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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
George Washington-Aid to .
 Decision

This fall we must elect President. It is duty as fateful as any that American voters have ever had to discharge, and it is not duty to be approached with indif- ference. We all know, at least basically, the crucial importance of the tasks that the next President must face How these tasks are performed depends, of course, upon our wisdom in the choice of man to perform them. Whoever the candi- dates shall be, then, we must examine their strengths and weaknesses with care, and weigh their comparative merits sanely, with as little partisan prejudice as partisan American voters can achieve.
 But what are the ideal qualifications of a President which may serve as a model in deciding between the two candidates of 1944? Perhaps the best answer to that question is to be found in words spoken by Daniel Webster 112 years ago today, on the centennial anniversary of the birth of George Washington:
 Tn the first place, all his measures were right in their intent. To command ing talents and to success, he added a disregard of self, spotlesSnesS of motive, a steady submission to every public and private duty, which threw forever into the shade the whole crowd of vulgar great
 ''The object of his regard was the whole country. No part of it was enough to fill his enlarged patriotism. His love of glory, so far as that may be supposed to have influenced him at all, spurned everything short of general approbation. It would have been nothing to him that his parti- sans or his favorites outnumbered, or outvoted, or outmanaged, or outclamored those of other leaders.
 s.E1is principle it was to act right, and to trust the people for support; his prin- ciple it was not to follow the lead of Sin- ister and selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such course. Born for his country and mankind, he did not give up to party what was meant for mankind"
 There, in the first President, as seen through the penetrating mind of Web ster, is a model of political virtue which no crisis could dominate or conquer. We should all do well to study it honestly and carefully. For the 1944 candidate whose intrinsic qualities most closely resemble those described above can safely be entrusted with the job of leading this nation through the four trying years that are ahead.
 It is, we believe, as simple as that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Labor Editor Looks at Guinea Pig

Anyone who has followed the political trend in this country and who is even faintly familiar with history, shudders at the placid acceptance by American labor of the encroachment of government on personal liberty. A few labor leaders have kidded themselves into the belief that they can go into partnership with the government-with themselves as the Sen- for partners. In their blindness they have led labor to the brink of disaster.
 At last cry of protest comes from the state of Washington, where labor publi- cation voices alarm over bill to be Sub- mitted to the people at the next general election which would socialize Washing tons electric light and power industry. In commenting on the proposal, the edi- tor of the Washington labor paper de- clares: "We recognize the danger of anti-labor bureaucrats getting control of publicly-owned monopoly and using their entrenched position to fight the unions. That is why we raise the queS- tion: Do we want all power and light in this state to be publicly owned?"
 It is long past time that labor awoke to the danger to the liberty of American workers inherent in the drive to Socialize the electric industry. AS has been point ed out again and again, if the utility ln- dustry should be brought under the ownership of government, other indus tries would follow as surely as night fol- lows day. And as each industry was sub jugated, the freedom of the workers in that industry would be ruthlessly swept aside. This is not opinion. It is his torical fact. For time the authority of government might be yielded with a velvet glove, but when an issue arose, the glove would come off.
 Under government ownership, the workers could not bargain with govern ment, for the simple reason that f they were to impose their will on governnat..tc, they would overthrow the government. In many nations, labor learned this hard truth too late. The electric industry has been the guinea pig of American social ists. It is encouraging to note that some labor leaders are at last questioning the experiment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
VTTAMIN DEFICIENCY. AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

Night blindness or SenSitivity to glare or inabn1ty to see as well as normal persons see in dim light or after dusk, dryneSe of the eyes lack of tears or insufficient tear secre- ton to keep eyeball moiSt), and dryness of the skin with nutmeg grater roughneSs or papular erup- tions over some areas of the skin, a tendency of the mucous mem- brane surfaces (epithelium) to change in character from soft func- tionally active to keratinized or hardened epithelial layers whose atrophied (shrunken or wasteD cells no longer perform their proper functions-and this impairs the natural protective function of the mucous membranes against tnva- sion by disease germs. That is practically all we know about the effects of insufficient intake of vita min A.
 Numerous correspondents, most of them young or middle aged, I believe, have reported this expe- rience: they have been rejectd by the medical examiner because of too high blood pressure. Then they have taken, say, 100000 units of natural vitamin A (four 25,000 unit capsules) daily Tor a few weeks, then on re-examination the medical examiner has found the blood pres sure within normal limits and passed the applicants.
 don't know how much the vita min A may have to do with it. outcome of the test or examination may, like other repressed emotions in itself send persons blood pres sure up above normal bounds for while. On the other hand, physi- Sians who have investigated the matter have reported a fair degree of success from prolonged admin istration of from 100000 to 100000 units of natural vitanlin A (not carotene) to patients with what is medically termed essential hyper tension"-meaning that high blood pressure is the only abnormal con- dition thorough physical eXamin- ation of the patient reveals. It is only fair to add that in some in- stances the patient classified as having essential Apprehension" in early adult or middle age event. ually develops chronic nephritis (Bright's disease), and that de- nouement casts doubt upon the original diagnosis.
 Nutrition authorities generally agree that every individual needs not less than 4,000 units of natural vitamin A daily just to keep him or her in normal condition and pre- vent such deficiency manifesto tions as those mentioned above. Of course healthy person can con- vert carotene Gin yellow and green vegetables and fruits and leafy rel- ishes) into natural vitamin A, but not unit for unit, for only about two-thirds of the carotene is con- verted, the rest is lost. It is my own belief that the daily require ment of vitamin A Is actually as large for a child in the rapidly growing period of life as it is for full-grown adult.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

are inferior and your shoe bill higher is that certain industry moguls in WIPES leather and shoe branch have been blocking 8 pro- gram to prolong the weath of civ- ilian shoes by the application of wax and oil treatments to soles. The process costs only 2 or 3 cents shoe, but many manufac- turers don't like 1t because it isn't floSSy enough. They say that consumers prefer shoes with high, light polish on the sole, though they admit that this polish rohs the sole of some of its wear ing quality.
 Bureau of Standards experts have testified at hearings of the
 Senate war-mobiIization co m- mittee, headed by West virginia's
 Senator Harley Kilgore, that the use of oil (by actual test)
 prOlongs the life of shoes II per
 cent, while SOles treated with
 wax preparations last from 30 to Al per cent longer.
 This has been corroborated by leading industry spokesmen, in. cluding Paul c. Wolfer, a vice. president of the Douglas Shoe Co.,, who is a consultant in the stand ards division of the OPA. Wolfer not only urged general adoption of oil-wax treatments but intim- ated thatt he Government should crack down on the shoe industry and require 1t.
 In addition to cutting down the nations shoe bill, another factor Wolfer emphasized was wartime conservation of leather. So far. however, the OPA has made little progress in selling the oil-treat- ment idea to the WIPE. Some manufacturers have adopted the sole treatments voluntarily. but only on very limited scale.
 The big shoe companies, OPA claims, are antagonistic. In this
 they have the potent backing of
 the WIPES leather and shoe
 branch, headed by Lawrence B.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Views Of The Press
ERIN GO SHAW
Christian science Monitor,

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 We'll, it's 8 great day for the Irish.
 Of course, Mrs. Shaw,s plans for lifting the blight of "shyness' (where did she get one?) and Zig norance" from the charming peo- pie of the Emerald Isle are no doubt much more fully developed than yet appears. Only fragments from her will have thus far been pub- nShed in America, and these do not make much sense.
 The impression Is left that Mrs ShawS not inconsiderable estate will be held intact until c. B. g. allocateS his own holdings. At that time we suspect that 8 novel but intelligent denouement will be un- folded in the amusing drama pres ently opening.
 In any community, even one in which the general level of geniality and courtesy Is so high as 1t Is in Ireland, there are individuals whose whose full usefulness Is limited by untutored manners.
 George Moore, who reports a 1it- erary dinner in Dublin in the time of the great Yeats, Hyde and AZ notes that while they had donned white ties, there wasn't a top hat in the company, and few shined shoes. This annoyed Moore, lately of the Continent.
 But, as MT. Shaw drily remarks ''What Mrs. Shaw observed in 1re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

assured to learn shortly that this exterminating film maintained a service to which all hotels with any claim to discrimination subscribed. They paid q regular fee not to have insects exterminated, but to have an expert keep his eye on the property and see that the insects did not get a start. A few minutes later as I entered the hotel I saw the agent of the exterminating company opening closets, going through them with a flashlight, looking into cor- ners, always with his little poison gun ready in case he observed any, thing crawling or flying.
 This Is the soundest possible prac- tice. Stop all evils at their source. The way to keep anything bad from growing is to keep 1t from sprout- ing. To nip it in the bud is good; to destroy the seed before 1t pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
MRS. SHAW'S REQUEST
(New York Times)

With the utmost respect for Mrs. Bernard Shaw's good intentions, her gift of two thirds of her for tune to establish after MT. Shaw's death an institution to teach the Irish manners and improve their speech" is even more preposterous than if the fund were to found and support a College of Vegetarians. Notoriously, the Irish of Ireland are a remarkably courteous people and not merely to one another. They will go out of their way to put the stranger on his. So widespread is their politeness that hostile tongues have even accused them of insin- cerity, of too strong 8 desire to please the outlander who asks them question.
 Brian Donn- -Byrne wrote of the people of Kerry, the prize Irish county for classical learning, that they "are grave and courteous and have pleasant voices" It may be said of the people of most or all the counties that they have pleasant voices and are grave or gay, as be- fits the occasion. This courtesy is ancient and inherited. Only the Spanish people, at least before the civil war, could compare with the Irish in good breeding. Mrs. Shaw was also eager to free the Irish from "vulgarities of speech" by "vulgarity" she meant presumably the use of colloquialisnls. But except for talking to ones self language exists for purposes of colloquy, hap piest when informal and colloquial
 Donn-Byrne, an artist in 1angu. age, delighted in the felicity anc poetry of Irish speech. When VI would say I'm broke" an 1rishmar might say T have no silver at me- just as he might say God blesl you as 8 postscript to "Good-by. In Irish hteratyre since the CeltiI Revival we find 8 varying 1risf English that never fails to charm Think of Lady Gregory's Kiltartai English. of the marcly words il Synge, of Sean O'Casey and 8 dozeI others; and back of them all tn Elizabethai English kept alive i Ireland. Neither language nor man liners needs correction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Sign in the Sky

A strange and wonderful little story has come out of Italy, sent by London papers correspondent with the Mediter- ranean fleet. Above the port of Arzio, he declares, Allied sailors saw German plane being chased by its own glider bomb.
 "When last seen," the dispatch con- cludes, "the Nazi plane was taking evas- i've action, grinly pursued by the missile"
 Only the very obtuSe mind, we feel, would choose to disbelieve this story. If it were contrived by the London core spondent, then he deserves to rank with Mrs. Shelley, who invented FrankenStein and his monster, or Goethe, who told the tale of the sorcerer's apprentice who set the broom to carrying water and then could not make 1t stop. But, without disparaging the correspondents ability and imagination, we prefer to believe that he really saw the incident. We cannot help feeling that portent to Hitler ap- peared in the sky over AnZio. The rather amusing spectacle of his bearer of de- struction being pursued, fury-like, by his own weapons, seems to us the perfect allegory of Nazism.
 When Hitler conceived the godlike project of ruling and judging the whole world, and of dealing out catastrophe punishment to those who disobeyed, he violated the laws of heaven and earth. And most of the earth has risen up against him. Already the bombs with which he destroyed, or hoped to destroy, London and Rotterdam, Warsaw and Lem ingrad and Belgrade, have pursued him to his own great cities and are smashing them to rubble. Already he is tasting a little of the vengeance of oppressed peo- pie who, in the day of liberation, will turn upon him the weapons of persecution which his armies brought to them.
 And 1t may be that the amazing incl dent of Anzio is sign that heaven is rising up against him, too. We should like to think that, in this small miracle, cod has given notice that he has be- come bored with Hitler Jas Victor Hugo explained the reason of Napoleon's down faII) and that HitIer,s tlsurpaticn of Gods Fafh has gone far enough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Sheppard, 8 vice president of the Hanover Choe Co.

the Hanover Choe Co.
 Before the Kilgore committee, Sheppard expounjed at length on manufacturing difficulties {. lack of conclusive tests," and other witnesses, who brought out that tests had been adequate and that facilities for sole treatments could be installed throughout the coun- try with little difficulty and at small cost.
 NOTE: The Kilgore committee has finally sent 8 hot note to Donald Nelson demanding that he issue an order to compel the gen. eral adoption of sole treatments by shoe companies.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Each day, White House report CTS are given a list of the Presi- dents appointments, beginning usually at 10 a. m. with Cabinet officers, military and naval advis- CTS, Congressmen or other callers. Recently, reporters uere startled to note on the calling list: '2:30 D.. m.-Mrs. Roosevelt" Repre- sentative William J. Miller of Con- necticut, one of the few Repub- ncans to support the Morley sol- diers' vote bill, lost both legs in a plane crash in France in the last war. COP friends warned Miller that most Connecticut servicemen would probably vote the Democra- tic ticket if they got a Federal ballot, which might mean his de- feat. "Tll take my chances" he replied. "'They're entitled to vote." .. Biggest laugh capital scribes have had in months was over a one-paragraph, four-term har- binger issued by the Democratic National Committee. It read: "The date of the converting of the Dem- Ocratic National Convention at Chicago is set for July 19, 1944. That will be on Wednesday, and it is expected that the proceedings will be completed that week." Three days-nuf sed.
 Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Your Health By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sOnal health and hygiene. not to disease. diagnosis of treatment VIII be answered by pr. Brady n
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

Henry is right, as a look at the rec- ord of the last few weeks will show
 When the President was allegor- ically simplifying on his own views about how old Doctor New Deal had called in young Doctor Win the-War to cure sick country, he explained that although the post war program had not been settled on at all-except in generalities-it was clear that plans must be made now for an expanded economy which will result in more security, more employment, more recreation, more education, more health and better housing for all, SO that the conditions of 1882 would not return again.
 PROGRAM OUTLINED
 There, from the President him. self, you have the broad outlines of a postwar New Deal which is now being mentioned as ''The New Peace' program. It would in reality be a successor to the Presidents s Win-the-War program.
 This New Peace program has been dealt with in both the Presidents regular message and in his budget message to Congress.
 Basis of this New Peace pro- gram perhaps is best stated in the Second Bill Of Rights pass age from the Presidents message.
 "@rhe right to a useful and re- munerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the na- tion;
 "The right to earn enough to pro- vide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
 The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at re- turn which will give him and his family decent living;
 '"The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
 "The right of every family to 8 decent home;
 "The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
 The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemploy- ment;
 "The right to good education" POLITICAL PLATFORM
 This eight-point program certain ly did not get into the presidential message by accident. It is a ready made political platform if there ever was one. Whether it merely re- states old ideals or states a new peace program, 1t does not sound like much of an abandonment of the New Deal. Maybe the label will be dropped as something that no longer gamers votes, but that's all, and into the Second Bill of Rights you can read anything you like or don't like, from soclalized medicine or persecution of big business to social security from cradle to grave.
 AS if to implement this program, the President in his budget message gave clear indications that he would later ask Congress for appropria- tions to achieve the objectives of strengthening the U. s. Employ ment Service, broadening old age and unemployment insurance cov- craze, providing public works to re- lieve postwar unemployment and finally, spreading the benefits of stabilized currencies and interna- tional management of trade and the production and distribution of food to the whole world.
 The New Deal killed by its pap py? Don't let them kid you. Henry \ was right,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

New Deal slogan W a s outmoded and that sorne- thing like ''Win- the . War" would be more appro- priate. A month later Vice Pres ident w allace told the Demo- cratic Jackson Day dinner au- dience tha t the N e W Deal was not dead.
 All the evil dence would seem kN SnasalanAA &AAk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

duces bud is better.
 Our Lord commended this poli- cy. The way to destroy lust, he in- sisted, Is to exterminate the evil thought. The way to avoid perjury is to guard against exaggerated statements. The way to steel clear of violence Is to control an- ger.
 The only really effective wa1 te handle any evil Is to handle 1t af the source.
 All Rights Reserved-Babson News ! paper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

lieve the ailing one would try 1t.
 Answer-That's an idea-I1 ltry 1t on some crab who demands ad- vice or else.
 What! No Rolls?
 am 26, 66 inches tall, weigh 1O5 pounds. Can touch floor with palms but in past three years have become enervated, tired, lost my clear complexion .. can't get up from somersault without getting so very dizzy. I'm discouraged. Don't know where to turn. (F. Al
 Answer-You should weigh at least 130 pounds, young lady. Send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress,( ask for pamphlet How to Gain Weight"
 ParkinsOn's Disease
 From your article feel sure I must have Parkinson's disease and I would appreciate any information you can give me about 1t. (Mrs. J. O.
 Answer-From your handwriting I believe you are right. Pamphlet on ParkinSon'S Disease (paralySis agi- tans, shaking palsy) on request to any reader who provides stamped envelope bearing bis address.
 Copyright 1924, John Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Selected Poem
THERE ARE NO MOUNTAINS

Ueoue Rice 0relle in The Christian Science
 Monitor) There are no mountains when the fog rolls in; Only the sprawling barn, the pasture wall And laneway rails that stagger strangely out Into the mist: and the trees are dwarfed and
 small, Their crowns cloud hidden Now c srvery weight Holds all things earth-bound, for e little space; And bends our vision lavshly along The constant goodness of the commonplace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
.FDR'S New Peace
 Political Program
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

You may well watch for the emergence of something that might be called 'The New Peace" as suc- ceSsor to '@The New Deal"
 President Roosevelt, in his now famous aside to Wilworth Lupton of the Cleveland Press, just before Christmas, indicated that the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21
Current Comment

You've got to teach youngsters the reference between right and wrong, but you shouldn't try to poke it down their threats. Let them ask questions and then give them the answers.
 Henry Ford. The utter destruction produced by modern war is so obcious to every people that the. determina- tion to keep the peace will be over- whelming if it can be properly or- ganized.
 Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

and the big boss who stepped out carried in his hand a little in- strument which resembles an a. tonnizer.
 50 this Is the how of it." l unused to my self.
 But I W a s greatly com fOrted and re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

Patrons of English pubs are being an- rloyed these days by beer glasses falling apart in their hands. From what return ing travellers tell us of the inSipid British wartime brew, we can believe that even the glasses can't take 1t any more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-21

Apropos of the Shaw legacy which has disturbed and amused we might say in rhymed fashion:
 The G. B. S.'s always were unto them selves law,
 Reading the missus' will gives rise to- oh, Shaw!