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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
JEAN BAUER REACHES
 AUGUSTA SEMI=FINALS

Augusta, Ga, March 2l-.(UP)- Led by defending champion Dor othy Kirby of Atlanta, Ga, four wo- men began play in the semi-finals of the Augusta Invitational Golf tournament today.
 Miss Kirby eliminated Helen Det- tweiler, Washington, D. C., 6 and 5 yesterday. Jane Cothran, Greenville, s. C., defeated medalist Grace Am- ory. Aiken, s. C., up; Jean Bauer, Providence, R. l., edged Louise Suggs, Lithia Springs, Ga, up and Helen Siegal, Philadelphia, won over Isabel Ogilvie, Augusta, 2 and 6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
JURGES BECAME STAR ON TIP FROM HERMAN

Seasoned performers frequently are strengthened out by sugges- ton. Bill Jurges had been with the Cubs for i've campaigns when he was made 8 star by tip from his second basing partner, Billy Herman. It caused Jurges to change his batting stance completely.
 There is only one thing in con- nection with baseball training that has not changed with the years that is the mortal dread with which veterans face wild recruit pitchers. The older heads have been waving the wand with one hand while facing fast peagreens in training ever since Jack Graney twice hit Napoleon Lajoie in one game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
JITTERBUGs ARE DEFENDED

Salt Lake City. Utah-(UP)- Jitterbug dancing Is nothing but an outlet of physical energy. in the opinion of Miss Ethel Bowers, field secretary of the National Recrea- tion Association. She said youth needs violent dancing, running and racing games as well as mental games, observation games and edu- cational games.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
BOYS CLUB PLANS
 SOFTBALL TEAM

All members who wish to try for positions on the Boys Club Junior Varsity Softball team are request ed to be present at a meeting to be held in the club library at 7:30 o. clock Friday evening, March 2.
 The club will be represented again in the Boys Club State league. The locals open their season April goth against the Meriden Boys Club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
LOVE VERSUS PROMISE

Being engaged to one man but in love with another is the plight of the heroine in Irene" RKO Radios new filmusical co-starring Anna Neagle and Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, Billie Burke, May Robson and Arthur Preachers are supporting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
PEPE, YOUNG DRAW

New Haven, Conn. March 2l- fUP) George Pope, Meriden welter- weight, and Frankie Young, New Haven, drew in six round bout here last night. Pope weighted l4S, Young 140.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
(SinEles-event)
Season Records

High Single--Eddie Johnson, New Haven Roger Sherman, TIA; high set - Mac Carboni, New Haven Fl Dorado, and Leo Borkowski Meriden Michaels Jewellers, each rolled 462.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

Land purchased by Ballina. Fire, for public parks will be used in- stead for vegetable gardens because of a threatened food shortage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
CAPTAIN SIMPSON

Cambridge. Mass, March 2l l-- (UP) Francis M. Simpson of Oak Park, IT., has been elected captain of nex. seasons Harvard basketball team, 1t was announced today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

A $20,00O 900 electric power plant has just been put into operation near Tokyo, Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
OFFICIAL STANDINGS:
 (Team-eventl

Season Records High single-Mike Marinko. Hol- land, 189; high set - Hugo Mann, Branford, 469; high team single Newfield. TIT; high team total Newfield, 1897.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

The supply of Smallmouth Black Bass has dwindled in the past few years, but the National Wildlife Fed oration which uses this fellow on one of it's new 1940 Poster Stamps, assures us that state and federal agencies are needing anglers complaints.
 At Leetown, West Virginia, the Bu. Teau of Fisheries conducts one of its most up-to date hatcheries. Here the bass spawn in specially constructed nests, and when the fry sit up and take . little nourishment they feed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

The Rhodesian Government is taking over private air services and will operat: them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

During a practice military review
 in Japan 26O airplanes droned over- Itead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
TANKS HAVE BIGGEST CORPS OF INSTRUCTORS

The Yankees have more overseers in St. Petersburg than any other aggregation, which is another req son why they dominate the diamond world.
 Joe Mccarthy brings down the scouts, Paul Kritchell, Gene Me- Cam and Johnny Nee, in addition to the coaches, Art Fletcher and John Hchulte.
 New men get the most attention, naturally, but Mccarthy is ever lastingly shouting to some lieutenant to tell that young Russo to quit throwing and that Sundra to quit shagging flies. don't want them worn out before the season starts" !"
 Clubs lug scouts to camps to make sure new hands do as they did while attracting sufficient at tention to be purchased or recalled and to help them improve.
 Perhaps the young pitcher isn't taking the same stride. Maybe the young hitter has developed some thing faintly resembling hitch in his swing. Having watched them for weeks the previous summer. the scout is in a position to point out faults.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
Scarcity of Talent Makes Spring Drill Longer More Necessary Than EDer
Yanks Prove Value of Having Largest Corps of Teachers
By HARRY CRIMSON (NEA Service Sports EditOr)

Lakeland, Fla, March 21-Spring training in baseball has been vastly more than publicity stunt since Ned Hanlon took the immortal Bal timore Orioles to Macon before the turn of the century and returned to make a joke of the National league field.
 Hanlon was first to realize the risk and waste of preparing under stands in the north. Clubs spent the first month of the season get- ting in shape.
 There have been managers who paid little or no attention to their athletes during the conditioning period. Larry Lajoie and Iris Speaker, for example, believed a major leaguer should be just that when he arrived promptly shipped those who failed to deliver.
 But Napoleon Lajoie and the Gray Eagle were around when ball players were plentiful. Pursuing their tactics of years ago, they'd be out of luck today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
TRAINING GRIND NOW LONGER THAN EVER

The scarcity of players of big league ability has made training camps more important than ever heightened the preseason grind until the advance guard of major league outfits now report as early as February F. Training camps really have become schools, so inexperienced are many of those rushed to the big time because of their latent ability.
 Sometime after Branch Hickey introduced the farm system and had 30 players in the Cardinal camp at Bradenton, John McGraw cracked something about the St. Louis or ganizer being 8 bit balmy.
 No one club could get control of that many good players and what good are the culls?" Mnggsy wanted to know.
 But McGraw lived to be convinced Hickey had the right idea. Quantity strengthened the owners chance of landing quality.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
INDUSTRIES NEEDED HERE
To the Editor:


The need for some clean and attractive factories
appears a matter of consi derable Importance to
Lara number of families here. Having partici pat
ed OF the members of the orr ginal Town Cour-
ell Of Greenbelt, introduced resoluti request
ing coopgation of the Security Administration
in effort to find methods of overcoming this
problem. 1t has been the opinion of number of my
that local "production units" should
be establi shed that residents of Greenbelt and
Prince Georges County who from time to time find
themselves in the rank of the unemployed, could
find temporary, if not permanent work, through small
local industries. enterpri could be either
mum pally owned, comparatively financed, pri-
vately owned.
In view of the fact that at present 5 percent of
the wage in Greenbelt find themselves
ployed the original resolution addressed the FA
takes addi onal Importance. It may be of
public interest, too, that Greenbelt's energetic
young editor, the editorial page of recent is
of the Cooperator, called attention to Green
BELTS need for local industry.
In the issue of the Cooperator, it is an
nonced that a citizens committee will be sent I'd
the Bata shoe factory at Belcamp, land, learn
if work opportunities can be nged for Greebelt
youth others who may to seek loment there
While Henry Ford maintains industrial
plants Detroit, he is frequently quoted in the
press advocating the development of small factory
units in farming beyond the congested confines
of the metropolis. Since municipal planners
thinking of decentralizing G ties industri
alists finding unique advan tages in knowing the
workshop out into tn contry".
If certain corporations build factories in rural
areas, it may be charged to a selfish normal de-
sire to fl nd Oh cap labor, cheaper hydroel ectric
power, cheaper land, but in any event, it will be
apparent that such decentral izattn in the long
will bring add oral prosperi ty, health and
ed industrial Hgor to country and in the end,
alike.
- Louis Bessemer
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
Letters to editor
PRESS CAFETERIA STRIKE

TO the Editors
We the help and counter attendants who have
had the privilege in the past of waiting you when
you dimes at the Press Cafeteria. You found
serve you. Now, ask you to help
During the past year the ma jority of us have been
living $lo.35 week, have had two paid legal
holidays during the year and have had week.
cation nth pay. Some of have worked 81 hours
week for $lo.35. Those standards not high,
any of you who may have lived under them would
know, but we're willing to accept them under
first contract because of the security were as
sured against arbitrary firing by the management.
Under the terms of old contract, expired,
dismi issals and disputes we're to be subject to the
joint consideration of the management and the Union
if the Union requested it. Failing to reach a.
greement, such disputes to be subject to arbi
tration. Yet, in year, the management fit
to fire two employees Union protest and refus
ed arb tration despite the fact that specifically
requested it, and had facts to prove that the employ
ees di ischarged not guilty of the accusations
made against them.
those two in paid adverti in effort
to discredit Union. We draw but
ionthat the cement is raising false issues
to evade the real That the cries about "clos
ed shopn (Which not insisting upon), and nu-
nion domination" (Which does not eist) raised,
first, to permit di discriminating, indi scriminate
firing of Union members, and second, to avoid
through subterfuge any increase in salaries.
Until these issues settled between US, until
the management agrees to bargain in good faith
ch thus far it has steadfastly refused to do,
request your cooperation in not pa tronizng the
Press CAT feteria.
Greenbelt members,
United Cafeteria Employees
Union #47l
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
PUBLIC RELATIONS
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
The Public Relations Commi ttee of the Greenbelt
Citizens Association established April H..
The corri ttee inc1udes Lyman L. Toodar, Chai ruan;
Benjamin Rosenz~eig, Vice-Chair7aan; Anne HULL and
Jackson Sherman, members.
This comrtttee' function is to furnish informa-
tion about the Citizens Association and It's activ
ties to the coruri ty, and to publicize to others
outside OF Green5e1t, directly through newspapers
and other media, items Of general interest concern
Ing town. The comni ttee IS in wise attempt
ING TO be center, but will act, as its name
Implies, in a strict public relations manner. 1t
nj ht be said that FAR the countr- in general
is concerned in the business of selling nthe
ideal community lifen idea-adverti sing coHnuni
ty practical reality of the theory Of better
living condi tions. We therefore not concerned
with plain reporting except when outside
agency specifically requests to produce the facts
special storJ'.
You tnat occasionally items about Green
belt printed IN somewhat derogatory and /or unin
telliSent By few OF the nations papers.
Our comm ttee is anxious to investigate, and, if the
warrant, combat such criticism. In this mat
ter read to cooperate vi t Jour staff to the
fullest extent. Perhaps it mi tht be mentioned in
the Cooperator that this outside publicity problem
is to be handled BY committee, and in collabora
tion wi tn your staff that if any citizen happens
clippings of this nature he light turn them
to for such action consideration may
be appropriate.
--Iynnan L. Woodman
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
SALVATION ARMY CAMPAIGN

To the Ed1 tor:
A hand cart nth the red shield of the Salvation
Army familiar sight Washington streets Is
years ago. So the horse-driven vehicles that
seeking bundles to carry back to the home Of the
Salvation Army Pennsylvania Avenue.
That old hone and the hand cart and the horse
driven carriages have given way to dozen T0dern
and handsome bn lding at 52o First Street,
N. w. But the need is still the The Saliva
tion Army still eeds the castoffs from attics, cell
Lars and closets to help doWn-but-not-out men and
their families win back their self-respect and
place in the community.
The Salvation Army's annual bundle campai gn will
continue through May running at the time most house
wives doing spring house cleaning.
Last year the Salvation Army served IS, SOL meals,
gave bed space 23,73o times, paid in cash grants
$36, 6,894.7. The emplo oyment bureau placed without
charge l86 and 275 and furni shed 1880
hours Of work. During tn last II months the
age turnover the institution has been aprroxi-
nately 500, the average stay being three months. AS
each obtains employment requirements are made
accordingly.
When apply to the Salvation Army for help they
are ASST eed their old skills. Some assigned
recondi tioning furniture, clothing and innunera
bic types of house ehold goods which otherwise would
have Laid idle and dusty in the backs Of closets.
In the First Street building the Salvation Army
has large dining room, recreation and reading
and dormitories, besides bookstore, antique shop,
and general store.
The slogan for the Salvation Army's campai g this
year what it hopes the public will remember when
the red shield trucks rumble by is "S1RE WHAT YOU
CAN SPARE.
c. Dodge,
Secretary, Salvation Army
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
GRAPE VINE
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Bad news travels fast--and in Greenbelt wi tn a
vengence. Sonnet times 1t almost that there is
smoothly functloning grapevine in town W CHI carries
bad from end to the other even before the
event
Several times went poking through the grass Jun
der bushes and along the sidewalks to If We could
actually find this eff Cd et little vine which appar
emily branches in all directions and into every
home.
But couldn't uncover 1T.
Good news, the other hand, travels slowly
that would think it making crossing of the
Atlantic Ocean in time. The look
ing for the grapevine that wanted to put the
good about the Health Associate the wire to
what would happen. Membership in the Health As
sociation is BETTER BUY" the message wanted
to get hispered around. No told by the
next person meet that he doesn't know anything
about the Association and "this is the first time
anyone has tried to explain how the Association works
and what it will give for my money!.
But,as we said, perhaps the grapevine does usual
1y carry bad but in this it is gratifying
to note that the good news has been going around.
Ed Wei tsman
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
THE POETS REALLY CoRNERED

To the Edi tor and mis- Public:
I realize it wasn't nice
to di sreard my advice;
Personal critici SIN is unkind.
The things write from will be
Confined to generality,
Directed toward the friendly ties that bind.
I'm setting for myself four guides
(l) If possible, don't take sides;
Do your best to reconcile, instead.
(2) Be ipersonal at all times
In your letters and your rhymes;
Many things better left unsaid.
81 Be frank and open when you must,
But, in your remarks, be just;
Let the public welfare be your goal.
(4) Above all things, cooperate;
Grow beyond such things hate,
And help unite all Greenbelt as whole.
nChazn Cha sanoW
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02
Letters to &dttor

EDI TORS NOTE; If the individual who the a.
nonymous letter "The Cooperator's IS Creed" on gov
erment stationery last week divu1ge his or
her will extend the usual courtesies. We
can hardly be expected to pub sh your letter
ticle if you ashamed to sign your to it.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1940-05-02

The first '"Co-op Get-acquainted Party", given
for the benefit of to Greenbelt, has been
held. Sponsored by the Greenbelt services'
education committee, IS and comm ttee
members gathered in the home economics of the
Elementary School Friday evening, April 26, and
partici pa ted in well-rounded program which in
cluded dancing, refreshments, a contest, and the
opportunity for getting acquainted.
TIE contest---naming Coop products by taste
by Hiss Gladys Peterson, with Eugene Schmid
runner-up.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-24
NOTICE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN ::
That Howard D. Stabler, admins
traitor of the estate of George Dis
combe. deceased, has filed his final
account of his administration of said
estate, and his petition for distribu-
ton of the residue thereof, in the
United States Commissioners Court
for Juneau Precinct, at Juneau, Al
aska, and that 10 o'clock A. M. on
March 31st, 1910, has been filed as
the time and said Commissioner S
Court the place for hearing same;
and that all persons interested
therein are hereby notified to ap-
pear at said time and place and
file their objections, if any, to said
final account and petition.
Dated: Juneau, Alaska, January
16, 1910.
HOWARD D. STABLER,
Administrator,
Shattuck Building,
Juneau, Alaska.
First publication, Jan. II, 1889.
Last publication, Feb. 7, 1889.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-24

! tier win be strangled from the start by the self
same factor which has strangled farmers in tn
United States when they have operated on privately
oaned capital If interest is low enough the set
! Tiers meet it, then capital will not come II
sufficiently large amounts to be of material help.
The chief factor which made for the success o
the British East India Company and other charte
enterprises mentioned in the Slattery Report a.
models was, he writes their freedom from the rgic
public controls which the authors of the report pro-
pose for the Alaskan development corporations
Marshall has to say
There are few additional considerations bear
ing the basic philosophy of the report. The
authors say 1t is an unacceptable moral obligation
Of the United States toward the people of Alaska
TO develop Alaska's resources. World history foI
the last hundred years has been the story of the
rapid development of untapped resources which rep
resent the accumulated natural processes of cons
vet this opening of new frontiers has seldom brought
more than transient prosperity for the vast major
itv of those engaged in it. The only we
have as high a standard of living we do today
is that the more primitive people of past ages saw
nothing immortal about leaving resources unde-
veloped
Before further development of Alaskan re-
sources can significantly increase human happiness,
it is necessary to find a solution to the blockade on
distribution which keeps us from realizing more
than fraction of the potential wealth OF the united
States 1t is pleasant to dream that we can dodge
the uncomfortable necessity of meeting this prob
lem through some panacea ranging in scope from
Townsendism to the opening of new frontiers, but
it cannot be escaped If we ever find method of
correlating purchasing power with productive ca
pacity then we can take of many times the
100000 European refugees in addition to our own
100000 unemployed right in the 48 States.
Furthermore, increase in population would
take away from people the unique possibilities of in
divduaty found in scantily populated countries
where men few and each one is distinctive. I'm
til increased population reasonably be expected
to provide material economical and social advantages
these important values to sacrifice"
What Alaska needs is informed friends
like Robert Marshall and fewer well-intentioned but
unqualified commentators like Robert Morss Lovett
1t is a significant fact that those who know Alaska
turn thumbs down the Slattery plan while its
most enthusiastic supporters those farthest away
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-24
TWO VIEWS ON ALASKA

Even little knowledge about Alaska is a good
thing. Witness two short articles concerning the
Territory in The New Republic. One was written
by Robert Marshall the late Director of tht Division
of Lands in the United States Forest Service, shortly
before his death The other, designed as an answer
to Marshals is by Robert Morss Loyett, one of the
editors Of The New Republic.
Marshall has been to Alaska than once.
His thesis in Should We Settle Alaskan" is that the
colonization and development plan proposed in the
slattery Report is all wet If Loyett has been any
nearer than Jersey City the Territory it doesn't
show in his statements such as
THE plain fact ignored by Mr. Marshall. is
that the dmmigration) quota system applied to Al
aska is national crime. It should be abolished
with due safeguards against the immigration of
new citizens of Alaska into the continental United
States"
These due safeguards" Of course would be
inquisitions at every port Of exit to separate the
sheep from the goats Alaskans would have TO carry
passports as if they were residents of foreign
country.
Mr. Lovett thinks a population OF a million
could support itself here almost entirely by the
exchange of goods and services in an economy based
primarily on the varied natural resources of Alaska
He thinks billion dollars of private capital would
turn the trick and suggests rather vaguely that
such capital need not be limited by the profit
incentive" winch we tIllnk even Mi. LOVeIt WoulQ
doubt if he really sat down to think it over.
Marshall, listing his objections in 1924 order,
lays that as far agricultural possibilities con-
cerned perhaps 100000 worth of additional pro-
ducts could be home grown in Alaska which would
furnish part-time support for few thousand set
tiers except that there already in Alaska many
hundreds of Alaskans in need of work who deserve
first opportunity in any resettlement profits Our
timber he states cannot compete with United States
or Canadian timber in the Woodpulp market, as
has been demonstrated in the vain efforts made
for the past 20 years to interest private capital in
its development He points out that a pulp unit
costing Sl5OoOO0O would furnish about 1000 jobs,
a very expensive way to support immigrants. Point
by point, he explodes the big talk about herring,
the 90 minerals which said to exist here in
commercial quantities" peat and reindeer horns,
furniture and toys. Referring to the Slattery Re-
ports discussion of recreational development, this
whose speciality just that says:
Most tourists who come to Alaska do partly
for the frontier atmosphere, which would be lost If
those who made the mountains, forests and min
eral springs of Europe world centers for health
seekers, sport-lovers and travellers helped to
develop the recreatonal areas of Alaska. 1t would
be like getting Grover Whaen to manage the
Louvre"
If the settlement enterprise is TO be under
written by private capital, Marshall says, 1.-The set