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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-08

should be emulated on the widest posi-
BILE scale by thousands Of other communi-
ties Of America. If we are to maintain
democracy and sound and solvent gov
eminent, there must be resurgence OF
local responsibility, local independence,
local effort to serve the industries, farm
ers and working people of the nation.
Centralized government is the enemy OF
true representative government. And the
Village Movement seems to be one posi-
bic cure for trend which has gone farther
country with the principles of totalitar-
ianiSm.
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A Scout Is reverent.
Il Might Have Been

The infant republic of the United States
didn't know about Fascists, Nazis, and
Communists back in 1910. Had the peo-
pie OF that distant era been able to fore
see the events Of today, they might have
given more serious consideration to the
following proposed constitutional amend
ment, approved by Congress but rejected
by enough states to kill it:
IF any citizen of the United
States shall accept, claim, receive
or retain any title of nobility or
honor, or shall, without the con-
sent Of Congress, accept and retain
any present, pension, office or
emolument of any kind whatever,
from any emperor, king, prince or
foreign power, such person shall
cease to be citizen of the United
States and shall be incapable of
holding any office of trust or profit
under them or either of them"
Had the amendment passed 1870 years
ago, 1t might have proved bit tough
for modern heiresses who collect foreign
titles and who value their American cit
izenship. But it would have been lot
tougher for the boys and girls who get
their orders and their pay checks from
Hitler and Stain and who cling tenac-
iouSly to the benevolent protection Uncle
Sam gives his citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-08
In Today's Mail

The people Of the U. s. should
take of their hats to man as
honest as Rev. John Haynes, pastor
Of Community church, N. Y, who
had such courage to face the peo-
pie and admit his mistake.
The League for Peace and DEM
ocracy Is no more. How many recall
the Rev. ]. Alison Smith, pastor Of
the Grace Methodist church in Wa
terville. The same Mr.. Smith that
left his church to become field rep
resentative for the League for Peace
and Democracy "a Communist
'front.'. Yes, the same Mr.. J. Alison
Smith that called Father Coughlin
q mo. / Nuisance" a "demogogue"
and a "peddler Of crack pot
panaceas."
According to newspaper reports he
Is on his way to rejoin his church.
I wonder II he will face his congre-
cation as ,Iev. DR.. Holmes did, and
admit that he Is ashamed Of him
self, for his mistakes. Is Mr.. j. Alison
Smith going to apologize for the re-
AbAdA n AlS QAAA1AG 00UuV = 6UkACH 0OuBAA-
lin? Is he going to be as much a
man as the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes2 ! wonder?
We all make mistakes, but It
takes courage to.admit them. More
power to Rev. John Haynes Holmes,
q real he man.
In conclusion may I again con-
gratulate the Waterbury Democrat
for its honest and fine news report
ing, and may I make q suggestion.
Why do you spoil q good paper by
carrying Walter (Peephole) VIM
chells naiiseous column? ,s
Your paper could be doing the q.
s. a lot Of good by instead Of carry
ing Winchells column In its place
put Father Coughlin,s complete
Sunday broadcast. and you would
be helping to rid the q. s. of COM
munisln, nazisln and Fascism.
DO away With Winchell's lies and
propaganda and divorce gossip. In
the Naugatuck river with him and
his column. (poor river.
am sure thousands Of Waterbury
people VIII approve. How about It
folksp IN
Yours Truly
JOHN FIESTA
Al Irion st.
Waterbury, Conn.
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Selected Poem
FARM NIGHT

ORANGES Frost in the Christian Science
Monitor)
The house was warmly banked with brush and
leaves
the barn and water box were banked with white.
While snow blew round the soping woodshed caves,
the lantern-light trudged toward the htchenlight.
She hurried to the oven for a look.
hearing him stamp the snow off in the shed;
and when the latch went up, her fingers shook
tucking curl back on her wintry head.
He smiled and said the drifts were piling up
but stars were out, the way the north wind drove.
When he bent down to pat the collie pup,
the old cat came from underneath the stove
and wound around his boots. He washed his face,
combed his white thatch and locked the woodshed
door.
Over the beans and brown bread they said grace
while the dog and cat watched calmly from the
floor.
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trying to tear down Powers ar
gll1nents.
The film star couldn't under
stand why In a place like Vir-
ginia, which sets such store by
tradition, the horsey set almost
had dispensed with the wearing
Of the traditional bright pink
Jackets.
II hear you wear them only
twice q year." he observed,
Thanksgiving and New Years.
why is that?"
"Well, personally l think they're
something Of q nuisance" ex-
planned young Roosevelt. 'Be-
sides, they scare the cattle and
farmers wouldn't let us ride
over their land II we wore them
all the time"
FINLAND'S WAIST
Press cables from Finland
always carefully censored, stress
fighting along the Karelian front.
This Is the narrow peninsula be-
tween Lake Ladoga and the Gulf
Of Finland, very close to Lenin-
grad, where the Mannerheim Line
has held back the Russian at
tack.
However, the censors have said
almost nothing recently about thu
tremendous Russian thrust against
the waist" of Finland. This is the
Long border Of Finland and Rus
STA which stretches north toward
the Arctic.
Here, IL Is reported, Russia
IL ainassing large numbers Of
trained troops in an effort to
break through into the heart Of
Finland. Since Finland Is mar
row, Soviet strategy Is to cut
the country In two. with part
Of the Finnish army kent busy
in Karelia, II will be difficult
for the Firms to resist this new
y drive.
This massing movement was the
inside reason for Finland's re-
cent suggestion Of an honorable
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Here Is an editorial that appeared
in the Waterbury Democrat thai
merits reprinting:
RUSSIA'S FRIENDS DESERT
The last Of Russia's friends
among American liberals have
sent their regrets that they are no
longer just like that with the
Soviet Republic and wondering
how they ever got that way In the
first place. One Of the most de-
voted friends of the U. s. s. r.
In the dayc before the courtship
of Adolf Hitler was Reverend
John Haynes Holmes, pastor Of the
Community Church, New York.
Getting up before his Congrega-
ton in Town Hall, New York, DR..
Holmes figuratively bowed his
head and confessed he and his
fellow liberal had been horribly
wrong about Russia. IF we liber-
ais were right on certain single
aspects of the Russian Revolution,
We were wrong, disgracefulIy
wrong, on the question as .
whole" he said.
Most sympathizers were jolted
of by the Nazi-Soviet non-ag-'
gression treaty. Even fellow tra-
velers anS Party members fell by
the way side in alarming numbers,
a little confused still, but aware
that their attitude toward Russia
had undergone q definite change.
A few stuck by Joe Stain, per-
haps hanging ON to the faint hope
that this was all q delusion or
that the past was preliminary to
a brilliant diplomatic coup against
Fascism.
In November. Red troops IN
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vaded Finland. There wasn't
much left for sympathizers. Those
At,aarinors v,I1n had eoy.aatanu,

vaded Finland. There wasn't
much left for sympathizers. Those
Americans who had somehow
stood by Stain through the days
Of the purges, the Spanish Civil
War duplicates, the counterfeiting
rings, the inner espionage Of the
Kremlin--these American friends,
who had swallowed hard but had
accepted all atrocities as unpleas-
ant means to a desired end, were
now sold out by Boss Stain.
Clipped Of their theology, built
up around the Soviet experiment
It wasn't easy for American liber-
ais. who were not Communists, to
flick of with the snap Of finger
all the things In which they had
believed for 20 years. They were
left out in the cold, like DIR. Hol-
mes, they feel they deceived my
self as well as been deceived"
7 Or. Holmes did not spare him
self. He recounted all the horrors
which liberals like himself and
thousands OF others who have
preferred to remain silent were
once able to justify. The despoil-
ing of the Kulochs, enforced COLI
lectivization concentration camps.
purges - they all became real.
Russia's ex-friends know now that
they do exist, DR.. Holmes points
his own moral. what can we
learn from this CHASTITY experience
mot only we liberals but every
body? That immoral means can
never lead to moral ends. That
power invariably corrupts and
ruins those who use 1t arbitrarily
and unrestrictedly for, however
good q cause.
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Current Comment

The fact of the international sit
uation-the simple fact without any
DOGGY in 1t, without any appeals TO
prejudice-is that the United States.
as have said before, is neutral and
does not intend to get involved in
the war.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
=
One cannot expect that they who
have reservations about the values
Of democracw shall be enthusiastic
supporters of the ideal Of a Jewish
commonwealth in Palestine.
DIR. Stephen s. Wise, Zionist
leader.
We are determined this time good
will come out of the sacrifices now
demanded.
Anthony Eden, British dominions
minister.
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peace. Despite all the gay U. s.
parties for promoting Finnish re-
lief, very little in actual war
supplies has been received by Fin
land. Her situation is desperate.
LIBERAL CONFERENCE
The much ballyhooed conference
Of Western Liberals will not tax,
place. It was killed at an inner
circle meeting which included Har-
old Ickes, Tom Corcoran, Ben
Cohen, Assistant Attorney General
Littell, Assistant Secretary of La
Dor Dimock, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior Oscar Chapman, and
Director Of Government Reports
Lowell Mellett.
They decided that If any lib
eral conference to be held, 1t
should be held for the entire U.
s. A. not merely the West. But the
Inner Circle also decided that 1t
was probably liberals out on the
firing line by holding a confer
ence Of any kind.
CARRIERS MARCH
THROUGH GEORGIA
Backstage influence in Gamers
decision to 60 into the Geor-
gia primary was a group Of Bit
ter Roosevelt haters. They want
ed to keep the President from con-
trolling the Georgia convention at
the Democratic National Conven-
/, ton.
If you call the roll Of the Gar.
ner hackers In Georgia you will
get some idea as to whether they
were Chiefly prof. Garner or chief
ly i-Roosevelt. Here are the
men who persuaded the vice.
president to file:
1. Senator Walter George,
whom Roosevelt attempted to
purge In 1888.
2. w. r. Anderson, editor Of
The Macon Telegraph and one
Of Roosevelt's bitterest critics.
3. Elk. Governor Eugene Tai
z rnadge, long q leader Of the
arlti-Roosevelt forces.
4. Ex-senator and ex-G Cover
i, r1uor Thomas Hardwicke, an
other leader Of the anti-R oose-
welt legion.
5. Edgar B. Dunlap, who was
ousted as counsel of the RIO
In 1888 when IL was discov-
cred that he was manager for
Senator George. Dunlap Is
now promoting Gamers entry
into the Georgia primary:
Despite the efforts Of this group
Georgia Is almost sure to come to
the Democratic convention with
an uninstructed delegation. Gov.
Rivers made this plain to close
friends while he was In wash
ington for the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee meeting. Fur
thermore, Governor Rivers told
the President personally that the
Georgia delegation would be for
Roosevelt for q third term, II
Roosevelt wanted their support.
Copyright, 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
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The Twelfth Scout Law

The Boy Scout Movement was founded
in America just thirty years ago, which
IS the reason for designating February 8
to II this year as Boy Scout Week. Most
Of us have watched it grow and gain in
influence, with great satisfaction. 1t is
something vital to ''The American Way"
and through three decades, its service has
gained the confidence OF all people.
It would be difficult to point to any
single quality of the Movement and say
with positiveness, "Here is what makes
Scouting great" But in our Judgment
one Of It's outstanding contributions to
the nation, particularly in these times of
world travail, is its simply-worded
Twelfth Scout Law. It epitomizes all that
we as people stand for; all that our
forefathers pioneered for when they were
fashioning a safe homeland out Of a
wilderness.
Read its stirring words. They are worth
memorizing and, more than that, they
should be lived by all of us who have the
high privilege of being Americans.
Here is the Twelfth Scout Law:
A Scout Is reverent.
He is reverent toward God. He Is
faithful in his religious duties, and
respects the convictions of others in
matters Of custom and religion.
All Americans worthy of the name, all
who believe in the Declaration Of indie
pendence, the Bill of Rights and the Con-
stitution of the United States have an
abiding faith in such a principle because
it is living thing they will always be
free and independent.
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a. IL Is 0U miles lOLlB 1IViu ucCP
water to deep water; its length
from shore line to shore line Is 40
miles.
@. How Is the average monthly
wage determined In calculating the
amount Of old-age retirement ber1e-
fits under the Social Security Actp
A. Take the workers total wages
in covered jobs, as reported by his
employers, and divide this total by
the number Of months he COULD
have been in employment since 1886.
Thus, If q worker Is due to retire
at the end Of 1941 at age IS, but
works only during the years 1887,
1898 and 1899, his average month
ly wage would be determined by
dividing his total wage credits by so
possible working months instead VI
by SO, the number Of months ne
ACTUALLY worked.
@. Are the screen actors, Frank
and Ralph Morgan, related?
A. They are brothers.
@. How should carrots be stored?
A. Well regulated cold storage
Is satisfactory. The temperature
should be kept near 80 to "a degrees
r., and moderately moist atmos.
phere is desirable, as dryness re-
suits In severe shriveling. Good re-
suits may also be obtained in natu-
raj storage cellars or outdoor caves
where they can be kept as cool as
possible without freezing.
@. How fast is the U. s. Govern
ment increasing Its fleet Of fight
ing planes?
A. At the beginning Of 1899 the
total number was $500. It is ex-
pected that the Army will have $500
planes by July !, 1941, and the Navy
will have 5000 of its own aircraft by
1914.
Q. When was the first important
victory for the freedom Of the press
won in this country?
A. In the trial Of John Peter
Zenger in 1884. He was publisher Of
the New York weekly Journal"
and was arrested on the charge Of
libel against Governor Crosby. He
was imprisoned for some time be-
fore his trial, but was acquitted by
the jury.
@. How is neon gas, used in ad.
vertising signs, made?
A. It is a chemical element, anC
was discovered In the atmosphere
In 1893 by Sir william Ramsey. It
occurs in the proportion Of one part
of neon to $4,000 parts Of air, and
is distilled from Nquefied air.
II you W mt copy Of the book
let SEA FOOD COOKING" send
to The Wats bury Democrats WASH
ington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth
Street, Washington, ID. g. Enclose
10 cents in postage.
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Reporters expressed pleasure over
receiving two-for-a quarter cigars
and 1t was printed that predecessor
wilbur L. Cross handouts were two
for a-nickel."
II that be so, IL is possible that
the grand "old gentleman down at
Yale felt poorer than he really was.
His salary was 5000 year. The
Baldwin salary Is $4,000 q year,
thanks to generous Legislature. It
is just possible that the Gross che
roots were a nickel apiece, which
would have been more in keeping
with the gubernatorial salaries.
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mise OF Cover
nor Harold q.
Hoffman Of New
Jersey.
Hoffman they
said, had ruined
his chances Of q
vice-presidential
nomination, nip
ping in the bud
one Of the most
promising ca
reers In the land
because he had
intrevened to re-
prieve B run o
Richard Haupt-
mann later eye
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What's Your To-?
Can you answer seven Of
these test questions? Turn to
un~A - 80 Nnw AV.M a,.sv.,M..~,

Can you answer seven OF
these test questions? Turn to
last page for the answers.
/. OF which country is Baghdad
the capital?
q. what Is the name for a mass
Of compacted ice originating in q
snow-field?
8. Which state Is represented in
Congress by Senator Robert A. Taft?
4. How long is fathom?
s. Entomologists study climate,
trees or insects?
6. Who is the French Ambassa-
dor to Italy?
7. What Is the atmospheric pres
sure at sea level?
8. What Is the correct pronuncia-
ton Of the word ethereal?
8. With what sport Is Melio Bet
tina associated
10. With what countries was Spain
allied during the World War?
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daily Almanac

Moon sets 5:57 p. m.
sun rises 6:37 a. M; sets 5:l6 p. m.
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes after sunset.
The moon entered the new moon phase
this afternoon between and O'Clock. The
outlook. accordingly, for the next week, de-
spite calendar and long-range predictions,
is for continuation of the faik and mild
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The Finlandia theme is repeating itself
pretty constantly these days with scarcely
a day going by without some substan-
tial return from entertainment Of one sort
of another that benefits Finland
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Writer Connends The Waterbury Democrat
For Stand Against Russia and Communism
Editor Of the Democrat:
7 Waterbury, Conn,
February 7, 1910.

Editor OF the Democrat: I~1@ -. 49,
Congratulations to the Waterbury Democrat for its
many recent editorials Russia and Communism It is
pleasure to have paper that is not afraid to bring the
truth to the people of Waterbury, about Russia Comun
ism and Communist supporters in the U. s.
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THE EDITOR
q. VINO prepares the examines
lions given by the United States
Civil Service Commission2
A. Seventy technical advisors and
examiners on the staff Of the Conn
mission prepare the examinations.
The Commission also has authority
to use specialists In any department
Of the government, II necessary TO
prepare and grade examinations,
and act as consultants and advisors.
@. Is the general property tax
the principal source Of state rev.
enue?
A. In 1887, it was only z percent
Of all state revenues, as compared
with a percent in 1915.
Q. How long is the Panama
Canal?
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New York, Feb. BIN 1885, poll
ticians were mourning-Or exult-
ing-in the supposed political de-
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
Words ending in "" preceded
BY o vowel, keep the ~" be-
fore . SUNK; as, buy-buyer;
gay-gayest. The following are
exceptions: day-daiIy; pay
paid; say-said; lay-laid.
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cuted for the kidnap-murder Of
the Lindbergh baby.
Those who thought Hoffman
politically dead were wrong
dead wrong. For he is back in the
political arena, having announced
his candidacy in the gubernatorial
stakes.
Hoffman was only SO at the time
of the Lindbergh trial, a facile
and persuasive speaker whose
vote-getting ability could well
have been used by the Republic
cans facing a rising Roosevelt.
Already it had been whispered
that his name would be brought
up at the convention as q vice
presidential choice. All ne had 70
do was to go on as he had done,
making speeches, kissing babies,
blowing through the political rou-
tine
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FOLLOWED HIS
CONSCIENCE

For man to toss UP such an op..
portunity, conscience must indeed
have compelling voice. But just
before Hauptmann was scheduled
to die, Hoffman called for the rec
ords of the case as matter OF
routine. Whatever 1t Is he discov-
cred there, he found himself UNI
able to let the execution take
place. His encouragement, his
state police, his Investigators all
urged and pleaded with him not
to interfere. For one thing,
Hauptmann was guilty, they said,
and for another 1t would leopard
ize his political chances.
He wouldn't nster--he rarely
does when the dictates Of his own
Judgment demand otherwise.
They. were right about what the
episode did to his political career.
From the foregoing, Hoffman
sounds like an unusual sort OF
fellow-and he Is. He Is below
middle height, broad Of shoulder,
F'alstaffian Of girth, with Q square,
pleasant face, a valuable smile
and a good head Of hair.
He has the ability to work all
night and start right in again the
next day without intermission. He
has a vast fondness for his wife,
his three daughters, spare ribs
and sauerkraut, and when he can
get the time, swimming and
horseback riding.
IN POLITICS
AT FL
He was a high school athlete in
South Amboy, N. J.-baseball,
basketball and football-and not
long thereafter he went away to
war. He came back a captain at
81, and entered politics, where he
only instance in which Hoffman
disregarded the advice of his
councillors. When he decided to
run for Governor in 1884, he was
warned that Republican had al
has been ever since.
The Lindbergh case was not the
most no chance. He had only
three weeks In which to prove
them wrong. He did.
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A. It Is so miles long from deep
water to deep water; its length
from shore line to shore line Is 40
miles.
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II you " mt copy Of the book
let SEA FOOD COOKING" send
to The Wats bury Democrats WASH
ington Bureau, 1918 Thirteenth
Street, Washington, ID. G. Enclose
10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-08

Q. How long is the Panama
Cana12
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@. Is the general property tax
the principal source Of state rev
enIIe2
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-20
Stores Wrecked, Homes Demolished in
Terrific Bombing Of MidIands City

A WEST MIDLAND TOWN, Eng
land, Nov. 90 (UP)-Waves of
German raiders last night attacked
this town without letup for hours,
dropping hundred of high explo-
sive and incendiary bombs over a
wide area. Despite terrific anti
aircraft fire more than so stores
Were wrecked and many houses
were demolished.
Despite severity of the onslaught
from the skies the damage was not
SO extensive as at Coventry But
in addition to demolished houses
many other were damaged. Accurate
casualties figures were not i'm
mediately available.
A series of fires in four main
localities and numerous smaller
outbreaks soon were brought und-
er control.
Official accounts said that prin-
cipal destruction was to stores, Of
fices and houses and one or two
small factories.
The roof OF large hotel was
damaged severely and the windows
We're blown out of a church. Sew
eral parachute mines were drop