just ahead of conference
 In order to get better acquainted with the ference delegates gracious Secretary of State Bynes staged reception last week at the American En- bassy In contrast with the pomp and splendor of uniforms and gold braid at the French official re- ception, Byrnes affair impressive for it's digni fled simplicity. He remembered Benjamin Franklin, our first ambassador to France who home amid the lace and folderol of the French court
 Jimmie Byrnes stood in the receiving line, shak- ing hands with the delegates. Close adviser Ben Cohen, who sees Byrnes every day, down the line.
 I'm not going to waste handshake on you Ben said the Secretary of State, with kidding grin, then shaking hands just the same.
 Afterward Byrnes told friends this story to illus trate the importance of shaking hands.
 When was sworn in as justice of the Supreme Court, he said all my friends the court shook hands and congratulated me. We standing just behind the curtains separating from the and just were about to go the bench Stanley Reed took me aside and told that, just before sat down on the bench, I should shake hands with everyone again.
 T told Stanley that I had just shaken hands with everyone and saw reason for shaking hands twice but he insisted that do it and later found out the why. About fifty years before there there had been particularly bitter dispute between members of the court following which the chief justice had insisted that they all shake hands just before they went the bench to show there no hard feelings.
 Tt was wise custom concluded Byrnes "and it's continued to this day.
 What will happen asked friend when Justice Jackson returns to the court and is called upon to shake hands with Hugo Black?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
by Peter Eds0n

trial plants in the inspection the idea was dropped Now there are reports that the Russians are manu- featuring munitions for the Red Army in the ex- German War-plantS in the Russian zone.
 All Nazi discriminatory laws have been abolished in all four zones.
 Trials of the leading war-criminals are about concluded. There will probably be no more nterna- tlonaI trials like that in Nuremberg Trials of the lesser criminals will be conducted by each country in it's zone.
 Reorganizing the German educational system so as to weed out Nazi and miltarst doctrines has been difficult Schools of all levels going, but 1t has been difficult to find competent ant. NaA teachers.
 lzed by Control Council law applicable to all four zones. The basis of the German court system is the old German constitution of 1877.
 Local self-government is functoning in the U. S ana British zones, but it's hard say what the situa ton is in the Russian zone
 Three elections have been held in the U S. zone ana local governments have been organized from the bottom up to the Laender state level. Other zones nave not made this rapid advance.
 In the Soviet zone, there has been only one elec- uoll, ln SaXony That was referendum on whether or not industry should be nationalzed and the alter natives offered were so worded that only one was poSSloe. The Russian zone has, however, sched- uled local elections in the towns and cities for this Fall
 aged ana religious freedom has been restored. Civil liberties have been restored, too except that Germans are not permitted to criticize the Allies
 The Potsdam agreement stated For the time pelng no central German government shall be eStab llshed This has been great out for the Russians in opposing centralization.
 The PotSdam agreement went on to declare that there should be central administrative departments on finance transport, communications, and trade. This has met with opposition from the French, who want to hold off centralization until the western boundaries of Germany have been set
 Sicwness in centralizing Germany has been one oi the great failures under the Potsdam agreement. The economic consequences of this failure will be reviewed in the next article of this series.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
Oil From Mud

few years from atomic-age techniques may make possible the conversion of seabotOm mud into petroleum This startling statement from the American Chemical Society It just goes to show how foolish it is to make grave predictions about American oil resources.
 Much of the oil that is being used today could have been drawn from the earth generation ago, when pe- roleum famine predicted in twenty-five years But the scientists and the petroleum industry have always succeed ed Tn pushing the prognoscators out limb and saving It of with technology Eventually the prophets of exhaus ton may give up.
 Scientists developing the theory that crude oil formed by the radioactive transformation of organic sub stances They duplicating the laboratory the tive process that explain how nature, period of ten million years accomphes the conversion protopasn proteins fats and other materials, into oil
 The moral to be to make the fullest use of the resources available to today and tomorrow will take of itsef-f We let the scientists and industry alone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
Memphis Aftermath

MEMPHIS-COnflict is the prevailing motif today in the political and economic life of the South. It Is erupng more frequently in violence lately in section of our country that always has had more than it's share
 This is the most vivid impression of a three weeks visit below the Mason and Dixon line There will be more conflict, perhaps more blood shed, the South continues to adjust itsef to and changing conditions both economic and political some growing from the war The new is elashing on so many fronts with the old.
 InduStrializaton, which always creates problems, advanced during the Industrial conflict is intensified now by the Steppng-up of union organ izatlon by the AF.L. and CIO.-themselVes also in conflict. And factor has been introduced which undoubtedly will have far-reaching influence time goes on.
 far places and has come back as does anyone who has been away from the South for time to see con- dltlonS in his native land in perspective and clearly. He wants to change them This, of course is not true of all veterans. Some slip back easily into the old setting But it of an intelligent minori- ty, and it is the intelligent minority which always brings about revolutions.
 This determination for change exhibited itself in it's most violent form in the armed revolt of re- turned veterans against sector of the corrupt po litcal machine of Burch Biggs in three Eastern Tennessee counties The veterans rose up at Athens against the usual machine attempt to control elec- tiOnS.
 Veterans had a stake in the election with ticket in McMinn County-jointly supported by them and RepublicanS-that included candidate for Sher- iff 33-year-Od Knox Henry, who ran against Paul Cantrell, the Riggs machine ooss in McMinn County The other two BiggS machine counties are Polk and Monroe. Burch Bggs or his son have rotated in the sherlffs office in Polk County for years The Bggs machlne never has hesated to force and gunplay Now, for the first time, it met force from a new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

Money used for education is more in the nature of an investment than an expense, for schooling develops human resources, and developed human resources produce wealth and contribute to human happiness. -Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

The political campaign to sociaze the private power industry continues. If that drive is successful it will mean the destruction of industry which supplied more than eighty of all the power used this country during the industry which paid S3,5 1000 in taxes during the 194045-and industry which has stead fly reduced it's charges to the public in spite everncreas ing costs Of labor and materials Must follow England and Russia in specializing industries?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
15 Years Ago

In a volleyball game at the Wa terville Playground, the Water vile team defeated the Fuller Street girls team
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
Waterbury or the Past
25 Years Ago

Edward Truelove of Waterville and party of friends took motor trip to Troy, N. Y.
 seena Keefe appeared in Red Foam at the Garden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07
5 Years Ago

Miss Helen Jergins of Canal Street was in Maine on a two weeks vacation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

Bermuda witnessed the presence of MT. and Mrs. John Larken of Cooke Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

Pat Murphy was chosen cap tain of the Hamilton Park Tennis Team.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

Brazilian Foreign Minister Fontoura got together with Secretary of State Byrnes during backstage lu at the conference and agreed to hold the long postponed Rio De Janero conference November 15 Admission of Argentina into the Pan-American Se-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

PARIS Aug. 7-(By Wireless)-Thousands of words have been cabed the Atlantic about the Peace Conference debate over tWo-thirds or a majority vote. At first blush this debate sounds like arguing how many angels stand the point of needle You wonder what it has to do with future
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-07

Just then MT Bobo Williams from across the Hall crashed through the door with his customary inform ality He saw the problem. He read the piece. And he gave the title that gave the Night of the Title it's title. It was: "Plup Went the Pulp"
The Nome nugget., 1946-09-20

autumn leaves which we made during our art period last Friday. We also hung some colored scenes which were given to us by Mrs. Harper.
 The fifth and fourth grades now have an enrolment of 42 pupils. We have some new beautiful pic lures on the walls to decorate our room.
 Sth Grade
 We have two new girls who en- tered our class Wednesday. They are Jackie Bodle and Patsy Whit ney. We have thirty-one enrolled now. Two of our class members come from the Post each day.
 Rose Norbert brought some very interesting pictures to school, which we enjoyed very much. They showed us the way many of
The Nome nugget., 1946-09-20
High School News

Much to everybody's pleasure, the Glee Club under the direction of Miss Chapman, reorganized this week. The high-school girls seem to enjoy exercising their vocal cords more than the boys because very few masculine members of Nome High joined the group. The last hour of the day is used for this class, alternating during the
The Nome nugget., 1946-09-20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
 IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE CAPE NOME PRE- CLNCT, SECOND DIVISION,
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- TATE OF LAMBERT VOSS, De- ceased.
 No. 736 NOTICE OF HEARING AND SETTLEMENT OF FINAL AC- COUNT.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that M. J. Walsh, Executor of the above named estate, has filed in the above named Court his Final Report and Account, and that the 20th day of November, 1946, at the hour of 10 o'clock AM. of said day, at the office of said Court, Nome, Alaska, has by Court Or der been fixed as the time and place for a hearing on said Final Report and Account and the ad- indicating as to whom the heirs and distributes of said estate are. OBJECTIONS to said Report and Account and proof of heir ship will be heard at this time. Date the 18th day of September, 1946.
 M. J. WALSH,
 Executor Publish 113, l16, 119, 122.
The Nome nugget., 1946-09-20
COLE.GABLE NUPTIALS ON WEDNESDAY

William G. Cole of the Northern Commercial Co.,, and Terry Gable a recent arrival from Canada were married on Sept. 18th by U s. Commissioner Dowd. The, were attended by William Lan non, Lee E. Kammerer. and Jan' Scott. They will make their homo in the Whaley House, recent, purchased by the N. C. Company