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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

ing the Democrats for their left wing connections, the COP has a touch of the left wing in Brooklyn There the Republicans and the American Labor Party are backing Vincent J. Longhi for Congress and Samuel Kaplan for the state legis- lature. Chairman John L. Childs of the anti-C Communist liberal party, has called on the Republicans to repudiate Longhi and Kaplan whom he described as Communist fellow travellers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

speak are Senator Edward P. Egan, and Rep. Daniel J. Mahaney, Re- publican speakers are Mrs. Ruth Jones, nominee for State Represen- tative and Atty. Miles -AcNiff, So- cialist-Republican candidate fer Probate Judge.
 Tonight at 8, James T. Patterson, COP congressional candidate will speak under the auspices of the Young Colored Republican Club at rally scheduled for the Robinson Post rooms, 99 Pearl Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29
l. K. Fulton Fund Reported for City

An annual income of $1,834 has been realized for the city from the I. Kent Fulton fund, 1t has been re- ported to City Comptroller Neil F Maloney by Thomas F. Moore, sec- retary of the Park Board. The funds income is used for mainten- ance of Fulton Park.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29


 pictures being exhibited today are a detriment to society. I per sonally tn in k that the par ents should first witness a ques- tionable picture before allowing their offspring to view it. ] think too. 1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29
CoIored Groups
 Host Candidates

Candidates of both major parties will be guests at tonight's forum sponsored by the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Col ored People scheduled for the Pearl Street Neighborhood House. The meeting is set for 8 P. M.
 Democratic candidates who will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29
It's NY
 OPINION"

Question Do you think that the present crop of moving pic lures dealing with crime, mur- der, theft etc. inspire the younger generation to do wrong?
 Where Asked: In the City Hall.
 oATROLMAN M. KARPLEMAN, g MelrOse Avenue:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

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 pd c t ure you mention Is def initely bad for children to see. I believe that such movies lead 8 child to be- coming 8 jul emile delin- quent. It would seem that, after all these years of making nov
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

well, l be- lieve that there is entirely too much stress put on the so-caned pro bl c m.' A moving picture such aS you've described, m a y have i'll effects on c e r ta 1 n youngsters, and on o tn CTS It would hay e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

Moving pie lures that fea- ture an assOrt- ment of crime:
 murder, theft, robbery, etc, are a decided in huence on the immature mind of a child. At the age where a child is just be- ginning to learn what life is all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

T think that this type of pie
 ture does inhu- ence a young ster to 6 cer- tain extent. But I don't agree that a blanket c c ns ors h i p should be im- posed on the mystery = mur- der movie. Per SOnally. I like a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

cratic mouthpieces" are in control of the GEL.
 The GEL. committee had criti- cized the low wage scales among Bridgeport municipal employees, and said that McLevy's failure to return a union questionanire showed his "disdain for labor's opinion"
 Arrangements for activities during the last days of the cur- rent election campaign will be made by the Greater Waterbury Industrial Union Council, C.LO, at a meeting tonight. The
 CLOS Political Action Com mittee has endorsed Democratic state candidates and is back
 ing Thomas J. Radzevich, Tor
 rington Democrat, for election to Congress from the 5th Dis-
 trict.
 The council tonight will also
 elect delegates to the national
 CLIO. convention, opening in
 Atlantic City Nov. 18, and the
 state C.I.O. convention, to be
 held in Hartford Dec. 2 and 8.
 Another conference in the con- tract negotiations at the Bristol Brass Company was held this morn ing between management and union representatives. Palreys began three weeks ago and agreement on terms Is reported near.
 Company negotiations are headed by Roger Gay, president. The com- mittee of the Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers Union, representing the workers, has John J. Driscoll, sec- retary of the Connecticut CI.O. Council, as chief spokesman.
 At Bristol, as in other current and pending negotiations the union seeks health and accident insurance coverage for all employees.
 The committee for a Connec- ticut Fair Employment Practice Law has written to Dr. James L. McConaughy, Republican candidate for governor, asking him to endorse adoption of a state statute similar to those in effect in New York and Massa- chusetts. Pointing out that the Democratic candidate, Lieuten- ant Governor Wilbert Snow, has declared himself for such a law, the committee has asked Dr. McConaughy for a "clear cut" declaration of Republican Party policy on the issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

good thriller, and I'm of the opin- ion that most adults do. l think perhaps, parent. if the picture is too shot with crime, should see It first and make the final judg- ment. Crime movies may be bad for some children and not harmful at all to others. It might well be that the children's breeding, not the movie, will influence the child to do wrong in spite of seeing any kind of picture"
 MRS. WARREN LINDSAY,
 19 Farnham Street,
 Clerk of Small Claims Court:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

none. The youngsters environment, his breeding, etc, is really the de- ciding factor in how the picture will influence him. Some youngsters may be influenced wrongly from even the most innocent picture. As far as adult movie attendance is concerned, I think no picture can influence them. Personally, I enjoy mystery picture-the more thrilling the better"
 ANN M. REARDON,
 209 WOodlawn Terrace,
 Budget Control Office:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

might be an excellent idea if the city provided 8 censor to pass on movies before they are shown to children. It will eliminate the ex- ample whereby the youngster wishes to get 8 gun in his hand. The movies can set an example both ways, and the present influx of Grade-B crime thrillers is noth- ing for an immature youngster to witness"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

ing pictures, what with the Hays once and other censoring bodies, the modern movie should have risen above the rash, poorly writ ten trash that is so often shown"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-29

Clerk of Small Claims Court:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01
SB-1717

Control of Americas future atomic energy pohcy and program bv the mitarists of the nation threat now facing the nation The threat lies within the House amend mens to Senate Bill 1717 introduced by Sen. Brlen Me Mahon (DConn) chairman of the Atomic Energy Com mttee.
 After nine months hearings of witnesses comprised of famed scientists economists and others, the Senate com mee voted adopt SB717 which would give full control of atomic energy civilian authorities. Now after less than three days bearings and discussions the House has taken the bill and amended that military men are to be included the committee and may be elected to the important posts of chairnen z@ssA ss aa8s aas
 Just the other night McMahon pleaded over na- tonwde hoo-up the people of America to get word to their congressman permit of this amended an old saving Speak forevermore hold NO peace
 It American that any bill be introduced into Con gress giving military people of nation the right to formulate the peacetme civilian pocy of the natoh mat smacks of goosesteppng and heavy boots.
 The primary of atomic energy should be for the enbetterment of mankind by of it's sks and potenta in the fields of medicine and others The civilian bill provides for this while also permitting study o the potentaes of the great find both defensive and oen sve weapon The military caste gives little thought to the peacetme attributes of this discovery fact bitterly attesed by the scientists who developed the search ana who have abandoned in disgust with the military leaders.
 We go along with Senator McNIahon in his efforts to prevent what he be emascuaton of the bill by the House The potentates and realities of atomic energy belong the people is the representatives o the people, the civilian authorities whom must be entrusted this awe responsibility
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01
More Buck Passing

It is idle to speculate just who killed the Cock Room of nrice and rent controwhether the blame lies With President who stubbornly insisted having bill he liked or none at all Congress which didn't like the boWes type of OPA and wanted what they considered improved type
 The important fact is that the OPA is dead and II IS highly questionable whether not can be reVVed
 time we are with increases higher prices ana the possibilities an upward spiral in the costs of hg President Truman has called landlords and manuiae1u CTS to take easy but these not days when those gentlemen are inclined follow presidential aduratlon any more than the striking ralworkers whom he urged to run the trains a few weeks ago.
 We probably won't have any immediate radical increase in prices The of OPA and price controls are doubtless shrewd enough avoid giving comfort to the enemy ut consideration OPA extension has finally ended ffce rises inevitable however and it is fondy to be hopea that economic theorists right who clalfned a with controls removed production would up and competition would bring prices into line. .
 President Truman surprised many with hls Veto Wf ten oyer the opposition the advice of his congresso advisors Had signed the bill and returned It With com men as castc as that of his veto he would have placed full responsibility for the bills effects sqarey on the shoulders of Congress- AS it h he cannot escape part of the blame for the sorry position which the nations economy finds itself today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01

WASHINGTON confusion. inconsistencies and purposes of the times may thus be illus trated in Congress
 In the Senate: final battle royal over the compromise OPA extension Dill which Admlnistra tion leaders claimed not adequate to hold off nfation-Shat is, higher prices minority want ed to go further and abolish price controls on meat, which the Senate had voted originally, but which House and Senate conferes had restored. Sen- ator Winery (Neb), Republican whip leading that fight
 In the House: The Rules Committee buryng the minimum wage increase bill with far less cer emony than attended the hanging of Danny Dever putting it off until after the elections. The House Labor Committee appealed in vain for place the House calendar this session for the simple bill it finally had approved to increase the minimum wage in industries operating in interstate commerce from 4G to 65 cents hour.
 There seemed an inconsistency these actions at both ends of the Capitol
 The minimum wage bill, passed already by the Senate in different form and with complications, is designed to raise the pay of the forgotten folks economy, the two to four million mill workers and white collar workers They lack organization and the protection of labor ulJons and have not benefited from union increases.
 Yet prices are going up under the compromise bill whatever it's final form Some in both House and Senate, If they had had their way, would have abol shed OPA The Senate voted to abolish price controls meat but the Senate House conference committee hesitated to go that far because of public protests The people on the fringe of our economy grimly face higher living costs yet they denied tsp through a minimum wage increase bill. The pro- posed increase would have helped much but some Testimony before Congressional committees revealed how difficult it is for them to get along now
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01
by Dre10 Pearson

He thought for moment that Hurley had mistaken him for newspaper colunnist by the same name. Hurley however boiling for action and refused to accept the apology Jumping to his feet he began to peel off his coat.
 -"Ive taken all I'm going to from you. Come on outside and we'll settle this thing right now"
 By this time,' Person's own dander was up
 T don't know what's eating you, but if you want to fight I'll be glad to accommodate you, ne snot back
 Both men had started for the door when friends ntervened and induced them to return to their seat
 I'm the moderator here,' soothed Homer Cum mngs. Let's have order"
 Having cracked down rather vigorously on Clvil- ian Production Administrator Small and the race tracks and roller coasters built at the expense ol veterans housing, it is only fair to describe some of the headaches MT Small faces. This Is an attempt to tell the other side of the story.
 Jack Small came out of the Navy to take over the job of Civilian Production Admlnlstrator at time when many economists were predicting post war depression and wide-scae unemployment III 1act some set the figure high 10o00000 unemployed by Christmas.
 The proposed cure for unemployment was con- struction To that end all construction controls were removed and the green light given to all sorts of building.
 Shortly after this, the unemployment estimates proved be wrong, and instead Of surelt o1 laoor there was shortage of almost eVerythlhg-ifoh labor to 10-penny nails
 Result WIS that by the time Congress and top officials beatedy got around to worrying about vet erans housing all sorts of other construclon-sofne of it essential some decidedly not was already un- der way Of course it's generally overlooked now, but some of the old Roosevelt braln-trusters ike Bob Nathan and Leon Henderson long had been warning about the housing shortage-to no avail John Snyder and other top people-includ1ng Jack Small-paid no attention to them
 So it was not until March 26 of this year that Small finally issued his stop-order against further uneSsential construction
 At that time Small lacked both the personnel and the money to regulate future constructlon lie wired former War Production Board men all over the country asking them to come back. Meanwhile word leaked out day two before March 26 that all on-essential building to be stopped and contractors rushed to put piece of steel In the ground so they could say construction already hao started
 One big question since then has been to decide whether jobs already started should be stopped CPAs Small and his staff have found that stoppage some times would create hardship sometimes bankruptcy. That is one reason why the tracks and much un- essential construction is continuing
 Some people including this writer, don't believe the CPA staff has been tough enough but ooVlously it's difficult problem And whether right or wrong in the past it is only fair to point that his staff has been doing increasingly good job recently. Housing Car Wilson Wyatt and others now pay tribute to the CPA boss for throwing everything he has into the veterans building program
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01

WASHINGTON, July 1-(NEA)-A private po- itical wake for dead and dying liberalism was held in a Washington hotel suite the other night. The corpses to be mourned were there in the flesh, very much alive and still kicking. They belonged to Re- publican Congressman Charles M. LaFoette of Indi- ana and Democratic Attorney General Robert w. Kenny of California
 LaFollette had just been knocked off by about 20OO to 75 in his bid for the Republican state conr ventions nomination for the U. s Senate
 Kenny had just been defeated by about 46,oo0 votes, or about 2 percent in his primary election race for the California governorship against the n- cumbent, Earl Warren
 The host at this wake was Lt. Orin Lehman, nephew of New Yorks ex-governor and scion of the Lehman brothers banking family He is tall, blond, good looking youngster of 27 who lost leg in the Battle of the Bulge.
 For 16 months he lay flat his back in hos pital bed. But that gave him time to wonder about some of the things that went on in politics. Now installed in Washington, he has been trying to find out for himself, first hand This wake was part of his process of self-educaton.
 In hashing what had hit them, LaFollette and Kenny contributed most to Lehmans bull seS- sion Nothing spectacular came out But the whole affair is probably typical of the political speculation that may be heard in parlors, back-rooms and try stores all the land between now and Novem- ber
 LaFollette, of course never had chance for the Republican senatorial nomination in Indiana He had money and no machine. In the two terms he has been in Congress, LaFolette has been way to the left of his party leadership supporting the labor line on nearly every issue.
 He has been called Democrat at heart, New Dealer and even Communist He thinks of himself as a progressive Republican who believes that his party should change its reactionary ways.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01
Govt. Inconsistencies By 7homas Stokes

Senator Wherry said good deal about black markets through which, he estimated 50 percent of meat is now sold He said that meat price controls did not work and that the present situation is eaus- ing wholesale disrespect for law How about blam- ing the laW-breakers bit, Senator2
 The people who would be affected by the nain- imu4n wage increase naturally do not know anything can't buy them. And, if prices are going up any how under this bill, they can't buy much, If any meat then To them. all of this fight in Washington is largely theoretical.
 Senator Wherry also said that unless this situa- ton cured by lifting meat controls acts of violence will be committed in this country By whom? Ger tainy not by the cattle industry and the meat in- dustry. They be doing all right. The cattle men and farmers able to hold their cattle off the market without any hardship, waiting for higher prices, sort Of strike.
 The violence, if any might be expected from those in the low-income scale who would get some relief from the minimum wage bill But they won't be violent, at least vel They the meek, though they do not yet inherit the earth. They comparatively few too They not politically ef fective enough to frighten any Congressman, and campaign contributions come rom them.
 7he.e are enough of them in districts in the South, which the minimum wage bill would affect chiefly to count politically, But there so many of them not even vote, because of the poll tax or the subterfuge variations of the white primary, fear.
 And often, too these people, in their ignorance. follow along after the demagogues-the Bilbos the appeals to prejudice or the circus sdeshoW type of campaign which contributes some brightness to drab and starved lives in the small towns and the back country-but not much else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01
Political Bull Session
By Peter Edson

Yet in his campaign for the Senate nomination LaFoette got practically support from the Negro delegates whose he had tried to help by his stand for FEPC and poll-ta repeal
 After he had taken his licking, LaFolette issued a statement saying he had proved there no place for liberal in the Republican party. But he said included Southern reactonaries In short, LaFolette is through he sees little chance for liberalism today.
 Democrat Kenny it little differently Ken ny is head Of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, and on most he sees eye eye with LaFollete. He had plenty of money for his campaign, he had machine, and he had state that was much more libe2al than Indiana in outlook. Yet he could not overcome Governor WaTrens personal popularity, plus general lack of interest in liberal causes.
 Kenny shows no inclination to lick his wounds, however believing that the liberal trend is far from dead and that the Democratic party be recaptured by the liberals as Franklin D Roosevelt captured 1t in 1882 and Wendell Willkie captured the Re- publican party in 1940.
 Like LaFolette Kenny believes that eventually some U. s. political realgnment will have to be nade-liberal Republicans joining with liberal Dem- ocrat sand conservative Democrats joining with con- servative Republicans.
 That may be long way ahead Politics moves in cycles Roosevelt captured the Democratic party at the end of 12-year Republican cycle when there lot of political fermen after the Hoover boom and bust of 1929.
 The Democrats now nearing the end of their l4th year in power. The pendulum has swung the The few years may be bad years for the liberals It may take another boom and another bust before there is enough interest in more reform to swing back the other way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01


 
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  the last day.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01
Justice and Vengeance

From the distance of America Gen. Draa Mikhaio- gitch trial extremely confusing and little dlshear- ening Nineteen American flyers have testified that Ge1- eral Mkhailovch and his Chetnks saved their lives They have presented evidence that the Chetnks hghng the Germans Yet there official hints in this co- foundation.
 What probably bothers Americans most is the knowl edge that the oneme guerrilla hero has the cards stacked against him. Marshal Tito has promised him fair tra But he has told State Department that General khal- ovitchs crimes far big and horrible to allow ds- cusson of whether he is guilty not.
 But this trial, in principle, is different from the Allied trials of criminals. The only difference lies In the seemingly questionable evidence the fact that the Mix halovitch trial national issue before national court and the deep suspicion that the whole thing be deo- logical frameup.
 To the Tito partisan the trial may more logical than the crime trials to No one believes that Goerng Too and other Axis leaders will be found nno cent It is just that in democracy the idea of crml nal procedure against responsible for the most terrible of crimes confuses the minds conception of justice and it's desire for vengeance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-01

1t might have the obserVers. Indeed many were, apparently quite unobtrusVe Few suspected the source of the fine wine served tardily at the riage feast at Cana The multitude on the plain en- loved the bread and fish: most perhaps ponder 5ng on the cost of the food they made their way aeme.
 WHAT DID HE LEAVE?
 The Ascension of Our Blessed Lord into Heaven is followed, in the Liturgy of the Church, by the happy consideration of that least sensational but most significant of Christs miraculous gifts to the Holy Eucharist. The Feast of Corpus Christi is swift reminder that Christ is still with For the Ascension is little more than desertion, if more with US than 8 stone from which he stepped