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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Welcome, Inventors

The welcome mat is out for inventors Richard P. Brown, chairman Of the board of the Brown Instrument division of Min neapolis Honeywell, points out that there are 1900 new plants, built with the tax payers money, that will De available after the war to make new types of civilian goods.
 'The American people are counting on inventors, whether they work in the eel lars of their homes or in million-dollar laboratories, to keep the postwar ghosts out of our factories" Brown says "A study should be made now as to peace time articles which can be made in these plants, to develop new articles which the people will need" Good, sound advice that many industrialists are following
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Trials of a Bureaucrat

In his recent defense of the bureau crats of whom he describes himself as maxmums, Harold Ickes beWailed the difficulty that arises because the civil service makes it hard to discharge unde- sirable Subordinates.
 Eliot Kaplan, executive secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, points out correctly that it isn't any trou hle at all to fire civil servant All his chief need do is prefer charges, let the subordinate defend himself, and then turn him loose regardless of the weight of evidence. Provided the formalities are thus observed, any civil servant can be discharged for any reason except politics or religion
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Current Comment

We have seized the initiative, the most vital factor in the war.
 General George c. Marshall. No nation can ever become com- pletely self-sufficient in industry. History shows that whe nthe people of any country find profitable jobs their increased consumption cre- ates demand for goods-foreign and domestic.
 Frederick c. Crawford, pres
 ident National Association of
 Manufacturers.
 The Japs can be licked but 1t will take a lot of licking because of their knife-edge war efficiency, sharpened by six years of war in China, coupled with their belief that it is a most ignominous dis grace to be captured.
 Joseph c. Grew.
 After the war Europe will have most of her industry destroyed or worn out and her former economic relations uprooted. A new life will begin and 1t must be based upon the principle of free trade. -Dr. Paul Hoensel of North western University. Every report that resistance shal cease is false. We will fight fo our country and all that Is mos valuable to us. Concerning this VI are all united.
 l-Premier Per Albin Hanson 0
 Sweden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Gasoline and Oil

The reader who digs deep enough into the new "big inch" pipeline that has just been completed will discover that it act ually is 24-inch pipeline. It has been built in less than a year from Longview, Texas, to Bayway, N. J., and Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, a distance of 1888 miles and at cost of 95 million dollars. The reason it was built was to supply oil and gasoline to the East.
 When the war broke out the railroads were hauling driblets of about 5000 bar rels of oil daily to the Eastern coast. The railroads did the biggest transportation job in all history and delivered 700 thou sand barrels day, and finally in the week of July 10 1943, they delivered 100000 barrels day to the eastern Seaboard.
 Nevertheless private homes were un- heated last winter on account of the re- stricted rationing of fuel oil, and the squeeze was repeatedly frightened on gas oline for automobiles The finishing touches have been made on the "big inch" pipeline; another 20-inch pipeline will be completed this winter another pipeline from the Western oil fields by way of Norris City, Illinois is bringing oil into Richmond, Virginia.
 No one will dispute the wisdom of get ting all the gasoline that is necessary for our military forces. But some one in this government should show, and prove there isn't enough oil and gasoline in the United States. Administrator Ickes is the man who makes the distribution of gasoline to different parts of the country. His estimates on the amount of tranSporta- ton needed have been doubled now that the new pipeline is finished. How about it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

duces only a momentary satisfac- ton. Anything we do which is not exactly on the square leaves us dis contented with ourselves, restless, i'll at ease. The mind and soul become agitated, like the rolling, restless sea, and life becomes nurky and discol- ored. The waters cast up mire and dirt.
 Not all good people are happy. but all good people ought to be happy. When a man has goodness. he has the one thing which gives life it's deepest satisfaction. A tormented conscience is agony indeed. There is only one thing worse than such troubled conscience and that Is conscience so hardened that 1t is incapable of being troubled. Every
 body can have the peace and con- tentment which come from goodness and from a quiet conscience, pro-
 yided he is willing to pay the price
 in unselfishness and self-control. (All Rights Reserved Babson News paper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
The Debtors Prison

One of the greatest dangers that can follow price restrictions which do not allow sufficient operating profit, is the idea that government loans or govern rlent subsidies can bridge the gap so that production may be continued and con- sumers furnished goods at less than the actual cost. The danger from this policy is that it opens the door for government ownership or control of industry and business.
 Such system is like the old debtors prison when man could not pay his bills, he was put in prison. The result was he often routed there, because when in prison, he could not earn the money to get out. The same can easily happen to an industry forced by jaw to sell below cost of production, and maintain it's existence from subsidies or government loans - it might never get out from under such bondage.
 Political pressure to force subsidies on producers and distributors, instead of permitting necessary price adjustments, could easily be part of program to socialize American industry, while the public is lulled with the idea that such palliative will hold down the cost of liv- ing At best it can but take money out of one pocket and put it in another-costs are not reduced.
 If industry can be brought under polit- ical domination in this manner, we will all become objects of Federal charity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Get Out The Washboard

Laundry owners foresee the time, very soon now, when housewives all over the country are going to have to do much of their laundering at home. Labor short ages, transportation difficulties and un- precedented demand are pressing the laundries beyond Gheir abilities to serve.
 The same situation is arising in con- nection with dry cleaning. In the south, particularly where summer is hardest on suits, it is becoming almost impossible to keep spic and span in wash suits.
 Does Mother have a washboard tucked away somewhere? Has Father forgotten how to press bedraggled suit?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 ChanDn

I am eager to have these pam. phlets-and in case there is any change left over, put it in youi lawn bowling fund. GA. S. Answer-If you don't mind IT. put it in my pipe and smoke it Those Scots on the bowling greer NEVER have tobacco when fellow tries to cadge a plpeful.
 Tic DOuIoueux
 Impossible to express my gratitud, for your article on tic douloureu, last January took the articlt to another dentist |. sure enough X-ray showed buried root of al eye tooth. Dentist removed it Since then have not had an at tack. You are correct in describ- ing the pain of tic doulmoureuX as atrcious. It Is almost suicide pain. (M. s. H. told of a victim of tic douloureux who had received various kinds of treatment with no relief. X-ray re- vealed buried root of upper tricuspid tooth. Reluctantly patient submit ted to surgical removal of the long buried remains of the root. There after no further pain. Physician who reported the case, said his brother -in-law, a dentist, had es- sured him he mad never seen a case of die douloureux in which he had not found an old root buried in the jaw.
 Afraid to Take the Money
 Please tell me whether there iS much danger of catching any dis ease by handling money. I am 2 cashier in restaurant and have to take money from all sorts of people.
 Miss c. F. W.
 Answer-Not via the money. Just be careful not to permit your finger to touch your lip or tongue while you are at work. Greater danger is infection with cri via conversa- tional spray, if there is not suit able screen between the customers face and yours. There is no evil dence that disease is spread via money, magazine, newspaper, book, stamps and the like passed from person to person. Ordinay soap and washing of the hands before you eat. drink or carelessly touch lip or tongue with soiled finger, is ample prec 8 tuin. 0 yanatta ample precaution.
 Copyright, 1943, John F. Dille Co).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
BURNING ITSELF OUT (NeW Haven Register)

Upon his departure for Wash ington to become Office of Price Administration general manager, former Connecticut OPA director Chester Bowles is reported to have been given, by his offic staff, a box of aspirin. He will suddenly loses its status of the greatest headache producer since MIRA.
 But that is for his own com- fort. For the comfort of the populace, what he should have taken with him, or what he should acquire Immediately, is a large supply of alkaline or some such products with which to neutral ize the excess of vitamins or hor- mones or whatever the elements may be which, in the blood streams and nerve cells of the OPA's horde of idea men and women, activate that organization into operations or phases of operations which old fashioned common sense would tell it to shun.
 For example, in northern New gan the week by simply tn ot Jersey the OPA organization be- gan the week by simply throwing up its hands over the maze of confusing and conflicting regula- tions which had been put out by by central and local rationing of- ficials for hte restriction of motor ists. It was coming, and it will come to that all over if the serene is not switched from one of look ing for new things to regulate, with each new regulation causing new conflicts, to one of seeing how few things must be regulated and to regulating those well.
 OPA chief Brown started out with some such idea evidently in mind, but the Washington germ apparently got him like most of the rest. If MT. Bowles' good in- tentions do not materiali5e better than Administrator Browns did, the OPA is going to collapse before long of its own weight and heper- activity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

twice In two decades, Badoglio could have changed the entire course of his country and per- haps the world. But each time he hesitated and failed.
 The first was when he was chief of staff in 1922 and Mus solini staged his march on Rome. Weeks before that march, Mus- solini's FasciSts had been getting arms and ammunition from the Italian army right under Ba- doglio's nose. He must have known about it, unless he was asleep, and he does not sleep soundly.
 MARCH ON ROME
 When the march on Rome fin- ally was consummated, and Be- nito Mussolini stepped out of his special sleeping car (after his Blackshirts had made it Sale for him to enter the capitaD, Badoglio sent word to the King that he could easily drive them out of Rome with two regiments.
 But the King hesitated, anG
 Badoglio hesitated with him. A few days later it was too late.
 Badoglio's second tragic mo- ment of hesitation came last week. He and the King at last had the courage to oust the man who had cowed Italy, who had led the Italian people to destruction.
 But having taken that one bold step, the new Premier of Italy waited. True, he faced 8 tragi- cally complicated sitution. G. mn troops in the north could make a battle-ground of Italian soil. Blu also he knew that the invin- cible might of Allied air power could make mince-meat of Italian cities and that the Allied armies, already in their stride, were sure to overrun Italy.
 That moment of hesitation may mean Italy will be an even bloodier battle-ground and that :he surge of Allied vicory may be slowed.
 But Badoglio has spent his life as a professional soldier. and caution is his watchword, even when empires are at stake. HUMAN BOMBS"
 Just as Mussolini was always sticking out his chin. Badoglio has always pulled his in. AS gov- ernor of Libya in 1929, he stood by hile Marshal Gaziani, the rabid Fascist, subdued Arab natives bN taking rebel chieftains up in an airplane and tossing them out on the desert below.
 By this time Badoglio had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Selected Poem
CURTAIN OF THE DARK

(Harold Vinal in The Christian Science Monitor) This is the hour when the dusk achieves momentary silver the fields lie Sunless and shadow is upon the leaves. This is the hour when against the sky The signature of day is writ in air And in scroll of crimson, vale and glen Turn into marble and we suddenly share With them the meaning of what dusks have been Something of all the evenings that have passed Is still distilled a sweetness fingers yet In loam and crumbling arbor and must last. Being forever deathless. Dusk has set Its signet on these things and left the mark Of stars upon the curtain of the dark
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
WHEN IS A LAXATIVE TONIC?
PRESCRIBED DIETS AND DEFICIENCY DISEASE

DEFICIENCY DISEASE Too frequently the overzealous physician in treating a certain type of organic disease prescribes a diet
 so deficient that nutritive failure is gradually induced. We not infrequently find patients deveolp
 nutritional diseases as the result of restriction to diets prescribed for therapeutic purposes. (So says pr. Tom D. Spies, discovered of the , method to synthesize thiomin, vita min BD.
 Dr. Spies wrote that for a special
 audience, the medical profession. believe a great many laymen who try to follow some such special diet on their own contrive to de-
 velop nutritional deficiencies the
 manifestations of which complicate the condition they hope to improve
 by dieting. And so the advice Dr.
 Spies gave to physicians who pre-
 scribe diets may be what such lay men need.
 We suggest, Dr. Spies continued.
 that the physician prescibing spe- cial therapeutic diets check the food recommended with that which he knows is required for the ade- quate diet. If the restrictions are
 of such nature that the foods per- mitted cannot provide the essential
 nutrients in adequate amounts, it is recommended that he supple ment those nutrients as required by
 use of synthetics or concentrates. l hope Dr. Spies and the Journal for which he wrote will forgive me if I ask why change moods in the
 middle of the paragraph? If we suggest anything at all, why be- come furtive about it before the
 paragraph is finished? To say it is recommended" instead of saying
 i've recommend raises a suspicion that the author is not certain whether he really Ghould assume ] responsibility, in case any one finds fault with the idea. That's where the furtive mood comes in right
 handy, in too much near-scientific i medical writing.
 I suggest that individuals who follow any reduction diet should 1 always take pains to supplement the diet with good daily ration of
 itamin concentrate which will supply the essential itamins with
 out materially increasing the cal- | oric intake.
 Another class of persons should
 give this particular attention-per-
 sons subject to peptic (gastric or duodenal ulcer). All of the special diets originally prescribed by phy- sicians for their own patients, i later peddled about from person to
 person without benefit of medical
 advice, are deficient in essential
 vitamins. Therefore every one who follows any such diet for peptic
 ulcer should take sufficient vitamin concentrate to satisfy the bodys daily requirement..
 The deficiency in most special
 diets Is mainly deficiency of vita
 min B-complex. In most diets fo. peptic ulcer there is also deficienc, of vitamin c. The Sippy diet, fol instance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

swallowed his early revulsion
 against Fascism and, following
 his King, had accepted Musso-
 lini's tempting offer of field
 marshal of the Italian army.
 Inside the Italian army there has always been jealousy between the political Blackshirts and the non-Fascist regulars. So when Mussolini launched his armada of tanks and airplanes against de- fenseless Ethiopia he placed one of his Blackshirts, General De Bono, in command.
 De Bono was . complete flop and Badoglio, from the regular army, was called to the rescue. In the field of battle, Bad0g1io does not hesitate. He
 is an Al technical soldier. He cleaned up the Ethiopian war in short order - and he did not
 hesitate to use gas. to do it.
 After Badoglio was quite willing to receive from the hands of Il Duce the title of Duke of Addis Ababa with the lush salary that went with 1t. Baeoglio also swallowed his pride and his anti Fascist leanings sufficiently to become chief of all the armies. ARMY UNPREPARED
 As such he was supposed to prepare for war, which any one could see from the rantings of Italy's Axis partner in Berlin, was just around the corner. But the Italian army lapsed into such a state of unpreparedness and poor morale that when Mussolini fin- ally did decide to stab France in the back, Italian troops made only minor gains against an already defeated French army.
 Bad0glio has been both blamed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Hartford is at the present time becom- ing trolley-rail conscious. Plans have been discussed up there for some time to remove all the evidence that trolleys once did duty about the city st4eets. In this respect Waterbury has been cleaned up for some time and the days of trolley riding seem almost as far removed as the horse-car era. Another nearby city that has leaned to trolley travel is New Haven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Views Of The Press

tionable, it would in part compen- sate the producers for the increased cost of production. The OPA seems to have missed the point entirely in holding that the increase would be paid by the consumers. Such was not the recommendation.
 Since December, 1941, Connecticut milk producers have not had an in- crease except for the very minor indirect one resulting from lowering the percentage of butterfat from four to three and seven-tenths. In recent months grain costs have ad- vanced nearly 35 per cent and herd replacements and wage propor- tionately. Many dairymen have chosen to sell their COWS rather than to continue business under such unfavorable circumstances.
 It may be that OPA will offer a subsidy, although Prentiss Brown, the Administrator, has announced that further subsidies will have to be approved by Congress, now in recess until September IS. But the farm CTS do not want to be subsidized They look about them and see in- dustrial workers with more money than ever before and conclude that most of the consumers of milk can pay a cent or two more per quart. Was there any audible protest when the price of a loaf of bread was in- creased cent--is asked by the farmers.
 The plain fact is that the present price producers canont stay in busi- ness. Some talk has been reported of a milk strike. We hope that the Conn. farmer will not resort to dumping his product. The more probable result will be the selling of more herds and the seeking of jobs in industry. Again the OPA is on it's usual road of providing want amid plenty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

and exonertaed for the Italian fiasco in Greece. The truth is that he did not want to un- dertake this campaign, warner MussOlini that the army was not ready. But this time, also Ba- dOgli0's latent hatred of Fas- cism, deluged under Ill his Fascist hOnors, had come to the fore again.
 Friends say that he resented both the Frolch in the back and the attack on Greece. But he did not protest publicly. Finally he was yanked back from the Greek campaign, discharged by Mussolini, and for a time friends feared for his life. It was then that his old friends the King held out a sheltering wing and invited him to live in the imperial palace.
 A TIMID STATESMAN
 What transpired between these two close 1rlendS during the three years that followed may never be known unless some palace chronicler writes the story. But 1t leaked out and was published in this column that Badoglio Seethed with hatred against Mus solini, even hoped to lead the regular Italian army against him.
 Two weeks ago, the time fin- ally came. BadOglio and the King, to whom he had always been so loyal, struck their first independent, courageous blow for Italy. But Badoglio, a good soldier, but timid states man, struck out.
 Copyright, 1943, by United
 Fea tiIre Syndicate IpcN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
INVITING A MILK CRISIS
 (Hartford Courant)

The Office of Price Administra- tion has left Connecticut milk pro- ducers with most discouraging out look by rejecting the request for an increase of cent quart, unless some alternative to increase income for the producers is forthcoming at once. The proposal for the ad- vance in price was recommended by Chester Bowleg, State OPA direc- tor. after extensive hearings in
 May. While the plan to take the cent from the dealers was objec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
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 pr. Brady if s stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady. National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

PRICE OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE
 "The wicked are like the trou- bled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt" Usaiah 57:2O.
 Here in deed is graphic descrip- tion of what wickedness does to a man. It makes him restless. and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

recent labor con- tracts which have been approved by the War L a b o r Board.
 One factor that hasn't helped any is that there has been no overall S t a t e m e n t of policy on wage in ce II tive plans. War Labor Board members are on record as saying that in CT e as e d wages considered L~NaIrs~~ kL4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

out of the depths of his life there come up, in the words he utters and the acts he performes, m i r c and dir which corrupt him and others. If anyone believes he can find happiness through evil, he is tragically mistak- en. Wrong-doing ~f n~r L{~I vaeA-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Gardeners are now plucking string beans; also getting their first harvest of summer squash. The vegetable plate and bowl are also enhanced by tomatoes, radishes, New Zealand spinach, cucum- bers and onions, fresh from the garden to you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

The Hartford Courant is using new style headline on it's editorial page, all caps and much larger type. It is rather neat and gives the page good appear ance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

The perennial Fred Stone is at it again. He's practically done with dance step- ping but is getting in bit of good work in the popular comedy, "You Can't Take It With You"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Then came the dog days. They came ahead of schedule and stayed beyond their regular allotted time. And after the dog days, what?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05

Little hot weather teasers: There will be no skating tonight at Hamilton Park, just dancing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Hesitotion Marks Bodoso Puppe Not Moste of Fate; He Could Have Stopped the Foc Cold in Their Eoy In ousns Musson He Struck Mighty Blow for Native Lond
BY DREW PEARSON

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