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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
We Still Need Ships

The reason behind the shift away from merchant shipbuilding has been told of-
 ficially but it has not been stressed enough. Any idea that the shipping bot tleneck has been eliminated, that we have all the cargo craft we need, is wrong and very dangerous. We cannot afford to relax for single moment. Emphasis has been changed not because we have sui ficient ships, but because we do not have enough landing craft, and for the mo- ment the latter are even more important than freighters. According to sources entitled to credence, the Navy may ask the War Shipping Board for as many as from four to five hundred additional ships this year, for operations in the Pa cific. These must be taken out of the pool available for bringing in raw ma terials for the war program and for serv- icing civilian needs.
 Right at this very moment, we may have enough vessels for current needs, by retaining rigid restrictions on foreign trade. But President Chiang of China was not in Cairo as sightseer. He was there to talk about an all-out attack against Japan. This means that the time has come when the machinery must he set up to begin such an offensive. And that, in turn, forewarns of draft on ship ping such as this world never has seen. ships can be built only with steel. We
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Views Of The Press

better prices as the smaller ship ments improve the demand.
 At Chicago and in a dozen other leading hog markets, more swine have come into the market during the past week than during any week on record. Chicago has re- ceived many thousands more than 1t can handle in its stockyards. A more orderly method of marketing would be desirable for all concern ed. When as many as 22, 900 hogs can find no buyers on a single day. there is loss from shrinkage to the owners. They, in turn, appeal to their congressman, wanting to know, how come, after being urged to raise all the food they can as a help to win the war, they ran into a dead" market. Congressmen would gladly order the OPA to eliminate ration ing of pork altogether if there was not the warning that the overall hog supply is not excessive and that, therefore, the present glut is almost certain to be followed by & lean period. That fact consumers might also bear in mind when they won der why they aye held down by rationing of a surplus food.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
By Directive

Congress has been given, by the Con- Stitution, sole power to make all laws necessary and proper for the raising of an army See Article I, Section l; Sec tion 8, paragraphs IS and 12, preferably in that order.
 Congress has decreed, by law, that pre- Pearl Harbor fathers shall be placed at the bottom of the list of selective service eligibles. This, says President Roosevelt, who signed that law, is nothing but "piouS wish" without binding force.
 Congress also decreed, wisely or foolish ly but legally, that Paul McNutt should be divorced from the administration of the draft President Roosevelt, whose signature approved this decree also, says he is going to take advantage of another law to continue McNutt's participation in the selective service setup. Amt we got fun?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
UnWanted

Lawrence D. Bell, who manufactures the Airacobra fighting plane, wanted to send field men to Russia to check up on his crafts performance. Washington of- ficials informed him coldly that the So- viets didn't want any American civilians cluttering up their war efforts.
 Bell wrote direct to Premier Stalin. Soon he received a telephone call from the Russian embassy in Washington. The premier, said the embassy, thought Bells idea was magnificent. When could the technicians start for Russia?
 A five-man delegation did go-and was wined dined and toasted at one of Sta lin's state banquets, which appeared to give them the status of visiting dignitar tes
 Probably there is a moral to this, if of- acial Washington can find it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Death of a First Lady

Throughout her lifetime Mrs. Herbert Hoover adapted herself to the public life led by her husband. Had she gone through life alone she would have iden- tified herself as strong personality and a person of considerable importance in her occupations and pursuits.
 AS it was, Lou Henry Hoover, married early in life, was distinct personality, but in becoming the life partner of Herbert Hoover she adapted herself to the circumstances that surrounded them; when they lived in another corner of the world, and later, when as the presidents wife, she had important social and off cial obligations. Her death must be a severe loss indeed to her husband whose life she shared so adequately.
 That she was a person of exceptional traits and universally admired was at tested in her impressive funeral yesterday in New York City which was attended by over 1,500 persons in various walks of life
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
January's Important Drive

The Presidents birthday will again be used in connection with the national fight against infantile paralysis. Basil O'Connor has officially announced the opening of the 1944 drive for this partic- ular purpose - to help fight with coin, the dread disease. The March of Dimes vill again be featured in all con- munities
 MT. OConnor has said that "in the tight of the recent epidemic it is imper- tive that the National Foundations i944 Appeal established an all-time aigh."
 The widening of the theater of war T the fight against infantile paralysis as made known last month when Pres ident Basil O'Connor announced that the National Foundation has made a crant totaling $150,000 for a five-year period January l, 1944, to December @1, 1948 to establish a center for scientific study and development of
 hySical medicine as branch of medical practice. This particular center will be located at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine.
 We note in National Foundation News which is concerned with the Infantile Paralysis Foundation that in the terri torlal campaign this month each state is well represented by a medical man. From Connecticut the chairman will be Dr. Charles E. McPartland, of Hartford, formerly of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

ished a session in which Justices Murphy and Black issued opinions Scolding Justice Frank furter for "a wholly gratuitOus as- sertiOn" in constitutional law, and in which, privately, Justice Rob- erts had fumed and sputtered over news leaks.
 NORTH CAROLINA
 MIRACLE WORKERS
 Miracles happen, even in Wash ington. Farm Security Adminis- tration, heir to all the grief of Rex Tugwell, and long confined to the Capitol Hill dog House, is now emerging into the warm sun light of Congressional favor. A simple matter of Southern friend ship did it.
 The miracle resulted from the fact that Frank Hancock and Harold Cooley were a couple of CongreSsmen from North Carolina. Hancock, now out of Congress. has just been appointed head of Farm Security. Hence, Congress man Cooley, formerly FSA's dead Hest critic, is now a supporter and friend.
 All during the past year, FSA operated on a SbOestring. It's funds were cut, and Congress drowned on almost everything 1t tried to do. But now, report of a House Agriculture sub-cOm- mittee which Cooley heads is about to give FSA clean bill of health and recommend that it be continued as a permanent agency.
 The report will not whitewash MT. Tugwell or any of his works. Tn fact, 1t will sharply criticize all the old resettlement projects (already in process of liquidation). !. But it will give strong approval to two other FSA programs-re- mobilization and tenant purchase,
 Also, there will be a propsoal for combining the lending pro- grams Of Farm Security with two types Of Farm Credit Administra- tion loans, with a new corpora tion to handle the joint lending activity.
 It's marvellous what two gentle men from North Carolina can &C., complish when they get together.
 Copyright, l94. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Suspender Buttons

The WIPE had a peculiar notion, some time ago, that buttons could be saved by leaving them off those places on work pants where SuSpenderS cuStomarily are attached. We are not informed whether the author of this idea expected faith to hold up war workers pants or whether, being well-equipped himself, he was thinking in terms of belts or pieces of rope or something like that.
 Lumberjacks, shipyard workers and fishermen, speaking for themselves and for millions of others, protested that if buttons were being saved, it was at the expense of human dignity.
 A new WIPE order has been promul- gated. Buttons for Suspenders once more are not only de figueur but also legal on work pants
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

cannot tolerate a steel strike. Steel making and shipbuilding make big de- mands on transportation. We cannot tolerate a railroad strike.
 It Is important who is at fault in the disputes that have grown up in the steel and railroad fields But that is infinite ly less important than that the trains shall roll and the steel come out of the furnaces so that ships can be built-the landing bargeS which will take our sol- diers and marines to Jap guarded beaches in the Pacific, and also the transports and cargo ships that will carry and serv- ice our fighting men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

spirltS they carry in their hearts.
 Military leaders are well aware of the necessity of firm resolve on the part of the civilian population. Un- less the people at home are sted- fast, the men on the battlefront have no support. Strange as it may seem, the thing which sup ports men most in the waging of war is the thing which most sev- erely criticizes and condemns the whole war project. namely, Christ ian faith. The most noble defenses of hopeless causes have generally been made by people of firm re- hgious conviction. Armies which went into battle singing hymns have usually been invincible.
 Now the reason for this is not at all because Christianity approves of war. The reason is that when goddess men rise up and challenge the moral law, everything in the heart fo a truly religious man is suddenly reinforced with senti- ments of unyielding opposition. This explains why many great soldiers have also been great saints.
 All Rights Reserved-Babson News paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
PORK, AND MORE PORK
(Hartford Timesl

Surplus pork at packers plants, wholesale and retail outlets con- tinues to make the rationing of that particular food seem somewhat ridi- culous. If there were not a lean period expected to follow the present gult, OPA would undoubted- ly remove pork from the rationed food list.
 Late in December a ration spare coupon. good for five points. and another one early in anuary, were made available. But the hogs keep moving to midwestern markets in unprecedented numbers. Farmers sometimes share the scare that prices are to drop and hurried shipments are the result. The wise ones wait until the selling wave passes and then are rewarded by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

No cadet training bases have been closed as yet, but the Army will close approximately one dozen schools for training pilots between now and April. Air Forces of- ficials find that the elaborate pro- gram has now produced enough competent navigatorS and pilots to finish the job in both theaters ot war.
 The tip-off to this is found in recent changes m policy Of the Transport Command.
 Army Transport Command, which does nOn-cOmbat flying all over the world, hsa always
 preferred to take pilots from the open market, usually from the airlines. These pilots are specially trained in safe, efficient transport flying, as distinguished from the combat type of train ing in the Army Air Forces.
 Recently, however, Transport Command has been forbidden to take on civilian pilots. and has been forced to accept combat trained pilots from the Air Forces.
 As one Transport Command of ficer expressed 1t, They are stuffink lem down our throats." UNIFORMS OF RUSSIA'S DEAD
 Most requests from the Russians for military or civilian equipment are okayed almost immediately be- cause of the heroic achievements of the Red Army. Nut the other day, one came along that wasn't.
 It was a request for a consid- erable quantity of dry-cleaning equipment. Though at the head of the Russian list, U. s. officials turned it down.
 They thought at first that the Russians were getting fancy, go- ing back to civilian normalcy with a rush. Dry-cleaning equipment, they figured, would take up valu- able space on a ship which could be used to better advantage.
 Following the n-dOwn, the Russians appealed. They still insisted that the dry-cleaning equipment was most important and should be at the head of the list. They also explained that. because of the scarcity of textiles in Russia. they could not bury Russian dead in their uniforms, but must remove the uniforms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Current Comment

We did not attain our present position in the world by stifling the profit incentive. Continuation of the present taxes in peacetime would seriously impair the whole economic structure and lower our living standards.
 Rep. Harold Knutson of Minne-
 sota.
 It would be counting trouble if Poland were re-established with her 1921 frontiers, because many of the territories included were never Polish.
 -Dr. Tewik Rustu Aras, former
 Turkish foreign minister.
 An intelligent serViceman can carry on a creditable conversation in Chinese or Japanese after l2 hours study. Experience has prov ed that Japanese is one of the easiest languages to learn to speak, although difficult to read and write. -OWI report.
 The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies-and we reject 1t. President Roosevelt.
 Studies have been underway for several months looking to a shift of power from the European theater to the Pacific theater, not only when Germany is defeated but as her defeat seems near at hand. The main lines of attack on Japan are already determined.
 --Adrnl. Ernest J. King. comman-
 der.in-chiel U. 5. fleet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D vs
 COLD AND DANTPNESS

A reader told us here the other. day that her knees were so sore when she started taking calcium and vitamin D that her husband thought they would have to sell their home. on d lake, as he thought the trouble was rheumatism. But now, happily, the reader has no more joint trouble . =.
 The lake is in Michigan and the- date of the readers letter was No-- vember 30. You see, 1t is the same old delusion that has prevailed not only among the laity but among physicians for generations, still seems good enough for many lay men and some physicians.
 How calcium and vitamin D could counteract the effects of ex posture to cold and dampneSs is question which only master quack could answer-one of those master quackS who formerly supplied the gullible public with almanacs, the only publications which gave the public any information or advice
 on health and disease, most of 1t wrong.
 Although the role of calcium in arthritiS and in bursitis (arthritis means joint inflammation, bursitis means inflammation of a bursa, for instance one near the shoulder ioint) is uncertain, I have received good many reports from people who have enjoyed such relief when they have supplemented their or dinary diet with fair daily rations of calcium gluconate, dicalciun phosphate and vitamin D for few weeks.
 Not always, but often, laboratory tests show faulty calcium metab- olism Assimilation, utilization, re- tention of calcium) in cases of chronic arthritis and in cases of chronic bursitis
 According to competent nutrition authorities the everyday diet of most Americans is deficient in ca!- cium.
 Vitamin D Is essential for nor nal calcium metabolism.
 Exposure of the skin to sunshine or SkyShlne enable the Do0y to manufacture it's own vitamin D. But few people living where cold discourages such exposure or where the skies are cloudy all day - or where the air is full of soot and fog which screens out the little ul- traviolet in the winter sunshine or skyshine can manufacture their own vitamin D. Come to think on 1t, maybe this accounts for the de- fusion that cold and dampness causes rheumatiz. This is discussed further. together with other reme- dies, in the booklet ''The Ills Called Rheumatism" mailed on request if you inclose ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
SESSION FOR ARMED MEN
(New Britain Herald)


 The special session of the Legis- lature called by Gov. Baldwin prim- arily is for the benefit of Connec- ticut's armed men in the services, making 1t possible for them to vote in the presidential election of 1914. Congress having failed to agree to plan to have the federal govern ment supervise the votes of men in arms, it behooves every state to make possible absentee voting from anywhere, in order to allow our men to exercise the privileges of demo- cracy.
 In Connecticut the Legislature should come to a conclusion swiftly as to the method to be pursued. We cannot in conscience talk of the right to vote and the democratic system, while at the same time vir- tually preventing a large number of citizens under arms from exer- cising those rights. Once a work able plan is decided upon, 1t should be adopted unanimously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

and clean them for other sOl- diers.
 The dry-cleaning equipment, if shipped immediately, they ex- plained, would get to Russia this winter, in time to clean thousands of summer uniforms removed from those killed last summer and fall. These uniforms would be needed in the spring for the big campaign.
 The Russian request was grant, ed immediately.
 SUPREME COURT
 BARS CONGRESSMEN
 The august U. s. Supreme Court was put on the spot the other day by several Congressman who wanted to help argue the hot in- surance case as frtenuds of the Court.
 Rep. Hatton Summers of Texas first barged in by calling Chief Justice Stone all the way from Dallas to say that he would like to appear before the court amicus curiae in the insurance case. This case involves whether or not the insurance companies are exempt from the Sherman Antitrust Act and is one of the hottest issues before Congress.
 Representative Summers, for some reason, has been buSy-aS-a bird-dOg for the insurance com ranies and, since he Is chair man of the House Judiciary Committee, the Supreme Court justices were inclined to view his request sympathetically.
 However, some one also tipped off fortnight Senator Joe O. Mahoney of Wyoming and hard hitting Congressman Charles La- Toilette of Indiana. They op- pose the insurance companies just as vigorously as Summers cham pions, and they also wanted to argue before the court.
 The nine learned men hesitated a day. Then benign Chief Justice Stone informed the Congressmen in his kinddiest manner that 1t would be bad precedent for the members of Congress to hold de- batting society as Friends of the Court. With a touch of humor he added:
 have trouble enough keep ing politics off the court"
 NOTE: The court had just fin
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

Lack of help not only flinders the prog ress of such things as paper collections but also in the regular program of town or city planning such as cleaning up after snow storm. And speaking of tnlS, with a shortage of help Waterbury with it's hilly streets, was dug out of the re- cent storm much better than most cites: The snow was quickly frozen because o1 the nature of the storm, and people are still having difficulty in driving cars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
AS A MATTER OF FACT

The winter season is well advanced but at this particular time it is custom ary to think and say - the worst is yet to come. However, we have been told we have had the worst of winter, in storms and in cold. That remains to be seen. Ice cutting has started, and it is fairly early for that. But in upper New England ice is thick enough for cutting, and 1.-the cutting-was begun month earlier in some localities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

During the year 1943 Congress appro- priated $114,5OO, 100000, mostly for war purposes. That's a whale of lot of money, but that was the total when Con- gress walked out on Washington and went home to remain until the new Ses- sion opens on January 10.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

New York City is conducting a super duper waste paper drive. Every day the facts about the drive are published, and the two railroad terminals, the Grand Central and the Pennsylvania are recelv- ing tons of paper. The saving of paper, cartons, bags and so on is easier than col lecting. It is not so easy to plan for maj or paper collections because of the dlftl- culty in getting help.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

defense s h c d l q because the nor ale of the English
 people was strong CT when the war broke out t h a n W as the morale of any other peo- pie. Military con- tests are always
 decided not by the arms m e n carry in h e IF hands, but by the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 8:l9 a. m, sets at 5:4l p m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Thee was strong moonlight last week on clear nights which will continue this week The planets in the eastern sky are rising four minutes earlier from night to night. At ap- proximateiy a. m.
 Monday morning the moon was bright in the sky as well as several of the large planets
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

S [ a [ c s Ot New York and N e W Jersey. It runs g r e a t e r New York's port facili- ties, bridges, tun- llels and the like.
 The case goes b a c k to 194l, when the Bureau of Internal Rev. nue sought to collect taxes on this $2,493. .62 from Ale an der J. Shamberg, on the grounGs that he had failed to de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per sonal health and hygiene, not to disease. diagnosis of treatment. will he answered by pr. Brady If
 stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, National News paper Service, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Selected Poem
BRIEF PIONEERING

v Robert P. Tristram Coffin in The New York
 Times) Days grow, the frosted silver suns Sail longer through the sky, The cold grows stronger since 1t runs Toward time when 1t must die. Icicles weep along the caves And into diamonds flower, The daisy of the hoarfrost grieyes Feeling its dwindling hour. Soon groundhogs will be up and see No shadow on the world, And where snow bossomed white will be Pale windflowers uncurled. Such petals the least breath uproots Have not long to stay; They fall and leave their aqueous fruits, The duskier flowers of May.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
sO-Caned "Goutn

Recently you gave some interest ing data on the prevalence of gout in India. Can you give me any ref erence on that? (M. D. ~,
 Answer-Das Gupta. Indian Med. Rec. 55: 57. '35. Duncan Diseases of MetabolisGn, Saunders, 42. Gas Gupta estimated 2 per cent of In- dian natives, who are largely vege- tarians and teetotalers. have "gout." !" My notion is that "gout" is a lot of hooey.
 Copyright. l94S. John Y. Diiie Co.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
Mineral Oil

If mineral oil is detrimental to a persons health why do doctors recommend use of mineral oil may onnaise and mineral oil French dressing in reducing diets?
 Answer-Why assume mineral oil is detrimental to health? It is com paratively harInlesS-if taken fre- quently it does tend to interfere with assimilation of the essential vitamins in food or medicine. It is used in such recipes because it replaces the food oil, and being unassimilable it adds no calories to the diet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11

No doubt many will agree with Living ston w. Houston in his Statement to this effect: Probably nothing would be more helpful to the nations plans for coping with it's postwar problems than mod ification and simplification of existing tax laws" MT. Houston is vice-president of Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute.