The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-12
APOLOGY TO sPORTsMEN

APOLOGY TO SPORTSNEEN In this column recently I said:
 Killing merely for sport Is not my notion of recreation or pleasure.
 .. But I have an imagina- ton and 1t makes me sick and angry when I see some sadistic moron proudly displaying the deer, the birds, the fish he has managed to kill be means of al- most automatic machinery, nev- CT by his own skill"
 The thing got the goat of at least one sportsman -r hasten to print his comment before the de- luge:
 Dear Doc:
 just returned from an evening of fishing and read your article.
 To begin with, 1t is the most inconsistent bit of scrawling q have ever seen. You begin by enumerating unsportsmanlike in- stances and conclude by calling all sportsmen, especially proud ones, sadistic Haorons. Where is the connection? Consult Webster for the meaning of the word sadistic-I don't believe 1t is the word you want.
 I would love to see you catch trout on & fly with what you call an automatic weapon or tie a fife that will lure Q willy trout and then repeat never by his own skill"
 I do believe you are one of those unskillful sportsmen who develop @ sour grapes attitude because of their own incapability,
 Try duck hunting. Such 0 quack as you make yourself out to be should find his field here.
 A lover of mankind
 C,,.. E......
 You have my permission to print this. co. E.)
 There l go again - opening my big mouth only to put my foot in 1t. C....u E E...... is 50 right and the garrulous Quack Brady SO wrong that sackcloth and ashes would be too good for him.
 What makes it the more humlli. ating is that used the term sadis- tic--but there 1t is in cold print sneering at me, and this time can't blame 1t on editorial altera- tons or even typographical error. I'm stuck with 1t, and, oh, for a hole to crawl into until the mortI- tlcation subsidies.
 For long while have private. ly sneered ct writers and speakers who used the term SadlstIc as though 1t were synonymous with cruel, savage malicious or merci- less. What wicked gremlin got in- to my typeWriters and made me use the word nyself2
 For that matter, my use of the term moron was only 0 little less censurable. Certainly oil hunters and fishermen are not inorons- as c ..,,.. E.n.,'s gentle Gn the circumstances) rebuke so clearly in- dlcates But in eXtenuation I hope discerning readers will note that I so characterized only the exhibition ists, not oil hunters and fishermen. But I do humbly apologize to my readers for my improper applica. ton of the adjective sadlstlc and for my gratuitouS assumption that Q cruel individual is necessarily 0 moron.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Secret Alcoholism or TObaccOism
 Cures
 Please advise whether ...., which can be given without the patients knowledge, is really Q cure for the tobacco habit.
 (MrS. II. D. AnSwer-Of course 1t has no ef- feet on tobacco habit. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for holder on the Tobacco Habit. 1n- close ten cents if you want the booklet "DispSomania" (liquor hab- it.)
 Vitamin B
 Are vitamin B (thiamin) tablets fattening7 co. F)
 Answer-No.
 Hygiene
 Sister and have never paid the slightest attention to So-called "care" during menstrual periods, We have pursued ali of our actiVi- ties uninterruptedly. We have never experienced any of the trou- bleS so many young women have. So we know your teachings are cor- rect. (E. J)
 AnBwer-Thank you. After oil, menstruation Is e function, not an illness. I am glad to send to any woman who asks for 1t and in. closes stamped envelope bearing her address monograph Hygiene for Girls and Health for Women" This gives the consensus of modern medical opinion and the conclusions reached by Q noted medical woman who for many years had charge of women in one of our great universi- ties.
 (Convriahk faAB. John F foiiie Col