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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

Floyd Blansiield has finished his training at Mt. Home, Idaho, and is now ball turret gunner on BI24 bomber. Enroute overseas he recently stopped OR in Brazil from whence his folks received a very interesting letter and remembrance gifts. Floyd is very highly regarded by his former employe: at Farrel Foundry particularly Louie Arnold for whom he worked and with whom he corresponds regularly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07

William E. Mcbride, a fine mechanic, good sport and real gentleman has retired after 30 years service at the scovill Manufacturing Company He versary next month They have two sons, three daughters 3 grandchildren and reat-grandson, Soon to enter his 80th year Bill spry and capable despite
 clan he takes every opportunity to play the Second Congregational Church organ Bill and his better half plan to bid adieu to Waterbury and take up resi- dence in Philadelphia, their home town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-07
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ftTSe 6to0FAPhy of AmeFtea'S CreNe General yElEAG Miller. Dastvhutsa
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
The Tax Exempt Incubus

Many communities, through their
chambers of commerce and otherwise,
have been very active in asking vast gov
eminent appropriations for industrial
projects in their midst. Some of the
largest expenditures along these lines,
running into the hundreds of millions of
dollars, have been for Federally-
hydro electric plants. The construction
of these plants demands the use of tax
funds, and they automatically retard the
normal building of taxable private power
plants, while claiming for themselves
total exemption from all local and Fed
eral tax laws.
The United States Supreme Court has
just handed down a decision to the effect
that government-owned property is i'm
mune from taxation, whether the tax Is
directed against government itself or
someone who leases the property. This
includes government business activities
competing with private taxpayers, as well
as property used for strictly govern
mental purposes.
Eventually some of the government
war plants will be transferred to private
interests and returned to the tax rolls,
But communities which clamored for
permanent government-owned industrial
projects such as hydro-electric plants and
transmission lines, will find themselves
loaded with taX-exempt problems"
which destroy tax-paying properties and
force higher taxes on all remaining tax
payers.
It is a sorry sight to see the little bus
mess man paying every known form OF
taxation, meeting his payroll and carry
ing out his obligations to the community,
when a great goverment-owned CONNER
cial monopoly shirks its public duty by
lodging taxes. Communities not yet
saddled with such tax-eXempt incubuses
are to be congratulated.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
The Fall of Rome

The triumphant entrance of the Allied
armies to the very heart of Rome yeSter-
day marked the end of a long, hard
fought, gruelling campaign as well as the
beginning of the end of the Axis DONNA
ton of a subjugated people in Europe.
With the shattered fragments of Field
Marshal KesSelring's crack storm divis-
ions fleeing north from Rome the first
OF the Allied major detectives in Europe
has been achieved.
The fall of Rome from territorial point
of vantage means as yet little or nothing
towards ultimate success of Europe. The
city of Rome itself outside of its religious
and historic value offered no great mill
tary objective. The hardest fighting over
tougher terrain in Italy is yet to come
as the Allied armies enter the upper
mountainous country of northern Italy,
Yet the fall of Rome will do much to
bolster the tagging spirits of the millions
Of enslaved humanity throughout Nazi-
controlled Europe. The liberation of the
famous Eternal City with all its shrines
of antiquity brings a feeling of solace and
courage to everyone alike. The Pope's
prayers of only two days ago apparently
were answered. Rome has been spared.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
The Signs Are Clear

During the decade of peace preceding
the war, the Federal government was
going deeper and deeper into debt. The
public was beleagured by bitter argu-
ments from two schools of thought con-
corning government borrowing and gov
eminent spending. The "we-owe-it-to-
ourselves" school claimed that 1t made
no difference how high the debt goes
because with proper 'plannel economy"
debt is an asset rather than liability.
A second school of thought argued that
inordinate government borrowing leads
to bankruptcy and loss of individual
freedom.
A generation of voters has now reached
maturity never knowing any other than
a borrowing" government. The coun-
try to all outward appearances is pros
porous and the citizen is still free. How
ever, in spite of appearances, the philoso-
ply of waSteful spending has been proven
wrong No one will longer claim that
our public debt is burden whose weight
is barely felt And government officials
themselves cry that "eaSy money" gov
eminent borrowing has made necessary
a mountain of regulations to save the
nation from Initiation.
The extent to which these regulations
threaten individual liberty is not yea gen.
orally realized. Recently Massachusetts,
meat wholesaler was accused of selling
cuts of beef above OPA ceiling prices.
He was convicted of criminal violation OF
the Emergency Price Control Act. The
case was carried through to the United
States Supreme Court, which held that a
person SO convinced could not challenge
the constitutionality of the Act except
within limited period of time, and then
only before an emergency court.
Thus does the grim result of the lowing
it to ourselves" theory make itself felt in
initiation and in arbitrary, freedom-de-
stroying regulations. This is portent OF
national bankruptcy. 1t is still not too
late to turn back if the fallacy of believ-
ing that unlimited debt does no harm,
is abandoned, and government borrowing
brought under control at the wars end.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05

A great many people were astonished
by the proposal of the Secretary of the
Interior to give the governments $780,
OO0,000.O00 worth of war industries to
the returning soldiers OF course this
would involve a gigantic government
controlled holding company. Giving
away industries "would be revised edi-
ton of the Homestead Act and the land
provisions Of the Reclamation Law" said
The Secretary, although he admitted that
perhaps the first directors OF the expert
Tient would have TO be appointed by the
government.
It Is hard to see any similarity between
such q proposal and the homestead law
under which a man got piece OF land
Of which he was absolute owner, free
from government interference or dlrec-
tors. The homeSteader became an indie
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pendent citizen owning a piece Of prop
erty In fee simple, which he could dispose
of as he wished, and for any price he
wished.
All returned service man would own
in this proposed giant holding company,
would be paper stock certificate. The
assets of the company would be made up
OF war industries, most of which could
not be applied to peacetime pursuits
without heavy reconversion investments.
1t is probable the service man would
even be prohibited from selling his stock,
in order to assure continued government
monopoly and operation of the proper
ties, 1t looks like this propose. to "give"
the service man something, Is blind to
keep the government in business, using
the service man as tool to accomplish
that end.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
Hitler and the Thinkers

It Is very probable that Adolf Hitler is
responsible for DR.. Albert Einstein's APP
peal for an international union Of in
tellectuals to lead the fight for "the
establishment of surpranational poll
tical force as a protection against fresh
wars of aggression" Until Hitler came
along the worlds great thinkers were
content to devote their talents to more
abstract pursuits than the day-to-day
problems of government Many OF
them considered the hurly-burly OF poll
tics to be beneath them, and they were
undoubtedly right. 1t requires touch
more of genius to unlock the secrets of
nature through science, to mold our de-
cent instincts into patterns of ethics, to
evaluate the lessons of history, than it
does to fit these contributions into prac-
tical daily life. But Hitler showed the
great thinkers that the air of bad poll
tics can stifle creative thinking. He
showed them that paranoia and a gift
for rabble-rousing could pervert enlight-
ened discoveries into powerful weapons
of death. He forced the scientists from
their attempts to bring men little
closer to perfection and turned them to
tasks of destruction.
Hitler has detoured mankind from its
4Il11AcI1ll4dl 4l1dAC1I away AAOA1A odV4SSAy
to a new, mechanical, super-efficient
savagery. Before that painful march can
be resumed, thinkers who belong in the
van must make sure that there are no
more detourS. At least DR.. EinStein
thinks so. It is too bad that this is
so, for the thinkers will have very
hard time of it. They will rediScover
that men are more receptive to rabble-
rouSing than to reason. They will run
into practical difficulties. If they choose
to speak through books, they must COM
pete with the popular literature of the
moment. If they choose to speak to the
world through the miracle of radio. they
will have to fight an uneven battle for
attention with swing bands and soap
operas.
In this country they will be up against
a situation in which military reflections
for educational deficiencies are more nu-
merous than battle casualties. In other
countries it will be even worse. But
perhaps the hardest task of all will
confront the thinkers in Germany and
Japan. There they must not only per-
suade the common man of the advan-
tageS of supra national political force"
to keep the peace; they must also help to
re-educate a whole people away from
the poison of racism, super-statism, and
a generally barbaric national philosophy.
It's job for an Einsteim, and no mis-
take.
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are wisecracking: "Jim has gone
gl0bal."
CAPITAL CHAFF
Administration leaders, who fol-
lowed the anti-RooSevelt Texas
convention with amazed bewilder-
ment, received word that some Of
the big oil companies helped Or
ganize the county convention
which stacked the delegates in ad-
vance against the President :.
But they were even more inter-
ested in the activity of Jesse Jones
nephew, who led the anti-Roose-
welt vote, and also in the Texas
employees Of Will Clayton, who
hold a high appointment inside
the Administration One rea-
son for British insistence on do
ing business with Jugoslav Par
tisan leader Tito is that Chur-
chill's son, Captain Randolph
Churchill, has be nserving with
Tito and assures his father that
the Jugo leader will stick with
the British to the end. Hitherto,
Tito was considered a Russian
protege Some of the Truman
Committee members aren't happy
over the way gold-braided Captain
John Kennedy Of the Navy has
failed to dig up certain data re-
garding Wall Street friends of
Secretary Forrestal whom he has
placed inside the Navy Depart
ment. They credit Kennedy with
being one of the best politicians
in the Navy George Creel,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
ICELAND A REPUBLIC
(Hartford Courant)

Notwithstanding the pleas of the
Nazi-imprisoned ailing Danish King.
Iceland has decided to become a re-
public. Originally settled about $50
Vikings, in $50 Iceland established
A. D. by ten Irish and by Norwegian
the first parliament in the Western
Hemisphere. Known as the Althing,
this central legislative assembly long
antedated the so-called British
Mother of Parliaments", the tlrst
model for which was founded in
1865. But though Iceland came
under Norwegian rule in 1862, when
the Morse legal code was adopted,
and in 2180 became subject to Den
mark, the Althing persisted.
In 1874 Iceland finally succeeded
In obtaining home rule from Den
mark, and in 1918. though hence
forth "in personal union" with Den
mark, Iceland became recognized as
a separate, sovereign kingdom. The
Althing continued ten supreme leg
islative body of a nation otherwise
democratic and republican in all its
forms of life.
With a territory of approximately
10000 square miles, inhabited by
merely 10000, Iceland has in things
political all these years remained
independent and progressive. Real
izing the imminent threat to her
democratic institutions and rights
by Hitler's seizure of Norway and
Denmark. Icelanders through their
Althing in May, 1871, cancelled the
union with Denmark, declaring
complete independence and electing
a regent to act as their king until
the republican constitution could be
introduced.
On July 7, l94l. at the invitation
Of the regent, Eveinn Bjoernsson,
United States Naval forces occupied
the island In order to guarantee
maintenance of safe communica-
tons between Iceland and this
country. This occupation, enabling
the Allies to secure an all-important
air and naval base for operations
against the Nazis in Scandinavia
and for control Of the sealanes 10
Russia, was later approved yb vote
OF the Althing. And on May 20, 1914
by national referendum, Iceland
voted to sever all political ties with
the Danish crown.
Their ntional literacy. one Of the
highest In Europe. Icelanders, by
tradition politically conscious,
swaTmed to the polls. the voting be-
ing In most districts from 90 to 100
per cent OF all those eligible. The
Althing Is scheduled to reconvene
on June 10 In order TO elect the first
president.
Here Is q nation enjoying COM
pleae freedom OF religious worship
press and speech, with neither army
nor navy, with no national deficit
and no such thing as unemploy-
ment. In Iceland with one Of the
greatest ilteratures In the world.
where they say every man Is q ma
tural born poet. yet all are indus
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
NOBLESSE DIDN'T OBLIGE
New York Herald-Tribune)


After Mr.. Churchill had gone so
far as to commit himself almost
word for word to the Presidents in
comprehensive position in regard
to the French National Committee.
1t does seem a rather unkind cut
when the White House press con-
ferences produce those invidious re-
marks about Mr.. Churchill's incom-
prehensible position in regard to
Spain. Admittedly. when it comes to
both Washington's and Londons
dealings with Francoists, Vichyites,
bobtailed italian royalties, Haps-
burgs and other eminent if peculiar
repositories Of law and order" the
ignorant layman has always felt
himself in very rarefied atmos-
phere. But here, surely, noblesse was
failing to oblige in a distressingly
big way
Mrs. Roosevelt even went SO far
as to imply that the Prime Min
lister has had an idee fixe in favor
OF Spanish reaction for the last
sixty years" For how many years,
then, has the President entertained
an idee fixe against General ce
Gaule-as essential to French re-
sistance as he is unpopular in the
White House? And even when it
comes to Spain, these press-confer-
ence remarks seem at best i'll
chosen. Ambassador Carlton ]. H.
Hayes may be no Sir Samuel Hoare,
but more than once he has MANAGED
to talk remarkably like him. The
White House may now believe in
putting the screws on the reaction
airy Spanish general who won some
Of Hitler's first and most decisive
victories for him; but at the critical
moment it was willing to drag
American policy In the British wake
through all the follies OF "non-in-
tervention." The stern republican
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ton director, says that his new
Woodrow Wilson's war informa-
book, "War Criminals and Pun
ishment," is to do penance for his
position after the last war.
DAYLIGHT SAVING TO END?
1t looks as II daylight-Saving
time were going to be abolished
without giving the President a
change to block the repeal.
Several resolutions have been
introduced to abolish war time, as
a result of protests from farmers
in agricultural areas. These are
now before Representative Clar-
ence Lea Of California and his In
terstate Commerce Committee, and
1t looks as If one of them would
be reported out and passed.
II so, IL cannot be vetoed by
the President, for the original
bill establishing war time pro-
vided that II was to end six
months after the war, or puon q
concurrent resolution by both
houses Of Congress.
This latter provision precludes
a veteo, since resolutions are not
subject to being overruled by the
White House. In fact, Congress-
man Lea wrote his original day
light saving bill in this form for
the specific purpose Of heading
off the Whiet House in case Con-
gres wanted to abolish war time.
Copyright, 1874, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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virtues. acquired at SO late a date,
are not all convincing as they might
be.
But even accpeting them at face
value, 1t still leaves the ignorant
public In state Of some bewilder-
ment. Are we to sumo. then, that
Mr.. Churchill is a tory in Madrid
but a blazing liberal in Algiers,
while the Roosevelts are tories in
Algiers but blazing liberals in
Madrid? The division Of labor Is
no doubt q great and useful prin-
cipie. but surely II has It's limita-
tons. A single. straight policy in
both Washington and London, UNI
derstandable, democratic, devoid Of
all idees fixes and the tags Of any
kind Of appeasement. would seem
to be preferable under the circurn-
stances.
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cred from all blame. justified In
everything he did, and allowed TO
indulge himself as he saw fit usual
Iy turns out TO be a burden TO him
self and a disgrace TO his loved
ones.
Parents OF the most outstanding
character and intelligence some
times spoil their children without
realizing that they are doing 80.
Little by little. because OF their
love for their children. they allow
them 10 fall into undisciplined ways
and selfish habits. The lives Of
such youngsters become self-cent-
cred. The result Is that many cir
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
WHY GO TOOTHLEss EVEN
FOR A WEEK?

Hang onto your hats, folks, and
dentists, we're OF again. No 30 far
OF, hope, as I was about the peg
tooth-that is, an artificial tooth
built on base having . metal screw
by means Of which the tooth may
be screwed into the jawbone, to fill
q vacant space left by loss Of a
tooth, without disturbing the teeth
on either side. I have apologized for
that error on previous occasions.
bungled the thing badly-rushing
into print with the idea, on the basis
Of scientific article that appeared
in A. ]. of Orthodontics and Oral
Surgery (May, 80, only to learn
later that the procedure had been
only experimental.
Good dentists today can success
fully install dentures Immediately
after extraction Of teeth, before the
patient leaves the office, and the
patient can wear these dentures
without prohibitive discomfort can
stantly, so that even the patients
intimate friends or members Of his
or her own family may not be
aware that the patient has had the
teeth extracted.
hail this great advance In dem
tistry not just because one looks so
badly going around without teeth.
II that were all, the subject would
scarcely rate mention In this coll
umn. But I believe every man Jack
and every woman jill pays an av-
erage Of 4 year Of ones life expec-
tation for every tooth lost and not
Immediately replaced by q func-
tionally useful denture. So COM
mend immediate denture service to
every intelligent person who has to
lose one or more teeth. And right
here permit me to warn readers
that If any dentist or dental firm
purports to give the service or use
the method recommended by me-
or for that matter II any physician
or quack outfit tells prospective
customers he or they use methods
I recommend, you must deal with
the pirate at your peril for no one
has my consent to such use Of my
name.
My purpose in urging immediate
denture service is to improve
health. I expect It will bring the
imprecations Of a lot of second and
third rate dentists who have not
the necessary skill or ability to
render such service.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05
Selected Poem
AQUARELLE

AQUAkELLE
Leslie Nelson Jennings in The Christian Science
Monitor)
Mornings will come with misty softness, lay
delicate wash Of muted violet
Along the valley. touch with silyer-gray
Birch groves and pastureland and hedges wet
With diamantine dew. Like ships afloat
On some strange sea, rooftops no longer stand
Against the sky Mysterious and remote.
Our hills might be the domeS OF Samarkand
This is a morning 70 be caught in clear
And fluid pigment with an artists eye.
Kept In a cherished album of the year,
Turned TO when summer shortens and goes by,
Work SWIFTLY Such moment viii not stayi
Sunlight dissolves a water-color dayI
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Dope


I have b cen taking phenobarbital
for months to make me sleep, but
after reading your article, in which
you gave same Of the bad effects
which I recognize as my own, I
stopped taking 1t, and will never
take 1t again. I thank you.
mrs. B. r. L.
Answer-At first I was afraid you
were going to say you stopped TAX
ing-the paper. Any one who takes
anything at all to make him or her
sleep, is headed for danger II not
disaster. On request. If you inclose
stamped envelope bearing your
address, I'll send pamphlet How
to Sleep Well"
Onion Tops
What food value, If any. is there
in green onion tops? &C. d.
Answer-Eat 'em along with the
bulbs, by all means. They are an
excellent source Of vitamin C, and q
good source Of vitamin B complex,
and Of calcium. AS for nutritive,
fuel or caloric value. onion tops are
negligible.
Paternity
Can the paternity of q child five
months old be determined by blood
tests? (Mrs. M. j.
Answer-No. In one instance out
Of four or five blood tests will show
that given child can NOT be the
child of given person; but no test
will prove that given child Is the
child Of given parent, only that,
II the child's blood and the blood
Of the person in question are Of the
same type or group, the person
MIGHT be the child's parent-but
so might million others who have
the same blood type as the childs.
Copyright, 1914, John r. Ollie CO..
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Current Comment

Now as never before we must seek
an economic trinity - agriculture.
management and labor. Clashes be-
tween any Of these elements are
certain to upset the national equil-
ibrium to the detriment Of us all.
Eric A. Johnston. president
u. s. G. Of @.
The social conditions favoring
mocratic development in China are
present. We are ultimately headetd
for democracy because basically ne
people believe in individuelism.
DIR. T. F. Tsiang, Chinese cabinet
member.
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himself a nuis-
ance to all the
neighbo rhoo d
seldom turns out
TO be a bad boy.
This latter va
riety is almost
invariably re-
cruited fro m
a m o n g the
spoiled a n d
pampered. The
youngster who
has been shelf
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-05

cuInstances which should prove OF
great benefit to them become inn
measurable handicaps. They make
these circumstances a staff TO lean
upon rather than a springboard to
enable them 10 dive headlong into
the midst Of an interesting and
helpful life.
Human character develops best
under discipline. We all need Q
certain amount OF coInpulsion in
our lives. and nothing ruins the life
OF Q child so much as for parents
TO assist Ia the reduction OF that
conpulsion.
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