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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
A Dream Come True

Twenty-Five years ago, comparatively few people had even seen an airplane, let alone ever ridden in one Flying was viewed as a dangerous thrill at county fairs. There was certainly no popular demand urging forward the development of aviation as a practical means of trans port.
 Yet it was just twenty-five years ago that the Railway Express Agency began to utilize the potentialities of air trans port. In December, 1919, an old Hand ley-Page bomber was loaded with the first Air Express" cargo for nonstop flight from New York to Chicago. News ac- counts of the time note that the ship cruiSed at about ninety miles an hour, and while crossing the Alleghany noun tainS, reached the breath taking height of 5000 feet! Unfortunately, head winds so delayed it's progress that it was forced down after covering 45O miles 1n elght and half hours.
 Undaunted by this discouraging start, Air Express has continued to expand With the development of more reliable ana efficient means of air transport, often m the face of derision, until now it cele- brates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first air shipment.
 The development of air transportatlon and air cargo service has been like the development of many other innovations: few individuals with imagination lead the way After years of effort, great new industry blossoms-a drea moi plo- neerS comes true
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
Post War Has Huge Problems

Now that the battle between So-called capitalism and the So-called doWn-trod- den working classes has gone through the political mills, the general trend of public opinion is looking at the practical side of all the questions involved. The result is realization that approximately 200,- 900 manufacturing concerns in the United States and 8000000 workers in those industries have common interests in sensible reconverSion and reorganiza- ton of large and small businesses that constitute the backbone of American civilization. On the practical side of the question it is understood that the mere job of re-tooling factories that have been engaged in war production will be ter rife undertaking. The Government knows that, too, and is already beginning to release control to make it possible for industries to Switch-back to their old lines Right now it is being found almost impossible for manufacturers to obtain many needed tools for near delivery.
 Politics are off the record on these bread-and-butter puzzles, for the simple reason that the American market must be rebuilt But how? According to new ways our industries produce automobiles, farm tractors, and modern agricultural implements, airplaneS, radios, television, home buildings, highways, electrical and chemical miracle-and more recently we have delivered the geratest quantities of war materials in all history, and on scale never possible in the past. That's another big puzzle.
 There is popular theory that the Gov ernment must lead the way to reconStruc- tion, and to what President Harding used to speak of "bacu to normalcv" BlIt the trouble with the Government is that through froce of circumstances, emer- gencieS, and just plain politics, the Gov ernment must make all the rules. On the other side of the question there is very intelligent part of the American public that holds the opinion that if American capital, industry and workers were left to follow their own inclination and judg ment that the results would be much bet ter than the changes in our natural lives that are being forced upon us by theo- ristS and bureaucrats who have plans to reform Democracy and the American people from the cradle to the grave.
 Unfortunately wars have become so frequent and so threatening that in the present instance the country had not been thoroughly reconstructed from the War of 1917 before there was another one. There is no telling how long it will take to reconstruct it from the present war particularly in view of the fact that all of our political servants and masters have gathered under the tent of international iSn-many of them for tlae duration owning to the very fear that they may be called 'iSolationiSts, which has become the biggest cuSS word in the English language
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
Views Of The Press

School of Engineering.
 Until the time of War I, the divi- sion between Yale College and Sheffield was marked one. There were separate faculties, and student bodies. Rlvalries between the two sides of the campus often seemed more like that expected between two competing colleges, instead of two divisions of one institution.
 Two steps have operated to lessen the gulf between Yale and Shelf in the last quarter century. One Is the inauguration of the Common Fresh man Year Classmates of that first year on the campus did not entirely lose track of each other in the sub seQuent years. The second and more recent factor has been the estab- lishment of the residential colleges and the organization of but one class for each of the Sophomore, Junior and Senior Years.
 The effect of this community life for academic and scientific students was what might have been expected. The social divisions grew less and less evident, and mutual interests multiplied. When pr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, visited Yale in 1885 and was invited to speak at a luncheon in Berkeley College, he commented on this association of students of sciences and the human- ities as follows: that 1t was good for the humanist to have the sci- enlist to explain to him the prac- tical side of life, and for the latter to have the former to illustrate the relative futility of such matters.
 Now the upheaval attendant upon War II has completed the process of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
The Philosophy of Medicine

The illogical charge is occasionally made that physicians have vested" interest in maintaining the medical sys- tenn as is. Dr. John H. Fitzgibbon recent ly had word to say about the guiding philosophy of medical men: Those who begin the study of medicine" he said, with the profit motive, are rare excep- tions and usually they do not complete the course. It should be apparent to all that equal time and effort devoted to almost any other occupation would be more profitable.
 The qualities that make good physl- clan are only partly acquired by training. No amount of training will compensate for lack of native ability and love of the science and art of medicine. Very few physicians retire except on account ot disability, and nearly all die Ion the
 job' because of interest in their work. Many older physicians who should have retired because of disabilities are carrying on during the war emergency and many have died prematurely because of the excessive load of work. Does this sound like protecting vested interest?
 If we have any interest to protect other than that of our patients, 1t IS our heritage of American medicine, which IS the best in the world today, and which we take pride in maintaining. Our re- SponSibility as physicians is to whole heartedly participate in the solution ot the various problems of medical care. we can escape neither the responsibilities ot ordinary citizenship nor those of medical citizenship which are far gerater."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
"We Owe It To Ourselves!"

A few years ago people joked about the Federal debt. Those who viewed the growing cost of government and chronic deficits with trepedation, were hooted down with glib arguments about owing the debt to ourselves" Where are these easy going opponents of debt now?
 pr. Roy Blough, director of the division of tax research of the Treasury Depart ment, says the problem of postwar taxa tion will be far more difficult to solve than the wartime tax problem. Predicting that the postwar tax problem will be s'the most difficult tax problem in Ameri- can ristory," he declared that the tax load promises to be so high that "any system will inevitably have restrictive effects on consumption and investment The most we can hope for is that taxes will be designed to produce the minimum Interference with factors and forces lead ing to full employment"
 Previous statements by other Treasury officials have stressed the importance of the postwar debt problem. Only two days before Dr. Blough's statement, the House of Representatives special committee on Postwar Economic Policy and Planning, predicting a postwar budget approach Rrg $20 billion, pointed out that this would amount to charge, direct and in- direct, of more than $550 on the average family of four. State taxes would be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
Are We Going To Change Now?

It might improve the perspective of our Washington coal shortage prognoStl- catorS to read a news release from Paris describing how the matrons of the ma ternity hospitals of that city are appeal ing for "coal for babies" It states that: "At present, births average sixty daily. Because the mothers have suffered many privationS, especially in the matter of food, about one-third of the new babies require special attention, but incubators and other appliances are operated by electricity, and current in the city is dis penSed most and other appliances are operated by electricity, and current III the city is dispensed most grudgingly, since there is very little coal with which to generate it. .. Hot water bottles are being resorted to-"
 And we think we are short of coal! Coal mine operators have claimed steadily that the coal shortage of which so much has been heard, is small in spite of strikes, ad could be made up if strikes would cease. They have gotten precious little encouragement from the government that dominated every detail of thelr operation.
 The positive, hopeful attitude of the coal producers is in sharp contrast to the pessi1nism of officialdom. But then that is the way it has been all through the war. Tho bureaucrats delight in saying thing can't be done, while private individuals in private industry go ahead and do it ln half the time in which the official "ex- perts" said it couldn't be done at all.
 Tn the past, the responsibility of pro- duction has been left to those who have demonstrated they can produce. That IS why the United States has always been land of plenty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

against the SKF ball-bearing interests; also the machine tool industry; also nOn- ferrous metal producers, including fnterna- tional Nickel.
 One of the most interesting cases, howevef, will be crackdown on the farm machinery industry, by which it is hoped that the price of farm implements will be reduced.
 These are only the cases which the Army and Navy have received from the Justice Department and have okayed for trial. What else Atty. Gen. Riddle has up his sleeve is not known.
 WINNING THE WAR
 Winning the war isn't all question of G. I. Joes, tanks, planes, guns and ships. For in- stance, the War Departments Pentagon building, one of the gov- ernment's greatest hureaucracies, operates the following odd divi- sions:
 The fOllOw-up branch; the forms, design and curriculum development branch; the pro- gram balance branch; the CO., ordination and analysis branch; the relation and welfare branch; the projects status branch; the discrimination section; the war flaw section; the fOrecasting and general modification branch.
 These are just some of the little things that help make the war wheels go around. In addition, the Army Medical Corps maintains an epidemiology division and a neuro- pyschiatry consultants division, division, while the Signal Corps has a nomenclatuer division. There are 28 marshals in the Pentagon building, but only one full gen. eral, George c. Marshall.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

turnes looking out over the world. And it has always been true that there was no place where life could be observed with such penetrating insight as from this vantage point
 We never catch the significance of the Christian religion until we realize that it begins and ends in the cross. It begins in the cross becaus it requires of us complete and utter self -ednial. It ends in the cross because 1t was the sacrifice Christ made thereon which, in some way we do not understand, pur- chased for man the right and privi- lege of salvation from sin. It is when men trust the cross and set 1t up in their hearts that they are saved
 As long as we look at life from the standpoint of self, or think. of Its opportunities in terms of worldly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

greater and that many U. S. ships were damaged, now have to be re- paired. Also, there has been no announcement of U. s. transports lost.
 ANTITRUST SUITS
 Big business lobbyists have found a neat way to get around the Justice Department in re- gard to antitrust suits. They get their friends in the Army Navy Departments to tip them off as to what monopoly suits are in the works anud if possible, they get their Army Navy friends to stop the suits.
 This is possible because, under wartime order, all trust-bust- ing suits have to be referred by the Justice Department to the Army and Navy to see whether prosecution would interfere with war orders.
 Recently, the Army and Navy have received a flood of antitrust cases, and it looks as if Atty. Gen. Riddle was starting the big gest crack down on monopolies in history. He is even going to ut-Thurman Thurman Arnold.
 One case the Army-Navy have reviewed is a projected giant smash-up of the electrical indus try. This will affect both Amer ican and foreign companies which have carved up the markets of the world among them to sell electri- cal goods.
 Another crack-dOwn will be against the diamond cartel. This will especially hit the British, who through the de Beer interests i'll South Africa, have complete control of diamonds. It is one of the tightiest monopolies in the world
 The Justice Department is
 also planning suits against the
 motion picture equipment indus
 try. a case which will affect the Eastman Kodak Company; also
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
A Befitting Memorial to willkie
(New York Heradl- -Tribune)

Wendell Willkie'S genius for giv- ing concrete and personalized mean ing to concepts only vaguely realiz- ed by most people, or vaguely &C., cepted without particularizing, won world recognition for him in a few short years of public life. He left to no one, either friend or opponent, any ease of conscience about ambig- uous language that beggared mean ing or lip service that was barren of action. This blend of realism with idealism was the source on the one hand of his greatness, on the other of his unsuccess with the politicians. Success or no, Willkie's vision of the clements which must go into 8 bet- ter world and his honesty in coming to grips with them have left a firm imprint upon this and other na- tions. His influence is out of al, proportion to his career--it is hard to remember that he never held public office, never martialed his ideas in book form except in the hastily written "One World"-and indicates, one likes to believe, the power which complete sincerity has to sway mems minds and command abiding respect.
 Freedom House plans to give fel- icitous recognition to this power in a Wendell Willkie memorial build ing to serve as the focus of move ments to advance the objectives for which Willkie worked. Plans for the memorial are now in the hands of a committee headed, most appropriat- ly, by Sumner Welles. A preliminary announcement by Dr. Harry D. Gid- eonse, Freedom House president, dis closes that the projected building will carry this legend: Freedom Ho1se, Dedicated to Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944). We carry on in the spirit of his service to all men and one world"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

the statute which would create this court is not set forth.
 Instead, it is proposed that the Permanent Court of Internatio n al Justice, the so- c a II e d W or Id Court set up at The H ague as part of the frame work of the old League of N a. tions, be revised to meet the new SitllatinY1s 0r else
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
YALE AND s. s. s.

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 Shef1eld Scientific School is soon to disappear from the undergrad- uate scene at the university. Begin- ming with the next academic year, 1t will be the teaching unit of sci- ence and mathematics in the Yale Graduate School. On the under graduate level there will be but three divisions: the Common Fresh man Year, Yale College, and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Foot Itch


 We have tried various preventa- tives and remedies for foot itch and 1t is the belief of most of the stu dents here that Whitfields oint- ment is most effective-as you told us some years ago. O. R. D.
 Answer-Your experience is simi- lar to the experience of many others. On request (no clipping will do) I'll send any reader who provides stamped pre- addressed envelope, pamphlet on Foot Itch which tells how to use Whitfield's ointment, powder, liquid and other preventa- lives and remedies for del maphyto- sls. ringworm, athletes foot.
 Postcard Received
 Please send me your pamphlet on Allergy, instructs g correspondent, on a postcard.
 Answer-Ol DOC Brady furnished the pamphlet. But he refuses to pay the freight too. So try again, my economical friend, and don't forget to send a stamped envelope bear ing your address.
 Copyright 1944, by John F. Dille Go.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

OASJ' SAAS AAN WI significant state ment that the cross which stood on that hill was used as an ob- servation post.
 It Is not the first time the cross has been used as an ob- servation post. Men have stood at the cross of Christ, for cen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
THE CRI NEEDS SUGAR
 COATING

Sometimes I get pretty depressed about the situation. To be sure. tt is an everyday occurrence for cor respondents to speak of cri in sneir letters, but what maddens me is the way nearly all Of them inter ject parenthetic comment. half explanatory. half humorous, lest I misunderstood. Then, tc0, once in long while I see the word cri in print--I mean elsewhere than irl this column. Even such precious items are usually spoiled by tfe use of quotation marks around the word, if not by some misleading ir1- ference as to its significance. The earliest proper use of the world I can find in my scrap book is an item published in the Atlanta Con- stitutiOn on or about May 3, 1927, telling that the mayor was forced to retire to his home on account to retire to his home on account of slight indisposition-the mayor was stricken with cri (said the item, and no funny business either).
 Then, too, there are so many wiseacres who get half-baked no- tion that I am trying to popularize a new name for the common cold for no particular reason and any, way what difference dqoes it make what you cal lit?
 What I have been trying to do is to teach the truth about Common Respiratory Infections indisposi- tions, illnesses and complications responsible for three-fourths of the practice of physicians and sur- geons), and here are some of the fundamentals which neither layman nor physician nor health authority can evade or gainsay:
 1. Neither the victim, nor his customers, empl overs. parents, teachers, corner druggist. nor ev- en his physician can tell in the early stage what his cri (pre- sumably one Of the Common Re- Spiratory Infections) will prove-to be.
 2. Calling it cri pronounced kree) in this stage of the indis- position or illness is playing fair. For that is acknowledgment that of course you don't know whether you are coming down with meas les, infantile paralysis, simple coryza, pneumonia. influenza, or any one of a dozen more or less communicable disease whose on- set is characterized by similar syptoms.
 3. If you are, muliSh and ignor-
 ant and vicious and brazen enough to attempt to palm it of on your associates or the public as "cold"-well, in that case I hope it kills you before you pass the infection on to any innocent bystander.
 4. There is no such specific in- disposition, ailment, illness or di- sease as the common cold"-and
 any physician or health officer wbo prates about the common cold" is just prating.
 5. You can find no description O. definition of "the common cold' in scientific medical litera- ture. Of course not. How could even professional medical text
 book writer define or describe a condition without entity?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

another $S5O, making total of annual tax (if all expenses were to be met cur rently and deficit financing ayoided) of 5000 on each average family. No wonder the philosophy of i've owe it to ourselves" has gone into hidingl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
Your Health
 By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonaI health and hygiene, not 70 disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady f a stamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. 70 reply can De made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Or. William Brady, National News. paper Service, 32O West Madison Strset. Chicago. III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
Selected Poem
TIME FOR REMEMBERING (cosette Middleton in The Christian Science
 MonitOr)

(cosette Middleton in The Christian Science
 Monitor) Now autumn's hoyden moods have given way To quiet intervals, nostalgia gray. Hills are resigned to brown; the valleys gold Lies crumpled-tarnished in the early cold; ony a few bright leaves remember spring From those gnarled boughs of their awakening The frost's quick footsteps claim the lawns where
 he
 Transfixed the grasses in dark witchery. A warning in the winds old throat is gentle And sparrows gossip waxing sentimental Time has been kind to poplar and to oak, And distances are lost in spruce and smoke; The thicket sounds are gone, and the hush Autumn remembers Hylidae and thrush.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

advantage, we preclude for our- selves the possibility of happiness. It is only when we stand at the side of the cross, making it our observation point, that we are able to appraise life and it's values with penetrating insight.
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 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

amalgamation, and future students of science, mathematics and liberal studies will be Yale College men without distinction. It is probable that the impetus that the war has given to scientific subjects will be reflected in an enrolment in the sciences comparable in numbers to that in the liberal arts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
.
 SPOTLIGHT
Court Would Be Arbitrator
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

Provision for an International Court of Justice to be the judicial army of the United Nations organ ization is called for in Chapter VII of the. Dumbarton Oaks proposals for a United Nations charter, but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
A Thought for Today

And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affIictiOn, then they bowed their heads and wOrshiped.-ExOdus 4:S1.
 
 The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.-Spurgeon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
OBSERVING LIFE FROM THE
 CROSS

We are told that as our soldiers cast themselves against the forti- f1cations of Aachen, they found the so-called "Crucifix Hill" the most strongly defended approach to the city. One news story carried the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25
Current Comment

I can assure you that generally speaking there will be no emergency shipments of anthracite into any community this winter. Production simply will not permit. Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator
 c. J. Potkin.
 I was digging another foxhoie when they came and told me. figured right off it was 8 damned lie.
 Sgt. Richard vanderbloemen of
 West de Pere, Wis, chosen in
 Germany to come home for War
 Bond tour.
 Australia will never forget the help given to her by the United States.
 Australian Minister Sir William
 EggleSton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-25

WASHINGTON public
  in battle in progress.