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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
Views Of The Press

deemed necessary. Necessary 1t probably was, however, for the Lib erty measles" mentality unfortun- ately feeds upon the same impetus that nourisheS saner manifestations of the patriotic spirit.
 The great masterpieces of Bee thoven or of Bach, of Verdi or Of Rossini, have but an accidental as- sociation with those nations which have officially disassociated them selves from that freedom of the spirit which alone can produce works of art. It is not only bad taste but inanity to wish to dis pense with the great products of two great cultures because those cul- lures are, for the moment, we be- lieve, under eclipse and in dicta- torial control Great artists lose their nationality by the very token of their greatness; Beethoven and Verdi were citizens of the world wide and supra-national republic of the arts long before those lesser artists. the Austrian dabbler in landcape (house) painting and his axis pal and former man of letters, came upon the scene. AS a matter of fact, a work by any of the Ger man or Italian masters is in itself a magnificent satire and ironic com mentary on the low cultural state into which these nations have fallen and is by no means propaganda for the Nazi-Fascist way of life and art,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
New Trouble-Baby on Our Doorstep

Whoever said the world was ever going to be without trouble? Whoever said life was going to be without strift and grief? Even the Wobblies, singing of "pie in the sky,'' reserved it's enjoyment for later and unspecified date Trouble? Problems? That's life. We'll never be without 'em. And here's another, in case you haven't enough to worry about, that may develop into good, sound minor source of worry within few months
 Mexico elected president early in July. Trouble is, nobody knows who he is. The Mexican administration, which counted the votes, says he is Avila Comacho, it's candidate Followers of Juan Andreu Almazan say he was really elected. but counted out Which is right, we wouldn't know, and there is no way of telling.
 Almazan, shortly after the election, left the country for vacation in Cuba. Right now he is in the United States. Some Of his followers in Mexico, insisting that he is to be the rightful president of that country in December, are buSily keeping his following together by organizing thelr own Congress Almazan says that lat the proper time" he will return to claim the presidency. Now the United States is not concerned with which of these gentlemen haS been rlgnt1ully elected. InaI IS MeAI- co.'s problem. But there are signs that many of the Almazan following are slip ping over the border and forming juntas on United States soil to carry out cam paign for vindicating by force in Mexico what they consider their rights. That means that the United States may soon be up against problem of what activities to permit among political refugees.
 The tradition of political asylum is an old one. Should Mexico prove too hot for AlmAzan and some of his more fervid followers, the present vacation" might be extended indefinitely. By ancient GUS .om and whatever is left Of international aw, such a political refugee is per. nltted same and peaceable asylum, put he is not permitted to use Inc host country as e base Of oper- atlons for revolutionary activity ln the homeland. ft's too early to start active
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
Bright Side of War New.

There has been so much suffering and killing in the first year of the European war that it's something of surprise to find one lone indication of a trend in the direction of human progress Six diseases which in the past have claimed more lives than bullets and bombs have so far been checked. The germs of influenza, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, typhus and cerebroSpinal meningitis have all appeared, but they've been conquered
 Better housing, better food, new drugs and new treatments, and = most import ant of all - watchful medical examiners have combined to prevent recurrence of the great epiden1ics of former wars. Science, which has repeatedly increased the effectiveness of tools of destruction, also has done much to alleviate the hor- TOTS of war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
Return to 18th Century

Every once in while, science catches up with itself, shrugs it's shoulders and decides that maybe there's something to the simple way of life. For years aero nautical engineers have been designing complicated instruments to help pilot get safely to the place he's going. One thing had them stumped: there didn't seem to be any safe way of getting a transcontinental pilot safely through a snG sO5% Wait uSuy @ bds Pots csaed ust had 1 to land
 This week, airline pilots are going back to a system of reckoning that worked pretty well for the Portuguese navigatorS of the fifteenth century. They'll simply climb above the storm clouds and Shoot" the stars or the sun with sextant It won't matter if they get off their radio beam because they'll still know where they're going.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26

Autumn seems to have started off in the traditional fashion. A late summer spurt brought warm weather and a slight tropical storm. This eased off and some what sultry weather ended with a more or less heavy rain storm with intermit- tent showers. Cooler weather following will effect the gradual change in the fol- iage which is partly colored already in some sections. The fall pruning goes on apace, hedges are trimmed, shrubbery thinned out In fact the autumn gardener is as busy as the spring gardener, and prepares for what will be slightly the next spring and summer. The grass is still green, but people are not so particular about slipping the lawns with colder weather approaching. Au- tumn came in like a breath of summer, but it was not Indian Summer That comes somewhat later, if it comes at all. And we like to think warmish spell late in the Autumn is Indian Summer just to square ourselves with Indian lore and tradition
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The Christian Science Monitor says: "No war boom or temporary pump priming is going to solve this primary problem Unemployment in the United States). The question of jobs goes on and on, and the question is, will Willkie solve it any better than Roosevelt has. This paper goes on to say: "If there were 100000 new small enterprises start. ing up in the United States each year, as Mr. Willkie believes there would be if business were freed from fear of govern mental restrictions and New Deal hatred, there would be jobs" Would there be, do you suppose? And the editorial also says: "Now the Roosevelt Administration is not entirely to blame for unemployment in the United States and we do not know whether MT. Willkie could fulfill his promise to end it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
Selected Poem
THE FAN
"A. Jacqueline Shaw in the Christian
 Science Monitor)

(A, Jacqueline Shaw in the Christian
 Science Monitor Just look" you said to me- lat this old fan: Chinese, but came by way of the Russian Court" That's long time ago. I said but thinking more Of Russian Courts than China. It was heavy Between my fingers opened it And famed my self little. Russia then And China Two names ages apart, and Another age. The bronze gold of the robes Glowed in my fingers Look" you said, "at that
 face Watch the rose diamond on that ivory brow See how the light shines through; and how the
 eyes Open and shut" Someone long years ago Had done just that. Opened the fan as I, And felt it heavy: watched the light come, And the light go: touched. as did, with tip Of her finger the gold tracery exquisite, And thought what thoughts? Not ours, perhaps,
 which were
 Of beauty merely and of heavy fan Now open in an old New England house; Open against the light. The ivory shone, And the gold glowed. and the turquoise Of the iridescent butterfly struck bright Against my eyes. folded it again. And gave 1t back, and watched you wrap 1t in Its dull blue cover, put 1t carefully Tn its lacquer case "Good-by" thought, ito courts To Russia and to China" It was cold When we went out. And you said suddenly: "The airs like winter" But-though 1t was dark, I knew the fan still glowed within its box.
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Why does God SO often take the saints and leave the rummies?"
 To which it seems that the only sensible answer is that God wants to give the rummies a further chance. There are many people who finish a well-rounded life long be- fore old age. This does not mean that viewed from our standpoint their work is finished, but that in a comparatively few short years they have learned how to live and so are ready for eternal life. Some people learn this before they reach their tenth year, some in later life, some never. Life is proving ground. We are here to get ready to live forever. The disciples of life tutor us in these matters.
 Such an explanation of course does not cover all cases. Death is frequently an unexplanable mystery. Human reason cannot explain all of Gods acts. But many Q grief -stric- ken heart would be soothed if people would Just remember that life Is a season of training, and that when the training is over, God calls his children home.
 All rights Reserved-Babson News
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
A STATES ATTORNEY
 IN POLITICS
(Bridgeport Times-star)

It is a disappointment that the Republican state platform remained silent on one of the outstanding re- forms advocated by the Democratic state platform and endorsed by the recent state convention of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor. We refer to the proposal that the states attorneys of Connecticut should be taken both out of politics and out of private practice.
 As matter of fact, however, it would have been somewhat embar- rassing for the Republican platform to consider such a resolution. Most states attorneys in Connecticut happen to be Republicans-the nat ural result of long Republican ten- ure of the power of appointment to the superior court bench. In the past, some of them have openly played part in politics.
 And, at the moment, the states attorney of MiddleSex county, Ber- trand E. Spencer, is engaged in the process of running for the office of mayor on the Republican ticket in the city of Middletown.
 He is not resigning his judicial office while becoming active as a political candidate. From this dis tance, we do not know that any of the power MT. Spencer has held as district attorney was in any way transferred to the political field in the securing of the nomination. But however worthy Mir. Spencer may happen to be of the office of states attorney and the office of mayor, such participation in politics on the part of high judicial officer should be barred both by principle and by law. MT. Spencer's candidacy may be one of the things which dictated silence on this reform in the Re- publican platform. It is also one of the things which proves the wis- dom and necessity of the reform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
ARTISTS PICK THE SPOTS
(New Britain Herald)

As the Farimington cutoff bends down the slope of RattleSnake mountain-or bends up the slope, depending in which direction you are traveling-the town of Farming ton sparkles in the valley to the north. It Is a magnificent view, one of Connecticutis finest. The ar. lists found that out shortly after the cutoff was built. They have been perching themselves alongside the road with their easels ever since. Landscape painters like fine land- scapes to paint, and here is one per excellence.
 More could have been made of the spot when the state built the cut- of. An unobstructed view for all travellers might have been provided. instead Of permitting lss obstruction from the highway, as now. The state spent advertising money to bring louFiats 10 New England, and at this spot. where they could tarfy with satiafaction, they are flnnoled right past on ribbon Of concrete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26

American governments of an in vitation to give their Chiefs of Staff an all-expense courtesy tour of the United States and its mili- tary establishments.
 The government began this last year by inviting the Brazilian Chief of Staff, able General Goes Monteiro, to this country. Now, instead of inviting only one gen. eral, twenty are being asked-and Monteiro is coming back for a second visit.
 Ten at a time, the generals, with out aide apiece, will be flown around the country on the following itinerary: Lang ley Field, Fort Benning, San Antonio, Fort Sill, Fort Knox, Detroit, New York, West Point and Washington.
 They will ride in a commercial transport plane, engaged especial ly for the purpose by the War Department, and all expenses from their respective capitals and re- turn will be on the U. s.
 Besides it's good will value, the tour will be important in advanc- ing the discussions that already have taken pace on joint military action in the event of an emer- gency.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Repeated efforts to persuade Jim Farley to take the stump for Roosevelt have so far been un- availing. Although still holding his job as New York Democratic chairman, the new Coca Cola mogul balks at doing anything for his former "Chief'. Certain
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What's Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
 1. On the Fahrenheit thermome- ter, what is the designation for summer heat?
 2. Do fish live in the Dead Sea?
 3. Is nelium or hydrogen the ightest known substance?
 4. What is the proper title of the presiding judge of the highest court of the United States?
 5. What is the name for the smallest combination of atoms that will form a given chemical compound?
 6. Are German police dogs de- scended from wolves?
 T. Is the number of persons per family in the United States in- creasing or decreasing?
 8. What was the name of the first Lord Baltimore?
 g. Thomas Jefferson was gover- nor of Tennessee, Virginia, or Kentucky?
 10. Which eastern Atlantic State has the same latitude as Bermuda?
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Democratic leaders privately are unified and are talking of blasting Farley = but this is unlikely Minnesota's Cover nor Harold Stassen has lead- ing role in guiding the labor end of the Willkie campaign. The la bor section of the Republican National Committee consults Stas- sen on all its plans and activi- ties ' at direct personal orders from Willkie The President will not go to the Pacific coast for any campaigning, but he is going to bat personally for Rep resentative Mon c. Wallgren, Dem ocratic candidate for senator in Washington state. Roosevelt will send message for Wallgren'S election.
 CORRECTION
 In stating that Clay Williams, head of the Reynolds Tobacco company, had camped beside Rep. Robert Doughton, chairman of Ways and Means Committee, in order to influence the excess pro- fits bill, this column was mis- informed. It finds that MT. Will Hams talked to MT. Doughton only once while the tax bill was under consideration. and in no sense as a lobbyist. Subsequently MT. Williams appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, and although he was opposed to one phase of the bill, that opposition was expressed openly and in the usual manner available to citi- zen.
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- eSSS SO~NS@ OO0b tally, it also means that whoever is named by the President to suc- ceed J. Warren Madden as third man on the labor board will be stepping into one of the hottest seats in the government.
 STRIKE ITSELF
 SHORT-LIVED
 The strike itself lasted from Aug. 30 to Sept. 13, and involved 80O-odd members of the International Long, shoremenS Association at the ports of Tacoma, Port Angeles and An- acortes, Wash: This union is the A. F. of L. outfit headed by Joseph Ryan; strong on the, east coast, it has been badly overshadowed in the west by the International Long, shoreman's and Warehousefnen's Union, Harry Bridges c. I. O. union.
 Big stone in Ryan's craw for two years has been a labor board ruling handed down in June, 1888, which made the netire west coast water front one bargaining unit. Bridges union is in majority on the coast as whole, and hence was certified as the bargaining agent for all west coast longShoremen.
 It was this ruling Ryan's men were really hitting at in their re- cent strike. The Ryan union was the majority union in the strike hit cities, and demanded that in those cities it be allowed to bargain for its own men.
 HILLMAN
 TOOK A HAND
 Relatively a minor affair. the strike drew national attention be- i cause ti tied up number of im- portant defense shipments for Tacoma shipyard, lumber for an Alaskan airbase, various consign- ments for the Bremerton navy yard, chemicals for powder factory, and so on.
 i For that reason, the government made strenous efforts to get settle ment. In the ned it succeeded after Defense Commissioner Sidney Hill man had personally appealed to Ryan. But the key point of the settlement was the understanding that Ryan's union might file repres- entation petitions with Elwin Egan, labor board regional director for the | northwest.
 Technically, that was purely a routine step. Actually, it means that the board can hardly escape passing on the whole vexing question of west coast longshoremen's represen- tation all over again. The consequn- ces of that could easily be profound.
 For instance: if, in the end, the board should reverse its earlier rul- ing and declare each port a separate bargaining unit, Bridges power would be greatly curtailed.
 HEADACHE FOR
 NLRB APPOINTEE
 Right now the labor board is two-man affair due to the Pres ident's delay in appointing a suc- cessor to Madden. It is taken for granted that the two present mem bers-Edwin s. Smith and Dr. Will liam N. Leiserson-would be very unlikely to agree on this west coast ruling, since they have been on op- posite sides of the fence, consistnet- ly ever since Dr. Leiserson came on the board.
 In substnace, then, it means that whoever gets Maddens seat will be called on to settle the whole ques- tion He'll create enemies no matter which way he decides.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
Current Comment

Young people should be advised that it ls their patriotic duty to continue the normal course Of their education unlota and until they gre called. 90 that they viii be well. prepared for greatest usefulneEs Co thelE country,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
Daily Almanac

Moon rises l:0l 6. m. daylight tme)
 Sun rises 6;43 q. fn.: sets 0;43 D. m. (day. light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Sunset and sunrise coincide today. That iS hoth occur at the same minute and hour re. eordIng on our clocks. but thero is q twelve hour elapSe Of time between the solar phases. ThA viii not occur again until next spring at the vernai equinox.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26
MUSIC HATH CHARMS
(NeW HaYan Journal- Courlerl

There Is wisdom in the announce
 ment Of Director Harry Weber that the Chicago Opera Company will take no action to eliminate German or Italian music from tho schedule Of the coming season. It ie to be regretted that even this much 0f \ recognition Of tho war situation ln muslcal circles should have been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26

of mine, t h i s fine husband, this mother so needed by her c h il d ren, this promising child, and has left a
 lot of perfectly
 worthless people who do neither themselves n or the world any good?" Or, as one plain speak ing chap put it to me one daV.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26

little more honesty and truthfulness might be suggested these days of turmoil and stress instead of knife in the back for the person of opposite views who has the amazing effrontery to differ with you on this and that
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insiders av e realized.
 In effect, 1t means that one of the National Labor Relations Boards mos t hotly disputed decisions is be- in g reopened; ultim ately, it could result in a serious set- b ack for the west coast la bor le a d e r Harry Bridges.
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Questions
 and Answers
BY rREDERIO e. KERBY

BI EHEDEHAC M- KIRBY
 Enclose . three cent stamp fo1 reply when addressing any ques. ti0n Of fact or information Co Ehe Waterbury Democrats Service Bu. rcau 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.
 @. In which year was consump- tion of coal in the United States largest?
 A. In 1918, when consumption was 678,212,00O net tons.
 o. How many persons have roles in the radio program, Gene and Glenn with Jake and Lena, "?
 A. Two. Gene Francis Carroll plays the roles. of Gene" "Jake" and Lena" Glenn Owen Powell plays the role of Glenn" o. How can broken tortoise-shell be welded together?
 A. By carefully cleaning and rasping the surfaces to be united, softening the plates in boiling water Cor sometimes by dry heaD, and then pressing them tightly together with heated pincers or vice. The heat softens and liquefies a super ficial film of the horny material, and that, with the pressure, effects a perfect union of the surfaces. Heat and pressure are also employed to mould the substance
 o. What is the National Inven- tors Council?
 A. A council of 12 men organ ized by the Secretary of Commerce to act as 8 clearing house for Amer ica's inventive genius. The council is closely related to the Patent Office, but is not a part of it.
 O. How many applications were filed for the Civil Service examiaa- tion for Apprentice, Mechanical Trades, for the Washington, D. C., Navy Yard held in August, 1940?
 A. About 12,000.
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worry about this, but for worriers who are tired of worrying about Hitler and the sale of destroyers, the fate of Indo-China and the Philippines, conscription and profit taxes, this might dc as new subject.
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A Thought for Today

And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured that very hOur.-Matthew 17:1S.
 miracle is A work exceeding the power of any created agent, consequently being an effect of the divine omnipotence.-South.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
DREW PIE A R s 0 N ROBERT 6. ALLEN

 and an equal number d the Nays powerful twin nned M B9 several with regarding the
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National
 
BY BRUCE CAPTION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrresDOndent

Washington, Sept. B. Recent settlement of that west coast long shoremen's strike was and still is far bigger story than any but a
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

THE BIGGEST WHY IN LIFE
 The question which people most often ask minister is this: Why has God taken away this loved one
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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, ID. c. Enclose four cents in postage.
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e. What is the letter postage rate to Canada?
 A. The rate is three cents an ounce or fraction thereof.
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "The observation of Good Friday was compul- sory;" say, observance"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26

o. How many immigrants were admitted to the United States in 1921-1930 and how many in 1931- 1940?
 A. From 1921 to 1930 4,107 ,209 aliens were admitted and in 1881 to 1889 the number was 457,675.