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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
The Public Ownership Machine

Promoters of public ownership now have a smoothly running machine work ing within local and national govern ment, that is hard to beat. One Federal agency conerS its attention on arbitrarily dividing efficiently operating electric utility systems into number of pieces. Another Federal agency, through divice of caluation, creates the impression that electric companies are charging exorbi- tant prices for their services, while still other Federal agencies, such as REA, stand ready with taxpayers money to buy out the dismembered remnants of the private companies
 The process does not stop even there. Every inducement is given to municipal authorities to foment public ownership. They are encouraged to rouse public opinion against local power companies by making a terrific issue of the smallest item in the average fanily's budget-the electric bill. Thus the familiar divide and conquer pattern of European dictatorS is being carried forward against the electric industry throughout the country.
 In Louisville Kentucky, drive is on to take over the local power company on the pela that that community cannot compete with other communities having municipal electric service, unless 1t also has municipal ownership. Ironically, Louisville ranks high in industrial de- velopment, as compared to cities having municipal electric service. Further, the disgraceful argument has been put forth that by taking over the local power con- pany, the people of Louisville will dodge several millions of dollars in Federal taxes now paid by the private company. How ever, the real reason behind the public ownership fovement in Louisville has been baldly admitted by leading propo- nents of the scheme. The city treasury needs more money and the revenue from the local power company would furnish it.
 A somewhat similar show is being put on in Omaha, Nebraska. There, with the aid of the original cost" valuation device, it has suddenly been "discovered' that the private company is rolling in money, although it has been under the watchful eye of the state regulatory commission for many years Local politicians are de- manding a million dollar rate cut-or else; the or else, of course, being munich pal ownership.
 An unregulated, tax-exempt govern mnet monopoly is what the people will get from the present political drive against the electric industry unless the public ownership machine is smashed, and the public agencies now promoting socialism within our government are given guiding rules that guarantee fair regulation rather than destruction of private enter prise. ta
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
It Works

The magazine Medical Economics says editorially: Advocates of Federal medl- cine contend that health insurance, to be successful, must be compulsory. Many people, they say simply won't buy such insurance unless compelled to do so.
 "No?
 "What about life insurance? One ot the outstanding successes of Amerlcan enterprise, the whole vast business mas been built entirely on the principle ot voluntary participation. High among the reasons for it's success is the fact that it has been promoted and sold to the public just as packaged product Is sofa.
 Health insurance can be sold the same way In fact, it should enjoy even greater acceptance than life insurance for sickness is a far more immediate problem to the average family than death.
 "Only few years ago, many people doubted the stability of hospital lnsur- ance = on any basis Yet in compar- ativelv short time the Blue Cross plans by utilizing modern salesmanship - have signed up some 15,O0O, 900 voluntary subscribers.
 voluntary health insurance is more than a sound idea; it is service that mas proved it's merit in scores of localities. Moreover, it is medicines greatest single weapon against Federal control"
 The comparatively few who cannot or will not protect themselves under VOL untary health insurance can surely De cared for without forcing all the people into the strait-jacket of compulsory health system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
MICHIGAN CUTS ITS BILLS
(New York Sun )

Michigan seems to have found way to save money for consumers of gas and electric power and at the same time to keep in the state money that otherwise would be ab- sorbed by the Federal Treasury. The state public service commits sion has ordered the Michigan Con- solidated Gas company to reduce it's December bills to consumers by 31 per cent. That will do away with an estimated aggregate of $1 .000,0 900 in Federal excess profits taxes.
 The commission already had or dered the Detroit Edison company to rebate SIG, 0,45O,000 to its custom CTS and had ordered the Consumers Power company to cut it's Decem- Der bills by 75 per cent, which reduced an estimated $5,000,0 Federal excess profits tax liability to $4,000,000. It Is considering sim liar action with respect to the Michigan Bell Telephone company.
 Federal authorities hardly can ob- ject to rate reductions per SC, for the government has spent millions of taxpayers money to build electric power plants, and has used the in- stallations as 'yardsticks" aimed at forcing down privately owned utility rates. It may nevertheless feel that if it loses one game 1t can win an- other; it could again resort to Fed eral taxation on gross charges to the defenseless consumer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Look Ahead, Labor!

The cause of organized labor continues to suffer because of wartime strikes. short time ago, General Eisenhower sent home word that this country was not pro- ducing sufficient military supplies to keep up with the demands of the advancing American armies in Europe. Then. Ii ever. was the time for labor to see that not a day or an hour be lost in the pro duction of the needed equipment. h. stead, immediately after Eisenhower's plea. more strikes occurred. Never has the comparison between failure at home and the cry for help from the front been more direct or more bitterly apparent.
 Everyone sincerely concerned With the future of American labor cannot help but shudder at the public wrath which It's shortsighted officers and members threaten to bring down on it's head. Day after day the newspapers ln great metropolitan centers contain page after page of war casualty lists. And each cas- uaity represents man with family in America, a family who reads III those same papers of disgraceful strikes in vital war plants. There is little these men and their families can do just now. They are not organized. No one can speak author itatiVely for them. They are as helpless as the millions of other men overseas, and their families men who are not casualties and who fight on with no Thought of desertion or muti1y which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Views Of The Press

hand corner to print the words. "50,000th issue"
 The Times Is, perhaps, the worlds most famous newspaper, though not necessarily its great est. It has had a Vest influence up- onaffairs in the British empire, it's editorials sometimes being regard ed as affecting opinion "as power fully as anything said in Parlia- ment.'
 The paper is not SO much older than The Hartford Times, which was established 32 years after The Thunderer began in 1785. It is not as old as The Hartford Courant, which began in l764. But the Lon don Times was a daily from the start, whereas our local papers were published weekly until the end of the first third of the nineteenth century.
 It is hardly necessary to praise the London Times for it's prestige and it's influence That would be like commenting the oceans, or the skies. But it may be remarked that to have printed 50,000 issues without a miss is worth at least the space our London contemporary gave it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Ignorance Supreme

Opponents of the chain store method of distribution in Canada have issued the frankest statement yet as to how and why chain stores, in their opinion, should be penalized with special legislation. The Syndicate of the Retail Food Trade has passed resolution asking the Minister of Commerce to protect by law retail merchants against chain stores, to limit their number and force them to make 10 per cent profit on all merchandise sold in order to avoid undue competition"
 That resolution should be an eye opener to every consumer in this country, as well as Canada. The chain stores have strlven hard to lower the cost spread between producer and consumer. They long ago realized that prosperity for them could best be obtained by helping to bring prosperity to others in the form Of lower retail prices They staked their exls- tence on moving a great quantity ot goods at minimum prices, rather than fewer goods at higher prices. In the present emergency, when the govern ment of all nations are struggling against mounting imitation, the modern mass distribution technique of the chain stores has been life-saver
 The idea that independent merchants were seriously handicapped by the intro duction of the chain store, has not shred of foundation. After period ot spectacular growth, the chains reached stable maturity The added competi- tive element they constitute in the field of merchandising helped rather than hindered the distribution industry. Other retailers have adopted their progressive methods and improved upon them until today the chains must fight to hold their own They operate on very slim profit margin. Requiring them to make a profit of 10 per cent would end mass dis tribution, and lower our standard of liv- ing. Any business or group that pleads for legislation to force competitor to charge unnecessarily high prices i'll order to soften competition, deserves little sympathy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

had a major engineering job on their hands. They had to remove the heavy dual-motored blows or small lighters before they could unload the ammunition.
 The blows were then to be reloaded on the ships and sent to Alaska. But the sun was too hot, and the men too busy. The ships sailed without the blows. The sun has remained too hot, and the men too busy. The blows are still lined up near the shore of tropical island while our men at the Alaskan airfields battle the snow without them.
 NOTE: This mistake is under standable. But the Army has never ben able to explain a ship ping mix-up of last year, when the under-carriage for railway cars arrived in North Africa, their proper destination, while the ca bodies were discovered some months later in Iceland.
 BURNING WAR BONDS
 Treasury Department war bond salesmen are pleased with the show of patriotism made by those who burn their war bonds, but they fear it will snarl Govern ment bookkeeping in years to come
 The Treasury has a microfilm record of every war bond pur- chaser, and officials point outt hat a persons equity in war bond cannot be destroyed, that the sales are marked as debt on the Fed eral ledger. Thus, burned war books unless you write to the Treasury and notify them to the contrary.
 NOTE: Secretary Morgenthau is the only man in America for bidden by law to purchase war bond. He is not permitted to own any Government securities.
 Copyright. 1944, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Current Comment

The most embarrassing thing, though, was one evening after din- ner when about 30 women came in and sat on the floor and stared at me for about two hours. I asked one of the men about it and he said that they believe if woman stares at something during the first three months of pregnancy the child will look like that.
 Pilot Ensign Radley E..
 Clemiens of Hartford, Conn.,,
 harbored by Philippine euer-
 rillas. A single month of combat on the German border destroyed 2,400 of our trucks and jeeps.
 Treasury Secretary Henry
 Morgenthau, Jr.
 Today we are firing ammunition that we would not have used until next February or March if we had been content with slower advance with less crushing victories, or if we had been ready to sacrifice sol. dierS to save materials.
 General Eisenhower.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Chewing Gum

SA$"AAA0
 Is chewing gum harmful after the sweet part has been swallowed or absorbed? (Mrs. s. E)
 Answer-No. Chewing wheat is better, think. Try carrying a handful of plain wheat and chew ing some when you want some thing to chew. Gives you desirable vitamin B complex for one thing. Send stamped envelope bearing your address for pamphlet Wheat to Eat"-do not send clipping.
 & T Club
 I have been a member of the & T Club for years-have found 1t keeps my hair looking so naturally dark that my friends are generally astonished when I tell them I touch it up to keep it that way. I add a few drops of olive oil. There IS only one drawback-it rubs oil on my pillow case. (Mrs. D. E. W.
 Answer-Seems as though there's always something to take the joy out of life. All I know is that many readers have expressed satisfaction with the use of iron and tea to touch up their graying hair - of course it dyes the hair black or dark brown. Put a piece of cop peras (;ron sulfate, not copper size of bean in a pint of ordaniary tea (black or green teal. Apply to gray hair as often as necessary. by drawing strands through soft cloth wet with the iron and tea.
 Nurse the Baby
 How long st;ould mother nurse her baby? (Mrs. J. E)
 !AnSwer-Eight to ten months. Copyright 1944 by John ?. Dille Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
SORRY, NO BABY

Woman aged 8 has had three, years Sojourn in a tuberculosis san. atorium, for advanced pulmon- ary tuberculosis, was discharged from san four years ago, still takes pneumothorax treatment (collapso of affected lung by injections of air or nitrogen into pleural cavity at intervals of weeks or month). Her husband, she says, has chronic os- teomyelitiS in one leg (this pre-. Sumably, is tuberculous of the bone marrow, though of course it may be non- -tuberculous).
 Now the couple want to have z, baby.
 Would it be wise for them to do so? Could they have healthy child? Even if child would not inherit tuberculosis or osteomyeli- tis, asks the couple-it is notable that they both sign the letter = would the child inherit tendency toward these diseases? Or would the child be weak and sickly? .t
 No, the couple should not have baby, at least not unless or until their doctor believes it would b0 safe-safe for the baby. Whether the oSteomyelitis is tuberculosis or not is unimportant-nothing here- ditary or even communicable about osteomyelitis of any kind.
 But the young woman's lung tu- berculoSis is presumably still active. else no further injections of nitroe gen or air would be necessary SG she would be almost certain to in> feet baby with tuberculosis is she nursed, cared for or kept the baby with her for any length of time, in spite of every meticulous care OF precaution she might take to avoid injecting the baby.
 No, tuberculosis, whether of lungs gland, bone or other tissue or or- gan, is not inherited. A child born of a tuberculosis parent may be aS healthy as any child-but unfort~ unately such an infant is almost certain to catch tuberculosis if the mother has the disease in active stage, and for this reason it is ab~ solutely imperative that baby born to a tuberculosis mother be taken away from the mother and kept away from her, for the baby's sake. There is no exception to this, ! believe.
 When this couple ask whether their baby would be weak and sickly" I suppose they mean with poor or low resistance but I don't know what that means, so let's compromise on immunity, for immunity is something doctors dg know something about. Candidly } have no idea whether child born to such parents would have too lit- tie, a fair degree, or no immunity against tuberculosis. It could be easily determined. however, by ap- plying to the newborn baby tuber- cLlin test.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

decision granting wage adjustments to the Uni t e d s te e lw 0 rkers' union. This par ticular section did not get the full attention 1t de- srves, for it really represents 3 ma jor victory for the labor leaders who for years hay e been W or k i n g against n o : | H.
 south wage diff ferentialS, though the recent VILE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

His board wrote back and sent him an aplication blank. A short time later he was killed, and among his effects was found this applica- tion made out and ready for mail- ing. In answering where he want ed to be sent for missionary serv- ice, he wrote: My first choice would be Japan, because the Japanese need the missionaries most. My sec ond choice would be China. because the Chinese deserve them"
 A memorial service was held in the home church of this boy a few weeks after the news of his death had been received. His parents
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
5000 DAYS WITHOUT A MISS
(Hartford Times)

The late Dr. William Douglas Mackenzie, head of the Theological Seminary, used to tell a humorous story Illustrating the antiquity of the Scottish clan with which his family was identified. Its history was told in numerous large volumes and near the very end of a final one a few lines of type announced that about this time the world was created"
 The Times, of London, the famous old Thunderer. treated about as inconseQuentially the striking fact of its having been published for 50.0OO consecutive days without Q single interruption. To that an nouncement the paper gave seven tenths Of an inch tn its upper right
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

asked their friends not to send flowers but instead to send the money they would have spent for flowers. About $425 was sent in. This the parents sent to the Board of Foreign Missions to which their son had applied for service.
 Everyone who has truly caught the spirit of Christ has felt that he must do something to extend in the world the influence and helpful ness of Christ's kingdom.
 All Rights Reserved Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

it had publicly expressed his pO- litical point of view.
 'I think your letter would be fitting in any Maxi or Japanese country, but Thank God there is an America where people can express their opinions publicly, no matter what their political utilization may be.
 we advised all of our peO- pie that they certainly had a right to express their views as to what you think about it, then a movie star certainly has the right to go to any political gathering and express his opinions"
 SNOWPLOWS IN TROPICS
 For weeks the Alaskan army has been yelling for dozen high-pow- cred snowplows to clear airfields in Alaska. Orders were sent for them nearly a year ago but. although the blows were shipped out in good time, they still have not reached Alaska. Instead, guess where they are! They are repos- ing under thatched roofs in the trapical heat of one of the Mari ana Islands.
 Here is the story of what hap pened.
 The dozen blows were loaded last summer on the decks of two ship whose holds were full of powder and shells. The ships sailed for Alaska form port on our Pacific Coast. Shortly after they set sail, a frantic request came from the Pacific theater for ammunition of the type these ships were carrying-the Saipan battle was in progress at that time.
 The ships were radioed to change their course and make for the Marianas. Unfortunately, there were no 2ort facilities at the island to which they were di- rected, and the Marines and Sea- bes assigned to unliad the ships
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Selected Poem

UMBRELLAS (Gwen Castle in The Christian Science Monitor) November skies are lowering and gray, The city streets reflect their somber hue Then suddenly there comes a shower of rain, And like garden bursting on the view, Innumerable blossoms dip and sway, Giant flowers of poppy red and some as blue As periwinkeS, purple, yellow, rose: And all around the streets gay again With every color that garden grows. I love the city on rainy day
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

When the bomb storage aft ex- ploded, was thrown flat on the deck and felt a burning sensation. Then I looked down and saw foot on the deck. It was my own right foot, completely severad but for a tendon.
 Capt. John M.. Hoskins, aircraft
 carrier Princeton survivor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

The Veterans Administration is open ing new offices throughout the country for the purpose of processing home loans to veterans, which would be guaranteed under the provisions of the GI Bill ot Rights-and that's very pleasant con- temptation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

would be comparable to wartime strikes.
 Some day when the war is over and the service men and their families are re- united, they will be heard from. Why don't more union spokeSmen look ahead to that day?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
A NOBLE TRADITION OF
 SERVICE

A soldier in the Pacific theater of war wrote some months ago to his denominational Board of For
 eign Missions and said, T have been so sickened by seeing death all about me and by the things we all have to do in line with military duty that I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

reel unless l can do some t h i Il g after the war to promote life and make it better, I just can't go through what I am doing now. I have a grow ing conviction that I want to be a foreign mis- sionary. What must I do to be- come One?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Daily Almanac

Moon rises at 3:5S a. m. (war time)
 Sun rises at 8:06 a. m, sets at 5:24 p. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The moon has been visible later and later these mornings in the eastern sky. It will rise at its latest Wednesday morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Your Health
 By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sOnal health and hygiene, not .o disease. diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if. a stamped self-addressed envelope. Is enclosed. Letters should DC brief and written in ink. 70 reply can be made to queries not cOnfcrEn- ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News paper Service, S2O West Madison Street. Chicago. HI.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
A Thought for Today

But now the Lord saith, them that honour me will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.-I Samuel 2:3O.
 For honour travels in a strait so narrow, where one but goes abreast-ShakeSpeare
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
Washington Merry Go-Round DREW P1 PEARSON

Roosevelt Agreed Let British Domnote Greece and Jugosovo
 Sudden Reversal of Our Policy of Supporting Them Comes Too Late Greeks Now Hold Us Also Responsible for the Boodhed in Athens SnoxPIoxs for Aosko Go Wind Up Hot Tropical Isle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Pay Decision Industry-Wide
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington GnrrNSnNndenf

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 A big step toward elimination of differentials in wage rates paid for the same work in different parts of the country was contained in one section of the War Labor Boards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-11

Copyright. 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1944-06-28
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