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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

Fancy that At least this winter has served as swell press agent for the coming summer The Nazis back where they started In 1939 and what change they have found on returning! It's short hill that difficult The really hard thing is making more It's easy to understand why the old song Tn the Good Old Summertime" was written in the winter. . Each era brings in it's "easies". Prohibition introduced the speak eaSes. Now we have "meateases" . Now is the winter of our discontent made discontentng with the nouncement of-more snow This was one winter when folks in the rural districts DID get the drift bang on the door is worth two the bean One feels old the day he becomes old the guy thought was old that he has become that old if you know what mean. .. A switch in time crime In these days of and blows the longest way round when you live in the sticks in the shortest way home
 or all sad words by word mouth,
 The saddeSt theseno reServations can't souhI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

Harriet Hilliard has been left a farm by distant relative She had mt seen for many years. The farm Is in Connecticut, and she and her husband. Ozzie Nelson, are now making excited plans to make a re- turn visit to the East this coming summer when "T'he Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" goes off the air, to see what the place is like.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.

SEW Blows Iem Reported Be Boom in DreSSmakn out the thmbe Tarnished and t&4 4 of dressmaking
  yard goods Trimmings and laces, o needles
 you expect places. a
 your scissors sharp enough? you anything about patterns,
 a design called rough? quite nice,
 brigther, Get busy sewing
 your Spring much brighter. Snip and cut
 n x
 Make dress blouse and Get out the thimble,
 Tarnished worn. @ dreSSmakng
 about be born. EM EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

tracked down. The WATR-Blue Networks Coronet Storyteller adap- tation of the tale will be narrated by Marvin Miller on tonight at 9:55 D. m., EWT over WIZ and the Blue Network.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08

Salvatore BaccalOni, famous Met bassO, is here cOstumed for one of his most popular roles as Don BartOlO in "The Barber of
 Seville" BaccalOnl will be guest star on the Metropolitan Opera Presents" Sunday, Feb. II, at 5:30 p. m. over WATR and the Blue Network with WiIfrid Pelletler and the Met orchestra.
 The grim story of an inter-fam- fly feud "A Tale of Two Sisters will be the co-starring vehicle for Claire Trevor and Nancy Kelly on Suspense" tonight at 8 D. m, over CBS Stations The sisters, insepar- able since birth are estranged when the impending motherhood of one becomes the focal point of bitter and violent argument. The death of the father-to-be, found murdered under mystrious circumstances, pro- vides an unexpected climax to the story. "A Tale of Two Sisters" was written by Mel Binelli.
 The true story, He Cheated Him. self," tells how a counterfeiter led Treasury Department agents a mer- " chase before he finally was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-08
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
By Arthur Bugs Baer =

We're leaving for the winter sports tomorrow over
the northern spur of the Tropical Spanish Moss and Ever
glades Short Line.
They will for ballast in the Toboggan Olympcs
in the Labrador Rose Bowl get of the medals,
few of the glory and all of the weather.
like it with the wind and the rain in my hair 1t puts
high gloss on my scalp.
/ may go into that overland snowshoe stroll from
Minneapolis to Medicine Hat This is for who
would rather die than become professionals. And they
always do
love well-ventiated weekend open on both ends
When the landlords commenced to evct for rental
became outdoor nation
So I'm off for the last frontier. With a round-trp
ticket Why bother with reading the meanings of
the south side of trees bird tracks in and the
extra long fur chipmunks? Us modern Daniel Boones
accepted good risks by all insurance companies
because stay right in the middle of the tracks
What want to most of all is the sturgeon smok
ing festival of the Siwash tribe of the Upper Plates
Siwash takes as much pride in his favorite sturgeon
smoking as man does in cooring meerschaum pipe
("Bugs" Baer will be POSTMASTER at the annual
football dinner of The Detroit Times Downtown Quarter
back Club, dan. g.. For details see sports page.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04

operator-gunner who failed to
return from a mission over
Italy:
"Oh. Hedy Lamar Is a beauti-
full gal
And Madeleine Carroll Is, too;
But you'll find, II you query. q
different theory
Amongst any bomber crew.
For the loveliest thing of which
one could sing
(T'his side OF the Heavenly
Gates)
Is no blonde or brunette of the
Hollywood set,
But an escort of PISS"
nURING a raid on Schwein-
~ furt several months ago
one of our bombers, "Battlin'
Bobbie." was hit, and two of
her engines were knocked out.
For five hundred miles the
bomber hedge hoped over
trees, roof tops and enemy
pillboxes.
All the time as the plane
limped along her crew kept
praying the two smoking en-
gines wouldn't blow up.
When they finally reached
home and the perspiring pilot
climbed out of the ship, his
comment was, I'VE made
chapel out OF that airplane
today"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
WALTER WINCHELL n., On

WITH B-29s ranging over
w Tokyo almost daily it's
tough for the Imagination TO
conceive that three years ago
our. Air Forces only asset was
the moxie OF its men.
Bataan was saved at least
once by the wizardry OF our Air
Force personnel. who had plenty
OF ingenuity rs well as courage.
Enemy ships were trying TO
land troops on the shore one
night. Though there were no
bombers with which 20 stop
them. our airrnen weren't
feazed.
Mechanics rugged up three
pursuit ships with a device
whereby two 300-pound bombs
could be attached to the wings
and released by pulling a wire.
The three ships made three
trips that night and bombed and
strafed the Jap boats, prevent
ing the troops from landing.
What made their feat of stall
ing the Japs and gaining time
for US even more OF a miracle
was that most Of the pilots had
never before flown at night!
DESPITE popular misconcep-
~ ton. boys OF the AAF aren't
as pin-up-happy as people think.
This verse was penned several
months ago by a Bit radio
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
THESE DAYS
BY George E.
Sokolsky

would we not strike back?
Why do we expect less of our
enemy than we should demand
for o. rselves?
We must learn to expect bad
news and we must learn TO take
what comes grimly and cou-
rageously.
We are out to Kill Germans
and they are out to kill us and
there will be losses on both
sides and we must know a Ger
man mother as an American
mother will grieve and weep
and wonder.
We must know how to fight
without hating and without
bellyaching.
And while we have every
right to expect and demand
efficiency on the part of our
civilian and military officials,
and while we must denounce
stupidity wherever il appears,
we cannot expect TO live on as
a high a standard, as comfort
ably or as recklessly during
war as we did in the crazy
1920s.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

dition OF the blood vessels once
established Is the foundation for
the symptoms and cannot be
readily overcome.
II Is really quite a mean dis
ease TO try TO treat II you have
10 do IL in a winter climate. /
know one woman who used TO
take 10 her bed late in Nover-
Der and stay there until early
March. She preferred that 10
changing climates. Said she
didn't know anybody down
South.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
~. d. C.:-What is the best
remedy for trench mouth?
Answer: Trench mouth is a
general term which has no exact
meaning. II is a combination
OF pyorrhea, receding gums and
infection of the mouth with Vim
cents germs. II may be Of all
degrees Of severity. No one
method OF treatment can be
guaranteed 10 cure all cases.
D. s. - had wax removed
from my ears sometime ago and
now they itch intolerably. What
can be done about il?
Answer: II is likely the wax
has returned. The best applica-
ton know for itching ears is
Cresatin. an oily liquid that is
applied locally on a cotton APP
plicstor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
THE BRIGHTER SIDE

HORSE racing is really not
II entitled 10 a defense be-
cause il is fronted by stuffed
shirts who have been most arro-
CANT and unyielding in their
war time prosperity and be-
cause the game has gotten away
with outrageous false pret@Ses
the past couple OF years.
But since certain injustice
centers into the request to shut
down the gambling plants on
Jan. 3 and since most of the for
merly glib apologiSts for racing
among the newspaper fraternity
now stand mute, here comes old
Professor Runyon, long the pas
times best friend and severest
critic, to tell you that the re-
quest at this particular time is a
species of fraud.
If they had ordered racing
shut down at the outset of the
war or limited it to a few days
a week, or IL they had closed
the tracks and restricted them
even year ago when, as / often
pointed out, the thing was out
Of hand and taking on the as
pect of the disgraceful, l would
have said well and good.
But when they pick the winter
time when racing is at its lowest
ebb in point of number OF tracks
operating and only one Of these
in war industry area, they are
just making a belated gesture
that would say merely accen-
tuates the confusion and mis-
management in Washington.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
WASHINGTON SCENE
By George Dixon

welt owed most Of this all
knowingness to his nlissus!
What I mean is that she used
10 provide a lot OF the data with
which the President astounded
the customers.
Mrs. Roosevelt, Of course, had
research assistance from the
White House secretariat but she
usually took IL upon herself 10
whip II into final shape.
This advance dope proved
particularly effective at formal
White House dinner parties. Be-
fore going in 10 dinner. Mrs.
Roosevelt handed her husband a
card identifying various guests
and including a quick resume of
things they were interested in.
The result was that Mr..
Roosevelt could take q quick
gander at the card under cover
OF his napkin and then say to
a guest he had just seen for
the first time:
And how's everything In up
per Darby. Mr.. Pillsbury:
hear you've been doing great
things with your non-potable
brake mixturew
Well. that was all the PreSi-
dent had TO say because the fell
low-practically exploding from
the sudden realization OF his
own importance-would carry
the ball from then on.He'd keep
talking until the President de-
cided he'd had enough attention
and repeat the performance
with the next pigeon.
The stunt was so effective il
was borrowed by other Wash
ington big shots. A lot of society
hostesses took IL up too. Also
brass hats of the army and navy
who found themselves called
upon TO do a great deal Of for
nal entertaining.
A RMY public relations wiz
IA ards, forever thinking up
things TO bolster home front
morale, have concocted q num-
Der of signs which are tackled
up all over the Pentagon Build
ing.
A few of these inspirational
messages are:
The difficult we do immedi-
ately-the impossible takes a
little longer"
why be difficult when with
Just a little more effort you
can be impossible"
Don't go away mad-just 90
awayi"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04

COME people, as we know.
- are abnormslly sensitive TO
conditions which do not Affect
others at all.
Heaven only knows the cause,
but we call IL aHergy. i.
Besides the plant allergies and
food allergies and animal dander
sllergies which We may can
chemical there are physical al
lergies due 10 sensitivity 10 heat
and cold. sunlight and other
forms Of light.
One of these IL pernio, or
chilblain. II occurs only in GER
tain people and when they are
exposed TO cold. II does not have
10 be extreme cold. Those who
suffer with chilblains may begin
TO have trouble in the fall.
TIVE parts OF the skin most
Il often affected are the most
exposed parts. and for the rea-
son that their clothing offers
more exposure TO the elements
than mems, women are more
frequently affected.
The skin OF the foresrms,
hands. knees and legs down 10
the ankle rather suddenly on
the occurrence Of even moderate
cold weather breaks out into
red. raised areas, with pinpoint
blisters.
The pain is OF a burning char
scter and, Of course. IL is agra
waited when II ulcerates and be-
gins TO ooze.
Itching is intense al times.
II is by no means always rec
ognized even by doctors, al
though you would think that
every one knew what chilblains
are.
Many cases are treated for
eczema. or contact dermatitis
and the relationship of cold in
causing the condition is not rec
ognized.
The real seat Of trouble Is in
the blood vessels OF the skin.
Whether this is due 10 an
allergic vasomotor reaction or
whether il Is caused by chronic
Inflammation of the blood ves-
sells irritated at some time when
an extreme exposure 10 cold
sensitized them Is debatable.
At any rate for all practical
purposes the victim acts like
an allergic person sensitized to
cold.
IT HAS been attempted to
i establish imnunization by eX-
posing the parts daily to cool
and cold baths, but this is not
often successful because the con-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04

DACK in the days before he
ID practically isolated himself
except 10 key men, President
Roosevelt used TO astound White
House visitors by his seeming
familiarity with all their doings.
Needless 10 say, this made
the visitors feel very good
toward Mr.. Roosevelt They
came away with heads and
chests swelling and went back
home TO regale the townsfolk
with tales of the Presidents
omniscience.
Naturally. Mr.. Roosevelt was
unaware OF the effect produced.
He Just did it 10 be nice, be-
cause he is so warTnhearted. 1t
was certainly not his fault II
the visitor decided again and
again and again that so intelli.
gent a man should be reelected.
But what the visitor was
never told-and probably never
suspected--was that Mr.. RooSe-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04

OUR citizens are Just begin
" ming to understand this
war and to realize how much
they will have to give up before
il is altogether over.
No country approached war
as unrealiStically as the United
States.
The ultra-optimistic atmo-
sphere was undoubtedly created
by assumptions of might and
power based upon a sense of ma
tional superiority and contempt
for other peoples.
l shall never forget the years
before the war during which /,
who had spent nearly IA years
in Asia studying the problem,
had to listen to so-called experts
and authorities and even admit
rails say that we could wipe
Japan off the face of the earth
in six weeks.
Well, this is the fourth year
and we are approaching the
real battles of that war.
Similarly you may recall the
terrific debate over air power.
If only we built a ceiling of
planes over Europe. we would
quickly dispose of Germany.
But air power did not smash
either the German army or the
morale of the German civilians.
We are now in the mud, in
fantry fighting infantry, as the
old fogies said would happen.
We are at the commencement
of the toughest part of the war.
A MERICANS did not expect
"A heavy casualties. ,-
Now they know that the cas-
ualties are heavy and will grow
heavier.
In the early days OF the war,
Harry Hopkins wrote an article
for a magazine describing the
toughness of this war upon the
whole American population.
But because IL was Harry
Hopkins who told this story of
deprivation, we put il down TO
politics and soon enough forgot
about it. Today his prophecy is
upon us.
Now we come 10 the point: A
number o. eXcitable Americans,
undoubtedly we'll intentioned.
conducted vast and active
propaganda TO get this country
into war.
do not now quarrel with
their wisdom. their motives or
the correctness OF their judy
ment.
Not once during their anxious
activities from September, 1889,
TO December, 1871, did they
paint the grim picture that
war is.
Those who told the truth
were denounced as isolationists.
pro- Nazis. pro- csc.
Fascists, anything that humili-
ated and smeared.
NOV I find that there is sur
~ prise, particularly among
the war mongerS. that the
Germans struck back.
Why should the Germans not
have struck back?
II our country we're invaded,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04

I think it is one of those give
uS-your-kind-applause things. l
do not believe that the closing
Of the winter tracks will con-
tribute anything to the war eff
fort in manpower, or anything
else, and have a bunch that
when il comes time for the
opening of the summer tracks IT
will be found that the alleged
emergency of the present has
eaSed.
TT IS conceivable that Wash
L ington is taking dead aim
al Santa Anita In this order
and forestalling the possible
scandal of a betting orgy that
might have produced $5,000.000
daily handles in the paFi-mutu-
els machines of the southern
California track, a possibility
that was suggested by the bet
ting dizziness at the Hollywood
track recently, which led to in
dustrial absenteeism. complaints
and criticism.
Santa Anita is Hollywood dou-
bled in spades. The winter
tracks in Florida and at New
Orleans are just nubbins in
point Of wagering compared to
the southern California courses.
AS a matter OF fact. the beef
against them, especially Florida,
Is not the volume of betting or
the absenteeism charged to Cal
ifornia but misuse of gasoline
and railroad transportation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
e. ". DURLING

Review points out that Coward,
in his autobiography. with "un-
believable franknesS." made the
following reference TO his World
War l army service:
Tho needs OF my king and
country seemed unimportant
compared with the vital neces-
sity Of forging ahead with my
own career"
THIS department receives
l. quite a few letters from
wives who praise their hus-
bands, usually describing them
as perfect" or wonderful" AS
member of the Husbands
Protective Association l find
this correspondence very re-
freshing In 1914 the
u. S. government collected
about $1l3,000,000 in taxes on
jewelry sales. Fifty-nine mil
lion was collected on furs, $45,-
100000 on cosmetics. Too bad
the federal government was not
in on the taxes from horse
racing. New York State alone
collected $27,000,000 from that
source.
WHY call Chicago the
w Windy City," New York
Is the real windy city The
windiest corner in Manhattan
is not. as often alleged, the
famous F1atiron Building COR
ner. 1t is the corner of seth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
By Damon
Runyon

WELL, all right, let us say
w as l did time and again in
the last two years-that this is
wrong and should be stopped.
But the time TO stop it was when
IL first became apparent, not let
Il continue TO become an odious
spectacle based on black market
money and presenting q sicken-
ing disregard of appearances in
a period of national stress. l
blame Washington for that as
much as I blame the greedy race
track operators. But the injus-
tice that / mention some
paragraphs up ahead comes in
permitting the winter racing
communities to prepare TOR the
season and in permitting the
horsemen to ship their horses to
the racing points to be stranded
when the closing goes into ef-
feet.
THAT is not right. To many OF
l. the horsemen, the jockeys
and the stable attendants as
we'll as some of the tracR en-
ployees, racing is a lifetime vo-
cation. They know nothing else.
Racing is their daily bread. It
is no more fair for Washington
TO suddenly put these chaps out
OF business than it would. be TO
eliminate any other recognized
means of livelihood without
warning. ~,
! have never heard of racing
doing anything for its own but
if the magnates do not come
forward In this instance and out
of the millions they have made
from the game make proper do
nations to care for the stranded
everywhere they are rieaner
than / have ever suspected.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL

embezzled the compsny's funds
and we faced a dreary future.
We went TO my mother and
she agreed 10 help tide Us over
the worst years.
But every dollar we accepted
from her and every gift she
made us. In the way OF clothing,
summer vacation. ETC., intensi-
fled my resentment toward her.
Finally, things got so bad my
husband induced her 10 give up
her home and live with US.
She paid most Of the expenses,
but her actions were intolerable.
For instance, several nights a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04

Oh, that 'tVere possible,
After long grief and pain,
To find the arms Of my true
lope
Round me once again!
When 1Ods mont 20 meet her,
IN tho silent moody places
BY the home that gave me birth,
We stood entraHced IN long
embraces
Mizsd Nth kisses, swester,
sOeetsT,
Than anything on earth.
-Tennyson
OF COURSE. our springer
" spaniel likes me. but the
great love of his life is my girl
friend When she goes out he
sits at the window and watches
for her TO return. IL she Is de-
layed he becomes very worried
and starts pacing the floor.
Every now and then he stops
and looks inquiringly at me as
II to ask:
whats delaying her? Think
anything has happened to her? ?"
Sometimes he gets me so wor-
ried that l start pacing the floor
with him.
I AM asked if Noel Coward was
Il in the British army in World
War /. He was. Originally as
signed TO the labor corps he Sc
cured a transfer to the Artists
Rifles o. T. c. The British News
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
Brain Game Answers

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-04
On the
Side

St. and Fifth Ave. / have seen
strong men knocked from their
feet by blasts of wind at that
corner New Yorker re-
ports a millinery shop bearing
a sign Flora and Frieda." He
asks. 'How's that for a firm
name?" Sounds good. Firm
should take in n girl named
Florence. Then they could put
up a sign: Flora, Frieda and
Florence. Three smart girls"
Judith Evelyn pronounced
Eve-line), played a feature role
in the psychological drama,
Angel Street. for three years.
Gave the part up because II
was beginning TO get on her
nerves. Has been looking for
new play ever since. I like 10
see Judith act. IL she doesn't
get a play soon I may have TO
write one for her myself. am
always talking about writing a
play.
My girl friend said:
do you know what would
get you started writing .
play."
Says I:
"What, for example:"
Says she:
Tf somebody bet you q box
of Havanas you couldn't write o
play you would have one An
ished I'm a week"
She may have something
there. Anybody want to bet?