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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Poll Tax Issue

There is a lot of misunderstanding
about the poll tax legislation pending be-
fore Congress. In olden times, when
father was boy" there was a poll tax
law in most of the states, both north and
south. Every man had to work a day on
the road or pay $150 for a substitute to
take his place. Friends in community
arranged the days in which they would
work together on the roads. Believe it or
not it was a kind of social event and
neither business nor professional men
were too proud to do it honor. That is
the way it FUSED to be'
The general understanding is that the
poll tax is imposed in southern states to
prohibit Negroes from voting. AS a mat
ter of fact it works out On wider plan,
as many of the Whites are also barred
from voting because they are unable to
pay their poll taxes.
Congress is wrestling with the problem
again, playing with the idea of abolishing
the poll ta.- in all cases, so that it will not
bar any voters from the right of fran
chise In some states "poor Whites and
Blacks get delinquent several years on
the poll tax, and then they can't vote
until they pay for all the back years that
were neglected. Thus, the poll tax ques-
ton has become a political issue and
few days ago the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee was wrestling with the legislation.
On their desks there were piles of tele-
grams and letters criticising the commit
tee for it's failure to get the legislation
under way.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Government Has Limitations

The government itself has presented
one of the strongest arguments against
the ultimate specialization of medical care.
Efficient, prompt and competent treat
ment are the cardinal requisites of sue
cessful medical system.
Evertt W. Jones, head hospital consult
ant of the War Production Board, IN
opposing compulsory hospital insurance
under government management, COM
ments that: Federal agencies cannot
hope to approach private initiative and
enterprise in efficient management"
After working fifteen months in Wash
ington, he says: II have no decisions lett
as to the efficiency of governmental
agencies. Delay and red tape just cant
be eliminated in any political organlza-
ton as gigantic as our Federal govern
ment. The record speaks for ITSELF
The more gifts and services people
demand of government, the more COM
plex and inefficient it becomes. There
are those who think, the government
should supply everything but eternal lie.
At the same time, they complain OF grow
ing bureaucracy and taxation. They
forget that our government is political
organization never intended to manage
the personal or business affairs OF It's
citizens. Shifting the responsibility OF
medical care to government would not
simplify the health problems OF the lndl-
vidual. It would add to them by the
destruction of medical efficiency and 1ur-
ther pyramiding of bureaucracy.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Prepare Postwar Taxation Now

OF the domestic postwar problems
there is none more important than that
of taxation and government expendi-
lures. With Federal postwar debt of
probably 100000, 100000, and interest
charges of some $4,000, 100000 year, it
is imperative that all other expenditures
of government be limited and that
sound policy of taxation be adopted.
No tax policy can succeed which ig-
nores the fact that the all-important
thing is to increase the national income
and at the same time expand the coun-
try's total wealth and productive capac-
ity. Failure on the part of our law
makers to recognize this fundamental
truth will lead to the destruction of pri-
vate enterprise and substitution of some
form of national socialism.
Recognizing this danger, a movement
is now underway in the 48 states to secure
an amendment to the Federal ConStitu-
ton limiting the power of Congress in
peacetime to impose taxes on incomes,
i1heritances and gifts, to maximum of
rs per cent. Fifteen states have already
passed resolutions requesting Congress
to call a convention for the purpose of
proposing such an amendment. Support
ers of the measure emphasize that Con-
greSS should no more have unlimited
power over ones property than over his
person; for, in the language of Chief
Justice Marshall, "The power to tax in
wolves the power to Destroy"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
The TRUTH WILL HELP
New York Herald-Tribune)

The propensity in this country to
consider liquor naughty luxury
may still have its influence on the
industry which provides 1t. Before
the fourteen-year interval Of ma
tior prohibition which all but de-
stroyed it, this industry had a lam
entable reputatic-' for social ire
sponsibility and sharp practice.
Since repeal it has shown unmis-
taxable signs Of repentanc, and re-
form, and yet the question now
arises whether 1t really learned its
lesson, whether in the abnormal
conditions of war economy it has
not been tempted to slip into old
habits, to bambooZle and incense a
public that brought 1t back to life.
We sincerely hope this question
can be answered in the negative, but
we are correspondingly glad that a
Senate subcommittee r. been ap-
pointed to find the answer. This ma
ton has demonstrated on a grand
csale that prohibition is not the
path to temperance, that a much
Surer approach lies through a rea-
sonable availability of liquor sup
piled by a socially responsible indus
try. But much as most Americans
have come to labor prohibition with
it's intemperance and lewleSsness
they are not above entertaining the
thought of its return In resentment
against unnecessary shortages, poor
quality and excessive prices. In
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Fact, Not Fiction

One of the points stressed by the i've
senators who visited the worlds battle
fronts last summer was the fact that the
United States furnishes most of the OIL
for the fighting machines of the United
Nations. To fill these war requirements,
oil for our own domestic needs has been
sacrificed. Either we must discover and
produce more oil in this country or our
domestic or war needs will suffer danger
ouSly.
The decision is not left to the oil in
dustry. The increased cost of wildcat
ting" runs headlong into the elaborate
anti-inflation schemes of government
agencies which decide whether inelastlc
price fixing rules are more precious than
Oil. But our motorized nation cannot
run on low prices without gasoline.
The oil industry has asked for a very
modest increase in the price of crude OIL
which would mean an increase in the
price of a gallon of gasoline of about one
penny There is little question as to the
choice which would be made by gasoline
starved motorists and cold home own
ers if they were given the opportunity
to choose. Of course even penny in
crease in the price of gasoline would adj
mittedly breach the line against infla-
tion-if there is line to breach.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Shocked Nazis

Fire losses have climbed for eight con-
secutive months in 1943 September
losses were the highest for any CORE
spending month since September, 1882
20 per cent higher than last year. This
means two things: l. Billions have
been spent charging the productive ca
pacity of the country. 2. But now that
the plan has been built, careless ma
ton is failing to guard against its de-
struction by fire. Hardly an issue of a
newspaper anywhere in the country is
free from reports of local fires. Often
pictures accompanying the story show
silent, smouldering ruins where a few
short hours before workers kept an i'm
portant factory humming smoothly,
turning out the endless stream of goods
that somewhere along the national as
sembly line joined other equipment to
be moved to foreign shores to fight the
war.
Nearly half billion dollars worth of
property will be destroyed by fire this
year. We have reached a point Of cal
louSneSS where unless the blaze reaches
conflagration proportions, no one is con-
cerned in the slightest degree other than
few harried firemen Common behavior
of Nazi war prisoners upon entering the
United States is an expression of awe at
the waste they see all around them -
such sour habit of using paper towels
and throwing them away! If they are
shocked at our waste in such minor de-
tails what would they think of our an
nus1 bonfire which probably burns up
more of our war materials than all the
bombs our enemies could ever hope to
drop on us? 1t is time we considered this
waste and did something about it - be-
ginning with fire.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Good Idea

The next time President Roosevelt
pushes off for a pow WOW with Prime
Minister Churchill the probabilities are
that the two men will make connections
with Chief Stain. Senator Brewster, Re-
publican, of Maine, was one of the five
global travellers and that adds to the i'm
pOrtance of his proposal that member
of the United States Senate should sit in
on the forthcoming meeting of these
World leaders.
Evidently the Senate will pick Senator
Tom COnrally of Texas, chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, as Senator
to represent it. There are signs that
Germany is cracking and it will not be
long before there will be talk about the
conditions of peace. That will automatic
ally concern the Senate because of its
treaty powers.
It is admitted on Capitol Hill and in
Washington that Connally knows better
than anyone else just what the Senators
would consider satisfactory in the way
of a treaty peace treaty that will be
ratified by the Senate. Not only the Sen
ate but the House of Representatives is
determined that there shall be no more
star chambers in peace conferences IN
which treaties are made exclusively by
the heads of Allied governments as they
were after the first World War.
Those five Senators who flew around
the World and saw nearly everything
came home and told just exactly what
they believed should be done about the
conditions that they found. They have
had powerful influence on public think
ing and discussion in Washington
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
NO BREATHING SPELL
(New York SUM

For all the motorization Of mod
ern warfare, railroads remain the
chief line of supply and 1t is against
these that the Russian armies are
directing the blows which, as they
land, continue to force the Germans
back. The latest Of these thrusts
has severed the line through the
Pripet marshes which supplies Goo
mel, southern anchor of the Axis
defenses across White Russia. It
leaves that city with only one other
railroad, that running northwest to
Zhlobin. This, however, is just an
other to the series of such thrusts
which have redur ed the German
position all the way down to the
Black Sea untenable. Capitalizing
to the utmost on their superiority in
man power and their mounting
quantities of munitions, the Soviet
armies are maintaining relentless
pressurs all the way down the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Views OF The Press

other words, they want an explana-
ton of the liquor situation as it ex-
lists today mad a drastic reformation
of the industry, if it is at fault, if
they are not again to listen to the
prohibitionists.
The Senators picked to conduct
the inquiry are an able lot They
are not prohibitionists. Indeed, Sen
ator Van Mugs, of Indiana, their
chairman, has said that it was his
purpose to explore the facts and
thus to head off the threat of pro-
hibition, "and this is the way to do
it, We agree with him while depre-
eating his promise Of Startling de-
velopments" in advance of the evid-
ence. There is no call to PREJUDICE
the industry. 1t may well be found
when the facts are in that the dis
tillers are not so much to blame for
the situation (if they are at alb as
the government. In any event the
truth will help.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
MORE REASON FOR A SALES
TAX
New York Sum

The Treasury Department report
on the nations income for the first
nine months of 1943-an all-time
gross high of $1O3O8S, 100000, jndi-
eating a total for the year of $l42,-
600, 900, 000-would make more pleas
ant reading If it came in period of
healthy government financing. Sep
TENDER income was $12,545, 000 900,
an increase of approximately 20 per
cent over the corresponding month
of 1912. This offset of almost eX-
actly the amount now being taken
in Withholding taxes would make it
appear that the current wage Garner
is getting a free ride, as compared
with those whose income comes from
other sources and those who actually
are fighting the war and on whom
share of the cost, as Represented
by budgetry deficits, will fall.
American, the Treasury says, are
spending at the unprecedented rate
of $91 900 100000 year. It is diff
cult to reconcile such a report with
the continued disinclination to tap
this flow of money with sales
tax, both to reduce the threat of
initiation and the pace at which the
national debt Is mounting.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

down the bars to boost in the
price of living all along the line.
Economic Stabilizer Vinson has
made no commitment, but is
known to be opposed. He fears
that an increase fer corn would
increase prices O. chicken feed
and dairy feed and make things
tough for all except corn farm
erS.
NOTE: Real trouble, according
to many officials, is that hog
farmer Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard long delayed in
helping to put a ceiling price on
hogs, and that even now the cell
ing price on hogs is so profitable
that hog farmers feed their corn
at home rather than sell it.
CONGRESSIONAL
CLARE HOFFMAN
Broad-guaged young Represen-
tative Will Rogers, Jr., of Cali
fornia gets lot of correspondence
because of his aggressive stand
on international issues, and takes
it in his stride. However, a re-
cent letter left him flabbergasted
though not hair as f1abbergasted
as one of Rogers two-fisted COP
colleagues, Rep. Glare Hoffman,
Michigan's anti-New Dealer, might
have been.
II disagree with your views on
foreign policies" the letter read,
because you are too much of an
internationalist, like Vice-Presi-
dent Wallace. Thank God we
still have some members of Con-
gress with backbone enough to
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

speak out for the other side, in
Guiding two fine congresswomen,
Glare Booth Luce and Clare Hoff-
man."
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Walton OnsloW of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
is getting credit for ghost-Writing
much of Governor Bricker's speech
at the National Convention of
Real Estate Boards in Cleveland
90. OnSloW was on the Democra-
tic payroll for years, helping Mike
Strauss Of the Department of
the Interior to write speeches and
handle public relations for Ickes.
Now he is sold on Bricker
Military observers consider the
German invasion of Leros Island
serious. It's effect on neutral Tur-
key is bad and, if the Germans
regain control of the island, it
would be thorn in any Allied in
vasion of the Balkans across the
Aegean OPA will soon hoist
prices for essential war commodi-
ties being produced by small war
contractors. This is to compen-
safe the contractors for higher
labor costs L. 1t looks as if there
were enough House members from
coal and oil regions to put across
the Disney-Johnson bill giving
Ickes complete control over coal
and oil. How thu coal and oil
boys hate OPA and love Honest
Harold" is really something!!!
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Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

had and began to make Of them
way and life. I am already hap
pier. I have no more complicated
plans for the future. I am only
to make the most of each simple
day. I still have many things to
overcome a long road to travel
- but I have begun to walk. A
negro saint in Green Pastures says,
T amt very much, but Use all I
am. My only plan, now, is to
realize that statement.
"Oneo the prayers In the Serv-
ice Book says: May Christ be with
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

faced with the
prospect of hav-
i n g t o g O
through h e | !
only to find
death knock
ed W h a t e v e r
good there was
in me back on
the tracks. I
turned to the
New Testament
and a little de-
votional book I
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

division in its as
sault and capture
Of 1 tn island,
weSternmost OF
the Aleutians. 1t
W as a desert
trained division
sent to the Arctic
for its baptism Of
fire. The original
plan called for the
taking Of Attu
In some SO hours.
Actually, 1t took
81 days, from
May II to June /.
T h e assault
force went. ashore
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 6:44 a. m, sets at 5:31 p. m.
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after
sunset
Nov that our land lies fallow once more
under the waning sun, quiet and trimmed with
hoarfrost the summer birds gone southwark,
and the ripe fruits and crops gathered to COM
fort and stay us, it is meet and right that we
remember the benefits received FROM Wilbur
L. Cross Thanksgiving Proclamation November
1888:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, ID. ID.
FROM A SOLDIER LETTER

FROM A SOLDIER LETTER
Here is an excerpt from letter
written me recently by a soldier I'm
less 1 am greatly mistaken, it re-
veals what is going on in the
minds of many men in the service.
my ambitions" he writes, were
high when I went into the Army,
and I worked hard to attain them.
But I missed everything. Humility
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Desert Trained
Troops Took Arctic
Attu From JapS
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democracy Washington
Correspondent

The Importance OF carei.. battle
planning and the need for highly
specialized training, equipping and
supply given American troops before
they are sent into specific theaters
OF operation is emphasized by in
formation Just made available on
the experience Of the U. S. Seventh
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Selected Poem
MORNING IN FROST
CBy Keith Thomas in The New York SUM

Now in silver asleep
trees in the dome of haze
drop the records which keep
whispers Of greener days.
Air is quietly tense.
sun like lidded eye
redly glows in immense
regions of frondleSs sky.
Autumn, heavy with frost,
weighing the heart with grief
measures growth to be lost
under stem and leaf.
Pines on hillside prepare
phalanx and counterfoil,
braced in strength which they share,
anchored in stony soil.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1913
A Thought for Today

As for man his days are grass as a flow
er Of the field so he Observation-Disclosures 1874
No one has become immortal by sloth; nor
has any parent prayed that his children should
live forever; but rather that they should lead
an honorable and upright life.-Sallust
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Asthma

At the age of 40 I have suddenly
been attacked by violent asthma. I
have been injected, baked, X-rayed,
studied and investigated. They have
deprived me of my dog, my flowers,
my feather pillows, my rugs, cur
tains and other home comforts.
They have forbidden me to eat
milk, eggs, wheat, beans, peas,
lentils, tomatoes and some other
items. I still have the asthma. So
maybe or Doc Brady can give me
some suggestion. Il. M. W.
AnSwer-In your place I'd give
up, say, my dog for month or two
and if no amelioration followed I'd
fetch the dog back homeland so
on. don't know whether I can
suggest anything for you, but it will
do no harm If you send twenty
cents and stamped envelope bearing
your address, for pamphlets on
Asthma" 1.-THE Calcium Shortage"
and "Relief for Allergy." Haven't
space to say it all here.
Appetite
Woman, picture Of health, never
ILL., has excessive appetite, has
gained Is pounds in five months.
(Mrs. H. B. ND
Answer-Send twenty-five cents
and stamped envelope bearing your
address, for booklet "Rules for Re-
ducing." Amphetamine or dextro-
amphetamine controls excessive ap-
petite-but only physician can ad-
minister it.
(Copyright. 1913. John r. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

us, Christ before us, Christ in us,
Christ over u.s. 1t is that sentence
which will carry me home, whether
1t be the home of the Heavenly
Father or the home of my mother.
I will be happy in either case"
AL Rights Reserved - Babson
Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20

Dnieper. The German communicates
speak of 100000 Russians attacking
them inside the Dnieper bend
around Krivoi Rog and admit gains
there. Between these two points,
west Of Kiev, General Nikolai
Vatutin's Northern Ukrainian army
Is moving on post Khitomir and Is
o4.;v a short distance from Koros-
ten, vital junction on the Leninrad-
Odessa railroad. md nowhere on
the entire front is there indication
that the strength Of the attack has
been spent. Obviously, the Ads
forces are to get no breathing spell
before another paralyzing winter
comes to the aid Of the Russian
armies.
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the Senate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-20
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY
DREW PEARSON

Hus Historic Talk Moscow Poey Welcomed by Congress-
But Many Senators Depoe His Lack of Cooperation Past;
Wallace Finds Women War Workers Looth Return Kitchen;
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Evening star., 1943-07-25
Limited Service
jurisdiction of selective service aft
their discharge"
IS Per Cent of 4-F Men
In Virqinio Face Call
Continued From First Page }

RICHMOND, Va. July "a (P.-
One out of every five men now in
class AT in Virginia may soon find
himself in military uniform.
That was indicated today by re-
ports from State selective service
headquarters on results of re-ex-
animation of groups of Al regis
trants.
On the basis of these tests, which
found that 19 per cent of the 4-Fs
could meet physical requirements
for induction, local boards have been
instructed to sift their 4-F files in
hopes Of yielding more induction
worthy manpower.
Study Shows Results.
That the 4-F class contained
enough acceptable men now to make
the re-sifting worthwhile was shown
by study made recently by 1t. Col.
Ernest T, Trice, State medical Of
ficer for selective service. Going
through the 4-F files Of nine boards
in the Richmond area, Col. Trice
picked 333 names for re-examina-
ton. OF these, IS men. or 10 per
cent. were accepted for induction.
The reappraisal of 4-Fs is part OF
the State selective service systems
effort to utilize all available man
power before the drafting of faith
ers begins.
New Procedures Slated.
Among other steps now being
taken are:
New replacement schedules are