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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

In considering proposals that would
result in total government domination OF
medical care, one important point should
always be borne in mind. This country
already has the best medical system in
the world. In no sense would we be
turning from nothing to something by
establishing socialized medicine. re-
port on compulsory health insurance by
Northwestern University has this to say
of American doctors: "The lengthening
span of human life, the startling reduc-
ton in infant and maternity mortality,
the wiping out of plaques and pestilences,
the revolutionary applications of medical
and surgical science-all attest to the
effectiveness with which our present med
ical system is working" Far from auto
matically guaranteeing health improve
ment, socialized medicine would have
exactly the opposite effect if the records
of countries having it can be taken as
criterion. This, together with the poll
tcal implications involved, should be
sufficient to discourage it's advocacy IN
the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Gasoline Shortage

When there is a particularly serious
shortage of gasoline on the Home Front,
here are some thoughts:
heavy bombers burns 200 gallons Of
gasoline, flying $50 miles in an hour. A
medium tank goes only two miles on
gallon, so that the tanks in mechan-
lied division use more than 10000 gal
ions to move slightly more than 100 miles.
Although jeep will go around 16 miles
on a gallon, the average army vehicle
from tank to jeep and including every
thing between - requires a gallon for
every six or seven miles. A destroyer
would need 214,0OO gallons of fuel oil for
a straight line trip from New York to
Casablanca - only they can't 60 straight
All this must be transported from wells
to the east coast and then to the war
front, using facilities which otherwise
would handle gasoline for the Sunday
drivers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Current Comment

jefferson knew how to set the
interests Of freedom and progress
above the egotistical interests OF
separate groups of society. This
principle of a great democrat is of
paramount significance in our day.
Soviet newspaper Izvestia.
If there are rats in the cellars
Of business, you Qegislators) have
helped by laws to clean them out.
But there are rats in the Easements
of labor too. And public sentiment
will defeat some of the prograss la
Dor has made unless labor watches
its step.
Cleveland business man to Ohio
legislature.
There is no fundamental reason
in the field Of economics why our
immense war production cannot
be made permanent.
Attorney General Francis
Biddle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

The old Porter Street school goes out
of existence as school building from now
on. Intact, the process of razing is prac-
tcally completed Built in 1883 and out
of use since 1886 it stood on prominent
Brooklyn waterbury, corner for a half
century. Many of our well known local
people attended school there. For several
years now it was thought to put it to
some good use, but for the most part it
stood there, just an old landmark that
brought pleasant memories to many who
passed by. For sentimental reasons
some people dislike to see such buildings
come down, but once they have outllved
their usefulness demolition is the best
thing. The use of the property for recre-
ational purposes will be a good thing,
and many passing by will no doubt recall
in future days an earlier period when
they hustled along into the yard at the
sound of the school bell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
No Foolin' Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin made a speech before the
Constitutional Convention in Philadel-
phia in 1877. He warned the builders of
the Republic against the dangers of
bureaucracy, saying: There is scarce a
king in a hundred who would not if he
could, follow the example of Pharaoh
get first all the peoples money, then all
their lards, and then MAKE them and
their children servants forever"
Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming in a
recent address said: 1--WE do not want the
government to run the whole show. The
natural and inevitable result of concen-
trated power is the limitation of growth.
We must realize that though the govern
nent may create debt, only the people
can pay it. Production by the people is
the only dependable source of govern
ment revenue. The supreme task of the
democracy, therefore, is to enable the
people to produce. The only alternative
is some form of national socialism"
When the king" (the government) re-
ferred to by Ben Franklin, goes into bust
ness in competition with private citizens,
the seeds of national socialism have been
planted. That has already happened in
our country. 1t remains to be seen to
what extent the people will cultivate this
alien crop. If they permit it to flourish,
it will swallow their money, their lands,
and leave them and their children its
servants.
This nation resulted from individual
ambition and enterprise developing the
natural resources of the country-With
government the servant, not the master
of the people. Remember Ben Franklin's
words whenever some one talks about the
government going into business in COM
petition with private citizens to furnish
service Eat cost" When it does that, the
people go out of business, national social
ism is established, and we all work for
the government instead Of ourselves 1t
becomes the master instead of the serv-
ant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

full term as governor of Vir-
GINA, and says he has no sena-
torial ambitions. But a lot of
people think otherwise.
LEARNING JAP LANGUAGE
Officer Candidate Schools have
a deputation for being tough, but
the Naval Intelligence japanese
Language School at Boulder, Colo,
sets a new record. Hand picked
candidates from the colleges and
graduate schools pore over Japan
csc "Kanji' (word pictures) 16
hours day, days a week, for
IA months.
Those 800 students are given
intimate high pressure instruc-
ton in classes Of only S men
each. The faculty consists of
$50 Japanese mericans, for
mer professional and business
men, recruited from the east
and west coast japanese col
OnieS.
The course is intensive, and the
students are given no job except
the principal one of learning the
difficult Japanese language. I'm
like other officer candidates, they
have no guard duty, KIP, or night
bivouacs. Their job is to learn
Japanese, learn it quickly and
learn it well.
The identity of these men is
closely guarded secret, for if the
Japs catch one of the U. S. Jap
anese languafe students, the pun
ishment is certain death.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The feuds are not over in the
OPA. Though Galbraith is gone,
MaXon is still cunning. Next on
his list is Tommy Emerson, asso-
ciate general counsel in charge of
enforcement After the an
nounced visits this month of the
Presidents of Paraguay and Chile,
there will come the visit, as yet
unannounced, of the President of
Venezuela =. On the average of
once a day, somebody with a screw
loose tries to see Secretary of
State Hull One such, called to
explain to Hull his method of stop
ping torpedoes. He was stopped
by a secretary . . The Republic
can National Committee is about
to step up its radio activity, I'M
der the direction of Wells C'Ted")
Church, who is reSigning from the
Office of the Coordinator of Inter
American Affairs. Church had tn,
COP job once before, also served
as American advisor to the Brit
ish Broadcasting company.
Copyright, 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
In other words in lust one hol

In other words in just one hour
and half, the safeguards labor
lad built up through two strug-
Cling decades, many of them with
the help of F. D. Roosevelt, were
gavelled out the window - large
ly because of the manner in which
one labor leader, John L. Lewis,
had put his interest," before those
of his country.
SURPRISED AND MIFFED
When the President announced
the new Office of War Mobiliza-
ton headed by ex-Justice Jimmy
ByrneS, 1t came as a complete sur
prise to Donald Nelson and Man
power Chief Paul McNutt. They
knew nothing about the plans un-
til the very last minute.
McNutt was definitely miffed
that he was not appointed on the
Board and he let that fact be
known. Another who was miffed
was War Shipping Administrator
Lew Douglas, who wanted ADJ
miral Land of the Maritime Com
mission appointed with the idea
that Douglas could sit in as sub
stitute for him.
When White House advisers CO.
gitated regarding the fact that
some of the above officials had
not been consulted in advance, it
was pointed out that when Don
aid Nelson was appointed War
Production Boss, it came as
complete surprise to Bill Knudsen.
And when McNutt was appointed
Manpower Chief, Sidney Hill
man, then in charge of manpoWer,
knew nothing about it until he
he read it in the newspapers.
"He who lives by the sword"
quoth one White House adviser,
shall perish by the sword"
SENATOR GLASS
Much-loved 85-year old Sena-
tor Carter Glass of Virginia is eX-
pected by friends to drop out of
the Senate before many months.
He has served as Woodrow Will
sons secretary of the Treasury, %
faithful years in the Senate and II
years in the House of Representa-
tives.
Virginia politicos close to Gov.
Darden are passing out the tip
that when Glass retires, Darden
will appoint as the senator's sue
cessor, not 55-year old Congress-
man Cliff Woodrum, the most out
standing Congressman from Vir-
ginia, but 73-year old Congress-
man Tom Burch.
Governor Darden, who married
COMFY dupont, daughter of Irenee
dupont, is pledged to serve his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
"EvANGEL OF DECADENCE"
New York Herald Tribune)

NlNCW YIN I1Cl d1u 411UuAlCJ
In General de Gaulle's Sunday
address at Algiers he placed his
finger accurately upon Marshal
Petain's greatest sin against the
French spirit-the sin which tram
sends all his other offenses. The
marshal, said De Gaulle, is the
"evangel OF decadence." He repre-
sents that frame of mind which
considers France as hopeleSSly
weakened and unable to work out
her own destiny. He would have her
shelter under the contemptuous and
costly protection of Germany, while
a little group of self -elected elite
chasten the unruly and the individ-
ualistic and endeavor to create a
substratum of docile and hard
working peasants such as that
which supported the old regime of
the Valois and Bourbon kings.
Petain was not alone in believing
that France entered the war in
1899 as a tired nation-weary of
the burden of arms; of maintain
ing a free government, with all its
opportunities IOr eIlOI, plChelliiS
and fraud; Of wrestling with the in
creasing complexities Of economic
affairs and international politics
Many friends of France, many sin
cere patriots, felt the sluggish at
mosphere with foreboding. But
Petain simply accepted France;
WEAKNESS and sought to freeze II
into a political system.
No one has as yet been able tc
chart the mysterious forces which
energize nations-the economic
the spiritual forces which make fol
strong, courageous government, cul-
tural vigor. far-reaching influence
But such forces cannot be imposed
J from above or without . nation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

his was one OF the things
which Lewis fight, also. caused
Lewis rival, CLOS Phil Murray,
severe headaches.
But if those who wired Lewis
could have sat in on the con-
fidential session of the House
Military Affairs Committee when
it considered the Smith-Con
nally bill, they might have had a
different reaction. They would
have seen the effect John L.
Lewis tactics had on Congress
and the irreparable harm he has
done the labor movement.
Working like creased lightning,
the Military Affairs Committee
approved the Smith Connal1y Bill
in record time. Sincere hard
working Chairman May gaveled it
through with such speed that
many members scarcely knew what
was In 1t.
Several Republicans, very sig
nificantly, were much more
friendly to labor than the DEM
Ocrats. Southern Congressman
were for going to limit. But
Mrs. Clare Luce of Connecticut
and Leroy johnson of California
protested a good many Of the
drastic anti-IabOr provisions, and
were the only committee MEM
bers to reserve their decision to
vote against the bill on the
House floor.
Later when Assistant Secretary
of War McCloy, most liberal eX-
ecutive in the War Department,
testified before the committee in
opposition to the bill, the chief
question thrown at him was re-
garding John L. Lewis. Congress-
men wanted to know if some legis-
lation such as the Smith-C Con-
nally bill was not needed to curb
strikes of this kind. McCloy
genuine friend of labor, admitted
that Lewis action had weakened
the War Departments position.
One day after this hearing, the
Military Affairs Committee met
for final consideration of the bill.
1t allotted from 1890 a. m. to
noon to rewriting it, rushed it to
the Floor at IL o'clock sharp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Views OF The Press

Leaders can only direct and in
tensify the response of people to
a given situation, as Mr.. Churchill
focused the response of Britain to
the peril of the summer and fall
of 1910. Petain, misjudging his
countrymen, was unable to do the
same. 1t remained for the stubborn,
unyielding De Gaulle to express the
pride of France, her self-reliance,
even in days when France seemed
crushed and helpless. And the swift
upsurge of national confidence he
invoked in the trying days of de-
feat may prove to be the vital spark
of the new France of the Fourth
Republic. For France, and for the
world to which France has given
so much, that rebirth is devoutly to
be wished.
All the 24,174 telephones in Peru
have been made automatic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

gram of April 81, 1912, restated by
the Congressional Sterilization Act
of October 2, 1912, re-restated in the
Presidents Hold-That-L order
Of April 8, 1913.
The trouble has come through
failure to execute those noble aims
by decisive action. Too much COM
promise. Too much yes and no.
Three cases may illustrate what is
meant
/. There is a fundamental differ
ence of opinion between Office of
Price Administration and War Food
Administration on food price con-
troll. OPA says yes" we must have
price ceilings at all levels. The
VIA idea seems to be yes" if price
ceilings are high enough to encour-
age production, but mo" if price
ceilings are to be applied to the
growers. Practically every food
price ceiling which OPA has pro-
posed has been questioned by VIA
and has had to be referred to the
Office of Economic Sterilization for
decision.
COMPROMISED DECISIONS
Justice James E. Byrnes, who held
that office till he was promoted to
the Office of War Mobilization won
his reputation in Congress as
great compromiser. His decisions in
OES have been compromises. Judge
Fred M. Vinson, who succeeded
Byrnes in OES, was also a great
COMPROMISED in Congress. How he
will give decisions in OES remains
to be seen.
2. If ceilings are to be applied on
wholesale and retail food prices but
not on growers prices, the only way
in which such economic juggling
can be achieved is through payment
Of subsidies, yet on the subsidy
question there is more yessing and
noing than on any other phase of
the price attempted control pro-
gram.
Authority for subsidies is In the
Price Control Act, passed by Con-
greSs, yes. The Attorney General
gave an opinion last August, on
canned tomato juice question, that
government subsidies are legal, yes.
Subsidies have been part of the
RFC program since 1910, yes. Com
modify, Credit Corporation, is now
paying subsidies to food Gamers,
yes.
But Congress on subsidies says
mo-. Recently it has written in
prohibitions against the use of
LendLease and CCC funds for sub
sides and has before it a bill to
prohibit the payment of subsidies on
food products without Congressional
approval. And War Food Admin
istrator Chester c. Davis has declar-
ed that general dependence on
broad subsidy program, to hold
prices, would he dangerous Another
no"
3. Food Gamers today are losing
food, throwing it away, because they
can't get labor. The reason they
can't get labor is that wages in the
canning industry have been frozen
at a level SO low they can't compete
with better paying industries. In
some regional War Labor Board Of
nov o bipbar u,ooa rota res
70 nav tbaSe edded yooes tho
Gamers saw there mnst he a., IN
in ceilino rrines m t1,oir nrod,,cts
to nav for he inoreased ahar crons
AnnrovaI for such nrice incrae les
,,,IIs+ oo,,,a frono oph WI r,;tIoi,o
OpA there ;s q "ves and no. hattie
ooino ~, ubich ,,reverts tLo rnoIo
ing of aru donisip,, ~ tI,is iss,n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Canker Sores

Have canker sores in mouth fire.
quently. Suffer for week or ten
days. (rS. A. L. c.
Answer-Avoid brushing teeth.
Use agreeably warm mouthwash of
teaspoonful boric acid in pint Of
boiled water gently many times
daily. Touch each sore once daily
with equal parts glycerin and mild
tincture iodine. Smarts momentarily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

ldea Oh trying
to keep every
body happy with
a yes" and no
answer.
T h e trouble
isn't lack of a
pr n C iple on
which to oper-
ate. The princi-
pies on which
the anti-inha =
ton camp a / 6 n
was to be fought
were stated def
nitely by the
President in his
Seven Point Pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining 10 per-
s0naI health and hygiene, not TO
disease, diagnosis of treatment,
will be answered by DIR. Brady IL
stamped Self-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written in ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address DR..
william Brady, National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Ill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

well be the final straw needed to break
the financial solvency of the country. In
that event, we would have destroyed all
hope of security, along with freedom. We
would indeed have taken an irrevocable
step.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Selected Poem
THE MERCHANT MARINE
CJerome Maher in the New York Times)

BY strategems Ulysses never knew
With labors that would Hercules dismay,
On oceans never tried b, Jasons crew,
These marirers pursue their constant way
A fercer Cyclops blnks baeful eye
Above the swell of many gentle wave,
While deadlier Harpies ride the placid sky
To swoop with avid claws upon the brave
Then what can tempt these dauntless sailors down
To hazard it on peril-laden sea?
Silver? But that is simpler won. RenoWnP
Why most will live in anonymity.
What can inspire them? This -. the Golden Fleece
OF national triumph and their dear lands peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

among men; the
kingdom of the
world is human
society in which
the sovereignty
of God is disre-
garded. 1t is the
organization of
human life apart
from the pur-
poses of God.
This does not
mean that God
&c MT c,1yNroV,1o
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Food Price
Control
Problems
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

The situation on attempts to con-
troll food prices at the present mo-
ment can best be described as gov
eminent by yes and no." Few de-
cision are made definitely yes"
Few decisions are made definitely
no" Practically all decisions,
whether on wages, prices, or taxes,
have been made with the apparent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

Daily Almanac
Sun rises at $40 a. M, sets at 1922 p. m.
(War time).
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
Ru EARL. nOIIGLASS ID. ID
reg. u. S. Patent Off,

IReg. q. >. FdCeHL OH.J
BY EARL L. DOUGLASS. ID.
TWO KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT
The kingdom of God and the king
dom of this world are in constant
conflict, one with the other. The
kingdom of God is the rule of God
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Washington Merry-Go-R Round
Lewis Injury Labor Demonstrated by Quick Congressional Reoc
Committee Rushes Smith Connolly Bill After Bitter
Significantly Republicans Adopt More Friendly Attitude Wo
War Mobilization Order Tables McNu Donald Nelson
BY
DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON, June

the
in
ration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09
Raw Meat

Very fond of raw meat, particu-
larry beef, not pork. Is it harmful
to eat raw beef? (Sergt. c. w. P0
Answer-Not If it is free from
tapeworm cysts. Presumably the
beef you get in camp is government
inspected and safe to eat raw. When
in doubt, thorough cooking is al
ways safest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

All the 24,174 telephones in Peru
have been made automatic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-09

Copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
WoIeha Group
Plan Sports

Woleha Camp Fire girls made
plans for the dad-daughter field
maneuvers to be featured Sunday
when all Camp Fire groups of the
city will entertain their fathers,
Woleha having charge of sports,
which will carry out distinctly
military theme.
Teams and captains were chos-
en- as follows: Virginia Lee Pink
ney, artillery team captain; Nicky
Bolin, cavalry; Barbara Jackson,
infantry; Dorothy Hatch, air corps;
Sarah Griffin, paratroops; Lor-
rains Stafford, signal corps; Patsy
McNeece, bombardiers; Shirley Led
erman, navigatorS.
Some of the dads are to assist
as umpires.
The play day will begin at $3.50
pm. at the Harding school Sun
day, on March 28.
Those present at Woleha's meet
ing were: Marilyn Mullen, Lorraine
Stafford, Nicky Bolin, Virginia
Pinkney, Sarah Griffin, Dorothy
Mae Hatch, Fredes Smith, Shirley
Lederman and Mrs. Fred C. Smith,
guardian
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Lure of Silver
Program Theme
For Chapter

The Lure of Silver" was the sub
ject which Mrs. d. B. Roberts dis
cussed SO delightfully."- for Chapter
CIV, P. E. O. at the meeting Sat
urday, the session taking place at
the c. S. Conner home with Mrs
Conner and Mrs. M. c. Pinnell as
hosteSSeS.
Mrs Roberts told something of
the history Of silver from the days
when it was first mined to the
present time, discussing the various
types of silver, the Sheffield plate,
tcdays sterling, and describing the
various distinguishing hallmarks,
making her listeners realize indeed
that silver has definite lure both
for the collector and for the mod
ern homemaker.
Members present were: Mesdames
M. r. Brents, j. E. Brock, Warren
Brock, c. S. Conner, Norman E.
Dupont, Scott B. Foulds, j. D. Foss,
Guy L. Hatch, Fannie G. McCrory,
w. w. McEuen, NJ G. Pinnell, D.
B. Roberts, Louis Slee, c. E. Sones,
George S. WaShburn, Donald L..
Young.
Mrs. Joe E. King of Yuma. Ari-
zona, formerly Of Chapter CIV, was
a guest of the chapter. y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-23
Society
Clubs
Section Elects
Officers,Ha
Fine Program

Election of Mrs. William Burke,
Jr.. of Holtville as the new chair
man, and a splendid story by Mrs.
Olin Gresham, new member, high
lighted Mondays meeting OF the
Twice Told Tales section of the
Ten Thousand club. The section
met at the home of Mrs. Norman
f. Dupont, Sis Wensley avenue.
Mrs. Burke, who served as vice
chairman this year, will succeed
Mrs. Robert w. Ware in May. 9th
er officers-elect are: Mrs. Don G.
Paulus. Vice-chairman; Mrs. NAL
colin Macurda secretary y-treasurer;
Mrs. Guy A Weakley, story teller
for the section program for the
club.
Mrs. Gresham proved her worth
as a new member in her delight
fully portrayed story of Edmond
Wares THE First Time Alone, the
moving story of a fathers devo-
ton to his motherless daughter, and
of his success in taking the place
of the mother Excellent psy-
chology, nice humor, Well-develop-
eQ plOI MAKE JIlc SOOIy Vi SI)tCldi
interest, and Mrs. Gresham did
splendid work in depicting the two
main characters and in developing
her climax.
Mrs. Dupont served tea to her
guests, her house being charming
with its many attractive arrange
ments of beautiful spring flowers
Mrs. Hazel Gallagher, Mrs. Howard
P. Myer, Mrs. J. w. Cobb and Mrs
C. S. Tappaan of Los Angeles, were
guests of the section.
Members present were Mesdames
william Burke, Jr, S. S. Campbell
Earle CT. Davis, II. C. Diller, Nor
man E. Dupont, Laurel M. Fergu,
son, Olin Gresham, Ross T. Hick-
cox, Rodney Jenkins, w. S. Kong
Forrest E. Kutz, E. j. Mack, Nal.
colin Macurda, Lee Nuffer, Don c
Paulus, d. B. Roberts, w. A. Ton
dro, Robert w. Ware, Guy A
Weakley.