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Milford chronicle., 1940-10-11
PRESS RADIO DEFENSE
C0 TTEE OF STATE
URGES VOLUNTARY
SER VICE BY REGISTRARS

The conscription registration
which is to be held Wednesday. Oe-
t0ber 16, will require voluntary ser
vice on the part Of the registrars
AS the regular registration officers
are familiar with che work they
have been doing as such they have
been designated by Governor Nc
Mullen to hold the conscription reg
istration.
There will be no pay for this SER
vice, the Governor states, because
there is no money available for the
purpose. The same is true regard
ing the registration places, which
are the same as those at which the
regular registration is held The
owners or occupants of the proper
ties so used, according to the Gov
ernor, are to be asked to make no
charge for the use of their premises.
This is one way, the Governor
points out, in which many persons
not available for military training
can perform patriotic service for
their government.
Another way, in the opinion of the
press-radio defense committee ap-
nointed by the Governor, is to have
a general display of the Stars and
Stripes throughout the state on
registration day.
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-11

The Millw5od Sunday school class
will meet Thursday evening, October
10, with Mr.. and Mrs. Howard War
nar.
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-11

with the baseball season out Of
the way, Mr.. and Mrs John q. Publie
can begin concentrating on the pig
skin review.
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-11

Mrs. Sapp. 96.196
Last Wednesday Mr.. Ayars was our
guest and presented us with some
necessary playground equipment
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-11
RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED, That in observance of Ma
tional Newspaper Week, we commend the action of
the ocalpresS for its untring efforts in supporting
and administering cooperation in the diverous
tions for civic Improvements in the Garden City of
TUiR Counties.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we, the
members of the Kiwanis Club of Milford, do pledge
our support the local press in its further advance
ment of civic enterprises.
EDWARD STEINER, President
DAVID GREEN Secretary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Forward March of Common People

Speeches made in wartime by the statesmen of nations at death grips are not always distinguished by temperate and balanced reasoning They run to bluster and bluff, to intimidation and deception and the phony phrase. You have to weigh bushel of counterfeit com to find one that rings true. But when a sentence or a phrase really rings true, it stands out of the mass of phrases like a rocket fired upward into the dark or night Such phrase was uttered Dy Winston Churchill in his broadcast to the people of France. ''Vive la France!'' he cried. "Long live France, and long live also the forward march of the common people,
 The forward march of the common people! What else is worth striving TOT in our common activities banded together as society, as government? Churchill IS speaking American language here, lan- guage that might have come from rom Paine, or Andy Jackson, or Abe Lincoln. It calls up the long pageant of history - the common people as slaves building the pyramids of Egypt; the common people as SerfS working hopelesSly for teudal masters; the common people rising to claim their manhood in the French Rev. OluGEOl, G1lC PSOPAS AAAAA0AAA0 vast new civilization across the American continent; the common people slowly and painfully raising their status in the world of work, the world of culture, the world of the spirit.
 There have been many questionings about the British war aims. British leaders have been remarkably retlcent about just what they are fighting for: What about the class-bound society ot England, people ask; what about free India? British statesmanShip answers not, intent only on the battle Thus it is like ray of the rising sun to hear Churchill thunder pledge to the forward march of the common people.
 That is what the world fears might be halted by new philosophies which stripped the common people of their manhood and left them mere senseless cogs in state machine rolling relentlessly onward to national glory and the aggrandizement of an elite few daring to call themselves alone fit to rule. The world fears that this long forward march might be nulli- fled and halted after all the bloody cen turieS.
 Every country is democratic while en- gagged in an overwhelming military effort. England is democratic today. Will Churchill dare to allow resumption, after the war, of the onward march of the common people? Will he dare NOT to allow it?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

there ever been first lady who ever url- der the strain of eight years conducted herself more graciously, more generously or with greater tact?
 The objection that she should not have thrust herself into the limelight is un- sound. Does anyone seriously maintain that no woman may speak in public? May not a manufacturers wife be member of the Board of Education? Or a bankers wife the president of liter ary club? Or a laborer'S wife the preSi- dent of a church aid society? Is 1t wrong for Mrs Willkie to accompany her huS- band on his arduouS campaign tour? Certainly not. She honorS herself and her husband, too, by taking her place at his side. :.
 Have Eleanor Roosevelt'S activities af fected in the slightest the trend of na- tional legislation or economy? Would any bond-holder or any toiler have re- ceiyed an extra dime if Eleanor Roose- welt had not existed? Obviously not! Yet campaign buttons have appeared reading, "We don't want Eleanor either. These buttons are evidence of the blind, unreasoning hatred against President Roosevelt Their humor is of the identi- cal sort that throws tomatoes at MT. Willkie and his wife. They are verbal tomatoes thrown at Eleanor. Eleanor and Mrs. Willkie both ignore the tomato throwers. When the RooseveltS have left the stage, as some day they must, num- Der of individuals who consider them selves ladies and gentlemen are going to have nice time squaring their vicious and unwarranted attacks on lady whose words and actions, even apart from her position as first lady of the land, should have entitled her not only to respect, but also to affection. Among the number will be not few who now refer con- temptuously to "the voice from the seWer".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
A Selling Point

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin still ln- sists on including in his campaign re- marks the promise to reduce the motor vehicle operators fees from $500 to 5O cents. If he can do this in 1941, he could have just as easily done it in 1889 when the Legislature was last in session. Per sonally we wonder if such drastic reduc- ton can be brought about. There IS bound to be terrific repercusSions ln the Motor Vehicle and State Highway Depart ments, not to mention legislative reac- tion of drastic nature.
 As selling point, though, this IS gooo tonic for the voters and most ot us are glad to know that this reduction can be brought about without injuring budgets or interfering with the present ettlclent conduct of the two above-menhoned oe- partments. If drivers fees can be slashed so heavily it would appear as if we had been overcharged. You can't ust lop off so much money from departmental income without having to take up slack somewhere.
 We hope that it's not just promise that the governor is offering. For II ne should be reelected and then forget all about the thousands of Connecticut drlv- CTS. the result would not reflect any credit on the Republican Party of Connecticut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Eleanor Roosevelt

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has been the verbal target for the bitter anti-Roose- welt hatred that began in 1882 and which will continue while President Roosevelt remains in public life. The hatred is so bitter that it includes his whole family and would poison his dog if he had one. What has Eleanor Roosevelt done to in- cur such intense hatred? Is her attend ance at public meetings to aid hospital drives, Red Cross drives, Girl Scout cam paigns odious? Should she not visit crippled children's homes or orphan asylums or other institutions for the weak or the helpless?
 Do her speeches or her magazine ar ticles ever support an unworthy cause? Among the thousands of women whom she has met, does even one say that she was diScourteous or disagreeable? Has her manner ever encouraged personal resentment against her? Finally, has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
BICYCLES BUILT FOR TWO
(New Haven Journal-courierl

(New Haven Journal Courier.)
 It may come as a surprise to some to learn that the tandem bike, the familiar and harmonized bicycle built for two Cor more) of a day now alive only in fond memory, is once again in great demand. The tandem has recently been appear ing in this country in quantities enough to attract at first raised eye brows and then quiet acceptance. In the exigencies of traffic they have been accepted more gingerly than quietly, perhaps.
 But the major demand upon American manufacturers for tan demS comes, Interestingly enough, not from home but from abroad. Huge quantities are needed in both England and France. In these coun- tries the bike has replaced the mo- torcar for civilian purposes. In Eng land petrol is needed for military usage; in France also there exists. to put it mildly, non-civilian ne- cessity for gasoline. It would ap-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

full life, just as it takes a number of different plates to bring out the varied colors in the printing of a picture. Some lives are as drab as poorly printed black and white pie lures. If day by day We beat a pathway between ourselves and the place we work, or turn over one set of thoughts in our minds, or allow ourselves just one variety of creation, or go further in our folly and try to get satisfaction out of life through dissipation or the wrong use of our powers, we will find ourselves in the end having a drab existence.
 Make life contribute to as many ends as possible. Be interested in variety of things. We get color in pictures by the use of number of plates. and we get color in life by increasing the variety of it's in- terests.
 All Rights Reserved = Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
One a Minute

No, it's not what you think. We know the commodity of which the rate of pro- duction used to be set at one minute. Fools But this is 1940. And now the one-a-minute quota has been applied to a new machine that turns out shell forg- ings at that rate. The machines are simple and inexpensive to build, and goodly line of them ought to be able to whip out the basic part of artillery shells in the kind of time needful in modern wars, when they are fired almost like machine-gun bullets.
 Yes, the production machine is getting under way. The United States is in deadly earnest about this preparedness thing Any foreign observer who thinks otherwise automatically puts himself in the class of the old-time one-a-minute production, not the new.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

Voters are still wondering just whom the Union Party will be endorsing for the 194O election! As yet the official determ- ination of endorsements by rival factions of the party has been announced. Until it has been we won't know how the Union Party candidates will line up on machines or ballots. All of which confirms our claims of some months back that parties seeking a place on ballots should do more than merely endorse those duly nominated at political convention which cost some party plenty of money.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
HUNTERS. DoN'Ts
(Boston Post

While hunters are oiling up their guns for the fall hunting season it might be wise for hem first to memorize the don'tS for hunters and the autumn will have fewer persons killed and maimed by the careless and inoiscriminate use of firearms in the woods and fields.
 The men who spend their money for hunting licenses can afford to spend five minutes refiecting on the dangers they can avert by the exer- else of a little caution. Everything that moves in the woods isn't deer. It might be another hunter. Barbed wire fences catch the triggers of guns. Pass all Instructions with care. Use a gun with a safety catch, and throw it of only when about to fire. Do not use high-powered shells in damascened barrels. Wear 8 distinguishing hat or cap in the woods. Never carry a gun by the barrel or by the trigger guard. The wound a gun makes is an ugly thing, even if it isn't fatal. Handle guns with care, and hold your fire until you are sure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Selected Poem
FLAMING BITTERSWEET

(Alice Maude Spokes in the Poets Column. Weighted by feather-folk, in ecstasy,
 Hartford CouranD It was but yesterday, in grace you swung Your dangling garlands OCT the hemlock tree Who pecked our nectared globues midst their song. As candle flame, in silhouette on green, Your grape-like festoons lit the somber wood Too soon the birds would claim-for ash-the good Of seedlings to enrich the future scene. And like the birds-1n ecstasy-I tore Your trailing body from the hemlock bought Within vase, gyptian, would restore Your flaming beauty-painted- endow My wall with autumn glory. Thus adore, Natures handiwork to which I bow!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Several hours before Lindbergh went on the air, MBC telephoned

Several hours before Lindbergh went on the air, MEG telephoned the White House and said that since his speech was of a partisan character, equal time would be granted the following day for a reply. The White House answer was, "See Senator Barkley."
 MBC thereupon relayed the message to the Democratic floor leader, and Barkley said he would answer Lindbergh. Three hours later, Lowell Mellett, one of the six passion for anonymity White House secretaries, called MEG and advised that Colonel William (''Wild' BilP) Donovan, A. E. F. hero and strong advo- cate of maximum aid to Britain, would replace BarkIey.
 This was satisfactory to MBC and it allocated time for Donovan. But next day came word that Colonel Donovan had turned thumbs down on the plan. He had served as Assistant Attorney General under Coolidge and had been COP candidate for governor of New York in 19S6; so he baked at making a speech for the Democrats, although a vigor- ous opponent of Lindbergh's.
 Class IA RegiStrantS in State
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25


 the epidemic diseases which are al- most certain to follow in the wake of extended aerial warfare.
 Its long-range aim will be to find out how those epidemics start, and how America can preserve its own health if war ever comes to Ameri- can shores.
 HOSPITAL NOW
 BEING SHIPPED
 Head of the hospital will be Dr. John B. Gordon, professor of pre- ventive medicine at the Harvard Medical School. A staff of about 20 doctors and technological experts will go with him from Harvard while 50 Red Cross nurses will go overseas under the direction of Miss Patience L. Clarke of Detroit.
 The hospital itself is now being shipped over in prefabricated sec- tions-four foot panels of celotex encased in an asbestos mixture which takes hard, glazed surface. These are erected on steel frames. In all, the hospital will comprise 20 units and will contain 100 beds. Designing a hospital for operation in air raid areas led to some special problems. Dr. Gordon recently came back from a preliminary survey of English hospitals to report that the worst danger hospital patients suffer in an air raid is from flying glass fragments of shattered windows. Windows for this hospital, accord ingly, won't have glass panes. h. stead, they're getting sheets of cello glass, transparent, non -Shattering DuPont plastic.
 Ventilation is another problem, since all windows must be closed and curtained at night. A complete air conditioning unit must be in- stalled, with filters between each room to prevent the spread of con- tagion from one ward to another. EXPERTS TO COVER
 WIDE AREA
 What Dr. Gordon and other medi- cal men fear is a great spread of such diseases as influenza, pneu- monia and spinal meningitis in the | air raid areas. For one thing, epi- denies always seem to go with war conditions. For another, the long hours Britishers spend nightly in damp, cold afraid shelters are likely to bring on a wave of respira- tory ailments.
 But nobody knows, yet, just how these things start. Do they begin in army camps and spread thence to civilian centers, or vice versa? How much part does exposure play? How much can be blamed on Skimpy war rations? In what way can epidemics be nipped in the bud when air raids and other wartime disorganizations make ordinary peacetime procedure impossible?
 These are some of the questions the Red Cross hopes to get an- swered. Doctors and technicians from the hospital will fan out" by motorized units, so as to cover an area within a 150-mile radius. The territory chosen for the hospital comprises some industrial centers, a good bit of rural country and a number of troop concentration cen- ters.
 Reports will be made by Dr. Cor don to the U. s. Public Health Ser vice and to the U. s. Army and Navy. Hope is that the knowledge gained will be useful not only in wartime but in the floods and other natural disasters which the Red Cross and the Public Health Service are forever combating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

Out in Colorado there is quite bit of joshing of Governor Ralph L. Carr, Re publican, who is seeking reelection. Democrats claim that in one of his cam paign tours he crossed the state line into Nebraska and started to address rally in a small town. The story is supposed to have originated in a Nebraska news paper, but Democrats are making great political capital out of it and having a lot of fun chaffing Governor Carr. He denies it and says he has walked up and down the borders of his state too many times not to know when he has stepped into an adjoining one. Political cam paigning certainly goes in every direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

The Hartford Times finds that the office of U. s. Senator from Connecticut now filled by the Honorable Francis T.
 Maloney of Meriden, is so we'll filled that he should be returned to Washington in November. So many newspapers and individuals agree on this that the popu- lar Meriden legislator might well be re- garded as the outstanding man on the Democratic ticket for 1940. Of him The Times has this to say: Tt is doubtful if this state has had, in modern times at least Senator who in his first term
 has gained the prestige and influence and the reputation for solid thinking which Senator Maloney has achieved. :. Senator Maloney is essentially man of the people, He knows the harder side of life both from experience and from intimate observation of it's difficult ties. :" There is only one thing left and if you follow Senator Maloney's wishes it would be to pull the Top Lever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
RED FLANNELs AHEAD
(Bridgenort Times-starl

Those placid years when Connec- ticut lived without weather extremes seem definitely past, and it's strong, positive brand of variety which is the current boast of our climate.
 The coldest.. longest winter in many years was followed by the most sunless spring, and that in turn by the coldest summer. and that in turn by the most beautiful October within the memory of man, and, vaulting thus from one extreme to another, nature has beggared all superlatives.
 It would be foolhardy, then, to attempt to find advance adjectives for the winter that lies ahead. But the word has come in from the hills.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

medical te c h. niques which h will save thou sands of lives in this and fu- ture wars.
 On Dec. ] a ne W American Red Cross-Har- ward Hospital will be opened in 8 town some where in south- ern England.
 Its immediate aim will be to give m dical care to British
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Views Of The Press

and the squirrels have the bushiest fur in contemporary history, so heavy and burdensome a coat they carry only one nut at time, with tail dragging laboriously behind them. And as they work, their ribald chatter is of a red flannel winter for humans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Daily Almanac
rises ll:55 70. m.

Moon rises 1l:55 D. m.
 Sun rises 6:14 a. m; sets 4:58 p. m
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 This is really the season of the year whel Indian Summer occurs. Once the hunters moon has started to wane. and the first period of cold weather has let up a bit that late mellowness and softneSs came to be known as Indian Summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

lG IdkeS Iiuct plates to produce all these gor- geous colorS in t h e ir entirety. They are all needed for the full glory of the picture.
 Life is complex, and we should never heed those who attempt to simplify it. It takes many things tomake a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Current Comment

According to the U. s. Public Health service. 100000 Americans are infected with the micriscopic parasite which causes trichinoSis. New York State Senator Thomas c. Desmond.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
Washington Merry-G Go-Round
DREW PIE "A R g 0 N ROBERT s. ALLEN

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

o. Is the use of snuff increasing in the United States? A. Production of snuff in the United States increased from slightly less than four million pounds in 1880 to more than fl million pounds in 1929. Since that date, production has declined slightly, but has never been less than 31 million pounds. About 3S million pounds of snuff was marketed in 1889.
 o. If the earth did not rotate on its axis, how many days and nights would year bave?
 A. Only one solar day: i. e.. con- plete change from light to dark, or one sunrise and one sunset, The solar day and solar year would CO., incide. o. How many stars and stripes were on the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry and inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner? A. Fifteen stripes, and fifteen stars in five rows of three stars each, the rows being staggered.
 o. Is it proper to put ice in wine? A. No; because it kills the Lou quet of still wines and halts the effervescence of sparkling wines.
 o. Who administers the school system of Alaska?
 A. There are municipal, district, rural, and federal scholos. The first three are under the general super vision of the territorial commission CT of education, and the federal schools are under the supervision Of the U. s. commissioner of Indian affairs. Alaska college, at Fair banks, is administered by board of trustees and the president of the college is the chief executive of- ficer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
What's Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to page IA for the answers.

l. Is quicksilver the same as mercury?
 2. A spinet is a part of a spinning wheel, a Colonial chair or a musl- cal instrument?
 8. Was Benvenuto Cellini an au- thor, sculptor or painter?
 4. Name the capital of Palestine.
 5. The religion with the most fol- lowers is Confucianism, Mohamme- danisf or. Roman Catholicism?
 6. Name the new French ambas- sador to the United States.
 2. In what game is period Of play called a "chukker"?
 8. Is Mary T. Norton United States Senator or Representative from New Jersey? g. Which is the Blue-Hen State?
 10. How many windows are in the Washington Monument?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25
 STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
COLOR IN LIFE

The beautiful color printing which we see today on the covers and in the advertising sections of maga- zines is produced by three plates which establish the primary colorS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

What this means is that 100000 men will be called all told, and they all will be Class IA regis trants (men without any allowed deferments). Of this 100000. each state will supply a number pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

If ysu want a copy of THE BABY BOOK" send to The Wa terbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose ten cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-25

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR It is not correct to say run" for manage" or operate" as, "He knows how to run his business"