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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05

last years campers and read aloud, The program was In charge Of Jack Mulligan and Howard Thornley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05

Indians living where x the camp site is now located. Letters were dug up which had been buried by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05
Chairmen Of Drive In Waterbury Area Show
 Signs Of Uneasiness
Waterbury May Suffer First Real Setback in AlOut War EOffrt; Four Million Dollars Needed to
 Reach Official Quota

What may amount to the first critical setback in Wa terburys general effort seemed imminent today with the announcement by Fifth War Loan Drive officials of the unikehod of the city meeting its bond quota by Satur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-05

Kerski is the last of four men who broke out of New Haven Coun. ty Jail on June 2 to be recaptured. three of the others, including John (Maude) Anderson, alleged ring leader in the break, were captured in Waterbury, and the fourth in Ansonia. All of them have been sen- tenced to states prison on charges of breaking jail.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Views Of The Press

out except along the coast. We have resumed normal street light ing, and use of normal automobile headlights. We have been told that there will be no blackouts except those ordered by the Army. We have given up the airplane-spotting system. Cumulatively these changes have made the public believe that there is slight danger of an actual air raid. That being so. blackouts arouse only academic interest.
 One cannot be alert all the time, any more than one can sleep all the time. The military authorities, If they wish to keep the public con- tinually alert for air raids, must re- sume discarded protective prac- tises. If this is done. it will inten- sify the labor shortage, toward which continuous alertness contri- butes by keeping at air watchers stations and on warden service men and women who might otherwise be engaged in war production.
 The decision is for the military authorities to make, and it must be made realistically. At present the nation is relaxed. It feels that the fighting is at least 5000 miles away, and that there is no danger of its coming to our shores. Maybe this is a dangerous situation. Maybe it is contributing to complacency or worse. If that really is the fact, then a return to the alertness of a few months ago may be necessary even though 1t is not desirable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Nothing to Brag Abou<

There is strong evidence that the United States is abreast of Great Britain in the struggle to pay the cost of the war so far as possible from tax revenues. In this country, latest estimates place total Federal revenues for the current fiscal year at approximately $45,000, ,000,- 900. Total Federal expenditures will be around $90,000,000,0 This is about the same revenue-coSt ratio maintained by Britain, and is apparently the practical maximum.
 However before we begin to brag about the sacrifice we are making in this coun- try, we should consider just who is pay ing the taxes. Unfortunately, the burden is not distributed evenly. Politics has guided the enactment of our tax laws, with the result that large SegmentS of the voting population have been let off comparatively easy, while other groups, corporated enterprise in particular, have been subjected to crushing burden. This is perhaps the main -eason why we have so far not controlled imitation. The time has come to equalize the tax burden, not pass more punitive tax laws. Once taxes are distributed fairly, problems of econ- omy and imitation can be solved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

OPA price posters i; they did every thing they could to hold the line on price ceilings. Each and every chain store keeper had a tremendous responsibility.
 Sometimes this price policing job was diScouraging Many a chain store re- ligiouSly sold few pounds of beef at the ceiling price of 39 cents pound only to discover that the next door butcher had plenty of beef at higher prices"
 Some day the OPA will discover that in the battle against imitation, the mass distribution industry is a staunch ally. Its very existence depends on low prices. For this reason, modern retailers have found in the present emergency legion of new friendS-conSumerS whose pocket books could not survive runaway prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Unmerry Christmas

Among those whose 194S Christmas was far from merry and bright, number the dealers in Christmas trees who from coast to coast are reported to have taken what is known vulgarly as a whale of Shellacking. That is to say most of them lost their shirts and many of them their trousers. In the afterglow of good will to men, We should like to feel sorry for those luckleSS entrepreneurS. Yet somehow we can't seem to squeeze out any tears. Perhaps that is because we are so sorry for the poor suckers who paid grossly eXorbitant prices for trees when they first came around, and for those other houSeholderS who, because of scandalouS prices, decided to go without 8 tree. The Christmas tree industry in 1943 was the victim of it's own cupidity. This is not meant to point the finger at every individual connected with the trade. But the industry as whole tried to pull a fast one, and got caught, and is entitled to no sympathy at all.
 The idea was that there would be a shortage, and everybody would be eager to get tree, and here was chance to clean up at the expense of the good old Christmas spirit. Prices were lacked up into the stratoSphere. Many paid the price, reported in some instances to have reached the supercoloSSal height of $1 a foot. Most, with encouraging intelli- gence and courage, said ITO heck with those robbers. We'll get by this year with out tree" The comedown, for the in- duStry, was sickening. Business" said one dealer, twas so lousy people wouldn't even steal em."
 We're not exactly gloating not, that is, primarily. All right, then, we ARE gloating. But what we haG in mind was to point moral. There are disturbing lot of commercial and service establish mentS which are taking advantage of this sellers market to get awfully cocky, i1l- dependent and even sometimes insulting to would-be customers who are impor- tunate enough to try to buy things. The Christmas tree dealers could give these shortsighted sellers valuable tip There never was a sellers market that didn't change, some day, into buyers market. And the buyer, when it comes his turn, can be very, very tough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Rule By Force

Under the threat of strikes, the gov ernment'S entire price and wage Stabili- zation program has degenerated into a series of sparring-for-time compromises.
 The final surrender to force came with impoStion of the current work contract between the government-operated coal mines and John L. Lewis. The country needed coal. The miners seized upon that need, to get more money, even if it wrecked the war effort. They got it by striking. Of the subsequent shotgun contract, Wayne L. Morse, public member of the War Labor Board, observed: "The contract proposed in the instant case is not collective argainlng contract. Its legal status is an anomaly However, it does purport to set forth the terms of wage agreement which is to prevail in all the coal areas. It is to be applied to the private property of citizens who were not nmxtieS to the contract It is true that Ire contract supposedly is to govern for only the period of time during which the mines are operated by the government, but it is virtual certainty that the mine owners will have to accept a contract embodying the same conditions when their mines ale returned to them, or be faced with strike action. The mine own CTS best of all know this to be fact. They had no voice in determining the terms of the contract, yet their property interests are vitally affected thereby. Pri- vate property interests throughout the country have the right to be concerned and alarmed over such procedure"
 Individual liberty cannot be retained where un5ridled force is superior to law
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
AS A MATTER OF FACT

The closing of the local retail store of Sears, Roebuck and O., removes from lower Grand street lively and good-Serv- icing merchandising house. We can get it at Sears-is a common remark. The local store retained the standard of the great mail order concern, who carry most everything. The local store states that due to war emergency and other restric- tions, it was becoming difficult to keep stocked Many other stores are finding themselves in this same predicament.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Pencillin

So much has been written about the wonders performed by penicillin that many are inclined to think of the new drug as a miracle-working cure-ali. The Army'S warning against this attitude is very timely. Penicillin does work mir acles but it is not cure-all.
 Test with 313 selected cases show that the drug is very effective against certain bacteria and completely useless against others. Some bacteria, after capitulating at first to the drug, then build up resist ance that approaches immunization, Penicillin is most effective when used as supplement to other treatments, rather than by itself. It's good-but it won't do everything.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
OPA Please Note

According to a survey of the nations chain stores conducted by a prominent brokerage firm, a primary chain store activity during 1943 was "policing" opA's jerry-built Gargantuan price cell lnqs, at an estimated cost of $125, ,0O0, ,000, l0r which, as the survey humorously phrases 1t, the chains get mary penny # profit or a sweet-smelling bouquet"
 That this job," the report continued, Hshould land on the counters of the chain stores was natural - they are the biggest fand often the most experienced) in the neId. Thus, chain store managers spent nieuty of time double-ch checking every HE|ce ceiling, recounting every ration
 1ap. Chain stores fairly blazed with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

is released. he rises up in widening circles until in his inner ear the little mechanism records the pres ence of these local conditions with which he has been familiar. Then in a straight line he makes his way back to his home.
 The life of man was made for God. The words of the hymn de- clared. T am but a pilgrim here, Heaven is my home" The prodigal son wandered into the far country, but when he sank into poverty and shame, something within his heart caught the spiritual wave lengths from his fathers home and made him say, T will arise and go unto my father"
 The great St. Augustine expressed 1t for all humanity when he said 70 God, Thou hast fashioned us for myself. and our souls are rest less till they find their rest in Thee"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
THE PHENOMENON OF PREJUDICE
(New York Herald -Tribune)

None can take comfort from the fact that anti-Semitism is being manifested in this city chiefly by boys gangs. The fact that it is juveniles who throw stones and chalk up insults Ca very old school boy custom) is merely a commen- tary on the grade of cerebration, which gives rise to phenomenon of prejudice such as is anti-Semi- tism. A child is not born thought ful, law-abiding or just. Without home, church and school training in decency, training which goes right through his day, he has not much chance of being any of these things until, if he has brains, experience, and knocks have made him thoughtful and. if he has good in stincts, just.
 The boys who find an outlet for energy and the urge to strut in gang fights are usually without benefit of such round-the o'clock training. Their gangs find focus in anti Semitic slogans and slurs. They pitch on their victims with no thought for the fact that they have harmed neither them nor their neighbors nor any one they know. No cerebration there, no remotely decent emotion, hardly even i'll will, for hoodlumism hasn't much to do with will. But it may be different when the slogans, after the fashion of slogans, din a sort of pseudo conviction into their brains to be rationalized later by seizing on any pretext to justify 1t.
 There would be no comfort in the youth of the hoodlums if we con- sidered only the boys themselves and the warping of mentality to which hoodlumism tends (There is no comfort, certainly, for their child victims.) That they have the slogans and slurs ready to hand from their elders is the tragedy be- hind this incipient pogrom men tality. and the commentary on the grade of thought and emotion be- hind anti-Semitism among their elders Is, of course, still more expli- cit in the Hitlers and Himmiers of the world. in the Christian Frontiers and Silver Shirts of Q sinister luna. tic fringe in this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Selected Poem

MAN (From The Washington Post, reprinted from New York Herald -Tribunes "A Week of Verse') What should I know of peace? am man And all mans make is war and way is war Where brave feet fell, upon dense earth they ran While breath that lifted struggled to a star Or am cloud where water keeps with flame The silent thunder till the torrents motion Leaping from skies to seas from which 1t came Breaks in one storm the striving air and ocean am a man. In me the earth and wind, Tn me both fire and night compound me whole Being the combat nowhere can l find This part is body and this bit is soul But in the fierce engagement feel my breath Fight with my flesh unto the peace of death
 JOHN LOUIS BONN, S. J.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

to indicate that Americas tre- mendous production machine is now producing more than the war can consume.
 Take the case of printing press es. The WIPE branch handling printing presses is itching to tell the world that they actually see enough materials on hand to re- sume manufacture of presses for newspapers and for printers gen. erally.
 They cite the case of one group of press builders, who after con- version to war production, took a contract to build 1900 navy gun mounts. This figure was based on an expected battle loss of 20 per cent. In other words, 1900 gun mounts was 20 per cent or 360 more than the Navy needed.
 But battle losses have been much less than 20 per cent. Thus the Navy begins to have a sur plus of gun mounts, and is cut ting down on orders. This plant capacity for manufactur- ing printing presses.
 Furthermore, officials see enough free steel, copper and zinc to sup ply the materials. There IS no question about the demand, since newspaper and printing establish ments all over the country are crying for replacements.
 But one big handicap Is man. power. For this and policy req sons. officials at the top are still sitting on the lid.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

A newer and better Boston is planned in the near future according to report outlined by the Chamber of Commerce there. Perhaps real Bostonites do not think Boston, home of the bean and the cod and Boston Symphony Orchestra, can be bettered. However, it's commercial and industrial betterment is in mind, so per haps some future day strangers in the city will go about with no fear of getting lost or confused in the maze of criss- crossing, irregular streets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
THE sO-CALLED COLD
 VACCINES

Please discuss the so-called cold yaccines. The market is gluteeo with such preparations as -.
 - and (variouS proprietary or trade names for bacterins). have always supposed that anything taken into the digestive tract is di- pested or excreted if not digestible. [ can appreciate inoculation, vac- cination and injection of serum or antitoxin into the body or into the blood stream, but can't see now "killed" cold germs set up imnu- nity, especially when taken into tne stomach. (M. D.-my initials, I'm not a doctor, just a reporter).
 Don't tell me they are giving so-called cold vaccines by moutn'
 Tn the first place.: notwithstano- ing the annual announcement or the discovery of a serum, bacterio- phage or bacterin (bacterial wac cine'O which will prevent or cure "the common cold" no one has discovered a specific germ, virus or other factor of "the common cold. for the simple reason that there IS no such disease entity. As any rate no physician or scientific authority even ventures to define the con mon cold" or to describe it so that any one else may know what he IS talking about.
 "A common cold" is what the doctor says you have while he is waiting to see what really ails you ito see whether 1t is actually measles, meningitis, infantile par alysis, or, let's hope, just a mild coryZa.
 Regular readers know I hate to frighten any one about his health. But in this matter of the so-called common cold" I warn you, you never know what you're coming down with if the doctor implies it is "just a cold" Neither does the doctor-if he knew he'd make a diagnosis.
 If one has repeated attacks Of acute rhinitis or coryza, acute sore throat, acute sinusitis. and careful meteorological examination shows one or more specific bacterial strains. then an autogenous wac cine" or suspension of the killed bacteria cultured from the lesions may prove beneficial in stimulating development of better immunity.
 But the indiscriminate adminis- tration of any so-called cold vac- cine to anbody and everybody is silly business-I said business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

When the HOpkinScS walked in, there was no booth available, so they stood around waiting. When they got space, they or dered a couple of drinks (whis- key sours), and then 9 dinner at $1.2O each.
 Hopkins opened with clam chowder, but Mrs. H. waited for the main course, which was lamb stew. She maintained a lively conversation most of the time, apparently trying to persuade Harry to her way of thinking on some matter. Harry didn't seem to be impressed.
 Word of their presence was whispered from table to table, amid the whir of the ventilator, which tried valiantly to carry the fumes outdoors. One of the guests tugged at a walters apron strings, and said, "DO you realize who you're waiting On?"
 "Oh, yeah," said the waiter, with a Shrug. They've just moved into the neighbOrhOod."
 Just another customer. WAR SURPLUSES
 Policy makers of the War Pro- duction Borad are still taking the position that there is nothing to spare for more than the bar' minimum of civilian requirements. But when you talk of lower rank ing officials of the industry level, you find them wringing their hands owe rthe problems of sur pluses.
 This is not true of every branch, but it is general enough
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

One thing U. s. officials could not understand Was why the Rus Sians wanted lump sugar. A re- quest came through from Moscow for 390,000 tons of sugar, and U. s. officials began to figure where they could get it. It was quite a job, but finally thes decided they could fill the order.
 Then they ran into the odd angle that the Soviets wanted 80 per cent of the total to be lump or cube sugar.
 "Oh, come now," said U. s. officials to Russian representa- tives in Washington. We have found the British to be chOOsey now and then, with their re- quests for pork in certain lOin cuts of certain weight, but this is worse than the British. Why lump sugar."
 The Russians said, "It is for the Red Army"
 "YeS, but isn't granulated sugar just as gOOd?"
 Tt is a cable from Moscow" said the Russians, and that was that.
 "WeM do what we can," said Food Distribution, and promptly sent cable to the U. s. embassy in Moscow, asking why the dick ems the Russian soldiers needed lump sugar.
 The explanation came back by return cable. The Russians, fighting in cold weather, warm themselves by drinking tea sev- eral times a day. They take it piping hot, and they lave the habit of putting a lump ot sugar between their teeth, and sucking the tea through the sugar.
 It's an old Russian custom. and U. s. officials concluded that, if sugar would make the Red Army fight better, they should have 1t. NO OLEO FOR RUSSIA
 Another subject for debate was butter. Soviet food experts in Washington requested tremendous quantities of butter, at a time when U. s. supplies were tight. Food Distribution tried to per suade them that oleomargarine was just as good with high caloric and nutritive values. Fur thermore, it could be had for IT cents a pound, as against 50 cents for butter - and the Russians are paying for their purchases.
 The Russians put their heads together and exchanged few words in Russian. Then they said: We think Americans have good sense of values!"
 In other words, if butter cost three times as much as oleo, 1t was three times as good, and that was what they wanted. They got it. Shipments of butter to Rus sia in 1943 amounted to 85 million pounds (abOut three per cent of U. $. prOducti0n).
 NOTE: This is for the Red army. For Russian civilians, we supply lard, which they spread on black bread as if it were butter. THE HOPKINS DINE OUT
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Hopkins have left the White House and are living in a home in Georgetown. One evening recently, they decid- ed to step out for dinner.
 It was quite come-doWn from the White House.
 Tn v wen. to Mar IS, on the corner of Wisconsin ayeLue anud N Street. next door tl garage and across the street from an ice cream factoIy. All sor s q peo- pie eat tliere. from rRN drivers to Oswald Garrison Willard and occasionally Speaker Sam Ray burn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 LugOIs Solution

Is Lugol's solution as effective as mild tincture of iodine for the iodine ration? If so how much Lugol's solution would be equivalent to a drop or two of mild tincture of iodine? d. R. M)
 Answer-Lugol's solution is 8 5 per cent solution of iodine in wa- ter. Mild tincture of iodine is 2 per cent solution of iodine in di- luted alcohol. Tincture of iodine is a T per cent solution of Iodine in diluted alcohol (figures approxi- mate). Immaterial which form of iodine you use for the iodin ration. Roughly I'd take one drop of tinc- ture. two drops of Lugofs, three drops of mild tincture to get the daily iodin ration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

United States has become foremost as the worlds military and industrial power, with undisputed leadership in the air, on the sea, and on the land. Russia will be in second place and Great Britain will rank third. France, Spain and Italy Will trail the procession. At one time and another each of them were at the top of the list
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04
Your Health By pr. William Brady

slgned letters pertaining Co per- sonai health and hygiene, not e disease, diagnosis of treatment win Dc answered by pr. Brady n stamped self-addresSed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be briek and written In ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform inr to instructions. Address pr. william Brady, National News paper Service, S2O West Madison Street, Chicago, ILL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

and children. But how can be find his way back home9 Scientists have discovered that in his ear there Is mechanism finer than the hair spring of a watch, and this care
 fully records all the conditions Of his environment, particularly elec- trical conditions and those having to do with wave lengths. When he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-04

January is the month of sales. Or is it? It was once, but it is doubtful if there is enough merchandise on hand to hold the customary sales. One of the dearest-or should we say cheapeSt-to the heart ot all women was the January white sale. We understand there will not be so much dallying among the sheets and pillow cases this January.