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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
caIendar Reform TsIk

Our calendar may be an intricate thing, but, as it is, we have become accustomed Co It's Irregularities and have learned how to calculate the seasons, figure out Eas- ter for centuries passed and to come. There is more talk than ever before for c new and simplhied calendar, but per- haps the simplicity of a new one would prove just as confusing. Do we like such drastic changes?
 There's plenty of room for argument and discussion on the calendar question. The present one was figured out and ar- ranged with great care and study. There are good reasons, no doubt, for making the year 306 days and few hours for good measure, for having some months thirty days, some thirty-oile, and one lone one twenty-eight days for span of four years, then adding on one day making 1t q leap year. All this is nightly intricate but we are accustomed to it, and have always accepted the intricacies of the calendar.
 The late Easter this year, April 26, the latest since 1006, has started little calendar discussion. Easter will not arrive on SO late date again until the year 2036. And who knows what VIII have been done about 1t in the interveri- ing years. By that time Easter may De on the same date every year. Somehow or other most of us like to cling to the old traditions. The new Thanksgiving that was tried was very short-lived. Tn the meantime it's no harm to talk about the calendar change which SO many think will make for more orderly year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
A ThOuehs for Today
Wall Dona

Neither travelling nor shipping is what lt used Co be. Seats are hard to get, in Pullman or coach; meals are Sketchy and often unappetiZing; one Is apt to get put out of the plane seat he engaged well In Advance. Freight and express are slow. Even air mail is not completely depend able. Occasionally somebody grouches nudibly about these hardships, but most of us take them in our stride because we realize that the nations transportation facilities, passenger and commodity, are working miracles to give us even as good service aS we have. In World War I, with much more equipment and smaller load, the railroads broke down completely: war plants closed for lack of coal, householders actually suffered, there were fuel riots, goods spoiled on piers, and freight yards became so hope lessly congested that cars containing war cargoes had to be lifted out by cranes.
 None of those things are happening now. DlScomforts yes - and delays, but nothing that interferes with the war effort. The Office of War Information has rounded up picture of the current situation and has come to the conclusion that only as to oil and communication are the pressures acute. There are about four major causes of the tremendous load which, with much less equipment than they had in 1918, the transporta- ton agencies are handling so ably. Our Industrial program Is many times that of World War I. This involves vastly greater movement of raw materials and Finished goods, and also Q concentration oe employment that forces hundreds of Thousands of workers to travel many miles daily, depending upon public utili- ties because of the gasoline and rubber Shortages. Gasoline and fuel oil were not so important in World War I.
 Now our civilian economy is geared to them, and also our fighting strategy which depends upon planes, tanks, jeeps, trucks, self-propelled artillery. The tankers upon which the east depended now are needed to take fuel to the war fronts, SO the railroads have had to assume that burden. Troops movements are heavier. The average soldier Is moved 10 times, including a post-induction fur tough trip, before he Is shipped abroad. TO move single division overnight re- quires 1,342 cars of every type. Many things about this war have been mis- managed. They do not include transpor- tation. That job has been = and IS being-done marvelously well.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
Jesse Jones Succeeds
Bv OWEN l.. SCOTT eTssm ne WasAAagtaa. n C. Snn1Ay staRl

dueAfnm Is very many times that Of pRewar. The giant new aircraft in- aashry as turning out planes far faster than they can he transported.
 sexvfca@ and supplied with gaso- llme hB the Army.
 In fact. the Defense Plant Corp. of
 which Dar. Jones is chairman and of
 which san n. xzlashAnds is president. awms sAa0AQ eco worth of plants and machinery. 1k has huilt and eNuimped 1.022 plants in a States and is hlai1dtng 4S7 more Its pos sessions include Se& aircraft plants, 10 arnas plants, EA radio and com mnmheaAians plants, 1e1 machine tool faetnraes. a sAlpsard& S7 iron and steel plants, A aluminium plants, 14 magneslaam plants and 10 plants con neeAeA with sxnthetie rubber pro- dlaeAfom.
 Because real political and eeon0rl- he pFnh1ams of much importance in the postwar paEiaa concern the aln- mfniasn. xaAAer and magnesium naamhs. the 0oxeEnznank iEsel1 is oper
 aAnng n of these plants Other nanmks are GaxeEnment-oBnad but leasaa ta pElxnAe eneEntnrR
 There are heginning to ha ques- tfnns ahauk tAa pastWaF use e1 these pammtk. GnmaA commentators are maaResAhng that the way may be enenedR tn 1aEge- -seala gifts of plants ! to prfnata hadaaG1ET and fa a whole aanseS ae Ananela Ghnalk.
 Aan. 1amR8 i8 not enneeRning him.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

the experience Of utIsegy that Q mans trouble generally eTUwS cut Of his selftshuezs, pegveExitS. and ignorance. There are ezeepssB5saI circumstances, of comgse. wherein misfortune dogs the steps of the izl-
 noeent and brings then t0s EEzs1. and probably in the He q every person misfortune occasionally @e~ CUTS because of the sslzizhmezs and evil Of someone else. Bwt nl1 hu- man FuIes and pEineipses gre es1- eEnI in their nature. and st can eeE-
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 and IaEEes day in and day ogl4 @ mans worst enemy is hzmselH- The eEi1 he dses stays ia Ifs hesvS eo torture hlm and to make C eAz1sE
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

dIVielona Co possom. But tliey are not willing Co s|t Idly around and, by acqui- e1clna ln the suppression of non.mllitary news or the distortion Of publl1hed siacts," Co assist in breaking down public confidence in the only medium that gives eyes and ears to the public or Q national and worldwide scale. If the newspapers were Co ecqriesce in the Hot Springs suppression, or Co soft pedal the crisis ln OWI, these would constitute precedents for further et1crOachments upon the public right to keep abreast of current history in the making.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

This countxyS rubber problem 50 far as var needs are concerned & lust ahoak solved. TneRe Is assurance of a snnnly of rubber far above pEoAahle military demand
 At the same tlmes most other var pzodueAton problems aRe ven tn hand. Output o1 mum1thnnS, tM very many eases. Is running far ahead |0f the ahGlfty to transport thas@ mln~ nlhtpng to the hattARfrontx. Tt even Is proving necessary to esak back the pguancsknn of some mnmfAfnn&
 These two dexeanpmants aRe a anzsfmnnlal to the effective 0neRa~ ttnn 0f 1aeNe Jones' Defense Plant CnRn. AsR. Jones nak 90 nnng ag0 was helng criticized 0n thA gEazm6 that Re wms mt putting eznaRA @zaK@ back 0R his tuA aE war plant hnllz1- fnE. xheze weze eAAE&es that he Ea8 lntlEng to Gek golng on an a11eqnate Kuhher program and that he di& na9 pmk emeuEh drive hack af this ar that exwnmGSnm p1aM
 Remaass m1H are eReakng fur tRemseaxe&. Tnnase zeK9lEs aEa heGfn- |mfng to he sAmKtHlng-
 ARnss ef the exfkkeExm aG JeGze Jones had ouneezmeh his SymhheAie Kuahher uEugEnm- T1neze were alaEmaa eRses shak the eanmAEg would rum onk aR KunAsr ke1nEe his plants euu1M eEt going. xek t@6aBs synthetic ruhAEr ls he1ng tnRRme& aa1t ! fn 0asexnmenk-aGnea p1snAss and shak pgudu-3knn. in imdhxsaaaa mlmmEx. B running ah0mk 1S per eez4 above esaEmmtns af w1nmk the p1mmas wuuaA uzuRmee- Bg this ysar end an ! S1ne hazzs of present. eazketnl ez1l- mmlex. gmAhHzfc EuAn1r e1fn1& MzIa L he rszsm6mR st a rate aG aA@4e @A~ Ice tnms a yUar-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
Eat ct Bar

Many of our rationing headaches result from failure of responsible officials to consult, in, advance, with practical ex- perts in the fields covered. In too many instances a broad overall plan is evolved by ivy-cloistered strategists, but no at- tempt Is made to seek out the scores of exceptions which would make the master plan workable.
 This could be illustrated in many ways. A good one is the fact that nobody in OPA troubled to differentiatc between restaurant customers for food and those for drinks. An eating place gets just as many ration points for a man who steps uE to the bar and tosseS off a glass Of beer as for one who eats full-courSe meal. So the restaurant with bar can supply more meat and more canned goods, for each eating customer, than the one without bar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

It looked for a time as if we would come to the first of May before the first green appeared. We talk of late springs but for the most part the season never gets off in a good start. Some years there are few early warm days, even in March. And usually April produces gome fair weather. This year, however, the first So-called "soft" feeling in the air came over the weekend, and since then the hedges have started to show green. and other shrubs as well. Daffo- diIs and other early spring flowers are following the crocuses and before we know 1t Iilacs will be in bloom, By May first we will have caught up, almost, to the season, and flowery May will make up, one hopes, for lost time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

too hal been branded aS sSalh- veESfve@ hT the Dies Committee. and Representative Tarver de- raanded that Representative Kerr of North Carolma. head of the special committee produce evi- denee to the contrary.
 sTAeRe is na exlAeneeI* re- nlfeA Kerr alEn1y. ~Dr Sehu- Haam b an enAstamdlng author lAy em SaxAeA Russia and has written a great number oA books oM the snAaee9 hnt this deesnt makA hhm a snAxeRsise4. We have examined hls writings care anaAv> TMeEe'A maAhAng iA them AM back um AAe Dlea Commit taA eAaEges"
 Repxeaentatava 1.ana RowsEs of New Jersey and Clinton Anderson 0f New Mexie0A Aw0 members of KeRTHS sxiheomnatttee. als0 de- tended Gehalman. but Tarvef cone tended that the subcommittee ah0aaAGa have spent more time re viewing 9chunan'S background.
 sXnM nAt tEylag e de the man Am hzAtnskfeel" Ae sahaa. saHA ! Ahank wa sAanAA do car AasA ta MxehA a controversy wa1h the Dlea CaHmnal&teeA which has made a tAeEangA study ee this snAteeA"
 Other nnenaheRfS also protested that the subcommittee report uaiehk provoke q fight with the D1eS Committee but Kerr calmly observed that his job was not to whAtewash the Dies Committee.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

making, he makes sure that thea
 Government interest 1s protecteo. <
 Private industry has an option to-
 buy most of the plants that 1t now Is operating on lease. But under the
 terms that Jesse Jones has exacted.
 they must pay the full costs plus { 1.
 per cent interest, after deducting z
 rental nnyments, or cost less depre. ciation n order to acquire the plants. <
 Tn the case of Government-owned : and operated plants in rubber, altl-a minum. magnesium, oil pipelines and tin smelting, there are no options given to private industry to par-.. . chase. Congress will have to decide
 what the country wants te do with 1.
 these properties after the var. .
 The big point is that Jesse Jones.
 with his Defense Plant Corp, has financed creation of e vast war in' $ dustry within a brief span of naontlv ,. 2his new war industry is turnim : out an avalanche of war naaterials 2 It Is turning out these materials, h : most instances, faster than they car .
 he transported to the scenes of wa : action.
 Probably the most notable recors !. of all will be made in synthetic rub- Der where an industry will have beer created from scratch, within htths more than a years time. that cara produce as much rubber as thitss country formerly used in peacetimss and much more rubber than requiree~ for war purposes alone. < It turns out that Mir. Jones' re-. fnsal to run off on ell kinds of tan~ gents, as one interest after anOtllpg came up with pet rllbber-makines Ideas, is paying out now ins ditivs. dends. The types of rubber the country now is to get are tte type about which most is known ant
 which are most tried in actual use
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
Washington Merry Co-Round
RY DREW PEARSON

John Le Dona ed Beeause Northern Coal oparatoVs Stood Pot Unom Vented Any KHd o or Nesooton Group Asks Spanish War Vets Get chancs be oee Pressure Brought Kerr Cowtee Conform with Dies Findings is in L.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

eAane same Ax1s forces 1M ether
 areas where ear soldiers are
 Rsw fighting under tAe AnneRa~
 ean flag"
 DIES COMMITTEE CHARGES
 Personal gFudgeS may creep into the question of whether certain R0veEnment officials are really xNbveESive - aS branded by the Dies C0mmittee-tf the Kerr Committee isn't careful
 One of these branded s&nAveR~ Slves is William E. Doaa. Jr4 S0M of the toEmeE D. s. Ambassador to Germany. whose father was a great fFlen6l of woodrow wilson and . famous historian at the University of ChieAgN Xeang Doda was a vaoeemt NazA haAer during his 1aAherS term a aHA~ Aasaaa0R. Was one 0f tho 1NA~ sons whY the lsttlar regime AA- tiu1aAad to the SeAAa Department that they wanted the eA0er Doda recalled
 Later. yuung DoGaa made tho mistake of running for Congress ags4Ast powerful Representative Howard smith. wA0 has d0mfA- atea northern Virginia. for a quarter of a century. Smith has many friends tn Congress
 New. young Doa0 is branded as sSnAveEslveS.
 A hloc of CongxeesnAeM headed hv 0eoEgia$ Malcolm TRaver also boEnhaRdad members of the Kerr Committee appointed to tnxesAk- gate Dla&S charges regarding Dr. Frederick L. @ehuunan. political analysk oe the Federal CoaannMt- cations Commissions Foreign Broadcast mtellteenoe SeRvtce. Re
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

B1DeR WD VIII 70 only aD0ul 1 per cent below the total sales os fe42, which certainly iss1't any Ig0Is cation Of an approaching beu.rock economy. me goods and services you buy won't be available In tse same quantity for respective lines 0t merchandise, but when you Hda up ail the estimates Of saleg in various lines, the. total dollar volume cones OSIt close to last years total.
 WHAT YOU CAN BUY
 Breakdown on the estimated sales In each major line Is important be. cause it indicates what you nB Q consumer will be able Co buy with your money during the balance of the year, Roughly, t runs sosne' thing Ike this;
 As an average citizen, yoU may spend % per cent more in eating nnd drinking places, Higher Fessa9- rant prices plus your inclination 0 eat cut more, to stretch your gas tiong and because you have extra dough In your jeans and Cul0tbes, account for that.
 You may spend Q HttIe more In clothing stores than you ubd last year. Production Of wearing aDs pareI hasn't been cwstaIIed, with the exception Of shoes. Most stores report good inventories, And even though shoes are FatIOned, the t0. taI number Of pairs available to civilians will be only 6 little under last years total,
 Your purchases In drug stores ap- pear to be headed fer Q 70 per cent increase in quantity ever last year, RADIOS OUT, FOOD UP
 Your purchases of general mesehs andise may add up to about the same dollar total a1 last year, though the stun yOa get for your money viii be different. YOu may buy more tewelRy and luxtlEy items, to make up 1UR the RadtUB and household gadgetE which simply won't be in stock becmuse theyere 10 longer manufactured f0E e5yII~ fans.
 You may cut your purchases ssUm the house FtIFnIshtnss stores by aB much as 90 per cent fer the sane reason. There VIII be furniture there for you to buy, but not the radios and appliances.
 The quantity Of food available to yUsI-aSld this will huEt@may be es much aS 70 pier cent below what you got tn Ies2, but you Will pgub~ ably pay the grocer and the butcher as much money as yUu dId last year, That makes the BtOFekeepeEis BaleS as big nS last year On Q cash basSB, though the quantity Of foods yUu carry home Will be down.
 Your shnFpcst cuts and your big. changes tn buying habits may come when you budget for purchases fsum mIIIng stations, nutemOstye deaIeSs, building supply dealers and haytl- ware stores. Indicated sales sn all such establishments may run g per cent IesS than they were in
 As far as prices arc cuEceEned, these estimates allow for an esst- mated 5 per cent increase tn ios1 psbceS over Io92 prices, for hidden price rises resulting from some pTtce ceiling violations, and EUF trading. ups CT the tendency of people with mOEey to spend to buy better quaIt- ties than they're used to-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

It was e good blackout, most people said. There were few hitches, but still there is considerable confusion as to the "all clear" signals. If you are tuned m on your radio, this will be announced to you, and you can proceed to the house switches. If you are not, then 1t appears there is a little confusion, especially If the "alI clear" is not too audible. Hear ing the whistles at this time of the year is not always SO satisfactory when windows are closed. Many people say they never hear the signals, Atmosphere and wind often have great deal to do with this. Later on when and if we have blackouts we may be on our porches or m rooms with windows opened so may get the whistle sounds more clearly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
0OHEERsAUETs ARB NOT

Wen. I'm stlll alive ana in ol1m piece and it 6 now two og tl1rss days Hince I conceded tlaat houss-s
 work is not enough exercise Co keep a woman physlcally fit. But I'
 have my fingers crossed, for the
 returns are not ell in yet.
 A good many people labor under tha mlsapprehension that I recolns
 mend rolling gomersaults for exer- else. Fur instance when the Great p0oh-Bah of the A. M. A. was breaking into the health column
 racket on the side he informed the dumb medical profession of the country that one of my astrnnge notions" vas ''that daily soInersaults in bed in the morning are an excel- lent technic for keeping the body in health" That would be an ex. eellent technic for getting the body into the hospital for repairs, [ should think, but then, 1t is as ac- curate as are any of the pooh-Bah's editorial reflections on me and my annoying health column.
 Maybe it Is just foolishness but
 somehow I don't feel linbered up and ready to go until I've rolled half Q dozen on the bedroom floor first thing every morning. Then I 60 into my regular symphony. Xou know. old ttners-"The Last Brady symphony"-for a copy send ten cents and stamped eli- 1. velope bearing your address. It ie a booklet describing and iliustrat-. ing simple calisthenic or getting-tip exercises which any one may take
 to keep it. Of course it requires . certain amount of muscular effort to roll . somersanlt and despite Webster I remind you I mean . turn in
 which the body never loses contact with the floor or ground = but hardly enough to matter, as exere
 else. Nor do I advise any old brittle- bones to attempt soEnersault all out of a clear sky. If you're past :. forty or fifty and have long neg- lected physical training you had better go easy--write first, lnclos- ing a three-cent stamped envelope
 bearing your address, and ask for -4xkVltaJ1Ou tU ttlG 6OuaSISbuAtGuSs.a qua" It will tell you how to go
 about 1t and why you should roll 'em.
 Any one of sedentary habit may counteract to 8 reasonable degree the evil effects of upright posture. poor circulation and ptosis or sag ging of internal organs by rolling somerSaults every day.
 webster to the contrary notwith- standing, when you undertake to roll s0mersault you must not leap l. in the air-if you do cannot be responsible for what happens- - just crouch down squatitng as low as possible. curled up tight. and . ron. If you keep curled up like 6 . ball you should roll right up on your i. feel ready for the second soner- saallt. If you don't keep curled up ' you'll land with . tremendous dop |. and you'll have no cause of acc [ ton against me, for atn not tell- 7. ing you to turn somersaults, I'm ' just telling you I turn 'em and 2
 ike 1t. '
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
Selected Poem
THE SINGING HILLS

(JulIa E. Goodwin in Poets Corner, Hartford
 Ttmes) Out of the dusk, before a waking bird Greets the new days high portals just ajar, While the gray dawn Is thinning star on star. The soft sweet singing of the hills Is heard. Strange Co an eaFthtned heart their song appearss Wild as the fantasies that bafile thought, However long for. ever vainly sought Faint as lost memories of vanished yeaEs- Yet soft as ehIming bells that far on ring, Sweet as the haunting music of dream. AIluring as the wiIl-O-the-wisps wsld gieam, Whose heart Is tuned aEght may hear them sings Like . soft cadence of the song that rang Through heaven when ell the morning stars hEst
 sang.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

Dut W ny OWW fauIt~
 So slle dhp0s5- tIon Co blame others for ew n- couyeuieue0 and tEuae kg Wt q modern vice. Baek fn the gloom ei the dnTk ages ghfs great Christian saint discovered in. hIB. Uwn mse mNzaa mlsmwwVln fm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
PeptIc Ulcer Diet

DO physicians nowadays allow e. patient with gastric ulcer to eats beef, pork or other meat without re- : striction9 If such a patient. takes meat may he have it cooked in any
 way he likes, or must 1t be cooked
 d special way2 (Mrs. B. M)
 Answer-Many ulcer patient are allowed meat cooked as they prefer. 1. Menus for peptic ulcer patients. and d4 menus for the rest of their family are given in booklet "So You Have ' IndigeStion"-for copy send ten
 cents and 6 hree-cent-stamped eSl-s velope bearing your address. :
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

Don't begin to feel too happy if you can occasionally buy a steak or chops because milk is the next thing talked Of for ratiorling. Milk has been used more than ever since the meat shortage as 1t can be used in so many ways, not the least of these for creamed dishes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D

OUR OWN WORST ENEMY
 It was the great Saint Bernard of CIatrvaux who said, Nothing can damage me except myxesf- The harm I sustain ! carry about with me, and I am never . real sufferer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
Daily AImanae

Moon rises ct 3:sl a. m- twar time). sun rises at 5;s5 .. m, ssis st 5saS D ni- vehicles must be lighted thirty minuaes after sumget
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29

yfl1Ilt USt3Etl1tSIlO Of civilian Bapply, separate from Me War Production Board, m Ay M shown uD es uns due alarm.
 BaBed m 90. ports Of Wh ct stores sold o tho nFBt tisTee monshB of iDl3, to1ayB estimates show that the sDsal dollar volume W goods sold during the entire year