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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Astronomical Speculation

The airplane has added mystery as well as revelation to warfare. We can send aircraft over Germany to look and photograph as well as to bomb. And yet, except for the fringe of border on which the American and Russians stand, Ger many remains as baffling and inaccessi- . ble as Tibet. The airplane reveals only a tantaliZing glimpse which deepenS rather than diSpels the mystery. There was, for instance, the report that 9th Air Force flyers brought back from the Ruhr. These flyers gazed down on thee Ruhr cities from what, as space goes, was an insignificant distance. But they were as remote as astronomers gazing at Mars through telescope. And what they saw was as fruitful of speculation as the Mar tian canals. What were those creatures doing down below? It was night, yet they had the lights turned on. This hadn't happened since the Allies first flew over the Reich. What were they up to? Was it trick? Were they inviting further destruction? Or had they become fatal istic or dispirited past the point of car ing?
 And what were the "bluish white flashes" observed issuing from lighted buildings and trolley cars, and which reSembled small arms fire? Did they mean that a civil uprising had begun?
 Some guessed that the Germans were hastily trying to move heavy factory ma chinery farther behind the lines. Others thought that they might be working day and night to turn out as much as they could from plants that stood in the line of imminent Allied occupation Neither explanation seems very logical. If ma chinery is worth salvaging and new goods are worth manufacturing, then they are at least worth the customary blackout precautions. Besides, these theories would not explain the lighted trolleys and airfields which the flyers noted. As for the supposition of street fighting, that, too, seems unlikely Ac- cOrding to common sense and the best tradition of gangster movies, nobody would turn on the lights in room before taking pot shot at an adversary. But what are those flashes then? An astron- Cner might easily explain them if they were few thousand light years out in the universe. But observed in the streets of Dusseldorf, they baffle analysis.
 Onthing at least is certain. Something is arniss in the unquiet tenor of wartime German living. And we incline to the Astronomical conjecture that the whole thing is sop to disiutegrating German morale. The Ruhr cities have been
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bombed, repaired, bombed, rebuilt, and bombed again v through blackouts and through clouds. Night after night their residents have waited in darkness. The bombers didn't always come. But even when they didn't the waiting was nerve wracking. The bombers still come, And soon the cities will be in range of heavy artillery and field guns. Then blackouts won't matter. So perhaps the soldiers and civilians of the Ruhr decided that if they must die they would rather die with the light on. And if they escaped they deserved brief respite from the years of unlit night before the enemy arrived. And perhaps Hitler's govern ment which had no other hope or com fort to offer despairing population, agreed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
A Thought for Today
Our Probate Candidates

The American voting public is great lover of dignity and decorum as befitting that which we view to be the high office of jurist. For this reason the position of Judge Patrick Healey, incumbent Dem ocratic candidate for reelection to our Probate Court, is more tenable than ever before This is because he has conducted himself with that dignity and decorum we expect of our juriStS during this cam paign.
 By this same token, his opponent - himself former juriSt-has irreparably damaged his own efforts by attempting to appeal to the voting public through the medium of political tactics, which might be enjoyable if they stemmed from the efforts of a candidate for the office of borough-watchman from "Bazooka, Mississippi" Certainly such an appeal, as he now presents by unrestrained personal attack, is the wrong one to be made by man seeking the high office of Probate Judge.
 In face of these personal attacks and those directed against his administration, Judge Healey has maintained dignity of position becoming to his office, which has gained the admiration of all voters in his district.
 His record is his platform; and Repub- icans and Democrats alike have praised the high quality of that record. For the past six years, he has conscientiously ad- hered to the high standards set by his late predecessor, who maintained his office for over twenty years, and where altering cir cumstances of time have demanded it Judge Healey has built upon those stand ards to help create a Probate Court known throughout it's area as one of warmth and understanding and appre- ciative of the delicate tasks assigned to it's jurisdiction.
 Judge Healey has, by maintaining this dignity befitting his position, avowed to the people his judicious and human awareness of his responsibilities. We are certain that Democratic and Repub- lican voters will insist at next Tuesdays polls that he resume his capable admin istration of our Probate Court for another four years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
AS A MATTER OF FACT

Americans haven't suffered much phys ical hardship during this war, but it still will be good news, to many that oil furn- This obviously will spread our available coal over smaller area and probably banish those days of real discomfort that some householders experienced in the past two winters. It may be hoped, however, that Secretary Ickes is better informed on the abundance of oil for recanverted furn- aces than he seems to have been on the coal supply when he first asked for con- version with the implication that there would be plenty of coal for everybody
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
CRITICAL DAYS FOR CORN
(Hartford Tines)

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 The danger of frost in the corn belt is one which is much on the mind of farmers these days, as 8 late corn crop Is reaching maturity Another week or so would carry most of the corn still. in the milk stage into solid form and be i'm mune to frost damage.
 Last wek the thermometer skirt ed close to the freezing edge. Low CT temperatures are again predict ed for the midwest. A killing frost now would still do serious damage to the weight of an otherwise ex- cellent yield.
 Frost has the effect of stopping the further maturing of the milk into solid grain. The kernel shrinks becomes loose on the cob and is inferior in weight and in feeding quality.
 A few more nights without frost will mean millions of bushels more corn, by weight, and correspond ingly greater income to the grow CTS.
 Such 8 beneficial circumstance will also be of decided advantage to the worlds food problem now that our surplus grains are being eagerly sought and consumed y .war-stricken peoples in foreign lands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Anvthing to Win the Election

John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State expectant Gin the event of a Dewey vic- tory) announced in a letter to Mrs. F. Carter Hill of the American League of Women Voters that, in the event of Pres ident Roosevelt's reelection, we might expect repetition of the disaster of another rejection of whatever peace arrangements are made when the repre- sentatives of the great powers get to- gether.
 Mr. Dulles said that he had consulted all the members of the Foreign Relations Committee excepting Senator Nye who was out of town, and after this consul tation he put forth this: T think they will go far to back up Republican Pres ident, but feel skeptical as to what would happen if Roosevelt was reelected"
 That statement means, if it means anything, that the man who is promoted as MT. Dewey's Secretary of State, is threatening the country with sabOtaging the peace settlement if his candidate is defeated. We have had all sorts of queer policies enunciated by the minority party in the present campaign, ranging from reckless promises, impossible of fulfill ment, to simple falsehood, but this is the first time that anybody has attempted to blackmail our country into accepting Presidential candidate.
 America has had ample cause for mourning over the Republican acts a generation ago that killed the hope of an International grouping to prevent wars and is directly responsible for the war in which we are now engaged. MT. Dulles threat is bid for World War III just as World War II was caused by the tactics of his party twenty-four years ago. Can didate Dewey, after many vacilations, has came out ostensibly at least for an inter national association.
 In 1920 another Republican candidate, Warren G. Harding said q can speak unreservedly of the American aspiration and the Republican conmital for an asso- citation of nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force, de- termined to add to security through in- ternational law so clarified that no mis- construction can be possible without affronting world honor"
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especially in the Latin American mind. The State Department adopted only halfway measures with Argentina; snubbed her dip- lomatically, but made her pros- porous economically by continu- ing to buy meat. The Argentines didn't care much if they were snubbed as long as they were prosperous.
 Result is that many good neighbOrs," though not liking Argentine Fascism, enjoy seeing U. S. diplomacy come to grief.
 NOTE: Meanwhile, the United States is less equipped to handle things in our own hemisphere than ever before in two decades. Secre- tary Hull is sick. His best Latin American experts were friends of Sumner Welles and were given the gate after Welles resigned. NEW YORK'S IDEA OF IT
 At a recent State Department press conference, 8 newSman asked acting Secretary of State Ed StettiniuS:
 Have you seen the Iiteracy test asked by New York State of first voters?"
 "No," replied Stettinius.
 Argentina is the country in South America most like the United States" the newsman replied.
 Stettinius laughed gOOd-na- turedly. Let me see that" he said. "Pd like to have it." DULLES AIDS AMERICA FIRST
 Last month this column report ed certain facts regarding John Foster Dulles, the man selected by Governor Dewey to deal with Secretary Hull on the all-import- ant problem of postwar peace.
 Inadvertently one of these col- umns may have given the wrong impression.
 It was stated on Sept. 25 (26 on Pacific Coast) that it was through his law firm that Dulles got mixed up indirectly with the America First Committee. The impression was conveyed that Dulles did not know too much about, or syfnpathize with, the fact that member of his firm had drawn up the incorporation papers for the New York branch of America First.
 Further information is now in the possession of this column, which changes the picture.
 The records. of the America First Committe show that in Feb ruary, 1941, Janet A. Dulles, wife of MT. Dulles, contributed $250 the America First Committee. The records also show that in
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Views Of The Press

Council; 3. International Court of Justice; and 4. A Secretariat. There is also, provision for such subsidiary agencies as may be found necessary
 These four organs of the peace or ganiSation appear at first glance to be identical with the Assembly Council, Court and Secretariat that made Up the League of Nations. The only seeming difference is that the Permanent Court of International Justice was an affiliated adjunct of the League of Nations, rather than an integral part of the peace mach inery as is now proposed.
 There is. however, a vast differ- ence in the powers allocated to the four divisions of the peace machin- cry as between the League of Ma tions and the proposed organization The League placed considerable res- possibility and strength in the
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full spots of the Mediterranean, and in softly delicious climate built a great castle and plunged headlong into every form of boundless self. eradication and voluptuous luxury. Someone has written of him that he tried the experiment of what hap piness can be achieved by pressing the worlds most aboslute authority and the worlds guiltiest indulgen- cies into the service of an excessive ly selfish life. /
 He wrote to teh corrupt Roman Senate, "What to write to you, Con- script Fathers, or how ot write, or what not to write, may all the gods and goddesses desroy me worse than 1 feel they are daily destroying me, if know" Pliny said of Tiberius, that in spite of his feverish quest after happiness he was the most gloomy of mankind.
 Happiness is never achieved If we seek after it, and the more gross the indulgence, the less satisfaction does 1t yield. Happiness is the lot of those who keep busy, endure dis. cipltne. do their duty, and main tain their faith.
 All Right Serserved-
 Babsou Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Selected Poem
ALL THAT HE IS

ALL THAT HE IS (Ethel Barnett De Vito in The New York Times) A man can never wholly see The separate things that he may be, Nor guess the growing scope and reach Of all the things he is to each: Brother to one; anothers son; Some ones assurance of work well done; Hero to one; another's friend; Refuge where some ones grief may end: Hearer to one that would be heard Speaker when some one needs word. A man can never wholly plumb The things he is to all or some, Nor ever guess the moon and sun Of all the things he is to one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Current Comment

One thing is now clear-America 1naS lost the war.
 -Japanese broadcast.
 
 We mean to succeed this time in making war difficult, if not impossi- ble, by meeting our problems around the conference table and not on the field of battle. --Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, secretary Church Peace Union.
 The English aren't talking or thinking about reconversion to the degree we are here. They are con- centrating on the job at hand, which is winning the war. = Maury Maverick, chairman Smaller War Plants Corp.
 When we do force our way to Japanese soil. we must be prepared to face larger forces than we en- countered in our landing in Nor- mandy. There will be no guerSllla clements in the interior to help us. And the Japanese army win be bigger than 1t was at the conn mencement of the war, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson.
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May, 1Nl, She additional $200.
 DULLES DENIES ISOLATIONISM

May, 1941, she contributed an additional $200.
 DULLES DENIES
 ISOLATIONISM
 Finally, on Nov. 5, 1941, just one month before Pearl Harbor. the records of America First credit a contribution from John Eos ner in the investment firm of date, Edwin s. Webster, Jr, part ned in the investment firm of Kidder, Peabody, and secretary of the New York Chapter, received a letter from Mrs. Dulles saying that she had told Mrs. Cram, the night before. that she would match her contributions.
 On the same day, Nov. 5, MT. Webster wrote back to Mrs. Dulles thanking her for help ( ing to meet the cost of the rally.
 (The America First Committee had held a big Lindbergh rally at about that time.)
 Last summer, when Queried about the fact that his firm had incorporated the New York Chap ter of America First, Dulles was quoted as saying: "No one who knows me and what have done and stood for consistently over 37 years of active life could reason- ably think that I could be an isolationist or America Firster' in deed or spirit"
 PROFESSOR NEVER FINISHED GRADE SCHOOL
 Democratic Representative Mike Mansfield of Montana will go to China on a confidential mission for the White House immediately after the election. Completing his first Congressional term, Mans field is one of the handful of Americans who speaks Chinese. He was for ten years a professor of Latin American and Far East ern history at Montana State University. even though he failed to complete the eighth grade of grammar school and never went to high school.
 Mansfield sleft school in the eighth grade to join the Navy in 1918, when he was IS years old. He served overseas for ten months, then enlisted in the Army for a year. Completing his Army hitch, he signed up with the Marine Corps. and was stationed in the Far East, where he learned to speak Chinese. Later he be- came a miner in Montana, study ing by himself until he was able to enter the Montana School of Mines in 1928. Now he is both a professor and member of Con- greSS.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

Yet buzzing backstage in the Washington diplomatic corps has been growing, worrying rever- beration over the ultimate danger of war between Argentina and Chile = not this year, perhaps not next year, but before very long.
 Additional attention was focused on the unhappy situation with Argentina'S bid for conference of n-American foreign ministers -on an obvious move to put the U. s. A. on the spot and force recognition of the Fascist Farrell militarist government in Argen- tina.
 The whole tangled diplomatic controversy between Argentina, the United States and other neigh bors is so involved that it takes an expert to understand it. But out of the mess emerges these basic and alarming facts:
 l. Argentina is rushing arm- ment. Hedy Lamarr's former hus- band, Fritz Mandel, the Austrian munities king, about whom Idiots Delight" was written, is busy building airplanes for Ar gentina night and day.
 2. Argentina could bomb San- tiago, capital of Chile, from Men, doza, just across the Andes, in 40 minutes. It would take five hours for Chile to bomb Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina.
 3. The people of Chile today are worried sick over Argentina. The Socialist, Communist anG Conservative parties, usually vig- orously divergent, are now united on this. They fear that the Arr genuine Fascists, looking for means of keeping themselves in power, as Hitler did with the German people, will make a Czechoslovakia out of Chile.
 BRAZILIANS ADMIRE
 ARGENTINA
 Other Latin Americans are di- vided. Paraguay, Bolivia. Peru sympathize with Argentina. Of- ficially Brazil does not. But ac- tually the Brazilian army, plus many of the Brazilian people, are roofing sympathetically for the one country south of the Rio Grande which has successfully thumbed its nose at the Colos- sus of the North and got away with it.
 Nothing succeeds like success,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

National Com nittee, Inc. beats anything ye t issued.
 The pamphlet doesn't list ad- dresses, tele- phone numbers or the names of the head men ] to see if you want something, but it does tabu- late the average number of em- ployes of each agency. its cur-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

October passes out with the colors so riotous week ago somewhat faded. Already the November atmosphere is noted. Nights are cold and days little less so. Already they speak of Indian summer The month is important for two things, Thanksgiving Day and Elec- tion Day, or better perhaps, Election Day and Thanksgiving Day.
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Your Health BY pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining Co per- sonal health and hygiene. not % disease. diagnosis of treatment will De answered by pr. Brady iR q stamped seIf-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. 70 reply can be made to queries not cOnfor1Hl- ing to instructions. Address pr. william Brady. National Ne&s- paper Service, 32O West Madison Street. Chicago. ILL
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises at 7:O1 D. m (war time)
 Sun rises at 7:22 a. m. sets at 5:49 p. m. (war time)
 Tonight the moon will be less large than Monday and Tuesday, and will be in the con- stellat:on of Taurus, while the two preceding nights 1t was in Aries. Tonight 1t forms Q tri- angle with the Hyades and the Pleiades
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

Some of London's top tailors are talk ing about postwar lounge suits which would button at the throat like the pres ent British battle dress, thus eliminating the need of collars, cravats, and prob ably shirts. And what, one wonders, is to become of the Old School Tie?
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empire the world has ever known. He put no re- straint upon his pleasures. He set aside the Roman Con stitution so that this W or q was law from one end of the civil ized world to the other. He betook himself to one oi --A 1~AANNkS
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IMPERIAL HAZARDS

You may recall that said here that pr. Osler believe tPractice of Medicine, Appleton,s, 9th cd, 'G6l that inheritance of poor material for the tubing (arteriesl is the chief cause of arteriosclerosls (hardening of the arteries), but that he abated tot or little to add that "n1ore commonly the arteriosclerosts re- suits from the bad use of good vessels"
 By the bad use Of good vessels Osler meant overeating, alcoholism, syphilis, Overwork of the muscles and the stress and strain of modern life - I'm quoting his own words. The great medical teacher also mentioned hypertension (high blood pressure), renal disease kidney di- sease, nephritis, chronic Bright'S disease) and the inyolution process accompanying old age. an express sion of the natural wear and tear to which the tubes (arteries) are subjected. This involution process is commonly called degeneration. meaning gradual replacement or functioning muscle and elastic tiS- sue in the arterial wall by inelas- tic fibrous tissue-this is what phy- sicians mean by the term cardio- vascular degeneration.
 Dr. OSler was much impressed with the part played by overeating in inducing arterio- -ScleroSis. He said there are many cases in which there is no other factor, and he quit ed advice given by George Cheyne, who reduced from AS pounds to 150 pounds in his early thirties (about 18O4) and lived to the age of 72, writing an essay on health and long life. Cheyne's advice was never more needed than by the present generation, wrote Osler century later. Cheyne said:
 Every wise man, after Fifty, ought to begin to lessen at least the quantity of his Aliment'' (food), "and if he would con- tinue free of great and dangerous Distempers" (ailm ts, com- plaints) "and preserve his Senses and Faculties clear to the last he
 ought every seven years go on
 abateing gradually and sensibly,
 and at last descend out of Life as he ascended into it, even into
 the Child's Diet" (milk)
 Of course we diSregarded the seven-year suggestion = whatever people imagined in Cheyne's day we know now that there is no seven-year cycle in life, no parti- cular change that takes place in seven years, or seven months for that matter. Change takes place every hour, day, week and year as long as one lives. To estimate that any particular organ, tissue or part of the body undergoes complete" change from old to new in seven years. months or days is just specu-l lation.
 CheyneiS advice, which Dr. OsleI thought people needed in his time. is as good today as it was for Os@ lers day. Anyway all three of uss or George, Sir William and Docl Brady, heartily endorse and recom- mend milk-let us say an average' daily consumption of three pints| of milk for every mature adult who. wants to keep his or her arteries nice and soft and elastic as long as possible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
UNITED NATIONS:
(Hartford Courant)

The component parts of the Ulai- ted Nations peace organization, as listed on Chapter Four of the Dunl- barton Oaks report, are these: |. A General Assembly; 2. Security
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
HAPPINESS SPURNS THE
 SEEKER

The Roman emperor, Tiberius, came about as near ruling the whole civilized world as any man who ever lived. He was, in his day, the 'ab- solute, deifed ruler of the richest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

Harry S. Truman says: q say to you that the welfare of the farmer and the working man go hand in hand. Neither can be prosperous unless the other is also prosperous"