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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Promptness and Wisdom

In the midst of some depressing exhi- bitions of fumbling, delay and wrong headednesS on the part of some of the worlds statesmen, it is encouraging to come upon one direct and stateSmanllke decision by military man. That is General Eisenhower'S move to close all public schools in the portion of Germany under Allied control and his announce ment that they will not be reopened until "Nazism has been eliminated" The debate on the difficult question of how and when to de-educate and re-educate the Germans still goes on without decision. But in the meantime General Eisenhower has seen the first step and taken it. He surely knows that the process of re-education will be a long one, but he has seen no reason for not beginning it. >
 Nowhere is the poison of Hitlerism more alarmingly present than m the minds of German youth, and nowhere is an antidote more quickly and badly needed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Special Privilege

' Almost everybody was suspicious of the American Communist Party when it announced, nearly year ago, that it was swearing off party-line politics for the time being But maybe there was no sub- terfuge about it, after all Maybe the comrades just got discouraged after watching the American civilians wartime behavior for two years, and decided to give up. We can understand how the comrades may have felt, for some of our behavior would discourage a Vermont Republican. This is time when unSel- fiShneSS and few material sacrifices are demanded of all of us. We haven't met the demand too well. Rather, we have demonstrated how heartily most of us approve the social philosophy of Spe- cial privilege. We accept it as our right that the corner druggist should stint our neighbor and save us pack of cigarets. We understand why we shouldn't travel, yet some of us don't scruple to pull strings and perhaps stretch the truth to get comfortable accommodations for vacation trip. We pull more strings and use little genteel bribery to get couple of unprocurable theatre tickets when we're in New York
 Others of us pursue the Ill-get-mine ] 1ClCd d UlG 1dl LIlCI. AS d ICOu1G we 41dNC some unnecessary shortages, and the black market flourishes. We approve sacrifice in principle, sure, But we also approve the principle of special privilege. When we have risen up in arms against it, it was because some Jim Fisk or Boss Tweed had carried the idea to scandalous and injurious lengths. We aren't the on- ly nation whose citizens indulge desire for special privilege, but our indulgence of it is most unflattering at this moment in the worlds history. And it is unfortu- nate, for this same selfish, childish self irdulgence is twisted and confused version of one of our most admired national characteristics individual ini- tiative A lot of people, here and abroad, are contemptuouS of American initiative. To them our striving after material com forts, higher living standard and some social standing in the community IS bourgeois .snobbery, or worse
 But it can't be denied that this same initiative, on the right track, has been translated into lot of hard work and good results which, benefit even those most Scornful of the American go-getter.
 Its better aspects are apparent today in the tools of our military might. For that reason it is all the more shameful when our initiative takes the cheap, lazy form of hoarding and chiSeling. It is too bad that we must take this way of informing the Communists of the depressing fact that it's going to be awfully hard to start a revolution in country where every man not only feels that he is the equal of his fellow, but that he stands darned good chance of being his superior.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Discourse On Late Mailing

There is something of the pre-reforma- tion disposition of Scrooge in the attitude taken by recent local editorial writer who referred to Waterbury residents who wait in line at the post office during the final week of Christmas holidays as flag gards indulging in an indolent and tire some performance".
 We would be inclined to believe that such an attitude on the part of the writer was prompted by his having stood in the line ladened with his alleged last minute mailing However, second peruSal of his Epoutings leads us to believe he is more the type who has someone-a patient wife, no doubt, - who selects, purchases, wraps and mails all his, fixed responsi- bilities", as he so insensibly refers to Christmas gifts.
 With frigid Laodicean traits the writer, not merely suggests, but decreeS as man. datory that such mailing be indulged in some four weeks before Christmas, and not four days. In other words, jolly December l, to you all.
 It is incidental, in his reasoning, ap- parently that people are burdened daily during these times by late working hours, disrupted family ways and topsy-turvey living hours.
 Well, perhaps we are being harsh. After all, tt is Christmas, and we, too, should express our good will even toward such men. Perhaps it isn't too late now for us to rush to the post office and mail said writer some bicarbonate for his dyspepsia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

The old gag of using the word Mills" as part of corporate or trade name in order to make selling and distributing company appear to be manufacturer, IS out of date, according to Government regulations that are being enforced: m this connection there has been "blrtn" of firms who manufacture and distribute pulpwood under the label of cedar board. Federal Trade says that Is false label and has notified manufac- turers against whom complaints have been made to cut it out. The Govern ment has gone to bat all the way along the line against manufacturers and deal CTS who are trying to convince the public that their limitations and mixed products are "just as good". One is reminded or that old truism Honesty is the pest policy"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
SAVE BUSINESS RECORDS
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courier)
 Turn in waste paper for scrap. but not all paper. A good deal of irreplaceahle material has been lost through the irresistible lure of the wastebasket. ,.
 Old, records may be of far wider concern than the separate firms involved. A New York Committee on Business Records has been form edo with Thomas c. Cochran of New York University as executive secretary, to saivake these records for future historians. The commit tee is urging companies to make their old files more available. In some cases this means listing and digesting them. Sometimes the job is big enough to warrant the ap- pointment company historian. Sombetimes the. company will be willing to turn the material over to some university or other public institution. In any case. says the committee, the material should not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

out the aid of the PAC and other strong independent committees, including Leon Henderson's in- dependent progressive committee, a Republican congress would have been elected and perhaps a Republican President.
 Party machinery, they admit, did not function well through out the campaign; they were constantly dissatisfied with the operation of the national conn., mittee; and meetings of the Senate and House campaign groups were the scene of cOn- stant grabbing about poor pub- licity. But now that the elec- tion is over, the bitterness is disappearing, with veteran sOl- Ons willing to charge 1t off to inexperience.
 Hannegan will work now to develop 8 network of local Demo- cratic groups which will see to it that registration for voting is built up m 1946 and that the vote aims for another Democratic House. There are even hopes that the senate majority will be increased, with tough fights loom ing for Republicans Butler of Nebraska, Johnson of California, Shipstead of Minnesota, Vanden- berg of Michigan, Willis of lndi- ana, and Progressive Bob La Toilette of Wisconsin.
 Unless the Democratic National Committee can do this job itself, it will have to rely again upon the non-party groups which won the election for it last month. Meanwhile, the southern wing of the party and the middle -the- roaders are preparing to fight against dependence upon :lon- party elements. They fear that the party will become too defin- itely the liberal party.
 That's why, in many towns and cities-and even in rural dis tricts-where the Democratic party usually shows its head only every two years, it will have to continue active. A giant financ- ing drive is gettitng under way now to back this activity-wtih liberals approached on the basis of keeping the Republicans out of control in 1946. and old-line Democrats approached on the basis of keeping Sidney Hillman out of the drivers seat.
 Copyright, 1914. by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

season of trial. A man who at tained great fame in English literary life said that 1t was a brief walk and conversation he had with the Eng fish man of letters Hazlitt which started him on the road to high achievement
 Influences are going out from our personalities all the time, unseen forces which are powerfully infiu- encing those round about us. Very often such forces work most power fully when we are entirely uncon- scious of the process.
 All Rights Reserved
 Babson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
THE STATE DEPARTMENT SIX
eNew York Tirnes)

The controversy in the Senate over what MT. Stettinius described as his new team has ended, in the unexpectedly swift approval of all six nominees. And this is just as well. For if there was ever a time when the State Department needed a full team. and not bench-Warm- CTS waiting for the Senate's signal, that time is now. On every dipIo- matic front there Is difficult work to be done. A long delay in the con firmation of these appointments would have been unfortunate.
 The practice of requiring Senate approval of important nominations is a sound one; and when the nominations are made either for judicial office or for some post in which the appointee is to carry out the defined purposes of Congress, as in the Interstate Commerce Com mission or the Federal Trade Com mission. the Senate is justified in making an especially close scrutiny before it gives its consent. But when the nominees are appointed to purely administrative posts on the executive side of the Govern. ment-as was the case here-the presumption in favor Of prompt approval is a strong one, provided they are men of personal integrity and honor. This was manifestly true of these six nominees. And since it was true, the opponents of the nominations could only fall back on the argument that these six men were not the type of men needed to carry out the foreign policies of MT. Roosevelt and MT. Stettinius. But on that point MT. Roosevelt and MT. Stettinius were obviously is better position to express an opinion than members of the Sem ate. And on the Presidents state ment that he would submit the same six names to the new Senate If the old Senate failed to act on them before it's term expired, all real opposition on Capitol Hill col. lapsed.
 MT. Stettinius now has at his command the services of six new aides. of whom he said that leach
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Snafu!

Following the resignation of high official in the dairy products section Of OPA, high sources state that his pricing policies and regulations will be scrutln- ized to see if they are designed to favor big cheese processors. An effort also VIII be made to determine whether butter has been detrimentally priced to favor other dairy producas.
 Is it any wonder that farmers fear government domination of their ouSl- ness? They can cope with natural laws. But in a bureaucracy where natural laws are manipulated by men constantly sup jected to human temptations, near cnaos is a normal condition. This state of af- fairs can best be described by the armed forces new word, SNAFU, abbreviating, situation normal; all fouled up"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 What a Man!

I used your Iodin Ration for years. am now 59, have five sons in service-eight children in all, Feel swell and would like to stay that way. May I have the anti gray hair pamphlet? (- -
 Answer Coming up!. Man, 1t is inspiring just to look at the pie ture of your handsome family-six sons, two daughters. mother and for a while I was not sure whether the. second from the left Is you or your eldest son. If I find myself compelled to Quack 1t in earnest, I'll just print a full page picture of your family with the legend This man takes or Doc Brady's Iodin Ration" Is that all your own hair on top? Brother, where do you get your iodine?
 No Poisonous Effect
 What poisonous effect if any would children get from eating frankfurters or other meat products which contain the usual curing agents sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate? co. H. W)
 AnSwer-Potassium nitrate (Salt- peter) is used in curing salting or picking meats to give bright red color. It is harmless. Some is con- verted into potassium nitrite, equal ly harmelss. Sodium nitrate fChiie salt peter) likewise.
 Copyright 1914, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
AREN'T WE. ALL?

There just isn't room to kid our- selves here about graying hair. That eminent geriatrician, Eben F. Rexford, told the whole truth in ten words. to wit:
 Darling, I am growing old,
 Silver threads among the gold.
 A man of twenty eight or 'twen- ty-nine, said pr. Osler. may have the arteries of 8 man of sixty. Longevity is a vascular question Gin ordinary language how long you will live depends on the condition of your arteries). As an involution process (,continued Dr. OSler) ar- teriosclerosis Hardening of the ar teries) is an accompaniment of old age. Qnvolution means retrograde evolution, degeneration, premature decline, or, according to Webster it means "preSenile decline, marked by the n1enopauSe in women and by decrease of vital force in both sexes"
 Now wouldn't say this if I thought it would go any farther, but just between ourselves I believe if you go all over that again sub- stituting gray or graying hair for arterioscleros1s or hardening of the arteries, you will begin to under stand what gray; or graying hair really means notwithstanding our popular illusions about 1t. Like hardening arteries, leSsening agil- ity. wrinkling skin and some other manifestations I shall not mention l. HnAVHYC fAn many imple-minded ones do them selves harm trying to conceal. them, graying of the hair is one of the signs, manifestations, results or symptoms, if you please, of the in volution, degeneration, decline or atrophy which Noah Webster de- fined as presenile decline, but as We are not Kidding ourselves here we candidy call old age.
 But let's not get sad or worried about it. Anticipation of growing old is worse than realization, as ev- cry one at forty knows if he or she remembers how it looked at twenty, and every one at sixty ditto in re- spect to forty. After all, it is a ques- tion of health and not of age.
 So far as premature graying, pre- mature aging, premature decline is concerned 1t is mainly nutritional deficiency.
 In the first place, as I explain in the pamphlet Young Folks and Old Folks (copy mailed if you pro- vide stamped pre-addreSsed envel- opel there is almost universal deficiency of calcium and vitamin D, and of vitamin B complex, par ticularly the "anti-gray hair vita- mins' calcium pantothenate, para inobenzoate, rib boflavin etc., thanks to ultrarefined diet and fear of exposure. Then, too, in most iT- stances there is also iodine re- ficiency.
 If you ask me l do not believe any of the things mentioned will re- store the oroginal color to hair that has turned gray. do believe premature decline and all of its manifestations can be prevented by supplementing the diet with the vitamins and minerals mentioned, or with foods that supply adequate amounts of the essential vitamins and minerals, and sufficient expo sure of the body to sunshine of sky shine.
 Now take Juan Ponce de Leone. for example-or no, see We can't take him today. We'll hold him for day or two.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

classical m u S 1 c, and feature pro- grams Y free of adds but at a cost to the listener of 5 cents a day - was originally put before the EGG last October when t h e Commission held hearings on post . war alloca- tions of freQuen- cies. Joseph L. Weiner, formerly an attorney for the Omce of Price
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
!. S. BOSS OF NEAR EAST?

U. s. BOSS OF NEAR EAST?
 Gen. Benjamin Franklin Giles, the U. s. Army'S gift to the Near East, has issued an order banning State Department UNRRA, TEA, and other U. s. Civilian officials from coming in through the front door of his Cairo headquarters. All U. s. civ- ilianS were ordered to use the back entrance.
 When State Department officials squawked the order was finally reScinded.
 General Giles also banned as patients in the Army hospi- to set up its own clinic in Cairo tai for while, forced UNERA to take care of American gov ernment employees who became ill. Most distressing single morale-breaker imposed on civ- ilians by Giles was an order preventing them from using the Army postal service to send and receive mail. This meant Ameri- cans in Cairo had to wait for the painfully slow regular mail service to hear from home. Af-' ter enough protests came into Washington civilian agencies put ! the pressure on the Army, fin- ally got the order revoked.
 NOTE: General Giles is the man who ordered U. s. newsmen not to cable home anything critical of the British, especially during the early stages or the Greek-British crisis. That was one reason why the American public got news of the Greek turmoil with such thud. Actually it had been brew ing for some time.
 DEMOCRATS LOOK
 AHEAD TO '46 .t
 Democratic leaders have been telling Democratic Chairman Bob Hannegan that he will occupy one of the toughest spots in pub lie life for the next two years. While their tone is semi joking when they say this, actually they are in dead earnest. Hannegan's job will be to prevent the back sliding of 1888 and 1922 wher the congressional elections come up two years hence.
 He will have a good deal more help in the job than his predeces- Sors, just as he had a good deal more help in the recent presi- dential election. Democratic politicos, no matter how they feel personally about Sidney Hill man, admit privately that, with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

tie things we did for our friends = with our left hand, as 1t were-bind
 these people to us and make them more our friends than if we had given them a great sum of money. People nver forget the word that was kindly spoken in q moment of Encouragement, the little helpful act which made living endurable in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

OUR UNREMEMBERED ACTS Many of the best acts in our lives are spontaneous. The poet Wads- worth in his ''Tintrn Abbey" speaks of,
 That best of a hood mans
 life
 His little nameless, unremem-
 bred acts
 Of Kindness and of love-" It often happens that the things we plan for most carefully never yield satisfaction we hoped they
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

would. By t h e same token, we discover t h a t somelittle event we did not plan for at all gives g thrill nd pro-
 duces a perlna- n e Il t happiness f o r which W e could never have planned. Also we frequently d i S. cover that the lit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Selected Poem
MIGRATION

MIGRATION Josephine K. Goldsmith in The New York Times) Wild bird that flaunts a wing at winters chill Your path is tangible and well defined; We founder in the seasons of events, Seek shelter in the crevices of mind With migratory instincts for your guide, You leace the waning weather fer your own; We make a truce with stinging seet and frost, Endure the storm with fortitude of stone. You know your way from terminal to start; We xrope through lost migrations of the heart.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
A Ray of Sunshine

Senator Claude Pepper, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education, in discussing the formulation of national health program, sayss "I'ye been trying to find way of avoiding compulsion. I've been trying to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Views Of The Press

is wholly qualified by character. experience and abilities for the responsibilities he has been asked to assume" It is as a team that the six were chosen and as & team that their work will be judged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
A Thought for Today

LAbOur not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed-John 6:27.
 They live that they may eat, but he himself (Socrates) eats that he may live.-Athenaeus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Your Health By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonal health and hygiene. not Q disease. diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady # . stamped self addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should De brief and written in ink. 70 reply can De made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street. Chicago. III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

be thrown away. or, even contribut- ed to the waste paper drive. until it has been examined by some one competent to judge it's importance for the historian.
 That importance may well be considerable. The Harvard Busi- ness School, of reXample. has al- ready made extensive use of com pany records as background ma terial for present-day students of business administration. The his tory of Steelmaking, of cotton manufacture, of mining, cannot be satisfactorily written without con- sulting old firm records.
 The green turtle is best adapted for soup, while the hawksbill is ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Washington Merry -Go-Round DREW Rz Pz
Lt Coll Robert g. Allen Now Aetive Wh Army

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Battle On For No-Ad Radio
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

National Association of Broad casters having filed an objection to the granting of radio wavebands to Subscription Hadio," the battle line has been drawn before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington on whether there will be radio entertainment without adver- tising in the postwar world. @
 Application for license to operate Q three-channel radio service of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Sun rises at SIS a. m. sets at S:2s p. m. (war time) Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

Copyright, 1o44, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-26
Bill Robinson Coming TO Bowery

FRANK Barbara, who may
always be counted on 10 DO the
spectacular presents a string Of
top-flight stars al the Bowery
this week, brilliant enough 20 I'M
press the most faded entertain
ment seeker.
First there's dimpled Dolly
Dawn, who's no stranger TO t1e
Bowery. She excels IN the not
too-easy art of selling songs IN
the torrid manner.
Next in the hit parade are the
Condos Brothers. an agile pair Of
tap dancers well known 10 the
movie-going public, They're a
crack pair OF dancers who pack
plenty of intricate foot work
Paddy Cliff fits smoothly into
the master OF ceremonies role, and
The Pat Walsh Victory Girls
punctuate the revue with well
done production numbers. It's
Benny Resh's orchestra for music.
Scheduled for next weeks show
which promises 10 be a top-notch
one, is Bill Robinson, famous tap
dancer who recently completed a
featured role IN the picture,
Stormy Weather" and who is
known for his roles in Shirley
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-26

With Taylor and Peters, in this
one, yoUii Il find John todIsk, tne
Hamtramck lad who made good
IN "Llfeboat." Robert Benchley
and Felix Bressart.
The Adams Is due 10 hold Song
~ Bernadette" for another week
and the United Artists still clings
20 Lady in the Dark the Ginger
Rogers opus which has Ray Mil
land Warner Baxter and Jon
fffiafT IT me principal male roles.