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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

Jean Tennyson, ct a literary tea the other day, heard the following remarks about her favorlte author and was astonished ''Yes," said the hostess, Hemingway came in and behaved so strangely. At lunch he suddenly sprang at the waitress wouldn't let her come near his table. Every time she came near him he'd jump at her. He made dive for a cake and took it into the parlor where he devoured 1t greedily. Then he returned and giared at us" Jean couldn't restrain herself any longer and asked: Are you speaking of MT. Ernest Hemingway"
 Heavens, nop was the reply. "Hemingway's our dogl"
 Reuben, the famed 58th Street host, spellbound some of us last night with the story of old Max Mefoofsky, who was suffering from insomnia something tarribblel'' i, One of his sons went to Mrs. Me- foofsky and said: "Mom. I know this is going to sound sill. but we've tried everything to help papa get some sleep. How about trying a hypnotist?"
 So one evening papa was taken to a leading hypnotist, who sent the family out of the room and went to work on the old gent |. .. In soothing tones he cooed: Nov, MT. Mefoofsky, you are go- ing to sleep. You are going to sleep like baby. Close your eyes" |. All this accompanied by the usual waving of the fingers before the old boys orbs, plus the other hocus- pocuS Sowly Mefoofsky dozed off, and after an hour the l1ynpotist reported that he was fast asleep.
 "Oh, doctor" said Mrs. M., "dot's vunderfil. Could maybe go in and see init mine own hize?" i. The hypnotist said: "YeS, you may but promise not to wake him" |. And so MonIna tip-toed in to where Max was Slumbering and stood there watching him.
 Slowly and cautiously, Mefoof opened one eye, glanced around the place and fearfully whispered: "Did dot looneytick leave yat?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04
.LITCHFIELD MAN
 TAKEN BY DEATH
George Shuhi, AS, New Haven Railroad EmpIOye
 for Many Years

Litchfield. June 4--George Shuhi, 4S, of South street, died Wednesday night at Charlotte Hungerford hos pital, Torrington, where he had been a patient since Tuesday. Born in Czechoslovakia, he lived in Litch- field 8 years. For a humber of years he was employed by the "New Haven" railroad and more recently by John DaRoss, local contractor.
 He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Shuhi: four sons, John, Stephen, George and Henry; and two daugE- ters, Mrs. Margaret Belachik and Miss Jean Shuhi, all of Litchfleld; 1; his mother, Mrs. stephen Shuhi. of this town; two brothers. John of Bridgeport and Joseph of Litchfield, and one grandson.
 Funeral arrangements are being made by the George A. Smith fu- neral home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

under 45 years Of age must be taken
 into the armed forces and that by
 the time they got through the civil
 ian population would have only half
 the physicians that they were used
 to being able to command.
 To quote him, he stated, we are learning to put up with much less car mileage; why not fewer doc-
 tors? How much we should suffer, I will not try to predict. It would not be bad for certain people to have their doctoring rationed. Epi- denies would be awkward, and the seasonal peaks of illness during the late winter and spring months would be trying, and the fees of physicians might go up, and the work of chiro- practors increase, and larger sales of self-prescribed medicines might boost the drugstore business"
 "All this we might take in our strides as an incident of winning a war. Unfortunately the situation Is not as simple as that. Physicians were very unevenly distributed to serve the population of the United States before the war. The war will make the differences worse, and has already caused @ shortage of doctors in places where we cannot afford to have shortages"
 He mentioned the serious condi- tion in rural communities before the war and the appalling situation which is now developing as the armed forces have taken doctors from the more desirable city posi- tions and the rural doctors are mov- ing into the cities to fill these places. To quote him, he said, "Na- tional action, moreover, is necessary If we are to use the doctors the army leaves lis as the good of the American people and the demands of war production requires that they should be used. To be able to al- locate or assign physicians to ci- william communities as they are needed, there must be an overall national pool of medical men and women who are prepared to serve thus. This might be a Civilian Medical Corps, perhaps under the Public Health Service. This task cannot be performed by the several states, for many of the very states in the south and west, in which the greatest needs will appear in cer- tain localities, are also the states which were relatively low in phy- sicians and hospitals even before the war"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04
IRIDIUM OPENS
 HERE TOMORROW
Rev. Thomas MCGuirk, M. S., to Conduct Immacu-
 late Conception Service

A iridium in honor of the Most Blessed Sacrament will open in the church of the Immaculate Concep- ton tomorrow and close Sunday afternoon with a procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament around the grounds.
 Rev. TohamS McGuirk, MS. will conduct the tr1lum. Services each evening will start at 7:3O. Masses this morning were celebrated at and 8 o'clock, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the latetr being . high Mass.
 Tomorrow, First Friday, Masses will be at 5:30, 2 and 8 o'clock. Con- feSsions will be heard this after noon and evening. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will be held all day tomorrow after the o'clock Mass, closing with Holy Hour in the evening at 7:3O.
 Sacred Heart devotions will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 and the Novena in honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. will be held Saturday evening at 7:3O.
 The Feast of Corpus Christi marked the opening the annual 40 hours devotion at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. A high Mass was celebrated this morning at 7:30 and the 40 hours devotion will end with 8 high Mass Sunday morning at 9 o'clock.
 This mornings service at the church consisted of 8 process sion of the Blessed Sacrament in which the host was carried by Rev. Edward L. Morrison, pastor attend ed by his curates, Rev. Francis J. Barrett and Rev. Robert l.. Chag- non. Children of the parish parti. cipated.
 The service ended with Benedic- ton and the Sacrament will be .ex- posed until after Mass Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

The guests of the evening were Miss Arlene Freedman of Newell Place and William T. Harrington, Jr., of Waterville street, who were formally announced last night as winners of four-year scholarships at the university.
 Five former scholarship winners were present at the meeting at- tended by more than 30 alumni. They were: Frank Grella, "A for merely of Wilby High school and John Hartley, 43, formerly of Crosby; James Holleran, AZ, of Thomaston; James Reyes, 43, of Shelton; and Mary OHearn, "A, of Seymour.
 Election of officers concluded the business session of the gathering. Atty. Pacquale DeCicco was chosen president; Maurice Griffin, vice president; Sydney Cantor, secretary and Thelma zackin, treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04
NYU GRADUATES
 ELECT DECICCO
Naugatuck Valley Club Greets Winners of SchOl-
 larships at Meeting

A reunion of graduates and stu dents of the New York University was held last evening in the Col onial Room of Hotel Elton, the oc- casion being the annual meeting of the Naugatuck Valley club of the N. Y. U. Alumni association. George Kastner of the national alumni of- flee was the chief speaker of the evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

communities in which there is a war shortage. Connecticut is one of those states, so anticipate, If you will, that a hundred or two of your physicians may need to go forth 10 other parts of the country, in . ci- vilian medical service that may be almost as important to the war as the military.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04
War Needs May Cause Shortage Of Doctors
5S,OOO Physicians Under 45 Years of Age May See Service With Armed Forces Declares Dr. N. Davis
Middletown, Conn.. JunI

Mddletown Conn., June B. - This afternoon at the Sesqucentennial gathering of the Connecticut State Medical Society Dr. Michael M Davis, chairman of the Committee Research in Medical Economies told the assembled doctors of the State that 580O doctors who are under AS years of age of total of 1000 would be with
 drawn from civilian life for the proposed army of million men and that this meant that every abeboded doctor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

"On the other hand, there are large cities and several whole states with high ratios of physicians to population, from which it would be reasonable to make especial de- mandS for physicians to supply
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04
Deferment Sought
 For Local Bremen
Experienced Men VtaIy Needed Here to Protect Muni ton Plants; Mayor, Chief Cavanaugh Recommend
(NEA Telephoto)

Formal requests for deferment of two firemen from induction for Army service being prepared today by fire officials with approval of the Board of Fire Comis
 sioners The requests will be filed with selective service officials who have classified the two fremen IA and the recommendations of Fire Chief Thomas F. Cavanaugh and Mayor Vincent A. Scully that the difficulty of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04

My FavoriUe Spy" is Kay Kyser's fourth starrinfl film for RKO Radio. Al lof his previous vehicles, starting with That's Rifht, You're Wrong" were big hoxoffice successes.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01
TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO The EDITOR:
I FIND myself irretrievably at
i odds with the policies of your
paper with respect to the situa-
tion currently existing in India.
In a recent editorial, you ad-
vanced the opinion that India
was without justification in re-
acting in such "A drastic and
retaliatory manner and that she
is only helping the Axis cause
and defeating her own by COM
mitting herself to such impetu-
Gus action.
You then lapsed into blister
ing and vehement denunciation
of M a h a ma Ghandi, famed
leader of the Hindus.
Sir as a necessary action, let
us deviate to the policy of the
Times concerning self-rule and
democracy as opposed to i'm
perialism.
You speak or self-rule as one
of the inalienable and insepa-
rable rights of the people of any
nation. Yet you say the people OF
India are not justified in fighting
for self-rule.
You also agree that democracy
is a government of the people.
by the people. for the people and
responsible to the people; but
you display a marked degree of
inconsistency in thoughtleSSly
stating that India's appeal for
democracy is without foundation.
You have always been antago-
nistic toward Imperialism. yet
you sanction the imperialism of
Great Britain, who has for num-
berless years maintained such a
atus over India.
This whole affair. IL I may be
permitted 10 use this expression,
"stinks to high heaven" II is one
o. the most articulate examples
of injustice and lack of fair play
as / have ever witnessed.
Sir, we are fighting this war
to make the world free from
tyrants such as Hitler. but we
are fighting on the side of OPP
pressors of greater scope than
Hitler can ever hope to have.
Mark me now. am not trying
to justify Hitler's position. 1
have no sympathy toward it; nor
do / maintain any toward Eng
land, aside from the fact that
she is our ally and our common
goal is TO defeat oppression.
But, in the name of common
sense and moral decency, why
should we try to defeat oppres-
sion when we are fighting on the
side of it?
1 do humbly wish that you
gentlemen would kindly clarity
your stand with respect to de-
mocracy and independence. You
either believe in them as a glo-
bal venture or you don't believe
in them at all.
ELBERT COOPER,
QlrS RianaIIa sfraat
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

good vision, good intelligence,
but are backward.
| referred TO studies on them
made by Doctor Kirkpatrick of
New York, and would like TO
explain somewhat further.
Ten types of errors we're
listed: pronunciation of vowels,
pronunciation of consonants, re-
versals, additions of sounds or
words, omissions, substitutions,
repetitions, and words whose
pronunciation required help from
the teacher.
The last group was the high
est 80 per cent?. with SUBJ
stitution and addition about 10
per cent. and troubles with
vowels and consonants about 20
per cent.
CTUDIED psychologically, 19
~ out of % students in this
group were read 10 by some
member of the family.
1t is debatable whether parents
should read TO children of school
age.
Reading, like speech. is born
OF necessity.
The members OF this group
Of children were followers
they tended to be dependent and
probably always would be.
Timidity was put down as the
cause in 13 children and lack OF
interest in 10.
Retardation in teething, walk
ing and talking had been noticed
in six of these.
A foreign language was spoken
in 10 homes.
One child never had learned
10 speak English until he started
TO school.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
p. c.: II / press my thumb
anywhere on the shin bones IL
leaves a hole as If there was
fluid there What is the reason
for this2
Answer: There Is fluid there.
1t Is form Of dropSy IL may
be- due 10 VsriCoSe veins or 10
kidney or hc0ri disease. You
Sho'ld co 20 a doctor and have
your urine and heart examined.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

IF THIS discipline of inducing
L citizens TO consume less for
the duration is to be accom-
plished without the hit or miss
methods of imitation, how is it
to be accomplished?
1t must be done by curtailing
the net spendable income of
civilians in other ways.
First. by the tax route.
A rising ratio of personal
taxes would leave the individual
fewer dollars to spend for ships
and shoes and sealing wax.
But the regrettable fact is
that instead of facing this issue
realistically, too many public
office-holders are still pursuing
political pap as usual.
They are talking in the irrele-
want peactime accent about
taxation through soaking the
rich.
DUT the mechanical problem
- of averting imitation can be
solved only through taxing
heavily the ordinary working
man. farmer. small business,
professional man and civil SER
want. for this vast group of
plain people in 1887. the last
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01
ELBERT COOPER,
S417 Riopelle street.

TO THE EDITOR:
IF 1T isn't asking too much OF
L you people to publish this. for
which our group will be CRATE
full, we wish to extend TO the
people of Detroit our whole
hearted thanks and appreciation
for their wonderful attitude
toward us during our three
months stay here at Ford's
navy service school.
Our liberties here were most
enjoyable.
We remain Detroit's sailor
friends of the graduating class
of machinist mates. 11-42.
BARRACKS ALE.
Ford Motor Company,
u. $. n. s. s.,
Dearborn.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01
Higher Tax on Wage Farmers
Essential TO Hall Initiation
By M. S. RUKEYSER

year for which full official sta
tistics of income are available,
received 96 per cent of the re-
ceipts of individuals, and only
four per cent went to the folks
with annual incomes of SIS, 900 a
year or more.
If all incomes after taxes in
excess of $4,000 were con-
fiscated, they would finance the
war effort for less than II days.
But irrespective of this, tax
alton must be used in wartime
to reduce the spendable income
of the vast groups of little fell
lows who have the bulk of the
national income.
This calls for higher income
tax rates in the low brackets
and for a universal sales tax.
1t would take political cour-
age to proceed in the face of
prejudice and demagogy, but
unless such fortitude is demon
strated on the home front. Old
Man Initiation will get in his
innings.
THE second way to reduce
L spendable income in the
hands of civilians is through
voluntary savings in increased
amounts and through invest
ment of the proceeds in War
Savings Bonds.
1t is especially important to
encourage savings by little fell
lows who ordinarily save little
or nothing.
Merely to induce the small
aristocracy of wealthy persons
to switch from investment in
private securities into public
obligations will have no bearing
on the problem of reducing
funds available for civilian con-
sumption.
A THIRD way to reduce civil
"A ian consumption is through
direct rationing of scarce goods,
and through priorities and allo-
cations.
These weapons are intended
to prevent citizens from COM
peting with government for
scarce and critical materials
which are needed for the sue
cessful prosecution of the war.
A FOURTH way Is through
"A supplementing voluntry saw
ings with forced savings.
During the armament boom.
workers would thus get part of
their pay in government interest
bearing I. o. us, which would
provide them with deferred pur-
chasing power for use after the
war when perhaps unemploy-
ment might recur.
But President Roosevelt has
expressed opposition to compul-
sorry savings, and the treasury
tax philosophy is still based on
the concept Of soaking the rich.
instead of being hitched to the
wartime urgency of recouping
front ordinary citizens excess
funds which exceed the availa-
bility Of consumer goods.
If the political atmosphere is
cleared of demagogy, the far
flung battle against initiation and
a further rise in the cost of liv-
ing will have a much better
chance of succeeding.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

UNLESS the Presidents new
~ price-wage stabilization pol
icy is supplemented by appro-
pirate tax and savings programs,
it may prove self-defeating.
For the effect of price CELL
ings is to expand. rather than
restrict, the purchasing power
of money in the hands of
civilians.
And in wartime this is the
reverse of the major need Of the
country.
Modern total warfare entails
a detour away from the Amer
ican dream of providing more
material well-being for 35,000,-
900 American families.
In wartime. when government
needs more than half the total
production of the nation, il is
necessary to- induce civilians to
consume less goods and services
than normally.
Unless there is a popular rec
ognition of the highly abnormal
character of a wartime econ
omy, then confusion and mis-
understanding will needlessly
weaken the nation.
NHE arithmetic behind this re-
L quirement is perfectly sim
pie.
Out of eight hours OF work
performed, four or less hours
are devoted to making civilian
goods and four hours to the pro-
duction of munitions.
But workers receive eight
hours of pay. which ordinarily
would be exchangeable into
goods and services that are
equivalent of eight hours of
work.
In this emergency, however.
only four hours of consumers
goods have been created for
which eight hours of pay can
be spent.
If the government kept hands
off, individuals. competing with
fat pocketbooks for scarce goods,
would bid up the price of things
in a highly infationary manner.
Though initiation would be
costly and perhaps disastrous. ii
would at least in its crude way
serve the wartime function OF
reducing the purchasing power
of funds in the hands of civili-
ans. 1t would do this by raising
the prices of everything.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

The nickel that used TO 60
into a dozen silver-plated table
forks is enough TO supply the
nickel required for making SIS
magnesium incendiary bombs.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

tDtft.
The local agent demanded the
closed shop. meaning that every
body had 10 Join. and the
checkoff, meaning that the con-
tracing company had to do the
dirty work Of collecting.
THE union is so small that IL
L didn't have enough men TO
make formidable group, so an
appeal went across the river to
Carbondale. ILL.,. where the boss
Of another local assembled about
so goons and rushed them down
to Missouri TO chase the nom
union workers off the job.
To prevent another massacre
OF the kind which sister union
of the Hod Carriers had
touched off at Herrin. ILL.,. some
years ago. the contractor sus-
pended work. laying off 160 men.
After brief stoppage. work
was resumed under a "comprf
mise agreement"
The mob imported from Carr
bondale to intimidate. beat up
or kill the Missouri farmers
and town workers corresponds
roughly TO those brutalitarian
gangs which Adolf Hitler used
in his Brown Shirts days, known
as Storms.
II is legally forbidden that an
employer import men across a
state line 10 smash a picket line
or man jobs that have been
abandoned by workers under
threats from terrorists.
But the sort of New Dealism
which was repudiated in New
York holds that it is all right
for an activity operating under
a union charter to transport
armed men to assist in the
coercion of workers and TO
sabotage the war effort by hold
ing up war construction.
by United Features synd., Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

Birmingham, Ala, held
"scrapout" recently, with air
raid wardens supervising drive
which netted 279 tons Of metal
and rubber.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

There's enough metal in
broken down farm tractor TO
make 80 .30-caliber machine
guns.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

Fifty Nazi police agents were
killed in Poland last June. in
Guiding the gestapo chief at
Lublin.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-01

ready 10 yank up tnelT pants
and get in there and pitch. 1t
acts as if it felt that Goebbels
had something when he said
Americans were too soft, too
fat and too unwilling to sacri-
fee to ever win a war.
or course, Goebbels is a liar,
but what's the use of making us
wait SO long to prove II?
The citizens of no other
warning country have ever been
accorded such kid glove treat
ment as have the Americans
since December Z.
Alphonse or CASTOR. or both
Alphonse and CASTOR. couldn't
have been more considerate than
our leaders have been. They
have all but sent out cards OF
sympathy and apology after the
imposition of each little hard
ship.
A VISITOR from Mars would
"A never know that this coun-
try was fighting a war OF sur
vival. He more likely would get
the impression that we were en-
gagged in an exciting little bor-
der skirmish. and not a global
affair in which our future was at
stake.
Just about the only thing the
American has had taken from
him is his money. Only In the
steep increase in taxes has he
felt the war as citizens of other
warning nations have felt it.
There is an acute shortage OF
rubber in this country, but
nearly everybody still manages
to roll about in his car. be that
rolling for nothing more vital
than to attend a revival of
Valentino picture. or to pick up
a batch of cookies that Aunt
Lucy has baked for the children.
Sure, there are thousands and
thousands of citizens who need
their tires and should be allowed
to keep them, but there are just
as many thousands whose tires
should be taken away from
them.
A ND will some one please ex-
"A plain why, with rubber
needed for battle uses. the stores
of this country are still loaded
with rubber goods of all de-
scriptions
Why doesn't the government
order it all in? The citizens
wouldn't complain if tomorrow
they couldn't buy another single
article made of the precious
stuff.
The same goes for steel and
copper and brass and all the
thousand and one other things
that are needed for the making
of equipment tor the fighting
forces.
All the government ever has
10 do is 10 come straight out and
say:
This II what we have 10 have.
We can't do without II, and 10
give it to us, all OF It,"
And right away. ii would get
il, and the few citizens who did
not yield wouldn't get any SYM
pathy from their fellows when
the government walked in and
took it.
ONE little example: A furni-
" ture builder told us that after
such and such date no more
innerspring mattresses would be
built. No steel for the springs.
But. why have there been any
built since the first signs of
steel shortage?
And. why not take all the in
nerspring mattresses in the land.
rip them apart, and get the
steel?
No citizen is going to demand
a downy couch in times like
these. And what il he does? Let
him sleep on Stats and like il.
WHAT goes for innerspring
w mattresses goes for all the
other luxury items that would
yield war material.
If the citizens of this country