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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

ognize that there always were and always will be reasons for unhap- pisess and they multiply like rab- bits if too much opportunity is pro- vided for their growth?
 The way to be happy then, is to decide definitely to ignore as much as possible the unhappy items, and to turn your full attention on the mountain of reasons for being hap py. It's a simple matter of turning ones gaze.
 Happiness isn't all in laughter It is in all satisfying activities. It is also relative. For some people, one imagines, happiness might come to mean a bombless night. Since joy is entirely a matter of compari- sons, why not decide now that you have many joys and satisfactions and enjoy them"
 The utter blind and stupid selfish ness or complaints and chronic un- happiness of some people brands them as people who actually prefer to pull a long face, to sigh help lessly and to settle into jelly-like state or lndeCLSlOll.
 WE CAN FORM
 OUR NATIONS FUTURE
 If you, as person, do not wish to Subside into this state you must take decisive steps to avoid it. Choose once and for all which road you will travel-the one marked Walls, Signs and Inaction" or the one marked Effort, Courage and Faith" Regardless of your circum- stances, it is in your power to de- eide to be happy, healthy, com fortable, serene and courageous. You can make the decision to be amused and to become adjustable, maintaining a sane attitude that rises superior to any experience.
 Whoever follows that formula will find happiness. He will be re- silent, able to cope with whatever new or unexpected matter presents itself.
 Also, one must decide to be happy in spite of disappointments. Why
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
Of Interest to Women

Have you a household problem tO solve? Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, enclose a three cent pOStage stamp and mail tO The WOman's Editor, Washington Service Bu. reau, The Democrat, 1913 I3tn Street, Washington, D. C.. Cor . personal reply.
 O. How can I remove asphalt from cloth?
 A. Wet the spot with kerosene and let 1t stand until softened: then wash it in turpentine or alcohol.
 e. Please give me a recipe for squash pie.
 A. Mix 1 egg. one-half cup of sugar, one cup cooked squash, two tablespoons of four, one-fourth tea spoon of cinnamon. one-fourth tea spoon of salt and add enough milk to i'll the pie tin. lined with plain crust. Bake until firm and set. ther remove from oven and sprinkle tor Of pie with nutmeg while hot
 Q.What is the literal meaning oi the phrase ''nu gratin"2 A. It means covered with crumbs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

and only ambition IS to direct feat ure length horror pictures.
 Knowing what gives me the Htingqeetaoishrdlucmfwypcmfwyppy creeps, think I could give creeps to all the women in the movie au- diences - and women, you know make up 80 per cent of movie audi ences. Incidentally, that's also why think there is lots of room fol women directors"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

ly to start encountering those inn perfections in life that may throw him of key. A button off shirt, dry ink-well, puncture, some small misunderstanding added to tiny headache.
 What world" he cries and he thinks he is referring to the war. But if he will be honest with him. self he will admit that he was pret- ty neurotic before the war began. It's just harder to adjust personal miseries in world at war. So he decides that he now has a right to be miserable.
 Doesn't it seem reasonable to rec
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
BLUE-BLOODED EXTRAS

Fifty members of the Pennington Hunt club, swank Charlottesville Va, organization, appear as extras in the liding sequences of Para mounts The Southerner," modern romance in Technicolor, co-starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred Mac Murray.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
TOMORROW's MENU

BREAKFAST: Cranberry juice, oatmeal griddle cakes, syrup, crisp bacon, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Cream of to- mato soup, hard rolls, apple brown betty, whipped cream, tea, milk.
 MEATLESS DINN NE R Cheese souffle, spinach timbales, lettuce and raw carrot salad, steamed date pudding, lemon sauce, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
Happiness Is Often a Matter Of Choice, Says This Author
  IGNORE MsFORTUNEs AND FOCUS ON GOOD THINGS

thor of the recent popular book Make Up Your Mind" Into a world where uncertainty, and in- decision tempt peoples to lean on all-promising Headers" Miss Will son challengingly declares that personal happiness-and therefore national contentment-is a mat ter of individual decision.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
ODD CAST LISTING

Each member of the cast of Para mounts "Victory"-filmization of the famed Joseph Conrad novel has only a single character name Frederic March and Betty Field, CO., stars of the film, are listed only as "Heyst" and Alma"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05


 ness is decided upon if it seems justified. Misery is d e fl n i t e l y chosen if the reasons seem to pile up on the gloomy side. And no one else can choose for you.
 Take any nor- nal citizen on any m or Il i Il g. Very soon after waking he or cba ic very ike
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
WE, THE WOMEN.
Nothing Tops Experience, Saws Woman Screen Director
BY RUTH MILLETT

Say you're young, ambitious, and beSntiful and you want to get In the movies.
 Well, there are more ways than taking a screen test and proving that you have "oomph."
 You could get a job as a secre- tary to someone in the movie bus mess - and prove that you have brains.
 That way you might end up as a director-instead of as an actress who takes orders from a director
 Proof that the second course can be followed successfully is Louise Rousseau one of two full-fledged women movie directors in the business. At the bright-eyed age of thirty she is directing one se- ries of shorts, and acting as as Sistant director on another series.
 Miss Rousseau spent two years at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, but she doesn't advise you to go and do likewise. She says getting job as secretary to the person whose business you want to learn is much more inn portant than college for the girl who wants to direct movies. So far, she can't say honestly that any course she had in college has helped her one speck, but, as a secretary, she learned plenty about motion pictures.
 I talked to Miss Rousseau in a New York studio as she ate lunch, at a table made of blanks, with the Informa ton Please experts. They were all bright pumpkin color, in preparation for making a movie short.
 Miss Rousseau is assistant direc- cor on those shorts, and flies to New York from Hollywood every six weeks to help direct the eX- perts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
TUCKER WINS VOTES

Orrin Tucker, co-starring with Bonnie Baker in their first motion picture, Paramount's "You're the One" was voted the most popular American band leader by the more than 30 beautiful showgirls wirking in the picture. The girls decided Tucker was not only the handsom- est but the incest" band leader they had met.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
IMAGERY WILSON

UFItlcH IOF NEA OeTVlCC
 Let's take clinical view of un- happiness and then prescribe for happiness. In either case the owner of the mood decided, on the evil dence at hand to be miserable or to be joyous. In other words, happi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

Tn { h c r O O [ through whicl, the dormer can project. This will involve cutting one or possibly tw o rafters. The cut rafters should then be made fast, by insert ing . horizon tai member be- tween the ad- joining solid rafters on both sides, and nail ing the cut rafters to this member.
 These re- clained attic rooms often have immense charm because
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

should the owner of the power of decision be swayed overmuch by happenings that pass? He survives them, remains, therefore he is the superior. He will not be dictated to by events. His inner kingdom Is his own.
 Without doubt there are new inc fiuences working !c our destiny. It is up to us to decide whether our country shall be peopled by iiabby. wistful people or by men and wo- men who arc able to survive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

change, who are masters of them selves.
 Go ahead and object to things, if you want to. Fight, strive, to shape and form the future. That is your right. But it is your duty first to claim supremacy over your own emotions, your own moods, at titudes and points of view.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
Latest Styles
HOoC To Keeb Well
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

 ing vices?"
 Plenty to be friend We not be able to make behave make minds behave old ready die before we which could have used to line aoa earlier knowledge that must take our temptation make them over to u many eft offend occasionally and give Us yen in the lake
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 In of contradictions between what's below shouldn't pity the friend who a hurts feelings and then refuses enjoyment hours Inevitably shrink little when she comes Nevertheless make mi Int hearts.
 CAROLINE CAMPBELL win he dscua"ed answered All this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

dren or quiet spot for reading and study, and you just don't know what to do about it. Basement bed rooms don't appeal to you, or your basement may already be taken up with a heater and laun- dry But have you thought about converting the attic into livable room? Most houses built twenty or more years ago have attic, for then an attic was considered just as important as front door.
 The attic can be made into livabIe room by merely applying wall board to the inside of the wall studs and filling the pockets thus formed with some insulating material that comes in bait form. The ceiling may be allowed to run up into the peak of the roof or new false ceiling may be hung shown in the "before" and "aftern pictures in this column Any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

Most acs have windows the end walls where the roof difficult matter install them Sometimes dormer windows needed These be installed by making hole
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DECORATOR
Rem,OdeIing Your Attic
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-05
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-31
Ku KIux Khan
Plans 10 Purge
{. !. 0. Of Reds
Organization Also Seeks
Law to Put Radicals in
Concentration Comps

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 31.-The
Ku Klux Khan, says its imperial
wizard, James A. Colescott, Is Or
ganizing its G. I. o. members to
"oust Communists from control"
I'VE have been working quietly
for some time now against the Com
munist elements in the G. 1. O." he
said in an interview today.
Already we have gained control
of some local unions and succeeded
in electing Americans to office.
Understand, we are not soliciting
Khan members from the ranks Of
the unions. A canvass showed that
we already have large representa-
ton"
Wizard Colescott, touring the
country to confer with Khan leaders,
asserted the Khan was working for
legislation to deport all unnatural
lied aliens and to provide that those
who continue to preach revolution
shall be put in concentration camps,
Direct action is not necessary
now but if it comes to point
where the Communists start a
revolution, I have no scruples against
leading the Khan out with clubs to
drive them out"
Wizard Colescott said the Khan
had furnished much information"
to the Dies Committee.
AS for national politics, Wizard
Colescott said unfortunately officials
of the Government in Washington
have let too many Communists get
control of important positions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-31

yet are so often unhumorously i'm
mature and unequal to the tasks
our times impose on u.s.
Realize Shortcomings.
That is nice thought, because If
as we grow older we realize our in
ability to meet perfection, the hap
pier we can and should be in every
thing that we do to make life a
little better-to use the vehicles of
science and cooperation to improve
the lot of those who need it most.
Today think the Nation as a
whole Is aware of and awake to the
scourge of infantile paralysis. To
minimize its effects, to drive it out
entirely in the long run, is, as you
know, our primary purpose.
But as the years 60 on hope that
these annual celebrations will ex-
tend that task to the care Of all
crippled children, no matter what
the cause of their Gripping.
What magnificent task this is!
More than $4,000 parties being held
today and tonight-hundreds Of
thousands of devoted volunteer
workers in State and county and
city and hamlet. To all of them, of
all ages and representing all call
ings, 1 tender my heartfelt thanks
for what they have done.
Grateful for Donations.
To all who have helped through
the March of Dimes and otherwise
with generous donations, am like
wise grateful. Nor can I overlook
the thousands of affectionate birth
day cards and birthday messages
which have SO gladdened my heart.
think am safe in saying that
no nation in the world has ever put
a larger volunteer army into the
field on any given date than the
army of Americans which tonight
is taking part in the defense of
American childhood.
During the World War we had
nearly five million men under arms.
1t is safe to estimate that at least
four or five times as many Ameri-
cans, men and women and children,
are enrolled in this new army which
has joined the march to save life
and not to take it.
1t is in that magnificent spirit
and with the definite knowledge that
we are making sure and steady
progress that I say to each and every
one of you-"Thank you, and God
bless you"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-31
Gordon Junior High
Graduation Exercises
On Radio Tomorrow
Occasion Is First Time
Such q Broadcast Has
Been Attempted Here

A special broadcast Of the grad
uation exercises of Gordon Junior
High School will be heard at 4 pm.
tomorrow over Station WMAL. The
broadcast is another in the series
sponsored by The Star, in co-opera-
ton with the Board of Education
and the National Broadcasting Co.
It will be the first time that a
broadcast of high school graduation
exercises has been attempted here.
The broadcast will be made from
the radio studio, Immediately fol-
lowing the ceremonies in the high
school auditorium, with the students
going through the exercises again.
The presiding officer will be Robert
L. Haycock, first assistant superin-
tendent of schools. The invocation
will be given by the Rev. Harold E.
Beatty, pastor of the Georgetown
Lutheran Church.
Also participating will be the class
poetess, Jeanne Lear; George Graves,
who will play a violin solo; Julian
johnson, who will present the class
gift to F. A. Woodward, principal of
the school.
A special skit will be presented by
members of the graduating class.
Included in the cast are George
Tolley. Robert Wallach, George
Graves, Shirley Goldstein, Jane
Elliott, Mildred Dex and Gunther
Speicher. The class chorus will
sing.
Arrangements for the broadcast
were made by special radio COM
mittee at Gordon Junior High,
headed by Miss Eleanor Robertson,
and including Miss Helen Samuel,
Miss Emma Maloney and Miss Mary
Maciulla. members of the faculty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-31
Text of Roosevelt Address
President Expresses Gratitude for
Defense of American Childhood
This is the text of President Roose.

This is the text of President Roose-
velts birthday address last night:
My hearty greetings to all the Ma
ton.
wish that everybody within sound
of my voice could capture something
of the JOY feel on this birthday 1t
is Joy whose keenness is enhanced
because in the larger sense these far
flung celebrations are wholly i'm
personal. At least. that is the way
I like to view them.
A recent writer has put it this
way:
"It is an expression of our great
est political asset-the enormous
fund of tolerance, good will, good
humor and simple human kindli-
ness which underlies our public life.
No Trace of Partisanship.
Here is no trace of partisanship
no faint of social disunity, of eco
nomic controversy. There is not any
has never been, the slightest attempt
to play politics with the various eff
fortS-the March of Dimes, the
Birthday Balls-to raise money for a
worthy national purpose. = - So the
effect of this great celebration is to
keep political discussion and parti-
san passion within the bounds OF
that neighborlv good temper which
is still the chief quality that dis
tinguishes the American electorate
from the political masses of the Old
World.
In sending a dime and in
dancing that others may walk, we,
the people, are striking powerful
blow in defense of American free
dom and human decency. For the
answer to class hatred. race hatred,
religious hatred is not repression,
criticism or opposition. The answer
is the free expression of the love
of our fellow men, which is the real
thing we celebrate on January 80
1870"
And this morning a very old friend
of mine sent me note of congratu-
lation which embodied a new and, !
think, very useful thought.
He said: THE compassionate pur-
pose to which our national tradition
now dedicates this day has appro-
found symbolism. For in way we
are all crippled children. And we
are the more poignant in our dis
abilities than the immediate bene-
ficiaries because We think we are
grown-up and big and strong, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-31
Justice Heads GET
Many Complaints
About Cough|in
All Being Investigated,
Declares Statement
From Department
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press
The Justice Department said to-
day 1t had received lover a period OF
months many complaints" concern
in the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin,
Detroit radio priest, and that all
were being investigated.
Each complaint, said a depart
ment statement, was acknowledged
by form reply customarily made
to compliments bringing to the
attention Of the department al
legged violations of Federal law of
this particular kind"
1T appears" the statement add
ed, that one of the organizations
receiving such form of response has
for reasons best known to itself
made the reply public and given
the erroneous impression that this
department has taken action in
special response to the complaint
OF this particular organization.
(The Jewish Peoples Committee
announced in New York last week
that it had complained of Father
Coughlin's activities to the Justice
Department)
The department called attention
to its announcement on January 81
that grand jury inquiry had been
ordered with reference to ANY in
dividual or group, wherever To-
Gated, who may have aided, abet-
ted, directed, financed or melted"
the II men seized January IS on
charges of plotting the overthrow
OF the Government. The men were
members OF a small group formed
within the Christian Front.
THE department is engaged in
the gathering of evidence and the
analysis of evidence" today's state
ment said. who may become in
volved in the investigation depends
entirely upon the evidence devel-
oped"
Evening star., 1940-03-15
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. O. FRIDAY MARCH is 1910
Finnish Territory
Will Become New
Soviet Republic
Russiun PurIiument Is
Called for March 70
To Creote New Store
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. March 15.-Immediate
organization Of ceded Finnish terri
tory into an autonomous Soviet
Socialist republic was considered
today to be the principal task Of the
Supreme Soviet Of the q. s. 8. R.,
convoked for March 20.
The summons to the Parliament,
coming three days after the peace
treaty, led informed observers to
predict that after formal ratification
of the pact the Supreme Soviet
would act speedily to establish Com
munist rule in what the government
newspaper Izvestia termed q former
"anti-Soviet war base"
Territory May Be Split.
This reference to the Karelian
1sthmus, where Finland bore the
brunt OF the Russian assault,
prompted one observation that war
lost Finnish land would be strategi-
cally split. The isthmus would be
asslmilated by the Leningrad mill
tary district, according to this view,
and the remainder Of the ceded ter
ritory, the northern shores of Lake
Ladoga and Eastern Central r.u-
land, would be incorporated into the
existing Karelian Soviet Republic,
northeast of the isthmus itself.
In the absence of official com.
ment, however, most observers pre-
dlcted one separate republic would
be created for the occupied areas.
In demanding concessions on the
1sthmus, pre-war negotiators for
Moscow pointed out that Leningrad.
less than 30 miles from the former
Finnish frontier, was within artil-
lery range OF the Mannerheim Line.
Leningrad, moreover, was the seat
OF the Finnish campaign.
Would Keep Local Government,
In keeping with the policies of
Nikolai Lenin, father of the Russian
revolution, and Joseph Stain, his
successor. the formation of Soviet
republic in the ceded Finnish areas
would promise local elf-government
and preserve the language and cul-
tural institutions of the regions.
The Supreme Soviet last met in
November to incorporate into the
U. S. S. r. Western Ukraine and
Western White Russia, former
Polish areas.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Manufacturers Head
Urges Government
End Experiments
Halt Confusion and
Uncertointy. Is PIeo
Of Prentis
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March 15.-H. w.
Prentis, jr., Of Lancaster, Pa, pres
ident Of the National Association of
Manufacturers, told 500 Industrial
lists from the Ofio-West Virginia.
Pennsylvania area last night indus
try can take great strides toward
economic recovery, If there Is an
end to further experiment, confu-
sion and uncertainty"
Mr.. Prentis, president of the Arm
strong Cork Co., discussing what he
termed the tendency of Govern
ment to absorb private enterprise,
said:
when Government ceases to be
merely an umpire and with the full
strength of its dominating author
ity steps into the game itself, many
a player concludes his chances to
win are 50 greatly diminished seat
on the sidelines is preferable"
Mr.. Prentis asserted the belief the
tri-State area now would have been
out of the economic fog" If N. r. A.
had ben permitted to remain dead.
"But it would not stay dead" he
continued, and now we have:
'The Walsh -Healey Act, under
which the Secretary of Labor is en-
powered to tell industry how to run
its business If it would participate in
Government contracts.
"The Bituminous Coal Act, clear