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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Publicity Sense

The Army high command is to be con-
graduated on the intelligence with which
the bombing of Rome was handled from
a public relations standpoint.
Because of the location of the Vatican
and several major religious shrines be-
loved of all Christians, Roman Catholic
or Protestant, it was particularly deSlr-
able that the Axis should not be permit
ted to spread any lies that these had
been injured, either Intentionally or by
carelesSneSs.
So in addition to planning the raid
with utmost care that explosives should
not be dropped near sacred institutions,
the Army made skillful use of all prOpa-
ganda possibilities.
President Roosevelt and Premier
Churchill assured Pope Plus that the
Vatican would be safeguarded in any
attacks on Italy. Then leaflets were
dropped over Rome, informing the ltal-
ian people of the same thing. Split sec
ond action was arranged to have the first
flash on the bombing come from our side
Before Axis propaganda could catch It's
breath we had told the story to the world
The first bomb hurled out Of For
tress at 11:13 on a Monday morning,
Rome time, which was 5:13 in the morn
ing by Washington time. So vast did
the arrangements work out that IA min
utes later, at sgt o'clock, a flash had gone
over press association wires, from the
nations capital:
''The War Department announces the
bombing of Rome"
In that brief interval the first bombers
had sent word to Algiers, it had been
relayed to the Pentagon Building IN
Washington, passed through controls,
given to newsmen, transmitted by them
to their offices, "punched' out on the
news printer and carried to principal dis
tribution centers throughout the nation.
Meanwhile in the second flights, 40
minutes behind the first, seven American
and British correspondents were looking
down on Rome, witnessing with their own
eyes the actual damage done by earlier
explosives and watching bombs drop
from accompanying planes.
1t was impossible for the Vatican, st.
Peters, Santa Maria st. Paul's Basilica,
or any major religious institution to have
suffered without some of the correspond
ents noticing that damage. Under such
circumstances Axis fabrications have been
stynnied. Those who planned the cover
age did bangup good job.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, regional director
for the War ManpoWer Commission in
and around New York, expresses surprise
that farmers are not taking advantage of
the offers of city folks to spend their
vacations doing farm work. Perhaps Mrs.
Rosenberg is not acquainted at first-hand
with farm work. There are many, in
the cities, who are not. They assume
that any man five feet nine inches tall,
weighing 165 pounds is as good for such
unskilled labor as any other of similar
proportions. But let her try to load hay
on a rack so it won't fall off; or hoe pota-
toes for a day in the broiling sun; or try
milking few CO.'S nigh and morning.
1t may be that farmers aren't interested
in vacation workers because they know,
from experience, that many of them eat
more than their labor is worth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Views Of The Press

are long, so long that the hapless
center of a departmental LAGOON
group from which there is no
escape. The ultimate triumph of
rote over a sense Of humor appears
in an Associated Press dispatch
from Chicago. There Fred Snite, Jr.,
sufferer from infantile paralysis
which has kept him in an elaborate
iron lung since 1886, received notice
from the Selective Service Board at
Miami Bach, Florida, that he has
been reclassified. From now on Mr..
Snite's status Is that of 3A-4,
fathers In non-deferable occupa-
ton" Miami Beach is not so large
that Mr.. Snite's residence there
coud pass unnoticed, and 1t Is
hardly probable that his condition
Is unknown to members of the
board The young mans travels in
this country and abroad in his
artificial lung have been attended
with considerable publicity. The
rules, however, are inf1exible, and
so Mr.. Snite is solemnly reclassified
the proper forms made out and
notification mailed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

together to take Italy Immediately
out of the war and prevent poll
tical pickering over Italy's future
government, as among the French.
MOVE TOWARD DEMOCRACY
Long-sighted U. S. Officials re-
gard this Italo-American move as
one of the most broad-guaged
steps taken SO far toward early
peace and toward healing Eu-
ropean wounds. They recognize
that we are in a unique position
regarding Italy. With several
Guiding many U. S. government
leaders, this country can appeal
to the people inside Italy much
more effectively; also can help
nurse Italy back to democratic
government without the mistakes
of France.
Long under despotis1n, Italy's
transition from the sick-room
back to healthy democracy must
be careful and perhaps slow. Lead
ing Americans of italian descent
can supervise this transition
period, form a trusteeship for the
people of Italy If the State
Department has enough vision to
see the possibilities.
CONSERVATIVE FDR
Ex-secretary of the Navy Jo-
sephus Daniels, one of the few
men who doesn't hesitate to give
bare-knuckled advice to his one
time assistant, F. D. Roosevelt
was entertaining at dinner in the
American Embassy In Mexico City
several years ago. 1t Was dur
ing Roosevelt's first term when
he was passing all sorts of New
Deal reforms, and one of Daniels
guests - from Wall Street
launched TRADE against the
President.
do you approve of all the
policies which your friend
Roosevelt is putting over on the
country" he asked.
II do not" replied Ambassa-f
dor Daniels.
81 am glad" said the New
Yorker, that you cannot stard
for this radicalism."
what I object to in President
Roosevelt" shot back Daniels, dis
he is too conservative"
The New Yorker gasped. you
are the only man I know who
thinks he is too conservative"
he said. 1--WE in New York think
his radicalism will ruin the coun-
try"
"On the other hand" smiled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Playing With Fire

The coal miners have agreed to work
until next October with proviso that mines
remain under government jurisdiction.
They appear to feel that state of social
ism in the coal industry bereft of wage
negotiations is preferable to the bargain
ing processes between employer and en-
ploye inherent under the American sys-
tenn of free enterprise.
Commenting on such arrangements,
the Saturday Evening Post observes: up
to now, the only means of enforcement
considered available when a strike men
aces war production, is to seize the fac
tory or the mine in which a strike is
threatened. In other words We meet
the situation, not by Furnishing the indi-
vidual who refused to arbitrate or nego
tiate and ordered the strike, but by tax
ing over the property of his employer
who may have obeyed all 'directives,
agreed to every proposal to negotiate and
conducted himself in generally respons-
ible manner. The result, if logic guided
ali such transactions, would be that the
Communists who want the government
to seize industry, could attain their hearts
desire simply by fomenting enough
strikes!"
Blame for interrupted coal production
rests on the Federal Government. Until
one sided legislation such as the Wagner
Act is corrected, giving both employer
and employe equals rights; until the
present administration abandons eXpe-
diency and favoritism in labor matters;
until top officials in the Federal Govern
ment stop putting political careers ahead
of country, injustice and the trend to-
ward socialism will continue. And as
socialism broadens it's grip, labor unions
march toward oblivion, as in dictator ma
tons where state socialism has displaced
both labor unions and private enterprise.
The miners are playing with fire when
they promote destruction of ownership
and operation of private enterprise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

The former motor city now the war
materials city - is rolling up fine bat
ting average in the victory column. The
Automotive Council for War Production
reports from Detroit that the automobile
industry, our heaviest war producer, is
maintaining its advance in arms output
which has been so spectacular During
June the industry's output totaled
SIPS 900 OOO compared with $705, 100000
in May and with 1888 ,800,0 900 in June
year ago. The industry now is producing
at an annual rate of $8,7OO,O00 ,000 This
near doubling of production in year
particularly year in which the United
Nations air offensive has been grinding
down Axis production - is more cheering
news.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
HELP THE NEWSBOY
New Haven Journal-Courier

new haven JOurnal-COurler
There are practically no daily
commercial deliveries to homes at
the present time e. except news
papers. Your milk laundry, depart
ment store bundles and the other
items come on three-a-week or
tWo-a-week schedule, or perhaps
only once week. But the news
paper is getting there every day. Yet
there is one difficulty the newsboys
are encountering in maintaining
this service, the difficulty in max
ing weekly collections from subscrib-
erS.
Too often when the newsboy calls
on Saturday to collect the 20 cents
due him, he finds no one at home.
Or he is put off with: mo change
TOO busy now!" my husband is
asleep" So the boy has to call again
on Monday evening on Tuesday
evening, perhaps on the other eve
nings too in order to catch all the
people who have put him off,
We can understand the difficulty
in having 20 cents on hand every
Saturday for the newsboy, but we
thought you might not appreciate
the boys problem when he can't COL
lect without repeated trips back to
his customers.
1t Is hard to maintain deliveries
these days when other jobs are at
tracing boys. If a boy goes and an :
other cannot be found, you lose your
paper. We know you want to find
your Journal-Courier on the door,
step every morning, and we are anx-
ious to get 1t there for you. This
little matter OF haing the change
ready for the boy eervy Saturday
or arranging with him to leave 1t
If you're away-this care will do a
lot to keep the paper coming.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

Daniels, "there are about fif-
teen million of us who think
he is too conservative and hope
he will 60 further, uproot all
monopoly, and do it soon."
NOTE: The other day this ten
year old conversation was re-
called to Ambassador Daniels,
now busy editing his newspaper
in Raleigh, N. c. II still think"
he remarked, that President
Roosevelt is too conservative"
HONORS FOR WORKMEN
The Office of War Informa-
ton IS arranging a deluxe pro-
gram for next Labor day, hailing
the contribution of American
workmen in the drive for victory.
Producing for Attack" will be the
theme of the program, and it will
include inspirational broadcasts by
President Roosevelt and other top
ranking war leaders.
However, this isn't the only
labor show on the Owl SEIZED lie
this year. Another special cele-
bration for Labor, to be known
as ION to Victory" day also will
be OBSERVED within the next two
months.
1t was conceived by Major Paul
Hines, chief of the labor branch
of the Fourth Service Command
at Atlanta, Ga, and promoted
by Hervey Alien, author of "An-
thony Adverse.
All war plants will be asked
to declare an "hohur off" on
ION to Victory" day, at which
time special war Merit" en-
blems will be awarded.
Climaxing the "On to Victory"
programs will be nationwide
broadcast in the evening &C
cording to Owl plans - featur-
ing such speakers as President
Roosevelt, Winston Churchill,
Generals Macarthur, Eisenhower
and Doolittle and Admirals King
and Halsey. Joseph Stain and
General Chang Kai-shek OF
China also may be invited to
tawe part. All the speakers will
have special message for Ameri-
can labor.
The evening broadcast will con-
clude with the sounding of taps
from the steps of the Nations
Capitol, in memory of our war
dead, and an answering taps by
U. S. buglers In Europe and the
South Pacific.
Copyright, 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Current Comment

The English have had 1T their own
way again in Essen. 1t is simply
horrible. The raids become more
and more intense every month.
Houses are crushed like matchboxes,
Letter from home found on Ger
man in Russia,
There is only brief period for
planting some crops, and if the
(gasoline) situation is not relieved
soon, some of the land intended for
crops this year will not be planted
until next year.
Agriculture Department report.
AS communicating CHER, ask all
people to remember this - that a
share in ten National War Fund
is sabre in winning the war.
President Roosevelt.
We are doing far more post
talking than we did in connection
with World War l, and that is
good I think we counted 1913 Or
CARNATIONS planning our postwar
future in the states.
President Frederick G. CraW-
ford of National Association
of Manufacturers to Cana
dian manufacturers.
America must join in whatever
organized postwar sanctions are
necessary to prevent by mutual
force the recurrence of criminal
military aggression in the world.
Senator Arthur H. Vanden-
berg of Michigan.
1t isbelieved that the equipment
of the American Army is superior
to that of other armies. This Is
particularly true Of American trans
| portation, which has continued TO
stand up under almost inconceiv-
| able conditions.
Lieut.. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
Second Army commander in
Tunisia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

If it had been, tactful sugges-
lions might have oaen made to
tone down the scared. scared
and blackened" threats, since u.
S. policy is not to be harsh with
the Italian people now that they
have kicked out Mussolini.
Italians, unfortunately, are ex-
tremely suspicious, of England,
think she wants to keep certain
Mediterranean islands, Pantelleria
perhaps Sicily.
The man who prompted Roose-
welt to rebuff the Owl for call
ing Victor Emmanuel a "mOrOnic
little King" was Admiral Leahy.
He hot-footed it over to the White
House Immediately, warned the
President there was no use heap
ing abuse on the new Italian gov
eminent until it had a chance to
act.
Trouble was that Owls broad
casts have been operated by a
group of well-rneaning Italian
eXileS who are so close to the
situation they don't see the over
all, long-range picture.
OVERALL COMMITTEE
The above hemraing and having
over Italy points to the inpor-
ance of the new Italo- American
steering committee recently or
ganized in New York undner such
leading citizens as Judge Ferdin-
and Pecora of the New York Su-
preme Court, Judge Felix Forte
of Boston, Judge D'Alessandroni
of Philadelphia, Generoso Pope,
editor of II Progresso, Congress
man D'Allesandro of Baltimore,
DR.. A. H. Giannini of San Fran
cisco, James Montana of Buffalo
and many others.
This committee represents
Italo-Americans from all poll
tical groups - Democrats and
Republicans, some with Fascist
leanings before Pearl HarbOr,
bitterly anti-Fascist - but all
united now to do two things:
(D take Italy out of the war
Immediately; (2) save Italy from
the mistakes of a Giraud-De
Gaulle cat-and-d0g fight.
When this group met in New
York, DR.. Charles Fama, head of
City Retirement system, had not
the Medical Board New York,
spoken for years to Luigi An
tonini, head of the Italian-Amer-
lean Labor Council. But they
shook hands and pledged to work
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

search to study the relative fitness
OF railroads, motor and water car
rierS for transportation services.
This board held hearings in Wash
lngton In June and July of 1912,
but its hearings were never pub
liShed.
A year later, in hearings before
the Senate Committee on Interstate
| Commerce, some of the earlier tes-
timony before the Board of Inves-
! tigation and Research was intro
duced by the Department of Justice.
Publication of the Senate hearings
within the next few weeks will re-
veal the plan for the indignation
or coordination of all the country's
| transportation system in more de-
tail, though complete revelation of
/ just how existing carriers would be
grouped into the II, ID or II regional
I systems is still to come.
REORGANIZATION ANALYZED
Chief document outlining the
plan for this national transporta-
| ton reorganiZat ton is by Donald D.
Conn of Chicago, executive vice
president of the Transportation AS
ISOLATION of America, identified as
non-political, non-partisan, edu-
cational and research organization
of 1000 corporations and 10000
! individuals. Air transport, motor
truck and water carrier executives,
| however, identify the Transporta-
Of onr-ico
cloak or front for the railroad lobby.
/ Statements of the Transportation
| Association say that its views and
| policy are endorsed by the Associa-
! ton of American Railroads, but
there is no direct connection be-
tween the two.
Conn's statement declares that
the subject of national transporta-
ton indignation has been under
study by his organization for a mat
! ter of siX-noW seven-years. 1t isn't
ready yet. The Transportation AS
| ISOLATION was to present its COM
| plete plan to the Board of Investi-
| CATION in June. It's month late
| already and no date has been
scheduled for its formal presen-
tation, though assurance is given
that it will be forthcoming.
COMPLICATED TASK
The magnitude of the job is of
course staggering. Conn is author
ity for the statement that the
country now has $4,000 truck lines,
4,7OO bus lines, 1900 water lines, 500
short line railroads, 1879 trunk line
railroads and 20 airlines. Taking
these as $50 transportation services
and combining them into II, IA or
II systems would be bankers
nightmare. 1t would probably take
years to work out plans for the ex-
change of stock and control to eff
feet the mergers.
The idea of the proponents of
indignation is th3t it would give the
public better service. The proposal
is that a program can be consum-
mated during the war period so as
to "avoid the uncertain repercuS-
sions of d postwar period of read
| justment.'
But the antitrust division of the
Department of Justice and the air
lines and water carriers and motor
lines look on this with suspicion.
To them it looks like monopoly
graham attempt by railroad inter-
ests to get control of all the other
forms of transportation and stifle
them. That's why these other car
riers would like to see an abortion
performed on this Indignation idea
before it gets born or, if it ever is
delivered, they'd like to see 1t still
born with an early but complete
| and permanent burial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Selected Poem
RICH HOUR

Marguerite Janvrin Adams in The Christian
Science Montor)
This summer hour is replete with pleasure.
Stranger, treasure
wing of tern and gull, the curled surf pounding
upon quiescent sand, the beyy-bouy sounding
a liquid note hold close against the heart
breath from clover, ropening orchards bending
under their perfect yield,
each lavish field.
Stranger from cities drink the tranquil murmur
of brook and river, the unfolding wonder
of hill and valley in this hour that passes
as wind through grasses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

b e in g discussed
W l t h increasing
concern by trans
port representa-
tives in Washing
ton.
This staggering
proposal has been
in preparation for
more than a year.
Its genesis goes
back to the Trans
porta ton Act of
1910, under which
Congress created
a Board of Inves-
tlgation and Re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

~ " ~ ~ -
the fire fighters
got to the scene,
they discovered
That they were
unable to get the
proper W a t e r
pressure. They
had the dread
full experience
of being compell-
ed to see a
beautiful build
ing burn down
while they fran
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Behind the Mirage

The OPA, ir its price roll-back moves,
has implied that retailers are enjoying
huge profits as a result of wider margins
and greater volume of business.
The National City Bark of New York
has published revealing figures on the
margins and profits of retail food dis
tributors. In 1912, the year OPA claims
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
BY EARL l.. DOUGLASS, d. d.
MOMENTS OF DESTINY

MOMENIS OF DESIIN1
A beautiful building designed after
one of the great American shrines
was recently consumed by fire, al
though it's location was quite &C
cessible to the fire-fighting equip
ment of that part of the city.
But the trouble was that when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Morning Nausea

Morning Nausea
I suffered severely with morning
nausea and vomiting in my first
pregnancy. Now I am four months
along on my second and were 1T
not for this extreme morning sick
ness I'd be all rights.
(Mrs. J. r. A.
Answer - Try taking something
sweet last thing at night and first
thing on waking every morning
candy, well sweetened beverage, fruit
Juice or any sweet fruit. If you
wake in the night eat piece OF
candy, milk chocolate or something
of the kind. Send ten cents and
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress, for booklet Preparing for
Maternity" which gives other sug-
gestions for prevention and relief Of
the trouble.
Nine Year Report
You recommended DR.. - fol
diathermy extirpation. He did the
Job without any loss of blood and
without more DISCOMFORT than one
expects in ordinary visits to the den-
fist. That was nine years ago, and
the results have been entirely salts
factory and beneficial to a degree
that I had not imagined. q. P0
Answer-Thanks you, sir. Chances
are the doctor didn't "get all Of the
tonsil." So the treatment was
dismal failure-if you accept the
notion of the old timer who still
believes In the old Spanish method.
This is a familiar criticism the old
timers make-they presume upon
the ignorance and credulity of their
customers who are unlikely to know
that even the most radical and
brutal surgery" seldom "gets all OF
the tonsil."
SclerOsis
What is the difference between
multiple sclerosis and arteriosclero-
sis? Would the high vitamin A
treatment for multiple sclerosis, as
recommended by Prof. Mellanby Gin
your booklet Nerves and Nutrition"
which, by the way, is worth ten
times the nominal price, be likely
to benefit one with arteriosclerosis?
&C. d.
Answer-It does not seem reason
able to think so. Sclerosis means in
suration, hardening in organs or
tissues, with Observation-Disclosures
ment of the functional cells by fib-
rous or scar tissue. However, it can
do no harm to try the high vitamin
A diet and treatment suggested by
Mellanby-it Is described in the
booklet. For copy send twenty-five
cents and stamped self-addressed
envelope. Do not send clipping in
lieu.
Copyright 1913, John F. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31

Salt Lake City, Utah, is located
at approximately the same latitude
as New York City. Madrid, Naples
and Istanbul-41 degrees north lati-
tlIde.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining 70 per-
sonal health and hygiene, not to
disease, diagnosis Of treatment,
will be answered by DIR. Brady II
q stamped elf-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address DR..
william Brady. National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Ill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-31
RECLASSIFIED
New York SUM-

The arms OF governmental routine
worker frequently finds himself the