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Evening star., 1943-05-17
BY BLAIR BOLLES,
9tar Staff Correspondent

S1ONhHOIM, May 10 (6y wire
less .-Sweden's King Gustaf will be
81 next July. Last Sunday he played
on the indoor courts of Stockholm
tennis stadium. For him there is
no sere or yellow leaf period.
Through personal prestige he holds
the balance in Swedish wartime
political decisions. The king helped
fashion Sweden's dogma Of neutral
ity.
Neutrality is the Swedish religion.
All life here reflects a desire to avoid
war at almost any honorable cost.
There is an eerie feeling of unreal
ity to be in this safety zone in the
midst of the continental battlefield.
Some Swedes hope their country will
take the plunge into the fight. A
military operation to relieve Norway
of its Nazis is often discussed in the
armchairs.
Four Policy Makers.
The neutrality policy makers are
Gustaf-called Mr.. G. when playing
tennis - Prime Minister Per Albin
Hanson, Foreign Minister Christian
Gunther, Defense Minister Per
Edwin SKIOLD. For them the conflict
going on outside Sweden is simply
the great power war;" as Mr..
Gmther termed it in recent speech
in the town of ESkilunda.
Sweden might have been in the
war two years ago this summer had
not Gustaf's temperate counsels pre-
vailed. The Germans demanded the
privilege Of moving an armed di-
vision across Sweden to Finland to
bolster themselves in the Russian
war, then in the new period. Such
movement was q violation Of neu-
trality and Hanson was willing to
risk night by refusing. But Gustaf
Evening star., 1943-05-17

TOY FOX TERRIER, white, with black
spot on back. IA. 4434, after pm. Or
Sunday,
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Harry A. Henderson,
Steel Executive, Dies
81 tin Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May 17-Harry Arthur
Henderson, S., assistant superin-
tendent OF the Carnegie Illinois
Steel Co, suffered choking spell ut
dinner In his home last night and
then died from a cerebral hem
orrhage.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Views Of The Press

he would teach the why of the facts.
In the years between the two
World Wars, wave of debunking
American history swept the nation.
1t extended beyond the profession
of teaching. Highly placed political
leaders, preaching a new doctrine
heavily colored with class hatreds,
sought to discredit the past. Amer
lea, were one to accept their preach
ments, had usually taken the wrong
road, made the incorrect decision,
worshipped at false affairs. They
and many educators found nothing
inspiring in the epic that is Amer
lea. If this process is now reversed
as result of the war, then already
some gain can be counted from that
conflict.
Superintendent Hatton, like for
mer Congressman Bruce Barton of
New York, points to the fanatical
belief OF the peoples of totalitarian
countries in their philosophy of sta
ism. Rightly does he claim that
that "belief cannot be fought with
disbelief as weapon" 1t is long
past the time when the debunkers
of America should be cast into the
discard. There is no better founda-
ton, even granting its imperfections,
upon which to rear the structure of
a new order for the world than the
principles that have guided this ma
ton through 154 years. To teach an
appreciation of and faith in those
principles is to begin Alright. Con-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
End of the School Yea

The school year in the city schools
draws to close. Tomorrow is the day
of final sessions. Graduations have been
in order during the week in public and
parochial schools The private schools
closed little in advance. BY next week
school rooms will look uninhabited, as
though there had been no children nor
teachers in possession in months. Many
changes come between closing of school
and opening the following September.
Children pass to another grade; teachers
are often transferred to other schools;
and still more teachers retire.
Several members of the city schools
will not be with us next year, among them
Vic-Principal Ralph Hayward of Wildly,
who returns to his native Maine. Miss
Marie M. Mcmahon of the briggs School
retireS, as does Miss Alice E. Walsh, SUI
pervisor of kindergarten and primary
grades AS each school year closes highly
respected teachers drop from the ranks.
During their years with the children of
the grades and the high schools they
have worked earnestly at their chosen
profession. The children under their
supervision are influenced by the teacher
in charge, who has StriVed diligently to
live up tC the principles of his or her pro-
feSsion.
Each year those who retire leave gap.
Their positions are filled, it is true, but
the particular something given in time,
effort and individual interest goes with
each department teacher In the forma-
ton of character the teacher is person
of Importance. Those who retire this
year from the city's school ranks are Of
fered the best wishes of the community.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Wrong Approach

Those who urge that we now promise
absolution to the German people if they
will overthrow Hitler are on the wrong
track. In World War I we gave them
absolution in return for their overthrow
ing the kaiser and in less than five years
they were preparing for World War H.
For Germany and for Japan there can
be only one ultimatum - unconditional
surrender, and for any postwar mercy
thank our discretion, not our pity
Winning the war" will take longer
that way, and will cost more in lives and
treasure. But it will be genuine victory,
which might last for while, and not the
uneasy armistice that Versailles produced
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24

ture for mankind, is enough TO dismay
the stoutest heart.
American doctors will voluntarily make
tremendous sacrifices in the years of
peace to come. They will serve humanity
in far away corners of the world for in
definite periods. AS Dr. Morris Fishbein,
president of the American Medical Asso-
citation, declared: "By their own initia-
tive they seek to give to the postwar world
the most that American medicine can
give for the restoration of the peoples of
the world to health and physical fitness.
They do not hesitate in offering them
selves; they have been trained in the ira
ditions of American medicine, which say
to the doctor: A profession has for its
prime object the service it can render to
humanity. The practice of medicine
is profession"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24

countered an opportunity to buy a
business with a real future and to
buy 1t for a small amount of money.
He withdrew his savings. The bank
book with its record of years Of
steady saving was the chief factor
in persuading the officials of the
bank to lend him money. His bust
ness was soundly established and
prosperous in a short time.
Think of the self-control the Rus
slams exercised. as in their retreat
they refrained from casting any re-
serves into the contest. They kept
just enough men In Stalingrad to
keep the Germans from capturing
the city. Then when the time was
ripe, they threw their reserves into
the struggle, and the invincible Ger
many army was sent Keeling back
wards.
Nothing is so important in life
as that we should have reserves
at the time they are needed A.
nancial reserves, military reserves.
great unused physical and spiritual
powers to throw into the strife when
disaster looms ahead.
All Rights Reserved - Babson
NAwsnanar Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Washington Viewoint

II is disappointing to have Elmer
Davis, who used to be a neWspaperman
himself, and mighty good one, criticize
made Mr.. Davis outstanding in print and
the press for doing the very thing that
on the radio Congressman Short of Mis-
souri, was entirely out of order in ques-
tioning Mr.. Davis background as a critic
OF news handling. The Owl director is
fully qualified by experience. The trouble
is that by reason of his present job and
his intense interest in doing it well, Mr.
Davis seems to have laid aside that OBJ
iectivity which was one of his virtues
when he was on the news gathering side
OF the fence. The Information Directors
chief complaint appears to be that cor
respondents Overemphasize "the impress
sion that Washington is necessarily
muddle of pickering and confusion" and
underplay the genuine achievements of
the capital. Summaries of his speech
before the American Newspaper Guild in
Boston indicate that he attributes the
alleged superfluity of criticism to parti-
Sanship. We think that if Mr.. Davis we're
in position to emulate Harum-al- Rashid,
who as we remember used to circulate
incognito amongst his constituency to
learn what they really were thinking, he
WOulu llIlu UIldJ SOlllG vi Vic UIGUClCoJ C1lI-
icism of the w arlington bureaucracy
cones from men who would burn in boil
ing oil rather than have the world sup
pose that their fourth cousins ever voted
anything except the Democratic ticket -
straight.
Moreover we think that he would find
that these critics do not conceive of every
employee on the federal payroll as a bu-
reaucrat, but use the epithet to cover that
small but powerful minority that has to
brush red tape out of its eyes to see
whether it is time to transfer the daily
nap from office to home. 1t is silly to
charge Elmer Davis with base motives.
The criticisms he voiced were his sincere
opinions of what would be best for the
country. But that does not make those
particular opinions any more valid.
The story of Americas war achieve
ments is blaZoned across the pages OF
most newspapers every day. Mr.. Davis,
like the rest of us, reads the headlines of
achievement stories and every last word
of the criticism. He is very close to the
administration picture. We believe he
has lost, little, his perspective. Otherwise
he would be among the last to say what
he is reported to have said in Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Six to One

The six to one ratio which our bombing
missions have hung up against Nazi
planes over the Reich, is gratifying evil
dence both of the fire power of the planes
and the skill and courage of the crews
But in casting up the material score
we must have in mind that this still is not
fair exchange. We are losing Flying
Fortresses and Liberators; we are DESTROY
ing smaller machines. When one of our
planes falls we can expect to lose eight
men; the Germans often save the one
man in theirs.
The exchange favors us only because
we can afford it for the sake of the enorm-
Gus damage the bombers do before they
are lost
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BleederS

Please explain statement in med
ical book by Cecil Hem
ophilic fathers never transmit the
disease" Does this mean they do
not transmit it directly (since girls
do not suffer but are carriers or
that the disease ends in the children
of hemophilic fathers?
(Mrs. c. L.
AnsWer-Hemophilia is the bleeder
state, which runs in families. 1t is
not disease, just defect in some
element essential for coagulation
(clotting) of the blood. Most So
called "bleeders" are males, but the
condition inactive, recessive) is
present in female children OF a
bleeder and they may transmit the
defect to their children, who are
themselves "bleeders" If males; not
themselves "bleeders" but carriers
of the potentiality or defects If fe-
males, and so the female members
of hemophilic families should not
marry. Remedies ordinarily bene-
fetal for slow CLOTHING time or ex-
cessive bleeding are of no avail IF
the patient is hemophilic. Sub
cutaneous injection of human blood
serum or normal horse serum will
stop bleeding in hemophilia.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24

toward retailing WhiSkey in
"fifths," Or one-fifth of gallon,
instead of quarts.
Distillers' explanation for this
is the necessity of making liquor
go farther with limited supplies.
Reduced supplies are reflected in
the fact that 1943 consumption
of distilled liquors is falling off
sharply from 1912. January of
this year showed a drop or "a
per cent from January, 1912.
February, March and April were
off II, IL, and 10 per cent re-
Spectively.
NOTE: All-time high for any
month in the history of the liquor
business was last October, when,
just before the new tax went on,
the public bought &c million gal
Ions of distilled spirits.
GRANT AND LINCOLN-1943
On a hot summer day in Wash
ington a conference was held be-
tween Lincoln and General Grant.
The subject of the conference was
the Identification of emergency We
hicles operating during possible air
raids.
General Grant had received
complaints from Eastern Seaboard
cities to the effect that air raid
regulations are causing an increase
in automobile accidents. But be-
fore the conference was over Grant
agreed with Lincoln that the pres
ent regulations should not be
changed.
Major General Ulysses S.
Grant, III, is assistant director
of OCD in charge of protection
activities. Colonel Ralph A. Lin
coin is assistant civil affairs Of
ficer on the staff of 1t. Gen.
Hugh A. Drum, Chief of the
Eastern Defense Command.
NOTE: General Grant, with a
long record as an Army engineer,
supervised the construction of the
Memorial Bridge which crosses the
Potomac river between the Lincoln
Memorial building and the Lee
home on the Virginia side.
Copyright, 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24

1t is expected a suitable home for the
Governor Of Connecticut will be decided
next week. Thirty-six available homes
were offered to the commission for this
purpose who after considerable discus
sion eliminated all but six. Several large
homes are under consideration, one of
them in Bloomfield. Others have been
offered but their owners prefer not to
be known. The commission is looking
for Colonial type home with fair
amount of grounds, running to about
twelve rooms. In order to best secure
the best type for all purposes other states
have been contacted.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24

The vines had yielded their crop
for the season, and he had torn
them up by the roots, and was
adding them to the compost pile.
He had to do something about
the soil. 1t was made by dump
ing fill from excavations, when
neighboring houses were built.
"The soil is SO bad" says Mr.
Wallace, that it won't even grow
good weeds"
But it will grow good tomatoes.
Wallace has gone strong on toma-
toes. In fact, Mrs Wallace, who
gets out every morning to work
with him before breakfast, thinks
he has too many tomato plants.
She counted them the other day,
and found there were 480.
Almost any evening around TOO
you will find the Vice President
of the United States pushing be-
tween his rows of tomatoes, while
Mrs. Wallace working with a hoe,
flickS a little handkerchief in front
of her face to drive the gnats
away.
Henry" she says, "hOw does
it happen the gnats don't trOu-
BILE you? There's not one
around you, and look at the
cloud around me-"
"They are sensitive, my dear,
to the state of mind of the in
dividual!" says the Vice President,
implying that if his wife would
be calm about it, the gnats would
go away.
WEAKER LIQUOR
Though the public is generally
unaware of it, much OF the Whis-
key being sold today is inferior
both in quality and quantity to
pre-War liquor.
AS expressed in the trade, 1--WE
have dropped couple of degrees"
This is another way of saying that
whiskey which used to be 80 proof
is now 85. In other words, the
distillers are diluting their product
to make it go farther.
There are limits to this, for the
law provides a minimum of 80
proof for anything marketed as
whiskey.
Likewise there is a general trend
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24

The Diplomatic Corps has re-
ceived word that the Nazi gauleiter
at Hamburg made a speech warn
ing his audience that there is a
traditional weakness in the Ger
man character, which sometimes
fails at the final punch - lack
of perseverance necessary to carry
a logged fight to successful con-
cluSion.
At the same time it is learned
that GOebbels has made a speech
in much the same vein.
This is regarded as indicating
not only that Germany is in des-
perate circumstances, but also
somewhat more important-that
the military are now in control,
and the Nazi Party leaders have
climbed down from the top notch
of leadership.
Realistic expression is typical of
military attitude which has long
been opposed to the political pa
LAYER of the Nazi Party leaders.
At the same time Washington
officials learn that Nazi Party
leaders are making rules intend
ed to defend the Party against
attack and aspersiOns. This ap-
parently indicates that the Party
is being attacked from within
the country, obviously by the
military elements.
This is the fatal crack in Ger
many-the split between the mill
tary elements and the Nazi party.
When the final bloWup comes,
though it may not be for a long
time, it will be between the Nazis
and the military.
WALLACE'S MANURE
Professional photographers would
give their eye teeth for shot of
Henry Wallace, dressed in blue
Stacks, standing on top of a man
ure pile.
1t is the vice presidents own
manure pile, and he is proud of it.
He has prepared it himself by
mixing vegetable matter and man
ure, layer by layer and watering
it with the garden hose. The re-
suit is something he calls by the
more delicate name of Compost
pile" and which he dearly needs
for fertilizing his Victory garden.
At the moment, Wallace was
standing on top of the pile so that
he could throw some Of the manure
down to cover the old pea vines.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
A CORN FAMINE
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In a land that produces more
corn than all the rest of the world
together. an extraordinary Situa-
ton exists-one that endandgers the
war effort. The United States has
practically none" of its biggest
cereal crop with which to produce
the industrial starches which are
vitality needed in production of war
materials. We say practically none
because the products industry,
which normally uses from 10 to IL
million bushels of corn month,
faces complete shutdown with only
a few weeks supply on hand and
none coming in.
The corn-products people put the
blame on Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard. He fixed a price ceiling
on corn and guaranteed high SELL
ing price for hogs, with the laud-
able object In view of producing
pork for military and civilian use
This had the desired effect; there
the twice as many hogs being fed
as in normal years. But there Is
no corn for other vital uses.
Hardly yard of cotton textiles
can be produced without cornstarch.
1t is absolutely necessary in process
ing aluminium. The glue which holds
together the millions of cartons in
which food and supplies are shipped
to the armies overseas is made of
starch. Other earn derivatives go
into other vital war uses.
What about Argentinas corn?
Ships are scarce, but the need Is
great. Isn't there chance here to
better our relations with neigh
Dor while filling ar extraordinary
need?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
IODINE

People frequently ask whether So
called "colorless" iodine is as good
as the brown liquid. The answer is
no. So-called "colorless' iodine Is
not iodine at all-that Is, there is
no free iodine in 1t, only ammonium
iodide and ammonium iodate-these
are colorless salts. The internal use
of such iodide of ammonium and
iodate of ammonium may have the
same effect as has free iodine, potas-
SUM iodide or sodium iodide or any
inorganic or organic combination or
compound containing iodine or To-
dide. But for external use either as
first aid disinfectant or as counter
irritant over bruises, and inflam-
matory swellings, one might as we'll
apply sweetened or sailed water.
Another question often asked by
laymen, sometimes even by physi-
clans, is whether so-called or
ganic" forms of iodine or iodides
are not preferable to inorganic 10
dine for internal use. There are nu-
merous organic preparations OF
iodine or iodine compounds, and it
is amusing to note that not a few
physicians use and prescribe these
fancy and costly substitutes for To-
dine, but so far as I can learn
and I'm not SO dumb as my low
brow language may make me seem
there is no scientific or common
sense reason why any one should
prefer organic" iodine compounds
to ordinary elemental iodine or, for
internal use, either elemental iodine
or potassium iodide or sodium 10
dide or other inorganic iodide.
1t would be comical If 1t were
not SO sordid, the way exploiters of
fancy forms of iodine or iodides
promote their nostrums; especially
when they contrive to suggest, in
an expensive but imposing Sway, to
the credulous medical profession
that the nostrum provides iodine in
more soluble" or more available
form, when, in fact, iodine either
in elemental form or in the form
of potassium iodide or sodium 10
dide, is highly soluble and of course
as available" or as useful in nutri-
ton as is iodine or iodide in any
other form.
Hinged to that line of pseudo
scientific hokum, of which the med
ical profession should be ashamed
is the contention of certain nostrum
vendors that the human body CAN
not use inorganic" iodine, but
must get Organic" iodine in one
form or another. This is unadult-
Grated bunk-but probably the nos
trum vendors will get away with it
as long as the lamebrains of the
regular medical profession continue
to prescribe fancy expensive forms
of iodine when plain tinctre of
iodine or solution of iodine or
potassium iodide or sodium iodide
fulfills every known requirement,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Unpleasant People

1t Is fairly easy to avoid cri by
avoiding close contact with people
who evidently have it (even If they
pretend it is Just cold"D but
when you work alongside of people
who are careless in their habits and
either ignorant Of, or contemptuous
about the rules of hygiene, to the
extent OF coughing and sneezing
without even trying to cover nose
and mouth, even splitting on the
floor, how can you escape infec-
ton? q. A. M
Answer-Such unpleasant people
should be warned that such habits
are offensive. They are not fit to
associate with decent people,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Doctor Price

Byron Price, our war censor, now is a
Doctor (of LaWs). He has become a
prophet with honor at his own alma
mater, Wabash College.
If belated suggestion is in order, per-
haps for the benefit of any other institu-
ton which may decide to honor Doctor
Price, wouldn't it have been appropriate
to have made the censor a D.V.S.-Doctor
of Verbal Surgery? He has proven very
skillful at relatively painless news
carving
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
Medicine Is a Profession

Papers that were read before the Ma
tional Conference on Planning for War
and Postwar Medical Services which was
held in March under the auspices of the
DR.. Carlos Finlay Institute, reveal far
more than dry discussion of the tech
nical medical problems They reveal the
cropping of men of science for better
future, amidst the wreckage of nations
and people that will be left behind when
the war is over The morass of disease,
starvation and death into which medical
men must plunge to start building flu
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-24
It's the Turmoil That Matters

OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown is
entirely correct in that he can spare the
lew dozens who have resigned or may
resign from his agency, since some 16O-
900 will remain
But can he afford the discord, the tur-
MOL, the uncertainty, the public distrust
that this succession of upheavals is caus-
ing? We doubt it.