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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10
Personal
Notre Dame ALun1nde Has
 Fall Supper Meeting

Timothy Lynch as chairman assist ed by Miss Mary P. Casey. A tea to welcome Mother St. Catherine of the Angels, the new Superior will be given on Sunday afternoon; Oc- toher 13.
 The following members were pres ent:
 Mrs. Edmund Guilbert, Mrs. Be- linda Tracy, Mrs. Timothy Lynch, Mrs. Martin Dunn, Mrs. H. J. Car roll, Mrs. Hubert Smith, Mrs. Ray mond Lyman, Mrs. William Scho- field, Mary F. Casey, Helen Jackson Sherwell, Eulalia Madden, Ruth Kennaugh, Agnes Horrigan, Sadie Phelan, Catherine Phelan, Rather inc O'Brien, Mary Bennett, Mary Reilly, Mary Devereaux, Betty Gar rity, Madeline McGill, Alice Wolff, Marion Keane, Mary P. Lawlor.
 Mrs. Lima Manefield and Miss Helen Walker were hosteSses at greenback shower given Thursday evening at the Silver Chalet for Mrs. Howard OLoughlin, the for mer Betty Mansfield. Those att tending were: Mrs. Lima Mans field, Mrs. Jane OLoughlin, Mrs. Nettie Moore, Mrs. Ava Coolidge, Mrs. Audry Algren, Mrs. William St. John, Mrs. George Moran, Mrs. Howard OLoughlin, Misses Barbara St. John, Frances Bar nosky, Helen Walker, Dora Phe- Ian, Bess Lenners, Katherine Doo- Ian, Alta Smith, Catherine Mac Lean, Martha McNulty, Anna Con- nors, Eleanor McIlroy, Marjorie Kopp, Louise Petro, Clara Lara vera, .Madyline Hahn, Carol Stein ert, Helen Poplis, Minnie Hollings- worth, Mary Belliosy, Helen Gau- dy, Louise Kopp and Mary ORourke.
 Miss Helen Smith of Willow street was hostess at miscellan- eous shower recently at her home in honor of Miss Virginia Nelson of Center street who is to be married on September 28 to Lawrence Krieg of Homer street, Waterville. A luncheon was served and the guest received many gifts. Those attend ing were: the Misses May and Josephine Burke, Mary Mcclure, Marjorie Slator, Janet Boyd, May McNabb, Eleanor Kirschbaum, Mar ion Winters, Lydia Stangvil, Irene Kobanski, Mary Smith, Shirley Thomas, Ruth Logue, Mary Me Quade, Helen Petrosky, Eileen Knauf, Helen Smith, and Mrs. Err nest Krieg, Mrs. M. Logue, Mrs. H. Gardner, Mrs Robert Burke. Mrs. O. Nelson, and Mrs. Harry Smith.
 Maureen Carroll was hostess at a party given over the Labor Day weekend at her home on Wolcott street.
 Various games and entertainment were the events of the evening,
 during the course of which buf- l fet lunch was served.
 Those attending included: Mary
 Kennedy, Betty Griffin, Jenny and
 Connie Pomponio, Maureen Carroll
 Ann Macharelli, Walter Hollister
 James Carroll, Bud Griffin, Michael
 Fox, Bob McGovern, Nicf1Olas Pom
 ponio, Buddy Doyle, Ross Upton and Bob Marshall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10

The first fail supper meeting of the Notre Dame Alumnae Associa- ton was held last evening at the academy, 30 Church street, with Mrs. Edmund Guilbert presiding in the absence of the president, Mrs. Edwsrd Conlan.
 Plans were made for a food sale to be held October 1, with Mrs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10
Weddings
KROM-LERZ

hROM-LEhA
 Mrs. Grayce Aldrich Lerz of Washington, D. C., 8 former local resident, became the bride of Roy Hart Krom, son of MT. and Mrs. Orville E. Krom of Irion street, Saturday morning at g o'clock at the Second Congregational church. The pastor, Rev. Dr. John Curry Walker, officiated at the ceremony which was followed by a wedding breakfast at The Elton for members of the wedding party.
 The bride, who is the daugh- ter of the late Honorable Francis w. Aldrich of Springfield and Bos- ton, Mass, had for her matron of honor, Mrs. Meldon Krom, a sister -in-law of the bridegroom. MT. Krom was best man for his brother.
 The bride was married in a Bur gundy ensemble with matching ac- cessories. Her corsage was of gar- denias. Mrs. Krom was gowned in military blue with which she wore a corsage of Talisman roses.
 The couple plan a motor trip through Maine, Canada and the Adirondacks for their wedding trip The bride, who has been employed as a secretary for the U. s. mari time commission in Washington, D. C., attended Rogers Hall, Lowell, Mass, Skidmore college and was graduated from Boston University. MT. Krom, who is associated with the Chase Brass and Copper Con- pany, is Wilby High school alum nus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10

Members and friends of Lord Kitchener Post Auxiliary, British War Veterans, will meet at the post rooms tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at which time the group will knit garments to be sent to seamen who will man the fifty war ships traded to Great Britain by this country. '.
 Mrs. Ralph Bates entertained at an electric appliance shower at her home on Boyden street recent ly for Miss Mary Waters who is being married Sept. IA to Alfred Ayotte, Jr. Guests attending were Mrs. Joseph Welton, Mrs. Ernest Montambault, Mrs. Frank Karrman, Mrs. Joseph Benoit, Mrs. Mary Snagg, Mrs. George Caldwell, Mrs. William Dunlavey, Mrs. William Rooney, Mrs. Edward Barlow, Mrs. Harry Truelove, Mrs. James Waters, Mrs. Alfred Ayotte, Mrs. Agnes Dunn and Mrs. James Duncan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10

Francis Geremia, son of MT. and Mrs. Alex Geremia Of Southmayd lead, will return Sunday to St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield where he will enter his junior year
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10
HOGAN WOODS

Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Davis Woods of Little Rock, Ark, an- nounce the marriage of their daugh- ter, Miss Mary-Jo Woods, to Joseph Clement Hogan, son of MT. and Mrs. Michael F. Hogan of Cooke street. The ceremony was per- formed in New York city on Aug. IT. The bride is a graduate of St. Stephens college in Columbia, Mo-, and studied at the Mallon-Friel Fashion studio in New York city MT. Hogan is a graduate of Colum- bia university and St. Johns col lege of law in Brooklyn, N. Y. They will reside in New York where MT Hogan is a member of the law firm of OMalley & Hogan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10
Catholic Won1en's Council Plans October Card Party

At the first fall meeting of the executive board of the Waterbury Council of Catholic Women it was decided to hold a large card party early in October. Mrs. George Cog gin, chairman of the council, will act as general chairman for the card party, and Mrs. Martin Tehan will be co-chairman. It is planned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10

Carlyle's writing table was pre- Sented to the London Library.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-10

Portugal has banned the entry Of foreign dentifrices into the coun- try.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Jail Or Jail-F arm

The old Fairfield County Jail in North Avenue, Bridgeport, is about to go the way of all flesh. The jail proper will be closed and efforts made by the County Commissioners to get rid of the property. Right now they are hopeful that the site may be taken over for lOW-coSt housing project in the north end of Bridgeport. However, that has little or nothing to do with the problem of replacing the county jail. That's problem that may not be settled until the 1941 Legislature has convened in Hartford
 Bridgeport's county jail is among the states more antiquated institutions, one of the ones that periodically causes an outburst of public opinion directed against them and their continuance. It also figures largely in any effort made in be- half of the jail-farm plan which calls for elimination of all such structures as are now used for jails and the establishment of the central jail-farm. The movement, although well started in Connecticut, usually falls short of it's objective.
 In Fairfield County there are actually two jails, the one in Bridgeport and another in Danbury. Present plans call for elimination of both and construction of a modern one near Fairfield. All of which will provide plenty of discussion which, we think, will lead right to Hart ford and resumption of the battle over county jails as they are today and the new-fangled jail-farm as the reform movement would have it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Any Glass In Fractions?

The Republican State Central Commit tee has set May IA and 15 as the dates for the party's spring convention at which will be chosen delegates to the COP national convention. Connecticut will send 16 delegates to Philadelphia this year. We noticed that nothing was said about sending more than sixteen delegates and allotting fractional votes to them Perhaps the Republicans won't make the same mistake that the Demo- crats are reported to be planning for their spring convention. We refer to frac- tional votes.
 We don't believe that anything is gained by increasing the size of the state delegation to the national convention. When Democrats started to do this few years back it was mainly because there was a rush on the part of good many people to get on the band-Wagon. They thought that the Democratic star was in it's ascendancy and they wanted to be where the reflection might shine on them. Actually the work that state delegation accomplishes at a national convention can be accomplished with a smaller group than with a large and unWieldy One
 A few months back National Commit teeman David E. FitzGerald was reported as saying that the Democrats of Connec- ticut would continue the fractional rule in choosing delegates this year. We don't know if he was quoted correctly or if in the event that he did say that he was speaking with party authority. At any rate we hope that Democrats won't be railroaded into sending any more dele gates to the national convention than is necessary. Let each one, those elected at-large and those from districts, have one solid vote.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05

by levying special assessments against taxpayers who were already carrying most of the burden for their communi- ties. For that matter, neither do con- gressmen relish the idea of fattening the federal budget by another half billion dol lars. Already their promises of economy have gone haywire. But the more they spend, the more explaining they will have to do from the stump when their consti- tuents ask embarrassing questions.
 It's choice Congress will have to make. It will have to decide whether the costs of sustaining 500,000 persons are to be borne by the nation as whole or by the separate communities affected.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Congress Thinks It Over

When budget estimates were presented to Congress by the President, only one billion dollars was set aside for the WPA program for the ensuing fiscal year. The President admitted the figure was ten tative and that lot depended on the way things shaped up." There is little ques- ton now that they haven't shaped up as well as it was hoped they would. And Roosevelt has indicated that from here on he will let Congress handle the affair with his best wishes. If the one billion dollar appropriation is allowed to stand, work relief rolls will either have to be clipped by 25 per cent, cutting WPA rolls from 100000 workers to 1,500,000, in July, or Congress will have to pass de- ficiency bill early next session.
 While Congress might decree that WPA rolls be reduced by One-quarter and get away with it, the difficulty is that some one else will have to kick in to take care of the people thus displaced. It is a dis comforting fact that business conditions have not improved so considerably that the WPA program can be clipped down with impunity. Foremost in the hordes clamoring for retention of current WPA levels are the mayors. If people are thrown off WPA, they will fall right in the laps of local taxpayers
 The principal source of revenue for most municipalities has been the prop erty tax, In many instances, local relief expenditures could be provided for only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
In Today's Mail

Christ's saying What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. If my memory is at all right the Federal Council of Church. es sanctioned the anti-C Christian device-divorce-or am I mistaken again? Is it first another phase or variety of modern Christianity?
 Or perhaps I am only finicky when refuse authorities like La Guardia or the Federal Council as my interpreters of Christianity? Or here is another possibility-an- other of our local papers heads their news concerning the Christian Frontiers" with this really American Christian banner "Protestants Wanted as Trial Jurors". Is that the type of Christianity desired? The poor Christian Frontiers, most of them are only Catholics.
 The prosecutor, U. s. Attorney H. M. Kennedy, is an Irish Catholic and he is seeking an all-Protestant jury to avoid any religious angles" and the fog grows denser all the time.
 A CONNECTICUT YANKEE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05

The State Fish and Game Commission is making itself generally popular with the fishing populace of the state by ad vancing by one day the opening of the trout fishing season this month. Once upon a time the season used to open on April l, but of recent years the springs have been late with early April producing a lot of cold weather. Brooks would be running high and trout weren't biting we'll under those conditions So the open ing was set back to the 18th of the month with corresponding period added at the end of the regular season. This year, April 18th falls on Monday and the com mission, needing many requests, has de- cided to open the streams on the 14th, so that fishermen can get out to their fav- orite stream on Sunday. The commis- sion recognizes the fact that angling is such universal sport today that it draws it's devotees from every walk of life and daily pursuits might prevent many from enjoying their favorite pastime until four or five days had elapsed of the season and the lucky ones had taken the cream of the crop from the streams.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Populace Spreads Out

Depression-scarred families, forced to huddle up with friends and relatives dur ing the early part of the Terrifying Thir- ties, are still pouring out of Information and finding brand-new homes for them selves. More than 250OOO families are going to move into their own homes this spring, according to estimates of the United States Savings and Loan League. Last year the number of families that forsook rented dwellings was 190,000 and in 1886 it was 100000.
 But despite the increasing number of home owners, apartment house owners and landlords of flats needn't fear dearth of tenants. The nation is still letting out it's belt. Experts have said that it will take many years of persistent effort to bring about adequate housing for everybody. With the increasing trend toward home ownership, it appears we are slowly heading toward that goal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
NO OCCASION TO FEEL SORRY FOR RUSSIAN PEASANTS,
 SAYS WRITER

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 A short time ago, the Grand Duchess Marie spoke in Waterbury, On the platform with her were some very prominent Waterbury citizens, who seemed proud to be there. I, who lived in Russia at the time her family ruled would like to tell the people about the conditions at that time.
 Although we were land owners, and my father worked hard, we were hungry nine months of the year and for three months had barely enough to live on. Neither my mother nor any of us ever owned pair of shoes. The duchess said that she was taught to work, but I think that If she didn't work, she would still eat. unlike us. She also said that she had so many jewels that she looked like Christmas tree. In contrast, when men and women with babies in their arms attempted to see the Czar to petition for bread. he or dered his Cossacks to fire on them, killing thousands.
 In the factories, if an almost i'm possible amount of work was not finished, the men and women were f1ogged. Now things are entirely different. My father and mother are living very well on an old age pen sion. My sister not only has shoes, but silk stockings as well. None of us ever had chance for any edu- cation, but now I receive letters from people who never knew how to write before. So I don't understand why the Grand Duchess should feel sorry for Russian peasants. When the Czar went out, prosperity came in for everyone.
 RUSSIAN PEASANT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
CONNECTICT YANKEE SEEKS MEANING OF TRUE
 CHRISTIANITY
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Your front page item yesterday Silver Shirts and Christian Front Advocates not desirable, quoting Reverend Doctor John c. Walker, pastor of the Second Congregational Church, here in Waterbury, sounds so familiar during these times of foggy thinking and swing music.
 So many of us having forsaken the gold standard we should have little worry over discarding silver shirts. So leaving the care of the Silver Shirts in the hands of the proper officials as I understand is the status today may we approach in all due respect the other subject, ''The Christian Front.
 Only this morning (April 4th) duly constituted authorities are selecting a jury to hear the cases of the Christian Front and our Reverend Dr. Walker apparently has decided the case of those Chris tians" already. Is that not mind stirer? Does it not recall another case of prejudglng when another Christian stood defenseless and suffered his enemies to render false accusation?
 More than two months since these same Christian Front" were de- picted in the pages of a national magazine as criminals with the com- mon number plates attached as is usual with Rogues Gallery criminals, Perhaps such publicity of untried citizens is only another variety Of Christianity or is it something else? A so-called popular columnist in his splurge of much foretold the arrest of these Christian Frontiers" some time before the even-per-' haps that was another variety of Christianity or was it?
 It is not my job to defend those young men as I consider our Amerl- can courts of law can act in Chris tian manner towards the accused, but cannot recognize any Chris tian spirit emanating from fellow citizen who condemns another un- tried or do I understand my Chris tian Doctrine?
 Rev. Dr. Walker cited Mayor La- Guardia in referring to these Chris tian Frontiers. Well, Doctor, re- gently witnessed some of the La Guardia Christianity ill the Ber- trand Russell case and I would not put much faith in that author ity. If Fiorella LaGuardia views the Christian Frontiers with the same lenses he viewed the English Earl anything is liable to materialize to him.
 Another authority Doctor Walker refers to as a Christian source, the Federal Council of Churches, seems to me very peculiar is that the group whom recent years witnessed contradict Christ. I refer to the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
UNITED STATES MUST RESIST ALL EFFORTS TO GET
 HER IN WAR

April 2, 1940. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Every true American should cry "The Tanks Are Not Coming. America must stay out of war. Why? Because the fruit of such horrible engagement is sweet only to finan- cierS and industrialists who almost break their necks making loans or extending credit in devious ways so as to make as much money as pos sible out Of the war.
 The bitter fruit yielded goes to us, the decent loving citizens who represent the better inteerst in this country, because we would do the dirty work, we would have to stand the chance of having our brains blown out, we would have to stand the chance of possibly becoming in- fected with disease ravages which are an inseparable part of war, while our families at home would go through hell and privation.
 And since there can be no justi- fication for the United States be- ing dragged into the quarrels of foreign nations, all these chances would be taken not for any right eouS cause, but to increase the al- ready too great fortunes of a few financial magnates.
 We, like Nathan Hale, love our country and hold it so dear to our hearts that we would gladly give our lives for it's protection but we need not be the least patriotic about protecting capitals foreign investments or credit.
 The working people of this coun- try constitute the greater percent age of that class that can be call ed true Americans" and since la Dor is registered and subject to as- Signment in war, we must fight to prevent our country'S involvment in it.
 During the most hatred of hostil- ities, our Democratic rights and civil liberties are suppressed and since an emergency is the very time we need these rights, of what use are they if they are to be curtailed or denied every time any emergency comes along? Labor's right to strike and make demands Is suppressed during such a period; collective bargaining" is suspended; wage scales are handed down to be &C., cepted, without option.
 Warfare involves the whole in- dustry of nation and so all work ing people, all peace-loving 'true Americans" must cry and cry again that "The Yanks Are Not Coming" On April 6, 1917, America enter ed the last World War. Let us ob- serve the 23rd anniversary of that day, April 6, 1940, as Peace Day" or ''The Tanks Are Not Coming Day!"
 WILLIAM SARAJAK.
 Secretary of Eagle Lock Union
 TerryVille, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Finnish Spirit Unconquered

They're not moaning in Finland - they're building. Instead of consuming their energy in vituperative bitterness against Stalin and the Soviets, the Films are going to erect four new cities and provide homes for 5OO,OOO persons forced to abandon territory ceded to Russia, ac- cording to Alvar Aalto, noted Finnish architect, recently arrived in the United States.
 Whats more, the tremendous building program must be completed before the the cold sets in next fall No defeatism there. You can't lick people with that kind of spirit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05

Incidentally April 15 is a big day in New York state for many besides trout fishermen. On that day the states new pari-mutuel betting law goes into effect. Belmont is the first of the New York tracks to open this year and it will be prepared to serve an increasing number of fans who go not so much to see the horses run but to wager their hard earned dollars on them. By the time the sport has worked it's way around to the Empire City track, which is the nearest to Connecticut, the Nutmeg State sporting gentry will have found their way to N Y tracks in increasing num- bers. Incidentally the new law allows a few new tracks and the metropolitan area is scheduled to get couple of these. How it can stand them, we don't know
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
Selected Poem
COAST JEWELLERS

(Frances Frost ill the New York Times) with salt and the tang of kelp. Beyond the flaw Wind from the sea is a furious blowing, steady, driving the slate-gray waters without pause against the shale. Wind from the sea is heady with salt and the tang of kelp Beyond the flaws of wet and shattered rock, the stormy sky throws darker shadows over darKened water; and children in the fiattened fern stand silent leaning their narrow bodies to the wind. o sea- we shall come back to you again. back to the great enduring tides that move forever toward the worn coasts of the world! We shall return to taste the strength of salt, to hear your wild voice breaking in the night, craving your thunder, hungry for the white blossoms of foam. We shall come back to you, who once were children on these driven shores, leaning our narrow bodies to the Wlnd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05

This dread has now been dis pelled. One of the group nas per- sonally been told by Roosevelt ne would not talk regardless of what Farley or anyone else demanded.
 The inner circler went to the President to urge him not to break his silence. Roosevelt lis tened quietly, then smiled and said, Don't worry. I'm not go- ing to say anything until get ready to do so, and that means the last moment"
 NOTE-How great shock was Farley's Boston declaration is shown by confident remark that Roosevelt made to a New England leader a few days before Farley tossed his hat into the ring. He said: Don't worry about Jim. You can take my word for it he'll come around. Jim's a loyal, per- sonal friend and he won't do do anything without telling me about it first.''
 MUFFED SINNER
 It doesn't happen often, but House Republicans muffed mar velous chance then other day to