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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-06
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Geniuses are strange creatures: and Herr Hitler, among other para doxes, Is mixture of long headed calculation and violent and arrog- ant impulse provoked by sentiment. Sir Neville Henderson, former British ambassador to Germany. There isn't one European country that can afford to come over here. If Hitler brought an army to our shores, he might find all his "child- ren" speaking French or Russian when he got back.
 Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U s. Marines, retired. G
 
 We hope and we trust that exist. ing wars will terminate quickly; and if that is our hope, there is, all the more reason for all of us to make ready for the solution of the problem of the refugee.
 President Roosevelt. We have the satisfaction of knowing that we have made at least e good beginning Gin the war) But 1t would be unwise to assume that we shall always be as successful as we have been in these first ex- Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain.
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against ravages of the ages. Craven is a plague upon the stainless steel door, @ message will direct that the vault be opened in 8li3 = c date chosen because 1t is as far in the future as the first recorded date in history, the beginning of the Egyptian calendar, is in the past.
 c. To what extent does inade- quate housing exist in the United States?
 A. Studies conducted by the Works Progress Administration and the Department of Commerce from 1884 to 1887, covered 2o4 localities and showed that of more than g. million dwelling units, l3.9 percent needed major repairs; 19.9 percent had no private baths or showers and l4.6 percent had no private inc door toilet. Tn addition, an increas. ing number of low-income families are doubled up or overcrowded, due to general housing shortage.
 o. What is candelilla wax used for2
 A. As a substitute for beeswax. and in making polishes, varnish, phonograph records. and electric in- sulation. -
 c. When Is 1t proper to use the compound "self" pronouns, as myself, himself, etc.' " A. They are most often used for emphasis, as T myself will go," but they may be used in the objective case after tranSitive verbs or pre- positions in which case they are called reflexives and refer back to the subject and repeat It's meaning in the objective construction.
 e. When did the Peshtigo forest fire occur in Wisconsin,
 A. October and 0, 1871. The confiagration burned more than @ million acres of timber. About one thousand lives were lost, and many persons were rendered destitute.
 c. Is there Negro Bankers Ass, sociation2
 A. M. M Martin, POI North Union St., Danville, Va, is Executive Secretary of the National Negro Bankers Association. ff you want copy of our b0ok- let "FAV0RITE POEMS" send to the Waterbury Democrats Wash- ingt0n Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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American life the bitter US ver- sion of The Man With the Hoe the poor farmer in patched over alls and threadbare shirt working in a field to increase the surplus of the cotton crop whose products he cannot afford to buy.
 BANKER-N NEW DEAL FEUD
 Don't be surprised If the long quiescent banker-New Deal feud flares up again soon.
 Inner Adminlstr ationites are sputtering mad over what hap pened at . secret meeting held in New York by Robert Hanes, new president of the American Bankers Association. To 100 leading bankers he had sum- moned, the North Carolinian proposed that . fund of 5O,O00 be raised to be used for "edu- catlona" purposes on such legis- lative issues aS the Mead I0ans- ! tO-little. businessmen bill, which the ABA has bitterly opposed.
 The New Dealers are convinced that the real object behind the fund is to finance a large scale attack on the Administration. But what is making them see red is the fact that a number of the bankers of the secret pow-wow had their financial hides saved by government rescue measures In the early months of the New Deal,
 Various plans are being dis. cussed In the Inner circle on the best way to hit back at the bankers. One proposal Is for the President to fire q blast at them. Another that the Sem ate Banking Committee, headed by New York New Dealer Bob Wagner, call Hanes and other ABA leaders for . public cross- examination. A third Is to have che TNEC (anti-mOnopoly) committee crack down.
 NOTE-Hanes is a brother of Johnny Hanes. Undersecretary of the Treasury.
 Copyright. 1899, by United
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. HIGHLIGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
Doctor Hudson Tells a Secret

In Lloyd 0. Douglas first novel, Magnificent Obsession," the hero, Bobby Merrick, finds the clew to personal success and happiness in a diary kept by Dr. Hudson, famous brain surgeon. It was Hudson's the- ory and practice that to achieve, one must invest; that in doing for others one gained the power to &C., complish. Upon this, wrote pr. Hudson, depended his success.
 Since publication of "Magnifi- cent Obsession,' Author Douglas has been besieged by requests for full translation of pr. Hudson's complete diary, more detailed explanation of the doctors strange and wholly secret philosophy of life. "Dr. Hudson's Secret Jour nal" (Houghton Mifflin: $260, , answers those demands.
 While 1t is essentially Q novel, and entirely fiction, the Journal" reads like a biography. It is Q personal insight into the life of a man whose chief ambition was to help others, and by doing so, in secret, attain his own happiness.
 To those who read Douglas "Obsession" most of the names will be familiar, but the book is in no way @ sequel to the first work. Rather 1t Is a prelude, for all of the action of the "Obses- sion" chronologically follows that of the Journal"
 Case histories of the doctors philanthropies brighten the "Jour- nal" and Douglas keen analysis of the first 20 years of the 20th century give the story added value.
 Douglas has been accused of preaching. That may be true. But a sermon as inspirational as that contained in the Journal" may well be studied-and needed.
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Whats Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Name the capital of Guatemala 2. What is the monetary unit in Denmark?
 3. What is the correct pronunciaY ton of the word approbative? Name the Attorney General of the United States.
 6. What Is the name for young sealG?
 6. Name the two important powers that withdrew from the League of Nations about five years ago. 2. Is -percha obtained from trees, mines or quarries7
 6. What is euthanasia?
 Q. Name the president of the U. 6. 8. R.
 10. Who were Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon?
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Questions and Answers
BY FREDERIC M. KERBK

RY FREDERIC M. KERRY
 Enclose a three. cent stamp tor reply when addressing any ques. tl0n Of fact or information % the Waterbury DemOcrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. iegal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be Cn. dertaken. Be sure an mall iB ati. dressed Co The WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BUy REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street,
 THE EDITOR
 0. Is 1t natral for a hen to lay two eggs in one dayp
 A. No; but sometimes 1t happens when the first egg is held over from the previous day by fright or some occurrence that IS different from the usual routine. Then two eggs are laid in one day. O. Please describe the Crypt 'of Civilization at Oglethorpe Univer- sity, Oglethorpe, Georgia.
 A. It is as large as the average living room, and is hollowed out of the granite bedrock beneath the campus and lined with walls of cleaning chromium. Tn 1t will be stored motion picture films, copies of present day encyclopedias, text. books, works of art, and models of machines, to give future historians a complete picture of their distant ancestors. When the crypt Is filled the air will be replaced with inert nitrogen gas, and 1t will be sealed
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WATERBURY CAPITuLATEs
(New Britain Herald)

Tn Waterbury, where they treat city employees as kindly as in New Britain, the new city management has decided to meet the demands of said employees against continuation of the "voluntary 10 per cent pay cut" The finance board listened to the protests Of employees and capit- ulated, The tax rate Is likely to be 32 1-2 mills. aa 3r M E%
 The new city management in Wa terbury wanted no trouble. By next year, as in New Britain, there Will be petitions for wage increases. When you work for the city you work the city.
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Daily Almanac
Moon rises 2:25 a. m.

Moon rises 2:25 a. m.
 Sun rises 7:02 a. rn.; sets 42:4 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The shortest days of the year are here. From now until the first of the year the period of actual daylight will be extremely short It's noticeable if you're an early riser. Once into January, though, the change in the other direction is apparent.
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Views of The Press
AN ANNUAL VISITOR
(Rosto,, Postl

The arrival of the Old Farmers Almanac, published by Little, Brown and Company, is e reminder that ie40 Is almost ct hand. The Alman- ac is still going strong in It's l4sth year. The old Farmer seems to see c cold winter and Q hot summer in prospect. , ats,a
 He predicts deep snow early in January, . cold wave near the end of the month. below zero weather and more snow. However, an early spring is forecast.
 The Almanac Is greatly enlarged this year and full of useful advice and statistics.
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Frazi CT, Bur 6 ss Meredith and more fro- licsom up- tow W CTS had wended their u n ear ying way, stan der approached d t h e p lush group.
 Listen" h e said to the pla- i'd Ere n d o while wagging A m en Ac inR An mAr atarnM
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In New York
RY GRnRnE R0ss

New York, Dec. 6-Lionel stan der, the cinematic husky, makes no secret of his championing of liberal causes. The other night at a downtown oasis whither Brenda
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people up on Park Avenue think we always are demanding things. Well, that's not true" Whereupon he bought the next two mag nuns of champagne!
 ALL QUIET ON
 YORKVILLE FRONT
 Several newsmen safaried to Yorkville, the German American center of New York, to gauge the atmosphere after & jury had found the Bundesfuehrer guilty of misusing Bund money. The Bundesfuefrer was Fritz Kuhn, of course. To their chagrin, news men found little to report. York vile was apathetic and disinter- ested residents shrugged their shoulders when the subject was discussed.
 The newsstand vendor said the conviction caused no eXtraordin- ary rise in sales ana the atmos- phere, on the whole, was quiet. In fact, those who have compared Yorkville to the Sudentenland would find amazing changes in that sector, since the Nazi-Rus- sian alliance.
 Time was when hawkers of the Communist gazette risked life and limb in that neighborhood. It is interesting that those same hawkers are persona grata these days even in the brauhouse. Top sy-turvyp Surel
 STRIKE UP
 THE BAND
 Once upon time, an autobio- graphical glamor girl could trace her start back to the days when she was a ziegfeld beauty or & cafe chlorine or ambitious show girl. But the advent of the or- chestral craze changed all that.
 Nowadays the glamor queen claims her start as the vocal att traction of this band or that Go down the list to be convinced: Dorothy Lamour went from Her. bic Rays orchestra to celluloidic fame and @ sarong. Martha Rave was the wide-mouthed miss who warbled the words with Paul Ash's musicians. Priscilla and Rosemary Lane were Fred War ing's singing girls until Hol- lywood glamorized them.
 Betty Grable was Ted Flo Rita's vocalist and others who hugged the microphone closely until cinema scout found them out are Ann (Oomph) Sheridan, Frances Langford. Mary Healy, Leah Ray and Ruth Terry. Strike up the band and you have @ candidate for sex appeal.
 PITY FOR
 POOR TURKEYS
 The rebellion of the g states on the Thanksgiving Day issue was not without its adherents in President Roosevelt's home town Manhattan. The ubiq uitous Henry 0. Duran, magistrate, scholar and wit, voiced his sedi- tious feelings by declaring on Nov. 30 that he was giving thanks for those g states which did not bow to radical revision of the Thanksgiving holiday. But there was temperance In his dictum.
 Magistrate Curran explained t.:.::,ss ise T'fs eating chicken on the original Thanksgiving Day, for he did not care to see the turkey suffer twice. Elsewhere there were evidences of uprising. Some shows announced special Thanksgiving matinees on the uneventful thir- tieth and New Workers who had given thanks with stufting and cranberry sauce a week earlier, were surprised to see that numer- ous restaurants beckoned them to celebrate with the same diet again.
 Stuffing the turkey premature ly, according to the Gotham die- hards who look askance at the Presidential antics, was no less dictatorial than the effort to stuff the R,i,reYfnA Court.
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Washington Merry Go-Round
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DREW PEA R s o N ROBERT S. ALLEN

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A Thought for Today

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lOwlinesS of mind let each esteem each other better than themselves s-Phillppians 2:S.
 They that know God will be humble; they that know themselves cannot be proud.- F1avel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-06

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR Use Q comma to separate simi- lar or Identical words that stand next to each other, as; Whatever Is, is right.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-06
of budget balancing.

of budget balancing.
 It is a wholesome sign that pro- fessed New England dollar-pinchers are being seriously conndered for national ofzlce.
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Copyright. 1899, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-06

if you want copy of our book. let "FAV0RITE POEMS" send to the Waterbury Democrats Wash- ingt0n Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street. Washington. D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
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c. Is there a Negro Bankers As. sociation2
 A. M. M. Martin, POI North Union St., Danville, Va, is Executive Secretary of the National Negro Bankers Association.
Nogales international., 1939-10-21
Lindbergh A Nazi Pet

FOL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH was branded by
~ the London Pictorial, Sunday, as Nazi pet.
The Pictorial and other London papers assailed
Lndy on his assertion in broadcast week ago last
night in Washington that "sooner or later we Gin the
United Staes) must demand the freedom of this con-
tnent and it's surrounding islands from the dictates
of European power
"Hitler's medal goes to Lindberghs head" read the
headline the following frontpage editorial crit
cism in the Sunday Express:
"Colonel Lindbergh honored and decorated visitor
of Hitlers fervent admirer of Nazi strength is now
apparently developing the Hitler mind.
"He declares that Canada has no right to 60 to
unless with the permission of the United States"
(Col Lindbergh on Oct. 49, 1885, in Berlin received
the Order of the German Eagle, one of Germany
highest decorations.)
Peter Wilson, columnist of the Sunday Pictorial,
preface long critical review Of Lindberghs career
with the words:
american trouble-maker number has been
shooting off his mouth again"
'This international busybody took it upon himself
to challenge Canadas entry into the fight" Wilson
declared.
Describing "the history of Lindbergh as "an inter
esting if somewhat unpleasant document" he wrote
of the fers visits to Germany and Soviet Russia and
said "the gross Goering (Field Marshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering) invited him as the guest of honor
to a very private luncheon party"
He recalled Lindberghs acceptance of German
decoration in 1893 and added "A lot Of people thought
it should have been a double-cross"
Wilson then attacked the broadcast, saying:
II imagine that millions of other freeborn Amer-
cans must have switched off their radios with the
feeling that Iindbergh the Nazi pet is not very
we'll qualified to talk about democracy.
"In this country at least we shall know what to
think of who returns hospitality with
cheap sneers at our fighting qualities and puerile
attempts to split our empire"
Nogales international., 1939-10-21

mailer to half the Reich, Hlmmler
multiplies his power every day. Be-
ginning as Hitler's gunman-in-chief,
he has now reached heights where
he can hold gun to the head Of
Hitler himself" says Albert GREE
sinski in the October issue of Co.'S
mopolitan Magazine.
Grzesinski, who was police chief
in Berlin in 1888 and served as Ger
man rehabilitation commissioner
in 1919, is now chairman of the
French Governments refugee COM
mittee in Paris, position which
gives him access to confidential re-
ports on the work Of Himmler's
agents both in and out Of Germany.
He was Home Minister of Prussia
at one time and commanded Ger
many's old secret police. In an inter-
view with Charles Hewitt, Jr.,
Grzesinski discusses the rise to
power and the diabolic operations
of Germany's only two hundred per
cent Nazi.
"Hitler and Himmler, working to-
gether as never before, have brought
Himmler's power to an all-time peak
with their new Grand War Plan',"
says Grzesinski. "It runs as follows:
Annexation of ring of vassal
states around the Third Reich. In
this area of insulation-Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia and Memel are the
start-the next war is to be fought.
All the population of these states
that cannot be trusted or terrorized
will be evacuated and forced to
labor in the fields and factories Of
the Reich. This will free millions of
native Germans for the front line
service, multiplying Germany's man
power in the last war by two"
Himmler is the spearpoint Of Hit
ler's offense as well as his chief Of
defense, Grzesinski states. "The ter
mites Of the Gestapo," he writes,
"must bore away at the foundations
of any state Hitler wishes to de-
stroy. Himmler foretold the march
on Prague six months ahead"
Half private army. and expedi-
tionary force and half spies and
executioners, the Gestapo makes
its chief the greatest tyrant of the
modern world, Grzesinski declares.
His real genius is twofold-organi-
zation and fanaticism. He is the soul
of three major prosecutions Of the
Third Reich: Jews, Protestants and
Catholics. Himmler is head of
$4,000 policemen today, or one to
every 1876 persons in the German
ration. Operating abroad are 5000
German political police. They and
their drafted workers are active in
every nation on the globe, including
the United States, Grzesinski says,
and he adds that what the Gestapo
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wants from these representatives
and drafted workers abroad are long
reports and money.
"Police Chief Himmler is first and
foremost commander of a private
army. the Schutzstaffel whose BIZ
zarre rules, 'Nordic Mission and
systematized sex life are still un-
familiar to America" Grzesinski
says. "Its $4,000 members are the
cream of the German nation. Appli-
cants must present family tree
pass, certifying pure Aryan ances-
try back to 1850. They must be at
least feet z inches tall, in good
health and at least eighteen years
old. They must pass rigid exami-
nation on their wholehearted Nazi
beliefs and they are required to re-
sign from church memberships, as
Christianity is considered weak.
ening.
"Himmler's chief problem il 10
keep his black-shirted executioners
from succumbing to normal human
influences, such as friendship, reli-
gion and domestic love. No battalion
is allowed to serve in its home area,
so when ordered to fire on civilian
populations, they will be as heart
less as their leader. They are not
allowed to remain in one district
long, lest they fraternize with the
masses. Transfers currently take
place on an average of every three
weeks. This shuttll... back and
forth, plus the wait for special mar
riage permits from Hitler, cuts we'd
dings to a minimum. But every Off
cial effort is made to provide these
youths with less confining enter
tainment. Consequently, the S., or
Schutzstaffel, supplies and supports
homes for unwed mothers through
out the Reich"
@Himmler is not only Chief Of
Police, he is also chief fanatic"
Grzesinski concludes. When Hitler
dies, he is the only man who can
carry on all the Fuehrer's fanatic
drives and Hitler knows it. He leans
on him today as never before"
Nogales international., 1939-10-21
Not Our War;!
WHILE American farmers speculate on t

WHILE American farmers speculate on the prob
able effect of the European farm COM
modify prices, everybody is specializing as to how
long it will remain European" war; Will Amer
lea join the universal insanity, thus making this
other "World War;"
Even if most Americans stick to reasonably i'm
passionate thinking in regard to the war, there
many political and economic reasons why it may
logical for the United States to enter the
flict
The situation however, is far different in Amer
lea now than it was in 1914. Few Americans were
very indignant over the assassination of relative
ly obscure Austrian Archduke In 1914 there were
probably not half dozen in the U. S. who even
considered the possibility of Americas being drawn
into the war.
Today presents far different situation. Ameri-
cans are on guard-not against the "Huns' as in
the last war; but against British and French propa
ganda We hear lot of joking on the streets, such
as, "Well, Joe, are you all ready to don uniform
and dodge lead slugs? Let's go to war. Heh Heb p
But it is very light joking. Very few Americans see
any percentage in helping to fight Europes age
old wars which are never completely fought but
Nogales international., 1939-10-21
Hoover And Lindbergh

HERBERT HOOVER and Charles Lindbergh are be-
"A ing mentioned as standard bearers of the Repub-
ican ticket next year-Hoover for president and
Lindy for vice e-president.
Such pair would be easy pickings for the Demo-
Gratis. They would be defeated by tremendous ma
jority for both among the most unpopular men in
the nation today
Each egotst and Of the two Lindy is the worst
He has had of swell head since the day he
ried into the Morrow millions.
We do not believe the Republican leaders would
be so foolish as to nominate Hoover and Lind
bergh when they have better vote-gettng material,
such Taft of Ohio and Dewey of New York, either
of whom, if nominated for president might make the
Democrats sit up and take notice in 1910.
Nogales international., 1939-10-21
1910 Democratic Convention

PASADENA Rose Bowl offers $1,OOO,OOO for the
Democratic National Convention in 1910, says an
article in todays International.
That's a nice wad of money but we don't believe
Pasadena will get 1940s biggest show 1t opin-
ion that for political reasons the convention will be
held in the middle west-n either Chicago or Cleve
land
National Democratic Chairman James Farley is
said to favor Chicago or Boston Boston is too far
east, Pasadena too far west, Chicago or Cleveland
would be happy medium.
The convention city will be selected when the Ma
tional Democratic Committee, Of which Nogaes
man-Wirt G. Bowman-is a member, meets in Jan
uary.
The battle-ground in the 1910 election will be in the
middle west-Indiana, Illinois, Ohio-and neigh
boring states and undoubtedly the national commit
tee will figure that for party it is best to hold
the convention in that neck of the woods, regardless
of the million dollar offer from the far west
Nogales international., 1939-10-21
Not Such Spendthrifts

YOU pay for life insurance in doars-and it pays
you back in coin of far greater value 1t pays you
in security, independence, happiness and content
ment, when you reach those years when dollars
hardest to come by The worth Of those things can
be expressed in dollars-and-cen figures
The citizens of the United States have been ridi-
culed by Europeans spendthrifts, but they have
Saved" financial security in this form. to gua'
antee them independence in old age, than have the
citizens of any other country