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Evening star., 1944-10-17
Choral Society to Aid
In Opera Production

The Washington Choral Society
will support the San Carlo Opera
Co. in production of Aida" at 8 80
pm. Friday at Constitution Hall.
Singing from sections A and v in
the balcony, the group will swell the
triumphal chorus in the second act
victory scene at the court Of the
King of Egypt. The other two San
Carlo Opera productions sponsored
by the Federal Employees Recreation
Council this week end are Car
men" Saturday, and La Traviata, -
Sunday.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Boy, IS, Held in Forgery
I0f Treasury Check

A 15-year-old colored boy was
charged in Juvenile Court yesterday
with forging and uttering a $40
Treasury check. Secret Service
agents who arrested him said he
cashed the check in drygoods store
in the 100 block Of Fourteenth street
NE
The agents claim the boy erased
Evening star., 1944-10-17

"a z SVSoAAAAAA6 a.
most as global
as the war.
| They're de-
manding more
and better cor
sets and they
say If t h e y
don't get them
they're goin 8
to stage a sit
d o W n st r ke.
w e IL, I don't
wish to meddle
in international
affairs, but I
c e r t a i n ] y
UO,1ljp't odyico
Evening star., 1944-10-17

women who don't have corsets to
do too much sitting down. You
have no idea how a situation like
that can spread.
Here in America we're troubled
by the girdle shortage. There's
only one prewar girdle left in my
house. After that's gone I don't
know what George will do.
(Released by Consolidated News Features \
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Talk on War Prisoners

Albert Knott, YMCA building
superintendent, will discuss the work
of the Prisoners Aid Committee of
the YMCA at the monthly meeting
OF the District Association of Work.
ers for the Blind at BIS pm. Thurs
day at the Church of the Ephiphany.
Evening star., 1944-10-17

his name from social security card
and afixed the name Of his uncle, 50
that he could use the card as iden-
tification in cashing the check is
sued to his uncle. The social Sc
Evening star., 1944-10-17
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, d.
TUESDAY. ocroBER w. 1914.

curity card was unsigned and the
forgery was very crude, the agents
said.
With the holiday season approach
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Oracle Aliens
Comments

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1T read in
the paper that the women in Eng
land are worried about the shortage
Of corsets. 1t seems their figures
Evening star., 1944-10-17

ing, the Secret Service repeated its
warning to merchants to require
positive identification before CASH
ing Government checks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Dr. New Deal Goes South

Old Dr. New Deal may have closed his office for the duration in this country, hut practice at his branch office in Puerto Eico promises to hit a new high. And the doctor can thank a Wonder-Working old remedy called Puerto Rican rum for is new professional affluenCe So far, the samedy has helped the doctor even more jnan it has the patients. It works this Nay Rum has become, Wllly-nllly, pretty much the American national drink, as Tasty glance at the shelves of any grOg : lop will tell you. The Internal Revenue . lreau has always collected the federal { K on the Puerto RiCan product, and tlen turned the whole tax back to the in Jar government without even deduct i2g the usual 10 per cent agents com mission. Until liquor distilling was halt td in this country, Puerto Rico'S rum tax amounted to only $2,000,O00 or $3 ,000,- { 70 a year. The official estimate of the 1914 tax however, is about $50,000,000. ! 1me sources place it 50 per cent higher. ut at any rate, Governor ReXford Guy lugWell and his loyal legislature now Cavision sufficient income to launch iulI-scale New Deal on the island, un Eampered by any knuckle-rapping from the United States Congress.
 Accordingly, the Puerto Rico Planning, Trlanizing and Coming Board last month
 resented to Governor TugWell siX-year l.Ian of social and physical improvement for the island. The total cost would be $4G1 ,404 ,646 which is the islands entire projected income through 1950 plus s13,804, ,646 of borrowed funds. The pro- gram includes many improvements which unquestionably are needed, and badly - schools, hospitals, roads, housing, sewage systems, other public health measures, more direct relief. But the program,
 lCging from the prospectus, would rule cut private business almost entirely. Puerto Ricos manufacturing industries would be developed, financed and appar- ently run by the government
 All this is predicted upon presidential veto of an amendment to Puerto Rican relief bill, now pending in Congress, which would let the federal treasury retain half the collected rum tax, and spend S25,- 100000 a year for relief out of that sum, with Puerto Rico matching the amount. And proponents of the six-year plan seem to take this veto for granted, if the bill ever gets to the veto stage.
 Meanwhile, continental supporters of the plan can always drink more rum, thus swelling the Puerto Rican treasury. Those agin the insular New Deal will just have to switch to beer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
USO's Birthday

Thousands of Connecticut Servicemen the world over, as well as the thousands ill uniform and on duty within the states borders will be on February figuratively lighting candles on the birthday cake of USO, marking the great national or ganization'S third birthday. USO with ir three brief years has established it's self as the guardian of the off-duty wei fare and recreation of men and women in our armed forces and has set shining example of interfaith cooperation in a war-torn world.
 An uncharted voyage was set out upon three years ago by six agencies of repute in the religious and recreational fields - the Jewish Welfare Board, the National Catholic Community Service, the National Travellers Aid Association, the Salvation Army, the YMCA, and the YWCA. The experiment in democracy which they undertook in establishing USO has proven to be an outstanding success. It now stands as a symbol of love with which the American people stand behind their armed forces. To the men in the services and the women of the uniformed forces-USO provides nome away from home" to which they can go in their leisure hours.
 The folks at home salute USO on its third birthday with the same spirit that marks the greeting which will be given by men and women in uniform tomorrow wherever Old Glory floats in the breeze.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
'Neglident'-On Purpose

A professor of physical education feels that the word accident, which has dis figured our daily front pages for 10, these many years, is inadequate and unSatis- factory. Most accidents, he maintains, are caused by personal negligence, which no one may gainSay. Therefore the pro- lessor offers a new word, 'neglident'' :, which he hopes will take hold and stick in our vocabularies.
 "Neglident." Not bad word but like all new things, little hard to get used to. If the clever composite does sweep the country, we'll be saying, "Of course Hilbert is good driver. Never had a neglident in his life" Or, after spilling cigar ashes on your hostess new Baluc- histan rug, "So sorry, Sibyl; it was a neglident, pure and simple" But you rever can tell. The professor may have something. Neglidents will hapcur.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
CONTROVERSY OVER STATE PORES STEERS POS TION SPREADING "OUTSIDERS"
 CAUSE RESENTMENT
WatertoWn, Conn, January 26, 1944.

EH ! January 26 1914. Editor of
 The Waterbury Democrat: Dear Sir:
 1 I am taking the opportunity of writing to you concerning the re- tirment of MT. A. F. Hawes as State Forester.
 MT. Arthur Dean, personal friend of mine, has given me an indorsed statement in which he has raised some very good questions. ! wonder if any of your many readers are able to answer these questions for MT. Dean and myself?
 Why is the State of Connecticut losing the services of one of the country'S leading Foresters? In MT. Deans statement be- lieve reference is made to the fol- lowing law:
 421 g
 No person shall be eligible to | take any test or examination, nor be eligible for appointment in the classified service unless he shall have been resident of this state for one year next prior to the date of his application, provided the personnel director may waive said residence requirement. when there is evidence that the number of qualified residents is insuff1- cient for competitive examina- tion that will produce an en- ployment list of at least three names
 Effective June 28, 1943
 I am graduate forester but am not a candidate for the state For ester's position. However, I am in tereSted both as a Forester and as resident
 Very truly yours,
 J. c. GREENE, JR. Box 25,
 Watertown, Conn. To the Editor:
 see by the papers that the State of Connecticut apparently has not enough qualified candidates for the $5,000 position of State Forester which will be vacant April 1. Therefore, the Personnel Direc- tor has opened the examination to non-reSidents. To my personal knowledge there are at least 20 res idents of Connecticut who meet the minimum qualifications of this po- Sition. Thirteen of them belong to the Society of American Foresters 8 or g of this number being Senior Members. No one can be a member of the Society unless he meets cer- tain high forestry and educational qualifications.
 know that IA of these men mailed or delivered personally their applications on or before December g, which was the last day for filing On the 24th day of December which was a half holiday by the way. it was suddenly decided, ap- parently, in the judgment of the Personnel Director, that this list oi IA applicants failed to provide ar adequate hst". Therefore, the ex. animation was opened to appli. cantS of all the state. On February 3 there will be 20 outside the stats
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Say It Isn't So!

Newspaper photographs ecently showed Secretary of the Interior Ickes emerging from a grand jury room with his arm in sling and without necktie, after he had testified in the Harry Hop kins "purloined letter. mystery. News paper accounts revealed that, shortly be- fore the picture was taken, MT. Ickes had lunched with President Roosevelt.
 We have studied all the available data on this matter, and have reached the in escapable conclusion that Barefoot liar old must have lunched at the White HouSe-SanS cravat.
 Shades of our frontier ancestors! Such informality hasn't been seen in the eXecu- tive mansion since Andy Jackson was president.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
In Today's Mail

taking this examination and seven within the state.
 As a resident of the state and much interested in forestry and with considerable knowledge of the Forest Personnel, I am wondering what is back of this apparently sud den determination to open up this 5000 position to anyone not res ident of this state. I raise a few questions: CD Isn't it a rather re- markable thing that the Personnel Department was able in working day of three hours on December A to go over IA applications from within the state and to decide so easily that the original response was not adequate enough and therefore the position and the $5,- 900 was open to non-residents? CD If the outside man isn't going to get the position anyway, why make 20 outside applicants pay carfare, take up travelling space, and travel miles to get chance at $5,000 po- sition? These applicants are con- ing from as far West as Arizona and as far South as South Caro- lima.
 Connecticut has in my judgment at least 20 who are qualified to try for the position and seven or more who are absolutely fit for the po- sition. Whats behind this last min ute move to go outside the state?
 This is not a sore head" who is writing. I'm not a candidate and certainly have no desire to be a candidate.
 Signed:
 ARTHUR, DEAN,
 Brookfleld Center, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Current Comment

We have built and are still build- ing the greatest sea-air power in history. No other nation on earth could have come within fraction of last years accomplishments in terms of time, quantity, and quality -Undersecretary of the Navy James V. ForreStal.
 That one pint of blood you fail 10 give today can well be the diff ference between boy coming home and a cross in an American ceme- tery overseas.
 Lieut.. Comdr, Arthur F. Mo Quaid, wounded Navy chaplain back from Tulagi.
 It is difficult to appraise the present struggle for air supremacy as representing anything short of major turning point in the war The issue hangs now on which side first falterS, weakens, and loses its punishing power.
 Air Forces Gen. H. H. Arnold.
 When parents forget children are a by-product and lavish all affec- tion on them, with the loss of mu- tual affection to themselves, a lack of cooperation will arise Children should not monopolize or uSurp all attention.
 Judge Arthur H. Day of Cleve- land.
 
 Who, since Adam, has overlooked women?
 -Manpower Chairman Paul " McNutt's answer to charges that women in industry are treated as a minority.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

a communication and admins tration center, Rome is military prize which cannot be by passed. Even greater is the psychological value of taking Rome, the first of the three Axis capitals which would surrender.
 Knowing this the Germans will try to put price on the City-the price of disgrace in the eyes of the y>>rsd. They will defend Rome enough to force an Allied attack. Then Herr GOeb- belS will cry out that the city is being destroyed by the sac- rilegiOus violence of British and American soldiers.
 Military experts have some hope, however, that complete de- struction may be avoided because of the fact that the city is not easily defended. It affords no natural barriers except the build ings themselves. Thus the Ger mans may have to withdraw be- fore Rome becomes another Stall ingrad.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 King Carol is having a tough
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Deterioration

On the basis of Representative D'Ale- sandros recent investigation of slums, delinquency and disease in the nations s capital, pr. Goebbels' propaganda broad casters are telling their listeners that Washington was once considered a beau tiful city Under war conditions, how ever Washington is deteriorating :. physically and spiritually"
 The broadcasters mention such horrid things as dirt and mud, boys playing in alleys, rats in the best houses.
 News of such deplorable conditions must give great spiritual boost to resi- dents of Berlin, whose city, we under stand, has also deteriorated bit in recent months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Selected Poem
LAST NIGHT IT SHOWED
(Cosette Middleton in The Christian scienc

(Cosette Middleton in The Christian Science
 Montor) Last night it showed Today the barns are matched With winters plump extravaganza. With Their dim interiors the sun has patched The dark with yellow stitches long and thin. Bright chmneys, eloquent with cedar-smoke Point from the nest of house-tops. Window-panes Wink frosty eyes at juniper and oak Shaking the stars out of their shaggy manes. The stubble-fiedS now sleep beneath white quilts, And in the pasture lot, nuzzling the snow gentle colt with spndly legs like Stts Explores a pleasant world he does not know Last night it showed and dawn has glorified This portrait of a winter countryside.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Investments and Dividends

If the need for contributions to the National Foundation for Infantile Par alysis is greater this year, the hope is greater, too. It may be that poliomyelitis may strike again this year as it did last, when 12,000 cases were reported. But, as more practitioners learn to administer the remarkable treatments devised by Sister Kenny, there is the assurance that more victims will walk again.
 The Kenny treatment is expensive, but your dimes and dollars will pay generous dividends in health.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Sh-h-h

Somewhere back in the misty dawn of anthropology, man acquired the persist ent conviction that woman is innately garrulous. But that conviction received a natsy jolt the other day. It was dis closed that 25 WACs in the Signal Corps for some time have been receiving and sending daily the most secret and confi- dentiai of military messages. And they haven't breathed the contents to soul.
 The WACs even kept mum about the job itself. But the Army (n1ale) just couldn't keep the secret any longer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
GROWING CHILDREN'S PROPHYLATIC

A prophylactic Is anything that prevents or contributes to the pre- vention of disease, as fresh air, nu- tritious food, vaccination, cleanli- ness.
 Recognized nutrition authorities state that the everyday diet Of Americans, at least among dwellers in cities and towns, is probably more often deficient in calcium than in any other chemical elements" Why dwellers in cities and towns? Because they consume less of the high calcium foods (milk, egg yolkS, cheese, fresh vegetables and greens) than people who live in the country, and also because urban people are less exposed to sunshine or skyshine than rural people-hence get less ultraviolet light, which generates vitamin D in the body, the vitamin D being essential for formal assim- ilation, utilization and retention of calcium.
 The Medical Research Council of Great Britain found that the cal cium requirement. is greater be- tween the ages of 10 and IS years than at any other time in life. Although it is true that perhaps 98 percent of the calcium in the body is in the bones and teeth, cal cium is component of nerve, mus cle, blood and the glands and vital organs, and it is at least as essential for these structures as it is for bones and teeth.
 How important an adequate daily intake of calcium Is for growth, nu- triton and health one may see from a statement of the physiologi- cal functions of calcium:
 l. Regulates rhythm and main
 tains the force of the heart beat
 2. Controls neuro- muscular ir- ritability - -"j u m p Il S,
 nervousness" abnormal ten
 sion.
 3. Shortens coagulation or clot- ting time of blood (prevents e. cessive bleeding) and leSsens capillary permeability (prevents dropsical swelling, edema, ex- CSSS1NG III 11dLAllAA1VOAJ SAbNAuSANAA weeping).
 4. Maintains the right balance or ratio of other minerals in
 the body or blood, such as
 phosphorus, potassium, mag nesium, iron.
 5. Maintains the firmness, elas- ticity or "tone" of the entire musculature, both voluntary and involuntary, skeletal, ali mentary, circulatory, respira- tory muscle.
 Calcium deficiency, whether from shortage of calcium in the food or from faulty assimilation and utiii- zation Qack of vitamin D or ex- posture of naked skin to sunlight or skylight) is a factor if not the chief factor of numerous common troubles in youth which are too sel- dom recognized and treated as de ficiency disease.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

time getting his dollars out of the United States. He has asked U. s. Ambassador Messersmith in Mexico to help in the unfreezing. When Cuban Amadeo Lopez Sastro lay ill with double pneu- monia in Washington hospital, Madame Concheso, wife of the Cuban Ambassador, gave a pint of her blood to revive him When Secretary Hull is unable to come to the State Department, as ire quently happens, his aides take their work to his apartment at the Wardman Park hotel When life sometimes grows dull for Secret Service officers at the White House gates. they pelt each other with snowballs Miranda Bernardino, Dominican feminist, says of Dictator Trujillo's new en- bassy in Washington, T wish had the money it takes to heat that place for one month. I could build three schools in the Domini- can Republic"
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
AS A MATTER OF FACT

Boston is planning big things in the future. A postwar program regarding a general face-lifting was recently an- nounced. Now comes plan for improv- ing the Port of Boston, widening and deepening the channels, and extending the airport facilities. Boston's favorable location in comparison to other Atlantic ports were cited at recent meeting Looks like Boston was going places fast and soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

Juvenile delinquency, so-called, is being discussed by some youthfuls in New York City. They are approaching it through the boogie-woogie angle. That is to say is the boogie-woogie deterrent or does it encourage juvenile delinquency. How ever, a good many are against it, saying it looks awful, sounds awful, and has an aWfully silly name.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Press Comment
CHINESE STUDENTS
ARTHUR, DEAN, Brookfield Center, Conn.
(New York Times)

(New York Times)
 The president of Swarthmore College. in his annual report, tells of forty-nine Chinese naval officers who have been assigned to the col lege for the current term. Early in the fall the college was asked to receive them as son as they arrived in this country. The mn appeared on the campus on October 28 and began classes on November l. AS a result of lnd-lease agreement between the United States and China they are at Swarthmore un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

I AASAC Ao' od JG Judge Patterson, no community in the United States that he knows of which h a s a shortage of poten- tial workers, but there is a decided lack of organiza tion in mobilizing these workers eff fectively. W h a t national service legislation might therefore do is re : cruit and mobilize this 1ohOr fOroo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonal health and hygiene, not 10 disease, diagnosis of treatment. will be answered by Dr. Brady If
 stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Br. William Brady, National News paper Service, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

Winter was interrupted for the past week by an unusual soft weather spell. The sun almost finished the melting of icy ruts, but not quite. In another day or so the groundhog will give out in formation as to the possibilities of win ters complete passing out or return for a few more weeks of winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31

Our postwar dream is of world in which the man who sent the U. s. Treas ury an anonymous gift of $18,9o9.39 would have sent it instead to Miss Vivien Kellems, the Connecticut industrialist who stamped her foot and told the Treas ury she just wouldn't pay another cent of taxes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 8:O4 a. m, sets at 6:O7 p. m. tWar time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 The last day of the month. The weather prognosticators say we have had the worst of the winter. What, no snow storms in Februaryl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-31


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