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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
THE ELL
(New York Times

(New York Times)
 There is a vogue for functional architecture, and in the main it has much to commend it. Doubtless our housing styles have much O. the Topsy philosophy; although experi- ence has held restraining hand. As we read of slass-sided houses, heat under the floors and flat roofs for sun bathing. the future seems destined to be period of change in house styleS-as in cars, planes and robot bombs.
 However, the ell on the northern farlnstead will continue to have a functional purpose for long time to come. There are those who smile at the thought of connecting the house where humans live with the barn where animals dwell. One could mention that in pioneer days on the frontier the home for the family COW, pig and chickens fre- quently adjolned the family's living room. There are places in the world today where humans and their DedSGS anu DlIuS i've HlOIe UT lcoS communal life.
 The ell is a compromise It Is a series of rooms or sheds, each with a purpose. Urban dwellers without rural experience cannot know the peaceful comfort of going from the farm kitchen to the tie-up under cover on days when cold autumn rains are flashing the earth, when blizzardy storms whirl over field and wood, or when the snow lies deep and drifted after a mortimer.
 The ell is good thing. A farmer can go from the regular kitchen to the back kitchen, through the woodshed. the carriage shed, the tool room, the farm shop, and di- rectly into the barn. Somehow the ell binds the whole farm into unit. It gives a sense of cozy security and protected unity. On a farm the heart of living si inti- mately bound with all the activities connected with the care of animals. The ell is comfortable link between the home for the family and the home of the animals that depend on the farmers care.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
All Aboard

The Interior Department has informed the forward looking president of the U. $: Rocket Society that it will be quite legal to file claim for some real estate on the moon under our Homestead Law All the filler need do is prove that he is acquaint- ed with the land in question, and be ready to move onto it six months after his entry is approved. Maybe we might turn over some of the top Axis war criminals to the enterprising rocket man and the versatile Mr. IckeS.
 Triple-A priority might be given to con- struction of moon-bound rockets, with re- served seats for Hitler and his inner cir cle and the Jap war cabinet on the first one completed.
 After that, a few trips by the Nippon Express, the Gauleiter Limited, and the Gestapo Special and this might be quite pleasant world again. Only we should probably first check on the other side Of the moon to see that there are no inhab- itants. or the company of those rocket passengers shouldn't happen to dog-or what passes for dog on our frigid satel- lite.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
'Backstairs Gossip

That was polite quiz session that the new State Department "team" had with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Many splendid sentiments were ex- pressed. But the session just wasn't very informative. For instance, Senator Mur- ray of Montana asked James c. Dunn, one of the nominees for Assistant Secre- tary of State, whether Prime Minister Churchill was forcing the American State Department to play second fiddle in this Greek thing" Whereupon Chair man Tom Connally of the Foreign Rela- tionS Committee chided Mr. Murray for asking the witness to disclose backStairS gossip about Churchill" It doesn't seem to us that MT. Murrays question was in the gossip category at all. Rather it was in the category of things that the Amer jean people want to know Maybe it wasn't expressed in proper diplomatic terminol- ogy, but it was frank and understand able question of sort that many of us would like to ask. During the session Archibald MacLeish, another nominee, quoted Cordell Hull's definition of our for eign policy as "the task of focusing and giving effect in the world outside our bor- ders to the will of 1855 million people" MT. MacLeiSh also stated that it was the State Departments duty to give the peo- pie such information on foreign policy as they require.
 Tn his statement to the committee, Mr. Dunn said that "in our democracy the basic determination of foreign policy rests with the people" Well, the people have clearly demonstrated their wishes for a foreign policy that will lead to our mem- bership in an international organization to secure and maintain peace, and that will combat faSciSm and foster democratic freedom for all the worlds peoples. But having done So, they would also like 10 kssp check on the way this policy i
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Views Of The Press

some time has devoted his energies to rehabilitating others. The address of Bridge House is a secret-and it should be kept secret.
 The work which led to the open ing of Bridge House is said to have been about 75 per cent successful. which is remarkably high. Prom all we know of alcoholism, it ap- pears that MT. McGolorick and his associates are on the right track. And yet, what nas been done is so pitifully small. when we consider the magnitude of the problem. Tine people who come under the care of Bridge House must come voluntarily they must have sincere desire" to stop drinking entirely and they must be "employsble. These conditions, which at first glance might appear reasonable enough, actually serve to make the new institution pretty exclusive. But it is a good idea, anyhow, and the city. pressed though it is for funds, does we'll to support it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Eldon's Airpark

To the planners of Americas postwar aviation one of the most important towns in the country is Eldon, Mo. (pop. 2590). For Eldon is the site of what might be called the pilot plant of our future air parks. The municipally financed Eldon airpark is due to be completed in June. During it's construction detailed records are being kept of every step-planning, site selection, property acquisition, de- velopment and financing, actual con- struction costs, management arrange ments, operating procedure and main- tenance costs, together with complete record of all revenue When this is done the Civil Aeronautics Authority should have collected invaluable data to serve as guide for other communities which are including airparks in their postwar development programs. Airpark, incl dentally, is term chosen by the Person al Aircraft Council of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce to designate land ing fields for private aircraft, as opposed to airport, station for scheduled com mercial craft. Most small cities will not want airports, which would be as in- practical as building an elaborate bus terminal for parking lot. But even few private flyers would make an ade- quate, inexpensive airpark desirable.
 It is in the private field that authorities see the future of flying. Most postwar discussion thus far has been concerned with the international tangle of future commercial routes and regulations. But the commercial field has limited expan- sion possibilities. It is estimated that 12 4O-pasSenger airlinerS will carry, as many passengers across the Atlantic in a cIai Io ci1n nf fho OIInnn Mary in the same time AS for private flying, the CAA and the aviation indus try reason thus: At the wars end there will be 350,000 military-trained pilots, 150,00O civilian pilots and students, and some 2,5O0,O0O men trained by the armed forces in various branches of aviation. About 100000 persons have had war jobs in aviation factories, and 25O,OOO high school students will be taking aero nautical courses. These add up to more than 5,000,000 potential flyers. They won't all fly, of course. The flivver- priced plane isn't just around the corner, and neither is the helicopter.
 Private aircraft, as bare of accessories as the old Model T, will probably cost around $20O0 But even if only one of every four prospects actually becomes a flyer, a tremendous market will be opened The automobile in 30 years creat- ed millions of jobs and greatly expanded our whole economy. But it had to wait decade before construction of good high ways permitted that expansion. If av1a- tion is going to have a comparable healthy economic effect in the critical years just ahead, it cannot wait that long flor adequate landing fields, the counter part of good roads
 That is why construction of the Eldon Rirpark is of national importance, and step in the right direction
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

been enslaved, and inconceivable barbarities inflicted upon racial groups and individual communities. Only a whisper is coming out of Europe at the present time, but there must exist on that continent such a passion for revenge and such an immeasurable hat of man for man that certainly it will take dec ades. probably generations, and per- haps even centuries to get national life strengthened out satisfactorily and to get people living again in a normal fashion.
 Human wickedneSs Is dreadful reality. When t works through the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

Manufacturers, Tom Girdler and Ernest Wier, has been revealed as one of the master minds behind the "W. Lee O'Da1tiel News" This was the rabid, anti-Roose- velt propaganda sheet which dripped vitriol last summer.
 This significant tie-up revealed when Senator Greens campaign investigating committee asked Mrs. O'Daniel who helped edit and write the senator's propa- ganda sheet. She replied:
 Senator w. Lee ODaniel,
 George E. SOkOIsky. Samuel B.
 Pettengill, Garfield Crawford
 others"
 Sam Pettingill is a leader of Frank Ganneks Committee for Constitutional Government whose executive secretary, Edward Rum- ely. was jailed as German propagandist during the last war and who is new under indictment for refusing to produce the Gan- nett committees records for Con- gress.
 Sokolsky, New York Sun col umnist. was once paid $6,000 by the National. Association of Manu- lecturers at the same time he was writing for newspapers: also was paid $14,0O0 by Tom Girdler. chairman of Republic Steel. In 1917 he was editor of the Rus sion news in Petrograd.
 CLAYTON'S COTTON EMPIRE
 California's Attorney General Bob Kenny became the first man to worry Secretary of State Stet- tinius about his new assistant Secretary of State, Will Clayton, and the property interests of the far-fiung Clayton cotton empire. Kenny called an platinum-haired Stettinius to discuss the dyna- mite-packed U. S.-Mexican treaty for distribution of water from the Colorado. Tijuana and Rio Grande divers
 Kenny told Settinius that Cali
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
EARI.Y TJP AN KEEP ETT

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 Le'me see, how many days must a woman remain in bed after the birth of a baby-nine, isn't it2 I wonder why not the systic seven?
 In some cases it is necessary and advisable that the woman remain in bed for that length of time or even longer.
 But now that we are gradually freeing our minds from traditional fancies and Superstitions, we doc- tors and you people, it appears that 1t is better in every way for the puerpera (woman who has just borne a child) to resume activity few days after childbirth. Not abruptly, but gradually, as indicated in the following discussion.
 Old timers were not all agreed about this. In a treatise on Puer- peral Fever (septic infection or "blood poisoning" as 1t was called later) Dr. Charles White in Eng land about the middle of the eigh- teenth century, maintained that "the patient should be allowed up within a few hours after delivery. The sooner the patient gets out of bed the better, and this should not be deferred beyond the second or third day at the furtherest." Early in the nineteenth century pr. Robert Gootch, professor of obstetrics at St. Bartholomew's Hospital London. cautioned his students that flor three weeks after delivery the pa tient should be kept chiefly in the recumbent position, the consequence of getting up soon after delivery with the seavy uterus suspended in the flaccid abdomen will be a pro- lopse of this organ"
 In Modern Hospital, Feb. '43, Dr. B. W. Black reports the experience of the obstetric department of Ala meda County Hospitals in Oak land, Calf. In a series of 3,400 cases, about one third of the patients were discharged four days after childbirth, 30 per cent. from four to seven days after childbirth and 35 per cent, after the eighth day. The obstericians found that no complications occurred that were attributable to early discharge of CIle pdtIeIlC 1IOIIl G1lC l4OoPAIoA''
 Tn the Jour. A. M. A., July. "A, Dr. Morris Rotstein reports his ex- perience with getting patients up early after childbirth. One hundred fifty patients were allowed up on the third or fourth day after child birth. These patients allowed to get out of bed early feel stronger and are better equipped to carry on their routine duties at home than patients who are kept in bed nine days or longer Involution of the uterus was accelerated and pro- lapse was not encountered. Heal ing of episiotomy wounds was not affected by early rising. No cases of thrombophlebitis Clothing and inflammation in vein) occurred. and early activity after childbirth probably lessens the hazard of such a complication.
 call attention again to what or Doc Bootch said. particularly his remark about flaccid abdomen of course that means belly. the wall of the abdomen, not the abdomen which is a cavity). Perhaps women in those days were as f1accid as they were frail A woman today really should know better than to let herself go fiaccid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

turned out oeCCer from the Depart ment of s ta t e standpoint if 1t had been arrang- ed by one of the departments own press agents pardon ''cur- rent information specialists"
 The six charac- ters in search of confirmation, the six men accused" of having b e e n nominated as as- cirt ~fe fa Caara
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

minds and hands of men who ap- pear by nature to be demons, the whole world goanS and travails, waiting, as the Bibye says, for the manifestation of the sons of God that is, for the emergence of good men in high places who will demand justice and righteousness and who will stick to 1t until these things are achieved.
 All Rights Reserved Bahson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

to wind up the tangled affairs of the world at the close of this war. Millions of people have been
 been uprooted and moved to other parts ol
 the worldi Un- told amounts of treasure have
 been destroyed. Nation n av e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at 9:49 p. m. (war time)
 Sun rises at 8:l4 a. m, sets at 5:27 D. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The new moon has been riding high for a few nights. The December sky had the brightness of pre-C Christmas times when the stars shone bright ever Bethlehem until last
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
BRIDGE HOUSE
(New York Herald-Tribune).

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 The opening of the Bridge House, a three-story dwelling which the city has remodeled and put into condition for the treatment of al- coholics, is a happy event in the history of modern social welfare. The house will be operated by the Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy of the Welfare Department, and its di- rector will De Edward , McGoldrick Jrs. . former alcoholic who for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Selected Poem
BOY AT DAWN (By Florence Hynes Willette in Columbia Knights of Columbus Magazine)
ROY AT DAWN

of Columbus Magazine) This is his duty each translucent dawn: To bring the COWS from pasture. Down the lane He arrows fleetly, leggy fawn His duty and pleasure keen as pain. For him the bright dew fell that he might leave A dark green wake across silver sea. The wind runs with him, tugging at his sleeve The shy grouse scuttle and the jack hares flee. Here blows the clover pasture, heady-Sweet. (No other scent like this, no other sighD The purple balls bounce on his naked feet And dawn sweeps to him in fan of light. The cattle lift their heavy heads to stare, Then move before his long compelling cry; With dignity they pass him and with care, Their cleft hooves beating and their breath sigh Into the dawn with body edged ili gold, He drives the lowing cattle to the fold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to pefs sOnal health and hygiene. not Q disease. diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if a stamped self-addFessed envelope is enclosed. Letters should De brief and written in ink. 70 reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News. paper Service, 32O West Madison Street. Chicago, H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Current Comment

On behalf of your sons, brothers, husbands, friends in this great war theater I request that you do your part to see that the Sixth War Loan is vastly subscribed.
 General Eisenhower.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS DigestibiIity of Milk

DISCStAUHuty VA NA1n
 How to make milk more easily digestible. (B. M Answer - Some persons believe they digest milk better if they stir a tablespoonful or so of lime water in each glassful just begore drink ing it. To make lime water put a lump unslaked (live) lime size of walnut in quart of water in crock. Let it stand a few hours. Pour oil clear upper water-that is lime water.
 What. No Pipe?
 am 65, never sick in my life, but seem to be slowing down in the past year. Have smoked a pipe since I was 20. Friends say my present condition is due to smok- ing. I hate like (C. s. R. Answer-Ir other words you were able to stand it for only A years. I am sending you the pamphlet "The Tobacco Habit" as you re- quested, but also one about Young Folks and Old Folks without implying which you are. That you must Qeclde TOT you1SelI.
 Given Up
 Doctor told me I have arthritis, but he has given me up. A friend told me she cured herself of it by following advice you gave in a pam phlet about calcium and vitamin D.
 Mrs. w. H. Answer - Now, now. let's amend that to read the doctor frankly ad- mitted he knows no cure. I don't either. But if you will supply pre- addressed stamped envelope I'll mail you the pamphlet Calcium and Rheumatiz''- can do you no harm to try out the calcium and vitamin D.
 Copyright 1914, John F. Dille Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
A Thought for Today

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that com eth from God Only?-JOhn 5:44.
  What he feels and not what he does honors a man-Schiller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
Washington Merry-Go-Rou
t co Robert Aen Now on Active Service With the Army
BY DREW PEARSON

= marin now commander Smith
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

would have been destroyed by the barrage.
 -S /Sgt. Clarence W. Alexis of
 F'alconer, N. Y, on Army tour
 to appeal for greater production.
 Our pilots have always been far superior to the Japanese and the pilots coming out today are just as good as ever. I never saw any thing like the spirit of the men who have been fighting the Japa- nese.
 Vice Adml. Marc A. Mitscher.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
WINDING UP THE TANGLED
 MESS

MESS
 In the last war the soldiers used to say that the war would last 100 years. 1t would take two years, they said, to defeat the Germans, and 98 years to wind up the barbed wire.
 We wonder how long it will take
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Hair Down,
 Slightly Mussed
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

Tn Senate Foreign Relations Committee Combined Greater Three Ring Third Degree Sideshow and Investigation of President Roose- velt'S six nominations for Assistant Secretaries of State couldn't have
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

The productive effort and morale of the civilian population can make the difference between victory and defeat for fighting troops. saw that proved in Russia.
 Donald M. Nelson in Chungking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

In one advance we had to forego our usual heavy barrage by the big guns because we did not have the shells. When the infantry men moved in, 40 of them were killed by a mortar gun that ordinarily
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

Copyright. 1924, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-13

Long years of suffering from an
incurable ailment ended in death
Thursday morning for Mrs. Gladys
Hatton, As, wife of Mayor Robert
w. Hatton of Fl Centre.
She had been an invalid almost
Is years. She never fully recovered
from a critical operation performed
several years ago in an attempt to
improve her health. Her years of
illness were climaXed by a heart
attack Monday. She spent the last
days of her life in an oxygen tent.
During this week she also suffered
a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Hatton
rallied somewhat Wednesday but
her physical condition was too
weak to withstand the shocks
which came upon her within the
last few days.
Mrs. Hatton was born in Eldor-
ado, Kansas, and came to Imperial
Valley when she was u years of
age. She made her home in Ca
lexico a long time. After she fin
ished school, was secretary at the
CaleXico Union High school.
Among her survivors are her
husband, two sons, Robert and
Henry; two brothers, Duane Stat
ford of CaleXico and B. P. Stafford
OF Firebaugh; and three nieces,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-13
New Moves Hint
Turkeys Plan
To Join Allies
Lately Selected
Chief of Staff
Is Anti-German

ISTANBUL, Jan. 13. (UP)-The
appointment OF General KAHN Or
bay as Turkish chief of staff
brought renewed speculation Thurs
day that Turkey may be planning
to enter the war on the side of the
allies this spring.
Croay, considered in allied cir
cles as the ableSt and most modern
among the younger Turkish gen.
erals, was appointed by President
Ismet Inonu to succeed Marshal
Fevzi Chakmak, who retired on
reaching the age limit.
Both Turkish and allied circles
had believed that the appointment
of Orbay would be an inevitable
step in any Turkish preparations
for war. He has the confidence of
the allies, as we'll as of the Turks,
as the most promising strategist in
Turkey.
Chakmak was one of the few lead
ing Turks who unalterably opposed
Turkeys entrT into the war with
the allies, according to allied diplo-
matte circles. He objected, it was
said, on grounds that Turkey was
not sufficiently equipped with mod
ern arms to oppose a German mech
anized army, even with the help
of allied aviation and ether special
lists.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-13
Japanese Hold up
Repatriation
Of u. s. Nationals

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. CUP) -
The United States Thursday ac-
cused Japan of delaying repatria-
ton of 10000 captured Americans
in direct violation of her announced
intention to abide by the Geneva
convention or treatment of war
prisoners.
In a lengthy report on steps
taken by this government to secure
the return of the U. S. Nationals,
the state department also accused
the Japanese of failing to carry ouc
their agreement to expedite ship
ment of relief supplies to the in
termed Americans.
The announcement said that re-
patriation of persons captured by
the japanese in the Philippines
was an especially difficult problem
because Of Tokyo's stand that
Americans captured on American
territory were in a different status
than those taken prisoner in Japan,
Manchuria, Hong Kong or other
ncn-American areas.
only after months of negotia-
tions,' the department said, did
the japanese government finally
indicate that it would return to
the United States a small number
of civilians from the Philippine
islands"