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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
By BiII Cunningham

that should be taken before climbing into the tub aspirins too rugged, take euipirin.
 The other prop Is a bottle of whiskey placed on the floor beside the bathtub and this Is not supposed to be funny. During the par-boIing the patient is supposed to take two or three powerful hookers. preferably toddy style with hot water, but regular highbalk will do, as long as they're rugged. After hot water. the liquor and the aspirin will have the customer sweating bullets and likewise practically unconscious. ....
 Then he drags himself out of this woozy situation gets into bed, piles on some extra blankets and lets nature take its course That course will sec him go to sleep and do the hardest job of sweating he ever has experienced If 1t works, when he wakes up he's got no more grippe. Try this Brother. at your peril but know people who swear 1t works like charm
 A one whe always strives to make the constric- tive suggestion, I would urge that as soon as you feel yourself going hot and cold that you haste to insert thermometer in your kisser, and if 1t comes up fever get into bed and stay there There should be law. and in an enlightened world there will be e law, against anybodys walking around in pubic places with this stuff If they haven't brains enough O stay home they ought to be forced to stay there until all danger of Infection N passed The helpless public deserves to be protected. wish I'd been protected.
 Another item is that all hotels and railroads should be forced to fumigate rooms or accommo- dations, known victims have just used Three lof us were coughing and sneezng it all over two rooms of that New Orleans h0tel for three days, and yet standing in the hall impatienty, waiting for us to move out couple of the recently arriyen watt ing for last bag to be lifted out so their first could be lifted in They weren't very polite about t either The man had said they could have the rooms by o'clock, the inpatient gentlemen 'e0nlpialnsd. end here it vas 1;1O,.or some such.
 wonder how tley'rs enjoying tho grippe: They couldn't have mlased.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15


 get pretty. had been ordered to abolish a large paunch in order to get the downward pull off place in my spine that had gone bad all ct once for the first time since football.
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 know man who swears he can cure cold even the grippe, in two hours. His prescription is rugged but there are so many who probably wouldn't consider It unpleasant. have passed his suggestion along to sundry people who have later reported that they tried 1t and that 1t worked The man claims he can have the grippe in the morning, do this thing, and be well in the afternoon but he's practically as big, and as strong as buffalo. I'm not urging this nor even advocating it. and my advice to any intrepid expermenter would be to try 1t over night if at all As daytime enthusiasm 1t sounds too much like an invitation to pneumonia, never mind the delrum tremens.
 This treatment consists of lying in bathtub full of hot water, just hot as the body can take it. or hotter than that, If possible. The hot water faucet should be left open the while so the water stays hot and gets hotter all the time This h to go on for 20 minutes half hour which will amount to about the limit of human endurance 1T the system can hAndle aspirin. couple cl tablets pf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
Beware January Events By Peter Edson

was applied right down the line in all wage disputes which the CIO unions are now forcing to . show down. some of the unions would be left out in the cold without raise. Packinghouse workers, for inc stance, might not get any increases at all unless OPA approved an increase in the price of meat And the telegraph workers couldn't get their recent War Labor Board award of higher wages unless Western Union rates were raised. ''''-.''
 Wage rates are of course the one big issue in all strikes now pending. C10 unions are leading the fight and they have come as close as they can to ganging up for general strike to force showdown Actually, the big Industries have been just as much in cahootS as the unions
 CIo strategy has been to prepare for long strikes Some of the union leaders, however. have been op- timistic that settlement would come soon.
 If settlements do come, watch for these unions to settle for less than their original demands-42 cents an hour in autos. N hours pay for 70 hours work in oil, and SO on. While the strike leaders have stuck to those slogans through all their preliminary demanding they are negotiation figures. The unions unquestionably would settle for less They feel they could do this without loss of face. It's done all the time.
 In settling for less, however. these unions are not likely to want to sign long-terrn contracts at frozen rates. Feeling that the country is in for period of expanding business it would be reasonable to expect that the labor leaders would want to re. date. If the country headed for decline in bus. iness volume then labor would want to freeze wage rates for as long Q time in advance as possible
 CLOS gamble in these wage controversies is of course great The CIC unions have thrown over half their membership. like chips on the table for show down. Any gains they win will set the pace for wage rates all over the country. If they lose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
Where Are Our Juvenile Delinquents?

Two separate and dssmar events as fostered by the students of both Crosby and Wby High Schools last week brought credit upon the city, and swept the wasebasket much of the crusy lamentations of witchhuntng odsters who have persstenty decred the presence of juvenile lnquency within midst Oddly enough both of these events took place the same day in the two schools although unrelated In any manner.
 The senior students of Crosby High with more than that displayed by adults in like matters rejected the opportunity to engage competition sponsored by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolutions be- cause the executive board of the latter organization had fused to recognize the artistry of Marian Anderson and Hazel Scott famed Negro singer and pianist respectively The DAR. had refused to Constitution Hall in Wash dngton to these artists.
 At Wilby High School the day 1000 students stood solemn respectful attention while the funeral corge of their late principal Joseph Kennedy passed by the school se Not childike adoescent cut-up, similar display induged in by of these students Adult witnesses still commenting the obvious of responsible awareness of homage and respect displayed by these students
 In the Crosby instance has been cyncaly commented that such actions were exhbtionstc and maraecky We disagree The Wby occasion has been kened by to mass emotion and therefore without personal regard Again
 The rejection by the Crosby students of the opportunity to participate in the DA.R competition obviously prompted by mature thought promised upon the purity of citizenship which is to be found only in the young and those by the snobbe and false pride of students when the OARS fusy and stale decision was handed down. but they lacked the courage of young srs to follow through Perhaps the Crosby occasion was inspired somewhat by the blind courage of the very young but then the skies of the Pacific and Europe and the fields of
 France and the beaches of the South Sea islands have been eonsecrated by that kind of courage
 The spirit of heritage fostered by the principles 0f the DAR is fine thing. However in the instances n ovng the Negro artists the spirit has lost it's identity in poyincaism and sufocating insuarty Keredy in great part is Godgiven good bad fortune The only heritage orthwhe is the practice of commondecency to fellow Such practices do not blossom in the illkept hot houses of snobbery born of pseudo weak stomachs
 The display of mature discrimination and goodtaste eesened by the students of Wby last week behalf of ar late principal is indicative of the sound qualities to be E6und in these Kids" juvenile delinquency is prob em then here is proof that should better be termed 44tf Ina
 edens for good citizenship within these youngsters the who fail to shape these substances into the sture Of maturity sadly negectful Certainly the in rodents there LIDO Wby students proved that to
 we adults should not be too concerned about Water rvs future ctzenrv after such fine manifestations by M students We 1hopId be concerned however if we in- s lA ks np moze lksa ePservers |
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

boy was an enlisted man and what he handed the Senator from Michigan were the special instructions Issued by Captain Baker ordering the base to be prepared for the Senator's arrival
 Captain Baker had not missed a thing. He even ordered rehearsal of entertainment ceremony for the Senators.
 "There will bc an officer stationed at the en. trance of the main office building" read the order Ito conduct the party through the main office for inspection. This officer will be It. Sampson who to the building and the office itself is thoroughly cleaned and shipshape The chief clerk will assist in this
 Captain of the Yard is to issue orders immedi- atey to clean up all of the yard and authority is hereby given to use any and all enlisted men and civilians in the amount necessary to accomplish this purpose.
 Uniforms for officers and men will be the work ing uniform unless otherwise specified officers are cautioned to wear clean khaki (grays may be worn if khaki not available). Enlisted men on duty will wear clean dungarees blue shirts, and white hats Shoes will be polished. Black socks will be worn. Clean underwear will be worn.
 Inspection of the barracks will be held ct 1900 by It. Corcoran, who will serve advance notice that the place is to be immaculate at that time Noon meal will be served at HOO and all hands will eat at that hour in order to provide time for policing the kitchens and the barracks.
 "The transportation officer will inspect all motor vehicles of the yard to the end that they washed and as presentable possible He will see that the commanding officers car is cleaned not later than ll0O
 "A rehearsal for officers will held on Monday at l4O0 at which time all officers will assume their sta- tons and will be further instructed The cooperation of all officers is requested to the end that favora- ble impression of this activity is gained by the in- spectng party"
 Captain Baker would have made great impress sion on the Senate Committee, if the enlisted man hadn't slipped the Order of the Day into Senator Ferguson's lap at the dinner table.
 
 Latest game of Senatorial hde-and-seek took place when the Mead Committee visited the Army,s air base at Greensboro N G. where in order to give an impression of intense activity GT's were put to work Sunday, their day off Prior to this, CHS had been working only few days week.
 But the prize game of hde-and-seek occurred last spring when, the war neared its close, Gen. Curtis Lemay, head of the 2Oth Air Force reported
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
In TOday'S Mail
MANY PROTESTING INCREASED ASSESSMENTS APPARENTLY
 ARE LOSING SIGHT OF
 THE REAL POINTS IN QUESTION -

Jan. IA, i046. Editor: The Waterbury Democrat, Waterbury Connecticut.
 Dear Sir: -
 " A lot of people who are talking about these increased assessments seem to be missing the point. It isn't so much a question of whether your assessment or mine is increased or decreased, as it is whether your as- sessment and mine are fair in com- parison with each other.
 If all assessments went up 10 per- cent then the tax rate would come down 10 percent for the same bud- get and everyone would pay the same taxes for the increase as he did before. This would be true if everyone's assessments were tripled and exceeded the sale price of his his property. A IS mills tax rate on a Grand List of $400 million dollars is the same as 30 mills on a List of $200 million dollars.
 In the present situation I under stand the Grand List is going up to about 10 per cent. If so then the property owner whose assessment is is increased 10 percent should pay no more taxes than before on an equal budget. So 1t all boils down to whether individual assessments are fair in relation to each other, re- gardless of how high they are or how much they have been boosted. They say comparisons are odious" but a lot of local people will be making them these days. They might not be anywhere near as odiouS as previously.
 .,.. Sincerely yours,
 MATTE MATTICKS."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15


 Granting small increase in the price of steel as announced by President Truman may be the means of breaking this log jam. This is little em- barrassing to the Truman Administration because 1t puts the government in the position of having to give little its hold the ine anti-inflation poli cies SO that steel labor and steel management can get together on wage rates.
 Here fine point of argument should be made clear In granting increased steel prices the govern ment may argue that OPA is not allowing the steel industry more money that it can meet the CIO Steel Workers demands for higher wages. Instead the governments argument will be that the need for higher steel prices is based increased costs of op eraton during the last three months of l945.
 This kind of argument gives the old bush ter~ rihle beating around But if it proves the means of settling the strike okay On this basis the steel i- dustrys ability to pay" higher wages would not be allowed to enter the negotiations as a factor
 Ability to pay" is, in many respects, a phony issue, anyway It has been raised most prominently as slogan in the General Motors strike But if 1t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
Views of the Press

college in Brunswick, Maine. The de-
 sire to accommodate veterans is one
 of the current pressures which all collegiate executives must face in
 planning the extent of growth that
 will be best for their institutions.
 Bowdoin. with a normal enroll
 nlent of about 600, already has a
 backlog of 8 thousand young men
 who must be taken care of before others are admitted, $50 of them stu- dents with credits for one to seven Semesters, who left college to enter the armed services, and another 150 who were admitted with full qualifi- cations but who left for the wars before they even matriculated. At present there are $50 students en- rolled, and, Dr. Stills pointed out, 150 places must be maintained for in- coming freshmen in order to main- tain contracts with public and pri- vate secondary scinooA
 The right of a college to main- tain it's individuality and traditional size transcends all outside influences toward expedient expansion. Daniel Webster argued that point into ac- cepted truth in the celebrated Dart mouth College case. There are, of course, colleges and universities that welcome unrestricted growth and the means of accomplishing 1t. But there are many small colleges which feel that intellectual growth is the only thing that counts and that the cul- tivation of the mind can best be att tained by adhering to their historic pattern of modest physical dimen- sions.
 It must have taken courage for President Sills to issue this discour- aging report to veterans. But in one college generation, all the veterans desiring higher academic learning will have been taken care of, with few exceptions. After that, what? Will the small college "grow down?" Or will 1t maintain its hypertrophied state, try to live up to 1t, and, con- sequently, lose its traditional intim- acy and flavor? The grave danger in sudden growth to fill a current need is that the small colleges character will be changed permanently. We think that Dr. Sills shows an in- formed Solicitude for the college in his charge in resisting unwanted and expansion for Bowdoin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
THE SMALL COLLEGE
tSpringfield Union)

Springfield Union)
 So firmly rooted in the American mind is the theory of excellence in growth that most of us cannot com prehend a desire not to expand, not to develop, not to become bigger and, in the eyes of critical world, "bet- ter" Perhaps too many of us regard physical immobility as stagnation.
 This was brought to mind sharply recently when President Kenneth c. M. Sills of Bowdoin College an- nounced the firm decision to keep Bowdoin small college, in spite of pressures pointing to the desirability of greater size. Its great pity but unavoidable" he said in a broadcast Wednesday night. We shall expand to the utmost. but not beyond re- sonable or practical limits"
 The pity" referred to the fact that only comparatively few" former Servicemen will be admitted to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

lenbach.
 The labor front situation is now changing from hour to hour. But very soon there should be some indication of whether the country is in for a series of long strikes in major industries, or whether things will begin to calm down.
 Steel is of course the key to the log jam. If the steel strike is settled, other strikes in autos, glass, rubber, oil and electrical manufacturing industries might
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

While none of us wants Navy sick neglected does Heem little generous to have 159 skilled assigned Do the of each and every of them this hospital doctors and surgeons function in the ratio of one to 107 And each hospital corpsman has fewer than and half men to choose from his needest patient.
 Secretary of War Patterson stands in rather bad light right now by of his admission that he didn't realize Day. What has Secretary of the Navy Jimmie Forresa in the of explaining the presence Pacific hos pita of so many homesck nurses and at time when the need for their services here at home tragic in its urgency?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

Where private enterprise is un- able to provide the necessary hous- ing, 1t becomes the responsibility of government to do so. But 1t prim- ariIy is @ job for private enterprise to do.
 President Harry s. Truman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

Inc Mend ComlnIttoe Was n. speCting the 0. a. Naval Base nt San Juan, Puerto Rico. The place was immaculate. Every shoe was shined, every ieep polished, not e speck could be seen on 6 barrack floor The Senators were lm- pressed.
 At dinner that evening, een- ators were entertained by gra- olous Cnot, R. 1T, Baker, the commanding officer. Suddenly Senator Ferguson felt . mess boy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

AIlyDUuy WHO could pump any humor out of that type of miser- able visitation could get a comic strip out of St. James Infirm- ary. I started getting wobbly in New Orleans on New Years Eve Day, and I hoped that the worst ahead was a cold. I was a cinch to take a belt from the first bug to come along because I had di- eted down to life insurance chart size and that, according to time honored theory, lowers the re- sistance. Rit l hadn't diAkad fo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

Of all the Earth's surfaces the Islands are the AriStocrats. Her man Melville.
 AS FOR ME
 Fortune always seems to smile On people living on an isle,
 And this good fortune insular Extends to folk peninsular. The islanders are pets of God, Their sustenance, in general, cod, | Or, if remote, exotic fishes,
 And other alien staple dishes. Yet I, in passing, still must note They must depend upon boat For shows, if any, shirts and shoes And nets and their non-neighbor
 news.
 They've independence, all will grant. The individualistic slant,
 A spirit often called exalted And stomachs stuffed with stuff
 that's salted. '..'= The Islands are Aristocrats; Their dwellers wear nobody's hats. I'm glad I'm in the lower classes That swarm on continental masses.
 A strike in the nations major meat packing plants now seems al- most certainty. There is Scant possibility of them getting the two steers out of Chicago before 1t starts.
 The speed record for helicopters was broken down in Bridgeport Thursday when a Sikorsky R-5 reached a speed of 1l4.6 miles an hours. Compared to the potential of the new Navy jet-propelled job, that's practically lowering.
 General Geiger has issued orders :orbidding Marines under his com mand to stage mass demonstrations against demobilization, We hope he has worked out a system for apply ing courts-martial to several thou sand men.
 There is a report that the govern ment of Haiti has fallen. The re- port doesn't say for what, though.
 Three thousand people swarmed itnO a Providence store that had 36O aluminium teakettIes for sale the other day. Three hundred and sixty teakettles-and 264O people whis- tling for them!
 We're a little vague about what is going to happen in this telephone strike. what with the advent of automatic service, and all. It's going to be little -wracking around the house with a dial pick eting you.
 Acting Secretary of War Kenneth 0. Royall deplores American hys- teria to get the boys back home" Judging from the reception he Is getting in the Pacific, Secretary Patterson may be getting a little hysterical about his own redeploy- ment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

Our sins of pride and greed in the victory, along with our sins of disunion and dissension among groups within the nation, may prove to be our undoing unless there is genuine nationwide re- pentarce.
 Navy Chaplain Franklin Cole.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

The first case of spinal meningitis reported in the city for the new year was that of a seven-year-o Wood Street girl.
 The Boston Butter House, 147 South Main street, sold sugar at 5 cents per pound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
Merry-GO-ROund

WARRINGTON Jan fs-playlng hlde.and-seok with the Senate continues Co he one og Washngtonh favoriie paslmes. Here h the story ol one game as told by COP Senator Ferguson Of Michigan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
About the Grippe

could write very funny story about having the grippe Everybodys got it, has had it. or is going to have 1t. Handled in your nirnitable style. :"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
Navy Riddles While Rome Burns

An increasing number of hospitals this country Restricting admissions emergency because of short age of everything but patients Many hospitals have closed entire wings floors because they haven't enough go around Doctors working day and night and the rent epidemic of grippe and influenza has found them taxed to point which actually dangerous because there few of them left here at home to do the work.
 Contrast this lack of professional with the plethora of doctors and reported in military hospitals which constructed in the battle of the recent To the hue and cry which combat troops raising over de- lays returning them to their homes added in somewhat lesser volume the camor of doctors and whose ices certainly surplus in battle They. too are anxious to get home but the need to have them returned to America transcends matter of desire; it is crucial want in the hospitals of the United States.
 In the light of these facts, statistics like those offered below almost incredible These figures are not rumor guesswork they statistics furnished by naval stationed in Pacific hospital equipped with 1000 beds and designed to for that many casuals Consider then the situation in that hospital of average Dece- Der day when the following report circulated among hospital authorities:
 PATIENTS remaining in hospital 547
 STAFF-Offcers (Doctors-surgeons 51
 Nurses 67
 Hospital Corpsmen 372 Other enlisted personnel 3S4
 Total Hospital Corps and Personnel STA
 Enlisted Personnel special
 temporary duty II
 Red Cross representatives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
A Thought For Today

And will to soul Soul thou goods laid many take thine eat drink and bs merry id unto him. Thou fool this night thy soul shall Dc te then whose shah those things which provided? Luke I2lg-2O
 Surplus wealth is sacred trust which its posseSor administer in his lifetime for the good the Carnegie.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15-The next week is per- haps the most critical in the whole postwar recon version program says Secretary of Labor Lew Schwe-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-15
5 Years Ago

A fire in vacant lot on Edson Avenue was kept from spreading to nearby homes by the alert action of a resident of that section.