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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Study Glass Will
Begin Wednesday

The first session Of the study class
of the Lucy Gloss Parker Missionary
Society of the FIRST Methodist church
will be held Wednesday afternoon al
$50 o'clock in the ladies parlor of
the church. General theme of the
study is Building a Christian Com
munty at Home" AT the first $cs-
sion the discussion will center around
"Winning the Frontiers for Christi
and swimming the City for Christi
All members Of the society arc in
Vited
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
MARRIAGES
PARTIES
SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES
Former MP Group
In District Meet

The Missionary Auxiliary of the
second district Of the former Meth
odist Protestant church will hold a
district meeting Thursday al Spring
Valley church, beginning at 1920
o'clock. Mrs. d. S. COltrain and Mrs.
Quincy P. Hood will be guest speak
ers. There will be special music and
luncheon will be served picnic style.
A cordial invitation is extended TO
all members Of the district and all
former Methodist Episcopal MEM
bers.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Miss Hurley Feted
At Evening Bridge

Mrs. Edmund 3. Tay!r" delight
fully entertained at tire" tables of
bridge on Il recent evening. hnnorin@
Miss Bcrnadinc Hurley, whose mar
riacc to William \ Newell will Ink"
place early in June. Mis- Hurley ;
member of the Townsville faculty
Mrs. Taylnr'S home was beautifully
decorated in spring Flowers, making
in attractive setting FOR the party.
Mrs. Henry T.. White, daughter of
Mrs. Taylor, presented an attractive
gift to the honurcc. High score
prize went to Miss Lizzie Taviur,
honor prize to Henry Taylor. Both
prizes were given To the brdc-clcCt.
Strawberry ShortcaEC was served
20 tHo Quests in the latter part Of the
evening.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Stores Agree
On Summer
Closing Hours

Henderson department stores and
establishments selling allied lines Of
merchandise will close at 5 o'clock
each afternoon except Saturdays dur
ing the months of June, July and
August, it was announced today by
Smith II. Young, secretary Of the
Henderson Chamber Of Commerce.
The summer closing schedule will go
into effect next Monday. June 3. Sat
urciay hours will continue at the us
ual schedule.
Stores which have agreed to the
summer closing schedule include E.
G.. Davis & Sons Co., Efird's Depart
mcnt Store, J {. Penney Co., Tcscr's
Department Store, Matte and Lucy
Hayes, Lillian 3. Williams, Mems
Shop, Inc, ArlcnC'S. Geo. \. Rose G.
Son. Roses 5-lO-25c Store, Guy
Woodiici, Blackbun's, Massee's De-
partmCnt Store, ROth-StcWart Co.,
Wcbb's Henderson Shoe Store, Leg
gets Department Store, F. w. WOOL
worth Co., Charles Store.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Is. =. w. Meeting

Tho BuSinces and Professional
WomanS Club will meet with Mrs
". ". Parker. ST., on ChcStnu
trcct. Wednesday evening at "A
O'Clock. To practice songs and othc
thingS for tn" banquet In be hcl!
Friday evening. a full attendance o
club members is desired.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Lemon Juice Recipe Checks
Rheumatic Pain Quickly

Ifyou suffer from rheumatic or neurtis pain. try
this simple Incl pensive home recipe. Get pack
age Of Ru-Ex Compound mix it with a quart OF
water. add the juice of lemons. Often within
Is hours - sometimes overnight splendid re-
suits are obtained. II the pains do not quickly
leave you. Ru-Ex will cost you nothing to try.
Ru-Ex Compound is for sale & recommended by
Parker 5 Drug Store ana good
drug stores everywhere ADV.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28

to Julia Zollicoffcr by Mrs. E. r.
Austin.
Bausch and LOmb science award,
presented to Stanley Tciscr by S. M
CrGWdcr.
Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock Sen
ior Vcspcr services will be held on
the high school athletic field.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Lieut., league Home

Lieut.. John r. league. Jr., re-
turned Saturday from the Third
Field Army maneuvcrS in Louisiana
md Texas. Lieut.. TcaGuc was with
the blue army" during the manclr-
crS. the largest in pcacc-tme history.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
PAGE FIVE
Miss Farbam Improving

Miss Mary Jane Parham, who I'M
dcrw2nt an operation for Appendix
citi; Sunday at Maria Parham hos
pital. is improving today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28
Return from Visit

Nr. and Mrs. K. 3. Green have re-
turned from q weeks visit to Ruth
crfurdtOn and GrcenTille, s. {.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-05-28

They were right who said that
hatred of the jew would lead to
hatred and violence on the part of
the Germans TO others.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
The Supreme Highway

You might call this an architects
dream, for it sounds like one. 1t came
at the end of eight years study by Mer-
rit H. Fuson, a Portland, Oregon, archl-
tect. Briefly put it resolves itself into
$4,000 100000 highway to run IN a
straight line all the way across the Unlteo
States 1t would follow the latitude line
of 40 degrees 40 minutes north from New
ark, N. j., to Eureka, Calf.
We don't know how wide strip OF ter
ritory would be acquired as a right OF
way, but it would have to be sufficiently
broad to care for features other than the
mere roadway. Included in the project
would be railroad lines, airplane landing
fields, oil pipelines, vacuum pipes Tor
carving mail, and other communication
systems. All of the right OF way would
be made a military reservation.
We don't know if Architect Fuson con-
templated a great war when he started
on his dream highway back in 1882, but
his results today are certainly designed
along military or national defense lines.
We have heard and read about great
arteries of traffic that have been pro-
posed; some even have been built or are
Started, but this one is certainly the
supreme one of all time. Only some
startling occurrence such as an invasion
of this hemisphere or an overthrow OF
cur Democratic form OF government
would, in this writer's opinion, bring such
project to head.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
Cooperating With Canada

Practically everybody in both the
United States and Canada now comedies
that the defense of both countries is a
single problem. Ask yourself: where
would the United States be if strong
enemy invaded Canada and became eS-
tabliShed there? Or, where would Can
ada be if the United States were success
fully invaded by force capable of &C
complishing that?
Cooperation between the military staffs
of the two countries are presumed to be
imminent, and they ought to be. AS
early as 1888 when new defenses were
devised for the Straits of Juan de Fuca,
leading to Puget Sound, both countries
collaborated on defense so designed as
to work jointly from both sides of the
border. Further steps of this kind are in
order. Just what the relations between
the United States and Canada will be
after the present war, no one can be sure.
One can only be sure that they will be
closer and more interdependent even
than before.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
12,768 Volunteers

The United States army is stronger by
practically one division than it was on
May 10. Between that day and June &c.,
enlistments totalled 12,768 men, peace
time high. Under present army organ
ization, that is almost a full division.
These recruits will not, of course, be
formed into a division of their own, but
scattered throughout the army organiza-
tion 60 fill out skeletonized units already
existing
Thus the army builds slowly, though
perhaps almost as fast as facilities for
training will take care of new recruits
These volunteers are the advance guard
in answering their country'S call, and
they should be honored accordingly. But
still more men are needed to build the
army to authorized strength, and the
prospect of some later plan of universal
service ought not to deter any man who
sees in the regular army both duty and
an opportunity.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
The Day After

It takes little while for the people OF
the nation to digest national conven-
don. Having gone through hectic
COP gathering it was just bit too much
to expect to get the same reaction so
shortly thereafter. But in few more
weeks the true temper of the electorate
will be manifest in many different ways.
And by that time the great organizations
which are needed today to enable oppos-
ing candidates to lay their cases before
the voting public will have been perfected:
In both instances the Democrats and
Republicans will have to start from
scratch with organized effort Only
change of heart on the part OF Postmas-
ter General James A. Farley will enable
the Democratic Party to boast OF an ad-
vantage at the beginning. But it looks
as if Farley for once would have his own
way and would not accede to the wishes
of even the President himself. If that is
so, then the Democrats are no better Oft
than the Republicans and have their work
cut out for them.
On the Republican side of the ledger
there is enthusiasm to be matched with
experience. You might say that one is
the corollary of the other, but in this fight
for control of the federal government,
this fight to preserve the Union from
foreign encrouchment; this warfare
against isms you've really got to have
both enthusiasm and experience. Most
people will choose experience 1or it in
spires enthusiasm,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
LATEST BOOKS

All w. Somerset Vaughan asks
of his new volume Of short
stories is that the reader be
amused, interested, and moved"
Mr.. Vaughan has succeeded be-
yond his hopes. You'll finish the
last story of his "The Mixture as
Before" Doubleday Doran: $3.50
with sincere regret. And with
each story you'll find full measure
of amusement and interest.
Vaughan begins with a gay
account of 1.-THE Three Fat Wom-
en- of Antilles" three ponderous
creatures who stage grand
bender" of starches and sugars
after vain. efforts to keep the bath
room scales from breaking.
It's a long jump from the Ri
viera to the French penal colony
of st. Laurent, but Vaughan
achieves it easily to give you the
story of "a Man With a Con-
science" - an unusual twist of the
ordinary account of two men and
girl, and what happens after
she marries one of them.
"The Lotus Eater" should APP
peal to all because the hero does
what most of us would like to do
chuck the commonplace, every
day routine and spend the rest of
life in sunshine and happiness.
But all happiness has a price,
fact which is treated differently
in IAN Official Position"
Saving one of the best for the
last. Vaughan concludes with
THE Facts of Life" In which
young tennis player proves, to his
own satisfaction. at least, that the
laws his father has laid down for
correct living admit exceptions.
It's a light yarn and gives the
collection a grand, final laugh.
One part OF the authors intro
duction Is disturbing: II have now
written between 80 and 90 stories.
] shall not write any more" II
Mr. Vaughan keeps his word. he
will deprIving his faithful read
ers OF sincere enjoyment. He should
yield 10 the demand for More
Vaughan"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
Press Comment
NORwALK AND MERIDEN
(Meriden Journal

(Meriden Journal
There's an old saying that if you
say something often enough you'll
convince yourself it's true, or to
that effect. Norwalk, like another
city we know, has claimed repeat
edly in bulletins and statements
made by civic groups that it had
passed the 10000 mark in population.
A figure of $4,000 was estimated
during recent housing surveys in
Connecticut in connection with the
slum clearance projects planned for
Norwalk.
Then came the bad news from the
census author; lies. The 1910 U. S.
count gives Norwalk a population
of 39,505, an increase of but 3,486
over 1880 figures.
1t Just can't be, protest disap-
pointed Norwalkers, who have asked
any persons who may not have been
counted to report to the Chamber
of Commerce. At first Meriden felt
that way, too. but apparently swal-
lowed its chagrin and accepted a
total of 39,455, which has put us
below Norwalk. Ten years age we
were ahead.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20

One of the major projects of WPA dur
ing the fall months, unless something
unforeseen occurs, will be production OF
a Connecticut State Factbook, which will
be just about what it implies. It will be
compendium of facts about this state.
1t will be, in all likelihood, sequel to
the WPA Guidebook that was issued a
couple of years ago. Naturally there'n be
similar publications in all the states. Ac-
cording to reports there will be facts in
this new encyclopedia that have never
been published before. This Will interest
many Connecticut writer's historians, and
fact-finders who have delved deeply into
our folklore, records, annals, etc, and
emerged therefrom with material for
many books. And what of the Facts
About Connecticut that the Connecticut
Chamber of Commerce back in 1928-29
through the medium of the press of the
state. And when the series was COM
pleted the facts were compiled in book
form. That was notable Connecticut
facts book.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
REPUBLICANS ACRIFICE
PARTY FOR OWN PER-
SONAL AMBITIONS
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
The Republican party is in the
hands of usurpers and its complexion
has changed TOR the worse. Men
like Dewey spring up over night, put
on sales campaign like your IA
vorite soap or cigaret and come near
getting nomination until their
bubble bursts when it bumps into
reality and the thought of a Boy
Scout leading the nation in war.
The party lacks leadership as is
shown when the same kind of high
pressure sales campaign can put over
a Democrat like Willkie. 1t is true
here in Connecticut and Waterbury,
also. Time was when the Republic
can leaders were a group seeking
sound government and well-selected
candidates. Now we have group of
politicians all looking for jobs or
glory and willing to sacrifice the
party's principles to further their
own nests. That's why Jim Farley
can say the Republican party has
muffed the chance to carry the ball.
The Waterbury Republicans cor
respondent from Washington quotes
State Chairman HARDWOOD as saying
that Governor Baldwin will be con-
sidered for the supreme court and
has just as much right to considera-
ton as Justice Hugo Black. That
is not very nice to say about either
Of these gentlemen, but 1t goes to
show that they are trying to cash
In with a Job for our own good
natured governor. Our Connecticut
Republican delegation did not get
much consideration from the Willkie
group. even though they were solidly
for him on the first ballot and de-
served better treatment.
Leaving aside the possibility that
someone may want to sidetrack the
governor In the coming state cleo
ton and sends out such q supreme
court runor. which may explain II
ali. It only goes 10 prove the job
seeking tendencies OF the present
Republican group. II Is true right
here In Waterbury more than any
place. Everything eenters around
the ambitions OF small group a
job-eeekerk, Dig and small. who put
themselves ahead Of their party.
The old leadership and control Of
solid citizens "a Gone, crowded out
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
In Today's Mail
Copyright, 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)

by the professionals who want to
cash in for themselves only and
who make themselves so distasteful
to the regular group that they
ALLEVIATE their support and weaken
the party.
The Republican party in the ma
ton, state and city must free itself
from these professionals if it Is to
regain its old status and standards.
1t must cut loose from job-seeking
leadership and from self -exploiters
like the Gannetts and Knoxes who
blow their own horns through their
own newspapers and their connec-
tons to mould public opinion to
their own glory and personal am
billions and who endanger the So
called free press with their own
propaganda, favoring their own per-
sonal and political advancement.
Such a group can never recover the
Republican votes which have created
Democratic landslides for eight years.
1t takes more solid and unselfish
leadership from citizens who have
no personal axe to grind.
MISS GIvINGS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20

There will be much digging into politi-
cal history in the next few months, par
ticularly to get all the facts on third
term. There never was third-term
president, history shows. But things are
topsy-turvy today, for didn't the Repub-
licans nominate Democrat for President
and want Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace Republican at one time?
All of which proves nothing much except
that this is a pretty democratic sort of a
country and a man can pick and choose
the men he wants to run the government
with free hand. It isn't reprehensible
that men shift party lines. It's good
thing for us that they do it so often.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
Working Women

In 1890, one married woman in %
worked outside the home. In 1880 it
had become one in eight. 1t is expected
that the 1910 census will show one in
five or six. This is revealed in a report
to the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs by DR..
Ruth Shallcross, director of research.
Ask the average man or woman what
he thinks of this. The answer will be, in
Q majority of cases, "I'm against It," This
attitude Is reflected In efforts in 26 states
within the past few years to restrict en-
uloyment OF married women. Few such
efforts have been successful.
Why? Because, as DR.. Shallcross' sur
vey shows, two-thlrds OF the married
women who work hold poorly paid jobs
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
Selected Poem
TO THE MOON

(Florence @. Warren in the Poets Column
Fairmoon, you are a lady. pale and cold,
Drifting across the sky in silver lace
You are so stately; you who are so old
That none may really gaze upon your face,
That face which glimmers coldly in the night
Then vanishes to nothing in the day.
A visage, which long ages past, was bright
AS any sunbeam, lovable and gay.
You have the beauty of n aging queen,
Who wears wreath of diamonds in her hair
That she may be outshone, and SO, not seen,
She does not know that she Is lasting fair.
You are SO tragic, cold and lacking fire,
What hurt you So and took away desire?
Hartford Courant)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
Lo, the Poor Indian!

Romanticists like to think of the In
dams on western reservations as living
an idlyllic life, remote from the world and
all the fever of what it likes to call civil
ization. But so interviewer has that
world become, that not even an Indian,
squatting on his blanket and intent on
whipping out of those little beadwork
nifties so favored by tourists, is safe from
ravages of war 10000 miles away.
It seems that the beads used by Ameri-
can Indians on their so-typically-native
handicraft work were practically all made
in Czechoslovakia. Now that the Czechs
take orders from the Nazis, they have
progressed from guns instead of butter
to guns instead of beads. Anyway, Indian
beads no longer come from Czechoslova-
kia That's how small the world is today
and we're not stringing you'll
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20

Wheeler of Montana and McCar-
ran of Nevada.
Not even Henry Cabot Lodge
in all his glory was more rabid
isolationist than any one of
these. Senator Pittman, chair
man of the Seante Foreign Re-
lations Committee, was barred
from the platform group, and
when Breckenridge Long, As
sistant Secretary of State, asked
to advise with the committee, he
was kicked out.
Again, before Speaker Bankhead
delivered his keynote speech, DEM
ocratic National Commute aides
sent for it and said that 1t was
too long for the radio time. So
the speech was cut. And for
some entirely unexplained reason,
the parts which were cut included
the only three references to the
President by name. That was
why, in Bankhead's address,
Roosevelt's name was not men
toned.
BY this time, the convention
was beginning to drift danger
Ously. Delegates, unconsulted,
and with no hands t o shake
other than Jim Farley's, were
getting restless. There was an
undercurrent of resentment-not
at Roosevelt, but at the uncer-
tainty.
ANTI-THIRD TERM
Stately
Meanwhile, Senator Wheeler
confided that If the ants could
stall the convention along and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20

win few more delegates, they
could make the nomination so un-
palatable that the President would
refuse to take it. The ants knew
they had no chance to win, but
they figured that If they could
grab 100 votes in addition to the
200 which they already controlled,
then one of two things would
happen:
1. Roosevelt would not con-
slider the vote a genuine draft,
and would refuse to run.
2. If he did run, he would
have lost enough prestige, be-
cause Of the convention pickering,
seriously to impair his chances
against Mr.. Willkie.
It was at this point that the
inner circle stepped into the pic
ture with drastic moves. They
decided that if something was not
done soon it would be too late.
So they besieged the White
House by telephone and tele-
graph. First they urged Roosevelt
to come to Chicago. This was re-
fused. Then they wanted him to
issue statement regarding the
international crisis this country
faces, which made him available
If the country drafted him.
In the end they got the no
third-term statement. 1t wasn't
what they wanted, but it did
help. 1t opened the door for a
positive drive for the nomina-
ton.
Copyright, 1910, by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20
Questions
andAswers
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THE EDITOR
@. What is the nationality Of
Wendell Willkie?
A. American Of German descent.
His four grandparents emigrated
from Germany.
@. Are aliens entitled to old-age
retirement benefits under the Social
Security act?
A. American citizenship is not
requirement for eligibility for re-
tirement benefits under the old-age
and survivors, insurance provisions
of the Social Security act.
@. What are the Pulitzer prizes?
A. They are prizes in Journalism
and letters, established by the late
Joseph Pulitzer in a bequest to Co
>lumbia university. New York city.
They are awarded annually by the
trustees of the university on recon-
mendation Of the advisory board Of
the Columbia School of Journalism,
also founded by Mr.. Pulitzer.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20

With the national convention out of
the way Connecticut Democrats now look
forward to their own state convention
which must be held within one month,
according to the wording of the official
call issued last May The State Central
Committee will probably meet with its
new chairman, John Mccarthy, soon to
set the exact date and meeting place.
Line forms at the right for candidates
on the F. D. r. band-Wagon.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-20

With Connecticut delegates due back
in the state this weekend nothing now
stands in the way of deciding on date
and place of the state convention. We
don't presume there was time to do more
than skirmish bit at Chicago in the eff
fort to lineup delegate strength. But
there'll be intensive activity for a month
now with prospects of red-hot con-
vention to determine the state ticket.