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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Every Town A Harbor

For centuries, commerce has followed the. seaways and the waterways of the world. Hitler's grandioSe scheme for world conquest had, as one of its object Ives, the capture of Suez, water gateway to the fabulous ports of the East The banks of the Don and the Dneiper have been bloody batt1efields because these rivers carry supplies to the army that controls them, even as they once brought food and ores and manufactured articles 10 a reople at peace. Stallingrad and .Kiev are important Russian cities be- sause they are ports for river traffic, as St. Louis and New Orleans are important cities in this country. Boston and New York, and Seattle and San Francisco also became important because of their fine harbors. But now the picture is chang Ing as a new means of transportation surges boldly to the fore. In the dawning Age of Flight, business centers will bloom about airports just asSurely as they once sprang up around the quay sides: :.
 Mature provided harbors for ships, but inland "harbors''' for airplanes can be built by man. Conservative authorities . have estimated that the. airports of this nation will have to handle three or four times the present amount of air traffic immediately after the war. Not only will airports become essential to a com , munityss business life, but they will help NeOVlde jobs for many men n0F ln me
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
CALL TO THE CZECHS

Christian Science Monitor)
 Ever sheet hat tragic autumn oi 1888 the Czechs have waited for a chance to fight for their homeland The call they have now received from their Government in-E Exile tells them that their opportunity will not be much longer delayed. It is time to transform their passive measures of resistance into activity and to be ready to present their oppressors with an armed uprising. The Rus sians are only little more than 100 miles away, and coming on fast. Invision plans in the west have reached, apparently. their final stages. The enemy is to be struck from all sides-and from underneath
 What can the CzechS do? They are not adequately armed to deal with the Nazis in their midst, but their leaders point out that the Czechs can prepare to harbor para chutists from the Russian forces, they can push sabotage, kill Nazis agents as someone killed the hang man Heydrich. Their activities can now be pushed with less regard for risks-risks which could not be borne earlier while the very survival of the Underground was threatened by Nazis executions of its leaders.
 Then it was a time to wait but now 1t is @ time to act.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Current Comment

If our Allies are to do their best for us as well as for themselves, they must have confidence that the pipeline of lend-lease supplies will be kept full.
 Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Berlin is dommed-it has ceased to be a capital or even a town.
 Swedish traveller. The whole tendency since the de- pression of the early 30'S has been for families to share their accom- modations with their immediate relatives. But when the war is over, there will be a spreading out.
 -Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser. The question now is whether the human race has sufficient capacity to impose upon itself conditions which will assure that the future will be relieved of mass murder, fratricide and suicide-that which we call war.
 Joseph E. Davies. former aIrl-
 baSsador to Russia.
 ."
 Our carving for greens became so great that we ate the leaves from the two trees in the camp, which became entirely bare within few weeks. Soon our boys began dying first the city boys, then the country boys.
 Netherlands soldier who stir- vived NaM prison camp for those who refused forced la- -A- A1-9 i.-----------I~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

practical matters to get them through the day. Others, with no formal learning at all-like Lincoln for instance; and Jesus for that matter - turn the world upside down. Knowledge consists not of an apprehension of facts but of an ability to use them. Abraham Lin- coin had read less than a dozen books, but they were the books that really count the Bible, Pilgrims Progress, Shakespeare. These books all "have the goods" so far as liv- ing is concerned. When Lincoln had these, he had all.
 The way men set themselves against knowledge in their arrog- ance and pride is the cause of most of the worlds pain. They scan be taught nothing because they feel the need of no further knowledge. They are self-sufficient. They are like men dying of starvation which is produced not by a lack of food but by the delusion that they are already filled to surfeit. Believing they have, they refuse to accept more. They close the door of the mind and rejoice as they cherish their delusions. They are wise in their own conceits, and foolish tr the eyes oe God,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Little Thought Given Wor Mad NshtLFe FOurhes in Miami; Roc Who Con Beat FDR Main Subjects of Conversation; Meanwhile Boys Who Moy Give Lives for Better World Are Drilling;
BY DREW PEARSON

requires personal guides and 20 minutes extra time to conduct visitors from the entrance of the building to various offices . . Man Mountain" Dean, the famous wrestler, has risen to the rank of sergeant at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he supervises the pickup squad", removing trash from the company streets. Dean is down to mere PTS pounds, af- ter losing 90 pounds at this job.
 ExGov. Clifford Townsend of In- diana is now manufacturing con- crete drinking foundtains for live stock in which the water will not freeze unless the temperature drops to 10 above zero The warning that more farmers must be drafted comes on the heels of another warning that Italian pris- oners no longer can b ecounted on for farm labor. The status of Italy as co-belligerent will soon take Italians out of the prisoner cate- gory :. Harold Hopper, recently resigned chief of WIPES motion picture section, is urging American cinema industry to get busy now to prevent motion pie ture embargoes after the war. Free distribution of movies-one of the best means of American propa- ganda-should be a plank at the peacete bale, Hopper urges.
 Copyright, 1944, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
IRELAND'S POSITION

In judging Ireland's position in the present war, 1t should never be forgotten that totalitarian oppreS- sion, backed and financed by Bri- tain, is still the lot of many thou Sanos df Irishmen. This black fault on the part of Britain certainly does not make her and her cause in- distinguishable from Nazi Germany and the NaZi cause. It does not mean that there is nothing to choose between Britain and Hitler's Reich. They are, in the main, radically dissimilar, and the worlds future would have been strikingly differ ent, had the Nazis defeated Britain in 1940, from what it will be when the Allies, Britain among them, have destroyed the Na1 menace.
 But we are talking about Ireland's position in the war, and that cannot be properly understood unless the scandal and the shame of Ulster are remembered.
 Dr. William John Tucker writes of 'Totalitarian Ulster" in an article of that title in the March Catholic World. He points out that anti Catholic hatred is Sedulously kept alive there by every miserable de. vice in the book of bigotry; that Catholics are denied rightful par ticipation in government; and that they are ruthleSsly discriminated against in securing employment. Periodically there are anti Catholic riots which at least equal in ferocity and brutality anything ever staged by the Nazis.
 All this would ease of tomorrow, if England gave the word. For Eng land subsidies the totalitarian Ulster government, the abuse of Q minority, the absence of constitu- tional liberty, the professional anti Catholicism. The Ulster government is completely the creature of Eng land. Its disgraceful, Nazi-like pol icy would be reversed immediately did England indicate that it should But England gives no such indica. ton. Indeed, Dr. Tucker says, som of the services where discrimina- ton against Catholics is most blat-
 ant. are directly under English control.
 South Ireland has done nothing ' t0 emhaEyaaa or interfere with 6Eis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

to look forward to. And they must not be years crowded with the same heartaches and pain as the elder statesmen handed on to us.
 This, I realize, is not the kind of letter one should write to the mother of a newborn son. But I have hunch that the mothers of America would rather face these problems now, when they can be solved, than wait until 1t is too late.
 Also, I have a hunch that the boys who are drilling just 8 stones throw from the gilded night-life of Miami may have lot to say, may do more than mere elbow jostling, when they come back when it's over over there.
 With much love to all your fine family, Tour brother,
 DREW. MERRY -GO-ROUND
 Brig. Gen. Tom White, new chief of the Air Forces Intelligence, is settling down to a good job |. While OPA and ODT implore peo- pie not to travel, Republican Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio has sponsored a handsome brochure inviting the public to explore the broad highways of Ohio, "The Va cation Land" ... The U. s. Quar- termaster Corps now operates 8 slow-down- war system which
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(Cont1nueQ rom Page l) spend their evenings at the rou- lette tables. Especially, there is no thought about how this war can be made the last war. It just doesn' cross anybody's mind. CAUTIOUS MIR. HULL
 Up in Palm Beach, sits Sum- ner Welles, writing book. It will be a good book for those who will read it, but it's reader circle will be small. It deals with the tragic mistakes we made after the last war, and how, step by step, we drifted into the present war, with so-called statesmen knowing what was coming, but staring glasSy- eyed at the approaching debacle, powerless to prevent 1t or else un- willing to endanger their own poli- tical prestige by taking heroic measures to stop the catastrophe.
 Not far from Sumner Welles in Palm Beach, Cordell Hull, the man who kicked Welles out of of- flee. was putting on the golf course. He is 73 years old, and tired. His cautious strokes on the golf course resembled his tired diplomacy. There was time in the House of Representatives when knew fiery, courageous, young TenneSseean who dared to fly in the teeth of the big pressure lob with its economic barriers which contributed to this war.
 But those days are over. Cor dell Hull is tired. He thinks
 of peace in the same terms as
 the four men who sat round the
 table at Versailles - a peace carved out in secret and handed
 on platter to an unready world
 without any education of public
 opinion, without any advance
 preparation to win over reIuct-
 ant Senate.
 FUTURE OF NEW GENERATION
 I am just bit fearful also that MT. Hull thinks of peace as a per- sonal peace - one which can wait until he gets round to negotiating it, as drink wa.Ns after a game of golf; not realizing, perhaps, that the boys who are fighting over there, and their wives and children, and the mothers who are bringing new sons into the world, have a much greater stake in fu- ture peace than MT. Hull-and may jostle his elbow.
 MT. Hull has 73 distinguished years to look back on. But they your son and all the other moth ers' sons - have seventy years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining t0 pefs
 sOnaI health and hygiene, not to
 disease, diagnosis of treatmen6
 will be answered by Dr. Brady k
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 Is enclosed. Letters should be brieH
 and written in ink. No reply can
 h. made to queries not conform.
 ing to instructions. Address DF.
 William Brady, National News
 paper Service, 32O West Madison
 Street, Chicago, III.
 PAGE ADOLPH OR HERMAN
 Schoolgirl writes that she has been having an argument with neS teacher about the difference bee tween white and negro blood. She maintains there is no difference. but her teacher tells her that in great hospital where the teachers brother is an interne they have made blood tests which reveal whether a patient is part negro, even though the patient never knew there was any negro blood in his or her veins.
 The schoolgirl suspects the teacher was stretching the point a bit to maintain her supremacy. But the teacher assures her that she (the pupiD confuses blood plaSma with the actual blood. The blood plasma of a negro is not different from that of a white person, the teacher graciously comedies, but the whole blood in its natural form is different, and that is one reason why doctors use only the blood plasma for transmission.
 The schoolgirl came off beaten.
 But her turn will come tomor- row.
 No scientist has yet discovered a test which will distinguish blood of a white preson from blood of ne- gro, a Chinese, a Malayan or an Indian.
 All human blood is the same, not only the plasma or liquid part but the whole blood, including the cor- puscles.
 The teacher misunderstood hex brothers story-or else somebody is spooflng somebody.
 Probably Adolph and Herman and their stooges know how to des tect a trace of non-Aryan blood, but they keep the secret to theme selves.
 All know about this schoolgirls teacher is what read in the school girls letter, but I'd be willing to bet the teacher has an assortment of racial, political, religious and medical prejudices and derives what satisfaction she can from air. ing them when she thinks 1t safe to do so.
 I hope the schoolgirl loses no time in re-opening the argument and giving the teacher the oppor- tunity to CD explain that she was mistaken about the test made in the hospital, or CD admitting she is wretched misanthropist and ought to be put where she can no longer plant poison in the minds of the young.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
EVEN FOR DOZEN
(Boston POSt)

The Department of Agriculture has worked out some ration pills which it hopes will do away with the use of huge stores of hay to feed army horses. Concentrated into pellets about the size of oceans will be much of the vitanin content Dobbin needs for his health.
 Experiments indicate that these pellet plus 'noe-fifth of his normal ration of hay will provide all the nourishment needed. Of course, there's no way to determine how he'll feel about it, save by his will ingness to work and hsi general disposition. Given his choice, how ever, between 8 bale of hay and a box of pills, there can't be much question about which way he'll turn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Views Of The Press

tain in this war Whereas Ulster has 30000 men under arms Ca good part of them Catholics), there are about 165,000 Southern Irish VOL unteers in the British forces and perhaps 250,000 Southern Irish work CTS in British war industries. II the London government wants greater cooperation, 1t knows how to secure this. It is to be effected not by Intimidation but by the prompt abandonment of the totali- tartan regime which it keeps in power in six of the counties of Ire- land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
''MOre Recognition For Pay Equality"

The bill designed to give women pay equality with men in New York State and passed unanimously in the latter'S Assembly, without debate, is in addition to its relative importance to the New York women workers, another notable victory for all women workers.
 :. The bill, non-partisan one sponsored by Democrat and Republican, pro- hibits discrimination in the rate of pay because of sex, and provides that 'no employe shall because of sex be subjected to any discrimination in the rate of. his or her pay". On the other hand the bill rightfully provides that any differential in pay between employees based on a .fac-' tor Or factors other. than sex shall not constitute discrimination within the meaning of the bill ,,'
 The bill further provides that the term :.'employe" as used therein shall mean almost any person employed for hire by any employer in any lawful employment, other than domestic, from labor and charitable organizations.
 This action by New York officials is but another among the many similar ones undertaken by other states and communi- tieS The Federal government has likewise established similar conditions
 :. That this most recent action in such cause will be duly noted and perhaps re- ferred to by local women teachers and other organizations here, advocating such measures, is a reasonable. expectation. The factor of fpayrate discrimination based on sex has become an olltmoded general ity already foreign to this .country'S con. Stant efforts toward social and labor. embettermept. Within reasonable eX- pectatiOns as to time, funds available, it seems fair on the part of these local ad- vocates of equality to ask for city au- thorities that similar recognition be given the women teachers and other female employees of Waterbury. This recognition to be followed up by correlative action, soon thereafter. e..
 We cannot rightfully adopt course of civic progress based upon postwar plans for improvement unless we also take into consideration such factors already existing among us 11ow, which deserve of immediate embetterment; such as this differential in pay existing be- tween Waterbury'S men and women teachers, who perform comparable duties. =.
 The New York State law has teeth. It establishes, as law, the justice of equality of pay without discrimination of sex, providing at the same time a. justifiable leeway for the fair employer to assume his perogative of salary differentials as sustained by inequalities of ability, amount of responsibility and work to be done, etc. r. =
 The unanimous passage of the Dill, without debate, is tribute tp the worthi- ness of it's principle. Its eventual adop- tion will constitute final recognition of the justice of the cause. . It is this recog milton that the local teachers and others now request. Granting of such recogni- ton would be of merit to Waterbury,. ,.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

not the one to be putin fat on the eater. The Department of Agri- culture 1t is that proclailns 1t and lays it all to the butter and gravy and not to the praety at all. A fine lad is this Henry c. Sherman, and chief of the departments bureau of human nutrition is what they call him. Says he, "The caloric content of fair-Sized (and aren't all pra- teys fair?) Irish potato is about the same as 8 large apple. four average prunes or 8 thick slice of white bread" none of which can be men, tioned in the same breath with the pratey. Iris the butter and the gravy that piles on the extra pounds" says this eminent gentle man.
 All of which reminds us of "Ta- ters and Point," a delightful dish that Granny described as what they used to eat years ago, back in the Old Country, when there was no fat on any mans ribs, or woman's either, for that matter. '"Take a savory strip of bacon," said Granny. ''and hang 1t over the table. Then as you eat the 'taters you hist tho fork up and pint 1t at the bacon. This is 'taters an pint. And many 8 satisfying meal we and of 1t, thank to the Lord"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

which h as just been released.
 Tn 1899 only 3350 tons of mag n e ium were manufactured in the United States, 2100 tons of which were sold to Ger many and Japan. In 1943 U. s. pro- duction was 195,- 900 tons. This tre- mendous increase is one of the pro- duction miracles of the war, but it
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Selected Poem
MARCH

,(Ethel Barnett De Vito in the New York Times) March is hound-dog, wild devil-bound dog, Who's racing and chasing .. From sun-up to set,
 Whose ear-piercing howlings And night-blooming growlings Make men mediate on His birth with regret. But he learns, and sadly, That living so madly
 Will age the most lively, Most vigorous one,
 And suddenly static And staid and rheumatic, He settles down gladly To sleep in the sun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

t h e Knowledge a n y ne needs. You cannot give a man what he thinks he already has.
 Wisdom is n o t a knowledge of f a c ts. s 0 m e people are walk ing encyclopedias of facts, yet they know sc arcel y enough of life's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

TRUE LEARNING AND FALSE
 Why is it so hard for humanity to learn? Chiefly because most people are satisfied with what they are and with what they know. They re- fuse to receive further knowledge because they believe they have all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
EATERS AND PINT"
(Hartford Courant)

And time 1t s. too, for them to be sayin' itl Which means that in Washington. they do be saying that that the potato. Lord love 1t, is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon rises at t2:S9 a. m. (war time) Sun rises at 7:59 a. m, sets at TOP p. m. '(war time) Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
Q NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
A New Era, Magnesium Aim
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

First full report to the American people on the production of the new, war-born magnesium industry is contained in special report of the Senate Truman Committee investi- gating National Defense Production,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Rum Blossom

My face breaks out with pimples. Is this sign of cancer of the stom- ach? My face stays flushed most all the time and particularly after take drink. (MisS P. L.)
 Answer-Probably you are devel- oping rum blossom" rosacea. Better quit insulting your stomach, before 1t is too late. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet on Acne-blackheads and pimpleS.
 Some Doctors Like It
 I know many high class, honor able, successful, humanitarian phy- sicians and surgeons and not one of them advocates prohibition What about the Capones, the high jackers. the speakeasies. c. e.
 Answer-Even thought you know fifty thousands such doctors, I ad- vocate prohibition.
 ParkinsOn's Disease
 In an article on Parkinson's dis ease you said Indeed, 1t has always seemed to me that most Parkinson patients were cut above the aver- age in keenness of mind and level of intelligence. Inasmuch as have matter in which this disease and all of its ramif1cations will be major issue I wonder whether this was your personal observation or reflection of neurological text boks. I will thank you for the courtesy of an early reply hereto.
 (-, Attorney at Law)
 AnSwer-Let the office boy read over the observation you quote and he'll see at once 1t is mine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

Almost any stain can be re- moved from the hands by an ap. plication of vinegar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18
A Thought for Today

Thus saith the LOrd Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.-Jere- miah 2I:S.
 strove with none; for hohe was worth my strife, Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art; warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and am ready. to depart1Lapdor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

Answer--Let the office boy read over the observation you quote and he'll see at once it is mine.
 Copyright, l944, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-18

Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)