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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
AThoupht for Today
Let's Take No Chances

Secretary Knox helittles the danger of an all-out Japanese attack upon Aus sralia. He says that there is no indica- ion that the NipS have concentrated the shipping that would be necessary for such a venture This comment was in re- sponSe to questions about General Sir, Thomas BlameyS statement that the enemy has 100000 first-line troops, plus a powerful air force, along the island and northward of Australia. General MacArthur, who is closer to the spot than Secretary Knox, says that as matter of fact very strong Japanese naval forces are within easy striking distance of Australia, though beyond range of allied bombers. In the dispute over apportion- ment of American strength as between the Southwestern Pacific and the North African-European areas, laymen do not possess the detailed information or the training in military strategy to warrant too positive opinions,
 Laymen do read the newspapers, how ever, and when Secretary Knox belittles the danger to the Australian sector lay men are not constrained to forget the Navy'S attitude when the little brown men took over KiSka and Attu - off the tip of Alaska. The Navy told us then that there was no danger. The Jap occupation was only nuisance raid. The enemy couldn't develop his positions to do us any harm.
 Well, the JapS have been there long time now We have bombed them and machine -gunned them; we have sunk their ships and turned back their conveys. After which, we learn that long fighter field on Kiska and a long bomber field on Attu are nearing completion. When those fields are completed, even small planes will be able to fly from Japanese territory to what should be American ter ritory. We hope that Secretary Knox is sounder in his appraisal of the danger to Australia than he was in his reaction to the loss of Attu and Kiska. We hope he is right = but suppose he is not? Can we afford to take that chance? There still are evidences of survival of the coStlieSt error this nation ever committed - the error of understanding the tenacity and the slyness of the Japs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
Few Atheists on Bataan

Few who understand the American temperament will be surprised to learn that rank and file fighting men are at tending church services much more gen. orally than they did as civilians. There is no compulsion from outside. But an in- ner urge is sending soldiers and sailors and marines back to fundamentals which too often had been neglected at home.
 The average American is religious in casual, matter-of-fact way. When he gets stripped to essentials, as he faces or prepares to face a lethal enemy, his in- terest in the hereafter inevitably becomes more active. This is no matter of fear or of hypocritical sneaking around to Heavens back door. It is the natural development of communing daily with stark realities. There were mighty few atheists in the foxholes of Bataan or the iungles of Guadalcanal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
Last Long Billion

Nobody should be deceived by the sprinting start of the Second War Loan drive into believing that George will take care of Uncle Sam's financial require ments. George - meaning the big non- banking institutions - has jumped in with both feet, and bought bonds by the billions. This is exemplified by the Situa- ton in New York, which raised almost half its quota in two days because two insurance companies took quarter of the quota among them.
 The payoff will come when the big boys have done their shares, and the rest of the billions have to be picked up in driblets of SIS here, $3750 there, $18.75 somewhere else. It takes a whale of a lot of $18.75 sales to equal billion dollars -53 millions of them, in fact. So don't fear that your contribution will not be needed. Just lay 1t on the line, fast and often.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
Views Of The Press

man in the street. Let lis express our gratitude to Mark Alfred Carle- ton. who brought drought and rust resisting Kubanka and Kharkov wheat to America: to Marion Dor set. who conquered the hog cholera: George Mohler. who got the best of the hoof and mouth disease; J. H. Watkins, who introduced Kaffir corn from North Africa: Nils Han- sen. who imported yell0w-flower- ing alfalfa from Turkestan: David Coker, who proved that l0pg-staple cotton could thrive on upland soils of the South: Seaman Knapp. who salvaged the rice industry in its postwar decline.
 I'll fares the land where wealth accumulates and men decay. We may thank God that our farmers and agricultural scientists who do not accumulate wealth are by no means decadent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
Confounding Its Enemies

For the past decade promoters of So- cialized power in the United States have used every artifice to prove that the coun- try faced power shortage in the "imme- diate futufe," as justification for their program to spend unlimited millions of public funds for government-owned pow CT developments.
 We'll, the serious" power shortage never occurred. In the face of the na- tion's greatest emergency, the private electric industry has met the demand for power in every instance, not only the ab- normal loads for war industry, but the requirements of the home, the farm and all other civilian activities.
 This is no stroke of luck; it is in line with the record of this industry since it's inception. Its ability to meet and keep ahead of wartime and civilian require mentS is not limited to any one area, but is universal throughout the country be- cause Glass One utility systems are furn- ishing 85 per cent of the power demands of the country, and are maintaining construction program which assures a dependable reserve well ahead of demand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
ILL FARES THE LAND
CNew York Herald Tribune)

(New York Herald Tribune)
 Man does not live ky bread alone: but the Amercian people. the best fed in history. need to be reminded, as they have been in the last few weeks, that he does not five 'nt all without 1t and meat: that food can. not be taken for granted but is pro- duced by hard labor, skin. and at great risk by men whose eash re- wards are exceedingly modest isl comparison with those Of aimcst all other servants of our society.
 Back og the farmers are other men rewarded almost as grugally by society, without whose efforts in the last fifty years we might very well be feeling the food shortage not iEl terms Of annoyance tut actually fEI paEgs Of hunger. Let as take our hats off to the scientists who have devoted their lives to fncreaslng food supplies: who have enormously increased our hasIc wealth without amaselng any for taemneiFes: wlaoss names even are unknown Co the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
Selected Poem
WITH THE CONVOY

WITH THE CONVOY (John Ackerson. U. S. M. S. in the New York TimeS) This moonlight on the suriy ocean meadows Which silvers the broad sheets cast up as foam Recalls to me the land beyond the shadows, Long vistas of the happy roads of home. None dearer than the slender. tall white steeple Beside the Green, stll pale with bue-clad ghostsS still faithful ward above the sumbering people, Even as over the ragged. heroic hosts Strewing the frosty earth. needless of guns That heave at them from heights across the current Their souls serene. despite the blaze that stuns. Breaking old wounds that freshly pour their torrent With lifting heart, while bois the candid ocean, For our high cause gain increased devotion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

Today, Good Friday, is the most solemn one of the year. Its historical back ground tells the most dramatic story ever written. It is day for reflection and thought, since it climaxes the most trag- ic story of all times, the death of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, prophes- jed in the Old Testament, and narrated by the four Evangelists ill the New Tes- lament. The day is observed with suit able religious observance. There is general feeling that it should be a day of devotion and complete cessation from work for all. To many the lively wheels of industry strike jarring note on this particular day. Perhaps the time will come when one and all will spend Good Friday at devotional exercises after which they will continue the day in quiet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
A Healthy Trend

One of the healthiest movements in American business and industry today is the tendency towards decentralization. As our great industries have switched from civilian production to war work they have found it necessary to expand, and arrange for lot of sub-contracting. Tn their words they have been "decentral- izing," thus helping to revolutionize the American business picture, not only dur ing the war, but for the years to come.
 Prom an efficiency standpoint it IS far better to transport fabricated prod ''els than 1t is to move raw materials" "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23


 But Baker 6 moving in op. pOsltc direction. Instead oe go. Ing over Co night bombing, which incidentally would mean . loss of identity for the Ameri- can Bomber Command and . merging with the British, he Is looking ahead to the time when precision bombing will be still more precise.
 There is a secret apparatus about to be used. in which one man will actually control the flight of the plane and the aim- ing and releasing of the bombs at the same time, instead of having to effect the difficult CO., ordination between bombardier and pilot, as at present.
 CONGESTED BOMB.
 ING TRAFFIC
 Furthermore, American planes will soon be over the Continent 'ln force" as they have not been up VO uOWs
 The average American Supposes that we have 6 great force of 1000 bornberS In England. The actual figures cannot be disclosed, but they are far less than that. By next August. however, they should not be less than that. and the skies over England will be so thick with outbound bombers that there would actually be a traffic congestion if all operated at night.
 This Is one reason why it Is advantageous to divide bombing the British by night, the U. s. by day. In addition to reliey- ing traffic congestion over Bri- tish alrfields, this constant round the-cleck operation requires Maxi gun crews and fighter crews to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

day because Of it. and listen in the evening to radio programs from far corners of the earth.
 Why then, when we utilize unseen physical powers every day, do we hesitate and doubt the potency oi unseen spiritual p0wers9 When their loved ones are taken away. people SO often can sec nothing more sn the ecrrowful circumstance but the de- cay of the flesh and the end Of all life. Many people as they read his- tory see nothing but blood. cruelty. and the triumpll of the crafty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

They cannot believe that tter> is an eternal destiny toward which the whole creation is being pakhed by the strong hand of God. They can. not see that above the darkness Of this world Is the glory of a kingdom of power and light which will even- tually dominate the universe in Its entirety.
 Physical forces await the response of mems ingenuity: spiritual forces await the response Of their faith. When our eyes are opened SO that We really see. then do w3 perceive that the mountains are full of horB- es and chaFiots of fire round about. Al Rights Reserved Babson News
 paper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
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work ga hours oe the day, oe to operate two or three shifts.
 If the American thesis required any more proof for Winston Churchill, here Is this final per- suaSive fact. Losses are lower. What a flight of Fighting Fort resses and Llberators goes out on a raid, all but l.e per cent of the bomberS return. British losses, on the other hand, have averaged over four per cent.
 ON TO BERLTN!!!
 The real importance of this story Is. not in the controversy be- tween British and American methods which is a friendly one but in the fact that the two forces. each in its own way are about to open Q Spring and Summer bombing campaign such as war fare has never known, destroying Maxi supplies and communication so effectively that when the mo- ment of invasion comes, the Naxis actually will be unable to move their forces into action.
 The Luftwaffe is not on the wane. It has waned. At the be- ginning of the war, 1t was the most powerful air force in the world. Now 1t is literally third rate, surpassed first by the Bri- tish, second by the Americans. And before long, further double shift in the lineup will take place. whereby the Americans will come into first ylace, British sec ond, Russians third, and the Luft- waffle fourth.
 That will be the moment for the invasion.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
A STRAW IN THE WIND?
(Hartford Times

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 The Iayman may be somewhat puzzled by the announcement of Chief Justice Maitbie. after . meet ing of the judges Of the Court of Common Pleas, that those courts wil continue to function until the Supreme Court hes passed on Judge Cornell's decision that they exist unconstltutionally. Judge COTnell's finding was interpreted to mean that these courts cannot render valid decisions and that decisions they have rendered since ie4i would be invalid if challenged. To the lay- man referred to t would hardly seem practicable to have the courts thus challenged go on making de- cisions which would be aiItomatical- ly set aside if Judge Cornell were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Acne Scars

Acne scars
 Middle aged, have acne pits on my face since adolescence. Expert here claims to remove them by q new method-lady there told me she could remove the marks in ten days please advise me if sure cure can be guaranteed. (S. F1
 Answer-The pits or scars some times left by acne cannot be "re- moved" Feeling of the pitted or scared skin. by various methocs. offers the best improvement. This can be safely done only by a physi- clan. The technique was described in illustrated article by pr. Jos. J. Eller in Jour. A.M.A.. March 8. al. Do not permit any one but Qusli-. fled physician and surgeon to at- tempt such treatment.
 Best Source of Calcium
 Please name some food or foods. that are rich in calcium, which you often tell us is most frequently de- ficient in everyday diet.
 (Mrs. A. A. e.
 Answer--Milk and its products. Quart of milk a day supplies all the calcium average adult requires three pints a dya may supply eveI a growing child's requirement.. B. milk products I mean cheese. skin milk. sour milk. Acidopflilus milk buttermilk. Bulgarian fermente' milk. cream, ice cream. milk shaks condensed milk, evaporated milk dried (pOwder) milk. whey. ant various dishes containing more less milk.
 Can't Figure
 You claim it is unwise to take dose of - (acetanilide nostrunl to relieve fatigue. I wonder if yo' are one of those fishy-eyed monitor who think suffering Is good for w can't figure why you object such relief when one is almos fageed out. (Miss IT. K. W.
 Answer-The 'pick-me-up" mask fatigue. does not dispel or Overcom it, leads you to draw unSuspectingI on your precious reserve power and when you use that up. lady you're on the borderline. easli. knocked over. Don't be a dope of course the noStrum merely be nImbs your senses. your conscious ness of being tired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

It Is generally known that the British send out their bombing missions at night, and the Ameri- cans operate in the daytime. But 1t Is not generally known that the British still think their methods superior, in the face of highly suc- cessful American performance. Also 1t is not known that as rec recently as the conference at Casa blanca, Churchill argued with Major Gen. Ira Baker for two hours in an effort to convert him to night bombing.
 Churchill used all his persua- stve magnetism to press home the point that American bomberS rec quire fighter escort for daylight protection, that they need such heavy arnor and armament that their bomb load is only Q third or a fourth of the British, and that bad weather prevents precision bombing a large part of the time.
 But Gen. Baker held his ground. He has been fully supported by Gen. Fl. H. 'Hap" Arnold, Chief of the Air Forces, with the result that American methods will not be changed.
 Inside fact aboHt this friendly
 allied argument is that Ameri- can methods are rapidly proving superior to British. Key to the
 whole question is the damage done to the enemy. American planes are not only hitting their
 targets with remarkable pre- cisiOn but they are drawing into action so many Maxi fighters. and knocking so many out of Che sky, that the Luftwaffe is disintegrating.
 WARS MOST
 SENSATIONAL NEWS
 This is no figure of speech. Ac- tually 1t is the most sensational news of the war. The American Air Force in Britain has received information on Germany's air power-or lack of it-which in- dicates that Nazi fighter planes are being destroyed so rapidly that there must be complete turn- over just about every four months.
 In other words. Allied forces are now destroying the total German fighter strength at the rate of about three times a year. This means that all the German fighters in existence on Janu- ary 1 should be destroyed by April %, and Germany should have left only those fighters built since January 1.
 Obviously 1t is desirable to strike the aircraft plants producing the fighters. which may be the req son behind the recent American raid on the Focke-Wulf plant in Bremen, a city which the British have raided a score of times with out knocking out that plant.
 Here again is the difference be- tween ''area bombing" and ''pre- cision bombing. The British send over a great weight of bombs and lay down a blanket which is sup- posed to cover eVerytntng TOT acres. But they missed bomb loads. knocked out by the simple process of turning the bomb-sight on the target, in broad daylight, and then letting go with every thing.
 SUICIDAL" U. S. RAIDS
 This accuracy has amazed the British without convincing them. They were first amazed last Aug. n, when the Americans, against British protests, staged their first daylight raid over the Continent. Thu British said 1t was suicidal, but the Flying F0rtresses laid down their seggs" on Rouen. and came back without a single loss. The RAP had estimated that casualties would be 50 to 100 per cent.
 It was five months after this, at Casablanca, that Churchill tried to take Baker into camp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady

Slgmea letters pertaining Co per- nonal health and hyglano, not Co disease. dlagnusls CT truatmeait, will be answered by pr. nFady R a stamped uelg.aadressod envelope 0 enclosed. Letters should be brief and written ln ink. No reply can be made Co queries not conform.
 ing Co instructions. Address Dr. william Brady, National News paper Service. S9o West Madison aaFNek. ChloARO, Hll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

David Babson of the Mattatuck Coun- Gil of Boy Scouts states that scouting is a game that knows no particular age" There is need of leaders these days with our young men qualified assigned to the armed forces here and there. The short age of young men is evident in the field of Boy Scoutdom as it is in other fields. There are not enough men at home to farm this summer, and there are not enough men to train boy scouts. So therefore it is pointed out that a scout leader does not necessarily need to be young. A man of any age is qualified to train boys if he has the qualifications. Many a man of middle years knows great deal about boy training. He will be valuable in the days to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
PYLOROsPAsM

The pylorus, as every schoolboy win have forgotten since he passed the eighth grade, IS the lower outlet of the stomach. The stomach. as the same schoolboy will have for- gotten, is just . wide place In the alimentary canal, and the entire ali- mentary canal is Q tube consisting mainly of muscle, involuntary mus ole, lined with mucous membrane.
 At the pylorus or gateway (py- lon means gateway) from stomach to duodenum (upper portion of small intestlne) the involuntary muscle IS thicker than elsewhere and forms Q ring around the open- ing. When this ring of muscle con- tracts 1t closes the pylorus and pre- vents emptying of the stomach. Such closure of the outlet of the stomach occurs normally during di- gestion.
 This closing of the pylorus for two or three hours while food is di- gesting in the stomach is automatic. under control of the sympathetic" {" autonomic, involuntary nervous Sys. tenn, with which consciousness and will have nothing Go do. So is the relaxation and opening of the py-. lorus when stomach digestion Is complete, to allow the acid chyme to pass along into the duodenum for further digestion there.
 The character of the food, the degree of acidity of the gastric juice, various emotional states and various drugs may have consider able influence on the polyrus. For instance if the gastric juice is high ly acid 1t seems to cause the pyloruS to remain closed longer or to pre- vent relaxation and opening of the pylorus. This spaSmodic contrac- ton of the muscle ring around the lower outlet of the stomach is a kind of collie and probably 1t ao-- counts for the distress or pain many sufferers from stomach trouble have rather than mere hyperacidity. Es- pecially so in many cases of gastric stomach ulcer.
 Not only pain. but eructation of gas, heartburn and waterbraSh Nu1tSkl, oOuE AkVtAQ ttAAOhStAtS OtAAVOO may be due to such pylorospasm or excessive contraction of the gphinc- ter muscle (purse-string) around the outlet of the stomach. In prac- tice remedies which tend to relax muscle Spasm, lessen neuromuscu- lar irrltability. often give better results than ant-acids oop in such cases.
 Although peptic ulcer is common ly associated with pylorospasm there are numerous instances where patients suffer much from pyloro- spasm yet have no peptic ulcer, as X-ray evidence, interpreted by the physician skilled in the field. shows. What these sufferers often do have iS tobaccoism. Not every smoker with symptoms of peptic ulcer can get relief by quitting, but every smoker who has gastric or duodenal ulcer complex should at least try what doing without smoke for week will accomplish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

Knowledge u m every physical motion we make. We cannot see
 electricity. In fact. with all our m ode Tn knowledge men are not yet sure
 what electricity is. Yet we Night
 our houses with it, talk over the faleuia0saN every
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

WGtVttAN8 Q 0aAaa- ing question, an Issue - the hot potato issue, you might say, and fraught with 30. cial significance.
 The OWr re- port on the .. 8, wartime food sit. uation, hot oR { h 0 duplicating machines, in di- cates that there should be as m any potatoes this year as last. In fact, more:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

sustained by the Supreme Court. Tc do that. seemingly. would only con found confusion. Possibly, there fore. the determination to 90 Or should be interpreted as indicating that the judges do not expect Judgs Cornell to be upheld.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
What Happened To Potatoes?
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington CerFesponaent

Things have come to . prety pass, indeed, when you have dificulty in getting Q potato. Yet the fact that potatoes are now hard to get-ln some places impossible to get-ls perhaps the most significant development of the war. It isn't just R home front development, either. The Army, too, has had diflculty getting spuds for overseas shipment. And 80, the decline of the potato
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23

It has always been consoling thought that without meat and variety of veget- ables you could fill up on potatoes. But with potatoes not cheaper and not plenti- flIl it looks like we are Stymied.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL ,. DOUGLAss D. Q.

HORSES AND CHARIOTs or
 FIRE
 Tn the physical world we have a striking illustration of the reality of the invisible, as 1t works through certain natural forces. We cannot see the power of gravity but we ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-23
WASHINGTON, April 2S.

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