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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
Strange Bedfellows

It is truism that American political party labes-at least those of the two major ceased to mean much But the trusm gets truer all the time and next months elections don't promise to clarfy the situation
 In fact the results may add to the confusion and leave that will strong enough hold together the present party agnments from the coming election day to the hrst ue day after the first Monday of November, 1S48
 Time when person could say, I'm Democrat because believe in states rights or I'm Republican because favor protective tariff But those easy ldent catons have disappeared Today 1t isn't enough to learn that someone Republican Democrat The full ln- formation has include what kind of Republican or De- ocrat he s and why.
 These distinctions became fact among the Democrats early in the Roosevelt administration They became fact among the Republicans with the lmminence of war me death of Mr. Roosevelt and the end of the emphasized rather than the distinctions Both the war and the wartime President strong cohesive forces NOW their hold oosed and the inner seams ot both parus are weakening
 Democrats and Wallace Democrats We have Taft Repuol- ans and Dewey Republicans and Stassen Republicans but that isn't all, of course. It's much more complicated
 Within the orbit of the Democratic Party are the CLO PAC the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts Sciences and Professions the Communist American Labor and Liberal Parties Gall three of which supporting the Democratic slate in New York;, Senator Bilbo and Gov Gene Talmadge.
 That lineup represents lot of incompatibiity. But there than appears on the surface The Co is inwardy split Russia and Communism The same factors broke the Liberal Party away from the proCo- munist ALP There is dssension in the Independent C
 The American Federation of Labor increasing cooness toward the CO and the Truman administration might n- dcate general AFL drift back toward the Republican Party This would add variety to mixture which is con- siderably varied already.
 There are Bricker Republicans who to be to the right even of the Taft Republicans There Stassen SUD- porers who in many ways NewDeaish than some of the surrounding President Truman There are reg isered Republicans whose thinking almost more Southern Democratic than that of the Solid South itself.
 Out of all this confusion two things seem reasonably certain as of today: ~ ,
 l. Some issues, raised for purely domestic political reasons will have international repercussons-as witness the British reaction Mr. Trumans and Governor Dewey recent statements Palestine
 g. The two 1948 Presidential candidates, whoever they are will be profound disappointment to many of thelr nomna party members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
New Tax Plan

WASHINGTON Oct. 23-(NEA)-A plan to per- init all U s. husbands earning more than $3,333 year reduce their federal income taxes by dividing income with their wives is being given serious consideration by U. s. Treasury tax experts.
 Two Treasury officials, General Counsel Joseph J. O'Connel Jr, and Tax Legislative Counsel Stanley s Surrey, have been out making speeches on this idea, to see how it might be accepted The plan was first proposed in England 30 years ago. But young Stanley Surrey the first to introduce the idea in this country so it has been tentatively dubbed the Surrey plan"
 It would not benefit all taxpayers It would be of benefit to income-tax payers in nine states which now permit husband and wife to declare their income divided under what known community property laws enttlng either to half the others n come These nine states Arizona California Idaho, Louisiana New Mexico, Oklahoma Texas, and Wash ington.
 In these states husband and wife file seperate returns Because the income reported by each is only surtax rates apply on each half and the total tax is smaller In the top income-tax brackets, these tax savings run into important money
 This gives taxpayers in these nine states an ad- vantage citizens in the other 39 states It's to correct this inequity that the Surrey plan is being brought forward.
 In 1922 an effort made to correct this situa- tion by introducing bill to require all husbands and wives to file joint returns Congressmen from the nine community -property-law states fought it.
 They were joined in protest by Congressmen from the Eastern states which permit husbands to assign stocks, bonds or property of any kind to wife chi- dren or other members of the family. These relations then Tile returns on the income from this assigned property, and the real is able to reduce his own income-and his taxes.
 This combination of Western and Eastern upper- income bracket taxpayers defeated the 1942 proposal to require all families to file joint returns on their
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
by Peter EdSOn

combined income The defeat proved that the joint return is politically impossible to put across in this country, though England has it and it does make senSe
 So search was begun for other ways to equalise the tax burden. The Surrey plan is the proposed answer If the House Ways and Means Committee likes the idea it may be introduced in the next Con- gress.
 Such plan would obviously reduce the amount of tax money the government could collect Treasury officials estimate that the cut might be much $9000oO000 year The Surrey plan could. therefore, be put only in years when Congress is in tax reducing mood The next Congress may be in such frame of mind.
 If however, the federal budget is to be balanced and if must be kept up to reduce the national debt maintain big military and public works pro- grams any tax reduction due to the Surrey plan will simply mean that equivalent amount of taxes must be raised some other way So the thing may be considered broad as it is long and great differ either way, though it would put all federal tax payers on the same basis which is fair
 The way the Surrey plan would work out, it would be of no benefit to anyone earning less than reduce this to 5000 The personal exemptions of $500 allowed to both and his wife cut this to 5000 net income
 Surtaxes IT percent the first 5000 but go up to 20 percent in the next bracket and in still higher brackets So taxpayers in all but this first bracket would benefit
 Only six seven million out of 45 million tax payers whose net income is less than 5000 year don't want the taxes of the upper bracket reduced unless they get reduction too. So if tax cut is to be given this first bracket it will have to be through some other dodge.
 Bachelors and spinsters won't like the Surrey plan either because they don't have anyone divide their income with for tax purposes. All the Surrey plan would be to such single persons is an incentive to go out and get married.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
Truman'S Hometown

KANSAS CITY Oct. 2I-Here you get the feel and flavor and style of the who is President of the United States
 Here where the West and East begin to merge but never quite mix. Here where the hard calloused hand of the farm still feels bit awkward as it claps the soft hand of the city.
 Here where Dixie" and John Browns Body" are equally familiar for that issue met here too.
 It's hybrid sort of place-and friendly Harry Truman is part of all of it. So in Washington he reflects 1t, gathering about him for advisers easy going men of the Middle West and the South because he feels comfortable among them Like many people out here he has no kinshp with the intellectual type that Franklin D. Roosevelt liked intirnates.
 Harry Truman probably has more heart and sym pathy Tor the ordinary folks out this way the work ing people than did MT. Roosevelt who the aoof political philosopher of the country house, with feeling for people in the and often quite calcu lating in his adept handling of them. But Harry Truman does not know exactly how to stand up for them.
 His advisers and friends are mostly middle-class men looking ambitously away from all such feeling, leaving it behind they turn to the downtown club and the country club They look to the next higher stratum where the bigger financial men, still the rulers of our society, sit elegantly with their easy manner.
 Here, on 8 day that started out with drizzle but turned out fine, there displayed the atmos- phere that Harry Truman so well knows and likes. It was the beginning of the American royal live stock and horse show-the royal" famous in these parts and in all America where they bring their cattle and their pigs and booded horses to be tagged with fancy ribbons
 They came crowding into Kansas City. the folks Of the praries and small towns with their children and unceS and maiden aunts, and their hired hands They wandered about the streets and into the lunch rooms holding back, hesitanty and politely, before climbing on the counter stools, not pushing and showing like city people.
 Harry Truman has seen and has been part of all this
 There was in the morning, the grand parade that proceeded triumphanty down three parallel streets
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
Views of the Press
APPLE TIME
(New York Times)


 There are three times when apples themselves are superlatively good. One is when young man climbs a forbidden tree at risk of discovery and fills his pockets with AstrakanS that are just beginning to red up; a second is when fruit such as Au- gust Sweet or Mcintosh is dead ripe on the bough; the third is in late winter when the countryman brings up bowful of crisp, cold, wrinkled- skinned but firm Northern Spies, But when it comes to applesauce there's only a brief interlude when 1t can be perfect concoction. That's the period when the fruit is fully mature, but before the seeds have begun to turn black.
 Apples are the most widely grown fruit of the temperate zone, and 1t is a deplorable state of affairs that people do not know applesauce at its best. With approximately 2,000 named varieties of the family Ma laceae, there's no more excuse for the lackadaisical interest in this food than there is for people to eat squash pie unless it has maple flavoring. A man comedies there is room for difference of opinion re- garding apple varieties. Some pre- fer the tartness of Fameuse, Bald win, Snow Apple, Chenango or Jon athan; others favor the bland mild ness of Northern Spy, Oswego, Win ter Pippin, Maiden Blush, Victuals and Drink, Seneca Favorite or Bot tie Greening. A few know the deli ciousness of Porters, Fullerton Sweets, Summer Bellflower and Sweet Boughs.
 Good cooks know the four secrets of making applesauce: not too much water, not too much cooking, not too much sweetening, smidgen of cin- namon and whiffle of salt as the sauce begins to bubble. Applesauce is superlative when hot and the fragrant spicy steam titivates a mans nostrils; it's a bit more than superlative when cold and matched with big square of hot gingerbread. Applesauce is food. It's also the distilled essence of summers sun shine and rain, and autumn's clear days and frosty starlit nights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
A Footnote of Gratitude

This is rather awkward moment in the history of the Great Meat Shortage of 1946 It's too late for complaint and too early either retrospect guttony Yet some thing ought to said in this nerlude when the steaor breakfast fans are getting ready to break training.
 So perhaps might thank those socitous government officials who provided us with copous explanations and sta stcs to munch while their colleagues were trying to figure out how to get meat back on the table +,o
 We feel particularly grateful to the gentleman m the Public Health Service who had comforting words to say about soap, and the shortage thereof He assured the country at time when most housewives washing their meatless dinner dishes in soapess water that tenn porary curtament of daily bathing wasn't going to under mine the nations health.
 We don't know under what wescrubbed conditions this gentleman grew manhood But should like to suggest that there fewer apprehense quakes at the prospect shortage.
 We don't have figures the subject (heres one the government statstcans msse but feel safe in guess ing that there stationary bathubs in the Onea States than in all the rest of the world Yet millions ot houses without them And to the residents o those dwellings daily aover bath more of chore than it's worth.
 It means heating water stove, many current morning shoWerers remember their youth and ing the steaming fluid the site of the abutons That could be either washbow if total mmersons IS desired portable ub the latter the bather usually has to shoo the family out of the kitchen to achieve modcum o1 privacy In either event, mopplng-up operation must follow.
 only rh the fastdous the fanatical made it daily one Among the others there goody proportion who enjoying excellent health overall scrub week. re- garded more frequent bathing actually harmful
 Undoubtedly they wrong but they could cite some classic instances There the familiar story of Votare who faced with the crisis of illness of his later was ordered by his doctor take bath succumb Vol tare preferring death duning, refusedand lived to be 84
 The fad bathing has waxed and wanted throughout history but for the part has been patme of the rich. The Egyptians Creeks Romans and others ancient peoples had elaborate baths our public gymnasiums and swimming pools direct descendants but it took money and leisure to enjoy them.
 Today bathing is quick and simple for many No doubt the triumph of modern plumbing has helped to make this healthier world But who say that in better and hap pier world ahead smarter doctors may not rule out the daily bath in of three week? After a physician made the other day by saying that the American tom of swling down water all day long injurious to health
 Anyway, we're grateful to the Public Health Service man his comforting words But sn thnk the coun- try wasn't worried a bit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
by Drg1e, Pearson

suggestion he had made through Reardon. He wrote a letter to the German honorary consul in Detroit, Heller in which he repeated his suggestion, and Heller took the letter to Berlin copy of CoughlinS letter is in the files of the German Foreign Office, together with memorandum under date of August Il, 1sS9 signed by one Woermann head of the poit- ical department of the German Foreign Office Woer mann's memorandum reads as follows
 The German honorary consul in Detroit MT Heller who was introduced to me by the German consul in Cleveland, handed me the en- closed copy of letter directed to him by the well-known Father Coughlin He showed me the original letter bearing the signature of Coughin. The aim of the letter is to support Coughlm in his fight against Roosevelt As is known to you, Father Coughlin sent his manager Leo T. Rear don, to Germany, the matter about which MT. Sallet is informed in detail. Mir Heller asked whether it would be possible to give him some re- assuring information for Coughin when he re- turns to the United States.
 He also pointed out the necessity to bring out in the United States the German point of view
 MT Heller will call on me before his return to the United States. told him that it probably would be difficult to formulate an official German statement for Coughlin'"
 Here are the most important problems to be threshed out before the LIN. General Assembly:
 THE vEro-Cuba will propose that it be elim- mated entirely Russia will vigorously oppose The United States and Britain will welch. They still like the power of the veto despite their criticism of Russia for using it; they will propose that the veto be eliminated eventually, but that debate be indefinitely postponed.
 PALESTINE Mandates and trusteeships will cause caustic debate Britain still cngs to Palestine though the League of Nations which loaned 1t to her is defunct. Some UN members will now try to take it away The USA will be in for trouble when Russia raises status of Pacific islands now held by us.
 HOME FOR UNITED NATIoNs-Delegates are fed up with New York's lack of hospitality, and Soviet will take advantage of this by urging transfer to Europe delegates will argue that even in wartorn London or Paris they get better treatment than in blase subway rushing, berserk New York San Fran cisco will take advantage of this.
 TROOPS ON FOREIGN SOIL-Russians will get under British skin by demanding size of British troop forces in Allied countries. On this US-A. and U.K. will split as we quite willing to give figures of our troops abroad.
 REAL PROGRESS Despite lack of publicity, de- spite vitriolc debate the United Nations has made great progress less spectacular problems: Refu- gees health aid children construction of devas- tated areas human rights Though obscred by inter- national wrangling other things, this is one of the most important jobs the LIN. Is doing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
by TK0n,as Stokes

at the same time, that the whole city seemed to be full of festival
 Schoolboy and schoolgirl banos, the pretty girl drum ma ors twiring their batons. And the troops of men dressed cowboys, and women as cowgrls, riding easily and the handsome floats bearing the beauty queens selected from different regions little abashed up there, wondering secretly still who among them was to be chosen queen of the Royal"
 Afterward, all afternoon, the people roamed the streets rambling with no fixed purpose. And, at night some of them went to the grand opening ball but mostly that was 8 Kansas City affair." society event. resplendent with low cut gown and white tie.
 The Kansas City Star, in its manner, had for nal headline over the account of the parade "Ponp In March" Git was really such jolly occaSon). Harry Truman would understand that. He would ap- preciate also the headline the story of the stock show opening Gay Royal Debut" and 'the ringing call of hunting horn heralded each event this aft ernoon."
 He would understand all that, as he did the newspaper stories on his primary election visit here that went down to such intimate details about himself and his family. He can't get away from it. like it not. Nor he get away from the front page photographs taken then of himself and his family. He can't get away from it, like it not. Nor he get away from the front-page photographs taken then of himself and Jim Pendergast head of the new Pendergast machine nephew and successor to the late Uncle Tom" Pendergast who made Harry Truman Senator and thus started him to the White House.
 That's all part of the Truman story. too. These people here understand all that, even though many of them feel fine loyalty is, that maybe Harry Truman should have dropped the Pendergast ma chine, once he went away, because, among other things it makes for criticism in other parts of the country
 They understand Harry Truman. They like him. They disappointed at the way things have turned out for him in, Washington. He was getting along so well for quite time. But they can understand how that happened He's one of them. And being President is hard job, especially when thrown into 1t the way he was. They feel sorry for him. There is no meanness or bitterness in any of it-not Ike some people had for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23
LITTLE MAN, WHAT NEXT?
(Hartford Courant)

He's back again. James Caesar Petrillo, that is. Every time he seems to have reached the ultimate in cold, calculating effrontery, he bobs up once more with still more extravagant demands. This time he has set his great, unselfish heart on wage increase ranging from mere 233 percent to 533 percent for mu- sicians engaged in recording. Need less to say, the thunderstruck repre- sentatives of the industry are re- fusing to grant any such exorbitant boost.
 AS an example of the sweet rea- condolences of this our Caesars de- mands, consider this modest pro- poSals for one hour of recording work, during which not more than five minutes of actual recorded music is made, the pay would be $50 per man. A musician would thus be required to work just ten hours a week, producing no more than fifty minutes of recorded music, to earn a weekly wage of $500. By devoting one ten-hour day to this task. Petrillo's puppets could have the rest of the week free to celebrate, or to devote themselves to other intersts.
 The great music lover also has a suggestion for new pay rates for the musicians whose services are required in the jingles or spot an- nouncements on the air. For each minute or less of recorded music, the rehearsing and recording of which does not exceed one half hour, the rate would be $50 per man. Since most such jingles sound as though they required no re- hearsal at all, that would constitute an actual rate of well over $100 an hour. We have heard some extrava- gant proposals in recent weeks from labor leaders hell-bent on secur- ing more and more pay for less and less work, but none of them has equalled the sheer abandon of Petrillo. He proceeds from one ulti- matum to the next by geometrical, rather than arithmetical progress sion. It is already true of the re- cording industry that seldom in his tory have SO many paid so much to so few. Petrillo thinks that a further 800 per cent increase would be just about right-until the next time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S-The American people are now beginning to realize that the road to peace after war is never 'easy. Beating our swords back into plowshares sometimes is more difficult than forging the swords of battle.
 But one encouraging milestone on the road to peace begins in New York today when the smaller nations of the allied world who for months have had to sit and take from the big four debate on an almost equal footing.
 Many may have forgotten it. but this issue of free debate caused bitter battle at the San Francisco conference. MT. Molotov then wanted to stfle free debate. He proposed that the General Assembly of the United Nations not be permitted to discuss or criticize decisions of the big powers sitting on the Security Council.
 Australian Foreign Minister Evatt, spokesman for the little powers opposed He went further and demanded that the General Assembly under the rec ognized principals of democracy have the power to overrule the Security Council He was rebuffed not only by his own mother diplomats" from London, but by the Isolationist-grounded Senators of the U. s. delegation.
 In the end the General Assembly was given the power to debate discuss, criticize, and recommend but not to carry out. That is what it will do it begins sessions today.
 NOTE-Actually in the Western world, where public opinion has become important, this power of debate be al-powerfu MT Molotov, of course, realized this when he fought vehemently to restrict the Assembly's power of debate at San Francisco
 Behind the iron curtain public opinion still is tightly controlled When it decontrolled, then need no longer worry about war between the US.A. and the UISS.R. Meanwhile, the sessions beginning in New York today are like the first struggling but healthy debates of the Continental Congress and of the United States Congress which grew therefrom. They won't achieve much at the moment but they should pave the way to great and hopeful things.
 
 For years, speculation has continued as to whether Father Coughlins attempts to stir up racial and religious strife among Americans inspired by NaN Germany. The testimony of Nazi officials arrested in Germany now appears to answer the question for and al
 The answer is that the radio priest did seek CO., operation from Hitler but the Nazis figured he needed no help from them. The suppressed Rogge report on NaI activities in the U!SA carries the following interesting references to Coughlin:
 Early in 1899, according to Richard Sallet (prop aganda attache at the German Embassy, in Wash ington from 1895 to 1887 and subsequently, an ploye of the German Foreign Otfice), agent of Charles E. Coughlin, named Leo T. Reardon came to Berlin and wanted to Won Ribbentrop and Hitler sallets job to entertain Reardon and talk to him about German problems.
 Later in the year, Coughlin followed up on the