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Evening star., 1940-11-15

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
Tempest In Hartford

More than a mere four-inch snow storm struck Hartford last week on the eve of Thanksgiving. According to all reports from that city the worst traffic tie-ups in it's history existed Wednesday night. As a result the Hartford Times saw fit to print full two columns of ex- postulation and censure later in the week calling on all public officials to get to- gether on program that would prevent any further occurrences throughout the winter months. We've heard complaints about the conditions of Waterbury streets in past years, but nothing has ever oc- cured to us like the predicament Hart ford found itself in
 All of which indicates quite plainly that Waterbury isn't quite as bad off as she believes herself to be. We often comfort ourselves with the thought that our to- pography prevents maximum snow clearance program within the reasonable time that any motoriSt or property owner allows. But certainly if traffic in Hart ford with its wider streets it's larger po- lice force and certainly it's larger force of Street Department workers can be crippled by a four-inch snowfall, such as we had last week. Waterbury cannot be found fault with if it's streets sometimes are not promptly sanded or snow remains alongside the gutters for several days.
 But assuming such an attitude is not the way to face winter of snow and ice. If Hartford or any Connecticut commun- ity can recognize the fact that we no longer can sit back and let the snow pile up in their streets, then it's high time that we got ready to dig and sand all winter long. Evidently some such idea got to our budget-makers for the 1941 estimates show an appropriation for such purposes of twice the amount we'll have ready for this winter. That's the first step towards preparing to meet what mo- torists regard as their most serious win ter menace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
We Hold Our Own

Official figures from Washington now confirm the fact, published in these col umnS some months back, that Connecti- cut will retain her six congressional seats. Reapportionment of Congress following the 1940 decennial census, of course, IS now dependent on the good humor Of its members after the next session begins. If Congress decides to do nothing then automatic apportionment under the new census figures takes effect at the end of sixty days from the beginning of the con- greSSional session.
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt has by this time received the official census fig ures He will send them on to Congress in January. Then it has the sixty day pe- riod in which to make up it's mind on ap- portionment. It can move in several different directions. It can accept the new figures or it can call for new meth cd of apportionment or even a change Tn the number of congressional seats. Ii It fails to take any action then at the end of sixty days the Clerk of the House sends certificates to each state telling how many members it is entitled to.
 In the East Massachusetts seems deS- tined to lose one seat; so will Pennsylva- mia. There are no states in the northeast registering gains, most of them probably just holding their own, like Connecticut. It is just by the merest fraction of the integer determining congressional appor- tionment that we're beyond the five and one-half mark. But in the next ten years population shifts may again show all New England soaring once more. All the more reason for our preparing by redis- tricting to take care of our six congress men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
Boys Life Week

With the exception of their contacts with other persons, boys are more influ- enced in their character development by what they read than by anything else. This was finding of the Committee on Youth Outside the Home and School Of White House Conference on Child Health and Protection several years ago.
 The Boy Scouts of America, which sponsors Boys Life Week" from Dec. 1 to Dec. T. recognizes that reading occu- pies large share of boys leisure time and therefore gives much attention to this activity
 Scout leaders recognize that boys ob- tain much of their viewpoint toward life through reading and the Movement di- rects its influence to the end that Boy Scouts should find their reading habits profitable.
 A leading tool in the Scout Movements efforts for better reading is Boys Life" the monthly magazine 1t has published since 1912 as a non-commercial enter prise Designed to meet the interests of growing boys and to give them whole some reading material the magazine has enjoyed the cooperation Of some of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
American Freedom

In these times it is heartening to note that the New York legislature has passed law providing that public schools should teach the pupils something about the deep meaning of the Bill of Rights in the American Constitution.
 In accordance with this mandate, the State Board of Regents has designated Bill of Rights week for the New York schools.
 It would be fine thing if everybody took the trouble to read the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Known as the Bill of Rights, these amendments guarantee about everything the dictatorS have taken away and that Americans prize.
 Just to mention them is to give the measure of American liberty: no estab- lished state religion, freedom of religious worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, no right of search of mans home without warrant from a court of law, when accused of crime the right to-a speedy, public and i'm partial trial, coupled with the right to confront witnesses for the prosecution and the right to summon witnesses for the defense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

New Haven papers were quite upset by the bad traffic jam that disrupted down. town Hartford last Wednesday night. The New Haven Register commenting on the situation drew parallel with what has occurred in the Elm City in the past. Wa terbury has yet to experience anything like these jams, although our Saturday morning tie-ups during the winter months aren't anything of which we can be proud. However we don't think that Waterbury has ever experienced anything like what Hartford had last week. But that New Haven has is quite evident in what the Register has to say. It says, People sometimes have tried unsucceSs fully, while caught in some of the pe- riodic jams on New Haven's narrower downtown streets, to figure out how fire or other emergency apparatus could pos Sibly reach certain blocked-off spots un- less by some miracle bumpers, hose wa gons and aerial trucks could suddenly sprout wings and firemen could fly . Others have their troubles, so let's not be too critical of our own faults in traffic management.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
The Cycle Cycle

In the days of "A Bicycle. Built for Two" pedestrians protested loudly at the "scorcher," that reckless cyclist who en- dangered life and limb by his daredevil speeding. The bicycle went out almost entirely with the first coning>of the auto mobile But now it is back again, and it is the cyclist himself who is now in danger Seven hundred deaths were blamed on bicycle-automobile collisions in 1889 by speakers before the National Safety Congress.
 City registration and licensing, stand ardizing of regulations and special courts and instruction classes are recommended to put down the new bicycle menace of 1940. Back in another cycle of cycles, we find different problem, but one no less serious than the one our fathers faced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

irrepressible correspondents, male or female.
 She and the President broke up a recent conference with repartee about parking. The President had said that highway projects, among others, would have to be shelved as not essential for defense.
 "Mr. President" said May Craig, Gin that case, what happens to the parking shoulders?"
 Parking shoulderS'?" said the President, plainly puzzled.
 'The project" said May, 'for widening parking space for civil Hans, so the military can get by."
 You don't mean necking, do you?" shot back Roosevelt, and the meeting adjourned.
 AMERICAN RUBBER
 When a government bureau moves fast, that's news. A bureau / of the Department of Agriculture, beginning last August, has com pleted a survey of potential rub Der production in eleven Latin American countries and is now moving into two more.
 But more important than speed, the survey is the first step in an important long-range plan to make this country independent of East Indian sources for rubber, and increase trade between the Americas. Earlier this year, Con- gress appropriated $5O0,000 to the Department of Agriculture ito develop rubber production"
 First objective is to establish two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
THE CARVING SITUATION
(New York Herald-Tribune)


 This is the time of year when cer- tain ladies and gentlemen, styling themselves experts on carving, colnc out of their smells to deliver lectures OH their high and curious ar.. It is conceivable that they to q great deal or good. Nc, ertheiess, It must De obvious that Americans are nos the nation of carvers they used to be. IT. the old days we did not need lec- lures to tell us how to carve. A man who could not do an artistic job on g turkey, chicken. goose or what not was hardly the sort of felloW to head family. Along with the lec- turerS, we have the new gadgetS for making carving all but fcolproof- viselike arrangements, suction doo- llickeys to prevent sliding, oddly shaped scissors for pruning, ard so forth through a long list of tarlify- ing Instruments. If we leave aside the great group who don't care about carving one way or the other, who can't carve very well ard never could learn Ga large but socially neg ligible lot). we find our population divided roughly into three classes:
 1. The bunglers. These are the people, very. stubborn, but knowing nothing of anatomy, who are con- genitally unable to carve but who nevertheless think they must try and insist upon trying. The result inevitably is mutilation of the bird and embarrassment for everybody at the table. These people are inenac- eS.
 2. The talkative experts. These people, as soon as the weather gets little crisp, begin talking about the art of carving. the history of carving and how they mastered it.. These people are often wonderful, but they can be dreadful bores.
 3. The quiet, efficient type. These people, armed with nothing more than carving knife and a fork, go about their business in a splendid offhand fashion, striking deftly at this joint, amputating that without a sound, slicing the meat evenly, pleasing everybody and never dis turbing the flow of conversation.
 It is upon this third type. once so numerous and now growing SO rare that, we submit, the future of carv- ing in this country depends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

permanent experimental stations, one for Central America, the other for South America. It is almost certain that they will be located in Costa Rica and Brazil.
 Brazil originally produced most of the worlds rubber, but the seeds were smuggled out of the country by the British, who set up their own rubber plantations in Malaya. The present drive is to restore to Latin America her birthright in this essential pro- duct.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Justice Frank Murphy's recipe for keeping fit at fifty is to walk to and from the Supreme Court, and ride horseback every aft4r- noon. Justice Murphy walks the long way around to his office, going first to the Washington Monument, then up to the Capitol .. Tough-hewed Senator Sheri- dan Downey of California, No. 1 congressional TownSendite, keeps in shape by walking five miles daily from his home to the Capi- tol. -. The 25,000 government workers who daily lunch in gov ernment restaurants in Washing ton consume annually 187,000 pounds of butter, 187,000 dozen eggs, 135.640 pounds of coffee, 2,446, ,336 bottles of milk, and 43,- 266 gallons of ice cream. Copyright, 1940, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03


 ways those who are willing to do a bit more than the job requires.
 The clock-watcher comes to the end of his life poorly-paid clerk The chap who has his overalls off before the quitting, whistle stops blowing can be expected to stay in overalls the whole of his career. But the young fellow who is SO con- foundedly interested in his job that he is devising ways and means all the time to get that job done bet ter, will get to the top with a swift ness which will leave the less ener- getic brethern blinking. An em- ployer likes to pay out money to an employe who. is personally loyal in every attitude and champing at the bit to get the job done better. Some men are never satisfied with their jobs. Others are never satis- fled with the way they do their jobs. The latter get the big positions and the high salaries.
 All Rights Reserved-Babson News-
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

Resignation of Joseph P. Kennedy as ambassador to Great Britain certainly wasn't unexpected Every news agency and every news commentator in the coun- try has been confidently and confidential
 ly predicting it for weeks past. We're sorry to see him leaving this post because we think he was a great credit to our State Department and certainly could have been a fine Intermediary between this nation and England in the trouble some days to come However, he knows best what amount of time he wants to put into public career and he surely knows best just how much he might &C., complish in England during these peril ous times. We sincerely hope that his successor will be chosen with great care.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

War news today is certainly on the discouraging side. Whether you favor any side in the European conflict you must agree that the damage being caused on both sides is something that only cen tLries can erase. We of this generation and the next few to come will never hear the end of it. Perhaps we may be in it for long years to come. Can't some pow erful force for peace force itself on war hungry rulers?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

union sole bargaining agent for longshoremen all up and down the west coast, including certain ports where Ryan's union had practically all the men. This decision is about to be reopened-by the labor board and by Ryan's union.
 Bridges recently negotiated new contract with the west coast em- ployers, and the contract is now up for a ratification vote by his union Ryan's men are threatening a strike if the contract is ratified. They say the Strkie would tie up such im- portant ports as Seattle and Taco ma, and hint that it might even spread to the east coast.
 BOARD READY TO RECONSIDER
 A thin edge of the strike actually broke out two monShS ago in a few northwestern cities. It was an eff fort by the Ryan union to break out of the Strait-jacket to which the old labor board decision confined 1t in the ports where it had a majority. This strike ended when the labor board agreed to take another look at its old ruling.
 Right now the labor board is about ready to do that. For two months it has been two-man board, with Members Leiserson and Smith unable to take a joint look at much of anything. Now it is up to full strength and ready to tackle the longshoremen's case.
 If by any chance it should re- verse it's former decision and grant bargaining rights by ports instead of giving one union rights for hte en- tire coast, the power of Bridges union-and consequently of Bridges himself-would be seriously cur- tailed.
 HILLMAN
 HAS A PLAN
 One more serious strike in a big defense-induStry plant would prob- ably start an almost irresistible sweep in Congress for some sort of law limiting the right to strike and setting up compulsory arbitration machinery for labor disputes.
 The sweep is already in motion but it hasn't picked up much mo- mentum yet.
 The administrations labor advis- CTS are giving serious thought to finding some new means to head of and-or settle labor squabbles.
 Most ambitious of these plans is taking shape under the wing of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hill man. It aims at setting up regional boards, probably joint employer worker affairs, whose job it would be to keep in constant touch with all important plants, offer mediation and conciliation services constantly, and in general try to keep differ ences from reaching the strike stage.
 If and when put into final form and okayed by the Defense Com mission, the project would probably be set up undre the commission by executive order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
Views Of The Press

thousands of farmers who also ex- pect to sell this sections share of the national supply within the next few days. Turkey growing has gone into the realm C. big, business here within g decade. Vermont may claim first place as an easterdr turkey growing state, but the other New England states have not beer far behind il! developing the iildustI. Al lof the six states of New England will share in the dividends from the turkey ia 194o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
In Today's Mail
A PEACE OF CANCELLATION ONLY SOLUTION TO THE
 PRESENT WORLD WAR
New London, Conn. December 9 1QA0

New London, Conn.
 December 2, 1940.
 Editor of The Democrat:
 Must we keep on aiding Britain till she wins smashing victory over Hitler? Or is such a victory farther away than the probable col- lapse of all the warning nations into an unprecedented anarchy? Un- 'doubtedly there is a rapidly growing fear that. whichever side wins, no peace of leniency and fairness will result, and that starved and blasted peoples will blunder into chaos long before any decisive military victory is won.
 The prevention of this larger an- archy requires, I believe an early termination of the war: and this can probably be achieved only by a peace of conciliation = conciliation, not necessarily of the dictators them selves, but of their bewitchei peo- ples. It was the gross mismanage- ment of international conciliat.on that gave the dictators their chance  to set the world on fire. It will be wiser efforts at conciliation-supple- menting invincible force-that will offer the best hope for putting out these hateful fires.
 The word "conciliation" must not be confused with that uetestable word "appeasement" It must rather ha inada to ineliide the idea 0f a strategic retreat of the possessors Whoever they may now bel. to the end that world order may at last be in large measure established by consent instead of by violence. "Ap- peasement" has been a cheap imita- ton. vicious travesty, of true con- ciliation and strategic retreat. "Ap- peasement" has tried merely to es- cape a mad dog by turning him against the neighbors. "Appease- ment" has merely continued inter national iawlessness, without nak-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

ing any adequate effort to replace it by international order.
 Tn sharpest contrast to this, a strategic and conciliatory retreat of the possessors, at almost any time before 1880, would have been a supreme effort, and probably a suc- cessful one, to end international dis order by substituting for 1t the law and justice of a federal union. To- day such an effort must be made amid far greater difficulties, and as 6 necessary supplement to a military stalemate. It must now be nads among the hates and confusions of a war. And it must succeed. The penalty for failure is the prospect of a chaos whose devastat'on ons appall our foresight.
 HENRY W. LAWRENCE,
 Professor of History and
 Government, Connscti-
 cut College.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
Current Comment

Germany and Japan. freed of their military burden, will move into South American markeA with products produced at a lower cost than ours.
 p. W. Litchfield, rubber manu.
 Mexico does not have 6 general policy of appropriation. -Dr. Ramon Beteta. Mexican un-
 dersecretary Of state. i
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

nations leading writers and artists Among the writers during the nearly three decades who have contributed ma terial to the Boy Scouts magazine were Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, Admiral Robert E. Perry, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfe1l, Admiral George Dewey, pr. William T. Hornaday and Lord Baden-Powen of Gilwell, Chief Scout of the World.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
Selected Poem
THE FOURFOLD WIND

Keith Thomas in the New York Sun) The wind blows from the rainy east
 To help the forests grow; The wind blows from the frozen north
 To fill them up with snow. The wind blows from the south to wake
 The buds at springs first call; The wind blows from the west to make
 The painted leaves to fall. From east or north, from south or west,
 The wind of purpose blows; But balanced in the fourfold wind The tall pine straightly grows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

1. Who played the role of himself in the recent photop.ay, "Strike Ur the Band?
 2. Are snakes slimy?
 3. With what docs the thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitu. tion deal?
 4. What is the largest privately owned business and recreation cen. ter in the United States?
 5. How many gun shots consti- ute the presidents salute? 6. In which state is Lake Pont- chartrain?
 T. Paper was first made by the Egyptians, Greeks, or Chinese?
 8. What is the name of the an. cient fortress that is the seat oi government in the U. S. s. R.?
 g. Was the Republican or the Democratic national convention held first in 1940?
 10, Does pure natural gas have odor?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
PLENTLY or TURKEYS
Boston Post)

The fact that the crop of United States turkeys this year Is a bounti- full one, and that prices are expected to ba slightly less than a year ago, Is good news to all New Englanders. those who expect to eat the festive bird at Thanksgiving time and the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

T h e y mostly revolve about the ancient fight be- ty e en Bridges Tn tern ational Long shoremen's and Warehouse mems Union and Joe Ryan's A. F. of L. outfit, the Tn t n.a ii onal L Q n g s h ore = mems Association.
 A labor board
 decision two years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
Daily Almanac

Moon sets o:0e p. m.
 Sun rises 6:58 Q. m; sets 4:25 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Each succeeding fall month this year has been ushered in by correspondingly colder weather. September brought an end to sum mcr: October was colder stll; SO was No- vember: December Is continuing the pro- gresslon of winter Into southern New Eng land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03

tIlCA pC4 oOAAdA- ties. Any number of reasons might be given why s om e men go quickly to the top and others never seem to get started. But in the careers of almost all suc- cessful men this
 circuln s t a n c e seems to be pres ent: That the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-03
A Thought for Today

And it came to pass, that whOsOever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.- Acts 2:21.
 The demand of the human understanding for causation requires but the one old and only answer, God,-Dexter