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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-02
Selected Poem
WHITE SILENCE

Marguerite Janvrin Adams in the Christian
 Science Montor) This is world heavy with fallen snow. Upward we go Climbing the long slope of the farther hill Until The summit reached, we pause to look around. New thoughts are found Where field meets sky, and roads untwist like thread Under our eyes; the weathered red Farmhouse and barn are lying at our knees; Back of us trees Hide the last turn, and we can smell the thin Fragrance of balsam where the pines close in. Break from this crystal bough, Where Winter now Has laid a taloned hand Take with you to the level of the town This curled leaf brown With Autumns lingering: There is a lingering Comfort in cherishing this simple token, This fragment broken From the frost-locked and deep, sequestered wood Wrapped in white solitude.
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very important factor in the elec- tion-and the Republican party doesn't want to forget It."
 He was right. The campaign battle is still months off, but al- ready the First Lady has become a major problem to at least one COP candidate.
 It's a Taft. camp secret, but at the moment Mrs. Roosevelt is the subject of more inner discussion of strategy among them than her husband, the President. The req son for this is as extraordinary as the lady herself.
 Possessor Of the real political 'It" in the Taft family is not the Senator but his wife, Martha. Charming, unaffected, quick witted and a gifted speaker, she is t hat rare phenomenon in public life, a woman who is @ genuine vote-getter. Mrs. Taft played @ very decisive role in her husbands senatorial victory in 1888, and she has been trump card in his presidential drive.
 Her vivacity and sparkling personality have done much to offset his rather C0lorleSs char acter. And while he is a dull and uninspiring speaker with a harsh voice., she invariably brings down the house with her charm and vivid OratOry.
 She has been aptly described as her husbands greatest political as-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-02
Still An Obligation

Two headlines passed this week - the time for paying old age assistance taxes and for securing 1940 automobile regis trations That deadline was March ]. In the latter case there is no penalty for those who secure 194O licenses from now on, provided, of course, that ones auto mobile is not driven in the meantime. Should a person attempt to drive a car now with 1889 markers, naturally un- pleasant things will happen and the penalty for breaking the law must be paid.
 In the case of delinquent old age tax payers there is also penalty. It's an additional tax of $1 and must be paid by those who failed to get their tax in on time. This is only reasonable and there should be no complaints registered about such treatment at the hands of public officials They are only doing their duty in affixing the extra fine to the original tax bill. Incidentally Waterbury's record of tax collection looms as particularly fine one this year.
 It should be kept in mind by all those liable for the old age tax that the city is obligated to turn over to the state def mite sum in old age taxes, regardless of how much is collected locally. If our bill is $100,000 and we only collect $75,000, then the city has to dig into it's treasury for the additional $25,000. Of course, by the same token should the city collect over $1O0,000 it could put the amount above and over in it's treasury and not be obliged to send the additional revenue to Hartford. But this doesn't happen often.
 The remaining date to be remembered in March is the 18th. The Ides of March bring the last day for filing personal in- come tax blanks. This is matter be- tween the individual and Uncle Sam. If you fail to come through on time, there is severe penalty. There is no reason for failing to get in before the deadline. If you still need reminders to make out your tax form, here it is. March IS closes the filing period.
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set. Also, and inevitably, as Mrs. Roosevelts' only rival.
 This is exactly where the rub comes in, and the reason why the First Lady has become a major problem to the Taft camp. The Senator has decided that 1t is unWise campaign strategy to let his talented wife become fixed in the minds of the voters as another Eleanor Roosevelt.
 "NO ELEANOR STUFF"
 The most uncompromising anti New Dealer among the leading Republican candidates, Taft is convinced that the country is weary of Rooseveltian glitter and is hungering for simple, honey folks in the White House.
 So, disregarding the fact that his wife is one of the very best campaigners and has been an invaluable aid in his spectacu- lar rise to political eminence, he has personally, and em- phatically, issued a ukase to his headquarters: "Soft-pedal the
 Eleanor Stuff'."
 This does not mean that Taft's Martha is to be pushed in the background or silenced. Not at all. She will continue to be as active as before, but not in the role as Roosevelt's Eleanor.
 No longer are they to be billed as Bob and Martina. Hereafter,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-02
In Today's Mail

Tn 1854 there is 6 record of Col. Colts making a contract with the British government for the manu- facture of 10000 rifles at 30 shillings a rifle-a then unknown price. It was not long before Colts pistols embodying his invention of a me- chanically revolving cylinder were known the world over, made on ma chimes which his associate, Root, had designed and developed.
 Both Amos Whitney and Francis Pratt, after serving their appren- ticeship, came to Colts. There, as master mechanics, under Elisha K. Root, they had vision of what ac- curacy could do in advancing civil ization. Together these two pion- eers laid the foundation of an in- dustry in preciSion-made tools and instruments which also are known the world over. without such ideas of machine design and accuracy, the employment of millions who are now at work would have been long de- layed They are the cornerstoneS of present-day mechanics which have made practical such progress as is embodied in sewing machines, type writers, type-setting machines and automatic counting and weighing machines. Their work also advanced the day of the bicycle, the automo- bile, the electric refrigerator, the radio and the aeroplane.
 We have only to think of the prog ress brought about by mechanical typesetting to realize what this has contributed toward the education of mankind and toward the employ ment of greater numbers. Also, we have only to think of the typewriter to understand how 1t has changed the entire conduct of affairs and made a place for millions of women who would otherwise have been de. nied profitable employment.
 We might go on to tell how Yan. kee inventive genius has assisted in putting men to work throughout even the remote corners of the world. It Is well to remember, how. ever. that inventive genius alone is not enough. It must be accompanied by the resources and patience Of the administrator and organizer, as well as the imagination Of the "peddleF" and the merchant who ind the mar. kets.
 Wherever 6 magazine rife CT piss tol b fred today, og a typewriter taps out its letters, og q woman seWs a machine hem: wherever a bicycle spins along the way, or an automo- bile speeds on ils path, er an AsEos plane wings over the earth, wheFes ever machine tools are required foE maximum production, e seFeWs aFe driven into eiihey weed og Iron, OF an as e . maehete lays ils chips, @ books are epenod fat eg elahl
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All Americans Want to Vote

4 proposal to brand as paupers all per- secutive years hit the New Jersey legisla- ture in Trenton a few days ago and loosed 6 storm of indignant protest. If the plan were carried out, 1t would automatically remove the right to vote from persons who fell under it's provisions. The recommen. dalton was submitted to the Legislature by State Senator Homer c. Fink, chair man of the Emergency Relief Committee, put was the work Of q hired investigator, Colonel c. Barrett Glover. It was not c committee report and was not submitted e such, but that didn't temper the
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bottles are used, there lie examples of the ideas developed in Connecti- cut by which millions of men have been put to work. More than that, they have been helping millions to earn constantly higher wages, to work for shorter hours and to enjoy a higher standard of living.
 It is men like Colt, Root, Pratt, Whitney, Cook, Terry, Billings, Spencer, Howe, Capewell, Rice, Smyth, Veeder, Maxim, Peiler and many others who have created the tools from which work has flowed out of shops all over the land in ever greater quantities. Such work is and .ver will be 8 source from which we create higher levels of production resulting in higher pur- chasing power. Taxes can limit or destroy it - they can never create it.
 There never was sillier fallacy than that the way to increase em- ployment was 'to send and spend and spend-and tax and tax and tax" Some of the straight and known paths to higher employment are:
 1. The invention of useful, de- vices, or the improvement of old ones by which our standards of live ing may be raised.
 2. The investment of goods and services (capitaD in the production of these devices.
 3. The training of men and wo. men to improve the quality or lower the costs of our goods.
 Fortunately, these three paths are clearly marked and are open to all in 6 Democracy. Woe to those who seek to close them by unnecessary taxation, regulation. antagonisIn and competition with private industry. These paths are the means by which free enterprise has always won over c planned economy. ,..
 Connecticut Economic Council,
 By HOWELL CHENEY, Treas.
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THREE PATHS OPEN TO CREA- TION OF MORE EMPLOY
 MENT IN THIS NATION
February 29, 1940.

February 29, 1940. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 In the negro minstrel shows of old a never failing subject of de- bate was "the hen or the egg - which is the mother of the chick?" The argument was clinched by the observation of the end man that, while it might be argued either way, the chick was going to die unless the hen "got out and scratched gravel" ..
 We go around quite as futile cir- Gle in asking whether purchasing power or production is the mother of employment. Is there any man who would not rather depend upon that purchasing power which comes out of the product of his own labor than out of the taxpayer?
 Labor which produces nothing is never the source of purchasing power, no more than is waste which destroys earnings, as when a wife breaks her man by spending fool ] Fly whatever purchasing power he has. Production will ever be the source of purchasing power as long as the law of life compels us to create the means by which man must live.
 Taxing some people to give an in- come to others adds nothing to pur- chasing power. Income in the form of productive wages and interest or dividends takes no purchasing power away from any one. The ad- ditional product is the source of the additional income. No one thereby has to 90 along with less because others get more. The very reverse is true. These laws hold true just as rigidly whether we live under a system of barter or money exchange. under private enterprise or under Socialism.
 We are searching, therefore, for ways by which we may increase pro. duction.
 There Is perhaps no better place than Connecticut in which to ob- serve how improvements in rnachin. cry and investments in new Ideas have multiplied the opportunities for employment many times over. By iel0 Colt had developed the manufacture of rifles and pistols on . production basis. with inter- ehaneeabie parts 70 accurately mas chinfd that they could be assembled without hand shaping and filing. Mli Whitney, JFa in New Havon and Simeon North in Berlin and Aladles town had iade firearms with irlters ehangeebio parts at an eaTlieg date.
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German beer consumption dropped yesterday, per orders of the government. On and after March 1 every beer-loving German found out that Pilsener beer con- sumption was cut 50 percent, because production was cut just that much. Other brews have been cut as much as 25 per cent. Right now this is hardship on most Germans, for beer is the only alco- holic beverage of which they can obtain unlimited quantities.
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lished east and west of Greenwich those east having faster time ant those west having slower time thar Greenwich. The standard merid. ians of the four time zones in the United States are 75 degrees, 90 de- grees, 105 degrees, and 120 degrees, all west of Greenwich, and corre- spondingly 5, 6, 2 and 8 hours slower respectively, than Greenwich time. @. What benefits are provided by state unemployment compensation laws?
 A. Unemployed workers who quail ify under the state law receive weekly benefit for certain length of time. The amount varies in the several states but in most of them it amounts to about half a regular weeks pay, but not more than SIS a week. In some states there are minimum as well as maximum pay- ments. Each workers benefit is | figured on the basis of his wage rec ord, maintained by the state unem- ployment compensation agency.
 @. How much does 1t cost to maintain man in the Civilian Con- servation Corps?
 A. The present overall cost is al- most exactly $1,000 per man per year. Of this amount, $360 is pay. and an additional $48O is regarded as real wages in the form of meals, medical attention, clothes, etc. The remainder is spent for camp equip ment and machinery, administra- tion, transportation, etc. @. What books published during the last ten years have sold more than one million copies?
 A. Anthony Adverse" by Hervey Allen; Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell.
 @. I was told that a can of coal ashes contains an ounce of gold. Is that true?
 A. An authority on coal analyses in the U. S. Bureau of Mines says that he does not know of a single instance where gold has been found in coal ashes and that, if every can of ashes contained an ounce of gold, the recovery of gold from that source would be a large industry. Traces of gold might occasionally occur in coal ashes, but not enough to attract attention.
 @. Why did Artie Shaw sever his connection with lis swing orchestra l last fall?
 1 A. His representative said he had left on his doctors orders to con- valesce for several months" If you want a copy of the book let CORRECT ENGLISH" send
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 Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir-
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proper staffing of the board.
 It reaches down to Fundamentals and-although the fact is not gen. orally realized-on the basic point at issue, Smith and Madden are act- ually much closer to the Smith com l mittee's position than. is Dr. Leiser- son. BROAD FUNCTIONS
 OF BOARD ARE HIT
 Basic complaint against the board throughout the Smith hearings has been the charge that 1t is judge, jury and prosecutor all in one. Con- gressman Smith has hammered at this point repeatedly, drawing out much testimony intended to show that board with those three jobs to fill is apt to go haywire here and there.
 Defense tactics, as shaped by
 Madden and Smith and Board
 Counsel Fahy, have been to show that the situation really isn't as bad as it looks; that the different functions of the board are kept in
 air tight compartments, so that the job of prosecution is so thor oughIy insulated from the job of fact finding.
 There is where Leiserson most sharply differs with his colleagues. By his philosophy, the only way to answer the judge-jury- prosecutor charge is to say: Why, of course we're those three things in one that's the only way in which a board like this can work; the only way in which law like the Wagner act can meet the problem it was created to meet"
 VIEWPOINT ADOPTED . FROM WISCONSIN
 from the Wisconsin school of a gen. eration ago-the school of the el- der LaFollette and the famous Dr. John R. Commons. That philosophy, in brief, runs like this:
 Complex modern life creates problems which existing machin- cry cannot handle; problems par- tly administrative, partly judicial. Courts can't handle them, because they're only partly legal problems; ordinary administrative agencies can't handle them, because they're only partly administrative prob. lems. The problems can't be sole we'd at aM unless there is Q new agency combining all of these fun- ctiOns in one.
 LEISERSON IS NOT
 A RIGHT-WINGER
 This is what is back of Leiser- sons oft-repeated complaints about "too much of the legalistic view point" on the board. Because that viewpoint is prevalant, he feels, the board has hamstrung itself in its fight for life and is making its fight on its enemy's own ground.
 The odd part about 1t all is that Leiserson is commonly regarded as the boards one moderate" even as its lone right-winger. Actually, he is much farther from the Smith committees viewpoint than are its two favorite targets, Smith and Madden.
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 2;03 Q. n.
 Sun rises 6:26 a, TIl,; sets B:it D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 It's debatable whether or not March came 70 like Hon. True. there was snow, but not too much of it. There was snow on the ground and frost in the aiF, but it has been colder and we have had more snow. What's here now m the ieavings. March will bo . iot warmeF and pleasantsE before we reach the 3ist.
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ANOTHER FINE JOB
(Boston Post)

lHoSt0n FoSU
 tt is significant that the navy tFial board which put the e2l, ,OO0 900 Airpiane carrier Wasp through her trial tests of the coast Of Maine dc. cided 70 forego scheduled further test of Pr0viDcesown. The vessel has been accepted, and, after minor changes, she will Dc commissioned 10 April.
 Many officials have expransod tie belief that she la one Of the best waT vessels eyer built at Fore River. of course, time alone viii decide that, but there k every indication thai Quincy ena yDFa River nlay Weil take pride in anosteg tob sell aRlle,
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l. To the words of what popular anthem is the air of ''Anacreon in Heaven" sung?
 3. What is a bird organ?
 8. Under what Government de- partment does the U. s. Marine Corps operate?
 4. Which of the following U. s. Presidents failed to be elected when running for a third term James Monroe, James Madison or, Theodore Roosevelt?
 5. Where is Duke University?
 G. What two Republicans were appointed by President Roosevelt to his cabinet?
 2. Is ammonia a chemical ele- ment?
 8. The leader of which political party was recently sentenced to a term in jail?
 g. Does foreign born child take the citizenship of adopting Amer ican parents? TT
 10. Who divided the ancient king dom of the Hebrews?
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the Smith com- m 1t tee which made the split public.
 The dishar- mony between Board Member William M. Lei- serson, on one side, and Mem bers J. Warren Madden and Ed- win s. Smith, on the other, goes far deeper than the pulp licized row over "slipshcd pro- Oaf9e,~a1S nraA klaa
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National Spotlight
BY BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespOndent)

Washington, March 2-Tks reai nature of the split in the Labor Board has so far eluded even the Smith committee, although 1t was
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Questions and Answers
RY rREDERIC Ni. KERBY

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THE EDITOR.
o. what is standard timep

A. At an International ConferencC in 1884, the earth was generally di' vided into zones, each covering 1l degrees of longitude, the time fol each zone being that of the merid. ian of longitude in the approximate center of the area, and differing by l hour in adjacent zones. The mers idian of the Observatory at Green wich, England, was designated 0 de. gree from which all standard time should be reckoned, and. meridiani at IS degree intervals were estab-
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WASHINGTON March Discussing the presidential outlook with several will be- but have htancy making prediction
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TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, My new house will be as large, if not larger than this One"; say, "as large as this one, if not larger"
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Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
DREW PIE A R 5 0 N ROBERT s. ALLEN

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Evening star., 1940-12-15

permit greater efficiency and speed
in operations.
To aid him in the reorganized
division, five Army officers with
wide experience in construction
have been assigned to his Office.
They will begin their duties tomor-
row. Three iare from the Corps of
Engineers, like himself.
1t. Col. w. D. Styer, formerly
executive officer in the Office of
the chief of engineers and later
head of the marine design section
in the chief of engineers Office,
has been appointed executive officer
to Col. Somervell. His last assign
ment was with the 9th Engineers at
Laredo, Tex.
1t. Col. Edmond H. Leavey has
been appointed chief engineer. He
has been chief engineer for the
w. P. A. and formerly was in charge
of construction for the Army En-
gineers.
Capt C. F. Robinson, who has
been stationed at Fort Belvoir, Va,
the engineer school, will report
Monday as control officer"
Two Quartermaster Officers.
Col. Somervell also had assigned
to his division two officers from the
Evening star., 1940-12-15

Smoke from London's 100000
odd chimney pots, mixed with the
chill fall fog, has helped screen the
capital from German air raiders.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Construction Division
OF Army Reorganized
By Col. SomerveII.
Quurtermoster Corps
Unit Is Decentrulized
To Speed Program
By ROBERT BRUSKIN.

Reorganization of the Army's
Quartermaster Construction Divi-
sion has been started to speed
completion of its 100000, 900 pro-
gram for building munitions fac
tories, camps and cantonments
which Secretary of War Stimson
said has Jagged so that induction of
National Guardsmen has been de-
layed.
Acting barely "a hours after his
appointment to command the con-
struction division was announced
by the War Department., 1t. Col.
Brehon B. Somervell disclosed yes
terday plans for decentralization
and revamping of his organization
for greater speed and efficiency in
operations.
AS soon as possible, Col. Somer-
veil said, nine officers will be Sc
lected for appointment as zone"
representatives with power to make
decisions without the necessity of
waiting for approval from Wash
ington The zones will coincide
with the Armys nine corps areas
into which the United States is
divided. He said this will prevent
many delays in construction.
Reorganized Into Five Sections.
Starting Monday, he declared, the
II sections into which his organiza-
ton had been divided will be con-
solidated into hve-administration
finance, engineering, construction
and real estate. Col. Somervell, who
formerly was in charge of w. P. A.
work and construction in New York
City, said the reorganization will