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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
A DOCTORS RELIGION

A correspondent asked me to recommend a good psychiatrist who is of the correspondents religious faith. I replied that I have no way of knowing whether doctor Is of particular creed or faith or whether he is a good Democrat. I added that can't see what differ ence it would make in any cir- constance.
 Occasionally all criteria fail and the doctor I recommend turns out to be an unethical one. Ethical means professional right, conform ing to professional standards of conduct, of honorable character. trustworthy. So far as all that is concerned it certainly makes no difference whether the doctor is a good (name your denomination or a danger (name yours).
 Numerous correspondents offer enlightenment on the question. Here is a note representative of their views:
 "In some cases 1t makes quite lot of difference. For example, sec ing eye to eye about birth control and in some cases there arises the question, whose life shall it be, the mothers or the childs? A doctor of my faith would know"
 To that must say that any doctor who is qualified to practice obstetrics at all would know as much as the correspondents doctor would know about that. In any case of course the situation is explained to the parents and to their religious advisers if any, and they, not the doctor, make the decision. The doc- tors religious belief doesn't enter into the problem at all.
 "As for a psychiatrist, should certainly want some one whose spiritual life is basically the same as my own."
 That is cutting 1t too inc for me.
 Birth control however, to me is most important. hate being laughed at for my principles
 There again am unable to fol- low the correspondents line of thought. Unfortunate use of the equivocal term birth control" leaves me wondering what the correspond ent means. If the correspondent means prevention of conception, why not say so?
 In case the question ever does arise, in modern practice, whether the mothers life or the childs should be sacrificed, I believe the religious denomination of doctor or mother is insignificant-regardless of that. most expectant mothers nistinctively and naturally elect to give the child every possible chance even to risk of their own life. It is hard to imagine a human pros pective mother condemning her un- born child to death just to assure her own safety.
 The name of an American boy appeared in the casualty list the other day-in the fighting in Italy. He was born by Caesarean section at the cost of his mothers life aft- CT she had rejected the alternative which would have taken the child's life and possibly saved the moth CTS. But then. mothers are like that in any religion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

possible was provided.
 We can liken the Bible to the magnetic pole and reckon our souls to be as the magnetic needles which are drawn by it. God did not leave us without unerring guidance in the world. Just as there is a need for some established spot on earth to which all direction is related, so there must be some reality in our lives to which all our spiritual powers will turn and by which will be affected. The Bible enables us to steer our lives. It establishes moral direction for HIS as the compass establishes physical and geographical direction.
 Best of all, 1t points the soul far beyond any earthly pathway to those great approaches which lead to the realm of everlasting life. Our souls turn instinctively if we will but heed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Bleeder State

You stated that hemophilia (bleeder state) is rarely seen in females. In our college course in genetics we were taught that a double dose" of hemophilia is fa- tai, i. e., if an ovum carrying the gene for hemophilia is fertilized by sperm carrying the gene for hemophilia the egg will die before cleavage. (G. M0
 Answer-All I know about hemo- philia is what I read in the text books, which say hemophilia is transmitted hereditarily and is largely confined to males although transmitted by normal females in hemophilic families. Any child with hemophilia is of course likely to succumb early, unless treated every second month or so with human serum or horse serum, which arrests the tendency to excessive bleeding or arrests oozing or slight bleeding which cannot be otherwise cor trolled. Vitamin K, valuable to pre- vent ordinary excessive bleeding, can do no harm in hemophilia, but I do not know whether it is aS effective against such bleeding as it is against bleeding in the normal individual.
 Doctors
 I am going to describe my case for you and let you give your opinion and advice. Our own family doctor does not have time for what call fussy women who trump up com. plaints. (MrS. w. s.
 Answer-It is like that all over. So many people like yourself who can't enjoy the service they received from the doctor in peace time, crowd my waiting roonis-I mean the mailbag-that it is physically im- possible to adjourn for thirty min- utes or so to give special considera- tion to the many who ask that favor every day. To do so would rob many others of the routine service to which they are entitled.
 Vitamin D
 Could one take 50,000 units of vitamin D after each meal? If sA what is the limit one should takes
 (Mrs. F. F.)
 Answer-You do not mention the trouble.
 Copyright ls4s, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

Prime Minister Churchill of England spoke his appreciation the other day con- corning the good work newspapers in Am erica and England are doing in giving the war theater news. Newspapers do their best in this respect and likewise print everything they can concerning any war service or enterprise and likewise try to the best of their ability to outline ration values, war work programs and so on. They are handicapped for space and often sacrifice popular feature to present cur rent war service activities which are handled like regular news.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Two Pairs Of Pants

In judgment worthy of Solomon, a Memphis judge has reconciled, at least for his own community, the growing inde- pendence of war-working womanhood with the ancient doctrine of male supre- macy.
 He has ruled that women may wear slacks, but they are not to appear in pub lie in mems trousers. So Memphis needs no longer wonder who wears the pants in it's households The answer is: Mama and Papa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
CONNECTICUT AND NEW HAVEN
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

NNCW IldfCll
 The War Records Department of the Connecticut State Library has embarked on program of collect ing and recording materials which will tell the story of this states part in War II. This duty was en- trusted to the State Library by the 1943 session of the legislature and a small appropriation was made to finance the work. The aim is to complete the record of Cornecticuts S effort on both the fighting and the home fronts.
 The State Library vii Iact as the directing agency for the entire state, but it is suggesting that a war records committee be appointed in each community which will as- Semble material on that towns activities. Some of the local ma terial thus gathered will remain in the community, and some of it will be forwarded for inclusion in the records of the state.
 Both the State Library and the local committee will require the help of the public in assembling this war material. For instance, letters, photographs and service in- formation will have to come from the relatives and friends of the men and women in uniform. Rec- ords of many civilian committees can be made available only through voluntary cooperation of citizens on those committees.
 If no prior move has been made to form a war records committee in New Haven, we now make the sug- gestion that a committee be formed and that activity begin in coopera- ton with the Connecticut State Library. This city will wish to add to it's rich background of three centuries the organized record of the history we are now helping to make.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Twenty-Five Years

Today we know that the war which ended 25 years ago is still going on. We can see more clearly than ever, in the perspective that quarter century lends, that the armiStice of November H. 1918, was just that. We can fit together the various eruptionS - boundary disputes, revolution, aggression, civil war - that disturbed the uneasy surface of that armiStice until four years ago the war broke out again with renewed terocity. Seen in this perspective, all the tears, the profound relief, the hySterical joy, the prayerful thanksgiv- ing Of November II, 1918, may seem a little pathetic. But they were sincere and admirable then. We went to war in 1917 on wave of idealism. We fought for Slo- ganS and believed in them: war to end war and world safe for democracy. The idealiSm was more than public emotion It was the policy of our government. Ideal ism moved president to try to persuade us into the League of Nations We did not follow, and the League went on with out uS-accompliShing many things, falling utterly in the crises
 But we tried to do our best for world peace. We were generous and solicitous. We were kind to our enemies. We were patient with our recent Allies when they called us Uncle Shylock. We called dis armament conferences, and proposed plans outside the League for enduring peace. This country and it's former Allies condemned war as an international policy. The world had learned it's lesson in 1914-18; it knew that war was brutal and unthinkable France sat behind her mountains and her Maginot Line and England sat behind her Channel, loath- ing war so much that they would not look while Germany and Italy perpared for it at home, and rehearsed it in Ethiopia and Spain. We sat between our oceans, thinking that if we hated war hard enough, it would not come. The next Armistice Day will not find us in 1918 mood. Perhaps We shall be even more truly thankful, but we shall certainly be less emotional. The American mind to- day is cynical, compared with that of 25 years ago. And that is all to the good. Next Armistice Day we shall know that the present conflict was only a dreadful, bloody, devastating preliminary to an- other attempt to build a structure for enduring peace.
 We are beginning now, with greater
 
 plans for that structure. This time we know that peace cannot be placed within a shrine, but must be guarded by stout fortress. It must be built to withstand the problems and differences that will strain the preesnt alliance of fighting nations We know, all of us, that the end of the shooting and bombing will not mean the return of tranquility. Already of trouble And they will not grow less old quarrels and new disputes are break ing above the surface of the general sea intense when the fighting stops.
 Today we possess the knowledge, pain fully acquired, of 25 years short-sighted- ness and mistakes It is bitter knowledge. But because we have it, it may be that 25 years after the next Armistice Day we shall have done better job.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Selected Poem
WHO SAID STAY? (Charles Malam in the New York Sum

WHO SAID STAY?
 (Charles Malam in the New York Sum I make my bed in the gypsy way; hang my hat wherever can. It's autumn calling and I'm away For my old home is moving van! My native heaths where I once would play, The little schools where I learned to scan, Are seattered from here to Flushing Bay For my old home is moving van! Hooray for the sad and changing year! Hooray for the leaves which early fall! Now am going away from here And turning wheels are my hunting call Rope the piano, crate the gear, And wave to the neighbors down the hall And let who will shed the homesick tear You say can't get van at all? Lift me my barrel my dear! We'll crawl!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

& Co.,, and Lansing Hoyt, preSi- dent of the Wisconsin Macarthur President clubs.
 NOTE: Demomratic leaders who do not favor FDR for 4th term are delighted st the current Mac Arthur boom for this reason: It gives them an excuse and pre- cedent for the draft -Gen-George- Marshall movement People might have resented a move to run Chief of Staff Marshall as Democratic candidate because of his active participation in the war. But now with the Macarthur boom going full swing, they can't.
 POLITICAL SIZE-UP
 Administration insiders have now had time to diagnose the de- tails of the sweeping Republi- can victories, and have reached these conclusions:
 l. Labor, always solidly be- hind Roosevelt in previous elec- tions, for the first time shows definite signs of deserting the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

War Food Administration, re- spending to the prodding of crit icS, admits that it was putting too many eggs in one basket, for military and Lend-Lease purposes, at the expense of civilian require ments.
 Release of this tremendous quantity of eggs won't alarm the housewife, but worries War Food experts because it might discour- age production for next year.
 Meantime, War Food and OPA are rowing over the price to be paid for these five million cans of cold storage eggs. WPA of ficials, protecting the producer, want a higher price for cold stor- age eggs than fresher eggs.
 OPA, thinking of the house. wife, says: This is the first time we ever heard that eggs become more valuable as they get older!"
 But War Food stands firm on the principle that the old eggs should bring more money. Their reason is that the old eggs were stored by dealers who were play ing the usual seasonal game of holding for a rise in price, with out realizing that the government was going to step in and take over at the fixed price.
 In other words, War Food eX- perts are trying to hand dealers some of the speculative profit they might have gotten, while OPA-- trying to protect the consumer - wants to hold the price down.
 The inside government egg de- bate is still raging.
 VANDENBURG
 AND MACARTHUR
 A lot of people in 1940 thought that COP Senator Arthur Van denburg of Michigan might be the next Republican candidate for President, but Van himself now has different ideas.
 Gen. Macarthur will accept the Republican nomination if he is drafted" Vandenburg re- gently told a newsman. Don't ask me how I know, but I just happen to know. He's not think ing about this now. His main ambition is to recapture the Philippines and to wipe the Japs out of the Pacific. But has it ever occurred to you that he could accomplish this objective much better as COmmander-in- Chief, because he would then be in a position to increase the supplies to the Pacific front?"
 DO you think Macarthur could be nominated and elect ed?" the senator was asked.
 T not only think it-I know Gen. Macarthur can be the next President of the United States replied Vandenberg. However, I don't believe in moving tOo fast. If his campaign is man aged ably, he can sweep the next Republican national con- vention like Willkie swept the last one, at the last minute"
 Senator Vandenberg denies he has received a letter from Mac Arthur stating that he would &C., cept the COP nomination in l944, though such a communication IS reputed to be behind the recent bonanza of MacArthur- -for-Presi- dent clubs in Wisconsin and other States. Chief behind-the-scenes MacArthur promoters are for mer American Firsters, includ- ing Colonel Robert Mccormick of the Chicagm Tribune, Gen. Rob ert Wood, head of Sears, Roebuck
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

IlICo. WAllc JLllS report may be in dicative of the changed sense of values that war brings on the world, the Trea- sury experts con- ducting the sur vey admit that this report car
 ried things a bit far, nd tn a t they're not inter- ested in all this detail. If, how ever, you own real property ort h G10 mn Ar ,,oro
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

magnetic pole was provided. draw ing toward it from every point on the worlds surface any piece of magnetized material.
 The Lord never leaves us with out those necessary things upon which full living is based, Naviga- ton without the compass would be impossible. Therefore. the magnetic pole which makes the compass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Democratic party in 1914.

Democratic party in 1944.
 In Kentucky, the labor strong holds of Louisville, Newport and Ashland went Republican. In Philadelphia, a labor city, exam bassador Bill Bullitt was decisively beaten. In New Jersey, labor candidate for governor could not make the grade.
 2. Even more worrying is the farm vote. The President has long known that the big com- mercial farmers and farm organ ization leaders were against him, but figured that the little farm CTS, who compose the bulk of the agricultural population, were still solidly Democratic.t
 However, the President has now changed his mind. He is convinced, according to close advisers, that the Democratic Administrator has lost the farm vote.
 Copyright, 1943, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Views Of The Press

tory and have preached doctrines inimical to the national stability; but these have been vocal rather than numerous. The best proof of this has been the readiness and the spirit with which America's youth responded in a time of peril. Yes; our schools have indeed educated for victory. The theme of the cur rent cele ton is justified.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sOnaI health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if
 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, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, HI.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

ing a highly de- yeloped ciyiliza . tion. One of hel great discoveries was the compass
 Think of what this simple little instrument h a Z meant to the ma : tions of the world
 And think, furth- CT. of the proyi- dential arrange ment whereby a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

COMPASS OF THE SOUL
 In these days when we are think ing a great deal about our ally China, we should recall that while our ancestors were sayages in the Wilds of Europe, China was enjoy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

Doorbell ringers looking for the lady of the house are no longer incredulous when told by the younger generation who happen to answer the door-she amt home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

There's so much good in the worst or us and so much bad in the best of us that most of us spend the best of our time grabbing about the worst of us or prals- ing the best of us-if you know what we mean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
BIG COMETS

Some of the smallest comets are larger than the earth. The Great Comet of 1911 was lar~er than the sun and had a diameter of 100000 miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

The open season for buckwheat pan cakes is at hand. Dyed-in-the-wool New Englanders are not going to swallow them with oleo, if we know our Vermonters, even with maple syrup added as a sop
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Sun rises at 7;33 a. m, sets at 5:39 p. m. (War time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset. Fogs may be thick-wisdom will show through them~-Od Farmers Almanac
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Government Will Sell 5oooooo Case overSuppIy of Eggs; Wor Food Administration and oPA Are Wronsns Over Price; Vondenberg Believes MocArhur Capture Presidency
 Administration Insiders See of Lobor, Formers.
BY DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON scrambled
   eggs
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A Thought for Today

Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead Ruth 2:20.
 Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for 8 kndneSs.-Seneca
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
U. s. Lists Foreign Property
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat) Washington Correspondent

A report that four suits of wood underwear had been left in Flu -pe some time ago, but were still among the cherished possessions of one U. s. resident, was received by the Treasury Department the o..ler day on one of the returns for its Cen sus of Property in Foreign Coun-
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Copyright, 1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Print Made After
Visit by Count
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His assertion was made i'm response
to question by Higgs.
Higgs demanded to know why
Barker told a Miami newspaper re-
porter on July that De Marigny
was arrested on the basis of finger
print evidence. when the officer
had testified yesterday that he did
not identify a fingerprint found at
the scene of the crime until July
10, 10 days after the French noble
mans arrest.
Barker said the reporter. q wom-
an, apparently had misinterpreted
his statement, which he said was
given on the telephone.
He said he told her the arrest
was based on Interrogation of the
suspect, hair analysis. and search
for fingerprints.
"Fingerprints played only a small
part in the arrest Barker de-
clared.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Sea-Going US.
Paratroops Land
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rison of two thousand Japanese be-
heved retreating to the northern
end of the island. Most of the enc
M force is composed of evacuees
from Kolombangara and other CEN
tral Solomons islands, the spokes-
man said.
Parachutists were selected for the
Choiseul landing because of their
special training in taking and hold
sing new positions, the spokesman
explained.
The surprise blow sealed off the
southern flanks of Bougainville is
land, the last major base barring
the road to Rabaul, New Britain.
The latter base, the keystone of
Japans south Pacific defenses, lies
less than 200 miles from the moth
ern end of Bougainville and about
300 miles northwest of the Treas
ury islands. The northern tip of
Choiseul is separated from Bou-
gainville by a 30-mile stretch OF
the Bougainville straits.
The communique gave no details
of the Choiseul island action, but
revealed that the Americans and
New Zealanders on the Treasury
islands were mopping up enemy re-
sistance rapidly while Allied bomb
ing fleets hammered relentleSsly at
the wrecked japanese airfields on
southern Bougainville and opened
new assault on the Buka air.
drome north of that island.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
Committee Votes
New Exise Tax

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in the previously approved four per
cent tax On parimutGel wagers. This
would yield s5,500,000 additional
Am increase to 25 per cent
from the previously approved 20
per cent tax on domestic telegraph,
radio and cable rates. Estimated
additional yield, S15,000,000.
5.-An increase OH the jewelry
tax to 20 per cent from Is per cent
to bring in s40.O00,000 more.
DOUBLES INCREASES
Ga doubling of the previously
approved increases in the excise tax
on cigars TO bring in s28,000,000 ad-
ditional.
The following sliding scale of in
creases on cigars was approved:
On cigars selling between two
and one half and four cents, the
tax would be raised from SO to
Sc per thousand; four to six cent
cigars from 81 to SO per thousand:
six to eight cents, from 81 to sl4
per thousand; eight to Is cents,
from $40 to $50 per thousand; Is to
20 cents, from SIS to $50 per thous-
and; 20 cents and over from $40
to $40 per thousand.
The committee put off until Mon
day reconsideration of taxes on
candy, soft drinks and cosmetics.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-31
RAMBLING REPORTER

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thing like that at home when he
went overseas. my friends, your son
would rather the marines had them
than let them rot and go to pieces.
He wouldn't be selfish with them.
The boys in the service aren't
selfish. They help each other.
All you have to do is dig these
things cut of the garage, the base
ment, the attic or the closet and
take them to the Chevrolet garage
in El Centre. Or telephone the
garage or the Red Cross.
Surely you won't deprive those
boys with a few old balls, bats,
gloves, and the like just because
you are too lazy to hand them over.
We're counting on you one hun
dred per cent.