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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-02

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
A Thought for Today
The March of Dimes

The Infantile Paralysis Fund may not receive the solid support of other years. There will be less attention paid to the social SidelightS which have always SUD- piled substantial returns. There have been so many taxing undertakings dur Ing the past year in the way of all-out drives that an appreciable falling-off is bound to be felt. War effort demands come first. But, nonetheleSS, we cannot and must not ignore the importance of the infantile paralysis fund drive which ends with the presidents birthday party.
 Scattered here and there in our con- munitieS are "mile O dimes" boxes. And dimes add up. Double your moving pic tllre allowance, or for that matter equal 1t, and you will help considerably. Don't completely ignore the boxes, since their purpose is to add to the general fund which helps in the care of the disease and supports in the work of research.
 These are marching days. Everybody 1s hoofing it, more or less; helping out the ,big cause. It won't be amiSs to fall in line and make it march of dimes. At this time you will feel that your divi- dends must go for war bonds, for the war effort in every way possible. If you can manage it, give bit more and help out the infantile paralysis cause by a contribution, large or small. One dime is something.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
New York No Less

While there hasn't been too much heard or said about the city manager form of government in this section of the country of recent months, don't get the idea that the plan has been complete ly forgotten. From no less a community than little old New York comes the lat est city manager campaign. The City Council received resolution not so many days ago calling upon it to name a committee to study the feasibility of the city manager form of government.
 How some of the ward leaders and workers of the city must have shaken with righteous anger when this news was flashed before their eyes. Can't you picture the wrath of the old-timerS in the city'S numerous election precincts, where political campaigning is one of the finer arts. And even in the realms that know the firm tread of His Honor, Mayor Fiorella La Guardia there might have been seen or heard evidences Of some disagreement with the proposal.
 Author of the idea was Louis Cohen, Democrat, of the Bronx, who said, accord ing to the metropolitan press, "Much of the economies and Streamlining of munic- ipal government that had been hoped for under the new charter has been mirage and instead of the realization of the rosy promises that were made for the new charter we find a constantly increasing city budget and the resultant burdens imposed upon the taxpayer and rent payers of New York"
 Mr. Cohen ventured the opinion that the city manager plan had worked satis- factorily in 500 cities of the United States Granted, MT. Cohen, but of all the cities in the United States in which city man. ager would have the least chance of suc- cess we'd nominate New York. There may be faults in the city's tax structure and in its municipal officialdom, but those are faults that can be cured under exist ing, as well as newer, forms of city gov ernment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
Theoretically Speaking

III. c. Wells recently published auto obituary contains this humorouSly-in- tended but truly prophetic statement: s'1e was indeed one of the most prolific of the literary hacks" of his time." Literary hack, indeed, and yet man who has done as much damage as any of our contemporary authors.
 You can do great deal of harm in 76 years, and MT. Wells has used his time to good advantage along those lines. His theory - which is much in evidence in his widely-read Outline History of the World" - is one of evolution of God, man, and religion. Theoretically, we are rushing toward humanitarian Utopia, we are living for the next gener- Rtion, we should be willing to do or die for the magnificent brotherhood of man. Somebody, Wells theorizes, men will be like gods.
 We'll, everyone is entitled to his theo- ries, but in his history books, MT. Wells is concerned, far more with those theories than he is with the facts, letting us know frl no uncertain terms that, while the factual material may be wrong, his theories can't be. He has decided pref erence for "maybes," which he manages to dress up with a wealth of detail and pass off as facts. But, as someone has sagely remarked, anything which does not involve positive contradiction in terms, may be; but 'naybes' are not honey bees"
 As he states in his obituary, MT. Wells has written extensively on great variety of subjects, and his theories are quoted as facts from the high school debating society to the floor of Congress. ITO prove my worthy and estimable adversary wrong" counters the high school sopho- more, q shall quote from the great his torian, MT. H. G. Wells. On page 438, MT. Wells says e.. :"
 MT. Wells says, indeed This is saltatory logic with vengeance. He leaps at one bound across entire chasmS, without pausing to build even Semblance of bridge = while hundreds of thousands of his followers who have fallen through, cry to him from the depths to come and save them. But alas, he can't come back. He must continue on to improve the lot of the great brotherhood of man, so that one day men will be like gods!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

The loss to New York City of the vel fare commissioner, William Hodson, must indeed be great His tragic death in a plane accident removes a prominent official at a time when he is much needed. Such losses are hard to face, as we have experienced in our own city in recent weeks. During his office as vel fare commissioner in super community it has been MT. Hodson's duty to handle the biggest relief problems in the history over the e ob the probes MGn a1e e Seen gigantic ones in the lean years that fol- lowed his appointment When the fatal accident occurred he was on two-month leave of absence to join the armed forces. His untoward death thus cuts short that brief leave as well as his career in New York, a most definite loss to the great metropolis which he served.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

can be learned from the telephone direc- tory or the local newspaper.
 For those who cannot carry their books personally to the libraries, however, other means are available. In New York City, for example, Borden and Sheffield drivers are picking up bundles of books, along with the morning milk, and talk ing them to the nearest libraries All over the country bakers, teamsterS, de- partment store drivers and others are combining book collections with their regular deliveries. In many communi- ties patriotic youngsters are making door-to-door canvasSeS and wheeling their book accumulations in kiddie-cars and wagons to the libraries. Collection boxes plac d in stores, theaterS and other pub lie places are filling up rapidly.
 The business of giving books to our fighting forces is becoming huge "Our Town" project everywhere. It's the sort of community effort in which everybody delights to take part. The local libraries are the key centers of this effort, and anyone who takes his books there per sonally helps just that much more to speed good books on their way to our men in the armed services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
How To Give a Book

Teachers, authors, editors have been telling us for years "How To Read Book". Now the needs of our armed forces are teaching us "How To Give a Book" through the medium of the 194S Victory Book Campaign.
 The heed of good books, more books, for our fighting men is well known, but often people wonder how and where to give their book donations. The answer is, take them to your nearest public Iibrary., for the libraries are the local depoSitorles of the Victory Book Cam paign, and their personnel Is helping whoIeheartedIy in Its work. All the books collected in any community are taken directly to the libraries and there sorted, packed and forwarded to the large distribution centers Of the Cam raIgn. . ,.,
 6oolk donations to the nearest local ,. bile library are encouraged, TOT tnis
 IlI naVn time and effort for those wno |anrport tho books Library ipeatloss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

plished without great discipline and effort. Artists work for decades per- fecting their technique. Musicians spend a lifetime on scales anu coin. terpoint. The scientist lives, eats. sleeps and in some cases dies in sHe laboratory. Men of outstanding suc- cess in the business world generally earn their high salaries by q aiay- ish devotion to their tasks.
 There are undoubtedly many peo- pie who never get ahead in the world because they arc lacking tn ability, but there is certainly . larger number Of able people who never succeed because they lack tlA puFp0se and energy to use the abll- Ily they have. Some failures are causod by lack Of natural endow- mont; most failures arise from al lndlspoaIilen to use the sifls ood
 hos given tn,
 Interest plus effort usually meani rklil. pRF0piFatIon also counts. AiI nlghse MeeefVod-n nahsen NeWgs | aNs NWa1Aam4@
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

Representative Mahaney of our city has the service mans interests at heart. Always alive to the needs the man in service he presented bill in Hartford today that asks a state bonus for the man in service in World War II. Also worth noting in his proposals is bill that will provide for the building of several new state armories after the war. It is generally realized that after the present war is over National and State Guards will have to be maintained, so the representatives proposals are worth serious thinking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

Carlton Hotel 8 check for ''mOst of the bi1l' for his famous din- ner for Mrs. Harry Hopkins. The bill had two chief items: CD a restaurant check of $2,700; (2) a wine check of $2,1O0. Included in the restaurant check was $180 for flowers. But not included in, the wine check was the champagne, which Beray supplied himself {. Justice F,rankfurter fought to the bitter end against the appoint ment of Judge Rutledge to the Supreme Court. His choice was Solicitor General Fahy .. When Gen. Eisenhower bombed Tunis and Bizerte, the Nazis forced the Jews to contribute huge fund to repair the buildings of the Arabs. Since the Jews were against them anyway, the NaZis wanted to win over the Arabs .. (. A Washington suburb, proud of a new garbage incinerator, now jails anyone who delivers garbage to hog farmers. As a result, farm CTS have had to sell their pigs despite the pork shortage. Mean while the incinerator doesn't burn well and oil has to be thrown on the garbage .,.. Just before he quit as Governor of Georgia, Gene Talmadge pardoned prisoners at the rate of 36 daily. This par doning proclivity of some gov- ernors is why smart J. Edgar Hoover will indict the Touhy gang for evasion. of the draft act but will not bring them to trial. He figures they might be pardoned or they will slip jail again. Then he will have this federal indict- ment hanging over them.
 CANADIAN GOOD NEIGHBOR"
 For months, the U. s. Gov- ernment has been trying to be- guile good neighbOr" Canada into ratifying a treaty by which Can adians charged with swindling the American public through phony stock and bond deals can be ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

tradicted from Canada. But the Canadian Government won't move.
 Canada has excellent blue sky laws of her own. So also has the United States. But @ Canadian can come to this country and sell phony gold bricks, or stock in a company to make rockets to Mars. or put acros any shady stock and bond deals> Then when he is {. caught under .U. s. Securities and Exchange laws, he simply skips back to Canada. There he is quite safe. Canada won't relinquish him. ... ...
 Recently, 8 treaty was signed between the two countries per- mitting each to eXtradite swind- lers of this kind. The U. s. Sen- ate has ratified, but the Cam adian Parliament hasn't. And the Canadian Government makes no move to push the Inatter-deSpite tons of lend-lease equipment now pouring into Canada.
 SILVER BEER CANS
 Shortage of tin has given rise to experiments in substitutes, of which the most unusual, made in the laboratories of the Bureau of Standards, is the use of silver in making cans.
 The experiment was made at the request of 8 beer company, which hoped to prove that silver could be used instead of tin, and without greater cost. The ex- pertinent was successful.
 Thus U. s. beer drinkers may buy their beer in silver-plated cans-after the war. For steel is the principal factor in making cans, and none can be spared dur ing the war.
 Meanwhile, there's great de- mand for industrial use of silver for war purposes. Radio coils, contact points, brazing alloys, recOiI mechanismS-thefe are dozens of vital uses for silver. but stocks of silver are still held idle by the Government because of the lOg-in- -the-manger ob- structiOn of the "silver sena- tOrs." Senator Green of Rhode Island has a bill before Congress to re- lease U. s. silver stocks for war purposes. He believes growing public demand will force the sil- yer block to retreat.
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 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
HEADLINES
 and HILARITY

Elmer Layden, pro-football czar. says the Baugh case Is closed, 90 it looks as though one fellow, aI least. knows "What Makes Sam my Run
 After iT months Of free entegs tainment. the people Of LenlngEad are going to have to start paiToli- king their amusement parks again to see any fireworks.
 We should complaint Over ln RwltzeFland, they have three meatless days each week, and even then you have to stand ln line f0F hours 70 eet a nloutalul cf fried poEenpine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Quaint Medical Fallacy

This clipping should give you pause, Sir. Here's a real live meo1- cal authority who tells 'en1.
 Answer-The clipping quotes the health officer of a midwest city as follows:
 "In case of frostbite, do not go inside immediately where 1t is warm to thaw out, or near a stove, and do not use hot water. Apply either snow, ice, or cold water, until the frost is out .'' If 1t were my frostbite and you came at me with cold water, snow or ice. I'd sing "No. No, a Thousand Times, NoH I'd prefer my own treatment merely holding my warm hand on the bianched area, and gently, very gently, kneeding but not rubbing 1t. That quaint medical fallacy of ap- plying frost to get frost out IS just one of an astonishing number of fallacies cherished by the rank and file of the profession despite all common sense and science. What. 8 Peg Tooth?
 
 In 1916 my roommate at the D. s. Naval Academy at Annapolis, - now 8 commander, U. s. N, got one of his upper teeth knocked out while boxing in the gym. The den- tist fixed him up with a perfectly matched artificial tooth which screwed into a metal peg anchored in the jaw. To my knowledge - wore this at least three years. You might write him now, care of - and mention my name if you are in- terested in his experience with it. As an experienced reader of your column I just wanted to assure you 'peg'' tooth can be screwed into the jaw just as you described. Answer-Thank you, Lieutenant. However, there is still doubt about 1t. The peg tooth described is an artificial tooth mounted on a vital Hum (metal alloy) base having screw which is screwed into the jaw bone. As explained when I Apol- ogized to the dentists of America for my mistake about 1t, I have yst to see any one who has had satis' factory use of such Q peg tooth foI more than e year.
 Copyright. i04s, John ?. Diile Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
Current Comment

It must be apparent that the only way to win this war is by elimina- ton of friction and controversy within this country and the devo- ton of the entire energies of this nation against our enemies. Ralph A. Bard, assistant secretary
 of the Navy.
 Apparently east coast residents are not aware of the seriousness oi the fuel and heating shortage in the Atlantic coast area. Harold Ickes, petroleum coordi.
 nator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

Here is the real reason why Senator Tom Connally of Texas and other Democrats are 50 sore at the Senate fight over Boss Ed Hymns appointment as Am bassador to Australia.
 They had hoped to railroad Hymns confirmation through the Senate with as little hubbub as possible. Senators, especially administration Senators, don't like to wash dirty linen in public.
 But Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire upset their plans by bringing the issue squarely into the open. Result is that the Senate will face an- other wave of public resentment and newspaper attacks, similar to the pensions" furor, if Flynn is confirmed. Also, every Senator who votes for him will be shOwered with vitriOlic mail from home.
 The Republicans aren't worried, because they will vote almost sol- idly against Flynn. However, every Democrat who votes for him will be on the spot for play ing politics."
 That is the inside reason why Senator Connally attacked Bridges so savagelY on the floor. And that, also, is why Senate Repub- licans are laughing up their sleeves.
 SECRET COMMITTEE ROW
 It didn't leak out, but that hot tiff between Connally and Bridges, over Flynn, didn't end on the Senate floor.
 There was another flareup when Bridges repeated his charges against Flynn at a closed-door meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After Chairman Connally called the meeting to order, he gruffly in- quired of Bridges:
 You have made some pretty serious charges about MT. Hymns alleged associations with former agent of the Japanese government. Are you trying to attack his loyalty to the United States?"
 "NO, I'm not accusing Flynn of disIOyalty," shot back Bridges, but I believe that any man who had such associations prior to Pearl, HarbOr has disquali- fled himself for diplomatic Serv- ice in an area where we are fighting the Japs."
 "Well, I haven't heard of any objections to Mir. Flynn coming from Australia" drawled Con- naIly. 'The people there, among whom he will serve if confirmed, apparently like him all right"
 'NO, and you. haven't heard them shouting with glee about his nomination, either" c0un- tered Bridges. "The Australian people probably feel that they aren't in position to object to anything the President does concerning them, becadse Amer ican soldiers are defending their shores and they are getting lend-Iease aid from us. But that doesn't mean that they are happy about having this ward politician fOlsted on them."
 All during the meeting, Demo- cratic Senator Joe 0uffey of Pennsylvania, a party regular and an old crony Of Flynn, kept demanding a lawyer.
 "The senator from New Hampshire has made some veFy serious charges" 0uffey yam. uleFed ever and over again. MT. Flynn eF his lawyer siaeuld be here Co answer them be" fore we proceed"
 Democratic Majority Leader BaFkley finally quleted the aeila- Cd pennsylVanlan by assuring him that Flynn would have nll opportunity to defend hlnl1oh % public hearings later.
 CAPITAL CHAEF
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

Japs. What the U. s. puts out is purely education al material de- signed to tell other people the truth on what the American war effort is all about.
 Not much has been heard about this A m e r 1 can counter-p ropa- ganda show. The short wave radio broadcasts beam ed in many lang
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

able to do Some- thing of consid- erable signih- canoe because he had a distinct flare for that variety of activ- ity.
 The truth of the matter is that few people, even among the genius ses. get much accom-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22

It is the irony of fate, or the balance of nature, or something of the sort, that just when the announcement comes that the oil shortage is acute in this locality, the thermometer does a nose dive and the mercury hoverS around zero. And does that burn up the coal, and the oil, and usl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
QUAINT MEDICAL THEORIES OF
 OLD TIMERS z

A reader quotes from the prolific Dr. Victor Heiser the statement that "leading European specialists have found that 1t is better to ex- clude from the diet foods that con- tain considerable cellLlose, as cellu- lose is indigestible and is 8 foreign substance and burden to the dt- gestive tract" The reader goes on to say that he has not had so much indigestion since he quit eating vegetables, fruits, whole cereals and nuts, and do I not believe Pr. Heiser's suggestion a good one?
 A Doctors Odyssey was interest," ing and instructive reading, despite occasional quaint vagaries of the author. But this notion that any one should exclude fruit, vegetable, nut or cereal from the diet on the ground that such food contains considerable cellulose (woody hbre) is just plain silly, or perhaps we should say morbid.
 It was promulgated extensively few years ago by the voice of the best advertised clinic. To read the various books, magazine and news paper articles of the big clinics head publicity hunter one not en- dowed with an elementary knowl- edge of physiology might infer that cellulose in "coarse rough vege- tables" and other natural foods is bad for digestion and bad for health. The half-baked theory is behind the notion which too many wiseacre laymen and oldtiners in medicine have taken seriously, just because other old timers in medi- cine still harbor the notion that because cellulose is not digestible it must be injurious.
 Psychologists recognize that bac- terial action in the intestine is necessary for normal digestion. The human gastro-intestinal tract is not provided with enZymes (ferments) capable of acting on cellulose. But this hbrous material, which forms an important part of vegetables, fruits and cereals, may be hydro lyzed by the normal bacteria in the intestine and so rendered useful in nutrition. This is the consensus of opinion of physiologists today, and merely a contention of or Doc Brady.
 Emboldened by these morbid concepts of the old timers, some six or eight medical authors of ten years ago reported cases of "intes- tinal obstruction" from bran. They were as logical in ascribing the im- paction or obstruction to the bran the victims had been accustomed to eating as would be if I ascribed rupture of the bowel by perforation of ulcer in typhoid fever to the dense curd of milk found in the perforation at autopsy.
 The physiologist Hindhede con- cluded from his observations of vol unteer subjects of diet experiments that "bran is digested as thorough ly by man as by the domestic anil mals and contains protein of high value to supplement the inferior protein in the wheat kernel"
 My advice to any one who is not under medical care is this: Don't try to exclude cellulose from your diet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Nifty Job Done On U. s. Propaganda
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespOndent)

U. s. propaganda" for overseas consumption has now branched out into so many different forms you'd hardly recognize it. Of course 1t isn't supposed to be propaganda, the way the United States puts 1t out. Propaganda is only the nasty stuff put out by the Nazis, Fascists and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-22
Selected Poem
YOUR LETTERS HOME

YOUR LETTERS HUME (Lucy Margaret Clapp in The Christian Science
 Monitor) 4 growing lad, you hated writing letters The pen was awkward to your fumbing hand' Your fingers itched for building things instead, And mending broken gear. But noW, in some fai
 land,
 Building for human freedom, it is no chore For you to WTite. Your homeslck heart Wings back to us upon the written page, In vivid, living words. Although world apaTt Your letters bring us love, aasuage our gries, And ours, in ansWeT, bring you the same geiief'