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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1045
A Thought for Today
One law and one manner shall be for you.
and tor the stranger that sojourneth with you.—
Numbers IS: 16.
A just man Is not one who does no ill,
But he, who with the power, has not the will.
—Philemon.
Planned Parenthood
The legislative season is now complete.
(The first warning that the fight to open
Ihe doors to birth control within the
State of Connecticut has been sounded.
The Planned Parenthood League of Con
necticut announces that eight out of ten
persons in Connecticut believe that doc
tors should be allowed to prescribe birth
control measures for health reasons. We
hope the poll taken to back up the claims
of the Parenthood League is better than
that of a few years ago which showed
President Roosevelt hopelessly defeated.
Connecticut has been steadfast in its
Btand on the question of birth control.
It refuses to give ground in this battle
lor supremacy of the body over the spirit.
Connecticut and Massachusetts remain
the only two states in the Union forbid
ding the dissemination of birtli control
information. They make dispensation of
the same an offense punishable by a fine
or imprisonment or both. There is no
reason to believe that this Legislature
■will regard itself any more qualified to
decide on the question of life or death
for the unborn baby than those which
have gone before it.
With the horrors of war upon us, with
the casualty lists reported by our vari
ous services showing increasing losses,
it U hard to imagine that anyone would
espouse the cause of birth control. To
be lure it has graduated from this to the
point where parenthood is now planned.
As if fathers and mothers hadn’t been
doing this for many years past, if they
were conscientious men and women who
realized, that the marriage bond was a
sacred one and imposed on those who
took its obligations. Naturally a nation
where men and women have played fast
gmd loose with their marriage ties is re
ceptive to a fad which relegates to sec
ondary importance the propagation of
the human race.
Certainly this war has brought home
to Americans the fallacy of birth con
trol, planned parenthood or call it what
you will. Certainly this war has proved
beyond all reason of a doubt that our
salvation has been and will be the large
families. Thank God that there were
men and women who had no fear of bring
ing into this world and rearing large
families. Had America given heed to the
appeal of the birth control movement
when it was launched so generally years
ago these beloved shores of ours might
not be the same today. Certainly the
tide of human events would not have
gone as they have. Strength and wis
dom to our legislators to turn down again
this plea for a new order that is neither
Godlike nor American!
Rather Late
It Is too unfortunate that human
nature being what it is man is prone to
follow that old adage of not locking the
bam door until his favorite nag has gone
over the hill with some thief astride his
back. Would you say that this might
have been the case in Hartford last sum
mer when so many people perished and
others were horribly injured in the cir
cus fire? But our attention is centered
now on the fact that a great many deaths
are being reported as a result of leaks in
gas pipes leading into houses.
Waterbury has not had too many inci
dents of this nature, but it has had its
share. And elsewhere throughout the
state the newspapers every so often
chronicle a similar tragedy. It would
seem as if this might be something that
should properly come in for investiga
tion and attention. It may be that
weather conditions have some effect on
the condition which has resulted in gas
asphyxiations. This has been a bad
winter for pipes bursting from exposure
to frost and snow.
However, we note that the Public Utili
ties Commission is becoming concerned
over the situation. It occurs to us that
a number of years ago in Bridgeport there
v was a succession of such cases with death
r resulting in a number of instances. It
ft nay be that public officials were not on
i their fob; on the other hand it may be
that tne officials did what they had to do
under the laws, but that the public util
ities themselves were negligent. At all
events there is need now to do something
to prevent any recurrence of such acci
dents, if this is possible. And in this day
and age it doesn’t sound logical or sensi
ble to say such accidents can’t be pre
vented.
Unfinished Business
A Minneapolis radio station has capit
ulated to the unchallenged power of Boss
lames Caesar Petrillo of the American
Federation of Musicians, who demanded
“it hire, In this day of labor shortage,
more staff musicians than it wants or
needs.
We commend to Congress that state
ment by Stanley E. Hubbard, the station's
president, which accompanied the capitu
lation. Here are samples:
"If the Petrillo system of forcing an
employer to contract for men he does not
need, and to pay royalties directly to the
union because union members are
employed in the manufacture of his com
modity (a provision in the recent con
tract signed by the record companies) is
adopted by other unions, it means the
finish of American business.
"The difficulty which exists today in
our country is that labor and manage
ment cannot deal on a party. The rem
edy of this situation lies in the hands of
the legislative branch of our government,
and that is where immediate relief should
be worked out."
These statements are not new. Con
gress has heard them before. They re
main unchallenged. But so does Mr.
Petrillo. It is time that Congress did
something about the situation that makes
Mr. Petrillo’s power possible, before he
does irreparable damage to both business
and labor.
A Hero Named Frank
A force of Americans on Leyte faced the
Japs across an open valley. They couldn’t
advance until they knew the disposition
of enemy troops. Getting that informa
tion was a dangerous Job. A lad named
Frank vo’unteered.
Frank got almost to the Jap lines when
a sniper’s fire caught him. Shot through
the abdomen, he emptied hjs gun into the
sniper, crawled back to his own lines, and
made his report. Four days later he died.
Frank died for his country in a war
which is, in essence, a battle against the
bigoted doctrine of racial superiority.
Frank’s name used to be on the county
memorial roll of Hood River, Oregon. It
isn’t any more. For Frank’s last name
was Hachiya, and his skin was yellow,
and, though he was an American, his
ancestors were of the enemy race.
So the Hood River American Legion
removed his name from the roll of honor.
The Democrat is proud to join with
Senator Patrick Wallace, Edward Kelly
of the Veterans Bureau and other inter
ested parties in the fight to obtain from
the Legislature a waiver of the state law
requiring a 25-cent fee for the filing of
discharge papers by war veterans to ob
tain the $1,000 tax exemption. During
the present war period this statute
should certainly not apply to veterans of
the present war. It’s possible that there
may be changes in the law after this war
is over, but until then and while the pres
ent statute applies let’s give the veterans
returning from the front a welcome un
accompanied by a request for filing fees
for this or that paper. True the 25-cent
fee isn’t much, but it’s the idea of being
open-handed with the vets of World War
II.
Remember the good old days when you
had to stand in line for half a day to get
your automobile license plates? Doesn’t
seem too long ago, does it? Actually it
was during the ‘roaring twenties" that
the system really blossomed forth. Here
in Waterbury we used to go down to Ben
edict Street to the present side entrance
of Templeton’s store to get our plates.
As the deadline neared the lines would
stretch out into the street. It was no
cinch to get your plates in those days.
You approached several windows before
the job was done and you had the new
plates. You really paid for those Ches
hire-made plates in that halcyon period,
my boy!
Local women school teachers would
certainly not be too pleased with an
article in the current issue of Columbia,
national Knights of Columbus magazine.
Entitled “Orphan Annie’s Big Brother
Teaches School” and authored by Philip
Burke it argues that the man teacher
should get more than the woman. The
crux of his argument is that the “salary
check is not the real pay”.
And speaking of Columbia, how many
people are aware of the fact that a Wa
terburian was responsible for its found
ing? Back in the early days of the K. of
C. order there was agitation for a publi
cation that would convey news of hap
penings among councils. The late Ed
ward Finn, father of the present Supreme
Chaplain of the K. of C., Monsignor Leo
Finn of Bridgeport, did much to create
the publication.
Selected Poem
MARCH DAY
(Mary H. Oliver in The Christian Science Monitor)
Not many weeks ago, I heard you say:
"From now till spring but little green will show."
I must content myself, I thought, with bowls
Of ivy, huckleberry leaves, and some
Bright-potted flower, and give them loving care.
I shall do this, I told myself, and seek
My window often, too, that 1 may watch
'Hie evergreens, may sec the Norway spruce
Which sparkles on a crisp and sunny day
When silvered by the snow; this I shall do
And now, today, with March winds blowing strong,
1 glimpsed the tender green of tulip leaves
That pushed up through the earth, now softened by
Last evening's rain which melted all the snow.
No wind, no calenadr, thought I. controls
The growth of flowers; Ood governs them, I know.
The sky Is bluer—hear the robin sing!
Yes, Just around the comer there Is spring!
Daily Almanac
Sun rises 7:34 a. m ; sets 0:45 p. m. <war
time)
Moon rises 11:10 p. m. (war time)
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
uten alter sunset.
Says the Old Parmer’s Almanac for March.
... Mend your fences and stone walla
and see that your gates are sturdy. Hove a
thought now to spring plowing, and check
over all your farm machinery.
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Washington
Miscellany
By FETCH BOSON
Waterbury Demeerat-NKA
Wash
Washington, D. C., March 1 —
Vice President Kerry Truman, after
only a month on hla new Job, la dla
cvoverlng that it has a lot more upa
am downs to it than his old Job ot
Senator. Trying to be a good fellow
has put him In
several embar
ratsing positions.
That cheesecake
photograph, with
Lauren Bacall sit*
ting on the top of
an upright piano
while he gaaed
Into her eye s,
brought him no
little criticism for
being undignified.
Then he went
to an Informal
luncheon of Capi
tol workers, which
he used to attend
more or less regularly as a Senator,
saying what he pleased without any
body caring. But the first of these
sessions he attended as V. P. be
came a news event and a few of the
stories rubbed the wrong way. Here
after, the Vice President may not
be so free and easy in his ways.
8TRANGE BEDFELLOWS
National Service legislation, other
wise known as the work-or-else bill,
has made some strange partners in
the line-up of supporters and oppo
nents. National Association of
Manufacturers and nearly all labor
unions have been violently opposed.
But National Steel Industry Advis
ory Committee, made up of people
like Eugene Orace, and the heads of
the extreme left wing unions like
Harry Bridges, favor it.
* • •
Assistant Secretary of State
Archibald MocLelsh Is going to be
master of ceremonies at all the
State Department's new series of
Saturday night radio shows, though
other actors on the seven weeks'
series will change from week to
week, depending on program. Na
tional Broadcasting hired Selden
Menefce, Washington free lance
writer and public relations counsel,
to prepare the original script.
Mancfec took a stenographer and
asked questions of State Department
top men cast for roles in the series.
Then Mencfee wove the answers in
to dialog. MacLeish, who refuses to
let anyone ghost for him, is re
writing much of Menefees script.
Tentatively, this seven week State
Department Saturday night soap
opera is to be followed bey seven
weeks of Senate Foreign Relations
Committee discourse*, seven weeks'
House Foreign Affairs' Committee
debates, and a seven weeks windup
by leading societies interested in
international peace and security.
Big idea Is to bring the Department
and foreign affairs closer to the
public. MacLeish was chosen to m.
c. the show because of his position
as head of public and cultural re
lations, also because he Is most ex
perienced radio performer in the
Department.
• • •
WAR BITER DOG
Senator Harry Rood Byrd of Vir
ginia lives in Washington at the
swank Shoreham Hotel and there
keps a magnificent Oreat Dan*.
After its evening walk with the Sen
ator, the dog goes into the hotel
drug store lunch counter, where a
soda Jerker feeds the big animal a
couple anemic, war-time weenies, for
which the Senator later pays. “It
helps a little,” he says.
Congreumen are being swamped
by pleas from parents of service
men, asking that their soldier boys
who have been overseas for a couple
of years or more be given leaves to
come home. There Isn't anything
the Congressmen can do about these
requests as the soldiers are chosen
by their overseas commanders, but
the volume of this and other O. I.
Bill of Rights mall has forced some
Congressmen to put on an extra sec
retary to handle veterans' affairs
exclusively.
• • •
On his trip to Russia and China
last year, Henry Wallace thought he
was so healthy that he wouldn’t
have to wear an oxygen, mask on
hops over the higher mountains, as
required by Army Air Transport
Command regulations. Twice the
then-Vlce President refused pilots’
orders to don his mask. The third
time the pilot came back to give his
order he had better luck, for the
Vice President had all but passed
out and was powerless to resist the
pilot who slipped the mask In place
and gave him a good whiff. After
that, Wallace wore the mask with
out protest.
Current Comment
It will not do to hang the (Nad)
leaders and then take the vast mass
of the smaller men In the Oestapo,
pat them on the head, give them a
hot dog and tell them not to do It
Again.
—Herbert O. Pell, former member
United Nations War Crimes Com
mission.
• • •
Buy today’s pack today and ralt
until tomorrow for tomorrow's.
—Daniel P. Woolley of New York,
regional OPA administrator.
• • •
The women of this country don’t
want a national service act. . .. The
mlnu'.s the women out over the
country want it, we will have It.
—Mrs. Roosevelt.
• • •
When armed guards stand with
rifles and prevent red-blooded
American people from searching the
damned Nazis to take from them a
swastika, I think the War Depart
ment deserves condemnation.
—Judge Harvard C. Speakman ol
Phoenix. Arlz., on “freedom” ol
prisoners near there.
• • •
Remember, cur troops once wer<
eight kilometers from Moscow ant
could see the Kremlin.
—Dr. Rudolf Bemmler on Berlin
radio.
0 0 0
China’s postwar policy may weli
be summed up in one phrase—that
Is to build up a strong democraq
through national reconstruction
That primarily Involves Industrial
zat»on. That primarily Involvesd lu
zatlon of the country with the oh
Ject of raising the standard of llw
lns of the people.
—Dr Choh-Mlng Li, Chinese Bret
too Woods delegate.
This Is Close Enough For The Nonce
NEVER THfc 1
1WAIN SHALL
MEET/ A
Sont
fiRive
Washington Merry-Go-Round drew pearson
Drew Pearson Says: Shake-Up of American High Command Likely
After Germany's Defeat; General Marshall May Take Over Japanese
War; Eisenhower Would Replace Marshall as Chief of Staff.
WASHINGTON, March 3. — Biggest shake-up in the High Command since General
Eisenhower’s appointment as European Commander is being discussed backstage at
the White House. Some of it also is reported to have been studied at Yalta._
ini mianeup win or Hinieu hi.
solving two different problems:
(1) Cooperation with the Rus
sian General Staff, despite the
fact that Russia Is not In the
war against Japan; and <*) The
tug-of-war between Admiral Nlm
itz and Oeneral MacArthur as to
who will command the final drive
on Tokyo.
The No. 1 problem, Involving
Russia, probably will be worked
out by setting up a separate
branch of the Combined Chiefs In
Europe with Oeneral Omar Brad
ley, Field Marshal Montgomery,
and Marshal Zhukov as Its mem
bers. They will function In re
gard to the European War only,
will have nothing to do with the
war against Japan.
The No. > problem of who will
command the knockout blows
against Japan has been the sub
ject of considerable Army ai.d
Navy wire-pulling. General Mac
Arthur and his friends have been
conducting a vigorous backstage
campaign for his over-all ap
pointment.
On the other hand, the Navy
points out, with considerable
truth, that If It were not for the
tremendous concentration of
ships around the Philippines
the skillful operations of Ad
miral NUnits, MacArthur's
campaign would have gotten
nowhere. Nlmits not only was
able to land troops for MacAr
thur, but operated his fleet
so adroitly that after the In
itial Leyte operations, the Japs
were unable to send reinforce
ments to Luson.
At first, President Roosevelt
considered solving the feud by
designating Admiral King as Su
preme Commander in the Pacific.
This, however, brought a terrific
howl from MacArthur and
wouldn’t have been welcomed by
Nimttz either.
Final solution therefore prob
ably will be the appointment of
General Marshall as over-all Pa
cific Commander Immediately af
ter Germany Is defeated. He
would be over-all Commander of
both the Army and the Navy and
of the entire Allied operation
against Japan.
Simultaneously, General Eisen
hower would be brought back to
Washington to take Marshall's
place as Chief of Staff. General
Bradley would then carry on In
Europe as Commander-In-Chief
of the American forces.
CHURCHILL SPEAKS RUSSIAN
Prime Minister Churchill tried
out some of his newly learned
Russian on Stalin at Yalta—with
disappointing results.
At several points during the
meeting, Stalin had come up
with expressions which he thought
were proper English, such as
••What's cookin'?”, "What the hell
goes on here?” taught him by his
Ambassador to Washington, Mr.
Gromyko.
So Churchill decided to match
Stalin by trying out some of his
newly learned Russian. Rattling
off what he thought was perfect
ly good Russian, the Prime Min
ister looked around proudly and
waited for Stalin to reply.
Nothing happened. Stalin looked
puzzled. Then Stalin’s lnteilpre
ter said;
"Excuse me, Mr. Prime Minis
ter. I didn’t understand the
language you were talking. I
only speak two languages my
self—Russian and English.
Would you mind saying It In
English or in Russian?”
Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
all joined In the laugh that fol
lowed.
VICHYITE INTRIGUE
It was announced In Paris re
cently that Jacques Lemalgre
Dubreuil, who arranged for Ad
miral Darlan to turn up In North
Africa, had been arrested by
deGaulle.
However. It has remained a
mystery as to how ds Gaulle got
hold of the famous Vlchylte. since
he had been living In Portugal.
At first It was assumed that he
had gone back to France on a
visit snd was then nabbed by
French pollet.
'f
Real story of L*malgre-I>u
breull's a treat, however, hae
come back through untensored
diplomatic aouroee. Actually,
•he was kidnapped at night In a
email Portuguese village neard
Eatorll. Lemalgre- Oubreull and
Jean Rlgault, another cloae
friend of 11. 8. Charge d’Af
falrea Bob Murphy, had rented
a house In the Portuguese su
burb and were asleep one night
when a group of Frenchmen
woke them up and, at the point
of a gun, put them Into a fish
ing boat. They were then tak
en back to France.
Certain State Department of
ficials are reported Jittery over
what will happen when these two
Vlehyltea are put on trail by de
Gaulle.
Lemalgre - Dubrcull was one of
the most famous big business
lobbyists of France, was founder
of the 'Taxpayers' League," a
founder of the fascist Gagoulards,
and subsidised various French
fascist papers before the war. He
helped sell Murphy on the Idea
of cooperating with the Vichy
Government, and when de Gaulle
took over North Africa, Murphy
helped Lemalgre-Dubreull escape
In an American automobile.
CAPITAL CHAFF
Quoth Senator Tom Connally
of Texas during prolonged hear
ings on the Mexican Waterways
Treaty: "The flood of oratory In
this committee room is m hard
to control aa the notorious floods
of the Colorardo River” . . . Sec
tary of the Navy Forrestal has
taken a firm stand that Navy
men’s views on politics should not
be sensored. . . There arc about
375 baseball players In the Ameri
can league, of which 130 are
4-F's. Baseball moguls says: "If
the 4-F’» are barred from base
ball, the game will have to be
played by old men". . . The sen
ate Campaign Expenditures Com
mittee talks of removing the
$3,000,000 limit on the amount of
money a political committee can
spend In an election campaign.
They claim this limit la unwork
able. The Committee also pro
poses lifting the $25,000 limit for
Individual Senator’s campaigns
and the limit of $5,000 each for
ang single contribution to a poli
tical committee. Thus, gradually,
the old Hatch Act is whittled
down. . . Colonel Harry Vaughan,
now Military Aide to Vice Presi
dent Truman, was formerly his
secretary. Vaughan Is now vir
tually back on the office staff—
In uniform. . . Not as many
people know about Elmer Irey
as know of J. Edgar Hoover, but
Irey is being talked about for
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis'
Job as dean of baseball. Con
gressman Cochran of Missouri
says: "If baseball gets Irey, they,
won’t have to worry about gamb
lers. He knows them all.”
(Copyright, 1045, by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
LATE WAR DECLARATIONS
(Bridgeport Post)
Small Uruguay and Salvator are
among the nations which recently
declared war on Oermany and
Japan. Argentina has been getting
tough with Oermany. In words only
however, and now Turkey has
climbed upon the United Nations’
bandwagon. Argentine Is the only
American state stlllat peace with
the Axis, but there are Indications
that by March 1 she also may be
Included In the list. That will make
every nation In this hemisphere
technically at least, a belligerent.
There Is probably very little than
any of these nations can or will do
at this stage to hasten the war s
end. Unfortunately, it appears as
though all these late comers to
the United Nations have done so
to attain an eleventh hour-privi
lege to participate In the April 25
security discussions at San Fran
cisco.
Turkey's decision was made af
ter the receipt of a note from the
Big Three conferees In the Crimea
that any nation staying out of
the war by March 1 would not get
a scat at the peace meeting. Cur
rent Indication* are that other
middle east countries will follow
suit. The war fronts are a long
way from Turkey and It Is difficult
to see how she can be of much
military value In winning the war.
But any help, however late, will be
gratqfully received providing that
help Is not merely a token.
Turkey has long shown sympathy
to the Allied cause, though she
never had the courage to stand up
against the Nazis as so many other
small nations did. The real test of
her loyalty today and a proof of
her sincerity to the United Nations
would be to dispatch as many men
and as much equipment as she can
round up, to the nearest battle
front. Among the most frequently
suggested possibilities for military
action by the Turks 1* the proposed
campaign to clean up the Aegean
Islands where there are Nazi and
Fascist troops still garrisoned.
The Turks have an army of a
half million men and a small but
efficient air force. The Russians for
whom Turkey professes a deep af
fection, will find plenty of work for
that army to do besides protect her
neutral borders.
It would be a fine demonstration
of unity and a clear evidence that
their bcllated declarations of war
actually mean something, If all
these nations which have entered
the alliance against the Axis would
dispatch troops and equipment to
the European and Pacific wrars.
AWARD FOR CONGRESS
(New York Sun)
The proposal of a certain mag
azine to award annually a prize of
$10,000 apiece to the Senator and
Representative who, in the opinion
of a committee of Judges, had best
served his country has already
stirred up a lively argument In the
Capitol. Since It would take nlnety
slx years for all the Senators to
qualify, and more than four centu
ries for all Representatives, even
the most obtuse member of Con
gress can sec that this is a contest
In which somebody would get left,
What Is more.it would be a contest
In which It would be extraordinarily
difficult for any group of Judges,
however diligent and disinterested
to say with finality that one mem
ber of the Senate, or one member
of the House, served his country
better than all others. These men
and women are not sent to Wash
ington primarily to serve a nation
but to represent a district or a
State, Many of them manage to re
concile their fundamental duty with
responsibility to the nation as a
whole, but the fact remains that
a member of Congress has many
dally routine Jobs that bring him
Your Health
By Dr. WiUum Brady
Rlgned letters pertaining to per
nmI health and hygiene, Mi to
«mii, diagnosis at treatment,
will be answered by Dr. Brady If
a stomped aeir-addreseoi envelope
ta enclosed. Letters sheald ba brief
and written In Ink. No reply ean
ba nude to gnerles nal conform
ing ta Inatrnctlani. Addraaa Dr.
William Brady, National
paper Sendee, StO Waai
Street. Chleara. III.
HAVE CHILDREN WHILE TOD
MAY
Prom the Indicant tone or nu
merous recent letters I infer that
some reader* did not like what I
Mid here recently about having
children when you are young and
fit and happy.
Mrs. M. C. hopea the time will
come when social living fjust what
social living means I am not sure,
unless it means the state) will
guarantee couples like herself and
her husband two babies, no more,
no less, the health and education
of every child will be the respon
sibility of the 8tate, no stigma will
be attached to any child, child
birth will be painless, and doctors
who cherish the pagan notion that
a reasonable amount of sufferings
is good for a wife or mother . . .
What makes Mrs. C's view inter
esting is the fact that she is the
mother of two children, all paid for.
too, she says. She adds that it will
take her husband and herself a few
more years to get out of debt, but
they are paying for their home and
thev are getting a taste of happi
ness I don't see what that has to
do with happiness. Having a baby
or two, fair health and youth—
that has a good deal more to do
with happiness.
O. H. A. discharged from the ar
my because of a physical deficien
cy, is 29 and asserts he does not
Intend to buckle down and raise a
family until he has enjoyed some
of the things he has been denied
so many years—things 111 probably
call superficialities but O. H. A.
bets I have them and enjoy them
and would dislike being without
them. . . Well. I don't know what
things the young man means and
he does not tell.
Then this misguided but char
acteristically self-assured young
man mention* things which have
set him against the very idea of
bringing children into the world—
the stupidity of mankind blowing
Itself to bits in this barbarous war;
the experience of parents he has
heard sa ythey would never have
had children if they knew what
they know now; the idea that the
kid in the foxhole probably wishes
he had never been born; and final
ly the sad preview of the future
one gets from a visit to the veter
ans’ hospital. To O. H. A. life Is a
steam roller—dont get In the way
or It will smash you down.
In that article I said:
"Very well. You're a man, not
a rat. You'll be happy fl you have
a baby, even If you haven't as fine
clothes, furniture or front ss
many of the rats you know.'*
"Or Is there enough of the rat
In you. after all, to make you
think It would be better to wait
a year or two and have some fun
or get the furniture, car or house
paid for or get a lease with a
clause In it before you have a
baby?”
That's what T mean. Now, mj
boy, are you a man or a-?
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
How to Breatho
I and three other* can not se>i
how to breathe deeply from the
enclosed clipping. Why not some
instructions on the method you ad
vise? (——. D.D.S.)
Answer — Detailed Instructions
In the pamphlet "Belly Breathing"
mailed on request If you inclose
stamped self addressed envelope.
How natural breathing aids circula
tion, the heart, combats anoxia and
"neurasthenia," and Illustrated in
structions for the correct Schafer
method of resuscitation, are given
in booklet "How to Breathe”—for
copy Inclose twenty-flve cents.
Sweets
For two weeks I have excluded
all pastries and sweets from my
diet and reduced four pounds. Is
It safe to continue this for several
more weeks? I do eat my fill of
meat, vegetables, bread and butter,
(Mrs. A. L. R.)
Answer—Yes. In fact It would ba
beneficial to nutrition, health, vita
and good looks. If most adults would
restrict their intake of sugar, can
dy. sweets, whether they need to
reduce or not; that Is, If they kept
their intake of vegetables, fruit3,
greens or salads at top level.
Correct Method of Resuscitation
I am a St. John Ambulance first
aid worker. I understand there is a
proper method for resuscitation.
(J. V. O.)
Answer—30th ed. of the St. John
Ambulance Association's author
ized textbook is one of few authori
tative works containing the COR
RECT method, with Illustrations.
The correct method is illustrated
and described In booklet "How to
Breathe”— for copy send twenty
five cents and stamped envelop*
bearing your address. Method "ap
proved” by the American Red Cross
is Incorrect.
(Copyright IMS, John F. Dlllc Co.)
no fame outside his own district
and no regard except a conscious
ness of discharging his duty. Such
an award as Is proposed might be
bestowed after much thought and
Investigation, but it would still b«
likely to visit each house In such
fashion as to leave doubt and dis
satisfaction behind. Members of th*
Senate, and House would be less
than human If they did not then
believe that obscure virtue had of
ten been passed over for visible and
audible prominence.