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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
Stricken France

One of the toughest and most thank less jobs in connection with the invas- ion of France is the task assigned to the civil affairs administrators. Not only must they restore order and provide food ard shelter for the civilian populace, but they must also use all their powers of tact and persuasion to rebuilt morale. French cities have been devastated by heavy artillery fire, bombing, house. to- house fighting. Homes have been de- molished, farms ruined, livestock, slaugh- tered. Tragically, innocent civilian by- islanders have been counted among the dead and injured
 Frenchmen are human, and being human, they must feel sense of frus- tration and bitterness at the unhappy turn of events that has brought havoc to their country. Many of the areas over which our invasion armies are now tramping have not felt the full devasta- ton of World War II before now. More over the Nazis, schooled in continental ways, have had long time in which to irfiltrate their propaganda, and the care fully disciplined German army of occu- patton has undoubtedly been cautioned to guard against mourning diSpleasure of the French populace. The underground has bitterly fought the Nazis, and there are unquestionably thousands of French men who hate the Boche, but reports have indicated that the Allies did meet with some popular displeasure.
 Wisely, American and British civil af- fairs administrators have named De Gaulle representative for each detach- ment, thus gaining the confidence of minor officials in many towns. Admins trative rifts have been avoided and the military authorities are proceeding eau tiously on wait and see" policy. Un- happy France, suffering humiliation, defeat, and now destruction of many his torical towns and cities, deserves our sympathy and all of the help we can give her. Her lot has not been pleasant one Her only consolation is that happier days are not far distant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
DEWEY THE LEADER
(New York Herald- -Tribun

(New York Herald -Tribune)
 Many precedents were broken at the Chicago convention. Never have nominations been arrived at so swiftly. Never has there been such unanimity behind candidate. Barely has there been SO little old- fashioned fireworks among the dele- gates. The convention named Gov ernor Dewey because its members regarded him as their ablest leader -the one best fitted alike to run for office and to fill that office. It was unniistakably choice based on admiration and respect. The dele- gates recognized his power--as dem- onstrated in his record as 6 pulp lic servant and as a vote getter. Last night most of them had their first chance to see him and observe this new leader at first hand.
 Tn Q sense what he said was less important than what he was. It was above all else . test of leadership of those intangibles which make a man stand out from his fellows, that reiider him unique, that make men turn instinctiyely to him for difec- ton.
 What the delegates saw when the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
A Thought for Today
Dewey on the Job

If the speed and alacrity with which Governor Dewey got into campaign har- ness following his speech of acceptance in Chicago can be taken as any criterion of what the remainder of his fight for the presidency the next few months is going to be, it is not going to be the push-over for MT. Roosevelt should he finally decide to run - that many have been wont to believe. It is going to be battle royal from start to finish.
 In Thomas E. Dewey the Republican party has hard fighting, two-fisted can didate who pulls no punches, but lets 1t go with both barrels when the occasion warrants. This years campaign promises tc be no wiSe-cracking Willkie side show such as the country had to endure four years ago. In Governor Dewey President Franklin D. Roosevelt again we repeat, should he decide to run-will meet his equal oratorically and mentally. Roose- welt stratagems of the past will be met with Dewey stratagems of the future. It promises to be campaign of give and take to the finish.
 And right now it is question whether the original strategy of the Democratic party in deciding to put off it's convention to almost month later than the Repub- lican's is going to have the effect origin ally intended Governor Dewey by his immediate and prompt action in taking over affairs out in Chicago has knocked the props out of any idea the Democrats might have had that this years cam paign was going to be a leisure affair. In few days from a man who was not sure he would take the nomination, Governor Dewey has come a long way. Whether he makes the grade and goes all the way wall be interesting to watch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
Selected Poem
MY WAY TO WORK

(Roland English Hartley in The Christian
 Science Monitor) Along my way to work there is a path That winds among the trees beside stream. All day have this beautys aftermath About me. Nothing happening can seem Unbearable while still hear the tones Of water murmurng among the stones. Along this way the leaves unfold in spring scuffle fragrant fallen leaves in fall. This pageantry of leaves is heartening, Remembered where there are no leaves at all. My thoughts evade the room-bound wheels of talk To find again the freshness of the walk. Tn winter barren branches hold the sky; The sluggish water bears weight of snow: The earth rings hard, about the seeds that lie Tn patient waiting for time they know. Remembering warmth in cold and spring in fal know the path in turn will hold them all. 70
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
AS A MATTER OF FACT

A. Warren Norton who has been man. ager of the Christian Science Publishing Company, will be well fitted to take over his new job as president of Press Wireless, Inc, which has news contact facilities throughout the world. The Christian Science Monitor also covers the world pretty much and it is quite certain as head of this largest news communication system he will have the success he has had with the Monitor He has been act ing, incidentally, as vice-president of the News Wireless
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second or third. Accordingly, the term "Drongo'' came to mean any one who made good appearance but who couldn't quite make the grade.
 Some people never succeed in life because they lack ability; others because they lack energy and am. bition. But the worst failure of all is c person who has about him all the appearances of a winner but who, because of some defect in character or slight unwillingness to exert himself. always comes in second or third best. This type of chap is the despair of his family and a continual disappointment to his friends.
 To whom much is given, from him will much be required. This is Biblical doctrine, and experience demonstrates It's truth. If we want
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Current Comment

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except the politician or an official, society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
 Winston Churchill. Our current and l944 submarines will be more effective fighting ships because of changes which are be- ipg made as Q result of actual tests in battle.
 Lieut.. : -Comdr. W. A. Hardy, Navy inspection officer.
 The threat of the totalitarlans has brought the American people together in unity of purpose and action. Regardless of church e creed, we will see this contest through together or be destroyed. Beverley D. Tucker, Cleveland. O.. Episcopal bishop.
 H Wherever people is oppressed by hunger. that people is an easy victim to the theft of its liberties. Vice President Henry A, Wall lace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
CHICAGO, June 30.

What they have suddenly re- alized is that their Electoral Col- lege Idea is likely to do to the South what all the Senate fili- busters over the poll tax never could do-namely, take away 13 per cent of the South's political power, unless the vote Is given to the Negro.
 What most people din't realize and anti- Roosevelt leaders are awakening to it-is that, fin the Electoral College, the South is able to vote It's Negro population even though the Negroes them- selves don't vote.
 In other words, the l2 South ern states now have 25.2 per cent of the nations vote in the Elec- toral College. But, since Negroes don't vote, those same States have only 12 per cent of the popular vote of the nation. Thus, in the last election, the twelve South ern States cast 135 votes in the Electoral College, which was 25.2 per cent of the total. But in the popular vote, they cast only B. 642,00o out of 49, 766, 900, which was only 12 per cent of the total.
 So by changing the age-old- practice of the Electoral Col Iege following the popular vote, Southern anti Roosevelt leaders are certain to start 8 move to abolish the Electoral College with the privileged voting posi-. ton 1t gives the South.
 SOUTH'S GAIN FROM
 THE CIVIL WAR
 Prior to the Civil War, the Con- stitution recognized the fact that Negroes did not vote in the South by giving the Southern States a smaller proportional vote in the Electoral College. Since the Civil War, however, the South has got 100 per cent credit for its Negro population in the Electoral College, even though they don't vote.
 This added political strength which the South has enjoyed ever since the Civil War would evapor- ate if the Electoral College were abolished. And politicos of both parties agree that its abolition is just as sure as tomorrow if elec- tors refuse to obey the mandate of the people.
 NOTE-How the South benefits from the Electoral College is H. frustrated by the following: kl South Carolina. only 100000 peo- pie vote, or one person out of l8. But 1t has 8 votes in the Elec- toral College. Texas, with a popular vote of 1,04l, ,000 in 1940, had 23 votes in the college. Mean- while, California, voting three times as many people--or 3,269.- OO0-hal less electoral votes than Texas, or 22. And New York, with six times the popular vote of Texas, or 6,302, 900, had only twice as many electoral votes. or 47. DEWEY STRATAGEM
 OeWey5 5 1Elcuuo d1ckit oIROubi2aB it from the housetops, but he had a neat strategem up his sleeve when he ran for Governor of New York, and he may use 1t again during his coming campaign for President.
 It all hinged around smart, shrewd publicity expert Edward L. Bernays, who has handled public relations for some of the biggest firms in New York. The Bernays agency made . thor Ough study and canvass of NeV
 York state, preparing . card index file of every Republican leader who controlled more than a teasnOonful of votes. What
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people. There is distinction to be made, however, in that 1t was Luz dendorf, Hindenburg and the other military leaders who told the so- cialist civilian politicians they should sue for peace because the country could fight no longer. This time there aren't any opposition politicians to be told to sue for peace and if Hitler fights to the last Finn, the last Italian Nordic and the last Aryan Quisling, 1t will be complete breakdown of the civilian popula- ton which will end this war for him.
 GERMAN FOOD
 SITUATION IMPROVED
 The food situation in Germany Is better now than in the last war, says Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Bri- tish Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare who has been in Washington to confer with U. S. Foreign Economic Ad- ministration officials. This improved food situation has been one of the main causes of Germans ability to hold out thus far. She has had two good harvests, and up until this year she has had whatever food she has been able to get from the scorched Russian Ukraine and by robbing the larders of France, the low countries, Norway and Dem mark.
 Because the German food situa- ton has been better, 1t has been argued that foods should be let into the an-conquered countries, to save their starving population and particularly their children Since 1889, food has been considered contraband by the British in their blockade of Nazidom and only small amounts have been allowed in - principally to Greece.
 The British blockade, augmented by U. S. naval and air aid after America entered the war, has not been confined to food, but has been against evrything the enemy might need. The full story of the blockade operations cannot now be told, but in general, says MT. Foot, the Ger Japanese efforts to beat 1t have in the last few years been confined to winter operations when nights are longest and weather the worst. Only approach to Germany has been through the western French ports on the Bay of Biscay. Ships at. tempting to make the run have had to make the voyage nonstop from Japan, without refueling, completely blacked out and with radios sealed. THREE BUSY SEASONS
 There have been three busy sea- sons. In the spring of l942, Axis ships were engaged in this trafdc both ways. In the winter of l943 only a few got through. Some were sunk by naval action, and nearly all those that were overtaken were scuttled. So desperate have the Germans become for some materials principally alloy ores and vegetable oils, that theer has been some block ade running in submarines. The climax came this past Decmber when the Germans sent out Il de stroyers to escort in one shipload ot wolfram. The convoy was intercept. ed in the Bay of Biscay and several of the destroyers sunk by naval gunfire and aerial bombing. In the last IS months it is not believed that any ships have made the out- bound trip from Germany to Japan.
 The blockade would have been ineffective, of course, if 1t had not been supplemented by preclusive buying of Spanish and Portuguese supplies by U. s. and British gov ernmentS. It's all a part of this modern economic warfare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Poison to Counteract Poison


 Must interested in your state- ments about abuse of barbiturates. Is there remedy to counteract the ravages of such drugs? (J. O. Answer-I regret to say 1t is not so simple as that. The first remedy is to stop taking the drug. If you can't do so of your own free will, you should have medical care.
 Calories
 How many calories in an ounce of whiskey and four ounces of (a popular carbonated beverage).
 (Mrs. c. Mo. K) Answer-Approximately S5 cal- ories in an ounce of whiskey-but the question is, how much of the alcohol can the body oxidize or burn as fuel? The calories in the sweet- ened beverage are practically just the calories of the sugar in it-ap- proximately S5 calories in fuor fluid ounces.
 imaginary Danger
 What danger is there that e varicose vein may break?
 tMrs. J. O. Answer-If you mean danger of bleeding, practically none. Simple pressure on wound with finger or cloth pad would stop such bleeding. Copyright, 1944, John F. Dille Col
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Bernays did was to take old Re- publican lists and check them over, bringing them up to date,
 analyzlng the importance of each leader.
 Each card contained not only first names, but nicknames, pet hobbies, political and financial histories, and every other fact which @ candidate needed to know. Thus, Dewey was able to tell, from a glance at a card, precisely whom he was talking to when he stumped the State. He was able to ask political lead- CTS about their families, their business, etc., in typical Jim Far ley manner.
 Bernays also did an intensive research job on the political writ ings of about 800 key non-poli- tical civic leaders around the State, and dug up, from what they had said, passages parallel to Dewey's talks. Then letters were sent these leads showing how Dewey's and their minds were running in the same direc- ton.
 The Bernays survey is reputed to have cost Dewey's friends $5O,000, but 1t was worth 1t.
 NOTE: Word of the Bernays survey for Dewey leaked when Bernays approached the Demo- crats recently to suggest that he do e similar job for them |. Best U. s. memories for names, dates, and places are rated as fol- lows: Jim Farley, Mrs. Henry Wal lace, Erwin Holt, retired cotton manufacturer of Burlington, N. C.,
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and Nat Howard, editor of the Cleveland News, formerly U. s. press censor.
 CONVENTION CHAFF
 Outstanding press conference at Chicago was that of Connecticuts glamorous Congresswoman Clare Luce. She had all the answers. Asked a newsman: "What about the Democratic charge of swap ping 8 horse in mid-stream for . shetland pOny?" I'd swap 8 horse for an elephant any time," shot back Mrs. Luce. Especially In place of a donkey" After talking about women in politics, Mrs. Luce went on to another sub- ject. Piped up a rewsman: Lets get back to the wOmen." Replied Clare: "The men always do."
 Mrs. Warren Austin, gracious wife of the senator from Vermont, came to enjoy the convention, found herself answering the phone and making beds Just before Chicago. 26 Negro organizations met in New York, decided they would not support Dewey - for the following reasons: Failure to support cloture during the Sen- ate anti-poll tax debate; failure to support the Federal soldiers bal- lot; his returning of Andrews to Mississippi to face what Negroes feared would be an unfair trial To get quick service in Chi cago hotels, COP delegates had to use an Irish brogue and talk like Democrats.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30
THE COMING FOURTH
(New Britain Herald

Gov. Baldwin has asked the states citizens to celebrate the Fourth of July "soberly;" with con- trite hearts and prayer on their lips for the lads over wonder, to the east and tho west
 Previousiy Mayor Quigley asked citizens to stay at home on the hol- iday.
 All signs point to holiday of e character different from the peace- time variety. Can we really enjoy the holiday at home? Why, certain lyI It has been done by thousands since the war began; and thousands more will attempt it this year as travel inhibitions mount.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30

In times of heat we talk of heat, and next winters oil is an important question at the moment, just when a thermome-; ter reading of 98 degrees makes us won der if we will ever start the furnace go- ing again. The OPA just ruled 10 per cent increase to anyone using an oilheat- ing stove with a child under six years of age. Small favors are gratefully ac- ceDted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-30

Not SO long ago the drug, penicillin, was possibility Finally it was tried and found not wanting, but for somewhat ex- elusive use. Now it is to be distributed throughout the world for restricted ci- vilian use The quota has been increased for American depot hospitals and regular hospitals. This country produces about 95 percent of the worlds supply.
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pear to be worse on than even the military authori- ties thought pos- sible, there is of course no use c ou n ting the Nazis out yet. And when the collapse comes 1t may be from a different direction than in 1913.
 After the last war, General Lu- dendorf blamed the collapse on the G Q r m O n
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Washington.
 It is task that no ordinaly pol- itical leader, however honest and well meaning, could possibly ac- complish. There is call for admin istrative ability of the highest qual. ity. And there is equally call for indominitable courage, steadfastness and power to command. We are confident that. confronted by these tests. the Chicago convention did . great days work in naming Gov- ernor Dewey for the Presidency.
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Your Health
 By Dr.. William Brady

signed letters pertaining e per- sonal health and hygiene, mt Co disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if Q stamped self-pddressed envelope ls enclosed. Letters should Dc brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News. paper Service, S20 West Madison Street, Chicago, III. @aG
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LSEH AlVO uCobS
 among the Aus tralians. s o m c years ago a horse named Dron g c caused thousands of people in that part of the world to lose 8 gre a 1 deal of m o n e y, He had every ap- pearance of being a winner, but he A " Vs care fN
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Dewey's Wife Shuns Acclaim, Mrs. Bricker Avoids Politics. So it looks like two nice ladies were going to be in a hard place in the months to come if things go the Republican way. We only know what we read in the headlines.
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the respect of our fellow men, we have to live up to the highest esti- mate people put upon our ability and character. Otherwise we are a "Drongo."
 All Rights Reserved Babson News.
 paper Syndicate
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NERVOUS EXHAUSTION AND NERVOUS INDIGESTION

I said the other day that there is no scientific or phystologic founda- ton for the notion of complete ex- haustion which is not completely relieved by a nights sleep or rest. If the indisposition, disability or feeling of exhaustion remains not materially improved by such rest, then 1t is good medicine and good sense to make or have made a thorough medical examination in an honest endeavor to find out what ails you.
 Please bear in mnid that I speak of exhaustion here in the physiolog- ical sense, not in the vague mislead- ing sense in which the term is so effectively used by quack doctors and nostrum Y1ongers. Physiology recognizes only one kind of energy muscular, caloric-and only one kind of fatigue or ehaustion.
 Assuming, as we must until phy- siology is proved wrong, that there is only one kind of exhaustion, physical or muscular, and only one kind of fatigue, then we must con- clude that ordinary sleep or rest is the remedy that completely re- freshes and restores the exhausted individual, gnerally in day or less. When or if such ordinary rest fails to restore normal health and vigor, the cue for the well informed man or woman is, not to fool around with stimulants, sedatives, restoratives, complete relaxation in a resort and all that quaint business of the gay nineties, but on udergo a careful medical examination by a doctor who by training and study and experience is qualified to rec ognize chronic diseases in the early or milder stages.
 Classic example of indigestion from nervousness FEs the complete arrest of all perlstaltic or natural churning movements of stomach and intestine in an animal fright ened (say 6 cat suddenly confronted by dog ,enraged or even just ir- ritated or annoyed by unaccustomed restraint or noise or subjected to paint Not only the important move ments or motor unctions, but the accompanying chemical or secre- tory functions are strikingly inhib- ited slowed down or arrested. This Is indigestion and no fooling. But remove the threatening dog, release the restraint or relieve the pain or quiet the internal racket and pres ently, within an hour or so anyway, all the digestive functions resume right where they left of.
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
ARE YOU A "DRONGo"?

ARE YOU A "DRONGO"?
 The Australians use the term "Drongo" to designate beginner or a raw recruit-especially some body who is always in trouble with the drill sergeant.
 The race course brought this
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
The Blockade Against Nazis
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrregpondent

A pet topic for cocktail lounge strategists is the possible economic collapse of Germany - how, when and a bushel of big ifs. This alco- holic academic discussion has been heightened since the invasion of France and the advances in Italy, revealing Germany's terrible short ages in manpower, the lack of air. power and the deterioration of all her fighting equipment.
 Even though the Germans do ap-
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Daily Almanac

Moon sets at l:44 .. m. (war time) Sun rises at 5:23 .. m, sets at S:7 p. m. (war tirne)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.