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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Much From Little

The wartime record of American COM
mercial air lines is something of which
they, and we as a nation, can we'll be
very proud Part of it - their CO.
operation with the Air Transport Com
mand, for example still is yelled in
security secrecy. But if the lines had
done nothing beyond their describable
civilian operations, they still would have
worked marvelS The Truman Commit
tee reports to the Senate that in the
year ended June 80, 1943, with half as
many planes as in 194l, the companies
substantially increased their passenger
mileage record, doubled their mail ton
mileage and almost tripled their express
ton-mileage. In 1941 the lines had $50
planes in revenue service. With them
they carried the equivalent of one pas
senger 1884, 1888 PSI miles. During the
past fiscal year, with only 1876 planes left
them by the Army, they carried the
equivalent Of one passenger 1,425, 960,219
miles.
At the same time they upped mail from
the equivalent Of one ton 100000 miles
to the equivalent of one ton more than
$4,000, 900 miles, and increased express
transport from $3.50 900 ton-mileS to more
than "a. $50 900 ton-mileS. This says the
Truman Committee constitutes a re-
lnarkabIe record" There can be no dis
aureement with that praise. Nor does
viich analysis take account Of another
nofable achievement by the air lines.
TO carry such loads, the daily flying
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Bus Business

Once the bad" weather sets in much
inconvenience is experienced getting a
bus. Very often it's a case, not of miss
ing the bus, but no room on the bus when
1t eventually comes along BY and large
the service in Waterbury is all that can
be expected with the number of BUSES
on hand. Certainly we need more BUSES
and new buses. But how are we going
to get them during these war days when
materials are directed to war craft and
articles of all kinds?
Yesterday it was stated in the papers
that bus riders on the Mddlebury line
to busy factory out there were vocifer-
ouS in their complaints. The stampede
for BUSES at the Green is something to
behold Add to this the bad condition of
the streets since the recent storm; solid
piles of frozen snow which one has to
hurdle.
Bus riders on their way to work surely
have an excuse these days If they are
late. Sometimes people are standing
from twenty minutes to half hour wait
ing at the curb, and then it is matter
of physical strength to make your way
into the already filled bus.
Naturally the bus companies would be
glad to offer more and better BUSES.
Also there is a scarcity of bus drivers the
same as there is scarcity of help in any
line of business. It's just case of going
around in a circle Those bus drivers
who hold the fort-that is to say drive the
cars through hilly irregular streets ARE
doing good job. They are patient un-
der trying conditions, as most of the
travellers are. Inter-town BUSES run up
against the same sort Of thing. Recently
story was told of trip to Hartford on
the evening of severe sleet storm with
roads dangerous and tricky. The bus
driver under very trying conditions that
included a collision and broken wheel
eventually got his passengers, hours late,
to their destination, Hartford, by way of
Cheshire over particularly bad roads. In
the meantime let's hope for the day
when brand new fleet of them-buSSes
appear on our city streets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Peacetime Sedition

We agree with the American Civil
Liberties Union that the Supreme Court
was wrong not to review the conviction
of Is TrotSkyites for sedition in connec-
ton with advocacy of forcible revolu-
ton.
But whereas the ACLU thinks the Su-
preme Court should have heard an ap-
peal in order to find the sedition act
unconstitutional we wish that the court
had heard the case in order to affirm the
laws constitutionality.
Free speech is priceless. But advocacy
of violent instruction offendS every con-
cept of constitutional democracy, and
does not seem to us to have or deserve
the proper guarantees that are apple
able to free speech otherwise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Practical Considerations

Former President Hoover suggests that
we should move to obtain either outright
possession of 999-year leases on military
bases that we have built all around the
world at a cost of hundreds of millions
of dollars,
With air power what it is, and growing
ever more deadly, we should feel much
safer if we had those distant outpoStS,
Much safer also, to tell the truth, If we
were certain that no hostile nation could
use them against us.
However, there is the question whether
other nations - Brazil, to take an out
standing example would permit us to
establish on her soil that extra-terri-
toriality we now have resigned in China
Would we permit even Britain to have
permanent military bases on American
soil?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Nobody Said No

The Constitution trainers united 10 in
dependent states into a national fedora
ton, founded upon the thesis that the
federal government and its officials
should have only those powers and priv
leges expressly conferred upon them.
Constitutional lawyers say that, since
the Constitution contains no express pro-
hibition, President can resign. The
occasion for the Interpretation isn't i'm
portant. We aren't among those who
are impressed with somebody's guess that
Mr.. Roosevelt will run for fourth term
and, if elected, will resign to head the
United Nations.
We are interested in this further evil
dence of a new trend in constitutional
philosophy. Apparently, now, anything
not specifically forbidden has become the
prerogative of the federal government
and its officers. There was much virtue
in the old concept.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Proud Record

Since the Germans invaded Poland the
American electricity industry has boosted
it's output rs per cent with an addition
to capacity of only Is per cent. Notwith-
standing early fears, no war program has
been delayed by lack of generating ca
pacity, nor has the civilian population
been deprived of service.
The industry is proud to note that in
spite of the attention which has been
called to the contribution of such federal
projects as iva, Bonneville and Grand
Coulee, these have only five out OF the
nations SO million kilowatts of capacity
and obviously have not won the war
without some small assistance from pri-
vately owned power producers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

hours per plane had to be increased from
eight TO more than eleven. The lines have
lost much skilled flying and Servicing
personnel to the armed forces. This
added strain upon equipment and per-
sonnet, many feared, might easily have
resulted in an increased ratio Of acct
dents. That It has not reflects great
credit upon both management and oper-
ating personnel of the lines, Wherefore
we second the Truman Committees
recommendation that, with our enorm-
Gus output of planes today, the Army
should return more of the 100 planes 1t
borrowed from the lines two years ago.
There is no question that they would be
used to good advantage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

cent, but would be paid for out
Of aluminium purchases by the
U. s, Government.
This column predicted that
after building this giant plant
In Canada, Alcoa would close
down American plants, throwing
u. s. workmen out Of employ
ment, but would continue Oper-
atlng in Canada.
Last week that was exactly
what happeend.
Four aluminium pot lines were
closed down in Burlington, N. j..
and Queens, N. Y, with 20 more
to be closed down soon. U. S.
plants sell the government alum
mum at is cents q pound. while
we have been paying Fl cents for
Alcoa's Canadian aluminium from
Shipshaw. This still continues.
Inside fact Is that we are now
overprOduced ON aluminium by
about COZ, 200 900 pounds per
year. Shipshaw's shipment 10
the United States in 1914 Is
scheduled at just about this
amount - 10000, 900 pounds. Yet
IL b continuing - despite Its
higher price.
Officially the reason for con-
tinuing Shipshaw aluminium Is
that the factory uses electricity,
while eastern u. S. aluminium
plants burn coal. However. there
may be q much more potent rea-
son.
Jesse Jones loaned Canadian
Alcoa $50, 900 900 and signed ON an
unusual contract whereby Alcoa
was not obliged to pay the bal
ance when the United States
stopped buying aluminium. II we
stopped buying aluminium today,
the unpaid balance would be
$4,000, 900.
So some officials suspect that
Jesse doesn't want his books TO
show a loss Of $34,O00,0O0 on a
deal for which he was widely criti-
cized.
Meanwhile, some officials feel
the United States might save $34.-
100000 in the end by continuing
to produce cheaper aluminium In
this country.
Copyright, 1874, by United
Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
UNIVERSITY LECTURE SERIES
MOTIVATED BY NEW PURPOSE
(New Haven Journal-courier)

The public may have overlooked
one significant point In the an
nouncement from Yale that a series
OF six lectures is soon TO be given
on subjects in the field Of liberal
studies. Six distinguished men, all
from the faculty of the university.
are to be the speakers, and their
subjects are taken from the areas of
history, science, the classics, arche-
ology, languages and literature. From
these facts 1t would be easy to as
sumo that this Is one more lecture
course sponsored by the university
and open TO the New Haven public
interesting of course, but hardly
different from previous courses.
There Is a new note here, however,
fully as important To the speakers as
to their listeners, and 1t lies In the
purpose for which the lectures are
being given. That purpose is to show
to the non scholastic public some Of
the aims and effects Of humanistic
studies on general living.
To understand just how much Of
an luuOVatiOu Ltllb dPprohcu ~, VIC
should realize that Of all areas Of
knowledge, the humanities have re-
manned the most SNUG and ivory
towerish. Long ago medicine, pub
lie health. music, economics, sociol-
ogy and, most recently, pure science
came to the conclusion that they
were obliged to interpret to laymen
the aims and conclusions OF their
studies. But the humanities nnger-
ed still In the old-time tradition
which held that the hurnanities were
their own excuse for being.
Now. however. the humanistic
studies are coming TO realize that
they too must translate for the gen.
eral public some Of the values their
subjects have for general living. This
Is q service due the public, and It Is
service from which the humans
ties themselves win benefit. for IN
the postwar veallennentG Ia educa-
ton, the liberal arts will be pushed
into the background unless their
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ChiId'n NINIarE

Dentist advises immediate extrac-
ito nof four of my six-year-o sons
molarS, which are badly decayed
and the gums much inhamed
hesitate because dentist says the boy
will have TO wear braces in his
mouth till he Is about ~.
(Mrs. p. W.
AnSwer-If the molars are beyond
repair by all means have them ex-
tracted. Too bad you neglected den
tai treatment when 1t might have
saved them.
LipOld Pneumonia
Have given our children daily
rations OF oil solution Of vitamin ID
since they were a month or two
months old. They have thrived on
1t, but am worried now by the state
ment OF DR.. --- that infants
or young children may get lipoid
pneumonia from putting oil drops
IN their nose or even from taking
cod liver oil or other oils by mouth.
(Mrs. T. p. RI
Answer-Feeble or very young in
fants, yes. However, II would lie
preferable now to give your chill
dren their vitamin d along with
some B-complex in tablets they can
chew and eat. Lipoid pneumonia Is
a kind Of insidious, chronic lung
condition caused by oil OF any kind
going down the wrong way"-into
windpipe and lodging deep In lung.
Send stamped envelope bearing your
address. and inclose ten cents for
booklet wife Spells Youth"
Too Much Salt
What effect has the habit Of eat
ing lot OF salt have? put great
amounts OF salt on everything.
(E. z. c.
Answer-Retains excessive water
IN blood and tissues makes you are-
mic. waterlogged. fiabby. obese. low
In endurance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

former ace washington newSman
and owner Of q chain OF radio
stations.
Kennedy was once star WASH
ington operator fol Hearst, won
the Puglsey award Tor top Capt.
toll news-Sleuthing, now owns two
broadcasting chains in Ohio and
West Virginia.
However, the Navy keeps him
occupied playing golf with
Senator Ferguson Of Michigan,
a member Of the Truman COM
mittec; flying to Alaska with
Senators Truman and kilgOre;
and running back and forth be-
tween the Navy and the senate
trying to paint = favorable side
to Truman committee questions.
Kennedy. an able man, does an
Al job. But most people seem to
think that Navy manpower was
recruited to fight, rather than TO
cushion criticism.
Knox, however. is an expert at
criticism cushioning. He also
keeps the son of Congressman.
John Tolan or California busy
doing odd jobs on Capitol Hill,
and advising the Navy about how
to rub Congressman the right way.
Tolan also Is an Al man, but he
thought he got into the Navy to
fight, not TO scratch Congress
mems backs.
HIGH.COST ALUMINIUM
OF all the Hobbies operating in
Washington, most effective are
those which operate from right
inside the Cabinet or the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
The Aluminium Corporation OF
America seems to be benefiting
from such O lobby now. For sew
eral years 1t has received kindly
treatment from Uncle Jesse Jones.
Also 1t has had its chief WASH
ington counsel, able Oscar Ewing,
sitting on the Democratic Ma
tional Committee as vice-chair-
man.
Anyway, just last week Alcoa
received another nice favor.
Last summer this column ex.
posed the fact that Jesse Jones
had given q secret contract TO
AlcOa TO build an aluminium
plant at Shapshaw, in Canada,
which would not cost Alcoa q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

Stephen Dutton was buried this week.
He made name for himself as swindler
during life and managed to be in diff
cultieS most of the time. His age, said
to be slightly over one hundred years,
dates him to Civil War days. He was
known to be pretty slick swindler He
said, II fit at the Battle of Bull Run, an
twas me carried the message from Get
tysburg to Washington" And so he fit"
his way through life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
JUST RELAX MY EYE

JUST AtEhaAA NM III ~
on the basis Of the intelligence
tests OF draftees IN World War |
the authorities estimated that eil'
proxlmately one out Of every I've
persons In the country was moron
A moron, lest one puts wrong con-
struction on the term, Is a youtf
or adult whose mental development
does not rank higher than that o.
q normal l2-year-old child--and In
cldentally a great many OF the best
citizens, parents. servants, employ
ers, bosses, soldiers, policemen,
statesmen and government ofiicials
are morons; so are many Of tho
most admirable, pious and lovable
characters. Moronity no more i'm.
plies viciousness than brilliance OF
intellect implies virtue.
Because the notion that exercise
brings health, success and all the
rest OF hfes blessings Is absurd,
some people 20 to the other ex-
IRENE and assume that one may en-
10y good health and attain longev-
ity without taking any exercise at
all.
This latter notion Is equally
wrong. A few individuals who never
take exercise, play games or do any
work involving physical exertion
may survive for several years before
the inevitable degeneration that &C.
ours from lack OF function or use
makes iMvalids of them. A reason
able amount OF exercise Is essential
to maintain the tone" not only or
the voluntary muscles but OF the
involuntary muscles Of the body,
and that means the eating muscle,
the breathing muscle, the muscle OF
heart and arteries-the muscle OF
circulation. When these vital func-
tons slow down or decline from
fiabbiness OF muscle, you're headed
for invalidism. II know anythirs
about pathology.
There is a popular theory that q
person who is perhaps In the early
stages OF cardiovascular degcnera-
ton Cheart-artery wearing ouO or
other chronic disease which is no
recognized because the victim
doesn't believe proper medic, |
survey is necessary. is run down"
by overwork or the nerve strain
Of his or her Job or business. on
that silly diagnosis 1T Is obvious
that what the man or woman needs
is a good rest. a vacation. n change
OF scene, a sojourn in some resort
where he or she can Just relay
whatever that means. That sounds
10 me like giving drunk a drink
to sober him up. II the victim must
try anything at all before having u
medical survey he had better just
contract--some OF the muscles he
has long neglected to use. Nothing
strenuous, nothing violent or ex-
IRENE. Just fair amount Of gen.
eral exercise daily. say q few miles
Of oxygen on the hoof.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
MILK PRICE AND HEALTH
Hartford Tines

N64dIt1OIU 44ulGbl
Governor Baldwin Is prepared TO
have Connecticut challenge the au-
thority OF the federal Office of Price
Administration with respect to the
retail price Of milk. That purpose
is to be set forth in a bill which
the governor has asked the Legis-
lative Council to prepare for action
by the Legislature in its forth
coming special session.
The procedure would be TO auth
orize the State Milk Administrator
to increase the retail price of milk
above that fixed by OPA and to
have the dealers pay an equivalent
higher price to the milk producers
Of the State.
The milk dealers are reported not
to be enamored with this proposal,
for one thing, because violation of
the OPA price ceilings might bring
them into court.
II the State should enact such
q law, any conflict with federal
regulations would properly be the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

But he came back at them the
other day with poem which
reads:
Three blind mice-hear how they
talk!
They all refuse to arbitrate-
They're gambling with their
cOuntry's fate
Though the hour Is getting late
For the three blind mice.
This rhyme was sent by Rail-
road Trainman Whitney TO all the
secretaries, vice presidents, and
subordinate lodges Of his union
with a confidential letter blasting
the three hold-out brotherhoods.
In the letter Whitney revealed
that 450,0 copies Of Labor,
the railroad brotherhood maya
zine, had been sent to the post
office Just before the President
offered arbitration.
Thousands of these copies
were recalled and destroyed"
whitney wrote 70 his fellow
trainmen. "On the following
day they were reprinted without
changing the cross on - or
the dot Of an Il. This hasty
action, Of course, did not help
the paper shortage, and In all
probability will never be ex-
planned"
NOTE: Whitney didn't mention
1t, but between 5000 and 10000
copies of Labor" were burned in
a furnace in the Labor building
Just across from the Capitol
building.
Whitney then went on TO ex-
coriate the three nOn-aFbitrating
brotherhoOds" whom Labor mag
azine had called "The Three Mus
keteerS."
Were they afraid to trust the
President?" he asked. Had they
overlooked the fact that the Com
mander-i n-chief could settle the
dispute without their consent? Or
is it possible that they were play
ing organization politics in the
hope that they may strengthen
their numerical and financial con-
dition?"
"Our experience Is that or.
CARNATIONS Of labor must have
something to offer 10 attract
men TO their ranks, and 1t
would appear that these unions
had utterly failed, since their
memberships have been on the
wane during the past Is years."
Whitney put 1t right on the line
in one Of the most fortnight let
tiers OF American labor history.
This, and the name-calling Of the
three non-arbitrating brother
hoods, probably means just as
serious a split among railroad la
Dor as that between the A. F. l..
and G. I. o.
HULL REMINIsCES
Cordel Hull received an unex-
pected caller the other day, U. s.
District Judge lefty" O'Connor
Of California, former Comptroller
Of the Currency and the man
who really pioneered the Federal
Deposit Insurance system after
the big bank smashup in 1882.
Hull had known lefty when
lefty was one Of the few Demo-
Gratis in North Dakota. They had
fought many progressive battles
together-usually on the losing
side. Recalling them, the Sec
rotary Of State unused:
"SOme day when the war Is
over and / can retire from all
this, you and / must sit down
together and look back over the
mistakes we have made and the
things we could have done bet
ter"
Judge O'Connor flew back to
Los Angeles thinking that after
faith, hope and charity, humility
comes next.
NON.FIGHTING SAILOR
Frank Knox, Secretary OF the
Navy, is a great talker about ef-
ficient use of manpower. But 1t
looks as II he was an even great
er believer in avoiding public cri-
ticism.
For months now he has sta
toned one Of the Nays astute Of
ficers with nothing to do except
keep an eye on the highly criti-
cal Truman committee. The Of
ficer Is Captain John Kennedy,
-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

CttAA D~&o ANAAeN-AANAA
medium b o m Der
eQuipp e d with
the new T5-mm.
aerial cannon,
A good, specu-
lative guess by
Army Air Force,
artillery and ord
nance men fanli-
liar with bot h
weapons is that
two opposin g
planes so armed
might make a lot
Of noise and tear
some terrible
holes in the air,
lint that thaN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Selected Poem
RIPPLE OF SAND

(Sara Van Alstyne In The Christian Science
Monitor)
The sand has formed new strange design,
mockery OF the waves that washed 1t here,
A simple curve loose, a lovely line
In which the myriad particles adhere
Finer than gravel coarser than the dust,
Shaped by the sea by which 1t was forsaken.
Mar with your hand, or walk the sloping crust.
The ripple fades. The curling line Is broken
Yet the wind, the vast leveler. has seen before
The same ripple rise on the same shore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

than one, there are a lot Of things
in life worse than losing leg.
The man who can lose leg and
so rise above his affection that he
hunts up people similarly afflicted
to assure them that it's not so
bad after all. Is a man who has
the heart Of hero. And anyone
Who 80 cares for his fellows that he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13


responsibility Of the State, not Of
the dealers. An early test case In
the courts might be necessary or
perhaps would follow as a matter
Of course. II such litigation should
consume weeks and months. for It
might have to be carried to the
Supreme Court Of the United states
on a question Of state versus federal
authority. the new law presumably
would not operate during that
period. The outlook for the pro.
ducers is still not bright.
The Governor has opened up All
interesting approach to the problem
Of admitted need for more income
for milk producers but the aig,zs
are not yet very promising that .
state law on milk can push retail
prices through the federal office
ceilings on this commodity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

keeps constantly on the alert TO
find those who need the assuring
and cheerful word Of one who has
risen above an affiiction, Is a fol-
lower Of Christ who must be mighty
pleasing TO the Master.
"Inasmuch as ye have done u
unto the least Of these my breth-
rem, W have done II unto me-
All Rights Reserved--Ba bson News
paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
AS A MATTER OF FACT

Senator w. Lee O'Daniel of Texas puts
it rather neatly when he says: lone OF
the most wholesome things that could
happen in the United States would be for
every senator and every representative,
after serving six years, to go back home
and try to make living under the laws
which they have passed" Well, they
could have try at it, anyway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13

continually o II Q
when he reads OF
a man who has
lost a leg. he
looks him UP and
tries to console
him and give him
q heart to endure
life as 1t is. He
never leaves a
m a n with o u I
making him feel
that while tw Q
legs are hettef
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-13
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at s:lS a. M, sets at 5:44 p. m.
(war time)
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
Mars westward travelling among the stars
faced the other way Monday Of this week
and Is now on It's slow eastward comeback.