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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Down to Earth Planning

There has been so much hySterical planning" to create postwar employ ment, that the ordinary means by which our citizens have kept themselves out of the poorhouse for some 150 years, seems to be largely overlooked. It has remained for Charles M. Upham, Engineer-Director, American Road Builders Association, to present down-to-earth figures showing how our people have provided themselves with jobs in the past He points out that the nations labor force is divided into three classifications: service industries, 50 per cent consumer goods industries, B per cent; and durable goods industries, IT per cent.
 It is fact, however, that employment rises and falls according to the fluctua- tions of the comparatively small segment of durable goods production and the latter is largely influenced by the amount of construction expenditures. During the prosperous twenties," said MT. Up- ham, private and public construction expenditures ran we'll over ten billion dollars annually for much of the period. That period was one of extensive road building, with the expansion of all related industries, including steel, road machin- cry, cement, asphalt, tar, and other materials. "In the depression thirties, construction Jagged, and labor was un- employed. Expenditures were lower for residential building, highways, railroads. public utilities, and public construction"
 The lesson to be drawn from MT. Up hams analysis is obvious: Every branch of government, from municipal to Fed eral, should encourage those who employ labor, from the building of new one room house, to the construction of the greatest industrial plant or railroad Public funds should be spent for perma- nent improvements such as roads, public buildings and the like, which serve all the people and do not compete with and discourage the man who is trying to build up taxpaying private enterprise
 Mr. Upham concludes: Full employ ment and prosperity in the postwar years will depend on construction. By this means only can this country change from war production to peacetime conditions without an economic upset The dollars spent in the building of homes, office buildings, utilities, highways, and other public improvements are high-poWered investment dollars but are useless lying in banks as savings. The high employ ment of the prosperous twenties and the unemployment of the thirties have proven this"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Views Of The Press
ICE CRYSTALS
(NeW York 'ribes&)

(New York TibeS6l)
 There is ice in the wheel tracks in the fields and on the footprints in the paths through the woods, thin, papery ice of the kind that forms quickly and remains when the water beneath has seeped away. It crackles underfoot with a. glassy sound, and when one looks closely at a sheet of 1t one sees that 1t is richly patterned. The upper surface is smooth as a windoW-pane, but 1t is as opaque as frosted glass. Turn it over and you see that it is liter ally frosted.
 The under surface of such an ice pane is covered with ice crystals ar rayed in shirls and feathers of the kind that frost creates on damp rooms windoW-pane. But these are not the thin, frosty patterns. They are made up of crystals as much as an eighth of an inch in diameter, solid, hexagonal water crystals that might be superficially mistaken for large grains of sugar or of crushed rock salt, such as we used years ago to pack the ice-cream freezer. But these are hexagonal without exception, the six-sided form in which water crystalliZes, either in ice or snowflake.
 There they are, those thousands of crystals, arranged in the patterns which shine through from the up- per surface. In places they are piled half an inch deep. One can dis tinguish individual lines of crystals, parallel lines of them, and layers of them along those lines. The curves might have been laid out with some intricate drafting instru- ment, so true their symmetry, and the straight lines would match a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Patriotism Revived

It seems rash and impertinent to at tempt any commentation on what is probably the wars most eloquent and Inspiring story. And yet we cannot re- fra1n from calling attention to the reac- tion of two of the American prisoners to their dramatic rescue from the Caba- natlIan camp on LuZon. One of them shouted God bless America!" The other, before he gave way to his emotions, said, "It cut right through me-the flag"
 We should imagine that few Americans read those words, in the stories of the rescue, without feeling of pride and an honest lump in their threats And we should also imagine that with that feel ing, perhaps, the emotion of patriotism regained much of it's former prestige. In the sophisticated America of the last 30 or 40 years, one just didn't spontaneously invoke Gods blessing upon America Rather, one was inclined to magnify Americas faults and to dismiss her virtues simply as so many manifestations of materialistic prosperity. And one left all expression of feeling at the sight of the flag to Francis Scott Key and the Fourth of July orators.
 That at least was the reaction of most of our intellectual leaders, particularly in the Twenties. And there was some excuse for it. Many of their fellow Amer jeans were convinced of Americas per lection, and defended that complacent conviction fiercely. But the reaction de- feated it's purpose. Such phrases as these soldiers used would have been laughed off a stage, Sneered at in books, picked to pieces in conversation. In many circles patriotism was actually something to be ashamed of But the war has shown us all that civilization itself has largely been preserved by our once-derided material ism. It has shown us that we could have spiritual as well as material growth Tn time of emergency. And we have now come back to the day when a boy can cry God bless America!" and another can weep on seeing the flag, after pain full ordeal of learning, day after hungry weary day, what the absence of that flag can mean. And we can all share tnelr emotion and be moved by it.
 Some may fear that many soldiers, feel ing as these lads on Luzon felt, will come home with desire to find and keep America as they left it, and thus encour- age reactionism or strife. But patriot ism can be revised as well as revived. It need not degenerate into chauvinism and foreign bias as long as our national lie is governed by decency and unity We have seen, for all our imperfections, too many instances of those virtues during the war to doubt that. In the meantime, 1t is good to welcome back little old fashioned, unabashed patriotism after all these cynical years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Biggest Convoy

Some late statistics on the record breaking convoy of 167 mercahnt ships that crossed safely to England some weeks ago serve to illustrate again the remark able success of the anti-submarine war, the efficiency of Allied escort, and the splendid work of the merchant marine of ours and other nations
 More than a billion tons of cargo were shipped in this one trip, including 10000 trucks and other vehicles, and a variety Of materials that ranged from food and lumber t0 locomotives and explosives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

being Waged over the reappoint- ment of Al Woll, son of AFL la- bor leader Matthew Woll, as U. s. District Attorney in Chicago, Matt Wall is 100 per cent against Roosevelt and White House ad- visers don't SC why his son should be rewarded by F. D. R. However, Sen. Scott Lucas, friend of Jake Avery, is pulling wires for Woll's reappointment '. . Those interested in the manpoWer short- age might take a look at Morris Field, Charlotte, N. H., where around 70 officers would like to do more, out where lots of them have become specialists in golf and skeet shooting.
 4F MILITARY LEADERS
 Selective Service officials who have to worry about medical de- ferments, got good laugh the other day from Dr. Logan Glen dening'S list of the worlds great military men who would have been 4Fs in this war.
 Those who would have been re- jected include: George Washing ton, who had false teeth; Bis mark, who was overweight; Ma pOleon, who had stomach ulcer; U. $. Grant, who suffered from al- coholism; Julius Caesar, who was an epileptic; Lord Nelson, who fought on with only one arm and one eye; and Kaiser Wilhelm, who had Withered arm.
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 The Bell Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

first to Australia and at last got back to England and into this woman's hands. Surgeons word had gone clear round the world and. by what appeared to be a mere accident, got into the hands of a woman living only a com paratively short distance from his church.
 The seed of Gods truth keeps growing because it has vitality and life. It springs up in the most un- expected places and under the most astonishing circumstances. Some times the word of a very humble person will, under the power of Gods Spirit, concert someone of great consequenc. Or some little aside will start someone. especially
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Selected Poem
ELM IN WINTER

(M H. O. in The Christian Science Monitor You say a leafless tree has lost it's charm? For you perhaps, but not for mel Today stately tree is etched against pale Blue sky, and tempts me to my window hour By hour, as changing lights and shadows change The scene. And, when the sunset paints the sky, Between the branches of this grand old elm see the rose tints mixed with gold, and like A jewel-just for a second-the whole tree shines! And I, remembering its roots are deep, Its strength secure, can see ahead to days When it will leaf again. and shade afford To those who pause for rest. To me, this elm Is lovely every day throughout the year. POEM ED PAGE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
SOUND COUNSEL
(Boston PoSt)

(BoSton PoSt)
 Timely and fatherly is the advice of Archbishop Cushing to the clergy to stay close to the people. Today, with devastation and suffering all over the world. the people are iIl great need of spiritual comfort and counsel. The clergy can do much to assuage the sorrow that is being visited upon almost every family, Archbishop Gushing recognized in his recent remarks the present need for a close bond between Gods servS ants and their flock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

These same statistics reveal that 75 of these 167 vessels (43 per cent of the convoy were American. This, too is remarkable, considering the dispersal of our shipping to the various theatres of war, and the state of our merchant marine at the wars outbreak. And it is another tribute to the skill and aireless industry of the shipbuilders who made it possible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

Out of it will come either World Peace and an ordered world for the next fifty years; or the early seeds of another war.
 RoOsevelt's problem will be to persuade Stalin and Churchill to go along on broad unselfish peace plans, including Dunbar ton Oaks, at a time when most of the trump cards no longer are in his hahnds.
 Four years ago, just after France fell Churchill would have given anything, any kind of broad peace machinery, any reasonable part of the empire to secure American support. Today he will not even promise the return of Hong Kong to China.
 Three years ago when Russia was fighting back to the wall at Stalingrad, Stalin would have given far-reaching pledges for a broad peace plan. Today he will not even accept Dumbarton Oaks unless Russia has veto of the Council of the United Nations to block any disciplinary action against an aggreSsor nation.
 F. D. R. has to face the fact that both Stalin and Churchill now have most of what they want, and Roosevelt Is left, with
 almost no trump cards, except
 the humanitarian appeal that the Allies must not abandon the goal of peace for which man. kind fought, plus the threat that the American people, if dis
 illusiOned, will become is0la- tionist as never before.
 THE BIG 3 AGENDA
 Perhaps the toughest nut Roosevelt has to crack is to se- cure Stalin's acceptance of the Dumbarton Oaks peace machin- cry without crippling amend ments. First, however, let's examine the points on the agenda which should be much easier. There are six main items on the Big Three Agenda, as follows:
 l. WAR AGAINST JAPAN This was promised by Stalin at Teheran as soon as Germany was defeated. It was promised in re- turn for the Allied second front in Germany and there is no req son to believe Stalin will not keep this pledge. He has been meticu- lous in keeping promises once they have been given, and F. D. R. ex- poets no trouble about his.
 2. POLAND-Roosevelt is pro- posing compromise whereby Premier Mikolajczyk, recently re- signed from the London-Polish Government, will enter the Rus sian-inspired Lublin Government of Poland. The United States and Britain would then recog- nize the Lublin Government. The President is also proposing that Russia withdraw some of its claims to old Poland as con- ciliiatory gesture to the Poles.
 3. THE BALTIC PROVINCES The United States will now rec ognize Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as part of Russia Thus far the United States has recog- nized them as separate countries, and still have Baltic diplomats in Washington. But as a gesture to Stain we will now formally recognize these states as Russian.
 4. PUNISHMENT OF WAR CRIMINALS-The Big Three will have no trouble in agreeing on the strongest joint measures to punish the war guilty, including joint Allied courts.
 5. POSTWAR TRADE WITH RUSSIA-Roosevelt is proposing loan or credit of about six biI- lions for Russia to buy tremen- dous amount of American goods to restore her war torn economy.
 6. DUMBARTON OAKS-Last summer there was one crucial stumbling block in the path of a new machinery for permanent peace - the right of a big na- a child, thinking about things re I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

judged or t h c point of whether Congress is out of step with the rest of the world or whether very body else is out of step with c h. greSs.
 D e f e Il ders of Congress are too often forced to plead that their critics do n o t understand what Congress is SUD- posed to do or what if doeS On
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

A ROUND ABOUT PROVIDENCE
 Many years ago a minister in England called upon a woman who was dying and found that, just a short time before, she had experi- enced a marvellous conversion as the result of one of Spurgeon's ser
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady j:

Signed letters pertaining to per.
 sOnaI health and hygiene, not 70
 disease, diagnosis of treatment.
 will be answered by pr. Brady if
 a stamped elf-addressed envelope
 is enclosed. Letters should DC brief
 and written in ink. 70 reply can
 be made to queries not conform
 ing to instructions. Address Drs
 William Brady, National NewsA
 paper Service, 32O West Madison
 Street. Chicago. III
 HOW COMMON IS SCURVY?
 Infants or young children devels oping scurvy are fretful, anemlc' without appetite. They fall to grow and gain weight from week to week. They cry when picked up or moved or handled and sometimes the evi- dent pain and tenderness in tho legs makes parents suspect "rheu- matism" and the child's instinctive effort to avoid pain by lying mo- tionless may make parents suspect paralysis" I
 The gums are of deep purplish color, swollen around the upper cen- tral incisors, and they bleed from the slightest irritation or some times without evident injury.
 Before definite symptoms Of scurvy appear (writes Trimmer, a British authority) there is period of ill health, characterized by cer- tain symptoms which should be looked for in persons who habitually take too little vitamin c, though they get enough to prevent outright scurvy. These symptoms are 8 sallow, muddy complexion, loss or energy, f1eeting pains in joints and limbs especially in the legs, usually mistaken for rheumatism. So-called rhumatism in young children has aften proved to be actually scurvy.
 Hess, an American authority, pointed out how frequently children without showing distinct scurvy symptoms are irritable, lacking in stamina and more or less retarded in growth; and can be restored to better growth, higher stamina and better general health and disposi- tions by the feeding of more orange juice or tomato juice or fresh raw greens of any kind.
 I forget whether 1t was Hess or Mcollum who observed group ot boys in private school who de- veloped the symptoms above de~ scribed. The boys passed up fresh fruit in favor of cake, pie, ice cream and the like as dessert and spent all their spending allowance for candy, hot fudge sundaes and the inevitable carbonated sweetened stimulating beverage which, in my opinion, is bad medicine for any youngster. When the boys were req quired to take fresh fruit for des- sert and fruit juice drinks instead of pop they soon recovered their normal good nature and eagerness to play.
 Commander Parry described in the early part of the nineteenth century (Journal of Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Pas sage) Seaman Scott's fatal scurvy:
 ''At the onset of his illness, first
 thought to be rehumatism, the
 man showed aversion to motion.
 lassitude, depression of spirits,
 pale countenance, fetid breath,
 livid, spongy, bleeding gums
 Probably they didn't know then what artic explorer StefanSson proved a century later, namely, that even fresh meat (caribou or fresh fish eaten raw or fresh seal meat eaten raw or only slightly cooked, is cure for ScurVy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Daily Almanac

Moon sises at 5:27 a. m. (war time)
 Sun rises at 7:54 a. m. sets at 6:19 p. m. (war time)
 Bright sunsets have followed the setting sun for a week past. And at o'clock there is plenty of daylight, so that you can get supper started without the lights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
!" NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Congress Wants The Reins Again
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash ingtOn Correspondent

Washington, D. C., Feb. g - Pro- posals for improving the relation ships between Congress and the ex- ecutive end of the government, the voters and the special interest lob bies and pressure groups, must be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Raw Or Par Rolled

Your ignorance is displayed by your use of the term 'parboiled" for pasturized (slc) milk and youi unfitness to give health advice is shown by your recommendation of raw milk--it seems strange that member of your profession (sic) so completely ignores the danger of Malta (undulant) fever from raw milk. GA. B. H. Answer the things you may learn from Webster's diction- ary, Mr. Milkman, is the meaning of parboiled. For my own home and for infants, children or adults who ask my advice. I prefer Grade A Raw milk from tuberculin-tested herd to parboiled - pasteurized = milk. In any circumstance any milk at all is perfectly safe for infant, child or adult, if you first scald it-bring it to boil for one minute.
 Raw Meat
 Daughter, four, loves raw ground beef. We let her have 1t (Grade A meat) twice a week. Local doctor says it is very hard to digest.
 (Mrs. R. D. Answer-Some risk of infectation with the beef tapeworm If the meat happens to me measly (contain the larvaD. Otherwise it is as wholes some. digestible and ncurishing as cooked beef.
 When Doctors Disagree ~ Please send leaflet on hernia. One doctor tells me I have double hernia, another says haven't. v
 GIT. W) Answer If you will provide stamped envelope bearing your adS dress I'll send you a pamphlet about hernia (breach, rupture), but I'm afraid it will not tell you whether you have hernia. Only g physician can do that.
 Copyright 1945, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

child, thinking about things re- ligious and end in a changed out look on life.
 God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform" This has been true in the past. and there is no reason to doubt that His won- derful providence has lost any of It's power in modern life.
 All Rights Reserved -Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09

rulers edge. But to see their beau-
 ty one must come down to ground level and take the time to look bes meath the sleek surface.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
Washington Merry-Go-Round DREW PH PHApso
Drew Pearson Soys Rooseve Toughest Problem Big Confer Will Be Dumboon Oaks; Ston Expected Agree Deco
 Wor Against Japan; Will Gron Six Billion Credit Russo

WASHINGTON February Diplomats who studied the agenda the Big
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-09
A Thought for Today

For know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among yOu not Sparing the flOck.-Acts 2O:29.
 
 Old Care has a mortgage on eevry estate And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get -J G. Saxe.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-18

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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
CLERICAL WORKERS

Clerical workers, lose no time
when released from war industries
Train The Columbia Way, then ac-
cept Accounting and Secretarial
positions, available only to those
who have clerical experience. Sal
aries interesting. Fine opportuni-
ties for advancement. The demand
is greater than the supply. Column
bias training is guaranteed. The
cost is low and employment cer-
tain Call 224 for an appointment.
Columbia College, S. M. Funk, Pres
ident, III South oPtomac Street,
Hagerstown, Md. Advt
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-13
University To Have
Firemen's School
University OF Maryland To
Hold Special Courses For Vol
unteer Firemen Next Fall.

Ground was broken on Saturday
for a new two-story fireproof brick
building to house the Fire Service
Extension Department of the Uni
versity of Maryland at College
Park. Facilities of the building
will be open to all firemen of the
state, and will be used for the vol
unteer firemen's short courses
starting next fall.
For construction of the 50-by-100-
foot building, south of the Byrd
stadium on the campus, 100000
was appropriated from the states
postwar building fund The struc-
ture will include a twenty-foot
square 5-story training tower, a
smoke room for gas mask training,
pumping units, and various other
apparatus for training men in fire
fighting 1t will also house the To-
cal fire-lighting unit.
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor
and State Comptroller Willard B.
Tawes were speakers at the cere-
mony as was Dr. Harry c. Byrd,
president of the University. Philip
Ryan, of Mt. Rainier, president of
the Maryland Volunteer Firemen's
Association, broke ground for the
building in the ceremony held in
conjunction with the Prince Georges
County Volunteer Firemen's As
ISOLATION meeting.
Actual building will start within
two weeks, and completion of the
new structure in about 6 months
will enable the University to pro-
vide even better training and SER
vice to the 215 volunteer fire de
partments of the state. The fire
extension service of the University
of Maryland, started in 1888, held
annual training schools before the
war under Director James w. Just
for some Of the $4,000 volunteer
firemen who contribute their SER
vices to this worthy community
enterprise.