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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
Meeting Omitted

The usual meeting of the Every mans Bible Glass of Waterville will not take place Sunday morning, be- cause of a Communion service at the Second Congregational Church in Waterbury, at 8. In., under the sponsorship of the Waterbury Feder- ation of Mems Bible Glasses.
 The speakers will be Rev. Dr. John 0. Walker. He will be assisted in serving communion by Rev. Dr. Charles s. Robertson, pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, and Rev. pr. John Snavely, pastor of the First Methodist Church.
 A breakfast will follow at g
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
INCEBORG LODGE
 PLANS INITIATION

Members of Ingeborg lodge, Order of Vasa, last night made plans for a district initiation program, which will be held May IS at the Women's club. The session was held at Moose hall.
 Hostesses at the card party. that followed were Mrs. Fred Ander- son Mrs. Eric Larson and Mrs. John Larson. The prize committee included Mrs. John Hendrickson, Mrs. Otto Madison, Mrs. Alfred Ce- darholm and Mrs. Eric Larson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
MEETING CALLED
 ON SEWER FUND
Aldermen Expected to Ap- prOpriate $7,SOO for
 WPA Project

A special meeting of the board of aldermen for Monday night at 7:3O was called today by Mayor Vincent A. Scully. The purpose of the ses- sion is to vote a $7,800 appropria- tion from the revolving sewer fund to allow for the continuance of a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
ROSARY SOCIETY ABLE THESPIANS
St. Thomas Women Score Hit in Irish Minstrel in
 Church Basement

Breath of Old Ireland" was cleverly and comically presented before a large and appreciative aud- fence in the basement of St. Thom- as' Church last evening by the Ros- ary Society of the parish.
 Mrs. Dorothy Carney Dunn, long
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

o'clock. served by the Ladies Aid Society.
 The Waterville Bible Glass will leave in cars from the Grace Meth odist Church at 7:30 a. m. and transportation will be furnished for all other men interested in attend ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

discussion period on the different divisions of the Protestant Faith. John Cookson and David Hubbell will be in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
SAFE DRIVERS SAVE MILLIONS

Hartford, Conn.-(UP)-Cautious driving by Connecticut motorists during 1889 resulted in a saving of $S,5OO,O0 in public liability and property damage, according to state motor vehicles commissioner Michael A. C0nnor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

The annual meeting of the Everyman's Bible Class will take place Monday evening at 7:S0 o'clock, at the Grace Methodist Church. Election of officers will be held at that time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

Haiti shipped over 100000 pounds of coffee to other countries last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

Brazil claims to have the deepest coal min in the world, 1t piercing 6,426 feet down into the earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

The Young Peoples Fellowship Society of St. Paul's Episcopal Church will meet Suday evening at 2 o'clock in the Parish Hall, for a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

Colombia will aid it's farmers to make their land more productive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

Rats killed by a dog near Nor folk, England, have averaged over 200 a day for several months.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Program to Avoid
Relief Crisis
Is Proposed

/ WASHINGTON. - (FP) A five
point program to solve relief crises
such as represented by Ohio, and pro-
vide for new relationship of respon-
sibility between federal government,
states and local communities was con-
tanned in a Workers Alliance state
ment issued here by David LASER, ma
tional president.
The program calls for the federal
government to assume responsibility
for all needy employables, numbering
today mot less than 100000" This
program jobs. 1t will be supple
mented by unemployment assistance
grants" of direct relief
These direct relief grants would be
distributed by the Social Security
board to the states, to be used where
ever local communities were unable
to sponsor works program projects
up to the limit of their job quota.
The funds would be distributed by
the states to needy unemployed EN-
ployables for whom there was neither
jobs in private industry nor jobs on
the works program.
The proposal also would have con-
gress make a two year relief appro-
priation so that the state legislatures
would be able to determine their own
appropriations in their biennial ses-
sions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
By DICK HARTFORD
Federated Press)


Hearings of the senate civil liberties
committee have proved that it is as
hard to find bona fide farmer in
the Associated Farmers as it is to
discover a big ranch owner with a
union card.
but front for big business has been
frequently made by the Simon j.
Lubin Society, California organization
engaged in agricultural research. Best
proof that the Lubin society knew
what it was talking about is found in
A. F. financial figures already dis
closed more are to Gomez.
During the years 1934-193S inclu-
sive, the organization had an income
of $178,542, not counting a $4,000
special publicity fund raised by Jo-
seph DiGiorgio of the giant DiGiorgio
Fruit Corp. No piker, DiGiorgio pro-
tested against a proposed $4,000 sal
airy for a publicity man because "a
man can't live on $4,000"
DiGiorgio is remembered for break
lIS otilhC VI Lie OllIttQ OdilClJ
Agricultural Packing & Allied Work
ers (CIO) at his Yuba county ranches
last summer. The strikers wanted
SIS instead of SIS for a 60-hour week.
Instead, they got Jail sentences for
violating an anti-picketing ordinance.
Most prosperous year for the A. F.
was 1888, when receipts totaled $685.
OBS. A breakdown of the 5-year rev.
enue shows that the 10 largest con-
tributors provided $77,941, or 1880
of the total income. These contribu-
tors were: American Can Co., Atchi-
son, Topeka & Sante Fe R. R., Can
ners League, Dried Fruit Assn, Holly
Sugar Corp, Industrial Assn. (San
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.,
Southern Californians, Inc, Southern
Pacific R. R., and Spreckels Invest
ment Sugar Co.
County units of the A. F. provided
26% of the 5-year receipts. Employ
ers' associations were next largest
with a contribution of
f2.4&o; the railroads gave $3.50 and
the utilities 4@o. One reason for the
relative smallness of the utilities con-
-ribution is found in a memo dated
March 81, 1889, from Henry Bauer of
he Southern California Edison Co. to
he DiGiorgio Fruit Corp, which had
asked the utility to chip in for the
campaign:
eve are interested in the work of |
he Associated Farmers and know of |
heir effective work. Any contribu-
ions we make have to be published |
n Railroad Commission reports on
Utilities. This would mitigate against
\. F. activities. We have contributed
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Norris Announces
Retirement In 1913

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Sen. George
w. Norris lind, Neb.) announced here
that he will not run for any public
office upon the expiration of his term
in 1913.
My work in done. My friends un-
derstand and they won't ask me to
run again." Norris, now rs, said here
on the eve of the reconvening of
congress.
Regarded as "the greatest liberal of
them ALL" Norris has authored more
progressive legislation than any other
single legislator in the history of the
country In 1917 he was one of the
few who voted against American par
ticipation in the war.
Norris previously announced his in
tention to retire but was dissuaded
Liberals here hope he can again be
persuaded not to leave public life.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
EvICTI0NS TO RISE
DESPITE GOOD
COTTON PRICE

MEMPHIS. = OPP = The price OF
cotton has risen sharply, but this win
ter will probably see an increase in
| the number of homeless sharecroppers
in the plantation country, observers
agree.
j. r. Butler, president of the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union (unaffil-
iated), says that the number of evic-
tions are particularly heavy in south
eastern Missouri and the Yazoo-Mis-
sissippi delta. plantation owners
are using their AAA payments to pur-
chase tractors and other new machin-
cry, and while, this may be desirable
as a means of improving farming
methods it is proving disastrous to
sharecroppers and tenants who al
ready are swelling the ranks of mi
gratory labor throughout the south"
Butler said.
The situation in southeast Missouri
has become so acute that landowners
themselves are petitioning congress to
for the landlord to receive the share
cropper's allotment of federal bene-
fits.
AS the act is now interpreted, the
planter who operates farm with
and day labor receives an
allotment equal to both the owners
and the sharecropper's share. Re
sponsible Missouri landowners have
this injustice, which
has long been attacked by tenant or
CARNATIONS. They believe that an
would end many of the
evictions, which have brought unfav-
orable publicity.
Good crops and fair prices gave Mis-
sissippi delta sharecroppers one of
their best years since the depression
began when they settled up with their
landlords this fall, but increasing evic-
tons are leaving them with no farms
to work in 1910. This means that
they will have to join the ranks of
the seasonal agricultural workers who |
exc out substandard living in the |
small towns Of the section.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Business
AS Usual

WASHINGTON OPP Business
as usual during this war as we'll as
during the last one, seems to be the
slogan of French and German indus
trialists
Iron Age, official organ of the
American Iron & Steel Institute, re-
ports, Zone of the most extraordinary
transactions is the recent sale of A.
100000 tons of Belgian coal to France
and 100000 tons of French iron ore
to Belgium which was transacted by
group of French iron ore mining
companies and the Belgian coal cartel
The exchange should be completed
within nine months beginning Deem
Der l.
How can Belgium supply 4,0O0,00O
tons of coal and coke and absorb g.
100000 tons of ore? AS both the
coal and the ore will be loaded on
Belgian cars the assumption is that
most of the coal will come from Ger
many and the iron ore will go to
Germany.
THAT there is also a not unimport-
ant other trade (machinery, tools, i'm
Elements, etc. via Belgium between
France and Germany has but recently
been confirmed by Belgian sources"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
THOUSANDS
IN TOLEDO
EAT A Dinner

Thirteen thousand members of the
new leisure class ate free Christmas
dinners here, guests of Addison
Thatcher, lionaire-councilman and
former mayor, who has maintained a
personal tradition of catering holiday
dinners to the poor for 20 years.
A large shadowy hall set with bare
wooden picnic tables and long benches
was crowded with whites and Negroes
from every part of the city. Many
were well-dressed.
The hungry were elbowed into a
long line before service counter and
received platters of mashed potatoes,
meat and boiled carrots. No one was
asked questions. The meals were
eaten in a constrained silence.
Outside, rough wind was picking
up. The afternoon grayed into prom
Use of snow. 1t would be too cold for
many of the diners to venture out to
see the holiday sights-the municipal
tree before the courthouse, festooned
with colored lights; the luminous
shrubbery that had blossomed on
llOuI ldWuo, dSiOW Will elSCtllC
berries.
The city's one free meal in the
year did little to fortify Debated stom-
achs against the hungry weeks ahead
as the republicans continue with an
effort to solve the unemployment prob
lem by starving thousands of jobless
out of existence. The diners did not
seem happy and grateful at the Christ
mas repast. There were no exchanges
OF cigars, no volleys of laughter over
hot jokes, no bursts of revelry
Many paid the dinner the compli
ment of showing their way back in the
line for a second helping. Then, US
ing a coat-sleeve for a napkin, they
rose from the benches, shambled to
The door, Rugged the radiator for an
instant or two and bucked up against
can winds blowing from the ice
trusted lakes.
In their eyes was vague and Won
lering stare. The zero winds would |
blow the day after Christmas, too.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
ASSOCIATED FARMERS FINANCED
BY BIG BUSINESS, HEARINGS SHOW

Ito Southern Californians Inc, which
of course is contributing to Associated
Farmers"
In other words, the big utility con-
sidered it more discreet to send mon
y ey to the anti-labor organization by
an indirect route
One of the dirt farmers who con-
tributed $500 cash was none other
than the reactionary Los Angeles
| Times. Bullock's department store
also gave $500.
On the last day of the local hear
ings, Sen. Robert NJ LaFollette tried
to find out why Sheriff w. O.. with
OUT Justice arrested 142- MADEIRA
county cotton strikers who had formed
an auto caravan, when he did not
modest an even larger caravan of vigi-
lantes.
"Why didn't you arrest the caravan
of vigilantes?' asked LaFollette.
81 didn't know which ones to ar
rest. I'd have had to arrest the whole
bunch"
You'd arrested 142 the day before
without any trouble. Do you think
you would have had trouble in arrest
ing them?"
maybe l would, maybe l wouldn't"
Morton P. Rose, an itinerant Pen
tecostal minister who looks like Abra-
ham Lincoln, said he went to a strike
meeting with his brother. He was
asked to address the crowd, and while
he stood on the platform deputy sher-
ifs arrived and began to arrest strike
leaders. Vigilantes started gathering
on one side of the park and the strik-
ers became restless.
Rose stepped to the microphone and
succeeded in quieting the milling
crowd When he finished, Undersher
if e. E. Pickett of MADEIRA county
arrested him with % others on a
charge $50 long l couldn't remember |
it, except it had four felony counts
in il" He was held in Jail 26 days.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
HOW A SYSTEM WAS BUILT

platform of either one calls for serv-
ing the interests of the monied pow
|ers. The two parties are good thing
to fool the people with as the sins
Of the day are laid onto the party in
power. This gives the political pro-
pagandist a chance to howl for a
change of party. A change of party
will cure all evils. The people are
told that pots full of chicken for the
unemployed instead of apples and
flour will be in order. But the change
from the democratic to the republican
party benefits only group or groups
of politicians who receive the dubious
honor of collecting the plums the peo-
pie have matured and carrying them
to the big interests on silver platter.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

curtain of hypocrica for suffering of people else
where with many times the number of people this country
suffering great hardhp because these charatans control
the economy this country with its exploitation of the
era public control which they will hesitate to retain
at the cost of plungng the country into bloody
Do not let yourselves be humbugged by their airs of
moral ISSUE connection with the plight of the
Finnish people Where their humanitarian impulse
evidence when Mannerhem in 1913 according the Enc
copeda BRITANNICA the present head of the Finnish army
cuted than 10000 and children in cold blood
and ruthless brutality and
than 10000 others who supposedly connected with
revolt against autocratc We challenge
find where there cries at that time by the hypo
critics bayng about moral issues completely ignoring
the real moral responsibilities they their fellow citizens
1t is nothing in the world but ''war propaganda
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Soup Kitchens
Urged On President

ATHENS, o. (FP) A telegram
urging President Roosevelt to carry
out his proposal for setting up army
soup kitchens to feed starving per-
sons in Ohio has been sent by a com
mittee of unemployed coal miners
from the southeastern part Of the
state.
The committee is headed by Lott
Bricker of The Plains-no relation to
Gov. John w. Bricker (R).
Relief situation in Athens county
very acute" the wire said. "Relief
office closed Dec 49, WPA has LOO
men working out of approximately g.
300. Relief clients are in dire need
of food, fuel and clothing. Gov.
Bricker, as usual, says there is plenty
of funds. Soup kitchens are our only
hope. Can you help us?"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
PROPAGANDA FOR WAR

been admitted before in this column that the Voice
feel justified in taking unequvocal stand for or
against either Finland Russia in their conflict because of
dearth of information that be considered impartial and
unpreJudiced.
The Voice feels obligated however, call attention to
the danger of any professed neutral country the United
constantly building sentiment through propaganda
releases from high which, while having
value nevertheless clearly sympathetic toward
one combatant and condemnatory of the other
that this violation of the spirit of neutrality
and that intentional the part of the government
officials concerned it does influence the public mind This
influence developed to the highest degree will bring about
condition favorable for the proteering gentry to in
volve in the European with the approval of the ma
jority of the people of the country.
This writer sound for the sophscally
appeals made for the people of Finland by
country who well should be- of the count
less of their fellow citizens their country
suffering from hunger cold and lack shelter These hypo
Zone call them nothing ese have only to to the
sections of single metropolis this the richest
country earth, and they to find ndivd
numerically suffering great prvations those sui
ferng all of Finland YET this they dare not adj
the for the suffering of their fellow c
lies their doorseps They too greedy for the
privilege of exploit the future they have in the
past admit the possibility of want in this country because
of an SYSTEM from the operations of which, they and
their the sole benefciare this the of
untold suffering the part of great of their fellow
citizens.
these proagons of special privilege and tear the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

Negroes must be represented on jury
lists in the same proportion as they
bear to a county's total population,
Attorney General W. j. Burke ruled.
The ruling was sought by Prosecutor
G. Logan of Morgan county, Missouri,
where no negro has ever served on
jury.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

people agree to be slaves and eat
when they get the opportunity in
stead of always trying to grab hand
full of the profits? Look at all the
money that would be saved. We
could cut down the police force, the
militia, army and navy. Oh, yes, and
the relief. And do you know, by God,
at last we could balance the budget
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-13
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions , Turn to wom-
ans page for the answers.
l. Pekan is another name for
which fur-bearing animal?
2. Name the president of the
United States who was a former
college president and famous for
his fourteen points"
3. Who invented the first sue
cessful steamboat?
4. What is the first day Of
Lent called?
3. Does the thawing of a fro
zen water pipe cause it to burst?
8. The ku KluX Khan was first
established in Mississippi, Indi-
ana or Tennessee?
I. Is Lucius M. Beebe a jour-
nalist or deep sea explorer?
s. When a broken bone pierces
the skin, what kind of a frac-
ture is it called?
2. Who was Isocrates2
10. What is the name for a
kitchen on board ship?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-13
Uncle Sam Tackles a Bio One

The antitrust division of the United States department
OF justice has announced nationwide investigation of trade
restraints which aegedy result food prices
the and decreased prices to the farmer
evidence that food industries and wholesale and retail
distributors function badly hiking particularly the prices
for bread milk meat fish, cheese and canned and fresh
fruits and vegetables
The government claims that between 1913 and 1920
food and distributors 30 to az from
every dollar spent for food by the and since
then they have been getting from 81 to 60 cents On the
now gets the short end
The result to will slender pocketbooks is NAL
nutrition, for the farmer it is often ruin
The claims poor crop prices caused farm
In four TO be forecosed between 1890 and 1886 Millions
farming people have moved to the cities.
As result of the high food prices about 45 million
American get too little to eat the government These
millions do not necessarily suffer deficiency diseases like
peagra scurvy but many have chronic fatigue digestive
disorders such lowered resistance that they fall
victims to epidemics
The antitrust officials believe they prove that many
organizations stand between producer and taking
unreasonable toll through illegal pricefxing schemes.
The secretary manager the National Association of
Retail Grocers and the president of the Associated Grocery
Manufacturers of America have said their organizations will
welcome sweeping investigation of all phases of the
facture and distribution of food products.
Moreover at its recent annual meeting the manufac
turers adopted resolution maintaining should
be equaby related each instance production II
further dlsapproved using the conditions resulting from
the present crisis world affairs extract
unlustifiabe profits from the American consumer.
As the consumer wants and better food for less
cost and the farmer higher prices for what he
raises, that almost makes its unanimous.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-13
in
Stamps
Goddess PoIIos Athena
Aids Greeks in Bottle

THE gods fight with the Greeks.
Homer's epic story OF the Tro-
jan War is filled with instances
OF divine intervention in human
strife. Today. success OF Greek
armies against huge odds seems
to indicate that the gods Of Olyrn-
pus again have joined forces with
the Greeks.
Pallas Athena, warrior goddess
pictured on the Greek stamp
above, was the particular patron
of ancient Athens. A gigantic
statue Of her stood in one of the
great temples of the Acropolis.
Athena's favor rested with the
Greeks in the war with Troy be-
cause Of her jealousy, when Paris
awarded the golden apple desig-
mated For the Fairest" TO Aph-
rodite. Athena IS credited with
giving Ulysses the idea for the
Trojan Horse, that masterpiece Of
strategy reproduced in modern
fifth columns. Ulysses was Athe-
mas favorite and she protected
him during MS long journey home
after the fall Of Troy.
Athena was also the goddess Of
wisdom. She taught Greeks crafts,
guided their literary efforts 10
greatness.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-13

CONCURS IN SENTIMENT
ON MILL STRIKE

Editor The Times: In the
"Puse of the Public" of Dec. 6
Mrs. c. L. Clarkson not only ex-
presses the sentiment of the
women but believe of the gen
eral public. 1t gives birth to the
idea that many of the strikes
called have deeper significance
than the mere few cents per
hour.
The federal government is
active to determine if foreign
influence is bringing pressure to
foster these seemingly unim-
portsnt and prolonged strikes
than by delaying directly or in
directly our preparedness pro-
gram.
In order to preserve the
principle of civil liberty and at
the same time avoid general
strife, the government works
very carefully, methodically. and
like playing checkers. many
jumps ahead. This requires a
great deal of patience and re-
grettably very much individual
suffering, but if We look back
we find the benefits to the mass
es far outweigh individual or To-
cal discomforts.
Our form of government with
all It's faults has proven to be su-
perior TO any other SO far de-
veloped
FLOYD L. JOHNSON.
Fox Island