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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-17
ROOSEVELT HEIGHTS
CLUB DATE CHANGED

Roosevelt Heights Improvement
club will hold its next business
meeting on Thursday evening.
Feb. n, instead of Tuesday, Feb.
n, In order 10 hear candidates
whose names win appear on the
primary ballot 1t viii be an open
meeting with everyone In the dis
trict invited to attend. Standing
committees viii make reports.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-17
Warlike Preparations in
Near East Being Watched

PARIS-French military experts eentered increasing at
enton today warke preparations the Near East and
especially reports that Soviet Russia strengthening
naval and air bases in the Black area.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-05-10

Two recent arrivals in New York
examining a map of the United
States where they have come to
make their home after wandering
through the Scandinavian cOun-
tries. These two girls who have
come over over from Germany to
join their family in California are
being resettled by the National
Refugee Service which in 1889
made possible the reSettIement of
$500 German refugees in various
parts of the country.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-05-10

the finest equipment in that part
of the world. Palestine Govern
ment departments consult them;
inquiries have come from as far
away as Bombay, India, and the
Turkish Government is preparing
to send a scientist to observe new
developments in the university's
archaeological department.
A few doors away from DR..
Aschner's laboratory is another
DR.. Leo Olitzki, termed by his
colleagues one of the worlds lead
ing experts on typhoid fever, is on
the trail of a germ which has been
killing hundreds of camels belong
ing to the Arabs around GAIA. DR..
Olitzki has developed clues indi-
eating this is a strain of type
of paratyphoid which has hitherto
only been known to attack human
beings thus uncovering the first
clue to transmission of the disease
between camels and men.
simultaneously, he is working on
a synthetic medium for growing
the bacilli which cause dySentery,
another dangerous wartime plague.
DIR. OlitZilzi's new medium will en-
able laboratories to manufacture
pure vaccineS against dysentery,
in place of those made from bac-
cilli grown in animal tissues. This
will eliminate the vaccine reac-
ton" due to poisonous substances
produced by the animal matter in
vaccineS. The reaction is frequent
ly painful and sometimes q danger
GUS illness in itself.
Across the corridor, DR.. Isaiah
Leibowitz and DR.. Karl Guggen-
helm have been making remark
able discoveries about Vitamin C,
of which Palestine has a practical
ly unlimited supply from its oran-
ges. In the test-tube, DR.. Leibo-
WITT and DR.. Guggenheim have
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-05-10

LeVant, as did the last one.
A glass window about half an
inch square has been inserted in
the shell of each egg. Through
these openings DIR. Manfred Asch-
ner, Hebrew University bacteriOI-
Ogist, and his cO-wOrkers, watch
the development of the deadly vi
rus of typhuS fever, with which the
eggs have been inOculated. The vi
rus grown in this medium is used
to manufacture vaccine against ty-
plus. 1t is the first time this tech
nique, cheaper and simpler than
other methods, has been used for
manufacturing typhuS vaccine
b highly important achievement,
since one of the principal sources
i'm the past was Weigel's institute
in LWOw, Poland, now in the hands
Of the SOviets.
DR.. Aschner's work is typical of
what is happening in scores of lab
oratorieS and studies at the mil
ion-dollar American-built medical
center and on the campus of He
brew University, where Palestine's
scientific brain trust has turned
its attention to the problems the
war has created for the Holy Land
and neighboring countries.
Already, the eastern world is
turning for help to these institu-
tiOns, where the greatest aggrega-
tiOn of scholars and scientists in
the Orient, many of them refugees
from Nazi persecution, are expIOr-
ing new scientific frontiers with
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-05-10

found, the vitamin neutralizes the
poisons produced by many dis
ease germs, including those of
smallpox, diptheria and lockjaw,
and even powerful inorganic poi
sons such as phenol and potassium
cyanide. Application of this discov-
cry to prevention and treatment
of disease is another problem, but
the possibility is at least suggested
by the fact that diptheria is al
most unknown among the orange
eating inhabitant of Palestine.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-05-10
MobiIizins Eggs For War
By ROMAN SLOBODIN

Thousands of eggs have been modified for the war by
scientists of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem.
Ranked in trim platoons in shining incubator in the
Rohschd University Health Center on Mount
Scopus just north of the Holy City, they being used
fight of the great wartime plaques which is feared
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Marry in Haste

Practically every city in the country has noted rush to the marriage license bureaus during the past several weeks. In some cities, applications have been up 100 to 200 percent. It would be bitterly unjust to assume that in any particular case the object was to secure deferred draft classification.
 Yet the timing of this rush of matri- monial ardor certainly suggests that there are many who considered this. There may even be among them some of the young people who have been so in sistent in recent years that conditions were so bad that young people could no longer afford to marry, yet who suddenly found it possible, after all.
 Marry in haste, says the proverb, repent at leisure. If it be true that any great number of these marriages are being ar- ranged with the cold-blooded object of keeping out of the draft, then 1941 and 1922 will be bumper years in the domestic relations courts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
No More Privacy

A generous citizen of our city, or per- haps he is not local person, makes some handsome gifts to many religious and charitable organizations and desires to do so anonymously and without any fanfare. It would seem as though such a kind per son should be permitted to have his way and carry out his benevolent generosity without being subjected to gossip, large headlines and conjecture or to senSa- tional news stories causing the same.
 One sure way to discourage such gifts is to disrespect the wishes of donors who desire to give quietly and anonymously To guess and mention names of possible donors must also be very embarrassing to those mentioned, to say nothing of the impropriety of such methods.
 Our local religious and charitable or ganizations will invite and receive more gifts particularly anonymous ones, ii they prove beyond doubt their ability and will ingness to respect the wishes of anony- nous givers. We sincerly trust that none of the officers of the various or ganizations who are recipients of current benefactions have been in any way re- miss in respecting condolences reposed in them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
No Time for Comedy

National preparedness is advanced not one inch by contests in personal vilification such as that in which Sena- tors Minton and Holt chose to indulge in the Senate the other day Today's problems are the gravest possible. It makes not the slightest difference to the country what may have been the attitude of Senator Holt's father or grandfather toward past wars. It makes not the slightest difference what are Senator Minton's preferences in refreShment.
 But to see two members of our high est deliberative body snarling personali- ties at one another while gravest na- tional policies are being debated is spec tacle in which we cannot afford to in- dulge at present. We want the greatest possible amount of light on our pressing national problems and no more heat than is absolutely necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

Closing of Watertown Avenue has brought forth protests from merchants and businessmen along this thorougfare. You can't blame them because every day that trade is turned away from their doors it is doubly hard to recapture it. While there should be some means of providing access to and from the affected establishments it's difficult problem to solve unless it were possible to keep one side of the street open to traffic at all times. However, if the street is to remain impossible for any great length of time. there's no doubt but what city author ities will be blasted from one end of the city to the other, despite their plans for a first-clasS roadway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

Democrats of Connecticut have some thing to shoot at this fall in the state and national elections. Seldom if ever before has this state gone Democratic for the party's presidential candidate at two successive elections. As matter of fact Connecticut has only gone Democrat ic in the presidential battle in 1886, 1912, and 1892 to recall those of the past half century. That means we didn't vote to reelect Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and we didn't go for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1882, although at this latter contest Wilbur L. Cross was reelected for his second term and Augustine Lon- ergan was selected U. s. Senator, the first Democratic one we'd had in more than fifty years. So all in all the Democrats have their work cut out for them between now and November and it behooves them to present ticket to the electorate that is going to hold the normal minority Democratic vote and swell it considerably by the independent vote which has been Democratically- inclined of recent years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Try And Get It!

Attorney Ephraim Sim, Democrat, of Milford thinks that Connecticut would be better off right now with single leg islative body This is known as the uni cameral form of government ana or recent years the experiment has caught the fancy of a number of states and has been tried out. But states like Connectl- cut where the two-house legislative sys- tenn is tradition don't even pause long enough to discuss such thing as unl- cameral government. They want none of it. And the main reason is because the legislators don't want to do them selves out of jobs or chances ot gettlng jobs. Attorney Sim claims that the difficult times through which we are moving demand some such radical change in Connecticut's legislative body. He also says, "far greater talent IS required in the Legislature than the Ju- dietary, yet the $12o0O salaries of some judges compare diSproportlonately Wlnh the $500 paid the legislators. There IS no question but that the Legislature, oc- cepted as the most important tunctlon within our State, has fallen down."
 Continuing his argument for smaller legislative body the Milford man pointed out that it is the custom for the House and Senate to push all pending leglsla- tion on the shoulders of smaller commit tees, whereas, if it was smaller in size itself it would not need to do that. We don't think he's right on this angle. The reason for creating special committees and letting them discuss pending legls- lation is to speed up and facilitate the work of the entire assemblage and even if the numbers were smaller it still would be necessary to divide up the work for the amount of legislations asked every two years is tremendous.
 We're afraid that instead Of finding smaller body at Hartford next year At torney Sim will find a bigger one. The House will increase because towns are going into the 5000 class, entitling them to two representatives. A move will be made to reapportion the Senate and add another seat there as provided by the Constitution
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

in a position where we can say: we don't care plugged nickel WHAT Hitler doesl"
 What does it mean to be prepared? It means to develop such force that i1- vasion will be but slim temptation. It means to develop such force that national policy is not decided by what some far off potentate dreams up, but by our own national interest and our own devotion to justice and right. It is time to stop ask ing that fatal question, ''What will Hit Ter do?" It is time to begin to make others ask with equal interest "What will the United States do?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Let's Stand On Our Own Legs!

Does Hitler plan to invade the United States? You hear many conjectureS about this. Reported conversations with Hitler or his leaders are set down, giving his al- legedly clear intent. Elaborate deduc- tiOns are drawn from his written or spoken words. He himself explicitly denies any such intention. PartiSanS of one view or the other argue the point at great length.
 For the life of us, we can't see what difference it makes. Does that sound crazy? We don't think it is. The job be- fore us is to attain, as quickly as is hu- manly possible, state of preparedness such that the United States and its poll cies do not depend on their intentions of foreign ruler.
 If Hitler does plan to invade the United states-well, there is only one answer: prepare, prepare, prepare If he doesn't, The answer is precisely the same. The mere existence of an aggressive military force of fhe kind he maintains and on which he Inas built the hegemony of Europe, means that q country like the United States must have such force at it's disposal that it can make it's own policy, no matter u,hat policies are adopted abroad. If Hit Ter has no intention of interfering in 1nnerican affairs, that's fine! American strenQth will help to fortify that excel Ient intention.
 E E,irope cringed for seven years asking l1,e breathless question: What will Hitler Id? Let us stop asking that question m 1I1e United states. Let as place ourselves
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
WHO'S HOLDING OFF? (New Haven Register)

Connecticut motorists are now into their last month of the com- pulsory state automobile inspection period. In connection with sharp rise in motor vehicle accidents one safety authority recently found that the period thereof coincided with the worst stretch of the war scare and concluded that war jitters, in- volving anxiety over the general safety, was at the bottom of it. The pace of business at the inspection lanes indicates no sign of war jit- terS causing any particular pressure on this medium of safety.
 Instead, what is promised now is more or less of a repetition of the congestion that balled up the whole state inspection system be- fore and, in part, was responsible for it's abandonment.
 Various changes have been made in the effort to take some of the annoyance and waste of time and motion out of the inspection system. Changes apparently have not been made, though, in the human inc clination to put of until tomorrow that which can be done twice as easily today. A great many persons thought that the inspection system never had fair chance before, and that it's possibilities were good enough to deserve a new trial. This. we may assume, is not only @ fair chance but its last chance. One may wonder whether a lot of those who seemed to believe in it are not among those who by neglect are helping to discredit it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

In fact, the President himself, before the spanking" was over, urged Cudahy to run.
 Cudahy went to the White House feeling he had been wrcnged by the State Depart ment's reprimand following his press interview in London. On the way, he said to a friend, "Tve got to hurry I'm going on the carpet at two." Then he added, "But I'm not going to be made . goat of, I can tell you"
 When he walked into the Presi- dents office, the President opened with: John, let's forget all about this business, shall we?" But Cudahy rejected the pipe of peace. "Oh, mo-" he said, i've been done a wrong here, and I want to set the record straight"
 Then the President made the point that Cudahy was not re- called, but merely brought home for consultation, like Tony Bid- die or Bill Bullitt.
 Stil. Cudahy was not satisfied. 'No," he insisted. "I'm under . cloud and I've got to be vindi- cated."
 After the two men talked for an hour and half, Cudahy came out authorized tc say that he had not been reprimanded and that no reprimand was intended This much he announced to the press, but what he did not disclose was that the President had urged him to run for Governor of Wisconsin.
 NOTE-State Department off, cials, usually critical of political" ambassadors, pay tribute to Cud- ahy's ability, and would like to keep him in the service. How ever, thanks to Hitler, there is a surfeit of embassyless ambassa- dors at present.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Whats Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

1. Where could one build a house with windows on four sides all hav- ing a southern exposure?
 2. Does the United States, Ger many or Great Britain hold the worlds altitude record?
 3. On which continent are the Andes Mountains?
 4. Is the George Washington Bridge in New York City a suspen- sion or cantilever type?
 5. Which noted European canal was first known as the Kaiser Will helm Canal?
 6. H. G. Wells is a prize fighter, author or actor?
 2. In 1926 Manhattan Island was bought from the Indians for $24. SPA or $1,240?
 8. Was the United States postal business ever operated as private business?
 g. Was George Bernard Shaw born in Ireland or England?
 10. What name is given to the hot, sultry season of summer dur ing July and August?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
NORMAL WEATHER PLEASE (Bridgeport Telegram)

We don't wish hard luck. to any other section of the country but we think we may say without fear of successful contradiction. as the poli- ticians put it, that New England had had her full share of unusual weather and particularly her full share of hurricanes. Consequently we think it is only just and right that the hurricane which struck at Charleston, s. C., turned inland in its flight and did not come up the coast to New England.
 We recall a hurricane which did come up the coast two years ago and which left behind it the great est path of destruction ever wreak- ed by any natural calamity in the history of the United States. At least that is what the insurance estimators say and certainly they ought to know if anybody.
 But that wasn't all that New England suffered. We had the blizzard of '34 and then the unnat- ural snowstorm of last St. Valen- tins day, but to make matters worse in this part of Connecticut, we had the glaze of last March.
 The foresters call 1t Q glaze. We called 1t an Ice storm. It was an Ice storm of such proportions that nobdy had seen its like. Tine dam- age done to our trees was only second to the damage done by the hurricane. ..
 So, if nobody objects too strong iy we1i ask to be excused from any more incidents of unusual weather We want just the usual Connecticut weather from now on and the more usual t is the better vel! ike it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
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 e. During what period did the Flag of the United States have for ty-four stars?
 A. From July {. 1891 to July < 1s9e.
 @. What is the speed of the Brit ish single-seat intercepter "Spitfire" airplanes and how many guns do they carry?
 A. Top speed Is more than S60 miles an hour and they carry eight machine guns.
 o. When and by whom may mo- tion to reconsider the vote on . measure be made?
 A. It can only be made on the day the vote to be reconsidered is taken or on the next succeeding meeting day a legal holiday or recess not being counted as day. It must be made by one who voted for the prevailing side. Any member may second it, and it can be made while any other question is pending, even if another member has the floor. and after 1t has been voted to ad- journ, if the chair has not actually declared the meeting adjourned. A simple majority vote carries mos tion to reconsider.
 o. Were MT. and Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie college "sweethearts"?
 A. No; although they attended the University of Indiana at the same time they were not then acquainted. Edith Wilk and Wendell Willkie first met as attendants at wedding. when they discovered the amusing similarity of their names. Their romance blossomed in Elwood. In- diana, where Willkie began his law practice. They were married Janu- ary IA, 1913.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

debts. as we forgive our debtors" 1" This really means, Lord, give me forgiveness only if I absolutely forgive every living soul everything done against me. And if I do not accord this complete forgiveness to my fellows, withhold Thy forgive ness from me-" Are you willing to stand. by that? It's harder to say that and mean it than to say and believe any statement of the Creed.
 Or take another petition of the Lords Prayer-"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" Do you really want the will of God everywhere to pre- vail? Remember, 1t might ruin the business you're in, separate you from the person you hope to marry, make you give up some weakness you like to indulge. It might actually make it necessary for you to go to sCiIe distant part of the world as missionary.
 We are very careful to be intel lectually honest when We repeat the Creed; let us be careful to be mor- ally honest when we repeat the Lords Prayer.
 All Rights Reserved
 Babson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Selected Poem
NATURE LOVER

(Gerald Raftery in the New York Sun) Oh, you may have the wild rose
 As gentle as maiden's dream; I'll take a fairer bloom that blows The wild strawberry (with cream! And you may have, the larkspur
 That mirrors back a lovely sky; In blooms of blue much prefer
 The huckleberry Gin pie)! Tall hollyhocks may have no peers
 In beauty. dew-empearled as morn, But like stalks that bear the ears Of luscious Golden Bantam Corn! The flowers are beautiful to see,
 The scent of some is very sweet; They never have appealed to me So few of them are good to eat!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Views of The Press

ticed petty thief apparently hesi- tates before the code of honesty which surrounds the institution of the mail box.
 Every time you despair of human nature, and feel like singing the blues about the lack of honesty in the world, think of the mail box and take new lease of life for your optimism about the human race. There it stands, at the cross roads of America, symbol of the virtue which is the basis of all civilized living.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20

The weekend rains might recall to a few that they were the first we had, save for thunder-showers, since St. Swithins Day. This is the second successive sum- mer that has seen the old legend putting to rout all the technical discountings of it's efficacy Of course it doesn't augur fair or foul weather, but it does welcome in correspondingly good or bad periods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 8:5e p. m. daylight time)
 Sun rises 6:O7 a. m.: sets 7:43 p. m. day light time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- utes after sunset.
 Katy-dids are exceptionally noisy right now. While many base forecasts on their firss appearance. others claim that volune of song through late August can also tell many things of what is to be. weather-wise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-20
Current Comment

Our safety Hes in the combined might of the British Empire. Aus tralia can get little from war; she has no territorial ambitions. But VI regard as priceless the ability to cal ourselves Australians and subjects to the king.
 -Richard c. Casey. Australian
 minister of supply.