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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
industry Climbs Past
 Record Peak Of 1929
Government Economists Expect Further Rise This
 Winter; Average Living Costs Are Below 1929

1885 to 1889 inclusive. The living cost in 1929 stood at 123.
 Total income payments in 'Septem- Der, 1940-wages, salaries, returns on investments, etc.-Were within per cent of the average for 1929, accord ing to the commerce department. Salaries and wages rose to 91.5 as compared with an index of 100 for 1929.
 The public debt reached $44,214,- TAI ,090 November IS, bringing 1t close to the non-defenSe statutory limit of $45, 900 .000, 900.
 Increased income and added taXa- ton pointed to increased government revenues.
 Works Projects Administration rolls on November 6 totaled 1,783 ,06$4 with slight increase indicated dur- ing the winter. Officials estimated that 17,156,O0O persons were depend- ent upon income from that source and from state and city relief funds.
 Estimates of the American Fedora tion of Labor placed unemployment at 8,544,23O during September, com- pared with 1,864,000 unemployed in 1929. The AFL estimated 10,656, ,043 in January, 1940 and depression record of 13,270, ,669 in 1883.
 Gain Million in Month
 Employment statistics for August the latest available and exclusive of agricultural work-show that here were 36,627 900 persons employ ed, gain of more than 100000 in one month. This represents the largest rate of increase for any sin- gle month since 1919.
 According to government econom- ists, one of the most significant ia- dications of improved business con- ditionS is the increase in income
 Benefits accruing from the rla- tional defense program have not been solely responsible. Private in- dustries, for example, have retained their earlier gains, while definite upward trend has been noted in the wages of workers in distributive i1l- dustrieS.
 The largest expansion tok place in the aircraft industry, where the addition of 5000 workers during September boosted totals to approxi- mately 108,400. Shipbuilding en- ployment rose from 4,500 to 103, 900, while machine tool industry work CTS climbed 2,4O0 to~69,6O0. Engine manufactures gained 2,100 workers, raising the total to 5000. The aluminium industry reached an em- ploylnent peak of 30,OO0, gain of HOO. While explosives plants em- ployed 8,7O0 men, 400 more than in August.
 The unemployment situation. ac- cording to labor department statisti- clans, definitely will be alleviated by the 100000 to 100000 extra jobs that the defense program is expect ed to produce by the end of 194l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
LOCAL REAL ESTATE MEN IN ELM CITY
Attend Annual COnven- tiOn; Bank Com. Perry
 One of Speakers

A delegation from Waterbury at- tended the annual convention of the Connecticut Association of Real Es- tate Boards at New Haven today The program opened with direc- tors meeting this morning at the Quinnipiac club, and continued with luncheon and business sessions al the Hotel Taft.
 State Banking commissioner Wal ter Perry was one of the principal speakers. One of the most important questions scheduled for general dis cussion was the licensing of real estate agents.
 The Waterbury group at the con- vention included: John M. Hutchin- son, Earl Colson, George A. Baron ian, Leo J. Curley, Mortimer J. Con- nor, James J. Dillon. Daniel T. Far rington. Sr., Daniel T. Harrington Jr., John Horan, Anthony Roberts Milton Allerton, Joseph Hosey, Fred
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
NAVY WANTS BOYS
 FOR ADJUSTMENTS
Lads Between l7 and IS Favored = Applications
 Being Accepted Here

Effective today the Navy recruit ing service is authorized to make enlistmentS for the duration of their minority in the cases of men be- tween the ages of seventeen and eighteen.
 This type of enlistment, discon- tinued about two years ago, again makes 1t possible for youths of sev- enteen to embark on a naval career early in life before they have had an opportunity to realize their re- responsibilities in civil life or spend several years wandering from one type of employment to another with never anything definite in view.
 Signed for a minority enlistment the recruit will have the period be- tween his enlistment date and his twenty-first birthday, when he will be discharged, to develope his abili- tie0 in his chosen work. This period will serve us an apprenticeship with the opportunity of acquiring a petty officer rating in the rapidly expanding navy which will then open up to him an honorable ano profitable career should he choose to ye-enlist.
 h the event that the now man-o- warSman for any reason decides tc reenter civil life he will step out of the service on his twenty -f1rst birthday @ thoroughly trained ane physically fit citizen ready to take his place in the community as 2 valuable member.
 All Navy recruiting stations in tht Connecticut district have been au' thorized to accept application un' der this new regulation and Recruit. CTS located in the Post Office build. ings OG New Haven, Hartford, Wa Jerbury, Bridgeport, New London and South Norwalk will provide ad- ditional information to those in- terestAd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
REIDVILLE CLUB
 PROTESTS WALKS Advocate Cinders Rather Than Clinkers-BOard
 1O5 Minutes Late

After waiting an hour and three quarters for the Board Of Education to convene, the Rockville Community club last night protested that the cinder walk being laid from the old Rockville school to the East Farms school is being built with clinkers rather than cinders and will cause accidents.
 The board, which did not convene until 9:15 o'clock although the scheduled hour was 7:30, referred the protest to a committee for in- vestigation. The board also referred to an investigation committee a re- quest for a fence in the rear of the East Farms school.
 Joseph DeLuca, president and spokesman for the organization. told the board several women had already ripped their stockings on the clink- CTS of the new walk. He urged that it be covered with oil and sand. President Thomas Ashton said the walk construction has only just be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
BASIC PROBLEMS
 FACE YOUTH TODAY

George B. Corwin, national secre- tary of the Y. M. c. A. for Hi-Y work, listed seven basic problems that confront youth today, when he addressed the Advisors association last night. These were: Adjust must to national defense program; employment; educational opportun- ities; home and family relations: recreation; groupeloyalties; develop ment of a set of values.
 Mir. Corwin complimented the Ad- visors for their program of demo- cratic methods used in their local club work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

"As Nahum GaIva," meaning Head of the H0me," will be the title of the two-act comedy which the chOirS of St. JOseph's Church will present for their 17th annual undertaking next Sunday evening at ! o'clock in St. JOSeph'S parish hall.
 Comprising the cast will be Miss Marcelle Andrikis, Anthony Dam- brauskas, Adele Greblunas, Al Jarus, DOrma Gudiskis and Ed ward Markus.
 The junior girls choir will re- hearse tonight from , to 8 o'clock followed by 8 rehearsal for the senior girls and boys from 8 to g o'clock. After that, the cast for Sundays play will rehearse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

Mrs. Nettie Luf has given up commercial farming and is now working for Ernest Roselle at his home across from ex-Represen- tative Sydney Platt'S.
 An investigation threatens as the result of 8 lecture given to the Bullet Hill kids by 8 nurse employed by the State Depart ment of Education. According to rumOr, that nurse told the pupils that they did not belong to their parents but that they were the property of the State. Many par. ents are madder than they have been since the election returns came in. They claim that such chatter sounds a lot too much like Communism to eminate from an emplOye of the taxpayers. Bull let Hill is not ready tO embrace any of the doctrines of Uncle Joe Stalin and, if that report is true, a little e-educatiOn of the rep. resentatives of the State Depart ment of Education might be in order. If anybody figures our children are State property, they better brush mp on American his- tory.
 Henry Mccarthy says that the best discussion of economics he ever heard came from a town pauper. He figures that the man found so much spare time on his hands under our new social con- sciouSnesS that he studied for a masters degree.
 Something has to be done to- ward bett-r policing of this cOm- munity. We have two important industries in this village and, with the many explosions and fires around the country, we need pro- lection against enemy agents and possible sabotage. Our trap shop is working on button backs for soldiers uniforms and the boat shop at the bridge is 3 possible source of supply for warcraft. If 9 submarine came up the POm- peraug and planted mine or two, the whole industrial backbone of South Britain might be wiped out before we could rally the Para. disc Rifles.
 George Mclaughlin reports that Tommy, his feline mascot, has re- turned after a prolonged absence. Tommy showed up the same even- ing that the heavens were alight with the latest combustion cham ~ber explosion at the power plant at the new State Training School. When that old stack belches flame, eve.l tomcats come home to rooSt.
 Main Street is again worrying over the probable course of the new highway that will replace u. S. 6. One rumOr has the road going square through the middle of Old Hundreds dining room, splitting a tennis court in tive, and crossing the back dOOrstepS of several stately Main Street man. siOns. Surveyors spent twenty days in one meadow and sOms- body at Oak Tree said they had probably lost a bench mark. That bench mark is up near the depot, quite a distance from the lot where the engineers were working.
 We have another theory about the work in that meadow. The adjoining acreage is a game pre- serve and pheasants and par tridges are so thick in there that they have to sleep in shifts. If a surveyor had an air gun mounted on a transit tripod, he could thumb his nose at the butcher for quite a spell. If any of our Squaw Rockers were on that survey gang, we'd be sure about our suspicious. 6quaw Rockers will spend 6 week watching a last years squirrels
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

Cau h1PRy VS> ley. Business is fair at the cafe teria, Pause At The Films. The recent heavy rains cut down the patronage . little and the lack of interest in the inspection of the new hos pital caused 2 further slacken- ing in business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
SOUVENIR

One oi George Rafts prize pos. A ssions Is Q ball Babe Ruth hit for home run curing c world series game in Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
| Smith Leads Successful Fight

Congressman J. Joseph Smith, back in Washington after his suc- ceSSful campaign for reelection, yesterday led the floor fight for passage of a bill allowing the President to appoint an Underse- cretary of War.
 The bill came Co the House from the military affairs committee, of which Congressman Smith is a member. He first sought passage by unanimous consent, but Re- publicans made objections to minor points. After a compromise had been reached he offered the measure for reconsideration and it was passed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

Sam Pierce is busy repairing roof at his homestead in what Uncle TObey Cross suggests we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

gun and asked that the delegation wait to see what will be done.
 In regard to the fence, DeLuca said that a Rockville child attend ing East Farms school has suffered serious injuries because of the con- dition of the rear yard and lack of fence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
HER HARDER IS FULL

Littleton, N. H., (UP)-Mrs. Bert E. Towle canned 888 quarts of pro- duce this season. During the hunt ing season she expects to add 100 quarts of meat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19
SOUTH BRITAIN BRIEFS
BY BILL GARRIGUS

Henry Mccarthy has started & coal fire il. the store stove; that means that winter is practically here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

Nuhn, Norman Neale, Lester Young, Charles Rosengarten, John O'Neill and Edward Fox.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-19

RoNr think thet because this big lo4l " Dodge luxury Liner looks and acts like a million" you've got 10 dig deep 10 possess her. You don't! In fact, "ivsf few doIIars more thon the smoIIer, low priced COTS is still sweet music 10 Dodge buyers everywherel
 And whot do you get for your moneys
 We'll, sir, you get the finest car thot the great Dodge organization hos turned out in 26 yeors!
 You get q car thof-thonks to brilliant Dodge eroftsmonship-is joy just to look ot...Iow- swung and iovnty. with an air thot soys: "Mon, here's inc way 10 go places in stylel"
 You get car fhot is bigger and roomier. ...with seots almost as wide as divon and just as comfortable. ... big "V-shoped" windshieId.. .ond 47.6% larger rear window thot further exem- Plifies the high stondords of safety for which Dodge hos been notable through the yeorsl
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
RECKLESS WITH LABELS
Durham Herald

Senator Austin R-Vt.) takes refuge in one
of the oldest, weakest and most overworked
arguments of mediocre politicians when he
assails the motion to end tax exemptions on
government securities by saying lit is a rev
dictionary proposal and a definite step towards
national Socialism,"
There are legitimate arguments a e a i n s t
erasing the exemption provision, some of them
sound, some of them expedient and, perhaps
some of them politically popular. But brand.
ing the proposal as revolutionary and a step
toward national Socialism is not one of them.
Some of the loudest advocates of the mea.
sure Mr.. Austin probably considers socialistic
have argued and voted for the end of tax-free
securities.
The Supreme Court, not so long ago, repudi-
ated the false thesis that Senator Austin re-
wives in his proposition that permitting the
federal government to tax state and local unit
securities and vice versa would constitute a
blow at our dual system, and destroy state and
local governments.
The court ruled that taxing the income of
state, local and federal employees is not taxing
the government unit paying said employees. In
like manner taxing the securities of a govern
mental unit held by this or that individual is
not taxing the issuing governmental unit.
The exemption practice which now obtains.
as a matter of fact, does not rest upon the prin-
ciple the senator invokes.
The big reason units do not want their Sc
curities taxed, and reason they are exempt,
is that it is easier to find buyers for non-taxed
securities and issuers can get by with paying
a lower rate of interest. That's the milk in the
cocoanut. Remove that milk and the whole
proposition becomes academic.
There are, of course, many implications,
some of them technical, some a simple mat
ter of expediency.
Just now the federal government is running
billions in debt and, of course, is issuing and
will have to go On issuing bundles of securities.
It will be harder to sell that paper and the
interest rate will have to be upped if they are
made liable to taxation, same as private Sc.
%curities. 1t may well be that on that account
if no other, now is not the propitious time to
abandon the exemption policy.
But there is nothing constituting a step to.
ward national Socialism in the proposal. 1t
isn't very revolutionary either, since the idea
has been discussed in and out of Congress for
years.
One of the things Americans need to learn,
and thoroughly, is that they can not safely 60
on killing off propositions of merit by hang.
ing on to them labels which carry a bad rep
utation." Labels rarely keep their original
meaning for long and many times the original
meaning is not half as bad as it is made to ap-
pear. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22

used simultaneously. The present mains are
corroded: loss by friction is heavy. This is
mt guess work. It is the conclusion of an ex-
pert.
What should be done? The National Board
If Fire Underwriters should be asked to sur.
vev the situation and draft the minimum re-
o,1irements, says the Stars consultant. Lack
ing these specifications, he believes that a
12.inch main should be laid for one mile each
way from the water works. No main OF small
err dimensions would deliver 1000 gallons OF
water a minute, which he estimates as the
minimum need for a blaze which got into a
second structure. With this pressure uniform
from four hydrants, it is his opinion that
Wrightsville need fear no conflagration If the
original fire was discovered quickly.
There would also be needed a supplemental
n,,np. Main, pump and auxiliaries probably
would cost from SAG, 900 to $50, 900. If installed
and up to requirements of the underwriters
there probably would be a substantial reduc'
tion in insurance rates. Perhaps this saving
would be enough to lead Wrightsville owners
to undertake the project. q
One thing is certain. If the resort continues
to put UP with its present facilities it may ex-
perience a fire loss many times greater than
the cost of adequate protection.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Styles For America

Paris had a fashion show a week or so ago
the news took that long to filter through the
Nazi censorship-but the fact will hardly raise
more than a ripple of interest in this country,
and especially in New York where designers
are offering their own styles. In New York
they are too busy filling the gap left by the
fall of Paris to pay much attention to French
interpretations of the mode.
1t is just as well. Indeed, it is better so. For
Paris has nothing to say to American women
today. Barred off from the rest of the world
by the Germans, the city is no longer an in
ternational capital. It is not even the seat of
the French government. 1t is merely the big
gest city in a conquered province.
That this is the fact is proved by the styles
shown. If many of the costumes did not re-
fleet what has happened to France some of
them did. We read that in the display there
were tweed stockings-because of the scarcity
of silk. There were bicycling habits-because
the shortage of gasoline has affected trans.
portation. Some suit jackets had large pockets
because shops no longer make deliveries.
If fashions are really any more than fads
they must express the essence of the moment.
Whatever mood dominates France today, it is
certainly not in tune with our own. France
surrendered, while we in this country are de-
termined to be ready to meet any threat. We
are resolved to be strong where France was
weak.
Whether American designers can set this
American spirit into their creations we do not
know. But we may be sure that no French
house, whatever its fame, can do it. In this
minor matter, as in great ones, we must rely
now on our own native genius.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
A Debt Still Owing

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the most motor
ious draft dodger of the World war, has lost
his final appeal for reduction of his seven-year
draft for military service is getting under way.
This circumstance alone initiated against his
chances for I~eniency. Even if the military
authorities and the courts had been inclined
to temper his well-earned punishment, such
soft-heartedness would have been poor public
policy now.
AS it is, Bergdoll does not have much to
complain of. He has gotten off easily enough.
He deliberately chose a Jail sentence in this
country in preference to continuing a German
exile which had become too hot for him. The
citizenship which he once flouted, has gained
for himself and for his family the protection
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Americanism In Schools

The letter from Superintendent OF Schools
H. M. Roland to Wilbur Dosher, commander
of the Wilmington American Legion post, con-
corning cooperation in the schools with the
legion's Americanism campaign which ap-
pears on this page, cannot fail to bring CON-
fort to every patriotic person in this country.
If the Legion accomplished no more than to
have Americanism taught constructively in all
schools, it would prove its right to existence
and to respect for it's leadership. This, how
ever, is only one way in which the legion is
demonstrating its value to the whole COM
munity of the United States. Another is it
quick response to the call for home-guard
service when the National Guard was sum-
moned for training.
Mr.. Roland's letter should be read by every
body in New Hanover county. 1t inspires
deeper respect for our public school system,
especially in the manner by which it is pro-
posed to root out propaganda encouraging
communism and national socialism from all
literature entering the schools and substitut'
ing writings which stimulat study of true
democracy and the principles upon which the
American government is founded and under
which the American way of life is alone pos
sible.
1t may be said that if this Americanism
campaign had been a part of our national edu-
cational program during the last two decades
there would now be less advocacy of COM
munism and kindred alien ideologies among
our university students. Nothing can be done
about that at this late date. But we can see
to it that the generation now in elementary
and high schools is not exposed to the subver,
sive influences which have diverted so many
pupils in the higher places of learning from
the doctrines of democracy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-22
Editorial Comment
LICK MY BOOTS, YOU DOGS!
Charlotte Observer

. The ukase has gone out from Berlin that
the Germans are to have nothing to do with
anybody with Polish blood in their veins.
It is lick my feet, you dogs, to the Poles as
it is to every other people who, in the exalted
and spurious esteem of Hitlerites, are an lin.
ferior race!
And that's to uncover the real essence OF
the German philosophy as it has been devel-
oped by the fiendish Fuehrer.
1t is German superiority over the world
the enforcement of German blood, the pres
tige of the German race above every other.
This is the reason that Hitler has no hui
mainly in him when it comes to the consider
alton of the rights of others.
He is not merely arrayed against democ-
racy as a political system: he's at bitter odds
with the undergirding basis of the spirit of de-
mocracy which comedies equal rights to all
peoples and races of peoples.
On the impetus of this inordinate egotistic
conception, Hitler has set out not merely to
gain colonies and commerce and subdue peo-
Piles and acquire rich and resourceful terri
tories to annex to the Reich, but to inflict him.
self and his German race above every other,
and to subject every other to the cruel domin-
alton of his unappealable authority.
That's what the civilized world is up against.
What he has edicted as to the Poles and
their treatment by the Germans as mere
swine is in correspondence with what he holds
to be the inferiority of every other nationality.
This is furnishing him and his legion OF
lecherous and lustful villains who worship him
with the spirit of furious hate he holds against
the British.
He had rather see them destroyed than any
other people because of their historic racial
prominence.
H is out to conquer countries that he may
put the neck of their peoples under his own
iron heel and fasten upon them the brand of
mental slaves to his superior blood. ]