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Evening star., 1944-01-25
Natures S Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY,
RESURRECTION FERN.
(Polypodium incdnum.)

Some time in the distant past the
resurrection fern came into our
country from one that was by far
more genial, as Its cousins grow to
great size in the tropics. In the
North, where 1t has become a citi-
zen, it Is usually found on the rocks
or covering exposed roots of trees.
In the Gulf States it has been able
to climb higher and is found on the
trunks and even the branches of
trees.
One may easily mistake this fern
for the common species that has
the same creeping, scaly rootstock
and identical leathery, pinnatifid
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Music in the Hospitals

The National Federation of Music
Clubs and the Red Cross are combining
on new project which will furnish
music for study to wounded service men
in every government hospital. This is
just one more thing that these two agen-
cies have added to an already substantial
list.
In matters musical the service men
are we'll taken care of, in the war areas,
and in home camps. They are supplied
with musical equipment as well as liter
allure of all kinds, games, and so on.
The new project will supply those who
find it acceptable with musical edu-
cation, to include instruction in theory
and musical subjects in general. The
plan also includes musical programs
which will be brought to them through
radio, monographs, pianos, etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Good Will in the Balkans

'"Trouble in the Balkans" is an old
phrase, so worn that it is usually good for
chuckle whenever playwright puts it
in the mouth of a muStache-tugging
Englishman. But "the Balkan situation"
has never been laughing matter. And
some Americans converSant with the old
and complex grievances of this geo.
graphical powder key are predicting civil
strife there when the war is over. Even
from this distance, there are apparent
reasons to support those predictions.
Old jealouSieS, new boundary disputes,
hatred of an exhausted, impoverished
people for their quisling countrymen-
all these might generate an explosion.
The possibility that the United States
might prevent such an explosion, or at
least settle the disturbance, is referred
in a new book, Balkan Journal" by
Laird Archer.
Mr.. Archer is currently in Cairo as
chief of mission in the Office of Foreign
Relief, Foreign Economic Administration
to give devilish long title its due.
Before that he had lived and worked in
the Balkans and Near East for 81 years,
and for Is of them was foreign director
of the Near East Foundation. Though
Mr.. Archer does not belabor the point, he
shows clearly in his day-by-day journal
that Balkan citizens hold this country in
high regard. American institutions have
helped them to improve their public
health, agriculture, education and
finances. Some of Turkeys most en-
1ightened leaders are graduates OF Amer
ican7supported Robert College. Ameri-
can oil men, telephone technicians and
railroad experts have assisted Rumania
in exploiting her resources. The Bulgar-
ian government hired American agricul-
turistS to help develop rural economy.
The Albanian-American Institute has
done much to modernize primitive
Albania.
Those pre-war ventures were not I'M
dertaken with political, religious or ideo-
logical motives in the background. They
were the result of desire to be helped
and predominantly on strictly business
basis. Mr.. Archer's book tends to explain,
in the case of the Balkans, the reasons
behind the reservoir Of good will" which
Wendell Willkie reported finding. If and
when the government extends it good
neighbor policy to Europe, it may find
that American business and philanthropy
have done good bit of the spade work. 1t
may also find that this background Of dis
interested, friendly help is invaluable if we
are called upon to assume leading part in
Balkan peace-maklng.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

Corporation for the world isn't convinc-
ing, inasmuch as that proposition is based
upon the United States furnishing most
of the money to set up and run world
bank. Every nation, including Great
Britain, will be borrowing American
money from that bank.
1t isn't clear how Administration lead
erS in Washington hope to prove that the
foreign demand for American goods will
put millions of men and women released
from the war back at work in American
factories, while all foreign nations must
continue to borrow themselves deeper in
to debt, while at the same time they are
engaged in the ancient process of pulling
themselves up by their bootstrapS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Gobbledygook

The country is indebted to Maury
Maverick for gobbledygook. It is not to
be confused with globaloney or lamzey
divey. It is a new word coined to de-
scribe and to end several old words which
have gotten in the hair of Mr.. Maverick,
chairman of the Smaller War Plants
Corp.
These words which Mr.. Maverick has
banished from the SWPC vocabulary
form the Basic English of bureaucracy.
They are SNUG, pompous and trite. Bird
Drained government clerks have worn
them to death trying to impress the boss,
or playing at being big shots. They have
done much to make bureaucracy unpop-
ular.
Mr.. Maverick, having read and heard
them day after day, finally came to a
slow boil, r'ared back, and passed an
edict:
"stay off the gobbledygook language"
he ordered. Lets stop pointing up
programs, 'finalizing' contracts that
stem from district, regional or Wash
ington levels. No more patterns, eff
fectuating, dynamics. Anyone using the
words "activation'. or experimentation
will be shot"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
About Foreign Markets

The current political claim that the
operation of "trade treaties" will produce
q boom in our favor in foreign markets
after the war is very doubtful. All for
eign nations will produce everything
they can to meet their own needs and
get along with as little foreign" goods
as possible.
Atpresent American goods and supplies
are being sent abroad in great volume,
and paid for with IOU's, and under lend
lease arrangements. The orthodox trad
ing methods are not being used in our
commerce with Europe and other coun-
tries. 1t is all right to refer to pre-war
statistics to show that Britain imported
$3,72O, 100000 worth of goods a year,
which left that country full billion adm
But that index will be off-the-record
after the war.
The current theory that world cur
rencies are going to be stabilized, and
that war-stricken nations are going to
buy American goods in abundance with
the help Of Reconstruction Finance
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
AS A MATTER OF FACT

Hotels are not the only places where
switching is practiced. It seems souvenir
hunters visiting at the White House take
anything from sugar tongs to curtain
fringe What is this urge which makes
folks who have great pride in their own
homes or apartments pick up as they CO.
Hotels lose the silver, the bath towels and
mats, the stationery, even the uninter-
esting pictures on the walls. Brio a orac
is even lifted from the foyers and draw
ing rooms At the White House the
housekeeper says that spoons are the
most common among the liftables, with
guest towels close second.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

suite in the Mayflower Hotel here
for eight months at the taxpayers
expense, with the knowledge and
approval Of the committees for
mer chairman, anti-New Deal
Rep. Gene Cox OF Georgia.
Here's a second installment to
the story:
Just before Cox resigned the
craftsmanship under pressure, he
stole another march ON the tax
payers by boosting the salary Of
his niece, Mildred Cox, a COM
mittee stenOgrapher and record
clerk, from $2,4OO to 5000 q
year.
Miss Cox, one Of six relatives
whom the gravy-gorged Georgia
Congressman has planted on the
Federal payroll, is continuing in
her Job at the increased salary
under the new chairman, Repre-
sentative Clarence F. Lea Of Cali
fornia. Thus, Cox, though ousted,
has his own personal observer right
on the inside to see what Is
happening.
Congressman Cox has been
famed, ever since he came to Con-
gress, for the army Of his kin
folk who ride the gravy-train. It
Is a singular event when a Cox
relative is taken off the payroll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
THE POLISH QUESTION
philadelphia Pravda)


In the issue Of the Chester Times
for Jan a., 1914, appeared a let
ter written by Walter Kozicki, SUBJ
hitting an article signed by many
Polish scholars, claiming that East
ern Galicia, Volynia Polesie, White
Russia, etc., should be, known or
are known as Eastern Poland, be-
cause many great leaders in Po-
lands history, and number Of
great poets, came from Eastern Po-
| land.
They say that the territorial
claims Of Soviet Russia to this ter
ritory should be withdrawn, be-
cause this Is supposed to be Po-
lish territory; that such cities as
Lwow never belonged to Russia and
are inhabited by an overwhelming
majority Of pure Poles: and that
this city Is the main center Of Po-
Esh culture. They also claim
that this territory belonged to Po-
land for many centuries except for
the time Of partition.
May I, as a former student at
Lwow Schools in my native city,
be permitted to remind these Po-
lish scholars that Eastern Ga
ncia, Volynia, Polesie, Lemkoush-
china, Cholmshchina, etc., or as
this Territory Is now called West
ern Russia or Western Ukraine
Historically known as "Czerwonna
Rus, "-Russia-rubra-the term also
used by Polish historians) was an
independent Russian state (later
kingdom) for many centuries, and
that this territory from immemor-
able times has been inhabited 80
per cent by Russian people.
"Czerwonna Rus" the tndepen-
dent Russian state known today as
Western Ukraine was an integral
part Of Russia proper until 1123.
The great city Of Lwow was
founded in 1241 by q Gancian-
Russian prince, Danylo, In the
name Of his eldest son Lev
Oion), hence the city Of Jwow
mean 1.-The city Of Lew, in Latin
"Leopolis," and In Russian, 'Lwow"
Danylo ruled over the Gall
cian-Russian state from 1924
until 1884. This state. which Ia
known now as Western Russia
Western Ukraine, or Carpatho-R Rus
STA, was conquered and subjugated
by tbs Polish king. KazimierZ, Sd.
In 1910. Continuously for $50 years
this territory was united with Rus
STA (881-134O).
Whenever Poles were ruling this
particular territory they did so by
conquest, force and aggression. Peo-
pie in these territories always and
are now Russian or Ukrainian and
at no time agreed to be under Po-
lish rule or to be part Of the Pc
lish state.
The Polish government Away
did It's best, or worst, to POlonizl
Tor denatiOnalize the Russian pOptlIa
ton in this territory In order to Oh
literate the Russian culture, bu
| they did not succeed
It Is true that Poles are yer!
Numerous n the city ,os 1wOw, bu
q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Views OF The Press

this does not prove that Lwow is a
Polish city.
(Poles are very numerous in
Buffalo and Chicago. but these
cities are still American cities
Remark of "PravdaD.
Russians and Ukrainians in East
ern Galicia, Volynia. Bielo- Russia
ETC., were only too glad to be re-
united with their brothers in the
Soviet Union in 1889. My national
plebiscite they decided unanimously
to be part of Russia proper, and ]
don't think this situation will be
altered, no matter what PoliHl
scholars say or think. The peoples
will as expressed in the 1899 plebis-
cite is above all scholars and poll
ticians.
The Russian people are no enc
mics OF Poland or the Polish peo-
pie. They sincerely wish to see a
strong and indepedent Poland on
Polish territory, but not on Russian
or Ukrainian territory, to which
they have no moral, historical, eth
biographical or political right.
REV. ROMAN sAMILO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

happened. Post Office Depart
ment records show that last No
vember a brother, Robin Cox, was
replaced as acting postmaster Of
Donalsonville, Va.
With this omission here's the
latest roll-cau on the Cox clan:
Grace Cox, wife, clerk to the
Congressman, $3.50 year.
Rosa Robinson, sister, Cox's Sec
Rotary, $3.50.
j. CLANCY Robinson, brother-in
law, assistant House disbursing
clerk, $500.
Mildred Cox, niece, $1,000 q
year.
Charles M. Cox, nephew, Agric-
tural Adjustment Administration
officials, $500.
Mrs. Jim Hoggard, sister, post
mistress Of Camilla, Ga, $3.50.
Representative Cox $4,000.
Total annual take Of Cox and
his kin-$3O,77O.
NOTE: In addition Cox aroused
widespread comment and criticism
when he received a check for ST.
500 from a Georgia radio station
In connection with lobbying ac-
tivitieS before the FEC.
Copyright, 1914, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
TRAVELLERS AID
New York SUM

In ration which, as never before
Is on the move, it Is not surprising
that an unusual burden should fall
upon the Travellers Aid Society. It's
annual report shows that 1913 was
the biggest year in its history. It
gave service to 2,567,787 men and
women in uniform, ranging from the
convenienceS and comforts provided
by its lounges In railroad terminals
to help in finding lodgings or locat-
ing friends and even to lending
money to those in a travel emer-
gency. 1t aided 1858 civilians in
many ways through its various de-
partments. and here, too, that as
siStaI1ce took numerous forms and
was extended to persons Of many
colorS and creeds and Of many ages.
With major changes in industry and
in the locations Of Army and Navy
units still ahead, there Is no indica-
ton that the tide II travel will de-
crease materially in the near future.
But regardless Of how it Gibbs and
flows, the familiar emblem Of the
Travellers Aid Society will stand as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Selected Poem
EMERGENCY EXIT

Harold Willard Gleason in The New York Times
When that Aprille with his showers
Harn routed Boreas, foe Of flowers,
Obsessed by Izaak Waltons vision,
One cannot labor with precision!
Insistent hints of inclination
To pen, pro tenn, resignation
Recur with maddening persistence
To undermine mans resistance.
ruthless mistress, sure, Is angling:
conscientious weight entangling,
1t overturns his sense Of reason,
Exposing him, in fishing season,
To phthisis, snuffleS and rheumaticS
From -wading acrobaticSl
Though biceps ache with futile casting,
One strike injects a toxin lasting;
The finny tribe may prove elusive,
But he is hooked-and that's conclusive!
So when the home is vexed with cleaning,
If you are smitten with the leaning
To fish, and business seems mere Supine
Repulsing Of the Big Black Lupine,
If you can't tease the trout or guppy,
Insure yourself-the spouse to nourish-
And seek the Styx, where anglers flourish!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

day reminds Us Of this truth with
the dramatic incident which held
the world spelIbound for centuries.
God in His infinite power might
have saved the world IN any num-
Der Of ways, but He chos. to save
It through the cross. In fact, His
perfect knowledge led Him to see
that that was the only way It could
be saved, consistent with justice and
the dignity Of human LIFE.
Today all over the world men are
compelled to sacrifice IN behalf Of
liberty, because for q generation
/ the liberty loving nations have neg-
lscted to sacrifice. and nov one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
How Come?

The chief reason for wartime censor
ship is to keep information, aid and com
fort from the enemy. Yet Brendan
Bracken, British minister of information,
has announced that the text of leaflets
dropped over Germany, written for and
read by enemy soldiers and civilians, WILL
not be released for publication.
Is Allied propaganda so full OF whop-
pers that the public can't be trusted to
read it? You figure it out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

Wednesday of this week may have been
one of the most unpleasant, bluStery and
snowy days of the winter in New York
City, but it was Circus Day just the same.
The "big show" opened and the most sea-
sonable thing were the peanuts, although
the weather had no i'll effects on the
trained seals, the acrobats and the sad
faced clown. One thing the circus-in-New
York does not have to show in an open
lot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
They Were Dispensable

We doubt that the ranks of those &C, 900
key men in war industries will include the
sage of WPB who is solving the paper
shortage by banishing the three-on-a-
match superstition, or the conservation
genius who attacked the same problem
by putting signs in the Mushrooms of
WPB Washington headquarters which
read: CONE towel will dry any pair OF
AMERICAN handS"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
NEUROTIC, PsYCHOTIC AND
PSYCHO-NEUROTIC

Young man rejected IN draft as
4-F because Of poor vision. The ex-
aiming physician also put down
the word phycho-neurotic and told
the Young man he would not be &C
cepted even If his eyesight were nor
NAL. The young man Is or was
(writes his relative) an art student
and works at photography. He Is
"a years old, moody but very intelli-
gent. Now his relative believes that
If the young man could talk to some
one who understands his way OF
thinking, it might get him over his
'inferiority complex" He likes to
visit his relatives and talk about
any subject that comes up, but when
he gets down to personalities his
relatives "try to shy away" If OF
Doc Brady can explain in words OF
not more than two Syllables -.
I dunno-they tell me some OF
my explanations Of these things are
more terrible than the things I try
to explain. But here goes-watch
your toes!
Neurotic refers to the nerves. A
neurosis Is functional nervous dis
order without discoverable or de-
monstrable Of I may use four or
five syllables occasionally struc-
tural or organic change. No physi-
clan or pathologist can determine
by examination or by post-mortem
investigation whether an individual
has or had a neurosis. Examples
80 vao,,roeoo orn nV1}loyoexY vOoi0ro|U0
(periodic sick headaches), and what
the eminent specialists Of the gay
nineties called nervous prostra-
ton" and some successful charla-
tans now call ''neurasthenia."
Psyche means mental, mental
processes. A psyche -neuroSis Is q
minor disease or disease Of the
mind which Is not sufficient to
amount to insanity.
But let's draw off a ways and try
sneaking up on the thing from an
other angle. Like this: Medically,
If not legally, everybody is more or
less insane but thee and me and
sometimes suppose you think I'm
batty. Shucks, have a good as
sortment of inferoirity completes
and my psychiatrist, God bless him,
once showed me that was behav-
ing under a compulsion neurosis
and also showed me the way to lick
the thing. In fact 1t takes a good
psychiatrist physician who special
ICES in mental disorders) to set right
lot of people who are wandering
aimlessly in the vast borderland
between what is popularity regarded
as sanity and insanity.
So would urge the young man
in this instance to consult a good
psychiatrist and follow the instruc-
ton the psychiatrist gives him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PnncnTm


Nearly every day we pop corn,
Both myself and my child are very
fond Of 1t. Is 1t harmful in any
way? Is it fattening
(Mrs. w. F. M
Answer-It Is good food-equiva-
lent to an equal weight, of, say
bread. Harmless. Fattening only
as an equivalent amount of bread
would be, If eaten in the same way,
that is, in addition to your ordi-
nary diet.
How Much Calcium?
How much calcium can the body
asSimilate? IT. M
Answer don't know. Most peo-
pie do not aSsimilate enough. Send
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress, for pamphlet "The Calcium
Shortage" Nutrition authorities es-
innate the body requires about
twenty grains Of calcium daily-aS
much as you get in three pints Of
milk.
Swallowed Glass
What should be done If child
swallows chip OF glass about one
third the size Of dime?
(MrS. L. s.
Answer-If you know or fear q
child has swallowed any foreign
body the best course is
Cd Give no physic, no emetic.
(2) Feed the child all the banana,
or mashed potato or squash the
child will eat, for the next day
or two. For a child over a year
old, feed all the chopped spin
ach. carrots, lettuce, cabbage,
and other vegetables the child
will eat. Purpose is to supply
plenty of material which will
cover the foreign body in a
smooth mass like cocoon and
enable 1t to pass through the
stomach and intestine harmless
~. Some good doctors give the
child absorbent cotton mixed
with apple sauce or jelly.
Copyright, 1914, John F. Ollie Co..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

because for some
generations and
particularly I o +
the past genera
ton we h ave
given no thought
Of sacrifice in the
pres ervation Of
our liberties.
We have to sac
rifIce every day in
order TO keep our
life and the life
Of the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

Vic "a AAA1NA<sAAA
secretary's pets.
She got us into 1t
In 1884. She has
several times and
she presided over
the last session,
held In New York
in 1941. She Is u.
s. deleg a te-in-
chief-with Sem
ator Elmer Thorn
as as co-delegate
to the coming
Philadelphia ses-
sion and is now
lining up the IL
technical advisers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

Travel is out in England over the Eas-
ter weekend. Because of the number who
must travel those who would enjoy the
four day weekend will not be permitted to
do so. In this country people are asked
not to travel over holidays unless neces-
sary, but many do not pay any attention
to the request.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

England is now without dining cars
for the duration. Those who travel dis
tances will have to pack their own
lunches. England, however, can be
Travelled in pretty quick order because
of it's size. It would be different mat
ter if an American started out from Bos-
ton with packed lunch to last him until
he reached the West coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

generation has to do thirty times
its share.
The cross Of Christ stands before
Us with this message, IF any man
would come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross daily
and follow me-.
All Rights Reserved -Babson
Newspaper -.catA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Current Comment

The temper and heroism of Jap
anese Christians came home to
me when I saw them risking their
safety to share their limited food
supply with us over eight long
months. Christ was not repatri-
ated on the GripSholm. He is still
out there.
DIR. william Axling, Baptist
missionary.
By the end Of this year Japan
viii have strength in organic d.
visions equal not only to our plan
ned strength in Europe, but In the
ASiatic theater as well.
Colonel Warren Clear, War
Department general staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per-
sOnaI health and hygiene, not 70
disease, diagnosis Of treatment
will be answered BY DR.. Brady u
q stamped self-adjressed envelope
is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink No reply can
o.. made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address nr.
william Brady, National News:
paper Service, 800 West MldisOn
Street, Chicago, Ill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
GOOD FRIDAY
BY EARL L DOUGLASS. d. D

We were reminded some genera
tons ago that the cost Of liberty Is
eternal vigilance. But we forget that
warning. Today we have millions OF
men armed and standing ready for
battle in different parts Of the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

WASHINGTON April Those who have talked Herbert Hoover lately in his
he absolutely confident achieving ambition
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Did You Know
About I.L.O.?
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury DemOcrat) Washington
CORRESPONDENT

Madam Secretary Of Labor Fran
ces Perkins viii be sitting pretty and
right In her element when the 18th
session Of the International Labor
Organization opens in Philadelphia
on April 20 for three or four weeks
of talk and the resolutions by dele
cations from 40 nations. I L. o. Is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07
Washington Merry-Go-Round

Hoover Backs Dewey Warren So He Behind COP
Role Of Elder Statesman Long Ambition Since Quitting Capitol
ECons oConnor Draws Public Pay Despite Washington ABSENCE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

a beacon to those encountering DIFF.
ficulties on their journeyings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07

The MeTTy-Go-R0und recently
told how Eugene Carey, ousted
counsel Of the House Federal Com
municatIonS Commission investt-
eating committee, Lived in a fancy
But this phenomenon has now