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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
LIONS NOMINATE
 NEW EXECUTIVES
Formal Elections to Take Place June |; Camp COm=
 mittees Appointed

Election of officers of the Lions Club will be held June 1. William O. Taylor was nominated for president at meeting last night in The Elton. President Francis Calvin announced the names of committees for the Lions health farm in Bantam.
 Other officers nominated arc: First vice-president, James A. Mill lar;;: second vice president, Charles Greenblatt; third vice-president, William A. Washburn, Jr., treas urer, Merwin s. Bronson: secre- tary, J. Sidney Pearson; lion tanner, E. Norton Decker; tail twister, Dr. Glenn D. Sweet; direc- tors for two years, Layton A. Rose, and Francis J. Calvin; for one year, Robert L. Lagerquist and Anthony R. Nastri.
 The camp committee includes:
 Maintenance, Layton A. Rose chairman, Edward s. Smith, and Edwin A. Barrows; farm operation J. Sidney Pearson, chairman. E Norton Decker, James A. Millar George A. Baronian, Anthony R Nastri; food. Charles Greenblatt chairman; Harry X. Cashin, Adolph Raymond. and James o. Adams; children's committee. James A. Phe- Ian, chairman, Dr. John H. Freiheit Charles Manganara, and Arthur J Lunny.
 Delegates to the Danbury con- T..x H-Il Charles. Greenblatt, MT. and Mrs Lagerqu;st. MT. Washburn, MT. and Mrs. Millar. MT. and Mrs. Harry X. Cashin, MT Nastri, MT. Calvin MT. and Mrs. Pearson, MT. and Mrs Taylor, Mir. and Mrs. Rose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
GROOVES

Sometimes @ sweet excuse Must enter in, between A term that is in use And meanings which unseen Evolve into respect. Thus when the words fly fast, When one does not expect It. truth walks quickly past. The things we take for dross Are often very dear When memories engross The mind and bring back near The faercies Of . friend, The mothers gentle tact. A sentence does not end With stating q bare fact.
 --Eakhoza.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
Today's Answers to
 cRANIUM CRACKERS

Questions on Comic Page l. Mccormick, first, to Frey, sec olld, to Mccormick.
 Cincinnati Reds) 2. May, third.
 Philadelphia Phillies) 3. Newsome, short, to Gantenbein second, to Etten, first.
 Philadelphia Athletics) 4. Lyons, pitcher, to McNair, sec. ond, to Kuhel, first.
 (Chicago White Sox) 5. Scharein, short, to Mueller second, to Powers, first.
 Philadelphia Phillies)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

The annual Silk Sock Social spon- sored by the Casper s. Davis, Amer ican Legion Auxiliary, last evening in the Sprague schol gymnasium, was success beyond doubt. The hall was filled to capacity, and workers at the booths were kept un- usually busy.
 The entertainment presented by the young people of Waterville was in the form of a musical review, with Marjorie Byrnes interlocutor The program included singing and dancing and every number was ex- ceptionally good.
 Mrs. Eileen Caldwell, unit activ- ity chairlady, was in charge of the affair, with Mrs. Dorothy Cook, Mrs. Agnes Martin and Mrs. Annabel Poudim in charge of the entertain ment, assisted by George Hughes. A door prize of an outdoor seat was won by William Goggin and the prize for a bean guessing contest went to Alice MacMullen.
 Dancing followed, to the music of George Grenier's orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
PRACTICE PERIOD
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Little Maudie keeps watching the clock While she fingers study by Bach Up and down she drearily weaves phrase The while she forlornly turns to gaze Out the window at the lilac tree Where there hovers humble bee. She cocks an as young voices f1oat, Now and then she hits wrong note Twenty minutes done, ten more to go, Why do simple scales bother her so? When month ago piano studies seemed so easy, And she dashed them of so breezy. But now it's May little Maudies fingers tumble, Her major scales in thirds are just one Jumoie And all the time she's watching the clock While she fingers study by Bach.
 -EM EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

Brass City dust Bill Pollard of the plain clothes bureau giving your tattletaler earful of exclusive dope the art of snaring a fish: My thanx to va, Bill Paul Gugliemio staggering under the weight of ten pound box of sweets for the sweet est girl, his mother. . Olga Piola, former Pennsy resident and Waterbury Hospital girl in white will make the rotos pretty bride in June. Jimmy Parker radio cOlumnist and announcer for WATk enjoyed something of busmans holiday Sunday evening when he heard Larry Clintons orchestra at CompOunce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
Bund Nazi? No, Says Leader Kuhn; Swastikas Are Shaped Differently!

tion released a report based on long study of the Bund in which 1t was stated that Kuhn was a Nazi in Germany and was in the famous sbeer cellar putsch" of November, 1923. Kuhn denied both of these statements to the writer.
 AGAINST
 ATTACHMENTS"
 In the event of war with Ger many, Fritz Kuhn ayers the Bund would fight on the American side. Naturally, we would be sorry to fight brother against brother.n In the meantime, he says, the Bund is working to keep the U. s. out of foreign entanglementS," which he pronounces "entagelmentS."
 Although the Bund's general of flee is filtered with violently anti semitic papers ranging from Buy Christian" stickers to petitions to keep 10000 German child refugees out of the country on the ground that these children would take away American jobs, Herr Kuhn grew very angry when the writer men tioned anti-semitism. T di not know what means this anti-semit- isrn," he declared heatedly. '"Tell me what 1t means. We do not be- lieve in anti-semitism."
 Kuhn denies that the German American Bund is linked, even re- motely, with the Nazi movement in Germany or that it is guided-even spiritually-by Adolf Hitler.
 He also denies that the Bund uses the German swastika. "It is not the same swastika at all," he says. "On theirs the arms of the cross are on an agle. In ours the arms are vertical and horizontal. Besides, ours is a different color" As for the extended d-arm greeting, the Fuehrer insists that it is "the white mans Salute.",
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

PatrOIman Jimmy Stack who maintains order along the theatrical belt nightly has flower garden at his Fairlawn residence worth exhibiting at the World of Tomorrow His horticultural varieties the result of panstakng he tenders every ayem 43O to be exact but his pet flowers his daaS recently presented him by his brother buecoats Harold Green Jerry Kenny and Jerry Hunihan Jimmy's in his blue heaven when he's out in the yard with tr0wel in his hand. Flowers just get him. Even his favOrite song is Daisies Don't Telp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

Skipping around the stem. Sue Ferucci, lovely looking nurse readyng the saddle for her trek along the Mddlebury Road on her mount :. :. They're toss- ing stag dinner for Sam Sirca at Wavery Inn MOn- day evening, June 18th, where he will be taken for good -natured ride of ribS BrendOn Flaherty push fg the perambuator with the latest addition to the family. After reading all about it in pretty picture books Fdele BuOnO has come to the conclusion that for. honeymoon there's no place like Hawaii.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

Skipping round town. Ann Brophy, secretary of her new summer ensemble which brought here from Bermuda Geneveve Pope sending hearty wave to your peeper as proceeds merry on her way to re- open the Pepe Chateau at the beach resort in Milford Larry Mancn looks as charming Little Boy Blue with his new haircut especially those rnglet curs atop his head which is the for this tem John Sponza IS stl awaiting that spaghetti feed promised him by of the local newshawks at the conspiracy trial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
sToNTo" ADVANCES

Chief Thunder Cloud, the Tonto of the Lone Ranger series, plays the title role in Paramount's "Geron- imo" story of the Apache chieftain who terrorized the southwest for 10 years a generation ago. Preston Foster, Andy Devine, Ellen Drew, William Henry, Ralph Morgan, Gene Lockhart and Marjorie Gateson are the other principals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

Seen in passing. Dick Cosgrff, hard at work a,nting his dads house on Colonial Avenue. And is he getting commended for the good job he's doing? I'll Say he is and deserves it! He's the son of Joe Cosgriff popular firefighter -. Mailman Jack Mahaney former City Amateur League backstopper, enjoying catch with his 13-year-od brother, Buddy rated the best pitcher in the Parochia League this sea- son. The St. Francis mound ace recently hurled mo- hit no run game to enter Baseballs Hall of Fame, rare accomplishment for youngster his age
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
Today's
 Fish Story: Humanity to Bait
Rv NEA Service

By NEA Service
 Cincinnati, O., May l7.-The lat- est thing in angling equipment takes all the fun out of fishing--for the fish. And saves the wear and tear on life bait.
 It's just a plain bottle, with a screw-on perforated cap and few hooks attached to the outside.
 Man fills bottle with water. Man releases minnow in bottle where minnow can swish about gaily. Man caps bottle, hangs 1t on line, throws 1t in stream or lake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

Ernestine Steinert amiable Chase Company Office steno, and Tommy Rush, dilgent worker for the lm- maculate Conception Holy Name Society are that way about each other So much they've set the date for the ring ceremony. It'll be July 29 at St. Margarets Happy days to you Alice Blackburn was wee bit at the Worlds Fair last Sunday. Marie Gignoc of Bristol and Edward Martin of the town will be Mr. and Mrs. after June TO-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

ily,s money was wiped out by the imitation. became member of the Frei Corps which was fighting the Communists. I engaged in street fight. mean with guns. One fellow missed, see him in New York now.
 T married a girl from Munich
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
SHE'S A LINGUIST

Dorothy Lamour, who learned to speak Malayan for her early pie lures, is now acquiring for her role in Paramount's Disputed Passage" a Chinese accent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
HOT DIGGIDY!

(News Item: Mrs. Roosevelt Plans Outdoor Hot Dog Picnic for King and Queen, Weather Permitting. When royalty comes parties will teem
 And they shall feed on strawberries and cream. When royalty comes, they will don painest togs And the first lady will treat to picnic of hot dogs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
AnslDers To
 Test Questions

Below are the answers to test questions printed on page 6. l. Key West. 2. General Meade. 3. Africa.
 4. Fiftieth. 5. On an island in the Bay of San Francisco. 6. Krip . tog' . 8 . mus; not kript-O-gam'-us. ,. Lick Observatory. s. Dams.
 3. Clinch River. 10. The Balkan Peninsula.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
German-American Chief, In Interview,
 Denies Hitler Guides Movement {
BY PAUL ROSS (NEA Service Staff Correspondent)

New York May 19Evr that Washigon Birthday rally staged by the Bund New York be trouble png Fritz
 Protests against the rally into New started to prevent the Bd from uniforms The authorities launched number of investigations into the Bund with the possibility Kuhn would arrested The district attorneys rad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

and left Germany in 1923 and went to Mexico where I started a small chemistry business. In 1927 came to the United States and went to work for Ford in Detroit. Today I am fighting Marxism in every form as fought it in Munich"
 The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

infantry, then I was machine gunner. I came out lieutenant. After the war I went back to col lege and finished my course. I got a job in chemical firm. My fam
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19

A tropical lizard. the flying gecko glides from tree to tree by expanding frills along its sides.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
George Barthoud Is
 Awarded Air License
Stafford Avenue Youth Receives State Pilots Rights;
 Silk Sock Social Draws Big Crowd
WATERVlLLE Mrs w. Henon. Corresponden23 Driggs st-Tel 35462

Vensel, president in charge, and the evening vii be devoted to study of "The Life of David Livingston"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
ONE MAN WHO TELLS
HIS OPINIONS
(Lee Shippey in the /. A. Times)

(Lee Shippey in the L. A. Times)
James Macdonnell, Pasadena banker,
is not one of those businessmen who
think they have to pussyfoot and never
dare express an opinion with which
customer might disagree. Mr.. Macdon-
nell believes it is mans duty to eX-
press his convictions for the guidance
of others and takes half-page ads in
the Pasadena papers to do SO when he
feels the public is in need of enlighten-
ment. |, for one, think this businessman
writes some of the most cogent and pene-
trating editorials | have read Recently
his comments on the European situation
have so impressed many readers that
they are urging that they be given ma
tional circulation.
Monday Macdonnell's editorial was on
Ostrich Neutrality He said:
I'VE say deliberately that the present
neutrality law is not only unneutral but
exceedingly hurtful to our vital inter-
estS. Russia, Italy and Japan are so
far neutral even though Russia has in
vaded Poland, and we are shipping them,
so far as neutrality statutes are con-
cerned, any sinews of war which they
order. Canada, on the other hand, has
declared herself in a state of war with
nations which any American knows are
to say the least, unsympathetic to us.
And so :. . we won't either sell her goods
needed in war or furnish her with cred
its. Does anyone imagine that Canada
could conceivably become our enemy?
Does anyone fail to see that those of her
so-called neutrals are pursuing courses
inimical to everything for which this
country stands? And what of Rumania,
Turkey, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Belgium
and Spain? Are we protecting ourselves
from jeopardy when we stock up the
ornaments of countries which are Just
waiting to see which way the cat jumps!
Are we not arming world of willing
and unwilling nations against Britain
and France-and ultimately against our
selves? Let us recognize the difference
between those who are our friends be-
cause they believe in the same way OF
life that we reverence and those who are
our real or potential enemies because
they are opposed to the principles on
which our nation was founded"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
dale CAR NEG|E.

Here are the books they are re-
quired to read:
Building Your Life-Bennett.
Leaders and Leadership-Bogar-
dus.
How to Win Friends and Influ-
ence People-Carnegie.
Organization Engineering Den.
nison.
Making the Most of Books-Head-
ley.
How to Use Your Mind-Kitson
How to Use Psychology-Laird.
Increasing Personal Efficiency
Laird.
Conference Manual for Training
Foremen-Shellow & Harmon.
Art of Leadership-Tead.
Human Nature and Management
-Tead. -.
Strategy in Handling People -
Webb and Morgan.
Whether you are truck driver,
chemist, school teacher, housewife,
clerk, salesman Or bookkeeper, you,
too, can profit by attending a
course in public speaking and by
studying the books the policemen
of Hawaii are requested to study.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
EQUITY SHOULD RULE

Those who champion the demands of
agricultural laborers for greatly in
creased wages are forever pointing out
that, although ne may make fairly
high daily wage, the laborer is subject
to seasonal employment that cuts his
yearly earning to a bare minimum.
They forget that the farmer, who must
pay out money during the planting,
growing and harvesting season, also re-
ceives his income in season installments.
The farmer, in other words, is subject
to the same conditions that govern his
employees
1t would be utterly unfair to expect
a farmer who receives total sum of
five thousand dollars for his years eff
forts to pay out seven thousand dollars
in wages. He could not do it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
1917 Shipping Problem Back Again

search for contraband, and the like,
before sinking neutral ships. But
the submarine is not that kind OF
a weapon. Once at the surface 1t Is
in momentary danger OF masked
guns aboard freighters, U-boats,
sudden arrival of surface warshipS,
even plane. 1t must strike quickly
and run.
A war is not football game in
the Ivy League. 1t is q life-and-
death struggle. internationally
accepted rules" of warfare are OBJ
served by no country to its pro-
nounced disadvantage. If Germany
becomes convinced that her best
chance to beat Britain is to wage
unrestricted warfare by submarine,
she will do it. She did it in 1917,
even though she knew it would
bring the United States into the
war. She will do it again. All naval
realists agree that any country, SIM
ilarly placed, would do it.
ALI GillS ID DIS CCiUdi piiiii6
can be in a mad world. Americans
must be prepared to face the facts,
and to shape American policy to
fit. Our effort to maintain during
the World War what had been uni
versally accepted as neutral rights"
was an unhappy one. Both sides
trampled on those rights, and the
German trampling became so heavy
that it led us into war.
This whole idea of neutral
rights" needs re-study. Have neu-
tral countries any right to ship
goods in their own ships to countries
at war, in defiance of blockades by
desperate opponets? Wilson thought
So All the civilized world once
thought so.
Has this right" any reality to-
day? If so, is it worth war to MAIN
tain it?
Those are not hypothetical ques-
tions. They are questions with which
the first wild torpedo fired by a
panicky U-boat commander may
confront us at any time. 1t is not
too soon to begin thinking about
the answers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
Famous Sayings

Sooner or later it will happen.
An American ship, bearing Ameri-
can cargo, manned by American
seamen, possibly carrying American
passengers. will be summarized and
sunk.
The British blockade has already
tightened around Germany. The
British are already stopping as
contraband any supplies bound for
Germany which they feel will help
that country to wage war. Germany
retaliates with word that it will do
the same-try to prevent shipment
to England If the same articles, try
to prevent it "by any means.
The objective of both countries
is exactly the same. The method
will be different. The British, hold
ing control of the surface of the
sea, will halt neutral ships, search
them, take them to neutral ports de-
lay and bedevil them. This is irri-
tating, but does not usually cause
loss of life British cruisers, while
engaged in this work, will be rela-
lively safe.
The Germans will use the means
at hand to accomplish the same
thing. That means is the submarine.
Doubtless they would prefer to give
warning, assure safety to crews,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
SPANISH REFUGEES
lPOrterville RecOrder)

Probably 1000 or 5000 Loyalist refug
ees from Spain have filtered into Mexl-
co already, reports indicate; and more
will come. This adds interest to poll
tical situation already fraught with tre-
mendous possibilities. Leaders of the
emigrants have insisted repeatedly that
they come not as political pawns but as
men seeking a new start. This remains
to be seen.
Mexico certainly needs immigrants, for
the country is thinly populated, and not
too well supplied with men of technical
and scientific training. But already
there is opposition. The newcomers from
Spain are war veterans, it has been point
ed out by Mexican citizens who protest,
imported allegedly to make nucleus
of a left wing militia that could be used
to seize or hold power against the cleo
ton returns.
The problem of assimilating them into
Mexico life has been undertaken serious
ly. The results cannot yet be forseen.
The situation adds a piquant note to an
electoral campaign due next year which
will determine whether Mexico will con-
tinue leftward, and how far and how.
fast. 40 u
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON.--I probably will
be some time before they get the
exact details, but U. S. Army people
here are waiting anxiously for what
you might call the technical low
down on the Rhineland and Polish
campaigns.
To get that, they will rely chiefly
on II U. S. Army officers who are
serving as military attaches in our
embassies at London, Berlin, Paris,
and in Poland 7s
1t is up to these men to send in
the fullest possible reports, not
only on training and organization
al methods of the warning armies,
but also on the strategic ard tao
tical details of the campaigns
what tactics and maneuvers are
found effective, how new types of
armament work out in practice,
and so on.
They are in no sense spies. They
have to rely, in fact, on what the
governments they are accredited to
care to tell them.
Two things in particular inter-
est the army-how the famed Polish
cavalry has made out against Ger
many's mechanized army, and how
the British and the French fare
with the ultra modern Notifications
of the Siegfried line.
In the old days, neutral nations
used to send regular military OBJ
the observers saw all there was to
servers to accompany the field
armies of nations at war. There
wasn't much concealment then, and
see.
It's different now. A military
observer would see only what his
"host' army wanted him to see.
In England, the US. Army now
has Lieut.. Col. Bradford G. Chyn-
oweth, Maj. George c. Mcdonald,
Mai. Samuel A. Greenwell, and
Capt. Rene r. Studler. In Paris,
there are Col. Horace H. Fuller,
Lieut.. Col. Sumner Waite, and
Capt. John M. Sterling. In Berlin.
there are Maj. Arthur w. Vanamal
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-22

part in politics. By the simple
procedure of divorcing the police
from politics, the Honolulu police
force has been transformed.
On my recent trip to the Orient,
spent an hour in Honolulu talk
ing to w. A. Gabrielson, Chief of
Police. He is doing two things
want to tell you about, with the
hope that you may be able to use
them.
He trains every member of the
police force TO speak in public.
Yes, sir, a public speaking course
for policemen. 1t meets once a
week for six months. If, at the
end of that time, the officer isn't
able to stand up and make a good
speech, he must repeat the course.
This training helps the officers to
express their thoughts more clear
ly, and more courteously, in pri-
vate and in public. 1t also helps
them to promote justice, by being
able to tell clear, concise, con-
vincing story when testifying in
Court. After the officers have
learned to speak in public, they
are sent to talk before service
clubs, and other organizations. The
policemen in Honolulu aren't a lot
of rough necks who bawl you out
for traffic violations. They are a
likeable, respected force for good
in the community.
Police Chief Gabrielson is look
ing forward to time when only
college graduates will be accepted
on his force. He declares that
social workers are usually college
trained. Why shouldn't every po-
liceman have an A. B., as well as
muscles like Joe Louis?
Every member Of the Honolulu
police force, from Captain to Pa
trolman, must read certain books.
What do you suppose they are?
The life Of Jesus Christ? The Police
Gazette? The Adventures of Sher-
lock Holmes? No, sir! They are
obliged to study psychology and
philosophy. And what is more they
must take written examinations to
prove that they have read, digested,
and profited by them.