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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

meth Mcclellan, Tennessee Demo-
crat, and Clyde M. Reed, Kan.
sas Republican, tangled In q
bare-knuckled argument over how
much money the committee should
spend for experts" to study war
and domestic spending.
Mcclellan said $4,000 was
enough and was all set to put to Q
vote q motion calling for this
amount when Reed demanded q
chance to be heard. The forth
right Kansas newspaper publish
er commended that $4,000 was
only O "flyblte," that at least
$4,000 was needed to do o thor
ough Job Of investigating admin.
istratiOn extravaganza"
you're tackllng something with
q tack-hammer that ought to be
hit with o sIedge- hammer" Reed
argued, waving his finger at the
senator from Tennessee.
When Mcclellan, who was pre-
siding In the absence OF Chairman
Carter Glass, started to reply, the
Gentleman from Kansas cut him
short. With q gesture embrac.
ing all Democrats on the opposite
side Of theetable, Reed exploded:
I'm fed up with the attitude
Of this cOmmltte when IL comes
to protecting the taxpayer
interest. You're all wet"
II won't have you casting re-
Elections on this COMMITTEES"
erupted Mcclellan, who Is almost
as anti-New Deal as Reed, though
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
A Good Start; Keep Il Up

A recent New York Times story from
Chicago says that Chester Bowles, acting
administrator of the OPA said In an in
terview that merchants should be pro-
tected against needless meddling, snoop-
ing, and gestapo methods" That Is good
news to hundreds OF thousands OF mer-
chants who have been doing their level
best to help carry out the complicated
and multitudinous OPA rulings. The
American people do not like shoppers and
prosecutors.
Merchants and consumers alike know
that the OPA must be supported. Any
thing Mr.. Bowles can do to simplify OPA
methods and conduct its operations along
truly American lines Of fair play, will gain
public approval and cooperation
Mr. Bowles would have to spend week
in grocery store to find out what the
local merchant is up against in trying to
comply with OPA regulations 1t is
almost a safe bet that neither Mr. Bowles
nor any Of his official family would at
tempt to read or comply with the blanks
and forms with which the average mer-
chant Is bombarded by the OPA, without
consulting lawyer-and the small mer-
chant has no lawyer
An outstanding food store authority
says AlOLc tAAoA tow PoSCSj "VSAoSHAS "S
least 1000 words each, must be compre-
hended and complied with by food re-
tailers. How many OPA officials, with no
customers clamoring to be waited on, or
ration stamps to sort, could read, much
less comprehend such an overwhelming
array of regulations and red tape? Surely
there is some way to simplify, rather
than complicate OPA practices, in the
interest of the producers, the merchants,
and the consumers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

he still flies the Democratic la
bel. The Tennesseean added o
few colorful after-thoughts which
caused Reed to rush up to the
table demanding an apology. AZ
ter q glazing bout, the two Scra.
tors were finally placated by COLI
leagues.
NOR RUM RUNNING?
The liquor industry Is shaking
O warning finger at Henry Nor
genthau. IF you increase that
on imported alcohol" 1t says,
well have rum running on o scale
we never dreamed Of"
What they fear Is rum running
from Cuba and Mexico. Today
the tariff plus excise tax on ale
cohol from Cuba Is 90 o gallon Of
"I9O proof. Reduced to 100 proof,
the alcohol carries O tax OF $500
O gallon. 50 II you can bring 1t
In without paying the tax, you
have O handsome profit.
From Havana to Miami IL only
an overnight voyage, and o small
sailing schooner can bring In O
o cargo Of alcohol large enough to
make q small fortune In one haul.
Even easier Is the importation
across the Mexican border, more
than O thousand miles long.
Treasury Department proposes
to increase the excise tax still
further, thus increasing the temp
tation to rum running.
Copyright. 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, 1nc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
Universal Training

Once more, in the midst Of war influ..
entail voices are being raised in favor OF
universal compulsory military training
for American boys, so that we shall not
enter another war as unprepared as we
were In 1917 and in 1939-40.
The common sense Of such a course
seems so obvious that we marvel now at
our failure to do something OF the sort
before. AS Arthur Hays Sulzberger, pub
Usher OF the New York Times. said IN
Chattanooga, such training Is the only
way to provide stream Of younger SOL
diers to keep the peace their older broth
ers are beginning now to win. ,
But when peace comes, war weary ana
disguised, will we again sing, II didn't
raise my boy to be a soldier" and again
tolerate scurrilous campaigns against
even voluntary r. o. T. G. training? We
did before, after we said we wouldn't.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

master of English prose.
Someone once asked Socrates to
define the term ian educated man"
The answer he made was, Whom,
then, do call education? First. those
who control circumstances instead
OF being mastered by them: those
who meet all occasions manfully and
act IN accordanc with intelligent
thinking; those who are honorable
In all dealings, who treat good
naturedly persons and things that
are disagreetble: and furthermore.
those who hold their pleasures un-
der control and are not overcome by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
Views Of The Press

farmer pauses as he comes from
the barn. The yellow light Of the
lantern makes q picture as 1t plays
over the stacked tiers.
A real country woodshed Is Q
place Of deep, fundamental salts
faction. It represents honest labor:
the cutting, the trimming and haul
ing; the saving as the whirring
knife edged teeth sang through the
oak, maple, beech and hickory; the
splitting, as the axe flashed down
and hit the exact spot. so chunk
separated along the grain; the
stacking, as the symmetrical tiers
rose toward the woodShed attic
floor.
It's q place Of good smells. A wood
shed that has been used for years
has q tangy, punge1lt aroma. There's
the resinous zip Of the pine limbs
which make o quick kindling on
zero winter mornings when the
road frost Is deep on kitchen win
dows; the notwithstanding acrldness
Of red oak: the zesty tang Of aid
apple wood: the bland smoothness
OF sugar maple and beech; the pc
culiarly pungent odor Of hemlock.
and the clean, exhilarating smell Of
cedar. Penetrating all the smell is
that dry. slightly musty aroma Of
the inches. deep base of splinters,
bits Of bark and debris which Is
the accumulation Of years.
Woodsheds are part Of America,
the same as johnnycake, bucksaws,
pancakes and maple syrup. In 1890,
according to estimate there were
822, 100000 acres Of woodland In
what Is now continental United
States. Today there are 616, 000, 900
acres, Of which 435. 000, 900 are pri-
vately owned. It's somehow satisfy
ing to know there is still an ample
supply for woodsheds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

The Jesse de Forest, you will recall,
launched in Baltimore October 3, was
built In % days. Jesse de Forest was
Belgian who settled in New Amsterdam,
New York City, way way back In the pre-
pre-Radio days. He was a Walloon,
his father a merchant Of progressive
tedencies, and saw to 1t back IN 1928
that $50 Walloons were transported to
America on the, New Netherland. So this
handful OF Walloons with the many that
followed later, formed part OF our east
ern population. The ship, we would say
was appropriately named.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
THE CRIME AT CAJAZZo
Hartford courant)

NAboA bASA0 SS0A'hhO
II the Nazis had not set the pat
tern for senseless destruction Of life
at Lidice, the crime committed by
their retreating forces at Cajazzo In
Italy on October Is would have
been almost unbelievable. Allied au-
thoitties have established that the
Germans shot and killed at least
twenty-seven women, children and
male civilians. including about
twelve boys and girls less than
fourteen years Of age, before they
evacuated the stone farmhouses Of
the town and the neighboring ham,
let OF San Giovanni. This was not
done in drunken frenzy Of de-
feat such as may occur when troops
get out OF hand. According to Cor
respondent John Lardner. his story
authenticated by the officer who
INTERCEPTED German prisoners after
the towns capture, a Nazi lieuten-
ant gave orders for this butchery in
order Ito teach these people not to
give information to the Americans,
Mr.. Lardners' sober substantiated,
factual account Of the CajazEo at
rocities is right from the field,
gaining emphasis by his own res
traint in language. "At no point"
he writes, did the Germans take
pains to hide their traces. It was
an open and frankly cynical per-
Torrance so far as opinion Of the
outside world is concerned"
The Allies and Governments-in-
Exile have for some time been COL
lecting carefully checked reports Of
just such loathsome deeds by the
German military. The total Is al
ready staggering and, when the
whole mass of evidence is sifted. the
crime at Cajazzo may prove to be
among the lesser offenses. Yet the
cold-blooded murder Of even q small
group of women, children and de-
fenseless civilians is something aw-
full to contemplate.
Not in the thousand years Of
German history" Of which Hitler
has so often prated, can q more
typical example of "Teutonic fury"
be found. In it Nazism, superim-
posed on Prussian militarism, has
arrived at its complete expression.
The fate Of Cajazzo's children must
not be forgotten at the peace table.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

misfortune; finally those who are
not spoiled by success"
We moderns, and especially those
Of us who prize Christian faith.
would want to add few items to the
list made by Socrates. We should.
however, all agree that the nub of
his arglTmnt Is sound, namely, that
education. when II Is genuine. pro-
duces q man who has self-control
and who does something in the
world worth doing. II Is not q mat
ter Of degrees and diplomas - i'm
portant as these are but Of in
ward quality Of mind and heart.
AL Rights Reserved
Dabscn Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
wOODsHEDs
(NeW York Timesl

There was q time not so long ago
when 1t was an axiom Of the coun-
tryside that you could Judge a
farmer took pride in his fuel sup
farmer tok pride in his fuel sup
ply. Each winter he ''got up a gen.
erous supply. In the winter or early
spring It was sawed, split and stack
ed IN the woodshed.
These frosty. star-studded nights
when the cold air hangs like q blan-
ket over hills and valleys waiting "a
tuck the earth IN for its long.
streneth-restoEing sleep many :
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

MoSt serious Sup-SurIace lrrlta"
ton was over the Mediterranean
Council, through which Russia,
the United States and Britain
were to confer regarding Italy,
North Africa and the Balkans.
The Russians, snubbed earlier In
the summer regarding preliminary
Italian armistice terms, took the
Mediterranean Council seriously
and appointed as their represen-
tative Andrei Vishinski, the IA
nous prosecutor In the Russian
purge trials. This was the equiv
alent OF sending the most OUT
standing member Of the U. s. SUI
preme court or the leading law
yer Of England.
Vishinski Is O man OF national
stature, capable Of making Medl-
terranean decisions without con-
sulting Moscow. But to represent
the United States on the Mediter-
ranean Council, Secretary Hull
sent Ed Wilson, U. s. Anbassa-
dor to Panama. Wilson Is q
thorough going, competent dip
lomat who can handle any rou-
tine Job and handle 1t well. But
almost no one outside diplomacy
has heard Of him. He has no ma
tional stature and he cannot act
on his own.
Immediately II developed that
Wilson was TO act as o glOrified
messenger and report everything
back 10 Washington. The Bril-
fish representative was 10 do the
same. In other words, Churchill
and Roosevelt were TO make the
decisions, and the much pub
llclzed Mediterranean Council
was to be . mere reporting
agency.
This Immediately reused Russian
wrath. They had welcomed the
Council, appointed O top man. SO
for moment they considered
withdrawing. However, for the
sake Of Allied harmony, they
stayed on and are giving the
Mediterranean Council O trial.
POOR "PA" WATSON
Toughest Job White House Sec
rotary Mai. Gen. Edwin (''Pa")
Watson o! the White House Sec
retariat has to tackle each day
Is keeping the Presidents appoint
ment schedule on time.
Frequently FDR will sit talking
to an old friend for IS or 20 min
utes over the allotted time, and
that snarls the White House
schedule for the rest OF the day.
This Is hard on the Generals
nervous system, especially when
bigwigs from the War or Navy
Departments are waiting to dis
cuss military matters. On such
occasions Watson Is not above
barging In and breaking up the
conference.
The other day when the Presl-
dents old friend, Gov. Bob Kerr
OF Oklahoma, was over-staying
his time - thorugh no fault of
his own - watson walked in
and began to parade nervously
about the room.
"WeII, here's the undertaken,
NkAs GECSAuCASp BAhAAACA AAShAD
catching the hint. 'Tf one Of
your callers gets SO he doesn't
move, Pa will move him."
Roosevelt laughingly motioned
Watson to q chain.
"Sit down and talk to us for
awhile, General" he said. "We're
having q very interesting con-
versatiOn."
With a sigh, Watson took q
chair.
SPENDING FIGHT
The drive to pare federal ex-
penditures has reached crusading
dimensions on Capitol Hill since
the five Senate globe trotters re-
turned from the battle fronts with
some disquieting tales about
lend-lease largesse.
However, when the matter
was discussed behind closed
doors by Senate Appropriations
Committee, there were repercus-
si0ns more like q riot than a
crusade.
Septuagenarian Senators Ken
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

attended any coll
leg have been ed
ucated in tn 6
highest sense Of
term. Neither
washington nor
Lincoln had much
formal education,
yet the first
founded the Re-
public and the
second not only
preserved 1t but
became a great
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

Leonard p Ayers, Cleveland banker
economist says: "There Is every prospect
that manpower shortages will become
seriously more acute by the end OF thus
wear. The number of men employees has
been decreasing more rapidly than the
number of women employees has been IN
creasing."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
Daily, Almanac

Moon rises at 1897 a. m. (war time)
Sun rises at TIL a. m, sets at 600 y. m.
(war time)
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
Mars win be a morning star until Decem-
Der when it comes into opposition with the
sun. It viii be an evening star from Decen-
Der until the end Of the year.-Old Farm
er's Almanac.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
Selected Poem
TECHNICoLOR SHORT SUBJECT

TECHNICOLOR SHORT SUBJECT
MARGARET LLOYD in the Christian Science Monitor
Over still water
The sunset unfolds.
The trimming lake holds
Swirling sky patterns
In puppies and Colds;
Echoes the outline
OF evergreen shore,
The massed reeds reflected
BY separate spear.
A white rowboat floats
Twofold in the weir.
Into full water
The red sun sinks low,
The rock IL the foreground
Suffused with its glow
While blue shadows deepen
Deepen and grow,
The lily pads vanish,
Night lights its first star,
Soon doubled in darkness
stars are all that are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
TJR0Es PUPTLs RETURN

Salem, Ore, (UP)-More than
10000 oregon minors issued labce
permits for non-agricultural woE1
during the summer school vacation
have been urged to return to their
classes by w. e. Kimsey, state COM
missioner Of labor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

ost valiant
battlers against
the Arlny-Navy
renegotiation Of
cont racts to
take excessive
profits out Of
war.
Trea sury's
Bureau Of In
ternal revenue
figures revealed
Hawley received
q salary Of $442,-
600 for the As.
cal year ending
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Navy Fights
Excess War
Profits
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat washington
Correspondent

Appearance Of the name Of John
B. Hawley, Jr., as number i've on
the list Of highest-salaried AImeri-
cans in 1942, uncovers some inter-
esting Washington angles, for Haw-
ley, as president Of the Northern
Pump Co., Of F'ridley, Mimi, near
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
STOUT HEARTS

Over 5000 awards for valor and
merit have gone to men OF the y. s.
Army, Navy, Marine Corps and
Coast Guard since Pearl Harbor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

If you stumble over any odd pieces OF
nine or other articles in door yards To-Day,
don't say - to heck with it Say, to the
scrap-bank with It'll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

diplomatic that
show q reale
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
Your Health
By Dr.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining 70 Per-
sonal health and hygiene, net 20
disease, diagnosis q TREATMENT
will be answered by Dr.. brady ~
stamped sele-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be BRIEF
and written IN ink. No reply can
Do made 70 queries mot conkoExh-
ing 20 instructions. Address On
william Brady, National NewD-
paper Service, $50 Wese Madison
Street. Chicago, Ill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23

When the lights go on again in New
York is just an overture, we hope 70
when the lights 60 on again all over the
world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
WHAT Is EDUCATION?
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D

We speak Of a man as being well
educated, yet seldom do we analyze
the meaning Of this term. Merely
going through college does not edu-
cat a man. Some men who never
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
Washington Merge o-Round DREW q PEARSON

Russio Britain Now Showing Real Effort to Cooperote
Po Watson Has Time Keeping FDRs Schedule Tme
Mcclellan Tonse Over Appropriation to Study Spendns
Liquor Industry Warns Rum Running Excise Tex Is Boosted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-23
PREVENTION AND CORRECTION
OE ROWLEG

Bowleg is the opposite deformlty
10 knock knee, the knee being OUT
ward away from It's fellow, by bend-
ing Of the femur (thigh bone) or
the tibia (shin bone) or both and
In some cases there Is also some
twisting Of the slbia inward which
A.. A.. A. $780,. Aeaa
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27
PUBLIC NOTICES
fPunta Gorda Herald)

Adequate public notice protects peo-
pies interests Yet some people don't realize
what it means to them. They let curtailment
after curtailment be put through the legisla-
ture. Public notices should be expanded, not
limited or further curtaied. Advertising of
delinquent taxes speeds up collections and
holds down delinquencies, and tends to keep
from going higher the taxes of the man who
pays
Publication of school board and CON-
missioners' minutes-receipts and expen-
ditures - would enlist more public inter-
est In those public affairs and would keep
the public better informed-it's adyertis-
ing that's fully worth to the public all it
costs. Lists of occupational licenses, if pub
lished each year before collections close,
would insure fuller collections and help pre-
vent the lodging of them by some people
in some counties. Adequate public notice
is of incalculable value to both the citizens
and the officials of a county.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27

For tie skyscrapers stand on top
Of arches, which strikingly re-
senfDfe artists drawings of future
American cities.
There is no color in any of these
insect structures. The brilliant
Eues all come from the action of
the ridge tops in breaking up light
and rejecting it in rainbows.
The new electron microscope
studies are reported in the Journal
of Applied Physics by Thomas F.
Anderson and A. Glenn Richards.
Jr., of the R.C.A. manufacturing
company. The fact that the rides
cent colors come from ridges has
been Known previously. but not
the structure of the ridges. The
ridge material seems to be some
as yet unidentified protein.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27

industry, despite war needs, %
permit the manufacture Of a spc-
cial wartime garden fertilizer.
Heretofore garden fertilizers
generally were composed OF five
per cent nitrogen; ten per cent
phosphoric acid and five per
cent potash. Victory Garden
fertilizer is three per cent nitro
gen; eight per cent phosphoric
acid and seven per cent potash.
The WPB has made this fer
tilizer available exclusively for
Victory Gardens and il cannot
be used on lawns or flower beds.
The Victory Gardener with q
compost pile this spring IS a
lucky fellow. He can use this.
along with the barnyard fertih-
GERS, to mix with his soil
If additional nitrogen is need
ed, the Victory Fertilizer, from
the seed store, is used along the
garden rows, in a band three
or four inches wide.
A two-inch furrow is scooped
out with a hoe about two inches
from the line of seeds. The fer
tilizer is spread uniformly along
this murrow, mixed with the soil
and covered two inches deep.
1t is applied at the rate of one
pound per "a or Is feet of row.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print It
w-thout fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person. clique.
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue,
commend good done by individual or organ
izatlon; tolerant Of others rights, views and
opinions: print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27
Gardening Guide-6
WAR FERTILIZER FOR
VICTORY GARDENS

AP Features
The Al nitrogenS are off u
the war this spring ana SO the
garden generals VIII have 70 b.
content with substitutes for
their home front "ietory Gar
denS.
Chemical nitrogen is used IN
ammunition. II also IS a princi-
pal ingredient Of commercial
fertilizer.
The War Production Beard,
recognizing the importance Of
Victory Gardens, allotted suffl-
Gent nitrogen to the fertilizer
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27

Here's an interesting question which
arrived in the owl mailbag: George Fra
izer, Jacksonville, colored, want to know
if man have no depenounce and he have
property and have COW and hog and car
and money and he is call in Government
service will the Government be responsible
for his welth until he come Back.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-27
NOTICE no CREpTTons

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
f1933 Probate Act. Secs. 119, 1907
IN THE COURT OF THE COUN-
TY JUDGE. MONROE COUNTY.
FLORIDA. IN PROBATE.
In re: Estate Of
WILLIAM s. COONS.
Deceased.
To All Creditors and Persons Hay-
ing Claims or Demands Against
Said Estate:
You and each of you are hereby
notified and required to present any
claims and demands which you, or
either of You, may have against the
estate of William S. Coons. deceas-
ed. late of the County. Sehenee-
tady. State of New York. to the
County Judge of Monroe County.
Florida. at his office in the court
house of said County, at Key West.
Florida. within eight calendar
months from the time of the first
publication of this notice. Each
claim or demand srall be in writ
ing. and shall state the place of
residence and post office address
of the claimant. and shall be sworn
to by the claimant. his agent. or
his attorney. and any such claim
or demand not so filed shall be
void.
ILEEN WILLIAMS.
AS Ancillary Administrators of
the Estate of William $. Coons,
mar6-13- 2O-27 .1s4s