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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Nothing To Yawn About

Annual fire losses are climbing steadily toward the -billion-dollar mark. Losses in the twelve months ended with September 30, are estimated at SAY, ,848,- 900. This is Step-up of some $63, ,00O,- 900 over the comparative period in 1943.
 These figures in themselves mean little. But if 500 million dollars worth of prop erty = homes, factories, and an endless array of personal effects, with 10000 persons thrown on the pile for good meas ure, were lined up enmaSse and turnedin- to one huge bonfire, while the people of the United States looked on, gasp of horror would be uttered that could be heard in the next hemisphere. As it is, we look at the figures and yawn!
 I Of course, the knowledge that thous- ands of people are burned or smothered to death by fire each year, sends a slight Shudder through a few of us However, the majority of people have yet to learn the meaning of caution where fire IS concerned. Though we may think we are cautious, there is hardly home Tn the country that does not contain ob- lNiOuS, easily eliminated fire hazards. Re fuse in the cellar and attic, faculty or improvised wiring, improperly installed heating devices, carelessly stored inflam- mable cleaning fluids, gas and oily rags lB your home free of all these menaces? | lk should be before you can justifiably feel you are doing your part to prevent fire.
 Fire prevention authorities work to pound home one great truth about fire. Prevention starts with the individual me effectiveness of the most elaborate, scientific extinguishing equipment in existence, is slight compared with the potential fire prevention accomplish mentS attainable if the individual would only awake to his responsibility. Think! Will you contribute to the nations shame by your carelesSness?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
METZ AND THIONvILLE
(New York rald-Tribune)


 It is still difficult to. see more than a local operation in the Sd Armys eneircling attacks around Metz or to look for any dramatic results even if that fortress area should be successfully pinched off. Metz, like Aachen, is more prob- ably an outpost of Germany,S re- constituted main line of resistance rather than one of its keys. But as Patton's men maintain, and even slowly increase, theri momentum against snow, rain and mud, fre- quently deprived by the weather of their air support but still forginug ahead through that ancient throat of war between France and Ger many, they are giving good evil dence of the rising power of the Allied arms.
 They are fighting on battlefields which have known almost the whole military history of Europe. Metz and Thionvilel and Trier, Nancy and Verdun are the embattled guardians of the gap between the VosgeS and the Ardennes through which the tides of war have ebbed and blowed for centuries. Metz was once plundered by Attila's Huns, Surging westward; the French have passed that way into central Europe. The Germans took it in the War of 1870
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
AS A MATTER OF FACT

A new system of naming schools in New York City has been adopted. The names of persons who have been dead five years will be given to schools. Aca- denic high schools are to be named for United States presidents and statesmen. Other schools, vocational and the like will be named after leaders in industry, and junior high schools after literary personages, and elementary schools af- ter those who have done something for their city. There you have it. In the might be some repetition although there who have not yet been so (posthumously) honored.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Prepared

Little does the average citizen realize what the oil industry of the United States has done to defeat the Axis threat to conquer the world. It is not too much to say that the success of the whole war plan of the United Nations depended on our oil industry. Without it, the naval and mechanized warfare that cracked the Axis, could never have been waged.
 One has but to look through a sum- mary of the war activities of the Stand ard Oil Company Gndiana), as recently released in pamphlet form, to draw the foregoing conclusions. This company is but one of the many in our country de- voted to the purpose of fueling and lubri- eating our war machine. The size of the plants that have been developed, is over whelming. New oils and greaseS were re- quired for War-Some had to work at 90 degrees below zero; others had to com- bine corroSion preventives with lubrica- ting properties; high octane gasoline had to be produced in undreamed of quanti- ties; the necessary products for syn thetic rubber had to be turned out almost overnight; and so on, through list of products and construction activities stag gering in its magnitude.
 And how was the oil industry able to produce the new products required by new type of war? Simply because it had not been waiting until trouble caNe- it had been experimenting for many years it had been interested in the development of laboratory methods for measuring the anti-knock qualities of both motor fuel and aviation gasolines. Without this advance preparation, we would not have been in position to supply the high test gasoline required by the planes that this country has produced. When the war has been won, no more startling chapter will be recorded in it's history than that devoted to the accomplishments of the United States oil industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

things out of books and fall so into the habit of looking at all sides of a question that they lose the power to hold strong religious conviction. Modern parents are frequently driven to despair because the chill dren they trained so carefullyy in things religious return from college questioning everything they have been taught from childhood to re- were.
 Certainly stands at the center of all sound religious experience. Jesus did not hesitate to say on one occa- sion. we. know what we worship" (John 4:22). Not. we think we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
NOVEMBER GARDEN
(New York Times)

(NeW YOrk I1meS)
 The garden is a chilly spot in these days of the sere and yellow Some mornings it is white with frost, and there have been snow flurries in it already. The peony clumps have turned brown and curled up. The tiger lilies have only gaunt black stalks left to tell where they are. The azaleas have donned their winter cloaks of crimson and pruple.
 But the garden is far from through; it has not yet called it a year. The chrysanthemums, their feet warm in drifts of fallen leaves, have waited till now to show off in gold, scarlet. pink and other glad colorS no end. And last week the Talisman rose and the rose called Autumn, snug in the shelter of the garden hedge, put out five per- feet flowers.
 That is the garden in November still eager, like dear old souls we all know, and faithful to the end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

which had been carefully coked up for public attack.
 At this point, Bob Hannegar persuaded Joe to drop in at the White House.
 During that visit, Roosevelt didn't say a word about politics. He didn't ask Kennedy to support him. He didn't ask him not to deliver his planned radio attack.
 What the President did was to talk about JOe'S son who was killed in the war, about old times, when the two men were working together, and about the plans to use U. s. merchant ships after the war. He asked Joe if he would make 8 study of Henry Kaiser's plan for streamlined steamship Organiza-
 ton to take American goods all over the world in American bottoms.
 Joe didn't say much when he left the White HouSe-but he can- celled his radio time. Later, he told Bob Hannegan that he did not vote for Dewey.
 NAVY DEPT. RESHUFFLE
 Secretary of the Navy Torres tai finally has devised plan to elevate his old Wall Street friend, Struve Hensel, to the job of As- sistant Secretary of the Navy. He has been wanting to do it for a long time, but there were too many Wall Streeters running the Navy to add any more.
 Here is the new solution. You can write it down as definite that able John Sullivan, now As- Sistant Secretary of the Treasury, will become UnderSecretary of the Navy around Jan. 1. A New Hampshire Democrat and no banker, Sullivan will replace Republican Ralph Bard, who came out publicly for Dewey. With banker Bard out of the pie ture as Undersecretary of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Views Of The Press

and the new German empire made Metz and Thionville the bulwarks of it's security" facing Verdun and Nancy. Metz and Thionville were ceded after 1918; re appropriated in 194O. Now American troops are al- ready on the edges of Thionville and closing around the Metz forts. If the places are taken it may not immediately unlock the gates. but it will be a bitter blow to the failing defenders of "Festung Germania. .' In it they will hear only too clear ly the vast marchc of history and of fate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

Teachers College at Columbia Uni versity is one of the best known schools of the kind. Today marks it's fiftieth year. It started with eighteen students, and in 1941 had an enrolment of 6,690. This separate department for training teach CTS was pattern for many other col legeS and universities. At the time of its origination it was a startling move in education. The aims of the founders had far-reaching results in the educa- tional field.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

More beef in 1945 is something to look forward to. High pointage and the price may have deterred many from the joy of three-rib roast or a Sirloin steak but their purchase has never been inn possible. In fact the great army of eat CTS have had plenty to eat and have suffered no real food deprivations during the war years. All that is necessary to fill the pantry are time, money and patience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Selected Poem
THEY WILL COME BACK Cullen Jones In The New York Times)

Cullen Jones In The New York T1mes) They will come back with all their sin and laugh
 ter, Their memories and wounds and vacant places. They will not speak. Mo- but forever after story will be written on their faces Eyes will be strained from looking backward where The sunken earth remolds the broken tree Slow-dying in new growth. They cannot share Their silence; we can neither hear nor see. Nor shall We say that they are wiser men, Or better, or the sun shines brighter now; Only we shall know they remember when We see them looking backward from their blow. Nor taps nor ribboned silk nor drumming sound, But looking back and studying the ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OF
 ENLARGED TONSILS

In the majority of cases there is no evidence of infection and no need of treatment for enlarged tonsils in children from three to fifteen years of age. It is physio- logical or normal for children or this age to have large tonsils.
 Medical or surgical treatment is required If the tonsils and Tor the pharyngea tonsil (adenoids) be. come SO very large that the ch1ld'S breathing is Inanifestly obstructed. For instance, if the child cannot breathe through the nose with the mouth closed; or if the child chok- es and shorts and losses about at night or assumes the knee-chesc posture in order to maintain free breathing while asleep.
 Although the tonsils and ade- holds, composed of the same type of tissue as that in the spleen, the lymph nodes or glands" through out the body, the red bone marrow etc., probably serve useful pur- pose. contributing to maintenance of immunity against the cri (and please understand this term (kree) means any one of the Common Respiratory Infections, from the milest acute coryza or rhinitis to infantile paralysis or measles = there is a point where this pro- tective function of the tonsl tissue fails and surgery, conservative sur Oer'v becomes necessary,
 By conservative surgery I mean one of three alternatives to stand ard surgical tonsillectomy or "com- plete" removal of the tonsils. These are CD series of X-ray treat- ments, particularly effective where the child has middle ear trouble or some deafness; CD diathermy (electro- -coagulation), for patients enough to cooperate with the phy- sician giving the treatments - usually children under eight years of age will not cooperate; and (O tonsillotomy.
 Tonsillotcmy means merely slic- ing of, clipping, removing por- tion of the tonsil, by means of the tonsillotome. This is a jiffy operation, and even without an anesthetic 1t hurts no more than extraction of tooth-so say many older children and adults who have submitted to tonsillotomy. In my opinion this is as far as we should go with surgery for enlarged ton- sils and /or adenoids = believe tonsillectomy (so-called complete" removal of the tonsil is justified only in rare instances of mali gnancy.
 The first two alternatives are bloddleSS. The first (X-ray is pain- less. The electro-coagulation meth cd is not more painful than is, say, dental treatment of a cavity. Of course tonSillotomy is momen- tarily painful, and some bleeding occurs, although rarely enough to cause alarm.
 One or another method of treat ment should be used when the child with enlarged tonsils Q) has re- peated attacks of sore throat or tonsillitis or more frequent at- tacks of cri than other young per- sons in the household; (2) when the child with enlarged tonsils and or adenoidS shows signs of defective hearing or symptoms of middle ear trouble; (3) when there is mani fest obstruction of breathing as above described.
 That leaves 8 majority of chil- dren with enlarged tonsils and /or adenoids entitled to be let alone, so far as medical or surgical treat ment may be concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Al Thonpht for Todav

Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievOusly, then will stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it.-Ezekiel 14:13.
 Thou mockeSt? Tremble! The avengers light ming bolts do not forever dormant ne.-Wie- land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
MENU ITEM: TOKYO
Christian Science Monitor)

WILT H1SUIdI1 DO1OA4OC 3NAOAA1'
 The Japanese people have a titbit offerd them in the form of a new synthetic food, according to the German Transocean News Agency. It is evolved from mold from rotting wood planted in sawdust wit pinch of starch, steamed until fermented, and dried in the sun. One week or this diet, adds the breezy Agency dispatch, leads to 8 point where those who have tried it mo longer complain of hunger"
 After a week of eating this lum- berman's delight who could com- plain of anything?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

oAAAP WAAA " OR~AA to all peace-lov- ing states" The emphasis is on the should"
 w h a t t h i S means is that the Dumbarton Oaks draft is going to be entirely rewrit- ten in the form of 8 legal instru- ment when all the United N a ti o n S meet in full dress c 0 n f e r e nee to adopt the re a l Unite d Nations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

get the English W ord "agnostic. :" Paul had discov- cred in his con-
 tact W it h the Athenians t h a t their besetting sin W a s agnosticism This has always been the tempta- tion of the philo- sophical . minded. People sometimes learn S0 m n v
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
STRENGTH
 FOR THE DAY
CERTAINTY IN RELIGION
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

CERTAINTY IN RELIGION
 St. Paul, standing on the Aero polls at Athens, told his Greek lis- teners that he had observed one of their altars, inscribed, ITO an Un- known God" What therefore ye worship in ignorance" said the Apostle, "this I set forth unto you"
 The word unknown" here used is the Greek word from which we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Your Health
 By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sOnal health and hygiene, not % disease. diagnosis of treatments will be answered by pr. Brady H . stamped self-add ddressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In ink. 70 reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Drs William Brady, National News paper Service, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, ILL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

cancel scheduled New York appear ances. Before doing so she had car- ried out five exacting performances with fever of 100 degrees or more. Once before, here in Boston, 8 svere ankle injury prevented her from obeying the injunction, '"The show must go on.
 In her 66th year she remains among teh greatest of contemporary actresses-if not the greatest. But beyond that she has proved herself one of the most remarkable women of hr time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
REMARKALBE WOMAN

(Boston Post)
 For the first time since she made her debut with her Uncle John Drew's company in 1896, Ethel Bsr- rymore last week was obliged to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
No Diagnosis

I am aware that there is a Yer on, I'm willing to bend the COG of medical ethics to the breaking point to help a correspondent when I can conscientiously do so. Yet every mail brings a lot of letters from people who write pages and pages of history and ask me to waive the rules and let deserving correspondents wait while I confine my attention to their cases. No. no. children. We believe the ideal way is to try to do the greatest good for the greatest number. That makes ten-page letters out of order.
 OF Doc Brady)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

know" but We know" It is a griev- ouS mistake to assume that sound reasoning and agnosticism go to- gether. The worlds greatest religious leaders have been meen of gigantic intellect; and today as always, one can be true to the faith of his wathers and keep open-minded to every modern disclosure of truth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Principles Of Peace Charter
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

The first thing to understand clearly in any discussion of the pro-
 posals for United Nations charter drafted at Dumbarton Oaks is that this is not final document. The language of the text, released after American British Russian Chinese conferences of experts, / reads throughout, "there should be estab- nshed <. the purpose of the or- ganization should be member
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Leg Cramps

Leg Cramps
 I am 32 years old and sometimes I am awakened in the night with such severe cramps in legs and feet that could scream.
 (Mrs. A. E.) Answer-The most frequent cause of such cramps. I believe, is tetany. Calcium and vitamin D supplement for the diet brings relief promptly or prevents further trouble in most instances. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamph- let Adult Tetany and Growing Pains"-you must ask for it your self-a clipping will not do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15
Washington Merry-G -Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

White House Aides DR Plans Reo Cabinet Ceon0ut This Time Possible New Members Include Honneeon
 Joe Kennedy Called of Radio Attack FDR After Folk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

(Copyright 1914, John F. bile Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-15

Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
CaIexican Named
SOP. EIector

SACRAMENTO, July 81, up
The Republican state convention
Thursday night selected 25 electors
to cast the states electoral vote for
the Dewey-Bricker ticket in event
of Republican victory in Califor-
mia next November They are:
Gov. Earl Warren: Mary Pickford
Rogers. Beverly Hills; State Sen
ator Edward H Tickle. Carmel:
William F. Reichel. Oakland: Ed
ward Arnold, Los Angeles; Walt
Disney, Los Angeles: jeanette P.
Androus, Yuba City; Milton P.
Sapirc. San Francisco: P NJ San
ford. Richmond; James H. Quinn,
Oakland; Gerald r. Johnson. Sac
ramento; Edward B. Baron. San
Francisco: George Hallock. Grass
Valley: Mrs. Randolph Madison.
San Mateo; Charles G. Connors.
Fresno: S. F B. Morse. Del Monte;
William NickerScn Jr.. Los Angeles
Raymond L. Haight. Los Angeles;
Mrs. Sue Weiss, Los Angeles: Leo
Anderson. San Marine; John S.
Bascome. Los Angeles; Keith Spal-
ding. Pasadena: Gwendolyn Smith,
Fontana; Fern L. Young, Calexico,
and Dr. James r. Scott, Chula
Vista.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21

Continued from Page One)
Thursday. 1t burned and bruised
Hitler, killed one of his colleagues,
ana wounded Il other gold braided
high officers IN touching off the
gravest internal crisis the na2is
have known.
DNB said Beck. chief of the gen.
eral staff until Nov. /. 1888, for
Years had played a part in hostile
announcements of an imminent
general putsch in Germany"
SECRECY MAINTAINED
A tightly controlled curtain of
secrecy, cropped over the situation
in Germany by the nazis. clouded
the extent of the repriS, campaign
against the clements suspected of
fomenting the first known wartime
rebellion against Hitler.
However, the nazis reported that
all civilians and members of the
armed forces had been ordered to
arrest or shoot all suspects. DNB
said military elements had executed
some" leaders of the plot. and
others hao committed suicide.
Helmuth Sundermann, deputy
reich press chief. said there was
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
VETERAN FIGHTERS

The marines who smashed ashore
Thursday mOrning-many OF them
veterans of other Pacific amphib-
ious operations-will be aveneing
that garrison of some 300 brothers
in arms who were forced to sur
render more than two and one
half years ago.
Admiral Connolly. from Waukegan,
Illinois. participated in amphiblous
operations in the Mediterranean
and commanded U. S. landings at
Roi and Namur in the Marshalls
receiving the Distinguished Service
Medal.
General Geiger, from Pensacola
Florida. one of the marine corps
leading aviatorS, took over COM
mand of the third amphibious
corps from Lieutenant General A
A. Vanderbilt last year, and es-
tablizhed an enviable record for
efficiency in commanding the
highly successful invasion OF Bou-
granville last November
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-21
BALTIMORE, Md, June 81. CUP)

DIAL lMofbEI, rNd', Ouiit "a VA
Army doctors faced with POSSIBLE
ty of meningococcal meningitis cpl
denies now have a new, simple
completely effective method OF COM
batting the disease-mass admins
traton of sulfadiazine tablets-aS a
result of experiments conducted by
all army medical officer and a
Johns Hopkins university epidemi-
ologist.
DR.. John j. Phair, associate pro-
fessor of epidemiology at Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health
here, is the civilian half of the
two-man army commission that has
spent three years seeking means to
combat meningitis. His army coun-
terpart is Maj. E. B. Schoenbach,
New York City.
They evolved the sultadiazine
tablet technique for meningitis
through experiments with a group
of 100 soldiers at Fort Meade, Md,
working against a disease that cur
ing World War | caused between 80
and 40 per cent fatalities in some
5000 cases.