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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1945
A Thought for Today
For to him that is joined to all the living
there is hope: for a living dog is better than a
dead lion.—Ecclesiastes 9:4.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
—Sicero.
No Prayer For Peace
The blundering of opening the San
Francisco conference without formal
prayer and the substitution instead of a
moment’s “meditation” has only added
to the doubts already cloaking the actual
basis of the conference. In this nation,
more than any other, Freedom of religion
has been permitted to be expressed as a
doctrine. By freedom of religion, in part,
has been meant the recognition of the
universality of prayer. It is regrettable
that America, on whose soil the first in
ternational conference of this kind is
now being held, is represented by individ
uals who apparently are “sunshine” ad
herents of such a doctrine.
A prayer to an Almighty Being was
the proper procedure and not a moment's
meditation. Prayer in itself is an actual
means of not only worshipping God be
fittingly but of open acknowledgment of
nilr* n.vivcViirv orw^ onnool I’hot wra clmnlH
see fit to withdraw that acknowledgment
for the sake of those who profess to know
no God makes questionable all future
similar manifestations and renders them
susceptible to the onus of being ‘‘lip serv
ice”, and no more.
All through this war the leaders of this
country and other Allied nations have
declared the intent of such a war to be
a moral one; thereby declaring it to be
in the name of God. At a time when the
European fury is drawing to a close and
the leaders of the nations of the world
gather to discuss the future of the world
we subordinate the moral plane in defer
ence to people who, in the not too far
post, have ridiculed as indications of
our “mental weakness” the fact that we
profess our belief. We have acted like
the moralist who appeals to God only
when he lies in the throes of the agony
of sickness and its fears and who forgets
God and His nature when health has been
restored.
Are we to abandon all nationalism in
our search toward an international
plane? It would appear so from this
recent blunder. Religion has been a
dominant factor in the history of our
government. It has been the foundation
for our laws and creeds of government.
Now in a striving toward an international
plane, which is expected to see us among
the leaders, we divorce the element of
religion from our pursuits toward inter
national government and law. Again the
end justifies the means — the philosophy
of the naturalists and opportunists. We
will evolve an equation of international
ism in which at some more convenient
date perhaps, it will be suitable to inject
the element of religion, Christianity,
moral order or whatever term may be
given it. In our more immediate plan
ning it has no place because it is in
tangible and because, as indicated by this
recent blunder, it can be embarrassing,
at times.
we are nor carping on a smau insigni
ficant blunder now termed by m^ny as
water under the bridge. It is not a small
matter. We have vivid proof in the chaos
of the world today of what happens when
religion is subordinated as a small mat
ter to make room for material oppor
tunism. If we are to turn away our
eyes from this proof — such as the hor
rible death camps of the Nazis — then
no amount of planning will ever bring
peace to the people of the earth. More
than any economic program ever de
vised the universality of religion offers
more opportunity to arrive at a common
understanding of the people of the world.
We hope that in the minds of many of the
delegates present on the opening day of
the conference their moment of medita
tion was spent in an intense probing of
this condition and its results, and not in
Idle lip service.
The Empty Conference Chair
We cannot balance against each other
the dead of the various nations who were
slaughtered in the death camps of the
Nazis — and say this one suffered worse
than the other. The dead do not care
now but when tortorous death was ap
proaching each, the suffering must not
have known any proportion but that of
terror. We are attempting, by means of
the San Francisco conference, to trans
late that suffering into the tangible
memorial of world peace for the nations
of these victims.
Yet who among the peoples of Europe
suffered more than the Jews of Europe?
They suffered not only final death but
years of tortorous persecution which
must have seemed death a thousand
times over. These people are not repre
sented at San Francisco as a nation or a
people. What will be their memorial?
They are a wandering people these
Jews of Europe without nation or home.
They have been denied nationality
throughout their history by all the na
tions of the world except America. The
few who were recognized as nationalists
by some nations were given that recogni
tion only after generations had lived
within the boundaries of those nations.
They have never been permitted, in most
instances, to call a nation their own.
These people have contributed to the
doctrines of freedom this- world cherishes.
They have produced great scientists,
moralists and patriots. They have con
tributed their intellect and spirit to the
cause of freedom for the people. Per
haps if this world some day attains a
balanced international plane the Jews
will have found their ‘home’. Truly they
are the most international of people sim
ply because of their forced wanderings
they have never been exposed to the in
sularity of nationalism.
Certainly the heroic dead among the
Jews of Europe deserve the recognition of
representation at the peace conference.
They were the earliest victims of the
Nazi brutality whose sacrifices eventually
reaveled to the freedom loving nations
the ruthless direction of Hitler and his
stone-age cohorts.
Holding the Line
Speaking of that well-known line
against inflation, it would appear that
the people as well as the government
are holding it.
Figures show that Americans had an
income of $93 billions in 1941 and spent
$74.6 billions, or 80 per cent of it. In
1944 our income was $157 billions, of
which $97.6 billions was spent. That’s
only 62 per cent of the national income.
Of course, there were fewer things to
buy, but what there wrere cost consider
ably more.
Not only did we spend 18 per cent less
of our income last year than in ’41. We
also saved 9 per cent more of it and paid
8 per cent more in taxes.
After putting $18 billions into war
bonds, savings accounts and insurance,
we still had $17 billions in “loose money”.
If v/e had started throwing it around, or
liquidating most of our bonds and sav
mgs, tnere migni nave ueen a sian to
ward real and dangerous inflation.
Fortunately, we didn’t. And while we
may still hold our breath a bit, we’re
still holding the line. We need to keep
doing it. And there still doesn’t seem to
be a better specific for inflation than put
ting that loose money in war bonds—and
keeping it there.
No doubt when visiting dignitaries to
the San Francisco conference get around
to it some of them are bound to ask how
the city got its narpe. We hope this won’t
embarrass the Americans who are acting
as guides and accompanists. But after
reading how the conference opened with
out the benefit of prayer, we wonder if
a hesitant answer on the name derivation
mayn’t be forthcoming. Latin visitors
won’t need any explanation of the mean
ing of “San” and “Francisco”, but how
many others will realize that the Pacific
Coast city was named for a saint? Maybe
our facetiousness is far-fetched, but
that’s the way we feel after dwelling on
Secretary of State Edward Stettinius’ rea
sons for not having the conference, the
world’s most important, open with a re
quest that the Almighty bless and guide
it.
Republicans are not too sure that they
like the manner in which Gov. Raymond
E. Baldwin has handled the major ap
pointments to date. The list fails to
show that any of his companions on the
GOP ticket last fall have landed jobs.
Almost everyone of them was a candi
date for some appointment. Down in
Fairfield County, however, they are hail
ing the governor as a second Wilbur L.
Cross, who in the matter of major ap
pointments usually could be counted on
to assign the office to someone whom he
felt would reflect credit on both himself
and the governor.
One of the Legislative proposals to
limit the Federal Income Tax rate is a
joint resolution before Congress propos
ing an Amendment to the Constitution to
limit the maximum income tax rate to
25 per cent. There is no end of sugges
tions in Congress that some sort of ceil
ing should be placed on these income tax
rates. But when a newspaper man looks
them all over, he is unable to find any
answer to this great question of the
future.
False peace rumors failed to upset
Waterbury. The reaction last Saturday
was not that of a rabble-loving people.
There were those who were willing to
celebrate, but the majority of people ac
cepted the news calmly and soberly.
When you still have loved ones in the
thick of fighting, you don’t go in much
for shouting or reveling.
Selected Poem
THE BARN AGAINST THE SKY
(Helen Eckert in The Christian Science Monitor)
The barn against the sky
was strong and sturdy.
It had buffeted many a wind.
Its tin roof shone there in the sun
and the silver cock spun jauntily on the vane.
The barn stood on the land,
it gazed proudly over the land;
the land’s acres and seasons brought wealth to its
mows and bins.
The clouds rolled above it, the blue sky was a bank
above it;
A moon splattered silver on its roof.
Daily Almanac
Moon rises 11:57 p. m. (war time)
Sun rises 5:50 a. m.; sets 7:48 p. m. iwar
time >
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes after sunset.
Moon's phases—last quarter, May 5, 1:54
a. m.; new moon, May 11, 4:13 p. m.; first
quarter, May 18. 6:04 p m.; full moon, May
26. 9:41 p. m. (war time)
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Press Conference
Screwballs
By PETER EDSON
Waterbury Democrat-NEA Wash
ington Correspondent
San Francisco, May 1 — At nearly
every press conference held thus
far in connection with this United
Nations love feast, some screwball
has popped up with a trick question
that darn near wrecked the pro
ceedings.
Of course these press conferences
aren’t like any press conferences
that were ever
held before. In
addition to a
couple hundred
honest - to - gosh
working news
people, an equal
number of lobby
ists and the idle
curious drift in,
making the whole
affair a fantastic
mob scene from
some bad dream.
At Foreign Sec
r e t a r y V. M.
Molotov’s first in
terview in San
Francisco, one of the few he has
ever given, a smart aleck Broadway
columnist bobbed up to ask the dis
tinguished leader of the Soviet
Russian delegation whether he pro
nounced it “vodka” or “wodka.”
Now this would undobtedly rate
as a cute trick in a night club in
New? York or Hollywood. But at a
United Nations Conference the gag
fell flat as one of the corniest cracks
ever uttered. Obviously annoyed.
Molotov broke off the interview
with a number of other more im
portant questions still unasked.
This kind of monkey business
gives the American press an awful
black eye, but some of the hacks in
this business never seem to learn.
With the press corps accredited
to the conference now numbering
1875, while the delegates and ad
visers number only 1,320, there is
now one and forty-two one-hun
dredths of a newshound present
Rjlrton
publicity delegation itself something
worth covering.
A CANADIAN ASKS
A SILLY ONE
Fortunately, not all the silly ques
tions come from this country. It
was a Canadian, an ex-member of
Parliament named G J. Carriek, of
Ottawa, who threw tire monkey
wrench at the British Deputy Prime
Minister, Clement Attlee, at Attlee's
press conference earlier in the week.
Noting a line in a biographical
sketch put out by the British Min
istry of Information, saying that
Attlee had been influenced by the
views of John Ruskin. this Carriek
got up and asked Attlee his present
opinion of a quote from Ruskin
which began, ‘'When I tell you that
war is the foundation of all the arts,
I mean also it is the foundation of
all the high virtues.”
Tire reporters tried to howl Car
rick down, but he went on undaunt
ed: "The common notion that peace
and tire virtues of civil life flourish
ed together, I found to be wholly
untenable ... I found that all
great nations learned their truth
of thought in war.”
And so on. Imagine this at a con
ference to end wars!
SEATING OF THE GENTLEMEN
OF THE PRESS
Never was there such a press gal
lery as this. Gallery is right! First,
second, and third gallery. Only a
few of the photographers are al
lowed on the delegates' floor. Wire
services, spot radio men and news
reels are in the boxes. Special cor
respondents are in the tier above
them, and up under the roof is an
assortment of legitimate but dis
grunatled foreign correspondents,
string correspondents from every
shopping news throwaway on the
west coast, contributors to unheard
of labor weeklies in the east, liter
arily inclined ladies with social
backgrounds who wheedled some
publisher to send them out here,
and — no kidding — even a girl
reporter from the magazine of the
Junior League.
Well, it all adds to the merriment
and they’re all welcome in this free
country, with a free press.
A bird isn’t supped to foul his
OWn n6St. and P.ast'.inP' flsnprcinnc nn
some of the colleagues isn’t a nice
thing to do. But the U. S. press is
on exhibition at this conference and
a lot of the showoffs in the business
aren't doing it any good. The wild
predictions about what’s going to
happen and the utterly irresponsible
experting by amateurs and coocoos
pouring millirns of words out on
this conference, seemingly with in
tent to put it in the worst possible
light in order to make it fail, cer
tainly don’t reflect any credit on
the once-proud fourth estate.
Current Comment
The war cannot last much longer
ni myl opinion. We have sunk very
low. —Goebbels.
» » *
We cannot build the world of to
morrow on hate, however much
apparent ground there may be for
hate.
—Dr. J. E. Morgan, editor The
Journal, National Education As
sociation.
• * *
• • *
We cannot have prosperity in the
United States if the rest of the
world is sunk in depression and
poverty.
—Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinius, Jr.
The only way we can win the
peace is to promote economic secur
ity throughout the world.
—Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of
California.
Whatever the views of others
may be, I feel certain there will be
much hard fighting before the Ger
mans are forced to lay down their
arms.
—Undersecretary of War Robert
P. Patterson.
When the war is over we shall
face a task almost as great in mag
nitude, though happily different in
kind, from the war effort itself.
We shall be short of almost every
kind of thing that people need to
use and wear.
—John Wilmot, parliamentary sec
retary British Ministry of Sup
ply.
The Fly In The Loving Cup
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
— BY —
DREW PEARSON
Drew Pearson Says: New 'Chutes Not Yet Issued to Combat Pilots;
Solon's Aid Held for FDR Post Mortem Attack; Marshall Aims War
visiting Crack at La Luce.
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phere of San Francisco, the manner in which it had built itself up from the ashes of
earthquake defeat; how its perseverence could serve as an example to peace-striv
mg, war-weary nations.
This is now vigorously denied
by the folks in Los Angeles. Then
city, say my friends of the Angels,
has accomplished much more in
spiring miracles. If the United
Nations had held their Conference
in Los Angeles instead of San
Francisco, I am informed, they
would have wrapped up the peac
of the world in a neat bundle
decorated with Hollywood stv.s
and been ready to go home long
ago.
Such conflicting views, with ar
dent arguments on both sides,
constituted a tough dilemma for
a columnist. Anyway, thii
much is definite: It did pour
rain in San Francisco the day
the Conference opened.
CORRECTION — Last month
this column stated that the Army
was supplying quick-release para
chutes to pilots flying in active
combat, though it had not been
able to supply them for training
puiposes in the U. S. A. This
statement was based on the of
ficial assurance of the War De
partment in Washington.
However, a letter received from
the pilot of a B-29, whose job
it is to bomb Tokyo, states: *T
did not know that there were
quick release types being issued.
Ours is a triple-release type and
unsafe if it becomes necessary to
release oneself quickly.” The
pilot added that he wanted tc
get some of the quick-release
parachute harness described in
this column.
NOTE: It has now been two
years minus two months since
Brig. Gen. Newton Longfellow’ of
the Eighth Air Force in London,
first asked the War Department
to supply the quick release para
chute. The War Department
waited three months before order
ing even one, and nine months
before ordering any quanity. Ap
parently it is still moving at a
snail's pace. The old triple-re
lease harness unbuckles with cum
difficult for a man in the water,
in a tree or being dragged ovei
the ground by a high wind to get
loose from his parachute.
CORRECTION—After tne death
of Franklin Roosevelt, phis column
published an intimate story of the
late President’s first column pub
lished an intimate story of the
late President’s first politica lvic
tory as told by him to this writer
—namely, his defeat of ‘‘Blue
Eyed Billy” Sheehan, nominated
ior the U. S. Senate by Tammanj
Hall and the Ryan Traction in
terests. Mr. John F. Klileen,
former editor of the New York
Democrat, now writes that the
name of Albany’s political boss
who opposed F D. R., was not
•'Pinkie” McCabe, as published by
me, but "Packy” McCabe. Mr.
Killeen also supplies the follow
ing additional interesting infor
mation regarding F. D. R.’s first
big politcial victory:
“Charlie Murphy (whom Roose
velt indirectly defeated in the
Sheehan senatorial fight) was
then at the zenith of his power
as leader of Tammany Hall. So
Murphy tried to clip the wings of
this new F. D. R. leadership which
had given Tammany its first de
feat in the state-wide control of
the Democratic party.
“Hence the grapevine in Tam
many clubhouses began gossip
ing that young Roosevelt was anti
Irish, anti-Catholic, etc., and there
was much Tammany jeering when
Leader Murphy substituted James
Aloyisious O’Gorman instead ol
Sheehan for senator. The 'Dude
from Hyde Park wouldn't take
Sheehan' sneered the Tammany
boys, ‘so Murphly gave him O’
Gorman to swallow. Now he’s on
spot and done for.’
“But immediately, F. D. R. an
nounced that O’Gorman s selec
tion was ‘great’ and lined up his
followers for O Gorman, who thus
became U. S. Senator.
“Since that time, ’ concluded Mr.
Killeen, “no one ever questioned
Roosevelt as to his tolerance o>
race, color or creed, and Murpny
took occasion to emphasize tnat
he never believed Roosevelt was
ever prejudiced against the Irish.
So Franklin Roosevelt, as always,
turned his first political crisis to
his first political crisis to iris own
advantage.”
WATCHING WASHINGTON
FROM THE WEST
The two key spots to keep your
eye on in the Truman ajmir.is
tration are the Justice and Ir.
terior Departments. They are
the two big potentialities for
plunder bund. One. Interior,
has charge of the public d mam,
the big oil lands, the grazing
rights, the tremendous power leas
es of Boonevflle Dam, etc. The
Interior Department was where
Warren Harding came a cropper,
and that is where the big mo
guls of the West already are
angling to get their man adroit
ly placed. Justice is even more
important—especially to the city
bosses who put Boss Tom Pender
gast of Kansas City in jail, which
has already convicted Gambling
Boss Johnson of Chicago, once a
part of the Kelly-Nash machine.
INCOME TAXES—Tile decision
whether ot prosecute or not tc
prosecute means life or death to
the big city political machines,
and more than anything else
they would like to have a close
pal in the driver’s seat as attor
ney general . . . Another key
spot in Justice is the anti-trust
division. Scores of big corpora
tions, some of them operating
closely with Germany beiore the
war, would like to have a "nice’'
attorney general in control. The
anti-trust division is a vital ke*
to the whole American business
layout after the war. Watch it
closely.
Before John Sr.yder of St. Louis
was appointed Federal Loan Ad
ministrator, While House friends
went around to get Jesse Jones
reaction on various appointees, in
cluding Cliff Durr. Snyder and
Emil Schram. Jesse gave a sour
recommendation to Snyder who
previously worked under him. Ac
cording to Jones he was not com
petent enough for the job. But
now that Snyder has the job,
Jesse has been telling friends that
he put him across .... Con
gressman Pat Drewery of Virginia
has finally “dropped” Miss Ed
ith Holloway as his secretary fo -
lowing her a rest in Tulsa, Okla.,
for slurring President Roosevel*
after his death. Miss Halloway
caused an uproar in a Tulsa drug
store the day after Roosevelt dice
by announcing that it was a good
thing for the country, and tha.
she was on her way to see Lew
Wentz, Republican National Com
mitteeman for Oklahoma. Miss
Holloway, asked for comment, said
—‘‘The whole police force and cil>
administration of Tulsa should
have been cleaned up long ago.”
What the secretary of a Democra
tic Congresman was doing en
route to see one of the leading
Midwest Republicans remains a
mystery . . . General Marshall's
crack against lone congressmen
visiting the war front was inter
preted on Capitol Hiil as being
aimed at lovely Clare Luce, con
gresswoman from Connecticut who
had been sojourning on the Italian
front since early March. Last win
ter also, la belle Luce visited the
Italian front for more than a
month. Mystery of how she gor
airplane transportation now seems
to have been solved — her frienu
General Lucian Truscott, com
manding General of the Fifth
Army in Italy.
Latest front line wisecrack;
The people of liberated Europe
should declare war against the
United States. Then they could
all surrender and eat like our
German war prisoners.
The J. A. Jones Construction
company, building ships at Pan
ama City, Fla., refused a work
pause of three minutes in tri
bute to Franklin Roosevelt on
the day of his funeral in Wash
ington. A silent tribute had been
arranged but was cancelled by top
Jones executives . . . Though the
Russians suspected a deal be
tween the Nazis and U. S. to let
American troops get to Berlin
first, real facts are these: Hitiej
and Nazi leaders had sent their
most fanatical party members o
the Eastern Front to block thg
Russians. Regular German of
ficers, frequently at odds with
Nazi fanatics, were on the west
ern front facing U. S. and British
troops. The Nazi leaders had
refused to let the German High
Command capitulate several
months before. So with the Hit
lerites busy in the East, German
regulars had no objection to sur
rendering in droves in the West.
(Copyright, 1945, by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
AFTER THE NIGHT OF DEATH
iManchester Herald)
More than one person to whom
we talked had this same thought
yesterday morning, so perhaps
thousands actually shared it.
You had spent the preceding
evening and night in close and so
ber contact with the finality of
death, as applied to a notable and
famous career. You had noted
how quickly, how summarily, the
living of even the greatest among
us could be snuffed out. Per ha tvs.
with a thought to the tortured is
sues of the day, you had spent part
of the night wondering how things
could go on.
Then, yesterday morning, you
stepped outside your door, yourself
on the way to pick up the routine
of living. And you noticed, after
the dim thoughts of tragedy and
death which may have filled your
night, that the sun was climbing
its heaven in a more than seasonal
splendor. Perhaps you thought
that never before had it seemed
more gloriously full of life.
Then you onticed that, overnight
the tree which had been in bud
yesterday had unfolded tender
green leaves, to grow and expand
into summer shade and then fall in
some sudden autumn swirl of
death. You noticed that there was
a new fragrance on the air, and
you turned to find an apple tree
whose buds had burst between sun
set and sunrise.
Perhaps you found these signs of
continuing, expanding, newly-born
life painfully poignant at first, al
most a sacrilege against the mood
of the night just past. And then,
perhaps, you b*gan to know again
which was mightier, death or life,
mortality or immortality. All about
you, it was life, incredibly and
contrastingly beautiful life, which
owned the world. After the night
of death, the morning was life.
GREEN LIGHT FOR
REPLANNING
(New' York Herald-Tribune
Governor Dewey’s memorandum
on signing the Desmond-Mitchell
bill to facilitate slum clearance
Kal more REYMOND $ Mre«nl
Your Health
By Dr. William Brady
Signed letters pertaining to per
sonal health and hygiene, not to
disease, diagnosis of treatment,
will be answered by Ur. Brady If
a stamped gelf-addressed envelop*
is enclose . Letters should be brief
and written in ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing to instructions. Address Ur.
William Brady, National News
paper Service, 320 West Madison
Street, Chicago. 111.
NOW SEE HERE, STUPID
We were going along happilj
with no serious rows for the none*
and not more than a few doze
matters put over to be attended t
tomorrow and tomorrow seems ai
tho there are more tomorrows m
my program than should clutter up
a well ordered life—when this re
buke from a graduate nurse bob
bed up:
‘‘You are very unfair and un
kind in your attitude toward
Graduate nurses. You said that
less than ten percent of gradu
ate nurses can write a letter
that reflects better education
than that of a person with one
year of high school. I had four
years of high school and one
year of college — but we don’t
spend three years learning how
to write letters—the things we
learn In nurse training school
are nursing procedures, how to
follow doctors' roders, how to
make the patient comfortable.
. . . Incidentally I detest letter
writing . . .”
But you write a mean letter, lady
Darned if I can find a wee little
fault in it. Except, of course, your
unfair and unkind attitude toward
health column conductors.
My purpose in commenting upon
the poor spelling, punctuation and
form of letters I have received from
graduate or registered nurses — is
to show that, after all. more than
two years of highschool work does
not necessarily make a young wo
man fitter to study nursi"~ than is
a giil wiiyj lido iiav* um.v wj > *
years of highschool education. I’d
selecty the 17 or 18 or 20 year old
girl who could write a good letter,
in preference to the college girl who
couldn't, no matter how little high
school work the girl may have had,
as a girl fit to study nursing.
I have the highest regard for
nurses—I married one once, and
I’d do It again if I could find one
as lively—what am I saying—T was
trying to explain that the hospital
racketeers play a ‘scurvy trick on
pupil nurses, keeping them a full
year in bondage to the hospital
after they have really become per
fectly qualified to practice nursing
—if a girl a good nurse after two
years of hospital training she never
will be a good nurse.
A Rare Treat
We visited your city three months
ago and we stopped to watch a lot
of men playing lawn bowls. One of
them pointed you out to us. We 11
have to revise the picture of ‘‘Ol’*
Doctor Brady which you have man
aged to fix in our minds. Here
after we’ll think of you as a cheer
ful young man who gets from his
bowling more fun than a barrel
of monkeys. <L. H i
Answer—Yes, sir. on the bowling
green I talk a fine game.
Save Your Hands
My hands itch terribly, and crack
open and bleed, mostly in the
palms. (Mrs. L. L.)
Answer—For the hands of per
sons whose work involves handling
solvents, strong soap, alkalis, etc.,
a few drops of a mixture of equal
parts of fresh caster oil and lanolin
should be applied to the well
washed and dry hands just before
beginning work, again just after
finishing wTork. The itching and the
fact htat the trouble is on the
palms would suggest that yours may
be a type of ringworm or fungis
infection (foot itch). For pamph
let about foot itch (which some
times affects other areas of skin)
send stamped envelope bearing your
address. Do NOT send a clipping.
Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille Co.
gives a terse analysis of the prob
lem of blighted areas that every city
dweller, every New Yorker In par
I tieular, should read. The bill re
moves constitutional doubts as to
the rights of the cities to acquire
land for purposes of clearing and
replanning substandard districts.
The Governor holds that "munici
palities should have the right to
replan and reconstruct their own
blighted areas," and that they
should have it free from narrow re
strictions. His memorandum touches
briefly on the social evils which
make slum reclamation imperative.
It makes clear that the economic
I grounds for eliminating blight are
as compelling. "The existence of
these areas,” the Governor writes,
“speeds the movement of popuia
' tions out of the city, leaving the
I developed sewers and public util
ities, streets, schools, police and fire
houses a waste behind them."
The bill was no doubt occasioned
by Comptroller Joseph D. McGold
risk’s proposal that the city acquire
and rezone blighted areas adjacent
to Brooklyn’s replanned civic center.
However, it is addressed to the far
broader issue of municipal re
sponsibility, and specifies no par
ticular project. It very properly
leaves the choice of areas to be
acquired and the uses to which
they are to be put with local author
ities. “It must be assumed." the
Governor says, “that the njunicipal
authorities will use the power (of
condemnation! responsibly and in
the public interest." Mr. McGold
rick also has the broader issue in
mind. The City Planning Commis
sion, he suggests, is equipped and
in a position to designate for re
development slum areas In many
parts cf the city. It is the prospect
of such wide-scale redvelopment
that makes this purely permissive
bill both salutary and timely.