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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09

amount of power over both of these matters will come into Stimson's hands because of two amendments which were tackled onto the so-called "army speed-up bill," recently pass ed and signed by the President.
 One of these amendments pro- vided that the President might es- tablish a system of export licenses to control the shipmen of such war materials as he might designate as essential to the U. s. preparedness program. The President has already acted under this provision, naming Col. Russell L. Maxwell as export control administrator and putting an export ban on a long list of raw and finished materials.
 LAW MEANT TO
 BE ONE
 On this list there is only one item which would particularly ham, per the Japanese machine tools. The goods which Japan has been importing most heavily from the U. S. since she started the war in China --oil. scrap iron, copper and automotive equipment-do not come under the ban.
 There are, however, two points to consider in that connection.
 The first is that it will naturally be the secretary of war who will from time to time notify the Presi- dent that the list ought to be ex- tended to include other commodi- ties.
 The second is that debate in the Senate clearly showed that the law setting up this export-license system was intneded to be onesided if the administration wished; that is, that 1t would be legal to stop the ship ment of, say, scrap iron to one country but not to another.
 sTIMsoN FIRST
 TO OPPOSE JAPAN
 The other amendment went al- most unnoticed. Into section giv- ing the secretary of war the auth ority to make contracts with manu- lecturers 1t inserted this language: : ". including contracts for the exchange of deteriorated, unservice- able, obsolescent or surplus military equipment, munitions and supplies for other military equipment, muni- tions and supplies of which there is a shortage"
 Thus the secretary now has full legal authority to trade in" old rifles, cannon, tanks or what-not when he places new orders. After such trade-inse, of course, the man. ufacturer could sell the traded-in goods to Britain.
 As secretary of state, Stimson was the first statesman to try to exert pressure to halt Japan's conquest of Asia. More recently, he has serv- ed on the American Committee for Non-participation in Japanese Ag- gression-the committee which ad- vocated an embargo on the U. S. sales of war materials to Japan.
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man has about as much chance as single workman bargaining with an employer. He must al- so have the weight of his gov ernment behind him.
 Meanwhile, the State Depart ment still has to pay lip service to the Hull treaties. Speaking re- gently at the Virginia Institute of Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary of State Berle praised the Hull treaties, though he knew they were as out of date as horse cavalry in this age of tanks and airplanes. NATIONAL DEFENSE
 COMMISSION
 The members of the National Defense Commission are genuine cross-section of the American melting pot"
 Two of them, Knudsen and Hill- man, are of immigrant origin. One, Stettinius, is the son of 8 J. P. Morgan partner. Another, Chester Davis, was born on 8 farm and has devoted his career to agriculture. Another member, Miss Elliott, is a professional woman and a champion of consumer interests. Another, Ralph Budd, is railroad man who worked his way up from the bottom, and sitting next to him is a former college professor and economist, Leon Henderson.
 Thrown together suddenly to execute stupendous job, it was widely predicted that there would be friction and trouble within the group.
 The Commission has been func- tioning for nearly two months, and as far as these observers can as- certain, there isn't an agency in Washington which operates more harmoniously and smoothly. Will liam Knudsen, the quiet-spoken motor manufacturer, gets along with Sidney Hillman, slender. dark-haired CIO leader, as amic- ably and easily with an old friend.
 Knudsen was telling a former business associate about this the other day.
 "What about the President?" asked the friend. "How do you get along with him?"
 "NO trouble" said Knudsen, everything is fine. Why, he calls me 'Bilp."
 PHONEY G-MEN
 If you are an employer and get
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
. HIGHlIGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
Age of Man! Hardly, Says Author

Down to Earth" by Alan Devoe
 Coward -McC Cam: $2.50) is pre-
 cisely the sort of book to take
 along on your Sunday picnic or
 week lend vacation. It is look at
 nature through the eyes of nat
 uralist who seems to have c0v-
 cred everything in series of
 short, interesting essays on cats.
 worms, trees, weather, oysters,
 etc. The book incidentally, de-
 Hates whatever ego you might
 have had about this being mans
 world as shown n the following
 brief excerpt:
 The sinking of a warship is news. The building of a skyscraper is news; and so are our divorces and and re- volutions and electrocutions and fist fights at night clubs. Chipmunks, however, are not news. The doings of barn swallows are not chronicled in our papers. No word gets printed about what is happening in badger holes. This being so .. it is not sur- prising that we fall into the way of thinking that we are almost the only creatures on the earth. Certainly, we think we are the most numerous and most important.
 It has salutarily humbling effect to remember that our biological importance in the scheme of this planet, is minuscule in the extreme. The trees would get on very well if we all disappeared tomorrow: the meadow mice would not suffer whit at our going. We do not transport forest seeds in our alimentary canals as the birds do. No indispensable pol- len adheres to our legs, as it does to bees. Actually, our age is not .. the Age of Man but 1t is the Age of Insects. Thus far the entomologists have ercorded some 100000 vari- cities of them and [. they feel con- fident that there are probably four times as many kinds again which have not yet been discovered and catalogued.
 We are not outnumbered only by the insects. Ourselves as mammal, we are only one Of 4000 living man. maj breeds.
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Twenty and twenty-five years ago July was the month when the city started its sprinkling wagons on regular tours of the city. The hard-surfaced streets were few and far between, so it was necessary to sprinkle the dirt roads to keep the dust down. The old overhead water hydrants that could be swung over the carts top were common along our thoroughfares, but we doubt if you can find even one of them today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09

call from an FBI agent, it is good idea to make him show you his credentials. All genuine G-men are under orders to do that and for a very good reason.
 In the past week the Justice Department has received com- plaints from employers that fake FBI agents have demanded the dismissal of workers who they claim were "un- American" and radicals.
 One large Pittsburgh steel com pany reported that one of these alleged G-men submitted list of 120 employees who he advised should be fired at once. A check disclosed that none of the men were Communists or belonged to left-wing organizations. But they were active union members and belonged to the CIO.
 Impersonating a federal officer is a serious offense and J. Edgar Hoover has assigned some of his crack men to investigate these fakes. At no time does Hoover ever recommend the hiring or firing of any employee.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Kindly Immigration Commis- sioner James L. Houghteling, rela- tive of the President, will quit July 15. He is stepping out because of ill health brought on by over- work in his difficult post the last Solicitor General Francis Riddle, in charge of the Immigration Bur- eau under its new Justice Depart ment set-up, will not fill Hough- teling's place Tobacco-chewing Senator Bill Bulow of South Da- kota, who has made only one speech in his twelve years on Cap itol Hill, has a big banner in his office reading, Keep cool, calm and collected" Iowa's colorful former Governor Dan Turner. a history enthusiast, spent good part of his attendance at the COP convention in visits to nearby Val ley Forge |. North Dakota's Re- presentative Usher Burdick is ahead of his colleagues in at least one respect. In his congressional biography he claims that he understands and speaks the Sioux language"
 Copyright, 1940, by United Feature
 Syndicate. Incl
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PAYING OWN DEFICITS
(Boston Post)

If city and town fathers elsewhere in the United States were placed under restrictions similar to those voluntarily imposed upon the City Council of Columbia, s. C., there would be few financial difficulties in municipalities. Councilmen of Co., lumbia are to be henceforth re- quired to make up deficits out of their salaries, with the Mayor act- ing as policeman. This novel manner of adjusting fiscal troubles, strange as it may seem. was voted by the Councilmen themselves, with but one dissenting vote. Spend. thrift governments would be thing of the past if they adopted this Spartan-like procedure. Other poh- ticians. free with the peoples money might well "view with alarm" any success of the startling experiment in the Southern city.
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undoubtedly will have the opportu- nity to make all the public appear ances and speeches that are neces. sary for an active campaign, Should the war situation not clear, the country is not likely to devote a great deal of time or thought to pole itics. It will have scant attention to pay to those who are engaged in political fiddling while confiagration threatens. st
 The more acute the danger which would prevent the senator iron campaigning, the less inclined tn people of Connecticut as well as tht rest of the nation are likely to be tc make changes in their government
 The senator. therefore. appearL not only to have made a decision which reflects credit upon his patri. otic instincts, but also one which tme is likely to show to be polite. ally wise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
Whats Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

Can you answer seven of these
 test questions? Turn to back
 page for the answers.
 l. Is one, two. or three the leasf number of solar eclipses that can occur in any year?
 2. Can moving object reverse iu course without stopping?
 3. The expression "pussyfooting' meaning to make guarded state ments, instead of taking a stronl stand, was popularized by President Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt O Hoover? 4. With which sport is the nam' of Nathan Mann associated? 5. Is the South American boxer Arturo Godoy, Chilean, Argentine o' Brazilian? 6. What is the F. B. l.? T. Name the Territories and Pos- sessions of the United States. 8. What countries are associated, with the names Ivan, Canute. and Cyrus?
 g. Was John Dryden an actor. poet, or statesman?
 10. Which girls names belong m the following titles of plays: l) ....., the Sewing Machine CIT 1 CD ..., the Beautiful Cloak. Model?"
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Current Comment

Philadelphia is one Of, the few cities ln the world where one can still see characters who might have walked out Of Charles Dickens books. - Harold Eberlein to the Philadelphia Dickens Fellowship.
 
 The day when we could put guns into the hands Of citizens, teach them the manual of arms. and send them out to match their spirit and bFnwn against that Of an enemy has passed.-Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of var.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
A SOUND POSITION
(Hartford Times)

(Hartford TimeS)
 Senator Francis T. Maloney takes the unquestionably sound position that if political activity in seeking reelection will interfere with the work winch he ought to perform as a sitting United States senator, then he will abandon campaigning and attend to his official job. That's the way senator ought to act.
 Senator Maloney need not worry that such a decision will hurt him. There is no urgent need that he start campaigning at once. Indeed. 1t probably would be better for him if he did not.
 Should the war situation clear. he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
A Million Dollars in Jail

There is an old saying that "you can't put a million dollars in jail" It is more tricky than true, for there have been many, many instances in which a mil- ion dollars went behind the bars just like i've cents. If. in mId-July. Joe Amen. berg actually begins | three.year sem gence, It will be merely another example.
 Here ls Q man, proprietor of a vast rac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
SUMMER DANGER
CBoston Post)


 The annual series Of drowning tragedies has begun with deaths TO. ported in many quarters of New England. It would seem that 6 campaign by safety organizations and lakeside and shoreside commit nlties to clearly set forth the dan. gers Of swimming and boating in unsnpeFvlsed and unprotected lakes, streams and bays is in order.
 Bathing and boating is without question part of New Enelanab pels feet summer weather, but there ie no need fQF eareleasnese, 70 Maine a guide and q earetakeF eroNaea when A canoe overturned 4 mos ments earelessness caused ille ffaeT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
Daily Almanac

Moon sets li:O4 p. m. tdayiight time).
 Sun rises b;2e 6. m.; sets s:2g ?. n. taays light ttme).
 All vehicles must Dc lighted thirty min- utes alter sunset.
 This Is probably the driest period that we have had this summer. Not slaee the very first Ssek Of June has there been SO many sunny days wiks.0nt rain, It's pleasant ins terlude in a chilly season that many nope won't be too brief,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09

which have long been very close to his heart. These are:
 1. Aid the allies Cor Great Britain at least) by mak- ing surplus U. s. war materials a. vailable.
 2. H a m per Ja- pans m arch to pow CT in tn e orient by cutting off her imports of essential war n1a- terials.
 A AA etS1AwnA A1a
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Views of The Press

edy. This sudden peril will occur to scores of people all over New Eng land during the next three months. A certain amount of caution and ob- servance of rules of safety will lower summers toll of tragedy.
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National
 
By BRUCE CAPTION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Washington, July 9--If the Senate confirms his appointment as secre- tary of war--as it now seems very likely to do-Henry L. Stimson will be in a position to do two things
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Questions
 andAnswers
RY rRRnERTC N. KRRBR

Enclose three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any qIles. < ton of fact or information to the Waterbury DemCcrat's Service Bu. reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, 4 nor can extended research be un- taken. Be sure all mail iS ad. -- dressed to The WATERBURY {. DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- 4 REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington. D. o.
 THE EDITOR.
 @. Which President made the largest number of appointments to the United States Supreme Court2
 A. President Washington appoint ed 12; Taft had and Franklin D.7 Roosevelt has had 5.
 o. Who played opposite Eleanor Powell in the motion picture, "Ro- sale"? A. Nelson Eddy.
 O. What reasons were stated by consc sntious objectors in the U. 8. who were drafted in the World War?
 A.. Objection to all wars on re- ligious or humanitarian grounds; to the World War on economic and political grounds; to combatant service; to all service in the army, or under military orders: to alter native service under conscription and for the avowed purpose of help ing the war. For further particu- lars about objectors send stamped, lf-addressed envelop to the Wa terbury Democrats Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. c.
 o. Which American poet has written poem about Paderewski?
 A. Richard Watson Glider. o. How can warped photograph records be fiattened?
 A. Place them on a marble slabs or some other flat, hard material, over a steam or hot-water radiator, and weight them down heavily with books or other weights. The heat and the weight will gradually straightel them.
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Washington Merry-G Go Round
MA s9viea A
DREW PEAR R S ON
 ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON Roosevelt Administration
  in optimistic the ld
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "These kind of books are very instructive; say instead, these kinds"

o. Where in the United States are the government health labora-H tories, and what are they? A.
 A. The National / Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md, the center of Federal disease research, the bu-- bonic plague laboratory in San Francisco; the Rocky Mountain spotted fever laboratory in Hamil- ton, Mont; The Public Health Service headquarters for investiga- ton of stream pollution in Cincin- natl, O., and in Honolulu and Car- vile, La. research into the cause of leprosy is carried out.
 0. Is New York Harbor the larg- est city harbor in area in the world?
 A. Melbourne Harbor, Australia. is the largest; Yokohama, Japan, is second, and New York Harbor is third.
 o. Should the American flag be flown in stormy weather?
 A. Not without some special req son. The army uses a special flag. known as the storm flag. Public buildings and schools take in the flag during a storm. The purpose is to prevent bedraggled appear ance.
 If you want copy of the book let PAN AMERICAN H1STO
 nee
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A Thought for Today

\ have showed you all things, how that so Iabouring ye ought to support the weak, and 10 remember the words of the Lord Jesus how ne said, It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20:35.
 Presents which our love for the donor has rem dered precious are ever the most acceptable. Ovid.
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Copyright, 1940, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
THE EDTTOR,

o. Who played opposite Eleanor Powell in the motion picture, "Ro- salie"?
 A. Nelson Eddy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
CHICAGO POTATOES

CHICAGO, March 81 Up - (U.
s. Dept. Agr.)-Potatoes, 80, on
track 342, total US shipments 761;
idaho Russets strong, Colorado Nc.
Clures firm, Western Triunlphs
slightly weaker, northern all vari.
cites firm, slightly stronger under
tone; supplies liberal demand fair
sacked per cwt. Idaho Russet Bur
banks US No. 1, 2.15-25 mostly 2.20'
rs; Colorado Red McClures US No
1, 1872 1900; Nebraska Bliss
Triumphs 80 or more per cent US
No. 1, very few sales $4,000; Min.
nesota Hollandale section cobblers
US commercials lao; Minnesota
and North Dakota Red River Val
ley section cobblers $3.50 per cent
US No. !, few sales 1.45-47 IL;
Bliss Triumphs 5000 per cent I J
No. 1, 1880; US No. 1, $50;
early Ohios 1890 per cent US No
/, 1.15-4o; Wisconsin mixed Ka'
tahdins and Green Mountains US
No. i, 1.55; new stock US No. 1,
about steady. US No. 1, size B
slightly weaker, supplies moderate
demand very slow: less than car.
lots, Florida Bliss Triumphs bushel
crates US No. l., very few sales
2.55, US No. 1, size b, 200.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, March 27- Up ALI
classes OF livestock lost price ground
today in very slow trading.
Hogs were S to Is cents lower,
topping at $5.25, despite receipts of
10000 in the open market that were
1000 less than expected.
Cattle prices were generally steady
to weak, choice 1,0OO-pound year
lings selling at $3.50.
Fat lambs declined rs to IS cents,
best selling at $10.15.
u. S. Dept. Agr.)-Salable hogs
$4,000; total 1880; market opened
weak to 10 lower, closed generally
10 lower than Tuesdays average On
$50 lbs. up; lighter weights 1915 off
top 5.25; most good to choice $780,
240 lbs. 5000; 240,300 lbs. 4.80-5.10;
heavies downward to AGO; 150.18O
lbs. mostly 4.50-5.00 good 400-650 lbs.
packing sows 4.00-50. Shippers 1000;
estimated 1000.
Salable cattle 5000; salable calves
500; fed steers trade generally dull
fairly reliable outlet however on all
grades yearlings and strictly good
and choice mediumweight an d
weighty steers selling at 1925 up
ward; others weak instances 1915
lower; most grades weighty steers
rs lower for week to date; not much
change on yearlings and light cattle
although all except strictly finished
light offerings under yer pres
sure, hence trade very slow and III.
even; mostly 8.O0-10.50 steer trades:
all representative weights above
1850; selling steady; with yearlings
in broadest demand; extreme top
1850 paid for approximately 1925
lbs. Oklahoma and calf club year
lings; choice 1907 lbs. steers 1900;
most we'll finished yearlings 1880
1850 and sizable supply rough but
fat weighty steers 8..75.9.75; these
showing most decline for week 20
date; stockers slow; fed heifers
steady; best 1000; cows weak to
shade lower cutters 5.25 down; bulls
closed weak to Is lower with extreme
outside 100 on sausage bulls; veal
ers steady at 1880 down: 139 lbs
~vealers 800 down; 140 lbs. $50
down.
Salable sheep 5000; total $500;
fat lambs slow 1886 lower; bulk
handyweight wooded range lambs
9%.75-10.00; few closely sorted loads
10.1o-15; load clippers $50; double
103 lbs. fed range ewes $50; small
lot native ewes AIS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
CORPORATE BONDS
CLIMB in MARKET
Advance Over Broad Front
For Net Gains OF Frac-
tiOns To Point

NEW YORK, March 27.-R-Cor'
porate bonds followed the lead of the
stock market today, advancing over
a broad front for net gains of frac'
tons to a point generally and 2 to
IN some cases. Only the foreign dol
lar list was left behind.
Sales of s7,191, 900, face value, were
the largest in two weeks and com
pared with $6,276, 800 the day before,
A rise of a of a point in the Associ,
ated Press average of 20 rail loans
put that group in the forefront OF
the advance.
Individual issues scoring good ad
vances included: Bethlehem Stee.
8 LIS at 10 1-2, Allegheny Stamped
IS at Al, Delaware & Hudson Refund.
ing As at So, illinois Central 4 3-4s
at 43 Ia, Bush Terminal IS at So,
Porto Rican American Tobacco I'm
stamped is at 70 1-2, Utilities Power
& Light SIS and 5 lbs at Ill Ia and
112, respectively, New York Central
IS at So ga and Studebaker 6s at
10S 3-4.
Government bonds were extremely
quiet, up 5-32 of a point to down 1872
Foreign loans losing fractions to
more than a point on light sales in
cluded Finland IS, French Z LIS,
Australia 4 1-2s and Rome G 1-2s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-28
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, March 81 An
attempted rally in the wheat mar
ket was smothered today ny SELL
ing based on prospects of better
weather and hedging of grain which
has been released from storage un-
der the government loan program.
Marketing of loan wheat, helping
to swell receipts at principal ter
minals, accounted largely for weak
ness of May contracts, which led
the decline and showed the only
material loss at the close. May rose
IL cent at the opening to $1.06 is
but then tumbled to $1.04 IS, clos
ing at $1.05 1.4-1.O5, off 1-4-5-S
from yesterdays finish. July and
September contracts, representing
1910 wheat, closed unchanged to
Ia lower, at $1.03 1884 and
|$1.03 3-8-1-4.
Corn closed II lower to IA high.
er, May 56 SIS, July 81 1854;
oats unchanged to Ia up; rye I'M
changed to ID lower and lard I'm.
changed to 8 higher.
The early advance of wheat was
due partly to failure of rains to ma.
~terialize in the southwest but the
soft and spring wheat belts had
good precipitation. Soon after the
opening the official forecast sug-
gested further precipitation can be
expected in these areas as well as
in the hard winter wheat zone. This
helped to reverse the markets
trend and at times quotations were
; much as 1 IL cents below early
highs. Strength in securities, pes
simistic crop reports and foreign
news helped to rally the market
frequently. Sale of some Pacific
coast grain to Russia was reported
Weakness of Minneapolis wheat,
with May quoted more than five
cents cheaper than the correspond
Ing contract here, caused uneasi-
ness due to the possibility that
grain might be brought from the
spring wheat area when lake navi.
cation opens.