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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
A Sorry Picture

It was sorry picture that a representa- tive of the Womens Christian Temper ance Union told legislative committee last week She said in part: To-day our bars are lined with women and the liquor traffic has stripped our women of all virtue. =" We wonder, thought, if the story shouldn't have been told to law enforcement officials, not to the men and women who make the laws. We go up to Hartford to have laws made, amended or revoked. We should go to the police or prosecutors of our courts when the laws are abused.
 Granting that there may be something to the charges made at Hartford last week, we don't want to see the liquor laws of Connecticut subjected to SO much pull ing and pushing this way and that SO that we become a paradise for speak easies. It may be that conditions are as charged above, but it would seem as If local authorities were somewhat at fault or that proprietors of such establish ments were not doing anything to protect their business from criticism which IS bound to reflect on the entire industry.
 It always seems to this writer as ii there were countless people ready to tell the liQuor industry just how it should be conducted, but no one ever thinks any, thing about telling endorsements agen- cies how they should make liquor estab- nishments conform to the existing stat ates. It stands to reason that most mem bers of the industry are desirous of such laws as will enable them to earn and keep public respect. When violations occur,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
WHO CARES ABOUT PUBLlC
 HEALTH EDUCATION?

My irruption into the newspapers, daily and Sunday, was inspired Dy a physician who, in a way, nao beaten me to it for Dr. Cnver Wendell Holmes published me Autocrat of the Breakfast Taple Hi 1853. It was the Autocrat ana tne Professor that gave me the idea.
 For the first ten years my meoi- cal colleagues regarded my depart ure with suspicion if not open re- proach, kut I finally gained the cordial cooperation of the Ameri- can Medical Association and for 8 while we worked together in me spirit-until the advent Of the Blg Noise. who wanted to market health column of his own as 8 sloe- line, so in due time the A. M. A. and fell out and the official organ of the association even began print ing scurrilous editorial assaults up- on me and my wretched column. All I know about the good or harm I do is what read in the many letters I receive from read CTS. Obviously I can't assay the educational value of the service by that test, for the daily lesson may do good or harm to thousands who never write for every one who tells me about it.
 It would seem that health educa- tion should be in the hands of the medical profession or specialists in that field of medicine. But the tra- ditional and now antiquated policy of dignified silence has fettered the medical profession until we have become almost negligible in health I education. It is my opinion that health education today is adminis- tered mainly by the aggressive com" mercial interest - nostrum makers, food manipulators, household sup" ply manufacturers. clothing, cos" metic, surgical supplies, soap mak- ers-and any one who ventures to question any of their teachings does so strictly at his own peril.
 For most of my life, for all of my professional lifetime up to a year ago I kept up my membership in county. state and national medical societies and tried to be good lit tie boy. A year ago I got burned up about certain abuses in my county medical society, and quit in a huff-you know me, all. Resign ing from the county medical society automatically terminated my mem- bership in the state medical society and my fellowship in the American Medical Association. imagine my dear friend the Pooh-Bah noted my defection with some satisfac'
 tion. Anyway, my copy of the Jour. American Medical Association now comes addressed Estate of Wm. Brady, MD"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
Your Health
 By Dr.. William Brady

slKned letters pertaining to per- sonsl health and hygiene. not 70 disease, diagnosis of treatment. win be answered by pr. Brady u . stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclose. Letters should be brieK and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address D1' william Brady, National News paDer Service. 32O West Madison atreet, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
Selected Poem
NEST

(V H. F. in The Countryman) For years now BlackbirdS have neSted At the bottom of the garden, Shy, welcome guests Who never come any nearer. But this year they are nesting Thrillingly close to the house, In hedge only just outside my window. Swift, streamlmined, With motions as glidingly smooth AS summer waves, They come and wo. What trust what boldneSs Have I unexpectedly won! It is like an accolade; No, 1t is like child's love, Sudden and sweet When a soft hand finds yours And small feet walk fearlessly beside you: It is ecstasy. O Providence, Make dense the hedge, And cast an Egyptian blindness On all padding cats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
QUESTION and ANSWERS How to Lose Weight

Is 1t possible to lose weight at my age-67? In the last three years I have taken on lot of fat on my adbodmen and hips, and am not a large eater. CT. M. P0
 Answer r-Moderate reduction not over two pounds a week-is safe at any age. Send stamped en- velope bearing your address, ask for pamphlet How to Lose Weight"
 Alcoholics Anonymous
 Kindly give me some information about Alcoholics Anonymous. Can they cure '. .? (MrS. L. H.
 Answer-No, Ma'am, and they do not promise or pretend they can cure anything. They are group of earnest people, men and women, who have mastered the drink habit or are now making the fight, and they merely want to help others do so. Get the address (perhaps post office box) of group from your telephone directory of perhaps from the classified section and go to their meetings. It is the best possible course for any alcoholic habitue, I believe.
 Don't Crop 8 Girls Hair
 I am a girl ten years old and every time my hair grows long my mother cuts it. She says every time you cut it 1t gets stronger. I'll be looking in the paper every day for your answer. (Alta -)
 Answer-I hope you haven't giv- en up looking, Alta. Your mother errs in thinking clipping or cutting the hair makes the hair grow heav- fer, faster or stronger. Of course 1t has no such effect.
 Copyright 1945, John F. Dille Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
SURPRISE AT OKINAwA
(New York Sun)

In one of the most brilliant and important of the long series of am. phibiouS operations in the Pacific, infantrymen and Marines Of the new Tenth Army have landed or Okinawa $50 miles from the Jap. anese home islands seized three important airfields and established a solid bridgehead eight miles long and three miles deep. They did this almost without firing shot. Not a landing craft was hit. The invaders walked ashore upright and there was only sporadic firing by a few enemy sniperS. The landing parties were prepared to meet and overcome the same bitter resist ance experienced on Two. How they were able to receive one of the most remarkable gifts imaginable - So solid a foothold that already Ad- miral NimitZ can say Final, de- cisive victory is assured-is another Japanese enigma.
 An estimated 60OOO to 100000 Japanese defenders of the island ap- pear to have concentrated along the east coast where, for days, warships and aircraft of the Fifth Fleet have been keeping up heavy lombard ment. It was here the Tokyo radio was telling its listeners, that land- ing had been made. Instead. on Easter morning a convoy of l.400 ships in command of Vice-Admiral Richmond K. Turner, moved In on the western coast to put ashore the new army under Lieutenant-G Gen. eral simon B. Buckner Jr. That these fine beaches on the sheltered west coast only Q dozen miles above | the capital city of the island were an obviuos invitation to invasion seems not to have occurred to the enemy. Hard fighting is doubtless
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
AIRPOWER PLUS
(Hartford Courant)

No more graphic illustration of the ceasless demand for war goods has been recently presented than that contained in the annual report of the United Aircraft Corporation, especially in that phase of the re- port prepared for its employees. Since September, 1899, a Pratt and Whitney motor has been produced every nine minutes. That makes 160 a day, 60,00O a year. Since the rate of production has not always been constant, these figures do not indicate the potential maximum per year production.
 Amazing as the cold figures are, they become even more so when it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

cisco Conference must now be delayed as @ result IS rank coward ice.
 Nothing could set back the cause of world peace and security more than 8 postponement at San Fran cisco. To moan low that the Dum- barton Oaks proposals are fore doomed to failure Is to admit that Nad propaganda is right and to fall for the Hitler-G -Goebbels line. that peace-loving nations can never be united. Why be such suckers?
 INITIAL CRITICISM RIFE
 When the Dumbarton Oaks pro- posals were first announced there was naturally much questioning. Perfectionists could think up a thousand details that might be changed.
 Until the past week the volume of these criticisms had seemed to be subsiding as people realize that the form of United Nations Or- ganization, the mechanics of its op- eration, was far less important than its objective of ending wars.
 Were not interested in how you work it out" the average citizen seemed to be saying to his govern ment, "just give us peace"
 Jobs, food, personal security, So- lution of economic problems as they affect daily living = these are the things which are uppermost in the minds of 8 majority of the people. The machinery of government and foreign relations are important only as they contribute to lasting peace in which there will be jobs, food, security. That is the objective worth striving for.
 A proper perspective on this pres- ent fare-up can perhaps best be gained by looking back on the Con- stitutional Convention in Philadel- phia in 1787, when the document was being framed on which the United States of America was to be founded. Only 12 of the 13 colonies sent delegates, Spunky little Rhode Island stayed out and didn't ratify the Constitution until two years later when she was forced into line by threat of economic sanction.
 Today it is the United Nations oi the world to be organized. What difference if the Lublin Poles, or Argentina or the Ukraine aren't al San Francisco? They can come in two yers later, with or without threat of economic sanctions.
 There was an issue of large states vs small at Philadelphia just as there is an issue of large nations vs small facing the delegates to San Francisco. At Philadelphia the issue was settled by compromise. It can be so settled at San Francisco If the statesmen who represent the nations are of mind to do 1t.
 POLITICAL IMMATURITY
 More and more, a feeling grows that the government of Soviet Rus- . sia may be politically immature ir its international relations. That car be said without intended insult with glance over the shoulder at the record of the United States oi America. This country was that way in 1919 and 20 and '2l. Suspicious isolationist in the extreme, unwill. Ing to cooperate with other nations unless we could write the ticket just the way. we wanted It.. The United States, as 8 nation in 1920 was like Rhode Island as a colony in 1787. It didn't work in 1787, i didn't work in 1920 and 1t probably won't work any better in 1945.
 But nations learn slowly and tn. history or 1787 and 1920 will be re. peated if the men who represent the nations now become involved 1T petty protocol, losing sight of wha they are supposed to do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
HELP FOR HOLLAND

To most Americans the Dutch have always seemed quaint people with thelr windmills, wooden shoes, tulips, StorkS, wide Starched caps and wider brooches. We've chuckled at them and their queer clacking language, but we have also admired them for their industry and neatness, their apple-cheeked health, and their resourceful battle against the en- croaching sea.
 Perhaps the average Americans pie ture of the Netherlands has been little distorted. The Dutch have known blt- terness and unrest and bleak poverty. Yet in the main our impression of healthy, happy people has probably been accurate. At least it was until May 10, 1940.
 On that day, nearly five years ago, con- menced what is doubtless the most tragic chapter of Dutch history. The Germans invaded the Low Countries to protect" them from the Allies Four days later, after the Dutch armies had capitulated, the Luftwaffe flew over the great city Of Rotterdam unopposed, and bombed it to rubble
 From then on the night of terror grew blacker. The Nazis, early convinced that their brutality was not forgiven by their Dutch neighbors, resorted to cruelty. The stouthearted Dutch fought back as best they could with sabotage, passive resist ance, diSobedience and ridicule.
 Last fall release seemed imminent. Allied armies drove up from Belgium to free the southern Netherlands provinces. Then the Germans held. And for the greater part of the country still in Nazi hands, the worst was only beginning.
 The Germans opened dikes and dams and poured the bitter brine of sea water over land made sweet and fertile by the toll of generations. The important source of food thus lost cannot be reclaimed, it is thought, for at least ten years. Starva- ton thus was added to irdignity and fear.
 In the ruins of the once proud city of Rotterdam, and in the streets of Anster- dam and the Hague, Hollanders dropped and died of starvation each day. There was food only for the German conquerors. And their cruel fury apparently increased as defeat loomed nearer.
 Now at last the day of liberation is at hand = not only for the Dutch but also for the English, as the Germans are driven from their V-Bomb installations on the Netherlands coast. And there Is nothing in all the present tide of Allied victory that brings gerater cause for sol ernn rejoicing.
 Relief organizations apparently are prepared to move in quickly once the Nazis are driven out And there is urgent need for haste. The little country whose markets once abounded in golden butter and cheese, rich cream and other enticing food is now without even sufficient bread for most of it's people. Each days delay in bringing food to them will mean the death of hundreds more.
 It is, in part, for such people as the Dutch that the President has asked us to tighten our belts AS we think of them we might reflect on the meagerness of the sacrifice we are asked to make.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

Make one good resolution tonight - Clean-Up Week has started in Waterbury: Two or three nights spent round the old homestead raking, shoveling, even burn ing, if you're careful-that's all that's necessary to make the week success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

That's a miracle highway they're talk ing about for Waterbury. Overhead and underground routes to prevent conges- ton at crowded intersections. Sounds almost fantastic for Waterbury, doesn't it? Many of us, though, are going to experience the wonders of the postwar era. Might as well start getting the ideas now
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 5:03 a. m. (war time)
 Sun rises 6:23 a. m: sets 7:25 p. m. (war time
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min utes after sunset.
 Frost has long been the arch-enemy of mankind Its shrieling effects aren't appar- ent until the sun has touched the object on which the frost has first placed the kiss of death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

DaCK-fOOm brAWlS over voting pro- cedure, small na- tions vs large, Poland, Arge n- tina, the Ukraine and such small potatoes Is utter ly futile.
 Granting tn a t the making of a secret Big Three deal at Yalta was stupid statesman ship of the lowest order, still the present cry that the San Fran
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

sistent with the plan of a loveing Heavenly Father?
 If wet rust Him. God suffuses our minds with the joyful confi- dence that the things we do not un- derstand are part of His loving plan for us and others.
 (ll Rights Reserved-Babson
 Newspaper @yndicate)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

years later we find that this denial was the
 best thing that ever happened to us. We set ou'- selves to carry out ertaIn plans, and all along the line find these plans turned back ahd at last over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

there Is usually a rush to penalise the industry, not the individual. That should be the rule, not the exception, we think.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
|"
 SPOTLIGHT
Peace Conference Vote Fuss
By PETER EDISON

By PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA Wash
 ingtOn Correspondent
 Washington, April 9 - In all this squabbling about who gets invited to the San Francisco Conference, 1t is all too easy to lose sight of the one important objective.
 That objective is to set up an or- ganization that will end wars. Getting sidetracked by Q lot of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, DID.
PERFECTION OF DIVINE
 PROVIDENCE

The longer Q Christian believer lives the more is he sure that Gods plans are always right.
 We see this work out in @ number of ways. Sometimes we are denied something we want very much and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
Views Of The Press

ahead on Okinawa but in the first round blow has been struck from which 1t is unlikely the Japanese can recover.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

Western Australia had 700 di- vorces last year, as compared with 281 in 1939.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
A Thought for Today

Thou shalt furnish him MberalIy out of thy Heck, and Out of thy floor, and out of thy wine- urass: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thOu shalt give unto him. -DeutcrOnomy 1S:1A.
 For to give is the business of the rich Goethe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09
Washington Merry-G -Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

Soys Wallace Louds Hoover Seereto FDR Reoy Runs Foreign Affairs Himse Buekner Family Views Changed on Surrender 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-09

Copyright, 1945, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-28
Air Lines Plane Ends
t4,OO0-MiIe Survey

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UP)
"A giant Douglas C-54E luxury
Skymaster landed at the National
Airport last night to complete a
l40O0-mile survey flight over
TWAS proposed trans atlantic
route 10 Paris. Rome and Cairo.
A $4,000 Accident Insurance
policy for only soc payable each
8 months, protection available
ONLY tn new or old regular
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Times subscribers. Dial Cherry
$500 for additional information.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-28
Driver Held in Death
Detroit Times saginaw Burcau

UItIUN IIHth 0HsIWaW HHItHH
SAGINAW. Oct. 27-George
Mann. p, Frccland truck driver,
was free on $1,000 bail today
awaiting trial on a negligent
homicide charge in connection
with the traffic death of a 7-year-
old Girl
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-28
Crash Injuries Fatal
To Worthwhile Man

% Injuries suffered in an automo-
bile accident last Monday proved
fatal Saturday to Peter Kovat-
sis, SO. of 213 S. Rogers, North
VILE. lie died in Receiving Hos
pital
The car in which he was rid
ing was struck by one driven by
Evelyn Beall, 35, of Union Lake.
Pansy Paulas, also Of Worthwhile.
was killed. The Beall womaf is
free or S4se bena on a-r'r.>...ttir'ss
driving count pending arraign-
ment Nov. so. ee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-02
Compensation Agreements

Compensation Commissioner John J. O'Connell today approved the fol- lowing agreements for weekly pay ments during disability or for speci- f1c payments in case of permanent injury:
 Patsy Alfano of Torrington against American Brass Go. of Tor rington, $3o beginning June 8, back injury.
 William Herman of IA Chipman street against Scovill Mfg. Co., $29.33 beginning June Is, for three sevenths of a week, injury to left great toe.
 Ina Conklin of 1ee River street against Scovill Mfg. O., S18.T for one and three e-seventi1s, amputation of second right finger, supplement tary payments.
 Christopher Smith of 97 Walnut street against Scovill Mfg. Co., $26.67 for Is weeks. 20 per cent loss of function of left thumb.
 Winifred Wenning of 218 Green wood avenue against Frances Wood Beauty Salon, $860, beginning May 5, burn of right eye.
 Bernadette Dubois of 159 Louns- bury street against American Brass O., $21.16 beginning May 28, in- lection of left thumb.
 Nicholas Grossman of 157 Fern street against Raytric Knitting Mill of Watertown, $30 beginning March 21, injury to left lung and right index finger.
 Frank Rogers of 176 Charles street against Waterbury Buckle O., $1959 for eight and one-third weeks, 8 and one-third per cent loss of func- tion of right ring finger.
 Edward Martin of Middlebury against w. J. Megin, Ins., of Nauga- tuck, $2l.ss beginning May S1, back sprain.
 Anthony Barone of 40 Elmwood avenue against Lombard Brothers, Inc, of Waterbury. $e:06 for 3.4 weeks, IT per cent loss of use of left little finger.
 Edward J. Burke of Oakyille against American Brass Co, s23 .66 beginning June 70, snse:n Us left ankle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-02
Manpower Controls
 On Way Out-- -Vinson

if they decide such action will not interfere with war output.
 This means that WING official in the field can now decree that 8 certificate of availability-a device used to discourage job-jumping-is no longer needed by worker to get 8 job in any particular area or in a specific factory. These decisions would be subject to approval by the regional director.
 Officials estimate that approxi- mately 75o,o00 are unemployed at present.
 To allow industry to absorb some of the unemployed, the War Pro- duction Board is relaxing its rigid controls over most raw materials to enable non-war producers to get started on peacetime work. WIPE Chairman J. A. Krug ordered the gradual scrapping of priorities over six-month period for virtually everything except military require mentS."
 Under this system, manufacturers can obtain available materials on a t-come-flrst served basis after the military has taken what it needs.
 As part of this program the con- trolled materials plan, under which metals are rationed to authorized users, will be relaxed starting today. By the end of the year 1t will be scrapped entirely.
 At that time, only 6 single prior ity-called 'MM"-will remain to give a right of way to war produc- tion. Textiles and lumber, two ma terials which will continue to be scarce, will come under a special allocation system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-02
2 RoiIrood Men Killed

Taunton, Mass, July 2-(UP)-- Attempts were being made today to fix blame in a New Haven railroad accident in which two tFainmen were killed, 4e passengers hospital lzed and 260 others shaken when the locomotive and seven cars of an eieht-ear local train were de- railed at q switch near Camp Myles Standjsh,
 nEgineer Chester O. Wilson, hs Of East Rraintree and Fireman John ' Lyons, 2e, Of Jamaica Plain were crushed 10 dsath ln the l0eos motive last night when the local passenger Wain left the rails ens route from Boston to New Bedford
 The injured were removed 10 the station hospital at Camp Myles slandlsh and then transferred 70 hospitals at Bosten aBd New Bsds ford,
 4 soldier on guard duty, Cpl. John Trimmer of Beverly, said the train approached the switch at high speed and "shot straight np ia the ar" tfe called headquarters at the camp and a rescue battalion of more than 100 medical eoFpsmen and MPs and % German and ftais Ian prisoners were dispatched 10 the scene t0 aid in rescue work.
 Army officials said that the aids in9 switch was open and that \ lighted Red Arrow 0il the track in- dteatsd thai aHv train passing at thaf time would be switched cato the nslilt@fy sseunss.