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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
0PA Gets Kick
By Cake Eater

PITTSBURGH Feb 10 1NSl
A Pittsburgh war worker who
buys a small cake each day 90 add
TO his lunch, complained 20 OPA
officials in a letter
"When first bought this
little cake il was cents. Two
months ago IL became 6 cents.
Now IL i 3 cents, and only one
half the size IL was when IL was
4 cents"
The man complained 20 the
bakery clerk. but she sand
II only sell the cakes; l don't
make the prices"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
Malaria Victims Face Peril
Of Recurrence, Says Doctor

ITHACA ~ \ Fohl19 INS
Any person who has had an attack
of malaria should bee on the alert
f9r "a Aagcup tor the ndNt couple
ot year, ~ least said Dr. Morton
O. Kahn ut the staff OF the Cornell
University Medical College-NtW
York Hospital
Recent experiment, on birds in
Dictated Thar malria may lc dor
Want IN The human system for
years in some types before haring
zap and Telling UnSuspccung VIC
Tins The disease has been one
OF the most frequent perils faced
o1 battle front, of The Pacific.
Africa. and Mediterranean areas.
DIR Kahn emphasized that when
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
Soldier Goes Under Knife
Twice to Escape KIP Duty

NEWPORT, Ark Feb, 10 tUP)
In the old days. If the Metro
politan Museum of Art turned
down a mans masterpiece on the
New York Philharmonic rejected
his symphony, or some tickle girl
lightly tossed his heart away. he
became a hermit living IN cave,
with a long white beard
But the modern man-who-wants-
to-iorget becomes a combat pilot.
a paratrooper or an aerial gunner
like the soldier at Newport
Army Air Field who reported 10
Flight Surgeon 1t Arthur G..
Schwartz for a physical e&amina-
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

Advised that an operation was
he unheSitantingly sub
mltted and spent a couple of weeks
an the hospital
He reported 10 the flight sur
geOn the second time, and was
sent back Tor a second operation.
On the third try he was ac-
cepted. The flight surgeon, Inn
pressed by the soldiers pertinacity,
inquired what strong reasons had
impelled him 20 90 through all the
trouble 10 become an aerial
gunner.
4 Steely CLINT entered the sol
dierS eye his Jaw set in a grim
lime, as he replied in a voice husky
with emotion
II want 20 keep off KIP"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

back with his fake Fascist Re-
public Here rs what Miss
Schultz says on this head:
would Russia perhaps eX-
pleit- heF-gr ea victories to
establish SOviets I'm Central Eu-
rope? Would this development
then lead 10 the formation of
that RussO-German colossus
which the western powers have
feared ever since Russia began
making her weight felt In Eu-
ropee
"Undeniahly. much OF the
stronger underground movement
In Germany Is Communist. Ii is
equally true that the kinship
between the NaZi and the Com
munist systems il very close
In both countries all the power
il held by the central govern
ment and one party. Both
countries are run by Superla-
lively aStute politicians we'll
aware Of the value of their mU-
tual national cooperation. de-
veloped between 1918 and l94I."
Asa psychological and his
torlcal study Of the Germans by
one who has lived with them.
Germany WIN Try Again" is a
companion book 10 read with
Konrad Hciden's Der FuehreT.|
This war will not end with our
victory If we don't do the job
completely.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

impersonal. He paints the
picture. IL is for you 10
Judge.
He calls his books Of our
revolution novels" But he
has made of his novels"
great historical documents.
That is because there is no
such thing as living history
except it be seen through the
brain Of the dramatist, the
poet - the novelist who-ca
work with swift strokes
like Victor Hugo and Howard
Fast.
The World Publishing Co Of
Cleveland reprints at a how
price Fast's Conceived in Lib
erty." II is the story of Valley
Forge, and say fatty that un-
ill you've read this book you've
never known the grandeurs and
the miseries. the dirt and the
glory. the heroiSm and the filthy
details of that memorable win
ter l777.z2 that our Contlnea-
tals--that is. those that did not
desert-spent near Philadelphia
while the British roiStered in
that City of Brotherly Love and
the American Congress. al
though having taken tt On the
lam, wassailed, dawdled and
swindled while the feet Of our
great raggle-taggle ancestors
literally NOTED off their legs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
A Man Without Fear

give you this dramatic PIC
ture of Washington and his
starving shoeless men:
Washington rides out 10 the
center of the field. lie sits big
on his horse and he seems
oblivious to the wind. He's a
strange man whom none OF us
understand and few of us know
Sometlges we can build a great
hate for him. lie il man
without fear. Hamilton il next
20 him. sitting the horse like an
aristocrat. the lace cuffs Of his
uniform showing, behind him a
little cluster of officers.
The voice of the General
doesn't carry: ii rises and fades
out entirely in the wind. a..
have come "A hong way
bitter cup To drink To en-
dure the British suffer
equally, without our faith :"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
Five Living Generations

FORT JACKSON. s. c.. Feb.
CUP) Jane Brelsford Elmo in-
FAINT daughter of an army lieu
tenant. Is the fifth living
generation of her family Her
great-great- grandmother, Mrs. w.
G.. Reed of Savannah. is %.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
: BOOKS IN REVIEW
aINInHwhlN ZoU BENJAMIN eZJeCa35ere5 nhhHHnuHnn
Fast's Works on the Revolution
Tell Story Vividly and Realistically

NO LIVING person, in my opinion write about
~ Revolutionary Age like Howard Fast His The Unvan
pushed is greatest book Washington He walks and
talks right before you. His Haym Solomon and Citizen
Tom Paine" perfect works of historical art
Fast has the gift of vividness and realistic clarity He
all dialogue and descriptions to the bone There is
verbal Chocaw in his pages He explains nothing. he is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

persons who return from the
tropics begin to feel chillS or fever.
skilled medical care should be
summoned al once In contrast TO
symptoms of the common cold,
tt1ere Is an absence of stuffy nose
or sore throat, and a lack OF upper
RESPIRATORY symptoms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

"Some one shouts: Where do
they suffer--in Philadelphia -
1--WE must endure all wrong
hate
Where IL our pay: BY
God, your shrinking Continental
money 49,"
Those men-and Washington
gave us what we've got today
the greatest country in the
world. A tremendous book,
Don't miss lt-four your Ameri-
can souls sake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
Democrats Cite Gains
 Made by Farmers Under Roosevelt Administroti tion
y tho Democratic National Committee

By the Democratic National Committee
 AMERICAN farm income stimulated by the Roosevelt Administrations farsighted policies stands today at an all-tme hgh-iA billion dolars-twice as high in iS2e ct the peak of Republican "prosper ity"
 It is seven times as high as 1t was in ieS2 after the Great Engineer had finished with it-and fin- ished himself and his party in the process.
 Depression for the farmers began immediately after the last war. in the disastrous deflation of is2l-2. Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover watched lose ther hcmssesds by theehundreds of tho,,sands Q year and did nothing.
 They watched America lose her foreign market for farm products through strangling tariff policy dictated by Wall Street .and did nothing.
 IN Republican philosophy then and now, 1t was up to the farmer to fend for himself-with all the cards stacked against him. If he fell into debt that was his own faut-he should work harder and save his money
 If he lost his farm through flood. or dust storms or foreclosures from inability to get fair prices for nj his produce that was Just too DO Sad sSe were acs
 What three Republican administrations couldn't do, President Roosevelt did-promptly. The balance between agriculture and industry was restored.
 Tn its philosophy-and practice-the Democratic Party hes always stood for parity of farm and city incomes. believing that the farmer is as much entitled to the protection and support of the government as the businessman the workingman or any other hard- .
 By 1882 under Hoover's policiesor want of pol- icies-farm income had fallen to $2000O0oOO0. Be- tween that year and l93e farm income doubled Dur- ing the past few years 1t has tripled again.
 Farm debt has declnied $20OO.OO0.OoO. Interest charges have been cut from 10 to four percent Bank credit is now readily obtainable for any sound agt- cultural enterprise
 great system of farm-to-market roads has been built More than 100000 farms have been electrified More than 3O0O000O acres of eroded and depleted lands have been saved and reclaimed.
 
 The Roosevelt Administration has been particu- ariy concerned about the small farmer-the man who asks only chance to support himself and his family by his own back-breaking work in the fields mil- lion small farmers have found new lease on life on farms of their own
 Responding to new-found opportunity, the Amer ican farmer has done magnificent job during the war; in spite of the Jeremahs who were wailing just year ago that would all be starving ny this summer with Governor Dewey swelling the dsfeatist chorus.
 "A shift to cereal diet" he said. ifs the only way to make our food go around"
 And now, what is this agricultural expert ukter- lne fesuelR laKwp and pmau alAke9 return 70 tne ardins u1Fmalcy" and another slelsn Tiqe @ hoov- srpllle with ils holidays and sheriff sales.
 consraiy ao the old aanga, 1uhn Farmer nad h2Il&l iees li's Trojan slft N44e n EAa '
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
ACCOUNT NTANISSET
 TONJOY WHEALE
Captain Speaker at Spe. cial Hartford Chapter
 Farley Tomorrow

A spcial meeting of the Hartford Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants will he address sed by Captain J, c. Wheale, Springfield Ordnance District, on the subject of "Reprioing of gov. ernment Contracts. at The Elm Tree Inn, Burlington tomorrow evening,
 Tn view of the current emphasis on reprieing of government con- tracts, 1t is considered most timely to present Q discussion of this suh- jeet by such Q competent speaker.
 Repricing of Government con. tracts is part of the War Depart ment pricing policy to buy what Is needed at fair and reasonable prices calculated to encourage both in- creased production and operating efficiency, It deals with the provi- sions which the Government has made in the form of special con- tractual articles to eliminate con- tlngency charges by protecting the contractor against risks over which he has little or no control under wartime conditions; to permit in certain cases e revision of entire contract price after production has commenced; or to permit periodic repricing of an item to the end that e contractors risks are limited to . comparatively short term for which he can appraise them with knowl- edge and reasonable accuracy,
 Captain Wheale !E 6 graduate ot the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was employed ct the Bridgeport Brass Company un- til ordered to active duty in the summer of 1889 with the Spring. field Ordnance District. He served as adiutant ct the District for two years, was Chief of the New Ha- ven Regional Office for two years, and now holds the position of Co- ordinator of Price Analysis in the Springfield Office.
 Dinner will be served at 6:SO p. m. and the technical session will start at 800 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
URGES CITIES
 TIGHTEN BELTS
 FOR AFTER WAR

ChleaRN cot, S0--Local govern. mentS must administer their cure rent financial atfalrS properly aa weM NS plan for the future. the Municipal Finance ofAeers Assn. said In Q statement by its executive board outlining Q Seven-polnt pro- gram on "etfeetive fiscal policies for local governmentS,"
 Most etfeetive postwar plans eon- Slst primarily of present eforts to reduce local debts, establish cash reserves, strengthen adminiStra organisatlon and survey community needs, the association said,
 The association suggested that:
 1, Debt should ha reduced and pAy~aS-you-go plans continued un- til postwar needs make borrowing the only alternatives tax antieipa- ton and Shork-terM bank loans should be elMinateds naunlicipNlls ties should establish reserves ot cash and credit for postwar USess reserves should he protected and held NMtll their use will make the greatest contribution to the com munity and tho nation,
 2, A study of community needs and community resources should he the basis for postwar community planning, and local public works built around O master plan based on community needs and resources,
 8, Local governments should pro- teet themselves against excessive construction of public Improvements in suburban and outlying areas through special assessments, which led to financial collapse of many in previous periods of prosperity, by studying each proposed iMurove~ Ment to determine Its necessity, Its propriety and possibility of payment,
 (, Each locality should be per mitte6 to combine its funds and its tax levies SO all general activities can be financed through Q single general fund, A large number of separate tax leVieS eoMplioates ae- counting, increases the likelihood of protecting special interests and tends to increase the overall tax levy,
 5, Local governments should share more fully in certain state- collected revenues and the share should come to them as Q right and not a privilege,
 6, In building up reserves of cash and investments, the invest- MentS must be made with care, in such a way that they will be avail- able without loss of principal,
 T Municipalities which have bonds that are eallahle, or which have not read1usted properly their debt structures, should refund call bonds or readjust their debts on Q 1 solid basis while interest rates stil are low,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
COP Promises to End
 Agriculture Departments Waste and Inefficiency"
Ii tical parties.
By the Republlcan National Committee

Ny the Republican National Committee
 FARMERS, by experience. know that there is some good basic truth in the Biblical proverb about seven lean and seven fat years Farmers in general still find 1t more practical to make hay while the sun shines They have little patience with those New Deal theories about farming which would command the sun to stand stii while pickering boards of men who never saw Q farm argue whether to let the farmer cut his hay or not.
 Tn i2 years the Roosevelt administration failed to develop any cear-cu consistent agricultural pol- icy Bascay the New Deal has never been interested in the farmer Both in tradition and in present fact the American farmer h independent, wary of slick schemes and unreceptive to extravagance. On all those counts the American farmer and the New Deal are incompatible
 Few farmers ever see, very much actual cash They have considerable respect therefore, for . dcl- lar bill and they usually think carefully before spend- ing one. When they do spend. they make sure they are getting value received.
 FARM hours are from dawn to dusk and in the evenings farmers like to rest. They do not like to fill out questionnaires in fine print which s hard to read by artificial light with eyes that are used to bright sunlight. Tn isl4 when every farm in the United states was short of labor to produce the food needed by fighting men and munitions workers MT. Rocseveits Department of Agriculture sent out e qtestionnaire with 2Se questions on N finely
 
 printed pages.
 The American farmer is not dumb He has a radio. and, he reads varoius local and farm papers He s perfectly aware that the cost of the Depart ent of Agriculture rose from sTeOOOOOo in 1883 to over sieO7OOoOOO in ls40; and that quite ea lot Of that money which came out of his pocket was wasted on such follies as those questIcnnaires.
 
 The American farmer is also aware of such silly items as MT. Rocsevelts Executive Order No. 05ss, which reads: The Secretary of Agriculture and the War Food Administrator ahall each have a'i- thorty to excsrcss any and a of the powers vested in the other . :" He remembers the directive about saving horses shoes by taking them off every night. Sometimes he laughs, but more often he js solemn because it is his money that is heing thrown away.
 Technical and financial aid to farmers. efficient ly administered through properly functionine De- rartment of Agriculture is basic need. This does not requlre-as at present in some cases-4our sep arato farm "aeencies" in single county, but we'll oreanised program under khe Secretary Of Aericul- tuRe with qualified representatives who know and understand local conditions in each area.
 Nasmera can do n4nlnem with such an oIgaul4a. i|on nut QuNstlonnalre nsyar helpsd lp STOW al'as Hs s'AA e conn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
Jap Treatment Of American Prisoners Writes BlackeSt Chapter Iii War History

forced through Japaiiese fed tape were shipments sent on tho two voyages Of the 0fipshciin in ie4s and ie4S for the exchange of some 2bO0 civilian nationals. Assurances have been given tilat tiiege supplies were distributed by the Jape 'to their prisoners, but oil efforts to arrange for further exchanges Of personnel have met with Japanese refiNalg to even discuss the subject.
 Japan's diplomatic out for oil this bad behavior is tliat her g0v- ef1iineft did not ratify the 0etis eva convention Of 1928, relative tO tho treatment Of prisoners Of war. At ti1o outbreak Of the war; however, the U. 2. government obtained assurancea from the Jap~ anese that they would apply the principles set forth ifi the cclvefi- ton tO the treatment Of itg Amer ichfi captives and Co Anlefleaa ci- viiian ifltefneos. How well the JapS have lived tip t0 these aseifa1ceS are best shown by tiie record.
 SPREAD FAR AND WIDE
 Representatives Of the Swiss government and the 1ntsfiatioual Red Gross have been permitted te visit oniy c few Of the camps at which Americans ere held prisoner. Location Of some eight CT ten Of the camps is not even known. The best reports on conditions in the camps have come from first hand accounts related by the repatfiated civilians brought back ofi the two voyages of tho dripsaoin.
 Prison camps that haye been located gre c camp for officers 0f the rank Of colonel cF over at Shanghai, c camp on E0fiHosa where General Wainwright vas last reported, c big camp for ibOO prisoners near Mukdefi, Mancl1uFia, and five active camps on the Jap- aflese Islands proper, There is 0fie camp for Americans near Mi1danao in tho Philippines, another Oit Borneo, three CT moro Ofi JeVa, Ote Oil gunatfa, one fil Burma, one m Thailand end several in wTeFSch IflS d0sChif1a,
 For the TiIipinos, tfefe gre thought Co Dc camps one alid Three near Manila, on . coffee plantation, Number Two % miles to river from Davao. aild Nullls bers Four and Eleven also tli0ggllt tO bo near Maniia, though these last two are mere gueeses,t Cemp Three is c prison hespitsi and Four mag be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
Q \ " trtlsonnra of Naarl
.ptisoners Of Warl
By PETER EDISON NEA-DemoeEat Washington
 CorrAAnNndNNA


 The story of the 10000 American soldiers and civilians held captive hy the Japanese makes one of the hlackest chapters in the history of the war.
 There gre stun some SOe0 to 5000 missing from the Bataan group, No Eilipinos have ever been re ported to this country, the Jape
 claiming that is none of our busi- ness. Since last March. the Japs have reported the names of only @ captured Americans. but there have been propaganda hroadoasts of messages to next of kin from 1000 American soldiers, sailors and marines not yet reported aS captured. Deaths have been re- ported two years after they oc- cured.
 From most of the Japanese pri- son camps, the Americans may send home only one post card or one letter a year, From . few of the show camps the number may he three or four messages . year, but that is c maximum, Some of these messages have been two or three years on the way, The last batch of Mail was received in August, It had been started on its way in February, coming overland across Siberia, Russia, Iran. Egypt and thence across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, In the whole three years of the war, there have been only three large prisoner malls from Japan,
 LAPS STALL RELIEF
 StiN worse than the mall site uation. however, is inability to get adequate medicines, clothing and food supplies to the inmates of the Jap camps, For two years the U, S, Department Of State. the Red Cross and the Swiss govern ment acting as the neutral pros teeting power in representing American interests, have tried to find some formula for shipping in relief supplies acceptable to the Japanese, But every proposal meets with the diplomatic stall and run-around,
 The way matters stand now, 2000 tons of relief supplies have been shipped overland across Si- heria to Vladivostok. The Rus siNns have agreed to transfer the supplies to Q port south of Vlada- voStok, where the Japs tentatively have agreed to pick them up. But
 they haven't done it yet These
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-30
CABER, ERLANCER
 GET STATE POSTS
Waterburians Elected Of. ficers of American Jew.
 ish Congress

Joseph 0aher and Meyer Er. langer, have been elected vice. president and treasurer, respective ly of tho Connecticut State Counr oil Of the American Jewish Congress at its annual meeting at the Bond in Hartford yesterday, Atty, Joseph ', Klan of Hartford was reelected president,
 Speaking on anti. SemitiSm at yes- terday'S conference, principal speak, CT Rabbi Irving Miller. Far Rock away, l., l., declared in part:
 "Anti-Semitism, which Hitler used as an instrument to gain con- trol of Germany, was similarly used by demagogueS to gain control of Poland, Romania and other eoun- tries, It is now being used for the first time by certain groups to forge the sword of FaScism right here in America,
 This problem can only be solved by the total mobilization oI the strength, energy, and sup- port of every Jew in America |, There must be strong leadership backed by an organization that will represent Jewry, and have the respectful ears of the Chris tian world, We cannot afford any longer to allow a condition where- by any small clique can set thenl- selves up as the representatives of Jewry and bring about action and criticism harmful to aus all"
 Other officers chosen yesterday were: Max Livingston, New Haven; Atty, Saul Berman, Hartford: Mrs, I, solomon Rosenberg, Hartford; Mrs, Elizabeth Swirsky of New Haven was elected financial secre- tary and Jack Schwartz of New Haven was elected recording seo- retary,