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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
The Gender Of Ships

Thousands of Waterburys young men will be home soon proud owners of gallant serce reeoGds wV ot as to whether ship should be referred to as she he or it. We not going to attempt to settle such an argu rnent once and for all for actually we have no denne proof as to the gender of hardfghtng ships What we do offer here for review by dsputants of all sides added kinding to the already well burning 9 nrS standardization for such practice, if ever any actually existed has been lost in the fog of antiquity.
 Shakespeare refers to "Shippe boar1ng this moon
 with her maine mast" and the Bible tells us that the Apostle Paul landed at Tyre where the ship was to - aide her burden On the other hand good reason TOT calling ship 'he" is to be found in similar literary sources such in much of the early English ballads ana eonets when reference to ships was made in manner or m early treatise among others states lin shyppe the rudder ought to be no Jesse than may suce to orect S course. ~ fact that early Phoencian and Egyptian boatsmen re- ferred always to their ships in the masculine gender Too the very word ship is masculine in most languages
 Proponents of the feminine gender discount all ene contentious They state that the of the mas period of strict coloquial nature wherein such us- age was picked up by few mnstreS and men of the pen during that and handed down for perpetutlty more or less by chance.
 The members of the clan who uphold the non-ro- mantle viewpoint that ship should be referred to as f" have little to go by except the coloress unimagina- tive contention that it's very appearance and make of it nothing more than something neuter We have heard ships often referred to as t but only III company with mighty coorful and highly imaglna- tive profanity well salted down and stiff with barnacles No gentlemen land sailors noted gentemen) would link SulphorouS language with any reference to Ashe thus nufying any claims the t" proponents may strive to secure by such ndexed reference. -
 Frankly we are of the 'she" school because we like to dwell upon the sentimenaty and romance attached 70 the graceful lines and glorious history destiny ot ship see her glide away from reluctant to let her gO pier . .ou.r n.ua.. ,, r.r r..+ assured the argument will go on ad infnitum giving added spice to the generally prosaic scheme of things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27

married sons and four married daughters, all .n good circunn- stances She said the family doctor said she would get good care there, ''but you and I know what kind of care she will get" The last and most modern" state hospital in H. linois had, at last report, 468 pa tients per trained nurse. Attendants in this states state hospitals are each in charge of 30, co.,, or 90, peo- pie are prone to say That is not true of our state hospitals" but in the eastern ones there are such numbers per paid person that there is no possibility of any care at all. A nurse paid by the American Psy- chiatric Association alludes to place with a thousand patients" per nurse as hospital and the President says that now in his state of Calf, the state hospitals have one nurse per 1269.6 patients. The war is only an excuse. There always were the terrible herded conditions. Nothing could be more cruel than to put an old person in such place, yCG tkAS B4CNV bVAASo SO4AOA4ANS VI urge people to do this. What makes 1t stranger is that they are greatly worried because there are fewer than 4,Ooo psychiatrists in this country" really not many over 5000, with l50 to 200 in training and a re- port few years ago, by an invest igating committee, said that doctors are discouraged from taking up phychiatry because most of the cases doctors might have in private practice are pushed into these im] mense institutions and good doctors do not like institution positions. If I dared ask for the space, would tell of cases I know of where r;la- tives of 90 and 100 were cared for tenderly till death by relatives. If a special institution Is provided for old people, it will still be an insti- tuition, and no one with relatives should be there, those without them only because of deplorable necessity.
 Bright spots in this picture are the organization called The Starry Gross, with headuaqrters at Great Harrington, Mass, which has been formed to fight tilis evil, and the help extended by The Modern Hos pital editorially in June and Aug ust.
 EDITH G. G. GRAFT, M. D.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
By BiU Cunningham

a possibility, he announced bluntly, says the book, If Bob IIannegan is running me for vice-President. he is doing so without my knowledge and without
 The book says Truman was sincere about not wanting the ob and that the reasons were two. The first because he was really in love with the job of U. S. Senator, felt that he was cut out for It and could always be happy in t. The other was ms deep and unaffected humility He didn't feel he was big enough for the job of Vce-President with Its possibility of elevation to the Presidency. He felt, honestly, that he would not measure up fully to the requirements. others disagreed with him. but they did not convince him."
 He was strictly Byrnes man when the ccnven- tion opened and, from Independence, he had tele- phoned to Byrnes in Chicago saying, Jimmy. am coming up there to make speech nominating you for Vce-President" He came, too, and that was his avowed intention, but, says the book:
 Truman was living alone in a suite on the 17th floor of the overcrowded Stevens hotel There with began sequence of events that are worthy or a comic book thriller The telephone rang sharply. IL was Hannegan. He wanted to come over and see Truman right away The convention was to meet next day Truman had been talking with 5yrnes
 "Hannegan, when he arrived at Truman.s room. wss blunt and direct; Harry, the President waH'S
 "'Truman turned shade pale, his mouth opened and he said, I told you, Bob, don't believe tne President wants me for running mate dont
 "'Harry can show you, Hannegan replied He fished in his pocket pulled out note and thrust " over to Truman. It was written m penc. anr n,s Y
 
 'srr,inan's face registered surprise, incredulity and some condemnation This disclosure jolted him, and despite the authoritative note and the handwrit- ing which he well recognized. he found 1t hard to believe He burst out: Bob, don't want the darneu thing"
 The story goes on to tell now they all eventually had to gang Truman. His room was a madhouse as they tried to pressure him. He finally locked them out of his room and tried to think, but fin the Wiaa and confusing atmosphere" thinking was impossinle Sd he got down on his knees and prayed. "He asked devoutly the guidance of God to tell him what to do
 The book continues with the campaign, and then in chapter on Truman, as Vce-President, it seems in Congress was deterorating and being gravely con- cerlaed over it. couldn't get to Mir Roosevelt to tell him The implication Is that Truman knew laF more cf what was going on in Washington than the President did but knew nothing whatsoever ot what Roosevelt was doing or even thnktne nterpationaiy Possibly that wae Blessing. as matters Wokks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
In Today's Mail
Mental Hospitals" Merely Means of Putting People Out of the Way. When They Are "In the Way

GREENUP, ILL.
 Sept. 24, 1945
 Editor of the Democrat:
 Much is said nowadays about ''what to do with people" Our country is founded on liberty, which surely means not appropriating and disposing of people just to please other people. The system intended to give insane persons the best medical and nursing care known has become only means of getting psople out of the way. For many years any observer of people norm- al in appearance and behavior who asked why they were locked up in mental hospitals" was told with wise airs that at times these persons had wild and terrible spells. For the last few years these wise replies have had to be abandoned, for them being substituted "Of course we have many not mentally i'll, bu, there is no other place to put them Nobody tries the Governors man. sion or the Capitol building where they might as legally and sensibly be parked.
 The many not old. who should be free and working like other people are unanimously not mentioned and stress Is laid on the fact that people live longer, and that mental disease is more prevalent in the old Surely anyone who will look back at the many old people he has seen in homes getting along very well must see that 1t farcical to argue that relatives cannot care for them a home" Families not at all pool repay the devotion of years by con. signing old parents and other rela. tives to this living death, and the poor, who have traditionally beer lauded for sharing gladly with those worse of, are teasing to do 1t, fol their nearest by blood. The argu. ment that conditions have chang ed" Is nearly always an excuse fol : selfishness and ingratitude.
 Old people need to be especially shielded, and now they have thiS nightmare of institutionalization tc contend with. Lately case was re. ported by social worker. of wom. an of 77, who, widowed thirty years before, had struggled to raise nine children" now "wlll-to-do, pleasant respectable people," not one oi whom was willing to have the mother in his home. After spending a great deal of time, which Is tax money, the result was that the sons and daughters were induced to have the estate settled, and arrange ments were made to board the old mother with strangers. The states attorney had to be called in to ac. complish even this, and he was said to have had enough understanding not to make the situation unpleas- ant" The slogan is Never offend those who are wrong" A friend oi mine, not long ago, wrote to me that a neighbor had just been taken tc a state hospital, locked up by four
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

T always experience an involun- tary feeling of revulsion when I see a snake. "-J. R. in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 MUTUAL? Few like snakes at all, I wiSt, Save the herpetologist,
 And do not claim to be Thrall to herpstology.
 I am also prone to take
 A revulsion for the snake; Short or long or large or small Reptiles, I eschew them all. (This reaction, I believe,
 Can be traced to Mother-Eye; She adored them-so her spouse Wouldn't have them in the house) When my contemplation takes Me to pondering on snakes, What's the snakes opinion re Me?" I'm sometimes known to say. That I cannot tell-and yet | When the snake and I have met, And revulsion's bonds were burst, He's the one that left there first.
 We glOomily predict that this bright new world of tomorrow will not be what it's cracked up to be. Even if everyone did get n quart of milk a day, according to Mr. Wallace's desire, ninety mine out of 8 hundred would complain because the deliveries were made only every other day.
 Secretary Anderson announces that rationing of the lower grades of beef will end October 1. Presum- ably that will mean no-point util- ity cuts-no point in buying them if you don't have to.
 And now former Ambassador No- mura says that he knew nothing about the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place while he was talk ing peace at the White House. It looks as though that little affair surprised all the Japs as much as 1t surprised us.
 It is expected that the successor to the B-20, now being built, will be able to fly to Europe and back without stopping. The way things are in Europe, we don't know as we'd blame 1t.
 President Truman will invite John L. Lewis to the labor manage ment pOwwOw, scheduled for No- vember in Washington. It is un- derstoOd, on good authority, that John will hold out for fare and a half.
 They're going to start building a great superhighway down in Maine next spring in order to compete for our share of the recreational business" One of Mains's most charming assets as a center of rec reation is the absence of superhigh- ways.
 Rhode Island has gained 54,7o0 acres of farmland since l940, ac- cording to the Department of Com msrce. We don't know how they ever squeezed it in, unless they let part of Providence go to grass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
REPORT sUNKEN SUBS

Grand Isle, La., (UP)-Summer visitors to this island paradise re- port that they have seen the sil- houettes of two Nazi subs which were believed to have been sunk In the Gulf of Mexico campaign, but the Navy could never produce sufficient proof to convince the eyaluation board in Washington that men and ships and planes Of the Eighth Naval District had de- stroyed a U-hoat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27

half dozen competing compan- ies, each built around a cluster of existing plants.
 For instance, the plants around Mobile, Ala, and the Ten nessee group might be made into one company. The Arkansas group in another. The Oregon and Washington plants into @ third. The Massena, N. Y, group into a fourth. And the various midwest ern sheet, tube, bar and shape plants in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Detroit might be grouped into
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27

tionably raced to catch the pop ular market, but as fast as 1t was sped, that man Truman, the hu- man being and chief executive, has already left 1t far behind. He's been writing a better picture of himself in the daily news dis patches than his obviously friend ly biographers could paint with their typewriters.
 The authors are Frank Me- Naughton, member of the Wash ington staff of the newsmagazine THy,aA aoIi xxyoltar. ISahnoo1,ar for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
Same Stuff

The Cuban government has made obligatory to it's motorists the of automobile fuel called "carbur- ante nacona. Its ngrednest are two parts cane alcohol and one part gasoline
 There are strong suspicious in certain American quar- EEs that this is the product which sold here, nrng the wartime scarcity of potables, Cuban gin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27

gard1ng the number or troops ne would require in Japan.
 The original tables of organ ization called for 100000 men for occupation work in the Pacific and 50O,000 men to occupy Ger many. These figures, however, were set to cover all emergencies and at a time when no one knew what kind of guerrilla warfare the American Army might face inside Germany and Japan.
 Since then it has become ap-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27

WASHINGTON. Sept. 27-while there is nothing final or official about it. government thinking on the proposal to break up the great Aluminium Com pany of America has been in the direction of creating
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27

aa chicken feathers At last we're beginning to un- Istand what the kids mean when they call girl a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
Waterbury of The Past
25 Years Ago

25 Years Ago
 The new children's ward was opening at Waterbury Hospital. Waterbury sport fans were being shocked upon hearing of the scand- al of the Chicago "Black Sox''.
 IS Years Ago
 A record breaking attendance at the city's free night schools was responsible for Dr. Condon starting new shorthand class. A local girl, Miss Reno Poulson, with IA words per minute, was capturing the National Amatuer Typewriting Contest.
 5 Years Ago
 A proposal to close the city's schools for a day to make room for the draft rsgistrants was being considered.
 A fire in an overloaded refrig- orator on South Main street. was being extineuished by flremen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
This Man Truman

With considerable fanfare, "This Man Truman" first biography of the 33rd President of the United States arrived in the boostalls recently already the victim of its own subject. Its writing was unques-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-27
|Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25--Inside fact about the Gen. MacArthur-Dean Acteson row is that for sev- eral weeks the War Department had been trying to get MacArthur to work out reasonable program re-
Evening star., 1945-08-21
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