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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
Views Of The Press

tho heavens. But to find the warmth in a temperature of 20 de- grees last week was impossible which made the height not worth figuring and the beauty of the son of Hyperion negligible.
 Yet the delay and diffidence of spring is 0 story as old as March winds and the myths of sun gods Complaints about late springs have been sounded again and again in the diaries of Northerners keeping track of the first robin and the last snowfall. A century ago New Eng flanders found the light of their philosophy winter-strained as they wrote of March not coming until May-and May not coming at alll Tn Washington q ttespairing Henry Adams once saw snow in front of the White House in April. Yet somehow, some way, spring manag- es to arrive. On Q night of south wind and warm rain she will slip into town. One will say, My, how green the grass is in the park" And the buds will burst on Radio Ctiy's patient sycamores.
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wise solves the mystery, the Brass ring entitling him to one free ride on the Washington Merry.Go- Round.
 IRISH LUCK
 Irish Robert Hannegan swung open the door of his safe the other day. took out a sparkler worth $500, put 1t on his finger, With Celtic superstition, the new Demo- cratic National Chairman intends to wear that ring as good omen of Democratic success in l944,
 Friend who have seen Hannegan in the last few days have been dazzled by the sparkler, kid him about his opulence. The Inside story -- as revealed inside the ring is thatt he sparkler was given to Hannegan by the Democratic Committee of St. Louis after he had led the local ticket to tri- umph in 1888. It carries the in- scriptlon, Presented by the Dem- OcratS of St. Louis to Bob Hanne- gan, 19SS."
 Though the total cost was Sl,. 800 there were many contributors, and the largest ante was only $50.
 When Hannegan became Inter- nal Revenue Commissioner, he took the ring off and put 1t in his safe. But when he took the new job of National Democratic chair man, he put the sparkler back on his finger for good luck inu "A. MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Annie Laurie Rankin has been
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on the payroll of ranting Con- gressman Rankin of Mississippi for a long time at $3,500 Q year but she never works in his office. Popular Ambrose O'Connell, executive vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will open headquarters at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago next week. Apparently the Dems mean business When anti-Roosevelt colleagues accused Representative "CouSln Nat" Patton off Texas of Texas of becoming a New Dealer because he voted with the Presi- dent on the tax veto, Patton re- piled: No, I'm not a New Dealer. To me 1t was q question of vot- ing for my two boys in the serv- ice or for the war profiteers' -. Mystery recently surrounded the apartment of the Argentine assist ant air attache, It. Ronald J, Rossiter. His rooms att he Mar- lyn Apartments were charred and burned. In the Diplomatic Corps, the gossip was that dirty work had taken place because of Argentina's anti-U. s. policy |. Solution of the mystery: It. Rossiter went to sleep smoking, had to be rushed to a hospital, and was kept under an oxygen tent to recover from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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to tell his fellows how he could lay tax money on the counter and ex- perience no pain in so doing.
 Taxes of course cannot be made caGy. We hope the actual making out Of the tax return can be slmpli- fled, but the payment of cash in. wolves discipline and denial. Taxes cannot be made eagy-neither can learning, good living, sound business procedure, domestic tranquility. Everything worth while in the world costs effort. It hurts to pay taxes. The process cannot under any cir. cumstanceS be made painless. One can derive Q great joy out of study, but the actual process will always remain Q grim and compelling di- cipline. It b not easy to have re- ligious faith, and God never intend. that 1t should be. Happiness in home life grows Up through c inul-
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HENDRIX WILLEM VAN LOON
(New York Times)

Hendrix Willem van Loon are rived in New York several centuries after our early Dutch settlers, but in some ways he came to possess this city as fully as they did. AS journalist and pedagogue he soon proved himself a man of parts, and for more than two decades now the influence of his popularizationS of history and the arts has radiated across the nation and across the seas in successive best-Sellers.
 His 2o0-pound bulk and six-foot- three stature would have made him Q striking figure anywhere. His per- sonality, ponderous, dogmatic yet mellow and friendly, was equally impressive. He had accumulated an enormous store of information and loved to pour 1t out mixed with liberal infusions Of van Loon. Like Conrad. he learned to think and
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write fluently In another language. His flair for quick sketches, not nearly as untutored as they looked in his books, and his skill on the violin helped to equip him for his role Of Interpreter Of the arts. Add his unfagging industry and you had a human machine of compelling en- ergy.
 Hendrix van Loon never under estimated himself and once mour- fully remarked that he wouldn't be fully understood for a hunGved years. Yet It was in his gift for making himself understood that his fortune lay. His ideas were as expansive as they were inclusive. Indeed his first great success was nothing less than "T'ne Story Of Mankind" Discursive treatments of the Bble. America. Rembrandt, geography. philosophy, music, painting, sculpture and architecture followed rapidly. No man could spread himself over so wide q sur face without leaving some areas of vacancy, but being caught in inac- curacies never bothered him-it was merely his critics who were at fault. Yet his burning zeal for all his subjects and causes gave him a kind of tidal force that continued to sweep new readers into his peoples university. Above all, he was 6 hater of shackles on the mind or body, q liberal to the core of his soul and a fearless voice against tyranny that is silent only now.
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THAT FAMOUS CORNER
tNew York Herald -Tribunc)

Last Sunday was a nice day. Spring is just around the corner" one heard bromidically everywhere. But whose and what corner? Surely not around certain skyscraper an- gles where, only week ago, shiv. cring pedestrians were hit in the face with Q far from daffodil iin- pact. One must not take too much for granted from Sunday of such scant caloric content that 1t left an acre of park ice for ducks that might prefer skating to swimming
 Last year Manhattan saw snov squalls in April. One has yet no glad certainty that snowflakes ma;
 not nestle in this seasons eariiei Easter millinery. Yet the corner is there. According to ncn-partisan and presumably trustworthy alma macs the sun is nearing the vcTnal equinox. Heiios should be travelling high, warm aud handsome through
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MANIPULATING MOTORISTS
(Hartford Times)

The police of Hartford and neigh boring towns of late have been car- rying on much h-needed campaign of enforcement of traffic laws. Most of the arrests have been made for passing stop signs and for driving through red lights, The errant drivers have been fined, in most cases.
 From the Connecticut Highway Safety Commission comes the sug- gestion that the operators licenses convicted of violating the stop sign and red light regulations be suspended by the Motor Vehicles Commissioner. whose authority to take drastic action, should he wish to do SO, is broad. In the cases of persons who have been arrested two or more times, there certainly should be inquiry into their fitness to drive, and fl. for any reason, such drivers arc found to be unfit, then their licenses should be Sus- pended or even revoked. Tho acci- dent records at intersections show many serious injuries and some fa- talities. all of which are due to law violations or carelessneSs on the part of either the driver or the pedestrian.
 The present campaigns against violations Of the traffic laws should become permanent policy with all police departments. The large num- Der of arrests being made indicate that there Is altogether too much disregard or even contempt for signs and signals, the purpose of which is to prevent injury and pre- serve life. If 50 many cases Of law violation are found in these times when volume of traffic is but frac- ton of the normal volume, the number of violations that might de- vclop under postwar conditions could be appalling.
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AS A MATTER OF FACT

When people talk of spring just around the corner" they do not neces- sarily mean spring is ready to, well, spring, you might say. A day of soft air makes one anticipatory. But the soft day is usually followed by cold one. Spring is elusive, to say the least, and we will have, perhaps, many false starts be- tween now, and a month from now. Spring, however, is just around the cor ner, but just when 1t will make the right turn is problematical.
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Health By Dr. William Brady
WHAT TO DO FOR LOW BLoo
 PRESSURE

kMNA99ONNA4
 Woman agd 30, weighing 100 pounds, asks what to do for low blood pressure.
 Being iuSt a ploddlng old country doctor I wouldn't know. Low blooo pressure is a condition, not 0 ois. ease. and In my own case-Ive hao it for years-here is what I do for it. Sometimes sneak over Co the bowling green and bowl a game or two. Other times just sit ano worry about 1t. In between times I butter around concocting things to say in this column.
 As nearly as I can learn, Maam, some of us have low blood pressure by reason of a constitutional dis- position to be low-and mean. Some have it as an accompaniment or effect of some ailment such ah anemia or some nutritional deft- ciency such as calcium and vttamin D deficiency or perhaps vitamin B complex deficiency. And then prob ably low blood pressure in Q few instances is just one sign of some more serious illness. So, in any case, it is fo.oish to look for a spe- cific remedy for low blood pressure. The sensible course is to consult B. physician-but when you consult the doctor don't try to tell him his business and don't try to impress him with your medical knowledge Never mind your blood pressure leave it to the doctor to measure blood pressure If he thinks it neces- sary and to deal with whatever he finds ails you.
 It is as silly to take medicine, follow diet or take any kind of treatment for low or high blood pressure as 1t would be to do so for low or high temperature without a medical examination to find out what oils you.
 It might be interesting for some readers if enumerated causes of low blood pressure. On the other hand I fear that would only en- courage other readers to eXperi- ment further with ill-advised diets. medicines or treatments,
 So I call 1t day, another day of faithfulness to the Hippocratic Oath You know, Father Hippo crates commanded his followers in Greek to this effect; Do Good If You Can but Do No Harm.
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the fall of Rangoon, but today the India-China wing of the Army's Air Transport Command carries 90 per cent of the load which is now measured in thousands of tons, where 1t used to be measured in pounds. Today on this Burma road lof the air, one plane is doing tho work that used to be done by 90 trucks, the four ceterans report.
 "Where we used to try to hold things together with six overworked airplancs," says Captain Allen, the Army now has a fleet of hundreds of their big transports flying. Pan American clone has 100 flight crews on thu China job,'
 FLY PEOPLE, FREIGHT
 ANYTHING"
 These Pan American-C. N. A. c. crews and planes have two assign ments, First is running the passeng- CT, mall and express route from Cal- cutta to Chungking, r. has never missed Q day of flying since the Japs cut the original Burma road,
 Second Is operation of the freight shuttle service over the very crest of the Himalayas, operating the air. craft lease-loaned to China and carrying leaSe-lend supplies to the Republic, The Army's larger job is in transporting military supplies for air and ground forces In both Bur- mn and China.
 But when the going gets tough" lnterposes Pilot Petach, everybody hauls anything"
 Tt was tough going before the Army moved in" says Gouterie, We were just about out of baillng wire and chewing 6 an cement Now we get all the spare parts we need, whie' used to be high jacked on the way over, and we pass on to the Army pilots what We have learned In our two-yeRr battle over the hump. We now know that route by hcart...-all the tricks of the worlds worst weather and the wiles of tho Japs In trying to Jam our radios, ambush us, and fool us into landing on their fields,
 A BAD WEATHER MAN
 Chinn, the American -born Chinese pilot, is Q veteran of 10 years of flying In the Orient for c, N A. G. during seven of wf oh China has been at war with Japan, He has probably flown In more bad weath. CT than any man alive. We had to do 1t that way" he says, "if we wanted to keep on flying and living. We just picked weather too tough for Japs to handle"
 Exact number of planes on this run is of course c military secret but the records achieved are eX- plained by Chinn in this way:
 One DO-S carrying two and half tons of cargo and makins one and a half round trips, or three croSs- ings q day, delivers as much cargo in 30 days as % trucks over the Burma road. Two and half crews are on hand for every plane, En- zines don't get chance to cool down when crews nre changed and new loads lashed down. Every crew averages l5 round trips, l08 hours of flying, every month,
 Tn the seven years of the war Pan American has had only five airliners shot down or forced to land by Jap gunflre. First loss on the Burma route was e plane flown by Capt Marshal Schroeder of Buffalo, N, Y. He was just over the hump when radio warned him that Q Jap zero was on his tail, For 10 year-long minutes he tried every tric'' he knew to get away. Only once did ground radio reach him. "Too busy now Tell you later" Schroeder answered. then silence. c. N. A. c. pilots now dip their wings over the last pos ltIon from which he reported.
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St. Patricks Day is sometimes the brcaking-off of winter and the start oi spring. There may be no particular aspect of spring in yhe air, but once th' 17th of March comes, sleet, wind ant snow regardless, winter is taboo. Alter that date we consider spring possibility even though the temperature may Dc down to freezing.
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Selected Poem
ALEUTIAN EVENING

(FrederIck Albright in The Christian Science
 Monitor) East. and ever east, the long wind blows Along gaunt rocks, across chill spectral tides; Far out in the diminishing gray light of sea, once more the msted slate-blue dusk descends Across amending sweeps Of silent asHen snow; And silently, one after one, beneath the hills Brave little lone tent lanterns glow.
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course, was meant to explain
 how one should
 make out his in- come tax re- turn, but the st n [ c n 0 il [, Faxes M q q c Easy" inme- diately conveyed to me the im- pression tn n | there was q per- son who sought
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Jtle nuIlp ITOLtl Calcutta, Tn d ia, to Running and c h Il n g k 1 n g, China.
 They are Har- old Chlnn, 3l, of Vancouver, B. C.; Ray Allen, 23, of Briston, Okla; Julius Petach, 27, of Port Vue, Pa; P c ter outerie, %, of Bangor, Me.
 This route was pioneered by the Chinese National Airtara N,c hnfANN
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Spring officially begins next Monday, March 20. At that particular time the vernal equinox is reached. It is spring by the calendar but you will likely see no robin perched in wonder tree, nor hear its chirp. You are likely to see no daffodil' waving in the breeze, though you ma! see same in the flower shop window.
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Back to the Bug

Probably no group of Americans are cheering the Russian advance more ardently than our rado announcers. They must look forward impatiently to the day when their catarrhal struggles with Ono and Pskov are but memory and the Red army stands triumphant on the banks of the nrOnOunceable Bug.
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
"Over The Hump" Into China
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcraO Washington
 Correspondent

On their first leave home after two years of war transport flying, four Pan American pilots who among them have flown across the Himalaya mountains lS0c times. have given the best picture yet of the job that is being done in main- tanning Chlnas aerial life line, over
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About Espionage in Fire

There is no one outside of Fire who can actually say what goes on over there. The same ic true of the many other countries about which we often get garbled re-
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titude of sacrifices. "The cost of liberty Is eternal vigilance
 Let us not be looking for the easy way. Nothing worth while in life is easy. Taxes cannot be made easy, nor can anything else worth then aving.
 All Rights Reserved-Babson News
 paper Syndicate
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 MlrrAIne

Does a child ever have Ynigraine? Son, now 13, has had attacks which start with pain just below right eye- brow, lasting six hours to two days, accompanied with nausea, every few weeks for the past three years.
 (Mrs. o. L. D. Answer-Migraine begins before before the age of l2 years in nearly a third of all cases. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet Why Have Headache" What we don't know about the Ila- ture. cause and cure of nligraine (periodic sick headache) fills many books. It is my opinion that the seizures are Allerglc and that cal- cium deficiency is . factor in many cases,
 Eczema Not Contagious
 Woman who takes care of several children has eczema. She also pre- pares food for the family. Kindly let me know if eczema Is contagious.
 (R. T) AIlswer-No.
 Big Sneeze
 I had tho most violent sneezing spells--when one started I just had to give up to 1t until 1t was over. and then I was thoroughly ex- hausted. sent for your pamphlet Relief for Allergy" and I am so happy to tell you of the blessed re- lief-T felt relief the second day and in eight days the trouble was cured, and no further trouble now for many months.
 .., .... ,,,... Mrs. IT. c. E).. AnsWer-On request the pamphlet Relief for Allergy" will be mailed any correspondent who provides stamped envelope bearing his ad- dress.
 Silver Sulflde
 Please tell mo the significance of black marks on the skin where 1t has been in contact with jewelry. Is there something wrong with the blood? (M, c, M,) Answer-No, the silver or other base metal in the alloy reacts with sulfur (which Is present in sebum or sweat of healthy person. to form the black sulfide, jus tas egg yolk and other foods containing Sullur or sulfH compounds "tar- nish" or blacken svilverware. Copyright, io44, John P. Dllle Col
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A Thought for Today

Go from the presence Of foolish man, when thou percelvest not in him the lips of knowledge. Proverbs l4:7.
 He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees but does not measure their height.- Rufus.
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY Rv EARL. L. n0uGLARS. n. D.
IT ALL TAKES EFFORT

Taxes Made Easy
 read this headline and wondered how mary people who had strug. eIcd with their income tax .ornis in recent weeks could regard this pro- codure as easy. The article, of
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Washington Merry-C Co- Round DREW PH PEARSON

Flyers Who Made Students Into Officers Moy Be Dofted Themselves Small Hope of Army Commissions for Discharged Cvion Instructors DOusOn Probes Mystery of Who Leaked Their Secrets to PeorsOn Democrats Leoder Fahe $500 SPoer Weors It for Luck in 4
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
Matteotti's Son Carries On Fight Against
Fascism Where His Father Was Silenced

The Allies entered Rome on June 5th. But the American war
correspondents must have been too busy with their coverage of mill
tary developments to note a great political event which took place on
anniversary of the murder of Giacomo MaHeoti, the great Socialist
leader, by the blackshirt gangsters operating on orders from Musso-
lii himself.
On this day, that is, oil the occurance of the goth anniversary
of that political assassination which shook the fascist regime, the
Romans, still jubiIant over their delverance from the NaziFascist
yoke, gathered 10000 strong O the very spot where the beloved anti
fascist martyr was kidnapped, that is, on the Lungotevere Arnaldo da
Brescia, to pay homage to his memory.
And yet, that event was of profound significance, for, present
at the historic ceremony, was the son of the martyr, Matteo MatteoHi.
The emotion which was evoked by the presence of young Matteoti
u correspondent reports, is beyond description. The thousands present
cid not even know that he wa still alive. For it must be remembered
that a a child, after the murder of his father, when attending school
he was forced to assume another name, for the name Maueoti for
a long time continued to sound doom" in the ears of the dictator.
AS soon a the announcement was made that0the son of Giacomo
Matteotti was present, the great crowd was deeply moved; several men
reached him, seized him and carried him on their shoulders through
the throng. Young Matteoti then delivered a brief address While
he was speaking, tears filled the eyes of most of the listeners. When
he had finished, Pietro Nenni, editor of the Socialist Daily "Avantil',
which re-appeared in Rome shortly after that citys liberation, enbrac-
ed and kissed him. That was a stirring scene that will live in the
memory of the 20 1000 participants.
Young Matteotti, who had participated in the patriotic struggle
behind the lines, has revealed himself a brilliant orator and forceful
writer. He is now Secretary of the Young Socialist Federation of the.
Socialist Party of Italy, and editor of its official organ Socialist Revo-
luton, of which there is a clandestine edition being published in
Northern Italy-LaP arola.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
Roots of Race Prejudice

The Philadelphia transport strike was a drab and disturbing affair.
But it had one amusing angle. Whole covies of liberals e. disturbed
out of the comfortable rts of their thinking. They had been saying for
years that the bosses we're responsible for race hatred.
The 5000 white men went on strike because eight Negroes were
upgraded and given the chance to operate trolley cars Without Negroes
as motornnen and conductors, the transportation systems of scores of
cities would break down during these war years. In obeying the law
and falling in line with the common practice of the country, the PhHa-
delphia transit system was making it possible to continue its essential
service to the countrys number two war-produotion areaA But the
thousands of white workers left the whole region flat rather than work
with eight black men.
There may be more back of this disgraceful sight than meets the
eye. Disloyal connivers against the war and the government may be
involved. But what made it possible was the stupid prejudice of mar
row-ninded white workers against their black fellows. The discovery
of this fact was a rude shock to clever writers who talk a lot about the
working class WITHOUT coming into contact with it.
The one fact that stares us in the face is that the labor unions have
failed in their job on education. From now O. the Negroes cannot be
kept out and cannot be ignored. They will be working at all the levels
about race. The murderous kind of mythology which leads to race
antagonlsmS fades before understanding. Workers can be taught the
plain lesson that unity is necessary to stheir success. The Philadelphia
traction workers belong to a Clio union. The CO has recently taken
the lead in workers education. There is a little job cut out for them in
Philadelphia-The New Leader.