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even Capitol employees had diffi- culty getting in. Bob Foxes, sec- rctary to Senator Claude Pepper, a member of the Committee, showed up at the door with a massage for his boss and iden- tified himself. The harassed guard recognized him and let him through, remarking, T recog- nize you. You can go through" But you'll bc interested to know that four secretaries to Pepper have showed up already with mes sages for him and none has come out yet"
 One of the private laughs at the White House is that Jesse Jones is the only Cabinet mem- Der who didn't go through the farmality of submitting his resig- nation as the President completed his third term.
 New York's ex-Lieutenant Governor, Charles Poletti, has been doing an Al job in Italy. But at first he got many cold shoulder from Italians before somebody tipped him off to change the form of the proclamations he issued as military commissioner in Rome. Poletti began his proclamationS with "IO, Carlo PO- letti for 8 score of years Italians were fed up reading proc lamatiOns which began, "TO, BenitO MussOlini :"
 In line with the increasing number of women in Congress, the Congressional Secretaries club has elected it's first woman presi- dent. She's Merle Whitford, secretary to Emily Taft Douglas of Illinois. Miss Whitford was secretary last term to Will Rog- CTS, Jr., of California, and before that-for six years-to Laurence Arnold of Illinois.
 One reason for the supply difficulty on the Western Front last month was the shipping space used for Christmas parcels.
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Current Comment

The current trend of gasoline in- ventories, coupled with the trans portation situation and recent events on the battlefields Of Europe, con- firms the opinion that no additional civilian gasoline can become avail able as long as the war in Europe lasts.
 Petroleum Industry War Council report.
 Mistakes are made in every war and setbacks are unavoidable, but we would not be good Nazis If we were not convinced that in the end spirit will win over numbers. Heinz Liebster, German radio commentator.
 After Mussolinis fall, the Nazis demanded that the Italian soldiers stationed in Lwow should take an oath Of allegiance to Hitler Ger many. All who refused were arrest ed, 2000 Italians in ', and all were shot by the Germans. Nina Petruszkowna Polish inter- preter with Italians at Lwow.
 We always try to land where they ain't.
 Vice Adml. Richmond K. Turner, Pacific Fleet amphibious force chief.
 All we want Is to drive out the disruptive American influence and to restore China to the Chinese so that she may, together with Japan, contribute toward the grand enter prise of reconstructing Greater East Asia.
 --Japanese Foreign Minister Ma rnoru Shigemitsu.
 Alone. planes like very heavy bombers will not win the war, but they will destroy factories, big and small, and without factories no na- ton can fight for long.
 Lieutenant General Willard
 ?. Harmon, Strategic Air
 Forces chief in Paci1c.
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A Thought for Today
Behind the Glamour

Government agencies by the score are planning how the people of the United States are to live when peace returns. The inference is that the people are in- capable of planning on their own hook. Whole industries are threatened with having their future laid out for them by public officials who have striven to cre- ate the impression that they are endowed with degree of competence not pos Bessed by the ordinary citizen.
 Behind this official glamour there is nothing to inspire the belief that govern ment officials are super-beings. For in- stance, they did not make it possible for tlniS country to produce five times as much coal per man per day as do the miners of Britain. They did not make it possible for the coal industry to turn out record 625 100000 tons of coal during 1944 with 100000 fewer workers than in 1918. Machinery made this record pos sible, machinery installed by the coal mining industry over a period of many years.
 It would be hard to find politician who encouraged the mechanical mining that has saved the United States from trafic coal famine. And yet these same politicians who know nothing about coal mining, and few years ago were far too busy with other matters to suggest ways of stimulating coal production, today presume to know more about it's future than the coal mine operators. They sit in Washington and compile figures based on current industrial performance while out in the field industry is relentlessly searching for new methods, for shortcuts, for gerater efficiency; things that make hash of statistics The history of the coal industry is typical of American ini- tiative.
 The only way central government au- thority can blueprint the future is to freeze industry to present standards and prohibit further invention. This could work providing the people can be con- vinced that government planning is more Important than production. But God help us if we ever get into another war!
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THE PRICE GERMANY PAYS
(Hartford Courant)

As German women and children stream back from the eastern front | toward the interior in what Nazi commentators describe as the great est mass migration in history, there are bound to be widespread suffer- ing and death. The very young and the very old particularly will suffer, If one may judge from prcvi- ous civilian routs in Belgium France, Poland and Russia. Then the civilian hordes were frantically trying to escape the onrushing armies of the Nazi invaders.
 Thus the vicious cycle set In mo- tion by Hitler and his war lords has now run its evil course. Hitler IS liv- ing on time borrowed from the wo- men and children of Germany. That defeat is inevitable must be obvious to the German leaders. Yet they are willing to continue hopeless struggle that is costing them dearly not only in terms of fighting men. but in the thousands of helpless civilians caught in the brutal tor- rent of war.
 Weighed on the scales of any civilized standard Of conduct, the unnecessary suffering and death that Hitler is now causing by pro- longing the war far outweigh the hysterical assertions that Germany must live despite the death of indi- viduals. But do even the Germans themselves want the kind of Ger many that Hitler has fashioned to persist after the war? Surely 1t must be evidennt to all except the most fanatical Nazis that Hitler'S Ger many has gained the odium of the world and has brought nothing but grief to her people.
 Unfortunately 1t is the weak and voiceless who must bear the brunt of warfare. While fler leaders boast of their will to fight, 1t ts the little
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 Truman himself might not today be vice president.
 Som O'Neal, Hannegan's new di- rector of publicity for the Demo- cratic Party, is being joshed little about the unique service which he performed to win him this coveted position as successor to Charlie Michaelson and Paul Porter. During the presidential campaign, O'Neal was assigned to cover Dewey for the Chicago Sun, which was all-out for Roosevelt. Dewey got showed under, so what could be more logical than that one of the men publicizing his activities should be made press agent for the opposition.
 The gag goes that reporter call ed up the War Department press branch and asked to speak to the Vice President in Charge of Air plane Travel Priorities for Dogs.
 We don't have a vice president for that job," was the reply, but We have just named a Master of Hounds. Here, I'll let you speak to him."
 The call was switched, and into the reporters car came the greet ing: Army Kennels speaking. Woofl Woof!"
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mony permanently on record that the Generalissimo knows the value of what the general did.
 The new highway can supply only small fraction of what China needs. That small fraction is in- deed important, for any tank or gun or gallon of gasoline that can be sent into China will save lives and shorten the war at least a little. Yesterday General Stilwell himself expressed the opinion that we shall ultimately have to defeat Japan On the continent os Asia. But the immediately important fact is that Allied and Chinese forces worked together to build this road and to drive the Japanese out of stretches of 1t that they had oc- cupied. China is no longer cut of by land from Britain and the United States. Before long, supplies may be coming in by way of Ram goon and Mandalay. The barriers have been broken down. No on9 mans courage or foresight made this possible. but Joseph w. Stilwell does Symbollzc the qualities that brought 1t to pass. His country is proud of him, and our Chinese allies, from the Generalissimo down, now rec ognize his worth.
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A Better America, Not a New One

Most of us have been so busy arguing over plans to provide greater quantity Of medical care to the people, that the all-important item of quality has been neglected. However, the attention of medical men has been centered on both quality and quantity.
 One medical authority points out that the advance of medicine has not been halted in the United States in the war period, but rather has proceeded with an intensity that is the amazement of all of the other nations of the world.
 We have seen the death rate for pneu- monia among American troops drop from 28 per cent in World War l, to fraction of per cent in this war We have seen the death rate from meningitis drop from something like 80 per cent 35 years ago, to to 5 per cent at this time. And recently physician at the Gerat Lakes Naval Training Station reported 75 con- Eecutive recOverieS from meningitis-not one death until the seventy-sixth case!
 It has been said that opponents of rev olut1onary changes in our form of gov ernemnt seek better America, not a new one. And that certainly applies to the medical profession It opposes the sweep ing away of medical system that has brought such great benefits to the na- tion. It believes that the system con be Improved and the benefits retained. It's approach to new schemes rests on the simple query Will they improve and ex- tend medical service? If, through experi- ment and experience, they are found wanting, the doctors can be counted upon 10 make last ditch fight against them.
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uled to get discharges are prac- tically ignored.
 One result is that war attend ants are doing thriving busi- ness selling liquor from five to fifteen dollars a quart. Visitors have often noted that the inno- cent-appearing pitchers alongside hospital cots contain liquid much stronger than coca cola, while nurses have been known to go through a ward distributing ice cubes. -
 Recently the men in Ward
 E, most of them in traction
 splints which require absolute, drank so much and became 50 noisy that an MP appeared to
 restore order and was beaten up by the patients. Several patients were set back several
 weeks in their recovery as a result of leaving their cots to jump on the MP.
 At the Forest Glen Convale- scene Home, under Walter Reed administration, the situation is perhaps worse. Most of the GI's here are able to get out and visit Washington. Glasses in mathe- matics, language and other aca- demic subjects are offered by vol- unteer teachers, but no attempt is made to give the men psycho- logical tests to aid them in choos- ing a postwar trade or profess sion.
 The Army Morale Service is per- mitted to work at Forest Glen only at the invitation of the Medical Corps. Last summer a group of psychologists from the Morale Service prepared an an- alysis of the hospitals needs and recommended reorganization. This group wa sordered overseas before it's report was completed and the report never has been finished.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Interest in the Senate Com merce Committees session with Henry Wallace was so great that
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them in our hearts and our homes and our daily lives. In this reunion with our own, let the petroleum industry yield first place to noneI And in all the post war planning for us to do there is no other so mportant.-Address by William R. Boyd, Jr, Chairman, Petroleum In- duStry War Council
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THE STILWELL ROAD
(New York Times

lNeW York TImeS)
 In the Orient a word or a ges- ture may mean far more than 1t does here. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced on Sunday in his broadcast to the United States that the new Ledo- Burma Road would be named "after Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell in in mem- ory of his distinctive contribution" in it's building. there was not a Chinese, a Burmese or an East h. dian who could possibly misunder- stand. Much has been written about the differences of temperament and opinion between the Generaljssimo and the general, but here is testi-
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Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertain ing Co peF-
 sOnal health and hygiene, not s0
 disease, diagnosis O6 treatment,
 will be answered by pr. Brady if
 . stamped self-addressed envelope
 Is enclosed. Letters should % brief
 and written in ink. o reply can be made to queries not conform
 ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News
 paper Service. 32O West Madison
 StF.et. Chicago. III
 DENTIST DABBLES IN DIETETIC9 Can you tell me what to eat to maintain health if one can have no sugar or starches? My dentist | tells me I must eliminate these if wish to save my teeth. The teeth are all right and have never lost one, but now X-ray films show the bone structure so far destroyed that will be lucky to keep any of them for ten years with the best of care and diet, he says. Without attention I'd lose them In two years |. (Mrs. B. H. F)
 It can't be done, Maam. It is true that the Arctic explorers, Ste fanssoon and Anderson, not only lived but thrived for year on an exclusive meat diet-both men un- der constant observation and study of physicians and physiologists. Both finished the test in rather better general health than they had had at the beginning.
 But sugars and starches (not necessarily refined or purifed) nor mally should supply more than half the calories in the diet of the healthy person.
 When a dentist or a doctor iIl- structs patient to eliminate starches and sugars from the diet. he betrayS either an extraordinary ignorance of human nutrition or contempt for the intelligence of the patient.
 Mrs. B. H. F. adds that she is 40, has to keep busy all day taking care of her household and three children, and that mo sugar or starch for the past four months has LakeH Ile uOWIl LO llO pOullOo' 40 she is 5 feet six inches tall her weight should be around 145 pounds.
 What obscure reason there may be for even attempting to exclude starches and sugars from the diet can't imagine. There is no scien- tiflc evidence that sugars and starches are in any way harmful to the teeth or the gums or to the bone structure of the jaws.
 On the other hand there is a good deal of scientific evidence and prac- tical observation and experience in support of 1t. that deficiency of calcium (and phosphorus) in the diet or failure to assimilate, utilize and retain these elements, is the common cause of soft, crumbling, decaying teeth and degeneration in gums and bon structur too.
 I have a booklet Save Your Teeth" which gives what I believe is the best consensus of medical dental and nutrition authorities about this. For a copy send twen- ty-five cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. If your let terhead or card shows that you are a dentist I'll be glad to send the booklet with my compliments-but in an envelope your yourself ad- dress and stamp.
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that ne, Hanne- gan, had been offered the post of Chairman of t the Democratic Party's National Committee, Tru-
 man advised him not to take 1t. Hannegan " a s then Collector of Internal Revenue, and Truman told him that was a b e tier job. If Hannegan h a d listened to Tru- t1aart~ n l 0g A
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Views Of The Press

people of Germany who must now pay the price of deferred peace. It may be wondered how long the German military caste with it's much-vaunted sense of honor will permit this futile sacrifice of hu- man lives.
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Selected Poem
WOODS IN WINTER Daniel Whitehead Hickey in the New York Times)

Bare-breasted now and unashamed the wood Statnds cold as stone aaginst the quiet hour Small eyes of rabbits sharp with hunger's search Kindle brown grasses where the wind has stood Half-frozen through a night of motioness birch The imminence of snow, pale flake on flake, Locked in cloud withhods It's shining power Which in moments space may stir and break Not till the snow Is gone the bladed cold
 Shall return to these strpiped woods again; Walking through silence here I seem to move In measured quiet among thousand men Lashed by the whips of life. broken and old, Lonely as all men are bereft of love.
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NEW NICKNAME FOR COLONEL JOHNSON

Office of Defense TranSportation's chief of public relations. Charles V. Prins, thinks that his boss's nick name should be changed. ODT Di- rector J. Monroe Johnson first had the moniker "Rowboat" hung on him some years ago when. he was up for confirmation as a director of the government-oWned Inland Wa terWays Corporation. Colonel John son was asked what he knew about shipping and he said he once had a ride in a roboat. The name stuck but in spite of 1t Johnson went on to become an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and later member of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. As ODT Director, however, Johnson has been operating in such high, wide and handsome manner that Prins thinks he ought to be called "Speedboat."
 
 YES, IT'S A HELP
 Any lessons learned from the last election? Democratic Boss Bob Hanegan was asked as he an- nounced plans for organizing the 1948 congressional campaigns. "No!" said Hanegan, except that 1t helps to have a good candidate"
 Drexel Knight one of the candi- dates who ran against Silent John Rankin in the primary race for con- gressman from the first Mississippi district last year. writes in to pro- test recent statement in this col- umn that outside money was sent into the district to help defeat Ran Kin. Knight says he didn't get any of that money, although Rankin later quoted this statement in & speech delivered on the floor of the House. Knights statement must be accepted, however. and correction is hereby made. In the election, Knight received 678 votes. Rankin got 10,872.
 George Jessel, in Washington for the inauguration, bragged about how he worked for a Republican, Daryl Zanuck of 20th Century Fox. But Jessel explained that his boss was the kind of Republican Democrats liked. He contributed to Democratic campaign funds, he voted for Roosevelt and by the very greatest of coincidences he pro- duced Woodrow Wilson" in techni- color in an election year.
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises at 10:32 D. m. (war time) Sun rises at 8:03 a. m, sets at 6:O9 D. m (War time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 February 1, and as our old Farmers AL manac says, the waters frozen stiff again and you're Juggling water from the old well"
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Drew Peoon Soys British Propose Keeping Emperor Hohto After Wo Lord Hooxs Son Keeps His Dote; Bod Morale in Veterans Hospital.
BY DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON February Very little appeared in the papers about but Institute of Pacific Relations Hot Va Most of all was
   appeal for
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:" NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Washington 'Sidelights
By PETER EDISON

By PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA Wash
 ingtOn Correspondent
 Washington, Feb. Vice Pres ident Harry s. Truman told the 1000 Club that when Bob Hanne- gan first came to him with the news
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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 They

Among the things good for the teeth, besides proteins, phosphorus and calcium they mention fiuorine. Where can 1t be obtained. Have written several places and they don't know. (Mrs. c. M. B.
 Answer-Residents of few towns are now getting flourine in the municipal drinking water by way of mass experiment. to determine whether a trace of fuorine will ac- tually reduce the frequency of car- les or dental decay (cavities). ad- wise you not to try to use flourine except under direction of your den- tist. A chapter on the subject is included in the present edition Of Save Your Teeth"-for copy send twenty five cents and stamped self addressed envelope. am glad to shend a copy with my compliments to any dentist who asks for 1t on his professional stationery and pro- vides & stamp-envelope bearing his address.
 One Christmas Greeting Just because through the years you have done so much good for me I am wishing you and yours glandness and joy. May Christmas magic follow you always. Sin cerely,
 Answer-Thank you. Your is one of three or four such CfTistmas greetings was glad to receive. One little personally written greeting like that is more significant than the basketfuls of hideous ready made stuff that goes straight to the incinerator
 Copyright 1946, John F. DilIe Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-10
H.J.CorroII's Rites Planned Prominent Cool
 MeFchont Dies
 After Brief Illness

Harry J. Carroll, president of the B. J. Carroll Coal Co.,, which he operated in the East End for forty nve years. oled last night at hts home, 47 Holmes avenue, after ! brief Illness
 He was born. in Branchport, N. Y. the son of tEe late John and Kath- crime (Croak) Carroll, spending his early youth there, moving later to New York City where he was em. ployed in the grocery business for ten years. During that time he join cd the Fist Regiment of the New York National Guard and was a member for six years. He came to this city in 1900 and started his career in the wholesale and reSail coal business. He was a member of the Waterbury Coal Dealers Asso- citation, also the Waterbury Lodge ot Elks. He was always interested in sports.
 His survivors aer his wife. Mrs. Agnes (McGrath) Carroll, a daugh- ter, Mrs. Edmund F. Kiernan, Wa terbury; a brother, James Carroll of Penn Yan, N. Y.; two grandchll- dren, Harry J. Kiernan and Edmund F. Kiernan, Jr., and several nieces and nephews.
 The funeral will be held Nednes- day from the home, 47 Holmes ave- ilue at 9:15 a. m., to the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 10, where . solemn high Mass of re- quiem will be celebrated. Burial will be in old St. Joseph'S cemetery. Friends may call after 2 tonight.