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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
Selected Poem
SPRING 1913

Helene Mullins in The New York Times0
In the doomed ground shall stir life this Spring
The disrupted lands are past the stage Of budding
To craters, burned fields no change Of season can
bring
Anything other than bombs and the heavy thudding
or conquerors' boots. For the ground like man.
requires
Freedom from fear, from horror in excess,
Before 1t ripen; where Is the field that admires
Violence, greed, indifference, sulenness?
Doomed not by Nature, but by inventive man,
The ground enduring It's hopeless hunger for seed,
No longer strains against the Total Plan
OF death and destruction II waits for man 10 lead
The way 10 salvation the victors who can presume
To heed the promise Of Spring, and cooperate.
Only the total victors can lift the doom
OF barrenness decreed by a cryptic fate
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Views Of The Press

aircraft that carry life RATS. Also
shark-repellant substance is to be
distributed soon.
A feature of the radio device Is
that one need not be radio oper-
ator to use 1t. A hand crank oper-
ates generator that produces cur
rent, and the apparatus automatic
ally sends out the sos" signal Of
distress, or by Tipping switch, the
"AA" signal used in the North Sea
area. The set Is capable Of sending
messages 200 miles in the daytime
and farther al night. Also. 1t will
serve as beam, or radio lighthouse
to guide rescue parties.
Thus war brings another safe
guard to those who go down to the
sea in ships or why fly the ocean
skies Out OF the slaughter Of mil
lions comes concentration on saving
individuals. 1t testifies TO the SUI
preme important of the human unit
without which there could be no
armies or navies, nor any nations.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
African Sickness

The Italians have a name for what
ruined the Axis in North Africa. Benito
Mussolini, a former war correspondent,
calls it african sickness. This is a
virulent disease which attacks the en-
pires that dictators try to found upon
defiance of the laws of God and Man.
1t is highly contagious. The Mediter-
ranean is not broad enough to keep it long
out OF Europe. But no sickness is self
produced, and every sickness is pread by
germs of one sort or other. We would
like to believe that the Axis African sick
ness was an act Of God, which demon
strates the supremacy Of mind over mat
ter, OF right over might. Unfortunately
that is not the case. The United States
produced the little bugs that destroyed
the Axis in North Africa. We made them
in our industrial plants. They take the
form of tanks and planes, tank destroyers
and cannon and mortarS, machine guns
and bazookas and automatic rifles and
carbines, high-octane gasoline, bombs and
shells, land mines that is to say, Of
ordnance and munitions The victory
was United Nations achievement. The
British provided most of the manpoWer.
The French contributed substantially to
the constant pressure which cracked
Rommel's proud Afrika Korps. But all
three armies used, almost exclusively,
Anerican-made weapons and munitions.
Our manpower vastly outnumbered the
Germans and Italians. Yet this numeri-
cal superiority would have been useless
if the Arsenal of Democracy had not sup
piled the materiel for an overwhelming
superiority of fire power, both on the
ground and in the air. Our Ma "Sher-
man" medium tank proved its superiority
to anything the Axis had. Our MILO
tank destroyer, mounting fully-enclosed
three-inch high-Velocity gun, demon
strated it's capacity to knock out anything
Rommel had, including the cotton Mark
VI tanks from which the Desert Fox
expected SO much,
When the inside story of the Victory
of Africa is told, it will be tale OF su-
preme heroism, of brilliant leadership,
but above all tale of how there was con-
centrated, thousands of miles from this
country, an almost indescrbable volume
of devastating superiority in fire power.
That, also, is how we must win in Italy,
in France in Greece, in Norway, in Fin
land, in the Low Countries wherever
our second European front or fronts may
be established.
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problems 10 QeUeTTllI1e uUernaClOIal
policies on aviation. Then and only
then will the nations of the world
be ready to make treaties to facili-
tate the development of the coming
inevitable "air age" that people now
talk about so expansively yet SO
loosely.
What international air routes are
Of major commercial Importance TO
the United States?
Should international airlines be
permitted to land their planes only
at special points near the border?
Or should there be landing rights
at any airport, with specified free
zones in the interior, at which in
ternational cargo and passengers
could be unloaded2
QUESTIONS MUST
BE ANSWERED
Should domestic commercial air.
lines be permitted to fly interna-
tional routes? And should the in
ternational operators be permitted
to fly domestic route extensions
within the U. S.?
There you have simplified state
ment Of some Of the main questions
that will have to be answered be-
fore anyone can know what he's
talking about in discussing the flu
ture Of air transportation. And there
will be many lovely fights before
they're settled.
Half dozen applications from U.
S. airlines are now on file before
the Civil Aeronautics Board to ex-
tend their routes into international
operations.
Northeast Airlines now operating
In New England, wants to extend
Its operations over half q dozen
routes from Boston to London. Paris,
Reykjavik, Copenhagen, Stockholm
Leningrad and Prague. Chicago and
Southern would extend It's lines
from Chicago to Nome, Vladivostok,
Shanghai, Singapore and Java.
Northwest Airlines has ambitions to
fly several routes from the Twin
Cities and Seattle to Nome, Yakutsk
and Pieping; one branch going from
there to Shanghai and Manila, the
other to Chungking and Calcutta.
APPLICATIONS HAVE
LITTLE MEANING
These and other similar applica-
tons are interesting rs indications
OF what entirely responsible COM
mercial airline operators are dream
ing about, but they have little real
meaning. Filing first application
gives no priority rights on any route.
Right after Pearl Harbor, the Civil
Aeronautics Board froze every appli-
cation before 1t. In August, 1912,
this was altered so that all cases
on which testimony had been heard
principally airmail rate cases
would be concluded, but that new
applications would not be acted upon
for the duration unless required by
the national defense.
But even after the war, none OF
these applications can be acted on
unless there is predetermined ma
tional policy on such matters, fol-
lowed by international agreements
OF the governments concerned on
what rights they are willing to
grant.
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RACIAL DETERIORATION

Old pupil says she began reading
this column, at her fanily's instiga-
ton, and she can remember when
DIR. Brady did not want girls to
bob their hair, and would never
trust anybody who smoked a Gig
arctic"
Now I can assure the pupil that
OF Doc Brady hasn't changed much
he still doesn't want girls to bob
their hair-and he still takes the
same attitude he took then in ref
erence to smoking. incidentally, he
offers $25 war bond to the first
person who can show by documen-
tary evidence that he ever said he
would never trust anybody who
smoked cigarette. There the old
pupil exaggerates bit. Dipping
back into the files 1 find I said
this:
"A boy who acquires the cigarette
habit invariably exhibits stigmata
of femininity, and girl who splintS
herself in her developing years Is
pretty sure to show more or less
masculinity in her general make
up
Later I said:
"A lad who INDUCES in cigarettes
or pipe while attending high
| school is pretty dangerous person
for real boys or girls to be forced
to associate with. In my opinion
that lad ought to be expelled from
school for the general welfare and
the maintenance Of morale"
| That is my considered view Of the
matter today.
But that is not equivalent to say
ing I would not trust anybody who
smokes a cigarette. If a person
| who has attained adult development
! physical and moraD wishes to
smoke there is no reason I know
of why he or she shouldn't. But
there are plenty of reasons why
children should not be permitted
to indulge-and we are all children
so far as physical and moral de-
velopment and health are con-
cerned, until we attain the age Of
% to Is years. For example, until
we cut all our teeth, or all we are
going to cut.
| Take two boys OF, say is or l6
years. one being non-smoker be-
cause he mas given a pledge that
he will not smoke before he has
reached adult age-as every WELL
reared boy should be asked by his
parents, teachers or some one who
loves the boy. to do: the other
being boy who smokes either OH
the sly or openly, as his parents
have not been greatly concerned
about his development and char
acter. Which of the two boys would
you prefer to trust or to employ
or to back or sponsor in any way?
There is something lacking in the
boy or girl who cultivates the
cigarette habit in childhood or
youth, and you just can't get around
! n
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Jones company could undertake
the construction Of shipyard for
the government.
We've heard from the Army
about the fine job you've done in
building Army camps" Admiral
Land said, land we need some
body like you.'
I'VE don't know anything
about ships" replied J. A. Jones,
who Is getting along In years.
He went back to bed, forgot even
to mention the conversation to
his sons who run the business.
by accident they heard about
one week later, and that was the
beginning Of the Wainwright
Yard at Panama City, Fla.
This one-time sleepy fishing
village of 1000 Is now swollen to
10000 with revamped transport
tation system carrying workers
back and forth all over the coun-
try. The buses, the ferries, the
extra housing, the shipyard it
self-all are owned by the United
States government.
In that respect the Wainwright
yard Is different from most other
shipyards. 1t is a complete gov
eminent project, operated for the
Maritime Commission by the J. A.
Jones company. Workers pay
rent to the Maritime Commission,
pay bus fare to the Commission,
even buy milk Shipped in from
wisconsin, from the Maritime
Commission.
If anything like this had been
attempted in the Brain Trust days
of Rex Tugwell, the cry of social
ism would have reverberated
through the headlines - especially
from the Chicago Tribune which
Joseph M. Medill founded. But as
far as building ships Is concerned,
the system works most efficiently,
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the winning of this war.

the winning of this war.
We are not going TO lose the war be-
cause of the proportion of time lost thus
far in strikes, slowdowns, vacations and
other disruptive activities. But already
our victory has been delayed by these.
Every day added TO the war costs hun
dreds - perhaps thousands - of Ameri-
can lives. The vast majority of workers
who are sticking to their jobs will profit
by having the dilatory minority forced
to keep at work.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
Connally Bill

The Senators who passed the Connally
anti-strike bill, and the representatives
who are strengthening it, must expect to
be subjected to bitter attack on the theory
that they are enemies OF Labor, and
therefore of the working people.
That may be true of some individuals.
But the measures supporters include
substantial number OF Labor's truest
friends men who realize that there Is
nc surer way for unions to destroy them
selves than to interfere, by strikes. with
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15

and the Wainwright Yard has
one of the best records Of the
smaller shipyards.
AMERICAN TEAMWORK
Even more unique is the fact
that few people around the yard
had ever buildt ships before. The
elder Jones was telling the truth
when he informed Admiral Land
that his company knew nothing
about ships. But like Henry
Kaiser, a building contractor not
a shipbuilder, the Jones company
has proved that efficiency more
than experience is what counts.
Efficient H. V. Appen, the gen.
eral manager at Panama City, was
a Chicago builder before he came
to Florida. Broad-guaged Ray
mond Jones, vice president of the
company, had spent most of his
time building Army camps for
which he received the Army Navy
e.
Moreover, most Of the work.
men who built the Joseph NJ.
Medil, the Elihu Root and all
the other Liberty ships along the
Wainwright ways, never had
built ships before. Coming from
farms and hills and fishing vii
lagos of west Florida they have
gone to welding and ship-fitting
schools before they began work.
However, they have performed
a miracle of shipbiilding - which
shows what American ingenuity
can do, plus American determine
ton and American teamwork.
Like the American people which
didn't want war, but are VIM
ing 1t, the Jones decided If they
had to build ships they could do
it. They are building them.
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Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
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THE P-H GETS INTO BATTLE

New Haven Journal-Courier)
The PAT has been long time
coming. 1t Is not a new plane, as
planes CO. but was developed back
in the middle 1905 and here In
1943 has just arrived. An earlier
model Of the PAT was offered TO the
Army in 1888 but was turned down
so one authority says, because 1t did
not have a liquid-cooled engine
which the Army was demanding In
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
NEW SAFEGUARDS
(Hartford Tines

Hereafter the lot of American
aviators and sailors forced To take
to RATS and lifeboats should be more
fortunate than In the past. In re-
cent months remarkable means OF
preserving life and attracting at
tention OF searchers have been
adoputed. Each raft now carries
not only the usual supplies. but also
fishing tackle, bait and instructions
on how 10 escape thirst by consum-
ing the Juice squeezed from raw
fish. a proven source OF life sus-
tanning moisture. In addition, an
automatic radio sending set soon
will be standard equipment on all
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some ques ito n
Of postwar free
dom Of the air.
The job then
will be to correl-
ate it, and make
it the basis for a
national policy
on information
aviation. After
that can come
an exploratory
C o. ference Of
representa- v G S
from the United
Ma tons, like the
conferences on
refugee and food
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effort on our part
TO know His will
for us, to enter
1 n to fellowship
with him. Only
h ard a n d un-
grateful children
aproa C h t h e ir
parents S m pl y
when they want
a favor. The fine
thing about fam
lily life Is that 1t
permits all h e
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
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 DIR.
William Brady. National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Ill.
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A Thought for Today

o Lord God Of Israel, there is no God like thee
In the heaven nor in the earth; which keepest
covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants,
that walk before thee with all their hearts
III Chronicles 6:14.
I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air:
I only know that cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
Whittier
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
ost-War
Flying Problems

BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
COrreSnOndent

Seventeen of the toughest ques-
lions that could be written, prob
ing every phase OF postwar de-
velopment of commercial aviation,
have just been sent out by the
Civil Aeronautics Board to congress
sional commerce committees, to all
commercial airline operators and all
airplane manufacturers. Answers
are requested by June /, and when
all this data is in, the government
will begin to have an accumulation
Of information and opinion on what
should be done about this bother
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
BY EARL l.. DOUGLASS ID. ID.
CONTACT WITH GOD

Very often VIC ask, What Is the
use OF praying when God already
knows what we need?'
Prayer Is something more than
simply asking for things: it Is the
opening of our hearts TO God, an
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15

daubhte invited
Florida
Me the Tribune and daughters
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets at 1923 a. m. war time),
Sun rises at 5:36 a. M sets at 1901 p m.
(war time).
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-15
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY
DREW PEARSON

Pearson Kbtze Watches Daughter Launch Ship
Having Poctced Bottles She Makes Perfect Smash
Shipyord Project Model Of American Teamwork
Operating Had Had No Previous Experience
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Copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
275,OOO Needed
In Shipydrds,
Land Predicts

WASHINGTON, Jan. % (UP).-
Chairman Emory s. Land Of the
maratime commission said today
that 275,000 additional shipyard
workers may be needed this year
il sufficient steel is allocated by
the War Production Board for ca
pacity operation of all shipyards.
He told reporters after a closed
session of the Senate military al
fairs committee he was confident
this demand could be met by re-
cruiting women. older men and
persons ineligible for military
service.
Land said The WPB has allo-
Gated enough steel TO build 10000
900 tons of shipping this year
approximately 5l2 ships a day
and disclosed that the commission
is seeking enough additional steel
to build 18,S90,000 tons during
1913.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
SPORTS
ACCESSORIES

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
u. 5. Casualties
1,25S in Tuniisia,
Stimson States

WASHINGTON, Jan. % (UP).
American casualties in Tunisia
total j 1853, including 211 killed.
532 wounded. and SIS missing,
Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son announced today
OF the missing 226 were re-
ported to be prisoners OF the
enemy.
Total American casualties re-
ported for all operations in Africa
are 3,168, according TO war de-
partment figures.
The casualty lists show 57l
killed, 1882 wounded and LOIS
missing The missing figure in
cludes 70 American fliers interned
in Spanish Morocco.
Stimson said recent Operations
IN Tunisia have been largely IN
The air, where American forces
have had outstanding success.
He cited reports for January "a
which said United States planes
destroyed % enemy aircraft on
abe ground.
Stimson said sharp clashes had
occurred between ground forces in
central and southern Tunlsla,
where limited States and French
sroops are cooperating.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
Col. Bdchus Aide
Gets Promotion

Following by day the promo
ton OF Col. Joseph l. Bachus, chief
OF army induction here, from lieu
tenant colonel, the army today
announced the promotion Of 1t.
Col. Charles c. Curtis Jr.. execu-
tive officer 20 Colonel Bachus, from
the rank OF major.
Lieutenant Colonel Curtis. "a
wa<-f first assigned 10 recruiting
duties with Colonel BaChus in 1910.
Shortly afterward he became an
instructor AT the tank destroyer
center at Camp Hood, Tex. re-
Joining Colonel Bachus here with
the opening OF the new army in
duction center last month. Lieu
tenant Colonel Curtis home is In
Grand Rapids.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29

through Oregon en- route TO Cali
lfornia, early Saturday morning.
He Immediately repudiated that
confession. Early this morning.
after further questioning. Folkes
confessed again. police said.
/ Capt. Vernon Rasmussen. head
of the police homicide bureau. said
he was satisfied with the second
confession which. he said. con-
tanned no discrepancies.
Folkes said that. after the crew
of the dining car in the train
cleared away Friday night. there
had been a drinking party. He
and the others drank much whisky
and beer. he said, and discussed
women passengers.
After the party. he continued
in the second confession, he put
on an overcoat, over his white
working clothes, and went back
10 the Pullman in which Mrs.
James occupied lower 13. He
pushed aside the curtains and
crawled in.
/ As he was trying TO snap the
curtains together, Mrs. James
awakened.
"She wanted 20 know who I
was and told me TO get out"
| police quoted him as saying.
He placed the point OF boning
knife against her chin. holding IT
with one hand. continued working
with the curtains with the other,
81 told her 20 keep still. She
hollered and tried 10 throw me
OUT Folkes said so 1 cut
her"
Folkes said he had thrown the
knife away. Police found boning
knife in his baggage.
Folkes was charged with first
degree murder in Albany. Ore,
seat of the county in which Mrs.
James was killed. even before he
confessed the first time. Sheriff 5
deputies arrived today TO take
him there.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-29
Wait Vote
On Flynn
HIM Senate

WASHINGTON. Jan. q ffNSt.
The Senate foreign relations
committee today formally recon-
mended 10 the Senate eenfirHa-
ton of Edward j. Flynn TO be
minister 10 Australia as influen-
tial Democratic members said the
vote on approval would be close.
The report of Senator 6onnafiy
I'D OF Texas, chairman OF the
foreign relations committee, gen.
orally ignored charges made
against Flynn. New York political
leader and recent Democratic ma
tional chairman. II stressed his
long association with President
Roosevelt.
''It appears from the record OF
the hearings that the President
and Mr.. Flynn have been init
mateIy associated more than 20
years." the report said.
1T also appears that Mr..
Flynn II in entire sympathy
with. and actively supports the
foreign policy of the President"
Enough Democratic members
declared themselves doubtful on
the question of confirmation 10
make the outcome uncertain.
II think the way II stands to-
day Is about 48 to 49," said Sem
ator Tydings Cd of Maryland.
Senator Mead Cd of New
York predicted approval OF the
nomination by a few votes. Mead
declared rImors that Mr.. Roose-
welt might withdraw the Flynn
nomination are without founda-
tim