Established 1881 NiUshed Every Evening Except 8undmys and Holidays oy THE WATERBURY DEMOCRAT, INC. Democrat Building, Water bury, Conn. Subscription Rates Payable In Advance I Hear . 810.U0 Six months — *3.20 «e Months ... 8 2.60 One Month. 90c Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Democrat will not return manuscript sent In for publication unless accompanied oy postage Mo attention paid anonymous communications. Dial 4-2121 Dial 4-2121 Ail Departments All Departments FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1945 A Thought for Today And he that was dead came forth, hound hand and foot wiih grave-clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith onto them, Loose him. and let him go.— John 11:44. Qrcat Hoods have flown lrom simple sources, and great seas have dried when miracles have by the greatest been denied.—Shakespeare. 1 Manpower in the Kitchen We never did see how it came out. Ail ■we noticed was a little item saying that a regional War Manpower Commission had questioned a new ruling from Wash ington headquarters which held that dishwashers were essential, but chefs were not. But that item was enough to fill us with dread. The ruling is obvi ously a bachelor’s work. No married man or woman would think of making it. The danger isn’t in the obvious fact that dish washers would scarcely be essential if ithe non-essential chef didn't show up to prepare the ground work for their im portant labors. Nor is it so much in the possible effect on the restaurant business. No, the danger is in the ruling’s impact on the well-ordered American home. A lot of husbands wash dishes these days. So do a lot of sons and daughters. Some always have. Others began when house maids swarmed out of America’s kitchens like so many lemmings and scampered to war jobs. But whether these husbands and youngsters arrived at the sink through necessity, kindliness or coercion, they created what at best is a delicately balanced situation. Their breakage rate Is rather high. Some washers are of the slap-dash school; others are thorough and maddeningly slow. In either case they seldom do the job with Mother’s effortless efficiency. But Mother doesn’t complain. She is grateful for the help, whatever its quality. The kitchen police in turn have usually been pretty modest about the whole thing. And patient, even though the kids have been late for their movie dates and father has often had his favorite radio program drowne dout by the slosh of water and . platter of dishes. The kitchen police have realized that their washing and drying technique left something to be desired. They have known that her forbearance Was possible only because of her sincere gratitude. And thus, through this reciprocal, precarious emotional balance, a great many incipient kitchen revolts have died a-borning. But we shudder to think what might happen if that WMC order ever gained currency. The home dishwashers could scarcely resist preen ing themselves a little and putting on a lew airs. This would surely upset Mother, the non-esesntial chef or cook, and goad her into action. The more temperamental housewives would probably go on a culinary strike. The milder and cannier ones would in sist that since housekeeping was their business, they would have to insist that Ithey take over the essential kitchen ;-ob and leave the minor matter of cooking to Dad and the kids. There is no need to speculate upon the dire results. They are only too predictable — ruined temp ers, ruined digestions, complete domestic chaos. So we beseech you, WMC, eat your words before the nation has to quit eat ing entirely. Wasting the Land Uncle Sam, has always been a poor real estate man. The “original public domain” involved more than one and one-half billion acres of land. First, came the Homestead Laws that helped to open settlements. It also opened nation-wide speculation by people who grabbed broad acres of timberland, and later sold the “stump lands,” or forfeited the land in order to escape paying taxes. For a century the United States has been engaged in granting lands to rail road corporations, to military reserva tions,' conservation projects, National Parks and Monuments. During the past dozen years the National Government has been grabbing lands so fast that the sta tisticians haven’t been able to tabulate the totals. Quite recently President Roosevelt took over the Jackson Hole National Park and created it as a National Monument, by executive order. The House of Repre sentatives voted late in 1944 to abolish Jackson Hole, on the theory that the transfer of thousands of acres of land to government ownership was one of many evils diminishing the amount of farm land that might be needed in future years, particularly at the end of the present war. The Government never has exhibited superior intelligence or judgment in the handling of public lands, except possibly In some cases where water power plants were developed. There was considerable discussion during the recent election •bout the advisability of Uncle Sam en larging his real estate operations. In view of confusing performances with reference to the development and control Of oil lands, and producing properties Since the beginning of the war, there appears to be more reasons than ever to lighten the controls and restrict the apartment of the Interior. It Takes More Than Money About the time public opinion in this country reached its peak in deciding that we would have nothing further to do with the troubles of the rest of the world, a handful of pioneers in the aviation in dustry started development of the first long range bombers. That was in 1934. In the ensuing few years those pioneers mortgaged themselves to the eyes to can y forward their work of building the world’s mightiest planes. They sent millions of dollars on experiments, sometimes only to see them crash into oblivion. Little public encouragement was forthcoming because preparation for war was not po litically popular in the peace ful thirties. In addition to developing flying for tresses and superfortresses, air transport pioneers spun airlines across the conti nent and across the seas. Over these air ways American men, in the bitter school of experience, became matchless pilots, familiar with the elements. Then came Pearl Harbor! The nation turned to those pioneers, to those pilots and their machines. Sud denly it wanted to spend billions when before it refused to spend millions, to make the United States into a great air power. The billions would have been utterly useless but for the ground work that had been going on for ten years in backyard shops all over the country; but for the nucleus of trained men from the airlines. As our super bombers now roar to the far corners of the earth, we should pause long enough to realize that money alone could not have produced those planes. The pioneers of American aviation had them on drawing boards and in actual service long before the first billion for defense was voted by Congress. Now They Know How Farmers Feel Consumers who recently had the cou pons in their food ration books summariily invalidated, can appreciate the problem taht faces the farmer under 57 varieties of regulations and restrictions. Ordinarily the farmer plans production schedules year's in advance. Investments in crops are made on the basis of prob able prices at harvest time. Long experi ence with the laws of supply and demand teach the fanner what he must grow if he is to stay out of bankruptcy. At least that is the way the farmer operated be fore the age of regulation and subsidies descended upon him. Now, like the con sumer, he knows not what to expect next. A government directive may cut his acreage, reduce prices when his crop is ready to harvest, or put him out of busi ness. It is not a pleasant way to live. Postwar Travel In a recent advertisement one of our domestic airlines has published its post war timetable of flights from San Fran cisco to Calcutta. In 1929 this airline, TWA, inaugurated the ‘ first transconti nental service using planes. The elapsed time of these runs (with train travel at night) was about 35 hours from New York to Los Angeles. After the war, according to present plans, a TWA passenger will be able to go from San Francisco- to Vienna or Milan in slightly less time than the New York-Los Angeles time of 16 years ago. We think that’s encouraging and pret ty wonderful. And we would think that it was even more wonderful if someone could guarantee to us that mutual inter national cooperation, sympathy and re spect would be increased in direct propor tion to the increased speed of interna tional travel. Burlesque on Government In all the talk about manpower short age, one fact stands out clearly - under the present labor monopoly in the United States men are prevented from working unless they hist pay to get their jobs. If you don’t believe this, try to get a job in a war industry. No American citizen should be forced to join any organization, whether it be labor, religious or political, before he can earn his living. Allowing labor unions to re main outside the laws which regulate all business corporations, while collecting millions of dollars in dues, is a travesty on justice and a burlesque on govern ment. „ , , Such tyranny within a so-called nee country cannot be continued without ulti mately leading to dictatorship by either labor bosses, political bosses, or both. Freedom flies out of the window when a man must get permission of another man to earn his daily bread. Selected Poem WINTER OUTLINE ■ Marguerite Janvrin Adaias in Tlic New York Times) Remembering other winters, when the wind rushed through the city streets like steeds stamped ing; hoofbeats and love rustling through heart and mind, and the short days like the great tide receding, but not quickly enough, since night must come as all things good, slowly—and we turned home. Remembering other winters, when the wind the long, deep, slanting shadows, and the chill of this unused duration; crisp, starched snow, its exact cold. Never can I refill the late hours overflowing with your presence: love, that is so distilled, holds evanescence; so, counting other winters, retrace as hands on Braille, your unforgettable lace. Daily Almanac Sun rib'-s at 8:11 a. in., sets at 6:00 p. in. i war time; Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes alter sunset. January is gradually drawing to a close The heavens should be putting on a good show for the next few days, the stais bril liant on close to zero nights Sirius about twenty degrees above the southwestern hor izon. Other stars are nearby that form Can1» Maojr. to those of you who comprehend astronomical terms. • NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT Swan Song Of The 1000 Club By PETER El*SON Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash ington Correspondent Washington, D. C., Jan. 26 — You might as well know the full story on the 1000 Club payoff, and how Its 291 members bowed themselves out of the political picture in a big Diowout at wasn ington's newStat ler Hotel, mark ing the windup of the Fourth term inauguration lack of-ceremonies. A p p roximately 275 out of the 291 paid up members of the 1000 Club came to Washing ton for the inaug u r a t i o n, and though they had collected only KHaon about a tnirci oi the million dollars the club founders had hoped to get, they found they still had some $3, 400 in the treasury. When party leaders suggested the money be turned into the Democra tic National Committee to keep the party machine running till 1948, the club leaders said nothing doing. They had been told that they were going to throw a lot of weight around, and by golly they were go ing to make a splurge if they had to pay for it themselves. So the 291 member 1000 Club decided to give themselves a banquet and to see what a real 1000 Club would look like if they had one, they decided to invite every celebrity and near celebrity they could rojre, tie or otherwise lay hands on, to the num ber of 1.000. No tricks would be sold, the food would be free, and they would build up a lot of good will. THE CHECK: $0,153 By actual count, there were 1111 tickets put out. The breast of guinea lien dinner cost $5 a plate, or $■>. 555, plus $375 for the Presidential banquet room and $175 for the Con gressional banquet room adjoining. Sum total, $6,155. The programs were the size of a news magazine, though not so thick. At that, these menu •‘cards" were 16 pages plus a four-page bristleboard cover. Printed in blue and gold (the club colors?) and bound by a red whitc-and-bluc cord, they must have cost at least half a buck apiece and that line, “This book was print ed in compliance with war-time regulations on paper conservation,” was conspicuously absent. That wasn't the only thing con spicuously absent about this pro gram. A whole raft of the "Dlstin gushed Guests” whose names and stations were printed in the pro gram were also conspicuously ab sent. Nine columns of membership list revealed only about a dozen names of national prominence. Mrs. Roosevelt was there and General and Mrs. Marshall. The new Vice-President was there and on his very first day and night in office got broken in on his long four years of being a distinguished guest and a maker of brief remarks at banquets. Henry Wallace for a change, had his first night off and how he mast have enjoyed it. But the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Court stayed away en masse, the Navy was represented by the mere Commandant of the Coast Guard and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. bless his Hoosicr heart, was the only cabinet member so loyal or so innocent that he did n't join those who stayed away. George Jessel presided as master of ceremonies and said he enjoyed the dinner because he had been to the White House for lunch and never had so few chickens got mixed up with so much celery. Mrs. Roose velt topped that one later by say ing she was glad to know there had been any chicken at all in that salad became by the time she and Mrs. Truman sat down for a bite after the thousands of invited plate luncheon guests had left, she could n't find anything but celery. NO SINATRA Prank Sinatra was another cele brity who was supposed to be there but wasn’t. Weather—not dogs — kept him from flying in but it was no lass because the 372nd Infantry glee club sang war songs and the Star-Spangled Banner much better than Frankie could ever have done. If somebody had started a swoon at that $1,000 guinca-hen-in-the-rough atmosphere, there's no telling what might have happened. There still remains the little mat ter of finances. If the 1000 Club had only a $3,400 surplus to begin with and this affair cost approximately double that, somewhere, somehow, somebody must have dug down to foot the difference. Sic transit gloria 1000 Club and requiescat in pace 291 suckers. STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS, I>. I>. SCIENCE AND RELIGION NOT IN CONFLICT The statement Ls sometimes made that Thomas A. Edison was an athe ist, or at least an agnostic. Nothing could farther from the truth. Although Edison did no, subscribe to any 'ormal or orthodox creed, he had the deepest possible reverence for . supreme Intelli gence and, as his family said In a stat ment made v at the time of his f death, ‘ In his ■] .vhole life t h v V Ideal of earnes | lovhm service to 1 his fellow men his fellow men was predominant”. Somehow or other the story that Edison was an atheist not started, and it persisted, eo ‘ -y as it ap paers to be to good evidence. Shaking one day to George Par son Lathrop. Edison said, ‘To me it seems that every atom is possess ed by a certain amount of primitive intelligence. Loo kat the thousand ways in which atoms of hydroger combine with these of other ele ments to form the most divers? sub stances. Do you mean to say that they do this without intelligence?” "Where does this intelligence come Another Bulge Washington Merry-Go-Round drew he arson Drew Pearson Says: Russian Advance Identical to U. S. Spectacular Advance Across France Last Summer; U. S. Troop Morale Could Take Lesson From Reds and Nazis; Congressmen Junket at Army Navy Expense. WASHINGTON, January 26. — The amazing advance of the Red Army compared with the present stalemate of American-British forces on the Western Front, naturally has caused some soul-sarching among U. S. military experts. However, there is one import- | ant fact to keep in mind. The j Russians are now putting across almost the same type of advance as the American Army did in Normandy six months ago. U. S. troops, then frcsii and rested, at tacked in force, crashed through the Atlantic Wall along the Coast of Prance, then raced on through the unfortified empty shell of Prance. Likewise the Red Army after several months to bring up fresh troops and ample supplies, crashed through Germany’s outer Polish defense along the Vistula river and is now racing across the flat and relatively unfortified plains of Poland. The Red Army will soon hit Germany's bristling Todt Line. The thing to watch will be whether Todt Line will stop the Russians as the Siegfried Line has stopped us in Western Eu rope. In each case, it is important to note that artillery played a tre mendous role. In the Normandy invasion, Allied warship stood off in the English Channel, laid down a curtain of steel which scat tered the Germans. Before the recent Russian advance, the Red Army lined up big guns and did the same thing. (When the Al lies reached the Siegfried Line .artillery was slow in coming up; still is reported insufficient.) TRAINING OF C. S. TROOPS However, there is one other fac tor discussed very frankly by Americans returning from the Western Front and by men who have trained in the U. S. Army here at home. It Is the fact that the German system of training and also the Russian system may better develop the enlisted men. The German Army, for in stance, builds up the ego of the individual soldier. He is taught to believe that he is the best fighter in the world, that no other soldier and no other army can stop him. The German officer, among other tilings, makes a cere mony of singling out each en listed man on Ills birthday and lighting his cigarette in front of the entire mess liall. The American soldier on the other hand, is taugiit to sup press his individuality. It is drilled into him that he is merely a cog in a machine. U. S. troops have the best care in tlie world, the best equipment, best medical attention and best food in the world—everything except the lift to their indivi dual ego. They are hammered down instead of being built up. The Russian Military System was derived originally from Ger man officers stationed in Russia and is similar. The Red Army however, has gone further when it comes to building up pride am ego. In the Red Army a man can be a sergeant one month and a colonel the next. Or vice versa, if lie makes a mistake. Generals who fail are busted over night. No one ever hears of the once famous Marshal Timoshenko any more; or Marshal Budenny. They did not obtain their objectives and are now retired to Moscow. In the C. S. Army more re cently, thousands of high-type men have come in with excel lent background but have little chance of becoming officers, simply because the officers' ranks an- full. They were filled in the early days of the war, and now the output of the Officers’ Candidate schools has narrowed to a mere drib let. Meanwhile, enlisted men sec the son of Senator "Pass-the-Biscuits Pappy" O’Daniel given a chance to take the Officers’ Candidate school course three times alter failing twice, when ther men are given just one chance. They also j see the son of the President i of the United Suites currying two j dogs across the Atlantic by air i from? ’ asked Lathrop. ’ Prom some power greater than ourselves,’’ replied Edison. ”L)o you believe then in an intel ligent creator -a personal God.’ ‘‘Certainly! The existence of such a Goo can to my mind, almost be proved by chemistry.” All Rights Reserved--Babson Newspaper Syndicate plane. So you can undnerstand why morale could be improved inside the U. S. Army. JUNKETING CONGRESSMEN Servicemen are burned up at the way the Army and Navy are showing special favoritism, to a tiny group of Congresmen, who, anxious to build up war records, but reluctant to resign their scats in Congress are becoming veterans within 90 days flat. Most unique example is Demo cratic Representative John Fogarty of Rhode Island who left Wash ington, December 12th to report for duty in Baltimore as an ap prentice seaman. That same afternoon, Fogarty was promoted to carpenter’s mate first class, a rank better than that of ser geant in the Army, and a few hours later was sent to Davisvillc, R. I., sporting his new uniform. Next day, Fogarty received five innoculutlons in one afternoon, was approved for overseas service in record time. A special Navy plane was assigned to whisk him off to the West Coast where af ter two days rest, he embarked by plane for a forward war area. The eaten In Fogarty’s case is that he has no qualifications for a carpenter's mate rating other than membership in the House Naval Affairs Committee, and can gel out of uniform any time he wants. However, he had been re-elected in Novem ber, and so is able to resign from the Navy merely by saying he wants to. He will then be whiskey back to Wash ington in a special plane to re sume his relatively comfortable seat in Congress. NOTE — Congressman Albert Gore, Democrat of Tennessee also has left the country on a similar arrangement with the Army. Another Democrat, Con gressman Henry Jackson of Wash ington plans to move out of the country in the next lew days get ting a War Department deal simi lar to Gore’s. Jackson already has five months in the Army be hind him, but wants to see what life is like overseas, though ills constitutents want him to repre sent them in Washington. The above Congressmen have good records on Capitol Hill, but u lot of people think they should make up their minds one way or the other as to whether they want to stay in Congress or in the Army-Navy. SIXTY MILLION JOBS One significant question which has been running through the President's mind, according to close friends, is that of getting correlated government agencies to begin proparing for the 60.000,000 job program he has promised af ter the war. What he is talking about is a lineup whereby the Departments of State, Labor, Commerce and Agriculture will all puli together; whereby their top men arc friends and think alike. The President singles out these four departments because the Department of Agri culture can help produce Jobs on the farm, the Commerce Depart ment can help produce Jons in business, the Labor Department can help stabilize labor, while the State Department can help pro duce export trade. That was our thing in the back of FDR's mind when he selected Henry Wallace as Secre tary of Commerce. Lone-wolf Jesse Jones never has cooper ated doscly with others in the. Cabinet, except Cordell Hull. W'allace on the other hand, al ready knows the farm problem, is an Intimate of Secretary Wlckard and everyone else In the Agriculture Department. Secretary Stettinius also has shown himeslf able to gel along well with other people. This ability to cooperate will' lie one of the main things the President will watch in whoever he picks as his new secretary of Labor. He is tired of personal feuds and wants mure Cabinet harmony. Wallace showed him self able to swallow the bit ter pill of defeat at Chicago and went out to work for the election of Harry Truman. FDR Is now looking for a "team" to play ball together to put across his difficult job program after the war. (Copyright, 1945. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.j Views Of The Press HOARDING POTATOES (Boston Post) The assurance that the scarcity of potatoes is a “shortage and not a famine" ought to put a halt to a good deal of the wasteful hoarding of potatoes that is evidently going on. Potatoes are difficult to keep un less the proper conditions are main tained. They freeze easily and too much heat can spoil them too, so it’s really unwise to attempt to store up large amounts of them. All author ities seem agreed that the shortage will in no wise approach the severity of the potato scarcity of two years ago. A SINGLE ECONOMY (Hartford Times) In a thoughtful discussion of the post-war export situation for farm surplus products the United States Bureau of Agriculture stresses the Importance of industrial imports, unrelated as those two may seem. Only if foreign countries can sell to us, will they be able to buy our agri cultural exports. There is also the added factor that foreign buyers will compare our prices with those of other pro ducers. If they can buy wheat and meat more cheaply from Argentina, they will buy them there. The Bu reau rightly stresses the point that government subsidy of exports is not the solution either, because that means taking money from the pub lic treasury and reducing to that extent the buying power of this na tion In foreign markets. High taxa tion hinders competitive production. The tendency of farm leaders has ben to see their own problem too narrowly, without reference to Its being linked with the entire nation al economy. Bo Jopg as the farmer j received a god price, lto did not 1 matter bow it waa brought about. I The Bureau point! out that the ! entire population is Involved. In dustrial activity should be high so that there ca nbe a large demand for our own farm products and also buying power for foreign goods. As result of the later, foreign peoples can purchase our agricultural sur pluses. Artificially high cotton, grain and meat prices will hinder this sit uation, the Bureau convincingly argues. Iun the economic sphere, "all Is linked to all.” STILL UP TO THE DRIVER (Christian Science Monitor) The “safe driver" Is the most pa triotic one today. The efforts made by railroads to avert catastrophes at grade crossings should encour age even lax motorists to be on the alert. The Illinois Central, for ex ample, has analyzed corsslng acci dents and has summarized the causes under ten distinct headings. Foremost is the fact that the mo torist misjudges the speed of an on coming train, and, second, he waits for one train to pass and then i? struck by another from the oppo Your Health By Dr. William Brady Signed letter! pertalrlng to per* tonal health and hygiene, not fs disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped ,self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should oe brief and written in ink. . o reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address Or. William Brady, National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street. Chicago, 111 TREATMENT OF ENLARGED TONSILS As parents, teachers and nurses must be reminded again and again, it Is not abnormal for children from two to ten or twelve years of age to have enlarged hypertrophied) tonsils. In most children whose tonsils are enlarged there is also some enlargement of the third or pharyngeal tonsil in the roof of the throat cavity or pharynx out of direct sight behind the soft palate, such enlargement being commonly known as “adenoids” or "adenoid growth" or "adenoid vegetation. Tonsil tissue is composed of small round cells akin to the lymphocytes or 'mall white blood corpuscles, en meshed in fibres of connective tis sue—such tissue is called lymphoid or adenoid tissue, whether it com poser, the tonsils, the adenoid body the 1; mph nodes of "kernels" in various parts of the body, the ring of guardian tissue around the orifice of the appendix, the spleen, or the bone marrow/. Adenoid tissue in tonsils or else where serves to protect against in fection and contributes not only lymphocytes and phagocytes which fight against invading germs but also red corpus,-les to the blood. Remember, though, the visible ton sils and the pharyngeal tonsil fade nold) together make only a minor fraction of the lymphoid or ade noid tissue in the body, and so the loss of tonsils and adenoids scarcely affects natural Immunity or natural capacity to fight infection. Merc enlargement or hypertrophy of tonsils and/ or adenoids In chil dren. then, ordinarly calls for no medical or surgical treatment. In preceding talks we have urged bet ter hygiene for all children, par ticularly more exposure to sunshine or skyshine or Just daylight the » year around. This is available to children in all seasons and climates, provided their parents, grandpar ents, uncles, aunts, teachers, super ior-feeling neighbors and old fogy family physicians are not obsessed with the catching cold delusion. Tlie less opportunity the child has for exposure