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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
YMCA Notes

Final reports will be read this eve- ming in the membership campaign conducted by the Y. M. c. A. The centending armies, Blue and Red, led by General Michael ". Blans- field and General E. Robert Steven son, are "geared up" for a spectacu- lar finish. The Blue Army at pres ent leads the campaign with the greater number of points scored. Commander -in-C Chief Dr. Charles l.. Larkin predicts several startling up- sets when the final reports are tab ulated
 The Waterbury Public Speaking club will open its 194O-4l season on Tuesday, Oct. 2, with a banquet at the Y. M. c. A. George Haynor, who was elected president at the last meeting in June, will preside and welcome new members.
 The speakers for the evening will be J. Russell Putnam, whose topic is History in Clock Making" and Miss Mary Phelan, who will dis cuss Folk Songs of New England"
 Thirty members of the Central Y. M. c. A. Indian tribes met for the first fall banquet last eve ming. Calvin J. Martin, boys sec retary, explained the Friendly In- dian" program to the group and showed two reels of comic movies.
 Among those attending were: Pe- ter Bowman, Thomas Nalband, Thomas Kelley, Patrick Guilfoile, 1 John Hurlbut, Peter Stolfi, John Savino, Alfred Eberhardt, John Carey, Alfred O'Rourke, Fred Ar- Der, John Jessell, Robert Lane, | William Crane, Robert Pelsoi, Wal | ter Ford, John Nordlund, Irving Wilcox, Harvey Rubin, Edward l Mittleman, Bruce Byrolly, Robert Herr, Walter Ahearn, Donald Mo- Gilsiss, Anthony Santoro, Frank Arthur zeibel, John l BercuniaS, John Smith, Edward | Mole, and Donald Breen.
 John Sullivan, Curtiss Johnson, A. Griggs, William Loom is, and Fred Newell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
N. Y. Bank & Trust Stocks
 The R. 2. Griggs Co.
BIG GUNS FIRE

Dover. England, October i8 - (UP) German big guns on the French coast fired into the Dover area just before noon today. Eal- woes were fired spasmodically at intervals of 10 and 30 minutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

not been completed. There will be constant adjustment of the figures for sever ! days as the cards are ue- counted and records of transients are transferred to their home dis tricts:
 Today's compilation follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18

waii voters of Caucasian ancestry outnumber any other ancestry (in- cluding Japanese) and the voters of Japanese ancestry will never reach more than B per cent of the total vote; and after 1850 (by analysis of dependable vital statistics) will de- crease as compared with voters of other ancestries.
 2. More than 80 per cent. of those of the Japanese race in Hawaii are American citizens.
 3. The alien Japanese are dwind- ling fast. Most of them are aged parents, who came as immigrants. Their children grow up as Amer jeans, not as Japanese. 4. An examination of 1888 regis tration figures shows no racial group i'll Hawaii could elect one of its members to a Territory wide office I solely upon the basis of race. The 83,312 votes on the island are divid- ed like this:
 Caucasian
 ancestry .... 26,927 or 32.32% Japanese ancestry ... 23,777 or 28.54qe Hawaiian or part
 Hawaiian ....... 22,256 or 26.72e5 Chinese
 ancestry ....... 7,l60 or 6,59% Korean, Filipino and other
 ancestry .......... 3,l92 or 3.83ee NOT A MOVE FOR INDEPENDENCE
 Naturally, the great new World War, the strife in the Orient. with Japan invading China, and the fo- cusing of attention on Pacific de- l fense'' for the United States. has its
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
HIGH WAGE, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
PROSPERITY, BASIS CONGRESS TOLD

1t has also been demonstrated that
great care in the use of these tech
niques is required, Hopkins continues
Contraction and expansion of govern
ment spending must be gradual and
carefully applied to economic develop
ments.
The view that our economy has
reached a period of stagnation is Wig
orously rejected. "a rising standard
of living can provide an Indefinitely
expanding market for the fruits of our
expanding productive capacity. We
have only begun to fulfill the unlim-
tied promise of America" Hopkins de-
clares.
This view is illustrated by the as
sertion that if the incomes of the II
million families whose incomes, in
1886, were below $1,000 year were
raised to that level, their annual ex-
penditures would have been greater
by $4,000,000,000.
The construction of houses to cost
less than $4,000 and the reduction of
electric power rates would open up
two fields of tremendous expansion,
Hopkins said. Reduction of electric
rates in the IVA area, he pointed out,
increased consumption of electricity
$50.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Green Urges School.
Board Reinstate
Two Teachers

CHRONOLOGICAL appeal to the
Proviso Township Board of Education
to reinstate Ralph Marshall and Mary
Wheeler, two haywood, H., teachers
fired for union activity has been
made by AFL Pres. William Green in
a letter to the board.
1.-THE impression prevails among the
teaching profession of Chicago and
vicinity that both Miss Wheeler and
Mr. Marshall are being Disseminated
against because of their activities in
behalf of the American Federation of
Teachers, an organization affiliated
with the ALL" the letter said ga
restoration of these two teachers to
their former jobs will correct and re-
move that impression. The right to
organize for mutual helpfulness has
been accepted as a matter of fact and
is clearly set forth in the Wagner
labor relations act"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
FTc ISSUES
COMPLAINT

The Federal Trade Commission has
issued a complaint against Air Con-
ditioning Textiles, Inc, 1441 Broad
way New York, sellers and distribut-
ors of toilet preparations, charging
Misrepresentation The respondent
products include a toilet soap desig-
mated variously as "Air Conditioning
the Human Body soap and as Air
Conditioning" soap.
In advertisements and by means of
circulars and other printed matter,
the respondent corporation allegedly
represents that its products definite
ly reduce body temperature" reduce
humidity by evaporation" and "elim-
mate perspiration objections"
Use of the term "air conditioning, :"
the complaint continues, as descrip-
tive of respondents soap product, has
the tendency to mislead purchasers
into the mistaken belief that to some
extent the principle of air condition
ing has in some manner been incor-
porated into the soap and that it pos
sesses properties contributing to hui
man comfort not possessed by ordi-
nary soaps The respondents soap
possesses perfume and menthol in
less than percent, but, the complaint
alleges, it has no properties different
from ordinary soap.
Twenty days are granted for filing
answer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
CONCERN OVER ACTION OF
AAuP BY SIMMONS BRINGS
STORY FROM campus

based on information before it, that
no one item isolatedly considered and
without reference to reputation and
value to the University, is proven to
a degree of reprehensibility sufficient
to justify denial of reinstatement.
Whether or not the combination of all
items and topics is sufficient to
justify denying or granting reinstate-
ment, the committee feels is for your
consideration, and therefore submits
this report without recommendation. !"
A few members of the faculty prob
ably felt that DR.. Phillips did not
deserve reinstatement. A few more
thought that he deserved it, but that
the unfortunate publicity which at
tended his resignation and his trial
made 1t impossible for the University
to reinstate him. Many others thought
that he had suffered a great injustice
and deserved reinstatement to the
position from which he had very UNI
wisely been advised and allowed to
resign and to go into court This lat
ter group so petitioned the board. But
it was not the wisdom of the rein
statement decision that moved the A.
A. U. p. finally to censure the adj
ministration of the State University.
1t was ON the issues of due process,
of integrity, of fair treatment, and of
administrative good-sense that the A.
A. u. P. came to the conclusion, after
three years of investigation-rather
than three days-that Montana State
University is beyond the pale.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
DISTRICT COURT
ISSUES DECREE

The United States district court for
the northern district of Ohio has en-
joined the Chapman Health Products
company, a corporation, and John w.
Chapman and Nellie G. Chapman, in
dividually as officers of Chapman
Health Products company, from dis
seminating false advertisements con-
corning a medical preparation for the
treatment of obesity, designated as
"Faid," otherwise known as "Daintee."
The order was issued upon applica-
ton of the Federal Trade Commission,
and a temporary restraining order had
been issued December 49, The de-
PENDANTS waived hearing and con-
scented to the decree being entered
forthwith. The injunction action of
the commission was taken under au-
thority of the federal trade commits
sion act as amended by the Wheeler
Lea act, which provides for the grant
ing of injunctions with respect to the
dissemination of false advertisements
of foods, drugs, cosmetics and devices,
when the granting Of such injunctions,
pending final disposition OF the COM
missions proceedings, would be to
the interest of the public.
The preparation had been adver-
tised by the defendants as being a safe
and competent treatment for obesity.
The complaint before the court al
legged that its use under conditions
prescribed in the advertising might
result in serious and irreparable in
Jury to the health of users.
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of the Lord and my personal bank
account. SO l went downtown, met
this chap you've made your editor,
and we-(Deleted, Editor.)
Now to get back to what I was
talking about when | started: These
folks that are going to be cold and
hungry tomorrow and the tomorrows
after, are the ones who have been
going along, satisfied from day to day
when they had enough to eat and
wear. No ambition, none at all. Did
MT even begrudge the boss his big
house and automobiles and pleasure
trips. And now they're sore at their
boss and maybe all other bosses, be-
cause he can't give them work so
they can live like they used to- They
don't look at his side at all and try
to realize that he hasn't any use for
saps to make things for him when he
can't sell them, because there aren't
jobs for enough other saps to earn
money to buy them. It's tough all
right, but it's all the fault of the adj
of course. OF course the
administration hasn't actually closed
by force, any of the big business in
situations, but why should any big
shot put a lot of saps to work for him
when the administration is apt to
come in and tax him most of what
he makes out of them to feed other
saps. What kind of free enterprise
and Americanism is that, ask you?
| quit.
SAM.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

WASHINGTON P)-High wages
and guarantees of the right of collec-
, tive bargaining are essential to pros
porous nation, Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins told congress in his
annual report, submitted through the
President
'The federal government has in re-
cent years taken steps of historic i'm
portance to prevent the exploitation
of labor and to strengthen the econ
omy by putting a floor under wage
rates and a ceiling over hours" the
report declared
1T has also taken measures to guar
antee to labor the right of collective
bargaining. Labor is now able to bar
gain with industry on more nearly
equal terms An enlightened democ-
racy will never permit the abandon
ment of these advances" it continued.
In a discussion of the factors ope-
rating in the national economy, Hop
kins told congress, "The expansion OF
consumption and investment also in
wolves appropriate wage policy on the
part of business The broad markets
necessary for full employment require
a high level of consumer purchasing
power and it is important that wage
incomes be as high as possible.
eff wage payments are deficient, the
basic demand for the products of farm
and factory is necessarily curtailod."
The report warned, however, that
lin seeking to improve the condition
of labor it should be recognized that
high wage rates are not always synon-
ymous with high annual income for
the workers. 1t is the latter which
is the primary objective. Without a
high standard of living for this major
segment of the nation sustained and
expanding flow of national income
be achieved.
Reviewed is the experience of the
last 10 years and conclusions are pre-
sented. The foremost lesson, the re-
port says, is that periods of depres-
sion generate cumulative forces |
which may completely shatter the pro-
iuctiye mechanism"
ITO prevent these disastrous defla- |
ions is a fundamental responsibility !
If government" the report declares. |
The experience of certain European |
bears evidence that I'M
checked deflation depression is the
,reatest threat to democracy in the
modern world"
The second conclusion drawn by the
eport is that the tremendous wastes
II depression are entirely unneces-
AIRY. If the instruments developed
or meeting depressions in the last III
ears are applied "the country need
lever again be subjected to the in
olerable and unnecessary costs OF
ontinued deflation," it is predicted. j
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
BY RICHARD LAKE

In my preliminary remarks last
week on the nature of propaganda,
attempted to forestall the use OF the
word propaganda" as name-called
device. I want to repeat until 1t be.
comes boresome that anyone who i'm
parts information for the purpose of
persuasion is a propagandist; that
propaganda is neither good nor bad in
ITSELF that the user Of propaganda
is a person of neither good nor evil
by virtue of his use of it. | must
repeat, too, that this study of propa-
ganda has as its long-range purpose
the throwing of light inward upon
ourselves. It will be seen that | am
a propaganda for certain belief or
theory about man and about life. At
present we must consider the propa-
ganda devices, or the guises in which
propaganda most commonly appears.
have said l would like to relieve
the word propaganda" from the bur-
den of being used as a name-calling
device. If I could do that, most of my
job would be done. But "propagan-
da' is a bad" word, and it will take
more than a few hasty essays to re-
store it to responsibility. | can give
it a temporary parole by strictly de-
filming the meaning it will bear in it's
present context. Secretly, however,
shall be carrying on campaign
for Saving Words. Writers always
have to be saving something. But
men win always be calling each other
names too, in the hope that they can
enlist the powers of light on their side
and the powers of darkness on the
side of their opponents. Thus they
will always be condemning words to
horrible unnatural existences. This
practice stems from the ancient belief
that there is good and evil, which are
in eternal conflict; and that there is
somewhere a divine justice which de-
cfdes inevitably in favor of the good
1t stems also from a more ancient
fetish-belief that naming a thing des-
troyed its power for evil. 1t is one
of the lesser manifestations of the
barbarism and savagery that exist
within us.
No one who is not familiar with the
bulletins issued by the Institute of
Propaganda Analysis can claim to be
an alert and inquiring citizen of our
time. The Institute lists the devices
of propaganda most commonly used
as follows: q quote from The Fine
Art of Propaganda, published by Har-
court Brace:
1. Name CaIing-giving an idea or
person or thing a bad label in order 4,
to make people reject and condemn it |
examining it on it's merits.
2. GIittering Generality - the oppo-
site of name calling. Giving some |
thing a good label, or associating it |
with virtue word, in order to make
people accept and approve it without
examining its merits.
3. Transfer - transferring the au-
.hority, sanction, and prestige of
respected and revered over
o something else in order to make |
he latter acceptable; or transferring
sanction, and disapproval to
make something else unacceptable.
4. Testimonial - having some re-
'pected or hated person say that
siven idea or program or product is
rood or bad.
5. Plain FoIks-associating an idea
II person or program with "the peo-
lie" or with some idea or prejudice
II superstition or belief that is of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
MORE GRAPES OF WRATH
FOR EAST ST. LOUIS

EAST ST. LOUIS. l.-(FP)-The
East St Louis public library has
bought seven more copies of John
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath to
satisfy more than 100 requests for the
book.
Or November 10 the library trustees
ordered the first three copies burned
as indecent" Less than two weeks
later they reversed the decision and
the librarian was authorized to in
crease the supply by 23396.
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who will do it? VIII the person who
is satisfied with it now try to change
it so that it will be better for us?
Let's quit kidding ourselves. We will
do the work ourselves or it will never
be done. We will have to do consid-
cradle studying first or we will not
know what to do or how to do it. The
ants had no one to teach them what
honey was and they learned after sew
eral trips around How long have you
been going the long hard way for sap
when there has been honey closer?-
Alvin p. Dahlquist.
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board don't seem to be able to under
stand much about it, SO Clements has
to do the whole job alone OF course
they say he has some advisors down
in the Hennessey building in Butte;
the same ones who are helpful to the
governor and other Woodworking Of
ficials.
Nobody helps me.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

and current affairs; and I hope to
provide a little entertainment by up
setting few applicants; but all the
time l shall be referring to the State
of Affairs inside us, and pointing to
the road that will lead us to our new
frontier
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continued from rage OHet
Authority. The cuts are certain to
begin February /. Slum clearance, it
is feared, will suffer severe blow
without adequate Washington and re-
gional staffs.
Approximately S20,000,000 in yearly
government operation costs were to
have BEEN saved through reorganiza-
ton, by cutting out overlapping func-
lions. Thus the bureau of the budget
impounded $225,000 of USHA funds.
Just why an adequate USHA staff
constituted Overlapping functions" is
not quite clear.
This, in part, forced the USHA staff
to operate above it's budget. But an
adequate staff was needed-and GER
tainly is still needed-to get the
USHA funds operating into construc-
ton awards. And the staff hasn't had
too easy a job, with at least 100 actual
cases of sabotage against the author
ity on the part of hostile local Off
Gals, together with protracted litiga-
ton designed to defeat the program.
But the USHA has had victories in
the courts upholding the Housing act.
All of which has made the task of
the staff difficult one. If the pro-
gram is to be effectively carried out,
the present congress must not only
pass the $S0O,OOO,OOO loan authorize
ton BILL but also provide adequate
funds for administration of the act.
Even now local groups are unable to
operate without sufficient USHA staff
particularly in rural COM
munities.
Governor Bricker of Ohio, has dis
covered a foolproof formula, no mat
ter what happens. If the federal
government refuses to feed his
states hungry, "it's playing poll
ties; IL the federal government
steps in to save the poor wretches
from starvation, tits playing poll
tics" He's what you call an adroit
statesman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

ganda. / shall be saying all the time
that we have woven our propaganda
chains ourselves, out of ourselves;
and that we now cling to them and
resist those who would strike them
off.
l shall be talking about propaganda
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03

unemployment insurance for seamen
will be ready early in the new year,
and presented to congress for action.
The Social Security board is working
out the details.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
do BUSINESS WITH YOURSELVES"

If of the enterprises whose card appears below in
community and you not already patron you will
profit by investigating the advantages Of dealing with for
the products which it handles You will find
bunes with yourself by patronizing the profits
from your patronage will belong you and not to any
other Individual organization.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-03
Expanded Workers
Education Program

| Sixteen states and New YORK CITY
have now established, or are in the
process of setting up, an expanded
Workers Education program - Work
ers' Service.
The Service, which will supersede
Workers Education, is still called by
its old name during the transitional
period The program was taken from
the Adult Education section of the
WPA where it had subordinate posi-
ton, and placed directly under the
division of professional and service
projects. Labor played the leading
role in rescuing the program.
With this new set-up there is af-
forded a great chance for expansion,
for states do not require an Adult
Education program in order to estab
lish Workers Education, as formerly.
The new Service is not limited to
the field of teaching, and offers
courses in research, art, and the like.
Explanation of Hanes' Retirement
Taken With Grain of Salt
Resignation at this time of John w.
Hanes, treasury undersecretary, whose
business generally was looking after
the tax interests of the big boys, is
rather significant. Explanation handed
out that he had done his job" and
was anxious to get back into private
business is taken with grain of salt
in certain quarters.
Hapac ic tho fallow xUbn WAC q blQ
to effect a modification of the tax
program last year more in line with
the wishes of Wall Street. He con-
WINGED Morgenthau of the wisdom of
that program, and Roosevelt, put up
against the gun, was privately re-
ported to have swallowed it. The fact
that his resignation comes just prior
to the opening of congress is inter-
preted by some to mean that he can
not go along with the administration
tax program, that his influence with
his chief has come to an end, and
that he desires greater political free
dom - which means, criticizing the
New Deal.
The Department of Commerce has
been asked to investigate charges that |
The Bureau of Marine Inspection and |
has been discriminating |
against union members i. The office |
Of Government Reports is receiving
for its newest edition |
If the United States Government Man
lal. The book with a new formal,
low contains sections on the supreme
court and congress, and is issued
hree times a year A plan for