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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
n Letter of Thanks

Dear Sirs %M
my children andme YAe indicted in the
army the 18th Of September,c19N
don't know how to tbaAkou and putting it in words is
still harder.
l am in the army stationed here at Camp Roberts.
California my children the Society of St. Vincent de
Paul Detroit, Mich.
am in the Field Artillery 53rd Battery D. 1st Platoon
don't mind It here but would be happier with my little
girls back in Highland Park.
Thanking you again, remain,
Sincerely yours
PVT. HARRY A. BARONG
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
Jackson Hole National Park

Tn the midst of that little disturbance in far off Tunisia, you may not have noticed that diplomatic relations between the United States and the sovereign state of Wyoming have become very strained. The governor of Wyoming, following or paralleling the line of the Swedish gov- ernment, has made it clear that although his people prefer to live peacefully with their neighbors, they are prepared to resist aggression with force. This may sound exaggerated or facetious. It is, but only little. It comes pretty close to describing what is happening since Inter for Secretary Harold Ickes, slyly and in apparent defiance both of federal law and of the will of Congress, attempted to seize piece of Wyoming about quarter the size of the state of Rhode Island. MT. Ickes had President Roosevelt sign an order proclaiming 221 ,606 acres of Wyom- ing land in the picturesque Jackson Hole country as national monument.
 Mr. Ickes has full power, it appears, to make national park out of land already owned by the United States or surren- der voluntarily by private owners. But this was neither. It can be taken over only by Act of Congress. Five years ago a congressional committee found Wyom- ing citizens so opposed to retiring the Jackson Hole land from grazing service = last year it supplied 2,7O0,0O0 pounds of beef on the hoof - that the leglsla- tors declined to order it's transfer. So MT. Ickes just went ahead anyway. The first that Wyomings senators knew ot the action was when constituent called one of them up from home to ask"What the heck?" Only he did not say heck.
 The area includes 147 homes, six post offices, nine stores, 10 dude ranches, five hotels and cabin camps, and is used by ol livestock owners with 15,610 cattle, 1895 horses and numerous hogs and turkeys and chickens. So Governor Lester C. Hunt, Democrat has given public warn ing that he will use "all police authority at my disposal to evict from the proposed national monument any federal official who attempts to assume authority He has notified the ranchers that they may call on him for state police if they have any trouble with national park officials. If he stands by his guns, there can be real trouble,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
Aerial War

Daily we read of tragedies in the air. All phases of the war are appalling put none quite so much so as those tragedies in aerial warfare. This week the Holy Pontiff, Pope Plus XII, spoke in behalf of humanity and pleaded with the belllg- erents ''to respect the laws of humanity in the aerial war" There is something terrifying in the thought of bombs bursting in the air, hitting their mark, or some mark that should not have been subject to any planned attack. We have not yet experienced bombing in this country, but something of the frlghttul- ness in the anticipation even is brought to us in the many motion pictures which show actual aerial warfare scenes and many simulated ones.
 For these reasons we sometimes Won- der if it is well to see so many war pic lures. Is it good business, in It's effect upon the individual, to show them? Frightful scenes brough to us in this fashion are all many of us will see o1 this war; on the other hand one or more of practically every family has gone through or is likely to go through some of these horrors
 The bombing planes that engage 1n the aerial warfare of which the Pope speaks set out to hit at targets allowable In mll- itary procedure. But daily we read that they likewise strike schools, churches, asylums, and so on They attack thelr enemies in the air, but they often strike non-combatant planes.
 In all of his utterances for cessation of war none has been stronger than the latest pleas of Pope Plus urging mercy in aerial warfare and his plea also for small nations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
This Means Me

The Office of Defense Transportation advises that non-esSential travel for oth- CT than vacation purposes must be who'll ly eliminated, and that vacations should be spent at home or as near home as pos sible. Director Eastman of the ODT asks the public to "avoid overnight trips, trav- el on day coaches, and carry box lunches on the trains, so as not to add to the strain on Pullman and dining car facil- ities-carry as little baggage as possible =. Be prepared to expect delayed arriv- als, crowded conditions and lack of the usual travel comforts. The cooperation of employers and of individuals in !. minimizing vacation travel . is urgent ly necessary.
 "There is no pleasure in giving such ad- vice as this, and I know that many will find it difficult to realize that there IS need for it. If they will think for mo- ment of what the induction training, and final embarkation of many millions of servicemen means in the way of load upon our railroads and busses, combined with the continued travel of these men on furlough and leave, of service women, and of relatives and friends, plus the ex- traordinary business travel which the tremendous productive activity of the country requires, and if they will also bear in mind that the railroads and bus lines have been given practically no new equipment and have lost the help of the private automobile, think they will un- derstand what we are up against.
 Many will approve the advice as good for the other fellow, but will regard personal pleasure trip now and then as a harmless exception. The advice will do no good unless everyone will realize that it means me- and applies today as well as tomorrow"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
No Union Foremen

The National War Labor Boards de- cision against inclusion of foremen in labor unions - or, at least, against use of federal power to force their unioniza- ton will meet with general appro- bation.
 Foremen are employees, of course. But they are primarily representatives of management. If they are good foremen, their interests are not those of the work men, except in the broad sense that makes the long-range interest of every body, from majority stockholder to floor sweeper, coincide.
 It is as much to the interest of work CTS as of company that liaison men such as foremen and superintendents should not be included in the unions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
HERE'S YOUR PARTY"
Hartford TimeSl

If it had been possible for the War Production Board to telephone across lunar space it could have done so without spending more than the $500,000 it laid out in long distance calls in six months. A re- port by the Joint Economy Commit tee, headed by Senator Byrd, of Vir- ginia, offers some striking statistics on this frenzy of communications:
 "No other agency remotely ap- breaches this total" it says. 'The tremendous proportions of this fig rre may best be judged when one realizes that for the same year cost, at night rates, w. P. B. could put in hourly three-minute telephone calls to the moon, 221 ,463 miles away, every hour in the day, every day in the year" No statistics are available as to the cost at daytime rates, but the general idea of the report is embodied in the moderate view it takes of extravaganza by ex- ecutive departments when it says: "The committee believes that the travel and communica tions expenses for most branches of the govern ment are inordinately high" It adds as an example the fact that the Office of War Information had com munications expenses for six months amounting to $1.812,061, leading all other government agencies. The to- tai outlay in 1943 for travel and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

AS we go our homefront defense prob- lem ways daily the nutritionists get the housewives all hot and bothered about little thought-tWisters about food; and perhaps after fifty years of cooking, for some of them. The worlds best cook suddenly finds that she has always start ed certain things in hot water that pres ent day authorities say should be started in cold. Then there are those who let their potatoes lie in front of window constantly with their many eyes seeing the light of day when they should be kept in the dark about it all. Also there's the excellent housewife who came to grips with an electric refrigerator some what late in life and discovers every month or six weeks that she forgets to de-frost it weekly, or fortnightly, at least. But here's the payoff, which is likely out of Aunt Hetty's sphere entirely. In hot weather do you wrap up the loaf of bread and stick it in the refrigerator? Bet you don't. Whoever heard of not camping loaf of bread right in the bread box?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
Kaufman Disbarred

Five judges of the U. s. dlStrlct court ir Pennsylvania have agreed unanimously to disbar from federal practice lawyer named Morgan F. Kaufman, who used to enjoy great prestige ic eastern legal circles.
 Four of the judges found that Kauf- man participated in conspiracy with William Fox, former movie magnate, and J. Warren Davis, now retired, but then senior judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, to obtain from MT. Fox a $15000 loan for Judge Davis, as a result of which the jurist "did use his judicial
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
CLOSING IN ON PANTELLERIA
 (NeW York TimeS)

Under devastating air assault since the fall of TuniSia, the Italian outpost island of Pantelleria has now been attacked twice within forty eight hours by Allied warships. Bombardment from the sea is al- most invariably the final phase of the preparatory process that leads to invasion.
 Pantelleria is about the size of Malta which for four years has parried the heaviest blows the Axis could deliver. The volcanic rock bristles with Notifications which Mussolini pronounced impregnable' and is honey -combed with subter- ranean defenses. Its surface should now be shambles, for Allied fiiers' have been dropping 100-ton bomb loads, sometimes three times a day. Our fliers no longer encounter fighter opposition. Perhaps enemy planes there have abandoned their underground hangarS for safer fields on Sicily. But the island is still de- tended, as the brisk though ineffec- tive fire of shore batteries against the Allied fleet proves. The Avis is said to have been strengthening its garrison and the forces stationed there have been joined by some of von Arnim's fugitives from Tunisia.
 Position alone gives Pantelleria its importance. It rises from the sea almost exactly in the middle of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
JULIA MARLOWE, Lit. D.
 lNnMt York Sllnl

At Columbia University yesterday the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters was awarded to Julia Mar lowe Sothern. Though it is the sec ond such honor to come to the re- tired Shakespearean actress, it will not on that account be the less cher
 ished. For one thing, it is awarded in this city, which first saw her play Juliet-fifty-si years ago come next December. It was in the Star Thea ter, and she was then still seventeen years from the beginning of her partnership with E. H. Sothern. That began under Frohman in 1904, and in Chicago-also in Romeo and Juliet" English-born, Julia MarloWe will remain identified in the popu- lar mind with the American stage and marked out in the annals of our theater as having enjoyed one of the most amazing careers of any modern actress Her distinguished husband once explained her success by the simple declaration that "she has given long years of careful study to the technique of her business" and by adding This talk of inspira- tion is, in the main, nonsense. :. Mere feeling unguided by art is nev- CT effective" When she attains " on August IT she may well count this red-letter year in her life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

Very few of the Grand Army of the Republic are left in Connecticut. Every year at the time when Memorial Day IS observed we check up the lists and sadly enough note the diminishing ranks. One of the few left in Connecticut, Nathan C. Coe, and only one in the Hartford area to march Sunday was honored with banquet. He saw the parade in his town and every time the colors passed saluted. Mr. Coe is 98 years of age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

office and influence to favor Fox im- properly" in bankruptcy proceedings.
 For his part in the conspiracy Fox has served time in the penitentiary at Lewis burg. Kaufman now is disbarred from federal practice. But what of the judge, who sinned most if two courts are correct and there was such conspiracy? He is receiving $12,000 year from the federal treasury, as long as he shall live.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
HER FIRST AT FORTY


 Married late, a woman asks whether it is too great risk for her to undergo childbirth. Her hus- band, too, loves children but fears .. '. She is perfectly healthy, 50 far as she knows, comes of a family in which collaborating has always been easy, but of course she is 43 years old. =.
 Records of childbirth in a large series of cases show that the healthy woman who bears her first child when she is approaching forty years of age may expect a normal delivery, especially if she has kept herself fit by regular exercise.
 Along towards fifty women ar- rive at the menopause, that is, the normal or physiological cessation of mensturation and termination ot the function of ovulation (develop. ment of the ovum or parent cell in the avory and extrusion of thG ovum at the monthly ovulatiop time, about midway between men. strual periods. After the meno- pause Cthe only index by which re. productive potentiality may be as sumed woman is naturally ster. ile, can no longer conceive or bear child.
 The menopause, it must be re- membered, is a normal, natural, physiological occurrence, not crisis, not dangerous, not change" of life, not an explanation for im- pairment of health. not reasonable or logical cause of nervous" trou- ble and not accountable for any de- terioration in mind or personality.
 Some women are physiologically as old at 30 or B as others are at 40 or 43. Men, too, maybe more so. A woman's fitness for childbirth depends on her physical fitness and vite, if you know what mean. Vite is not feminine quality particular ly. Men, children and youths should have it. too.
 If the woman around forty can and does roll somersaults and all that sort of foolishness she can face her first or last childbirth with cheerful assurance. Don't misinter- pret my statements, girls. One day I said, in the heat of the moment, that "any one who can sctill roll somersault and come up smiling can have baby" and received many messages from unholy rollers of all sexes who were past sixty rollin' their daily somersaultS yet darn it. You know perfectly vel what metaphysical fitness, re- siliency, youth, vite.
 It is wise for every woman and every man to submit to premaritaj medical examination to determine fitness, especially for the man O, woman who marires after thirty. five.
 For the woman nearing forty who contemplates or faces her first childbirth but finds herself, thanks to neglect or her education, physi- cally normal, easy confinement than a daily walk of from one to six miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

time he stated that the bill could not be administered without seri- Ously reducing the orderly flow of men into the Army in the proper numbers and with the appropri- ate qualifications"
 "I can understand a man re- versing himself once, but not twice." groans Kilday.
 LESS HOGS, MORE COWS
 Few people realize the extent of the Washington control over the production and consumption of the nations food supplies.
 By dispensing benefit payments, or by withholding them; by es- tablishing price floors and price ceilings; by rationing some foods and not rationing others; by re- moving some foods from civilian markets entirely, the government sits like an engineer before an instrument panel.
 A twist of this valve will bring up the production of pork and a turn of another will alter the eating habits of the entire na- ton.
 The twists about to be made are in favor of higher produc- ton of dairy products and low CT production of hogs. Hog numbers have been increased greatly, but the animals are eat ing us out of grain.
 Washington experts therefore have made a study of what they call the "nutritive contribution" of different types of livestock pro- ducts, considering the expense of food, land, and labor involved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

Fetef E0S00 carry ing SD tons apiece is 5000 tons of cargo moving by air each week.
 One ordinary Liberty ship car carry 10000 tons of cargo.
 Assuming that it would take the Liberty ship two weeks to make 2 crossing, it could still deliver 66 pei cent more freight in it's one cross ing in two weeks than can now bt hauled in 500 plane crossings a week for two weeks.
 There you have in proper per spective the air transport situation as it is today, without taking into consideration the element of cost When you start figuring up the costs of moving freight by air, you run into some really astounding figures, though in war times, when speed is first consideration, costs are entirely secondary.
 DOMESTIC AIRLINES COSTS
 Edward Warner, vice-chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, de- livering the Wilbur Wright memorial lecture before the Royal Aeronau- tical society in London the other day, cited the cost experience of U. S. commercial airlines to put this factor in proper light when commercial airlines have to go out and compete with steamship com- panies and still show profit.
 The cost of operating a domestic commercial airline is figured at over 68 cents per revenue mile flown, but that includes all salaries, main- tenance, ground services, deprecia- ton and solicitation of business. Most of this business was, of course, passenger carrying, cargo being only 4 per cent of the passenger load.
 The minimum cost of just moving mixed freight by air, exclusive of ground services and business solici- tation, is now 20 cents per ton mile. Substitution of freight for passen- gers by the use of all-cargo planes cuts the figure to 15 cents per ton mile. Allow for profit on the operation and the figure must be- come 16 cents or more.
 But MT. Warner anticipates an increase in the efficiency of planes in the postwar period, with con- Sequent reduction in costs which he carefully estimates may be as much as 15 per cent. Applying those fig ures to his previously developed cost figures, he concludes that the best possible post war rates will be IA cents per ton mile for cargo, or 2 1-2 cents per passenger mile for pas sengerS.
 BY AIR AND BY SEA
 These figures are for speeds of under 200 miles an hour and on flights where frequent refueling is possible. If the speed requisite is to be 250 miles an hour, the cost per passenger mile must jump to cents and the cargo cost to 19 or 20 cents per ton mile.
 Taking the lower figures for slow CT, most economical flight speeds, the best commercial rate that can now be anticipated for moving a ton of cargo by air, the $500 miles from New York to Lisbon or Liver pool is $462.
 Compare that with the accepted shipping cost figure of less than l cent per ton mile-about $50 per ton for $500 miles even in war time with higher insurance and crew bonuses to pay-and you begin to get the real feel of what post war flying development is up against If it is to pay its own way, without tremendous subsidies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

Here are the conclusions:
 l. Hogs will return more calories per unit of livestock feed than any other type of live stock. Whole milk from dairy COWS is next in value.
 2. But dairy products return more protein than hogs do, or than any other livestock pro- duct. And protein is a. more critical item in the diet than calories.
 3. In terms of labor cost, dairy products are the most ef- ficient, eggs are second, while cattle and hogs tie for third place.
 A.. In terms of land cost, dairy products yield more pro teins per acre than any other animal product.
 The final conclusion is that "our best utilization of labor, feed, and land. would require further emphasis upon dairy production and on complete utilization of dairy products.
 This means that the people sit ting at the control panel in Wash ington are closing the throttle marked pork. closing another throttle marked "fat cattle, and opening the throttle marked milk.
 Both farmers and consumers may soon expect directives from Washington to put these findings into effect.
 Copyright, 1943, by United.
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
BiIiOuSnesS

To settle argument, is there a physical ailment known as bilious ness? If so, kindly advise cause and effect. (G. W. Mo
 Answer-No That's just an i'm aginary, oversupply or maybe an i'm aginary slow down in secretion of bile. A childish explanation for whatever ails you.
 Copyright, 1943, John F. Dill Cole
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sOnal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a 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, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
Views Of The Press

narrowest sweep of the Mediterran- can, only forty-five miles from Cape Bon in Africa and about fifty-five miles from the Sicilian shore. There it stands like stopper choking the flow of Allied shipping through the narrow strait. In our hands/it would be a valuable forward base for the reduction of it's large neighbor Sicily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04

Last week most of us were hanging on to winter blankets lest they be taken to their summer home among the moth balls too soon. But last week and this week are two different things. Yesterday we watched the mercury rise to 100 and sweltered in pre-summer heat. And to- morroW-Well, who knows!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-04
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Sinus Trouble

Your Relief for Allergy' brought the first relief I have had for the past ten years for my sinus trouble.
 (Mrs. B. JO
 Answer-Im glad to hear it, Ma'am. Copy of the pamphlet avail able to any reader who asks for it no clipping will suff1ce) and inclose stamped envelope bearing his ad- dress. Probably many cases of what purports to be sinus trouble are al- lergic manifestations, as are many cases of hyperesthetic rhinitis, machine-gun sneezing, recurring hives, giant hives (angioneurotic edema), obstinate eczema, hay fever, asthma, periodic sick head ache, ordinary neuralgia" head ache and nondescript frequent colds"