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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
We Are Still at War

After an extensive survey, the maga- zine NeWsWeek reports that price control efforts of the OPA are gradually losing ground largely because of public indif- ference In the battle against imitation it declares that "the OPA is the rear guard, fighting delaying action until the day when mass production and nor nal distribution of civilian goods can catch up with the unsatisfed demands of the last three years. ."
 Perhaps one of the reasons why price control is slipping is the growing ten dency of price regulators to look upon such regulation as more or less per- manent institution. On this basis it does not deserve public support and prob- ably will not get it. However, as long as we are at war, price and wage control should continue to receive the fullest public cooperation. Every government official should seek this cooperation with a clear-cut pledge that the OPA and all the dictatorial administrative evils 1t stands for are purely emergency war measures-nothing more-to be borne cheerfully as long as the dependents of servicemen and war production must be protected against the inflationary dan- gers of wartime. With these considera- tions foremost in mind, the people should and will back the OPA. This goes also for tens of thousands of retail merchants who live most intimately with wartime regulations.
 Price and wage control in war is one thing. Similar control in peacetime is quite another thing. During the war it may mean the difference between vic- tory and defeat In peacetime it be- comes merely a tool to protect profli- gate government and to destroy the free dcm of the people, and should not be condoned. As the New York Tmies says, "The burden of proof should be placed on those who wish to continue wartime wage and price control, in whole or in major part, when peacetime comes, rather than on those who wish to termin- ate it'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Don't Wreck Delivery Wagon

Three of the nations leading chain store systems are being prosecuted for alleged violation of the Federal antitrust laws Chain Store Age states that upon the basis of what is known of the govern ment's theory and what is known of the defendants policies and practices, if vlo- lations of the antitrust laws are found, it means that the chains in all flelds-the voluntary chains, many of the large de- partment stores and every other dlstrlbu- tor catering to the mass market-are probably breaking the law, too. In other words, it is not the chain stores so much as the technique of mass distribution that is on trial.
 Mass distribution to be successful, must cut costs to the bone and depend upon volume for profit. The chains have done just that, as every consumer should know. However, it is doubtful if many consumers will agree that mass distribu- ton as practiced by the chains is a de- structive monopoly slowly crushing the independent merchant. The chains only do around 25 per cent of the total retail business Any consumer who so desires, and plenty do, can step across the street to the chains independent competitor.
 Government spokesmen all over the country have warned that high-level pro- duction and an unprecedented volume of distribution must be the foundation Of postwar prosperity. Many of them, as well as the Department of Justice, should be reminded that the chain stores are the foundation of high-volunle distribu- ton, the delivery wagon of production.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
A Thought for Today
The Fight Against Authorities"

Whoever was responsible for naming the huge government, tax-eXempt hydro electric monopolies which embrace whole river valleys, authorities" committed what may prove to be fatal blunder of accuracy for the cause of those who want to see the country overrun by gov- ernment ownership The term fits the Federal power programs like Cinderella slipper Whenever the government takes over the power business, local control IS displaced by arbitrary centralized auth ority" It can never be any other way, in spite of honeyed publicity to the con- trary A business must be run by it's owners to be successful. In the case of these vast electric projects, camouflaged as flood control, irrigation, navigation, etc., the owner is the Federal govern ment
 However, the bureaucrats never tire of trying to fool the people. The Bonneville Power Administration, for example, is currently putting it's official weight be- hind creation of a Columbia Valley Authority Its government franked In formation Service" tells WesternerS that the proposed CVA "offers the first real opportunity in this region to reverse the trend toward centralization of govern ment control in Washington, D. e. Con- trast these pretty words with the seamier side of everyday Bonneville politics, aimed at extending Federal control rather than diminishing it. In what the local press calls a trick approach, it of- fers to wholesale power from it's tax exempt dam on the Columbia river at new low rate to private and muni- cipal electric plants-providing they buy 90 per cent of their requirements from Bonneville. The same government agency, mind you, that speaks glibly of local rights thinks nothing of using all the special privileges Of a government monopoly to extend it's activities and "authority".
 Similar insidious moves toward Fed e-al domination are being conducted Ill every section of the country. The peo- pie hear of plans for seven tax-exempt TWAS The Missouri Valley and other river basins have become battlegrounds in the fight against authorities" that would destroy states rights and taxpay- ing private industry, and bring Federal bureau dictation to millions of Ameri- cans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Everybody Has Answer

How long will the war with Japan last?
 Everybody has an answer to this ques- ton but our best advice is not to base your bond buying on whether you think it will take weeks or years to win in the Pacific The best war conduct is always to be on an all-out war effort basis.
 General Douglas c. MacArthur gave you the tipof on what to expect before your relatives and friends take over a wrecked Tokyo. In the Philippine cam paign only 1855 Japanese surrendered in a slaughter which cost them 3O8, 18O men.
 Buy bonds in the 7th War Loan with a spirit of an American in combat. Give it to the Japs in full force and with all your weapns. That's the way to do your part in the vital, mighty 7th War Loan. Now-all together
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

Now that the Japs have been driven out of most of Burma, the British are seeking to re- call these arms. But the Bur- mese want to keep them. Since the British were careful to keep record of each Burmese to whom arms were issued, Bri- tish police are now calling upon these individuals and demanding the surrender of revolvers, pis- tols, hand grenades, etc.
 However, the Burmese say that during the Jap occupation they received all sorts of encourage ment from the British in their stated desire for independence. In fact. they claim that a great deal of Free Burma" propaganda was distributed during the Jap occupation with no serious objec- tiou from the British.
 Though some Burmese guerril- las have turned in their arms, others are resisting bitterly and there has been sporadic fight ing between Burmese groups and British troops.
 Meanwhile, Americans in Burma long expecting what is now hap pening-are maintaining hands off policy and refusing to help the British establish law and order"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Carriers Cannot Serve Two Masters

There are hundreds of railroad cOm- panies running trains in this country. But for coordinated route and rate system, shipping and travelling by rail would be a nightmare of conflicting freight charges, ticket buying, train changing, and deteriorating service. Un- believable as it may sound, the Anti Trust Division of the Department of Jus tice wants to smash the present smoothly functioning system, in the name Of com petition, along with the Interstate Con- merce Commission, the agency which heretofore has had unquestioned respon- sibility in the. regulation of rail trans portation.
 To clarify the situation, Representa- tive Bulwinkle of North Carolina has in- troduced a bill to determine how and by whom Federal regulation of rates and services of common carriers shall be ad- ministered- whether by an experienced agency of Congress, the Interstate Con- merce Commission, organized and equlp- ped to carry out consistent and con- tinuing policy, or by the confusing and conflicting determinations of various juries in different district courts, acting under the antitrust laws As MT. Bull winkle observed: "The carriers cannot serve two masters, therefore, lI OeCOIIleo the duty of the Congress to say which government agency, or department, shall have control of the regulation Of rail- roads anG other carriers"
 The proposed bill would leave the anti trust laws in full force and effect so far as they apply to carriers subject to. the Interstate Commerce Act, exempt as to those arrangements among them which are submitted to the Interstate Con- nlerce Commission, and are approved by it as being in furtherance of the national transportation policy declared by Con- gress in the Transportation Act of 1940. It is expressly provided that no agree ment may be approved which wound un- reasonably limit or abridge the right of any carrier to act independently of others In other words, there could be no coercive agreement by which the con- currence of any carrier could be com pelled by action of other carriers.
 It is no more than plan common sense from the standpoint of maintain ing strong transportation system, some- thing the public has learned to appreci-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 The Poor Kids

Ever since you said children should wear, or leave oil. whatever they wish, at any season and in any weather-provided they are not inn beciles-our six kids have lived the life of Reilly, and they have never been healthier or happier know our neighbors think I'm irresponsi- ble and they look upon us as scarcely human, because may hus- band is 34 and I am 28 years old. But we are entirely happy with our six fine children and we don't mind missing the night club life some of our childless or one-child friends seem to crave. tMrs. U. s. W.
 AnsWer-Too many childless or one-child families in America, Your kids, Ma am, are lucky to have al lthose brothers or sisters. America needs more families like yours.
 Marriage of Detectives
 Would you deny a woman the happiness of marriage because both overies have been removed in an operation for f1broids-if her pros- pectlVe huSDand IS aware that Sn6 cannot bear a child?
 (Mrs. R. M, R. M
 Answer - No. But I advise any young man or young woman to think twice before he or she enters into a union which cannot be blessed with children.
 The Dachshund Crawl
 I have found that taking turn or two around the bedroom on all fours every night before getting in- to bed has strengthened my back wonderfully mad relaxed me for the night. (Mrs. M. w. R.
 Answer - Walking or running around the room on hands and knees Cat firsO and later as you gain some strength in little used muscles, with chest and chin down close to the floor dachund fashion is good remedy for weak back and for the bachache of retrodis. placement in women.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Current Comment

We will utilize all land masses near Japan as fast as we can take them. but the islands we already have can absorb much more of the Air Forces. Lack of engineering troops to develop bases is critical item.
 -Lt.-Gen. Barrow M. Giles, Con- mander. Army Air Forces in Pa. cific.
 During these years of battle ouI two peoples have forged a new friendship. .. I trust our wartime comradeship will be followed by ever closer understanding and co. operation.
 King Georges message to resi- dent Truman.
 
 To quit before Japan is utterly crushed may get our sons back sooner, but as sure as fate oul grandsons will fight and bleed and die, just as our sons are doing t). day, if we stop short of complet' victory. William F. Halsey, Jr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Views Of The Press
REDWING
(NeW York Times)

Agelaius phaeniceus is hand some, military appearing fellow. It may be a bit difficult on accession to distinguish grackles, rusty black birds and cowbirds but there's no question about Red Wing. he's the jaunty, chipper troubadourknight of the family His dapper uniform matches his cheerful personality. The glossy black plumage is an eX- cellent foil for his bright decora- tions. The brilliant red epaulets are margined with a gold-yellow band. His distinctive long tail acts as rudder as he comes coasting in to rest on a tall reed.
 Red Wing isn't too fond of manual labor, and while his brown ish rusty-black demure mate builds the nest of grasses and weeds in low bush or hummock he acts as lookout and guardian of tn e SWampy area he has chosen for his stamping ground. While his lady three or four blue eggs streaked with black-purple marks, broods and feeds the youn, Agelaius con- tlnues his pleasant duty as warden to the swamp.
 Red Wing isn't a model as a provider for his family but he is a good protector. Once he has staked his claim for his section of the swamp or marsh no other bird is allowed near while the new family is matching and growing. Further more, he is songster of above average ability an deXtent of rep ertoire. His sweet, liquid song was deschibed by Emerson as The red wing flutes his O-ka- lee" On these sunny days as he wheels and turns and coasts above the reeds, cat tails and swamp bushes he is a bright bit of color on the land- cape.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

their fellows understand only the language of the club. Our Lord warns us not to cast pearls before swine. One has to ze firm in deal ing with wild boar. Pearls will not appease him; he will trample them and then turn and rend the person who has tried to purchase safet yin this way.
 Our prayers are going up at this time that peace will come out of this dreadful struggle. No one can believe that war itself will ever pro- 6uce peace. The man who fights the battles clears the ground; he expects his government to make such arrangements with nations that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

instructions after he left S
 It shows that the Russians know how to yield on little things and not budge on big things. Some U. S. diplomats don't seem to have learned this.
 For instance when Molotov left, he instructed Russian Ambassa- dor Gromyko to agree to any Insignificant amendments which might help Senator Vandenberg of Michigan or his political popularity" During the San Francisco Conference, Vandenberg at first leaked out anti-Russian gossip to newsmen. Later, al though the Michigan senator con- tinued to be vigorous in his op- position to many Russian policies, he and Molotov each learned to speak about three words of the others language and became per- sonal friends.
 So when Molotov departed, he instructed Soviet delegates as fol- lows: .....
 1. Don't worry about seating the Lublin government and the non recognition of other puppet governments. Original Russian insistance on this was chiefly window dressing, bargaining points and for internal con- sumption.
 2. The real concern of the Soviet Government is not to permit any amendment to the Dumbarton Oaks Plan which would weaken the authority of the Security Council or abolish the veto power. This is essen tial.
 3. The Soviet Delegation on the other hand may agree to in- significant amendments or state ments of ideals which may be regarded as necessary by such men as Vandenberg or others lor their political popularity, but which do not alter the pre- dominance of the big powers in the Security Organization.
 NOTE-The right to veto any moves to check an aggressor na- tion is the main point made by the Russians from the very start of the security talks last sum- mer.
 FORRESTAL ON PRESS
 After Secretary of the Navy For restal left Two lima on his re- cent Pacific trip, he staged a press conference on Guam where he promised to do something to improve news coverage under the Navy. One correspondent piped up, How about radio? What are you going to do for them?"
 "Oh, radio doesn't amount to hill of besns," replied the Secretary of the Navy. "It goes in one ear and out the other"
 What Forrestal didn't realize was that correspondents for the major networks were listening to him. All reported his remarks to their home offices. Now For restal, who has political ambitions is maneuvering desperately to get off the spot.
 Forrestal himself was frankly critical of his own Navy public relations. .-...
 'If we want to have no Navy after the war;" said Forrestal, we're certainly going about it in exactly the right way by pushing the press arOund.'
 One of the things Forrestal dis covered on his Pacific inspection trip is that the Navy has started charging correspondents travel the highest per capita casualty rate of any group involved in front line action. A
 When some correspondents pro- tested this latest Navy scheme to public relations officer, Lieut. Comm. Paul ScheetZ, he replied:
 You fellows are doing the Navy no favor by coming out here."
 RANKIN IN REVERSE
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Your Health
 By Dr.. William Brady

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 DERANGEMENT OF THE KNEE
 In most cases of derangement of the knee joint (floating or loose cartilage joint mice" painful locking of the joinD the disability is the result of some injury. ID some cases it is the result of TOT. mer inflammation of the lining ol the knee joint and consequent thickening of fringes of the synoVlal (lining) membrane,
 Although young persons who are athletic often develop this disability thev are little if any more subject to internal derangement o1 tns knee than are young persons Who never indulge in even the mildest. play.
 The primary injury, wrench oi mistap responsible for the derange- ment may be as simple as turning over in bed of nudging or kicking something with the side of the foot, This tears a cartilage partly from it's attachment so that the looseneo portion is left unanchored ana therefore likely to slip out ot place and get pinched. Once this oe- rangement has developed the victim is likely to have repeated paln1uI experiences from sudden pinchlng of the loose body in a careless movement of the knee, with per haps locking of the joint = "hlcn may require general anesthesla TOT unlocking-and a week os so or swelling and lameness after each such incident.
 What to do?
 That depends on the value o1 the ! knee. If it is not essential that full use of the knee be recovered or retained. one can drift along, half crippled, fooling with liniments. d. cts manipulation nostrums trlcK healers-there are so many diver tisement of that sort available nowadays.
 On the other hand if one can't afford to be so handicapped there are two alternatives, namely, keep ing the knee always supported with an elastic bandage and elastic splints, or submitting to surgical removal or anchoring of the loose body. This operation is by no means so formidable as it may seem so the uninitiated - it was pretty serious to open the knee joint in the days before aseptic surgery, but not now. (To be continued
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

ciflc making preliminary studies But thus far no reports have been made public.
 First difficulty is that none of the big raw materials producing areas of the Pacific has as yet been iber- ated. And how much of a scorched- earth policy the Japs will carry out as they retreat can't be measured
 There is an American demand for what the Pacific can produce which may take several years to fill. Tin from the Netherlands East Indies and Malay. rubber from the same areas, vegetable, palm and COCOA nut oils are needed.
 SYNTHETICS HELPED
 SHORTAGE
 Wartime America has been able to get by without the usual sup plies of all these things which the Pacific used to furnish. Rationing plus syntheticS did the trick but the mere development of these substi- tutes may mean a revolution for Pacific shipping when the war is over.
 What, for instance, is going to happen to the once profitable silk trade with Japan? Will China or the Philippines get it? Or will the development of nylon and rayon put them all - and the silk worm - completely out of business?
 And how successfully will synthe- tic rubber be able to compete with the natural rubber formerly inn ported from Indonesia by the mil lion tons?
 Will the resumed import of vege- table oils formerly produced in the Pacific put a stop to war-increased U. s. production of peanuts and soybeans on American farms? There are couple of revolutions in that.
 The whole pattern of Pacific trade is in for a major reshifting in just such fashion as this.
 Not only that, but what hap pens at the San Francisco Confer ence and at the peace conference afterward, with regard to disposi- ton of Pacific islands formerly mandated to Japan. may have im- portant bearing on postwar trade routes
 Germany made good thing out of those islands when they belonged to her. Japan didn't allow their resources to deteriorate though no one really knows what the com merclal resources Of those islands may add up to. Some have rich phosphate beds which will increase the Pacific supply Of fertilizer. Salpan had big sugar plantations. But will Hawaii and the Philippines stand for their development as competitors on the U. s. market? And how will Louisiana and the beet sugar areas of the west like it?
 CHALLENGES MET
 WITH ENERGY
 All these challenges offer an ex- citing though uncertain future to West Coast shippers who are meet ing them with characteristic energy and initiative. Openly discussed are plans for refrigerator ships which will build up a trade in frozen foods produced in the temperate zones for sale throughout the tropical Paci- flc. And vice versa.
 Passenger traffic offers something with a more immediate future. Though all the fighting men in Pacific want most desperately to come home, many of the people who have had to stay home throughout the war want to go places. Here the greatest imponder- able of them all-how many pas sengers will want to go by air and how much of competitor to the slower ocean-going ship is the air plane going be?
 Anyone who can answer all these riddles has steady job waiting for hmi in the traffic departments of West Ces5t shippers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

edly means that bad as war is, there are some things in the world even worse, and these things brave men in uni form are called at times to go forth and destroy. The rule of brute force can be met only by counter meas7 ures of force, and pe0ple who ahIISe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Selected Poem


5 Madam in The Christian Science Monitor From wrestling trees all day I came in the failing light Where the dirt road fell away In the pools and shadows of night. Too heavy with weight of wood Too weary to raise thought Knee-deep in the dusk stood At the edge of the pasture lot. A late bird sang and was still In brush by the brook below; lamp on farther hill Held landmark up to show. The moon looked over the crown. Home then wasn't so far. I moved my feet and went down Carefully star by star.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28
Daily Almanac

Moon rises at 9:53 p. m. (war time)
 Sun rises at 5:25 a. m, sets at S:l4 p. m. (War tlme)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Any day now you will discover that May is fast approaching June when you see dai- sies in the fiedls with buttercupS blue bells and columbine adding to the floral picture.