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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Tale of Two Cities-And Transport

Aesop, in his highly instructive and elevating fables, used to tack moral on the end, for fear the reader would miss the point of the allegory. But we are skipping that appendage in setting down the following contrasting tales of table manners and transportation, because Of a conviction that the moral is uncom- fortably evident. From an Army trans port bound for England s. J. Woolf recently wrote: "This transport is jam med. Yet when the loudspeakers an- nounce Fall in for chow there is more courtesy and good humor on the steep companionways leading to the mess halls than one is likely to find among boarders at home when they hear the dinner bell"
 And Evelyn Peyton Gordon, who covers diplomatic society for the Washington Daily News, had this to say in her report of the Soviet embassys reception in honor of the Red Army's 26th anniversary 'Real Russian Caviar again graced the lavish buffets. It's been three years since there has been fine, gray caviar for the Washington masses. And may comment e1at it is high time somebody teaches Washington society manners - or else feeds it before starting to party.
 The seven-year locust plague could be no more detrimental to handsome buff fet than the hordeS that made their way across the Soviet embassy yesterday. The caviar started it. People stood in rows; elbowing, pushing, almost fighting for dab of sturgeon roe. And when they got it they forgot about dab, and dished as copiouSly as farmer would dish mashed potatoes. Oh, the woe of Americans with a food they've heard is rare" Back again to MT. Woolf aboard the transport: "Three tiers of hunks fill all available space: cabins built to hold two are crowded with 12 or even more; decks and squares serve as recreation halls Yet, despite these cramped conditions, there has not been fight or braWl on the entire trip" From Miami, where the war-weary vacationiSts' motto seems to be Better death than a daycoach," comes the story of particularly frantic woman among the thousands of frantic tourists seeking de luxe homeward pass age toward the end of February.
 q simply must have reservation on the s.reamliner," she walled My daugh- ter is at the point of death in Philadel- phia."
 The reservation clerks, compassionate, though swamped with calls, finally found cancellation. They called the woman back:
 "You can have berth on the train leaving tonight"
 "Oh.S' The woman sounded not only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Views Of The Press

it to give testimony on their ex- perienceS in operating a free press And we shall hope to hear also not only from ivory tower editors, but also from reporters, desk men, re- search associates, advertising and circulation directors-and readers.
 The press of the nation is to have no representation on this Commis- sion, the work of which is expected to take at least two years. Time and it's associate publications are to have no connection with the re- search undertaken. and, finally, though handling the funds involved the University of Chicago will have no jurisdiction over the outcome Several names on the Commission would seem to guarantee fairness and impartiality.
 There remains an unquestionable need not merely for the findings oi the Chicago University commission on the present state of the free press in this nation, but also for the protection of free speech, the foundation of all freedom of the press. The recent attempt of the Columbia Broadcasting System to ban the expression of opinion" by radio news broadcasters will certain ly come up for scrutiny. And many other kindred problems demand a special hearing. At any and all events, the security of free press is never more endangered than in wartime. The work of this com mission should do much to clarify public opinion on the nature of democracy itself. For the perpetu- ation of true democracy is impos- sible without those enduring pill lars: free speech and a free press.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

EtareS into our face and shrieks into our ears right where we are standing.
 We must live our life where we happen to be. Here we must conquer or we shall never conquer. A man searches over the entire world for treasure and at last finds his acre of diamonds on his own property. Ernest, in The Great Some Face, lives in vibrant expectancy for the coming of one whose profile will De like that which the inhabitants of the pleasant valley continually be- hold on the crest of the mountain And one evening as Ernest speaks simply to an assembled group of his fellow villagers. they suddenly be- come aware that his profile is that of the Great Stone Face, He and everyone else kept looking toward the horizon for the coming of the great one; and behold, he dwelt among them. As the New Testa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
A LIBRARY NEEDS BOOKS
(New York Times)

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 It is not quite true that all the New York Public Library needs is more books. It has lost 240 mem- bers of it's staff since Pearl Har- bor, 220 to military service. Three former librarians have died in bat tie. For those who remain the sal- aries are still low. Is there some unemployed New Yorker who has a college degree and special train ing, say, in the field of adolescent literature and psychology? The Library, If it can find sufficient funds, will offer him or her $1,440 q year.
 But the library needs books, too. It needs them because, not in spite of, the fact that fartime conditions have brought about large reduc- tion in readers and borrowers. It is using it's resources for war, as the annual report made public today reveals, often for confidential nur- poses. It is taking up the task. which must grow steadily Heavier of aiding discharged fighting men to find new places in civilian life. For ten years its circulation Cepart- men has struggled along on a tax budget item of $50,00O annually for new books, less than a cent and a half per capita in contrast to Chicago's 8 cents, Los Angeles 9 cents, Buffaio's 13 cents San Franciscos 12 cents, Cincin- nati's 18 cents. It Is asking a 400 per cent increase in this allowance which will about bring it back to the pre-depression figure of $255,- 900. It seems as though we could afford this much-indeed, couldn't afford much less-even in these try ing budgetary times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady
MEN OF EIGHTEEN


 I did not like that bit of sarcasm about the man of eighteen" (writes a mother). Who made our boys men" over night? They do not want to be men" They would be boys for a long time if they could. They wish to do the things boys do normally-plan tennk, swim, have vacations. The recruiting officers and the draft boards tell them they are men"
 When my seventeen year old graduated froom high school (con- tinues the mother) more than two thirds of the linen" of the class were in the enlisted reserves, wait ing cal Ito the armed forces of the country. I thought he was a boy "a red-haired boy with light down on his lip, who rolled on the floro playing with the pup, but the Navy sair dhe was a mana V-5 man who will have commission before he is twenty.
 Don't laugh if they call them selves men," Doctor. They have been told they are linen" and have been given a mans job in the war. Any college boy is self-supporting these days and no longer dependent on his parents. In fact, so many are working that it is considered the normal thing to do. Glasses in the morning, work in the afternoon, study at night.
 I am not complaining. Many of the English Cadets one sees on the streets are even younger, and so far from home. We are fortunate in that our seventeen year old son wasp laced in college and had a ten-day through for Christmas. And in the hope that he may have another weekend with us I must fill up the cokie jar, for our man" just turned eighteen this month anl will be hungry.
 (Signed-Mom).
 So he likes his cookies in 8 jar, eh? By the way, Nom, are they molases cookies or sugar cookies? And why did you have to bring that up now-it is seven hours since breakfast and nearly three hours to go before dinner.
 Now, Nom, I'm sorry you found my article sarcastic. I was merely appealing to the eighrteen year old boys self respect. Believe me, I think any one who serves in the armed forces is a man, and he should be old enough to vote, too.
 If there was sarcasm in my ar- xs-J A. AN- stinkers only-the stinkers being boys or girls who squander money for such indulgence while they are dependent on parents for support. No matter if it is only a nickle, no matter if heir parents have it to burn-I say they are Stinkers to squancler money like that when children in many parts of the world are suffering and dying for want Of food.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Health Is Happiness

Thanks to your fine booklets "Pre- pairing for Maternity" and "The Brady Baby Book" my bibles since marriage. My pregnancy could hardly have been healthier or hap pier, and our baby is all we ever dreamed !. incidentally, I did all my own housework, laundry and everything, right up to the last minute. Mrs. D. s. R)
 Answer-Thank you. Apparently you were lucky in having no witches to work on yuor imagination. How the neighborhood busybody goSsips love to terroriZe the uneducated eX- pectant mother!
 Tickets in Growing Children
 From things have read believe my grandson, years old. may have rickets, but his parents laugh at the idea and say only babies have rickets. (Mrs. N. O.
 AnSWer-1n careful study of 230 children from 2 to IA years of age, at Johns Hopkins hospital, 107 of them were found to have rickets. It was inferred from this that children generally would receive vitamin D throughout the period of gy &th. Send ten cents and stamped en- velope bearing your address. for booklet "V-I-T-E' Spells Youth"
 Should 8 Girl Reduce?
 am l5, 5 it. 3 inches tall and weigh. 10 and behold, 138 pounds. My weight makes me so unhappy.
 (Pat WO
 Answer-1'm sorry, Pat, but in my opinion there is but one safe or sat- isfactory course for girl under eighteen who is overweight. Con- suit a physician, and follow only the diet instructions the physician gives you.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

ment says about Jesus, "He came unto his own and his own received him not" He was in their midst, and all the time they kept looking toward the skies for the coming of the Messiah.
 Our lives are fulfilled in the daily walks of life. There we fail or trl- umph, play the hero or the coward find life or lose 1t.
 'The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves, a road To bring us daily nearer God" All Rights Reserved-Babson News
 paper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

the air over Europe.
 l. The largest formations of bomberS are going out.
 2. The greatest frequency of bombing missions is being main- tained.
 3. Fighters are breaking their records for deep penetration. .... 4. Real "round-the-clock bomb- ing is being achieved as never be- fore.
 5. There is complete coordina- ton of bombing blows on the same target-but from widely different bases.
 All these are superlatives, but consider especially the last. Brit ish bombers go out at night, bomb target in Germany, and thus light fires which become beacons to guide American bombers in their raids the next morning. Then the Americans light fires anew, and the British are guided to their targets by those fires.
 This is round the clock" bomb- ing in it's most furious and most perfect form. It has been accom- plished three times recently in one week.
 Copyright, 1944, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

taking part in the several actions are identified. It can be taken for granted that many other British submarines are active in Far East- ern wars and that most of these are manned by officers and crews who learned their deadly business extremely well in the narrow reach. es of the Mediterranean. The surs render of Italy was the real preface to the torpedoing of the Japanese aircraft carrier thousands of miles distant from the Mediterranean.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
TRANSFERRED TO THE EAST
(New York Sun)

An Admiralty communique from
 London which reports successful attack by a British submarine on a small Japanese aircraft carrier in the Far East also recounts an at- tack on a Japanese cruiser, the sinking of supply ship and the destruction of another supply ship by gunfire. In accordance with British practice the commanding officers of the three submarines
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Current Comment

Unless we can establish a just and durable world order, good for all mankind, we shall not be able ourselves to keep democracy, but will drift and drift, as we are drifting now, to one war after another, toward dictatorship. Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson F'osdick
 of New York.
 I observe a tendency con- ment on Truk to go wild in op. timism to an undue degree of con fidence that this makes a sure victory in the Pacific. Ultimately we will gtt that sure victory but this doesn't provide the warrant for undue optimism.
 Navy Secretary Franl; Knox.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

Juvenile delinquency must be met in the home and in the community" So says J. Edgar Hoover. He says likewise, "All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of their fellOW-rnen"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
AS A MATTER OF FACT

One hundred and thirty million people is sizable number. Think of all of the persons now engaged in gainful work, and add those millions to them. For it seems, the International Labor Office estimates that this number will have to be placed in jobs after the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 7:12 a. m., sets at 6:53 p. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The sap is running-and naples are being tapped in some sections. Note the attached pals as you drive in the country, if you do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

laced WlCn the ticklish problem of d c c i d 1 II E whether to dis charge an officer involved in poli- tical scandal, or keep him in uni- form to asSis t Circuit Judge Le- land w. Carr'S one-man legisla- tive graft investi-
 Alber
 gation.
 Major Heman'S d 1 s c l osures, re- Ytoo1iVNn AAa oF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

fortune will be found. And all the time all the fortune he will ever have cries out from the side of the road
 We deceive oul- selves into be- lieving that 1t abides in some far = dis t a n t place. AS a mat ter of fact, 1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

No one has ever seen the first crocus though the first robin has been spotted. The sap is running in the maple trees, and all indications are for an early spring, or if not exactly spring, open weather for the remainder of winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Selected Poem
DATES

Harold Trowbrdge Pulsifer in the New York Times "Yes-That was many, many years ago. How many? To be truthful. can't tell. Some say: The year the greatest empire fell I can't remember. but it was the spring I wasn't there to see the April breeze Housing the bobolinks to sing,
 Bending my datfodis beneath my trees''
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

AS matter of fact many said "hello" for the first time fifty-seven years ago to- day. That is to say they said it over that ingenious invention known as the tele- phone Number pu-lease!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

calmer, but somewhat peevish. "BuC l didn't want to go till March fifth"
 (Note The Hialeah Park racing meet ended March 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

THE ROAD AT HAND
 The eyes of man look longingly toward the horizon. Beyond the hill, around the corner, in some part of the world, on some distant day
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

REA Woxne Rich Formers Short of Lobor Use More Electricity Army Forse Low Vote Drows Fire of Poox Foe 0PA Moves Stop Farm Rus Getting Gas for Tractors Not Used Perfect Coordination in Bombing actually
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Hemans And Michigan Bribes
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcraD Washington
 Correspondent

Appearance of Maj. Charles F. Hemans a grand jury witness in Lansing, Mich, on March 4 to tell of his part as pay-off man in the bribery of 20 Michigan state legisla- tors was made possible only by the cooperation of War Department and U. S. Army authorities in Washington. TT e officials were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

Copyright, 1s44, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1944-04-05

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