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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-01
City Clerk
Voters Must Decide
Record Of Efficiency
Mayor John S. Monaghan Places Principal Campaign
Issue Before Electorate; Refutes G. O. P. Claims

Again affirming his previous stand Mayor John S.
Monagan stated at various Democratic rallies held yester
tration hen ask that you vote for if you satisfied
with the way have conducted your AFFAIRS If not then
-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-01
AVIATION CADET
TESTS WEDNESDAY

Prospective Army aviation cadets
will be given mental tests Wednes-
day at 9 a. IN. at the civil service
room in the post Office building. In
formation on the service will be
given at Victory House on the Green
tomorrow and Wednesday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-01
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Don't ShiverOr ShriveI-
Get yourself organized by getting
yourself under an all weather hail,
rain or shine topeoat at $45.
These November winds are moth
ing to trifle with - they mean
business - ond it's your business
to be comfortable - as we'll look
it..
Shower ond sunshine topeoots Of
soft comfortable eye appealing
fIseees YOU con almost roll up in
ball ond they'll bounce back
info shape Fine dependable
fabrics that look the port - and
oct it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

ing the familiar words Of John 3:16
one occasion, the friend paraphras-
said, God so loved Stanley Jones
that He gave His only begotten Son
that If Stanley Jones will believe in
Him he shall not perish but have
everlasting life."
Did this friend have a right to
inject the name Of an individual
into this sacred sequence of words?
He did. Many years before he had
injected his own name therein.
substituting 1t for world and
whatsoever" and by so doing had
found peace. There Is an old gospel
hvmn which declares that whose
ever means me. That Is exactly what
Il does. II means the outcast. the
broken In spirit. the victim Of
devoliring appetite. But II also means
and this we sometimes forget
the discouraged Christian, the good
person who has begun 70 wonder
whether after all the sacrifices n
behalf 0f goodness are worth while.
n means the Que whose patience u
tired. whose vision Is obacured.
"WhosoeYeF" Is q big word and u
lnelnAeR 4 worldwide circle Of needy
man and women within ~ loylns
possibilities.
All Rlshas Reserved nahson News
papeF Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
AS March Is Draws Near

Those rumblings of renewed interest
in the Ruml income tax plan signify that
March Is next is beginning to disturb
the sleep of our taXpaying citizenry. In
between tax dates most of us can't be
worried about the details of the system.
But. now, with the Victory Tax taking
bites out of every pay envelope and a
huge inStallment due soon on last years
TAX, we're beginning to realize how much
Harder it is to pay for a dead horse than
q live one. The Ruml plan proposes that
we pay most OF our income tax as we
earn 1t. In that way we never would
come up to an annual March Is with a
burdensome debt to Uncle Sam and
nothing with which to pay. The current
system assumes that we taxpayers are
spperhuman enough to save up the
money with which to pay tax whose
very size we cannot know until the saw
ing period has virtually ended.
Suppose Joe Doakes, keeping his New
Years resolution, lays aside 81 a week
FOR the $50 income tax he expects to have
to pay. Seeking to finance the war, next
to up Doakes' tax to SIS. OF what avail
were his good resolutions? Of what
benefit that he kept them? He still hasn't
SfNCC CAAOu6AA w POy OAAO VOn' AAAS ASN~AA@
plan recognizes this difficulty and recog-
nizeS also that human nature Is weak
sa1d that most of us, however good our
Intentions, do not even save up the $50
we thought we would have to pay, let
alone the $75 In so far as we have
dared figure tout, most of us realize that
the tax next March is going to hit us
Hard Whether or not we realize 1t, the
tax year from next March will be much
greater.
n we can't plan on the 1914 payment
We Fouldn't be able even to- guess how
RuCh it VIII be. All we can do is try,
out of what is left after 10 per cent
bond deduction,a per cent Victory tax
Htesa per cent social security tax, sky
1pcketing prices for food and mounting
costs of most other things, to squeeze out
enough for the 1943 income tax While
we do that, we can be forgiven If we
think now and then how much more
tiieasant it would be if we had paid IN
t942 tax week by week as we earned,
and thus were out of debt to Uncle Sam.
The closer March is approaches, the more
we can expect to hear about the RUM
plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
Educating Africa

a The American Army is doing splendid
missionary job in North Africa, teach
ing the moral and ethical and human
differences between human beings and
Axis soldiery and, at the same time, i'm
pressing upon the world the superiority
Of American economic resources Some
$500 Italian children, mostly of prisoners
Sf war, were given Christmas party by
dandy and motion pictures. The Ameri-
Dan invasion fleet took with it much tea,
sugar and cotton cloth. Rice, cigarets,
tobacco, shoes, pencils, razors and medl-
cal supplies have followed; In at;,o nave We
payment for services.
+, This is, of course, the exact opposite
Of the Axis policy of stripping occupied
countries, enslavins and starving the
people. Be sure that full details Of such
attitudes will percolate throughout neu-
trail, occupied and puppet Axis peoples,
to our infinite benefit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
Senatorial Hunnor

The Congressional Record presents this
rolloquy deadpan, in its verbatim record
Of Senate proceedings Immediately fol-
lowing the opening prayer:
II The vice president: SIS there objection
to receiving messages from the President
Of the United States? The chair hears
none, and the messages will be received"
Mr.. Connally d., Texas, since 1929:
'.Mt. President, parliamentary inquiry"
The vice-president: The senator from
Texas will state his. inquiry"
Mr.. Connally: docs the chair hold
that q message from the President of the
United States Is not business?"
The vice. PRESIDENT: "That is correct"
4 Mr. Connally: "It Is not busineSS?"
The yice-president: 1T is. not business"
Whereupon, to save time, the reading
81 the previous days journal was dis
pensed with, by unanimous consent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
Note Of Optimism

There is one man at least who does
not sympathize with the self-pity that Is
so common nowadays. He is Samuel s..
Stratton, new president of Middlebury
College in Vermont. He told the Students
"I do not pity your generation. You are
fortunate to be coming of age in time to
participate in this crusade against evil
and the task of fashioning the better Or
der that must follow"
~ The. now maturing generation is en-
countering tempering experience for
making the best type Of men and women.
They will graduate neither into the en-
ervating sheepskin-to-bond salesman
business of the '2Os nor into the economic
vacuum of the '30s. No, the coming gen
Grafton shouldn't be pitied; it should be
envied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
In Today's Mail
PASSENGER PAYS TRIBUTE TO
BUS OPERATOR--"A MARTYR"
TO SERVICE

January az, 1913.
Editor Of The Democrat:
Before the Ice storm Of Saturday
evening becomes only q memory,
7 would like to tell Of ansincident
which happened. 1t was 6:46 when
the bus marked whites" left Ex-
change Place on Its hilly route. !
was passenger ana the going was
bad. all over the road, until we
reached the old car barns in the
West End, where the driver drove
In to get chains on. Many other
buses were there for the same
reason. The impatient crowd IN the
bus began to humble. "Get going"
ats getting late" Don't let the
other buses get ahead Of you" etc.
All the time, the driver never an
swered, but my heart acheo Ior
him, ne was doing the best he could
which was very. very good IN my
estimation.
On I'D Robbins Street we went, cars
oil trucks, buses, private cars IN
the gutter on both sides and not
even one lane large enough for one
bus to get through. The impatient
crowd began again, I'VE viii never
get home" $50 late" II will get on
and walk" but no one got on.
Such grumblers. In my opinion, that
driver who had all of our lives in
his hands, could very easily have lost
his nerve and then what q calamity
could have happened. He was as i'm
portant as the biggest general in
the war, who Is in command and
I bet those soldiers are not muter-
ing or finding fault, no matter what
the conditions are. So for the re-
mainder Of the winter why not let
us who do not have to go to war
be decent to those who are soldiers,
as drivers and public servants, who
put In long hours so. We. can be
served. They are all human and
deserve only the best help we can
give them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
Political Truce

We hear increasing pleas in the name
of national unity for truce in party
politics during the war. The British
example is cited. The idea is appealing.
However, we must remember that such
a truce has to be based upon willingness
of the more militant party to waive its
activity during the armistice. The Labor
Party in. Great Britain, eager for social
progress, has suspended such operations
until the war is won. The New Deal has
not shown equivalent willingness in this
country. In England the status quo Is
being preserved, in the social field. In
the United States, we are asked to permit
the Roosevelt program to go through
unquestioned as the price of political
peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
Rationing Panic

The official attitude toward rationing
already has done much harm - and
promises to do more. We never expected
to see the day when we should advise
Leon Henderson to get hard-boiled, but
here it is. Every time word has leaked
out that some new item was to be
banned Or rationed buying wave has
aggravated the existing shortage. NOW
we are told that some Is new COM
modities will be rationed within year.
So the more panicky and less thought
fully patriotic step out and buy all they
can afford, of everything that might be
rationed. In rationing, swift, deadly
action, overnight and without advance
warning, is the most effective method.
It works in England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

In "News From Belgium, which comes
from the Belgian Information Center OF
New York City, comment is made on the
resistance to the Nazis of the Church OF
Belgium. While there it has been COM
mon occurrence to arrest Catholic priests,
the Germans do not consider it best to
interfere with Cardinal van Roey, who
is firm in the defense of the Churchs
right, so as the News" says: 'they have
avoided an open breach with the church,
merely acting against individuals they
accuse Of political Catholicism" 1t
seems that recently when the Cardinal
was referred to as stubborn rhinoceros'
he accepted the epithet as the highest
praise that could be paid him. the
Catholic Press, however, in Belgium has
been restricted and is practically non
existent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

areas Of Northern Wisconsin, men
are being moved to the dairying
sections In the southern part Of
the state.
These are the first experimental
steps In program which, by the
first Of March, will be moving
500 men o week. Thus far, F'SA Is
using emergency funds from the
President. They hope to get more
funds from Congress for a per-
manent program. If 1t succeeds
1t may solve the permanent peace
time problem Of the dust bowl.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Walter Lippmann is telling this
one on himself: A Tennessee
newspaper publishing both Lipp-
mann and Walter Winchell mixed
up the captions over the columns
SO that Winchell's stuff carried
Lippmanns name and vice versa.
Lippmann says he got this re-
action: Elbow interesting Lipp-
mann has beCome!" AS an
Army sentry stood guard gravely
at the White House fence, q hgih
wind blew the sentry box over on
him. He scrambled out, looking
for a Nazi saboteur.
Copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

The announcement that there will be
no pleasure driving next summer causes
a bit of CONSERVATION. Last summer the
announcement that there would be no
pleasure driving this winter would have
caused a similar degree OF consterna-
ton. BY the time next summer comes
we will all fall into line and discover the
deprivation is not too difficult and can
be accepted as easily as we have accepted
less sugar, less butter. Most of us are
still fairly comfortable. And if we can't
60 driving places next summer we will
Just have to stay home and plant victory
gardens, or paint the house, or cement
the cellar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
HEADLINES
and
HILARITY

An enterprising theater manager
advertises: 1.-THE new Warner Bros.
sensation, "Casablanca," featuring
Franklin d. Roosevelt and winston
Churchill, supported by a cast OF
great stars. Also the incompatible
comedy team of Giraud and De-
Gaulle in "You Were Never Love-
Her"
The big news Of 1913 was quite
disappointment for those who spent
the day running from store to store
buying up everything from peanuts
to pineapples.
And for those who were looking
for some instructions on how q
get a bus seat.
The only fellow who talked about
his disappointment was Wendell
Willkie. who thought the whole bus
mess looked like q Frank Capra pro.
ductlon-aad would have Just about
as much lasting significance.
It's hard 10 see why the MIN
lister 10 Australia has 10 know
anything about the geography Of
the continent. with all tho food
alsd ammunition we're shipping
over there they'd take Tommy
Manvllle, without even stopping
70 count his ex-Wiyes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Nat Afraid NJ Rnrav Man
HOW mo- ROLL 'EM Az eS

Not Afraid Of Bogey Man
I am seventy and for some years
have taken my "Iodin Ration" reg
ularly. I intend to continue taking
II despite the DOGGY raised by the
erudite DR.. -. (R. II. kO
Answer-In view Of the fact that
YOU get more iodine in helping
Of canned salmon or fresh or canned
lobster than you get in q days
rodin Ration, the cautions these
confused authorities" offer are o
bit gratitous. Everybody, man, wofI1-
an and child, needs little more
iodine than Is likely to be present in
our daily food. On request, II you
provide q stamped envelope bearing
your address, I'll send instructions
for taking an Iodin Ration.
Tuberculosis
We have three children, four o
ten years old. Four years ago 81
ter law died Of tuberculosis. Nov
another sister o. hers has 1t. Do
children inherit o weakness Of ten
dency toward tuberculosis?
(Mrs. @. B. A.
Answer-No. II neither you no
your husband has tuberculosis an
no other relative or intimate frien
who comes into frequent iatimat
contact with the children has 1t, tn
children will be all right. Nc on
inherits tuberculosis. You have
catch It, and usually 1t Is caugn
only through prolonged or frequent
close association with one who has
the disease In an active state.
His Satlhfled Patients
I wrote you over year ago fol-
name OF a doctor who gave ambul-
ant treatment. You sent the name
Of DR.. -. and my friend. aged
So, went to him, was cured, later
brought two Of his friends, and they
also have been cured. DR.. - GER
tainly has a lot Of skill mad patience.
ID. d. F.
Answer-That's the test Of q good
doctor-his satisfied patients bring
their friends to him. The quacks
have to resort to other ways OF
getting new victims, of course.
Pimples and Blackheads
Can you recommend a good blood
purifier for a boy of fifteen VINO
has blackheads and ugly pimpleef
q. B. WI
Answer-There Is no such remedy,
son. Send a stamped envelope bear
ing your address and ask for
pamphlet on Acne (Blackheads and
PimpleS). !
Another OsteOpath
Our severest critics are allopaths
who are ignorant of our qualifica-
lions. I deeply appreciate your fair
treatment of oSteopatfy. Please adj
wise whether massive doses Of vita
min d are indicated in both hyper
trophic and atrophic types Of arth-
ritis. g. d. o.
Answer-There is no particular
type Of arthritis in which such
treatment Is more or less likely 10
bring improvements, so far 90 ]
Copyright 1913. John r. Ollie COD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

saving 4197 manhours year. Another
suggested a power knife to replace a
hand operation, saving 1900 manhours.
A third offered workable method Of in
creasing production on one shell-making
operation by $50 per cent. This, Of course,
is a principal secret Of American produc-
ton genius. Our workmen are not ro-
bots. They are human beings with imag-
nation and assurance that their futures
depend entirely upon what they can and
will contribute to their jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28
YourHealth
By DR.. William Brady

signed letters pertaining = per-
sonal health and hygiene. not g
disease, diagnosis or treatment,
win be answered BY DR.. 7Fady u
A stamped sell. addressed envelope
h enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink. No reply can
be made to queries not CONFORM
lnR 20 instructions. Address Dr.
william Brady, National News
pauer Service, $40 West Madison
Street, Chicago Ill.
HOW TO ROLL EN- AT SS
Having practiced your sorner-
satlts for many years / feel that
I never will quit until I am uil-
able on account Of age. I am only
SO now, and have found the FOL
lowing procedure suits me best:
/ put sofa pillows on the moor
and kneel in front Of them ana
with closed tistS resting on the near
edge Of first pillow, knees drawn
well against stomach, feet close TO
fists, I round my back, put my head
down between my fists, put the main
weight Of my body on the fists,
little weight on the head, ! keep
tightly rolled up and over I go,
like q barrel, without noise, jar
or bounce, and do several rolls, al
ways coming up on my feet and
slniling-because I feel like 1t.
After these rolls ! do feel elias
tic and young, and hope to re-
port to you again fifteen or twen-
ty years hence. %. A. CD
I believe you have something
there, sir. Put the fists on the
floor instead Of the palms. -
II any old stick-in-the-mud im-
AGNES we are Joking about turning
somersaults that's why he Is q
stick in the mud. II we sornersault-
ers do any joking 1t is about the
whining sourpusses VINO 90 noV
dare to unbend like that.
instructions for rolling them, Il
Illustrated, will be sent II you provide
a stamped envelope bearing your
address; ask for Invitation TO the
Somersaultauqua."
Remember, now, I merely sug-
gest rolling somersaults daily. You
roll 'em at your own peril. ! CAM
not be responsible II you break your
neck or knock the plaster on the
ceiling Of the room below.
How much they have done for
the correspondent is evident in a
postscript he adds: I still hope to
try jumping over the hedge with
you some Of these days.
>Ah, but @. A. q. doesn't realize
what he would be up against. ]
planted q hedge q few years ago.
and made q regular routine Of
Jumping 1t three or four times Q
day. The hedge is now about
twelve feet high and 1t Is really
quite jump to clear, especially al
you never know whether your
neighbor Is taking a sunbath on the
other side.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

J, including new legislation.
up Of a lot Of your union men,
and farmers, and men from all
walks Of life.
cts General SOmervelIs Job
to give them the best shoes,
the best guns, the best food, am
nnunition, everything he can get
and on schedule. That's why
sometimes he gets impatient and
may not always appear to UNI
derstahd labor"
MRS. CINDERELLA" WALLACE
The Vice President and Mrs.
Wallace turned up on foot the
other night for dinner at the
Swiss Legation, where Wallace's
sister is the wife Of Swiss Min
lister Bruggmann. ..,. e.
When Mrs. Wallace entered
the door, guests were taken
abaCk at her appearance. She
looked almost as II she were 60
ing marketing. She wore thick
walking shoes; also o hat, and
ladies don't wear hats when they
60 out to official dinners In
Washington. She also wore o
heavy OvercOat. t-.. IF
But, Mrs. wallace stepped into
the dressing room and came out a
moment later q radiant Cinder-
ella. She had Saxen off her hat
and arranged her hair. She had
changed her brogues for evening
slippers, which she had brought
under her arm. She had arranged
her long evening gown, which had
been held up with a string under
her coat so 1t would not drag on
the streets.
II was q complete and quick
Transformation. Then after the
dinner, Mrs. Wallace put on her
old shoes, hat and slipped away
just as quietly as Cinderella.
HUSH! HUSH! MIR. NICHOLS!
Only rarely in recent history has
the entire House Of Representa-
tives staged secret closed-door
SESSION. 20 wnen one was t1e!u
last week 10 near tne report o!
Representative Jack Nichols
special committee on air safety,
Capitoi Aiii nuzzed WIN rumors
'i'"' D's 1''les weie "4oo''
Actually, however, tne genia!
Mr. NICHOLS was merely settlng tne
stage 70 ask the House 70 estap.
lisn new Commlttee on CivlI
Aeronautlcs WIN nimselI as
chairman OF course. Inc super
con1loentlal settlng IN Wnlcn ne
submitted MS report was cal
culated to impress his colleagues
witn ms investigation OF airplane
accidents.
Actually Jack has been doing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

and spiritual
restoration.
In that hour
Of great need,
he encountered
a fine Christian
friend who not
only stood be-
side him but
best of all knelt
beside him. AS
Jones and his
frien d knelt
down to Dray or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

Thirty American workmen who could
ave tended their machines without be-
tirriny their brains have produced labor
iavlng suggestions which VIII save ll2,-
800 manhours year for war production.
Cue man had an Idea that made 70 pos
sible 10 reduce two operations 70 one,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

There were lots of sailors in New York
town this week. We mean sailors ladies
wear on their heads. You see the Hat
Show took place, the great collection OF
odd shapes and sizes known as the
"Spring Song" collection. Both the past
and present were suggested in the type
of models shown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

an estimated 495,.
900 men and wo-
men in uniform
are only a part
Of the story Of
how the colleges
and universities
Of the country
are going to be
geared into the
war effort. The
special training
programs Of pre-
lininary, basi c
education of Of
hcer and pilot
candidates, tech
11inians WAVES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-28

AnyClme anything comes up
affecting labor" Patterson said,
don't hesitate to call me direct.
I want to work out plan
whereby both the A. F. Of L.
and CLIO will be consulted about
anything affecting labor, es-
pecially where new legislation
Is concerned"
Patterson went on to say that
he was opposed to any action In
Congress curbing- the present
righCs Of labor. He also took
occasion to put in some vigorous
opposition against the Tolan-
Pepper-Kilgore Bill which would
transfer to one overall civilian
agency many Of the procurement
and production duties now per-
formed by the Army and Navy.
These production duties are now
the subject Of considerable debate
and pickering between the Army
and WPB. .
After listening to Undersecre-
tary Patterson's forcefully ex-
pressed reasons, Bill Green, in
fluenced by them, began to waver.
Whereupon Phil Murray inter-
rupted.
"LOok here, BILL" he said. II
was present when you testified
before the Committee. heard
what you said. The A. F. Of L.
IL definiteIv on record for the
ToIan bill"
I.lat ended that.
CONTROVERSIAL
GEN. SOMERVELL
Both labor leaders expressed sat
isfaction with the conference, but
during one point in the CONVERSE
ton, Murray said:
"But, Bob, there's one man In
your organization whose labor
policies we don't like. That's
General SOmervell."
"Well, Phil" replied Patterson,
IT realize that General Somer-
veil sometimes does give the
wrong impression where labor Is
concerned. But then you have to
look at his side Of 1t. Remein-
Der that he has the problem Of
supplying 100000 men. Two
years ago, 80 per cent Of the Of
ficers In the Army were civilians.
And of the men, SO per cent We're
civilians. That Army Is made