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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
The Peoria Plan

The city of Peoria, H., has launched community program that seems worth noting and copying elsewhere. It is a plan for rehabilitating and re-employing handicapped war veterans, and it has wisely been perfected before there is any considerable need for it. The Peoria Plan started with the known fact that there are many jobs which partially disabled per sons can't perform efficiently. The plan nerS asked industries and businesses to survey such job opportunities. Then the whole community pitched in and helped Medical religious, fraternal and service organizations gave aid and advice in per fecting the program; local newspapers, radio stations and movie houses focused public attention on it.And Peoria called on district representatives of federal agencies for help. They knew that their efforts should tie in with legislation and plans for veterans now under way in Washing ton. But they also knew that the final job must be done at what bureaucracy calls the "local level"
 In the case of handicapped men, the Veterans Administration will see to it that they learn new skills, if necessary, in preparation for readjustment. But the government cannot do all. The Peoria planners decided that "delay is danger ous and demoralizing," and that their prime objective was to conserve the greatest of all American assets-useful and Self-respecting human beings" It became a city-wide concern that handi- capped veterans should resme their places in community life quickly, not as objects of pity or charity, but as normal citizens capable of making their own way in a worthwhile job. It will be diff ficult enough at best for wounded veter- ans to return home as different men from those who left it. But surely such a program as this will greatly lessen the psychic shock of disability or disfigure- ment.
 Such plan as this is worth thinking about in other towns and cities. Concern for the returning veteran is shining national exception to the domestic dis agreement inevitable in this election year. Plans for service men, both sound and handicapped, are under way from Capitol Hill to the smallest crossroads town. These plans are decent expression of grati- tude and of determination that victori- ous soldiers and sailors shall not come back to disilluSionment and depression. Incidentally, they are among the more hopeful antidote for "peace jitterS'.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
THE FATE OF BOOM TOWNS
(New York Sun)

When the war is over, rural com munities which have experienced e mushroom growth because of prox- imity to military establishments, or because they were selected as sites for the manufacture of explosives. the loading of shells or some other purely wartime activity. are in danger of whitening as rapidly as they grew. Such, at least, is the opinion of Dr. Warren s. Thomp- son, director of the Scripps Founda- ton for Research in Population Problems. Less suddenly. he feels but just as surely, those cite which have boomed because of shir yards and airplane plants will lc' their surplus populations. Only co'
 munity cooperation on a scale
 yet attained in this country.
 thinks. can prevent this. ''Indee
 he says, ''only the entry of Western States into the field
 State ownership of certain basic i
 dustries will enable the West Cor
 to maintain the industrial positi
 1t has gained during the war" E
 bases this on the theory that in re conversion, major manufacturing industries naturally will give first caii to their pre-war plants planned ! for peacetime production. Although
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Butterfly Season

Shyly, perhaps little guilty, the American civilian male is now emerging from his winter cocoon of blue serge and gray worsted. Summer clothes bring relief from drab convention, though the male will only admit that such clothes bring legitimate relief from the heat. But note the rich red browns, the electric blues and flaShy tans and shining pearl grays of his lightweight fabrics.
 It won't last, of course, for the seasonal cycle is by now almost law of nature. Come the first frost and the male will again become the caterpillar of conven- tion And the spirits of gay-hued Tudor Englishmen and plumed cavaliers will again turn from their dun-colored de- ScendantS in despair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Bogey Man

Perhaps President Roosevelt's chiding accusation that people were looking under the bed" in the Montgomery Ward case might apply to both sides of the con- troverSy Take the case of Paul D. Sowell, which was dismissed at the governments request since the lends of justice" no longer require his prosecution.
 MT. Sowell had quite buildup as a deSperado. A mild-looking minor execu- tive at Wards, he was arrested for the heinous offense of tearing government poster off the wall.
 He was handcuffed, finger-printed, held incommunicado until his lawyer threat ened habeas corpus proceedings. Maybe it was the Chicago atmosphere. Maybe the boys were expecting Dillinger to jump out from behind the catalogs and % bOOl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
MUSIC OF MERCY
(New York Herald -Tribune)

(NeW York AeraIQ-1 1rlDune)
 No happier way of helping the American Red Cross can be imagin- ed than to be in attendance May 25 at Madison Square Garden when Arturo Toscanini will left spec ially made thirty six inch baton above the combined Philharmonic Symphony and National Broadcast ing Company orchestras. The big benefit performance will have, in addition, the services of five famous soloists and a chorus of six hun drede persons. Red Cross officials hope that at least $l00.000 will be raised by the concert. After the performance MT. Toscaninis auto- graphed baton will be put up for auction by Mayor LaGuardia. 1t is announced. One believes that the Mayor, himself a skilled conductor at public performances, will accom- plish such a sale with golden re- suits. The music of this great con- cert will be heard not only at Madi- son Square Garden but in bene- ficent echoes in wartime service and healing from funds raised. Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Burden Littell bureau of Bon- wit Teller, Inc, 72l Fifth Avenue. and at Madison Square Garden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Selected Poem
GREEN FINGERS"

(Violet Alleyn Storey in the New York Times) T always feel sixteen when I pick flowers" She used to say when she was very olS Yes, Sweet Sixteen: my eyes a cornflower blue, My hair the color of marigold." I thought. today, of how she spoke those words And how her neighbors would declare that she Possessed green fingers" since she managed to
 make
 Even the humblest plant bloom gloriously. This afternoon stood where she is laid And noted all the other graves were bare The loam was sandy. nothing planted grew Save on her plot-one rosebush budded there; And I was sure a small, green fingered ghost Would tend to this and coax it into flower So a glad girl goDd-haired. blue-eyed sixteen, Might gather roses in some sun-drenched hour
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

dustry before the war, and walked with Wendell Willkie to smooth out the abortive Senate investi- gation of Hollywood n 1941. Snce Pearl Harbor, he has been n England, and one of his jobs has been to keep the censor'S muz- gle on Army Brass Hats.
 However, General Patton got away from him letting his speech be published by the British Press Association before Lawrence had time to clap on the muzzle. All Lawrence could do was to add the word Russia" to Patton's original declaration that Britain and the United States were destined to rule the world. This was why Patton'S speech, as reported one day, named Britain and the United States as the worlds future rul- CTS while, next day, 1t named Bri- tain, the United States and Rus sia.
 The War Department has
 now warned Patton that he Is to
 say absolutely nothing.
 KENTUCKY DEMO-
 CRATIC SQUABBLE
 Despite ODT requests against travel, Senators McCarran of Nev- ada and Happy" Chandler of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
FTRsT AID FOR WOUNDS

Best first aid care in most cases is protection of the victim from (a) bystanders and morbid spectators who enjoy the show, (b) handling or treatment by persons who have little knowledge, say graduates of a course in first aid, and Co himself or herself.
 From a scientific meteorological study of 700 wounds as soon as pos- sible after injury and thereafter at intervals until healing was complete or patients left the hospital, De Waal Edinburgh M. J., Oct, '43) found that infection was more fre-- quent in wounds which had been cleaned (washedO and dressed than in wounds which had been only dressed (no attempt to wash or clean). Wounds immediately covered with a sterile dressing arrived at the hospital in the least infected state.
 Sterile in the surgical sense means free from germs, particularly the germs which cause inflammation, pus-formation or matteration, sep- ticemia or "acute blood poisoning"
 A sterile dressing" is, say, a pad a many layers of surgical gauge or washed chesecloth which has been subjected to boiling or steam or bak- ing or ironing and kept absolutely clean, untouched by hands or ob- jects, until 1t is applied tol the wound.
 Neither cotton, gauge nor imple- ment should be regarded as sterile just because 1t Is so labelled. An ordinary handkerchief or any sinli- lar piece of linen or cotton that has been laundered and freshly ironed is a sterile dressing ideally suited for proterting any fresh wound.
 Never attempt to apply any so- sailed "antiseptic" to wound, burn or other injury in which there is 6 break or opening in the skin. It is not merely absurd that Uncle Sam permits hawkers of nostrums to urge the gullible intelligentsia to use such nosrums in the childish hope of killing the germs which have invaded various body tissues. but 1t is criminal, for 1t encourages the lame-brains in procrastinaiton and gives the infection, whatever 1t may be, time to progress before the victims call in the doctor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Ambulant Treatment

I have a hernia on my right side. In your pamphlet I note you recom- mend ambulant treatment. I never heard of 1t before. Can you desig- nate a physician here who is skilled in this method? O. G. S.
 Answer-I'm sorry I do not know which physicians in your city employ ambulant methods. I can only as- sure you that if I had hernia or internal hemorrhoids or varicose veins or varicocele I'd want the am- bulant method in preference to op- eration. I can enjoy a couple weeks loafing in hospital for an appendec- tony or other trivial operation as well as the next fellow, but, shucks, why interrupt your bowling, golf or fishing all that time when 1t isn't necessary?
 Tots Eat Sand
 Twins years old eat sand when ever they find any in their play pen. They seem ot love it. The play pen is nearly as great in area as the average dooryard, so it is difficult to be sure they won't find any sand.
 (Mrs. c. M. L.)
 Answer-No great harm if they do eat some sand. if it is not polluted. Keep some plain raw wheat or some rolled oats on hand and let them eat some of either every day-it will be better nutrition than ssr@
 Calcium Carbonate
 Druggist gave me calcium car- bonate in powder-hadn't it in tap- lets. take about one-fourth tea spoonful three times a day after meals. and it prevents acid indiges- tion most satisfactorily. Will it de any harm to keep on taking it9
 (H. G.S
 Answer-No, but I do not advise constant use-it is merely a good remedy to use occasionally to relieve heartburn, acidity, "gas" or diges- tive discomfort-five to ten grains at dose, or about the quantity of the powder you mention.
 (CopyriRht. 1944. John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

Kentucky went down to Louisville for the Derby. When hailed by friends at the race. Happy re- marked that he had to do some- thing to "get away from the poll tax fight"
 Also he took the opportunity to look into the squabble over who is going to be on Kentucky's Demo- cratic delegation to Chcago. Bark ley is considered the logical man to head it.
 So, as compromise, Happy sent word to Barkley that he, Alben, could head the delegation provid- ed Happy could name the chair man of the State Democratic Committee, the National Commit teeman, and the secretary of the State Committee. Also, Happy wants to bar Lyter Donaldson, ex- candidate for governor, from the delegation because he is too friendly to FDR.
 BarkIey sent word back that he had@never aspired to set up a political machine in Kentucky, and therefore didn't plan to let Chandler do it now.
 Copyright, 1924, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

it has a positive characteristic. Blessed are the pure in heart" he said. flor they shall see God" We cannot see God with the physical eye. or even with the eye of faith. The only thing which enables us to see God is an undecided moral life. Both here and in the here- after. those who have the power which only undehlement confers, will see God.
 The value of upright living con- sSts not just in the trouble 1t en- ables one to avoid, but primarily in a positive quality os eharactME
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
LEND-LEASE
(New Haven Journal-Courier

(NeW Haven JOurnaI~COurler
 In signing the third extension of the Lend-Lease act, the Pdesident looked back at the accomplishments since the law was first passed on March Il, 1941. Those accomplish nents are considerable. In terms of finance, they represent an expendi- ture of SPA billion of American money. Tn terms of goods, they rep resent planes, tanks. jeeps, food, clothing, ammunition, machinery and almost every other tangible war item. In terms on victory. they represent morale to our hard pressed allies at a time when the struggle was one-sided. To ,ls Americans, Lend-Lease stands for lives save dand for borrowed time in which to get ready for war. With out doubt, Lend-Lease has proved to be one of the most brilliant strategies of the war.
 Though the bill the President has just signed prolongs lend-Lease only until the end of June 1945, few ex- pect that it will end there. How much longer it will run cannot be foretold now, but the curious thing is that few people are willing to talk about its future. The President said nothing on this point Wednes- day except that it will continue until victory Congressmen venture little speculation. But Lend-Lease and Reverse Lend-Lease have demon stcated a type of cooperation which ought to provide lessons for the postwar exchange of goods and services. Behind the scenes, some people are probably attempting to translate these lessons into peace time conditions. Tn the course of time, all of us will be discussing their conclusions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
ARMY OF THE UNDERGROUND
(New York Times)

On the basis of an announcement by the French Committee of Ma
 tional Liberation the first United Nations troops are already in France. They cannot be described as part of the invasion. In fact, when they think of invasion they must think of the Nazis. They are the members of the French underground, esti- mated by the Nazis at a strength of 75.000 men. not publicly estimated by the French. It is the Commit tees plan to incorporate them in tho army under the title of the French Forces of the Interior. These ragged, obscure men, without uri-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

which is bound to exert a lasting influence upon people and things. The world dwells all too little on the unexplainahle power which some people seem to have. Usually they are not people of position, judged after the standards of the world. But they have an inner power which everyone recognizes.
 An undecided life possesses aston- ishing spiritual potency.
 All Rights Reserved
 nAhaon NewSpaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

evil because he had in his nature that purity which alone could over- come the wicked ness which had wroug ht tn e havoc.
 We gener ally think of purity as the absence of grossness. Jesus however. pointed ont the fact that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Your Health By pr. William Brady

Slgned letters pertaining Co por- sonaI health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis Of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady ik . stamped self-ad dressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In ink. No reply can D., made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Dr. william Brady, National News paper Service, 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

what may MJer be known as an "in ternational bureaucra c y." Brrrrl an d shudderl sfud- derl
 There's no use looking now, be- cause the ecto- plasrnic thing hasn't quite yet m a t e rianzed. But there does- n't seem to be any escape from it. Yoai Simulv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Daily Almanac

Sun rises at 5;29 a. m. sets at s:09 p. m (war tlme)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The Farmers almanac says this is how to handle tent caterpillars: Get out your taliest ladder and pull the nests off the trees. Best time for this is dusk and early morning when the varmints are in their nests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
LOOKS AS IF THEY'RE HERE TO STAY

The budding conferences on mon- etary stabilization, international air rights and international petroleum reserves may also be expected to blossom into full blown conferences, with postwar regulatory bodies.
 A lot of the hands across the sea stuff is, of course, war effort which may be wholly nquidated some sweet day-and again may not. There is or are the combined chiefs of staff under whom function the Combined Raw Materials Board, tte Combined Shipping Adjust ment Board, the Combined Pro- duction and Resources Board and the Combined Food Board. They are semi-civilian and may be stick ing around for long time, till the world gets back on an even eco- homie keel or after.
 Lend-Lease Administration and UNRRA - the United Nations Re- lief and Rehabilitation Adminis- tration - are both temporary, though they have the largest ap- propriations and the biggest staffs at the present time. Not to be over- looked are the Commission for the Investigation of War Grimes and the War Relief Control Board.
 ALL FOR ONLY $50
 The regular State Department budget carries 9 of these interna- tional commissions for which there are appropriations totaling $l,34l .000 for the next fiscal year. They range from a mere $50 for the Central Bureau of the International Map of the World on the Millionth Scale to sums of $250,000 and over per year for the Pan-American Union, pay ment to Panama, and the Interna- tional Labor Office.
 Finally, there are 50-yes, 50 - international committees and com- missions for which there are no appropriations but whose work is done by people who receive gov- ernment salaries. To name few. there are ti1e International Plant Pest Control Commission, the Joint Hide Control Office. the Iceland Committee and the International Lake of the Woods Control Board.
 Everything but an International Horse Thief Protective Associa ton. Where 1t all leads, man knoweth not. but it proves how very complicated life has become.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Views Of The Press

it is not good news to boom town boosters, Dr. Thompson's predictions will hearten dwellers in Eastern cit- ies who have been wondering whether their towns would regain workers lured away by war jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
POWER OF AN UNDEFILED
 LIFE

The story of Parsifal is a beau-
 tiful study in the power of an urlde- filed life. Sin had laid waste group of men whose lives were dedicated to the advancement of the things of God. Parsifal was naive, untu- tored, innocent lad who. coming upon the scene. broke the power of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
2 NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
How Complete Is This Life?
BY PETER EDISON Washington CorrespOndent)

This may be just the forewarn- ing of a bad dream, but don't be too surprised if you wake up some morning to discover that while you slept there crawled under the bed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
Washington Merry Go-Round
White House Expedited Father oemonsks Passport Russia; Chuehs Request State Department Stop Him Was Futile; FDR Reported Viewing Wnont COP Mate Coalition Teket
BY DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON May P - Inside fact about Father oenss famous White rtmenth "a to sayab
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

can't deliver all the international conferences, commissions and regu- latory bodies now a-bornin' without building up Q staff of dry and wet nurses to look after all the, weighty brain-children on which the eco- homie obstetricians now labor. The League of Nations bureaucracy won't be a patchin' to what comes next.
 No one government agency has all the statistics on these interna- tional busybodies. The best guess is that there are between 75 and 100 of them now. What they cost and how many people work for them are nebulous matters - the personnel assigned to many of the commissions have their salaries and expenses paid for by other govern ment departments and they don't work at their international jobs full time.
 In the Department of State bud- get for the fiscal year beginning July 1 there was a request for an appropriation for $2,500,000 for such international meetings, conferences, congresses, and less formal United Nations co-operatice endeavors. Congress cut 1t down to $l,5000 and as such 1t will have to cover such things as the proposed meet ing of Allied ministers of education to plan re-education of Germany, another session of the Interim Con- mission on Food and Agriculture setup at Hot Springs, and some kind of an international nutrition conference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22
A Thought for Today

Let all your things be done with Charity.- Corinthians 1614.
 In charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.-Bacon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

Copyright, 1944. John F. Dille Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-22

Copyright, 1924, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1944-02-11
PUC Sets Taxi Rates
To Trans-Potomac Points

Uniform taxi rates from the Pen
tagon, south post of Fort Myer
Navy Annex and Arlington Farms
Residence Halls to points within
the District were established yes.
terday by the Public Utilities Com
mission.
It was explained that in the past
trips from the Pentagon and the
Navy Building to the first zone in
the District were considered a four
zone trip, but that various rates
were charged from the residence
halls and the Fort Myer post.
To secure uniform rates from
these points in the Federal reser-
vation, the PUG specifically listed
the Pentagon. Navy Annex, Airing
ton Farms "and all other points
on the Federal reservation in the
area lying east Of Arlington Ridge
road and north and northwest OF
Pentagon" as subzone Al.
A trip from Al to zone in the
District costs 80 cents for a single
passenger and so cents In group
riding.