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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
A Thought for Today
"Whose Broad Stripes and
Bright Stars"

A visible sign of an idea is what an
emblem is, and the flag is an emblem.
The flag in itself is no more than an
attractive decoration. 1t is the meaning
behind the flag that is of high import
ance to Americans. Every nation has
flag, since it is means of stimulating
fervor of a patriotic nature. Doubtless
cur love of and duty to country would
be foStered without a flag, but the ma
tional emblem is an impetus
Today is our Falag Day. the day in
the year during which we pay it partcu-
lar homage. Other days are of higher
Importance as national patriotic days,
but on this one day the flag is given
particular thought, and we might add
at this time in the history of world
events means more to us. During years
Of peace we more or less forget it and
excepting for an occasional day never
fly one from private homes Pub
lcly all due respect is paid to it on the
appointed days.
June to June ID this year was Off
cially appointed Flag Week, and it is a
week more fitting of observance than,
say, national potato week or gladiolus
week. This year marks the 166th ami
versary of the adoption of our national
emblem, and as such the flag should be
more conspicuously displayed along with
added allegiance.
Now if never we should rally round
its standard, figuratively at least. AS in
the past flags were rallying points for
Warriors going into battle and it might
be we'll to consider it's emblematic import
ance now and in the days to come. Let us
join in with the younger generation as
they sing, three cheers for the red,
white and blue" or whose broad stripes
and bright stars"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

giving advice and counsel on legal
matters to anyone who asked him,
and over his period of time prac-
tically every lawyer in the city had
fallen into the habit of counseling
with the law clerk before arriving
at any important decision. He was
just as gracious to boy out Of law
school as he was to the most emf
nent lawyer in the city.
The result was that when vac
ancy occurred on that bench, the
lawyers of the city arose as one
man and carried his candidacy to
the governor with such earnestness
that they OVERRIDE every political
and business influence and secured
the appointment Of the law clerk as
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
Elk Post Facto

One reason why SO many government
war controls break down in practice may
be judged from testimony given by Fred
c. Heinz, of the ST varieties, concerning
his experience as member of business
advisory group.
Wartime regulations concerning soup
we're framed. Were experienced soup
Gamers asked for advice, or even for
technical information, in advance? Not
al all. They we're just called in and told
about it, testified Mr.. Heinz - "it' be-
ing regulations already promulgated.
GAS 1 understand it, these agencies
when dealing with any particular product
want men to handle the matter who are
entirely unfamiliar with it. This is based
on the idea that if they know anything
about the business they might be pre-
JUDGED" There is plenty of evidence
that this applies to more industries than
soup canning.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

arming millions of our fathers, son and
brothers, the 10 per cent measure for war
bond allotmonts served its purpose.
Meanwhile our national income has
risen to record heights. Consumer goods
have steadily dwindled. We will have As
billion dollars above the cost of the ne
ceSSitieS of life and present taxes in our
pockets during 1913. There is plenty of
dynamite in these loose As billions of
dollars. Thrown into the fight in the
form of war bonds this money has Suffi-
cient power to blow Hitler's armies to
ShredS. Mis-spent in competition with
your neighbors for the fading supply of
civilian goods, this money has the power
to rip the home front to pieces and de-
Stroy the backing our fighting men must
have. Mis-spent these as billions of dol
lars will bring misery and chaos to every
American family.
More and more these facts are burning
themselves into our consciousness. Where
formerly one member of a family took
upon him or herself the full war bond
duty, now every working member of
family must share the responsibility. War
Bond families are springing up by the
thousand, especially in war work areas.
For example, i fonly one member of
family has been working and earning,
say, 5000 per month, 10 per cent may be
the most that can be saved But if
another member of the family is employed
at, say, $3.50 month, the total expenses
of the family may not be increased at all,
or very slightly. It is entirely possible for
the family to now put $3.50 or more than
80 per cent of total income into bonds
every month.
There is no longer war bond yard
stick which all should obey Ten per cent
may be your limit. However, for every 10
per center there are numerous potential
Is per centers, 20 per centers and even
so per centers. We are now in the in
vasion period of the war. The Yanks are
doing the invading and not the Nazis.
War costs will mount daily. The cost in
lives is growing by the moment.
Can we do no less than to place our
payroll savings on the same invasion
tempo of blood, sweat and tears? Figure
it out for yourself
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
In Today's Mail

former years and is not now de-
manding the entry of foreign labor
which, instead of being cheap
proved costly venture for industry.
No discriminatlve measures
should be given in the case of refu-
gees or otherwise. A prominent new
deal figure advoctes equal treatment
of all immigration, who was refer
ring to Orientals, who by our laws
have no quota system of admittance
to u. S.
Our system of immigration, viz:
exclusion of Orientals by U. S. act
of 1924 is just and proper to pre-
vent miscegenation. The pending
three bills before the House of Rep
resentatives committee, proposes to
relax the acts provision regarding
Chinese, we should not disturb the
acts provision in order to give pref
erence to Chinese immigration be-
ing our Allies is not sufficient rea-
son to make any change in the act
regarding Orientals, as we regard
the discrimination as an expression
of opinion by the American people
from the groups of refugees, to the
new deal exclusive bureaucratic
economic and good neighbor policy
together with brotherhood of man,
regulation by church encroach-
ments in public affairs. Auxiliary
hyphenate political groups. All ap-
pealing for the abrogation of the
1924 quota law on immigration, not
one group for the other, but sep
arate appeals that will apply for
their own racial and religious in
terestS.
The price of our present immigra-
ton continuance is eternal vigilence
We must not view the refugee
question as if we as a large family
were bound to remedy the situation
by making it convenient for said
refugees to move in to that family.
The tradition that U. S. is the asy-
lum of political, religious and any
other prosecuted sect or dissatisfied
group must pass into oblivion. Do
not tamper with our existing quota
immigration laws in order to serve
special refugee service, or to curry
favor with our allies, the Chinese,
or any other racial body.
Suggestions of what not to do:
1. mo special refugee act should
be enacted by congress.
2. do not make retroactive the
unused parts of any national quota.
8. do not vancouver total an
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
FRANK RSONS OPPOSES
REMOVAL OF LIMITATIONS
ON SO-CALLED REFUGEES

Waterbury Democrat,
Mr.. Editor:
Under no circumstances should
the American people, be inveigled
into any plan Or scheme whereby
any territory of U. S. would be fur
nished as haven for so-called
refugees The question OF refugee
ism, should remain subordinate to
the main objective, the decisive de-
feat of the enemy. Many sections Of
our U. S. are in need of aid to our
own American-born citizens. Repre-
sentatives favoring old world
refugees are oblivious that charity
commences at home, no need to go
into raptures over old world
refugees plight. 1t is tragic, but
unavoidable under the stress OF war.
There are no doubt, many areas in
Africa that could be had for sane
tuaries for refugees under the inter-
governmental and Red Gross COM
missions. The inter- governmental
commission on refugee aid was orig
inally organized in 1888 by confer
ence called by President Roosevelt
at the behest of religious groups
who urged action on the question of
relief to old world refugees. And
the expediency of also aiding other
angles of relief of temporary ma
ture. 1t is we'll when exploring the
condition regarding the distress said
to exist among peoples of the old
world, to consider all anticipated
barriers to safe guard our citizens in
U. S. Groups in the U. S. are
stressing the immediate necessity of
giving asylum for persons termed
refugees who are nothing but what
has always been the case, old world
immigrants.
Remember that religious and ra-
cial groups active as usual under a
cloak of propaganda, necessarily
have urged the elimination of i'm
migration quota law of 1924 which
by the way has safe-guarded us
from flood of immigration from
the old world. the need of indis-
criminate castle garden enterees has
past. Before the global war, approx
| 1IlldCC4y VWO lAlI41OAl WOu4o-DC I'LL
migrants beseiged the U. S. consul
ates in the old world for visas for
entry.
The U. S. is serving as nurse for
old world peoples, has played its
part, now we should consolidate to
absorb that growth of nourishment
to assimulative substance of Amer
icanism. Our quota laws should now
be decreased, to bring it in line
with the law assimilation, or antic-
ipating economic chaos after the
war all immigration into U. S
should cease for a generation, and
not by any means as prominent
figure recently stated, be en-
couraged. A renewal of foreign Ia
Dor, would congest the labor mar
ket, the economic condition would
be devastated. social conditions
would be lowered. Indiscriminate
immigration of former years was
tragic as real estate decreased anC
not as some prophets predicted, be
stimulative to real estate values
Industry has learned It's lesson o.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

At the present time there is serious
shortage of teachers in the state. And it
is expected the situation may be graver
by fall, one reason the new law permit
ing retirement at sixty years. 1t is strange
how quickly this situation was reached.
A few short years ago the waiting lists
we're tremendous and college graduates
were waiting and waiting for school ap-
pointments However, there is a complete
reversal in everything today. Not so many
are going into teaching since there are
endless other jobs that offer fine openings
for the girl coming out of college.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
Figure 1t Out Yourself

The time has come for everyone of us
who is putting a part OF his income into
War Bonds to re-assess his or her contri-
button toward the winning of the war
To begin with we can all feel proud of
what we have accomplished. There are
more than 100000 of us buying bonds
out of income regularly. We work in
10000 concerns, big and little. There
is virtually no industry or business with
out payroll savings plan in all Ameri-
ca. Our War Bond purchases now
amount to about 4OO,OOO,00O month.
While the nation was training and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

rainy day, and the Brazilian had
no top-coat. But he could not
take Martin inside the hotel, be-
cause of the ruling that delegates
should not be "molested" by news
men.
Result was that Muniz and Mar
tin Shivered on the porch for the
length of the interview, MuniZ
catching a severe cold.
SAVING UNCLE SANS
SHECKLES
Here is simple suggestion
which would save the Government
millions.
AS the law stands, a man COM
ing into the Government scannot
be hired for the figure of $1,000 or
$4,000, but must get one or an
other of the fixed Government
ratings, such as $4,000, and if he
won't take that, he must be paid
$500.
Likewise, If he is a $1,000 man,
willing to work for that figure but
not for less, he must be given 49,
900.
Literally hundreds of men
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

nual quotas of $4,000 in specialized
quotas.
4. do not admit special or fav-
ored groups, outside OF the present
quota restrictions.
S. DO not allow amending the
present immigration law, SO as to
enlarge quotas.
6. congressman should not be
swayed by religious. racial or politi-
cal groups.
FRANK j. PARSONS.
Waterbury, Conn.,,
June II, 1913.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

have come into the War Pro-
duction Board at salaries $500
or $1,000 more than they would
have accepted, simply because
the Redistribution Act of 1928
establishes the figures of $4,000,
$500 and $1,000 with no eles-
ITCHY.
The same waste results in the
field of promotion. To keep good
men these days, Government,
agencies are obliged to give pro-
motions without waiting for the
2 ID year period required by Civil
Service.
So the agencies resort to eva
sion. They reclassify the employee
by writing up a new job for him
at higher salary level. He
might be satisfied with a $500
raise, but Redistribution means
that he gets at least 5000 more, or
even $500 more.
A simple change Of the law
would save hundreds of dollars
in thousands of cases.
copyright, 1913, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, Inco
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

Farmers, log
gers, operators
of tank truck
trains and trail
ers hauling milk
and petroleum,
common carri-
ers hauling war
materials from
sub = on trac-
tors to assembly
plants-all have
b e e n m a king
noises about a
t h r e a t e n e d
b r eakdoWn of
t he country's
truck tranSpOr-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Checks and Balances


Recently you said it is a good
thing there are doctors like some
who advised parents to have nine
year-old son operated on for hernia,
and a good thing there are doctors
like the one who made no promise
but did his best with the ambulant
Gnjection) treatment and, as it
proved, cured the boy that way.
Why do you justify the unneces-
sary expense the parents had to
stand for the unsatisfactory advice
the doctors who wanted to operate
gave them? Oh. M. RI
Answer mean that it is for
tunate for the public that the medi-
cal profession is slow to accept new
departures and discard old methods.
This Is true, I think, even though
it costs some individuals more to
find out what the newfangled
method can do. The operation Is
the only satisfactory treatment for
hernia in many instances in chill
dren and in adults. Still, the am
bulant Cnjection) treatment Will
give the more satisfactory results IN
as many cases in children and IN
adults. So the doctor who refuses
to recognize this established fact
and to give his patient honest and
competent advice about it-well,
there are too many of him left, and
it is to combat his kind that I harp
on the ambulant treatment of her
mia here. If doctors generally &C
cepted or hesitated to reject any
and every newfangled remedy or
method introduced by Tom, Dick
and Harry, the entire public would
be at the mercy of every freak,
fanatic or charlatan who might
court public patronage.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

Senator Francis T. Maloney in an adj
dress to the graduating class of st. JOS
eph College, West Hartford, last Friday
said that young women we're the hope OF
the country at the present time. Among
other things he said: "They must dedi-
cate their lives now to the solemn duty
to see to it that America shall one day
emerge in the full glory of victory, but
with none of the dirt and faint of war"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
Selected Poem
SWIFT INTERVAL

(Carl John Bostelmann in the New York Sum-
Within my heart, voice is crying out
Against the lucid loneliness of words
The lit of water and the song of birds
Transcend all rhetoric to be devout
In native conversations: in my heart
All pomp of formal language is subdued,
And silence guards each sacred mterlude
OF beautys grace from any guise of art
This crystal sound, this moments clarity,
I hold too close for fashioned artlflce
OF measured cadence; let my music be
A sacrament beyond analysis,
A fragile pause out of eternity,
moods swift interval, and only this.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

The state ranks of Civil War Veterans
are gradually dwindling. There were not
too many left when the marching line
formed last Memorial Day. Another Con-
necticut veteran, Joseph c. Rockwell,
ninety-eight years of age, who saw sew
eral skirmishes and a battle during ser
vice in the Civil War, passed away last
week in Danbury, the last of the Danbury
veterans.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
Current Comment

America is destined to be the
leader of the world. We individ-
uals must see to 1t that it has the
right leadership. That is one OF
your responsibilities as American
citizens.
George MARKHAM, west coast
restaurateur, World War l
Armenian refugee.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

We are now "knee-deep in June" as
James Whitcomb Riley once put it. But
we have to imagine it this year, for there
is no way of reaching the daisy field,
driving along woody roads to see the
mountain laurel, or to see the delicate
columbine and all those early plants that
identify June.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

happened. In the
first place he had,
as l a W C e r k,
familiarized him.
self with judicial
procedure u n t l
he had become
the best authority
in the state Of
these m a t t e r S.
Best of all, how
e V er, h e h a d
spent his thirty
wears generously
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS d. d.

BREAD CAST ON THE WATER
Several months ago in one of our
large cities, man was appointed
to a judgeship by the governor OF
his state. For thirty years he had
occupied the position of the clerk in
that court, but during those thirty
wears two very important things had
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

judge. The day he was sworn in, five
hundred people crowded into the
court room to witness the simple
but moving ceremony, and everyone
felt that here virtue indeed had had
its reward and that bread cast upon
the waters had, after many days,
returned.
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Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per-
sOnal health and hygiene, not 10
disease, diagnosis Of treatment,
will be answered by DIR. Brady II
a stamped self-addressed envelope
is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written in ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address DR..
william Brady, National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Ill.
THE LACK OF TRAINED NURSES
Back in the days when trained
nurses, graduates of the best hoSpi-
tai nurse training schools, COM
manded $18 to $21 week base pay
and up to $25 week and even $50
a week in certain classes Of work,
young women competed in prelim-
mary examinations for the oppor-
tunity to be accepted as pupil III
the nurse training school, and were
admitted only on probation at that
They had to satisfy the hospita.
medical staff and the superinteno-
ent or head of the nurse training
school that they we're endowed with
what it takes to make good nurse,
or else, after the proba tionary Pc
Rod of three months, more or less,
they were advised to try some other
field of endeavor
The training schools turned out
excellent nurses in those days. They
did it with a two-years course.
At the same time the best medi-
cal schools in the country admitted
students who had completed a
standard four-years high school
course, and graduated them with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
! a four-years course in medical
school and hospital. The medical
schools turned out good doctors in
those days.
forgot 10 mention that girls
seeking entrance to nurse training
school were required to have COM
pleted a common school education,
not necessarily any high school
work at all.
All that has changed greatly in
recent years. Young man who
wants to become physician must
now spend four years in college be-
fore he begins his four-years medi-
cal course. Young woman who
wants to become trained nurse
must have some high school work,
or in many nurse training schools
she must have graduated from high
school before she can enter upon
the study of nursing, and when the
hospital has received her, she must
remain in training Ito characterize
the bondage politely for three
years before she is graduated. That
| added year, always say and
mean it, it slick scheme whereby
the hospital gets whole years ex-
pert service from the nurse for
practically nothing-fler board and
maybe enough to pay for her uni
forms and laundry. 1t is eXploita
ton of the helplessness and inno-
cence of brave and noble young
women. A precious year of the lin
tied period a skilled nurse may pos
sibly earn fair pay.
The absurdly long course of train.
ing and the advanced preliminary
education required for the serious
shortage of material which now
confronts the country.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Analysis
Of Truck
Shortage
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

The extent to which too little is
having to be stretched too far and
spread too thin to keep this civilian
economy going in wartime is we'll
illustrated in the case of those high
ly necessary but unlovely things
known as heavy duty motor trucks
the things you used to cuss at
because you couldn't pass them or
see around them in those by-gone
happy days when you used to go Joy
riding.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14

Daily Almanac
Moon sets at 2:59 a. M (war time).
Sun rises at 527 a. M. sets at 1882 p. m.
(war time).
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-14
WASHINGTON. June l.

WASHINGTON June Near historic Williamsburg site OF Villain ana mary
Admiral who discovered the North
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY
DREW PEARSON

Navy Raises Hogs Private Venture Seobee Camp Lond
Uses Government Equpmen Enlisted Men Play Nuemods to Pigs
Food Conference Delegate Booes Story Newsmon Catches Cold
Revision Of Ronas for Federal Jobs Would Sove ToxPaye Millions
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-15
St. Lucy's SoftboII
Bgs Trim Bulldogs so


The Bgs moved into first place
this morning when they left the
field victors over the Bulldogs. The
Bulldogs, with Ernie Hollenborg in
the box, were much superior team
to the Bulldog team of yesterday.
Even though Jerry Faraci crossed
home plate for the Bgs in the first
inning and many times throughout
the game, the Bgs, led by the STURDY
hitting of Bobby Miller, were in
threatening position, the Bulldogs
managed to give the impression that
at any moment they we're about to
break out a rally which would win
the game for them. They succeeded
in smothering more than one Big
rally with Carmen Aloisi showing
them how in the outfield.
The Bulldogs have not as yet
managed to fill their roster. One of
these days they will enter the dia-
mond with their full strength and
then let all opposition beware. They
have shown a couple of pretty weak
spots in their lineup which will soon
be corrected.
Winnie Synkowicz and Ted Be-
jarski also starred for the boys of
Branch mad Griggs streets