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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
Bill" Slocum

The death of William J. (BilD SlOcum, former Waterbury newspaper man, re- moves a former well known sports writ CT from the ranks that started their newspaper careers in Waterbury. Bill" Slocum had his preliminary training on the Waterbury Republican, later going to New York where he carved career for himself with several newspapers. His latter years, however, were spent as sports promotion manager of General Mills, Inc.
 MT Slocum was born in WinSted but later came to this city where he was soon firmly entrenched in the newspaper field, definitely committed to baseball which he regarded, more or less, as one of the fine arts. He was greatly admired here on the home front and in the Metropoli tan area. He paved the way down in the big city for other budding neWspapermen who followed in his footsteps and dedi- cated themselves to newspaper work as a profession. Among these were Dan Parker who now writes a daily column for The Democrat, Clarence Cassin, for mer sports editor of the Democrat, Har- " Cross and others.
 Bill" Slocum was greatly admired by the sporting world, and only two years ago was awarded a gold key for meritori- ous work in the field of sports at the Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance banquet in New Haven. The sympathy of his many friends here and elsewhere goes to his family in their loss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
Our Norwegian Ally

The story of what Norway is doing in the war for democracy is worthy of reca- pitulation, not only in tribute to a brave people but also as a reminder not to be- little the governments in exile" - not to think of them as gallant but futile gestures of hopeless defiance The Nor wegianS, being the kind of peoplJ they are, had to resist the Nazis to keep their Self-respect. But they did not stop with the formalities and - again, because they are the kind of people they are they have become very effective allies of the major anti-Hitler powers. Imme- diately after the Reich overpoWered Norway, conflicting orders went out to the nations merchant marine, the fourth largest and one of the best in the world. The lawful government, in exile, ordered it's ships to join the Anglo American fleet; the Nazis directed Nor wegian vessels to proceed to axis ports. Not single captain obeyed Hitler. Hay ing in mind the extreme importance of shipping to the United Nations, it might well be that those Norwegian ships have represented the margin between defeat and victory.
 Many have been sunk, carrying car goes for our side More than 2,000 NOlOC OdLOIo NtICQ WIlIl GlIClI NNooClo' A0NG out of 1000 craft, some 800 still survive to make Little Norway a big-time factor in the war. Out of revenue from their merchant marine the eXiled authorities have financed the Royal Norwegian government without subsidy An air force training school, located in Canada, has prepared crews for several squadrons of Norwegian-oWned planes now fighting out of England and Iceland
 A Norwegian army is training in Eng land, Scotland and Canada, primarily in Commando tactics. It's members have enjoyed several raids against the invaders of their homeland, and presumably will make up a key unit of the United Nations Army that some day may establish bridgehead in Norway against Berlin. These things are important, but the mer- chant marines contribution overshad- ows it. At one critical period Britain was getting half her gasoline and oil, and 40 per cent of her imported food in NorWe- gian ships
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

A bureaucracy that controls a peoples source of jobs, soon lays heavy hand on personal freedom.
 That the people of the United States want no part of alien bureaucracy is abundantly clear. Robert Watt, labor leader of great prominence in govern ment, has said: After this war, want no gigantic governmental Reconstruction Finance Corporations to finance busi- ness and dominate it; and I want no gi- gantic governmental Works Progress Ad- ministration to employ labor and domin- ate it."
 And again, William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor has warned: eff this country ever gets a SyS- tenn of governmental regimentation, la Dor will suffer most. Labor, therefore, is deeply interested in the preservation of private business; and labor should everlastingly maintain that the owners and managers of business are entitled to a fair and just return upon their invest mentS."
 Americans want to remain free under a regulated capitalistic system, protected by constitutional government. They must not be fooled by the false promises of the get-something- nothing phil oSopherS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

Henry Wallace if FDR runs for 4th terms. Said Harry Hopkins t) friend: "Why have man on the ticket who can't carry his own state?" Wonder whether Harry could carry his and Wal lace'S home State-IoWa? The Irving Berlin show, This Is the Army" will not go overseas. This was decided after much debate, largel. beGause of transportation and the difficulty of staging the show near war areas When Under Secretary of War Patterson shot his news story on high octane gas (so criticized by D. NelsonD he did 1t without benefit of advice from his press experts ....
 ICKES AND COAL
 There was one thing the coal operators didn't realize when they let the coal negotiations drag so long without making John L, Lewis an offer-namely that the government itself would take over the mines and that their opera ton would be in the hands of tough, crochety, honest Harold IckeS.
 Now they realize, however, that Ickes doesn't plan to give the mines up immediately after settle ment of the coal strike.
 Just what his plans are no onH knows, probably are not definitely formulated in his own mind. But it may well be that the mines will be kept in government hands for the duration.
 This, of course, will mean government subsidy for part of the coal industry - not a revO- lutiOnary thing these days when paid nearly one million dollars the oil companies are getting day by the government for the railroad haul of oil and gas0- line to the eastern seabOard.
 One trouble with the coal in- dustry has been that wages have to lag behind to keep pace with the least efficient coal mines. Some mines make huge profits, others, where the coal is deep or thin, are right on the margin.
 If Ickes keep wartime control over the coal mires it will mean that the profitable mines will pay the deficits and higher wages of the marginal mines. Some people have the idea that this was one of the things John L. Lewis had in the back of his head.
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 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
Maybe Not Evansville

The War Manpower Commission has listed Evansville, Ind. as an area of crit ical manpoWer shortage, which means, among other things, that it's employers, essential or non-essential, must go onto a 48-hour week, ordinarily at time and half for the hours over 40.
 The WING says that Evansville must find another 21,5OO persons for war in dustry and the draft, and has only 122O0 including housewives, and there fore is short $500. Plant managers cant see how they can possibly require more than 5,100 new hands this year. IhlS would leave 16,4OO for the draft, or more than twice the number the city should supply. War plants already have work weeks ranging from AS to 60 hours
 Maybe the data got switched in a file: Maybe it was some other city the WING was thinking of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
Control Bureaucracy Now

Advocates of a socialized bureaucracy invariably introduce their schemes as part of broad, benevolent programs that are hard to criticize because superficial ly they sound so good, Always they are represented as coming direct from the heart of the masses and are therefore an inexorable demand which it is undemo- cratic to oppose.
 Most of these schemes, as their first objective, seek to destroy private owner ship and management of basic indus tries. Basic industries such as mining, electric power and oil are the bulwark of free enterprise. They are easy to attack for the simple reason that they seem re- mote from the welfare of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. Actually if they should fall under domin- ation of boards and bureaus and patron age-loving politicians, the end of indiv- idual liberty for all of us will be in sight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

"Stuyvesant Town" seems an appro- priate name for the new postwar houS- ing project planned by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. This develop, ment, as we previously pointed out, Will be in New York City's lower East Slde' The area will be considerable and it is ex- pected will house about 30,000 people Part of the development is on land which was formerly the farm of Peter Stuyve-- sant, the peg-legged Dutch governor ol New York. The area extends north to Twentieth street and south to Fourteenth street, the East River drive and Avenue c on the east and First avenue on the west Such projects as this are interest ing to all, and this New York building will be watched with interest as will any planned new developments in our own community which has some splendid outside-o e-of-the-toWn areas which mlght be given a clever planning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

so in the interest of good business. They harbor grudges, cherish re- venge, dwell upon unholy passions. Never do they seem to feel any necessity of making their peace with God. AS old John Falstaff lay dying, he cried out, God, God" And Mistress quickly bade him be quiet, assuring him that the time was not at hand to think about such things.
 True repentance has to be a con- tinuous matter. Every day we have to repent of our evil, no matter how much we may have renounced sin and self in a great experience which resulted in a new hold on life. Though we give up evil, evil does not give us up so easily. We cannot wait for some distant day upon which we will deal with this matter. There is an urgency about the whole spiritual enterprise which birds us face our lives with realism and act promptly in accordance with what we find.
 We do not know when the last day of life will dawn, and so we need to harken to the old rabbi who said, "Then Repent right now"
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 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

over submarine losses, the unfor- tunate effect has been to shake public confidence in Navy com muniques.
 Latest incident was the speech of Capt. Leland Lovett, usually efficient chief of Navy Press Re- lations, at the National NeWspa- per Promotion Association in New York in which he told how the Navy was using helicopters to combat the submarine.
 Capt. Lovett went into some de- tail regarding the use of helicop- ters over Atlantic sealanes. How ever, careful check in Army, Navy and Maritime circles dis closes that not one helicopter is in use on U. s. ships today,
 Furthermore, the platform on one ship from which helicopter experiment should take place within two weeks.
 PROGRAM BUNGLED
 In other words, Capt. Lovett was either badly miSinformed, or else was pulling the cheStnuts out of the fire for his superior officers who bungled the helicopter pro- gam. Or there may be one other explanation. The Truman Com mittee report, criticizing the Navy for not using helicopters, had been sent to the Navy in advance and was about to be published. Lovett's speech, made one day before, might have been for the purpose, of forestalling the Truman Com mittee.
 But all this, amazing as it is, is not the complete story. In- side fact is that the Navy not only has not done anything
 about helicOpters until the past few days, but actually has been opposing them, despite appeals from the Maritime Commission, the Coast Guard and to some extent from the Army that heli- cOpters are the only way to lick the submarine.
 Admiral Howard Vickery, crack production expert of the Maritime Commission, was one of the first to see the advantages of the heli- copter. Another was Captain William Kossler of the Coast Guard. They pointed out that if merchant ships could carry their own "eyes" as sea, spotting sub
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
HAVE YOU A LITTLE SCURVY
 IN YOUR HOME?


 Probably a good many people in the United States and Canada, es- pecially in the winter time suffer from shortage of vitamin c, because they get insufficient fresh fruit, greens and fresh vegetables to sup ply the daily requirement. of vita- min c. Better transportation, refrigs orator cars, greater intelligence in selection of food, improved canning processes - especially commercial canning conscrves the vitamin c content by removing much of the air (oXygen from food before it is Ster- ilized in the can by heat-are fac tors which contribute to our greater freedom from scurvy today.
 Still, a good many persons do habitually take too little vitamin c to maintain nutrition and health even though they get enough to prevent manifest scurvy. Only be- cause trying the remedy can do no harm anyhow I'll break the rule and mention here the symptoms which such persons are likely to show in consequence of the shortage in vitamin V:
 Loss of energy; muddy, salloW complexion; fleeting pains in joints and limbs, especially in the legs. so commonly attributed to "rheu- matism." In some instances a pe- culiar tendency to show "black and blue" marks from trifling or no apparent injury. Lack of ap- petite, spring fever" or that tired feeling" irritable or cranky dispo- Sition.
 The famous Arctic explorer Stefansson observed that ia mem Der of his party was developing scurvy the man first became some what noticeably sullen, irritable or morose. AS Stefansson describes it in his great book The Friendly Arc tic:
 Before we left the shore floe Charlie had complained of illness. On getting up suddenly he felt dig zy and sometimes collapsed. Tn general he was disinclined to all exertion, depressed with all sorts of gloomy forbodings, and his strength was noticeably less. These were the sympstome of scurvy and I asked to see his teeth and gums. The gums were swollen and purple and the teeth were slightly loose There was dull ache in the arch of the teeth and the gums bled read fly ,.
 Well, if you have an assortment of such symptoms of recent devel- opment the therapeutic test is sim pie. Get yourself some oranges or tomatoes or even factory canned tomatoes or tomato juice, and use such anti-scorbutic food freely in your diet for a week or two, Or gather some greens. any kind of greens you can get, dandelion, onion tops, parsley, green pepper, raw cabbage, grapefruit. lemon, straw berries. If these vitamin c foods are not available in the fresh state, perhaps they are available in the frozen state-vitamin c in fresh fruits or vegetables is very well preserved in the frozen state. Espe- cially the acid fruits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
For Your Information

We are pleased to report, without com ment, that the War Production Board has created at least two new advisory committees which have met and organ ized and already are at work
 One is the Auto Wreckers Industry Advisory Committee, consisting of lz men. It met in Washington
 The other is the Barn and Barnyaro Industry Advisory Committee. It's mem bers suggest that industry workers De permitted to wear distinguishing oaogeS or buttons to "give the employe sense of his own importance in the war proouc- ton program"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

More letters have been found from dis tinguished men of the past. Letters are interesting documents, though perhaps at the time of writing most individuals do not consider them important This is so when it is a question of the letters of such distinguished men as George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other such noted people. These latest documents 1000 of them, were found in the vaults of the Pennsyl- vania Company in Philadelphia in old trunks that were the property of the Bid dle estate. None of the Riddle family now living knew anything about the let ters evidently. What makes them more precious is that most of them are written to ancestors of that 1amlIy nvlng during the Revolutionary era. What valuable find
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
SOLDIERS OF THE SOIL (NeW York Herald Tribune)

It is the best sort of suggestion which is offered by O. s. Warden, of "The Great Falls (Mont.) Trib-. une." MT. Warden would have a government medal given to boys who are kept on the farm or released from the Army to aid food produc- tion. MT. Warden wants the medal inscribed Armed Forces of the United States-Division of Food Production" This is a suitable and descriptive marking. But even bet ter than a medal, or, perhaps, made to accompany that decoration. would be an arm band or other insignia which could be worn at work and when the medal might be reposing at nome.
 The value as morale builder of proper recognition given to those who are really soldiers of the soil needs no argument. We have in our armed forces today scores of spe- cialized divisions whose work is far less important than that of pro- ducing food. An Army has always travelled on its stomach and always will. And this goes, too, for that civilian army of men and women in our war industries who need to be sufficiently and competently fed in a country which is certainly equip ped with land enough to feed them. Without prying into the secrecy of the forthcoming Food Conference of the United Nations, it can be defi- nitely stated that the outlook for food production in this country is a serious one-and is not improving The latest estimate of the Agricul- ture Department cuts previous fig ures of civilian supplies which will be available in all the most neces- sary foods. The farm labor situa- tion. on which all food depends, needs all the consideration which is being given 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

of a burden, if their mental power: are preserved. Under right condl tionS there is no known hm1' to their usefulness"
 One of the unsolved puzzles O modern medical science is th' cause and cure of those interna changes whose external symptom: are recognized as the hallmarks oi physical old age"
 Profress in this direction is vir. tually nil and there is not much reason to believe that old people live to be any older on the average than they did 100 years ago. The life span of the whole nation ha: been increased simply because dis eases of infancy have been greatf reduced and diseases of middle If ameliarated.
 Nearly every old person has hi own recipe for growing old. Tb best recipe of all, according to tn insurance companies, is to selec the right parents to begin with!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

marines miles away, U. s. ship ping could be made relatively safe.
 Helicopters. can hover over the sea at night, dropping flares to show up submarines on the sur face. More and more, subs are Surfacing at night, cruising at top speed to close in on helpless mer- chant ships.
 SPOTTING U-BOATS
 The Maritime Commission and Coast Guard also have pointed out that helicopterS, when car ried on merchant ships, can do exactly what the Germans have done, survey the sea from the air Giant German bombers cruise over the North Atlantic, sight a convoy and then inform the sub. packs where they are. Similarly, helicopters could sight subs and inform protecting de- stroyers where to look for them.
 But despite these arguments, the Navy as late as April II, (just 10 days before Captain Lovett stated that the Navy was actively using helicopters) sent report to the Lend-Lease Administration eX- I-essing opposition by naval air men to helicopter manufacture by Henry Kaiser for the British. Nevertheless, Kaiser is going ahead with an important contract for the British.
 Chief opponent of the hOli- copter has been Capt. Morton K. Fleming in the Navy's Bureau of AerOnautics. Supposed to he the Navy's rotary wing expert, he has consistently pOOh- pOOhcd the idea. This may be one req son why it didn't come to the at tentiOn of Admiral Ernie King. Commander of the Fleet, until recently. Finally, King wrote a directive, in effect circumvent- ing his own naval airmen, and asking the Coast Guard to dig into the question of helicOpters. Fleming even had some talks with officials of the Sikorsky
 plant, chief manufacturers of helicOpters, tending to discOur- age them regarding use by the Navy.
 As a result of all this, it has only been within the latter part of April that the decks have been cleared for what may be one of the major solutions to the men, ace of the submarine.
 CAPITOL CHAFF
 The Palace Guard already has sharpened the knife to lopp off