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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20

out "the uncommon man." We agree with Dr. de Vane. And we think one , of the first and best ways of promoting the uncommon mans welfare would be to baniSh the term common man" from our speech and our thinking. The term is meaningless. The very fact of being human commits man to individuality, not commences. No man in the honest depths of his heart thinks of him. self as being common" And when you hear an individual thump his breast and piously acclaim, q am just common man." put him down as a laundering hypocrite and hang onto your pocket book because he's after something usually votes or money.
 Those who speak Of the common man as someone apart from themselves may be motivated by sincerity and good in- tentions-those durable paving stones of the neither regions. But they are guilty of snobbery as stuffy as that of any blue-blooded, gouty old moneybags. What the well-intentioned and social conscious mean by the common man is the poor man, the unfortunate man, the exploited man, the uneducated or un- intelligent man. But they have coined the euphemism common" and have tried to convince the people to whom they apply it that commences is vir- tue, and that it is a mark of honesty, to be stripped of individuality and brand ed as one of herd
 They have fostered the idea that by the mere fact of being classed as 'con- mon," segment of society has the right to receive some of the worlds goods from it's uncommon brother and give nothing in return. They have put the witch's curse on individual ambition They have confused the mere fact of wealth with evil and of poverty with good without regard for attendant circumstances It is certainly the duty of all men to try to improve the society they live in, to increase opportunities and to distribute that society's wealth in such manner that each member may live in decency and comfort But men should not get the idea that decency and comfort are the end or that any one of their fellow men must be compelled to live by bread and sociology alone. Decency and con- fort should simply be the setting con- mensurate with the dignity of being man, a setting in which whatever prom ise man has of uncommonness and greatness may develop unfettered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
Music for the Soldier

The art fmusic has always meant much to the soldier. For centuries it has urged him into battle with fife and pipe and drum, and it's less martial strains have offered him brief escape from the bleakness and grinlnesS of war. The SOL der in this war has been no different. Music has been important in keeping up morale The first parachute of supplies dropped on Attu in the Aleutians carried besides food and other absolute neces- sities, photograph and a set of records. Musical equipment has accompanied the American soldier and sailor into every theater of operations And almost any serviceman will tell you that it has helped to make life little more livable. Much of this equipment has been issued by the services themselves. But great deal Of it has been contributed by the National Federation of Music Clubs in the course of a modestly unpublished program now four years old
 The National Federation of Music Clubs is made up of hundreds of community groups, the Harmony Clubs and Matinee Musicales and such that are found in al- most every town in the country. In the summer of 1941 they began sending in- struments and entertainers to Army camps and Navy bases here at home, sometimes flying small pianos by cargo planes to the more remote installations. With the start of the war, the Federation gave to each outgoing transport port able pnonograph and consignment Of records Often these gave the men the only music they had to relieve the mon otony and anxiety of a blacked-out voy- age on which even radio listening was prohibited Later the Federation equipped outgoing battalions with enough instru- ments to make up hillbilly bands, since cargo limitations at that time did not permit the shipping of larger instru- ments. And as casualties began coming home in increasing numbers these mu- sical donations were broadened.
 Today each hospital ship receives from the Federation a kit of instruments and song books, four photographs, 100 popu- lar records, and sets of classical and re- ligious records. All told, the clubs of the Federation have raised $00,000 for their work and sent million and quarter articles of musical equipment to the fight ing forces at home and abroad. And though they have donated plenty of drums and bugles, the clubs have been too busy to play many fanfares and flourishes on their own behalf. So little belated recognition of their generosity seems entirely in order
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
A Request From the Krupps

A prime example of the arrogant stu pidity of the German upper crust may be found in petition filed the other day in Bremen by Waldtraut Krupp von Bohlen, one of the heiresses of the Krupp muni- tions dynasty. Fraulein von Bohlen asks, with straight face, that the American authorities cancel the personal decree by which Adolf Hitler nationalized the firm. Her obvious intention is that the Allied simply allow the war-mongering Krupps to set up shop again, probably upon the pious promise that they make nothing but farm machinery or perhaps peram- Jt:iators.
 Such thinking would seem to pass out of the realm of stupidity and into un- consciousness. Apparently the Krupps are unaware that anyone suspects that they were a prime force behind two World Wars They seem convinced that their self-importance will exempt them from the victors' announced intention of de- militarizing Germany completely. We worry about de-educating and re-educat- ing Nazi youth. What about the prob lem of awakening the minds of family which was one of the supporting pillars of pre-War industrial Germany?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
Flying Farmers

We don't know how all this is going to affect Old Paint, or what it may do in time to that en-gallon hat and high heeled boot industry, but it appears that the postwar coWhand may be heading for the big roundup in a neat little cabin plane. At least that's the inn pression we get from reading a piece in the trade. magazine Implement & Trac- tor, which comes right out and says, ''The airplane is farm equipment And to prove that it's the farmers idea and not the magazines, the article quotes recent survey by manufacturer which indicates that rural America will pro- vide the postwar market for 60 per cent of his factorys light personal planes.
 That doesn't mean, of course, that a man won't be able to farm 50 acres of hilly Vermont land without an airplane in the days to come. But the article makes out a pretty good case for the practical use Of aircraft in the western and midWestern territories of flat ter rain and big farms. In fact, the airplane is being used by some farmers already.
 There is an organization called the Oklahoma Flying Farmers, for instance. And it's president is quoted as saying that if he had to choose between his airplane and his car, he's afraid the car would have to go
 Here are some of the things Imple- ment & Tractor thinks postwar farmer can do with a S1,00O-or-so plane: He might SOW crops and dust them, ride herds and inspect fences, take produce to market, get needed repair parts for other implements in a hurry, take the kids to school when roads are impasS- able Ga dirty trick on the kids, we say), or just go to town for shopping and a movie on Saturday. Any level field or pas ture would do for a landing strip, the magazine says, and you could taxi right up to the hay barn, which would serve nicely as hangar. As for the farmers learning to fly, it appears that the post war personal plane is going to be so nearly stall, spin-and fool-proof that you would have to fly it smack into the silo in order to wreck it.
 We haven't quite dared pursue the pos abilities to their ultimate effect on the colorful West, but we can see that the effect would be felt far beyond the ac- tual business of farming and ranching For one thing, it would revolutionize the rodeo business. We'd probably have stunt flying instad of bronco riding, with steers being bulldogged by delft slap of a tail skid. Git along, little doggie, be- fore va git dive-bombed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
The Uncommon Men

Above the noise of clashing economic panaceas and general confusion there has been heard lone voice crying for consideration of 'the uncommon man." The voice belongs to Dr, William c. de Vane, dean of Yale college. And it might be good idea if we all hushed up and listened to him.
 Some things" he says, "have not changed since the dawr of history, and bid fair to last out time itself One of these things is the capacity for great ness in man-his capacity for being often the master of the event and some times even more-the changer of history itself"
 It is his conclusion that today's life and thought may be stifling that capa- city for greatness, "a very precious gift" anI that democracy cannot thrive with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
HORSE SHEDS
(NeW York Times)

Prose and poetry have sung the praises of the white-spired churches that face green village commons and busy town squares. The white clap board or brick town halls of rural hamlets have had their share of at tention. But sparse has been the praise and negligible the attention given to the horse sheds behind the church and the civic center.
 Out in the country one sees them behind the community buildingS-a line of sheds, sometimes a straight row. sometimes semicircle of stalls. Today they may stand empty and silent; or perhaps they store some of the towns working machin- cry, big scrapers or drags. or pile of blanks drying out to replace worn sections of the weathered bridges that span placid creeks or tunbling brooks.
 Time was not so long ago when the horse sheds were an integral part of rural life. On Sunday mornings when the farm families came to worship in the village church, the horses were hitched in the sheds. In winter, when snow blanketed the hills and the valleys, one saw row of pungs, cutters and sleighs. Sometimes when a family had six or eight children one saw big tWo- horse sled with high board sides. On blanket-covered layer of straw and with buffalo robes around them, large families of youngsters could be efficiently transported in sleds. In summer, on Sunday morning. one saw row of sturdy two-seated democrats, one-seated buggies, fringed-topped surreys and perhaps a canopied carryall.
 On town meeting day in March, the shed behind the town hall was full Throughout the year both lines of sheds were used as needed. On the boards above the stalls pigeons
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20

wanted to become naturalized citizens Of the U.S.S., so many Jap prisoners become quite CO., ojerative once they understand they will not be tortured. Only trouble is there are so few priS- oners. Getting Japs to surrender remains one of the biggest prob- lens of the war.
 CAPITOL CHAFF
 Senator Tydings' friends say he has various explanations for his unexpected quick return from the Philippines after he expected to stay five weeks. Only trouble is the explanations conflict. One explanation is that Tydings had to bring back pease offer from the Japs. Another is that he was acting as special emissary to Washington from Macarthur. Another is that he had imme- diate work to do in Washington on the question of Philippine Independence . Diplomats lift ed their eyebrows when U. s. Am bassador Adolf Berle flew up from his post in Brazil at the exact time Secretary Stettinius was in San Francisco.
 Most diplomats report when the Secretary of State is present, not absent. However, Berle has never forgiven Stettinius for fir ing him as Assistant Secretary when he was in the middle of the Chicago Aviation Conference speaking of the original Roosevelt brain trust, it's members, with one exception are scattered to the four winds. Rex Tugwell is Gov ernor of Puerto Rico; Professor Moley is a magazine commenta- tor. formerly bitter Roosevelt critic; and Berle is mbassador to Brazil. Only original brain truster who quietly keeps saving wood is Charles Taussig in charge of the State Departments office for the West Indies. You don't hear much about him, but he has done an excellent job.
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 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20

advance in what not to say and what their rights were under the Geneva Convention. In addition. one German prisoner escaped from Canada early in the war and reported back to Berlin all the devices used by the British to make him talk-such as put ting German speaking British dressed in German uniforms in the same barracks with him, Sc for about a year the British couldn't get any information out of German prisoners at all.
 However, Jap prisoners, on the few occasions they are captured, become most talkative. Their code does not contemplate being taken prisoner, so they are not taught in advance what to say. nor are they protected by the Genva Convention.
 For instance, one Jap pilot picked up in the water, told an amusing story of how he was stationed on a small island in the Ryukyus when superseded by an officer of superior rank.
 Rank he observed with refreshing kness, lis a terrible thing
 Continuing, he told how he had been transferred from the island, anxious to get into combat and finally made his first combat and finally made his first combat flight in fighter plane,
 q saw the American planes coming" he reported to his American captors. T got one of the American planes square ly in front of my gunsights. But nothing happened. My guns did not fire. Then I was shot down.
 "As I landed in the water" he siehed, 'I could not under stand why my guns had jam med. Then I realized that never pulled the trigger. What a fool am!"
 This frankness on the part of Jap prisoners is not unusual. just as the Jap Naval landing troops interviewed by P Palme Hoyt
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S t a r, G e n e r a ] George s. Patton h i m S e l f. and things picked up.
 The c c n e r a l h a d S a t a l l through the read- ing of the war re- view with the cor nerS of his mouth turned way down, staring sour l y over his four stars and five rows of ribbons. But when he took the chair, up went the cor ners of his mouth,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Enyirons of Penn Yan

By the way, did you ever prac- tice in Elmira? It seems to me I remember my father. also ar MD, referring to a Dr. William Brady there. ()
 Ahe you the Dr. William Brady who spent his boyhood in Totowa, N. J.? ()
 Answer-I practiced in Penn Yan. Elmira was fifty miles south-a long ride in the horse-and buggy days. Topsy (my sorreD put her foot down On carrying me farther than Watkins Glen or Horseheads. But after the horesless buggy came I practiced in Elmira, knew your father well, envied his collection of books. I boyhood in Canandaigua, never travelled as far as Totowa. Even TOW my ride covers only about IF hemispheres.
 Moles
 I was always asking my mother what made me have so many moleS. So finally she told me to write you. Sir do you know what makes moles come all lover you? am II years old. (K. W. Answer - Anyway, Kay, your mother should be proud ot her daughters education. can't find wee flaw in your letter-and that makes it one in a thousand. No, I don't know what causes moles. Nobody knows. Ignorant people, however, can always invent a tale to account for them-when they can find an audience of ignorant people. Various methods of remov- ing moles of various types are des- cribed in booklet Cosmetic Blem- ishes' - for copy send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address.
 Ben at Work
 I have Ben Told that moles are caused by the sun.Is this true?
 Gois) Answer-The sun does not cause moles-plenty of sunshine may prevent development of moles. Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille Go.
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Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonal health and hygiene. not to disease, diagnosis of treatment. will be answered by pr. Brady if a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclose. Letters should he brief and written in ink. No reply can he made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady. National News paper Service. 32O West Madison Street. Chicago. Ill.
 THE TOXIC POISON BUGABOt
 What purported to be bona fid' news time appeared under thN headline:
 NOTED PHYSICIAN SAYS "Toxic Poison Cause of Death
 The news item thus quoted "Dr Kellogg, M. D., L. L. D., F. A. c S., F. R. s. M., of Battle Greet Sanitarium fame" as author of thb absurd statement:
 'Death in many instances IS caused from toxic poisons which are generated in the colon."
 According to the dubious lten Dr. Kellogg, .,,o4 +,oso poisons absorbed by the system from the intestine is (sic) the chief cause of most chronic dis eases and of premature senility and decay, as well as a very potent and pedisposing cause o1 many acute maladles ano there follows list of common complaints, of course not omit ting constipation!
 I wish I might defend the fap name Of Dr. John Harvey Keliogl from this despicable piracy. but darn it all, one of his books stare: me in the face-one on "Colon Hygiene" in which, among numer' olIs peculiar allusions, this one stands out embarrassingly:
 "The South American Indian poisons the points of his deadly arrows by dipping them into pu- trid flesh. Butchers as well as undertakers sometimes die as the result of small cut made with a knife soiled by contact with a dead body. The same poisons are produced when putrefaction takes place in the intestine"
 Dr. Kellogg published that thirty years ago, but even then It was weird, for that passage and another bear marginal notes I made at the time. The other passage marked as such is as follows:
 q. but it is impossible to have constipation without intes- tinal autointoxication. The fact
 that the symptoms of toxemia' means blood poisoning, the pres ence in the blood of the poison ous products of any pathogenic micro-organism, as Ste d mans Medical Dictionary defines it-- pathogenic means producing dis
 ease and micro -organizm means
 mcirobe, bacterium, germ "The fact that symptoms of toxe-
 mia do not occur ill every case is no evidence that they are not present.
 So there you are. You never know whether the little light goes ,oH when you shut the refrigerator : door, do you?
 Here we reach the end of our rope as we are set to say some thing So, I do hope our readers will settle for this today-another day maybe we can gather up the loose ends:
 Today no good doctor, no medical aunthority accepts the notion of 'autointoxication.' Only charlatans exploit that morbid obseSsion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20

There is a way, of coursefi in which both Goethe and the old Caliph were right. Pure and genuine happiness" comes seldom even in the life of the most for tunate. But we should not com- plain because we do not always live on mountain tops. If we did, we might finally tire of mountain tops and long for a change. Noth- ing sickens one so quickly as too much sweet; nothing pals so surely as too much leisure; noth- ing is more tiresome than too much sunshine.
 We need a little contradiction, a bitter pill once in a while, few clouds ever our sky to keep us up
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Views Of The Press

and phoebes built their nests. Rats and mice cleaned up the grain spill ed from the horses canvas nose bags. There was dried hay on the earthen floor and deep holes where impatient horses paved and stamped.
 Gone is the use for which they were intended. But still they stand in many villages-a reminder of the days when life moved pleasantly and leisurely.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D.D
THE HAMMER OF CIRCUM-
 STANCES

Goethe, at the height of his fame, remarked that he could recall less than half-dozen happy days in hlS life. Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" quotes a famous Caliph who. after
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
KNEELING GENERALS
(Boston Post)

Tough Gen. Patton says the hap piest moments he has known since his return to the United States came. not while he listened to the roaring acclaim of cheering thou sands, but in the quit, little church
 where he was baptized, as he led small boys and girls in the singing of age-old hymns Gen. Omar N. Bradley's first Sunday back in his native land found him worship ping in the church in the tiny Mis- souri town of Moberly, where he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20

recountlng t h e glory of his reign,
 adds: Tn this situation I have
 diligently Il u m = bered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount
 to fourteen. O man, pl ace not they confidence in t h s prese n t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
Ben at Work

was baptized. Two great generals who led all-conquering forces, pre- sented the whole nation a lesson to emulate by their conduct or Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20
Selected Poem
POPPIES ONCE MORE

POPPIES ONCE MORE
 (Violet Alleyn Storey in The New York Times) Now, in North Africa, dull terrain yields Topples once more And so do Flanders Fields Above those dead many years ago, And these, but lately dead the red flowers grow Now, in Tunisia, as in Flanders now, Impartial repetitious peoples bow Briefly to vernal winds in tune with spring; Refrain in scarlet petals signaling Soldiers may sleep may each flowers wrath, For, with the dead, the living have kept faith.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-20

Everywhere there is hate. When I go back to Germany I'll never be able to go to France or anywhere again. German prisoner interviewed in
 London,
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A Thought for Today

If man say. I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that oveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love 1od whom he at not seen?-John 4:2O.
 
 I think am sure a brothers love exceeds All the worlds loves in it's unworldliness.
 Robert Browning.
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Daily Almanac

DdLIy AIIHdIIdC Moon sets at 2:05 p. m. (War time) Sun rises at 5:20 a. m, sets at 8:27 p. m (war time)
 Vehicles mmust be lighted thirty minutes after sunset The sun sends out 100000 times as much light as the moon.-World Almanac
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and at life. The rigors of win ter bring the beauties of spring It is under the hammer of hard circumstances that God fashions some of His stoutest hearts.
 All Rights Decentralization News paper Syndicate, Babson Park, Mass.
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Washington Merry-Go-Ro
COPS Dksen Agree Strong State Good Homer keedes Somerve Cono More Likely Than Germons Embrace Democracy
BY DREW PEARSON

2OPsdent Truman got unexpected but welcome inspection trip around the world
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Gen. Patton's Pretty Wit
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash ingtOn Correspondent

Washington, June 20 - Secretary of War Henry L. StimsQn said that his weekly press conference review was exceedingly dull but he might as well go through with it. It was and he did.
 But then he introduced his guest
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