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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-10

e. What is an international labor union?
 A. In the United States, it is a nationally organized union having locals in another country, usually Canada.
 Q. What kind of training is pro- vided by vocational schools in the national defense program?
 A. There are two types; pre- employment short courses giving iI1- structions in specific skills such as welding and riveting; and supple mentary courses that aid workers on the job, who attend school to extend or improve their skills. Skills for which training is provided include: blue print reading, lathe work, mill- ing, chipping and filing, parachute making. welding, riveting, tool-mak- ing, auto mechanics, aviation me- chanics. pattern-making, drafting. electricity, radio, aviation sheet metal work, foundry practice and machine shop practice.
 Q. Was James Cash, Jr., who was kidnapped in Florida in May, 28. 1888, eyer found and the kidnapper appre- hended?
 A. His body was recovered on June 8, 1888, and Franklin P. Mo- Call was arrested and pleaded guilty to the Kidnapping. He was executed February 24, 1939.
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AMENDMENTS TO
SOCIAL SECURITY
ACT AID AGED
Ninth in a Series)

One amendment to the Social
Security act applies to workers
who are nearly or who have al
ready reached Is years of age.
The new law makes it possible for
these men and women to receive
monthly old-age insurance bene-
fits after January l, 1910.
A 65-year-old worker in a fac
tory, shop, mill, mine, store, or
other employment covered by the
act is entitled to file monthly
old-age insurance benefit claim,
provided he meets a few simple
requirements.
Under the original Social Sc
curity act, old-age insurance pay
ments were made to workers at
the age f IS. This was in. a lump
sum and amounted to 81 per
cent of all taxable wages receiv-
ed by the claiment after 1886 and
before he reached age IS.
The amended act stopped
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Squeeze Play
THE NEXT FIRST FAMILY? -
The Tafts are GOOD at Farming,
But They Can Raise Votes, Too
(P) Feature Service Writer

Washington - 1t was on Lin
coins birthday, 1888, Mrs. Robert
Taft drove from her Cincinnati
home to Columbus, O., to start
campaign work for her husband,
who was running for the Senate.
Mr.. Taft was away from his
Columbus campaign headquar-
tiers. But his wife learned, i'm
mediately upon arrival, that his
opponent was speaking that night
tc a large Negro audience in Col
umbus. She phoned to ask if she
might speak.
That's mighty NICE" she was
told, but this here is a non-par-
tisan meeting"
"But-but, my husbands oppo-
nent, What is he talking about?"
"Oh, he's only talking about
Lincoln"
1T that so? Well, 1 can speak
about Lincoln very well, too"
She was invited to speak.
All through that campaign she
drove alone through the states 80
counties to help elect her huS-
band.
He's Not Spectacular
Ohioans say she elected him.
She doesn't like that. She says,
"What is a good campaigner? It's
the man who gets the votes.
That's Bob. He's not spectacular.
But neither are the rural Ohioans
who elected him. They under
stand him. He understands them"
They are the only campaigning
married couple in the 1910 Presi-
dental race. But neither one had
chance, from the cradle, to
avoid politics. Her grandfather
was in Congress. Her father was
his fathers solicitor general. His
grandfather was in Grants .cabi-
net and his father, William How
ard Taft, was the roly-poly Pre-
sident and chief justice.
She was born in Winona, MINI.
and lived in Chicago and Wash
ington. He was born in Cincin-
natl, has always lived there.
But they didn't meet in Wash
ington. She was in school at Rose
mary Hall in Connecticut. He
came to a dance. He doesn't re-
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What It Means: Money for the Farmer!

spot. More than 500 cities have
applied for the plan, and the con-
gressmen representing those cities
will be clamoring to get it for
their voters. That means they
might have to dicker, with Sec
rotary Wallace's men. Maybe they
might be persuaded to change
their mind about the farm bill,
and vote more for the farmer in
exchange for a stamp plan.
Anyway, the squeeze play is on.
The next steps up to the senate.
The final day of reckoning can
be put off a few weeks, but it's
coming-and that goes for every
one of the dozens of appropria-
ton bills in congress.
That's why it's so hard to save
the taxpayers money in a COM
pick economy like ours. Especial
ly in an election year when
everybody wants something, and
his vote goes to the congressman
who tries to give him what he
wants.
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5 YEARS AGO

A. L. Growing, Underwood
township farmer, advanced a plan
for securing views of farmers up
en- legislation through expression
of township groups to politicians.
-"What's in a .name?" was the
question when Anna Mae Kelly
won the Milroy declamatory con-
test with the selection, Il Am A
Jew" Alfred Breitkruetz
brought a pair of huge elk ant
lers found in Beckendorf's slough
to display at SChmid's City Mar
ket.-Delhi piled up its thirteenth
basketball victory, beating Rem
vile 20 to II. = J. H. Wichman,
superintendent here for nine
years, was offered another con-
tract. - Bruno Hauptmann was
convicted of the kidnapping and
murder of the Lindbergh baby
Mrs. Sophia Larsen, 81, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. j.
Albert johnson. = Two Murdoch
men were seriously injured when
their truck crashed into freight
train at Sanborn. - Julius Dyd-
rick, Vesta oil station operator,
was held up by two men who OBJ
tanned $40. - Alfred Eichten Of
Wanda was injured when his
clothes were caught in the fly
wheel on an engine. - Florence
Kranz and Kenneth McClurg
were married here.-Mrs. Isabelle
Poncin bought the Farmers and
Merchants State bank building at
Morgan.
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member it at all. At that time she
was Is and determined to be a
French teacher. She went on to
the Sorbonne. Still speaks French
very well. He was in Yale and
Harvard. Collected 2 Phi Beta
Kappa key which he still wears.
In later years he collected three
more decorations for the relief
work he did in Europe after the
war: from Finland, Poland and
Belgium. She thinks they're good
countries to be decorated by.
They married six years after
they met. The wedding was in st.
Johns, the church of the Presi-
dents, in Washington. He had
opened a one-room law office in
Cincinnati and hired a stenogra-
pher. Now he has the largest law
practice in the city.
She Says He Scrambled
She's annoyed when people
write him off as rich mans son
who had easy shedding. She says
the money was all in his uncle's
family. When the chief justice
died he left what he had to his
wife and daughter. The boys had
to scramble, she says.
The Senator seems to have
scrambled pretty well. They live
in Washington on embassy row.
Now they are headed hopefully
for the White House. He is using
talk of economy as the bridge.
He is six feet. The smallest
man in his immediate family.
Smallish round face with smallish
blue eyes behind spectacles.
Walks fast but talks deliberately
and without fireworks.
She is about five-feet-six,
roundish figure, dark eyes, an
easy laugh and a fresh voice.
Poised. Excellent public speaker.
No Smoking
They beat today's trek of the
fashiCnables back to the farm by
% years. Three years after they
married they bought a 60-acre
farm outside Cincinnati. 1t had
an old farm house. For two years
they got along with coal oil
lamps. Got along with a water
pump for several more. But they
loved it. Four sons were born.
They are IA to "a now. All in
school. They work and play to-
gether. It's a non-smoking family
from father to the 14-year-old.
They divided farm duties. She
manages the flowers. Has raised
some blue-ribbon tulips. He took
over the farm products. Now his
strawberries, raspberries and as
paragus are favorites in Cincin-
matt markets.
This year is going to be more
than busy. He wants to be in
Washington for every session Of
the Senate. But he has speaking
engagements for every weekend.
That means a great deal of trav-
cling. She says he can rush, if it's
necessary, but he will fly only
when she can't succeed in talking
him out of it.
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Maesosess--=== - - :
kitten Xosgse1
Variety In Vegetables

pretty thoroughly vegetables
necessary and important part of the diet. But
times it's struggle to get Junior to eat his carrots his
spinach and all too often Dad asserts that he's perfectly
isfed with meat, potatoes gravy, and pie!
The food value of vegetables be sadly depleted and
flavor appearance spoiled by method cooking
cooking destroys vtamns strong vegetables
bitter mild nsipid strong vegetables daken and
lose their color with too long cooking. Cooking in
large that precious pour
ed away when this is drained off.
To preserve food value flavor appearance vegetables
should be cooked in the shortest possible time and in the
smallest amount CT water The surface units of the modern
electric range have been designed fit that purpose Five
flexible speeds each surface unit permit topofhsstove
cooking controlled heat from low heat cooking
custards cheese the high need for frying ntsrma
dae heats provide different cooking requirements
utensils of various sizes.
For most vegetables, clean and the vegetables in
pieces for serving Place with p water Add
salt and tightly. Turn switch high"
vegetables freely Then switch "ow'
for balance Of cooking time Vegetables like this
tain their fresh color and favor food value lost because
there's liquid away and it's economical method
of cooking, too Actually, only very little is
sumed be turned off 10 IS minutes before cooking
is completed.
carrots have been too popular house. they'll
win permanent place in the family esteem they're served
like this:
Toasted Carrots
Select uniform medium Scrape and wash
thoroughly Place and add p to 2I3 water
Season with SALT cover switch to high until the
steam freely (abou ST minutes depending the quantity
you're cooking, turn off current and continue cooking
stored heat Roll carrots in melted butter then crumbed
flakes. Place moderately (4OO) just long
enough to brown the crumbs slightly.
There's pleasant contrast textures between SOFT
cooked carrots and the crisp crumbs When you them,
give the carrots touch of realism by inserting spg
sley in the stem end variety,
chopped mint leaves instead without
broWnng) with roast lamb
Redwood Falls Light & Power Company
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YOungster Injured
While Out Hunting

Gaylord-Tommy I.awrenz, L.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert LaWrenz of near Gaylord
was the victim of a shooting acct
dent which gave his parents
quite a scare.
Tommy was shooting sparrows
with % rifle loaded with bird
shot, when he accidentally slipped
on a patch of ice and fell. The
gun slipped from his grasp and
discharged, the charge striking
Tommy under the right arm
Many very small pellets lodged
beneath the skin.
Aside from missing a week of
school Tommy was none the
worse for the accident.
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Good Reason For
Moving Up Payday

Houston, Tex.-(P)-A woman
wrote County Judge Roy Hof-
heinz asking him to make ar
engagements to have a $50 gov
eminent compensation check de-
livered to her a day earlier.
The money is mailed her by a
trust company acting as temper
cry guardian, under appoint
ment by the Harris County Court,
fer her husband, who is in a Vir-
ginia veterans home.
Her reason-the check arrived
on the 18th of each month. Oblig-
ing Judge Hofheillz arranged for
her to receive it on the 18th.
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terialize, the senators will have to
decide whether to take the credit
for economy, or put the $550,000,-
900 farm bounty, or part of it,
back into the farm bill. So far
they have decided only to put off
the terrible day of reckoning.
Meanwhile, Secretary Wallace's
Department of Agriculture has
put its stamp plan to work in rs
cities, and expects to be operating
in Is more by July l. Cotton has
been added to the surplus COM
modities affected by the scheme,
which, in effect, uses federal
money (voted last Year, to buy
farm products for relief clients,
and thereby takes part of the re-
lief load off cities.
:: = ::
Squeeze Play
Entirely aside from the gen.
eral merits of the plan, it also
has a tendency to put congress-
men representing cities on the
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Redwood Falls Light & Power Company

lump-sum payments to workers
reaching age IS. Instead, an older
worker in commerce and industry
now may be able to get monthly
benefit payments for life, the
amount depending upon his mon
THY average wage since 1886.
The law provides that even if
this worker has received a lump
sum payment, he now may aNal, :.
ify for monthly benefits. the
amount of the lump-sum pay
ment he has received being de-
Quoted from his monthly bene-
fits.
For further information call or
write Social Security board, Red
wood Falls.
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ON THE RECORD

Robert Alphonso Taft SER
we'd in the Ohio house of re-
representatives. from 1921 to
1926. He served in the Ohio
senate in 1892. He was
elected to the United States
Senate in 1888 by a close
vote. The final count was:
Taft 1,253,917 votes; Robert
j. Buckley, Democrat, 1882
118 votes.
When the European war
broke out, Senator Taft sup
ported President Roosevelt's
successful effort to end the
embargo provision of the
Neutrality act. Lately Taft
has been advocating a Fed
eral government policy of
ECONOMY" saying he "can
reduce Federal expense by at
least two and a half billion
dollars.
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cross the Delaware? Why?
5. Where was Washington's army
when he complained his men were
barefoot and otherwise naked.'
g. Following the war Washington
rejected proposals that he be made
king of America. True or false?
7. Was Washington's wife CD the
daughter of a Virginia blacksmith,
(2) wealthy widow from Massachu-
sets, (3) Alexander Hamilton's sister?
8. Is it true that Washington cam
paigned strenuously to get himself
elected Americas first president?
9. What was the margin of his vic
tory when he was first elected?
TO- Washington died during his sec
ond term. True or false?
ANSWERS on page three)
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10 YEARS AGO

Leroy Hassenstab was map
ping UNEMPLOYED areas of Rhode
STA, Africa.-Loren Krusemark OF
Slayton bought the W. F. Jackson
implement company.-Arthur B.
Cameron of Mankato died.-Mrs.
A. J. Praxel of Lamberton was
secured as part-time county well
fare worker.-Rev. j. w. Jiracek
spoke to the high school assem-
bly,. w. Hubin purchased the
Sanborn Sentinel.-Mr. and Mrs.
L. j. Goldberg moved to Redwood
Falls.-Jerry Mccarthy of Nor
ton died. = June Harding of
Hollywood and Leon Luscher
were, married. = Redwood Falls
basketball team won from Sleepy
Eye 26 to II and from Morton "a
to g.
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A NEW JERSEY CITY ANNOUNCES
it has 100000 surplus in the treasury and
doesn't know what to do about it. There is
no precedent in recent U. S. history on which
to base a decision, either
LIKE MOST QUESTIONS THE HOME
stead lien law enacted by the last legislature
has two sides and will be argued at length,
no doubt, in the approaching campaign.
However attacks on the law because
half the money recovered through it goes
back to the federal government, from
whence it came, strike us as having footing
in soft ground
WE SINCERELY COMMEND CON-
gresham H. Carl Anderson's stand on pat
ronage as expressed in his letter to news
papers of the seventh district this week. AS
tOday'S orators say, over and over, we quote:
l believe that patronage is curse to the
Members of, congress. In the, first place, it
divides attention at time when our every
effort should be devoted to the national prob
lens that confront 1t will be happy day
for members of congress- as well as for the
people of this nation, when we can devote our
entire time to much needed legislation instead
of acting the part of a glorifed employment
agency as members of the party in power must
now act. Your congressman hopes to see
eventually the extension of honest, COMPETE
tive civil service to every position, other than
policy shaping Ones in our federal government.
THERE ARE A GOOD MANY WAYS
of getting fish out of the water and into the
pan but Game Warden Al Boysen, recently
assigned to this territory, ran across new
one over at Lake Benton this week.
The lake is shallow with only a few
inches of water under the thick blanket of
ice. Armed not with spear and decoy or
even line, but with scoop shovel and
potato fishermen, after cutting good
sized holes in the ice, have been scooping
out the water fast so that other water rush
es in, and with it, plenty CT good husky bull
heads. Then the potato fork comes into
play
Boysen had to admit it was an ingen-
ious way of catching fish but he also had to
put stop to it. Game and fish laws cover
even this deviation from common practices
in obtaining fish.
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SO YEARS AGO

Stockholders of the building
end loan association reelected G.
E. Mckay, A. E.. King and ]. B,
Robinson directors. O. B. Turreu
was secretary. "A Walnut Grove
teacher, tried on a charge of
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Backward Qhtsce4

whipping a pupil, was acquitted.
Lawyer Madigan was called to
Wisconsin by the death of his
father.-W. Mann of North Red
wood presented a smiling coun-
tenance. He had a bouncing boy.
Redwood county had a school
population of 1,758.-There was
lively time at the Citizens State
bank crowded with farmers await
ing their pay for a big shipment
Of cattle to Iowa. About $1,000
was paid out, prices being 1928
to $40 per ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
W. Moses, teacher in Gales, clos
ed his school term. - Mrs. John
Stewart of Kintire went to Wa
basha county on a visit.-Granite
Rock planned its first township
caucus.-Eliza, II year old dau-
ghter of Mr.. ard Mrs. T. D. Ly-
man, died.-Included on the first
primary honor roll were: Allie
Bager, Earl Byram, Fred Byram,
Robbie Cooper, Alfred Hale,
Harry Mcpherson, Dolly Swisher,
Earl WoodWorth, Willie Winters,
Walter Simmons, Alex Milne,
Flsemedia Johnson, GCtlief Fehl-
man. Willie Deischer, Roy Crooks,
Louis Baker, Cecil Baldwin, Julia
Ceischer, Walter Francois, Emery
Mason, Donald Mile and Willie
Thompson.
IS YEARS AGO
j. Geroy, A. B. Winter and
Louis Sommers were elected new
members of the Commercial club.
Anna Peterson won copy of
''Pollyanna," for the best history
cf Shutdown township in a contest
sponsored by the Mether's club
Minerva Fowlds of Brooten and
Julius Schmahl, secretary of
state, were married.-Mrs. H. M.
Bell, Mrs. George Jaehning and
Mrs. A. C. Pratt arranged a ban
ouet of the Wcnen's club at Hotel
Kahler.-S. G. Peterson sold his
cloak and suit stores in Redwood
Falls, Pipestone and Marshall to
Ferry Nelson and w. c. Bison
ette.-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nc
Kay celebrated their silver we'd
ding and MIR. Mckay recalled that
Mrs. Robert Stewart, then the
small sister of the bride, contract
ed pinkeye shortly before the
wedding and that the bride and
groom "if not wild eyed were
red-eyed at the wedding" B. F.
Stewig of Dixon, Illinois took
possession of the S. N. Staple
farm.-Alta Johnson won the SIS
prize offered by the WCTU for a
temperance essay. = The Charles
Kuenzli family was guaranteed
for scarlet fever again. Ida being
sick this time.
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Saltwater, Okla.-(P)-Among
the campus rules when Oklaho-
ma A. & M. college was estab-
llshed in 1891 was one that re-
ouired the students to "check" all
their firearms with the president.
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BY MORGAN M. BEATTY
(ipl Enof11rn Cnrx,ioD LITr;+o,.

a
Washington - Off hand, you'd
think the question of having the
taxpayers money was Just a
question of Congress making up
its mind-then doing it.
That's exactly what the econ
omy headlines you're reading
these days are intended to look
like.
But all the push and 60 about
economy on Capitol Hill is far
! from important-so far. 1t might
get important, if those letters
from the folks back home keep
pouring into the Capitol post
office.
But that's another matter.
The farm bill for 1941 is a good
example of the how and why of
saving money.
In the first place, there is no
more powerful group of Ameri-
can citizens than the farmers
and that holds true whether they
stand together, or whether they
don't. They've still got potent vot-
ing strength no political party can
ignore.
And no group has a better
looking case to lay before Con-
gress. Undisputed, official De-
partment Of Agriculture figures
show the farmer was getting
about one-third of his normal
share Of the national income in
1882. And, despite S8OO,OOO,OOO in
bounty payments last year, he got
only 73 per cent of his fair share.
That takes into account for the
farmer the advantage he gets
from cheaper food and clothing
costs.
That's why Congress voted a
cool acknowledgements dollars
to help the farmer last year.
That's why most observers fig
ured Congress would continue
big appropriations for the farmer
this election year.
Up To The Senate
But war broke out in Europe.
And the national debt climbed
closer to the legal limit of $45,-
OOG,OOO,OOO. And economy letters
started pouring in on Congress-
men.
So the President side-stepped
the farmer in his budget this jan
uary, looping a cool S4O0,000,OOO
eff the farmers Federal dividend
checks for 1941. The House added
insult to injury, the other day,
when it chopped out another
S150,000,OO0.
That means that the whole
economy issue, as far as it con-
Germs the farmer, has been sent
over to the senate, whose MEM
bers are all elected in statewide
elections. The farm vote often
counts for victory or defeat with
senators.
They Can Hope
Now the senators can hope that
farm prices will go up under the
impetus of the war in Europe,
CT that enough farmers will join
the economy minded city folks in
writing letters demanding less
free spending of the taxpayers
money, or that the farmers will
not agree on what they want
(they have never agreed before) /.
Or they can hope that the war
itself will absorb the attention Of
the public, farmers included, and
take the heat off the economy is
sue. They can hope for all Of
those things. So.
But if those events don't ma
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3. Washington was not
made commander of Ameri-
cas- forces until the Revo-
lutionary war was a year
old. True or false?
4. When did Washington
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M1'Y4 .Gi1zz<ze -G@~'

uled flub-flop, beating his hat TO
the rink by a minute and one
han.
49,
War News
In an official communique, Jim
Welch emphatically denied that
he is a volunteer for the Finnish
army.
-f-f-
Want-Ads
FARTY WHO TOOK, a bucks
worth of herring from my out
door display counter is known.
Keep Don Pete's dog off Second
stree: and no questions asked
Leo Kurschner. 1t
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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT WASHINGTON?

l. When did George Washington
fight as major on the side of the Brit
ish?
2. Why was Washington's face
y,ittoI9