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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
A Thought for Today
Future of Synthetic Rubber

There is no way yet of determining
whether synthetic rubber will be able
to compete economically, after the war,
with natural rubber from the plantations
of the Far East and from those which
are being opened up in Latin America.
We do not know even whether synthetic
rubber will have been perfected Sufti
GENTLY, before Hitler and Hirohito can
ce whipped, so that it could replace the
natural gum if price were not involved.
We do know, unless you are in position to
diSprove the computations of DR.. Robert
v. Yohe, superintendent of the govern
ment-oWned B. F. Goodrich synthetic
rubber plant in Louisville, KY, that TO-
900 American Workmen can make the
same quantity of rubber out Of butadiene
and styrene that it would require 100000
sweating coolies to take out of Far
Eastern trees. Let's suppose what does
not seem unreasonable - that American
chemists kill the bugs that now prevent
successful manufacture of all-synthetic
automobile tires. Let's assume that
when the war ends it will find us with
synthetic capacity equivalent almost to
our peace-time demand for rubber. That
capacity will have been installed at a
cost which might preclude the synthetic
product from competing with the cost of
raw rubber.
The question will arise - and we might
as well begin thinking it over now -
whether we shall close down that plant,
and let it go to rack and ruin, or whether
we shall write off some reasonable por-
ton of the cost against this war and keep
the butadiene, styrene and buna plants
in operation On the one hand, there
will be school of economic thought to
say that an industry unable to stand
Squarely on its feet does not deserve to
be propped up. On the other will be the
question: Can we afford to let this ca
pacity disintegrate, and throw ourselves
once more into position where, as in
December of 1941 - we can be cut off
by an enemy from a product upon which
the American way of life depends very
greatly?
interviewer with these considerations
will be the the problem whether to give
MISUNDERSTANDING livings to 10000 work.
ingmen and their families or cOOlie-liv-
ings to 100000 Far Fasteners. This is
not quite so simple as it may look In any
event, it may be worth while bordering
the suggestion of the B. F. Goodrich,
president, John L. Collyer, that by sub
sidy, if necessary Though he does not
use that Word) standby or insurance"
capacity capable of making from 100000
to 10000 tons of synthetic year should
be sustained in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Stop World War iii Now

Powerful arguments can be advanced,
solely from dollars and cents stand
point, to show why this country should
participate in world affairs and lead the
way in promoting international trade.
Over and above these arguments is the
fundamental proposition that through
sound trade relations permanent peace
can be established The truth of this
proposition should be the ultimate de-
termining factor in rallying support for
any trade program. If trade will insure
peace, trade there must be- Individuals
or groups who oppose extension of the
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act because
of an imagined possibility that the prof
it's of their business may suffer in
some degree, and who wholly overlook
the consideration of future peace deserve
little consideration from the millions of
parents whose sons and daughters are
fighting the present war.
Twelve hundred of the nations econ
omists have united in warning against
abandonment of the policy of reciprocal
trade agreements. Their action is unique
in that, while the group included widely
divergent PHILOSOPHERS and economic be-
liefs, on the question Of reciprocal trade
there was firm agreement, as is eloquent
ly attested to from the following signed
statement "Some of us would like to
turn toward laissez-faire; some toward
greater measure of planning. But all Of
us stand on this common ground: We are
convinced (1) that worldwide reversion
toward nationalistic protectionism after
the war will hinder the development OF
all types of reasonable reconstruction
programs, (2) that the pattern of CO.
operative action which the American
trade agreement program provides is the
minimum basis of United States postwar
policy, and (3) that the reputation of
this policy by Congress would inevitably
start an avalanche of trade restrictions
in foreign countries The economic
preparation for World War III would
have begun"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

circumstances do to us. The same
circumstances will make one man
better and another bitter. Some
people collapse before trouble and
others make it the beginning of
new and better life. William Law
once wrote: IF anyone would tell
you the shortest, surest way to all
happiness and all perfection, he
must tell you to make it rule to
think and praise God for everything
that happens to you. For it is GER
tain that whatever seeming calamity
happens to you, If you thank and
praise God for it, you turn 1t into a
blessing"
One of the happiest persons I
know Is a woman who some years
ago lost everything she had. as the
result of someone elses mismanage-
ment and dishonesty. She imme-
diately took hold of this adverse
situation with both hands and has
since become a person of real dis
tinction, immersed every hour of the
day In useful activity.
She has learned the greatest OF
all secrets, namely, how to turn
trouble to good account.
Cali Rights Reserved - Babson
! Newspaper Syndicate)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Piles

Gratitude for advice that one need
not enter hospital for pile operation.
I had suffered extremely. :. but
not since second injection treatment,
and now apparently I am cured,
after seven painless office treat
ments. Never lost an hour. CIV. Ed
AnsWer-Doctors abreast of prog
ress relieve sufferers from piles with
comparatively safe, painless injec-
ton treatments. given in the office,
without interruption of the pa
tents ordinary work or activities.
Only reason why the old timers per-
sist in the ancient practice is because
they Just haven't the skill to man
age the more difficult technique of
injection treatment. Now I warn
the reader to beware OF the quack
who blatanly tells the gullible pub
lie he has such skill. Remember. II
a doctor is any good his satisfied
patients send their friends to him;
if he is not so good he has to resort
to various schemes to bring in new
victims.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
QUEEN MOTHER MARY
New York Times

On Tuesday Queen Mother Mary
was rs. Princess in her own right,
she is descended from that Duke OF
Cambridge who was a son of George
III. She was cousin Of the then
Duke of York, whom she married in
1893 and who became King in 1910.
George v described her publicly as
"a constant helpmate in every en-
deavor for our peoples good" She
has seen much sorrow, private and
national. Through it all she has
been brave, patient and helpful. She
is a Victorian worthy of great
epoch and the sterner trials OF
human fortitude in our own time.
Queen Mother Mary loves London
and the Londoners love her. The
slums know her as a pleasant, kind
ly visitor, friendly, guiltless of con-
descension, democratic. She couldn't
be kept away from the bombed dis
tricts in 1910. George vi is said
to have had a good deal of trouble
in persuading his mother to leave
town. Finally he succeeded. Pretty
soon we heard of her. She was es-
tablished in village. She was do
! ing war work like any other Villager
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Current Comment

Naples is city without a voice,
without a word. On the Via Roma
there are a few persons to be seen.
Their pace is not that continuous
go and come of large city; rather
is it the rhythmic stride of peo-
pie on a day of mourning.
Virginia Galyda, italian editor.
Whether you go east or west,
north or south, everywhere you go
the initiative Is in allied hands.
Navy Secretary Frank Knox.
I look to cities of sparkling build
ings of steel and glass made bril-
liant with color. want to see
world in which sunshine is COM
pulsory as far as man can insure
it. Away with all the dingy alleys
Away with the sugar icing!
Charles Herbert Reilly, professor
emeritus of architecture at Liver
pool U.
This is the time for doing jobs
not holding them.
House committee recommending
OPA shakeup.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

Nesbit made mistake. Before
sugar rationing, she had supply
of 300 pounds on hand, and de-
cided to be virtuous and turn it
in. Later she had urgent need of
it.
Sometimes when I get in a
jam, / wish 1 hadn't been So
NOBLE" she says.
Well, the month of May is over,
and the parade of Presidents has
lessened. But June Is here, and
before Mrs. Nesbit has fair time to
balance her books, along comes
the President of Paraguay, to be
followed by the President of Chile.
And who knows, maybe that
man Stain will pop in any day.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Patches of paint are peeling off
the White House Because of
the war the Executive Mansion has
not been painted for some time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
NUTRITION DETERMINES
YOUR STATE OF MINE

According to some poet or phils
oSopher youth is not time OF life
but a state of mind. Perhaps there
is much truth in that. If youth &
state of mind, then senility o.
anility is another state of mind.
A reader who reported the effec>
OF the iodine Ration" on hef
daughter, a girl in her teens
graphically described this change:
"She couldn't enjoy life as otheI
young people do e.. chronic fatigue
=. and now she's bubbling over
most of time"
Anhedonia, incapacity to enjoy
life, is characteristic of old age OF
premature old age, and this girl id
her middle teens, like a great man1
other girls in their teens, suffered
from a nutritional deficiency thai
favorS premature aging
For some reason which I an
unable to conjecture boys in theif
early and middle teens do not Suf>
fer from iodine deficiency so fire.
quently as do girls of that age. But
judging from the letters I receive.
this nutritional deficiency Is as fire.
quent among men past thirty as II
is among women past thirty.
In many cases anhedonia, low
spirits, a melanchollc state of mind,
particularly loss of the individuals
former liveliness and pep or ami
ton, is in my judgment, a mani
feStation of iodine deficiency, and
in all cases correction of this def
cheney, at least tends to preserve
youth if 1t does not actually reju-
venate.
When I say rejuvenate I mean
make younger. Correction of the
nutritional deficiencies which hasten
aging unquestionably makes many
individuals younger now than they
were a year ago. Not only iodine
deficiency but calcium land phos-
phorus) deficiency, vitamin Boom
pick deficiency and vitamin D de-
ficiency.
In going back to the early teens
to prevent premature old age am
not nearly SO imaginative as the
poet who said prevention of pre-
mature old age must begin at least
century before you are born.
Good inheritance is fine if you have
it, but good nutrition and good
habits, SO far outweigh it that it is
scarcely significant in the attain
ment Of longevity.
No physician who has ever COM
pared the spirit or disposition Of
the hyperthyroid or eXophthaimic
goitre patient will doubt that the
iodine intake has a good deal to do
with the state of mind. The nor
NAL thyroid hormone Gnternal Sc
cretion of the thyroid glanO is an
iodine compound.
Sea foolish, shell-fish, seaWeed
contains from ten to hundred
times as much iodine as any land
grown food.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Views Of The Press

One thinks of her as wearing a
Victorian toque and a long gray
cloak. She wears what she likes.
Nobody can tell her what fashions
she should follow A good Victorian
again she is fond of the theatre.
This is her third war, but she isn't
discouraged In the First World War
by accepting the place of Com
mandant in Chief of the Womens
Auxiliary Army Corps, WAC, she
insured its success when a lot of
serpents' tongues were wagging
Sensible, ective, quiet, strong, she
has deserved for more than forty
years the respect and love of her
peOple.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
PRAISE FOR CONNECTICUT
(Hartford Courant)

The way Connecticut has gone
about remedying its manpoWer
shortage and putting more plants to
work on equipment necessary to the
war effort receives national recog-
milton in the current issue of Col
ier's Weekly. Although the states
voluntary plan for putting the aged
infirm and in some cases even the
bedridden to work at useful war
jobs is well known in industrial cir
cles, the average citizen is likely to
be both interested and pleased at
this tribute from widely circulated
periodical.
"In the Colt Arms plant at Hart
ford" says the article, "White collar
men and women cut short their reg
ular jobs to put in full shifts max
ing weapons. Around Westport, war
material is being fashioned by moth
ers, shut-ins, and women working in
their own homes. In Guilford,
there's an organization called the
Guilford Wartime Industries; it puts
scores of oldsters to work at light
manufacturing jobs-and some jobs
that aren't so light"
The pictures accompanying the
text are revealing. They show Mrs
Michael opposite of Saugatuck, de-
spite her illness, putting together
intricate parts to go into war i'm
plements, while propped up in bed !;
Mr.. Allen Griswold, eighty years,
still working as a boatbuilder in the
plant of Edwin E. Brown; Mrs
Peter Keller, who does piecework at
home for the Fairfield Aluminium
Company, yet finds time to raise
chickens as we'll as to care for her
two children; and Bill Carpentieri
eighteen-years, who drives a candy
truck by day but after hours puts in
a full war shift at Colts.
The voluntary nature of these and
similar efforts is properly stressed.
1.-THE communities don't have to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Cramps in Feet Nights

Fifty-eight, subject to cramps in
feet nights - sometimes so bad L
have to have mysister rub them.
Have found that if I exercise Is
minutes before going to bed am
much less apt to have the cramps.
(MrS. L. Ed
Answer-Such cramps in feet or
legs, or in wrists or arms, are type
ofg tetany. Increase your calcium
intake. Send ten cents. and a
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress for pamphlet 1.-THE Calcium
Shortage"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Selected Poem
FOR A SOLDIER WHO DIED

REV. Joseph A. Dunn in the New York Sum-
Priest, come quietly, as through long cathedral
Grave with the ages and single hope;
For this boys life quietly one day
No trumpet blew conscript marching men
Raised royal din stamped the drum-like earth
When Bill was born. America took breath
And smiled as before, and the little waters ran,
The wheat grew and the pines that comb the wind
That slants off mountain tops down on our roof
dusty town, a moments pause-that's all
This hell can't matter where the boy lies now;
No mud and CRIME can coat the soul that shows
He loved his own American face to face
And so God loves him now
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

Gardens at the moment feature peonles
which are at their peak. Lilies of the val
ley are blooming but not in profusion, al
so the feathery shrub spirea, peoples,
and such wigelia shrubs as were not win
ter killed For the most part we are
caught up on the blooms of the season
and June is running true to form with
put out of commission privets, ramblers,
honeySuckle vines, and so on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

Vice President Wallace pick
ed the hottest day of the spring
to open his private tennis season,
playing with his sister, wife of
the Swiss Minister Hard
working Representative Francis
Case of South Dakota reads and
digests every bill that is intro
duced in the House Senator
Jim Mead of New York and his
office staff have gone on seven
day week for the duration d.
The election of Gerard Dobbin,
secretary of Representative Albert
Engel of Michigan, as president
of the Congressional Secretaries
Club made big hit with Capitol
newsmen. They consider Dob
bin one Of the topnotch aides in
Congress.
Copyright, 1913, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining 10 per-
sOnal health and hygiene, not to
disease, diagnosis of treatment.
will be answered by DR.. Brady IL
a stamped self-addresSed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written in ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address DR..
William Brady, National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Ill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

half and all the
soldiers a n d
sailors in all the
armies and ma
vies S e n d l n G
t h ir missives
free of postage,
new stamps be-
C me Scarcer
than new pota-
toes.
Besides, t h e
generals, t h e
admirals and the
ministers took
up so much time
with their end
less un c ! ]
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

The United Nations Food Conference
in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
at Hot Springs came to a close last week:
1t was very special affair reports OF
which we're generates which did not as
they say tell all. No doubt matters OF
grave import were discussed, and no
doubt after sessions good time was had
bV all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

ures and TRACE
dies. 1t takes a
real man to look
upon such things
and to believe
that in them lies
the seed of fu-
ture happiness.
But experience
proves that the
significant thing
about life is not
its circumstances
but what these
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Family FOrmulary

Have you any suggestion or advice
to offer concerning the remedies
household medicine chest should
provide for the everyday minor in
juries or ailments? These days with
so many doctors away we need a
medicine chest more than ever.
(Mrs. w. M. g.
AnsWer-Too long a story to
print here. Send twenty-five cents
and stamped envelope bearing your
address, for booklet THE Medicine
Cupboard. First part deals with
first aid for minor emergencies.
Second part gives recipes and direc-
tions for use of simple remedies for
everyday ailments.
copyright, 1943, John F. Ollie co..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
Now the Great Prince had a
hobby Of stamp collecting, but when
the Great Wars came, the stamp
collection suffered most woefully.
Other Great Princes had no time
to daily with the printing of new
prettieS for packets, and with one
half of the world fighting the other
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
The Great
Princes
New Cover

Continuing the Adventures Of
the Great Prince. Any similarity
to real persons and places is pure
ly Intentionally
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

adopt them If they don't want to"
says the article. But thousands are
gladly participating, which is as it
should be in our democracy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL l.. DOUGLASS ID. ID
Reg. u. S. Patent OFF.
By: Sarl l.. Douglass, ID. ID.
MAKING TROTIRIF AN ASSET

The hardest thing in the world is
to try to accommodate ourselves to
what appear in our lives to be fail
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

WASHINGTON significant and frequent questions
Roosevelt leaves
nfGco"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY
DREW PEARSON

Wallace Says Good kshbo Policy Would Continue Under Republican
White Keeper Has Roon Troubles Like Any American House
She Hos Stretch Of Presidents and Churchill
Listed "nstitution Quote Busn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-07

Copyright, 1913, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, Inc.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-05
Hagg Competitors
To Get Handicdps

NEW YORK, Aug. Sup
Secretary Dan Ferris of the Ma
tional A. A. U. announced today
that handicaps will be given four
Milers competing against Gunder
Hagg in his farewell race in this
country Aug. IL at T'riborough
stadium.
Rudy Simms, James Rafferty,
Don Burnham, and Frank Martin
will be allotted handicaps by Phil
Keller, Metropolitan association
handicapped.
Completing the field will be Bill
Hulse and Gil Dodds.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-05
PhilIies Purchase
Nashville PLAYER

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 5.-CUP)-
The Philadelphia Phillies announced
today the purchase of shortstop Ray
Hamrick from Nashville of the
Southern association for $4,000
and shortstop Chuck Brewster.
Hamrick, a Highlander and said
to be one of the best shortstops in
the minor leagues, will report to-
morrow in time for the series with
the Giants.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-05
BUILDING MATERIAL
Personals. Spec. Notices

ROOFING: II you. roof needs re.
pairing, 1t costs nothing to have
us fix 1t. Let us explain. HART
ZELL & SON, Phone 251-W.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-05
Fast Horse Drops
Dead On Track

XENIA, o., Aug. 5.-(UP)-Sen-
ator Able, recognized as one of the
Worlds fastest harness PAGERS,
dropped dead on the track yester-
day after winning the second heat
of the $1,000 free-for-all pace race
at the Greene county fair.
Senator Able set the siX-year old
gelding mark in 1912 at Lexington
KY, and was the Worlds champion
4-year old pacing gelding over half
mile tracks.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-05
Lands Silent on
Talk with Galan

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-UP)-Base-
ball commissioner Kenesaw M
Lands declined today to disclose
the nature of his conversation with
first baseman' Augie Galan of the
BROOKLYN Dodgers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08

The Detroit Times has far more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08

NEW YORK, May Z GNS)--
Clark Lee. war correspondent who
covered brilliantly the American
stand ON Baiaan, today is a mem
Der of International News Service.
Lee, whose book They Call II
Pacific is in IFS third printing,
Will leave shortly TO cover the
European war zone for ms and
The Detroit Times,
In 10 thrill-paCked months in
the Pacific Lee has SPAWNED 10000
miles of war IN the Pacific, COW
cred the battle of the Philippines
from it's outbreak and was one OF
the last correspondents 10 leave
Bataan.
He has seen action aboad L. s.
aircraft carriers. PIT boats and
bombcrS. En- route home from the
SolomOnS he was tOrpedoed
Lee, IS, is native of Oakland,
Cal. 4 son Of the late Clayton d.
Lee. first president Of the United
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
Il Bars Guilty
of Violations

Notices Of penalties ranging
from 500 fines 10 five days H.
.ccnSe suspensions were sent out
by the state liquor control COM
mission today TO y licensees adj
Judged guilty yesterday Of liquor
law infractionS.
The Detroit offenders and their
sentences: Emil r. Walters, HOPS
r.. jefferson, 500 fine or 10 days
suspension for selling liquor on
Sundays; William CharouhiS and
George LappaS. 659 Michigan, So
fine or five days suspension for
permitting lettering.
Lena Greenbaum, 24l4 Hast
.ingS, - days suspension; Stella
Gvoich. 314 Woodward, To-day Sus-
pension: John s. koerber. 1915 f..
Jefferson. hve-day suspension; La
FARO Crudi. 10202 Harper Today
suspension: Dominic Nizzchero, 666
Grove. Anthony OStrowSkl, 14O4
Eureka, and Leona Savage, 1921
iEcorSe, five days each - all for
serving TO minors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
Ration Book Cheats
Warned Of Penalty

OPA officials today again
warned persons registering for
ration books that any attempt to
obtain more than one book for
each member of the family would
be punished by confiscation of all
ration books or jail sentence.
The warning was issued after il
was discovered that more than
100 families in Board No. ! had
received in excess of one book for
each member by registering with
different boards
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-08
Lee Writes for Times:
Covered Bafaan Fall

Press, the correspondent was
graduated from Rutgers UniVer-
Sity. I'm l941 Rutgers awarded
him its gold medal for courage
and skill as a war correspondent.
He joined the Associated Press
after graduation from Rutgers
school of journalism in 1929 and
has been head of the AP bureaus
in Mexico City and Honolulu and
served In Toxic and Shanghai.
During China campaigns ne has
Travelled thousands of miles with
the Japanese army,
After the fall Of Bataan, Lee
escaped 10 Australia.