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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

send Army units into farm areas, in battalions or companies, and have them help with farm work on an organized basis under Army command.
 What about sending the Army intOt he coal mines?" someone asked at this point.
 This, got no enthusiastic well come. Though the matter was not discussed in detail, it seemed to be the unspoken feeling of the committee that too big an army going into industry and agricul- ture on an organized military basis might come close to de- veloping a militarized system in the U. s. A. similtary to that against which we were fighting in Europe.
 Only one member of the Committee, Senator Hatch of New Mexico, felt that the a.'::::-.cl forces should be given free rein to go ahead and build up tre- mendOus strength not subject to civilian check and super vision.
 Other committee members eX- pressed the view, that it was only natural for any military leader to want the Army to be the biggest in the world; so a civilian check rein by the White House or Con- gress was necessary to balance farm labor and industry against armed strength.
 Finally it was decided that the most important problems to lick before increasing the Army to world beating proportions was the submarine and shipping. CONGRESSMAN
 GOES ON STRIKE
 In more than one hundred years of Congress, the first strike of a congressman will occure soon when fortnight Jimmy Morrison from Louisiana's 9th District re- signs from five committees.
 Jimmy's idea is that these five committees--Coinage, Weights and Measures; Mines and Mining; War Claims; Invalid Pensions; and Public Lands are so much chicken feed and an insult to his district. If he cannot serve on the Agricultural Committee, in which Louisiana is vitally inter- ested, or on Appropriations, Mor- rison says he would rather con- serve his time for other things.
 All of which came as sOme- thing of a bOmbshell to Demo-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

other of ambition. Around and around, day by day. the subtle pro. cess of entang5ment continues un- til at least the man finds himself hopelessly bound. not with great hopes but with a million slender threads. He has become ertangled ln the affairs of this world.
 To put t practically. he has lei a loWs of pleasure. Q desire for ease, good.natured attitude toward little vices, Q disposition to live be- y0nd his income, weakness for genial friends gradually take posses sion Of him, until every call Of duty falls on dull ears and on an indif- feFent mind. Perhaps this victim oi llttls weaknesses has committed no great sin. lndulged 10 no great vice ae has just become entangled 70 the things Of the world, but hll bondage is complete. 4 million blen' der strands of moral colnpromlel end weakness hold him prisoner
 Al Rights neseFve1 - -Daboon
 HeHspapeT Aynalcaie
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war enort, Wageu as a campaign to educate the peo- pie of other coun- tries on the ideas of Amerlcanisnn.
 One of the most successful pieces of A m e I c a n counter . propa- ganda has b e e n the publication of a tract, "The Nazi War Against the Catholic Church. It Is a prayer- book size pams .N1a1nk aR 1En tNa arae
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
INVESTMENT IN YOUTH
(New York Thnes)

After reading about disciplinary nFohIeins ln the schools and seeing estimates Of the wartime rise in Juvenile delinquency, it helps ones nerspoefiVe t0 note that tic 0lr: Reolil Council Of Greater New York ls n0g planning t0 train coco more glFls for various types of public service this gear. That Wlll raise ille 0lIi Scout membership here 70 Well oyer as.1a The uaeg1na ca
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

We read with interest in these days of oil shortage scares that the worlds largest oil pipe line has been completed. It is in east Texas and measures 551 miles, a 24-inch conduit It was rush job at the finish and engineers worked fast and furiously as the oil shortage became more acute. This pipe line extends into Illinois, connects with Ohio and Penn sylvania. It is expected that tremend- ous amount of oil can be handled in the completed line to the east.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

Local closing of so-called nonessentiai businesses will soon be just matter of course. At first suggestion of drastic changes there is quite a bit of mutterlng 7T:Ln the American way of taking what comes, is evidenced in response to the latest closing edict as in everything else. The news columns carry the schedule or closings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
Selected Poem

MIDNIGHT
 (By Dorothy Hope McCroden In
 The Christian Science Monltor) An old fire like crumpled rose Lies drowsing in the grate, From room to room the darkness nows; The hour is latel
 The silver clock upon its shelf
 whispers softly to itself, And stair steps in the dim blue hall Have wondrous words to say Although they do not speak at all By light of day. So mark this truth, O mark 1t well: Strange things come of midnighfs spenI A poet gnawing at his pen Tn dead of night may Ind This hour unknown to sober men, Most gravely kind.
 Its still. staF-crusted seconds teach Quiet things the art Of speech
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D
HELD BY SILK THREADS

St. Paul in his second Epistle to Timothy uses the word "entangle' to describe the way in which the affairs of this life sometimes gather about a man and impede his living. He might have used the word bound signifying captivity by chains, but instead he uses the word 'entangle". The picture is that of a man getting mixed up in a Skein of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

silken threads
 which bind him as effectively as steel bands. One little strand of silken comfort is slipped around his body, to be fol- lowed by another of laziness, and still another of minor indulgence.
 and another of avarice. and an-
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Current Comment

Every time you hit . rivet, think Of It as Hitler and hit it again. Hit is harder. - Admiral kmeory s. Land. addressing Shipyard weEk. CTS.
 
 Competition between the Army and Navy (in purehasing) can no longer exist. The War Production Beard must take control - eeIlas tor Harry Truman, Democrat, Mis- D0uFi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
How U. s. Puts Out 
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrrespOndent

American educational publicity propaganda" = for consumption runs all the way from religious tracts to medical science newslet- ters and copy books for children. Plans are now being made by the Office of War Information to ex- hibit displays of this printed propa- ganda in 100 or more public librar- les throughout the country, and
 when these showings are made they will provide an eye-opener on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
A Thought for Today

Thus saith the LOfd, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty may glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches.-Jeremiah 9:23.
 In general, pride is at the bottom of all great MistakeS.-Ruskin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
Washington Merry Go-Round
McNut Opposes Trying To Raise Worlds Biggest Army; Points To UBoats As Hinderng Transport And Supply; Army Is Working On Plan For Soldiers To Aid Farmers
 Congressman On "Strke" Against Peanut Committees
BY DREW PEARSON

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

You never know what you can do without. Take, for instance, whipped cream. And we hardly miss Camenoert cheese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Powdered Egg Folk

6VWUCECW 6SS AVAA
 Can a person with stomach ulcers take egg yolk powder? If so, please suggest how? c. Al Answer-Yes. Take about three tablesponfuls, stirred in milk and favored with @ little. vanilla and sugar, twice daily. This has brought about good gain in weight in many instances. Underweight per- sons send stamped self-addressed envelope for pamphlet "How to Gain Weight"
 Medical Reference Service
 Hormone treatment by physician has had no apparent effect. Wrote you some time ago asking for 8 physician who gives injection treat ment for prostatic hypertrophy, but you announced just then that you could no longer refer readers to physicians or specialists. (F. Po
 Answer-Many readers who had benefited by that service then in- formed me that it would be a ser- ious loss-So I resumed the service. But I know of no successful inJec- ton treatment for prostatic en- largement. Perhaps you mean the modern transurethral resection - send a stamped self-addressed en- velope and if I know of doctor in your vicinity who gives such treatment I'll be glad to give you his name and address. I'm sorry 1t is difficult to know whether the doctor recommend has gone into military service, and will appreciate if it the reader will inform me If he finds this to be the case.
 Suffering
 Son, IS, stuttered for many years, suffered from embarrassment and | inferiority complex. Your Belly Breathing helped some but the thing that stops it most is your Iodin Ration. We feel deeply in your debt. W. b0 Answer-Belly breathing is bene- ficial in any case of suffering. but I don't believe the iodine could have any particular effect. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet on "Stuttering." If you want also instructions for Belly Breathing. inclose ten cents addi- tional.
 CCopyright ls4s. John P. Dille G., try at a critical time. Where can Q $S0, 900 investment in the future of America pay bigger dividends7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
Your Health
 By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining per- sOnai health and hygiene. not to disease, diagnosis or treatment. win be answered by pr. Brady if a stamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In ink. No reply can be made to Querles not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady. National News paper Service, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23
SHAME ON TEE SOWERS OF
 SUPERSTITION

One reason why I Go not believe there Is such a disease as rabies III man (and 1t is a q'e:s-..,,Sn of belief or opinion, not ,lol fact, since no enc has found a specific germ or cause of rahies) is the very fact that old timers were so fond of call ing alleged human rabies "h%dro- pilobia"-4- and my skepticisln Is strengthened by the shameful fact that good many Of the most vehe- ment authorities" or would-be au- thorities today are even fonder of the, as they well know, more fright ening name for the phantom dis- ease. For instance old timers such as Osler's Practice of Medicine, Rose nau's Preventive Medicine and Fly. giene, Hare's Practice of Medicine play up the more frightening name for all 1t is worth, whereas more modern works, such as Boyd's Pre- ventive Medicine contrive to be auS thoritative without even mention ing "hydrophobia' in the chapter or chapters on rabies.
 That medical authorities are con- fused about the conception of rabies as 8 disease distinct from tetanlis, i these statements vii clearly show:
 From International Textbook of Surgery Hydrophobia is said to resemble tetanus owing to the dif- f1culty of swallowing in the two dis eases. There is, however, no con- vulsion in hydrophobia.
 From Osler's Practice of Medi- cine-"A sound or draught of air, or the mere association of verbal suggestion will cause a violent re- f1ex spasm. Tn many this symptom constitutes the most distressing fea- ture of the malady."
 You shuts your eyes and takes your choice. If you ask me, think both of these representative medi- cal or surgical authorities - old timers, to be sure, but fairly rep resentative of leading professional opion-labored under the peculiar superstitious bias which has al- ways characterized medical concep- tions of "hydrophobia."
 As I write this comes another clipping of newspaper item tell- ing of the weath of a man from what the authorities" found, after death, had been "hydroph hobia"-- nothing extraordinary about that. It is a sfavorite act of the author ities." But the amazing thing about it is that these oinniscient author" ities (who do not reveal to mortal physicians how they do the trick) decided that the victim had been bitten by dog about a year before his fatal illness developedl It would be absurd to attempt to convince an intelligent physician or pathologist that any infectious or communica- ble disease of which we know has an incubation period of year, or even several months. But people under the spell of superstition will believe anything.
 In most of the alleged fatalities from rabies, reports of which l find in my files, the victims did receive Pasteur treatment. So what has that to do with the diagnosis?
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try at a critical time. Where can Q $SO, 900 investment in the future of America pay bigger dividends?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-23

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Copyright, 1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Ins.)
Evening star., 1943-05-30
Surety Bond Rule Lifted
For District Case Workers

Case workers of the District Pub
lie Assistance Division no longer will
be required to post surety bonds, un-
der new bonding policies adopted by
the Commissioners on recommended
tlons OF a committee consisting of
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler,
Corporation Counsel Richmond B..
Keech and Auditor A. r. Pilkerton.
The group advised the Commits
sloners 1t was not necessary to bond
the case workers since officials re-
sponsible for certification of vouch-
ers, and the higher welfare officials,
were bonded.
The District assessor is one of the
"a additional positions for which
bonds were required. This was Or
dered on a finding by the corpora
ton counsel that an act of 1898 fix
ing bond for the assessor was in full
effect. Likewise, the water registrar,
who receives checks mailed to him
erroneously instead of the collector
Of taxes, was included in the bonded
list.
Referred to the corporation coun-
sci for legal rulings were questions as
to bonding the inspector of gas me-
tiers and his assistant; and as to the
Commissioners authority over bonds
OF employees of the District Militia,
the Unemployment Composition
Board, Municipal Court of Appeals,
National Capital Parks Office, Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the Zoo, the Probation
Office and the Recorder of Deeds.
Evening star., 1943-05-30

have bought bonds for the forth
coming circus and also attended the
war bond baseball game last Mon
day at Griffith Stadium.
Mrs. Cohen, who lives at 452O
Seventeenth street NV, said the
krupsaw Cousins Club was formed
about two years ago. Most of the
members are In the Washington
area, but a few live as far away
as Nebraska and Chicago.
Mrs. Vittle Krupsaw Gelman of
273o Wisconsin avenue NV, presi-
dent OF the club, teaches Red Cross
home nursing courses, and other
members also have helped out with
Red Cross work. Husbands of most
OF the women in the club are in
the warden service or are auxiliary
police or firemen, Mrs. Cohen said
Mrs. Gelman said the organization
was named after Gilbert Krupshaw
OF Washington, who died IL years
ago at the age Of 1o4. Mrs. Gelman,
graduate Of nursing from Emergency
Hospital. has furnished a classroom
for home nursing courses at the
Jewish Community Center.
Evening star., 1943-05-30
Flood Peril Is Eased
As Rivers Recede
Mississippi's Crest Rolls
Into Broader Channel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The crest of the Mississippi rolled
ponderously into the Nations SOUTH
lands last night and apparently the
worst OF the flood was over.
Below Cairo, Ill. a much broader
channel and more massive levees
are expected to tame the waters.
Back in the desolated Midwest,
where the waters caused 81 deaths,
wreaked havoc costing millions and
smothered thousands of fertile crop
acres, Army engineers and rescuing
Coast Guard boats still guarded
three critical areas:
At Beardstown, Ill, where the
flooded Illinois stood several feet
above the towns level at % feet,
levees still were holding the fall
ing waters.
At Cape Girardeau, Mo, the Mis-
slssippi dropped to 41.6 feet, a 9-inch
fall in "a hours. Further recession
was scheduled for the next 48 hours.
At Cairo, where the Ohio and
Mississippi formed a new confluence
7 miles above the original, there
seemed to be no danger, although
the town itself was encircled.
Still far out Of its banks up
stream, the Arkansas River sent it's
33.78foot Pine Bluff (Ark.) crest
surging downstream between mas
sive Mississippi River-type levees
which were expected to hold firmly.
Previous record level was 33 feet.
set in 1885.
Evening star., 1943-05-30

by the enemy. He must weigh them
all. He must examine with minute
care the reports of his secret service
agents in every part of the world
He must balance all this against the
advice of his military and naval in
telligence staffs. He must try to
decide what we are going to do,
where the next blow is going to fall.
how much time he has to get it.
This is the war of nerves. We of
the United Nations have known all
about the war of nerves for long
time. We have been on the receiv-
ing end of it, and we did not like it.
There is reason to believe that the
enemy likes it still less.
It is more than a mere annoyance
1t is more than just the agony of
suspense, this affair of the war of
nerves. 1t may have an important
bearing on military dispositions.
The German high command is un-
doubtedly preparing to attack Rus
sia in as great force as can be mus
tered for that purpose; but last
minutes indecision. sudden anxiety
produced in some highly-placed mind
by the war of nerves might we'll
cause the abandonment of that
plan, or the reduction of the strik-
ing force available for it.
Must Alter Plans Often.
There indeed are many decisions
which the Germans must make, and
decisions already made which per-
haps they must alter, and then even
alter again as they wait
To help the Italians defend
Sicily and Sardinia. or not? If so,
the first need is for fighter squadrons
to beat off the Allied bombers-
shall we take them from Western
Germany and risk additional de-
struction of our vital centers upon
which all our war-making power
depends? Or from the Russian
front. and allow the Russian bomb
ers additional freedom of action to
break up our preparations for at
tack?
To defend Italy proper. or not to
de1end 1t? III so, shall we take
troops from Western Europe and
thus invite an Allied invasion? Or
from the Russian front, and thus
weaken our offensive there. the sue
cess Of which is really our last hope?
Or from our central reserve and
thus reduce our ability to meet an
unexpected blow from some other
quarter? If not, how shall we re-
place the italian divisions in the
Balkans without having to meet
the same problem in another form?
To attack the Turks and try to
drive them back to the waterline of
the Dardandelles and the Bosphorus
now, Or not? If so, where shall we
find the troops? And how shall we
maintain their lines of communica-
ton through the seething Balkan
Evening star., 1943-05-30
Krupsow Cousins, 125 Strong,
VIII Buy y. S. IA Army PEEPS

The Treasury has finished its Sec
ond war loan drive, but the members
OF the Krupsaw family are conduct
ing their own war loan drive and in
high gear. too
The Krupsaw Cousins Club,
numbering about 125 members, most
of them in Washington. will pur-
chase IA Army peeps" through the
sale of War bonds. At 2 o'clock this
afternoon In Grove 4, Sixteenth and
Kennedy streets NV, in Rock
Creek Park, the money for the
peeps" will be presented to Treas
ury officials.
Peeps being in popular demand
at the moment by the Army, proba-
bilities are that the IA inolved in the
transaction will not be there, al
though Mrs. Yetta Cohen, chairman
of the drive. hopes one will be on
hand just to show the members what
Uncle Sam is getting with their
money.
Mrs. Cohen says the peep drive
is just the beginning and the cou-
sins club will continue its bond
drive. Their drive has ramifca-
tions. Many members Of the club
Evening star., 1943-05-30
Cottage City Woman Goes
On Education Board

Appointment OF Mrs. H. Edna
Pitts Of Cottage City. Md. to the
Prince Georges County Board of
Education was announced yesterday
by Gov. O'Conor, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from
Annapolis.
Mrs. Pitts, who has lived in Cot
tage City for the last Is years, was
oppointed to the board for the first
time in 1887 for six-year term.
She resigned after serving two years,
however because of her husband S
death. She served on the County
Juvenile Court Committee Just be-
fore her appointment to the Board
OF Education six years ago.
Mrs. Pitts is employed at the War
Department.
Evening star., 1943-05-30

decreases and the demand remains
the same, something has to be low
cred"
All the men now coming into the
Navy, he said, are now going to sea,
where good eyes are essential. The
sailors who relieve those men now
at sea must have good eyes, too.
Since the Navy can't get enough Of
the men at its higher standards, he
said, the standards must be low
cred.
Despite the contention by a
Naval Affairs subcommittee that the
Navy should substitute limited serv-
icemen for its abled-bodied sailors
on desk jobs, the official said that
the Navy did not need limited serv-
ice men. He said the able bodied
sailors were leaving shore stations
to be replaced by civilians and
WAVES.
Just because you see a sailor on
Shore" said the official, 1T doesn t
mean he's going to stay on shore.
He's got to be relieved OF sea duty
once in a while"
Evening star., 1943-05-30
Mai. Eliot Outlines Problems
Facing Nozi High Command
German Reaction to Allied Offensive Threats
Shown to Be One of Fear, Anxiety

peninsula? Can we depend on the
Bulgarians? If they fail us, the
enterprise itself may fail and then
we have opened road for an Allied
invasion of the Balkans and we have
made the Allies a present of a far
better sea route to Russia than any
thing we have now.
Russian Drive in Balance.
But If not, then we are allowing
the Turks to bide their time while
Allied power gathers in the Middle
East and the Mediterranean is
mopped up. and we shall never be
sure at what moment we may find
ourselves faced by an emergency in
the Balkans which we shall be un-
able to meet. We can be sure only
OF the fact that this will occur at
the moment most disastrous for us.
Considering all the foregoing-to
attack in Russia at all this year or
not? If so we cannot limit the
scale of the fighting that may ensue,
1t may draw in the whole of our
strategic reserve in order to save
the troops already committed. and
then irreparable disaster may fall
upon us elsewhere. Our one hope
is probably to take this last small
chance of reducing our Russian
commitment by smashing part of
Russia's fighting power. But if we
don't take it, the only alternative
is a reduction of our front and a
shortening of our lines of commu-
nlcation in Russia-that is, a gen.
eral withdrawal to a more defensible
position closer to our home bases.
That would be an admission of
defeat-to our enemies, to the neu-
trails. to the people of the occupied
countries, to our own people. Dare
we face the consequences OF such
an admission?
All these thoughts and many
| others must be tormenting the Off
GERS of Adolf Hitlers high command
at this moment. Not for them now
the arrogant confidence of 1899 40
1t is for us to be confident these
days.
(Copyrlsht, 1a43, New York Tribune. Inc,
Evening star., 1943-05-30

kerson County, who has to go home
this summer to supervise canning in
her county. She's acting county
demonstration agent"-at 10. Last
summer she planted 80 vegetables
on quarter acre on her fathers
farm and canned 4,23l quarts of
food.
The lad who runs the crew of
colored women who dress the farms
chickens really caught my eye.
Dressing chickens is not really
study, so this outside help is hired.
The boy student supervises. This
day his professor asked him to be
through at pm, but his crew
dawdled. He looked them over and
then announced, You finish by 4
and I'll drive you all home in the
station wagon" The women were
through 30 minutes early.