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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
Shorter School Days

There is considerable good sense in the proposal by Dr. William M. Lewis, presi- dent of Lafayette College, that two years be Topped off the academic progress from ABC's to an A. B. degree. He would cut the grammar school course to seven years, and devote seven more to high school and college. At least six months of the time soved should be devoted, in Dr. Lewis opinion, to military and citizenship training" for both boys and girls.
 There is certainly some question as to whether military training for girls is nec- essary, or whether citizenship training" whatever precisely that vague and in- elusive term means = should be post poned until postgraduate days. But there is no question that past events and present trends point to our need for an alert, prepared military force of men after the war.
 Apart from these considerations, we think thata shortened course fo study would be an excellent thing in most cases. Four years or eight years are arbitrary limits set, like the speed of convoy, to accommodate the slowest members prog ress. Certainly the average adults, if he will cast an honest look back to his high school and college days, will recall an appalling waste of time that might well have added up to more profitably spent year when school days were over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
A Blind Alley

When any industry seeks to improve it's competitive position by advocating restrictive legislation against other in- dustries, it is playing with fire. Spokes- men for manufacturers of advertised brands of food are holding match dan gerously close to the coat tails of their industry. They are asking that food retailers be restrained from marketing their own private brand food products in competition with brands of large food manufacturers.
 They do not complain that private brand food distributors are becoming nonopolistic, or that consumers are being penalized but merely that private brand products are marketed pursuant to the policy of systematically underselling com- peting manufacturer brand products. :" IT, other words, they are kicking because competitor is able to underSell them and thereby render better service to the public They apparently would prohibit such price lowering competition through the enact ment of legislation which in the end might very likely stop every merchant, who so desired, from selling homemade products of any kind.
 Restrictive laws, once put into force, reach far and in unexpected directions. If food manufacturers turn to such laws as weapon to limit competition, they will put themselves in peril of becoming monopoly, thus bringing on the entire food industry an avalanche of oppressive regulation that would hurt manufac- turerS, retailers and consumers.
 If the manufacturing food industry is wise, it will seek to improve its own com petitive efficiency rather than cripple its competitors That is the way of progress. Any other way leads inevitably up blind alley of bureaucratic dictation, where free enterprise ceases to exist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
Views Of The Press

bur Cross at 82 as too ancient for participation in affairs simply reckons without-Wilbur Cross. The party may or may not take to the idea of Cross-for-S Senator. Certainly no Democrat in the State has a larger personal following than he, or could win more votes from Republicans and independents That might add attractiveness to the idea in many minds.
 Of course, there are others who want the job. Ex-Governor Hurley, ex-Mayor Spellacy of Hartford, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, former Secretary of State. all are reported willing to stand.
 There are others upon whom the party might be able to call, men of eminence and prestige like former Supreme Court Justice Christopher l.. Avery of Groton and Colonel Samuel H. Fisher of Litchfield Both of these like ex-Governor Cross are in the elder statesman status, but Connecticut has upon numerous occasions called upon its elder statesmen with excellent re- suits. It would not necessarily be unwise to do so again.
 There is a large Republican dis satisfaction with Senator Danaher The Democrats undoubtedly car capitalize upon that if they nomin. ate wisely The obvious way to do il is to name a man who will appeal to voters outside the Democratic party as well as in. Certainly the field of choice is by no means, re- str1cted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Washington, instead of scare headlines about coal shortages. And it needs machinery Harry M. Vawter, director of the Bituminous Coal Institute, recently declared that: Someone in authority will soon have to realize that 90 per cent of the nations bituminous coal is cut by machines and 40 per cent is loaded by machines underground" These machines are wearing out and coal mine operators have not been able to get replacements because production of such equipment has been curtailed, while some has been sent overseas.
 There is plenty of coal in this country. The coal industry knows how to get it out of the ground. There is no excuse for 8 coal shortage. If there is one it will be due to political bungling and interference with the industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
We Can Take It

q don't believe the government has told the worst" said Lieutenant Tommy Harmon, speaking of the Jap atrocities. q don't think the Americans could stom- ach it if they knew the whole truth"
 We hope Lieut. Harmon is wrong He may not have lived upon this earth long enough to know that his country is made up of people who demand the truth, and who have government under which that demand can usually be met.
 We hope we have heard the whole truth. But if we haven't, we can take it all of it, and now. We always have.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
Silence Calamity Howlers

Coal producers have urgently request ed the Solid Fuels Administration to stop it's nationwide e-is-no-coal" calam- ity propaganda. It is breeding senseleSS hoarding Since conclusion of the last coal strike in November, production has been more than 100000 tons week in excess of the output in the comparable period of 1942-43.
 These latter two years broke all records for coal production for any country in any year, in spite of strikes The out put in 1942 was 80,OO0, ,00O tons, and in i94S was 589, ,000, ,000 tons. The 1944 goal is 62O ,OOO, ,O0O tons. It has been estimated that the capacity of active mines for a year of S08 days is 7S3, ,000,00 tons.
 The gain in coal production has been achieved in the face of declining labor forces. What the coal industry needs most right nov is cooperation from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
Leap Year Dilemma

Probably no 29th of February in the history of the Gregorian calendar was ever greeted more alphabetically than this one. The old bissextile custom of letting conventional courtship go unconven- tional still holds good in 1914, to be sure. But it offers Scant hope to the wishful bride. It isn't the shortage of men that bothers the young ladies so much. It's their tantalizing unavailability. They're overseas, the eligible and desirable ones, or else they are hedged in by military discipline and AWOL penalties halfway across the continent here at home. The whole thing presents rather depressing challenge to the resourceful female. And the average female is reSourceful, but the situation this year is too much for her. Of course there are exceptional cases like that of the WAVE who got leave, went to the base where her sailor boy friend was stationed, and whiSked him off to the altar before he could catch his breath. But the average girl must depend on V-mail and the telephone. And that isn't enough.
 Anyone who has either embraced or eluded matrimony knows that courtShip is almost hopeleSsly dependent on pro- pinquity. It is swayed by subtle things like metaboliSm, vocal nuances, blood pressure, or the way girl looks in a certain hat. Removed from these per suasions, young man is likely to become discouragingly conscious of the fact that marriage is serious step and not to be undertaken lightly.
 We have it from a reliable source that, to most wishful brides, every year is Leap Year. The only difference is that, once in four, a girl can abandon demure strat- agems and tag the man right out in the open. This year the advantage is insig- nificant. She can't tag him till she catches him. And absence makes the quarry awfully wary All this leaves a girl with a free choice of everything the local draft board doesn't want. Her re- action is best expressed by the reliable source quoted above:
 'This year we are faced with two equal ly frightful alternatives. We will either be accepted or rejected. And most of us don't know which is worse."
 No, February 29, 1914, is no jackpot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Poison Oak .'r

We have small ranch and every time I go there and work outside I get poison oak. Have received medicine and shots for 1t, but it breaks out again as soon as I go back to the ranch. Some oak trees there. We hate to sell 1t.
 (Mrs. J. M.) AnSwer-Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet on Ivy Poisoning. Let your druggist prepare the tnmunizing medicine as directed therein, but use tincture of poison oak instead of tincture of poison ivy. and begin taking 1t a few weeks before you visit the ranch and continue taking a few doses weekly throughout the season.
 How to Get Dad Rolling Please find inclosed ten cents and stamped addressed envelope, for in- structions for Belly Breathing. Also please include Invitation to the Somersaultauqua. Dad has cold feet. (Mrs. s. w., Jr)
 Answer-When you get Dad roll- ing around and breathing natural ly, feel of his feet again. If they're still cold send stamped envelope bearing his address, for Instructions for Taking an Iodin Ration. Nothing like \ nip of iodine to retard the cold gradations of decay.
 Education of Boys
 Where can I buy 8 book that will give my boy GA years olu) the right knowledge of sex?
 (Mrs. R. s. Al Answer-Send stamped envelope bearing your address to The Ameri- can Institute of Family Relations, GOT s. Hill St., Los Angeles, Calif., and ask for the books or pamphlets recommended by the institute. advise boys, girls, young men, young women, married people. to do Nke- wise. Y
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
THE BRANCH HOTEL" OF
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 A hotel proprietor was quoted the other day as saying that, in think ing of what may be in store for the hotels of tomorrow, many of his colleagues were overcoming their averasion" to the tourist camps and were talking of a time when such institutions, or something like them would be operated as branch hotels. Offhand, it would seem that there is much to be said for the idea Sounder financing. better building, more efficient management and more responsible operation could be afforded, so that the tourist camr -"motel", motor court" or what ever 1t is called-could be a respect able adjunct of the hotel bushes: instead of distant and sometimes disreputable poor relation.
 Such establishments have a defin- ite place. At the moment most oi them are filled with war workers or. in places near great military en- campments, by the families of men in the services; they are, in many instances, sadly inadequate, but for the time they serve useful pur- pose. After the war, when automo- piles come back in profusion, and when autogyroS or something siIni lar may be part of our everyday transportation, the outskirts of oui cities will provide the logical sites for a new industry. The leaders o1 the hotel business have not always been noted for being far-sighted in this instance, however, they ap- pear to have an idea that is aS near to being fool-proof as anything can he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

so far as their limited knowledge
 and experience go. For others 1t is suicide; for still others, bitterness
 and despair. How different from
 the message which springs out of every page. of the Bible! Here we find the thoughtful counsel of those
 who have faced sin in their own
 lives and observed it in the world
 about them; who have often taken
 up arms against sea of trouble" 1" who have thought much and listen-
 ed quietly to what God has to say to the troubled heart. And their carefully pondered conclusion as they stand before such situations
 is not that they will get drunk, or jump cff . bridge, or cuss the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
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 MOTHER DOUBLES AS WITCE
 Reader describes an incident thg shocked him. He was guest in home where there was 8 four months old baby. The baby ts on of three children, all aIiennic ane always ailing. The mother made { practice of sticking her finger ii almost raw liquor and letting tEll baby suck on the finger wheneva he cried or was restless, and aftel each such dose of liquor the bah behaved like some one having { fit and then became quiet a11V stuporous. The mother, who cursed with more ready money tha1 she knows how to use wisely, has always considered herself something of a glamour girl and now she re- gards the baby's fondneSs for hquog as 'cute." She has given her othet two children liquor ever since the1 were a few monthSe old. CommenN ing on this the reader says "NoR I begin to understand why they arS such anemic, neurotic Gub-norm0 children"
 Even if the baby did not inherit the defect, the degeneracy, the weakness of character or mind that predisposes to the use of alcohol or other narcotics, the method used by this witch df you are out of lower case WIS boys, use whatever letteS you have handy instead) is pretty certain to settle the baby's hash. Even if 1t did not seriously impai1 the vital processes of physical nu. triton, the constant or habttuat use of any such narcotic (no matter whether 1t be alcohol, opium, pare goric, laudanum, morphine, heroin, or 8 beverage or so-called medicine containing some such narcotic) in-- evitably retards and perverts the development of the nervous system. the mentality, and of course, the normal nature. The victim is doomed to degeneracy, constitution al inadeQuacy, failure in life.
 The parent who inflicts such a handicap on a child richly merits public whipping-to counteract the harm done by the offense-and then incarceration in a penal insti- tuition where he or she can ruin no more children.
 Cute" is it2 That's what 9 recreant mother of 8 sixteen-year- old girl thought and said of her daughter when the young stinker asked mother and her friends to wait few minutes while she ran into the bar of a hotel, patronized by the demimonde for quick one. What has happened to the young stinker since probably does not seem so "cute" even to her addle- -brained parents. On second thought, per hapS I should not call the child Q name-how could she be anything else when both parents were stink CTS? They never gave the child | chance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
CROSS FOR SENATOR?
(Hartford Tines)


 Some citizens may see in ex-G Gov ernor Cross's vigorous speech and enthusiastic endorsement of Pres ident Roosevelt for 8 fourth term at the Connecticut Democrats Wash ington's birthday celebration 8 hint that the Governor might not be ayerse to being his party's nominet for United States Senator in th Fall, if the party sees 1t that way.
 This is not to suggest that th former Governor made an actiy bid for the nomination. However, r Is in good health, and he has h autobiography of his hands. He h.. nothing in particular to occupy Ii time and engage his more ths normal activities. His broad intere. in affairs and his knowledge of gov ernment and history would equiL him we'll for senatorial duties.
 The only thing against it Is lais age. but anyone who dlsmises WiI-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

tee. The session was vehement and bitter.
 Eve always gone along with the President before," said the rugged six-foOt North Carolina mountaineer. But this time Tm not going alone. I realize it would have been desirable to pass a bigger revenue bill than this one, but when it has been proved that 1t is impossible to do so, I don't believe in throwing the bill overheard. That Is what the President wants, and I have no alternative but to oppose him."
 Thunderous applause from the Republicans. Only one Democrat, Representative John Di1lgell of Michigan, had the courage to de- fend the President during the name-calling melee which fol- lowed.
 'T'm going to vote to support the President" announced Ding well in fighting tones. 'T'r1 getting sick and tired of these everlasting raids on the Social Security tax. I don't give a continental what the rest of you do, but I'm going to fight against overriding the veto."
 Representative Jere Cooper of Tennessee also stood with the President-but silently.
 It was significant that when Chairman Doughton called sec- ond secret session of the Ways and Means Committee, both Cooper and Dingwell were absent, one of them getting notice of the meet ing only after he had left his office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
ANVIL CHORUS SMELLS


 At the second session, Democra- tic Rep. Willis Robertson of Vir- ginia led the anvil chorus, spurred on by leading questions from COPS Roy Woodruff of Michigan. Robertson charged the President with trampling on Constitutional rights.
 ''It's the function of Congress, not the executive to assess tax es," he stormed. There has : been a lot of trifling with the Constitution by the Administra- ti0n, but no more shocking ex- ample than the Presidents veto of this tax bill"
 Doughton also put in some fol- low-up checks, proclaining that, though he was 30 years old, he had plenty of fight in him yet, and that the Presidents veto was the worst rebuff he had received in eleven years of heading the Ways and Means Committee.
 Only one Administration sup porter, Aime J. Portland of Rhode Island, was present. When fin- ally given a chance to speak, he hadn't made up his mind what to do.
 For everyone else present, a good time was had by all. Never before had they had such an op- portunity to get off their chests the gripes of twelve long years against the man who led them to victory but whom most of them do not like except as a means of keeping seniority sinecures on committees.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

More ships continue to go down the ways The most recent, if we have not missed one, is the fifth heavy destroyer launched by the Karney shipyards, the 2,2O0 ton English named for Rear Admiral Henry English who died little over a year ago in an airplane crash in Califor- mia. This ship and others are the reason work piles up in the factory and every other person and his or her friend are try ing out bench, piece and other kinds of work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

The Swedish liner Gripsholm is about to sail once more, this time from Lisbon, with an exchange group of United States and Latin-American nationals from Ger many and German-occupied territories. What change from the pre-war sailings on pleasure cruises with afternoon tea, lunching and dining luxuriously and en- toying the salty tasty Smorgasbord at the cocktail hour!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

comfort had so little of it's springs within his h e art that he c could only say:
 If I were you,
 I'd go out and get really drunk; and I'd stay drunk as long as I could" There are thou-
 sands of people for whom this is the only way out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

until doomsday. but that they will turn to the Power who made all things in the beginning and can make all things right, and in Him find solution of their problems.
 Ask, and ye shall receive; seek. and yet shall find. knock, and 1t shall be opened" Come unto me ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest" "Who- soever cometh unto me, I shall in. nowise cast out" "Tf ye ask any thing in my name, will do it."
 "Whosoever' means me, and anything" means the dire situation I confront.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29


 Barkley, however, was deter mined. He was tired, half-sick, and not much interested in run ming for reelection. His wife has been an invalid and, for a while, was almost at deaths door. He has been travelling back and forth to Kentucky to see her, which has added to his weariness and men, tai depression.
 For seven long years. the Ken tuckian has battled on the Senate floor. trying to keep disgruntled Democratic cohorts in line behind a President with whom he cid not always agree but to whom he was always faithful.
 Only once during his 3l years in Congress has he had any seri- ous opposition at the polls. That was in 1888, when the President threw all his weight and no small amount of money into Kentucky against Happy" Chandler to re- elect Barkley.
 In 1926, when Barkley stepped up from Congressman to Senator, 1t was Judge Fred Vinson who managed his campaign. Today, Vinson, sitting at the right hand of the President as Economic Stabilizer, is the man largely re- sponsible for persuading him to veto the tax bill. The other man who helped persuade him was an- other old and intimate friend of Barkley's-Justice James Byrnes. For years they had worked to- gether in the Senate almost as brothers.
 That is why some of Barkley's friends were shocked, not by his opposition to the tax-bill veto, but by the fact that he would publicly denounce the man who reelected him in 1888 and two men with whom he had cooper ated for two decades de- nouncing them without . word of warning to them.
 TWO TALKS WITH PRESIDENT The White House, of course, had ample warning that Barkley was opposed to the veto of the tax bill, but no inkling that the Sen- ate leader, for years Roosevelt's most intimate confidant on Capi- tol Hill, would suddenly turn against him.
 TavN do1c hafora &hn ,,nko ,.oae sage. both Barkley and Speaker Rayburn visited the White House, where Barkley pleaded:
 "I beg of you, MT. President, please sign this bill"
 The President, however, pointed out that the tax bill was full of loopholeS benefitting big business, and maintained that he had to keep faith with the men at the front by raising revenue at home now, not postponing the burden of paying for the war until after the soldiers returned.
 Again, just a few days before the veto message was sent to Congress, the President called in Barkley and Speaker Rayburn and let them read the first draft of the message. Both were furious, but the Senate leader gave no hint of resigning his post, even though he noted the sharply worded tone of the mes- sage.
 However, Barkley did tell Senate friends that the President could get no help from him in sustain ing the veto, while Speaker Ray burn quietly spread word that he wouldn't be offended if the veto was over-ridden. The sub-rosa re- volte spread word that he wouldn't be offended If the veto was over- This sub-rosa reviote spread like wildfire, long before the veto mes- sage actually reached Congress. DOUGHTON LED REVOLT
 First to rebel was 80-year old, tenacious "Muley" Bob Doughton. chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who called a closed door session of his commit