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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Come, Josephine!

Have you filed your application for postwar airline from here to there? It doesn't need to be very specific; you can always decide later where you want to start, which way you intend to go, and where you hope to wind up. Neither is it required that you know anything about flying, or traffic, or aviation manage ment, or that you have plane, money or packers. A piece of paper, pencil, three-cent stamp and imagination will do the trick. American Aviation, a trade magazine, discovers that 80 companies and individuals already have filed appli cations with the Civil Aeronautics Board for routes that would total 350,777 miles without counting those who want to start an airline but don't trouble to say just whence or whither Some of the ap- plicantS are sound, established entre- preneurs-air lines, trucking, bus, rail- road and steamship companies. Others are paper" companies, women, even high school boys.
 The description "paper company" can te very damning, but needn't be- One of the paper companies, presumably, is the group of ferry pilots organized as Trans OSCeliiiS All AillCo, 1IlC, WlllCIl llco lCSlo- tered with the SEC it's original stock is- sue. These men know flying and know great deal about the international avia- tion situation.
 Recently 16 major domestic air lines got together on a declaration of princi- pies for postwar expansion, worldwide, which calls for free and open competi- tion." These companies intend to get into the expansion scrap when the war is over. Public interest in the helicopter is refltced by applications for 75,922 miles of such lines of which 49, 130 are sought by the Greyhound Corp, which is new in aviation but veteran in transportation.
 w. B. Stout, one of the big men in American aviation, now with Consoli- dated-Vultee, predicts flying automobiles and trucks and helicabs (not the Parisian or Washington type - the "heli" here comes from helicopter) for commuters.
 All is confusion, all is ambition all is aspiration and enthusiasm in the post war aviation field But of one thing we can be Sure-a new flying era is no fur ther away than the time it will take to clean up the Axis and shift our industrial stance.
 So, to paraphrase the old popular song -"Come, Josephine, in My Flying Ma chine":
 up, up, little bit higher,
 My imaginations on fire.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Fred Stone at Seventy

Not so long ago we noted that one of our favorite actors was going to play in a summer revival of one of our favorite plays. The actor is the famous comedian and one-ti1ne dancer, Fred Stone. The play is "You Can't Take It With You"
 Since then we have also noted that Fred Stone observed his seventieth birthday last week Somehow or other we always think of Fred Stone as still young. Only few years ago h.. was negotiating intricate patterns in tap. He was an artist with his feet and this par ticular talent added to his natural flair for comedy have made him one of our leading American actors.
 It is long time since MT. Stone slith- cred around the stage as the famous scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz". After that he danced his way through one show after another, eventually introducing his daughters, each in turn, and always dancing with them ex aequo. As his dancing days became numbered he very gracefully glided into straight comedy and has been playing the role of Gramp in the above-named play.
 To Fred Stone at seventy all extend hearty greetings with hopes that he will be on the other side of the footlights for many and many day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

Let's be fair to the farmer. Most of them want to do the right thing by GUS toners and their products. Marvin Jones, war food administrator is urging "sup- port" that will insure continued produc
 ton. The farm production question is hard to understand. Most of us cannot understand food shortages and prices when you consider the amount of produce raised Most of us, or good many of us, come from farmer stock here in New Eng land and elsewhere and know, after fashion, the lay of the land, and what it can produce. The farmer and those that did business with the farmer in the old days seemed to get along, and as MT. Jones said: q often heard my farmer father say that he would far rather be assured at planting time that he would get a reasonable price than take the chance of a higher, or lower price at harvest time" He goes on to say that farmers are not anxious to get rich out of the war but would like adequate price protection. Let's be fair to the farmer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Another Freedom

The Atlantic Charter does not pro- claim nor does our Bill of Rights guar antee this freedom, yet we have retained it intact because, in our most pessimistic moments, we have faith that nobody bred in democracy will choose anything else. It is freedom to listen to the other follows arguments.
 It must shock authoritarians to read that in the midst of the Sicilian campaign our soldiers and sailors listened freely to German and Italian propaganda pro- grams. Can you imagine any German, Japanese or Italian newspaper carrying, as regular feature, list of enemy short wave stations with their megacycle posi- ton and the hours when they broadcast "news" doctored for foreign consumption? Such things as this, among many others. make it good to be an American.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Double Talk

The Office of Price Administration is m a very unenviable position. It was established to perform certain duties which inevitably irritate, in one way or another, almost every man, woman and child in the country. We do not feel that the OPA has functioned satisfac- torily. We have criticized it frequently and often bitterly, for various misfeas- anceS and nonfeasanceS There is no req son to doubt that we shall do so again. But with all it's faults the OPA has justi- fled it's existence. It never had a chance to stop imitation all by itself. It could do To more than sit on the safety valve while, inside the boiler, disastrous over- pressure was being built up as other agencies permitted incomes to skyrocket against an undersupply of purchasable commodities. In spite of which, imitation in the prices of controlled commodities las been small compared with that in the prices of uncontrolled goods
 That is why ones blood bois at such double talk as appears in a recent retail brocers' magazine which pays superficial tribute to the necessity of having price control agency and then goes on to de- nLunce price control as unconstitutional aEd un-American and to urge that retail :,ItCClo uCly Cllc oTA lldLly 1IlS IS str-nge talk from group which accord ing to Department of Commerce figures, up to the end of April had been making fife greatest profits in it's history. That date is mentioned not because retail grocers stopped making record profits then, but merely because detailed statis- tical records for the intervening period are not at hand.
 The OPA has not really succeeded, but who is to damn the agency for that? Do you remember the historic press confer ence of the Food Committee for War the one to which newspapermen were in- vited to hear the businessmen announce specific program for curing our food troubles? All the big shots were repre- sented manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, packers, farmers, the farmers union. They were going to show up those college professors of the OPA. What hap pened? Oh, yes. They apologized to the reporters for troubling them. It seems that the business men hadn't been able to evolve the specific program they prom ised, so they couldn't announce it. Any body is entitled to curse any govern mental agency for actual failures, but let's be fair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

What the German radio claimed was thath a squadron of Nazi to- pedo planes Con Friday, Aug. 10 sank 10000 tons of Allied ship ping including two destroyers and four large merchant ships, just east of Gibraltar, as big con- voy was entering the Mediter- ranean.
 The interesting thing about the Nazi communique was that the raid was reported made by tor- pedo planes. It happens that torpedo planes have very lim- tied radius between 300 and 400 miles. Because of the tremen- dous weight of the torpedo they cannot fly far; cannot spare much time lowering around in the air looking for their target. In fact some of the torpedo planes which went out to get the Bis marck were purely sacrifice planes never expected to come back.
 Compared to this 3OO-40O mile radius, 1t is a full 800 miles from Gibraltar to the nearest base in France.
 Big mystery, therefore, is where the Nazi torpedo planes came from. Was it the nearby Balearic Isles, or a hidden point on the coast of Spain? This is the first case in long time that Axis torpedo planes have been able to penetrarte anywhere near Gibraltar.
 The Spanish radio gave further corroborating deitals told how the Allied convoy was composed of 70 ships bound for Africa and how German pilots had been picked up by Spanish ships, while German plane made an emergency landing at Aguilas.
 But there was nothing to ex- plain how German torpedo planes were able to make this record breaking flight. So, either the Nazis have developed new long g-range torpedo plane or else Franco has given the Nazis a secret base in Spain.
 NOTE: Secretary Hull recently told newsmen that he was en- tirely satisfied with his foreign policy, considered Franco with the United States.
 YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS
 Who gets Mexico's bananas?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Selected Poem
BEYOND THE HILL

(By Kate Rennie Archer in The Christian
 Science Monitor) Yellow across cut felds Looped haycock shadows leoparding even gold, Lengthenng inch by inch in lowered sunshine Slowly each east-laid fold pleating the woven canyon Slips out of warmth to cold. Yuccas candle thin twilight, pale among altar brush. Sprinked song of night-brd falls through the mountain hush, Spiling, in separate crystals, out of alderbush. Silence is blanket-heavy Breathing grows sleep ing-stiu. I am drawn by silent calling from the other side of the hill. But the bland, gold gaze of the star swung there tells nothing And never will. Yet-the darkness seems wide as doorway, And something calls thereon the hill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

penitence His heavy hard descends to smite. The devine wrath is mani- fested in many ways. Sometimes a punishment which seems especially designed for particular offender comes down upon him and his folly. More often, however, the punish ment grows out of the mounting calamities of the evil enterprise it. self. God has ordained that evil brings suffering. and as the evil in- creases the punishment increases in like proportion.
 If we think about it for a moment we see that this is not at all in- consistent with the abounding love of God. This love is offered to all men. Those who refuse 1t not only do themselves infinite harm; they corrupt the environment in which others must live. Sin unpunished and unrebuked would soon destroy all goodness from of the face of the earth. In Gods perfect nature love, justice, and wrath are perfectly ball. anced and His wrath against evil si anced and His wrath against evil is as much part of His divine nature as are justice and love.
 All Rights Reserved -Babson News
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

long-wave relay of his short- wave broadcast More and more women have become Wash ington correspondents. When Secretary Hull opened a. recent press conference with his usual, Good morning, gentlemen" he looked around and added, q should say, Good morning, leadies, too. The ladies have increased in number" Want ad appear ing in Washington papers: "Sten- ographers, Typists, Clerks, Ex- perienced, Excellent Salary, SO- VET PURCHASING COMMIS- SION, 3355 18th ST." .. Among the diverse activities of Secretary of Interior Ickes is publication of a list of Russian place names, with phonetic guide to pronuncia- tion, such as, "Putilv-Poo- -telv".
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
CRAVING HAIR AND
 HARDENING ARTERIES

Discussing the treatment of vsri- cose veins, Dr. Gerald H. Pratt mentions thorough survey of 537 employees of a large metropolitan department store, all of whom had worked for IS years or more, all over forty. X-ray evidence of arterio- sclerosis was obtained in 46 per cent of these employes-in A per cent of the men, but only 18 per cent Of the women. In some instances the arteriosclerosis (evidence of calcif1- cation in artery walis) was not otherwise apparent-that is, in l2 per cent of the entire group the men or women would not have been aware of the condition except for the X-ray evidence. On the other hand, in those who had advanced changes in the arteries clinically manifest hardening of the arteries, were 30 per cent of the men and guess how many of the women.
 No. Not twenty per cent of them. not ten per cent of them. .. Times up-I'll have to tell you. Not a single woman, nor a married one, for that matter, presented any clinical evidence of arteriosclerosis.
 How the dickens do the women keep their arteries so nice and soft? Why do women have a longer life expectation than men? Why are there more widows (sod variety) tearing around raising-well why more widows than widowers? l don't know, but 1t is my conjec- ture that women outlive men be- cause they behave better than men.
 When it comes to the condition of the veins, the men show to bet ter advantage. Forty per cent of the men had varicose veins, 70 per cent of the women-that is vari- cose veins that were giving more or less trouble. Not just prominent veins such as many individuals have and require no treatment ex- cept for cosmetic effect-that is, to improve appearance. Even among the women who had never been pregnant 60 per cent had varicose veins.
 Then Dr. Pratt made a significant remark:
 Tt may be that further study
 will show that like the graying of
 hair and wrinkles arterial changes
 are metabolic and not pathologic
 unless some acicdent causes occlu-
 sion.'
 I wish I knew enough to tell how to prevent graying of hair premature development of wrinkles, hardening of the arteries and the other manifestations of the involu- ton process commonly called aging. But I can't pretend to know enough to do that.
 Where Dr. Pratt refers to old age manifestations as metabolic I would call them nutritional, and in- deed I believe the manifestations of premature old age are to large degree due to nutritional defi- ciencies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Press Comment
IN KIND!
Bridgeport Telegraph

The canniness of Benjamin Frank lin seems inexhaustible.
 Take for example his unique plan for multiplying the good his money might do.
 hile in France, the colonial statesman and scientist sent ten gold pieces to needy friend as a loan. With the money went note counselling the friend not to return the equivalent direct to the lender but rather pass it along to anther in equal need.
 Furthermore, wrote Franklin, 'en- join him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he is able, and shall meet with another in equal need
 Thus the sage Franklin hoped his gold pieces would go through many hands before they would come to some knave who would stop this chain of good. This is trick of mine," added Ben, flor doing a great deal of good with a little money"
 Such scheme works with things other than money.
 A friendly tip to boy confused by the maze of events bearing him down; cheerful visit to the bed- side of someone sick; a friendly letter or word of encouragement to someone who is blue-all these may louis d'ors.
 To be sure, the obligation to null tiply by passing them on, rather than back to the gived in thanks is not explicitly stated. But the fact is that the process works thta way, none the less.
 Friendliness, thanks to some wise provision of human nature, be- gets friendliness. Those who re- ceive are the more eager to give.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Current Comment

We are anxious to see a peace in which Italy can play her part as a respectable nation once again. British Foreign Minister An
 thony Eden.
 People in the occupied areas once were our customers. At first they will have no money to buy goods from us. The amount we spend in helping them to become self-supporting is trivial com pared to the amount they will spend with us once they resume the creation of wealth. Foreign Relief Director Herbert
 Lehman.
 I desire that you achieve a pro. duction record so far superior a: to be entirely beyond the imagi. nation of the enemy aircraft pro. duction plan.
 Jap Premier Hideki Tojo t
 Mitsubislli aircraft workers.
 Before the war Stalin wa! nothing to MT. Churchill but { blood-stained tyrant, and MT Churchill was nothing to Stalir but a type of bourgeois imperial ist. Now they know one another as Winston and Uncle Joe. Ina is enormous improvement.
 George Bernard Shaw.
 The challenge and the opportu' nity to win the battle of the peace has joined mankind. Victory dc mands our best thought, our bes energies. our everlasting faith. Vice President Henry A. Wal ! lace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

It is stated that more tin cans are thrown away than are salvaged. When you carefully save and flatten out every can that comes into your house and inn agine everybody else doing the same thing you make mistake because five million are thrown away weekly, 1t IS said It takes time and is monotonous to keep the cans for salvage, but it IS, after all, an easy task in comparison with many other war jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

fore the end of fly time. The req son is simply a shortage of chick en feed-not the scratch feed, nec- essarily, but the laying mash with corn and vitamins and uf in it that makes little red hens lay eggs for gentlemen like nobody's business.
 If there is one thing this Victory Garden and back r,orrl Do,,1tr,, ro;c
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

love. Many people reason that God cannot be loving at one time, and angry at another.
 Yet the Bible certainly teaches that with infinite severity God pun ishes evil and that when His patience is exhausted with the sinners per- Vorcitu O ', d i'm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

HARD TO FACE-BUT REAL
 Few moderns like to admit that the wrath of God is reality which every human being has to face and take into account It seems at variance with the oft-repeated Biblican declaration that God is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
GIRL SCOUTS
(Boston PoSt)

Sensational growth of the Girl Scout organization during wartime should bring general satisfaction, and it helps refute reports that large numbers of our young girls have been getting out of hand.
 Since Pearl Harbor, there has been a 21 per cen increase in the membership. Not only that. but in the last year 21,000 adults have joined to take on the responsibilities of leadership among the girls. The organization now has the greatest membership in its history, number ing 793, ,670. Its remarkable growth is a good thing for the nation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Disease Is . Condition

Asking a physician for informa- ton about the health of policy holder, should we say the now ex- sisting disease condition" or the now existing diseased condition?"
 (D. F. O. Answer-If disease exists 1t is unnecessary to say now existing-- that's like reporting back" or "re- ferring back" Disease is condi- ton, it should be sufficient to say the existing disease"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
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, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

Understaffed hospitals are having a time of it these days. Help has come to the ninety hospitals in New York, how ever, with the services of 900 Boy Scouts who will work free to help out in the emergency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
A Thought for Today

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone. lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came great wrath from the Lord of hosts.-Zechar- iah 7:12.
 Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.- Shakespeare
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20

Yesterdays best someWhere-in-the- Pacific story told how native pupil arrived at school with the latest American slang greeting her with-"Hi-yah, babe! Whats cOokin"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Fourteen

am fourteen years old, recently graduated from grade school. How can I get rid of pimples? I. weigh III pounds. thought 1t might be too much starch. Please don't put 1t in the paper. (--).
 Answer-You are one of the thousands of boys and girls of your age who have the same trouble, sNn. I was, too, at your age and later. No, it isn't too much starch. Send me stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for advice about pimples and blackheads and exces- sively oily skin-doctors call 1t acne.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
It's a Mental Defect

A year ago went on diet of 4 crackers day. I then weighed 120 pounds am 63 inches tall. Now I've lost so much weight and feel so weak all the time-have been taking iron pills, but don't seem to get back any strength.
 (Mrs. R. L)
 Answer-As Barnum might say. there is one born every second who takes the Hollywood Hokum seri- ously. It is a manifestation of men, tai defect. A girl or woman 63 inches tall should weigh 125 or 130 pounds. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, ask for How to Gair Weight" Meanwhile youu had bet. ter take good daily ration of vita min B-complex-say teaspoonfu] after food three times daily of a syrup containing 500 units B1 plus other factors, iron gluconate, man. ganese, in the teaspoonful.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Foot Itch

You suggested Whitfield's oint- ment for my husbands foot itch he was promptly cured after long suffering. (Mrs. B. J. H)
 Answer-Thank you. Ma'am. Pam phlet on Foot Itch available on re- quest-send stamped envelope bear ing your address.
 Copyright, 1943, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon rises at 1o:57 D. m. (war time), Sun rises at 6:06 a m. sets at 7:45 p, m (war time). Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Chicken Feed Becomes a
 New Scarcity
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent)

There are bad prospects today that some of the city and suburban folks who have gone in for raising chickens in a back yard hen coop may be eating their prize bullets before the snow flies or even be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-20
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Air Torpedo Sinking of Allied Ships Casts Suspicion Spoin
 kozs Have Bases Spanish Soil Have Developed New Pone Mexico Sends Bononos Conodo Because of U Price Cens Coptoin Reports Exemplary Behavior of Our Soldiers Afieo
BY DREW PEARSON

 last which, rue sounds very suspicious for supposedly neutral Spain Islands Spain