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Evening star., 1945-09-02

complaint, especially if it might be
helped through talking about it.
If the Joneses tell people that they
have been trying to find place to
live in, one of their hearers may
be able to help. But to complain
about the discomfort of the house
they already have moved into in
terests no one except a decorator.
In other words, an explanation of
difficulties to an expert who can
suggest remedy is quite all right.
This, of course, is not to encourage
you, when seated next to a lawyer,
to ask his advice on how to make out
your income tax.
He Cured Her
HERE is never an excuse for COM
planning about such things as John
ny's low marks, Mary's colds, the
long waits for a bus or train.
Not long ago devoted husband
cured his wife of complaining by
handing her this memorandum:
Three different times while
Lieut.. Mary Jones was telling us
details of her overseas nursing ex-
periences, you interrupted to ask:
]. About a slight cut on your finger;
Z. Why you freckle instead of tan;
,. Why you have indigestion when
you eat cucumbers. You forgot that
she was here as guest and not in her
professional capacityr
The question, of course, comes
down to this: How can people be
made to realize how much of what
they talk about leads to complaint
and how much of it is about them
selves? If the words I. me, my, mine,
Ve, our, and rs only could ring a
bell and attract attention to them
selves, we would all be cured. If we
focus only on the word you, we can't
possibly be uttering complaints!
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Evening star., 1945-09-02
If you keep your woes
to yourself, you will
keep your friends too

LETTER from man asks: Wont
n you please do something about
the chronic complainers who con-
tinually talk about their personal
troubles? Today the young woman
asked to lunch was having maid
trouble. Some weeks ago it was
disturbance at the Office.
when close friends get together,
discussion of personal problems often
is encouraged. but the line ought to
be drawn somewhere. If only the
energy spent complaining were spent
doing something about the problem,
everyone would be better off,"
In answering this, the first
point to make is that few have
the faintest notion that they are
complainers. 1t might be well. per-
haps, if we would make up ques-
tionnaire of the things people say
that annoy us and then Try 10 notlCe
whether we ourselves have been
complaining about the same things.
She Fines Them
ONE solution was put into effect
by a neighbor of mine. She set out
a collection box. Then, everyone
who complained about shortages.
food ration points, gas coupons and
standing in line was fined a quarter.
Says she: I'VE are all bored to
death to be told about the lack of
points or shortage of meat. Why say
anything about what we can't do?
To do the best you can and not talk
about what you can't do is the first
rule for every hostess"
With this l agree thoroughly.
But none of us minds an occasional
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
Badly Frightened Kesselring Thinks Hitler Was Misunderstood By World
Marshal Learns Hopes Russia

In order to explain this, he told me that just now he was working for the Allies. helping to organize the demobilization program. Speak ing of the American officers with whom he works, he had only the highest praise. "They are noble men," he said.
 When asked when he, who had commanded every front and also the air force, had known that the war was lost for Germany, he said, "This question I can never answer. A commander must put up front. I had to be hopeful when talking to my soldiers. What thought in my bed at night is nobody's busi- ness" From this it seems evident that he must have known for quite some time.
 But Kesselring hasn't been changed by defeat. He remains the typical German officer. He says: ''You Americans think this is a war to end wars. History proves there will always be war. The very essence of life is to fight. The eternal peace idea is nonsense. Ter years hence you Americans will be either out chased economically by Russia or you will fight Russia
 He didn't say so, but there was no doubt in my mind that he was thinking and hoping that Russia and the United States would be at war soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

question is tabu, could not answer it directly, but said that only those who committed crimes or were in- directly responsible for them are on the list. He wasn't very happy. de- claring that indirect guilt could be constructed for everyone He had learned that all the military leaders partaking in the Polish campaign are on the list. Was that true? He himself had led certain air fleets in that campaign.
 Then Kesselring wanted to know whether the Allies knew that they could have had peace with Hitler two years ago? That Hitler, whom he constantly called the Fuehrer, never wanted war against the west ern Allies. I said that Hitler could never have had peace with the western Allies, and that the very sense of the war was the defeat and extermination of the Nazis.
 Kesselring was sincerely baff1ed He proceeded to tell me that the Fuehrer was the greatest man of this century and that the world would know it 20 years hence. That the world was incapable of under standing the great ideas of Hitler. That all revolutions had periods when wrongs were committed, but this didn't mean that the Nazi revo- lution in itself was wrong.
 He asked whether I believed in what had been said about German concentration camps. When I said did and had seen the horror myself, he seemed mortified and for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
MOBILE VISIONS GREAT GAINS AS
 SHIPPING PORT

Mobile, Ala, May 17-CUP)-The Port of Mobile today looked forward to handling well over 5,000,00 tons of cargo and tending 2,000 ships in the first postwar year to deepen it's niche in the list of American ports.
 Mobile, possessor of the most conspicious land-locked harbor from Hampton Roads to the mouth Of the Amazon" boasts that a berthed ship can be coaled only 68 hours after the order is relayed to mines in the Birmingham region and pick axes begin to swing.
 From this port 31 miles from the open sea will flow lumber, iron steel products, cotton, naval stores and cotton goods. Its principal imports in the past have included bananas, manganese, bauxite, su- gar, and in normal times, rubber.
 Although primarily a cargo port, Mobile anticipates substantial i'm provement in passenger service to the West Indies, Central and South America, and Europe, according to Robert D. Hays, general manager of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Hays estimates that more than 6,000 workers were employed in Mobile before the war by the steve dore contractors, steamship lines and dock operators, and believes that this number will be increased in the postwar era.
 The city also hopes to see many of the 150 ships that have been built in its shipyards during the war returning to Mobile after the peace. Great shipbuilding induds- tries line Mobile Bay, both to con- struct new vessels and to convert and repair the damages of war to older ships.
 Five drydocks and eight marine railways, varying in lifting power from 50 to 12,000 tons, earn for Mobile the rating of largest ship repair center on the Gulf of Mex ico, according to the Chamber of Commerce.
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spite Of dozens Of interruptions by several high ranking German off, cers among them Chief of Staff Field Marshal Guderian, the visit continued into late evening.
 I found Kesselring, in his suite in the Berchtesgadenerhof. He was all dressed up in his beautifully embroidered marshals uniform, and covered with decorations. He was about to sign hundreds of certi- ficates which read something like this: "In the name of the F'uehrer I herewith bestow on you the Iron Cross" He explained that these decorations had been bestowed be- fore and this was 8 simple formal ity.
 But he was wondering if these certificates would ever reach their owners. This brought him to the first question, DO you know what will become of Germany"
 GREAT" GERMANS
 He then admitted that he had no inkling of Allied plans. Would the Russians occupy the whole of Germany? Since Kesselring was born in Bavaria, he wanted to know who would occupy the Ba- varian area. He seemed greatly relieved when I told him the Am orleans would probably occupy this zone He talked a few minutes about the "greatness" of the Ger man people.
 But Kesselring also worries about himself. Am I on the list of war criminals?" he asked. Since this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

The chemist also forecast that air. planes will be made wholly of mag nesium-the lightest of structural metals.
 The chemical age now is supplant- ing the machine age and the three main factors in the world to be" are alcohols, plastics, and light metals, Hale said
 World Wide Use
 Since these factors are produced from the fruits of nature, the whole world can enjoy them if it works through "sations,'' formula devised by the scientist to solve world problems.
 World wars have been caused by unequal distribution of raw mate rials for industry, according to Hale. Such distribution has forced people of all nations into trade, which have brought undesirable duties and fines, resulting in poverty to some nations aud wealth to others
 In Hale's world, the globe will be regrouped into four "sations," ex- tending from the coldest to the hot test climates and divided so that each esation" will have every known product procurable. The stations" should comprise the Mongolian peo- ples, the Slavics, the Tentonics and the Anglo o-Americans, he said.
 Abolish Trade Routes
 aIuo To roc of tha cD ubO11lH be to do away with duties and fines imposed on trade by eliminating trade routes entirely except In the "sations' individu coast-Wlde areas.
 No longer shall we draw upon others to do what we ourselves can accomplish, Hale said.
 With the present-day turnout Of 1,750,00O,O 900 barrels of petroleum annually, only a few more years supply is in sight, Hale said. There fore, agriculture must enter the field by manufacturing alcohol from grain. There is no better fuel for internal combustion motors than alcohol and water because it's oc- tane rating is far above 100 and 1t burns without knock. Its superiority over gasoline stems from its lower temperature of bul,ling, and it burns to complete oxidation. One gallon of alcohol in water blend, Hale said, would drive a car four times as far as a gollan of high-test gasoline.
 Sees Vast Alcohol Output
 Hale predicted that by the close of the next quarter of century the United States should be producing approximately 30,000, 100000 gallons of alcohol annually.
 Through chemurgic processes, saf- flower and castor oil seeds will pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
Medicine Ads
 On Radio Hit

Washington, May IT - U.P.) - When you get an ache in sunny Los Angeles, Calif., man who looks like maybe he might be doc will put you under a box with dials on 1t and press button. Red lights flash. Bells ring. Indicator needles futter like crazy.
 And then the man says, $5, pleaSe,'' said Representative Ellis E. Patterson of you-know- where.
 That isn't all that goes on in Los Angeles. Take eyeglasses, Repre- sentative Pattersons cost him $35. He used to could get 'em for s10.
 Then there's the four-bit kind for riding in automobiles. he said. "Sunglasses. These now cost $750. They're making profits on eyeglasses of 1000 per cent"
 These charges made a couple of experts from the Federal Trade Commission blink Here they've been going after the city slickers these many years and now look what's going on in Southern Cali fornia Kind of discourages a feller.
 Richard P. Whitely, assistant chief counsel of the commission, said his only chance of going after the Los Angeles electrical medicine men depended on whether they ad- vertlsed their cures in Arizona. That would be across state line and he could nab em. Otherwise, he said they could take $5 bills from the citizens of Los Angeles as long as the citizens wanted to see the pret- ty lights. Representative Patterson said there ought to be a law.
 What brought this up was 8 hearing by a congressional labor subcommittee on aid to the physi- cally handicapped. Whitley said the trade commission was doing its dead-levelest to keep the people from being cheated
 He listed some of the commits sions achievements: There was a manufacturer of ladies girdles who said same would cure organic ail- | mentS, colitis, weak heart, floating kidneys and provide perfect fig l @A AAAS SoliiAiiAooAOll SclAd plOFC He couldn't. Blooie.
 Another doer-f-good manufac- tured an ozone generator which he said would cure colds, asthma, ner- vouSness, insomnia, tuberculosis, di- abeIes and defective eyesight The commission told him he couldn't sell his generator unless he adver- tised that it would result in irrita- tion of the nose and lungs. That stopped him.
 One of the vitamin makers pro- claimed that human health re- Quired vitaminS in addition to those ordinarily found in food. The com- mission said Nuts" in legal way, of course, and htis baby's pill sale dropped.
 T think" interrupted Patterson, that you would be doing a great service to mankind if you cut out about tWo-thirds of the medicine ads on the radio Most of 'em sound phoney."
 Whitely said, hey, wait minute. The commission is doing all right with the radio. He said his helpers last year, for instance, read and checked 1,523,OO0 typewriter pages of radio advertising manuscript.
 That was chore, all right, but he said it resulted in most radio ads telling the truth. Whether they irritated the customers, or caused em to attack their radios with axes, was none of the commissions business.
 Me, think I've got an ache com- ing on. want to hear dem bells and see those lights in Los An peleS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
The Army Knovs AH The Answers--Any Questions?

o. If soldier is killed in action and his widow draws pension, can his parents also draw one even though they were not dependent upon him?
 A. Pension is paid to the parents of a deceased soldier only when they can establish the fact that they were dependent upon him.
 Q. My husband is in the Army and have been sending him money every week or so. have found out that he is using this to no good pur- pose and have told him I won't send any more. He threatens to stop my Family Allowance, can he do this?
 F. S., Taunton.
 A. No, he cannt have your Family Allowance discontinued as long as you are his legal wife, with no divorce or legal separation with out court order for support.
 Q. My husband is a T/5, now serving overseas. He has Class F allowance taken out of his pay and just recently signed for Class E allotment. How much will get on the Class E after he is paid $10?
 A. M. R., Providence.
 A. The soldier allots a Class E allotment of pay in whatever amount he wishes. The base pay of a T/5 is $66.0O plus 20 per cent over- seas duty. The Class F deductions is $22.00 and he probably has Govern nent insurance and possibly war bonds which must also be deducted. The Office of Dependency Benefits, Newark, N. J., will send you noti- fication of the amount of your Class E. allotment.
 e. My SiSter-in-laW had a child while my brother has been overseas two years; is she entitled to Family Allowance for that child as my brothers?
 A. The child would probably be shown on public records as the child of your brother and his wife, there fore eligible for Family Allowance. However, the soldier may request his personnel or commanding officer to forward certified statement to the Office of Dependency Benefits, Newark, N. J., to the effect that he has been overseas for that period of time.
 o. When ( soldiar is killad in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

Mrs Mary A. Carney of the North End section was greatly admired by all who knew her. One of the most popular members of St. Thomas parish she always gave helping hand where needed. She was active in church. parochial and society affairs true friend in need and trouble She resident of the city all her ife widely known especially in the North End section Her passing will be regretted by her many friends and acquantances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
CAN'T KEEP GRANDMA IN HER CHAIR
She's as Lively as Youngster-
 Now her Racka che is better

Many sufferers relieve nageing baokache quickly, once they discover that the real cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys.
 The kidneys are Natures chief way of talk ing the excess acids and waste out of the blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints day.
 When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood 1t may cause nagging backachc rheumati pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, pu6iness under the cyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with Inasting and burning some times shows therc is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder
 Don't wait! Ask your druggis. for Deans Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years They give happy rehef and will help the Is miles of kidney tubes flush out poison ous waste from your blood. Get DOal's Pills.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

action, is one of his dog tags sent home?
 A. No, it is not.
 O. If boy of 18 enters the SerV- ice, can he get married without his parents consent?
 B. H., Orleans, Vt
 A. Whether in the service or not, the matter of parental consent be- fore marriage is determined by the law of the state in which the boy resides or in which the marriage is to be performed. Neither the Army nor the Federal Government has any power to alter or affect the states jurisdiction in this regard.
 o. My eX-husband has just en- tered the service. Our child is stay ing with his mother although l hold custory of the child and have court order stating that the child is boarding there, not living there. Who is eligible for Family Allow ance, his mother or I?
 A. B., New Bedford.
 A. As the child is living with the soldiers mother she is the log ical person to receive payment of the Family Allowance for the child, and, if designated payee by the soldier, will probably receive it. The Office of Dependency Benefits, Newark 2, N. J., where applications are filed, determines the proper payee for Family Allowance on be- half of soldiers dependents.
 e. Does a soldier have to give Family Allowance to a wife if he is not living with her but has never been legally separated or divorced?
 A. The soldier is given opportun- ity to file application for Family Allowance for his wife, but is not forced to do so If the soldier does not apply the wife may file appli- cation and the soldier cannot have payment discontinued.
 Addressing all inquiries of a factual military nature to Public Relations Officer, Headquarters First Service Command, sos Com monwealth avenue, Boston, Mass.)
 After a five-year lapse InG,a has restored pensions of govern ment servants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

the first time shaken.
 He then volunteered some in- formation. He worries about the moral state of the Germans in prisoner camps He also fears that certain SS units will continue to fight in the mountains, though he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
(By United PresS)


 Berlin radio reports German evacuation of Casino; the sntire Gustav Line. south of the Liri Val ley, is averrun.
 Spain orders German and Jap anese agents out of Tangier. across the Strait of Gibraltar, and meas ures to limit the export of Spanish wolfram to Germany will soon be put into effect.
 German radios report that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has massed 50 divisions and 5000 air-borne trOps in southern England for the invasion.
 Russian planes attack Minsk, in White Russia.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

REMEMBERING

I remember a meandering brook, I remember a certain nook, I remember where the voletS grew And forget-me-notS blue, so blue. Doing find, is very taxing But remembering sort of relaxing. I remember an apple blossom TOW, Brides and bridesmaids white and pink Just so, The old stoneWall, the coWlipS yellow, My neighbor farmers gay hello I remember lots of things About other Mays other springs Such as dandelion greens with pork, The way we twirled them round our fork. I remember the naples in a row, The poughed field the man with the hoe. I remember bobolinks, butterflies wings, But-I must tune in a soprano who sings Also of voletS, trees and such things Similar to our memories of other springs; EM EM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

duce good drying oils, he said. Castor oil likewise will become the basis for a new type of nylc'a-the kind that might be used for sky scrapers.
 Ethylene plastics, such as syn thetic rubber, command attention now. But Hale said they would command even more notice within the next 25 years when 20,000,0O0 pounds of plastics should be pro- duced annually.
 The third great industry is the light metals-aluminum and mag nesium. Magnesium will soar ahead of aluminium to total of 10000, ,0O0,- 900 pounds annually in the next 25 years, he predicted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17
By CURT RIESS
Copyright, 1s45, NEA Service, Incl

Bercntesgaden, May 17-This correspondent, seeking interview with Field Marshal Albert Kessering, ervewed by Kesserng for about two hours Kesserng in spite of keeping stiff upper lip is badly frightened these days.
 had not been present at the interview which Kessel- ring granted few days before to several dozens of Allied because felt that he wouldn't say much in such circumstances When applied for interview he granted five minutes. But when he foundout that spoke German. he immediately began to ask questions. In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

has given strict orders that they shouldn't. It isn't certain that they'll obey. Therefore, he intends to fly to Doenitz and later to Eisenhower to devise plans against such possible uprisings or hostili- ties
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

Fulton's American Band of Waterbury-One of the nations best-has been invited to ofcate in Brstos municipal observance of Memorial Day, Wednesday, May 3Oth It will escort the state guard units from the armOry to the parade mobilization point and it will head the main procession when it swings into line The band will play at the memorial services in honor of Brstos heroic dead hghlight of the days observ- In the afternoon patrons of Lake COmpounce will be entertained by Futon's a special holiday attraction. It's band with big name in state mu- sical circles, which explains why it's presence is so greatly desired occasions when music interpreted and rendered by experts is wanted Down through the years since "Jim Fulton formed and directed his mu sicians in the band stand on the Central Green the name has typfed the best in band music. Waterbury should feel proud that traditions being upheld by passing generations of musicians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-17

The Town Crier Tells Farmers out Cheshire, Southbuy and Prospect way are agreed that too much rain is bad thing for the crops and the early planting
 Eastern Connecticut poultry dealers have pledged that they will supply public and private hospitals also institutions Over in Pennington the Republicans swept the town in the biennial elections Lots of water flowing the dams up at the Branch Reser- voir between Thomaston and Norris and also up where Earkhamstead used to be. Connecticut brooks ana rivers and small streams are turbulent than in many spring with rain than there has been III the past few years Unscrambe this one: the Boston area reports egg shortage meat substitutes so it was stated by which time spring chickens will have matured to begin laying which is acute and storing eggs for the fall and black market operations all helping to bring about the egg shortage. The Presque Isle (Malne) Star Herald states "the hum of tractors is heard as farmers are taking advantage of the early spring and are working around the clock the tractors being eqp
 ped with headlights to enable night shifts to bury the spud seed for bumper crop next fall. And Mars Hill writer states there heavy snowstom May H. four inches falling The Shakespeare garden in Gen. tral Park which is hryhree years od is about to oe restored Lack help left it anguishing of late years