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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24

of us, taking their toll of strain and stress.
 Most people try to be decent. They are taught to choose the better rather than the worse cause, to seek good rather than evil They try to do it. But in a world in which values are shifting, many of the old moral price-tags look out of date and uniting. The problem of every man is: How, in today's hard-boiled world, to be hard enough to survive and persist, yet soft enough to preserve the love of all those things which alone dis tinguish man from the brute.
 Every man today is a dual self. He must have one for action, for the brutal necessities of the world, yet keep one hidden against the day when 1t may emerge again. Else civilization dies. Nil litarism and war are abhorrent, and like all violence they negate man the reason ing, thinking being. Yet we know rom what we have seen that those who trust in reason alone are betrayed into the hands of those to whom violence is god. So a man must be violent if need be, yet retain within himself the consciousness that violence is not the best way, and that a better must be found.
 Are men torn by these dualisms the necessary victims of men taught from babyhood to worship force? In plainer words, can man fight in full conscious ness that it is all dirty business that should have been done sensibly instead, and still prevail over those who believe the battle a glorious thing in and for itself?
 The answer, we have full faith, is yes. For time the devotee of force appears to prevail, does, perhaps for time pre- vail But the seed of his destruction lies in the very absence of that hidden cor ner of the mind where the better way should lie dormant, ready to build when violence is done tearing down. To fight if fight one must, and having fought, to win and still remain firmly sure that there is better way-that is the only way to reconcile those forces that con- tend within us all.
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shop--a ten-cent shave. I felt like closing up and going out of business. But I kept at it, and in thirty-five years I have been making a good living and something more. pre-. sume I've got about as much out of life as the next fellow. Happiness comes from keeping busy and trying to forget the unpleasant things. The millionaires get their bumps as well as the barbers. and judging from the ones I've shaved wouldn't trade places with any of them"
 I could not help thinking that what makes c nation great is the spirit which keeps Q man going after he has had just one customer the livelong day--a ten-cent shave. It took considerable courage for c young man to surmount Q circufn- stance ike that. not because Of the little income the day brought forth but because the circumstance seem. cd to prOsage approaching disaster. But thls man would not have it so It would take moro than 6 tenscetit shave to drive him Into retreat,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24
In Today's Mail

they do" According to the source and essentials of the characteristics of Man, you can forgive but not for get. The natural law of life is what governs man and not the superna- tural.
 Accordingly, it is almost incon- ceivable that there are American citizens so devoid of patriotic duty of defending their country in time of peril that they would sacrifice ] Honor for faith in the brotherhood of man by refusing to take up arms in defense of Democracy. Spiritual solicitation on pended knee would be gladly received by an invading enemy from conscientious objectors. in place of the drawn sword. Those who object to war preparations on account of religious scruples are displaying a subordin- ate loyalty for their country which defends and protects them in their right to worship. It is fortunate for objectors that they live in a Democ- racy instead of system of totali- tarianism.
 There is no valid reason for ex- emption from military duty in the United States but that of physical disability. It is assumed that mili- tary conscription and war prepared ness objectors are sincere in their judgment and opinions, and is not a gubterfuge to escape from the ob- ligations taken to serve the United States in time of peril.
 They have a right to their esti- nation of the value and importance of their conscience of objection in place of subjection to conscription and other war measures, but their mental faculties in controlling their decisions are decidedly at variance with the established facts and obli- gatlons resting on them of Amer lean citizenship.
 consciantIous ohjectors cannot be chased as fifth columnists. Their free conscience has been sub-ordln- ated and shackled by religious faith developing an uIasound method Of reasoning, and if carried to ex- tremoa would destroy defense prep- |afation measures and mako the Uni- ted States vulnerable to invasion.
 Tho overwhelming vote of the Nas tional legislature Ia favor of lliiver- sal conscEIptlon and defense is con. clnnlvo evidence that the material slae ol Mic governs liH ln the rnnins lonanco oi onf pemocFacyb eAi1t' 1ncf.
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When it comes to question of those who practice subversive methods as re- lates to the American formula no one need to feel at all diffident about expos ing those popularly called fifth column ists." On the contrary any American should feel proud to be an informer. J. Edgar Hoover said something along these lines in Boston yesterday where over one million American Legionnaires were gathered. He said in part: ''The spy, the saboteur, and the subverter must be met and conquered. You can be of valuable assistance at this time by reporting. dl- rectly to the FBI acts which you believe ininical to the national defense"
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Also addressing the session was the Catholic Archbishop. of New York, Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman, who flew from New York to attend. He said that the only "road to peace, the highroad to democracy is the 'road back to Christ and His teachings. Americas ranking Catholic cardinal, William Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, also spoke impress sive words when he said that to save the world it was necessary to start at home with a crusade to preserve the American family and to bring about the elinlina- ton of the degrading clements in the moving pictures and other amusements.
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fused the salary to which he is entitled but has not earned.
 "For 40 years the taxpayers have trained John Garner in the ways of legislation and of governing, and today in one of the greatest crises in history, he lOafs. Texas is humiliated." AMERICAS SWEETHEART"
 One incident during Wendell Willkie's Hollywood visit was secret between him and Mary Pickford. Americas Sweetheart" invited him to "Pickfair," her vast ornate mansion, but the COP standard bearer courteously but firmly declined.
 He was too smart to get mixed up in the movie colony's hectic social feuds. Miss Pickford is an enthusiastic Willkie rooter. She visited him at Colorado Springs. But there are many other votes in Hollywood, and Willkie was not stepping on any toes if he could help it.
 Instead of following the trail of nobility to the -Pickford man. :. sion, he met the heterogeneous folks of the film industry, from stars to sweeps, in big gath ering at the Hollywood Bowl. They assembled there to hear his speech, delivered at the Co.,, liseum, via loudspeakers, and later he came to the Bowl and greeted them personally.
 Willkie has been astute in his public contacts. In Chicago he carefully avoided the Ford plant, although the anti-union motor magnate had visited him at Nashville, and at Kansas City he sidestepped former Senator Jim Reed, violent anti-New Deal- CT and National Labor Board foe. Copyright, 1940, by United Fea-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN HAS BECOME JUST EMPTY
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Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 You cannot bring up the brother hood of man" argument to Nazi and Fascist infringers of neutrality and violators of the rights of defense less communities. In the light of what has occurred, repudiation of war would not be wise. Reduction of armament would be suicide, parti- cipation in international agencies in settlement of questions cannot be relied on, because of the unreliabil- ity of foreign diplomats which has been amply proven in the past.
 The people of the United States, as whole, do not court war. Their efforts to promote peace have been strenuous. There is limit to sacri- fees made in the interests of peace. Deceit and hypocracy carried on by the Fascist and Nazi-ist official gov- ernments for a decade have placed them in the category of those un- stable and reliance on their prom ises should be forfeited.
 By proclaiming war on neutral countries aware of their unprepar- edness, they invaded peaceful com- munities and boasted of their ag- gression. They were all vain-glorious victories. Such an enemy cannot be met at the borders with @ testament in the hands of conscientious objec- tors with a prayer on their lips. Soft words and passive residence will not spare our Democracy from invaders glutted with gratification over vio- lation of nations taking no side In the war.
 There is no brotherhood practised when human enemies are aroused tc work their fury on defenseiess peo- pie. We do not want war with aEiy country, but we are forced by chal. lenge and aggressive attitudes ol nations with totalltarian tendencies toward Democracies SO that we nrt compelled Co foreeo peace meth0di and adept national defense meas ares.
 70 Is not Q case Of selection but ol eompulslon, and wo arc obliged C arm to protect our Democracy CT ie' years standing.
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ing and service bill, shall establish their holdings in a religious sect under regulations prescribed by the Chief Executive but will not be re- lieved from service or training de- clared to be non -combatant.
 Other objectors to war are the American Youth Organization who appear to be tainted with befogged ideas with Socialistic tendencies. and have no clear conception of what to conceive, to combat totali- tarianism. They are an auxiliary to Communism, which is opposed to conflict unless fostered under their Jurisdiction, crushing indiyidualism and free expression as allowed in Democratic state.
 There are the "peace-at-any- price" war objectors who would be willing to be pawns and achieve ac- tive appeasement, to any and all Isms of whatever nature, spineless and endowed with a cringing atti- tude willing to lose their freedom and serve as SerfS to avoid war.
 There are the Lindbergh objec- tors, who border on the idea that Capitalism is the root of all evil. and want war to bolster Capitalistlc regimes. They belong to the half way Socialistic theory that social equality can be attained by abolish ing capital as 8 basis for admins | trating business. Capital can be controlled by the ballot and not by the bullet in a Democracy.
 Another war objector is the racial hereditary one, and as there is now only one surviving allied power, be- ing Great Britain, the objection to aid that country has brought to the surface objections based on hatred for British success and supremacy for nine hundred years.
 The dissimilar reasons given by objectors to conscription and aid to Britain must be comforting to Naz- ism and Fascism, and condemnation by American citizens.
 FRANK B. PARSONS. Waterbury, Conn.
 September g, 1940.
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other offices, but the Bank of France, now completely controlled by the Nazis, is doing its best to lay hands upon the $1,500, 100000 in gold which France has frozen in the United States.
 VICE-PRESIDENT STAYS
 HOME
 One thing which amazed, later griped Vice President Gamers colleagues on Capitol Hill was his failure to attend the funeral of his old friend Speaker Bankhead.
 Not only did the President him. self drop all his work to make the funeral tip to Jasper, but Henry Wallace cancelled three campaign speaking engagements to fly from DeS Moines to Ala bama; and six members of the Cabinet, together with the Un- der Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, and Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, can- celed important engagements to attend the last rites of the much loved Speaker of the House.
 The Vice-Pesident, who had known Bankhead longer than per- haps any of them, and who served side by side with him in the House of Representatives for about quarter of a century, re- mained on his goat farm in Texas.
 NOTE-The Fl Paso Herald Post, commenting on Gamers ab- sence from Washington at this Congress, recently said:
 John Garner has not been aiding in the struggle to make the Nation secure-the Nation which in the last 40 years, has honored him with high position and paid him and his wife-sec- retary S500,O00 for their services. =. He has sulked among his goats. It is not of record, how ever, that John Garner has re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24

We are fast approaching the Thanks giving holiday, or we should say holidays, because it looks as if we were going to have two of them again this year. One will be proclaimed by the president, the other by individual governors. What ever side you take in this question, ana no matter which decision is the more sensible, Thanksgiving has been more or less spoiled because two of them are one too many.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24
Selected Poem
THE WHITE ROAD

Daniel Kramer in the New York T1mes) Out of the gloaming Down from the hill, Gray in the twilight. Ghostly and still, Down through the valley And to the sea The white road of romance Forever calls me. The white road of romance How the waves roar! Leads to my love On the gull-haunted shore, Leads to the trysting That we twain keep, I from the mountain And she from the deep. I from the mountain And she from the caves In the cool deeps Of the emerald waves, Here in the twilight We meet in our bliss, Making eternal Our love with a kiss. All the folks wisely Say am daft; They touch their foreheads And oh, how they've iaughedi But and my true love Are wiser than they We walk the white road And fiout what they say.
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okey to swap U. s, q CTS for British naval base leases, he specih- cally turned e d thumbs down on any deal which would involve the fast motor torpe- do boats now building for the U. s. Navy.
 Nevertheless such groups as the Willia m Allen White committed
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FIGHTING ISOLATIONISTS

The White committee, by the way, is expanding and will probably play an increasingly important role in the months just ahead. Its present platform, calling for transfer to the British not only of the torpedo boats but also of the arny's giant flying fortress bombers, actually represents victory for the "moderates" in the committee-the more extreme men- bers having urged that the commit tee work for immediate U. s. en- trance into the war.
 Particular thought is being given right now to strengthening the committees representation in Wash ington. One step in that direction was taken recently when the com mittee brought John Balderston, playwright, movie scenarist apd former foreign correspondent, here to handle its publicity.
 Meanwhile, lot of work is be- ing done out in the country. More than 500 local committees are in existence; especial efforts are being made to form new ones in districts represented by isolationist congress men, although it is admitted this job was probably undertaken too late to be much of factor in the coming election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24

"P e ople always kn e W, as tn e y know today, that ] kept right on the ball from early in the morning until well into the eve ming"
 "When I first started,'' he con- tinued, i've got ten cents for 6 shave. One day ] had one customer in the fourteen hours I was in my
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24
What's Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
 1. Give the measurements of a board foot.
 2. The San Francisco-O Oakland Bay Bridge has a single span, or several spans?
 3. When an auto traverses a curve at high speed do the inside or outside wheels tend to rise from the road?
 4. Name the nominee for Vice President on the Socialist ticket? 5. Who owns the race horse, BIMELECH?
 6. Was Booker T. Washington an inventor, educator or actor?
 '. Which of the Great Lakes is highest above sea level?
 8. Where are the Antilles?
 g. In which country did the tango originate?
 10. How many brothers did Chris topher Columbus have?
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 and wrote about while we read and listened, uncomprehending. Since Sep tember 1, British casualties have been as follows:
 Civilians (men, women and children)
 ................... 1U,UUV
 Men of the fighting forces 25O
 This is war in 194O, war carried to it's cold, relentless logical conclusion. It is not the first time that women and chll- dren have been wars victims. But this IS the first time war has taken toll ot 4O civilians to one soldier. War has always been terrible. To take strong, clean young men, train them to kill, and send them out to kill or be killed = that has always been a standing reproach to all mans pretense to civilization. But at least they were trained first, they had weapons in their hands, they could die fighting.
 Now it is the turn of the women and children, the unarmed householder stand ing on his doorstep. Such have suffered be- fore, have been killed before, but usually as an incident to some military operation. Today it is not only recognized tactic of war, it IS war. To say this is not to re- proach the Germans, though to them has fallen the dubious honor of introducing this logical and ultimate horror. It would be unrealistic to suggest that the Poles would not have done to Berlin, if they had been able, what the Germans are doing to LOndon-that the French would not have done it, or the British today, once war had been unleashed. It was pre-knoWl- edge of these things that led to the ill., fated attempts to preserve peace at Munich, attempts ill-advised as we now know, but understandable. For all this was implicit the day the first bombing plane was built.
 Until the world returns to sufficient sanity to see clearly the utter futility of all this - until it has displaced the lead CTS who without turning hair plunged the world into these ultimate horrors - Until it so organizes itself as to make peace a way of life, there is only one answer: Be strong!
 We do not know whether any power plans to wage against the United States Ehe new kind of war, in which the house wife preparing the evening meal is the smilitary" target of fuzz-cheeked high school boys releasing 100-pound bombs from $250,000 bombers. But we do know that the world being what it is, and war being what 1t has become, there is only pae paramount American duty today: to build such military strength that no power or combination of powers will be kempted to try 1t. To this we can and must dedicate every thought and word end deed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24

In five more days sunset and evening star will come early, one hour earlier. This holds good also for the sunrise. In other words we will be operating on Standard Time, and the lost hour will be regained, but our loss will be an hour of daylight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24
A Thought for Today

, The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Ford avenpe me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee-SamuIe 24:12.
 Never forget the day of judgment. Keep It always in view. Frame every action and plan with & reference to its unchanging declslons- Carlyle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24
Daily Almanac

Moon rises i2;os c. (daylight time).
 Sun rises eili c. m., sets SGT ?. m. Gday- light timel.
 Al vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Actually, according to tho sunrise and Sun- het chart, the two hours win net coincide uns lil Thursday when the sunrise occurs at bioi O. Hi. and knnaet hioI p Il,, boib times slAns dard, This hnpDona twice year, spring nfla ntllnmn lh
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The War Within

Within every man and woman in these Nays there rages 6 war as relentless as khak which sweeps over Europe. We are ell nt war with oirselyes, Conflicting pas Nnnn and emotions, conflicting eynls ENI1's zna 6nI'n4.nle1 rush through el'
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
CROSS INCOME A DIME
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D

\ The barber to whose tonsorial at
 tentions I resign myself each sum- mer was telling me about the hard time he had getting started thirty five years ago. T used to work four teen hours every day" he declared
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24

o. What is the enrolment of the University of Chicago?
 A. About 11,800.
 @. When will the New York Worlds Fair close?
 A. It is scheduled to close October 27.
 @. How much energy would l. pound ball have after falling IS inches?
 A. 1.25 foot-pounds.
 If you want a copy of the book let, YOUR DOG AND CAT" send to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose four cents in postage.
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Current Comment

We are eaFEylns out the pledge Co enforce tha Monroe Doctrine lo iinoi eonflIis|th
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, twill you loan me book; or "He loaned me g book; say, twill you lend me-; or "he lent me-"
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National Spotlight
BY BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Washington, Sept. 24.-When Att torney General Jackson handed down his famous ruling that 1t was
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Questions
 and Answers
BY rRKDERIO HG. KERBx

Enclose . three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any gues- ton of fact or information Co the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given. nor can extended research be un. taken Be sure an mail is ad- dressed to The WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU. REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street. Washington. D. c.
 THE EDITOR. O. When did President Roosevelt charge that Italy had stabbed France in the back?
 A. In his speech at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Vas June 10, 1940.
 Q. WKhat is the population of Nome, Alaska?
 A. The preliminary 1940 census report is 1850. The 1880 figure was 1,21S.
 O. Has the number of deaths from automobiles increased or de. creased in the United States dur- ing the last five years?
 A. In 1885, the fatalities were 34,- 183; 35, ,761 in 1886; 37,205 in 1887; 32,- 428 in 1858 and approximately 32,- 600 in 1889.
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@FuCe C9$tOn are urging that those boats be turned over to the British-and they believe, now, that it could be done legally in spite of Jackson's ruling.
 What Jackson said in effect was it was legal for this government to sell naval equipment which it no longer needed, but that it would be illegal to sell to any warning nation warships which were built in this country especially for sale to that nation. The still unfinished mo- torboats would come in the latter category,
 Now, however, it is suggested there is way around the bar. Of the g motorboats involved, three are already in service and the rest will be shortly. Once they have been commissioned and put to work by the U. s. Navy, it is argued, the government could easily classify them as surplus" naval material and trade them of just as it traded the deStroyerS.