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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26

penses take healthy bite out of that ten grand per annum that the congressman receives. And it isn't particularly sur prising that the boys and girls of the House should have voted themselves an extra $2500 year by way of expense money. We think that our senators and representatives deserve more money, eventually if not now. We need important men for the important job that Congress has to do. We may not get them if they must bear financial loss to perform this service. And we certainly shan't get a representative group if Congress attracts only those with ample outside incomes But we can't say we like this "tax-free" feature of the new House appropriation We haven't seen the language of the bill and not being Philadelphia lawyer, we might not understand it if we had. Yet wee heard of no representative arising to deny that the appropriation is tax-free.
 The law on expense accounts says that reimbursements from employers Gin the representatives case, the United States Government) must be entered as part of income. Later the actual expenses paid through there reimbursements may de- ductd in arriving at what all readers of Form 1O4O will fondly remember as lad iusted gross income" We don't know how the representatives intend to bypass this law by making their appropriation tax-free from the beginning. We don't care particularly. We want to see our lawmakers get fair shake. But we don't think they should vote themselves special privileges when the rest of us are paying taxes but plenty and not squawking too hard about it either.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26
Is This One on Us?

It costs money to be a congressman. Of course, the job pays pretty well, too. But by the time the legislator has paid the overhead, his $10,000 year, while still not hay, has shrunk considerably. There's the matter of housing, for one thing. Even when he finds place to live in Washington he has to pay for it. And he has to keep a residence in his home city for return visits and for the dark day when the fickle electorate may vote him out of job. He has to dress up in store-bought clothes, and do good bit of entertaining. Frequently he needs more secretarial help than his clerical al- lowance will buy. And then there are telephone and telegraph charges and many other incidentais of that sort
 But probably the biggest item on the congreSsman's budget is the business of trying to get reelected. This requires frequent shuttling between Washington and home, besides the many ordinary campaign expenses. It's particularly tough on members of the House., who must go through this every two years as long as they seek to hold office.
 It isn't hard to believe, then, that ex-
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Are We Peculiar Too?

The people of Germany are looked upon in this country as peculiar because they have an inherent tendency to follow strong leader-one whom they think has all the answers to all problems. But are they alone in this peculiarity? There are plenty of people right here in the United States who think government is super wise and that government officials are somehow smarter than the rest of us.
 We have already let these officials lead us far along the path toward total con- trol over our lives. Nearly every activity, directly or indirectly, has check reins upon it that lead straight to Washington. These check reins were accepted willingly as war measures, but many Oe them threaten to become permanent because ot the foolish notion (the Germans had it, tool that officialism is the seat Of wis dom.
 Listen to the words of a prominent spokesman for the medical profession: Some people believe that in bureauc- racy's vast pool of master minds, there are individuals fully qualified to tell farmers what and how much they can SOW and when and how to reap; other ln- dividuals competent to tell the oil wild cater the size of the pipe and depth to WHICH He IS peIllHIIeu Io ull1, oll1 yoV others with capacity to tell the newspaper editor what he can print and how he shall treat and headline his dispatches.
 "No sane person can believe that any bureaucrat can direct the rendering ot medical care without actual suicidal de- ssgioration in the quality and effective ness of the service that is provided"
 No clearer illustration of the genius of bureaucrats can be seen than in the shockingly poor care being received by veterans in the veterans hospitals where patient and doctor alike are under the administration of "all wise" government officials.
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Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille Go.

War Information, for barring Allied newspapers and magazines from the part of Germany occupied by Amer lcan forces is a blow at that censor ship mentality that is one of the evil legacies of war To be sure the
 two points of view are not so far apart as may appear. Mir Truman wants the free distribution of news and opinion to be subject to mili-
 tary security and to the political necessity of de-Nazifying Germany, and MT. Davis prescribed spoon-fed
 news for temporary period Of transition only.
 Yet there is basic difference, MT. Davis plan conceives of in- formation as something to be ad-
 ministered with a purpose. MT.
 Truman sees 1t for what it is, a
 means of letting the individual have
 an uncolored view of the world in
 which he lives. form io n
 brought freely to the citizens with
 out the guiding hand of any author ity, no matter how laudable his
 motive, is a prerequisite for healthy
 government. Under Dr. Goebbels
 the Germans have been living in false world. It is time they knew the facts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26
A Balanced Cabinet

Indications of a stabilized form of gov- ernment yet progressive one are seen in the new cabinet replacementS made by President Truman If only as a means of affording refreshing outlook on our immediate future the action is one which has taken a burden off the people.
 In replacing Francis Riddle as Attorney General with T. c. Clark and Miss Fran ces Perkins with Judge Lewis B. SchWel- lenbach, former senator, the president has removed two of the most controver- sial figures of the administration. We do not doubt the sincerity of either of the former cabinet members but certainly their conduct of office had become so tenuous in the eyes of the public they were assuming a position of doubt to the majority
 The replacement of Claude Wickard as secretary of agriculture is a different matter for MT. Wickard has been well re- garded by his farm constituents whom he has served well. His replacement, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, is indicative however of a more aggressive, efficient answer to the nations many food problems. Anderson has been critical of the administration handling of the food situation and has come forth repeatedly with concrete and effective suggestions
 Most hopeful is the belief that these men will receive the cooperation of Con- gress. The importance of that is self evident. We wish these gentlemen full success and congratulate the president on his departure from purely New Deal affiliations while still retaining the power of the Democratic party
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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Bad Habit

Please send literature on collsti- patton. M. R. AnsWer-Postcard requests can- not be answered. Send a stamped envelope bearing your address for monograph on constipation. Inclose ten cents coin if you want the booklet The Constipation Habit and Colon Hygiene
 Eczema
 Have you got eczema remedy? I sure am crazy with it. CR. R. S. AnsWer-Send a stamped envel- ope bearing your address, and ask for monograph on Eczema"
 Corn and Callus
 Please give the recipe for your corn mad callus remedy. U. D. AnsWer-Paint corn or callus once daily with solution of thirty grains of salicylic acid in one-half ounce of flexible collodion. In a week or ten days corn or caHus will soften and may be wiped away. Unless pressure and friction are avoided the corn or callus will return.
 Cataract
 Some one advised my mother to put a pinch Of granulated sugar in her eyes to dissolve cataract. Is this advisable? If not, can you recom- mend anything to remove cataract?
 (Mrs s. B. AnSWer-No. Cataract is not a growth on the eyeball surface. but aclouding of the crystalline lens in the interior of the eye. Nothing can dissolve or remove it. The patient should consult an oculist concern ing operation.
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After that his distrust of the British knew no bounds. And shortly thereafter when he land ed in Bari, Italy, which served as refugee Yugoslav headquarters, his plane was immediately sur rounded by several hundred Yugoslav partisans armed with tommy guns who would allow no British official to get anywhere near their Chief.
 On his last night in Bari Tito was invited to dine with General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Brit ish Commander in the Mediter- ranean. And, much to Wilson's amazement, Tito turned up with two dozen husky Partisan guards, carrying tommy guns, who lined up on both sides of the dining room.
 T say, Marshall" remarked General Wilson, isn't this a most unusual procedeure?"
 To which Tito replied: This. General, is most unusual war"
 TITO BOLTS TO RUSSIANS
 Next day, Tito flew to Buchar- est, conferred with Russian off, cials, and then returned to Yugo- slavia. His cooperation with the British has completely dead. Lat CT, the British planned Com mando raid on Split, an import ant seaport on the Dalmattian coast, in order to head off the German army then fleeing from Greece. But the minute the Com mandos set foot on Yugoslav soil, they were met by Tito's Partisans, disarmed, and sent back to Italy.
 Since then, relations with Tito have been at swords points. He has become increasingly anti British, considering them responsible for substituting a strong anti Tito movement among the Greats. He has also blamed the British for taking several thousand Fascist Greats, many of them Nazi collabora- tors, out of Yugoslavia, equip ping them with new clothes and plenty of many. and sending them back to work against Tito at the coming elections.
 At Yalta, Roosevelt took a
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PAGING THE FAMILY JEEP
(New York Herald-Tribune)

l N1NSW I O4 n I1C4 dlo- I 1Dll1ltJ
 During these war years, with 'joy riding" definitely out, with Sunday excursions difficult or impossible. the Great American Automobile, aging in it's stall, hobbled by gas and rubber shortages, has, somehow, managed to serve vital transporta- tion needs of workers, teachers, doctors and other classes of our population having necessary daily mileage to accomplish. It is, per- haps, the lesson of this period when the family car has meant not "go- ing places" but just getting there" which has caused our coun- trys two major manufactures of low priced cars to announce that they have planned for postwar sale small, light car of economical operation.
 The news, it seems rather certain, will be welcomed with honks of joy from coast to coast. For the auto mobile, i'll our country of good roads and long distances, has come to mean, first of all, transportation. Exhibits of chromium. streamlining, strange lenders and exaggerated hoods will be gladly dispensed with, we believe, in thousand of house. holds which are waiting to replace the old bus with safe, economical means of getting about when there are gas and tires with which to roll.
 The wars sturdy jeep of astound- ing abilities has taught at least the younger half of America what might be the value of some such convenient small car, converted in type from Army needs to family
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stab at ironing out strained re- lations between the British and the Tito Yugoslavs But it was an uphill job. He had the tangled affairs of other liberated coun- tries also to iron out. It was definitely agreed at Yalta, how ever. that the British were to occupy two provinces of Austria and were to invade Austria a through Trieste.
 ROOSEVELT'S SOLUTION
 However, British troops were slow in reaching that key city at the head of the Adriatic, so their old friend and enemy got there first. And in the rough code of the Yugoslav mountaineers, pos session is nineteenth of the law.
 How much Stalin had to do with Tito's actual occupation of Trieste is anybodys guess. Un- questionably he is the general handspring behind Tito However, it doesn't necessarily hold that Stalin ever ordered Tito into Trieste, if for no other reason, because he wouldn't need to. Anyone who has been in Trieste and lived among the Yugoslavs, as this writer has, knows that they have been itching for 26 long years to take over an area which they consider should justly have been their after the last war.
 The whole question of Trieste and the Istrian Peninsula is just as complicated as the dis pute between the Poles and the Russians. But to many observ- CTS the solution always favored by President Roosevelt seems most expedient-namely to keep Trieste as a free port under the Italian flag, but let the Istrian Peninsula behind it remain Yugoslav.
 The latter area is populated by Yugoslavs, while the City of Trieste is largely Italian. How ever. the hinterland countries of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovaka and Switzerland must have Trie- ste as free port through which to trade.
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 Welles hammered this home in- cessantly to both Hull and Roose- welt, but it was only last summer that Secretary Hull finally acted on Welles' idea and called the Dumbarton Oaks meeting, finally leading to the present San Fran cisco Conference. So, instead of having machinery already per fected to handle the certain-to- arise postwar controversies, we are still settling them through power politics.
 In fact, power politics began as early as two years ago to be the root of the trouble, now blossoming at Trieste. It was two years ago at Teheran that Stalin and Churchill batted their heads together, with Roosevelt sitting in as mediator. regard ing rival spheres of influence in the Balkans.
 Churchill had wanted the AL lies to start their second front through the Balkans partly to keep the Russians out. Stalin, probably with his eye on the Balkans, argued that the quick est road to Berlin was across the English Channel and France American military strategists, con- cerned only with winning the war quickly, not with spheres of in- fluence, agreed with him.
 DIVIDING THE BALKANS
 After that was settled and it was agreed that Allied armies would not invade the Balkans, Churchill and Stalin got down to dividing Up this area into spheres of influence. They agreed that Russia was to dominate Romania. Bulgaria and Eastern Yugoslavia, while England, always vitally con- cerned with Mediterranean sea routes, would dominate Greece, Albania and the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia.
 This extended right up to Trieste then in Italian hands.
 After this was agreed at Teheran, U. S. observers report that Stalin, being in an expan- sive mood, gave Churchill some advice. He pointed out that the British sphere of influence in Yugoslavia was Croatian and Dalmatian. yet Churchill was working with a Serb, General MihailOvitch. The Serbs and the Greats hated each other, Stalin reminded Churchill. Therefore, he said, he would be glad to instruct his man Tito to cooperate with the British.
 This was agreed. And that marked the sudden switch of U. s. Lend-Lease to Tito. Churchill sent a British brigadier plus his own son, Col. Randolph Chur- chill, to cooperate with Tito. Thereafter. Mihailovitch, the one- time British favorite, was left high and dry.
 TITO SMELLS PLOT
 However, Tito's relations with the British began to cool shortly thereafter and reached a climax last summer under mysterious circumstances. An Airborne Nazi Division staged surprise raid on Titos headquarters and he escaped within an inch of his life. But what aroused Titos SuS- picion was that young Churchill chose that particular morning to leave Tito's headquarters, to- gether with other Britishers, for the first time in two months.
 Tito. therefore, suspected the British of having tipped off the Nazis regarding the where abOuts of his headquarters and of collaborating in the raid.
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explained to many men. and he de- cided to substitute the simple word expects By means of flags this signal went from ship to ship. It was one of those simple statements which seem to grip mems hearts and put into them new confidence. Trafalgar was won. Napoleon was far from defeated, but that naval battle made certain that the triu- umph in which he then gloried was desined to come to a bitter end.
 How simple this statement and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26
Views Of The Press

use. We have no notion of what motorcar designers have planned for their announced "averag household" automobile. But we be- lieve that there is the possibility of a happy peacetime army taking to the roads if a sensible, com- fortable, good-looking home jeep" can be turned out-representing transportation any turning service man can buy and use without mortgaging the bungalow or hav- ing the baby go without new shoes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVlCE .' SCLERODERMA GARDENING
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I consulted many doctors who did not recognize my condition. They thought it might be Ray naud's disease, adrenal gland trou- ble, gout, etc. Finally I entered - hospital for two weeks observation and study and they decided I had scleroderma, which I gather IS rare. In the hospital and since they have given me courses of injections or shots" with no apparent beneht. My skin, especially on arms, chest and legs became brown, rough ana dry. In the hospital they made a skin blopsy to confirm the diagnosis and informed me that the skin con- tained no calcium. They were un- able to account for this lack of the normal amount of calcium in the skin, in view of the fact that 1 was raised on farm and have al- ways included in my diet plenty or milk, cheese, etc. containing cal- cium. There's pain in all Jolnts: Hands have become hard ana | can't close them. I am the more distressed by this because I'm deal, anu using my hands and ringers means a lot to me, both for slgn language to our people and for writing to those who head or to those who do not read the sign language. I don't mind being deal, as I have been happy.
 (Signed -)
 That describe scleroderma as well as the medical books do. The con- dition is mystery to physicians.
 I hesitate even to mention 1t Ill this column, lest some readers ln- fer I pretend to know something about it that other doctors do not know or that I purport to be an authority" or specialist.
 Now if I had scleroderma I'll tell you what I'd do:
 l. Id keep my daily intake of
 common table salt well above
 the average-by selecting var
 ious salty items for my diet and
 by taking a good pinch of salt
 along with drinking water eS-
 pecially when the weather is
 very warm.
 2. I'd take 100000 units of vitamin
 D every day for at least three
 months.
 3. I'd take enough thyroid extract
 to keep my basal temperature
 above normal. Basal tempera-
 ture. I believe. is as good a guide
 as the expensive basal metabo-
 lism measurement, for thyroid
 treatment.
 I repeat, I don't know the cause of scleroderma and these sugges- tions are merely my vague notions about it.
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or so to bring about closer local and national gov- ernment co-oper- ation are still re- luctant to h a V e their names asso- ciated with the idea, fearing their plans may be up- set through poli-
 ic al jealousies. But 8 closer tie- up of this sort would set a valu- a b e p a t t e r Il which could well l.
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Selected Poem
WHAT MATTER VICTORY

lillian M. Schuyler in The New York Times) What matters Victory If the soul be inert And lightly to be filched Of it's integrity? In this testing hour Of faith, of nope alert, The wastrel and the weak Do doubly devour Fruits of blood distilled, Of blood betimely spilled, From heroes nobly bled! By what satanic alchemy Can Conscience thus be stilled And made thing indifferent to The Sacrificial dead? This is the hour to speak At the hearts deep dictate! This is the hour for men Of mans estate! This is the hour to meet AuSteritieS of Fate! What matters Victory If the soul be not upraised To build a golden highroad On the trail the dead have blazed?
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Everyone is entitled to changing his or her mind as witness what Senator George G. Shurtz of Coshocton, O., has to say which he didn't say at one time: T helped put the saloons out of Ohio, but now l feel like apologizing. I'm willing to re- turn to the old saloon. In the days of saloons, I didn't see women there."
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yet how effective. "Englan dexpects every man to do his duty The folks back in England in quiet homes, on country lanes, at work in field and factory were looking out over the sea and observing how the defenders of the Empire conducted themselves. The realization that the eyes of their courtrymen were upon them and that the hopes of their country men were relying upon their fidelity made them strong in an hour of greater national crisis.
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thlng most WOrCn- while in life.
 On the morning of the battle, Nell son instructed his personal lieuten- ant to announce to the fleet that England confdes that every man will do his duty. It was pointed out to him that this word "conhdeS' WOuld have tO be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26
'NATIONAL .
 SPOTLIGHT
Need For Home Cooperation
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash ington COrrespOndent

Sacramento, Calif, May 26 - Moves to effect closer relationships between federal and state govern ments on reconversion and post war planning are expected to de- velop soon in the three Pacific Coast states of California, Oregon and Washington.
 State officials who have been working quietly for the past month
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26

In Connecticut it is stated one third of the apple crop has been destroyed. The unreasonable spring weat er, trees blooming too early, followed by cole and rain, have made the apple outlook not too rosy. Fairfield County was hardest hit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-26
"A Thought for Today

Son of man. thou dwellest in the midst of rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and not; they have to hear, and hear not: for they a rebeous house.-Ezekiel 12:2.
 
 The mind has thousand eyes, and the heart but one.-F. w. Bourdillon.
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Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady
Signed letters pertaining to per-

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonal health and hygiene. not to disease. diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclose :. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady. National News paper Service. 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, HI.
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WHAT GERMANS SHOULD READ

Hartford Courant)
 President Truman's sharp reversal of the p;an announced last week by Elmer Davis, head of the Office of
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STRENGTH
 FOR THE DAY
EVERY MAN HIS DUTY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D.D.


 The famous statement of Lord Nelson given to his crew just before the Battle of Trafalgar has come down across the generations to in- spire Englishmen, and in fact to inspire men of all countries who be- lieve that doing ones duty is the
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Washington Merry-Go-R
Soys Churchill Teheron Take Tueoov Leode Later Tito Suspected British of Plot Against His Life; Roosevefs Solution Was oon Free Port Trieste
BY DREW PEARSON

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