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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

Democrats and Republicans both want to forget politics. But this time, leaders or both political parties are already talking about the Congressional election two years hence.
 So far as meets the eye, how
 ever, Democratic Chairman Bob
 Hannegan is way out ahead of
 the Republicans when it comes
 to translating words into deeds. Hannegan has become just as ac-
 tive as Jim Farley at the peak
 of his political power, Is work
 ing at his job IS hours a day
 and is determined that ROOse-
 welt roll up a stronger Demo-
 cratic majority in the Congress sional elections two years hence.
 Shortly after Roosevelt returned from Yalta, Hannegan called on him, outlined detailed plans for keeping the Democrats in pow CT. Hannegan complained, how ever, that he wasn't getting much help from some Cabinet members, pointing out that few Cabinet members pitched in to help the party.
 The President then suggested that Hannegan call together all the Cabinet members except for the Secretaries of War and Navy, and lay down the law to them. So a few days later, Hannegan threw a small luncheon for the Cabi- net at which he put his cards on the table. Even the stiff, usual- ly unbending State Department, which tries to twalk the political tightrope and has more Republi- cans than Democrats in its lush jobs, was represented by Assist ant Secretary Dean Acheson.
 Other Cabinet members pres ent were Postmaster General Walker, Secretary of Labor Fanny Perkins, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, Under Secre- tary of Interior Abe Fortas and Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau.
 HANNEGAN TELLS FEM
 Hannegan told them that the Cabinet was selected by Roosevelt, was supposed to support Roose- welt, and would have to assist in defending Roosevelt politically. Hannegan outlined his program for the '46 elections and request ed complete Cabinet cooperation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

"There are 800 men in the non-war agencies getting $5,0OO . year or more," Hannegan said, waving a little black book in the air, "and with all re- spect to the Hatch Act, we haven't averaged contributions of dollar apiece from them."
 The response was excellent. One Cabinet member pointed out the Democrats hadn't had a meeting like this in years. The others pledged all-out cooperation, said they would go down the line.
 One significant shift in Demo- cratic plans is that in 1942, Roose- welt did nothing about Congress sional elections until three weeks before the voting. Finally he summoned House Speaker Ray burn, suggested he see what could be done. Rayburn replied the Democrats didn't have 8 dollar to help finance Congressional campaigns; but he and several others then got busy and raised 80,OO0 which was distributed the Saturday night before election.
 Hannegan won't make this mistake. He plans to raise at least a million dollars for the '46 campaign.
 "BURMA'S" SINS CLEARED
 The British Minister of h. formation in Washington, scholar ly, efficient Sir Harold Butler, re- ceived unique letter the other day. It was signed by cartoon ist Milt Caniff, author of "Terry and the Pirates"
 Caniff has a fascinating, volup- tuous character in his comic strip, known as Burma" who has been in hot water with British Intel legince in the CBI Theater for some time. In the interests of United Nations unity, and es- pecially because Burma" has so many ardent admirers all over the world, Caniff thought 1t would be a bad idea to have the Bri- tish harassing such charming creature.
 So he wrote Sir Harold asking if the British Government would object if he cleared Burma of all past sins in future comic strip.
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
TONSIL DTATHERMY

Of all these newer methods over which have had so many and suck enjoyable controversies with the self. constituted "spokesmen," Headers" or prominent members of thG medical profession, the diathermy or electro-coagulation treatment of enlarged and infected tonsilS ha& made the slowest progress. There are two reasons for that, believe First, the telling argument of tl1s. old fossils in the nose and throat field-that the diathermy method doesn't get all of the tonsi but leaves some tonsil tissue in the throat. That is true, but the unwary patient to submit to the major operation (tonsillectomy) are either ignorant of the pathology of the trouble or dishonest or both. Except in rare cases of nalignancy there is no good reason why we should even attempt to remove ev- cry bit of tonsil from the throat. Doctors who use this argument be- tray their quackish character-pre- tend to know what of course they do not know.
 The other reason why tonsil dia- thermy has not yet superseded the atrocious guillotine and snare oper- ation is that it requires considerab- ly more skill than tonSillectomy does, not only technical skill but skill and patience in managing pa tients, and not every doctor has such ability. Tedious is the word for tonsil diathermy work-tedious for the doctor at any rate. And so your busy specialist prefers to run you into the hospital. go fish ing with his snicker-snee, take out everything that gets caught in the snare Gncluding portions of throat muscle in many instances), and, be done with it. Chances are you'll get over it all right. If you do have serious hemorrhage or subsequent lung abScesS or something, those are the breaks, brother.
 After all, am not quite unique. I do know or know of a reasonable number of doctors who not only use the methods recommend but have much the same views as I have. But if Or when I recommend such 8 doctor to a correspondent, the correspondent must be satified with the mere mention of the doc tors name. Tn on instance shall name any doctor as one who shares my views. Too many good doctors do not.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Big Noise Coming

DIE INUASC OOHlAA8
 I am twenty-six and expecting my first baby, and full of questions, but my doctor lives twenty-six miles from here and he so over worked I hate to detain him with my questions. (Mrs. o. B. Vo
 Answer-Perhaps many of your questions are answered in "Pre- pairing for Maternity" and The Brady Baby Book" For either send ten cents, twenty cents for both, and inclose stamped envelope bear ing your address.
 RedOlence
 My father and I thank God that you sent us Dr. -'S name (phy- sician skilled in injection treatment of hernia and hemorrho All our family read your column and find it always interesting and helpful. I can't agree with your idea that bathing once a week is enough working in an office one just can't help noticing B. O. sometimes and one can't take a chance of having it. GA. s.
 AnsWer-I have never suggested that bathing once week is enough. Bathe as as often or as rarely as you like-it has nothing to do with health. Every time I receive a let ter from a pleased patient of your doctor's-and have had scores Of such letters-I blush. It reminds me that some years ago I branded his associate or predecessor (now deceased) quack because he. too, gave patients such treatment. At that time I was as sure as a lot of old fogy practitioners are today. that hernia and hemorThoids could be successfully treated only by oper- ation in hospital.
 Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

is inspiring also. Before me as I write is a letter from a mother whose only son was killed in battle. dying gallantly, as the letter from the government stated, while lead ing his men successfully to their objective. This boy had taken hon. ors at great university, was mar ried and had one child and held a position of trust in secondary school.
 Among other things his mother writes: "Omy two things emerge that seem at all possible to be ac- cepted. One is that he, being now through the mist of war, can live in the light and near his own father who has preceded him-the other, that the world is too full of suffer-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Two Freedoms

s However tough the problems that the San Francisco conference will have to 'wrestle with, the American public is at , least assured that its own delegates will . be free to speak their minds, and that it's press will be free to report what goes on. That is an assurance that makes the problems seem somewhat less frightening.
 These freedoms of speech and press, vital to democracy but new to world con- ferenceS, were promised the American delegation by President Roosevelt. They reflect his apparent desire for sort of new international deal for this country which isn't the same as an international New Deal-that is admirable and encour. aging.
 One likely result of this freedom of speech and action would be to let Senator cVandenberg, a delegate, press his plan for check and review by the conference of the decisions reached at Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta. It is difficult to see any, thing but merit in his plan, though it probably will be opposed. He shouldn't lind much opposition among his Ameri- can colleagues, since his plan is blow at the "perfectioniSrn" that Mr. Roosevelt and administration congressman have decried.
 < It would subject the steps already taken to general, democratic examination. It would recognize the unacceptable fact that any plans will have to be amended before they work smoothly. It would help to make perfection the eventual goal rather tkan a preliminary requirement. to the worlds efforts to organize for freedom, security and peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
MIR. OCoNNoR's STRUCTURES
(Hartford Courant)

Former Mayor Dennis P. O'Con- nor has taken it upon himself to issue, with some degree of regular ity, statements discussing municipal affairs with particular reference to what he regards as the short-com- ings of Mayor Mortensen's admin istration. Like every other admin istration, MT. Mortensen's conduct of Hartford's governmental con- cerns is subject to criticism, both favorable and unfavorable, but standard for such criticism certain ly was not established by MT. O'Connor's administration, which had all the defects of It's virtues.
 This. former Mayors oracular announcements make interesting reading, as he no doubt intends them to be, but they leave the iIm- pression that whatever the present administration does is wrong, both in intent and results, and that we shall not achieve all the desirable ends of government short of putt ting MT. O'Connor back in. If is @ consummation devoutly to be wished 1t has not yet been made apparent by any uprising either in Democratic circles or among voters of independent proclivities.
 Here 1t is only March and plenty of time remains for the next muni- cipal campaign to take shape, but in the meantime Mayor Mortensen can afford to view with more amusement than resentment the strictures indulged in by his imme- diate predecessor.
 No one should find 1t difficult to understand why MT. Mortensen'S election on the Republican ticket in this heavily Democratic city should still be sore spot with those whose calculations were so badly upset. The independence shown by the voters on that oc-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sOnal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if . stamped self-addressed envelope ls encIose,:. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, National News paper Service. 32O West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
A Crack in the Curfew Bell

With the Allied Food and Entertain 1nent Industries of Greater New York's voluntary decision to decline Mayor La Guardia's "extra hour of tolerance" and abide by Mobilization Director ByrneS' midnight curfew request, the whole fuss between the mayor and MT. Byrnes seems to have simmered down to tempest in q demi-tasse. But perhaps it is of some interest as an example of how a psycho- logically sound idea can be defeated by unsound psychology of application.
 x, MT. Byrnes requested the curfew as means of saving heat, electricity trans portation and manpower He fortified the request by invoking OPA and WING sanctions which could, for all practical purposes, put anyone out of business who refused to accede to the request.
 a MT. By1nes also mentioned some less tangible but more persuasive reasons for a. curfew, and has since repeated them. They are unanSWerable. Certainly, as he said, the men at the front have right to expect some small sacrifices from us at home. And certainly 1t is 8 small Sacri- ice indeed to end ones nlerrymaking at midnight
 But these reasons were not given as the impellirg force behind the curfew h. stead, MT. ByrneS requested the curfew as practical economy. And even before it went into effect it was obvious that the saving would be small.
 N Nevertheless, city overnments throughout the land responded patriotic ally. And none was more enthusiastic than New York's, where the mayor put through the city council new closing law, with arrest and stiff punishment for violatOrs. Then Speakeasies Sprang up. And soldiers on leave at loose ends after midnight, got into more trouble than they would ever find in night club.
 So MT. La Guardia reversed himself with equal enthusiasm, defying MT. ByTneS and the city's new closing law which he himself had put through. It won him condemnation almost every where except in his home city. But the home city is where the mayor is running for reelection next fall.
 And the curfew might thus have stood today, knee-deep in ineptitude. But the Army ard Navy orders to servicemen to observe the midnight curfew hour seem to have won the issue for Mr. Byrnes where other means merely created an impasse.
 The whole thing seems to demonstrate again that you can't legislate responsi- bility into people, especially the Ameri- can people, and most especially by such devious ways. The denouement indicates that Mir. Byrnes might have been more successful if he had frankly invoked his curfew on ethical rather than practical grounds
 As it is, there is suspicion that behind a screen of dubious logic MT. Byrnes has made a well-intentioned but misguided effort to replace individual conscience with governmental substitute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Views Of The Press

casion was most wholesome, and 1t strikes us that MT. O'Connor's present efforts instead of weaken ing the independent vote may strengthen it. If so 1t will bring nearer the day when municapal government here in Hartford is not made the football of politics, but is so directed as to yield the maxi mum return on what 1t costs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
SCHOOL WINDOWS
Boston Post)

(BoSton Post)
 If keeping the windows of Boston school clean is such difficult and expensive job that it must be post poned until the midsummer, when children are not in school, 1t is puzzling to the average prudent citizen why the school department doesn't set up its own window cleaning department to rotate around all the schools and keep the windows clean.
 While this may not be possible during the war period of manpowe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26


 General Kirk was on an in- Spection trip to hospitals and Army medical units to make sure they were on their toes, talk with personnel, see what else they needed to give the wounded the best possible treatment.
 But when he arrived at Leyte in the southern Philippines, General Macarthur refused to permit General Kirk to come to Manila.
 The Army's most important medical work by that time had passed from Leyte and the south to Manila. But despite that fact MacArthur flatly refused to let the Army's highest ranking doc tor and chief of the Medical Corps inspect the hospital in Man ila or set foot there.
 MacArthur took this flat stand despite the fact that his own wife and son were in Man iIa, so obviously it could not have been considered too dan- gerOus.
 Furthermore, General MacAr- thur has refused to permit Brig. Gen. Guy B. Denit, the commanding officer of the Medi- cal Corps in the Pacific, to re- main in Manila. MacArthur has permitted General Denit to visit Manila several times, but re- quires that he go back to Leyte for permanent headquarters.
 Top Medical Corps Officers are burnt up over this, and say that MacArthur's adamant stand is seriously interfering with their operations. Some of them even go so far as to say that 1t is costing lives. While the com manding officer in any theater has a right to choose Army per- sonnel in that area, they claim that Macarthur is going too far when he prevents the chief f the Medical Corps from visiting Manila on an inspection trip.
 They also say that the wife of the commanding general is sup posed to set an example to other wives who also would like to be with their husbands, and are critical of the fact that MacAr- thur flew his family back to Man. fla when there wasn't a chance in the world of any other officers wife joining her husband.
 The entire matter Is being talk en up with Secretary of War StimsOn.
 NOTE: Army wives are still Smarting over the fact that Mac Arthur took Chinese nurse and a lot of wicker furniture out of Manila in 1942, using valuable space on his small escape ship instead of rescuing General Vain wright or some of the other high ranking officers who were left behind.
 CAN CONGRESSMEN READ?
 Government agencies have just received an order to cut down the size of type used in official publications, in order to conserve paper. There are two exceptions to the rule: Agencies printing material for school children or illiterate immigrants are permit ted to use ordinary typewriter size type. There is also no limit on the size of type which agencies can use in making reports to Con- gress.
 Pay-off came Last week when OPA, perhaps thinking Con- gressmen can't read as well as school children or illiterate im- migrants, sent two thick vol umes printed in very large type to each Congressman.
 A NEW JIM FARLEY
 Usually a big national election is followed by lethargic vacuum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Selected Poem
IN ENGLAND IN THE SPRING (Charles Malam in The New York Times)

In other years we packed box of books And took the early boat train down to Dover Red were the plowlands, green the Kentish James, And white the cliffs with clouds of gulls high Now spring again, and now the young men pack
 ing,
 Though grim the travel kits these students bear And there beyond the sea mist France is waiting With a dawn across the lowlands like flare. Each fishing village. every cobbled byway, Old cities where cathedral fingers rise, Green woods hand swept, neat streams beside the
 highway
 And Paris where the heart of springtime lies The young men tell the legends, and remember, And join the generations of young men Who went to learn of liberty from sages And now take freedom to her home again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

Ing for me to be sorry for my self"
 The boy was an officer of out standing character and ability, a brave chap. His mother is brave also. In fact she is molded after heroic proportions. She is sister to thousands of women in this country who are eating their hearts out today while the gigantic strug- gle still continues.
 And most of them are saying as did this woman-"The world is toe full of suffering for me to be sorry for myself"
 (All Rights Reserved-BabSon
 Newspaper Syndicate)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

shortages, it certainly could be tln- dertaken when peace comes at 8 cost considerably less than 50 to 52 cents a window, and would pro- vide for clean windows to admit light to classrooms at a time when children are attending classes, and not in midsummer when all the schools are closed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

1Lo WoL~WdL 4An~ plications are not clear and not ap-
 preciated. Before the N e W Deal, many corpo ra- tions had pension plans of tn e 1T own. Many labor leaders objected to them because they were consid-
 cred anti-union, the idea being that if an en- ployer dangled the reward of a YNav1eio,, kafarn hie
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

welter of pain and disappoinl- ment. What are our little trou- bles compared to those of the men who chop
 t h e ir W a y through the jungle or ride the war-ships through mine infested waters?
 The heroiSm oi
 the home folks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
A Thought for Today

Be oR gOod courage, and let us behave our selves yaliantly for our people, and for the cities of our God; and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight-I Chronicles 19:13.
 
 Whatever chance shall bring, we will bear with quanimity.-Terence
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D.D.

HEROES IN THE HOME
 We should be thoroughly ashamed Of ourselves, complaining as we so often do about our little dif- ficlllties. when the world is in such
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 6:11 a. m. (war time)
 Sun rises 6:46 a. m; sets 7:l0 p. m (war time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Venus continues to sink lower in the west these clear nights. In another week it will follow the sun below the horizon in quick order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
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 SPOTLIGHT
Postwar Social Security
By PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA Wash ingtOn Correspondent

Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA WaSh-
 ingtOn Correspondent
 Washington, March 26 - Behind John L. Lewis demand for 10 cents a ton royalty on all coal mined, and behind North Carolina Senator Jo- siah w. Bailey's proposal to stop all such goings-on by law. there is a fundamental question of policy gen. erally overlooked:
 Is postwar social security to be expanded as a function of gov- ernment? Or is 1t to be left as the private responsibility of individu- als, paternalistic-minded employ CTS and social-minded unions?
 This issue isn't exactly new, but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

No attempt should be made to educate the Japanese in western democratic principles or ideas. Such efforts coming from outside would be futile. That is subject in which they should educate them selves.
 -Adml. Hary E. Yarnell, retired,
 former commander U. s. Asiatic
 fleet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

Drew Pearson Says MoeAhu Keeps Manila Exclusive; Honnegon Gets Cabinet Do Its Share; British Government Questioned About Comic Strip.
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26
Current Comment

When contrasted with the care- free, unrestricted life of the aver age overseas G. r. it sort of tugs at your heartStrings -Sergt. Charles Avedon, editor of
 Army newspaper Midpacifican, on
 the curfeW.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

We must have something ready when the European war ends. We will need manpower legislation then more than ever, for there will be a relaxing and workers will leave war posts unless the production program is in control.
 Sen. Warren R. Austin (R) of
 Vermont.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-26

Copyright, 1945, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-01-30
OBE B. PRIDGEN
is NOW ARMY MAJOR

Robert 3. Pridgen, of Henderson,
has been promoted to the rank OF
major in the seventh L, S. army, IN
which he is serving in France, AZ
cording to word received by his
wife, Mrs. Nina Pridgen, and father,
J. l.. Pridgen. He has been m the
service since leaving with the Ma
tional Guard in 1910, and has seer
service in Africa, Italy and later IN
southern France. He went overseas
as a captain in December, 1913.