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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04


 Harry x. Cashin, president and treasurer of Cashin's Dairy Products Inc, will leave today for the Statler Hotel, Washington, D. C., to attend a two day conference of the ad- visory committee of the Interna- tional Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers. MT Cashin is one of two New England men invited to attend the conference The other member of the advisory committee is M. H. Hood of Boston.
 It is expected that the committee will make recommendation to the association on the ice cream pros poets for next year when the federal restrictions now in effect, are ex- pected to be leSSened.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Man's Legs Crushed In Tractor Accident

Litchfield, Dec A. Caught be- tween the caterpillar track and the blow frame of a tractor snow plaw on which he was working, Walter Silkowski of Manchester had both legs crushed and suffered from shock in an accident yesterday while working on snow clogged highway in the East Chestnut Hill section of this town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Publishing Resumed

Quincy, Mass, Dec. +(UP)-- The Quincy Patriot-Ledger will re- sume publication tomorrow follow ing settlement of 10-week strike of typographers who were granted 15 per cent pay increase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
GI on Honeymoon

Leominster, Mass, Dec. 4--(UP) Pvt. Joseph V. McGee, 25, Of Worcester, whose court-martial sentence for slapping nine Nazi prisoners was revoked, was honey incoming today with bhe former Miss Elizabeth A. Bernard, 19, of Leominster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

BMtain expects to be turning out it's new prefabricated alumi- mum houses at the rate of one every three minutes by the end Of this year
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

Boogta. Colombia, is expected to buy $750,0o0 worth of equipment from the United States to expand its water system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
N Y MS STOCKS

MARKET QUOTATIONS
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

Fire reports that 32.8 per 1000 of population receive public aid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
Why Not a Mikado

The Allied ultimatum demands, as one condition of surrender, that: "The Jap aneSe government shall remove all ob- stacles to the revival and strengthening of democratic tendencies among the Jap anese people. Freedom of speech, of re- ligion and thought, as well as respect for the fundamental human rights, shall be established" It also states: There must be eliminated for all time the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan to en1- barking on a world conquest" Can any of these things be accomplished while the Japanese emperor is on the throne, venerated as a god Cn earth?
 It may be true that the warlordS rein troduced the Mikado as an important figure But in doing so they seem to have sold the people bill of durable goods in all this mumbo- jumbo about heaven ly descent It may be true that the Mix ado is not the most powerful political figure in Japan. But there is no record that he stood in the way of the planners of world conquest. Rather, he seems to have encouraged them.
 It may be that it would be bad psychol- ogy to execute the Mikado as war crlm- inal. But how are misleading influences to be destroyed and democracy and hu- man rights made to flourish if he still reigns? We hope the Allied governments have the answer to that question thor oughly worked ouS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
Talk of Peace

It is unlikely that the peace rumors and peace feelers" are at an end, even though the Japanese have received and reflected the British Chinese ul- timatum For the Jap Warlords, despite their Saber-rattling are obviously preoc- cupied with the idea of ending the war. To this end they have made some rldlcu- lous proposals. They have suggested peace terms which would create status quo ante Pearl Harbor and restore the very conditions that brought on hostili- ties. These proposals might be sensible in a condition of Stalemate and mutual exhaustion. They might even be offered by a magnanimouS victor. But from the leadership of a country faced with 1m- minent and terrible destruction, they are only ludicrous Continuation of Japanese resistance is puzzling, and has been for a long time. The Jap leaders know the Allies strength. They know they are doomed to defeat And they have long had a general idea of the peace terms. The ultimatumS conditions were not par ticularly new or startling. But the condl- tions were unmistakably final: Follow ing are our terms. We will not devlate from them There are no alternatives We shall brook no delay
 Why then does the Japanese govern ment invite ruin on itself and it's people? Has it so long divorced honesty from diplomacy that it thinks all other gov- ernments do the same? Or has it been misled by the very minority sentiment in this country that calls for an early peace with Japan, even if the terms are mod crate and favorable to the enemy? It must be conceded that the clamor here at home for definition of "uncondition- al surrender" may have been partly re- Sponsible for the ultimatum. There was no such demand in high places for the same definition when Germany was on her last legs. Then only the most dis reputable domestic FascistS professed not to understand the meaning of uncon- ditional surrender, or to ask something less drastic for the Nazis. But it does not necessarily mean because the govern ment has acceded to demands for this definition in Japans case, that it regards Japan as either less important enemy or less of menace to world peace than the Germans.
 It may be that this government and its Allies feel that tl.ere is more fanati- ciSm in the Japanese field commands and among the common soldiers than there is in the Tokyo government. With Germany it was somewhat different. Her army was no pushover, but troops did surrender in droves when the game was up. It was in the highest Nazi circles that fanaticiSm was constantly preached and practiced. Perhaps the Allies feel that the Japanese people, whose modern his tory of militarism is not quite so black as the Germans, have now learned their lessons and are ready to behave once the warlordS are turned out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
No Substitute for Freedom

Day by day our ratiOning and price control system grows more taut. This sit uation brings us face to face with an iS- sue which involves liberty itself. Will we turn back to the American system of free economy at the earliest possible mo- ment, or will we go further with controls that decide for every individual what he may produce, buy or sell? If we accept the latter doctrine, we should not kick at restrictions and shortages It we ac- cept the former doctrine, we should not kick at higher or lower prices based on true costs and competitive market. We can't expect free and easy American life with the risks it involves and the op- portunitieS it offers, under controlled economy.
 A growing number of economists favor an early release of price controls. If some industries charge excessive prices, many new competitors will be attracted into those fields and torrent of production will eventually cure high prices Break down in price controls or reconverSion products is feared by some, who have studied the staggering task, as special postwar industrial situations that must await investigation may run into hun dreds of thousands and small companies cannot survive long waiting periods.
 The greatest safeguards the United States has against imitation are its man. ufacturers who produce on a low-cost basis, and its system of mass retail sell ing which distributes at low unit-profit. That system, which before the war gave our nation the greatest customer service in the world, cannot exist by raising prices arbitrarily. Its salvation depends on low prices. It cannot operate on basis of scarcity and restricted dlstribu- ton. It operates on the philosophy of plenty. Such system is check on price eougers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
In Today's Mail
WRITER THINKS POPS" CONCERTS SHOULD
 HAVE BETTER
 ATTENDANCE

August 2, 1945 Editor Waterbury Democrat:
 I would like to say word or two about the Pops" concerts inaugur- ated in Waterbury last summer. I think they are pretty fine. I attend the winter series of the Civic Or- chestra concerts and have done so for several years. I don't know any better way to spend pleasant eve- ming in the summer time than at a Hamilton Park pavilion, Pops. Many of my young friends are of the same opinion. There are fun and amiabil- ity there, as well as an agreeable musical diet to suit the individua! taste.
 would like to see Q Music Shell in one of our parks that would ac. comodate about one thousand musle lovers. If we had Q Shell for sum mer and Q central Music Hall foi winter Waterbury surely would com pare favorably with New Haven and Hartford, because our concerts are exceptionally well attended.
 In the meantime my opinion is that the Hamilton Park setup with the Park Department cooperating lS 6 musical enterprise that should not be overlooked. 1 wonder too. like Mir. picecco. Why more people do not SO out to Hamilton Park on Pops con- cert nights. Honestly ii's Lots Of fun -eWef|c Lover.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
Veterans Will Get Jobs

Men and women who left insurance jobs to serve with the nations armed forces, will find that the business has a twofold educational program waiting for them upon their return to civilian life. Immediately available will be printed summaries of all important changes that have taken place in property, casualty and inland marine insurance. Selected centers will provide refresher courses. AL so available will be advanced and special adult educational courses designed to fit them for better jobs.
 Plans are being developed for provid- ing adequate educational facilities for those returning veterans without pre- vious insurance experience who desire to enter the business either as agents or company employees. There will be jobs for many new employees.
 The extensive progress in broadening fire and property insurance coverages, in providing new types of protection and "all-risk" policies to fit the policyholders' changing needs, makes it desirable for veterans who plan to re-enter the field of general insurance to use this educational shortcut to get up to date as quickly as possible.
 Postwar educational planning is being coordinated by the National Association of Insurance Agents and it's affiliated state associations Experts from fire and casualty insurance companies are giving time to help make the postwar plan ef- ficient and comprehensive. It is antici- pated that short-course schools will be set up on a statewide basis at some cen tral university or college Other courses will be given by local boards of insurance agents and in the home offices of many companies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02

Farley went on to say that Churchill had saved England. Whereupon Kentucky's scrappy Senator Chandler observed:
 Nuts! Two hundred and fifty American divisions and the American people saved England"
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Ferdinand Eberstadt, former. Vice-Chairman of the War De- struction Board. an able operator, has been offered the tough job of handling Displaced Persons" for UNRRA Ex-Gov. Leh- man of New York, tired of buck ing red tape and Army brass hats, plans to resign as head of UNRRA at the cominug London meeting Hard working Hugh Cox of the Justice Department is taking over the job of Gen. eral Counsel for the Surplus Property Board. temporarily Carl, Moran, friendly to both the AFL and CIO, is being stepped up to the job of Under Secretary of Labor. An AFL man and CIO man will each get jobs as Assistant Secretaries under him. Reason Judge San Rosen- man was summoned to Potsdam to draft the final Big Three Communique was because he, more than any other, has the Roose- veltian literary touch. Rosenman compiled and wrote the official papers of the late President. al- SO drafted a great many of his speeches .. Herbert Bayard Swope, who has seen a lot of presidents and potentates come and go, points to the long line of war leaders cast aside as a result of war-weariness and war repulsion: Lloyd George, Wood row Wilson, Clemenceau, Orlando of Italy, the Romanoffs, the Hapsburgs, and the Hohenzol- lerns. Churchill, reminds Swope, is not alone.
 Copyright, 1945, by
 The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
Selected Poem
MODERN KIDDs

(Jack Greenhill in the Hartford Times
 Poets Corner) Of course there was Capt. Kidd.
 His sons now all have grandsons. One chest was all he ever hid. And all the other things he did,
 Were small and picayune ones. He may have steered a pirate ship
 Through calm or stormy waters, With bowie knives upon his hip. And boozy curses on his lip.
 To chill a Bluebeard's daughters. But these his sons with willy word,
 With type instead of dagger, Can rob and kill. release or gird; Change wine or blood to cheese or curd, Turn priest to carpet-bagger. Kidd made his neighbor pirates quail,
 And plundered other robbers; His offspring offer laws for sale And put the honest folks in jail-
 His sons are pirate jobbersl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02

fisher Manchester Boldly of Los Angeles as the next probable Dem- ocratic candidate for senator from California. Roosevelt once invited him to Washington, asked him to become Civil Defense Administra- tor for the nation, later wanted him to be Commissioner of h. ternal Revenue. But Boddy couldn't leave his Los Angeles Daily News Now, with aged Senator Hiram Johnson alling, Democratic leaders both in Wash ington and California hope Boddy can be persuaded to run for the Senate Once before, when Hi- ram Johnson was under an Oxy- gen tent in the Naval hospital, word that Governor Warren would appoint Herbert Hoover to his Senate seat caused the spunky, cantankerous California senator to recover. This was the story car ried to FDR by Naval Doctor Ross McIntire Emil Schram, one time head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, now head Of the N. Y. Stock Exchange, was ln- vited to take Jesse Jones old job as Federal Loan Administrator. Schram came to Washington to look things over, went away shak- ing his head. Tenure of office was too insecure in Washington, he mumbled, and he had too good iom in New York.
 JIM FARLEY MOURNS
 CHURCHILL
 Jim Farley came back to his old haunts last week = end and had lunch with, among others, Tom my Corcoran, head of the older FDR Brain Trust with whom he did not always agree. A dozen Senators also were present, guests of South Carolina's Burnet Maybank.
 Chief topic was the defeat of Winston Churchill. Several Sena- tors blamed the defeat on Beav- erbrook. Some said Churchill was too old and too tired, hadn't sensed the temper of the British people, was a victim of his in competent friends.
 Jim Farley deplored Church.
 ills defeat, but dropped this
 warning to his Senatorial
 friends: "YOu are going to get
 some real competition now"
 Uni went on to explain that previously the only radical ideas came from Russia, but now Am erican politicians would have to compete with radical ideas from British politicians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Headache

I'd like to know more about cal- cium for headache. CD. O.
 Answer-Ideally the best way to take calcium is in the form of milk or cheese. Otherwise it mat ters little which calcium salt you take. so long as you take enough vitamin D along with it to insure good utilization of the calcium. Send ten cents Gin negotiable con- dition, not messed up with glue, plaster. pins. staples and the like) and stamped self address envelope for booklet "The Calcium Short tage."
 How to Lose Weight
 I leave for my vacation at the searshore the first of August and I simply must reduce twelve pounds before that. M. M0
 Answer-Perhaps the safest way would be to have leg amputated just below the knee. However, II you prefer to keep your leg, and your head, you may make fair head way with your reducing by that time-perhaps four or five pounds following the regimen given in pamphlet I'm mailing you How to Lose Weight"
 Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille CO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02

life at home for Christian service abroad. But, discouraging as 1t may seem. this apparent apostasy Is rather the rule than the exception. It follows the agonizingly consistent pattern of Christians killing Chris tians in wars fought ostensibly on Christian principles.
 While a few devoted followers of Christ were teaching the Japanese In scfoolrooms. imperialism Of the Western World was driving home . much more impreaslVe lesson--by example. Alons with the story oi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02

You might not discover it at casual glance but mems styles today are entire ly different than they were following World War l. Clothes fitted men tight then, whereas today they are loose and loungy So it would seem that mems styles are fixed from season to season the same as womens. In both cases, mems and women's clothes standards are set in a great measure by the movies. If Dennis Morgan or Ronald Colman ap- pear in a tricky waistcoat, then their de- voted male public must do likewise. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
THE PREDIsPOSING FACTORS
 OF APPENDICITIS

In the preceding talk about ap- pendicitis I gave the gist of our present knowledge of the direct cause - infection-and, since there is no consensus of medical opinion, so far as I can learn, concerning indirect or predisposing factors, I give here my idea about such con- tributing causes.
 As mentioned eaYssv, most phy- sicians and surgeons at present re- gard the presence of undigestapie foreign bodies such as seeds or fecal concretions in the appendix as a consequence of one or more attacks of appendicitis rather than cause, for the healthy, normal appendix is as empty as it is blind, and it admits nothing from the cemum (head of large boweD, not even mucus. Moreover the appen- dix does not secrete anything or function as the "oil can" of the intentine. Tn fact the appendix has no function. It is merely an evolu- tional relic or vestige, in man, or what, in animals, is ostill func- tionally important portion of the ailmentary tract. But don't infer from this that you ought to eat more rabbit food. It is fifty thou- sands years too late now.
 Besides, there are other and bet ter reasons why most of us, ought to eat more rabbit food, as we shall explain presently.
 E Remember, am giving merely my opinion about contributing causes of appendicitis. I believe constipation itself is not a contri- outing cause, although I believe that one of the causes, if not the chief cause of constipation, name ly, vitamin B1 (thiamine) defl- ciency, is an important predispos- ing cause of appendicitis.
 As a matter of fact we know now that viatmin B1 (thiamine) is es- sential to maintain what phySiolog- ists and physicians call tone re- siliency, vigor in the ailmentary muscle, that is, the involuntary muscle coat of the stomach and intestine, and that there is in- evitably lowering of tone and im- pairment of digestion if the daily supply of vitamin B1 (thiamine) is inadequate-as it is almost sure to be when refined white four and re- fined white sugar constitute the sources of most of the daily calor- ies, as these sissy foods do in the diet of so many unfortunate chil- dren and their ignorant, credulous parents in Yankee land. hope no reader of this is so ignorant as to resent being called ignorant. Show me a person who is not ignorant about one thing or another and well. you can't do it.
 Please bear in mind that it is not constipation but vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency that, in my judgment, predisposes to appendi- citis.
 Keeping this fact in mind. think 1t is good sense and good therapeutics to combine B1. (thia- mine) with any medicine you may take as laxative, or regulator if you insist. Further I would sug- gest that if you must take any lax ative at all 1t had better be cascara combined with thiamine. but only sufficient cascara to give the tonic effect. never enough to produce ca tharsis, and always in two or three very small doses (of cascara) daily rather than one large dose a day, the idea being to tone, not to phy- sic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02
Press Comment
CoNNECTICUT's ANSWER
(New Britain Herald


 Gov. Baldwin's new Veterans Re- employment Commission. which was authorized by the last General As sembly, is largely the same in per- sonnel as the one that has func- tioned for two years under the chairmanship of Carl Gray of Plainville.
 When the subject of the preser- vation of the commission was brought up in the House, it was enthusiastically approved by the representatives, one of whom de- clared This is Connecticut's an- swer to the question, What are we doing for the veterans?'"
 The commission does not get jobs for men returning from the wars. but 1t operates toward that ob- jective and for their general well fare through local committees with which 1t cooperates. The communi- ties thus have trained and willing services to call upon in their pro- grams for the benefit of veterans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-02

tically that its officials can scarcely make a long-distance phone call.
 Congressman Johnson, however, seems to believe in economy chief ly as applied to others. When it comes to litle trip to Alaska at the taxpayers expense, he is not so economy minded. Johnson was appointed last winter to be judge of the Customs Court in New York city, job which pays him $10,000 and fat pension for life. He has been officially con- firmed by the Senate, and New York Customs Court officials long have been waiting for the Oklahoma Solon to take his job.
 However, Jed is in no hurry.
 Not only did he sit out the cur
 rent session of Congress, but he
 is taking one last fling at the
 taxpayers expense before don
 ming judicial robes. He and his
 Sub Committee on Interior
 Department Appropriations are
 now in Alaska on a sO-called
 inspection" trip. The sub
 committee includes Congress-
 men Mike Kirwan of Young
 stown, O., John Rooney of
 Brooklyn, N .Y., Ben Jensen of
 Exira, To-, and Henry Dworshak
 of Burley, Idaho.
 CONGRESSMEN LOVE ALASKA
 President Truman has cracked down on Congressional junkets when taken ire in Army planes but Johnson nas got around this. His committee travelled to Alaska on official business" and Con- gress is footing the bill.
 In fact, there is lot of Of-
 ficial business up in Alaska this summer. A total of three Con-
 gressiOnal committees is enjoy
 ing the cooling breezes, the
 fine fishing, and the lovely
 scenery of Alaska.
 '. Congressman Hugh Peterson of Alley, Ga, is going to Alaska in style. Peterson is chairman of the House Territories Committee, and is taking with him Mrs. Pe- terson, their son, Hugh, Jr., and their niece, Sue Smith Peterson. They are going by boat along with II other congressman; some, mem bers of the Territories Committee; some, members of the Public Roads Committee.
 The congressman scheduled for the Alaska junket include: Will Robinson of Provo, Utah, chair man of the Roads Committee; Jennings Randolph of Elkins, w. Va.; Paul Cunningham of Des MOines. Ia.; Ed GOssett of Wichita Falls, Tex; Gus Kelley of Greensburg, Pa.; John Gib- son of Douglas, Ga.; Homer An gell of Portland, Ore; A. L. Mil
 Ter of Kimball, Neb.; Harold Hagen of CroOkston, Minn.; Charles Robertson of Bismarck, N. D.; and Marion Bennett of SprinsIielu, Mo'
 In addition. Congressmen Henry Larcade, Jr., of Opelousa, La., and James Geelan of New Haven, Conn.,, got a head start. along with Harden Peterson of Lakeland, Fla, by stopping in Texas and Cali fornia to inspect beach erosion as members of the Rivers and Har- bors Committee. After this. they headed for the cooling breezes of Alaska.
 why the three Committees couldn't pool their efforts, instead of all taking Up valuable travel space, is a question to be an- swered only by Congress.
 MERRY -GO-ROUND
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