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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
LOCAL CHESS TEAM
 LOSES TWO GAMES
Deep River Captures Hon= ors in State T0urna=
 ment Match

Two teams of the Waterbury Chess Club were defeated Friday night when Deep River played here in a fifteen board match. The class B team lost its last match in the State Tournament with score of 2 to 3. This leaves Waterbury third as the state "B" tournament ends. The Junior team lost by a score of six to four.
 In the first group Kingsley Keil- Tor was the only winner, while Leon Sundel and Al Campoli got draws. Ray Walch, playing board one on the local junior team, secured a fine win. Raymond Tierney, Ed ward Steinnagel, and Harold Slasson also won on the junior team. Other Waterbury chessmen who played m the match were:
 William Warner, George Harel, Robert Crossley, Edward Prall, Ga- bries Delmonico, David Rosenbaum Robert Marshal, and Charles Bou- langer.
 The president of the club has called a meeting tonight to begin a correspondence chees match with players in Poughkeepsie, New York This match will take the form of an advanced study class with Nicholas R. Bellome as conductor. and John Stanwich as team captain. This match is the result of a consider able amount of preparation and is expected to provide an excellent op- portunity for all members of the club to learn higher chess princi- pleS,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
U. s. FORMULATES HEALTH PROGRAM.
Dr.. Parker to Discuss Problem of Adequate
 Medical Care

The federal government has with.
 in the past six months proposed el certain national health program.
 The government has also Seen fit recently to indict Seevral members of the American Medical association.
 The American Medical association and the state and county medical associations throughout the country,I as wei las many other agencies, have for many years been studying the problem of how adequate medical care can be given to the sick person. at a reasonable cost. Many plans
 such as compulsory insurance, group disqualification, and others are being tried.
 Doctor Creighton Barker, presi-I dent of the New Haven County Med ical Association and executive secre-| tary of the Connecticut State Medi-I cal association, will discuss this
 problem at the next forum of the; Waterbury Medical association. Ind subject will be "A National Health Program"
 The forum will be held Thursday! March 16 at 8:15 at the Medical Association Building, 30 Central ave-! nue.
 There will be an opportunity for questions and general discussion from the audience. The public is cor | dially invited to attend and therd will be no admission fee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
DIR WALKER SPEAKS
 ON GOD, SCIENCE
Expresses Sorrow for Those Who Must Make
 Definite Decision

Ut is folly for a preacher to thun- der against science" stated Rev. Dr. John c. Walker, pastor of the Sec ond Congregational church, in his sermon yesterday morning entitled, God the Creator in An Age of Science"
 Dr. Walker said in part: He will do well to praise the heroes and martyrs of scientific research. He will do well to emulate as best he can their fearless, tireless search for truth. But the preacher need not stand in awe of science and the professor or teacher who allows his students to believe that scientific truth is the only truth worthy of consideration is doing them an i'll turn. Science is both C blessing and a curse to the sons of men. Dr. Eos dick tells of lad dying of tuber- culosis, the result of poison gas in the World War. who said, T wish that our enemies had known less about chemistry or more about God"
 I feel sorry for the people who are convinced that they must choose between science and religion. Whether they approach the ques- tion from the point of view of the Christian or the scientist, they are making sorry mistake. To insist that the choice must be made is just as foolish as to insist that man must choose between being a lawyer and an honest man. We have heard good many stories that turn on this alleged contradiction but we all know that what this country needs, above almost anything else, is more lawyers of the type of Thomas Dew ey, honest, fearless, tireless, relent- less, devoted to the public interest, determined to render service to the common good.
 Science and religion must stand together. We need all the scientific truth research can muster. It is use- less to kick against the bricks. If science proves beyond shadow of a doubt that some of our pre-con-i ceived convictions and ideas were mistaken, let us discard them. I for one am quite willing to admit mis- takes in the Bible. It isn't the last word in medical or in geologic sci- ence, it was never intended to be. I do maintain that it is amazing that those men who lived in the long ago came as close as did the theories to modern science. On the other hand I hope that the great and outstand- ing scientific leaders will continue to see that morals and religion have their own sphere of action, that there is religious truth as well as scientific truth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
GOVERNOR TO BE CHIEF SPEAKER
Irish=Americans Complete Banquet Plans at Meet-
 ing Tonight

Committees arranging the annual St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Irish American Social club, will meet to- night at 8 o'clock in The Elton, to make final arrangements. The cele- bration will be held Wednesday eye- ming at The Elton.
 Chairman George T. Ryan has re- ceived absolute assurance that Gov ernor Raymond E. Baldwin will be a speaker at the banquet. Ex-Govern- or Wilbur L. Cross will likewise at tend and speak. T have come to feel that I am one of you" he told MT. Ryan in his letter accepting the clubs invitation.
 MT. Ryan also said that he had received similar assurance from Cong. J Joseph Smith, who will come to Waterbury from Washing ton; Joseph Tone, state labor con- missioner, and Joseph Talbot, state treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Premieres All of them not in Hollywood i've refer picture premeres) All important pictures were first shown in Hollywood at one time but those that write the publicity out there say Podunk is steal ing Hollywoods stuff" Now they endeavoring to first show picture at the locale of the story Therefore Gold is Where You Find It" had gay open ing at Weaversve Cal Dodge City, Kansas is angling for the opening of Dodge City," real home town opening, and Omaha is looking for the opening of snion Pacific" Also "Wings of the Navy now running was premiered in San Diego Pensacola, and on board the arpane carrier Saratoga Before long now you will be seeing Oklahoma Kid" which premiered in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Confessions of Nazi Spy however will not be flown to Germany for its premiere So it goes. Wonder what they doing out in Holly wood when the gals want to sport sables and sequns 50 conspicuous at first nights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
City Manager Plan Organization in Community is Key to Success in Battle Between Forces Seeking to Set Up New City Manager Plan, Others Preferring to Retain "Spoils" System

number of black pins will surround each red-headed tack. The tactics of the spells machine will stand re- vealed. To the municipal employees might be added, if possible, the employees of the contractors who for some curious reason practically always secure city contracts, also those who sell supplies to the city, but the employees list when tackled up" will reveal the machines dis position of its forces well enough.
 The game is to get as many green headed pins into each precinct as there are black ones. A green pin is the symbol of someone who can be relied upon to do distinct work" for the council-manager plan. It is hard to enumerate all the forms this can take; one woman will call a group of neighbor women to her house some afternoon to hear a speaker. Some, usually in fours, two on one side of the street and two on the other, will call at all homes they can cover between two in the afternoon and fourthirty they will talk to the women at home and leave literature for the husbands and grown children to read and dis cuss when they come in later. One woman will telephone part of the list assigned to her, to tell of a meeting taking place, of registra- tion day, of 8 petition to be signed. or to say that next Tuesday is the election day on the councilmanager plan; I shall vote for 1t and hope you will. But whether you vote for or against it, do hope you will vote; for the verdict should be de- ciSive."
 Women's Work Important
 From the foregone it will be sens- ed that it is assumed that most of the work of organizing to get out the vote will be done by the women of the city. While numberless men have sacrificed time, energy, and money in securing the council manager plan in our 477 cities, most of the work was done by women The Leagues of Women Voters have been invaluable in this work. The eleven million Americans living url- der the good government of the council-manager plan have mostly their women folk to thank for it.. The men provide the money for speakers, pamphlets, office rent, etc., and the women build up the pre- cinct organizations in the few hours of leisure that some Of them have during the afternoons.
 The all important day Is election day. Usually the watchers. and "challengers' are men but even here women will and can serve. Out side the polling place the precinct organization will keep . check list
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

pines for high speed and Diesel cruising engines which give them an enormous radius of action at economical speeds.
 They are reinforced by the three So-called pocket battle ships," Diesel engined, armored ships carrying six 11-inch guns in 10000 ton hulls. These also can destroy any British cruiser, and can get away from any Brit ish capital ship except "Hood,' "Renown" and "Repulse." Germany is also building five 10000 ton cruisers, armed with 8-inch guns; and two aircraft car- riers of very peculiar design. Un- til the characteristics of the lat ter were made public, there was some wonderment as to why Ger many should want any aircraft carriers, for all her home waters are within easy reach of her shore-based aviation.
 Her new carriers are ships of 19,000 tons, carrying about 40 air. craft. They are well armored and in addition to the anti-air- craft battery, carry 16 six-inch guns-a very powerful armament, enabling them to fight large cruisers.
 Now the U. s. s. Enterprise, ]" recently commissioned. is a car- Tier intended to work with the fleet. She is about the same size as the new German carrier, Graf Zeppelin" but she carrier 100
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

all of her naval operations are based, and by which they are sup ported, she should be able to bottle up the German surface forces in their fortified harbors, or destroy them if they come out. So it proved in the last war, and so it should prove in the next-except for one vary important factor.
 That factor is the matter of time. Even very superior navy cannot, on the declaration of war, IMMED- LATELY wipe the wide oceans clear of enemy warships and merchant ships.
 Today Germany is building a navy precisely adapted to take ad- vantage of this factor. In fact, some of its most important units would be of comparatively little use for any other purpose.
 The two battleships recently com- pleted, "Scharnhorst" and "Gneise- nau," are vessels of 26,000 tons, armed with a main battery of nine 11-inch guns. Obviously these are not intended to fight in the line of battle against British, French or American ships armed with IA to 16-inch guns.
 But the German ships have de- signed speeds of 27 knots, and are said to have done 30 on trial. This means they can run away from any present British capital ship except the Hood, while they can easily destroy any Britt iSh cruiser. They have steam tur-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
|GIRL SWIMMERS [ COMPETE HERE
Six High Schools Repre- scented at Meet at CrOs-
 by High School

The girls swimming play day at the Crosby High school swimming pool Saturday, featuring representa- tives from six high schools. was huge success.
 The Yellow team came through with flying colors, winning 27 points to annex first place. The White team won second honors annexing 19 points, while the Red team with 13 points, captured third place. Four honors went to the Black team with points while the Green and Blue teams were next with seven points apiece.
 The high schools represented in the event were Meriden, Woodbury, Watertown, Leavenworth, Wilby and Crosby. M
 The committees in charge of the event were: Song sheets Wilby High School girls. Programs Leavenworth High School girls.
 Crosby High School girls-Recep- tion chairman, Nancy Platt; Jean Caporaso, Jacquin Sills, Mary Jane Johnson.
 Hostess chairman, Ruth Metz; El- eanor Orsini, Rita Murphy, Barbara Fleming.
 Luncheon chairman, June Mo- Bride, Marjorie Nissan, Velma Keefe. Katherine Hedberg, Jacque- line Yavecchia. Posters: Rose Marie Wiedorn. Officials-Clerk and announcer, Marguerite Wiedorn; starter: Jac- queline Yavecchia; judges: Nancy Platt, Ruth Metz, Josephine Capor- aSo. General chairman-Miss Florence Turnbull, Crosby High School.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

of all those who vote. urging the laggards to come to vote. It Is best for such workers to wear badges By this time everyone who comes to vote and takes a last minute instruction card will know that whoever hands it to him, man O. woman-and here again 1t will usually be a wonan-w will get no pay for doing SO.
 The old spells machine represen- tative will be there too. Very often it will be an old municipal em- ploye who is truly stricken with fear that manager will fire him and he will implore you not to im- peril his job.
 The best thing to do is to smile in the knowledge that the manager plan will keep him. if efficient. and retire him on pension if too old; that thereafter. if in active service he will do his eight hours at his regular work on election day, the same as any other day. The first order a city manager gives when the plan goes into operation demo- bilizes the spells machine. What that order is will De the subject of the next and last article ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Continuing Saturdays discussion on the city manager plan of govern ment as it applies to the process of changing over from the old to the new style the Citizen Good Govern ment points out in this, the thir- teenth in the series, the organiza- ton means by which "SpoilS" system might be overcome.
 ARTICLE XIII
 The Manager Plan is Remaking
 Local G0vernment-The Citizen
 Organization
 A campaign for the adoption of the city manager plan is primarily a job of education. For this reason it is usually desirable that to con- duct this educational campaign 8 citizens committee be formed espec- ially for the purpose. Most organi- cations which are already in exis- tence will have gathered particular regulations and connotations in peoples minds which nave little to do with the manager campaign and which may possibly hurt the cam- paign. In Waterbury, it is the c. G. G. A. that sponsors the city manager plan.
 But this special citizens commit tee must not consider itself a tenn porary group. All during the cam paign it, should make use of its edu- cational work as a means of build- ing an effective permanent citizens organization to oppose the usually well-organized political machine.
 Neighborho0d is Campaign Key
 Politically speaking, city is made up of voting districts. The ballot- box Cor voting machine) is the cen ter of each district, for into 1t must be placed the ballots of the citizens who vote in the area.
 If there is "spoils" machine in the city, a group of young women connected with the citizens organi- zation can perform highly valuable civic service. Let them get a large map of the city and color it so that each voting prec;nct can be readily seen. Then get from the election authorities a list of the To- cations of all the polling places Paste the map to a piece of com- position board and get some red- headed tacks. Place tack for each polling place. Then get list of all those on the municipal payroll from the civil service commission or the city treasurer. Sometimes this will not be given readily but it is public property and feminine tact is bet ter in securing it than masculine demand. Now get some small black headed pins and put one in the map where each employe lives. Long be- fore all the pins are in. 8 great light will break about the same
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
BY GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT (Copyright, 1889, NEA Service, Incl

New York, March 13-Germany is building a navy obviously intended for a single purpose: to strike a deadly blow at Great Britain at her most vulnerable point = her sea- borne trade and supply routes.
 Else why is Germany building a navy at all? Obviously, it will be many years, indeed, before Germany can hope to even ap- proach the power of the British fleet in equal combat. AS yet. Soviet Russia has no modern cap- ital ships and the rest of the Soviet navy is not very imposing.
 Yet Germany is building pow erful navy, in addition to all her air and land armaments. Why?
 German strategists have not forgotten that they came very near to winning the last war by ruthless and unrestricted use of the submarine against British mer- chant shipping. The British Isles are particularly vulnerable to this sort of attack. Cut off from sea- borne supplies, the British people must starve. This lesson both Ger mans and Britons learned in the grim days of 1917, when the toll of submarine losses was mounting month by month.
 Fortuantely for Britain, the an- swer to the submarine was found an answer in the finding of which American naval officers had no small part. It was the convoy sys- tenn. Merchant ships sailing in groups from regular convoy assem- bly ports, escarted by destroyers, patrol vessels and armed trawlers, put an end to the submarine men, ace, and saved Britain.
 Only once was it seriously threatened; and that was on Octo- Der IT., 1917, when a convoy of twelve ships, escorted by two Brit ish destroyers, was attacked by three German cruisers. Both de- stroyers went down, and nine of the twelve merchant vessels under es- cort fell prey to the Germans. This lesson, also German naval strate gists have taken to heart-that just as convoy is the answer to the submarine, so the answer to convoy is attack by superior surface forc- eS.
 But, under normal conditions of sea warfare, this is not an an- swer which the inferior navy can make. So long as Britain possess es a superior battle-fleet, on which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Nick DeMatteo all smiles sporting around the Brass Burg in grey Plymouth coupe Edna Matthews is one young lady who is always busy bee. With Grange meetings piano lessons drum corps practice an occas- ioa movie and the Rifle Club keeping her going contin ually she must have plenty of energy. Edith Rock, whose hobby collecting pictures of movie stars has three scrapbooks filled Her favortes Anita Louise and Richard Greene.
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for the 194O cen sus, and the field going out with their pencils and notebooks u n til the second of next January. But the preliminary work is now under way.
 William L. Aus tin, director of tn tin, director of the census, believes that next years will be the most important a n d significant census ever ken in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

aircraft. Of course, she has no heavy battery; only anti-aircraft guns. Why did the Germans re- duce aircraft capacity to in- crease gun power? Obviously because like the German battle ships," the Graf Zeppelin" and her sister are not intended for fleet work, but for commerce raiding.
 Finally, the Germans are rapidly building up their submarine force; they have Il submarines, built and building, and have announced their intention to build up to parity with Great Britain.
 They almost. won the last war by commerce raiding, and they mean to do better job the next time. For their submarines will compel the British to convoy merchant shipping. And their armored ships can strike deadly blows at the conveys themselves which the aircraft of their car- riers and cruisers can locate and assist in attacking.
 British cruisers and destroyers can do little to protect conveys against such attack. British capital ships with sufficient speed to bring the raiders to book are too few in numbers to have much hope of deal- ing effectively with the menace in time to save the British people from | starving.
 And as for bases, one is now able to perceive the real reason for the German interest in Spain and especially for the concentra. ton of Germany activity on the north coast of that country-ad- mirably located, indeed, for thi. purpose of convoy-raiding.
 The German air force may mol be able to win a decision by bombing London. But nothing can be more certain than that the German navy, provided witt Spanish or African bases and ca. pable of operating directly against the food supply of the British Isles can present far more serious men. ace to the people of those islands than any air force-a menace whicf may well prove decisive unles. means are found for quickly ane effectively dealing with it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
DE MILE. AND BISON

Cecil B. De Mile has had all the railway cars used in Union Pa cific" equipped with signs reading "Please Don't Shoot Buffalo From the Train" His researchers have found that slaughtering the bison from open windows was a favorite sport of the first transcontinental railroad travellers, though the road itself drowned on it because 1t an- gered the Indians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
British Achilles Heel Real
 Target Of Nazi Navy--Eliot

Great Britain's naval might is so great that it would take Germany many years to build up to anything near parity. Then why does economically hard-pressed Germany make sacrifices to construct more and more ships? That is the logical question asked by Major George Fielding Eliot, noted writer on military subjects. Be- low, he gives logical answer to this seemingly, illogical situa- ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Murel Harrington of Monroe avenue celebrated an- other birthday Thursday She positively denies it was her sweet sixteenth |. Charley Green, well groomed jewelry fling back in the directory after marvellous vacation in Florida His brother Bill is the job again after an attack of the f1u Hard to keep good man down eh Bill? Marie Glasberg of East Main street, one of my most consistent tinfo donors, is herself again after being kayoed temporarily by illness. That's good news as my tnoi contributors have been letting
 me down lately City Ed Bill Harrington recuperat- ing at his home Waterve street from severe attack of grippe which laid him low last Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13
Ans.Ders To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6. l. Davis Strait. 2. Yes.
 3. Louis ID. Brandeis. 4. Five cents for the first ounce and three cents for each additional ounce or frac- tiOn thereof.
 5. Charles Mason and Jere- miah Dixon.
 6. Five Aces.
 q. Cotton gin. 8. Tennessee.
 9. Eastern Standard. 10. 1902.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-13

Get acquainted with Great Harrington. If not greatly mistaken there be fell-beaten path between the Naugatuck Valley and Great Harrington, Massr this summer This highway, most picturesque and a ways we'll traveIed during the pleasant months of the year is scheduled to become more popular when and the Massachusetts State Racing Commission assigns a thirty racing season to the Great Harrington race promoters This is likely now, for the com m; ,iOn has just extended the Suffolk Downs racing dates eighteen days making 60 in all As there are only ninety days of racing allowed in the Bay State, this leaves thirty for somebody and Great Harrington looms as that somebody. The picture-card Agawam track will undoubtedly be transferred in part to the even more beautiful site in Berkshire county.