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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

There are 143 cops on the force. The population of the East End section is one-sixth of the whole population in the city, and we haven't 1 143 of the police force in our section," MT. Sullivan declared.
 Shooting Dice"
 The delegates said that the section tion has no full time patrolman and that the protection afforded by the cruising motor patrol is scarce and inadequate. MT. Burke declared that his six year old child barely escaped death from a bus in the unprotected school zone a few weeks ago. MT. Reed complained of youths shooting dice around school buildings at night.
 Acting chairman, Michael Noo- nan, told the delegates that they had approved of their petition last year and had submitted it to Su- perintendent Roach with power to act. We also put in our budget a provision for officers for your sec- tion," said MT. Noonan, "but the Board of Finance cut 1t out"
 All the commissioners said they were agreed that something should be done about the situation.
 Citing examples of inadequate pro- lection and youth insulting women shopping at stores, the delegates threatened to bring 980 members of the club en masse to the City Hall to campaign for police protec- tion.
 Comsr. Noonan appointed Comsrs Maurice Sweeney and Edward Downs to confer with Superintend- ent William Roach and give the area protection.
 Promotion
 Patrolman Joseph w. Cavanaugh, 8 supernumerary on the force for five years, was promoted to the regular force by unanimous vote of the commissioners.
 T hope you will maintain the fine record you have established so far, and the record your father eS- tablished," said Comsr. Noonan to the new officer. The late Captain Jack Cavanaugh was the new regu- lars father.
 The board authorized Sergeant Joseph Petit, vice-president of the Connecticut Police Association, to proceed with plans for the associa- tion's annual convention in Water bury in August.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

the occasion for an interesting event. State officers of the Legion and Henry Noder of New Haven, squadron commander and his staff will be numbered among the many out of town guests.
 New Charter
 yhe new charter for the unit will be presented. Incidentally the op- poftunity of Legionnaires to enroll their sons as charter members of the Sons of the Legion will close April 1.
 Arrangements for the event are being made by committee consist ing of Commander George F. Kar- nofsky, Past Commanders Robert F. Birt and Nedton Alexander and Finance Officer Michael Toomey. They will also officiate in the rit- ualistic work of the initiation.
 Past Commanders Walter A. An gle, George McDuff, and William T. Harrington, State Representative Daniel J. Mahaney, William Dwyer Charles Melville, John Clark and Chester Haude will take part in the installation of officers, each off, ciating in the induction of his own son.
 A social session will follow the formal ceremonies, members of the auxiliary, including mothers of many of the members, are assisting in the arrangements.
 Complete plans for the Sons of the Legion will be announced fol- lowing the regular meeting of Cor poral Coyle Post next Tuesday evening.
 20th Anniversary
 The post, the oldest in Connecti- cut, will also make plans for the observance of the 20th anniversary of its organization at the coming meeting. Alderman Fenton Niver is chairman of the committee of arrangements. One of the features of the celebration will be the ex- republication of ritualistic work for members enrolled during the past year.
 Commander George Karnofsky
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

Only about 25 per cent of auto mobile purchases are for cash.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
BUILDING HERE
 SHOWS DECLINE
Figures s For February Show Fewer Permits
 Than in January

Construction in Waterbury during February was considerably less this year than during February of 1888, according to the monthly report is- sued by Building Inspector Patrick J. Carlin. The comparative totals are: February, 1889, $31,250; Feb- ruary, 1888, $55, 5,400.
 Residential building included 3 one-family houses at estimated cost of $10,0O0; one alteration, 5000; 5 alterations, $6,35O. In Feb. 1888, 6 one-family houses cost $4,5O0.
 Two service stations costing $4,800 were started last month, with five alterations to stores, $8,10O. Last year, 1 service station cost $500; two stores, $9,OOO; 12 altera- tions, $11,200, and one poultry house, $400.
 Sign fees amounted to $86, with $20 for sign renewal permits, 13 permits, and 53 inspections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
Corporal Coyle Post
 Oldest State Unit
 To Exemplify Ritual
of Legion to Be Formally Inducted, Sunday, March 18th With Special Ceremonies

An impressive father-and-son ceremony will be witnessed Sunday afternoon, March 19, when the new ly elected officers of the recently the Sons of the-xetaoishrdluhruul formed Waterbury Squadron of the Sons of the Legion will be formally installed under the super vision of members of Corporal Coyle Post, American Legion.
 The official inauguration of the local unit, the induction of its members and officers will be made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

has announced the appointment of John R. Clark as chairman of the posts relief committee. He suc- ceeds Attorney A. Henry Weisman, who recently submitted his resigna- tion owing to the pressure of per- sonal business. A vote of thanks has been voted to Attorney Weis- man for his splendid work.
 The post will adopt resolutions on the death of Wales Porter, the last of Waterbury Civil War veterans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
Army Of Delegates
 To Attend Meeting
9SO Members of East End Community Club to Attend
 Meeting Unless Police Protection Is Provided

Irate delegates of the East End Community Club appeared before the Board of Police yester day afternoon and demanded police protection for the East mond Burke George Reed and Eugene Sullivan stated in angry tones that they have brought the matter before the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

Marvin Lloyd Reiner, son of MT. and Mrs. Jacob Reiner of IA W00dlawn Terrace, a student at Connecticut State College, took 8 leading role in the play The Devil Comes to Alcary' which was re- gently presented over WHIT in Hartford. MT. Reiner is a second lieutenant in the R. O. T. at the college.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
Legion to Celebrate 2Oth Anniversary of Organization

Federation of Music program spon- sored locally by the Mattatuck Mu- sical Art society. The broadcast takes place tonight and not last night as announced in yesterdays paper.
 Those taking part are Mario De-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
Full Weather Report

Boston, March 2 (UP)-weather forecast;
 CONNECTICUT-M Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday. Slightly cOld- cd on coast tonight. Warmer Fri day.
 RHODE ISLAND and MASSACHU- SETTS-Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday. Slightly colder on coast tonight. Slowly rising temperature Friday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
LOCAL MUSICIANS
 BROADCAST TONIGHT

Local musicians will broadcast to- night at 8:30 o'clock over Station WICC in Bridgeport in 8 State
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

A hoopoe, bird noticed in 1re- land only at long intervals, is nak- ing itself at home at Cahir Park lodge, residence of Colonel R. B. Charteris.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
THE NEWEST STYLES IN GLASSES.

Smart :. up to the minute 7. and really practical ... that's the new 'NUMONT FULL-VUE" glasses-now being shown at Kay's.. Try them on see how you can see no framework at all except the bridge. Note the added comfort through the unique shock ab- sorber construction! Have yourself fitted with NUMONT Ful-Vue frames today at Kay's.
Evening star., 1939-04-24

single greatest contribution science
has yet made.
Certainly the people of the dicta-
torships realize this as much as peo-
pie of the democracies. They must
realize that there is no terror their
master minds can devise which can
not be matched by another terror
brewed in the laboratories of their
enemies. Science now is in better
position than ever before to make
men happier. 1t is also in a better
position than ever before to starve,
main and kill them-by the millions.
Another war will mean the match
ing of terror against terror which
can end only in a holocaust of de-
struction and death for everybody
concerned. There is no denial OF this.
Everybody admits it. War is so illogi-
cal today that even such an illogical
creature as an angry man must see
the senselessness of it.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Wants Amendment of
Pedestrian Control Law.
To the Editor Of The

TO the Editor OF The Star:
The present regulations with respect
to pedestrian control in Washington are
unreasonable, and they should be
amended. In theory it is fine to say that
traffic of all kinds should come to a
stop at the red light and not go for
ward until the green light shows. How
ever, person can stop and start more
quickly than any machine, and the two
should not be classified alike. Frequently,
particularly outside of the downtown Sec
ton of the city, there are times when
there is not moving automobile within
a block. and yet a person crossing at
the intersection against the red light is
subject to arrest and fine. That is the
ridiculous part of the law. The present
regulations permit crossing streets be-
tween blocks, regardless of the traffic
lights at the intersections, if that cross
ing does not constitute a traffic hazard
Why not be sensible about this problem
and extend the same permission at inter-
section crossings? People will more will
1ngly obey sensible than silly law.
April 10. w. H. SHIELDS.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Test Proposed for
All Immigrants
To the Editor of The

To the Editor of The Star:
You published lately paragraph about
population pressure and human m1gra-
tions. In the last Congress certain bills
were introduced which immigration re-
strictionists believe WILL If enacted, be-
come the beginning of the amending to
death of the immigration Quota Acts.
The last of these acts became law In
1924. In 1925, just one year afterward,
the writer heard in Italy boasts that
italian influence in the United States OF
America was sufficiently strong to insure
the Quota Acts being amended to death
by 1890 Such bills have been introduced
each session for IA years. That they
have been defeated has been due solely
to a SMALL group Of watchful members
and their friends.
We have been sadly neglectful in scru-
tinizing our immigrants for nearly .
century. Even as far back as the potato
famine immigration nearly . century
ago. social inadequates probably bulked
large. A professor Of Queens Univer-
sity, Belfast, after study thereof, de-
clares this Irish emigration resulted in
q reduction In ireland Of 356000, or
nearly three-fourths, in the number Of
singls.room mud cabins. The dwelling
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Fair Wurninq

Although the New York Worlds
Fair, intended for the promotion of
trade and commerce, is not yet under
way, it has already been responsible
for some remarkable business trans
actions. Among the sales made may
be listed a number of money making
machines, perpetual motion devices
and gold bricks. The Brooklyn and
Williamsburg Bridges, the Woolworth
Building and the Central Park bench
concessions were sold several times
over. 1t is evident that the late P. T.
Barnum, who said that there was one
born every minute, made conserva-
tive estimate. Those who want to
take in the fair, instead of being
taken 1t by it, are advised to follow
a few simple rules:
Visitors to Battery Park are cau-
toned against attempting to buy the
Aquarium, which is positively not for
sale, having been taken over by the
Board of Education as laboratory
equipment for the new sophomore
course in fish gulping.
In the middle of the fair grounds
may be observed a pair of objects
resembling gigantic cue ball
couchant beside futuristic billiard
cue rampant. Care should be exer-
cised by the general public in pur-
chasing these from strangers, as
there are no official perisphere-or
trylon-salesmen out on the road.
Unless Mr.. Grover Whalen himself
tenders the proposition, something is
definitely wrong. He may be identi-
fed by three unmistakable marks
top hat, a gardenia and an involun-
tary vince at the mention of the
name San Francisco"
Prospective purchasers of the Sixth
Avenue Ell may protect themselves by
asking it see it first. In the cases of
ferryboats, Office buildings and bat
tleships, much trouble may be saved
by paying off in counterfeit money,
but the subway is a bad bargain at
any price, as it is just hole in the
oronnd
Evening star., 1939-04-24

winds had dried out the surface soil,
so that things seemed bone dry Ac-
tually beneath the surface there was
plenty Of water, as the result Of other
rains.
Too much rain is hard to get in spring.
April showers, the old saying had it, bring
May flowers, and it is still more or less
true, despite the seasonal upsets which
seem to be going on all around the
world.
Newcomers to suburban areas, especial
ly those who may have lived In the city
all their lives, sometimes find it dificult
to let nature alone
They fear the rain may wash out all
their new grass seed.
They look aSkance upon the English
sparrows feasting on the same seed.
They are forever worrying over black
spot Of roses, and white-spot Cmildew)
Of zinnia leaves. They are not willing
to accept things as they are, but want
them just the way they want them.
Country living changes all that. They
come in time to have q better under
standing Of the vastness of nature, and
its total indifference to them. They do
not rebel at this, as the peasants did in
one OF Zolas stories, when sudden hall
storm swept away in 10 minutes the re-
suit Of 10 weeks work.
4 + -
The lesson of the rain is that what is,
Is; and what will be, will be.
1t is easy enough to see 1t, in the rain: =:
the necessary thing is to keep it there,
and in other natural forces.
This does not enshrine nature, as some
would, but makes it part of all that
exists.
The birds recognize this in their very
being. They make no futile attempts to
escape, not having minds of the type
which would enable them to struggle
Intellectually with the forces that are.
Insofar as bird watcher would accept
the wisdom Of his feathered friends, he
would accept nature for what 1t is, but
reserve to himself the right to place the
bounds Of nature, as it were. So he
would keep the happiness of the crea-
lures, while at the same time enlarge
his own possibilities of happiness by set
ting bounds to a ruthless round, saying
so far and no farther.
This is necessary; but once it has been
done, the happy observer is free to ac-
cept nature without protest
Then the bright cardinal in the rain
becomes perfectly marvellous bit of life
something to admire heartily. and to
initiate this side Of perching on a tele-
phone wire. After all, that isn't really
necessary.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Opposes Further
Mechanization Of Industry.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The mounting national debt-now In
excess of $4,000, 900 000-is mute testi-
mony to the fact that those in authority
in this country have but one remedy for
bringing recovery and that is pump
priming. If Mr.. Roosevelt has nothing
else to offer, he should say so, step of
the political stage Of action and turn
the executive reins OF Government over
to Mr.. Garner.
Common sense, If followed at the outset
of this machine age, would have told us
to put control brakes on all labor
destroying devices, which is to say that
had we permitted the machine system
to replace labor only as labor could be
transplanted to other useful and gainful
occupations, then we should not now be
plagued with an unemployment mess
the cost Of which will weight us down
with tax burdens for 100 years to come.
Even now it IS not too late to do some
good along that line, and Washington
should order the immediate suspension
to the further mechanizng of industry
until such time as unemployment defi-
nitely has been reduced to safe levels.
Fort Worth, Tex. w. r. HOWARD.
April 10.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
The Free Press

This is inventory time again for
the American press. Each spring the
men who compose the Fourth Estate
get their heads together in series
of meetings for a general stock
taking. The American Society of
Newspaper Editors has just COM
pleted it's sessions here, and this
week the publishers and other rep
resentatives of the profession will
continue the job of self-appraise-
ment.
Newspapers have been bombarded
with criticism recently from high
administration quarters. Charges of
bias, of unfairness, of suppression Of
news have been hurled at them by
Secretary Ickes-and even the Presi-
dent has spoken caustically of some
of the columnists, editors and pub
fishers. The press has been quick
to refute many of the allegations.
But perhaps the best refutation of
the charge that newspapers are
narrow and unfair was the fact
that the editors at their meeting last
week we're able to look at themselves
as others see them, to point out GER
tain admitted faults and to seek
means of remedying them in the in
terest of improving journalism as a
whole.
William Allen White, the sage of
Emporia, Kans, summed it up this
way: I'm this country journalism,
with all its faults-and there are
many-is the only free, unfettered,
Embossed and unlicensed vehicle
through which one way or another
finally and surely the truth comes to
the American people" AS Mr. White
50 aptly says, a free press may have
its failings-but only with a free
press can the truth prevail. A con-
trolled press, such as that in the die
tator nations, necessarily puts re-
straints on the truth, and when
truth is bridled, news becomes propa-
ganda. Editors and publishers in
those unfortunate countries know
only too we'll the defects of chained
press-but picture if you can their
daring to expose them in a public
forum or to suggest remedial meas
ures.
The American free press Is in no
danger of fa11inp Inop OWL dovS so
long as those engaged in the profess
sion of journalism are free to exam
Inc themselves and others frankly
and urageously-and to make pub
lie their appraisals-as they do in
this country today.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
HitIer's Answer.

On Friday of this week Chancellor
Hitler will make his carefully pre-
pared reply to President Roosevelt's
plea to the axis powers to pledge
ten years of non-aggression. It is
amply foreshadowed that Hitlers
rejoinder, like Mussolinis last week,
will be negative in essence, though
perhaps not in form.
Late developments indicate that
the Fuehrer will enter plea in
abatement, designed to establish that
the whole premise upon which the
President bases his appeal lacks
foundation in fact. To that end, Nazi
diplomacy is at work in a score or
more of the thirty-one countries on
which Mr.. Roosevelt invited the die
tators to disclaim designs. Hitler
asked them to say Cd whether they
consider themselves menaced by Ger
many and GU if they requested the
President to intercede or had ad-
vance information of his plea. All
governments which have so far re-
piled said mo" to the second oues-
ton. To Question No. Rumania
replied frankly that she does not see
how any one can feel secure in Eu-
rope at the present time" Switzer-
land has confidence in the respect
for Swiss neutrality which the con-
federation will defend with it's army"
The Netherlands, lin case of a Euro
pean war, must be prepared to face
every possibility Belgium "has no
reason to suspect the good faith of
the three nations which are pledged
to guarantee her independence" AS
these three nations include Germany,
memories of 1914 appear to have
grown less green at Brussels.
Other countries, including the
Scandinavian kingdoms, the Baltic
republics and the Balkan States, are
understood to have assured Berlin
that they are undergoing no jitters
with respect to possible German at
tack. So, in all probability, the
Fuehrer will be able to make out
what will sound like case of injured
innocence. Unfortunately, there are
what Mussolini calls certain "pyra-
midal" facts of geography, as these
have been altered by successive axis
aggressions in Austria, Czecho-
Slovakia, Memel and Albania. Be-
sides which, there are Hitler's own
declarations in "Mein Kampf," to
prove that whatever various Euro
pean states think about them, they
remain, to date, the unrepudiated
avowals of Nazi plans and purposes.
If these no longer constitute Ger
many's program, the President has
given the Chancellor an opportunity
to say so, unequivocally, once for all.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Accuses Helen Hayes
OF Emoti0nalism.

To the Editor Of The Star:
This Is no time for such emotionalism
as was displayed by Helen Hayes in her
play to the galleries at the joint con-
gressional hearings on the Wagner
Rogers bill to admit 10000 children
overwhelmingly Jewish within two
years outside the quotas.
Charity begins at home, and we must
not forget that there are hundreds of
thousands of native American children
in direst need at the present time who
are to be considered first, to the exclu-
sion Of foreigners whether children or
adults.
These 10000 refugee children represent
10000 potential families in the approach
Ing years. including the progeny Of what
are likely to be prolific parents, all of
whom must be schooled or otherwise
cared for at the expense of American
taxpayers and wage-earners.
Moreover, the admission of this great
mass of alien children is merely another
subtle attempt to thwart the now ac-
cepted principle OF maintaining the
present ethnic makeup Of our American
people. CON1MONWEAI.
New York City.
April 81.
Evening star., 1939-04-24
Sees Growing Menace
In Communists Here.
To thu Editor ~ The Star:

Must the United States go the way of
all other countries that have kicked out
Communism, or will the men We elected
to Congress do their duty and stop this
Red movement before it is too late? Other
countries have depended on their legis-
lative bodies to stop the movement and
they were badly let down, just as we
are This resulted in dictators. Must
we have one here?
The time for pussy-footing and all
nonsense has ceased. Communism is out
elections the Reds were out In full force
to elect New Dealers-and they sue
ceeded in many Places simply because
our politicians" do not seem to dare to
expose the facts.
We voters care not one whit about
parties. We care not in the least about
patronage" and all the rottenness that
goes with present politics. We do care,
however, about keeping this country a
republic, and it's about time Congress got
on the job and stopped dealing in un-
essentials.
Communists from coast to coast are
holding stop Hitler" meetings and they
will get us into war to pull their chest
nuts out of the fire If Congress does not
get busy and do the job expected Of it.
And while they are at it, why not stop
revolutionaries from coming to this
country? We have enough Of our own
breed without importing foreign speci-
mems. We are allowing foreigners by
the thousands to enter this country.
None seems to know their political faith,
and none seems to care. The poor
refugee" from all over Europe is demand
ing asylum here-and the powers that
be" seem to forget the millions OF un-
happy and oppressed souls here who are
citizens of this country.
It's about time that Congress turned
its attention to America and its very
urgent problems.
These are not opinions of just one per-
son. In my travels through the Middle
West I find great resentment at the
attitude toward these problems in Wash
ington. We have some real Americans
who are doing a heroic job, but 1t Is
about time that they received the sup
port of all members of Congress before
it Is too late. DISGUSTED.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
April 20.