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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
MARCH MEETTN'
New York Times)


This Is Town Meeting month in
New England. The Town Meeting
has flourished for more than three
hundred years. II IN the general
tendency toward Capitalization 1t
has lost something, It has not lost
It's old Wigor or Its usefulness as a
direct democracy acting within Its
proper field. IN the Revolution 1t
was powerful aid OF American
independence. At the time Of the
Embargo jefferson felt the foun-
dations Of Government shaken un-
der my feet by the New England
townships" At another time he
said that the New England towns
have proved themselves the wiscst
invention ever devised by the wit OF
man for the perfect exercise Of self
government and for its preserva-
ton"
The Town Meeting Is held in the
town hall. The town clerk calls the
meeting to order and recites It's
purposes. The meeting Is Ito see
II" the town will do so and so, put
up new guide post, Appropriate so
much money. The presiding offic-
er, called the moderator, Is chosen.
Somebody jumps up and cries: ''Mr.
Moderator, move you, Sir" and
the fun begins. Not merely fu-
ture course Is to be determined
upon. A review Of the past year Is
also III order, and the conduct OF
any town officer Is liable to be
jumped on. Spirited, and some
times personal remarks and repair
tees fly about. The meeting is free
and-easy, subject to certain rules.
Selectmen, overseas of the poor, and
so on are elected. 1t is to be hoped
that the ancient Joke of nominating
somebody to an obsolete office, such
as fence viewer, pound keeper or
hog reeve, Is still in order.
Some larger towns use the modi-
fled form of Town Meeting called
Limited From four to nine pre-
cincts are set up, for each Of which
thirty to forty Town Meeting men,
bers are elected by popular vote.
These and certain officers are the
Town Meeting. at which any quail
flied voter has the right to speak
but not to vote. This plan, begun
in Newport. hasn't spread. we be-
iieve, outside Of certain Ma.Sfachu-
sets towns, one Of which Is Brook
line. so nobly resolved never to be
city. The unlimited, the good old
democratic parley, Is an institution
| to be proud OF.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
CHANGE OF NAME
New York Times

NNeW xOTk 4lLneSJ
It's pretty late for Mr.. Gilbert to
apologize. II may be true still
III his tight little island that:
Things are seldom what they seem.
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Our happier land no more accords
with Pinafore. President Roosevelt
has signed q bill ordaining that
henceforth skim milk shall be called
dry milk solids" Sympathizing
heartily with the purpose Of the
law, We must say OF the new name
that 1t isn't to our taste: we can't
pronounce 1t chaste. 1t smacks Of
the government wordery with q
million o. words 10 waste. What
will be the temperature of Hotspur's
temper when he comes to say: 20,
I could divide myself and 90 to
Bullets, for moving such q dish Of
dry milk solids with so honorable
an action!"
But the act Is meant 10 be promo
ton Of an unjustly despised. worthy,
honest fellow, whose very name had
for the "judicious a homely cottage
sound and smell. He Is a plain
chap in q plain frock, no oiled and
oily Assyrian, like cream. And why
isn't he just as good a man as that
pampered and greasy citizen? II
1t is water you are looking for in
milk, he has more than whole milk.
He has more protein and carbohy-
drates. If he has less fat. that
should recommend him all the more
to SINNERS. II In calories his score
Is less by nearly half, what's that
to us? How many Of us use milk
as q water heater?
We look TO see him thrive. Who
knows that in a generation or two
people won't be talking about the
dry milk solids OF the Jest, or the
social elevation of the dry milk
solids OF the dry milk solids? We
like to see the congress doing a
belated act Of justice to one OF the
humble and unprivileged. Strephon
gave the word long ago:
Fold your Tapping wings,
Scoring legislature!
Stoop to little things
Stoop to human nature!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Solid Foundation
WAVES,

Enlistments in the WACs, WAVES,
SPARS and Lady Marines have been lit
tie slow, in spite Of exhortations to pa
triotism, glowing accounts of accom-
plishment, and other entcing publicity.
But we think that the military has at last
found the solution to this problem.
The foundation garment, nearly extinct
in civilian life, is General Issue to the
auxliaries. So now there's new slogan:
"Join the services and get girdle."
Stand aside and let em in!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

contradictions, what else could be
expected? The whole ball-up is
really q paradox; 1t takes n little
unwinding of tangled threads TO get
to the core.
In the first place, War Food Adj
ministration and OPA officials say
SURPRISES today are temporary, both
in Canada and the u. S. Today'S
surplus results from three import
ant factors:
First, livestock marketings, partic-
ularly OF pigs, have been heavy all
through the winter. All-tine rec
ords for February killings were set
on many days last month; packers
have been working ut capacity in
what Is normally an off-season,
building up reserves.
Second, there are rail and ship
transportation bottlenecks In both
Canada and the U. s. because mill
tary supplies get preference,
Third, as q result Of both these
heavy marketings and the transport
tation bottleneck, cold storage ware
houses have been filled to capacity.
This Is particularly true at nearly
all ports where there have been de.
creases OF Lend-LeaSe exports be-
cause Of shipping shortages.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
UP-TO.DATE BABIES JUST
CHORTLE AND FROLIC

On p. IS of The Brady Baby Boob
for copy send ten cents and
stamped envelope bearing your ad.
dress. or II your baby is stin on or.
der inclose ten cents additional fol
the booklet Preparing for Mater
nity-I don't care whether you are
the prospective mother or the pros.
pective father, 1t is your duty To
get some practical information
about the baby business now and I'd
get rid of as much mtsinformAtior
relating to marking" and all that
nonsense as you can before the bia
noise takes over-on p. Is alienata
the respect and affection of all
neighborhood noises and DOPE
dispensing grannies by saying:
don't believe cutting teeth
ecer makes o baby III; I don't
believe growing pains" are due
to growing; and don't believe
In collie"
There is an obvious reason why
old time babies so commonly had
collie" while up-to-date babies just
chortle and frollc. The old time
babies, poor kids, had such wretch
eddy poor care and such atrociouS
feeding, compared with up.to-date
babies.
In q good many instances, I be-
lleve. the maltreatment that makes
the helpless infant act as though
he or she really had "colic" Is the
first dose of castor oil, followed up.
as 1t usually is, by other irritants
which saireygamp, some nosy
neighbor or even some consci~
needless doctor or so-called baby
specialist recommends to correct
the arrangement caused by the
physic!
The purely fanciful basis for tho
"colic" obsession, as formulated by
Holt - who undoubtedly took over
the best working ideas from the old
women when he moved In on the
baby business - was SO reasonable
and clear that any Saireygamp,
neighborhood nosy or quack doctor
can accept 1t and does. "Colic" &C"
cording TO this quaint view, Is sim
ply Irritation due to the presence
OF some undigested food in the Inc
testine."
That makes IL practically unanin-
nous, for Of course 1t is impossible
to catch the baby without any I'M
digested food In the intestine, as
long as the poor tyke gets any food
at all. So, you see, whenever the
baby incautionsly gives with tho
music any neighborhood nosy, Sal
reygamp or oVerWorked medical
practitioner can come running
with the collie dope, and there Is no
defense at all for the luckless cul-
prit, for they have the goods on him
(You havnt heard anything yet
wait and see.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Still Unpredictable

We see where George Bernard Shaw,
the bearded, brilliant, venerable and oc-
casionally venomous playwright, is
squawking about England's high wartime
taxes He says they're making poor
man of him, and asks that the surtax
on incomes above $4,000 be abolished.
This is the same G. B. S. who for years
has been the ardent Socialist, the fiery
crusader against the vested interests.
Well, Shaw always was little unpre-
dictable.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06


the cost OF the power plant. Thus
ALCOA has no expense and alb
solutely no risk"
Truman Committee: 1.-THE cost
of the project was approximately
$65,900,000, or somewhat less than
the $68,500, 900 advanced without
interest, Removes all risks from
the venture"
Merry Co Round: while Jesse
was helping promote this giant
plant In Canada, with Its large
use OF strategic materials, various
American public power projects,
which have supplied ample power,
were abandoned for lack Of stratG-
gic materials. Among them were
the Shasta project, some Grand
Coulee units, one new iva dam,
tho Colorado Big Thompson pro-
ject and the Davis Dam on the
Colorado river"
Truman Committee: IN order TO
permit immediate manufacture Of
large Sh!pshaw turbines and gen.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

significance which words cannot
describe. How different such mo-
ments are when people can face
them supported by religious faith.
1t confers a variety Of courage
which makes even the courage OF
the battlefield pale a bit In Its glory.
One thinks Of the multitude OF
martyrs who have faced the tortures
of the amphitheater, the miserable
death which abounds In the torture
chamber
Here was q mother and her two
girls. They were brave, and they had
religious faith. Lies consummation
arose before their eyes and in an
instant they saw all It's issues In the
frame which their years Of thought
and devotion had create |. And the
kindness of 1t all-"You have been
good girls and such a comfort to
me-"
Let the faith of men or women be
what 1t may, 1t rises UP In the hour
of decision and trouble to stand at
their right hand. There Is a victory
which overcometh the world, even
our faith"
All Rights decentralization
Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
MANY MUST MEAN 1T
anew Haven Evening Register)

New Haven Evening Register)
The extent of motorist violation
of the gasoline rationing regula-
lions has one Interpretation which
are difficult to harmonic. The VI
olation Is characterized on almos
all sides as wholesale. Yet certain
authorities. IN New York, for In
stance. maintain for publication tina
it Is more careless than deliberate
While that could be so, othei
quarters describe a number CT
lucl outlets as saying that az
much as 80 per cent, or more
Of the gasoline coupons turned In
ire counterfeit. When nine out OF
en- coupons rendered are counter
felt, there is something more than
motorist carelesSness behind It. The
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

orators, which corresponded In size
to the units for Shasta Dam, the
aluminium Corporation Of Amer
lea requested priorities for GER
tain critical materials. At the
same tmie that the Canadian
project was being rushed to COM
pletion at Ill possible speed, with
financing and priority assistance,
orders were being issued by the
WPB for many public power pro-
jects In this country. including
Grand Coulee, SHASTA, Keswick
Davis Dam, the Colorado Dig
Thompson and several Tennessee
Valley Authority Dams"
Yet, despite these facts, well
known TO Jesse Jones and other
Cabinet members Mt the time, he
issued categorlc statement u
newspaper editors: IAN Of these
statements are false"
Copyright, 1914. by United
Feature syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Tranquility

1.-THE life of Germans today is not lux
urous," says a Nazi broadcast, "but ::
a natural life tranquil, secure and with
out surprises"
Yes, there must be some reinsurance IN
the knowledge that the boys in the Army
are getting nearer home every day, and
that visitors from across the channel can
be depended on to drop in any time that
the Weather's not too bad.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Selected Poem
SUGARING

Charles Maam in The Christian Science MONITOR
This spout just fits the auger hole,
The way the maple fits the knoll,
The way the hillside fits the sky.
Tapping sugar naples
Get curious notions, on the still
High ridge that is my sugar hill
The spout goes in to tap the tree;
The tree goes down by roots to be
A spout for all the hill to bring
The inner sweetness that Is spring;
The hill with roots Of loan and slate
Thrust far below my yard and gate
Fits snugly to the earth, and so
May tap the world the way go,
May reach the planets inner flow,
May bring me China, before knowl
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
QUESTIONS ana ANSWERS
ChOcO1atA


flavor my 5-year-old daughters
milk with chocolate syrup. But have
Ben Told chocolate Is harmful TO
the kidneys. (Mrs. O. M. K.)
Answer-Chocolate or cocoa taken
as a beverage Is diuretic, increases
kidney function. Therefore II Is I'M
desirable for children. But spoon
full Of chocolate syrup may be used
to flavor a cup or glass Of milk, II
the child will not take plain milk.
Caramel (burnt sugar. or molasses
would be preferable to chocolate for
fiavoring milk.
Anklets
Parents fear my health will suffer
II I wear ankletS. can truly say
I haven't had a cold this winter and
that am plenty warm without long
hose I am a freshman In high
school. TX. NJ
Answer assure your parents It
has nothing to do with health. 1t
Is merely q question Of your own
comfort.
Weak Ankles
am sixteen. Recently received
pair of ice skates, but find ! have
very weak ankles. I'M. @. EO
Answer--H the skates firmly
attached to good stout laced high
shoes. Then skate or try to skate
as often as possible day BY day
your ankles will get stronger until
In a week or two you'll be skating
we'll and enjoying 1t. But don't give
up with the idea that your ankles
ere 10 weak.
Copyright 1914, John F. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Your Health
By Dr.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining 10 per-
sSnal health and hygiene. not y
disease. diagnosis o. treatment
will be answered oy Or. Brady Il
stamped self-addressed enVelspe
Il enclosed. Letters should be brteS
and written In tnk. No reply can
Be made 10 queries not conform
ing TO instructions. Address DE-.
william Brady, National News.
paper Service. $40 West Madison
Street. Chicago. III
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

meat rationing.
and the u. S.
Office Of Price
Admlnistrat ion
cutting poin t
values on ra-
toned meats be-
cause there Is q
surplus.
OF course these
two points Of
view don't make
sense, and If the
poor meat-eat-
ing public is left
completely be-
flIddlnCl hv the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

children IN tense
tones: M a y b G
this Is the end,
out we will all
meet 1t CALAMITY.
You have been
good girls q n d
such q comfort u
me. God Is with
is now. If we go,
we go to Him."
r h c crucial
loments Of life
have about them
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Views Of The Press

new arrangement for serially num-
bering the coupons may tend 10
straighten up the careless motorists.
Fingers will remain crossed, how
ever, as to Its dependability as q
counterfc!t-preventer. The OPA will
have to prove that.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Why More Meat?
Feed Lack Acute
BY PETER EDISON
The Waterbury Democrat
washington CorreSnOndent

Two weeks ago the livestock peo-
pie were all singing the blues about
the meat famine staring the coun-
try in the face. Then along comes
Canada, removing all restrictions on
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

Cooperating with the Mexicos ma.
tional forestry conservation program
Mexico City has had all "braseros"
traditional charcoal burning kit
chen stoves, removed from dwellings.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
VICTORY or FAITH
BY EARL 1. DOUGLASS. u. ID.

VICTORY or FAITH
A mother and her two little
daughters were crouchcd In shelf
or In London during thu fearful
blitz Of 1910. When at last 1t SEEM
cd that the endurance point had
been passed and that death was In
evitable. the woman laid TO her
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Washington Merry-Go-Round DREW F PEARSON
Wilkes Boost for Higher Taxes Coused Revolt Among Supporters;
Hones Fiscal Adviser ond Wall Street Man, Nay Withdraw His Aid
Report Aluminium Deal Books Persons Expose

didn't
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac
Moon sets at 5:38 p. m (war tiTne)
Sun rises at 1913 a. M. sets at $40 p. m.
(war time)
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
FATTENING UP is DOWN

Because Of this feed shortage, the
VIA says 1t will be necessary 10
reduce the number of meat animals
perhaps by MS much rs 10 per cent,
and to force more grass-fed beef
cattle directly from the range TO the
slaughter houses without going
through the feed lots where stock Is
normally fattened for market.
In spite OF all the efforts 10 in.
crease IT, teed crops, 1t Will appar-
emily be impossible to raise enough
feed for all this increased livestock
production. This Is what inks the
people who have been In the busi.
ness OF fattening livestock for mar
ket, and this Is what causes them
TO raise the cry Of "iamine!"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06
NO FAMINE, SAYS WA

The only way VITA and OPA Off
Gals have been able to get off the
prongs of this triple dilemma has
been TO ease up on rationing restric-
tons
So where does all this meat fam
inc" stuff of the livestock producers
come from? VIA officials have re.
peatedly stated there Is no meat
famine" In sight this year.
Total meat production for 1914
Is forecast at rs billion pounds, rs
compared with % billion pounds for
l943. The INCREASED production
will, however, al 90 TO the armed
services. For civilians, there may
be more pork IN the years supply,
less beef lamb and mutton, but the
total will be about the same as for
l943. Nobody starved then.
All the meat famine talk stems
from just one fact. There very def
initely Is q shortage Of livestock
feed. There Is more feed than there
ever was before, but there are more
demands on this supply for feeding
meat animals, dairy animals, poul-
try, for making flour and Indus
trial alcohol.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-06

It's pretty late for Mr.. Gilbert to
apologize. II may be true still
III his tight little island that:
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
Army Need OF Air Fields
Prevents Carolinas Stop

Leasure said the CAB had not
yet set a date for consideration
of Nationals application to divert
its route from Norfolk, through
Washington, with stops also at New
ark. The lines request for a stop
at Washington is sure 10 provoke
another extended proceeding be-
fore the board, for several other
lines are repeatedly ready to file
objections and argue them exten.
sively at the hearing.
The Great Lakes Florida case,
hearings on which were held June
1916 involves nine airlines, who
are seeking certificates to operate
on scheduled flights from Chicago,
Detroit and Cleveland, through
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Vir.
ginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas,
and Georgia, to Jacksonville, Mi.
ami and Tampa.
These lines are American. Co.
lonlal. Delta, Eastern, National,
Pennsylvania Central, Southeast,
State and Virginia Central.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
KIDNAPER GETS
l5-YEAR TERM

Lilly Mae Williams, 24-year-old
Negro maid, charged with kid
mapping the four-year-old-baby girl
of Cocholia Powell, Negroes, Of
Route l, Hallsboro, from James
Walker Memorial hospital on
August i, was sentenced ITO Is
years in states prison by Judge
Henry L. Stevens in New Honover
County Superior court yesterday.
Evidence showed that the Will
liams woman had been treated at
the dispensary for dog bite and
had been hanging around the
Negro ward. Officers N. J. Wolfe
and M. M. Jeffords found the
child unframed at her home,
Loves Alley and Harnett St.
James Watson, chared with as
sault with deadly weapon with
intent to kill, was found guilty Of
assault with a deadly weapon and
sentenced to eight months In jail
and was assigned to work on the
state roads.
Edgar William Dudley, charged
with larceny of a motor vehicle,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to IL months in jail, to be assigned
to the state roads.
Robert Peterson, charged with
HOUSEKEEPING, larceny and re-
ceiving, pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced to IL months on the state
roads.
George Montgomery, Negro, OF
815 Taylor street, charged with as
saulting Bessie Christopher with a
knife. pleaded nolo contendere, and
drew sentence of 10 months on
the county roads from Judge Hen
It was announced this morning
that the several rape cases dock
eted for trial in the current term
will be postponed until the next
criminal term, special session to
be called.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01

BY the utilization of waste liquor
from sulphite pulp mills, a high
test alcohol can be manufa ctured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-The ap-
plication of National Airlines for a
permit to stop at New Bern will
be considered by the Civil Aero
nautics board at a pre- hearing
conference here, September II, Ed
ward Leasure, chief of CABS pro-
cedings division, revealed today.
The CAB also warned dilatory
applicants for routes in the So
called Great Lakes Florida case,
involving proposed stops at Greens
boro High Point, Winston Salem,
Charlotte, Raleigh Durham, Will
mington, Fayetteville, New Bern
and other Tar Heel cities, that the
deadline for filing of briefs in the
proceeding is Saturday. Leasure
said that several of the nine appli-
cants had not yet filed their briefs.
Board officials would not COM
ment on the question of when Ma
tional Airlines would be directed
to inaugurate an already authorized
route from Jacksonville, Fla, to
New York, with service to the
Eastern Carolinas. 1t was learned,
however, that one of the chief
inpediments to an early start is
the necessity for war use of air
port facilities and installations
along the route.
The military need for use of the
airport installations at Savannah,
Charleston, New Bern, Norfolk and
other cities along the authorized
National route is said to be as great
as the need at Bluethenthal field
and Camp Davis,