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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Answers Better Be Good

Secretary of the Interior IckeS, who is also President of the newly organized government-owned Petroleum Reserve Corporation, in signed article in the American magazine, which discusses the British oil industry says: Every British company is touched with a national 1n- terest As matter of fact, the British government owns an actual stock interest as high as 50 per cent in some of the cor porationS that exploit the oil .. If the British oil industry and the British gov- ernment are satisfied with an arrange rnent that protects the oil interests and assures the British government of oil when it needs it most, why might it not be possible to work out an equally advan- tageous understanding between the Amer ican government and the American oil industry ... ?"
 Right here oil-rationed American cit izens should ask some queStionS-1f the British plan of government in the oil business is so successful, why must the United States furnish, as our people have been told, the bulk of the gasoline and fuel oil requirements of the Allies? How has private enterprise in the oil industry in the United States, unhampered by government ownership, been able to do this job, when the British government has failed, according to reports, to develop its known oil reserves? Apparently the Brit ish system does not supply England "oil when it needs it most" Why is there al- ways pressure to get the United States, which has furnished the United Nations planes, tanks, ships, oil and all manner of Supplies, as the result of production by private enterprise, to scrap the private enterprise system and adopt a policy Of government ownership or partial govern ment ownership of industry, in place of system that has out-produced all others?
 Yes, it's high time the people of the United States started asking questions, and it's high time those who would fur ther extend the domination of govern ment over private enterprise began fig uring out some good answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Reaching Maturity

The aviation industry has been working to formulate program which would pro vide a sound method for the development of both civil and commercial aviation when peace again allows men and women to turn their minds and hands to produc- tive enterprise. Like every growing 1n- dustry, aviation today finds itself faced with a maze of problems which involve intricate legislative questions. Already several measures have been before Con- gress seeking to chart course for the tu- ture of the industry.
 Out of the welter of conflicting opinion, basic facts now begin to stand out clear ly: Peacetime aviation should be under an independent Civil AeronauticS Com mission; there should be Federal safety rules for all air navigation and airports; commercial air transportation should be under sound Federal regulation; Federal regulation of all flying of private char acter other than commercial tranSporta- ton, should be confined to safety meas ures. There must be unification of tax questions which affect aviation. There must be a painstaking and intelligent study of all transportation agencies to the end that this nation may have the great est coordinated transportation system in the world.
 It will take patience and understanding to perfect our country'S aviation pro- gram. But nation which excelS all oth- CTS in transportation development can certainly devise model aviation policy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Dewart and Oliver of "The Sun"

The New York Sun loses two valuable men in the deaths Thursday of it's preSl- dent, William T. Dewart, and feature editor, Owen Oliver. Dewart spent prac- tically all his years until 1925 with the MunSey enterprises After that he be- came identified with The New York Sun. He advanced rapidly from the time he started out as an accountant in New Lon don in a Munsey firm. His skill as an executive was unquestioned and he was active when MT. MunSey died in all ot the MunSey corporations, newspapers, magazine, a grocery chain, as well as hotel and banking interests.
 During his lifetime MT. Dewart accomplished a great deal, and was an eminently successful man. He bitterly opposed the New Deal, as one might glean through the Sun columns and Staunch Republican he carried the torch for this party through the years. Undoubtedly he was an accomplished and successful Journalist and he was conspicuous dur ing it's many changes, a morning. then an evening paper, and also combined with The Herald.
 Owen Oliver was likewise prominent newspaper writer over long period of years. He had the acquaintance of Flu gene Field, George Ade and George Barr McCutcheon. He careered from one large newspaper to another until his recent retirement from journalism. story written by him about snowstorm experience won for him newspaper job and subsequent success as a newspaper writer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Same Facts-Different Figures

On January 13 the War Manpower Commission announced that it had sub tracted 100000 persons from the esti- mated total labor force Gncluding the military that the country would need by July l.
 'That's fine," the man in the bus said to his neighbor. "Ill bet Congress re- members those figures when a national service bill comes up, if it ever does" Eight days later, Manpower Commissioner McNutt stated that 90O000 new workers would be needed between then and July l, to replace men taken from industry by military induction.
 "That's whale of a lot of workers" said the man in the bus. 'I don't suppose they'll ever be able to get them without a national service law"
 But the contradiction in the two fig ures is only apparent. They are both part of the January 13 story. The armed total labor force of 66,300,000 by next July. That was an increase of 1,50O,000 over the figure of 64,800,O00 in July, 1943. The 1914 figure was later reduced to 65, 100000 - which is an increase of 9O0,00O over the July, 1943, rather than the current, figure.
 The facts, then, are the same, but the difference in emphasis is interesting. WING had long opposed national service, and gave out it's rather encouraging state ment of July 13 just two days after the President had asked Congress for a na- ticnal service law. Since then, however, MT. McNutt has said that national service law is necessity. To point up his statement he has simply omitted the saving part of the January 13 state ment, and stressed the need. Reasons behind this saving" are also of interest. The much talked-of industrial cutback had practically nothing to do with it. Rather, this tremendous economy is the result of lessons learned in war produc- tion. The principal lessons have been in better utilization of manpower and better flow of materials. The result is the free ing of O0OO men and women for import ant service elsewhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Honor For Villa Gather

Villa Gather, noted author, will receive the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters this year. This is the institutes highest award. Miss Gather receives it for her contribution to Amer icansfiction. One of her best known books in "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
 She is noted for her simple, beautiful prose, and it is a pleasure to read such books as that mentioned above.
 AS an American novelist she stands high and her books are read and appre- ciated all over the world. Her most recent book, we believe, is "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" Miss Gather never pre- sents a too intricate theme; usually she writes about someone like the "arch- bishop, or Antonia in My Antonia":
 It seems fitting that this award Will pc civen her in recognition and apprecia- ton of her talents as writer whose books definitely present a worthwhile philosophy of life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Bull Session

When the War Production Board was confronted with lady-or-the- tiger choice between copper and bulls, it didn't heSi- tate. Copper, the board knew, was essen- tial to the machinery of war. And copper was scarce. But bulls were, and always had been, absolutely essential to the per petuation of the bovine species. And the bovine species, in the form of beef and dairy products, wasn't very plentiful either.
 So WIPE has allocated 240,00O pounds of copper a year for the manufacture of nose rings for these essential but ire quently tempermental creatures. All Of which is fine-except, it develops nobody in WIPE knows the bull population of the United States. Nobody in the Depart nent of Agriculture does either. There hasn't been a bull census since 1920.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

and play his hand close to his chest. On the contrary, he talked to Inonu in the same frank and breezy manner that he would use with somebody like Speaker Sam Rayburn in Washington Washington. This made a big hit with President Inonu.
 THE "TWO-THIRDS" RULE
 There were some very signift- cant back-stage conversations be- hind the move of Georgia'S olea- ginous ex-Governor "Ed" Rivers, at last weeks Democratic National Committee meeting, to revive the two-thirds rule for the Demo- cratic convention
 When Rivers proposed that the next convention go back to the traditional rule by which the Southern wing of the party blocked the nomination of Al Smith in 1924, and which Roosevelt fin ally managed to throw overheard in 1892, the other Democrats did not know that the polished Geor- gian had just been in huddle with Jim Farley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

subjecting the American people, and specifically the workers, to forced labor and would constitute absolute economic despotism, a despotism born of legislative and executive usurpation. That such usurpation would have been committed by the duly elected servants of the people would not mitigate. it would aggra- vate, the crime of usurpation.
 Down through the years there comes the laundering voice of Thomas Jefferson: "An elective des- potism was not the government we fought for" Let Congress and the President and the Secretary of War take heed! And let the workers of the nation heed not only the warn- ings but also the advice of the So- cialist Labor Party and organize themselves politically and industys- ally for Socialism,
 Very Truly Yours
 JOSEPH MACKAY
 State Secretary Socialist Labor
 Party
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
In Today's Mail

formal recognition in the courts. ("The Selective service act of May IS, 1917, does not contravene this (13th) amendment, a soldier not be- ing slave" Selective Draft Law Cases, 245 U. s. 366); second, be- cause there is neither a manpow& shortage nor an unwillingneSS on the part of the workers to perform labor in war industries; third, and most important, labor conscription is forbidden by the United States | Constitution.
 In marked contrast to the Presi- dents flouting of the constitution in respect to conscripting labor is his great Solicitude to insure the col- lecting of as many votes as possible. In demanding that Congress provide method for enabling the soldiers at the front to cast their votes in the forthcoming election. President Roosevelt said in his message: Sure ly the signers of the Constitution did not intend document which, even in war time, would be con- strued to take away the franchise of any of those who are fighting to preserve the Constitution itself" :" Such touching care for the Consti- tuition in the matter of votes does not square with utter contempt for the Constitution in the matter of preserving the personal liberty Of the individual matter expressly covered by the 18th amendment to the United States Constitution:
 Section 1: Neither slavery nor
 involuntary servitude except as 8
 punishment for crime whereof the
 party have been duly convicted,
 shall exist with the United States,
 or any place subject to its juris-
 diction.
 Section 2: Congress shall have
 power to enforce this article by
 appropriate legislation"
 The President knows that, if there exists 8 manpower problem, or any other problem, whether relating to the war or otherwise, such problem must find it's solution within the limitations of the powers and auth ority conferred by the Constitution on the executive and the legislative branches of the government. And even if the majority of the American people should be found willing to saddle themselves with compulsory labor, they could not do so without first amending the Constitution by the repeal of the amendment now forbidding involuntary servitude. Any other course would result in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
NATIONAL SERVICE ACT' NOT A DEAD ISSUE-ITS ONLY
 "PTGEONED- -HOLED"
South Norwalk, Conn January 26, 1914

January 26, 1914
 Editor of The Democrat:
 Since wrote you last week on the labor draft proposal, the press has brought reports that the Congress of the United States through it's Senate and House committees has decided to take no action at present on what is euphemiStically called a national service act" While this might make it appear that at least a temporary defeat had been admin istered to the reactionary proposal, it should be pointed out that the danger is by no means past. Our congressman have dropped the mat ter, not because it contraveneS the United States Constitution, which they are sworn to uphold, but solely on the grounds that it is not need ed--noW.
 Among the national service law" bills proposed, and temporarily pig eon-holed, is the vicious Austin Wadsworth bill. Tn the attack on this bill for reestablishing involun- tary servitude in the United States, the Socialist Labor Party has taken a leading part, having expressed de- termined opposition to the Congress thus trying to fasten chains of slav- cry on the American workers. Mill lions of workers and other citizens have been apprised of, and warned against, the danger threatening their personal liberties if the indus trial conscription promoters had their way, by receiving Socialist Labor Party literature on the sub ject. Due largely to this opposition, these efforts have thus far suffered defeat.
 When President Roosevelt emerg- ed as the chief champion of involun- tary servitude for labor, as he did in his latest message to Congress, the question suddenly became the most burning question of the day. The President, who heretofore had been reported in strong opposition to labor conscription advanced no new arguments in its favor-- he cited no new developments that in his view might serve as a tustifica- tion for proposing an unconstitution- al measure. He wisely refrained from pressing any claims of manpower shortage, for he knew there was no such shortage.
 The sole reason advanced by Pres ident Roosevelt for the proposal to establish involuntary servitude was that it would serve as 8 "unifying force, and that 1t would end the discrimination between the men and women who are assigned by the government to its defense at the battlefront and the men and women who are assigned to producing the vital materials essential to military operations"
 The pleas made by the President are no more valid now than they were during the period in which ht opposed labor conscription as being unnecessary. They are not valit for the following reasons: first, be. cause military conscription and com. pulsory labor in industry are not Icomparahle. . fact that has received
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

In fact, Rivers had breakfasted with Farley and "Chip" Robert, also of Georgia, former secretary of the National Committee. To- gether, over their breakfast cof- fee, they matched the idea of re- viving the two-thirds rule = not so much aimed at the President, but primarily to get rid of Wal lace at the next convention.
 Next to Mrs. Roosevelt, the Vice President has been pil- lOried in the South probably more than any other person. With the exception of few such as Gov. Bob Kerr of Okla hOma, almost all Southern Iead- CTS are dead against him.
 In the end, however, the Riv- CTS drive completely fizzled::
 NOTE: Gov. Kerr describes Wal lace's speech at the Jackson Day dinner as, "One of the greatest and most heartfelt political speech es of all time."
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

Why 240,000 pounds per annum, then2 Nobody knows that, either. WIPE doesn't even know how many rings that will make.
 We don't have a nose ring handy or we would tell you. But figuring gen. erous 10 ounces to the ring, the alloca- tion will take care of 384,000 bullocks in each years rising generation. And that's really lot of bull.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

one Qay. In Cn1- cago a year and more ago thi S wouldn't have been news, for Honorable P aul has never been one to decline to make a speech at any me any place a n y o n e would gather 8 crowd. But when t h e President n 8 m e d McNutt boss of man. power in Decem-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

community stirred up with his mis- chief, 1t is no doubt because he is the son of a man who did the same thing years before.
 Stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance" says the Bible. If modern parents would read the Good Book more instead of using it to set flower pots on, there might be more peace and quiet in certain families.
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 New1paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

grown the desire to do these things and now regard them as silly. makes no difference in the attitude of the child; he will have to make this dis
 covery for himself. If girl thinks
 too much about clothes and. par
 ties, it is probably because she is
 the daughter of a woman who in iner youth had the same, desires. If q boy keeps his family and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
TRY TO BE PATIENT

TRY TO BE PATIENT
 One of the hardest things in the world to do is to be patient with those things in young people which we ourselves have outgrown.
 Have you ever shaken a young ster by the shoulder and had him try to excuse himself in exactly the same words you used to your par ents thirty years before? Stir up your recollections,, fathers and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

mothers. and you will quickly see that most of the things in your child's life that il-ritate you are the very things t h a t irritated y o Il r parents long ago when t they observed them in you. The fact that VOL have Out-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
.McNutt'S Postwar
 Program PrOlifer
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

War ManlOwer Commissioner, Federal Security Administrator, Ex- Governor General of the Philip pins, Governor of Indiana Paul V. McNutt has started making speeches again. Tn a To-day period he has just delivered himself of six major orations, including three on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Your Health ByDr. William Brady

Eigned letters pertaining to per- sonal health and hygiene nOt te disease, diagnosis of treatment. win be answered by pr. Brady n stamped self-addressed envelope Rs enclosed. Letters should be brie1 and written In ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. william Brady, National News paper Service, 32O West Madison Street. Chicago, uL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Selected Poem
CRANBERRY BUSH

(Ethel Barnett DeVito in The Christian Science Monitor) The wind holds no terror The frost holds no dread For the cranberry bush With scarlet-crowned head The crimson plush berries Continue to grow Like banners of courage Red flares in the snow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at 11:08 p. m (war time)
 Sun rises at S:06 a. m., sets SOS D. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Pink skies in the morning have been the sky story for days. Shall January go out like a hon or like lamb, or what3 Just wait and see.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
Washington Merry -Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

President Views Dewey on Beo Says Democratic BsWig
 or Leaders Food Chiefs Claims of Farmers Needs
 Reported Promised Roosevelt All Help Short of Wor Move Revive Demoera Rule Seen Aimed at Wallace
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Boy Needs No Hat

bOy NeeUS NO G1aG
 Our thirteen-y -year-old boy dislikes wearing a hat in the winter. He used to have many colds but last winter not one and none so far this winter. However, everybody says he is taking great chances. c. O Answer-f he were my boy he'd do as he pleased about that.
 Our Mutual Predicament
 I read your article in the paper and, being in similar predicament, I'd like further particulars.
 co. A. M) Answer-Isn't it maddening, being in a predicament? If you will give me a hint as to what the article waS about or tell me something about your predicament, I'll do my best to show you the way out.
 Low Metabolism
 Your column is an unfailing help, for it contains practical informa- ton in language ordinary people can understand. Would an iodine ration be helped to slow metabolism when the thyroid gland is inactive?
 (H. L. S.) Answer-It would be better to ask your physician about it. If you have no physician, the Iodin ation may help. For that matter, I advise every growing child and every adult who is not unoer medical care to take a suitable ration of iodine in one form or another. Send stamped envelope bearing. your address for Instructions for Taking an Iodin Ration. Qodin is my spelling).
 Life Not All Beer and Skittles I'm 29. good health, plenty of pep and vitality, but danged if can enjoy few beers before going to bed-if do I'm sure to wet the bed .. doomed to spend the rest of my life not drinking beer?
 (G. L. P.) Answer-Dismal prospect, what? But I'm sorry-I'm doctor and you say you have no faith in doctors. Have you tfied a veterinarian?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29

WASHINGTON January Democratic leaders
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
A Thought for Today

He that is slow to wrath is of great under standing: but he that is hasty of spirit exaGeth fOlly-PrOverbS 14:29.
 Anger assists hands however weak-Ovid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-29
SOME ARE SHREWD AND SOME
 ARE LI1CKY

Reporting on the contest (See ar- ticle on Parkinson'S Disease pulp nshed here) there were fourteen winners, each of whom receives 8 complete set of the works of or Doc Brady-A Lot of Little Lessons in the Ways of Health-auto- graphed n everything.
 For the benefit of readers who did not see the article on Parkinson'S Disease (paralySis agitans. shaking palsy) we gave five specimens of handwriting and invited readers to specify which specimen or specimens were faxed (by or Doc Brady.
 Tabulating the answers proved 2 depressing task. For a while wondered whether I was perhaps coming down with ParkinSon's dis ease, but, happily, the effect of this worry was offset by the proximity of the bowling green. You know, or at any rate you should know if you are interested in that grand old game-I mean in paralysis agitans, that the best palliative in the world for the trouble is activity, DOING SOMETHING, anything at all but just sitting or lying and freezing For further particulars send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, ask for pamphlet "ParkinSonS Disease"
 Of the fourteen winners appar- ently eleven were just lucky and three game reasons why they re- garded specimens No. 2 and No. { as faked and the other three hand writing specimens as genuine re- productions of the handwriting of persons with Parkinsonian tremor.
 Mrs. T. c. B., for instance. mo- ticed striking SimilaritieS In the crossing of the Us and in the for nation of the as in specimens 2 and 4.
 c. M. P. refers to ''the similarity of letters in Nos. and A."
 F. A. s. makes what seems to doctor 8 keen observation: T have known persons with ParkinSon'S dis ease and found that in converse ton they forget about their ailment and do not shake so much, also when they start to write they con- centrate intently on it at first and after they get started they seem to relax bit and then write more steadily. This seems to me evident in the genuine specimens, but not in the faked specimens"
 Darn it. never thought of these trihes. Next time I do 8 spot of forgery I'll be more careful.
 Of the eleven winners who, ap- parently, just guessed at 1t and were lucky, say six detected evi- dence of faking in Nos. 2 and 4 but just didn't expla1n their methods to uS