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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Pensions Are Expensive

As alarming as is the factual appear ance of the estimated $640,940 annual net cost, to the city, for a 30 year period to amorti2e its pension obligations, there Is the possibility that some softening of the current prohibitive features of the proposed plan will be effected soon.
 The citys tax rate will undoubtedly feel the impact of such an additional burden to the extent, under present terms, of or mill tax rate increase. This, however, may possibly be offset in some measure by compulsory reduction In the overall budget expenditures of the city It Is possible that some com promise within these two cushions will be brought about, so that the tax increase will be proportionately curtailed and the budgetary decrease likewise suffer less. at must be remembered, however, in re- sorting to the latter of these two pro- cedures that we are faced with many un- known quantities relative to the post war era, Rather than sacrifice the effi- cient security of the city government by curtailing the budget expenditures 1t would be more practical to effect tax increase.
 On the cheerful side Is the fact that such an estimated reserve as this annual &640 840-which may be reduced to be- low the half-million mark before inStitu- ton of a pension plan-will not be eX- pended in toto, each year, thereby, cre- kting, in time, a reserve suitable for in- VeStment as fund, the subsequent profit therefrom to be used as a means of reducing the city's obligation.
 It is evident from the report that to grant pension to all employees Is going Na laa NApl,Ka ,Rla Ae al security, and this, despite the proportion ate contributions of city employees eX- penSive, that is, to the city taxpayers Yet, Waterbury administrators years ago, obligated the city to its employees by means of formal incorporation within It's statutes of the promise to pay pen Iion to each city employe who serves specified length of time, It is not ethical or reasonable to presume that we should pr would default on such obligations at this date
 City employees who will be the bene- NciarieS of any such plan must be pre- pared to cooperate with any reasonable eontributory plan devised to safely main- tain a workable pension system. A five percent contribution is not out of pro- portion.
 The fact is that we have problem and no one is to planes for its creation. Lack of foresight is the most critical label we can apply to all past administrations for failure to have attempted an adjustment of this condition. The only answer now is: resolutely face the problem and strive for an equitable adjustment throughout. An adjustment which can be adapted by the taxpayer as a reasonable solution to a moral and ethical obligation he in- herited as citizen of Waterbury, and an adjustment the city employe is willing to make on basis that nothing good in this world is without cost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
CIVILIZATION AND DEGENERA- TON

Casual remark in some war eor- respondenta report of what is hap~ penlng in Europe rankleS long after che oorrespondent's name and the reSt of his story have heen forgot- ten, He described c celebration of some successful Allied achievement and, to show the resoureefulnoSS of the service, of supply, he said the banquet there In the very front lines included even white bread, Thon another dispatch from somewhere la Italy mentioned what the cor respondent regarded Ns Q special honefaetion to tho hungry Italian elvlllans-the dispensing of white bread instead of coarse whole.grAin bread to which the people had been accustomed,
 These bits of news within the news are far more interesting than the news itself,
 It is conceivable that the weak mouthed, lame-i -iawed, more or less edentulous American war eorreS- pondents and military personnel would be delighted to get some white bread they could eat without serious strain to their feeble niastl- eating equipment, It Ia easy to un- derstand that the civilians in any European district lately liberated from NaN or Fascist suhjeetion would Do happy to got bread of any kind or color.
 If American occupation of France, Italy or other European countries introduces general use of white bread instead of the more nutr.ti- euS, more healthful whole grain bread the people have always used aS the mainstay of their diet, then our coming will not Dc an unmiXed blessing. It seems regrettable that We eanot share with these victims of authoritarian. oppression the fruits ot civilization and freedom without at tho same time eneourag. Ing them In the cultivation of nu. tritional deficiency.
 This physical degeneration which comes with ultra.refinement of food is due mainly to the use of white flour and white sugar, A ono nus triton authority, Norman Jelllffe, expressed it, "A 5S percent fraction of the ealorieS in tho American diet of ieA0 (when whole wheat flour was used containing c minimum of GOO international units of vitamin Di, has been replaced in the con. temporanoous American diet re. fined white flour substituted almost exclusively for whole wheat flour, refined white sugar almost eXelu- sively for old-fashiened brown sugar and molasses) by liko fraction containing only about 60 internN- tional units of vitamln Bl,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
In Today's Mail
WRITER THINKS EX. GOVERNOR DIDN'T DO TOO BAD
 FOR HIMSELF

Hartford Conn.,
 Sept, 2i, ie44 Editor of the Democrat;
 I see in the papers that BOD Hurley, the Democratic candidate for governor is finally taking some time off from his job Rt Pawtuekes, R, l., for campaigning purposes. It must be kinda tough on his posses leaving them 90 Short-handed in these critical days. AS we remember 1t, testimony during the Big Red House" days of war contract inves' tIgation showed Bob was sweating It out in Rhode Island for nearly Q whole day every blessed week for Q pittance of about si2,000 @ year, Connecticut didn't pay Bob any more for those arduous days In Hartford when he was discovering new ways of rewarding his political sponsors with lower berths and luxurious compartments on the pub lie payroll gravy train.
 Let's not fight with our sister state, Rhode Island, over Bob Hur. ley.
 Re-elect RAYMOND E. BALD
 IKE PUTNAM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Copyright io44. John F. Dille Col

dred billions of our money, why shouldn't We get the benefit of th' bargain when they go at fifteen bil lions? Per capita. but a trifiing taS compared to what we have aireeoy taken on for the Four Freedoms. } say We" because in the long run the great majority pay most of the taxes, directly, and in raised price' and reduced values. We feel no ve' nom about 1t, but should have eveTy chance to grab some of that happi' ness which 1t is our RIGHT to pur' sue. Man does not live by breao alone"
 Our original Democracy, before going off at tangents like Ptlgrtml Progress, was a combination of pri' vate enterprise and brotherly CO., operation by chipping in of personal labor and brainwork. Chipping in by taxes is but @ revival of the saint spirit. If we can't show happy and prosperous nation of folks, no sale of Democracy to other nations is possible.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
HealthfuI Reducing

In three months I have lost twen. ty pounds in weight and five inches around hips. I followed your dree' tons as in the leaflet How to Lose Weight. Naturally this is pleasing to my vanity. But what do thank you for Is the vast improvement in my general health and vitality. This Is what pleases my family, for ) guess had lost most Of my old time cl:serfulness and readiness to join in the fun (Mrs. L. O.
 Answer-That's what I'm alwaY trying to tell them. If Q reducing program docs not actually improve health and vitality 1t is probably wrong and maybe dangerous. Any reader who asks for 1t (no clipping will be considered a requesO and in' closes stamped self addressed en- velope may have the pamphlet HOW to Lose Weight"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

law. spiritually the universe is a sort of hit and miss affair.
 Yet the spiritual lows are just as unyielding as are the physical laws. The soul of man is governed by uni- versal principles as his body is con- ditioned by universal law; and hap py living is the portion of those who conform themselves to the require ments of spiritual law as well as to the requirements of physical law. They are not contradictory but supplementary. We get so into the habit, however, of thinking of things that we fail to appreciate the su- periority of the spiritual laws and the spiritual universe of which they are part.
 ''rhe things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen are eternal"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
BEFORE SELLING DEMOCRACY TO OTHERS, LETS PRACTICE
 IT OURSELVES FIRST
Arlington, N. J.
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Arlington, N. J.
 Sept. 2l, 1924. Editor of the Democrat:
 Dear Sir:-With regard to selling the recommendations GOVERN MENTS war properties. wouldn't 1t be a good idea for Congress to con- suit us, the great majority, as to our need of many of these properties, and our willingness to pay also the bargain prices in taxes so that all the forty-eight States, rich or poor, should share in their alue equally for educational, recreational, or ath- letic purposes, for rest refuges, etc., for old and young? During the past forty years, athletics, running, walk ing, etc, have been handed over al- most entirely to schools and colleg- es. This is a mistake, as was proved by Doctors examinations of our earlier draftees, who had been away from school and athletics for some years. There's no royal road to health, or happiness, except by brainy planning.
 Said properties cost some hun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Government agencies ruled like.

Government agencies ruled like. wige.
 Tn the end, however, banker Anderson made the decision him' self, He ruled that no steel was to go to Nelson'B reconversion plan, This meant that, after manufacturer had cleared nll the other hurdles--had secured the OK of the Manpower CommlS. sion and every one else-then, after oil that, he would be un- able to get the one material nbsos lutely vital to produetion-steel
 Banker Anderson took his ar" bitary stand despite the fact that 6 confidential report prepared by Charles F. Wilson's economists stated:
 "0ver.aT shipments of steel since the 4th quarter of l043 have been running well ahead of actual use. Carbon steel inventories at the end of l943 Another increase occurred dur. ing the first quarter Of 1044.
 At the end Of June (iO4D, carbon steel inventories in' creased by about a million tons and were close to . full guar. teF'S use. Two and three- quarter million tens Of carbon steel are excess inventories and over . 60.day supply"
 However, this report was sup- pressed and the two men who made 1t resigned from WIPE.
 Concluding chapter in the blocking of civilian reconversion occurred very quietly just a few days ago, when Nelson's successor, "Cap" Krug, issued on order overruling banker Anderson and allocating i2o.000 tons Of steel for civilian reconVersion.
 JOLT FOR BILL GREEN
 The A. P. of LIS Dan Tobin of the powerful teamsters' union has an unpleasant surprise for AFL president Bill Green.
 TObln, who has been battling for Roosevelt in AFL counsels for months, is bitter at the way Green has been pussyfooting. As a result, Tobin will soon order all his A. F. Of L. unions to enter all-out collaboration with Sidney Hillmans CIO Political Action Committee.
 There is nothing which nak- es Green more read with rage than any mention of cOOpera. tIOn with the CIO. He has speci- flcaIIy ordered all AFL locals to refuse collaboration with HiII- man.
 However. teamster Tobin has already written a letter to top AFL leadership. saying he has nothing against either Hillman, Philip Murray or anyone else in the CIO as long as they are for Roosevelt. The letter will be made public shortly.
 AFTERMATH OF V-DAY
 The White House has just re- ceived a confidential report show ing that 66A percent of Ameri- can families have saved only 11.6 percent of the money put aside by the nation during war time. Tn other words, the upper one- third bracket of the people tucked away 86.4 percent.
 The same report points out that, immediately after V-Day in Europe. most plants which con- tinue operating will cut overtime. thus dropping wages from IS to 25 percent. One of the problems officials face is a wild rush to cash war bonds. not for lush spending, but for bare necessities of workers in middle and lower income brackets.
 All these figures now have Roosevelt concerned about what will happen in the first weeks immediately after the Var. The Presidents economic advisers are telling him that continued prosperity Tn the postwar period will require his greater personal attention to domestic problems.
 They figure that. if the nation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
QUESTIONS 6 ANSWERS
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l understand you are an authority on hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure-or aS doctor calls 1t, Apprehension, tMrS, F. s. L)
 Answer-Thank you, Maafn, but I'm afraid some ono Is spoofing you All l know about hardening of or. teries arterioselerosis) and.or tfor they are not the same thing high blood pressure Apprehension I try to tell in this column from time to time or in the booklet CVD tcardi
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

VIII hFkuo hBuHBb wage raises. espe- eiaily just before an election. 4 new wage policy would therefore seem 10 De in the bag and you can chalk this siickest and best- Up As one Of the timed breaks the Democratic Party ever got Tn he charge viii prob- ably De made that "they planned t that way"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

can successfully come through the first few weeks after the armB' tlee, then the demand for peaees time goods. long denied the pub- lice, will pick up national prosper. ity, However, the first weeks oi readiuBtment are going to Dc tough.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22


 Undoubtedly the President must know that his wife and chur. ehili don't get along particularly well, Certainly Mrs, Roosevelt knows it - in fact jokes about it a little ruesully.
 "POOF Winston" she once told friends. "Wheneyer bc is here for dinner, ne has Co set by me-"
 She referred, of course, to the fact that the ranking guest Of honor at q White House dinner must always sit at the right Of the First Lady, And she implied, Of course, that she and Churchill didn't agree on many things which Is true,
 Mrs, Roosevelt publicly difs feFed with Churchill when he praised dictator Franco in Spain, She is known to frown most des cidedly on his iFonclad view that India cannot be given independs ence. And being a friend Of Madame Kai-shek and the Chin csc people, she also doesn't en. thuse over ChurchiIls refusal 80 far to give Hong Kong back to China,
 In view Of aIl this, many White House intlnates think the PFe6is dent was snaturediy twittin3 The Prime Minister when he called out in Quebec, "EleanOF's heFc". RRCONVERsION
 SABOTAGE NIPPED
 Decisive new War Production boss "Cap" Kfug has just put through Q quiet order everything one Of the Beatest pieces Of ciy- iIian sabotage perpetrated during the turbulent Donald Nelson re. gime.
 It illustrated the manner in which Nelson was undeFcut by the banker dOlIaFsa.yeaP.m around him.
 Nelson had fought for weeks to permit companies not busy with war work to start peacetime manufacture. But the bigger companies, still tied Up with war orders, together with their Sl-a- year men inside the WIPE, op. posed, Finally, Nelson pushed his ruling through, despite op- position from the Baruch faction in the War Department, which threy up all sorts Of obstacles. Manufacturers before they could begin peacetine operation, had to get the OK of the War ManpoWer Commission and various other of- ficials. However, if they did get this OK, they could go ahead and make alarms clocks, electric irons, and all sorts of things the public long has waited for.
 However, Nelson did not know what was going to happen be- hind his back.
 One of WIPES big-busihess vice chairmen fighting reconverSion is Sam Anderson of the Lehman Brothers banking firm. Anderson happens to be head of the re- quirements committee which rules on what materials are required for each type Of work, and what shall be allocated for it.
 So AnderSon's requirements committee held a meeting to de- termine how much steel could be allocated to civilian reconyer- sion under Nelson's plan. Most of the interested agencies of the Government are represented on the requirements committee, and their views were split. Tee Army flatly opposed giving any more steel to civilian industry. The Maritime Commission supported the Army. However, the Navy, one of the greatest users of steel, voted that steel could be spared for civilian use. and many other
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Pearson Scoop On Nazi Plans

In the Washington Merry Round published Sunday August S IOl there amazing but little noticed story regarding s plans to have leaders the Na party in the Army go a the end begin preparing for the next war considerable dal regarding Nas plans mltarsm and protect un a' started hence On September @ th Herald Tribune and other newspapers featured secret which amazing inSFue tOn to German Army themselves In preparation TOT
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

fallible laws in
 the physical world. We under
 stand the law of compass also. but very few people have grasped the idea that in the spiritual " world also there are laws and that Jesus has done more than any One ~ ho eVer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Pay Going Up-- It's a Cinch
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COPresp0nAent

All signs now point to 6 National War Labor Board recommendation that basic wage rates of American industrial labor Dc raised. You can't find any man or woman in the country who will say that he Or she shouldn't have c raise, and you can't find any politician who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

lived to demonstrate the existence of these spiritual laws and to state them. Very often people have the Idea that while physically the world ls conducted strictly on the basis of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

elgmea letters pertAlnlng Co DOT. sOnNl health and hygiene, not Co disease. diagnosis oe treatment, win Do answered by De- Brady H Q stamped self.addressed envelope ls encloseG. Lotters should be brief and written In ink. sso reply can hO made Co queries not conform. lng Co instructions, Address pr. William Brady, National News paper Service, 80 West Madison Street, Chicago, m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 9:46 p m (war time)
 Sun rises at 6:39 a. m. sets at 6:49 ?. I1l (war time)
 Sun rises at 6:3e a. m, sets at 6:4s p. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Today, Sept. 22 is the first day of Autumn by the calendar, which will be approximately i :O2 D. m.. Eastern Standard Time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Beauty On the Hill

Senator Andrews of Florida confesses himself depressed by the "morguelike" appearance of the House and Senate chambers. His esthetic sense is likewise outraged by the tobacco barn" steel rafters, installed four years ago to hold the glass roofs up The senator would like to have both chambers tastefully redone-after the war, of courSe-at cost of only $900,000.
 We think the legislators should give this matter their immediate and serious attention. It should perk up their spirits to know that the future holds promise of surroundings less likely to bruise their sensibilities. And with this out of the way, they might feel more like tackling such trivia as reconversion legislation, postwar taxes, and other odds and ends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

Eventually the day will come when government subsidies and political ma nipulation of agriculture will end. Farm- CTS will not be sorry. They VIII agam breathe the air of independence that made American farms the most pro ductive in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22

= White House Mtaes S plza over arrived quebec kidding what when he called
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

THERE ARE SPIRITUAL
 LAWS ALSO
 In the spiritual world We deal with laws precisely as we do in the physical world. No one thinks for a moment of questioning the fact that there are unyielding and in-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
A Thought for Today

So God created man In his own image, In the Image of God created he hlm male and female created he them,-GencSls l;27.
 
 They that deny a God destroy mans nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, If he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he Is e base and ignoble creature-- Bacon,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-22
Washington Merry-Go-Round DREW PEARSON

FDR Greeting of Churchill Quebec Seen Tw About EeonoF
 WIPES Drug Ns Attempt Of Aides Sabotage Reeonveson Pons Group Tried Hold Up Steel for cviOn Products Tobn Order His AFL Unions to Work With PACyolt tor Geer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-27

where there could have been no footsteps. They got louder and I saw Herman's eyes bulge. His face changed from mahogany-brown to the color of coffee and cream. I turned around"
 Preston claims he saw two men. dressed as electricians, walking down a passage which had no en- trance. (YeowD Herman knows what he saw. Ghosts.
 These ghosts (Hernan says and I agree) make their headquarters in the empty tomb. After midnight they filter up. They scream and cause the chairs to squeak and swipe the senatorial snuff.
 They even ride the senator's pri- vate trolley cars. These cars whiz back and forth, and forth and back the live-long day in a tunnel con- necting the senate office building and the capitol. That's so senators can save their strength for law making. Every night the motormen park both cars at the office build ing end of the line. You know what happened the other two A. M.?
 The ghosts climbed aboard one of those cars. turned on the juice, and took a wild, clanking ride to the stopped there? Not those ghosts They kept on going.
 Next morning mortal men found the senatorial trolley car with mos tor smoking, smashed into Q bulk head that led modelling where. The ghosts were gone from there. This isn't the first time.
 Vice President Charles Curtis years ago phoned Harold R. Beck ley. superintendent of the press gallery. demanding that he stop the syping going on directly over his head. Beckley looked into the gale lery. He saw no typist
 And then," he reported, "1 heard it. myself. Click. Click. Cllekety-Click."
 Beckley eventually oiled the hing es Of the swinging doors. Curtis never complained again. That dOesn't satisfy Herman. He knows. Those ghosts are back there every night, iyping bulletins that never see the light Of day.