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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Diplomat Flynn

It was inevitable, but 1t is unfortunate that initial attacks on appointment of Edward J. Flynn as minister to Australia should have come from Republican senators. The question of MT. Hymns fitness for this important diplomatic post is not and should not be made partisan matter. The sole issue is whether by training, by temperament, by mental caliber, by ethical Sensitivity, by demon strated achievement and recognized standing in the American community, MT. Flynn can be good diplomat. In determining the answer to that question, one is entitled to whatever preliminary suspicious may be raised by the general feeling that MT. Flynn is being kicked upstairs" because, as national chairman, he has become liability to his chief.
 He has become liability in the opin- ion of competent political observers, be- cause in the conduct of national party affairs he did not rise above his parochial, nepotistic background. He became a liability because of the Belgian paving blocks episode. A Bronx grand jury found that he had no legal liability in the matter. It did not eXonerate him on the ethical charge that complaisantly - with no indication of scruples - he permitted city-paid workmen to pave the courtyard of his country estate with city owned imported paving blocks. He never asked for the blocks, the grand jury said. But neither - though he is lawyer of presumed talent - did he even mildly demonstrate against violations of the law for his personal benefit. In the Bronx MT. Flynn rolled up consistent majorities. When his field was broadened, he did nothing effective to temper party disaster.
 His public activities have consisted of three items: first, his local political chair 1nanship; second, his service as New York secretary of state by appointment of Mr. Roosevelt, where he did not shine; third, very successful law practice rest ing heavily on political patronage. Are these the materials out of which high ranking diplomat is made? A good poli- tician might be trained thereby for di- plomacy How about one who did not succeed in any broad field; who in his own narrow bailiwick showed exceptional talent at making enemies, at exciting resentment? Will our ally, Australia, feel honored to welcome Ed Flynn, Tam many politician, as minister from the United States?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
The Cost of Living

There does not seem to be much queS- tion that Leon Henderson was removed as price-rationing administrator because a powerful bloc felt that he was too tough. This is neither to agree nor to disagree with that sentiment, but merely to point out that MT. HenderSon'S Suc- ceSSor is walking into an unenviable spot from which he, too, may some day be car ried away a political corpse. Last mid May, with disastrous imitation beginning to build up, MT. Henderson was given the task of holding prices down. His author ity was limited in two baSicS. He had no control over wages or over farm prices Since that time the costs of clothing and house furnishings have risen one-tenth of per cent; the cost of miscellaneous items has gone up eight-tenthS of 1 per cent. Rent has fallen one-tenth of per cent These things were under OPA con- trol. The cost of food, uncontrolled in the main, rose 7.8 per cent during the same period.
 These figures come from Secretary of Labor Perkins, and can hardly be suspect ed of anti-administration bias. The Ma tional Industrial Conference Board re- ports that between February and Novem- Der food prices rose 1l.3 per cent, wo- mems cloLnlng AZ per cent, mems cloLn- ing 4.6 per cent, housing CA per cent, sundries 3.2 per cent. On different bases for different periods the two sets of fig ures check closely. They indicate that when MT. Henderson was given his thank less task prices were rising; that he stop ped the increase for items under his con- trol, while others continued to go up. That is to say: MT. Henderson did exactly what he was told by the President to do. He was a success So he has been retired.
 What, then, is it that we want from his successor? Do we want hard-boiled re- suits from wishy-washy methods? We can't have that. Neither Leon Tender son nor Prentiss Brown nor Joe Doakes can hold prices down without depriving producers and distributors of income. If the new price administrator lets prices go up he will have failed in his trust. If he holds them down he will offend the same interests who were aggrieved by MT. Henderson. The only question is, whose eggs are going to be broken in making this anti-inflation, anti-hoarding omel- ette2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Old.Fashioned

There is no such thing, or should we say person, as an old-fashioned doctor? That Is to say doctor of good standing grown old in years. Why, because such professional men follow the changing trends in medicine and keep posted by constant reading of books on medicine and medical journals. You hear 1t said of doctor = he's much too old, at least in his sixties. By the time doctor has entered his sixties he has absorbed not only what he learned during his early years but the newer methods. A doctor at sixty did not learn about sulpha medi- cines when he went to medical school, but he is able to use them and under stand them.
 All of this is leading up to point we wished to make, suggested by the death of Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly this week, who had much to do with the founding of Johns Hopkins University. He was born, says an editorial, "before the Lin coln-Douglas debates, he lived to treat one of the Dionne quintuplets." He was old; perhaps he may have been an old. fashioned man, but not an old-fashioned doctor.
 He used the radium treatment about thirty years ago and caused no little stir. Definitely he was as up and coming in his medical work as the young men fresh from medical school. So 1t is safe to say many years do not necessarily make a man old-fashioned, in medicine or in any other life work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

John Kieran, who will be telling you tonight when Epictetus was born or the last two lines of the first sonnet ever written by Shakespeare or something like that, is getting into his stride in his daily column in the New York Sun, "One Small Voice." He is writing about anything and everything and being most inform ative, as he is in his Information Please answers; that is when F. P. A. or Oscar Levant do not beat him to it. He wrote the other day about going to his book shelves and selecting Thoreau's Wal den" as good book for soldiers and sail ors in connection with the book campaign now in progress. We find ourselves think ing of many books soldier or sailor or or marine might like. One that comes to mind is "John Browns Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet There is also "The Bridge of San Luis Key" by Thornton Wilder. And wouldn't any man in serv- ice who likes a good book enjoy Death Comes for the Archbishop, if he has not already read it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Laval Can't Do It

Pierre Laval is reported to have prom ised Adolf Hitler that he will purge anti Hitlerites in France, This is supposed to be part of the price for the reunion of France and moving of the capital back to Paris. Presumably further consider ation is to be Nazi support for M. Laval as the Quisling of France Well, Laval can't make good. He can purge some anti-Hitlerites - few hundreds, few thousands, even tens of thousands. But only Hitler, by the methods he is using in Poland and Greece, can wipe out almost the entire population of major nation. And that is the only way that anti-Hitler- ism can be eradicated in liberty-loVing France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

Actually, Cuba itself has very little to do with 1t. It is the big Wall Street sugar companies don- mated by the Chase National Bank and the National City Bank which have aroused Secretary Hull's ire. He is out to break their strangle hold on our island neighhor.
 Behind the feud is the fact that last year Jesse Jones' De- fense Supplies, Inc, purchased the entire Cuban sugar crop at a very high price, and now we find ourselves with 1,600,0OO tons of sugar left in Cuba, plus 65,- 100000 gallons of invert syrup, plus 70,OOO,O0O gallons of black strap molaSSeS.
 We needed the syrup and the molasses for making alcohol. Also we feared a sugar shortage. But We did not figure on the Submar- inc and shipping crisis which now makes it almost impossible to move the above balance out of Cuba.
 None of this was Jesse Jones' fault, except possibly the high price - which gave the big sugar companies and their New York bankers q profit of s6O,- 000,000 to $s0yV00, 900.
 SUGAR GOES TO WASTE
 However, Cuba now wants us to buy the current sugar crop, and we don't want it. We al- ready have 100000 tons in Cuba which We can't move, plus syrup and m0llasses; so there is no rea- son in the world for buying more.
 The Cuban Government, how ever, points out that it cannot sell the sugar unless it sells to us; and with our market gone. the island will be bankrupt, will face riots and revolution.
 The State Department is sym pathetic to the Cuban viewpoint and has suggested that Cuba
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
BattIe-Scarred Scrap

Arrival of steel scrap from overseas bat tlefields has been reported. Insofar as cargo space is available in returning yes since we are going to need all the scrap we can get. Its importance must not, however, be overrated.
 Experts point out that there is not great deal of reclaimable scrap from de- stroyed tanks, guns, etc., on any front except the Russian. And that is the one from which it is most difficult to bring the scrap home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

There is much complaining about the hardships which are closing in on the American public. From Washington day after day comes new warning that the hardships we have suffered are as noth, ing to the hardships ahead. The word chosen seems bit un-apt We have been subjected to irritationS of course-but hardships? Which ones? How about taking five minutes or an hour this eve ming and trying to name three wartime irritations you would be willing to argue with a Guadalcanal soldier as conStitut- ing hardship"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Selected Poer,
SOLDIERS FAREWELL

SOLDIERS FAREWELL CBy Ray Bernard, s. J.. in the N. Y. Ttmes) I send this cloud across this hill, I send ten snow-wh!te gulls untu They sail across the sea and nn The sky near you. So when you see this cloud of mine And gulls that fly 90 straight line To you, O know them for sign That am true. I will come back in Spring. know To see biood-red azaieas grow. I win come back uhough time run sioNp As lovers do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
HEADLINES
 and HILARITY

EFTeI Flynn is en trial, facing the possibility of . pTison term. and thousands of giFla want e marry hint I'd Flynn is ambas. sadeF t0 Australia and people won't even walk on the same side of she street with him. That's whas you eai' . real ViyHn-nam
 The Yankees are lrnlnlng at e HeAshere FessFt, the Giants st Q golf course. The Dodgers viii probably workout on top ef lhe Empire State building.
 Manager LAppy DuTeeheF e ail for using Madison Square Gar. den. but pieus Branch Riekey e sllIl wnveFlng between the little Church Around the Corner and SC. PaGFick's aCtheaEai.
 Gogernor Baldwin e learning early that lhe geveTmor'n t9b de- manfs a personality csznAiRlng Che besl features ol tHe lHo Rnnds. eally and xailsy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

diversity its crops, planting pea
 nuts which are badly needed here, plus fibre crops for mak- ing rope, no longer Obtainable from the Philippines. The State Department also has offered loan to improve the central highway running the length of the island.
 However, the Cuban Govern ment is reluctant. They say they have been raising sugar for 400 years, that they understand sugar and they don't want to diversity now.
 WALL STREET RUNS CUBA
 Real factor behind the Cuban Government however, Is the big sugar companies and their Wall Street packers. They not only brought pressure on President Batista not to accept the State Departments generous cornpro- mise, but they are now waging a propaganda campaign against Sec retray Hull.
 Mfr. Hull has just discovered
 that the sugar companies have raised a secret kitty of $l,O0O,- 900 to buy radio time and carry on newspaper propaganda against the State Departments proposal. in order to force Q purchase of the next Cuban sugar crop. Already Cuban newspapers have started the campaign.
 Secretary Hull, however, is stand ing pat. He believes that the New York financlers got enough profit out of the e60, 1000 to e8O, 100000 bonanza that caE.e their way through Jesse Jones' deal, and that Cuba, s0onsr or later nlustt hrow off it's Wall Street yoke.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Congressman VIII Rogers of California has definitely turned down Warner Brothers plea that he play the part of his father in the film they are doing Of the famous huInoTist. Young Will thinks that his new duties ln COn- gFess are too important and that he cannot be trottlng back and forth to Hollywood. "I de net intend c make any picture at all until after the war is ven the peace is seflled,y he says Nov that all pleasure driving Is out, lt will be interesting to watch the future driving Of White House secretary William McReyn0lds. who not long ago loaded up his car with guests at one party and delivered them first to VT .tpsa and then to nearby Maryland -in his ofilciai ear Paul ?. Cret, celebrated Philadelphia arehitecl. is designing . private railroad csi for President Vargas of BraRil to be manufactured by s. e. Budd. also Of Philadelphia Raymond Massey, who starred ln ~Abe Llnv coin ln nlilnsls." is the envy of ail Hollywood. He is the o1ly acc tor Co anyone- knowledge who has already paid hls ie12 income taxes. not due until March is, Ise had to pay them before the v. S. Government would let him out oi the country to join the Canadian army. AS a Canadian colen6l, De nos getg ef1DQ0 n yenr--ieas than he pald hh servants in Aollr- wood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
FDR,S SURPRISE

- ApAe v 0OAS8 ASAtS6
 One thing that didn't get out about the surprise" party at the White House for Speaker Sam Rayhurn, on Sam'S 6lst birthday, was little frill added by the President.
 Rayburn was called to the White House with other ~ongres- Sional leaders ostensibly to dis cuSs the legislative program for the new session. But when the group arrived, all but Rayburn were ushered into the private of- five of Economic Stabilizer Jim- my Byrnes.
 The speaker was told that the President wished to see him alone 2 for a few minutes.
 The two men discussed legisla- tive problems for a few minutes. Meantime, the President was keep ing 8 sharp eye on the clock. Suddenly he broke out:
 "Sam, the reason I asked you to come here alone was to dis cuss Q personal matter that has been worrying me-"
 Rayburn eyed him curiously, said nothing.
 "It's about you, San," cOn- tinued the President without batting an eyelash. "We're old friends and I feel I can talk to you frankly. I've got reports from Capitol Hill that the Dem- 0crats are dissatisfied with your IeadeFships. They think you're too old to be Speaker"
 At that precise moment, Demo- cratic Congressmen Cliff Wood- rum of Virginia, Bob Ramspeck of Georgia, Republican leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Representative Jim Wadsworth of New York and other House mem- bers burst into the Presidents office. led by Jimmy Burnes.
 Together they began singing .asppy Birthday to You" ct the top of their voices.
 "That was perfect timing, fel. lOws," beamed the President. He had planned 1t all very carefully himself.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Kidneys

Day after eating any kind of sea food I can notice @ strong fishy odor in the urine. Has this any significance? Could it mean my system does not properly assimilate such food? (M. M.)
 Answer-Probably it has no signi- ficance. If you are in doubt, about the functional state of kidneys isn't your health or peace of mind worth the trouble and cost of an exam ination by your doctor?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

Out of the lessons we are learning in this war we shall profit in the air age that undoubtedly lies just around the corner: The important thing, the thing about which aviation experts now are warning, is that we must recognize that wartime progress is only the raw material out oi which peacetlme aviation can pe con- strIIcted. in course of time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
WARNING ION RUBBER

alton b. egO fol the fac mMNaEy ahtOphe Of : the from AsNryas Drew the 9lynthN by 0 mhb . dI
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  be cuedK small oil the ahoh hOuday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
A Thought for Today

O Lord I beseoch thee, let now thine ear be attentive Co the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire Co fear thy name: and prosper, pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.-Nehemlah 1:11.
 Prayer ardent opens heaven,-Young.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15


 seas-the hghtir war - can be won or lost fin that short time and only Q few people believe that the outcome of this hghtin war will be de- termined by the end of 1943. The war on the home front is Some- thing else again.
 From the ad- n1inistrati 0 n s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

WNNUNEhA
 he n,sde to' queries not conforms
 ing to instructions. Address b.
 william Brady, National NewS
 paper Service, 32O West Madison
 Street. Chicago III.
 INTERPRETATION OF ACHILL
 Osler's Practice of Medicine, te garded as the authoritative worl on medicine fifty years ago said o' penunnonia:
 "Cold has been for years regard. ed as on important etiologica (meancausative) factor. The ire Quent occurrence of an initial chib has been one reason for this vide spread belief"
 pr. Osler himself harbored the quaint notion that chilling causee pneumonia. Cushing's fine biography of Osler tells how the great teacher, in his last years ct oxford, regard- ed Q chilly or poorly heated lecture room as inimical,
 Incidentally, reading this biog- raphy of pr. Osler one recalls tho furor occasioned by a Ynisrepresen. tation of the tenor of an address Dr. Osler gave the graduating clasa of the medical school. Dr. OSlei facetiously referred to Q noval ill which 1t was proposed that people be cfloroformed when they reached the age of, what was 1t, 60 or 6bP Osler actually urged the young doctors to strive hardest while they were young and cited inspiring in. stances of great achievements by comparatively young men in nnedi- cine and other fields. Now, reading of Osler's own belief in the danger of chilling one cannot help think ing and perhaps the world would be e better world if men were con1- pelled to retire at 65, and I mean retire. Osler, Marshal Petain and many others whose advancing sem ility pained their admirers. It seems that Q man who has achieved suc- cess or greatness just can't take his cue and bow out when the proper time comes.
 Now can hardly imply that the intellectual enfeeblement or deter- ioration of advancing age accounts for the quaint notion that chilling. cold, wet, draft, sudden change of temperature or weather, insufficient clothing, exposure is cause of any disease of the respiratory tract. Probably ninety percent of physi- clans and health officers today har- hor some such belief, and most of these are not over 50 years old Neverthelss I maintain that this notion is based on poor observation and childish thinking.
 As the great teacher himself ad- mitted, frequent occurrence of an initial chill has been one reason for this widespread belief" Tn the con- text Dr. Osler made it clear that the initial chill of pneumonia is o consequence of infection, not in any way the cause of the illness. It is undeniably a consequence of iafec- ton as the chill of malaria is. Whatever the old timers may have imagined was the cause of malaria (miasans, freshly turned soil, damp ness etc.) No physician today would ascribe malaria or, say, spticemia, (acute blood poisoning) to colds chilling or insufficient clothing. The chilliness or chillS often occurring in septicemia are the consequence of infection.
 Mind, I do not say chilling never does any harm. do insist 1t never causes any illness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at l:O2 q. m. twar umel. Sun rises e:l5 q. ua.. sets 4:es ?. m swaf Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Kissing

Boy friend kissed me several times Few days later learned he has tuberculosis. Am in danger?
 (MiSs c. E.) Answer-Any one with active tub. erculosis may infect another by kissing. Only course for you i, regular examination by your phy. sician-at least every three month for a year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Washington Merry Round
A a,sg n RX
 DREW PEARSON

Hull in Feud with Wo Cuban Sugar Interests; They Won Sell Us New Crop But We Hove Surplus Companies Have Roed Secret Fund Roosevelt Frames Up Surprise for Speaker Roybun Birthday
  lobbyists especially lobbyists wagtng silent but sugar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Home Front Crisis Is
 Already Here
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COEresnOndent

These next few months should tell whether the war is to be won or lost - on the home front.
 No one believes that the war over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Gray Spells OId
Ggay DH1A8 VtA I am only 52 but my hair Is be- to show some gray.

I am only 33 but my hair ts bee ginning to show some gray.
 (Aiss c. V. H,l
 Answer-A woman is as old as she Ioolxg. No matter how artisticaily you fix 1t up, graylng hair Is a nanl- festatlon of lnyolution, the onset of old age. Premature aging is es- sentially a nutTiti0nal decline. You should cultivate vite. Send twenty. five cents and stamped self-ad- dressed envelope for booklet .The ' Keys to Vlte." Ask for pamphlet Care Of the Hair." which tells about the anti-gray hair vitamin. Copyright ieas, John p bile Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

Three out cf evFy five vehicles ln Sweden nov operate with pEbducer gas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

Panama has decreed that busses operating in the interior must stop picking up passengers on the hOuse-to-hOllse basis because t wastes gasoline.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Current Comment

Believe me. I want to get back there. We've got Q Job to do and want to get it over. -Lieut. Edgar Mailin. wounded
 leader of tank platoon in North
 Africa.
 Tn every house there lies dozens Of bodies Of German soldiers. The German losses in dead amount ic thousands.
 Soviet correspondent describing vellkie Luki.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Help Wanted

Help wanted
 I am 62 years old, everything ) eat tastes salty. yet I crave mort salt constantly. I weigh l60. 64 in ches tall. (Mrs. H. W.
 Answer If the diet is mainly vegetarian more salt is required If it is largely meat. fish, milk oI milk products. less salt is required as animal food itself containi enough salt. This is all I can tel you about the salt craving. Perhaps some of our readers will help us out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15
Your Health
 By pr. William Brady

slgned letters pertaining : per- sonal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis or treatment, win be answered by pr. Brady iR . stamped self.addressed envelope ls enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can e made Co queries not conforms ing to instructions. Address D.. William Brady, National Newss paper Service, S2O West Madison Street. Chicago III. ft
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-15

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