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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

With Italy under a continued barrage for some time many have been wondering about the great works of art throughout the country. Not long ago it was an nounced through Catholic news service which is authentic that protective wall of sandbags probably saved Leonardo'S famous fresco, The Last Supper, during air raids on Milan The Last Supper in Mi a wall of the Dominican Convent in Mi Ian, and though the convent itself was partly destroyed the painting was un- harmed. In days to come we will hear of more destruction that has been exper- fenced in Italian cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Press Comment
YALE FOOTBALL GETS BOTH TOWN AND GOWN CRITICISM
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(New Haven Journal -Courier)
 The Yale News Digest comments editorially in Thursdays issue that this Fall Yale has "the worst foot ball schedule of the century" The piece goes on to explain that four of the seven home gameS-thoSe with Muhlenberg. Rochester, Coast Guard and Brown-are strictly second-class contests. Of the three major games to be played in New Haven-Dartmouth, Army and Princeton-the first two will be played during between term vaca- tion, which will find 2,500 civilian and navy students away from the city. The only major game which all students will find 1t possible to attend is the Parinceton game.
 While this arrangement is unfor- tunate from the standpoint of the students, 1t suggests a change in Yale football practices that is long overdue; namely, that off reducing the prices Of tickets ot the major games so that New Haven public can afford to go. Since about half the student body will find 1t incon- venient to be present at the Dart mouth and Army games, 1t is natural that the Yale A. A. should welcome customers from the non university group of the citly. Yet how many of these are going to feel that $3.30 for a reserved and $2,20 for an unreserved seat is a price they care to pay? At $165 and $l.l0 respectively-which are what the games are probably worth many New Haven fans would be at tracted, and the boys would have a gallery before which to play.
 Of course, comparable reductions for the other games would not be amiss. There are approximately 5000 men enrolled in the university at this time, and the Yale Bowl holds 75,000 spectators. Clearly the A. A. needs customers, and since not many of them will commute from New York and Boston for the games this fall, most of the onlookers will have to be drawn from this con- munity. The main deterrent at pres- ent is the stratospheric prices being asked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

on campaign expenses as their annual salary, suggested that an increase in Congressional pay was long overdue and would help to provide better, more efficient Con- gressmen.
 Seldom has the resultant storm of mail been so heavy, so snatch ing and so abusive. The public, If the cross-section of mail is any criterion, does not like Congress. At $10,O00 a year, 1t considers a congressman overpair, overstuffed and underdore.
 Having lived close to congress- men, and having considered them reasonably conscientious, defin- itely hard working, and generally patriotic, I was surprised at this deluge of wrath from the people who elect them.
 I was also alarmed. YOu can- not make democratic system of cheeks and balances work ef- ficiently if confidence in either the legislature or the executive is undermined. In Germany 1t was not until the petty blum dering of the Reichstag had de- stroyed public confidence that Hitler came into power. In France it was out until both the Chamber of Deputies and the various French cabinets had sapped government prestige that France fell.
 The U. s. A. in my opinion Is a long way off from anything like this. Nevertheless, it nNiSht be a good idea that the gentlemen who come back to the halls of Congress this week to do little inventory-ta taking as to what de- creases their most important stock-in-trade-public confidence WHAT'S WRONG?
 Here are Q couple of traits which they might think over:
 l. The egocentric, cock sure idea that a congressman is above sin, plus the haste of his colleagues to gather around and protect him If someone on the outside raises the whisper of suspicion.
 2. Being very vulnerable themselves, the alacrity with which most congressman rush
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Roolback

Chairman Ramspeck of the House Civil Service Committee reports that after reaching a level of more than 5000, ,OOO names, the roster of federal civilian en1- ployes has stopped growing, and even is being rolled back. He gives no detail on the rollback beyond War Department promise to cut civilian personnel by 100000.
 The tenor of MT. Ramspecks announce nlent is gratifying. We should be grate- ful for details as to which civilian agencies also are cooperating
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

terrible thing. of course, if standards as severe as this were applied to everything we do. And vet. how much trouble would be saved in every walk of life if we and others would be just a little more careful. There is probably not an industrial plant anywhere which could not increase it's output 10 to 20 per cent II It's employees would exercise a lit- tle more care, for instance, in every way to cut down waste of time and material. The guaranteeing of pub- lic money and the inefficiency of many government agencies is an open scandal in almost every coun- try in the world. It always has been, It probably always will be.
 Nothing pays better dividends than careful attention to detail. Genius ls the capacity to be careful. The difference between the inc nloFtals ln science. llteTatuF, Esugic etc. and the thousands Og their contemporaries now f0Fgotten is largely the difference between men who took much care and men who took little.
 All Rights ReaeFved-- Bahson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

be fewer oysters for us civilians be- cause the armde forces will take about forty thousand gallons a week All the betterl For, be assured. it brings the day of victory so much the nearer! An Army and Navy nur. :. tured on Cape Gods, Cotuits, and Lynnhavens can lick more than their respective weights in land and sea forces fed on lentils, sausages black bread and beer. The army fed on macaroni long ago faded out of the picture, and the navy sucked on sphaghetti is now as silent as the oysters own cousin, the clam.
 However, the succulent sea-prod- ucts left to us stay-at-homes will, according to our New Deal Neptune, be bigger and better, larger and fatter." That. too, Is as 1t should be, and high time. Ichthyologist Ickes attributes this to the fact that our New England oyster beds have now completely recovered from tAe blight of the 1888 hurricane. Tn short, their progeny have at last grown to mans estate, ripe for con- sumption raw, stewed, bechowdered. friend or creamed.
 Ladies and gentlemen, to your forksl Though fewer they be, our oysters will be gatter. A half dozen will amply substitute for the ritual twelve. Daniel Webster. that mighty trencherman of olden times, would not be at all disappointed could hte genius of the late stephen Vincent Benet bring him back for but one evening to his favorite Union Res taurant in Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
CAROTENE IS NOT NATURAL
 vITANfIN A

VIII you kindly advise Casks reader) why you constantly efnpha- size Carotin as preferable to nat iiral vitamin VI A prominent phy- sician tells me there Is no diner ence. (P. 0. CD
 on the contrary, constantly urge that natural vitarnin A is preferable to carotene. Carotene is only the yellow or red carotnoidc pigment (rather there are three or four different carotenes, different pigments) in vegetables and fruits.
 It is a family associated with the green coloring matter of plants called chlorophyl, but 1t Is not lost when the chlorophyl disappears completely as the leaves yellow, though 1t is lost when the leaves dry completely.
 Carotene must be converted into vitamin A in the animal or human metabolism. The manufacture of natural vitamin A from the precllr- sor carotent occurs in the liver. A considerable part of the carotene is lost because the liver can convert only a limited amount of 1t. Flnc- tiorial or organic disturbances of the liver or bile apparatus may irn- pair the capacity to manufacture natural vitarnin A from carotent.
 Therefore I think 1t doesn't mean much when one reads that some manufactured food contains not less than seventeen thousand units of vitanlin A per pound"--iinless one can eat a pound or two of the food at a meal.
 Carotene, not seriously with the absorption or assimilation of natur- al vitamin A.
 Best food sources of natural vi- tamin A are fresh milk, cream, vel low cheese, butter, liver, egg yolk. Good food sources of carotene are lettuce, ripe banana, tomato or to- mato juice, spinach, carrot, sweet potato, alfalfa.
 Richest source of natural vitannin A for prophlactic or medicinal use is fish liver oil.
 whether you take vitamin A for night blindness, dry eyes, poor con- dition of mucous membranes, dry skin, chronic "gooss pinples", nut meg grater roughness of areas of the skin, psoriasis, ichthyosis (fish- skin) or phrynoderma (toadskin) /, it is always better to take natural vitamin A, not just carotene, and I advise that you begin by taking two or three 25 900 unit capsules of na- tural vitamin A daily (after food for the first week or two, and after that continue taking one or two such capsules daily for few months regardless of how much carotene your diet may supply. Only in this way do you give vtamin A a fair trial. It may do no good, but take my word for 1t, it can do no harm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Two To Go

When General Eisenhower was seeking some code expression for the command &0 attack - sonething which every American would recognize lnstinctively, but which would mean little to others he decided happily upon the phrase with which every baseball game Is started: NPIay balll" Before this was known to the American public, BenIto Mussolini. who stabbed France in the back on June 70, lol0, disappeared mysteTiously from Ehe international scene. And spontane- easly, ail ovsg the United states, men and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

10,OO0,0O0 pounds for the Army; after that you can help yourself, This is the promise regarding turkey. Turkey has been scarce for a couple of months but that is because it has been set aside for the armed forces. Plenty, however, are being raised for November and succeed ing months. Those who had begun to wor- " about the traditional Thanksgiving feast need have no fears. In just few more weeks housekeepers will be able to put in an order for turkey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
THE sUCCULENT BTvALvE
(Hartford Courant)


 This title does not in any way re- fer to Commissioner of Fisheries, Harold L. Ickes. known in more peaceful times as secretary of the interior and nowadays, to his great delight, as That Old Curmudgeon. l" On the contrary. we have reference to that grand ever-young indigen- ous product, the New England oys- ter, whose own regal season opens today to continue, as every school- child who has learned his three R's well knows, until the end of April. Anyone may eat and enjoy an oys- ter. Nobody has yet tried that gus tatory and digestive process on Mir. Ickes. He is the Tabasco sauce, without benefit of dulcet bivalve to make it palatable.
 Tn his pre-september proclama- ton. Mfr. fckes tells us there will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Current Comment

Only by realizing that we cannot be prosperous unless the whole economy prospers are we able to fill our mission in world eager for the new scales of comfort, conven- fence and plenty which business VIII provide.
 Erie A. Johnston. president U. s. S. of O.
 Why do you suppose we are building all those carriers and 20.. 900 naval planes? The war against Japan will be . naval show. To supply a huge Navy we must have two to three ships to their one. Sen. Ralph O. Brewster Of Maine. American labor must match every foFeward step by our fighting men. Philip Murray. president C. l. O. The enemy is steadily pouring inechanized equipment into the South Pacific. We cannot afford to slaeken even for . split second.
 -Tokyo radio. It seems unWlfc and unhlsioFical i0 assume that the morale of the Japanese ls unbroakable.
 -EoEeion Policy Association,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Sarcastic or Otherwise

Sarcastic or Otherwise I never miss your articles in our paper. consider you grand per son who knows his onions. Excus. slang phrase but that expresses my feelings. More power to you.
 (R. M. O. Answer-I'm not SO sure about onions, but I know my mashed po- tatoes.
 Brown or White Would you advise using brown su- gar in place of white in the home?
 (F. H.) Answer-It is all right if you pre- fer 1t, but there is little difference between modern brown" sugar and refined white sugar.
 Dead Letter File It is a month since I sent for the Brady Baby Book (l0 cts) I have not received them. (Mrs. II. J.) Answer-If your letter reached me the booklets were mailed-but ir spite of all efforts some such letter, end up in our dead letter file every day. Correspondents careleSsiy ad- dress return envelope City. or fail to affix postage.
 Copyright ls43. John P. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

seem to know that they face a much more alert and intelligent electorate than few years ago. And upon whether or not they gang up to vote their poker-play- ing crony Congressman Cox of Georgia another $60,000 will help the measure their all too scanty prestige with the folks back home.
 Copyright, 1943, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Selected Poem
HOUNDS IN THE HEATHER (Anne Tansey in the New York Times

No one heard what Brigid heard Tn the meadow, in the glen,
 For all the things that Brigid heard Were beyond the ears of men.
 She would not tell them what she heard Tn the waves Of wind that blew. If she told them what she heard There was no telling what they'd do. Yet all the things that Brigld heard Were the things of wind and weather, And all the Fustlings that she heard Were only hounds loose in heatheTi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

Harry Hopkins said recently that "if Japan lost all the outlying islands she has seized in the last two years she would not be liked by any means" which gives an idea of the immenSity of the. Pacific Ocean and the number of islands that dot if
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

If the noise
 about OPA seems
 to have subsided 'a little sin c e BowleS came, to
 town, maybe that can be credited
 to the fact that
 Congress h a 8 been on vacation. However, t h e mall from con-
 raising cain be-
 cause some con- gressmen to OPi
 stituent clai ms
 he has not been done right by, has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

chance. He can only make one mistake or over sight may cause the death of scores of people. It doesn't do to give men a sec- ond chance when one little mistake could do such damage as this.
 IF WOYnld he a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
BUzZ A TOWN

BUZZ 4 TOWN " ia U. s. war eiang meaning 10 fsy over C. Most l Of lis aren't seeing many new places these days, But we'll hare the op. peftnnltT after the var if We save ollF money noH nld buy War Bonds during the sFd WaT Loan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
IT PAYS TO BE CAREFU

IT PAYS TO BE CAREFUL
 If the man in charge of the ground crew of an airplane ever puts his OK. sign on plane which is later discovered not to be entire ly OK. that employe is out of a job for good. He never gets Q second
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14

Saving paper helps the war effort = especially the paper used in printing War Bonds. Buy all you can afford and do 1t soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Washington Merry-G O. Round DREW PEARSON PS
Letters Protest Peorsons Proposal Raise consremens Poy o Registers Violent Abuse of NctionoI Legislature Public Confidence Seen oz0rd to Americas Future
 by Such Exompes CoxFCC Investigation

the ene With living
  spending
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon rises at 7;aS D. m. Gwar time) Sun rises at 0;30 a, nn., sets at 7ios ?. m, fwar tlmel Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after nnnfft.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
. NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Chester Bowles' OPA Cleanup On Schedule
BY PETER EDISON

tWaterbury Democrat Washington
 CorrespOndent)
 Chester Bowles came to washing ton as general manager of the Of- flee of Price Administration on July 27 and announced that in six weeks he ought to be making progress in cleaning up the place. His six weeks now being up, how about MT. Bowles' progress?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
Your Health BY pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to peF- sonal health and hygiene, not Co disease, diagnosis of treatment, will Do answered by pr. Brady if
 stamped sell ddressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should Dc brief and written in ink. No reply can Do made to queries not confOrni- ing to instructions. Address pr. william Brady, National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, IIl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-14
A Thought for Today

Turn thou tO thy God; keep mercy and i, Judgment and wait on thy God continually. k-Hosea 12:6.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-26
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-26

TOMAS MOORE PICKED up his rife and told his
back tomorrow, most likely. Ida Moore didn't have
catch his eye She knew where he was going. Whit was
overdue now; it up TO Jonas TO look for him.
Jonas about mile from Wits place when ne saw
Whit coming toward himno gun, nothing, just walk
ing slowly. Whit came almost up 70 him before Jonas
spoke. Hello. Whit"
That Uopped him. But there wn no sign IN Wits
fact that he'd seen Jonas.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-26

T finished Z ehimbley. Where's Melissa" Whit asked
duly. He started speak again. bur Jonas foresraed
him. Come on Jonas ordered I'll take you to Melissa
He got Whit turned around and he led him back to
Wits place. Jonas kndled fire in the leanto and made
some BROTH Whit gulpsd the thn greasy liquid greedy.
Then he dropped off into a restless sleep.
Later on In the evening, Whit seemed TO sleep evenly,
90 Jonas decided he would himself Jonas lay
down by tho FIRE Where's MlisssT he says me.
Where h Mlissaf He had TO find her! 7 finished (
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-16

testify as president of the Cortez of Spain that the total number of prisoners in Spanish jails, includ- ing persons for every degree of malpractice or crime, is now 10000?
 'The executions in Spain in the past 12 months have numbered six. The year before there were IS.
 we have always felt here that there was a certain insolence in the sharp demands in the foreign press asking our Spanish govern ment how many Spanish people it was holding in jail. A Spaniard would be astounded at the idea of asking other countries to recite statistics about their prisons. AS Spaniards, we are not given much to explanations, anyway, and a question which, reflects on the sense of honor and stability of our state, as this one does, we have preferred not to dignify with an an- SWer.
 But it Is evident that this story of wholesale imprisonments in Spain will not die down abroad. I trust that this official figure will be of some assistance to any who wish to use it in good fait !. You have ask ed me for informagio I can only ] tell you the truth ;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-16


 The dissolution of the Fascist party and the elimination of Fa- scists from office were, however, two different things. Here in Cas- televetrano the mayor and hand full of others were removed. Many of the most ardent Fascists had fled.
 But just as 1t was impossible immediately to remove all Fascist signs-Mussolini's mottos still scar scores of barn sides and highways 50 it was impossible to remove all Fascists, the men who did the work, are still doing it.
 FOOD FIRST BIG JOB
 There are many reasons for this. In the first place, Fascist party members held almost every ad- ministratrive post in Sicily. To have htrown them all out in one fell swoop would have resulted in nothing but chaos. After g years of oppression there was practical ly no organized anti-Fascist group capable of replacing the Fascist administrators.
 Secondly, the elimination of Fa- scists except as they directly en- dangered our occupation of the island was not the first of the AL lied Military Governments respon- abilities. It was refinitely high on the list, but AMG's first jobs were to relieve combat groups by taking over the civil administration; to get life back to normal as soon as possible and to get the popul- lation clothed and fed. AS yet AMG has not passed this phase of its job.
 Almost every problem in Sicily today involves grain. Grain in the form of bread and pasta (macar- oni, spaghetti etc.) forms the big gest part of the average Sicilian diet. Most provinces, including the one in which Castelevtrano is To- cated, are grain deficient.
 The problem of getting grain to Castelvetrano is doubly complica- ted. Transport, always difficult dur ing an occupation, is doubly so here because the islands roads had been neglected through years of corrupt Fascist highway officials
 The second aspect of the grain problem, and far the more diffi- cult, involves the black market. The Sicifians are old hands at the black market, field developed through centuries of privation un- der succession of conquerors. FARMERS HID GRAIN
 It has been estimated that when tlae Allies landed here, more than 80 per cent of the islands bread was being bought on the black market.
 AMG's problem was complicated because crop estimates had been faulty at baat sipce the TaSciSts tn-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-16
YOUR ROWING REPORTERS * * * * * * * Fascist Administrators Gradually Ousted In Sicily As Allied Regime Takes Over
troduced the "Ammasso" system.

troduced the "Ammasso" system. Under the Anmasso system, 6 farmer had to sell all his wheat except that needed to feel his fam- lily and for seeding-to an Ammasso agency or some sort of distributor. The AmmasSo price fixed in Rome was so low that farmers turned in false crop estimates, hid as much grain as possible, and sold it on the black market.
 To encourage farmers to sell their excess grain to the Ammasso (which we have continued under regula- tion), AMG allowed the price of bread to rise from 2.6 cents (which 1t had been under the FascistS) to 36 cents.
 Sicilian farmers argue that a price ceiling doesn't make bread cheaper, but far more expensive. The ceiling creates the black mar ket where prices range from 25 to as high as 60 cents.
 The whole black market problem comes back to the question as to whether there is enough grain in Sicily to feed the population at 200 grams per day. But there is a great deal more grain in the island than Sicilians admit, as has been proven when troops have made test searches. In one own of 100 people, investigators found 60 tons of un- declared grain. One house had two tons hidden around the living room.