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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Selected Poem
IMMANENCE

Leslie Nelson Jennings in The Christmas Science
Monitor)
This winter night is generously brimmed
With deepening purple; wind no longer stirs
At evenings edges and the stars have trimmed
Their lamps to beckon all astronomers.
Footsteps ring hollowly on frozen ground;
The cricket. in his tiny burrow, sleeps;
There is portentous meaning in each sound
secret knowledge that December keeps.
New grandeur grows upon the face of things
Wilderness and mystery and a searching sense
OF space above the pine-dark hills which brings
Us nearer to some vast Omnpotence.
On such night as this we feel our
Walls fail, yet are not homeless or alone.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

We used to think it was difficult to I'M
derstand the Declaration of independence
and the Constitution, the Monroe Doc
trine, and so on, but that's nothing COM
pared to the tax law texts that bob up
steadily as something new in taxes ap-
pears to perplex us.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Cosmetic BIemishes

Wrote you regarding two warts
:. you prescribed for me Cosmetic
Blemishes 10c. Have inquired at
pharmacies all over but none Of
them sem to have it. (NTiss M. H.
Answer-Then there was the
young nurse who asked the hospital
pharmacy for some Somersaults
which she understood I recommend
ed for biliousness. Send ten cents
and stamped envelope bearing your
address for booklet Cosmetic
Blemishes." It deals with warts,
wens, moles. moth patches, silver
spots" xanthoma. freckles. leuko-
derma, broken vessels, wrinkles.
tattoo mutilations. scars, etc.
Strange Mother
My daughter who lives near ).
thinks she is again to become .
mother. AS she is only 26 and al
ready has two sons please tell
me what medicine to get for her to
give her miscarriage.
(Mrs. e. c.
Answer-What fine mother you
are!
Medicines to Keep In the House
I believe you condemned keeping
certain medicines in the house, be-
cause they are too poisonous. 1t
might be helpful to many II you
would give some practical advice
about emergency remedies that
should be kept in the house.
Answer-Send twenty-five cents
and stamped envelope bearing your
address, for booklet 1.-THE Medicine
Cupboard" It includes a list of
medicines that should be kept in
the house, with instructions for
their use.
Chronic Running Ear
You once gave recipe for drops
for chronic running ear. My son
used it and obtained cure having
had running ear for several years.
Now neighbor wants 1t.
(Mrs. G.. L.
AnSwer-For chronic running ear
% cease plugging ear with cotton.
but instead leave 1t always open
for free ventilation; 60 drop in ear
two or three drops of a solution of
ten grains boric acid in one fluid
ounce pure grain alcohol night and
for many months. Use
blunt medicine dropper and always
warm solution by letting vial stand
in warm water for while before
putting in ear. II druggist cannot
sell you the solution without pre-
scription, maybe your family doctor
will authorize it for you. can't.
Copyright, 1943, John F. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

than If they had
set out to make
it difficult in the
first place.
The best advice
that can be given
under these cir
cumstances is to
S t a r t figuring
your income taxes
just as soon as
you can after re-
covering f r o m
your New Years
hangover. T e S t
yourself first on
addition and sub
traction. 1 h e n
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
AS A MATTER OF FACT

There is economic dynamite in your
grocery bill and in the prices you pay for
clothing and rents and house furnishings
dynamite that can blow us sky high.
Dynamite or no dynamite there seems to
be little fear by those who feel the eco
nomic urge to spend in big way while
they have the price.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Home Sweet Home

We hear a lot about the sort of letters
families and sWeethearts should write to
give our fighting men and women conf
dence and feeling of cloSeneSs to home
wherever they may be. We don't hear
enough about the news they should get
from American industry to assure them
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
A Thought for Today

In what place therefore we hear the sound
Of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: for
God shall fight for us.-Nehemiah 1870.
War is terrible trade but in the cause that
is righteous,
Sweet is the smell of powder.-Longfellow
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 8:16 a. m, sets at 5:31 p. m
(War time)
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset. Weather is stated as normal
during this month. The cold vas fairly in
tense but not particularly sub-normal. In
Pasadena (Cal.) 1t is rose time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

grimage. w e
pitch our tents
somewhere to-
day, and tomor-
row we move
on. A modern
writer a few
years ago ex-
pressed the di-
rection of our
lives in the
words, "Heav-
ems my destina-
ton"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

1t is only an example Of the kind
Of thing that America must not
foster. Even Russia is turning sway
from its former device OF farm
population dependent upon the cen
trail government.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
This Will
Tax Your
Patience
By PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

Correspondent
SO they were going to make this
tax-paying business simple. So the
pay-as-you-go tax plan was going
to make everything easy. So they
went ahead, and as matters stand
now. calculating your federal taxes
for 1914 couldn't be much worse
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

Yesterday the stores were busy taking
stock, cleaning up, and rearranging stock,
that is where there was any stock left.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

Now that Christmas is over it is quite
an appalling sight to see unused Christ
mas trees decorating public dumps. What
price evergreen!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

Queensland railways must haul
100000 sheep in the next ~
months to fulfill Austlalia's mutton
contracts.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

NIX ~ hAA3NL 4Ct1WAAns gANAohGoo 0As
william Brady, National News
paper Service, 320 West Madison
Street. Chicago, III.
IT'S NOT so LATE AS YOU
THINK
A misguided, unhappy woman
writes:
1 am 40 years old, Of a good
middle class family go.
Whatever that may mean. 1t
means nothing at all If the woman
has health or medical problem
=. healthy and normal. I have
been married nine years. Due to
economic conditions when we were
married (the "depression") we post
poned having children until we
should be in position to bring
them up under good conditions.
Gee whizl It is fortunate for this
country that 50 many reckless folk
no sooner get married than they
start right in raising families. Such
folk as the Lincolns, the Edisons,
the Sullivans, the Eisenhowers.
Lower class Americans evidently as
sumo that the object Of marriage is
to found a family.
Since that time we have moved
to a delightful village where we
own a nice home with nearly half
an acre
Home, Ma'amP It is Just a house
so far.
My husband has fine position
with a good salary. He Is so and
In excellent health. Now we would
like child 49,.
You have wasted the best nine
years of your life unhampered by
children. It seems strange that
you should actually be willing to
harbor a child now-children are
pretty tough on furniture, floors.
walls and things and they're for
ever kicking up alarming coughs,
spasms and fevers just when you
have a party or a vacation planned.
>. When I preached the sub
ject of having a baby at my age,
he said the only danger as far as
I was concerned would be that 1
might have a Monaghan idiot. as
most Monaghan idiots are born to
women over IS.
I don't know whether should
take the chance
No one knows the cause Of Mon
golism, and it may happen in any
family, Of any race, at any time.
So, if you ask me, Ma'am, I think
the doctor who brought up that
specter must be a middle Gloss spe-
cimen, maybe hit soured on the
world because he has no children of
his own.
I'm Just low class, plodding
door to door doctor, Ma'am, but if
you are not mad at me now it may
be worth your while to send me a
dime and a stamped envelope bear
ing your address, for the booklet
Preparing for Maternity" Read
the chapter in 1t titled Her First
at Forty"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
BY EARL L. DOUGLASS. d. d.
WE NEED AN ANCHOR

Life is a pilgrimage. Many mod
ern writer's like to call it an adven-
ture, but all the dictates of religious
faith lead us to regard 1t as a pill
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Washington Merry o-Round
Government Split Stond Take Toward New Bolivian Regime;
View Revolt Tin
Question Rosed Whether We Latin Not Masses;
Records Refue Coms ot BIC Business Hos Not Poed From Wo
BY
DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28
Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining % per-
sonaI health and hygiene. not TO
disease, diagnosis 81 treatment.
viii be answered By DR.. Brady IL
stamped self-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink. No reply can
be made TO queries not conform
ing 70 instructions. Address DR..
william Brady, National News
paper Service, 32O West Madison
Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-28

Copyright. 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16
The On|ooker
BY Henry NfcLemOre

questions. The first question is
How did you get A start and
the second is How may / get
start -
/ can't answer either question.
To tell them how | got "A
start would be 10 write an auto
biography, and pretty dull one.
at that. / would have 10 tell
them about my youth in Georgia,
my youth in South Carolina, my
youth in Florida, my youth in
Alabama. my youth in Tennes-
see. because. you see, ] was
preachers son, and our family
moved so often ii is a wonder
we didn't set up our own truck
ing and moving corporation.
I WOULD have TO tell them
Il how was expelled from
grammar school. kicked out Of
high school and given a dis
honorable discharge from col
lege, too. l would have TO tell
them how ! built UP a general
fund of knowledge by selling
leather bow ties on the corners
Of New York's bustling streets,
cutting sandwiches in a popular
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

ms IS hOuHd . tn 'bUgS DdeF y dCCOuW ~ te
Great TGpocG incident.)
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER
The jiggadier-brn wearing the viscous COB
tapioca medal he had for sharp shooting in
civilian life balls for cock-eyed million
aires in the Union League.
But he sucker. He took the medal gingerly and
said the colonel
hereby present you the highest award for interrupted
housekeeping"
He pinned medal the colonels chest The apoca
cleaned duly the eggs under sick hen.
The colonel gave the medal to the major and the major
presented to the captain and he to the
geant He looked around for Private Moscon who had
discovered there nothing difficult in the world than
10 easy payments
The sarge yelled: .( A.,
'Mosconi, front and center \".| ~ \.t.'
Moscon marched single file better into the kitchen and
the sarge pinned the medal his lapel.
Mosconi touched the tapioca with his finger and the
tapioca jumped like double checker. 1t his finger.
SO Moscon put the tapoca back under the table caer
was heard, and eight congressman drove up foot.
They investigating the that the food good
in the army and that the slumguion had been mined.
Moscon got knife scraped off the tapioca transferred
TO spoon and then to the original pan.
Then with the fash of shortcrcuted intuition that
TO all great times Of national stress and peril he solved
the rebus by eating the tapoca.
AZ. by l.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16

I HAVE yet 10 receive batch
Il Of mail that didn't contain
four or five letters from people
who wanted TO be newspaper
columnists.
The same is undoubtedly true
Of the mail OF Runyon. Pegler,
Driscoll. Dix. During and all OF
the others who wiring living
from the keys Of typewriter.
The desire 10 write a column
must be a universal emotion. 1t
must 60 right along with want
ing TO pat a friendly dog. hug a
pretty girl. drive a red car, and
go back 10 sleep after the alarm
clock has gone of.
! Frankly. / never know how 10
)answer the would-be columnistS.
This is probably because the
would-be columnists come from
such scattered fields. A spinster
in Butte, Montana, wants TO be
one. So does a field hand from
Louisiana. So does the wit and
humor editor OF a high school
paper, Harrisburg, Pa. So does
a corset and uplift salesman
from San Diego.
They always ask the same two
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16

The DsUd hath not
In all his qUirer's choice
An GrTOW for the heart
Like sCeet UOice.
Byron.
(Mr. Byrons contention that
a sweet voice Is the most effec-
tive in winning the heart of a
man is questioned by some
present day experts who say
males are most easily charmed
by women with low, throaty
voices. ."-EVD)
TONY De Marco, ballroom
l. dancer.
He has had nine different
partners since the beginning of
his terpslchorean career.
The best Of these was Renee
De Marco
Claire Egvedt. Seattle avia-
ton expert.
Another man who has braVely
battled through life under the
handicap of a given name also
used by females.
This country owes much 10
Mr.. Egvedt.
He is the man chiefly reSpOn-
sible for the originating of the
Boeing Flying Fortress.
He started thinking about and
planning this type of combat
plane II years ago.
His original inspiration was a
belief that an air combat fleet
would have a plane that was TO
IT what a battleship is to a sea
feet.
The result Of this line of
thinking is the Flying Fortress.
A VISITOR from the Argen-
"a tine has won a stogie from
this department because Of our
claim that Buenos Aires is the
seventh largest city in the
world.
Our Argentine reader furnished
figures TO show that Buenos
Aires is the ninth city of the
world.
The 10 leading cities of the
world from the point of popu-
lation are: !. New York; 2
Toxic; 3. Berlin: A, London; s
Moscow; 6. Chicago; z. Osaka
8. Paris; 9. Buenos Aires; 10
Philadelphia.
Is REPORTED Greta Garbo
L has new flame and has dis
carded DR.. Gaylord Hauser
whose system of health ano
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16
Filipino Fighter
Loves His War Job

Morgan did win, and Church.
i'll got his piece" but Eddie
Frayne. then a sports writer on
a Los Angeles paper. exposed
the deal the next day in a 'front.'
page story, and Capt. Seth Strel-
linger, a war veteran who was
chairman of the California box
ing commission, sent for Church.
Ill, and, it is said. informed the
manager Of his disapproval of
pieces" and requested him to
remove his stable of fighters
from California.
A NYWAY, Churchill did re-
"A move his gladiators and did
well with them elsewhere, but
he m a d e California his own
home. He had a ranch outside
Los Angeles where he died some
years ago. 1t was long after
Churchill tn a I such Filipino
fighters as Celestino Garcia,
small Montana and others came
along.
Villas name heads the list in
point of fiStic greatness, and
probably always will.
However. as a crowd pleaser,
Sarmiento was in class by
himself, He was the top club
fighter" OF his day club
fighter" being one that gives the
crowd action.
Churchill, who SCENE d to
really regard his Filipinos as a
trust from their homeland. had
great affection for Sarmiento.
That was perhaps because he
knew Pete would never let him
down. a
Copyright. 1913. by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16
The Brighter Side

DETE SARMIENTO writes me
i that he IS now working in a
shipyard in Southern California
and that he is doing well and is
happy in the thought that he
may be contributing something
toward avenging his countrymen
of the Philippines.
Sarmiento was one of group
Of Filipino ring fighters who
came to the United States in the
mid '20's to display that racial
tenacity and courage that only
recently was demonstrated in
fire and blood on Bataan PENN
sula.
Sarmiento was bantam
weight, smallest of the ring divi-
sions, but he was a buZZsaw in
action. noted for the fact that
he never clinched.
He licked four world cham
pions in nontitle bouts, Joe
Lynch, Abe GoldStein, Eddie
"Cannonball" Martin and Char
ley Phil Rosenberg; fought up
wards of 300 battles. made
perhaps $300,000-and spent it
all.
He reports no regrets.
LIS letter serves TO remind me
IL of the man who brought him
and most OF the other Filipino
fighters here. somewhat shadowy
figure of fistiana during the gold
rush of the '20's, named Frank
Churchill.
He was quiet. self-effacing.
sickly chap, well dressed, suave.
and one of the shrewdest of all
the many shrewd fellows who
have been in the business end of
boxing.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16

Nurse Kenny were children In
families who lived 10 miles from
any neighbor or telephones, tele-
graph and improved roads.
1t was over 200 miles TO the
nearest doctor and hospital.
This was 30 years ago.
In 1912 there were two places
in the United States that were
hard hit; one was thickly settled.
fairly wealthy New Jersey, with
plenty of doctors, nurses and
hospitals; the other was Arkan-
sas, where there was but one
hospital in all the state willing
10 admit any case of infantile
paralysis in its acute stage.
This hospital could not begin
TO care for the 100 children who
applied for treatment the first
few weeks.
That is where the National
Foundation for Infantile Paral-
ysis came into the picture.
OF that hundred and more
patients almost all have now
gone home restored to health.
OF the rest, all but a very
few will soon be walking, their
= condition good.
THOUSANDS Of infantile e
Il PARALYSIS victims are war
workers and some even are in
the army.
Orville Davis OF Bellingham,
Wash, was stricken a year ago.
Dimes and dollars and the
Kenny method brought his re-
covery.
He's in the army now.
And there's Philip Havoc, Is,
of Quincy, Mass.
For IA years he wore a steel
jacket.
A few weeks ago he removed
il, passed his army physical and
now he's in the Air Corps
Lovable Tiny Tim, the little
NllPPtth wy III ANhtiAS Siiio =
mas Carol, very likely was the
first widely known polio victim.
COME OF the greatest fighters
~ in the world have enlisted in
the fight against polio.
The Celebration Chairman IN
Fentriss County, Tennessee is
Alvin G. York-the same Ser
geant York praised by Marshal
Foch as the outstanding hero Of
World War ].
The Japs have an even tougher
enemy TO fight than the marines
at Wake Island.
Press correspondents return
ing as exchange prisoners from
Toxic bring word OF a raging
polio epidemic in the island en-
pire. but the Nipponese govern
ment does nothing about il. in
sharp contrast TO this nation
with its Miles OF Dimes.
Copyright by Daily Mirror. Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16
Column Writing
niVersaf Emotion

Sandwichery in the same city,
and living on IS cents a day.
with 10 cents out for subway
fare It's amazing, though.
what YOU can eat for FIVE cents
If you're on friendly terms with
the cook.
Now l couldn't advise any one
10 follow that routine to be-
come a commniSt. So what
must l tell these people who
want TO write a column
IL you write and tell them TO
hang on 10 the jobs they have,
that they are a lot better off,
they get mad They write right
back and call you stuck-up,
no-good. 14-carat rat. Worse,
they send you their homemade
columns 10 read.
There is man In Lorain, O.,
who has been sending me his
columns for two years. He
feels that he is ready for a
place on the Manchester Guard
ianis editorial page--aS starter.
If your heart and soul are
wrapped up in Loraln, o.. then
these columns are right down
your alley. because they tell of
Lorain's fire department, its
public drinking fountains, its
parks, buildings, parking lots,
and the unbelievably lovely rose
garden of a certain Mrs. j.
Fritz Hightower. But if your
interests encompass more than
the city limits of Lorain. you
wouldn't like more than a
month Of them.
Tl1E fact that I haven't pub
Il liShed one OF these Lorain
columns or placed the writer as
columnist in some metropolitan
paper. causes him 10 write all
the papers in Ohio each week.
urging those that run my column
TO quit doing so. and pleading
with those that don't, 10 swear
they never will.
Then there is the man in New
Orleans. The last time / was in
that city land / would like 10 be
there and become a monument.
like il SOY this man sent me
around 200 pounds of columns
he had stitched up at home.
you are at perfect liberty tn
use any or all Of them as your
own" his note said, "only, I in
sIst on being given credit for
anv that you use"
Why any one would want 10
be a columnist battles me. The
hours are long, the pay isn't too
good. and no matter what coll
umnist writes. he makes some
one sore. / have often consid-
cred abandoning writing col
umn and going to work in coal
mine.
Does Mr.. Lewis make them
work four hours a week or five?
And if you happened to get a
job in a soft coal mine-well.
that would be paradise, even
with the bread. wine. and the
other trimmings that Omar the
Tentmaker wrote about. Was
he a member Of the Tentmakcrs
Union?
Distributed b. MeNSught Syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16

beauty treatments she is said
TO have been taking.
1t was Doctor Hauser who
claimed
"A woman should be trained
like n racehorse."
Perhaps Greta became tired
of having TO get up at 8 in the
morning and work out six fur
longs.
TT WAS Fay Templeton who
l. first said:
Give man enough rope
and he'll skip"
The Germans have told Mus
solini that if Italy quits the war
they will level Rome to the
ground.
Following Is my nomination
for best MusSolini story of 1912 !:
Hitler wanted Mussolini TO do
something to really help win
the war.
"How about going through
st. Gothard Pass in Switzer-
land ?" asked Adolf.
That pass Is all mines and
well guarded" said Mussolini.
well, then, how about going
through the st. Bernard Pass ?"
asked Hitler impatiently.
But, mein feuhrer," pleaded
MussoliRi, "these big dogs
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-16

WHEN il was first discovered
w that a great many human
diseases-the infectious group
were caused by the entrance and
growth of germs in the body, an
immediate consequence was the
belief that simply by imrnuniZ-
ing animals to these germs and
using the immune serum. each
one of the infectious diseases
could be controlled.
This idea worked fine with
diphtheria and one or two
others but for most OF them it
did not work at all.
With tuberculosis, for instance,
the first use of tuberculin ac-
celebrated the severity of the dis
ease rather than helped it.
Then came the era of chemical
control which was based on the
belief that a chemicaia6Tug could
be found which would kill the
germ and not injure the tissues
of the living host.
The boundless enthusiasm
with which the sulfonamide
drugs have been greeted attests
TO the success and value of this
method of treatment.
RUT there is still another
~ method of chemical control
on the horizon which has opened
a second front by starting with
the conception that we can find
IN nature mIcro-organisms Selec-
lively adapted 10 the decom-
position of almost every conceiv-
able type of organic compound.
In other words, experimental
work is now being carried on in
which germs are introduced into
the body which have the specific
action of destroying other germs
with which the body is infected.
1t IS something like the old
saw:
A flea
Hos smaller fieds that on him
prey
And these have smaller still 10
bite 'em
And so proceed Gd iHfinitum.
THIS work was begun by Doc
Il tor du Bos at the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research
and has been carried forward by
other workers.
Doctor du Bos specifically has
produced a substance from soil