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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
SOMETIMES REDUCTION OF BLOOD
 PRESSCRE IS UNWISE

Long ago learned that 1t is utterly futile for an ordinary or regular physician to try to | tell people with a claim of mucous coltis any
 about diet, bowel washes. hnd the likc which | ever known had kind of superiority com plex which, indeed. seems an important part I of what ais them I think I'd rather be q
 dumb egg and enjoy good health than be a highsrung intellectual snob and have mucous
 cotis and q large library of quack doctor It, erature.
 one who has learned he has blood pressure
 and how much 1t is. These birds. too. have
 generally acquired vast store of Guack doc | tor lore, and when one of them buttonholes Il common garden variety of doctor the victim
 might Just as well hold his tongue, in his | check if possible and let the wise one ramble
 on, merely holding from time to time as ] though extraordinarily interested in the his
 tory and peSuliarities of the case ana srateiui for the enlghtment. When the recital Is over
 and the pest condescends to ask the doctor s opinion or perhaps inquire patronizingly If he
 has ever heard of such a case 1eioTe, anout get out his life preserver and quietly bean the
 fellow, then go on with his game.
 In all the years have conducted this health column I have cordially declined to give
 serious consideration to complaints about
 blood pressure or to advise treatment TOT such q condition. l have endeavored instead to
 make 1t clear to our more intelligent readers both of them-that increase or decrease or blood pressure is merely an effect or whatever
 ails the patient To discover a patient has too
 low or tco high blood pressure is not diag.
 noss. No one inteligently treat patient l for such a symptom, without some knowledge
 of the cause of it. It would be as sensible to
 discover a rapid pulse or shallow breathing
 and attempt to find remedy without seeking | an explanation of the symptom
 Some of most pretentious specialists l within the ranks of the regular profession, the
 all round specialists who call themselves "in- l ternists" have the temcrity to pretend essen | tial hyperte nsion'- which means high blood
 pressure from some undiscovered cause-ls | suscentible to treatment as a disease entity
 m itself The treatment these brass specialists l administer in such cases is darned expensive
 ouackery and 1t is 100 per cent guesswork. | They don't know a thing about the nature of
 the trouble, so all they can do is string the i patient along and experiment on hlm with | this and that scheme method.
 An honest doctor should either keep silent
 about high blood pressure if he is unable to
 ascertain its cause. or else ne shouid irahkly
 dismiss inc patient with the confession that | he is unable to find out what ails him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
Youth Is For Peace

It's worth while always to know what if anything youth IS thinking. An intercollegiate organization has been collect ing the opinions of college students on dis armament Here is question peculiarly ap- proprate to refer to them They were babies in their bassnets when the World War broke out. kids in the kindergarten when it ended. They can have no poignant memories of the war Their opinions must have grown up naturally and slowly, in their general reaction to life and events since the war. They have had chance. as their elders have not, to get fresh and unbiased slant on d new era and its problems They were born to consciousness of larger world than their parents knew. And here IS what they say about one of its big problems.
 Tn d secret straw vote. participated in by more than 24000 students of both sexes in 70 colleges throughout the United States, a majority of o2 per cent favor armament reduction, and 6 per cent would go so far as to have the United States set the example by starting further reduction without wait ing for other nations One-third of them favor complete abolition of armament pro- vded all nations agree. Four-fifths oppose military training in colleges and 38 per cent favor abolshing all military training. Three -fourths want the United States to join the World Court. History shows that what the young students of any age are thinking is likely to be put into practice by the succeeding generation, if not sooner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
Radio Control

The Federal Radio Commission, remdrkln2 that the l23000,000 people of the United States are dependent on $50 broadcasters for their radio entertainment makes it clear that
 broadeJsing must be regarded as public
 sefyier "'Ibe people, rights in ihis new au' II say, cannot be denied And f siheii shdfe of this form Of entertainment e1n
 be fseeiged only St lbe expense of adyerl,ln2 saalemenls then they are justified in de mandlng a change ln lbe syslem. The problem should moi D, taken oul ol ibe hfoadsasieIs hands unti they have had lull opportunity 10 make ibs nrees'afy eoTre' ions Ii they decline ihs opportunity. of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06

fail. the matter should be treated with proper legislation
 The American public probably has no great prejudice against advertising state ments" as such. made in behalf of the spons- ors of radio programs; but it has great and mounting prejudice against the way such statements are made. Otherwise good pro- grams are ruined more and more by weaving inartistie and annoying commercial ballyhoo in with the music, drama or other entertain ment. Thus the illusion is broken. the at- mosphere spoiled.
 This policy. aienatng good will, IS already checking the use of radios and limit ing the radio market. It is as suicidal as the policy of the billboard people in over-eom- mereializing their art, and invites the same kind of control. Canada has already grap- pied with the evil. severely limiting the advertising part of programs. There IS no question as to the public right to protection of this sort, and it is doubtless coming in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
"CURING" A COLD
(IIartford Courant)


 A New York paper tells its readers that an instructor at Oregon State University has reach ed New York after having spent several months in research work in Vienna. He lost no time in telling n reporter that Viennese physicians have discovered new treatment for colds and chronic sinus dis eases. It Is steady diet of raw vegetables and the elimination of table salt. The theory, So we are told, is that the need for the diet of raw vegetables is to provide the body with the necessary minerals in the absence of sodium chloride.
 Naturally another physician who was interviewed expressed doubt as to the efficacy of the new trent ment, adding that it had hsen tried out with indifferent success in the treatment of tubercular patients at saPanae. A third remarked that it might be tried for colds and sinus troubles. IL suggests 10 our mind that perhaps it has been tried out" and that it may throw light on n eertGin passage in the Old TestameDil -"fhe same hour was th0 thing fulfilled upon Nebuebads nezar ana he was driven from men and did eat grass as 0xen, and be was wet with the dew 0f heaven til his hairs were grown like eHglss feathers" Al the end Df nine days NebuehadneEar ended Inc treatment and was cured ef whaiever may have been bls mal' ady,
 We arc ssi kseD f0r inc treat. ment but it may have merit,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
Vigorous Action Needed.

M We hope that our Department of State will not be satisfied until the recent attack upon U. s. Consul by Japanese soldiers IS apologized for in satisfactory manner. l he
 assault was unwaranted and brutal. It bclooves our officials both here and in Japan to press for relrbution, It is just such incl dents that would make foreign nations jump on this country with both feet. It is our turn now to press for redress, Nothing but an abjcct apology and prosecution of the assailants will alter the situation,
 We understand that Japanese officials remarked that they had lost respect for the American and British flags since they could not place confidence in them any longer sHence we presume such incidents, as oc- cured when the consul was severely beaten by soldiers. may recur with frequency. lt IS an incident that can restore Japanese eoniI- dcnee in the American flag or else destroy 1t for all time. The attitude our state depart {. mcnt takes in the matter may decide ths' There can be no compromise
 IT an dpOlORy IS not lIHiIeu'"teit 'o''H yeoming and if this is not followed by prose eution of the guilty soldiers then some steps should be taken to sever relations with Japan There should be a complete break Fin the hitherto friendly relations This IS no time for the United States to become d doormat for any foreign nation. We have been made the brunt of attacks from Europe for our grccdncss for gold. CWe desire scmply what we gave Europe when 1t was flat on it's back and pleading for our ad) V There is such thing as being pushed too far. We might ordinarily overlook the Jap anesc incident with the customary demands for investigation, etc. But the reflection against our flag is too much, There IS no reason why Japanese soldiers should be filled with any such belief unless it was deliberate ly infused in them. If SO. then we are ready to prove it otherwise Let our State Depart ment convey this information towards the Orient. Japan or any other nation cannot re- fleet upon our integrity. We are ready to defend 1t at all costs and al any time,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
Here, There And EuerylDhere

though we should not care to take it here Tn New England this month. Aside from the possibility that our grazing field might be covered with snow without prior warning. we should prefer a cold in the head to stomach that might crave some thing more nourishing than dried grass. By the time one had sec ured an insufficient breakfast, he might find 1t necessary to seek for n frozen apple for lunch. Dinner would be out of the question.
 In October one might manage If he grazed along the shore of Long Island Sound. There would be tur- nip fields and. by taking risks re- garding the amount of chloride Of sodium in raw shellfsh, one might get on fairly well. We do not recall whether Th0reau, while dwelling on the shores Of Walden Pond, Pe- trained from using salt; if he did he certainly had an excellent ap- petite as he tells us about eating tho woodehuck which hs killed. Personally we should prefer a pinch of salt with it. We have been told that sinus maladies are ex. fremeIy painful, but on the whole we should prefer to run the risk Of feeling them then 10 wander across \ wintry landscape tn a search for raw vegetables
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
In To-day's Mail think Send all letters and communications with your opinions 10 Inc O Waterbury Democrat
PROHIBITION IS NO LAW

Editor of The Democrat:
 The campaign held here under the auspices of the YMCA in favor of prohibition, and the vote of members of the Waterbury Bar association coupled with the refer endum at Finland both of which showed strong opposition to pro- hibition furnishes food for thought on tho part of well disposed citi- zens. Giving those in favor of the law and it's opponents credit for honesty of purposes, people who look to others than themselves for guidance on public questions can- not but be in doubt as to which road to take when the times comes to make n decision. It is true that the advocates of prohibition have q catchy way of stating their case. They ask if you are not in favor of at least minimizing the abuses for which liquor Is responsible. No self respecting citizen would care to take the other side of this ques- ton, but when you stop to con- slider that prohibition does not pro- hibit, and that liquor is doing more mischief now than ever before you are forced to pause and nsk the advocate of prohibition whom he represents, the liquor dealers or other interests? I may be told that the failure of prohibition Is not due to any defect in the law, but rather to neglect on the part of those whose duty 1t Is to enforce 1t. l refuse to accept this as an argument worthy of consideration. want results and after ten years experience with prohibition one sees nothing in it on which to base an argument in favor of its con- tinuance. that is. provided the end in view is for the good of society
 We might just as well face facts whether we like them or not. The people of this country have had enough. too much of prohibition, and they are too practical to cling
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
QUOTATIONS

If people keep lowing their heads for Rockne at games. they will soon call him St Knute. Professor Husely Cason of Wis consin U.
 Few of us who use radio under stand very much about Ii. Prince George of England,
 
 Truth loses value if people do not understand.
 .--kiu-o, Japanese priest. IT I'm dead---it's lots of fun, ---Jehnetts MaeDOnald, movie actress.
 We used to be fainily ashamed that we were not OmDiseieDt, but now ignorance has become re- hpeatable. s-Dr C. q, Darwin, University Of Edinburgh,
 in some countries people have too quickly announced ihai debts ana and reparaiionH should be eAn'
 s-premisr Laval ef France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06

1t is hard to understand how the Post master General can conscientousy ask for a three cent rate on first class mail when that is the one type that is not showing deficit. The present rate of two cents is sufficient unto it's needs. Why should first class mail pay for all other classes, too? Why not make the necessary increases where deficits are showing3 Of course, we realize that the in- crease is merely an emergency demand, but why not go about it in businesslike man. ner'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
No-Star Companies

Not long ago an "alI star Shakespeare company began touring the country. It contained no less than half d dozen people each of whom was, by rcpute and practice. star in his own right. Each would have been expected ordinarily to carry play alone, with almost any sort of company. To the surprise of almost everyone, the tour was failure. In city which ordinarily furnishes good patronage for ShakeSpearean plays 1t was said at one performance of Hamlet that there were only 40 patrons in the orchestra, with the balcony less than half filed
 Shortly after, in that same town, appeared an English company without star in the bunch, and without any footing of horns he unprctcntlous programs showed the names of all the players printed uniformly Tn modest type Not one of them had ever been heard of before, There was no press-agent iortabIy filled At every other performance for the week it was jammcd with enthusi aStlc playgocrs, And the newspaper critics were lavish in their appreciation,
 l be public instantly grasped the fact that this company was the real thing. All the players were good. all admirably trained and cast, all specialists in Shakespeare and all more interested in good team work than in individual glory. Wasn't this living com mentary on what is wrong with the Ameri- can stage, with its absurd and deadly star system; Isn't the American public fed up on over played stars
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
GANDHI OUT.EUCHERED.
or of The Democrat:

Editor of The Democrat: When an oppressed people make an appeal to their taskmasters such consideration as they receive Is predicted on how much force the petitioners are in a position to use and whether they would employ 1t in case of refusal. Gandhi tried to make terms with Great Britain at round table talks, and admitted nt the outset that he did not be- lieve in resort to arms. He took the ground that there was suffl- cient merit in what he sought that the differences could be adjusted amicably without the shedding of blood. He made frequent refer ences to the Colonists in this country and talked aS though he could win for India what Washing ton had ahieved for the American colonists without a long and costly conflict.
 If Gandhl knew the story of the States he did not adopt the same tactics of the Colonists. As a result he finds himself prisoner in his own country and may yet pay the penalty with his life. Gand- hi means well. but he lacks the sagacity of Benjamin Franklin, who went over there to talk matters in London. After he found out that there was nothing doing" he came home and acing on his advice. The "Trumpets of Treason" as Washington and his own patriots were dubbed, did not curl up and lie down where the enemy could walk in upon them. The famous diplomat from India will have to adopt the tactics of the American colinists before he will see a free India. There is no other road to his objective.
 GUNGA DIN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06

The death of Seymour Wemyss Smith
 in New York this week revealed the fac, that he was shortly 10 publish through Brewer Warren and Putnam his first book. entitled. John Hanson - Our First Pres ident." Mir Smith is well known in this state. His mother resides in Hartford. where the deceased was employed for some time as a member of the staff of the Hartford Cour- ant. He vas a prolific writer while in the newspaper business, There was hardly field which he did not cover al some time in his career. However. he was ytally in- terested in American history especially of that period including lbc Revolutionary War. He made q thorough and exhaustive study of t, It was while doing lhls that he became interested in the story of John Hanson. ibe Maryland patriot who is alleged lo have been this nstIons first president under ihe original Constitution Smiths book deals with this almost legendary figure, It was his contention that his election on November ]. I7sl, entitled him io ibe name of First President of tbe United States I here q, no beliulement Of Washington in Smlhs book. we gre informed, but there s an earnest effort io secure for John Hanson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Market GIuttcd With Blood

Please give full information for professional blood donors. (M E. P1 Answer-At present there are more such persons available than are needed. Now that people nre beginning to realize that inc loss of n pInt of blood Is a trifle to n healthy indi- individual, relatives or friends are usually available for transfusions.
 I'uiincss Under the Eyes
 VIII coffee cause punncss m'der the eyes! If not, X there any particular article Of food that VIII cause this condition? Miss W. H.) Answer--No. Puffiness under the eyes occurs in lnnUmernble disturbances of health and n never due t0 any food except in eases or giant hives iangi0neurOtie edema')
 Cream of Tariar
 Would cream Of tartar for liver trouble be barmIDi. taken twlee . dayf I've been tnklng it for e month. Miss \, D.)
 Answer f~ No matter whether yon have liver lr0bule or not, I believe it will do no serious harm, lf you break the habit now, Cream of tartar ia h mild saline laxative and dluretl1 lincroahes water eksrsii0n through kidneys, ii is hnrfhless enough if not used over ios long q period
 ocopyriRh John f. Dilis Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
NEA Scrxice Writer

tJChNhSO VsktSt
 Washington-The McFadden in-
 story because 1t is so crowded
 dacity and hooey.
 Pennsylvania politicians - with
 their Wares, Melons, Jim Davises, Grundys, Pinchots and many other remarkable characters whom you don't know unless you've covered politics in Pennsylvania -- nearly always put on better show than
 any other group.
 The key of the current offering
 was sounded appropriately enough 1 by Congressman Louis T. McFad-
 den. He is q slightly preposterous person. Although he was many years chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee. 1 he is one of those gents who
 makes wild statements which he
 Is unable to back up. McFadden compared President Hoover to "an
 oriental potentate drunk with I power" and said he had sold out l the country through the morato-
 rum. Senator Hiram Johnson
 said much the same thing McFad- den said, but Hiram is not sub I ject to discipline by the adminis- | tration or the Pennsylvania state
 machine. That's why poor Me- ! Fadden!s outburst of deluded pa triotism was so idiotlc as almost
 to approach the sublime.
 But he at least won this dis tlnction; no lone congressman was ever let in for such Il powerful
 and ostentatious attempt at po-
 lltical extermination as our Louis. Down upon him in all their vast
 might came the White House, Sem
 ators Dave Reed and Jim Davis,
 the whole Pennsylvania Republic
 an congressional delegation and the political pie counter known as the
 Postofiice Department.
 Dave, fresh from conference
 baldest, brassiest exhibitions of parts, proclaimed from the White House steps that McFadden was
 "politically dead" that his patron
 he would see to 1t that McFadden Wd6 ueICutCu III tiiG hpih pi
 les. Reed also boasted about the
 last time that he had to chase n
 congressman out of public life. Whether Reed undertook to
 speak for McFadden's constltu- cnts, who elected him by a ma jority of 47,000 in 1880, was not
 clear. Congressman, of course,
 have been punished before. But never with such trumpeting by
 those about to trample him into
 the earth. Some of the more
 squeamish politicians already. be-
 lieve that the hard-boiled MT Reed has gone and made martyr out of Louis, enchanclng the latter's
 chances of reelection.
 Meanwhile, along came red
 headed Mrs Clifford Pinchot - of
 the hard hitting Hoover-hating Pennsylvania Pinchots - announc-
 ing her candidacy against McFad- ! den. She boldly capitalized Me- Fadden's attack on Hoover by publicly deploring 1t.
 If Mrs Pinchot wins in the April primary she is going to be the instrument of Hoover vindica- tion. In other words, she is talk ing up the shillalahs for Reed
 and the rest of the administration crowd, now out to destroy McFad- den. No single development has aroused more snickers here since the beginning of the depression. The prize piece of prime hooey,
 however, was furnished by Post
 master General Brown when. in
 reply to McFadden's blunt inquiry l whether 1t were true he couldn't have any more patronage, he re-
 buked Louis G7 years in Congress) l by asserting in effect that the con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETT

gressman was wrong in thinking there was any such thing as pa- tronage. The department, Brown said in a classic which should be framed and hung in every nursery, invited advice from congressman about postmasterships simply be- cause the scene was so remote from the department. But only, he explained, tho advice "of congress- men in whose capacity and desire 10 be of service the department has confidence" And because McFadden's Views convinced me that your advice will not be helpful, the heads of the several postoffice bureaus have been direct- ed neither to invite nor follow sug- gestions from you"
 The moral of this story is that 1t makes you laugh, makes you sick or leaves you completely in- different
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
M TODAY GeS A1W9R4ERpM$AAB4 &G4 qE&E.
UKRAINIAN ARMIsTICE

On Jan 6, 1918, an armistice was effected between the Ukrain- ians government and the Bolshev ists after ht eUkrainians had sent the Bolshevists on ultimatum tell- ing them to withdraw their troops.
 The opposing factions agreed to compromise their differences. but later hostilities broke out again.
 The Bolshevist government had esta ablished a Council of Work mems and Soldiers Delegates in Ukraine in opposition to the Ukrainian Rada.
 Previous to this the Ukrainiana had sent an ultimatum to the Bol- shevist government refusing to as- sist the Bolshevist General Kale- dine.
 Negotiations were also opened on this day between Persia and the Russians and Turks for the evacu- ation of Persia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06

the recognition that has been denied him these two centuries Such a book. posthu- nous as it will be. should command wide attention. More's the pity the author could not live to realize whether or not his work would be we'll received.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-06
Personal Health Service
 (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will he answered by Dr Brady. Address him, care of the Democrat, sending stamp and addressed envelope.