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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
BAPTISTS CANCEL
JOURNEY TO VITO

After brief business NEE ting Il,
the church last night members OF
the Mr., and Mrs. Club OF the First
Baptist Church adjourned TO tht
home Of President Mr.. and Mrs
Stanley A. Terry where an evening
OF games was enjoyed, Refresh
mentS were served.
The trip to VITO which had
been planned was called off on &C.
count OF the carcellat lion OF the
Guy Hedlurd play, made necessary
by President RooseVelts broadcast
last night,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
Returns Home

John Zawlsa, II, who was
missing from his home at 20 Put.
nam street since Tuesday was
found yesterday In Morris by
Howard J. Stoddard, Morris Sc
lcctman.
Police were unable 10 learn
where the man spent the last
three days.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
SPOTLIGHTXNG--
Brass City News

colo, States Attorney william 3.
Fitzgerald and duerin Carmody
was appointed TO make arrange
ments for the event.
Attorney Michael v. BlansAeld
was elected president and Bank.
ruptcy Referee Walter Torrance,
vice president OF the association,
as had been predicted. George II.
Freeman was reelected secretary,
and william M. Gillette, re-elect-
cd treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
NAUGATUCK

TO RENT-In Naugatuck, pleasant
four-room apartment, recorated, all
conveniences. easily heated, central
" located. for one or two adults.
Apply Mrs. A. L. Fuller. SO Meadow
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
BREAKS REPORTED

Breaks at 1870 Easton avenue and
68 Wolcott street were being investi-
gated BY the detective bureau today.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
SISTERHOOD UNITS
IN STATE SESSION

Representatives Of Temple Israel
and the Torrington Ssterhood will
attend an institute on synagogue
affairs OF the Reform Temples OF
the Connecticut valley district to-
morrow ut New Haven.
Rabbi Maurice Zigmund OF Tenn
pie Israel, will SPEAK.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11
new YORK DOCTOR
TO LECTURE HERE
David Gordon Is Mothers
Day Guest at Communion
Breakfast Tomorrow
WATER T0WN
Correspondent: Mary Cosgrove
Phone SIS

WATERFOWL, May 1.-THE commit
tee In charge Of the Mothers Day
Communion Breakfast Of the Holy
Name Society announces as guest
speaker, David Gordon, Ph.D.. OF
New York. DR.. Gordon Is considered
one Of New York's outstanding
Catholic laymen, o dynamic speak
or and o brilliant personality.
Food Sale
At the meeting Of st. Johns
School association Wednesday eve.
ming In the school, O food sale was
planned Friday May II. Included
In the committee for the food sale
are: Mrs. Haddad, Mrs. George Ry-
an, MRS. Thomas Geoghegan and
MRS. John John Miller.
The association discussed placing
clocks In the classrooms, but fur.
ther action was tabled until the
next meeting.
st. Johns Church
Masses on Sunday at z. 8:lS and
1000 q. m. In Bethlehem ct 1850
a, m. The Holy Name Society will
receive Communion In q body at the
z o'clock mass. Following mass, they
will 20 TO the school for their
Communion Breakfast. There will
be devotions In the evening at 1880.
The 9. Y. o. will meet Tuesday
evening at 2 o'clock Ia the church
for instructions after which they
will 60 TO the school for their
meeting.
There will be rehearsal for the
senior choir Friday evening at 7:30.
Methodist Church
Sunday school at 10000 q. m.
Morning Worship at li:00 q. m.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11

Since the London Boobies
donned tin helmets many call them
"Tit-Hatted Roberts"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11

The address by Oswald Garrison
Willard which was to have been CIV
en- tomorrow night In WATERFOWL at
the WATERFOWL Methodist church,
has been cancelled due TO the Ill.
ness Of Mr.. Willard.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-05-11

Zoo elephants in Southampton
England, are being taught 10 walk
OH the left side of the road.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
HIRAM JOHNSON SPEAKS
HIS MIND AGAIN

Senator Hiram Johnson, grand old
statesman of California, has spoken once
again in presidential campaign.
His support goes to Wendell l.. Will
ke, Republican nominee. And his sup
port is liable to be the most precious
thing Willkie could have received. The
people believe in Hiram Johnson, be-
cause party ties have never held him
closely. He mas voted always as his con-
science dctates-never as some party
machine told him to vote.
Not only the people of California, but
the people of the entire nation listen
when Hiram Johnson speaks. The aver
age citizen knows him as one of this
country's few real statesmen, as opposed
to its many politicians. His word in
this campaign or any other, is the word
of a man who has been right most of the
time-even when it was unpopular to be
right.
Particularly devastating to the politi
cally ambitious New Deal is the fact that
Hiram Johnson's support of Willkie fol-
lows two campaigns in which the veter-
an senator worked for and recommended
election of President Roosevelt. Johnson
supported Roosevelt in 1882 and again In
1886. Today he is recommending that
the President who seeks a third term
to perpetuate his gigantic power be re-
tired by the voters.
A lot of the voters are bound to lis
ten to him.
1t was Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes tragic mistake in 1916 that he
slighted Hiram Johnson, as President
Roosevelt sighted Johnson this year
when he attempted to purge California's
most popular citizen. Hughes lost Cali
fornias electoral votes because of that
mistake-and the California votes put
Woodrow Wilson in the White House.
Johnson's support in this election bears
even more weight than in 1916, because
progressivism today is in the ascendancy,
and Johnson has been known throughout
his entire lifetime as leading progress
sive He championed woman suffrage
when it was a laughing stock He fought
for labor legislation when labor had no
voice at all He has continued through
out the years to work and vote for prog
ressive legislation His is not the voice
of a reactionary speaking against Pres
ident Roosevelt-it is the voice of man
who has initiated and carried through
as much liberal legislation as the Presi-
dent himself has ever thought of.
Hiram Johnson's voice may decide the
fate of our next president. 1t has done
so before.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
AFRAID OF ITS FRIENDS
{ Riverside Press }

In the great game Of politics it is az
lomatlc that many more men are de-
feated by their friends than by their
enemies.
AS Clem Whitaker, California column
ist says, the political friendship that
looked promising before election time be-
comes first class liability long before
election day.
There are innumerable classic exam
piles of this political paradoX-and Pres
ident Roosevelt's managers in Califor-
mia are jumping through hoops, at the
moment, trying to keep history from re-
peating ITSELF
Two of Mr.. Roosevelt's California
friends who are giving the third term
campaigners the galloping iitters are
Governor Culbert L. Olson, who deliver
ed this states delegation to the Presi-
dent at the Democratic national conven-
ton in Chicago and Harry Bridges, the
CIO boss who went down the line for the
New Deal four years ago and has since
been protected and befriended by Madam
Perkins
It is no state secret that the Roosevelt
big-wigs have Nightmares every time they
consider what might happen if Mr..
Bridges, now under investigation by the
G-men, should suddenly pop out with an
endorsement of their candidate.
To Gov Olson they are a little more
charitably inclined because he is, after
all, Democratic national committeeman
from California and the titular head of
the party Nevertheless the Democratic
managers were frankly irked when the
governor insisted on going about the
state with Henry A. Wallace Mr.. Roose-
velt's running mate.
The fact that the governor was badly
beaten in his attempt to purge the
legislation and has been threatened with
both recall and impeachment makes the
Democratic bosses wonder if he wouldn't
render a greater service to the party by
endorsing Wendell Wilkie.
Governor Olson's forces, however, have
served notice that their chief cannot be
pushed around by upstarts in the party,
who happen to be in the limelight tenn
porarily as Mr.. Roosevelts campaign
managers. Mr.. Olson, they point out,
will still be national committeeman after
election, and in that capacity will dis
pense all federal patronage in California
if Mr.. Roosevelt is reelected.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
by Willis Thornton
What 10 Do with Your Money?

In the last war it was pa
triotic duty to buy Liberty Bonds
but if the U. S. defense program
develops as it is pointing, with the
national debt already 10 times its
level in 1917 and costs likely to go
higher, harshcr methods might be
necessary.
Where you could once choose be-
tween buying a house or q new
car, kccpire your money in the
savings bank for emergency. or
lending it to the government the
changed circumstances might make
forced loans or capital levies nee
CSSary.
Italy has already had three COM
pulsory loans and now taxes cxery-
one not only on income but with
an annual tax on all their capital
Germany, of coursc, has many
doiges, one Of them forced ac-
ccptancc of tax certificates bear
Ing no interest for part of every
thing the government buys. Hun
gary has had direct capital levy
Holland, at the start of her war
effort, announced that if a public
voluntary loan were not successful
it would be made compulsory in
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20

order to defray mobilization expcn-
scs.
Now New Zealand has just put
through a compulsory lean paying
no interest.
If it can happen here, the i'm
plication is that any kind of prop
orty like home or a bank account
may be hit by capital levy. You
might be better off with your money
in a sugarbowi like the French
man.
But then we see what the English
are doing with a problem so far
much harder than ours. Towns
are competing as teams in the
amount OF bonds bought at So each.
(There arc ether specific Its of
news ON British methods enc Ion
don paper has proved 1t moro pa
triotic to drink 100 pounds worth
of gin that to lend the same amount
to the government without inter
est
All this is voluntary and no more
to be dreaded than the liberty Loan
drives Or % years ago
That may soon be happening
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
CHECK ON The BUREAUS

1t has been an increasing threat to
constitutional government il the United
States that governmental boards and
bureaus could make and enforce rules
and laws, and the person against whom
they were enforced had no appeal what
ever to the courts or to any other impair
tial agency.
California has, unwsely, followed the
lead of the federal government in Great
ing some boards from whose rulings
there is no appeal. One man or set of
men becomes arresting officer, prOsecu-
tor, judge and jailer in such a case.
Proposition No. 6 on the November 5
ballot would correct the situation, inso-
far as California is concerned. 1t would
make the rulings of these boards and
agencies subject to court review 1t
would give the victim some place to turn
from an unfriendly governmental agen-
cy. If justice were on his side, it would
give him a chance to prove it. The pro-
position should be adopted.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
by Paul Harrison :.
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

the period of the picture predates
the writing Of the song by about 40
years.
Musical anachronism is nothing
in the life Of Chico, either Seated
at an 1870 horlky-tonk piano, he
clatters through The Woodpcck-
er Song" a hit Of 1910.
THE COST
OF CHORDS
Funny thing about Chico is that
privately he seems to care nothing
about playing. Never plays infor-
mally, never practices until short
ly before number must be record
ed. Except for his vaudeville tricks,
he really isn't much of pianist.
He always wanted to lead band.
and now he's going to do it. lIe
has a 16-piece orchestra and con-
tract for an eight-week stage tour.
The brothers secretary. Rachel
Linden, gave me another musical
note on Harpo. Said that for years
she made out checks for him to a
piano teacher. "At first I thought
he was just versatile she recalled.
Finally found out he still couldn't
read music or play the piano
either He'd been paying a piano
teacher to play chords SO he could
work out the same combinations
on the harp, by ear"
The picture finished, Groucho is
packing his golf clubs and guitar
for a cross continental motor jaunt
Harpo thinks he'll try the stage
in the top role of The Man Who
Came to Dinner Some movie
people are being recruited for
tour, with proceeds to be split be-
tween the Red Cross and British
War Relief. The customers prob
ably would demand harp solo,
and Marx is wondering whether
he could twang the spokes of the
play characters wheel chair.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20

HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 19.-The ma
MAC Marx Brothers have finished
a picture called Go west but
as a western it ranks somewhere
between the Coney Island Fun
House and night club rodeo.
Which, of course, is as it should
be.
Harpo is glimpsed on a horse IN
one scene, but you can't say that
any of the brothers really does
any riding. All westerns have to
have big chase sequence, but
the one in this picture takes place
on a train. with the fugitive COM
les uncoupling cars and making
the locomotive scurry around
through the sagebrush like an
army tank. The Marxes don't do
any fancy six-gun work, either,
although Harpo does blow open a
safe with a cannon. He does it to
get the deed to ranch which is
the keystone of a dastardly land
grating scheme That gives you
an idea of the story.
GROUCHO PLUCKS
A GUITAR
Harpo and Chico included their
respective harp and piano special
ties in every film except Duck
Soup" and Room Service" The
omissions brought a flood of COM
plants from fans, so Go West
has been given an extra quota of
music. Romantic-H Hero John Car
roll has two songs, one with har-
monica accompaniment by Har-
po, the other with guitar plunking
by Groucho.
It's an odd fact that the eldest
Marx, actually guitarist of con-
cert skill, never had played it in
o picture or show. He wasn't
scheduled to play in this picture
but they finally let him when he
began to grow pouty about it. AS
o r-strummer, Groucho thus
displays at least one attribute OF
a horse-opera star.
They always have a tough time
introducing Harpo's solos, and the
device used this time is even sill
lier than usual. It seems that the
ScreWball trio, with Carroll and
Heroine Diana Lewis, are spend
ing an evening at an Indian reser-
vation. There are lot of pretty
squaws about, so Harpo makes
news by chasing few brunets. One
of these romantic pursuits leads
him to a loom where a cutie is
working overtime on a rug.
The cords ON the loom look like
harp strings He plucks at then
idly and tsurpriseD finds then
taut and resonant and tuned. SO hf
plays by the Waters of the Mime.
tonka' on the loom-a feat made
doubly astonishing by the fact thai
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
LOOK TO HEALTH

(Dairyman Gazette, Clntonville Wis.,
An eminent doctor has stated that the
apparent ineXhaustibility of the German
war machine is partly due to the contin-
ued Nazi interest in health and that if
Americas defense program schedule is
to be maintained at high speed, Ameri
Ca must look carefully to the health of
its industrial man power.
Fortunately industrial medicine has
found methods to prevent fatigue of
workers so that neither the workers
health nor the production schedule will
be impaired. What is needed now is vol
untary cooperation to put these methods
into wider use They have already been
adopted by many manufacturers, large
and small.
Certainly the interest of manufacture
ers in the health of their employees is in
dicated by the recent ''clinic' of manu-
facturerS and medical experts in Musk
egon, Michigan-the first meeting of its
type ever held for a thorough analysis
of industrial health problems.
We in America have no enthusiasm for
totalitarian methods. But we can, as DR..
Heiser says, learn a lesson concerning
the Importance of health in industry,
and we can, through the voluntary coop
Grafton of all grOups-maintain super
ior American health standard as an in
tegral part Of sound program of ma
ional defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
by Bruce Cation -.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

ed in court proceedings, even though
the proceedings have passed the
stage of finality following the entry
of verdict of jury or the judg-
ment of a court. The voices of the
soap-box orator and radio COM
mentator are stilled, the news
paper presses are stopped, until
some indefinite future time-and
this irrespective of any clear show
ing that serious interference with
the administration of justice might
result
OPENS DOOR
TO MORE ATTACKS
In an amicus curiae brief filed
by Elisha Hanson, attorney for the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, the manner in which
the contempt cases were instigateo|
is caustically reviewed.
The Los Angeles Bar Association
petitiono.d for the comptempt pro-
ceedings. says Hanson's brief, be-
cause, of long-Standing dissatisfac-
ton with the Times editorial pol
icy. and following an extended
search of the papers editorial col
umns lin the hope that something
would turn up to support a charge
of contempt" The brief adds:
In effect, the bar association
had set itself up as self-ap-
pointed public censor of the press
Such a pervasive threat would
impose an intolerable restraint up
on the press"
Should a bar association COM
mittee be recognized as proper
means of starting contempt pro-
Ceeding in such circumstances, the
brief asserts, then the door will
be opened 10 other agencies with
alleged grievances against the press
and the constitutional guarantee
will be whitfield away by subsequent
enCrOachmentS."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Most
people may overlook it's Importance,
but as striking as Freedom OF the
Press case as the Supreme Court
has had to deaf with an appeal
by the Los Angeles Times from
contempt of court conviction in
a California court
The Times was had up originally
because of three editorials it wrote
in the fall of 1887 and the spring
of 1888. These editorials comment
ed on Cd A jurys conviction OF
% sit-down strikers, 90 the ms
and outs of boss rule in Los
Angeles, following conviction of two
persons accused of having solicited
bribes, and 90 the application for
probation of two men who had
been convicted of assaulting non
union truck drivers.
The Los Angeles Bar Association,
reading these three editorials, pc
titioned the local court to hold the
newspaper in contempt. In due
time the Times was cited ard con-
victed. and the conviction later was
upheld in the state Supreme court.
TRIALS OVER
BEFORE PUBLICATION
Importance of the case rests in
the fact that its outcome may affect
civil liberties of the average man for
years to come.
Point at issue is whether a paper
may be held in contempt if its
editorial remarks may have a "rea-
sonable tendency" to influence JUS
tice, Or whether there must be a
clear and present danger that
they will have that effect.
The Times makes the point that
the trials on which it, commented
were all over before the editorials
complained of were published, and
that none of the judges sitting in
the cases in question had read
the editorials anyhow. Thereupon
it raises the question: when is
it proper for newspaper to discuss
cases which are before the courts?
In brief filed with the Supreme
Court, the Times counsel makes
this assertion:
IF these rulings are permitted to
stand, no public comment may be
made on problems of social, Geo.
nomic or moral consequence involv-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
So They Say

I would use any influence l have
to uphold our nations best tradi
tions. It is one .3f our bulwarks
against totalitarian doctrine.
Mrs. Wendell Willkic, wife Of c
O. p. presidential nominee.
The process of distribution Wcrf
never mcrc important TO thr vel
fare of our people than they arc
today
President Roosevelt.
The i.iea that an emergency elm
mates the RIGHT of labor to ncr2tiate
belongs in GcTmcny and rot ever
here.
William S. Knudsen, production
chief. National Defense Ccmmis-
sion.
The suggestion that conscriptiol
of capital should follow ccnscrip-
ton of nianpower is just another
metaed OF b"i!sSing about complete
re2iinentation of bucincsS ana Ia
bcr ard agriculture.
james S. Kenpcr, president
c amber Of Commerce Of { 2
United States
o
can trutlifully gay to yo,. that
:Il we children AZ home arr tull of
eheeffilness anu courage
Princess Elizabeth Of Britain,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-20
Barbs

Elliot Roosevelt, who made
quite a study of economics gives
up a $4,000 job to take 1916 a
month army captaincy. Maybe he
didn't study long enough.
Nazi troops sail down the Blue
Danube. The waltz gives way to the
goose-step.
A western surgeon has removed
a wrist-Watch from PERSONS
stomach. The inveterate nail BIZ
ter probably went few inches too
far.
1t becomes more evident every
day that the draft is doing more
for girls than leap year ever did.