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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
A Thought for Today
Commonwealth Elections

Two members of the British family are
holding general elections this summer.
South Africa already has voted, and tab
ulation awaits return of soldier votes
cast abroad Australia probably will vote
next month. The two polls are entirely
different in their world significance.
One is, in sense, almost routine, as
though we here in the United States were
to choose between President Roosevelt and
some Republican opponent as ardently be-
hind the war as he, but critical of his
administrative methods. That is in Aus
tralia, where Premier Curtin seeks a clear
cut majority for his labor party The Oppo-
sition took Australia into the war origin
ally, so there is no possible question that,
whoever wins, the land down under will
go on fighting with all the vigor at her
command.
In South Africa the ballots now sealed
away, awaiting count, may decide whether
the United Nations are to lose small but
respected ally against the Axis. General
Jan Christian SHUTS, the Boer leader, is
prime minister. He is ardently belligerent
against the Axis The Nazs we're so anx-
ious for the success of his opposition that
for weeks during the campaign a Ger
man radio station beamed propaganda
against General SHUTS at the South Afri-
can voters
In all probability, reliable observers
believe, the sometimes intelligent Nazi
propagandists threw political boomer
ang. Their interference with the South
African poll provided the government
with some of its most effective argu-
ments, and won from newspapers an
amount of space that the election might
never have obtained otherwise.
The Nazi interference made the issue
clearcut If Central SHUTS loses
strength, even though he wins the cleo
ton, Goebbels will be able to claim that
South Africa is tired of the war, that the
ties binding together the British COM
monwealth are weakening, and to use this
in argument directed to other belligerents
and to neutrals.
If, on the other hand, the prime min
lister gains in strength, the fact that the
Nazis made the issue so clearcut will
make them look even more ridiculous as
propagandists - and less impressive as
"supermen' than they do right now.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
Tax Dodgers

Away out in a western state pri-
vately-owned electric power company
serves a sparsely settled area covering
hundreds of miles of territory It's lines
cross high mountains, burning deserts
and turbulent rivers.
It is typical of companies that pio-
neered electrical developments in every
part of this nation. 1t was financed with
the savings of men and women who took
a chance of making a return on their
money by building empires where none
had existed before. Today, Federal power
projects, with their government subsi-
dies and tax exemptions, are doing their
utmost to invade the territories served
by such private companies.
Political management has not proved
itself to be an acceptable substitute for
free enterprise or private management.
Government projects do not pay Federal
taxes The amount of state and local
taxes paid by Federal projects is not de-
terminable. Immunity from taxation,
such as they enjoy, is inexcusable special
privilege actually rate rebates. 1t in eff
feet subsidies those served by publicly
owned institutions at the expense OF other
taxpayers No hope is offered that should
public ownership replace private owner
ship, higher taxes would not be levied to
compensate for those now being paid by
private management.
Such facts as these should be repeated
over and over so the people will under
stand the issue, and realize that they pay
the bill through higher taxes whenever
they decide to kick out private enterprise
in favor of socialized, aforementioned
industry.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
Real Cost of Living

statistical measurements of the cost of
living are out of date before they are
completed. 1t takes time to gather the
basic information, to transmit it to Wash
lngton, to 60 through the lengthy and
somewhat involved computations by
which huge masses of figures are reduced,
eventually, to simple statement that it
cost 26.9 per cent more to live on May Is,
1943, than it did on August Is, 1889.
However, at present the trend is ever
upward. When Labor Department figures
as of May Is arrive on July IS, we can
be certain of one thing: The cost of living
is higher now than when the figures were
gathered by government shoppers in
1000 stores in Sc cities from Savannah
to Seattle.
Therefore all such statistics must be
taken with understanding of their falli-
bility The cost of living today exceeds
that for August Is, 1889, by more than
1853 per cent - statistically. Actually, as
it affects your pocketbook and ours, the
cost of living today is even more exces-
sive than government figures show. And
nobody, however great his resources, can
determine how much greater.
The reason is this. In determining cost
of living the government or any other
agency assumes that the average family
buys so many pounds of bread of pot
roast, of prime rib roast; SO many quarts
OF milk; such and such items of clothing,
etc. "Weighting" thus the comparative
prices ascertained by shoppers, it is de-
termined that it would have cost so much
to buy these items on August Is, 1889, so
much more on April Is, 1913, and there
fore that the weighted cost of living has
risen by 1853 per cent.
But we live now in an economy of great
and growing and shifting scarcities. We
do not buy now what we bought in 1889.
Mother goes to the store resolved to econ
omize by getting pot roast, and the
butcher is sorry but he has no pot roasts.
How about some bottom round? That's
all gone She winds up with a prime rib
roast that she never would have thought
of buying in 1889, or more probably, to-
day, with a loin roast of pork that takes
every penny she had.
If the butcher had been able to sell her
pot roast, the cost of living for that meal
might have risen only SO or go per cent.
But because she has to buy much more
expensive cut, also away above the 1889
price, Sunday dinner in this workers
home may cost 100, 1925 or $50 per cent
more than it would have in 1899.
Statistical measurements do not take
account of this episode, repeated half
dozen times day in almost every family.
The actual cost of living has risen inf
nitely more than the theoretical statis-
tical increase that was measured, at last
word from Washington as 26.9 cents on
the dollar.
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have - provided they can buy
spare parts.
But these spare parts, accord
ing to information reported to
the White House, have been made
purposely scarce. Big farm i'm
plement people are accused by
White House advisers of keeping
repair parts off the market in
order to force the War PRODUCE
ton Board to relent on it's order
against the wholesale manufac-
ture of implements.
If this is correct, the strategy
has been successful. For the
WPB ban has now been lifted.
NOTE White House advisers
also have reported that most
farmers are working heart and
soul for the war and are not
hasically 'anti-Roosevelt. How
ever, the President was told that
they are being aroused by the
big farm lobbies and by agents
of farm machinery companies.
{. WI OSOOLlN1-OO- hOOND
Mussolini and his son-in-law
Count Ciano are reported to have
about $15000,000 cached in neu-
trail Argentina Ciano and
daughter Edda are solely en-
sconced inside Vatican City where
Ciano is ambassador and enjoys
diplomatic immunity. There is
no way he can be extracted I'M
less the Pope chooses to eXpel
him. 1t is a safe bet Ciano will
not risk coming out on his own
for long, long time While
the Italian nation was strictly
rationed, Count and Countess
Ciano added to their popularity
in Rome by throwing elaborate
parties. Caviar, lobster and cham
payne featured the menu
When Augusta Rosso, former
Italian Ambassador in Washing
ton, was transferred from Russia
to be Italian Ambassador to Tur-
key, the Nazis stopped his APP
pointment. They said he was
too pro- american. Rosso has
an American wife, the former
Mrs. Francis Bunker of Denver.
Copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc0
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
SUGGESTIONS FOR OPA
New London Day.


One can but hope that Geraldine
Farrar, retired opera singer, doesn't
expect too much result from her
suggestions to Chester Bowles, new
general manager of the Washington
Offices of OPA. Miss Farrar is head
of the consumer committee of the
price panel of the Ridgef1eld war
price and rationing board. Under
the authority of a little blue card"
issued to her by Bowles, in his
former capacity as head of the OPA
in Connecticut, she has talked to
merchants and consumers in her
community, she says, and arrived
at number of important conclu-
sions. She urges fewer forms for
merchants to fill out, less printed
matter, rephraing of bulletin
phraseology" to make understand
able English, a change of attitude
toward the merchant to give him
the benefit of the doubt that he is
primarily honest, less prying into
his affairs, and the ousting of the
POI dSl dpll dlSIdtOlS dllu UllCll
Bourbonesque indifference to the
attitude of the general public, who
now begin to rhurmur more than
loudly in their resentment and sus-
picion."
Whit Miss Farrar has discovered
is simply bureaucracy at work.
There isn't any question about it
bureaucratic administration, and
even the most minute detail is al
most invariably incredibly stuffy in
this country, and sometimes far
worse than ordinary. The workings
of OPA are no exception; If any
thing, perhaps, OPA has been en-
tangled in more red tape than the
ordinary bureau, and 1t is expect
ing a lot to hope that Chester
Bowles will be able to untangle it
An instance is to be found on gas
oline rationing. In many ration
boards the applicant for supple
mental gas rations is required to fill
out a new form every time his ra-
ton runs out. 1t is the same form
he has filled out repeatedly. each
time his ration has had to be re-
newed. Other boards, on the con-
trary, use the original application
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
Ickes Capitulates to Ickes

Petroleum Administrator Harold L.
Ickes has won soul-trying victory over
Secretary Harold L. Ickes of the Depart
nlent of Interior. AS Publicist Harold l..
1ckes well says, commenting upon the
situation, "it is news of the same type as
man bites dog"
Responding periodically to the request
OF Petroleum Administrator Ickes, Secre-
tary Ickes is asking the public to stay
away from the national parks to save
gasoline and tires And Publicist Ickes
points out that Solid Fuels Administrator
Harold l.. Ickes also concurs, because
rain travel would use up coal.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
Selected Poem
BENITO MUSSOLINI

BENITO MUSSOLINI
Geonard Bacon in the New York Herald-Tribune)
July Is, 1913.
He topples without dignity. Do not sheer
AS his story ends, although he liked to scott,
The little man now full or giant fear
Who, seeing Fate approaching, shuf1les of
Into his tiny but nveterate hell
Where every stroke of statecraft or intrigue
Repeats itself like ague. He sees too well
Halle Selassie howled down in the League,
Matteottis corpse, and old priests kicked and
whipped
De Bosis falling, vamped-up mobs that screamed
For Nice and Tunis, France, Spain, stabbed and
stripped
Reality's not what realists have dreamed.
Forgive us our trespasses sad man moves
Through the trap of his own mind In treacherous
light
Up and down thoughts impedicable grooves
Matteotti! De Bosisl THY sleep well tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
Views Of The Press

filed out by the applicant, unless
changes in the drivers situation
have appeared.
One ration board official, COM
menting on this repeated filling out
of the same form, freely admitted
recently that the purpose appar-
emily is to trap the applicant into
some discrepancy other words,
his new application is compared
with his earlier ones to see whe-
ther he has forgotten what he or
iginally claimed as his necessary
mileage, etc. But there are many
other instances of forms and more
formes to he filled out. The web of
OPA grows more and more COM
plicated, with loose-leaf books of
regulations, memoranda, rulings,
ETC., piling up in community ra-
ton Offices until a cross-index of
the regulations is needed to find
what ration official is looking for.
In a few more years of this the
average ration Office will need the
equivalent of a law library, with
clerks to search for precedent"
and regulations applying to each
particular case.
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Current Comment

That means I'll have to spend
the whole two weeks with my
mother in-law, so I think I'll just
stay at home.
New York physician, refusing
extra gasoline for vacation trip.
I believe that through mems sac
rifices peace shall come and may
come. But know that by the sword
alone it will not come and cannot
come.
Archbishop Francis j. Spellinan.
This is the best thing that has
happened to me in year.
German prisoner in Sicily
No satisfactory all-synthetic truck
tires have been built as yet by any,
one.
j. P. Sieberling, rubber manu-
facturer.
Unless everybody is willing to
forego temporary gains, this gov
eminent is going the way other re-
public have.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler Of
Montana.
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have reported to Roosevelt's per-
sonal physician, Admiral Ross
Mcintyre, that there was one
thing entirely beyond their pow
er which turned the tide in the
recent illness of Senator Hiram
johnson of California.
Senator Johnson, stricken with
pneumonia last winter at the age
of IT, was not expected to live.
Newspaper reports speculate that
in case of HIS death, Republican
Gov Warren of California would
appoint Herbert Hoover to john
sons seat.
After about the second day of
Johnson's illness he was in an
oxygen tent. His condition not
good when Mrs. Johnson came
to see him. Opening the door
of the oxygen tent, she told her
husband:
Hiram, there is one thing I
think 1 ought to tell you. The
newspapers are saying that in
case anything happens to you,
Herbert Hoover will take your
place in the Senate"
The explosion from inside the
oxygen tent was terrific.
Get this - thing off of
mel" fumed the senator from
California. There nothing
wrong with me. I'm feeling bet
ter already"
Naval doctors say that from
that point Senator johnson be-
gan to improve rapidly.
FARM TOOLS
President Roosevelt has on his
desk, a report which may mean
plenty of trouble for the big farm
machinery companies.
The report states that in the
Middle West, some of the farm
implement companies not only
have been spreading poison against
him, but also have been with
holding machinery parts in order
to force the government into re-
Stunning the manufacture of i'm
PIGMENTS.
The problem with most farm
ers is to repair their machinery.
While they would like to be
able to buy new equipment,
they are patriotic enough to
scrape along with what they
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
This has been said before, but will stand

This has been said before, but will stand
repeating. Unless the public co-operates,
it may become necessary to ration travel
ing, which would be just about as diff
ficult and obnoxious proceeding as one
could we'll imagine. The railroads have
done and are doing fine job. But they
have their limits, and those limits were
pushed around badly on the Independ-
ence Day weekend. Military travel must
come first. Civilian travel in connection
with war work should come next. There
is little space left for non-essential travel
ing. What is non-essential? The Louis
vile and Northern Railroad suggests that
it includes visiting friends in other cities;
going home for Week-ends; sightseeing;
attending conventions, sporting events
any trips made merely for social and
pleasure purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

President Roosevelt and Congress dis
agreed over crop insurance. The Presi-
dent asked for funds to continue Federal
crop insurance and Congress refused to
appropriate. The President put up a
strong argument in favor of giving the
plan fair trial over period of years.
In this particular case the law makers
reached the decision that some private
insurance companies might consider this
as a legitimate field for insurance. The
trouble is that the New Deal has had too
many schemes and the taxpayers have
been crying out protests against exit ava
gance
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

has ever witnessed? Thousands of
years from now the years 1889
through 1943, and perhaps beyond.
will be discussed by historians, and
every circumstance now being re-
lated to us through the press and
over the air will be subjected to the
most careful scrutiny by learned
scholars.
And in the midst of it all there
will probably stand out this great
fact-that the misery of this pres
ent age stems from the widespread
violation of certain moral princi-
Piles which constitute the founda-
ton of all sound religion.
Nothing would stabilize the world
and give us hope for the future so
much as a great spiritual awaken
ing. And if we have this awaken
ing, 1t must be accomplished by ar
eager sense of unity on the part OF
all those who put their trust in God
and His moral order.
All Rights Reserved-BabSon
Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

The House Ways and Means Committee
dug down deep into income tax exemp-
tions of married couples and single per-
sons without dependents. They now pay
more taxes. Heavy taxpayers also pay
more. Figure it out the old way: Taxes
have been raised for everybody - rich
nan, poorman, beggarman, thief, doctor,
lawyer, editor chief-and for you - and
me-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Burning Sulfur


Is burning sulfur for a cold of any
help or is it injurious to a person?
%. h
AnsWer-It would be extremely
irritating, injurious to any one who
happens to inhale the fumes (sulfur
dioXide) and can be of no remedial
value for any infectious condition.
Testimonial
Our nine year old boy is now
free of his allergy, thanks to vita
min Awe gave him one $4,000 unit
capsule daily for two months.
MRS. B. r.
Answer do rot know whether
vitamin A has any remedial or pre-
ventive value against allergy 1t can
do no harm, however. Send
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress for pamphlet Relief for AL
lergy."
Two year old child will not drink
milk. Physicians say skip it, but
what other foods will give her the
calcium a child needs?
(Mrs. L. RI
Answer-Cotage cheese, dried milk
powder, egg yolk. peas, carrots.
custards and other things contain
ing milk.
Copyright, 1913, John F. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

In the first week of this year the Re-
publcans gave notice through their
leader Martin that Congress had started
to mature it's "declaration of independ-
ence" and Democratic leaders defied the
new freshmen. Honors are about even
up to date.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

thereof together
in unity and mu-
tual love. This,
declares the Arch
bishop, He ap-
pc airs to have
been doing "as
though in prepa-
ration for such a
time as this. This
unity is the great
new fact of our
time - the one
great ground of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

Archbishop Spellman was sec
rotary to the Pope when, as Car
dinal Pacelli, the Pope was Vati-
can secretary of state, and he
remains one of Plus kits most
trusted confidants. All during
the war and until the New York
archbishop left the United States,
the two conferred regularly by
transatlantic phone at p.
m on Wednesday.
Those phone calls, never before
publicized, are one of the anoma-
lies of the war. Though this
meant telephone hookup of two
enemy countries, connections were
made promptly and the conversa-
lions never censorode or garbled
at least from our side.
When the history of this war is
written, it may show that the
transatlantic calls between the
Pope and his closest adviser in
the United States played an i'm
portant part in paving the way for
rapprochement between the
Vatican and Russia. Plus XII
dropped many tell-tale hints in
these talks about discord in Italy,
which were relayed to the Presi-
dent.
POPE AGAINST DICTATORS
Speaking from an enemy coun-
try, the Pope could not OF course
unburden himself of his inner
most feelings toward the Axis, but
Archbishop Spellman told friends
that he manifested his contempt
for Hitler and Mussolini in subtle
ways. He was extremely de-
pressed about the state of affairs
in Europe and once confessed to
his former secretary:
"Tm very lonesome and wor-
ried. 1 wish you could come
over and visit me because
need your advice very much"
1t was shortly after this that
Archbishop Spellman left to visit
the Pope and to take up his new
duties as 7 military vicar" of Cath
olic chaplains of foreign war
fronts. In the light of the fore
going background, his itinerary
is interesting. After flying to
Lisbon and thence to Madrid, a
Spanish plane carried him to Mi
Ian, Italy, from where he was
driven to the Vatican with an
escort of Italian soldiers.
In several of his trans-At-
lantic talks with Archbishop
Spellman, Plus XII mentioned
Russia and expressed hope that
some way could be found to
bring about a religious accord
which would endure in post
war years. The Pope made it
clear that he looked to Presi-
dent Roosevelt to blaze the
trail.
When this was made known to
Roosevelt shortly before Arch
bishop Spellman's departure, the
President pledged his whole
hearted assistance. He urged
the church leader to act as his
personal intermediary with the
VATICAN ana make 1ull report
to him on his return to United
States.
Present plans call for direct
negotiations by the U. S. am
bassador in Moscow, with the
possibility that the Pope may
send a personal envoy to talk
things over with Premier Stain.
NOTE: 1t was natural for the
Pope to turn to President Roose-
welt to aid in effecting a con-
cordat with Russia, for Plus XII
stayed with the Rooscvelts at
Hyde Park during his last visit
in the United States as Papal Sec
rotary of state.
HIRAM JOHNSON RECEIVERS
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W h lite matched,
53-year-old. FIVE
f o o t. t e n, 190-
pounds bachelor,
utilities president
and political fxer
who has just been
made director of
the governments
new DEW, or Of
flee of Economic
Warfare.
c r o ley has
been In Canada,
but never over
seas. Yet today,
the organizations
dealing in fnreiop
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hope for coming days.
Do we stop often enough to pom
der the fact that the days through
which we are passing are among
the most important that humanity
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30

Americas record snow mantle,
over 70 feet deep, was measured
in 1906 at Tamarack, Calf, and
60 inches fell one day at Giant
Forest, Calf.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-30
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Grocery Boy
Crowley Of
The DEW
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

A Milton Junction, Wis, ex-gro-
Gerry boy who has never been abroad
has emerged today as one of the
most powerful figures in the world
to control U. S. international big
business. He is Leo T. Crowley,
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Roosevelt Aids Vatican Hope for Roppochement With Russia
Spemon From New York. Talked With Pope by Phone Every Week.
Hiram Johnson Sick Cured by Thought of Hoover
BY
DREW PEARSON


archbishop Francis pmn New York the Presidents closest link with the
His Holiness