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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
Enter War Ration Book III

This week consumers are graduated
from Ration Book to Ration Book II.
They will have received thorough edu-
cation in the former and will matricu-
late in the School of Book II with all its
intricacies, point values, what allowed
and what not allowed, what to declare
and what not to declare. 1t all sounds
very confusing. Many are suffering acute
anxiety about this second card, which
adds to coffee and sugar other edibles
and also introduces the subject of shoes.
All sorts of outlines, schedules and in
formation have been offered through the
columns of the daily papers Your wise
move is to clip all the information, study
it; then when you go to be rationed pay
attention to the instructions of the reg
istrar who is having quite time study
ing the thing to pass on to you. These
difficult things eventually get straight
ened out. You may recall how perturbed
you were when you received your first
ration card. You may also remember
how you ignored it for a time; lost it,
mislaid it, and used it for a book mark.
Eventually you learned to respect it. You
bought special case for it.
In the same fashion you will grow to
respect your ration card number two
You will accept it and study it with more
intelligence, for you are at last becoming
ration-conscious. You have learned to
respect the necessity that calls for curtail-
ment of certain foods at certain times.
You have learned rot to argue with the
butcher and the grocer. He's not keeping
the stuff, you have discovered, for himself
IL he says he hasn't got the article of
food, he hasn't. There you have 1t. Take
IL or leave 1t. You will probably take 1t
Your War Ration Book Two.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
Upside Downers

AS everybody knows, the japanese peo-
pie live on the bottom of the earth, and
walk upside down. After countless gen.
erations of this physical topsyturviness,
what could be more natural than that
they should have developed a mental
hindsideforenesS? For example, that they
dry themselves with the towel before
taking their bath, and eat dessert before
the main course. Their books open at
the right instead of at the left. Their
lines run down the page instead of across.
They start in the upper right hand cor
ner instead of at the left. They are
funny race. This background is useful
In considering Major-G General Kendryo
Sato's explanation to the Japanese Diet,
on behalf of the War Office, that the
Nips sacrificed at least 10000 troops on
Guadalcanal, plus scores Of cargo, trans
port and fighting Ships merely as di-
version, to distract American attention
while they conducted strategic adj
vance to new bases"
The 10000 troops figure is an under
statement Perhaps he found that even
H. an upside-down world he could eX-
plain the loss of 10000 men more easily
than hat OF the far greater number who
actually persisted in vain attempt to
take back Henderson Field from Ameri-
man fighting men. General Sato's clari-
fication has gon over so well that soon
we may expect some admiral to explain
how it has been possible for the Japs
to destroy the same American fleet
utterly - so many times, and still be
forced to sacrifice thousands of men and
scores Of ships as decoys to avert unwel-
come attention from our Navy.
Dictatorships are at their best, at prop
uganda, while they are winning Then
the crude truth is sufficient to create
the desired illusion that the dictator
possesses superhuman qualities. 1t is
when the tides turn, and reverses come
that the relationships tie themselves into
Knots of lies, seeking to protect Fuehrers
and Duces and Shoguns from the results
Of their own follieS
In democracies we have no inflated
individuals to protect. We can stand
unpleasant truths because our strength
rests upon the unfaltering will of all the
people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

own convenience first. She carefully
limited the amount Of time and eff
fort she would give to any church
work. and she was loud in her pro-
test If she was ever called upon TO
sacrifice.
Here was a situation in which reli-
gion for one person was the most
important thing In the world and
for the other q mere ornament. For
one 1t was a well of refreshing wa
ter springing up within her heart;
for the other II was something she
hung on the outside Of her life.
Along with culture, influential
friends, good clothes, nicely APP
pointed house. ETC., II went 10 make
up q respectable, Well-balanced life.
The idea Of religion rs something
other than Q pleasant service on Sum
day and occasional contacts with
friendly people never entered the
mind Of the woman for whom reli-
alen was only an ornament.
There Is nothing tho matter with
the church. and there never has been
anything the matter with the church
from the beginning. The trouble lies
with the people who make q 40,
TIE Bible knows nothing MbOut Falls
glen rs m ornament, but 4 knoMe
great deal about religion a. Ne.
Can Rights Reserved .1lahson
MeMapapcf NHnaleNi0l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

through the fine support Of the movie
going public, raised 81 100000 for the
National Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis, representing about 30 per cent Of
the total contributions to the March Of
Dimes 100000 fund.
With the Presidents approval, this
years theater collection was set for Feb
ruary, after the Presidents Birthday
celebration, to avoid conflict with the
motion picture industry's United Nations
Week in January.
Nicholas M. Schenck again heads the
movie committee nationally, as he did
last year. More than 10000 theaters
have enrolled in the drive.
These Embarrassing drives by theaters
have become important parts Of national
campaigns and the noviegoers have
shown themselves most generous con-
tributors. Recent collections in film
theaters have Melted: Greek War Relief,
$777, $3.50; 1912 March of Dimes, ST. ,420-
900; Army and Navy Relief, $2,120,000;
and the United Nations Week, an esti-
mated $2,000,000. . Hats off to Americas
moviegoerS!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

Let It be emphasized that we can
not expect future peace and secur-
ity without enjoying the friendship
Of other nations. We cannot enjoy
such friendships without sharing
with other peoples the responsibility
Of maintaining q world In which
they, too. may possess the blessings
OF peace and security.
Wendell Willkie.
Unless the peace recognizes that
the whole world Is one neighboFhood
and does justice 10 the human race,
the germ Of another world war VIII
remain as . constant threat "a
mankind.
-PFssidsn: Roosevelt
The black markets have got "a
-oPA Director PEsntlHs NJ,
w
Tue great mass OF laborlng peo-
pie want the opportunity 10 save
SONS money, 20 start q small bus
ineas with their hands and brains,
Governor John w, mflckeF VI
@ssAas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
Press Comment
MENTIONED IN PASSING
New Haven journal courier)

(New Haven journal Courier)
Old epigrams used to describe the
power Of subtle influences IN terms
like these: 1T care not who makes
the country's laws II only I can
write its songs" And again: "The
hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world"
The new version would state It
differently. The idea would be that
American movie films do more TO M
fiuence the lives OF people than al
most anything else.
Turkish audiences. we are told'
prefer American made motion pic.
lures to any others. At the formal
opening OF the current picture sea-
son, seven OF The eight flFst-Fun
theaters Of Turkey featured movies
produced In the United States.
The young man OF America VINO
looks over the world heneeforth tor
the best opportunity to make MS
impression on humanity WIZ not el.
ter the clergy, rs once no would.
re win not prepare 70 plead before
the bar, or aspire 10 q chair On .
university faculty.
II he ls energetic and clever, he
viii so 10 Hollywood ana there write,
direct OF act for audiences the world
over. Hls influence VIII be 70 that
Of the learned professions as IN
Army seaFchlisht 70 = niekerlns
candle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

is paying out about $4,000 q day
to help meet the cost of moving
oil to the east coast. This is in
addition to the governments, in
vestment in pipe lines.
The payment Is made to meet
the difference between the cost
Of shipping oil by tanker and the
cost Of shipping 1t by tank car.
In short, 1t Is subsidy to meet
the higher cost of rail Transports
ton.
When the submarines drove us
to overland oil shipment. officials
figured that the difference In cost
would be about 95 cents a barrel.
Should this be added to the cost
Of the gasoline and oil, and be
paid by the consumer
OPA said, No, It's q war cost
and should not be borne by
eastern consumers. Further
more, IL will increase the spiral
Of initiation.
So the Government absOrbs
the difference.
What actually happens Is that
Jesse Jones, through his Defense
Supplies Corporation, pays an
average Of 95 cents q barrel on
all oil shipped from the Gulf
area to the east coast. And since
the daily movement by tank car
is about 75O 600 barrels, the bill
runs up to well over $4,000 q
day.
NOTE: Advocates Of the Flor
ida Canal point to the fact that
II 1t had been completed when be-
gun In the early New Deal days
It would now be possible to ship
all the oil we need by cheap and
safe inland waterways. ..F
RUSSIAN SOCIALISM WAVES
The Russians are doing more
than reversing the direction OF
Nazi military movement. They
are also reversing certain import
ant political and social directions.
Americans in Russia now re-
port the temperance Of shoul-
der insignia on the officers OF
the Red Army - for the first
time since the dark days Of the
Revolution.
In those days, officers who
supported the Bolshevik movement
tore the epaulets from their uni
forms as a mark Of democracy.
Those who failed to do SO We're
regarded as enemies Of the Revo-
luton, and in some extreme cases,
mobs attacked them, drove nails
through the epaulets into their
shoulders.
There is also a change in official
awards or decorations, indicating
that Bolshevik scorn for heroes
of the past is vanishing. Three
of the most coveted decorations
of the Soviet Union today are
the award of "Neveski," who was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
In Today's Mail
NOW WRITER THINKS 1T is
TIME TOWN CLERK SHOULD
FILE REPORT OF INCOMES

Dear Editor Of the Democrat:
There is a bill Oh. B. 1880 now be-
fore the Judiciary Committee Of the
State Legislature that we Of Green
wich Time think deserves the edi-
torial support Of every Connecticut
newspaper publisher.
The bill, introduced by Repre-
sentative Ruth Welles of Coventry.
would require Town Clerks to file
an annual report of their income
from fees, and also to file an annual
report of their expenditures.
Mrs. Welles, Greenwich Time be-
lives, spoke wisely when she said
in introducing the bill: "The fees
collected by a Town Clerk should be
q matter of public record so that
Town financial heads may know
wether 1t is to the advantage OF the
community to continue the Town
Clerk. on a fee or salary basis.
81 don't Sc how q community can
intelligently decide that unless
those who are in charge Of the fl
nances know Just how much the
Town Clerk makes In fees"
The l94l Legislature passed q law
making 1t mandatory that Conn
ecticut's Probate Judges. whose in
comes are derived from fees. file an
annual report Of their income and
expenditures. Results have shown
that move to have been one Of the
most enlightening pieces Of legis-
lation enacted by the lo4l Assembly
Mrs. Welles' bill. we feel, Is In the
same class Of high public service
and deserves newspaper editorial
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

18th Century Prince, and the
awards Of "SurvOrov" and "Ku-
tuzov", who were Czarist generals
at the time Of Napoleon.
Also the st. Georges Cross,
which would have been torn
from the breast Of the wearer
o few years ago, has made Its
temperance at official func-
lions.
The u. s. public has the i'm
preston Of modern Russians as
dressed In coarse, forlnless cloth
ing, but reports from the USSR
today state that Red Army Of
ficers dress with such punctilio as
to make American officers look
shabby by comparison.
CAPITAL CHAFT
General Eisenhower has sent
word to Washington that there
are too many news correspondents
running around North Africa, and
he wants no more, except as re-
placements War Department
figures 1t costs them $4,000 o reel
to make pictures such as "Pre-
Jude to War;" which, being q six
reeler, cost about $4,000 .. i.
Budget Bureau has prepared a
plan for consolidating all PICTURE
making branches Of War Depart-
ment - Signal Corps, Air Corps,
Special Services, and Strategic
Services The U. s. Embassy
In Soviet Russia has exhausted Its
stock Of liquor and hesitates to
ask the Soviet Government for
permit to import more. So
the Embassy is reduced to maxi
ing cocktails out Of vodka, at 81
a bottle The Senate's rs
year old athlete, Theodore Green
Of Rhode Island, eats buttered
muffin and coffee for breakfast
bowl Of soup and q glass OF milk
for lunch.
copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inco
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
Oil-Conscious

It is hard to realize the. vast uses for
Oil at the present time We know the
tremendous output from the oil regions
Of our country. Plenty of oil for all is
what you naturally think. But you find
1t necessary to use the utmost care to
be promised even part of what you feel
Is needed by you. How is it possible, you
wonder, not to have enough of one Of
our most prolific natural resources.-oN.
When you consider the Setup today,
the changes in the general program of
living, what it takes to carry on from day
to day in any branch of the service, for
tanks, for planes, for boats, you suddenly
come to the realization that all this takes
quite a bit Of oil. Recall for
minute the war-less days when private
and commercial automobiles, boats and
boats and airplanes and airplanes
were just for your pleasure and
convenience; when you tanked up with
all the oil you needed for the winter. That
took an awful lot of oil; awful in that
tremendous amount was consumed for
these purposes.
Now consider the change that has come
to this country, to all countries as the
war progresses from month to month and
from year to year. If there was goodly
amount or boats passing ana re-paSSlng
back when, as they say, an enormous
fleet Of airshipS, and the same for auto
mobiles, how about it now with the
thousands and thousands more of every
thing that needs oil operating for war
purposes Perhaps you will not then be
so surprised that you find yourself pulled
up short and denied your customary
allotment of oil. The fact remains, how
ever, that the marketing of oil, as pointed
out by an oil corporation executive,
though this industry "has efficiency in
production, transportation and refining,
:. when it comes to marketing it is still
in the dark ages" A great many cannot
reconcile themselves to the fact that we
have arrived at a point where oil-can
lines are necessary, a common sight in
our cities within the past week. We have
definitely become Unconscious no matter
how you Siphon it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

CHANGING through one of John G. Gil
martins books on pronunciation to re-
fresh our memories on lam-entable and
Iraq, and so on, the thought came to
mind that there's raft of new proper
nouns that have entered the dictionary
of global affairs in the past year or two.
There's plenty of stumbling over Pacific
Ocean and African names that have
entered the picture, not to forget the
personnel of the Army, Navy, Air and
so on. New names and places to name
and place out of Russia. New maps con-
front us with Kuibysbev, DnepropetrovSk,
Voronezh, Bizerte, Gafse and such names,
and we just stutter along thinking TO
ourselves, geography amt what it used
to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

The employee Is Weldon Worth,
who has patented an invention
for warming up airplane engines.
Ordinarily, when an airplane en-.
CINE starts cold and has to warm
itself up, the sudden expansion
Of metal gradually lessons Its life.
The Worth patent Is aimed to
save this wear and tear and to
lengthen the life Of the engine.
Mr.. Worth, being employed at
the Air Forces big procurement
and development center, gave his
invention free to the army.
However, large part Of U.
s. planes are now sent to the
Russians and British as part Of
Iend-lease, and Justice Depart
ment officials say that Worth
has not permitted his patent to
be used on lend-leasc planes
without payment Of a royalty.
When U. s. companies, making
lend-lease planes, seek to use this
invention, they get a letter from
Worth's law firm OF Harris and
Harris, Dayton, Ohio, reminding
them Of the necessity Of making
royalty payments.
Mr.. Worth, when questioned by
the washington Merry Go-Round
regarding this, said 1t had not
been decided as yet whether lend
lease planes were "cOmmerciaP.
He also stated that the royalty
he was asking was livery reason
able, and that 1t seemed nonsense
to bubble over q small royalty
when the cost involved In many
lend-lease planes went well over
100000.
Meanwhile the government
takes the position that since the
patent was given free to the
Army, the Government should not
pay a royalty for Its uiN on lend
lease planes. But the aviation
plants making the planes say that
Harris and Harris have warned
them that a royalty will have to
be paid. Therefore, since the
aviation manufacturers cannot
collect a royalty from the govern
ment, the lend-lease planes going
to Russia and England are simply
not getting the benefit Of the en-
gine-warming invention. And IN
Russia they certainly need 1t.
SUBSCRIBING FUEL OIL
The public is l&gely unaware
of the fact that the government
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
Hats OF TO Moviegoers!

Acting upon 3 direct request from
President Roosevelt, the motion picture
theaters OF America have again united
81 behalf OF the 1913 March Of Dimes
campaign. President Roosevelt, explain
Inc how close 10 his heart Is the crusade
I'M infantlle paralysis, urged Americas
ahnafars 10 participate BY making collec-
1inne from audiences during the week OF
Nsbruary ~ % -.
IN iol2 the molten picture industry,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

In his non-political speech Monday
night at the George Washington dinner
President Roosevelt brought out in his
opening sentence what should be
remembered by all; that is the fact that
we are fighting at the present time to
maintain for ourselves and our children
the freedom which George Washington
helped so greatly to achieve. The
speech was short but filled with food for
thought, reminding us of the values OF
truthfulness, concluding with the i'm
pressive words: 1--WE shall follow that
light as our forefathers did, to the full
fillment of our hopes for victory, for
freedom and for peace" Peace, freedom
and victory - this is the intention Of
fered through the duration by the Cath.
Ollie world in its recent mass promise OF
daily recital of the Holy Rosary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
WARTIME TREATMENT OF
TONSILS


More than ever before 1t Is es-
sential now, in wartime, to save
every possible day Of disability, abb
sence from work or disqualification.
Sound principles Of pathology,
working principles thoroughly
proved in practice, andw not merely
the high mortality rate Of the afro
cious tonstllectomy, have already.
relegated that unwarrantably dat.s
gerous and painful operation TO It's
proper place as a kind of desperate
resort where more rational treat
ment cannot be applied. y
BY more rational treatment 4
mean such measures as pasteuriza-.
ton Of infected areas Of tonsil, dis
infection and drainage of infected
tonsil crypts (witht electro-surgery,
diathermy), electro-coagulation Of
infected tonsils, X-ray treatment Of
simply enlarged tonsils and ade,s
noids in children, x-ray treatmen'
Of pharyngeal tonsil (adenoid body.
when 1t obstructs Eustachiar tube
and causes deafness in the child o.
youth, radon (radiun tube or seedls
treatment Of hypertrophied lover.
grown tonsils, and general hygie,
mic treatment Of the child with
tendency to lymphatisn or excesp
sive growth of lympatic tissue
everywhere - tonsils, ad enoids
around appendix, in lymph nodes Of
glands" In neck, etc.
The methods mentioned are all
ambulatory methods-that is, the
patient Is not required to go to bed,
enter hospital, take general anes'
thetic or be absent from work. Gen
orally the patient never even inisses
q meal during the course Of treat
ment. Obviously they are the meth
DDS Of choice In war time.
II my opinion is worth anything
I'd prefer diathermy extirpation o
tonsils to the Old Spanish Atrocit,
II I had infected tonstls-providet
could be treated by physician
skilled in the difficult technique O.
ectro-coagulation Not every doc
tor or near-doctor who has a dta'
thermy machine" and a lesson OF
two from the salesman Is qualified
to apply the treatment. Attempts
Of some doctors to use 1t without
adequate training or instructor
have brought too much unnecessary
distress, and dissatisfaction to theiI
patients and Ill repute to the
method.
say I'd prefer electromagnetic
ton for my tonsils, because (D !
Is so much safer than the crud'
surgical tonsillectomy; az ones
throat Is so much less sore than 1t
Is for days following the Old Span
ish method; go much less danger
Of lung abscess following electro
coagulation; "a no interruption Of
ones ordinary work or play; 90
the field of operation being clearly
visible and not obscured by blood
and mucous, the operator using the
diathermy method is less likely &c
damage other structures In the
throat; co. in my opinion the gem
eral effects of diathermy extirpa-
ton Of infected tonsils are more
favorable than the effects OF the
guillotine and snare, or dissection
or any modification Of the well
known snatch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

While FBI au-
thorities caution
that this large
percentage o I
false alarm s
should in no way
cause p ] a n t
guards and 9TH
ers to relax
vigilance against
saboteurs, some
Of the cases Of
pseudo sabotage
have their Curl
Gus quirks.
For instance,
there was the
naaa ~ tho ian.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24

to put t h e
church first. Her
deepest anxiety
was for its well
fare, and there
was no sacrifice
she was not will
ing to at any
time undergo If
the cause of re-
ligion could be
furthered. The
other woman al
ways put her
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-24
Selected Poem
IN FEBRUARY

IN FEBMUhAA
Marguerite Janvrin Adems in The New York Sun
February hold my heart in your keeping:
there are restrictions In this month OF snow,
the ice that will not let know
fragility Of BIRTH the new buds sleeping
SO hold my heart, February, In your keeping.
The moores are powdered with the feathery
tracks
OF wing and padded paw;
winters rigid law
forbids the traveller In the higher passes
where brittle grasses
lean against powders In their seFried cracks;
hold my heart, winter, Yet this moment 80
without the urge for breath;
give me such respite dope and very cool
that can resemble death.
Let Il school
me aptly for the cosmie world Of stress.
rs waywaTdness.