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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-29

to all, leaving the door open to broader trade, rather than closing it. Now note the "easy descent" from one step to another, as outlined by Sachs to recent Cleveland College institute:
 l. You sign bilateral trade agreement.
 2. The other country gradually extends it's advantage, until suddenly you find it is taking all your export goods.
 8. It uses only part of them, dumps the rest on the world market. The price plummets.
 4. Gradually your currency goes all out of gear as result of this diSlocation of markets.
 5. Now you are forced to adjust your currency to that of the partner in the trade pactS, since you are far in it's debt.
 6. You are now merely tail to the economic dog of the other coun- try.
 '. On one pretext or another the other country moves in with it's army, footing your treasury of what gold is left.
 8. Your standard of living is pushed down so that more and more of your products can be sent to feed the other countrys war machine.
 g. Enslavement and degradation. There is the progression, easy anc almost unconscious, from simple bilat. eral trade treaty to the final payoff. Ano that is why international trade has ar importance far beyond the bare value o1 the goods exchanged. It has become something outside of and beyond itself the keen weapon of new imperialism.
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partment, and a man stepped out, holding an empty liquor bottle in his hand. Instantly a traffic off, cer approached him.
 The man leaned over and placed the liquor bottle on the curb, with elaborate care.
 What do you want here?" said the officer.
 The man strengthened himself with dignity. 'T want to see the Secretary of State," he said.
 The officer reflected moment. Then he said, "YOu step inside and speak to the guard"
 Later, the officer and the guard compared notes. The guard said, 'T just bounced him out. What did you send him back to me fOr?'
 ''Well," said the officer, 't don't work this beat regular, and l don't '. know everybody who might have business with the Secretary. Some of these big shots get high, too" MAIL BAG
 Mrs. A. D. C., WashingtOn-Al- exander V. Dye, U. S. commercial attache in London, will leave his post in July and retire from the service. He will not be replaced immediately. A. S., St. Paul, Minn.-Glad to see that St. Paul can't go wrong whichever way it votes. We note that the next May or of St. Paul will be product of St. Thomas College and St. Marks church, whether Democrat John McDonough or Republican William Fallon wins. Also, both are Irish, both, live on Portland Ave, and both. have offices in the Commerce !, Building. :. c. R. B., Hollywood, Thanks for your research on names of Presidents, pointing out that Vandenberg, if elected, would be the first President since Wash ington with a ten-letter name. Four had nine-!etter names: Jef- ferson, Cleveland, and the two Roosevelts.
 ! Copyright. 1940, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
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According to all reports this is going to be a banner year for American tour ists. There won't be any trips to Europe or Asia, but there will be many to all points of she two Americas. In a way this is good news It means that many people will be seeing their own country for the first time. There are any number of Americans who believe that to be real tourist you have to travel across the ocean. It's up to the travel agencies to ing in front of them myriads of trips on this hemisphere. Getting acquainted with ones own native land is also good way to spend vacation. More of us should try it out.
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "He acted like the rest did"; omit did.

. A. No; all the law requires isthat employees covered by the law be paid certain minimum hourly rate of pay and that all time worked ill excess of A hours GAO hours after October "A, 1940) in any work-week q consecutive days), be compensat- ed for at the rate of one and one half times the employees regular rat of pay. The law places no abso- lute limitations upon the number of hours an employe may work either in day or a week.
 o. What is the total mileage from New York to Honolulu, travel ing by auto to San Francisco?
 A. Total mileage is 5,443, of which 3,038 is highway.
 O. What are the annual salaries of American ambassadors and min- isters?
 A. Ambassadors, $17,50O;; min isters, $10,000 to $12,000. v ~s
 @. Why are airplane engines in- verted? ss.
 A. One of the principal reasons is to obtain better vision.
 o. Is dust lighter than air?
 A. No solid is lighter than air. However, dust (which is Solid) re- mains suspended in air for a long time, because the resistance of the o;, l1; ;x,< ei11IyiY,or Nf f11n f1oe particles, and because the fine par ticles are blown upward by other wise imperceptible currents in the air.
 o. What is the monetary value of silver? '., ..t.
 A. A silver dollar contains 37125 grains of pure silver which fixes the value of silver for monetary pur- poses at $1.29 an ounce. ...
 o. Who wrote the book entitled "The Leopard's Spots?" A. Thomas Dixon. It was pub lished in 1906.
 o. Who played the role of the Yankee deserter whom Scarlett O'Hara kills in "Gone With the Wind?" .. A. Paul Hurst.
 If you want a copy of the book
 let Home Repairs" send to the
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THEIi: PET PEEVES
Bridgeport Telgeram)

(brluSepOrI 4SAScIau1)
 The Boston Automobile club hung out 8 questionnaire in Boston ho- tels for visiting motorists to fill in with their pet aversions as driv- CTS. Ten thousand out-of-staters took advantage of the opportunity to register their observations.
 Fifteen hundred drivers voted that cutting in" was the chief hazard of safety on the highways. The road hog came second high as a hazard anl nuisance. Third in rank was the needless pedestrian.
 Scattered through the ballots were pot shots at back seat driv- irg not SO much menace to safe driving as to smooth and pleasant motoring. Very. high h the total 8,253 out of 10000 was the empha- tic opinion that pedestrians should
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Can you answer seven or tneSe test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
 l. What animal sleeps suspen6cd upsida down from trees?
 2. To what post WAS former Pre- mier Edouard Daladicr recently ap- pointed?
 3. What is the correct pronuncia- tion of formidable?
 4. Name three well known colleges located in New York city.
 5. Are tin cans made wholly ot tin, C. of thin sheet iron coated with tin?
 6. What does "H.M.S." before the names of British ships signify?
 T. Which is lighter, helium or hy- drogen?
 8. Name the most famous noun tain ill Japan.
 g. narrow, spiraling cloud reaching down from the sky to the earth indicates a tornado, cyclone or hurricane?
 10. Who said, T only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country?"
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brings them within the purview of the Monroe Doctrine. Their geo. graphic and political situations complicate the problem. Surinam, otherwise Netherlands Guiana, has French Guiara as its eastern neigh bor and British Guiana as its west ern neighbor. In Curacao sovereign ty over St. Martin is divided, the northern part of the island belong ing to France. The complications possible in case of disaster to the Netherlands itself are obvious.
 Perhaps an attack on the Neither lands would create conditions in which the Pan American Union would find opportunity to function in a new role.
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IN THE NETHERLANDS WEST
 INDIES
(New York Sun)

(NeW York Sum
 Japanese solicitude concerning the possible fate of the Netherlands colonies in the Orient in case the Netherlands becomes involved in the European war has obscured the problem that would be presented by the Netherlands West Indies. These are Surinam. on the north coast of South America, and Curacao, con- sisting of two groups of islands 800 miles apart-Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire in one, St. Martin, St. Flu Statius and Saba in the other-Cur- acao being forty miles off the coast of Venezuela.
 The situation of these colonies
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Views of The Press

be made to obey traffic lights, along with motorists. Parts of New England are particularly lax in this regard.
 It is not often that automobilists are permitted to express their views on this vital theme of safe driving. The Boston club has done all motorists a favor. And we are inclined to believe that this small cross-section of opinion is fairly representative of drivers every where. The bane of the road is, in order, the driver who cuts in, the driver who straddles the middle, and the jay lker.
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slightly less than a billion and let
 WPA spend it all in eig h t months, begin- ming July l, in- stead of mak- ing it last a year. That way t W O political birds are killed with one stone: sharp election year cuts in re- lief rolls are dodged, and the gov ernm ent's debt isn't put oyer the S45.nnO.-
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Current Comment

America must continue to work
 for peace and security. America
 must ever remain to all the peoples of the earth symbol of human rights and human liberty. Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York ,fa#
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 1:47 a. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises 5:54 a. m.; sets 7:46 p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The moon entered its last quarter phase early this morning. The change occurring between 2 and o'clock (standard time) calls for resumption of the chilly rainy weather we've been having. April will go out unpleas- ant May come in the same way.
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A Thought for Today

Go thou near, and hear all the Lord our Ood sbalI saw. and sneak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee: and we will hear it, and do it-DeuterOnOmy 5:27.
 
 Christianity is spiritual dynamic which has very little to do with the mechanism Of social hfe.-Dean mge.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
ROBERT s. ALLEN DREW PEAR 5 0 N

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National Spotlight
BY BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespOndentl

Washington, April 29-If you want a good third-term tip-off, maybe you can find it in FDR's suggestion about the new WPA appropriation.
 He proposed Congress give WPA
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Thought From Norway

The easy capture of Narvik by the in- vading Germans is now believed due to the fact that the Norwegian command there had been entrusted to known Nazi sympathizer He betrayed his trust. This recalls the fact that various investiga- tions have revealed as officers in the National Guard sympathizers and even members of Nazi, Communist and other groups whose ideas are less than democratic.
 They ought all to be rooted out. No question of citizens rights is involved. All soldiers, but more specifically officers, take solemn oath of loyalty to the govern ment they serve. The loyalty and depend ability of all those entrusted with military responsibility must be beyond question.
 New Britain is not giving up it's fight for an Elihu Burritt commemorative stamp. A special committee is function from officials at Washington in securing the cooperation of the Post Office De- partment. Senator Francis T. MalOney was contacted by the New Britain group desirous of seeing a special stamp issued to commemorate the famous educator and philosopher-b blacksmith and he has taken the matter up with Post Office authorities But the P. O. Department, now as before, states that it's program of special issues for 194O is complete. It's a bit unfortunate that the Burritt stamp could not have been included in the Famous American series, but if Burritt's name was included, there' would have been others, too, mentioned as most likely prospects for the honor Perhaps an anniversary date can be found in the next few years to occasion Burritt stamp.
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Questions
 and Answers
BY FREDERIC M. KERRY

Ae6DGAAAS AAAs AAA@asS0
 Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any ques- tiOn of fact or information to the Waterbury Democrats Service Bu- reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- taken. Be sure all mail is ad- dressed to The WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, 1913 Thirteenth Street. Washington, D. c.
 s THE EDITOR.
 Q. How many cases of smallpox and how many deaths from the dis ease were reported in Denver dur. ing the 1921 and 1922 epidemic?
 A. Cases reported 1718: deaths 285. .s
 o. How many Community Trusts have been founded in the United States in the last 25 years, and how much money are they distributing to the charities covered by the funds?
 A. Seventy five Community Trusts. all established within the last 25 years, administered chari- table funds aggregating $50,000,000 at the close of 1889.
 o. Does the Federal Wage-Hour law require that employees be given time off to eat during an eight-hour day?
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100000 limit.
 But here's the catch. The ad- ministration that's in office next winter will inherit lots of trouble. It will almost certainly have to meet a WPA deficiency bill early in the winter. It will have to boost the debt limit, or economize as no New Deal administration ever econom- ized. So, for your tip-off-
 If FDR figured he was going to be in the White House next winter, would he arrange to bequeath him. self mess like that? z. TOO MUCH FARM
 PRODUCE .
 If someone would kindly tell Un- cle Sam how he can unload the vast quantities of farm produce he now owns, the old gentleman would be very much obliged indeed.
 AS of the end of March, the Com modity Credit Corporation held title to more than 6,60O,00O bales of cot ton and 91,OO0,000 bushels of corn the whole business worth, roughly. $370,OOO,000. In addition, farm loans are now outstanding on D. 6OO,0OO bales of cotton and O4,OOO,- 0OO bushels of corn, and before another year ends the government may be stuck with most of that. | Stuck" is the right word. Situa- ton is worse in regard to cotton: law says none of the government owned bales may be sold unless the price received equals the money put out in loans, plus the carrying charges-which have been about S1,- 5OO,00O monthly. Practical effect is that it just can't be sold at all: even Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, which gives cotton away, can't buy any of it. About 100000 bales will go to England in l the barter arrangement for rubber. What will happen to the rest, no I one seems to know.
 If corn prices go up this year, the government may get rid of the 46O,- 100000 bushels on which it has made loans. If they go down, on the other hand, it may get the whole ball of wax. Storage charges, by the' way, are about $3,50O,o0O month. TOO MUCH
 MONEY
 Nothing will happen at this ses- sion, but next year Congress is apt to cast some inquiring and critical glances at the money which is pill ing up under the social security law.
 During the next fiscal year, pay roll tax money collected for the old age and unemployment insurance funds will amount to $1,30O,0O O00. Of this, around $740,00000O will be paid out in benefits; the rest will go to swell the reserve funds. Unemployment insurance fund will go up the fastest. It stands now at $500, ,000, ,OOO-odd, and will rise by around $36O,00O,O0O during the year, unless the bottom falls out of things. On the double -barreled plea that such a set-up is defla- tionary and that business can't stand the gaff anyhow, you can look for drive to cut it down pret- ty sharply.
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Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven Of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers. '.f...
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Copyright. 194O, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
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If you want a copy of the book let "Home Repairs" send to the Waterbury Democrats Washing ton Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Washington, D. c. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
Evening star., 1940-11-19
Newsmon, on British Raid Over Brindisi, Finds
AiIs Full of Lead and His Stomach Full of Fear
Bomb-Aimer Ignores
Firing and Only
Curses the Clouds

wireless operator said he had
heard In the B. B. G. news that
there were 1000 casualties in the
German raid over CoveHtE. The
crew got pretty mad and did not
feel too friendly to Brindisi.
The anti-aircraft stuff got
thicker as we got nearer. 1t
took a long time to get right into
the area. 1t was thicker and
thicker before us. Then I saw
red burst behind us and knew we
were over the town.
This was about 3 o'clock Of
bright, moonlit morning. We
flew over the town once through
q thick string Of black anti-air-
craft bursts. On each side and
above and below us were A-A
bursts. Right below. myriad
points of red flashes were guns
firing at us. We flew unwaver-
ingly right through the stuff
over the towns.
Then up came flaming onions.
These are the deadliest of all
anti-aircraft. In great slow
orange burst, the onions flew be-
fore us like Very lights. Red
was reflected on the wings. The
front gunner, who was nearest
to it, yelled into the microphone,
Look at that stuff. Look at It'll"
Air Is Full of Lead.
Then came the pin points Of
tracer bullets, all reflected in
fiery fiercenesS against the white
cloud bank below us. While the
observer. in a great temper, told
everybody via the microphone
what he thought of the cloud
bank, We turned around and flew
right back over the town again.
We were looking for the target.
Suddenly We saw a great flash
of light. 1t spread white under
the clouds. The whole area was
lit up. I thought it was a
searchlight. Then I heard that
it was the chiefs incendiaries.
The great fire was spreading
under the clouds below.
Once more We went over the
town and then turned around
and few back again. I saw
plane shooting up through the
clouds behind US. I thought it
was a fighter and roared so
through the microphone. No.
body heard me. I was told later
that it was the chiefs plane
which was almost blown upward
by aCk-ack (anti-aircrafD be-
low the clouds.
Again We turned back and
went over the town, looking for
the target. This time we were
lower. The fire below was
spreading Ack-ack was just as
thick as ever over four square
miles. There was great talk
between the pilot and the
bomber about where the target
Evening star., 1940-11-19

on the ground, definitely ground
explosions. Then clouds obscured
the remaining flashes.
I was sick Of ack-ack by now.
1t was getting thicker. too, but
I was growing used to 1t at the
same time. I forgot where I
was. 1t must have made an alb
surd picture, to see q man In my
position, standing there with his
head N the sky and fire above
and b .ow and all around in the
town beneath writhing under
bombardment and the man just
clasping a hot hose pipe to his
belly, shivering and yelling his
lead of.
Almost an Hour.
But again we flew over the tar
get, dodging back over the course
right over the whole works. Tho
observer-bomber was still cursing
because he could not see prop
erly for clouds.
Then we turned again, more
or less kissing the ack-ack good
by or vice versa. We left Brin-
disi for the next plane. We had
been over Brindisi through con-
slant, thick ack-ack for almost an
hour.
was still standing up In tho
astral hatch, looking back.
could see the whole thing in
easier perspective. There was a
great area with red points OF
light, like red lights being flashed
on, and over it were bursts in
the sky. We were climbing away
from it. The whole thing grad
ually disappeared until I looked
back no more, but turned and
looked forward and gradually re-
laXed.
The bomb-aimer came back
all smiles. He lifted my earf1ap
and shouted, "All o. K.?" I
nodded and clasped the hot-air
pipe closer and slept as we few
southwark.
Over the home base we few
around through the clouds for a
while and then made perfect
landing. I stepped out of the
plane and stood stripping of my
Evening star., 1940-11-19

ish-Russian front.
could see white cloud bank and,
below that. the black sea. We
flew on, occasionally seeing f1icks
of white coast line against the
evenness of the sea.
I'VE are getting near It,"
sounded the pilots voice in my
earphones. Are you o. K. back
there?"
%. X" said.
as your parachute handy?"
I told him yes.
well, remember, If anything
goes wrong. count a good three.
II you hit water, push that har-
ness release mighty quickly"
Cuss words interrupted our con-
versation as the observer, now
the bomb -aimer, said, Look at
those bloody clouds! We don't
see much If they are over the
target"
The observer was now lying
nat IN the plane nose over the
glass window and the bomb
sights. I could hear a great dis
cussion between him and the
pilot as to whether clouds were
over the target or not. I was
standing up, literally with my
head out of the plane, under a
glass roof, clutching the hot pipe
to my middle to keep warm.
could see night all around me.
Suddenly I saw a pin-point flash
of light way ahead, then another
and another, miles apart. heard
the bomb-aimer say. There it is.
Look at that stuff they are
throwing up"
1t was Brindisi's anti-aircraft,
pouring red-hot lead upwards at
the leaders plane ahead of us.
He was opening up on the target.
Brindisi was a virgin target.
Suddenly I saw the outline
below of the town of Brindisi.
Almost at the same time the
Evening star., 1940-11-19
I Yelled if Ack-Ack
Come Too Near; Was
Yelling All the Time
0eprinted from yesterdays late editions
By JAMES ALDRIDGE.


BY JAMES ALDRIDGE.
AT A SECRET BRITISH AIR
BASE IN THE MEDITERRAN-
EAN. Nov. Is (by wireless to MA.
NAIL was on a British bomb
ing raid over Brindisi, Italy, the
other night.
Less than "a hours ago, on a
cool moonlit airfleld. I stood
under a British heavy bomber
dressing for fight while the en-
gines we're warming up. I pulled
on fur boots, fur trousers. a fur
Jacket and a f1eece-lined helmet.
also an anti-drowning Jacket
called Mae West" and finally my
parachute harness.
Behind me the crew stepped
up into the bomber, the plane had
a belly like a Goldfish and dew
was running off its sides like
sweat. AS the engines roared I
plugged in my earphones for in
lClCIeW COIIllllullIldllOll.
The pilot said, All set" Red
lights flicked on at the peri
meter Of the lighted airfield.
The plane roare5, jerked and
TAXED down the field. It in
creased its speed and one felt
that the iron in it was punching
like a tiger about to spring. 1t
lifted suddenly in a stomach
sinking rise.
1 had been given an action
station in the astral hatch. This
protrudes above the fuselage
amidships so that one can get a
clear view all around. AS I
stuck my head up, 1 could see
the earth disappearing below.
I had forgotten my gloves and
It was getting cold as we climbed.
The wireless operator gave me
hot air hose pipe to hold, but
soon I got sick of standing up
watching the clouds go by, so I
sat down on a camp bed. as the
plane roared towards Italy.
lay down and slept, hugging the
warm pipe. Two machine guns
swung at my feet. Rounds of
ammunition belts were below
me. 1t was a safe feeling.
A couple hours later I was
awakened by the observer taking
sights through the astral hatch. I
heard him through the ear
phones. checking our course with
the pilot. Then he lifted from
a box small object that looked
like a bomb and dropped it
through an open chute. Pretty
soon I saw it burst on the sea be-
low. Then colored smoke flower
ed out to show the direction of
the wind and its approximate
speed.
knew We were nearing the
targets so I stood up in the
astral hatch again. Far below I