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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Second Front Soon

It seems safe to predict that the second European land front will be established soon, not because of the pressing vocal demands of Moscow and of Communist fellOW-traveler elements here, but because sound military considerations now make second land front feasible Perhaps it will not be accurate to speak of what is ahead as "a second front" If laymen may be permitted to speculate, conceding in advance that they are merely drawing what seems like logical inferences, it is not one new land front that we should expect, but two or three or perhaps even more. There seems little question that the tremendous hammering of the Rhine land is Softening-up process aimed at some specific development in the rather near future. What could this be except an invasion by way of the French coast, the Low Countries, Scandinavia or some combination of these routes? Aerial blows at French and Low Country air ports and other installations direct atten- tion there. Meanwhile, it is no less obvi- ous to the armchair strategist that the placement of Allied bombs in Italy DOT tends blow by the sodiery not funda- mentally at the toe, the instep or the heel whence it would be necessary for our men to slog their weary way up the length of the peninsula - but somewhere considerably north of the foot.
 If we were in Herr Hitler's and Signor Badoglio's place and were predicating our defenses upon what laymen in the United States know, we should anticipate an in- vasion in the vicinity of Naples and an- other down in the foot, of tremendous forces which-if we were those unesti- mable Axis worriers-we should know would crush all Axis troops that are in Italy from Naples south Simultane- ouSly, we should fear that equally strong Allied forces would turn northWard to- ward Rome, after drawing a cutoff line east and west across the peninsula and cleaning up some useful ariports in south central Italy. Of course, President Roose- welt and Premier Churchill did say that they were discussing the Far Eastern sit uation in Quebec. But they did not say that they did not discuss Europe also. And, moreover, reason says that plans for the next act were laid months ago-and that overt developments resulting from Quebec will constitute later chapter in the tragedy that the Axis faces. Again, this is all speculation It doesn't mean thing. But it is fun to speculate, isn't ft?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

few people have the courage to take the bold step he did co correct this difficulty. Many a man needs to learn this truth about his own heart and then with boldness to address himself to the difficult task of mak- ing that heart right before God and man.
 There would be more statesman ship in our country and in the world if our leaders could realize that our troubles lie not in the field of organization but in the field of human motive. Jesus once said that out of the heart proceed the issues of life. This was the observation of a Man who looked deeply into every human situation.
 It ie when we look at our own hearts and the sad, ignorant hearts of those who are round about us that we realize the wisdom of the young London heart specialist. who switched from medicine to theology that he might more effectively treat that ailing heart.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

The early Christmas buying suggestion goes for home shopping as well as for the boys away. The U. s. Postoffice this year will face, perhaps, it's biggest job in all history During the next few weeks many people will be making purchases for the boys overseas They are urged to extend their shopping to buying at the same time for civilians thus taking load off the later shopping which is pretty acute between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Another thing that the postoffice is urg- ing this year is that people deliver their own packages. Which is sound advice but to deliver some packages would mean quite long walk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Inventory Jitters

War manufacturers are reported to be coming down with bad attack of inven- tory jitters This is symptom rather than disease
 In World War industry expanded and expanded (much as the public prior to late 1929 invested and invested) on the apparent theory that an abnormal situa- tion was going to last forever. Most of them were caught flat when the war end ed. Some never did recover. Remember ing this, present-day homogeneous would like to break near enough even, when the Axis capitulates, to remain solvent.
 Thus, automatically the inflated inven- tories which many firms are reported to have squirreled away are going to be reduced. What must be guarded against is an excess of caution which would leave critical plants short enough to slow down output.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Too Much Talk

OPA Director Brown finally persuaded Petroleum Administrator Ickes that the pleasure driving ban could be lifted and more gasoline given to eastern motorists. Forthwith, the pumps began to run dry. Instead of more fuel, the eastern car owners found that the tickets they have are no good.
 Problems of supply and demand cannot be solved in the spirit of good fellowship, on the basis of pleasing the voters If Messrs. Brown and Ickes had not prom ised SO much so soon, War Mobilizer Byrnes would be sleeping better of a night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

to OWI Senator Sheridan Downey of California has told intimate friends that he doesn't want to run for reelection. This has stimulated a lot of heart fluttering among possible con- tenders . Here is list of the men who are likely starters: Bryon N. Scott, former Congressman from the 18th District, now one of the most efficient members of the War Production Board. Jack Penney, state senator from Los Angeles; Bob Kenny, attorney general of the State of Cali fornia; John M. Costello, Con- gressman from Hollywood; Harry R. Sheppard, congressman from the 18th district; and Ellis Pat terson, former Lieutenant Cover nor and perennial political can- didate.
 LETTERS VS ICKES
 The speech Interior Secretary Harold Ickes delivered before the New York Sales Executive club in which he assailed dollar-a- year men for "bungling" the war effort, produced one repercussion in official circles that didn't get into print.
 Rubber Administrator William Jeffers was so infuriated by Ickes' acid comments about the industrial tycoons who are running the War Production Board that he com- plained to the White House.
 Jeffers phoned Gen. Edwin "Pa"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

ism and a Made-in-C Canada new deal that is a decided departure from the Liberal Conservatism that has dominated Dominion politics ever since the last war.
 It is generally admitted that the presidents visit to Ottawa is a ges- ture to strengthen the position of w. L. Mackenzie King, who has been prime minister of Canada for 16 years and head of the Liberal party for 25. There are strong personal, as well as political ties between the two men. They were in Harvard to- gether. Roosevelt is extremely popu- lar in Canada, some observers going so far as to say that if the president were running for office in the Dom- inion, he could get over 90 per cent of the popular vote.
 Canadians realize that their fu- ture well-being is definitely linked with that of the United States. Can ada had no industry before the last war, being largely an agricultural and mining, raw materials colony. This industrialism born in the Frist World War has been multiplied many times in this Second World War. It has greatly promoted Can- ada's economic well-being and prac- tical self-sufhciency.
 KING AND ROOSEVELT
 Today, Prime Minister Mackenzie King is pictured as the personifica- ton of this development, the man responsible for it, and for political reasons he is built up as the one public official whose continuance in office is essential to the maintenance of the friendly relations and cooper ation between the two countries. In short, Mackenzie King would no doubt like to be thougt of as "the man who" can work with Roosevelt.
 But Mackenzie King is now faced with political difficulty at home. His Liberal party government was elected in 1889, with a majority of ITO out of the 245 seats in the Can- adian Parliament's House of Con- mons. General elections are com- pulsory once every your years in Canada, but may be put over an ad- ditional year in wartime. Mackenzie King might therefore sit tight for another two years unless his ad- ministration should receive a vote of no-confidence, in which case gen. eral elections would be immediately in order.
 In practical Canadian politics, however, it is not the custom for a party in power to wait until its four-year term in office has expired. What happens is that when the party in power feels 1t is in a strong position, vote of no-confdence is rigged up-or to put it more po- litely-arrange on some inconse-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

phosphorus deficiency greedily eat carrion bones and other debris reek- ing with the Parabotulinusu germs. The cattle suffer from phosphorus deficiency because the soil, insuffi- ciently fertilized with phosphates and with the bodies of dead animals, fails to provide enough phosphorus in the pasturage or feed. When such cattle are provided with as- similable phosphorus, in the form of bone meal, bran, sodium or calcium phosphate, the perverted appetite (pica) for bones and other debris soon disappears.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Restoring Natural Girdle
 Muscles separated during preg- nancy and afterward did not go back in place. Feel comfortable when wear girdie but when the girdle becomes stretched or if I go without 1t a few hours have a severe back ache. (Mrs. T. McW.)
 Answer-You should follow reg ular daily schedule of exercises such as those described and illustrated in "The Last Brady Symphony for words and music send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. Especially the 9th, 10th, 11th and 18th movements. Every woman should do such exercises not only after childbirth, but before. She should begin similar exercises son after delivery while she is in bed. The best girdle is your own muscle, if you keep fairly fit.
 Hemophilia in Female
 In psychology class I was piped down when said I knew of a girl who died at the age of IS from hemophilio. They said it is confined to males, that females only carry the tendency to their male children.
 (Miss N. R.)
 Answer-Hemophilia (bleeder state) is rarely seen in female. But un- comfortable bleeding may occur in female from other causes.
 Two Hundred Bones
 Please inform me CD how many bones in the body and (2) of what does resistance consist? co. w. B.
 Answer-About 200 bones, not counting the ossicles (hammer an- vii and stirrup) in each middle ear cavity. Resistance" is an imagin- ary state. If you mean immunity against disease, that is a different matter. Immunity against diph- theria, for instance, may be meas ured or at least 8 physician can determine by Schnick test whether an individual has any immunity against diphtheria. But no one knows in any instance whether an individual has resistance" that implies capacity to withstand or ward of any known disease. When doctors talk about resistance" they are usually just talking to conceal their ignorance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
A Thought for Today
Whats In a Name?

imitation ice cream can't be sold in Connecticut. If you don't think so, then just try to get away with it. Attorney General Francis A. Pallotti has just is- sued an official ruling on the same, so it's now binding on any and all persons who might be interested in the manufacture of such confection, if confection it could properly be called. Judging by the recent ruling ice cream is ice cream and not any of the many frozen desserts that are sold or made. The question arose when a dairy asked if it could market product as imitation ice cream
 And the answer is no, for the COnnec- ticut law says that anything labeled imi- tation ice cream can't be sold here in Connecticut. But if imitation ice cream were labeled something else, it could be sold legally within the state and nothing said or done about it. Under the Con- necticut law an imitation ice cream is frozen dessert and can be sold as such So, actually imitation ice cream can (and, of course, iS) being sold, but under a diff ferent nomenclature. If you want to get 1t the way the legal minds put it, listen to this.
 Tt is our opinion that it was the in- tention of the Legislature to prohibit the sale of imitation ice cream as such; thus, the law prohibits person from selling any product as imitation ice cream. The law does not, however, prohibit the sale of a product manufactured as a frozen dessert, as defined (which includes imita- ton ice cream as defined) provided it is not labelled and sold as imitation ice cream. .'' The Attorney General
 Make mine chOcolateI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Press Comment
GENERAL EISENHOWER
 ADVISES (New York Herald Tribune)

Allied war correspondents sent out more than two million words on the Sicilian campaign. All of them re- dounded to the credit and foresight of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. This is particularly true of one small item which may have escaped public notice. The generals brother. Milton s. Eisenhower, associate dir ector of the Office of War Inform ation, cabled for advice. He had been offered the presidency of Kan sas State College. The return cable from North Africa urged him. to accept. Said General Eisenhower: "A large part of the kind of peace achieved after this war rests on the principles laid down in Americas schools"
 The impact of the war on Amer ican schools and colleges has been disturbing to many. Dr. Harold w. Dodds, president of Princeton, speaks of this in his essay, "Educa- tion for Use," which is one of series now being printed for distri- button to every Princeton alumnus in the armed services. He says: Some have not hesitated to declare that the governments policy will spell the end of the liberal arts sol- leges as America has known them. Such gospel of despair need not be taken seriously" He concludes: '"The agency at hand best fitted to infuse into society a constant leaven of leadership motivated by an undes- standing of science, history and the arts is the American college"
 One of the nations leading mili- tary men and one of its leading educators are in substantial agree ment on the vital role of American education in helping to make the eventual peace workable. It is more than reassuring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Highways Necessary War Casualty

"The daily deterioration of our Ameri- can highways from normal use and nat ural causes, is piling up due to neglect, failure or inability to make repairs when r1eeded," according to Jorn s. Morley, Professor of Transportation Engineering, University of Michigan, who pointed out that while this is serious problem and one that cannot be too long delayed, still, # is definitely part of Americas contrl- button to the war effort. Manpower and materials are needed more elsewhere Tn fhe winning of the war and he added:
 HWhile It is a poor dollar economy 10 1,eelect to promptly repair the damage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

We learn from an article in the Chris tian Science Monitors weekly magazine section that Camp Edwards, New Eng lands largest military establishment on Cape Cod, is lively place, it's AAATC or ti-Aircraft Artillery Training Center, it's biggest feature. The camp is named for Major General Clarence R. Edwards, of the 26th, Yankee Division. Camp Ed wards, from all accounts, has grown from a small outfit amid the Cape Cod scrub pine, to it's present size ard importance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
THE NATURE OF PICA

GeOghagy, l discovered accident ally while browsing through a book is "the practice of eating earthly substances, especially clay The practice is found among peoples of low culture throughout the world and often develops an appetite or craving the indulgence of which favors idiocy, chlorosis, etc."
 Come, come, now, Messrs. Merriam, yours is swell book and I wouldn't be without it constantly at my el- bow, even if I had to buy copy, but after all, you can hardly expect us to believe an individual becomes an idiot because he eats dirt, sand, soil or clay. Didn't your medical edditors give their imagination too much play on that one? Turn the idea around and say idiots are more likely to eat earthly substances than normal individuals are, and we'll like your book all the better.
 Pica is the medical term for this unusuual or perverter appetite or craving for unnatural food such as ashes, plaster, soil, sand, chalk. charcoal, coal, wood, paper, peanut shells (gosh, how I loved peanut shells when I was a kidD-had the Merriams' m edical editor been around then probably I would have been placed in an institution until learned to eat the peanuts and give some one else the shells.
 Probably most children have a go at geophagy or pica in infancy or childhood. No particular harm in it.
 There is a popular impression that when child shows an appe- tite for little plaster off the wall or soil from the flower pot or ashes from the hearth or chalk or graph ite from "iead' pencil, the child probably lacks some mineral in his system. Frankly, favor that the ory but I do not know whether t is so or not.
 South African stock raisers have suffered great losses from the rav- ages of "Lamsiekte" Qame- -sickness) among cattle-and this is disease indirectly due to shortage of phos- phorus in the soil. The direct cause of the disease is the toxin of a germ called Parabotulinus bovis, which toxin -py y5ducing germ infects the carcass debris of dead animals on the range. Cattle suffering from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Selected Poem
UPLAND HAVING

(Bianca Bradbury in The Christian Science
 Monitor) In slow recesSonal Slow clouds are drifting on the hill. The snarl of tractors softens to a drone Far down the valley. Here, Even crickets, the old hound dog are still. A yellow wave out of the turning year Is washing over Crisping grasses and Topped heads of clover Eddys of the yellow heat Spiral about the feet Of the straining pair, the bay, the roan, The wet Hanks darkening, The hard legs bracing to the pull. The roll and swing Of the hayrick. This is beautiful, The thrust of fork and load, the free Fine sculpture of hard back and thigh, The harvest carved into the poetry Of comradeship, under sapphire sky.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

from frost-boils, cracks, shoulder wash outs, etc, resulting from the hard winter of 1942-43, still the test of nations abil- ity to win a war in not it's money supply as much as it's manpower and material supply. We will win this war and we will again put our highways in shape. The cost of repairing them is directly charge able to the war effort just as much so as the cost of planes, ships and tanks"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

Watson, the Presidents military secretary, and complained that Ickes was disrupting morale on the home front by heaping the blame for war production short ages and red tape on the shoul- CTS of dollar-a-year men.
 '1f the Presidents order against government officials quarreling in public doesn't apply to Secre- tary Ickes, then the White House had better establish some new ground rules," Jeffers protested. Watson promised to refer the matter to the President. Appar- ently, he did so. because Jeffers later received phone call from Bernie Baruch, top White House counselor.
 However, what Baruch had to say did little to soothe the rub Der chiefs outraged feelings.
 Bill, you'd better stay out of
 this" Baruch suggested dip
 lOmatically. Its a little out of
 your line. Maybe you'd better let me handle these situations" Jeffers promised to restrain him. self in the future, so far as White House protests are concerned, but he has been doing some loud squawking behind the scenes to friends about Ickes' speech. He says 1t was an attempt to clear the Administrations skirt for 1944 by fixing the blame for production delays on COP dollar-a-year men.
 Copyright, 1943, by United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

The sulfa drugs, it seems, will soon be dwarfed in importance by pencillin, the newest wonder" drug. For some time now the sulfa drugs have been life savers ir respiratory afflictions. Pencillin, we take it. is even more powerful and has been so recognized by physicians and scientists For time there will not be much of it on hand for civilian use since it will be advanced to war areas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

Canadian bor- der.
 It points up the curious fact that while the United States has been tend ing to grow more on s e rv a tive, more reaction ary and farther away from the principles of the New Deal, the wartime tend ency in Canada towards greater Ii b e al 1 s m amounting a l. most to social
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
YOUR HEALTH. by Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If :s 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, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31

ligiouS l1f e o1 Britain. He has w i t t e Il a fine book recently en- titled "The Plight of Man and the Power of God"
 Many opl l e have discovered. as did LlOy d. Jones, t h a t t h C human h e ar t is spiritually out o1 odi,ISt.nent bu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
Current Comment

The longer a soldier broods on his emotional ills, the more deeply impressed the symptoms become. We try to rid him of his fears and illusions at once. Maj. Frederick R. Hanson, Army
 Medical Corps psychiatrist in
 Sicily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-31
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
HE SWITCHED TO THEOLOGY

A young physician by the name Of Martin Lloyd Jones, who was mak- ing considerable progress as heart specialist in England not many years ago, came to the conclusion that there is something fundamen- tally the matter with the human heart which medical science cannot remedy. He therefore switched from medicine to theology, entered a seminary, studied for the ministry, and is now prominent in the re-