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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-02-26
Two Bills Introduced To Provide
Soldier Power or Farming

Twin measures IT, provide fCye
the furloughing of farm labor an !
10 provide for the deferment Ct
essential agricultural worker
sponsored by Senators Bankhead
of Alabama and Murray of Moo-
tana has been introduced in the
Senate.
The first measure provides that
every registrant regularly en-
gagged in an agricultural occupa-
ton whose principal employment
is in connection with the produc-
ton or harvesting of any agri
cultural commodity shall be de-
ferred from training and service
in the land and Naval forces of
tine United States, and no such
registrant shall leave such occu-
patton or endeavor except upon
appeal to his Selectiye Service
Board local chairman who must
determine that it is in the best
Interests of the war effort to en-
gage in some other occupation or
become a member of the armed
services
The second bill provides in or
der to further relieve the short.
age of farm labor. the Secretary
of War is authorized and directed
to release or furlough until jan
uary l, 1914. all men IN the land
forces of the United States who
are located in the United States
on the date of enactment. who
Immediately prior to their Undue
ton were regularly engaged in
an agricultural occupation or n
the production or harvesting o f |
a n agricultural commodity. 1t
further provides that each man
so released shall enter an agree
ment that during his iurlough he !
will be solely engaged in agricul- |
tural endeavor, and that if a la
bor shortage area is proclaimed
by the Secretary of Agriculture,
the furloughed soldier will be as
signed to work in such area. and i
the furlough may be Immediately |
terminate upon failure to comply
with terms o f the agreement.
Such furloughed men shall re- !
ceive the rate of pay prevailing |
in the area where he works ex.
cept should such rate be less than
his salary as member of the
armed forces, he shall receive the j.
latter amount. Provisions to carry
out the provisions of the bill are
to be prepared by the Secretary
of War, Senators Bankhead and
Murray have been active in pro-
tecting agricultural labor in their
respective sections of the country
ever since the Selective Service
law was originally passed.
"Although l have repeatedly
urged Selective Service Boards
to use h e utmost leniepcy in
handling requests for deferment
of essential farm labor, it still ap-
pears that a critical farm labor
shortage has developed through
out Montana and other Western
States which requires positive &C.
ton on the part of Congress to
remedy, Senator Murray sad.
these bills make it manGa-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-02-26
The CatOird

Insects and bugs make up Al pei
cent of the catbird's food and it is
doubtful i II would poach on do
mestic fruits if sufficient supr;y
of wild varieties were on hand.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-02-26
Oldest Renuhlic

The United States of America is
the worlds oldest existing republic
that began with a President as its
chief executive.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-02-26
Can't Swim

Although it cannot swim, the man.
o-war bird lives largely on fish,
snatching them from the surface or
catching flying fish in the air.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-02-26

When the newspaper business was
In its infancy, the reporter was
called "an emissary," the editor -
register"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-02-26
General Pershing's Family

The wife and three daughters of
General PershinG were burned -
death on August 27, 1915, in the
Preside at San Francisco, Calf.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

came through your new cotton socks after one wearing. Your wife complains that wartime two-way stretches don't stretch. Daughters new shoes lost most of their color in yesterdays shower. And that's imitation! For you have to reploce these inferior articles so much more quickly that the result is the same as if you paid 50 to 100 per cent more than the price of their pre-war counterpartS.
 The principal cause of this difficulty is as easy to explain as it is hard to solve: the armed forces require most of our wool and cotton and all our No. leather; rayon is needed in synthetic rubber tires; rubber itself of course, has gone to war, along with such things as steel and metallic dyes. Why can't there be price reduction to match the reduction in quality? There are several reasons, but the chief one seems to be that labor costs have risen. Some trades, like women's dresses and cloaks and suits, have been given pay increases. In other industries, new and inexperienced labor has upped production costs. Thus, many wholesalers find that, in spite of cheaper materials, they are paying as much in the end be- cause of other adjustments. And when there are savings in manufacturing costs, t1ACy dlC COO ollldll CO OO CllC COIlOulllCl much good. For example, a shirt that used to retail nationally at $2.25 now sells, with noticeably less cloth and no fast color or pre-shrunk guarantee, at SPA!
 Low-Price lines are disappearing in all fields. Manufacturers are concentrating on higher priced goods, where there is more profit. And buyers, with more money than ever before, are stunning the bargain basements anyway.
 So a good bit of our much-talked-of surplus wealth is being drained off in a wasteful way that doesn't benefit any body.
 Several of our usually. contentious government bureaus have pondered the situation, and for once they are in con- plete accord. They all agree that there is no apparent remedy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

The trouble and annoyance that results from the current restrictions on gas do not come to just few. All suffer equally from the existing conditions. This week we read about author Frances Parkinson Reyes who was quite put out because ration board ruling would not allow her to travel to her New Hampshire and Yer mont farms by car. Like many others Mrs. Reyes seemed to have a pretty good argument in her own favor, but, none theless and notwithstanding she had to travel the hard way - on crowded trains. Among her reasons listed were her need to travel in certain areas in her profes- sional capacity of writing; care needed for directing her farm work; and last, but not least, a spinal ailnent. All these things being so she took the train like most of us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
Of Rats and Men

The United States Army has gone to war against rats-the four-legged kind, n case there is any confusion. The Army's School of Military and Tropical Medicine has borrowed the Interior De- partment's rat expert, William E. Ritter, to teach it's officers rat control. And what he has to say about wiping out these long-tailed disease carriers applies equally to the species that wear swastikas or rising suns on their uniforms. { Complete rat control is possible" says MT. Ritter, Eff enough time and energy are devoted to it.
 "But," he adds, getting rid of rats is only half the story; continued efforts is necessary to keep them out'-which sounds like an admirable postwar policy.
 And speaking of rodents, nothing will ever convince us that it wasn't just hon. ing instinct that led the Japs to dig in on kiska-which is one of the Rat Islands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
A GOOD STOMACHFUL

According to Webster a stomach full is quantity sufficient to fill the stomach, while bellyful is an amount that satiates the appetite, completely satisfies hunger or de- sire for food. In common, and Webster insists vulgar parlance, bellyful in the fgurative sense im- plies that one has had even more than enough of anything, so much that one is surfeited or sick of it. And I mean Sick.
 Attending member of a family recently arrived from England I asked the mother how long the pa- tient had been sick. Oh, she hadn't been sick at all. After a brief dis pute we settled for the British usage sickness being nausea or vomiting illness being a malady across the water and in portions of Canada.
 But deplore N. Webster's quaint insistence on the nineteenth cen- tury view that belly is a vulgar word; moreover contend Webster is balled up or perhapus confused by embarrassment in defining belly ts "the abdomen" It should be clear from the rerivation of the word Gan Anglo-Saxon word mean ing bellows that the belly is the front wall of the abdomen and that the abdomen not the belly is the cavity containing or enclosing the organs of digestion. Let Noah know we don't say "limbS' if we mean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
Tools of War

There is an intriguing measure of poet ic justice in the recent discovery of a young Westinghouse engineer.
 He had found that precision fooled spa ghetti is much superior to the wire form erly used in holding tiny cables for cleo tronic tubes while they are being welded The electronic tubes go into war commu- nication instruments that play a vital part in the mop-up of Sicily and the bombing of Italian industry.
 The secret of the spaghetti is that, once used, it can be quickly burned out, where as the wires formerly employed were hard to remove.
 The young engineer who discovered the trick-and who loathes a spaghetti din- ner as he loathes the institution of Fa- Scism-haS hired an Italian die maker to prepare his indstrial spaghetti on Italian machines.
 Meat balls or tomato sauce, Badoglio?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

delusion that your illness is due to nervous exhaustion"-that is ab- Surd.
 Hernia Cured
 Four months ago, you kindly re- ferred me to Dr. - for injection treatment of hernia. I am happy to inform you that four physicians have lately examined me and they can find no sign of hernia. I re- ceived about IA injections, and re- mained at my regular work through out the treatment. (H. -)
 Answer-The Army accepts men who have had the injection treat ment for hernia, provided exam 1nation shows 8 satisfactory result three months after the last injec- tion. This fact ought to put a quietus in the near-surgeons who try to convince gullible customers that the injection treatment is mo good" The plain truth is that there are at least as many occurrences following radical operation as there are after injection treatment.
 Timid
 I am 35, have a daughter aged seven. Would like so much to have another baby, but am afraid I have waited too long and am too old. Would it be dangerous at my age?
 (Mrs. T. H. MacW)
 AnSwer-You should read the chapter "Her First at Forty" in the booklet Preparing for Maternity" flor copy send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress. Don't let the old woman get you down. You're just a girl.
 Dan Druff Is Gone
 One jar of the pomade suggested in your Hair pamphlet did more good than sii the expensive treat ments at the hair dressers. My dandru1 is gone and I am grate- ful. (Mrs. E. J0
 Answcr-Any reader may have the pamphlet Care of the Hair and Control of Dandruff"-send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for 1t - do not send clipping. Copyright, 1943, John P. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
Imitation? It's Here

The stubborn and still indicisive fight against the "inflationary spiral" of wages and prices is one of the home fronts most important battles. And in one sector it is being lost. We have been watching governmental agencies popping away with ceilings and subsidies and Little Steel formulas. But in the meantime another inflationary force has broken through, after a stealthy advance, and seems entrenched beyond any dislodging. This new inflationary enemy came in when the quality of necessary goods was cut, without correspondin., cut in re- tail prices. Perhaps economists might say that imitation isn't the right word, but the results certainly are inflationary. You may have noticed it already in things like this: That suit you bought six months ago fits like sack and is begin ming to wear out already. Your toes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
Reverse Lend-Lease L

The average American, while approv- ing Lend-LeaSe, has probably regarded the program as a rather altruistic, One- way arrangement, prompted by practical as well as humanitarian necessity. He naS heard of reverse Lend-Lease," to be sure. But he has concluded that it is an arrangement whereby we swap planes and tanks and guns for Scotch whiskey ana Harris tweed; a goodwill gesture rom our hard-preSsed Allies, but pro- gram of only token proportions. This impression was corrected in the case of England by Brigadier- General Albert J. Browning, director of the Army Service Forces Purchasing Division, at Wash 1ngton press conference following his re- turn from an overseas inspection trip. He told an enlightening and encouraging story, not in terms of pounds and dollars, but in the perhaps more vital terms of shipping space and production efficiency. The British furnished to American forces based in the United Kingdom, during the last seven months of 1942, articles and equipment and construction material totaling 3,846,92O tons Mathematically, that IS the net cargo capacity of more than 500 Liberty ships Actually, it would have taken larger fleet to carry these products overseas, even though some of the raw materials were shipped from the United States, because many of these products were bulky spacewasters
 There was nothing very spectacular about Brltain's output for it's American Soldier-guests. But a big army needs hundreds of items besides planes and tanks and guns and ammunition. It needs coal and filing cases and tooth brushes and lumber. It needs tanks of oxygen and acetylene, it needs drugs and cement and copper wire and garbage cans, fire extinguishers and mobile kit ~chenS and Shoelaces and saws and ham, nlers and soap. Britain made all these and more, big things, little things, most of them commonplace, but all adding up to just as much shipping space as the tools Of frontline warfare. In addition, the United Kingdom has provided American forces with tons of food, thousands of pairs of gloves, millions of socks British workers made 50,000 bicycles for Ameri- cans, because American cycle manufac- turers are now making munitions
 Pre-war America was almost wholly de- pendent upon imported surgical instru- ments, so British workers are supplying the Army with scalpels and forcepts AAoy dl0 AudhlIlS muCH luIldInIudDle material that would be dangerous to ship And, of course, they are relieving the "arsenal of democracy" of countless jobs that would consume millions of man. hours.
 General Browning's report should leave us all feeling that there is a good deal more to be said for Lend-Lease than con- plaints of the "quart of milk for every Hottentot" variety.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

When is ice cream a frozen dessert, and vice versa? Imitation ice cream is not legal in Connecticut so we have been informed. If the imitation is labelled ice cream, therein lies the illegality; however, if it is labelled frozen dessert, it can be sold as such and the matter is within the law. The question arose when a leading ice cream company made plans to manufacture an imitation ice cream and by calling it something other than ice cream the action is quite legal. And if it tastes like ice cream, that's all that is necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

Bakhmeteff. "The same rela- tion," was the reply, that George Washington was to Booker T." .. When Elmer Davis received a cable in Morocco that FDR had spanked OWI's broadcast about the "moronic little king" of Italy, Davis sent back this telegram: Maybe broadcast was a mistake but I still think the House of Savoy is a second class hotel" ... Brazilian patriotism and anti Argentine feeling are so strong in Rio De Janeiro that when Foreign Minister Aranha was running one of his own Argen- tine thoroughbreds against Brazilian horse, Aranha began roofing for the Brazilian. He said he couldn't bear to have anything Argentine win even though he owned it Tom Johnson of the Army Jeeps will pioneer the new Pan American highway through Central America. With a jeep he expects to gett through it sev- eral months before the road is scheduled for completion.
 PRIORITY OF DANGER
 Behind the closed doors of the OCD in Washington, plans for the civilian defense of the country are being revised. The new plans take into account the decreasing likelihood of attack and the grow ing public indifference to black outs and bomb shelters.
 War chiefs insist the danger of attack has not passed, but they admit there is. no point in whip ping up the public to a frenzy ci fear, especially in the safer areas.
 They have now divided the country roughly into three zones, with the following priority of danger-1. Pacific coast, 2. At Atlantic coast. 3. interior area.
 The coastal areas are 200 miles deep, so that everything 200
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
Selected Poem
CICADA

F. F. Rockwell in the New York Times Still summer holds the land, and motonless Clouds ride at anchor on the molten sky. Unblinkng the slow sun his soaring eye Turns downward on the parching earths distress. Through breathless air that undulates with heat No sound save one: the penetrating, thin Solo andante of violin 5hrilled from the locust's safe and far retreat. Yet now, as on pivot turns the year.
 From this mid-moment forth the symphony Of the long season, like rising sea VIII beat its rhythm on the listening ear At first with soft low woodwinds, creeping in; Then minor strings, faint and crepuscular Swelling, crescendo to full orchestra of autumn insects: and, at last, the din
 Of brasses and cymbals of storm crashing trees By hghtnings riven to their gnarled knees
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28


 wasn't anything that could be told. The British held out for no press conference at all. That would have stirred up the animals and would have left hep ress with nothing to do but pan the conference as a news flop. So wiser American counsel prevailed, and at a two-hour ses- sion with the Prime Minister which the President admitted lasted until an early hour in the morning, the text of the joint statemen was work ed out and agreement reached to hold the press conference at which it was made public.
 THE PRESIDENT was actually apologetic to the press for having so little to tell-and that in itself is news. It is the first time in mem-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
Press Comment
THE STATE BUSY A MANSION
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\44oA VAOA0 AAASS/
 Connecticut can now lift up its head and feel at home among sister states which provide executive man. sions for their governors. The spe- cial legislative committee, with ap- proval of the State Finance Advis ory Committe, has purchased the attractive, spacious and commodious G. F. c. Williams property on Prospect avenue. This matter has been under discussion more or less for many years. Now that we did something about it, we did 1t in a big way.
 The great house and five acres of grounds, which originally cost $300,- GOO to build, was bought for just under $40, 900, but the sum of $55,- GOO which was appropriated for making alterations and repairs will bring the cost to $95, Another $20, 1000 is to be spent after the war for additional changes. The estab- lishment will cost perhaps $16,000 year for maintenance, including grounds and house staff. Thus the living expenses of the governor will be minus heating, rent or hired help. All this is a long leap into the luxury class. It may be seriously questioned whether the expensive alterations are necessary. The item may prove to have considerable po- litical dynamite in it when the per- ennial question is debated as to which political party is best to be trusted with the spending of public money.
 Only a few years ago the governor as a part-t time official recevied A. $50. Then the governorship was made a full time job and the salary was increased to $12,000 of which Governor Baldwin is the first ye- cipient. Now we complete the pro- gress by providing an official man. sion. Connecticut has grown up to mature, size. whatever its dimen- sions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28
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 pr. William Brady, National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

miles inland is interior" and rel atively safe. The Pacific coast is regarded as more dangerous than the Atlantic, because the Japs are both uncontrolled and unpredictable.
 When the revision is finally ironed out, public announce ments will be made, and there will be a general relaxation of defense activities. But CCG VIII insist that the minimum meas ures of protection shall be ready for the siren.
 Decision to relax the program was difficult for OCD, since it meant a scaling down of person. nel, and a los sof jobs through out the organization.
 AIR FORCE DUPLICATION
 Advocates of single air force point to the manpower saving that might be accomplished, right under the noses of the Chiefs of Staff, if Army Air Forces and Naval Aviation were combined.
 On the edge of Washington, separated only by the Potomac river, are the Army's Bowling field and the Navy's air base at Ana costia. Both fields are equipped with many of the same facilities, and those facilities are manned by forces which duplicate each other. Each field has its own radio tower and radio staff, each has its separate communication staff, its own meteorological bureau and staff, it's own medical staff, it's own supply depot - and dozen other serivces required at a big air field.
 A single air force, combining Army and Navy, would do away with this duplication both of equipment and personnel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

through his fingers when his prede- cessor handed it to him.
 One of the most amazing things in the world is that good parents sometimes seem to be unable to pass their goodness on to their children. They run the race of life well them selves, but they do not seem to be ableto pas on the precious thing they carry to those who come after. This may be through carelessness. Many parents who live good lives who tumble the baton. The young folks may be distracted by the things of the world, or may want too eagerly to get into the race and have the pleasant excitement of it., or may be avid to reach some goal which may mean social position, money, Or power. Hence the fum- bling of the baton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

around Quebec for more than a week, their ton- gues hanging out a foot to lap up any little drop of information that might be drop ped, or to gaze parch = mouthed
 and dry-eyed at the mirages of news in the Cha teau Frontenac and the Citadel, if they could just get at them.
 Thnrn ciy,y,l,,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-28

pass the baton to the boys who take up the race where Many a swift run they le ve off. ner has fumbled
 the b a t on, and many a nervous boy, ready to dash
 away to victory, has been so eager to run that he has let the pre- cious baton slip