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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
Learning to Travel

When get my feet planted in the old home town, you won't see me doing any more travelling" says most of the Ameri- cans who have been sent all over the world to fight this global war. But an awful lot of them, having realized how much there is to the world, are going to want to see it again as civilians.
 The more adventurous, who will hit for African deserts or sub-Arctic snoWS, will do well to tuck away copies of the Army's two guidebooks, Jungle and Desert Emergencies" and Arctic Emergencies" |" The latter, second in the series, is filled with such useful information as the fact that polar bears flyers are poisonous, a diet of rabbit will lead to death through rabbit Starvation," but seal hearts and kidneys and broied reindeer moss are edible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

Rev. John F. McTeague who has been working so zealously in the small Roman Catholic parish in Prospect was appointed pastor there this week. Previously located in one of our city parishes he is well known here and his many friends will congratulate him on his appointment. Though small the Prospect parish is an interested and concerned with recrea- tional and sports activities for the young members of the town. In this work he has the cooperation of all the towns people. The church, modelled on an Irish chapel, was dedicated in 1889. Its parochial boundaries also include neigh boring Bethany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

as instructor, sits at table a few feet away and communicates with the pilot by radio telephone re- garding his simulated course.
 When the flight is finished, the WAVE tells the aviator, You failed to check in at Floyd Ben nett Field" or You were flying toO low for that spot of bad weather near Hartford"
 About hundred enlisted wo- men are already at work instruct ing male pilots and there will be 500 before the year is over It is tedious, nerve-wracking work, requiring a woman's patience and the WAVES are doing an Al job.
 As for the shooting, the WAVES put dummy guns into the hands of their brother sail
 Ors, anud with the help of movies, show the men how to shoot down enemy planes. Images of enemy planes are pro-
 jected on a movie screen, and
 the pilot, sitting in a mock tur- ret, attacks these planes by firing beam of light.
 There is complete stimulation of combat conditions, including the sound of guns and the sound of aircraft motors. WAVES oper- ate t he devices, not only instruct ing students in firing, but also scoring the accuracy of their fire. WAVES have reputation of be- ing chic and natty, but in addi- ton they are replacing men in many important jobs. The Navy says that the men do not resent being trained by the WAVES.
 CORRECTION
 Last week this column reported that Vice President Wallace, At torney Riddle and Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley had over- ruled the State Department, the Commerce Department and Ne!- son Rockefeller on the important principle of establishing interna- tional cartels on the German pat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
Current Comment

If you are wise and courageous you will see a global society bet ter than any before in the history of civilization.
 President Leonard Carmichael
 of Tufts College to graduating
 class.
 We are doing well, better than we had a right to expect, but we'll do even better. Our casualties will multiply, but our men will win. We are going to drive our enemies back to their lairs and then we are going into those lairs and beat them into submission.
 Colonel A. Robert Ginsburgh
 of War Department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

plan imperative by our sin, selfish ness, ignorance, or indifference. It is sometimes hard, when trouble comes upon us, to know whether God has permitted it or our pervers- ity has rendered it inevitable. But through joy and sorrow, success or reversal, we can be sure that God is all-powerful, that He loves us, and that He plans for us only those things which will enrich our lives and make them better.
 All Rights Reserved - Babson
 NaVsuanAr Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
SHOE-BUYING PANIC
(NeW York Times)

The greatest shoe-buying orgy in the history of the nation has been plainly the result of rationing. Ra- tion coupons are regarded by the public as a form of currency-a form even harder to obtain than the ordinary kind To let ration cou- pon expire unused seems to most people like throwing away money. It is as if they had bill marked
 This is worth $5 until Tuesday" There can be no question that peo- >iA have hnu9ht shoes Ia <hA taAt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Bond
 Demand Not So Tough
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

Secretary of the Treasury Henry w. Morgenthau, Jr.'s crack the other day that by the end of 1943 "the average American family should be investing approximately 9 cents of every dollar of income in war bonds" has been worrying number of people, but it may not be as bad as it looks at first glance.
 The average Joe or Jane, now patriotically contributing 10 per
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
Selected Poem
SAND DUNES (Kay DeBard Hall in the Christian Science Monitor)

 (Kay DeBard Hall in the Christian Science
 Monitor) Run, little children, over the water shadows Of beach, Play leap-frog through the dunes,
 humps of camelS kneellng. Run your narrow kelp feet, Your bodies bending in the wind
 like ivory anemones Carry your Starfish shapes of water To make your Sand-dune seas Between the globes of rocks. Here build your castles of sand, Lighted through shell-thin windows With every draWbridge of rock Guarded by sea-horse sentinels, And little spidery crabs Are Juliets waving from balconies Woven of SeaWeed branches.
 Run, run through the dunes, On paths of shell silver dollars Laid circle to wafer circle And ethced with ferns brown markings; And when the ivory anemones of bare bodies Color in the sun,
 Run with the winds turning sails And swim the uneven sea!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

Who would think of a pickle factory as a war production plant? In 72 hours the R. and S. Pickle Works of Boston con- verted from cucumberG to incendlary bombs which have to be packed in Spe- cial preservative acid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

UT ignorance and perversity. The first repre- sents the pagan outlook on life; the second, the religious.
 Som e people indeed seem to have good luck, and S o m e to have bad luck. We cannot of course trace cir
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

cent of his or her pay check to buy war bonds, is apt to figure 1t out like this:
 Ten per cent is okay, but where do they get this 25 per cent stuff? Withholding taxes after July are go- ing to De 20 per cent under this new tax bill so 1 understand, and if they want me to kick in with an other 25 per cent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

The quiet of the early morn is now broken by the blasts from horns of pass ing motorists on their way for the early morning shift. Quiet, please! There ought to be law
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
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 Dr. Brady if 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, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
A Thought for Today

Though thou exalt myself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence vii, bring thee down, saith the Lord Obadiah IA
 For what are they all in their high conceit When man in the bush with God may meet2
 Emerson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
Washington Merry-Go-R
BY DREW PEARSON

Duke Windsor Adoption of New Device; Helped Blast of onse U S. Noy Red Tape; WAVES Instruct Male Students Flying Technique Mosmonshp Department Vents President Drug Corte Decision WASHINGTON credit for but one we getting ahead the submarines today goes directly pack
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D.
A PLAN FOR EACH LIFE

There are two ways of looking at the circumstances of life. One holds that they are the result of good luck or bad; the other that they are the result of providential arrangement, twisted and interfered with often by
Evening star., 1943-08-31
I'd Rather Be Rioht-

profitable. We recognize that COM
mittee only as the administrator of
mot even as spokesman for, mind
yoU certain French overseas terri
tories; we reserve free hand" in
France itself.
Too Free a Hand.
What is the free hand" which we
have reserved for ourselves in con-
nection with France? Why, it is.
precisely and specifically, freedom
not to recognize or deal with the
Frer.ch underground if we do not
choose to do so.
1t is freedom to disregard a
French popular manifestation, free
dom to have nothing to do with it.
freedom to bypass it. That is the
freedom which we claim for our
selves on the ground that we are
preserving Frances freedom to state
her will.
1t Is not enough merely to say
that we want the people of France
to express themselves. If that is
what We want, then we have to work
at 1t. We have to nurture those ex-
pressions of France which are visible
now. We need to cultivate all prom
lsing manifestations. The under
ground is a kind of democratic ex-
pedient but it is only expediencies of
the other kind that seem to make us
forget the formalities.
How are we going to further de-
mocracy If We do not anxiously as
sist even the first feeble signs of it?
France speaks. We cannot hear her,
though our ears are so sharp for
even a word from, say, a decrepit
Fascist monarch. We slog along on
our dusty policy of no-policy.
Evening star., 1943-08-31

today from Kansas City, Mo-.
charged that the New Deal ad-
ministration now is planning to
put the American people on a
vegetarian diet. He quoted for
mer Gov. Lehman of New York,
now head of the Office of Foreign
Relief and Rehabilitation Opera
tions, as saying that America
must go on cereal diet"
He also quoted an official of
the Department of Agriculture &c
the effect that if this country
lives Up to its foreign food COM
mitments, it is likely to go on a
cereal diet. And he called atten-
ton to the recent breakdown OF
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
on a Food Advisory Committee
which discouraged the idea that
the United States should serve as
the "breadbasket" of the world.
80" said Mr.. Landon, "one of
the elemental issues before the
American people today is whether
we are going to hand over our
postwar diet to the New Deal
along with our pocketbook.
Points Out Effect.
The former Governor of Kan
sas, the COP candidate for Presi-
dent in 1886, was speaking polit-
ically. He was stirring discomfort
with the proposals of New Deal
planners, which he insisted in
Guided enthusiastic plans for
America to feed the world, clothe
the world and finance the world.
He, nevertheless, placed finger
on one effect which too enthusi-
astic world planning actually may
cause-lack of interest on the
part of the American people in
international or world collabora-
ton. This would be unfortunate.
Mr.. Landon does not like the
idea of having imposed on the
American people what he calls "a
faddist New Deal vegetarian diet
that has nothing to do with the
wartime food situation, only
postwar"
1T Is a question" he said.
which the people will have to
consider in connection with the
movement to commit this coun-
try to international food policies
after the war" Mr.. Landon ar
gued for a retention and expan-
ssion of both livestock and cereal
production, with some assurance
to the producers, by price floors,
that they will not lose their shirts
after the war shall have been won
and competition is resumed in a
big way with such agricultural
countries as Australia, Canada.
Argentina, Brazil and South
Africa.
Guffey RidicuIes Council.
Senator Guffey's contribution
to the political battle was ridicule
OF the Republican Postwar Ad-
visory Council, which meets next
week on Macinac Island. He was
able to see in this meeting only a
political move. Bless his heart.
OF course it's political move.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
Newspapers Held Facing
Pulpwood Starvation
BY the Associated Presc.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, Aug. 3l.-A
congressional committee investigat-
ing the newsprint shortage ended
It's tour of United States and
Canadian paper pulp centers today
with a warning that newspapers
will be on starvation basis by next
May unless workers are found to
increase production.
The shortage can be ended and
maximum production obtained with
10000 more workers for the pulp
industry in this country and Canada,
said Representative Boren, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma, committee
spokesman, in an interview.
The committee Will recommend
to Congress that "all pulp and wood
cutting be classified as essential" ;"
Representative Boren said. 1T ap-
pears to us that we should quit
trying to divide up the shortage and
take the necessary action to bring
about maximum production of news
print"
The committee, which includes
Representative Wolverton, Republi-
can, OF New Jersey, and Beckworth,
Democrat, of Texas, inspected paper
mills here today.
Evening star., 1943-08-31

built an elaborate underground
movement. They welded this move
ment, last spring, into a Council of
French Resistance, which brought
together, in amazing unity, political
groups of right, center and left,
which previously it had seemed i'm
possible ever to induce to enter the
same room together except for the
purpose Of cutting each others
throats.
That council has recognized Gen.
de Gaulle as its voice and leader,
maintaining contact with him in
spite of thousand Nazi DEGREES
forbidding 1t. 1t is closely linked
with the French Committee at AL
giers.
Is not this underground a part of
the political life of the new France?
Is it not part of the process. patient,
heroic and inspiring, by which the
new France is being built? Is it not
an expression of the will of the peo-
pie of France?
When we refuse to recognize the
French underground, or any repre-
sentative of it, are we not denying
the French people the right to ex-
press themselves, in the tender guise
of preserving that right for them?
What Is the Popular Will?
The democratic underground is
the only form in which the people
of metropolitan France can express
themselves today They are using
that form. Hitler says it is illegal to
do so, but surely we cannot agree
with Hitler on this point.
But, so far as we are concerned,
all this does not exist. The under
ground does not exist. We take no
notice of it, judicial, diplomatic or
de facto. We do not concede the
reality Of this manifestation of the
will of the people of France; we re-
ject it, we turn aside from it, all on
the excuse that we insist that the
will OF the people of France must be
allowed to manifest itself.
That Is what makes our dubious
recognition of the French Commit
tee at Algiers so fiat, stale and un-
Evening star., 1943-08-31

who keep in close touch with the
realities Of the situation are cau-
tioning against placing exagger-
ated hopes on these rebellious
outbreaks.
So long as Allied ground forces
remain on the outer fringes of
the European fortress we must
not expect Hitlers subjected ma
tions to do more than show OPEN
ly their dissatisfaction of their
master.
Whether King Boris of Bull
garia died a natural death, as
the official communique from
Berlin announced, or was the
target of a well-aimed bullet is
Of little consequence. What mat
ters is that there are about 150,-
900 Nazi troops in Bulgaria and
this force can easily keep in line
a country with a population of
only 100000.
The Bulgarian Army is a peas
ant army. deeply loyal to the
Russians, irrespective of what
political philosophy their rulers
may represent. For this reason
the pro-Nazi government In Sofia
and King Boris refused consist
emily to send even a battalion to
the eastern front.
The western Allies are less pop
ular. In fact, to the mind of the
Bulgarian peasant there is little
difference between the British,
Americans and the Germans. All
the Russians are peasants; all the
Westerners are gentlemen"
Might Shift to Allies.
A shift from the Axis to the
United Nations in Bulgaria is a
strong probability provided Amer
ican and British forces arrive
in the Balkans and approach the
Bulgarian border.
In such an event it is likely that
we may witness a repetition of
1918 when the Bulgarian Army
forced the abdication of King
Ferdinand and surrendered to
the Allies.
But it Is pointed out that Is
years ago there was a strong
French-British-Serbian Army at
Salonika and advanced elements
already had crossed the Bulgari-
an border on the way to the
capital.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
Three Big Cities Escape
Traffic Fatalities in july

BY the Associated Press,
CHICAGO. Aug. 31.-Minneanol,.
and st. Paul, each in the 25o,o0o-
100000 population class, and smaller
Providence, R. l., turned in perfect
records OF no traffic accident deaths
for July, the National Safety Coun-
Gil reported today.
For the country as whole traffic
accident deaths dropped IS per cent
below July, 1941, and the final figure
OF 1910 deaths was 20 per cent un-
der July, 1912, the council report
said.
The seven-month total for 1943
was set at 11,78o, a drop of A per
cent from the 1941 period, but only
81 per cent under 1925 first seven
months.
The largest city in the country
with perfect record for the first
seven months was Mount Vernon,
N. Y. population, 81 400: Medford.
Mass. with a $500 population, was
second, and Wheeling, w. Va, 81, 100.
was third.
Evening star., 1943-08-31
Apprentice Seaman, 18,
Weds 13-Yeur-OId Girl

WINSTON-SALEM, N. c., Aug. 81.
-Delmar Lee Coe, 1S, an apprentice
seaman home on furlough from
cambridge, Md, and Miss Jean
Smith, who stated that she was l3,
said they were married In York,
S. c., early yesterday.
The couple said the romance be-
gan five months ago before Seaman
Coe went into the Navy. He said he
had obtained an extension of his
Evening star., 1943-08-31
This Changing World

Observers OF Balkan affairs say
that this will happen again in
the day when armies Of the
United Nations, regardless Of
whether they are Russian or
American and British arrive near
Bulgaria's borders. Until then,
however, we must not expect
much from that country.
Boris Was Shrewd.
The officers are well in the
hand of the Germans and the
army Is we'll disciplined and
obeys its leaders. The officers
would not dare make move
against the Nazis, because the
German troops could handle any
attempt to get out of the war
effectively. Moreover, there Is
no one to surrender to at this
time.
Some observers go so far as to
suspect Nazi involvement In the
death of King Boris should the
story that he has been assassi-
mated prove correct.
Boris was a strewd man. He
was one of the few Bulgarians
who had close contact with the
outside world and until 1888 was
suspected of being friendly in the
British French coalition. But he
never actually showed his hand.
So far as his politics were con-
cerned he was playing the
Greater Bulgaria" game. That
Is to say, he desired an expansion
of his country at the expense of
his neighbors, the Yugoslavs, the :
Greeks and possibly the Turks.
Began to Waver.
Any combination of powers
which would guarantee him that
expansion would have been well
coined. Personally he admired
French culture and the British
and American industrial Develop
ments. If ever an opportunity
were offered to change horses, 1t
is likely that he would have done
this even in midstream.
According to those familiar
with Balkan politics, there is
room to believe that after the
downfall Of Mussolini and the
successes of the Allies on all
fronts, Boris began to waver and
wonder how Bulgaria could get
out OF her present predicamenr.
What occurred at the meeting
between Hitler and the Bulgarian
ruler, just before his death, is not
know. But it may be that on his
return from the conference he
showed some wavering in his
allegiance to the Nazis and Ges-
tapo Chief Himmler prepared
his execution.
At any rate, the death of Boris
is not likely to have any imme-
diate effect in Bulgaria favorable
to the Allies. The Germans prob
ably will strengthen their lines
with the Bulgarian Army, which
is bound to remain loyal to its
ties with the Germans at least
until such time as the United Ma
tions forces approach Bulgaria's
borders.
Evening star., 1943-08-31

ties in this
country one
Republican,
former ov
ALI Landon
of K a n S a S,
and two Dem
ocrats, Sena- :
tor Gufey Of
Pennsylvania la
and Senator
Ellender of
Louisiana.
Mr.. L n
d on, in a
radio address
Evening star., 1943-08-31

but it would be
a mistake to as
sumo that the
name has won
public approval.
P re S | d e n t
f oos e v e 1t Is
doubtless re-
sponsible for
picking Shan
gri-La" because
that was the lit
tie joke he play
ed on w h i t e
Ho1ISe visitors
when thew asked
Evening star., 1943-08-31

to select their
own gov r n
ment.
But the people
of France, even
though they are
n o t free, and
are in fact very
t r a mmeled at
the m o m e n t,
have made a
start toward Sc
lecting TIL cir
own G OV e r n
ment.
r b pu h va
Evening star., 1943-08-31
The Political Mill

1t is designed to bring about
some kind of unity among Re-
publicans on policies which their
party should adopt for the ma
tional campaign next year.
Said Mr.. Guffey:
The COP has fierce fac
tional war on hand. The pros
pective collusion between the
Willkiesitic Allied cooperation
program after the war, and the
isolation sentiments attributable
to some other Republican candi-
dates has little to do with inter-
national results and much to do
with internal COP strategy"
1t is to Senator Guffey's inter-
est-and to that of the New Deal
as a whole-that there shall not
be unity among the Republicans.
Hence his interest in keeping
alive, if he can, differences be-
tween the various political fac
tions in the Republican party.
In conclusion, Senator Guffey
said:
Building platform for the
Republican party does not come
within my idea of the wars
work or fight order"
1t seems clear that postwar
planning by the New Dealers,
which will be included in the
New Deal party's political plat
form next year, to Senator Guffey
is entirely legitimate-but that
something similar on the part of
the Republicans is only an avoid
ance OF war work or fighting.
Senator Guffey knows that all of
the New Deal Government agen-
cies are at work on postwar
planning-and those which are
not have set up special postwar
planning committees.
Senator BLENDERS comments
are contained in letter which
arrived too late to be included in
the series of letters from mem
bers of Congress to The Star
telling what the people back
home have on their minds.
Ends Tour of State.
The Louisiana Senator recently
has completed a three-week tour
OF his State. He was surprised
to find so little criticism about
the administration of national
and international affairs in
Washington" His constituents
are happy over the success of
Allied arms and optimistic as to
the date of final victory. But, he
wrote, there is real contention
over the administration of OPA.
AS he sees it, the OPA policy
makers have taken care of the
distributors of agricultural prod
ucts, but not the producers. He
mentioned the case of rice. A 13
per cent markup is allowed
wholesalers and % per cent for
retailers. Such percentages, he
insisted, are out of line, adding
there is no reason why rice should
sell for 10 cents per pound, when
the producers of it receive be-
tween 51a and Ga cents per
pound.
Il, of course, heard a lot of
criticism about Washington bu-
reaucracy," Senator Ellender
continued. "and the hope was
expressed that Congress will take
decisive action in eliminating
many of the bureaus that are
now functioning.
"As to the presidential election,
little is said, but the opinion OBJ
tanned by me from my constit-
uents is that Roosevelt is prob
ably the only Democrat who
could win next year. / find that
the popularity of Mr.. Roosevelt
has declined to some extent in
Louisiana but the feeling Is that
If the war is still on when elec-
ton comes around that he will
obtain a large majority of the
votes in the State"