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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-31
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uollyuee6. Dee. Si-Tnis being Nie year's end, iph a fitting tune eo take stock oi the motse indus- sys Rasns iu isss.
 Taaey have been many. Ax leAss q dCarn new stars have been de- eclnpc0. several cf whom serm dct- eineo to become iop-ranklng favor. Ee& Both here and abroad, many Pew technical Improvements have eeen perfected, the most interesting beang a revolutionary process sn- Fcnicd by a Russian which l salc fo make third dimension phoio- EEaphy practical at last. Box-ofhoe ftturnS in the United states have been phenomenal and there has been a tremendous gain in Holly woods Latin-American markets.
 These and many other iex5 de- Felopmcnts are frat.fyinr. but to my way of thinking they all take subordinate place Co the growth oi the pioneering spirit in movie pro- duction. For the first time in a decade. a handful of Hollywood producers have mustered sufficient courage to strike of from the beat en paths and risk their money and regulations by filming something different" Without exception. their pictures have been box-ofilce suc- cesses, and that fact is sure to make other. more timid. studio czars daring enough 10 follow the lead.
 The sensational success Of a pie ture as radically different" as. for instance, The Lost Week End" is big news. Unless the industry's bosses are sound asleep at the switch it's bound to result in a furry of experimentation that will give the screen new latitude and importance.
 IDOL CHATTER: I'm always tempted to call Mae West Miss Atlantic City because she has such bored walk Add headlines I never expect to read: TOMMY MANVILLE CELEBRATES SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY .. Its amazing how many femme stars are considered moreshapely than they really are, just because a girl named Carmen DAntonio doubled for their leg shots" .. How come major studio bosses per- Bistently overlook Nancy Coleman, R natural for top-flight stardom? ... Suggested exercise for students of higher mathematics: Computing Loretta Young's annual hat bill There may be more beautiful girls in pictures, but off-hand I can't think of one who can match June Allyson's friendly smile-Peas-in- pod: Spike Jones and Van Hef1in.
 
 In the Brown Derby the other day I couldn't help eavesdropping pn conversation between w. c. Fields and several of his cronies who sat in the booth next to mine. One of Hollywood's oldest actors as undiscussion, and Fields ex- pressed very uncomplimentary opinion of his work. Haven't you Rny respect for age? asked the man on the other side of the argument. Not unless it's bottled" Fields answered dryly.
 At MGM yesterday, encountered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-31
STRAND

Ronald Colman works on the the ory that an actor goes stale both on himself and on his public if he sticks too long to one kind of play or picture That was why he well comed the opportunity to play the role of Martin Arrowmith in Sam uel Goldwyns presentation of Sin clair Lewis famous novel now at the Strand theater.
 In fact he has figured out the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-31
Choice MorseI -
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By Bob Hope

lhrew a big opcn house party this Neck. of course. just about ercTrhody in HoilyNood knoVz me tei cute a lev of the others came.
 But. ssrio1s,y. ! really had a big mob. People were going through iiac reception Inc 60 fast ! sneok hands wtih the front hal rug three E2uack
 thrvW 6 6lg family cinncF Family clnncF--thats a Holiday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-31

yet. It's a liitic damp ou; here today-end the xideburnS have Shrunk.
 I've been getting a iot of fun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-31

out of the stories about the cold Christmas they had back east In fact. when ! got the paper this morning and read about the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-31

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
the War VIGOROUSLY Make the Peace PERMANENTLY Bring Boys Home PROMPTLY
The Science of Torture!
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

INIO TRUTH appears to me more
IN evident than that the beasts
are endowed with thought and
reason as well as man."-David
Hume, famous Scottish philosopher.
"There is something i'm animals
besides the power of motion. They
are NOT machines-THEY FEEL"
e. B. DeCondillac, famous French
writer.
1.-THE question about animals is
not, can they reason? Nor can they
talk? But, CAN THEY SUFFER-?
Jeremy Bentham, famous English
thinker.
"A righteous man regardeth the
life of his beasts. Proverbs XII 10.
We print the above excerpts from
the wisdom of various times for the
eyes of vivisectionists.
AS if man were not diabohcal
enough in his treatment of his fell
low-creatrYes in war there are So
called scientists" who deliberately
increase the, agonies of living things
on this globe by cutting up live ami
mails on the theory (and it is nothing
but theory-and FALSE one) that
it promotes, in the end, the we'll
being of mankind.
GRIMES against and cruel treat
~ ment of helpless dogs, cats,
horses and rabbits are, in a way,
more frightful than crimes against
our felloW-man.
The former cannot defend them
selves. The latter can.
A recent article in the Hearst
American Weekly headed Torture
the Reward of Mans Best Friend"
not only brought an avalanche of let
ters endorsing the expose but sent
shudder of horror through the bodies
and minds of millions of readers.
From the Marine Office of
America, of Brooklyn, Helen Vir-
ginia Rasmussen writes these stir
ring words:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
More Nurses Needed

is the country going to draft
nurses to get more of them into mill
tary serUice?"
THE answer depends on the nurses
l. themselves
Though nearly $4,000 have re-
sponded nobly to their country's call,
more than 70 per cent of eligible
nurses continue in private practice.
BY volunteering at this critical
hour, these nurses might suffer finan5
cially even in the relative rank of
second lieutenants, but they would
have, the satisfaction and compensa-
ton of knowing that they had lived
up to the highest ideals of nursing
and had spared taeir always honor
able profession a permanent black
eye in the form of draft.
Americans not trained as nurses
can help overcome the shortage, too
They can do it by offering their
services in their communities as Red
Cross Nurses Aides, by not employ
ing special nurses except for critical
illness, by working in hospitals in
any type of housekeeping duties and
by encouraging all eligible young
women to become United States
cadet nurses.
Meanwhile, all large cities should
establish special training schools for
nurses to function throughout the
wartime emergency.
With the cooperation of the med
ical profession, training courses can
be intensified and shortened and
thousands of competent nurses made
available to the fighting forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

''The dissection of living animal
without the use of an anesthetic is
the devil-inspired work of demons.
America will not be privileged to
even begin to call herself civilized
until by means of proper and
effective legislation she has wiped
these abhOrrent and unnecessary
cruelties off the face of the continent.
There can be no exaggeratiOn as
to the brutality of the tOrturOus,
pain-inflicting devices employed by
these alleged representatives of
science who, in reality, seek to de-
strOy every moral code of decency."
This is the tenor of many other
letters.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Eng
land have research defense society
which ought to be copied here.
This society points out that
1.-The centuries-old friendship
of the dog and cat for man makes
experiment." on them immoral and
undesirable.
2-All such experiments" tend
to harm the moral character of the
operator.
3-Many of the benefcent results
claimed by the vivisectionists may be
ascribed to other causes than their
knives.
4-Torture under any condition
on any living thing is unjustifiable.
Vivisection is not a branch of
Science"
1t is purely sadistic in origin.
The proper function of science is
to alfay pain, not to spread it.
The excuse for vivisection is the
advance of science"
The real reason for vivisection is
a delight in causing pain.
Science" is merely the mask.
Yivisection belongs to the age
of the Roman Caesars, when the
most horrible tortures were prac-
ticed on animals and men-FOR
PLEASURE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
FRANKLIN HICHBoRN.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR
/ HAVE just finished an edito-
Il rial in today's Times and
marvel at the limited scope Of
it. You certainly have not given
any consideration to the great
est combat infantry units in en-
istence today, the Several
divisions of the u. S. Marine
Corps.
When we in the Pacific first
heard that the army was going
TO grant their infantrymen an
extra $40 a month. it just Gre
ated a laugh. Looked TO us that
il was just another bit of sop for
the draftees morale. Seems
that there was a stipulation
that a man had to qualify as an
expert before being eligible for
IL, but where was there "A dog
face draftee that could hold a
candle TO the run-of-the-mine
marine private? Those privates
have never been considered for
that extra compensation, but
surely you must know their
record. Not once in all the Pa
cific operations have the marines
been assigned a task they did
not successfully complete The
hardships of island operations
viii compare quite favorably
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

UNLESS the armed services get
u more nurses, much of the splen-
did work done in military hospitals
at home and abroad by physicians
and surgeons will be jeopardized and
the army's record of lives saved will
surely suffer.
A few days ago the Boston Eve
ming American sent staff writer to
the station hospital at Camp Ed
wards, Mass.
The writer found FORTY SIX
nurses caring for more than TWO
THOUSAND MEN.
She wrote
I'm spite of the almost insur-
nountable difficulties, the Oounded
received attention, for every one
pitched in and Worked Without rest
or complaint.
"The Dalking tOounded Jumped
in, too, and helped.
But when dalUn broke, a pa
thetic group of groy-faced, bone
Weary girls dropped the gallantry
and Were too tired to eat Uhat tUould
haze been their combined meal of
,supper-breokfast
"They could only stumble TO bed
for fetO hours sleep. In fUe hours
they would be needed again.
I'm this rich country of ours these
things are taking place because the
public so far is not aUare of rUhat it
means not to haze enough nurses to
take care of the thousands of men
r0ho are returning every uUeek from
the hell of lOar.
when is the country going to
solUe this problem2
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
LETTERS To THE EDITOR

neither the armed forces or in
duStry for the reason that they
are too mentally or physically
sick 10 do so. What about
them? Certainly, TO add threats
and torture To their lives does
not seem very sporting or
American.
The complacency and soft
ness of which we have been ac-
cuSed is not true. Before cleo
ton we were told that the
battle of production had been
won. Now the story is one of
total gloom.
The layoffs we have had do
not coincide with the black
picture that has been painted
of our production problems.
We believe that a great deal
Of bungling can be laid TO many
in high places.
A careful examination should
be made of the production pic
tuIe by those well-qualifed by
experience and, in this way, APP
proach our problems IN the
American Way
That is the way Of our found
ing fathers and i, has worked
pretty well.
Well enough 10 make of US
decent and Selt-reSpecting ma
ton.
We are fighting lIitler's meth
DDS. Let US not adopt them
We would lose all we fight and
work TO preserve
WAR WORKER.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
TO THE EDITOR :

TO THE EDITOR:
CONSERVATIVE estimates
- place ga b ling at race
tracks and off the tracks this
year at three billion dollars.
All this could have been applied
10 the purchase of bonds.
In 1913 intoxicating drink cost
six billion dollars, more free
money which could better have
been used in support of our
fighting men.
There is more involved. how
ever than conservation of our
financial resources for war pur-
poses.
Gasoline is urgently needed
on the fighting fronts. Yet, pa
irons of the exalted betting es-
adjustments are using large
quantities of gasoline to get TO
and from the betting booths.
Gen. Eisenhower reports short
age of munitions. The War Man.
power Commission discloseS that
10000 additional workers are
needed in munitions plants. An
army of men is employed in
Saloons. cocktail lounges and
gambling places. to say nothing
of the able-bodied patrons of
such places. Why not round up
this wastefully employed labor,
and their time-wasting patrons,
for the war effort at fighting
front or munition plant?
Night-club roast pheasant at
$3.50 the plate; millions of dol
lars pouring through race track
betting booths day after day,
must be confusing news for a
drenched American fighting man
eating SPAN" on Leyte, or a
freezing G. !. Joe waiting for
ammunition in a fox hole at the
German border.
Why not end this monstrous
Inconsistency by closing night
club. saloon and gambling joints
for the duration?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR: -
ONCE again it has become
" necessary TO write in pro-
test to proposal TO draft
labor" in the United States.
Mr.. Byrnes' proposal TO ask
Congress to legislate a system
of slave labor has met with
strong disapproval in the war
plant where / am employed.
We do not propose to see slave
labor introduced TO the ranks
of free American labor. That is
what we are working 10 defeat
in Hitler Europe. We will not
accept il here.
This idea TO draft i-F men
either into the army or into in
duStry is an immoral and bad
one. Among these men are many,
many thousands who are in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

with anything the army has 10
offer.
l sincerely believe l have rea-
son to speak with some degree
of authority. / am now home on
convaleScent leave after two
years of island hopping. / did
have quite a few things TO do
with army units out there, and
they have my greatest respect as
fighting men. But never have
/ found one that could compare
with the kids in my regiment
Naval regulations prohibit the
use of my name in connection
with this letter.
\ MARINE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
Brain Game

9 on. 10 for zach CORRECT answer through
Guestun tR 40 each fur the fruaiuiur
tvr Que,tIuus An} score ss uf mlhef -
ftrrilrnt
With what sports would you
associate the following tlo-
phies: John W. Heisman
Trophy, the Stanley Cup,
the Ilarmsworth Trophy
. AT NO places between the
Atlantic and Mississippi
River TWO states span the
entire distance. Give the iWo
combinations
3-True or false. JohU Curtin is
the present prime minister
Of Australia.
4-What sort of q weapon used
by the L.. S. in This war is
hickman the green
1r-rr-rJr1 2
5-Was Robert Louis Stevenson,
oscar Wilde or RIdyard klp-
Ing the author OF the follow
iug hucS?
"Iiefc Doe lies where be
IOnged % be-.
Home is the sailor. home
from the sea
And the hunter nome from.
the hill
6-True or false: The navy
sesbecs have existed a. Hn
I9 = THE nETRnIT TINFS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
WHAT DO MOI KNOW?

Cb) chopped and fried with
onions. lcl rolled and baked
outdoors.
S-Another name for the
grounding u.s. ca weasel,
lbl woOdchuek. tc) skunk.
4 Ignite is ca soft coal
co. soft steel lc) soft linen
> Okra rs also called: (a)
gumbo. co mulhGatawny,
tcl shrimp.
6-Match these columns COR
rcctly; the park and the
place
Acadia National Arssusse
Para
b Glacier National " Sew MEXICO
= Ho' springs Ma Montana
uYua. FfHE
LiHu National Maine
Park
carlsbad Cs,cns Utsn
National Para
ANSWERS on opposite page
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knowledge Test
B> DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

~tofs oue tor zach of tbe hfst i've qurs-
tions and h,e inr iht lahi question go
brilliant 70 bright. sc. attraEri o-a.
duii.
i Christ Jesus lived most of
BIS Itc n CAD Bethlehem.
lbi Nazareth tcl Jerusalem
. JcrkCd meat ls- lal cut INTO
slices and dried .n the sum-
Defyoj
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13
BEHIND
The NEWS
BY Paul
MaIlon

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-The
w Republican champions of a
workers draft act think Mr..
Roosevelt was spoofing them
when he advocated il in his an
nual message 10 Congress.
Rep. James w Wadsworth (R)
of New York publicly was quoted
as saying the President would
have to lend the measure more
than Zip service. or he would not
even introduce II again.
The other co-outhor, Ner-
mont'S Senator Austin, has been
growing off the record for
months that .he was hoodwinked
when the President endorsed the
measure a year ago and then
left the fight for il to Gen. Mar
shall and Adm. King, who could
not swing Congress then, and
cannot now.
THE common story thus has
sprung up that Mr.. Roose-
welt is merely going through the
motions of leadership on the
measure because il would be
embarrassing for him TO resist
such an important demand from
his army and navy leaders, yet
does not wish to push the mat
ter TO a successful conclusion
because the labor unions have
been bitter against il.
He is Just showing a politi-
cally unpopular issue raised by
the armed services upon a Con-
greSs he knows will reject it
they suspect.
There may have been some
thing in this Interpretation up
10 now. but certain quite I'M
mistakable changes on the in
side have become apparent and
some surprises may be develop
ing.
An outSpoken senatorial OPP
ponent OF the workers draft,
for instance. declined public
comment on Mr. Roosevelt's
message but privately said he
had been so shocked by recent
developments on the Western
Front tShortages) he believed
critical war conditions had
grown sufficiently bad to justify
the legislation.
Furthermore, the unions have
gathered so much power in the
last year that a question has
arisen as to whether Mr.. Roose-
welt might not like 10 get a
rein on them himself. The
legislation would give him a
hold on the union.
People now laugh at the po-
litlcally-minded unionist in the
White House having such a
thought, but talk about a pos
Sible national coal strike in the
spring is being heard. Would
not the President like TO use
draft act on John L. Lewis ?
More ardor from the White
House for the legislation is pos
Sible this year, | think.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

THIS possibility of killing all
Il plans for military education
Of the youth seems TO me TO be
as dangerous as the army plan
TO draft a year of each youths
life.
Military subjects can be made
compulsory in the schools and
colleges without building fed
eral youth camp system, depriv-
ing boys OF a year of their bust
ness lives. and the national
guard can be expanded to the
efficiency of a real guard of the
nation wit bout accepting a
totalitarian youth system.
Yet these or any other real
Democrat. methods of future
national defense preparations
for youths. are today uncham-
pioncd by any authority in the
administration or in Congress.
The army eventually may show
sense enough TO present a de-
tailed progra along these
democratic lines.
This brings me 10 another,
deeper phase of the inner work.
ingS behind these compulSion
programs. The army and navy
have now practically taken con-
troll of domestic economics and
business. The businessmen who
have left the War Production
Board formerly fought for civil
ian supplies against army and
navy demands. Now the civilian
interest remains practically I'M
represented directly. except by
an inconSequential bureau and
the requirements of the armed
services are guiding economic
policies and decisions.
This trend of army and navy
power in government Will con-
tlnue 10 expand.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

organization as long as the
L. =. marine corps.
i, hNpcrbola Ceometric
figure or q figure OF speech?
Which modern poete>S. wrote
the lines which follow .
ON world, / cannot hold
Thee close enough. %
ANSWERS on opposite page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

INNER workings on compul-
Il sorry military training are
somewhat different Until a
few weeks ago there was no
detachable opposition to taking
all youths Is TO II into army
camps for a year as the war
department was proposing.
Then churchmen began TO dis
sent. and now Republican House
leader Martin suggests il would
be a good idea TO wait until
peace. There are enough Demo-
Gratis of similar mind to make
a majority.
At the moment, ii appears
quite possible Congress will
drag out its committee discus
SionS of this question as well as
the workers draft
If it is delayed until peace.
most people think il will be
killed entirely. War enthusiasm
then viii have cooled, in case
the peace is anything like Mr..
RooScvelt's promises of how good
it will be.
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ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-13

is the country going to draft
nurses to get more of them into mill
tary serUice?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-11
A Crafty Baker

The handicaps imposed by the bureaucrats
since they came into unprecedented power in
this land of the free and home of the brave
may have to be overcome by the proverbial
ingenuity of American business. That business
is already at work in this direction is well
illustrated by the way one baker circumvent-
ed the allocating authorities who would not
let him have the quantity of corn syrup he
needed. The story is told by the Wall Street
Journal.
This baker, whose name and habitat are
not revealed, went into a huddle with the
miller who grinds his flour. Then the miller,
who sells mixed feeds too, refused to sell feed
except to dealers who would sell him corn.
When he had collected 900 bushels of corn
he sold it to the baker who in turn turned it
over to corn professor at the ceiling price
made their own rules there is no good treason
why the baker should not enjoy the same priv
llege. The case is cited to prove that Wash
lngton does not hold all the cookies.
Maybe he put over bit of sharp practice,
in the view of the bureaucrats, but he got the
syrup he needed and as far as can be seen
did nobody any ham. AS the bureaucrats have
on pledge that the professor would sell him
all the syrup the corn yielded.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-11
Aftermath OF Singapore Meeting
Shows Empires Holding Together

Mount Batten and his aides first
reached an agreement. And then
the Dutch commanders present
agreed.
The Indonesian situation is com.
plicated by the apparent inability
of the native leaders to control the
Extremists among their forces.
The Prime Minister of the hide
pendence government" Sutar
Sjarir, is regarded as a moderate
man who wants to stop the kill
ing, but his guerilla bands 60 on
fighting, and even shot down ar
Raj plane over the weekend.
Reports say that the Extremists
still regard the titular president
of their government, DR.. Soekarno
as their real leader, which may
explain partially why they seem te
disregard Sjarir's pleas to avoid
violence. In both Indonesia ano
French Indo-China a certain
amount of blood has been spilled
in this business of holding the fort
against revolving natives until the
Dutch and French respectively
could get back themselves.
Britain's compensation for these
losses, when and if the trouble i:
all disposed of, is likely to be in
creased British influence over the
entire colonial world of southeas
Asia and the southwest Pacific.