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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

For instance, returning flyers tell of one case in the South Pa- cific where Jap Zeros were about to clash with Army 38s. Some Navy Avs sighted the approach ing combat, but signalled to each other: ITO hell with the 36s. Let them get home if they're good enough. If we save lem, they'll get DFC's Distinguished Flying Cross) and we'll get another mis- siOn."
 ROOSEVELT'S CALLER
 Seventy -five-year old Secretary of War Stimson left the Presi- dents office the other day after a weighty conference on the war. Two seconds later, . six-year old girl, blonde and dimpled, tripped in. She was Phyllis Firebaugh of Easton Rapids, Michigan, chosen by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to pin a poppy on the President, opening the vFW's annual Buy a Poppy" drive for the orphaned children of service men.
 Roosevelt seemed to enjoy the contrast. He leaned back, with broad grin, and remarked: "It sure Is a big relief to talk to pretty little girl after all the con.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
THE EARLY BITE
(New York Herald -Tribune)

(New York Herald -Tribune)
 The overgenerous rains of April and the overwarm days of May have joined. according to natures simple chemistry, in making grass grow in upstate pastures earlier than usual Cows long restricted to stanchions and the barnyard limits of trampled corn fodder now finds themselves joyfully possessing the four pastoral freedoms of sun, air, young grass and the cool water of full brooks. If there is anything in the consumer state happier than a small boy con- fronted by double chocolate ice- cream soda it is a Jersey heifer turned out for the first time to what a British farmer calls the early bite"
 It is a mistake. at any time. and. above all, in May pasture time. to regard a COW as a dull creature of low intellect and sluggish tempera- ment. For a COW intoxicated with the taste Of marsh marigold and bemused with the scene of swamp vioIets can kick up her heels and cavort about in a manner to as- tound those who look upon a COW ai but a slow. primitive and necessary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
ONE TRACK UTILITY
Christian Science Monitor,

Christian Science MonitoC
 Our fayorite hardware store says that a boom in wheelbarrows is one of the encouraging signs of the times. It's a boom which has been growing since people gave up pleas ure riding and began to discover the poys of working around ones home. A man needs a wheelbarrow.
 A wheelbarrow is a simple piece of equipment: box with removable sides. a wheel in front, and two shafts. But one can sense the epochal achievement of that day. centuries gone, when man first har- messed a single wheel to his use. It's always been standard part of farm equipment. but now that some 20 million city, suburban and town dwellers are cooperating in the Victory Garden program, the wheelbarrow is coming into it's own as an important adjunct to home centered urban living. Besides. think of the fun of giving Betsy and Robbie a ride to the garage when the works done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

ferences on the war. Come up here and sit beside me-"
 Omar B. Ketchum, VFW legisla- tive representative, sat the tiny visitor on the Presidents desk. Then a battery of news photog- raphers went to work on the first pictures of Roosevelt since his re- turn from South Carolina.
 However, there was little relief for the President in the picture taking, though he grinned thorugh it all. He had to pose six times with Phyllis. daughter of a de- ceased war vet, before the camera men were satisfied. Trouble was that Roosevelt couldn't get the little girl to smile.
 'T was too excited" Phyllis told vFW officials afterwards, with good reason.
 The President evinced an inc terest in one camera. 'T don't recall seeing one like that be- fore" he remarked. 'What kind is it?"
 "Oh, it's just a good camera, MT. President" replied the phO- t0g.
 Copyright. 1924 by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

consistent with navy regulations"
 The remark is often made that 1t is the little things in life which count most. If we look back upon our friendships we find that almost always they began as the result of someone's spontaneous kindness to- ward us. The htings which count most in the home are little things. No man ever gets to such c high position that he does not appreciate the little, thoughtful acts of his as- sociates and loved ones.
 We are inclined to make too much of big things. It is the little thinga which give life It's csr;endor.
 All Rights Reserved
 Babson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

a big party. His buddy, also a navy
 man. was present. The mother of this buddy remarked that she had
 neve rseen her son look SO shabby
 and unkept as he did that evening.
 why didn't you wear your
 'Whites7' sch said. 'You look skun- ming In them" His answer was. T didn't want Co make Blll feel bed. SO wore the seediest thing I could
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
THE TRAGIC NECESSITY
(New York Times)

Every humane person must de- plore bombing from the air just as every humane person deplores war itself. To that extent we must all sympathize with the appeal of four eminent members of the French clergy that "the civilian populations of France and Europe be spared as much as possible" and that care also be taken to avoid hitting churches, schools, hospitals and humble dwellings in neighborhoods sheltering women and children" No Allied flyers wants to hit such marks. The terrorizing of civilian populations has never been an Allied aim. The Axis Powers alone have followed such a policy: the Japanese in China; the Italians in Ethiopia and Spain; the Germans in Spain, Poland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Brit ain.
 The French appeal asks for more care" This request is legitimate. Our flyers made some tragic mis- takes in Italy and others elsewhere, apparently because of inadequate advance information. This situation is being remedied. But the danger to civilians. in the kind of fighting that has been forced upon us is unacceptable. Our enemies chose total war. and total war it is. If the United Nations were not strong enough to destroy key German cit- ies the Germans would now be de- stroying British cities and probably trying to destroy American cities. The air war is intended to save the lives of soldiers by making their task easier. The way to end 1t is to end the war, as is well known in Ger many and in the satellite nations. And the way to end 1t forever, after the armistice, is to keep down the aggressor and the aggressive spirit forever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Views Of The Press

way of making milk from meadows.
 It is interesting to note, in this day of the omnipotent machine and facile laboratory, that not since vergil wrote his third book of Geor- gics has any better method of get ting milk out of meadows been pre- fected. The "early bite," now in full rumination in the Hudson River Valley is still the first green step toward Grade A milk and twelve point butter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Your Health;
 ByDr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining tO pefS
 sonaI health and hygiene, not Co
 disease, dingnoeiS Og treatment,
 will be answered by pr. Brady ig
 stamped sele-nd dressed cnveIopg
 ia enclosed. Letter. should Do brief
 and written in ink. No reply can
 \. made Co queries not conform
 ing Co instructions. Address Ayx
 william Brady, NatlDnal News~
 paper Service, S20 West M1disUD
 Street. Chicago, III. - so YOU GO WITHOUT TEETHa
 Physician retired from civil servp ice complained the other day of bes ing "a litle nervous, especially fol- lowing extraction of all my teeth and of "having considerable tr0uhlG in using my dentures, especially the lowers, which seem Co get mo all upset when put them iHl"-an0 asked for advice. The data the doc- tor provided were not much to 60 on, but under the title Doctors Ara Difficult Patients" we made stab % 1t here. Why not stretch the Coda of Medical Ethics for the benefit of a colleague as well as for any oEie else? The injunction of Hippo crates overrules the Code of Medi- cal Ethics promulgated by the American Medical Association 1S47), so far as I am concerned. old Hips code was simple enough: Do Good If You Can But Do No Harm.
 A lot of misguided folk make the mistakes my medical correspondents made--they submit to the extrac- tion of all of their teeth when by the exercise of reasonable care or Judgment one or more of the teeth might be saved, and then they put their new dentures on the shelf and limp along for the short space of life remaining to them minus a considerable portion of their diges- tive machinery.
 The reason the medical corre- spondent gives for not wearing his denture is that 1t "upsets" him. Presumably 1t gives discomfort. Or not unlikely the patient has made only half-hearted effort to accuS- tom his mouth to wearing the den. ture. That is a familiar defection and a challenge to the professional pride of dentists-if a patient will not or canot use his new teeth for chewing his food he might as well purchase them by mail from 6 wholesale concern.
 While we are horseing around here and sticking our neck out too, no doubt, let me pay my compli- ments to those average physicians who take a cursory glance at the patients mouth, notice several ca rious teeth and more or less gengi- wits (gum infiamamtion) or pyor- rhea and arbitrarily order extrac- ton of all of the unhappy patients teeth. These horse doc--I mean these doctors horsing around in practice haven't the professional courtesy or decency to confer or consult with the patients dentist concerning the serious question Of which teeth 1t may be possible to save. I admit I put on a good bull in the china shop act here but tho practitioner who thus nonchalantly sacrifices his stupid patients teeth without due progess of investiga- ton makes my performance seem pale indeed. He is a malpractitior- er-and the dental parlor mechanic who yanks out all the remaining teeth from the simple minded vic- tim's jaw under such mandate is an accomplice in the crime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
NEXT WARP
(Boston Post,

Assistant Secretary of State Berle said something very sound when he warned that if there is a next war, American will be bombed from the air. He held out the threat of ari- other war after this to make his point, namely, that making peace last was not ''an adventure in star ry-eyed idealism." It must be based on practically and realism. It should be sustained and maintained not by dreay-eyed pacifists, but by men who did the fighting, who know the horrors of war and do not want them visited upon the uext generation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Current Comment

It is quite possible that when we make our great invasion, the Ger. mans will make some sort of effort to land in this country.
 Field Marshall Lord Ironside, British home force chief.
 Some people are incapable of living with someone else. It drives some people mad to have anyone come home and hang their hat up in the hall at seven. And it drives some people mad when they don't. Ethel Mannin, British novelist. on marriage relations.
  Tn the long run, narrow self. interest can only be cured by giv ing people the facts and by show. inf them the implications Q sci of facts or conditions have foi their own personal welfare. -Hadley Cantrii, director Prince ton P. office of public opinion research.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Selected Poem
SPRING TO SUMMER

Keith Thomas in The New York Times) A floating hawk on InoveleSs wings With height mkaes pettiness of things.
 Tn suits of sky
 The jaybirds fly. The bIAckhird, gay Lotharlo. Preens glossy feathers till they glow.
 The robins, plump
 And saucy, jump About the yard and stethoscope For worms, and on the clothesline rope
 The dainty wren
 Balances again All these with fiIrt and brush Of wing Have bade the summer follow spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

4dbOI 0OfsA,d NAAA the National La- bor R elatio n s Board, for they also share res- Mty for this home front breakdown.
 This D e troit trik e of the Foremen's Asso- citation of Amer ica Is regarded by Undersecretary of War R o b ert P. Patterson as the most s erio u s tllreatto war pro- flSrNtiAe1 ivn { h n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Beware of Paraffin Injections

0GW&AC VA A eAA@AAAAs @~so~SN@~~@@
 I am 2l, born with flat pugnosc. Would 1t be safe to have by nose reshaped by a plastic surgeon who uses parafin? (S. K.)
 Answer - No. Only safe or satis- factory way to correct the shape Of nose is by surgery.
 Infantile Paralysis
 Is there danger of getting infan- tile by working in 3 hospital where such children are care for? The young person is g years old and would come in contact with these patients. Q. B. M.)
 Answer-Infantile paralysis is not communicable after the acute fever ish stage (before paralysis occurs or in the first week or so afterward). So there is no danger of catching the disease from patients under treatment for paralysis.
 Growth and Strength
 lam IA. I have had a tired feeling all winter. used to be able to cars ry ten gallon can of milk, but now I can hardly carry a pailful. When sit down for . while my knees ache when I get up. I have grown fast, about three inches the past winter. Dad says he was just like that when he was my age, and 1t IS just from growing so fast. "A. WI
 Answer - Dad may have had the same condition, but he is wrong in thinking 1t is just from growing fast. If your loss of strength is real- ly as great as you say, you should have the benefit of a careful medi- cal examination. The whole trouble may be comparatively simple nu- trional deficiency, but leave that to the doctor who examines you. Copyright 1944. John F. Dille O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

to leave the arm- ed service aito- gether. He ha q looked forward for years to a training " hic h was now denied. II c left th c ca m pus heart- broken c nd in tears.
 When he reach- ed hom c. ht friends gave him
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
GLORY OF LITTLE THINGS

I heard a story recently about the fine consideration which one man in the armed service accorded Q less-favored comrade.
 It seems that a certain young man was chosen to go to Annapolis, and after being there for some months a serious physical defect was dis- covered which meant that he had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at e:4i D. m. (war time) sun rises at S.2s g. m. sets at e:i0 ?. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The weather will be fair and hot for the next few days according to calendar predic- tionz. also some storms. Wen see.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
o MATT OVAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Strikes Laid
 To WLB, NLRB
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

When General Henry H. Arnold
 of the Army Air Forces appeared before the War Labor Board to de- clare that the war in Europe was no mere labor dispute which could be allowed to run on and on, the as- sumption may have been that he was talking to the Foremen's Asso- citation of America whose $500 members pulled the Detroit area strikes that tied up war production of 35,000 worlkmen. Actually, how- ever, General Arnold might have done g little blitzing of the War
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

Civilians understand inside the Army causing unfortunate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Al Thought for Today

Whoso mocketh the poor reprOachcth his Maker: and he that Is glad st calamities shall not be npunlshed-PrOverbs 17:5.
 Cheerless poverty has no harder thial than this that it makes men the subect of ridi- cule-Juvenal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23
Washington Merry Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

No Topeavy Award of Decorations Ams Heroes
 ony Their Flyers With Equal Geoter Records Go Unrewoded Roon of 100000 Army Air Medals 700 for Ncvy Affects Moroe President Enjoys Posing With Little Girl After Weshy Wor PoFey
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-23

Copyright, 1924 by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1944-01-15

as the chocolate lily. Mission bells
are close cousins to the true lilies.
FrtttllarA Is . genus Of wide dis
tribution throughout the Northern
Hemisphere, both In the New World
and the Old.
There are about so known species,
IL of which may be found in Cali
fornia. Though many Of the bells
are mber-colored, some are quite
colorful. There is the yellow one,
the scarlet and the greenish- white.
Some Of the bells are quite mottled
and there is a beauty growing In
the pine forests of California that
is purplish-scarlet on the outside
and crimson and purple within.
There are many kinds of fritillaria
natives OF the northern temperate
zone. Those found in the East are
cultivated. The most familiar one
to flower growers is the crown i'm
perial. In the West there are many
growing wild. AL have bulbs with
round, thick scales. These develop
into bulblets. often resembling large
grains Of rice.
However, all the mission bells are
similar and nodding. They have a
nectar-spot at their base and re-
semble lilies on a much smaller
scale. The style is three cleft and
the honey-gland is q shallow pocket.
The capsule Is fairly round and six
angled, containing numbers of nat
seeds. This seedbox is so conspicu-
Gus that 1t suggested to the botanist
the Latin name dice box"
Mission bells are beautiful plants.
The flowers are about l inch across
and there may be as many as five
or more in cluster. They are
Evening star., 1944-01-15
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Evening star., 1944-01-15

usually on y smooth stalk about
IL inches high and the bells swing
back and forth from slender flower
stalks.
Slender leaves. usually quite long,
scattered or In vhork, grow on the
smooth stalk.
The mission bells Of bronze GOV.
ertng the grassy hillsides OF CALI
fornia In early spring are the JOY
and delight Of children. Many wild.
flower gardens have several varieties
growing In them.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Uncle Roy's Corner

Two letters which speak Of com.
cts are now on my desk. my
daughter" wrote Harry Leggett,
Started cutting out your column
in 1887 and has placed the clip
pings In scrapbooks. This helps US
to refer back to different subjects,
one Of which Is astronomy.
while I was In Regina, Sas.
ketchewan. In 1910 everybody was
looking up In the sky one evening.
There, in the southern sky was
Halley's Comet. It was travelling In .
southwesterly direction and had .
very long tail.
IT was q very warm evening, and
the air was sulphury. I did not md
out much about the comet except
its name and the fact that It would
return In about Is years"
In the astronomy series Ne had
recently I did not speak Of this In
teresting point: Astronomers say
that the earth probably passed
through the tail Of Halley's Comet
in 1910.
Some comets have tails millions
Of miles long. The gassy material
In the tails Is very thin and has
little, II any, power to harm the
earth. wonder whether the "sul-
phury" smell which Mr.. Leggett re-
ports could have been caused by
the tail Of Halley's Comet. In the
city where / lived while the comet
was in sight during 1910 I heard
no one speak of sulphury smell
in the air. Yet such a smell might
exist in one part Of the earth and
not In another.
A letter from D. E. Billman Of
st. Petersburg, Fla, speaks Of our
article about the Great Comet Of
1882.
II was 8 years old at that time"
he says, land can still remember
the Great Comet. 1t was q wonder
full sight.
Il was raised on a farm 8 miles
south of Dayton, Ohio, and my par
ents went to Dayton each Saturday
to do their trading. At that time 1t
was our custom to lay in supplies
once q week of the things we did
not raise on the farm.
I'm making the trip we used to
leave home at 4 o'clock In the
morning, and at this early hour the
comet was at its best In all the
years since then, I have wondered
about that comet but have not
found it mentioned until you took
1t up in your column. So am very
happy to have read your article"
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Natures Children
fFrttt1drtd.)
~ LILLIAN COX ATAEY.
MISSION BELLS.

fFrtttlldrta.J
Mission bells! How subtly the
name suggests tinknng bells from
some mission tower. A flower with
such = name must, Of course, have
the color and the form Of the
familiar metal bell. 30 we flnd that,
instead Of gay colors always ex-
pected In flowers, We have noddine
brownish- -purple ones. Indeed, this
dainty little blossom Of the green
hillsides Of California Is also known
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-12
NEW YORK POLICE
SEEK BLONDE GIRL

MlNEOLA, N. Y, Sept. II. -(R
"A blonde girl was sought by pol
Ice tonight in connection with the
escape from the Nassau county
Jail last night Of five men, three
Oh whom were still at large.
A police alarm was broadcast
after 1t was disclosed that the girl
on last Saturday visited Teddy Del
mar, 30, one of the escaped pris-
oners. The police said they had
identified her. A woman drove the
automobile in which the men raced
away after using a gun to force
their way out of the jail.
Police recaptu-ed Henry Ambro-
siac. Of Glen Cove, N. Y, jailed
on two charges of rape, and Ralph
Head OF Rome, Ga, sailor charg-
ed with assault and rape. Both men
are hospitalized following injuries
suffered when they tried to climb
the prison wall.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-12
I
CERTIFICATES FILED
BY FOUR BUSINESSES

RALEIGH, Sept. II. -(R- Fou,
certificates of interpretations we-e
filed today with the Secretary Of
State:
Elizabeth City Golf club, to main.
tain a golf course and club; non
stock; incorporators: W. H. Wea.
therly, J. A. Jenkins, ]. H. Leroy
of Elizabeth City, and others.
Carolina Potato company Of Fai
son, to buy, sell, store and market
potatoes; authorized capital stock.
$500, subscribed stock $1,000 by
Harold S. Precythe, George Joseph
both Of Faison, and A. w. King Of
Baltimore.
Port Publishing company of vii.
mington, to engage in a printing
and publishing business; authoriz.
ed capital stock 100000, subscryb.
ed stock $4,000, by W. S. Carroll
o. B. Carroll, S. M. Carroll, all OF
Wilmington.
Caduceus Flying club Of Win
ston-Salem, to own and operate Air
craft and airplanes of all kinds;
authorized capital stock $50, 900,
subscribed stock s225 by George
Ha-rell, Harold Sluder, W. E.
Woodruff, all of Winston-Salenl
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-12
FISHING AREAS
OPENED AGAIN

Removal of restrictions on COM
mercial fishing in areas in h e
lower Cape Fear river was an
nounced by the Captain of tn e
Ports office of the u. S. Coast
Guard yesterday.
The notice follows: "You e
hereby notified that the areas in
the lower Cape Fear River hereto
fore restricted at the request of the
U. S. Army are now unrestricted
and that all of the waters of the
Cape Fear river at Shows Cut are
open for commercial fishing, ex-
cept for a radius of 1000 feet
around the Ethyl Dow chemical
plant.
THE waters in and around
Zeke's Island and Corncake Inlet
are no longer restricted and COM
mercial fishing is now permitted.
mo commercial fishing is allow
ed in the Cape Fear river unless
a permit to fish has been obtained
from this Office
This notice applies to commercial
fishing only.