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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
A Thought for Today
Beefs From the Cattle Men

It may be that American cattle growers have been too busy breeding and feeding 82,0O0,000 head of stock to stop and do any talking. At any rate, they have just now got around to answering the critics who have accused them of prime reSponsi- bility in the protracted shortage of prime roaSts of beef. Their answer is made through the Livestock Producers Asso- citation, cooperative group of 350,000 members. And it tells of their efforts to ensure equitable distribution of meat at a fair price; their objections to the OPA price setup; their explanation of the preesnt beef shortage; and their gloomy predictions of real civilian meat famine ahead.
 Two years ago the producers say they urged OPA to protect the consumer by setting retail price ceilings, enforcing and policing them, and letting the industry = clear back to the grower - adjust the price structure to conform. Instead, OPA set wholesale ceilings in the spring of 1922 which, as any meat buyer knows, did nothing wonderful for either price or supply. Not until last May were dollar -and-cent retail ceilings imposed.
 Then the producers proposed War Meat Board, at which would sit repre- Sentatives of the armed forces (buying also for Lend-LeaSe), the OPA and the in- duStry. The services and Lend-Lease would submit their needs and get first priority. Civilian purchase of remain Ing supplies would be adjusted through rationing. Competitive price differen- tials would insure an adequate flow for civilian consumer needs. A War Meat Board does exist, but not the one proposed by the producers and endorsed by Chester Davis and PrentisS Brown, then the heads of War Food Administration and OPA, and Major General E. G. Gregory, the quartermaster general. The original plan was nullified by OPA's inSistence that it control every phase of meat pro- duction. OPA admits that it is short on money, manpower and authority, and that it is kept busy trying to police" the country's 5000 packing houses. It must depend on volunteer help to check up on the 3OO,0O0 retail outlets So how, ask the producers, can OPA police 6,O00,00O farmers?
 Growers will send an estimated 30 per cent fewer cattle to the feeders this year, livestock men say, and this 70 per cent will be put through the feed lots hur- riedly, in order to salvage little profit That means hundreds of pounds less meat, and more hundreds less of good meat, from each animal. The rest of the stock will be grass fed. And that means they will grow up to be Stringy steers, and won't reach market for four or five years. The producers see nothing to do about it immediately. But they do foresee beef less April-thrOugh-Oc October
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BILL-OF-RIGHTs WEEK
(New York Tines)

NN6W xOIk 4AAlSOI
 This week that falls between the birthdays of Lincoln and Washing ton is observed in the public schools
 of New York state as Bill-of- Rights
 week. In the observance the
 grown-up citizen may very well join We all need reminding of the. heri-
 tage of freedom which the first ten
 Amendments to the Constitution guarantee to us. It is for this heri- tage that our sons are giving their lives on the battlefields. It is for this that we expend our billions of treasure. We need to take thought of this priceless thing which tyran- ny would destroy.
 Our forefathers, jealous of their hard-won freedom, insisted upon the inclusion of the ten articles Of the Bill of Rights in the basic law that made a nation of the thirteen Col- onieS. They demanded freedom of worship, speech, press and assem- bly,, freedom from unreasonable acts of their chosen rulers and assurance of the dignity of man and the tn- reliability of the person. Thanks to them, the greatest possible measure of liberty under law has been ours for century and a half.
 i With the aid of that liberty we have established way of life that
 through the changes of time and
 circumstance, has served the great
 est good of the greatest number
 We have had to learn some lessons
 along the way. We have discovered
 that individual liberty must be z
 disciplined, self-reStrained liberty
 lest there should be encroahmenl | upon the liberty of others: that lib
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out of 21 Texans, the entire Oklahoma Democratic delega- tion, except Rep. Disney, all the Maryland Democrats except one absentee, 2 out of 9 of the Vir- ginia delegation, out of 2 Ken lucky Democrats Representa- tive Andrew May dissenting), and all but one of North Carolina's 12-man delegation, (Representa- tive Bayard Clark dissenting). COP LEADER BELLIES
 OWN WORDS
 While these Southern Demo- crats were bolting, peppery little Joe Martin, House Republican leader, was having troubles Of his own. It was Martin who sparked the attack on the Wor- ley bill in the secret COP cau- GUS which preceded the House adoption of a Parliamentary rule barring a roll-call vote on the bill - rule which later was reversed under pressure from the press, the public and the White House.
 At thls caucus, the COP leader urged his cohorts to pre- sent a solid front against President Ro0sevelt's demand that members of Congress stand up and be counted" He advised Republicans to give their overwhelming support to the "rule'' which would en- able them to oppose the WOr- ley bill without the folks back home knowing how they voted. we must remain united on this issue," Martin declared.
 The COP leaders fighting re- marks on this occasion, however. contrast strangely with a state ment he made on the soldiers vote when interviewed by re- porters at the beginning of this session last January 5tf. At that time, Martin came out forcefully for Federal legislation to facili- tate absentee voting by service men.
 "The States will do all they can, but there is need for some assistance frem the Federal Government" the COP leader said.
 Martin outlined six major items of must" legi station for the current session. Number one on his list vase the verything he and his later colleagues ganged up to defeat-a workable soldiers vote bill
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Views Of The Press

erty imposes duties and responsi- bilitieS upon each of us, as well as upon our fellow-citizens. We have learned, too, that indifference on our part to this boon of freedom is as dangerous as any stealthy theology that seeks to undermine the demo- cratic experiment.
 One lesson that we have to ponder in these disturbed and critical times is that, while all of us in this land are free under the law to seek hap piness and advancement, neverthe- less the right of all to that freedom must continually be reasserted. This week is a good time to reflect that where there is no certainty of the rights of freedom for every man within our borders, whatever his creed, color or condition, there is no certainty of them for any one of us. We have seen freedom break
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Break for the Public

The most famous and most stubborn holdout in radio history has come to an end with the announcement that the matchless violinist, Fritz Kreisler, Will make five broacasts next summer.
 That announcement would be a break for the public at any time, but it is espe- cially welcome at this time of difficult travel and curtailed concert tours. It also renews ones faith that, in spite ot about 90 per cent of the entertainment offered, radio is still a great invention
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AS A MATTER OF FACT

At the present time there is consider able speculation that "The Song ot Bernadette" will receive the motion pie ture academy award. It has been pro- nounced, pretty generally, by the Secu- lar and Catholic press, as an impressive picture adaptation of the Franz Wertel novel. Any adverse criticism seemed to stress the fact that the vision scenes or the Blessed Virgin were too highly colored and pronounced. It might be that it was thought advisable to do this to impress a general public.
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After seeing few such films it is real ized why we are constantly urged to save all metal scrap, and why we are constantly flattening out tin cans. when these cans are opened and the contents enjoyed most of us are not thinking or vast munitions plants. We are thinking of the contents of the can, good DoWl of soup, and the few minutes trouble m the flattening out process after emptylng same.
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scattered far and wide by the lov- ing hand of God. The countryside of our lives sparkles with them. Yet to Aee half-blind eyes of ours the laIfdscape often looks like an ash heap. Someone looks down on us from his lofty station. The man up the street has more money than we have. The slight pains of yester- day torture us today and make us feel that we're less than ninety days from the graveyard. The boss is a tyrant. The cost of living is out of all reason. If we escape disease and pestilence. the govern ment will get us with bigger and better tax levies. Life is scarcely worth living.
 Not worth living? The greatest gift man can have, and not worth having? Fiddle-sticks. Snap out of
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House and Senate leaders that members who join the armed forces will be restored to their fir eor'oritv rank after the war.
 Many members vigorously dis az. ee with Attorney General Biddle's interpretation of the Constitution, contending that the broad language Of the Constitu- tion prohibits them from hold ing another civil office with the Government while serving in Con- gress, but not a military as- Signment.
 SOLDIERS SPLIT SOUTH
 It was lost in all the horse- trading and haranguing, but it took sheer courage for those 18 Republican Congressmen to re- sist the strongest kind of pres sure from party leaders and vote right down the line for the Wor- ley bill for a Federal ballot for soldiers.
 Among the Republicans who put ahead of their party the unequivocal right of the soldiers to vote, were Representatives Bender of Ohio, La Toilette of Indiana, Welch and Anderson of California, Burdick of North Da- kota, Garfield, Powers and Wol- verton of New Jersey, and Mrlk of New York.
 In addition, sizable quota
 of young Southern statesmen proved raucous Rep. John Ram kin of Mississippi does not speak entirely for the South. These young SOutherners bear watch ing. They believed in bringing the conflict between Southern hards and liberals squarely into the open.
 They included: Representatives Morley of Texas (who led the Monroney
 fight for his bilD, Johnson and Monroney of Oklahoma, Spark man of Alabama. Cooley and Bonner of North Carolina, Hen- dricks of Florida, Lyndon John son and Kilday of Texas, and Remspeck of Georgia. the House Democratic ''whip''.
 House passage of the East land-Rankin ''States' rights bill was hailed as a victory for Republican Southern Democrat coalition. Actually, many south- ern Congressional delegations opposed Rankin's bill almost e1l maSse.
 The entire Florida delegation supported the Morley Federal ballot bill, as did all but one of Tennessee's 10 House members (Representive Tom Murray, 16
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Commander Gene Tunney back from a South and Southwest Pacific area tour said this week in New York that we can not be too confident at this time about the strength of our fighting forces. Thls fact has been brought home to us in the showing in this city of the film which IS being shown before various clty groups. Indications are, from these pictures, that we need to produce ana produce, men and material.
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I have very little doubt but that after we cut out the military can- cer Gin Japan) we will find healthy tissue.
 Joseph c. Ghey, former ambas-
 sador to Tokyo.
 Education and science properly used enrich the life of the normal man. But unless we have moral de- velopment accompanying 1t, the destruction of civilization will re- suit.
 Ohio Supreme Court Chief Jus
 tice Carl V. Weygandt.
 The Japanese tried to break up the Marshallese Systme of commun- al property under which everything belongs to the chief. Naturally this didn't make any hit with the is- lands nobility. but the commonerS were all for it.
 Marine Lieut.. Col Donald T. Win.
 der, civil affairs officer.
 When the time came for us to desert, we all decided to desert to- gether. We hope you will send us all into the same prison camp. Four Czechs from German army
 in Italy.
 down in other lands heca,,sa that:
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Selected Poem
WINTER SOLSTICE

(Earl Daniels in The Christian Science Monltor) What is this not to be resisted impulse, Driving mind to think on apples In Cellars hold till from its nail a lantern, Lifted, lighted, swings down to the bin? Call it remembering in cold, winter Afternoon turned sudden spring until Leaden, ominouS cay, grown warm and sunny, Blossomed overhead crocus and daffodi. For apples ruddy with the toll of summer, Gathered at summers end, are something more Than apples. Their unwrnkled skin, in winter, Is like the quiet opening of door
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@SA4ASNAAS 'eWhat do you want me to do violate the Constitution" he bluntly asked his callers, who were Representatives Lyle Boren of Oklahoma, Joe Hendricks of Flor ida, and John Fogarty of Rhode Island.
 Roosevelt contended that the Constitution barred members of Congress from holding "any office under the United States" during their legislative terms. Attorney General Riddle has interpreted this to mean that Congressmen cannot legally join the armed forces unless they first resign from Congress. Tho President added that there was even legal ques- tion about the right of Congress- men to hold non-paying Reserve commissions.
 "But MT. President" spoke up young Representative Hendricks, ''that is one mans interpreta- tiOn."
 Members of Congress were giv- en leaves of absence to fight for their country in the last war. They weren't forced to resign, and all the other Allied countries have been following the same policy in this war.
 Rep. Boren pointed out that 85 members of the British House of Commons and 156 members of the House of Lords were granted leaves of absence to join up. Eleven of the former had been killed in action, he said. Thir- teen members of the Canadian Parliament are in uniform, and the New Zealand and Australian governments likewise have no re- strictions against legislators going to war, the Oklahoman added.
 Roosevelt replied that, in his opinion, Congress had violated the constitution in giving eleven mem- bers of the House and Senate leaves of absence to serve in the last war.
 "Oh, well, you weren't Com mander-i in Chief then" shot back Hendricks jol1ingiy.
 Roosevelt, frequently accused of enlarging on the Constitution, smiled at this rib but retorted that there was nothing to prevent con- gressmen itching to serve in the Army from reSigning their legiS- lative jobs.
 LOSS OF SENIORITY
 His four callers protested that this would mean losing their seniority rank on committees They would have to start in "at the bottom" if reelected after the war they said, and the seniority they had accumulated would be wasted. They also argued that, If congressman resigned to join the Army and then was released for physical reasons six weeks la ter, he would have lost all oppor- tunity to serve either militarily or legislatively.
 That's unfair to members like myself who sincerely want to join the service" commented Rep. Hendricks. We should be given some protection"
 Roosevelt nodded sympatheti- but didn't alter his position.
 'T can understand how you feel" he said, because I had a similar experience in the last war, while | was Assistant Sec retary of the Navy. I wanted to join the Navy and, in fact, was all set for combat assign ment as a lieutenant t-cOmman- der. But when I called on President to ask his permission, he said. Absolutely mo- that I was needed where I was. So I had to give up the idea"
 NOTE: CongreSSmen with yen for military service do not intend to take the Presidents latest dic- tum lying down. They are plan ming to sponsor resolution auth orizing leaves of absence" during wartime. That failing, they may seek a verbal agreement with
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Son starts school next year. We would like to have him inoculated for contagious diseases. What par- ticular inoculationS would you ad~ wise ? (C. S.) Answer-Only vaccination against smallpox and irnmunization against diphtheria. Both of these protec- tions should be given children at an earlier age, vaccination when the child Is perhaps three or four months old and imInunization against diphtheria df the infant re- acts to Schick test before the sec ond year at latest. Question of other inmunizatiors in special cases is best left to the judgment of the physician.
 Wetting the Hair
 Is the practice of wetting the hair once or twice every day to comb 1t cause or a contributing cause of premature badness? (E. M) AT,swer-I believe it is. Better to use a suitable oil sparingly ap- piled. Send stamped envelope bear ing your address, for pamphlet Care Of the Hair and Control of Dandruff." It deals also with Su- perfluous Hair and prevention of premature graying of the hair. Pulp
 crave the white pulp in orange peel. Is 1t harmful to eat this when one eats orange? (Mrs. A. c. O. Answer = No, the cellulose or woody fibre of the pulp may aid and improve digestion.
 (COuVripht 1QAA Tohn n T1;JIo fso
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Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 7:46 a. m, sets at 6:H p. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 About cutting your grey birch, which was mentioned yesterday the Old Farmers AL manac goes on to say that grey birch when burned green on a hot foundation will keep your fire going all night .(More about grey birch tomorrow)
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such delusion. Life is what we make 1t; better still. it is what we allow God to make it for us. Look out on the beautiful world. After God had created 1t, He called it good. Can you and I call 1t any, thing less? Look into mems hearts. The glow you see there is the radi- ance of the Most High.
 This is a good world - and that in spite of the devil. We have all Gods gifts, if we only have eyes to see them.
 (An Rights Reserved - BahSon Newspaper Syndicate)
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ana the SCaDlllZa- tion Act of 1942 come up for re- newal in Congress. Both acts will ex- pire June 30, and s p o t checks am ong congress sional and admin istrattve sources indicate t h e r e isn't 8 c h a n c e their renewal will slide throug h without 8 fight and without att tem'W to amend hoth ontc tO c11cIN
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
OPEN YOUR EYES

OPEN YOUR EYES
 A woman, who lives on a farm with none of the conveniences of life to relieve the drudgery, said sometime ago that when she prays at night she can think of no good thing to ask God to give her - she has everything. Her children are well, the crops are in the barn, the neiqhbors are kind beyond words.
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Your Health By pr. William Brady


 disease. diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady 6
 stamped self-addresseA envelope ts enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Dr. william Brady. National News- paper Service, S2O West Madison Street. Chicago. III.
 SACRED BARK OF CALIFORNIA Cascara in Spanish means bark. Sagrada means sacred. Cascara Sagrada is the official name for the laxative medicine obtained from the bark of small tree growing in California, Oregon, Washington Idaho and British Columbia. As a laxative or physic cascara h-s no virtue, so far as I can learns over other popular laxatives or physics. As an aid in the treatment of chronic constipation. which, re- member, is merely bad habit in the great majority of cases, sacred haxk, in my opinion, has consider abe value. This use of cascara sa&uNda (formerly called RhamnuS Pus dAana) implies taking it regu- larly three times or never less than twice 8 day but always in "tonic" doses insufficient to produce lax. ative effect.
 When thus taken regularly in ! sub-laxative doses cascara "acts very favorably in the treatment of chronic constipation (Wood'S U. S. Dispensatory). "It often appears to restore tone to the relaxed bowel and tA this way produce a perma- nent beneficial effect" That was written before we learned what ef- feet vitamins have on the function of the bowel, but it is still good sound medicine. "McGuigan c. A. M. A., '21, 513) says that large doses produce an inflammatory | condition of the bowel and that the drug should, therefore, never be used to produce active purgation." |"
 In his authoritative textbook Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Saunders, '38) Bas- tedo says:
 In many patients the author
 has seen Every small doses of
 cascara three times a day) pro-
 duce better results than a single
 large dose on retiring; and with
 these small doses so administered
 the author has seen satisfactory
 continuance of the effects though
 the dose of cascara is progressive
 ly reduced until finally it is dis
 continued altogether.
 ''Thus was cure obtained" observes Dr.. Bastedo. "A patient is not cured if he has to continue the medicine.
 Now I believe and suggest that the small tonic" doses of caScara taken regularly three times a day or at least twice day not only ap- pear to restore but do restore tone to the relaxed bowel, and tone is the essential for normal function, be it the alimentary muscle, the heart muscle or the muscles of your arm.
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Only Bob who wears the Navy uniform a n d Dick who is in the South Paci- hc give her con- cern. She prays God to watch over them and to continue her blessings.
 They lie round about us, these precious gifts,
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Washington Merry-Go-Ro
BY DREW PEARSON

Congessmen Go Wo FDR Sympathetic but Adomont Fight Tho They Must Resign and Thus Lose Seniority Solid South Split Rebel Democrats Backing Federo Soldier boot Republicans Who Joined Them Despite Mortn
  him that the members 4he
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
|OPA SAated Fer
 Tough Bout
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat) Washington COrreznOndent

COrEeSpUMUeMG
 The professors have all been kick ed out, the lawyers have all been put in their places and businessmen administrators are riding high at the Office of Price Administration these days, so it will be interesting to see what devils are singled out for at- tack when the Price Control Act
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down in other lands because that truth was forgotten.
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Current Comment

Copyright, 1s44, John F. Dille Col
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-25
MORE FERTILIZER

cards mean bigger profits for them.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-25

Cuisines Service.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-25
BETTER CHICKENS

If you don't have to cress that
chicken when you get home or wait
for the butcher to draw it at the
counter, 1t is because of expansion
IN the frozen food industry and
Improvement in quick freezing pro-
ceSseS, according to the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture.
George l.. WinrigEt, assistant
farm adviser gives the following
reasons for better preparation of
poultry and higher qualify pro6uct
in general.
!. Farmers are delivering birds OF
better quality to dressing plants as
a result of better feeding and man
agement.
20. Government grading for both
eggs and poultry has greatly in
creased during the war.
3. Federal purchases and price
ceilings set in terms of government
grades have influenced better grad
ing.
4. Dealers and professors have
realized that uniform grading STAN