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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Use Your Head!

Probably the most destructive weapon in the world Is the common match. Over a period of years, loss of life and property traceable to this minute stick of wood dwarfs the ghastliest work of the bombers Fire prevention authorities state that matches and smoking constitute together the largest single fire cause. They have urged upon people the pithy maxim: Matches have heads, but no brains. When you use their heads, use your brains"
 Never before has this advice been so applicable. The nation is at war. Every home, every factory and every farm are part of the struggle. When fire strikes now 1t strikes with double deadliness. In it's ashes lie portion of the war effort, irretrievably lost: Of course, property swept by fire will one day be restored. But in the meantime, the nation is weak ened the same as is person with a cut finger.
 The importance of caution with matches can be well understood when 1t is realized that each year about 300 bill lion matches are consumed in the United States alone, or 850,000,00 daily. This means that, in terms of averages, approx imately 100000 flames are started every saAmute. Each of these flames holds the Fossibility of causing disastrous fire
 No laws can prevent careleSsness with matches. The most elaborate fire depart naent in the world is helpless in the face of the potential destructive power of matches. They constitute spectacular demonstration of the fact that real fire prevention is largely up to the individual. Use your head!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Current Comment

Already some of the men in Army and Navy hospitals, especially those suffering from psychic disturbances, are expressing unwillingness to re- turn to their home because they dread the well-meant but emo tionally trying welcome they know they would receive.
 -OWI bulletin. It will become a victory which not only disarms our enemies but dis credits what they practiced and believed.
 Archibald MacLeist. librarian of
 Congress.
 When we have rounded up MT. Hitler, the full might of the Brit ish empire is going to be given over to the task of destroying the Japanese.
 British Minister of Information
 Brenan Brtackens.
 
 The enemies we will have to con. quer in the coming battle for 6 just peace will be the aspirations, the rlvalries and the mutual dis- trust of nations. instigated by the avarlciouxness Of lcng-intrenched special interests. Frederick V. Hasler, president
 Pnn-AmsTss7an Society.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Press Comment
TEEN IN TEXAS"
tNew Work IIerald-Tribunel

(New York Herald -Tribune) ..
 The other day, down in south. west Texas, the neighbors buried Alb Blocker, the last of the great cowpunchers. He was eighty-six years old and was born in the rough hills near Austin, through which the big cattle drives used to pass. He was too young to go on the first drives to the North, but not for long. The boy became a master; an unusually difficult and wide throw of the rope, indeed, was named for him-"the Blocker loop" He was good man in blizzard, and the sort of man one "could ride the rivers with" as they used to say. He knew horses, cattle and men. His chief claim to fame in the history of the range, perhaps, lies in his having devised the famous KIT (Ten in Texas) brand for the 5000, ,00o-acre ranch which a Chicago and British syndicate started in the Panhandle. MT. Blocker used the toe of his boot to draw the design of the brand in the dirt. old Alb was vastly different from the resplendent, show-ofi modern cowboys one sees around rodeos; he usually needed a shave, his clothes didn't fit very well and he looked as if he had been dragged thrdough the cactus. But he was one of the untarnished heroes of the spacious times of the cattle kings. Yes, he died broke.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Clarifying the Issue

On the basis of a survey conducted by the Arkansas Utilities Commission, it has been estimated that the private electric Industry is forced to divert approximately 22,000, ,000 nan-hours annually in pursuit of useless information at the behest of the Federal Power Commission. It costs the utility industry, and, indirectly, electric consumers, about $120,000,000 each year to answer the whins of this particular bureaucratic agency.
 These figures should make the power socialists, who profess deep concern over our electric bills, blush. The Federal Power Commission has more than once posed as knight in shining armor com ing to the rescue lover the prostrate bodies of state regulatory agencies) of hapleSs consumers allegedly paying penny or two too much for power. Event ually the people will tire of the farce be- ing staged by opportunists who have no faith in the system of enterprise under which our country operates and who are using the electric industry as a guinea pig in their efforts to introduce European socialism. The old rabble-rousing claim that the electric industry is slowly bleed- ing the people white, has always sounded a little silly to anyone bothering to com pare HIS eleCCIlC DlII WlCl OCIleF OLIlS III the family budget. Electricity is about the cheapest necessity on the list.
 Actually, the power socialists have not the slightest interest in cheap electricity other than as savory appeal to gain their end. They are hiding the ugly principles they advocate behind the superficial issue of electric rates. This is not only true of the Federal Power Commission but also of local agencies like the Peoples Utility Districts In the state of Washington, where the district commissioners recently voiced their intention to tax the people in their areas to raise money for political campaigns. Their greed for money and political authority is clarifying the real issue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

VIII DC WlnCer KllLeQ before they have time to seed.
 There are a number of highly recommended ways of getting the weeds of bad habits out of ones life. One way is to tug at these bad habits every day and try to pull them up by the roots. The trouble here, as in the case of weeds, is that the bad habits keep growing faster than our ability to handle them. A better way Is to try to overcome evil by good. But ad. mirable as this method is. 1t soon fills us with the realization that there is a powerful lot of evil in the world to be overcome. The best way is to plow up the field of the soul and SOW 1t over again.
 Jesus told Nicodemus, Q noted teacher of the Jews. that the thing he needed most was to be born again. He needed vonverttng. He needed to start at the beginning. to open his life to the beneiicent influences of hte spiritual world and let the Living God do for him what he could not do for himself.
 The New Testament is the inc struction book for those who want to make a new start in life.
 Al Rights Reserved-Bahson News.
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

After Wilson's attempt Tailed, Secretary of State stimson picked up the Kellogg pact, tried to give 1t teeth, and used 1t to the best of his ability to check the first Japanese rampage and the World War which he felt was sure to follow.
 Both of these attempts were blocked, partly by inertia at home, partly by Old-faShioned European diplomacy in which British balance of. power politics played its role, and partly by lack of preparation by our own dipl0matS to play . major role In world affairs.
 The game was too new to us, Our State Department had been rutted too long in the comfortS able grooves of traditional Arneri. can Isolation. Our diplomats had had dinned into them with their first ABC'S that the .. s. A. would keep Its fleet in the Pacific, rely on the powerful British fleet in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Never in their widest dreams did they conceive the day when a badly crippled British fleet would rely on the U. S. Navy in Flu. ropean waters and that an Amer. iean Army would be fighting in the Mediterranean.
 BRITAIN'S SEAP0WER
 Since the British fleet domin- ated the old World, the cardinal policy of the State Department was to follow British diplomacy, not only in Europe but the Near East, the Middle East and to Q considerable extent the Far East. Only in Latin America did U. s, diplomats exert any degree of in. dependence.
 This Is cited here now not as q criticism, but to indicate how de. pendent our diplomacy was in those relatively simple days, and how much our diplomacy has to learn if we are now to write a permanent peace.
 This Is something in which
 the entire nation Is vltally in-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
THIRD WAR LOAN
(New York Sun)

Emphasis in the selling of bonds during the Third War Loan Drive will be upon individual and corpo- rate buying. Many individual bond owners VITO have been buying sys-
 tematically through regular pay check deductions will undoubtedly contrive to add to their investments by increasing the amount of deduc- tions. Should tens of thousands of wage earners and salaried employees in New York City decide to arrange for deduction of larger amounts from their pay, the result will con- tribute substantially toward the quotas set for this Third Loan. The quotas by boroughs are likely to give to casual readers a misleading idea of the way by which New York city's total of $4,l6l 100000 has been allotted; the Manhattan quota of $3.705. 100000 is nearly 90 per cent of the whole. The prospect of heavy buying by corporations ac- counts largely for this, but purchase by individuals will be important in raising the full amount. Tn the light of the records made by all the bor-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

dors which turns the head of al. most every young man even though he comes from Q small town, slaves his neck and has Q nasal twang which sends cold shivers down the spine of the chief of protocol.
 SECOND, Is the fact that Cor dell Hull consistently has held back against getting more funds and more good men to help mould foreign policy at a time when 1t largely holds the nations future.
 Another column on what's wrong with our state Department will follow sOon).
 Copyright, i043, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Selected Poem
SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER (1y David Morton in the New York Times) Just now, the way of this green hill Is epilogue: the green is old; And, though the summer fingers still, It is e story, over-toA. It is turning of the head Over the shoulder. a look back At valleys that are thinly spread With riches turning into lack. And we shall look there. at some hour Within the month the week the day. Remembering leaf and light and flower. And one who paused and went away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 On the Q. n.

Your column never fails to have something helpful and is indeed a god-send. I should be grateful for your advice on extreme anemia . my husband is of the - faith and forbids 0 doctor being called (Mrs. II. M. H.
 Answer-If you want c doctor, Ma'am, you should call one, and your husband has no right to forbid or prevent 1t, no matter what his faith may be.
 Vltamin 0 in Cabbage
 To settle an argument please state whether cabbage contains vit. amin O. (H. J)
 Answer-Fresh raw cabbage is an excellent source of vitamin c. On long storage it loses some not all of the vitanin o, by oxidation. On cooking 1t loses some, not all, de- pending of course on how long it is boiled or cooked. Better to boil cab- bage only few minutes: If you will not eat 1t raw Gas cole slaw).
 Belly Muscles
 Would it be advisable for me to do exercises to contract my stomach muscles, which are still rather ex- banded from childbirth. I am 26 and bore Q ten pound baby 8 weeks ago. (L. Al
 Answer-Yes. Such exercises as the horizontal movements of the Last Brady Symphony. For words and music send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress. Tn uncomplicated cases . woman should begin such exercises in a moderate way few days after childbirth while still in bed
 TonslIs and AdenOids 7e
 Is 1t wise to have Q seven.year- old child's tonsils and adenoids re moved during hot weather, before school re-opens7 (K. A. s.
 Answer-The weather has nothing to do with 1t. Tonsils and /or ade. holds should be removed only If it is evident that the child's hearing is affected or that there Is serious obstruction of breathing. A few K ray treatments will take care of many cases where the hearing is affected. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for pamphlet "Tonsils and Adenoids." Copyright, 1943, John F. bile Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

NRPB was Killed off at age 10 ye arS Congress provided $79,oOo to bury the re. mains in t h c Federal Archives building where few people will probably ever see them again. Most of the $79,000 will be used to pay off a c c u m u l ated leaves of t h c staff. There sur SptS,Aa ASAIVV a aipAl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce has defined her coined word "globaloney," since it may be some time before lexlco- graphers will incorporate it in their die tionaries. The definition is just what we all thought it was, the word explain ing itself, nonsense on g1obal scale"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

FLOWING THE OLD LIFE UNDER
 There are @ number of highly recommended ways for getting weeds out of lawn. One is to stretch two pieces of string parellel and several feet apart and go care fully up and down these narrow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

lanes pulling up the weeds. That is the hardest way to meet the prob-| lem. Another Isl to try to smother the weeds with al generous sowing of good seed. Still another is to plow| up the sod, plant in late summer,l and the W e e d sl which spring upl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
GOLDEN LAURELS Christian Science Monitor


 Midas's memorial is in bloom. It forms collars of gold around gar- dens and meadows, lines country roads, and fringes the COW lanes across the mowings. There are patches of golden carpet on the lower mountain rises and here and there in the old orchard on the hill side one sees the clumps Of tall, sturdy plants holding banners aloft to late summer skies.
 Solidago-that's its highbrow name-is native to all temperate climates, and while 1t is most num- erous in North America, those who have travelled in England in the Autumn, will remember the glowing color along the hedges and thicketS and narrow lanes.
 Goldenrod is a pleasing back ground for those other early Au- tumn decorations, wild aster and wild carrot. It is as indigenous to American soil as corn, squash, and beans. Fittingly it crowns a year of Victory Gardens-a Summer of golden reward.
 oughs in the preceding two loan d,.sx,a~ Sk aw x.a~aflala kn axFFNank Mngaal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Your Health
By Dr. William Brady

gigned letters pertaining Co poF-
 sOnaI health and hygiene, not Co
 disense, diagnosls Of treatnaenk,
 will Do answered by pr. Brady N
 stamped self dfeeged emveInna
 @ enclosed. Letters should be brief
 and written in ink. No Soply can
 Dc made Co queries not conform-
 ing to instructions. Address pr.
 william Brady, National Newns
 paper Service, S2O West ARadisom
 Street, Chicago, m. w A TIP TO ExPECTANST FATHERS
 When we were younesters is was the smart thing to dismiss aYiy anatomical or physiological subject or question with a facetious remark about "innards," that being the way 1t was done in Boston. BY the same token, back in what, for some .in- scrutable reason, are nowadays called the "gay nineties" the ex- pectant father was assigned and generally played faithfully the role of boob or Stooge--aS he is still fea. tured in comic strips and the movies.
 The expectant father who is not actually a diinwit will not accept this role. Every incident and de. tail of the prenatal life of his ex- pected infant is as much his con. cern as 1t is his wife's. When his wife visits the doctor for prenatal examination, instruction and care the expectant father will of course 90 with her and heed the doctors instructions and advice as carefully as she does.
 It Is cowardly and unmanly to avoid and evade these responsibili- ties in the months before the baby arrives, no matter how sweetly such behavior is portrayed in the movies. If . man is worthy to Do . father at all he must put aside such child- ish tricks and try to behave like . man.
 Naturally tho expectant father who Is not the nincompoop some hospitals would have him be will 60 right along with his wife when the time comes for her to be con- flned--he will certainly not cool his heels in some corridor or cubby- hole outside-he will be right in there with her throughout the mir. acle. A man hasn't lived if hO has missed that supreme thrill He doesn't know what love means if he has permitted himself to bs shooed out of the lying-in room or delivery room where he cannot gase on the face of the mother of his child ct that unforgettable moment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
Washington Merry-G Co., Round DREW RS PEARSON

Soys Sote Dept Needs Streonns Like Army end Ncvy Only Made Moves Towurd World Leadership for Peace; Diplomacy Hinged oon and Following the British; New Vewpont Deemed Necessary Are Win Lustins Victory
 columns "e S"" Drarmn tnowho In
 fteng steps from 1913 to world leadership for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

Daily Almanac Sun rises at 6:23 a. ni., sets at T:l7 ?. m. (war timel. after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Congress Puts NRPB To Death
BY PETER EDISON

NWoSeEuuEy OemVCE8bI WAShAmkto
 Correspondent Just at the time when everyone is all hot and bothered about rost- war planning. the Presidents Na- tional Resources Planning Board was quietly killed by congressional order on Sept. l, thereby providing further proof, if any is needed, of the funny way they do things in government.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
A Thought for Today

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.-Mark 16:l6.
 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.-Emer- son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07

oughs in the preceding two loan drives. it is possible to expect equal Iy hearty cooperation this time.
Evening star., 1943-09-19
Nazis Withdrawing
Troops From Russia,
Stockholm Hears
BY the Associated Press.

oy tiic hSSOCldLcQ freSS.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18.-Ger-
many is weakening her military po-
sition in Norway and Finland and
retreating all along the line from
the Smolensk area TO the Sea OF
Azov to establish a shorter Russian
front in frantic shifting of troops
to meet anticipated new Allied in
vasion blows, reports reaching
Stockholm said today.
From 10000 to 10000 German
troops have been removed from
Norway in the last month, and
thousands-one unconfirmed re-
port said two divisions-have been
withdrawn from Finland since Sep
tember /.
Most soldiers trained in mountain
operations were said to have been
transferred to the Balkans, where
the Nazi general staff faces a diff
cult task in replacing 20 Italian gar
rison divisions.
Moved from Russia.
Swedish correspondents reported
from Berlin that German Elite
troops have been moved from the
Russian front to reinforce troops
under Marshal Albert Kesselrine
and Marshal Erwin Rommel in
Italy. .
German militarists have not &C.
knowledged the Withdrawals from
Norway and Finland, although troop
movements have been known to
Evening star., 1943-09-19

Stop growing about the things
you can't spend your money for.
You can buy War bonds with 1t.
Evening star., 1943-09-19
Red Paper Criticizes
Political Preparation
For 1914 Campaign

'fFrom Yesterdays Late Editions.j
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sept. 18.-The Com
munist party newspaper Pravda
commented caustically today on
American politics and preparations
for next years presidential election.
Although the United States is at
war. the electoral campaign is again
starting early" it asserted. 1.-The
struggle 81, interests CONNECTED with
fthe election is already obvious in
washington. - -
a Although America has been fight
ing .for sn1ofe than I8 months, the
realization of the fact that America
must mobilize, all its strength for
the struggle against the mortal
enemy has not penetrated to the
same extent among various strata
OF the American people"
8 Pravda's review of the presidential
lineup placed Wendell Willkie as q
Serious opponent of isolationism in
the Republican party" and said
among Republicans Willkie enjoys
the most popularity in the country,
but he still has not obtained the
support of the heads of the Repub-
lican party"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur was
Evening star., 1943-09-19
STAR, WASHINGTON D. c, SEPTEMBER 49, 1913

Scandinavian observers for weeks
But the Nazi communique yes.
terday did report shortening Of thu
eastern front and described the re.
treat as "strategical necessity"
Berlin dispatches to the Swedish
press said German commentator,
now admitted 1t was essential fol
Germany to save soldiers to fight
on the Russian front as we'll as Il
be ready to meet offensives from
other directions.
Hating Point Uncertain.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorious,
Transocean News Agency COM
mentator, in a remarkably frank
discussion of the German re-
treat in Russia, said 1t was not
clear where the backward moye-
ment would halt.
CThere are disengagement
movements under way in the en-
tire southern section and in the
southern half of the central sec
tion OF the Russian front I'D to
the highway from Moscow to
Roslavl, at the conclusion of
which-it is not yet clear when
and where that will be--the Ger
man armies will have a. front
line which is much shortened
and much better suited for de-
fense," he said.
Capt Sertorious, whose Berlin
broadcast was recorded by the
Associated Press, did not deny
that the Russians have gained
considerable ground" but he said
the German high command.
more than ever, is dedicated to
"sparing forces, the logical out
come Of which is yielding of ter.
ritory.D
Reds May Determine Line.
The Berlin correspondent of tht
Stockholm -Tidningen said the Ger
mans were sacrificing territory OF
great economic Importance in Rus.
sia since "the eastern front is not
Evening star., 1943-09-19

the only one needing troops. and
thoughts Of prestige must b
dropped"
Where the main German defen-
sive line would be was a military
secret, but Swedish correspondence
pointed out that If the Russians were
able to continue, their present ter
rife drive they would have as much
to say about 1t as the Nazis. The
Dnieper River Is viewed as possible
line, but there already Is discussion
that the Germans might fall back
to a line running from Riga to
Odessa.
(The Berlin correspondent Of
the Spanish newspaper Arriba
said In a dispatch to Madrid that
the Germans might abandon the
Russian campaign" reiinquish
the Ukraine and their foothold in
the Crimea. and drop back some
$50 miles to heavily fortified
line along the Polish frontier.
(The article created unusual
interest in Madrid because 1t ap-
peared under a Berlin dateline
without the usual hints Of "diplo-
matte surprises"-which In the
past have been interpreted here
to refer to q possible German
Soviet agreement.)