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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
TEACHERS RULE
! HELD DRASTIC
'Take-It-Or-L eave-It' Prop
OsitiOn on Appointment
to Be Protested

A drastic rule which would give
applicants for teaching positions
only one chance for a job was dis
cuSsed by the Board of Education
last night and referred to the rules
committee for study and possible
revision after several commissioners
said they believed the rule was too
harsh.
AS proposed, the rule would be in
effect a take it or leave it PROPOSE
ton. It stipulated that any appli-
cant for a teaching position who is
offered a position and refuses to
accept 1t shall no longer be consid-
cred for a teaching position and his
name shall be removed from all
waiting lists.
The proposed rule was drawn up
by the rules committee by vote of
the board several weeks ago when
an applicant refused a position. At
that time the board unanimously
felt that such applicants should be
removed from waiting lists and
should not get further considera-
ton.
However, when the rules commit
tee brought in the proposed new
rule, last night, Commissioners
Helen Hitchcock, Perry Graicerstein
and Harold Parkinson raised strong
declaring that the rule
was too drastic and should be
They suggested that the
rule be drawn up to read that an
applicant who refuses a job may
have the right to apply once more
to the department of education.
The old rule Of the board provid-
ed that if any applicant refused
jobs three times in succession his
name would be automatically re-
moved to the bottom of the waiting
list. This rule applied only to gram
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

Rosina Marucci TO the Water.
bury Savings Bank. property ON
Easton avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

DAA UaE1isus what it was to
tussle hard and to keep ON fight
ing after most of the files were
down. They early learned that you
can take any objective on earth.
If you are willing to pay the cost.
There's Colonel Seth Warner,
for instance. They buried the
remains Of Colonel Warner on Rox-
bury Green and there's a monu-
ment to him at that spot. Warner
fought at Breckenridge Farms in
July and October, It'll; at Otter
Greek Falls in 1773; at Crown
Point in IT'S; at Longueiland and
during the invasion Of Canada in
TITS; at Hubbardton, July 7th,
1777; and at Bennington on Aug.
10th, 1777. That warrior didn't
wait for any Lexington Alarm to
start his men marching; he kept
them on the move all of the time.
Seth Warner was on the prod
from his very birth and for a foot
soldier he moved with amazing
speed and efficiency. His associates,
Colonel Ethan Allen and Captain
Remember Baker, were no less
patriotic and devoted to duty. They
had to be good because they COM
manded Connecticut Yankees and
they exercised command largely
through popular acclaim. If they
had slowed up, we would have sent
another detachment I'D to take
over the job.
Probably nobody on earth gave
Gentleman Johhny Burgoynne as
many bad moments as the Con-
necticut boys who moved to Yer
mont for their martial adventure
under Allen, Warner, and Baker.
AL they had to do was to send
the British postal card that the
Yanks were marching and Gentle
man Johnny would order his kit
packed and man the support
trenches extra heavy.
Colonel Seth Warner died on
December 26th, 1884, in what is now
Roxbury township. He was only Al
years of age but he had rolled a
lifetime Of military experience and
rare honor into his brief but bril-
liant career. Seth Warner found
a way to final peace the hard way
and he proved to all-comers that
liberty Is worth fighting for and
worth fighting to preserve.
Next to the celebration Of July
Fourth probably no event of the
future is looked forward to with
as much anticipation as the COM
ing presidential campaign. The
Willkie nomination met with ap-
prevail here and everybody expects
Q contest and not q pushover. AL
ready we have seen Willkie BAN
ner ON one local truck SO there
must be money behind the man.
The radio listeners here I'm the val
ley are quite certain that the noise
generated by the WiIlkie gallery
was the kind Of demonstration
that costs real money. People do
not train their vocal chords these
days without fabrication.
Our boat shop at the bridge has
a fine display to tempt the city
people who come out here to get
away from it all. Picture a South
Britain dinghy, a mellow moon,
pretty girl, and the old Pomperaug
lazily purling along under the
keell (That' the stuff cigarette
ads are made of, and they'll need
a lot Of new stuff before they
make people contented with the
new tax on Tags, believe you me.)
In boat building or trap-making.
South Britain leads the world.
or at least Western Connecticut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
IT'S IMPORTANT
TO YOU

II yen are planning %
so into Canada on . vacation
or a trip Of any kind this sumo
mer You Should send to S1is
newspapers Service Bureau
1013 Thirteenth st. Washing
ton, ID. G. for q free copy 81 the
circular Canada, !" enclosing q
stamped seIf-addressed en-
veIOpe for reply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
Lease

Colonial Trust Co. trustee, to Isi-
dor Jacobs, premises at 90 South
Main street, effective 20 July 81,
1874 rental SOC monthly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
PARISH TO GREET
PRESIDING ELDER

The Rev. s. w. Weller, pastor Of
the Mount Olive A. M. e. Zion
church, announced officially today
that the first quarterly visit Of the
presiding elder, II. r. jackson, will
be held here on Thursday, July II.
Although the time is short the
pastor requests that all church de-
partments have their quarterly re-
ports In readiness for the elders
visit here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
SOUTH
BRITAIN
BRIEFS
BY BILL GARR1GUs

From the looks Of things around
town, South Britain will not be
blessed with any safe and silent
July Fourth. Of comes the lid on
Thurday and the hills will echo
with the discharge of all manner
of explosives. Some Of the. kids
stole a march on Tony the Barber
this year; they pooled their funds
and bought fireworks wholesale.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
Mortgage Deed

Mortgage Deed
Achilles Raymond to the Wa
terbury National Bank, trustee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

mar school and special class waiting
lists. There is no waiting list for
the high schools.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

lease on a plot large enough to
house service station.
The oil company Is said to be
anxious to complete the deal so that
necessary work can be done before
the paving Of WATERFOWL avenue.
Bids on the paving project are now
being called for, and the work is to
be done this summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02
THREE-EYE EXPANDS

Madison, Wis.-Madison's inclu.
sion in the Three-Eye League marks
the first time the circuit has had a
member club outside of Illinois, In.
diana and Iowa in its 40-year his.
tory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

It is fitting
that our young
sters sho uld
c ele b rate the
Fourth because
their ancestors
played such an
important part
In setting up
this Republic.
Men from this
neck Of the
W o o d s KIN e "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

Participating i'm the baton
swinging contest at Narragansett
Park, r. l., last Saturday, Miss
Jane Sheehy of Waterbury, won
second honOrs in twirling and was
awarded diamond-studded wrist
watch. Sixty twirlers representing
all sections of New England took
part in the contests. AS it was not
for a title, Miss Shelby retains
her standing as oCnnecticuts
leading girl twirler. More than 50,-
Oc0 people witnessed exhibitions.
Miss Sheehy led the Nutmeg
Drum Corps in the big parade
here last Saturday afternoon and
then journeyed to Narragansett to
compete. She did not enter the
local contests as sponsored by the
Stanislaus Drum Corps. She will
defend her title in the coming
meet arranged by the Connecticut
State Fifers' and DrumerS' asso-
citation.
mar school and special class waiting
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
II IS NOT MERELY
CALIFORNIA; PROBLEM

The struggle of the California dclcga-
ton in congress 10 place the migratory
labor problem under federal iurlsdic-
ton is one that should be crowned with
success, if there is any justice in the halls
of congress.
Anyone who has stood at the TT Yuma
port of entry and watched carload after
carload of migratory families enter Cali
fornia through Imperial Valley will APP
preciate the truly national scope of the
problem They are from Texas, Okla
homa, Arkansas and dozen other states.
They are not quite sure where they re
going, and it is extremely doubtful that
they will settle in amy one place for a
long, long time
Those who argue that these migrants
are CALIFORNIA; problem alone might as
well argue that the denuded condition
of mid-WcStcrn farm lands is the prob
lem of he midwest alone, or that the
plight of evicted sharecropperS in the
south is the problem of the south alone.
The arguments wouldn't hold water.
The migrants. the dust bowl, the share
crop system, are all part of the same
problem. 1t extends over half of the
United States and it will not be solved
until it is considered as one problem. not
as several
California, individually. cannot solve
the problem of the migrants In the first
place. it would he physically impossible.
The state has not enough work to pro-
vide Jobs for all of them. and it has not
enough money to feed all of them. 1t is
going bankrupt now, Just trying.
The state mas spent over five million
doll
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31

WASHINGTON II. Crom
well, Americas well-Wedded minister
to Canada, showed a lamentable
sense OF timing when he made his
Toronto speech declaring that Eng
land and France are fighting a foe
who frankly and openly seeks to
destroy our institutions.
On the morning that this strong
pro-ally speech hit the front pages
OF the metropolitan papers. the back
pages were carrying half-page ad-
vertisemcnts of a Saturday Evening
Post article telling all about Mr..
Cromwell. The display heading over
this ad said: He has everything
but he still wants to be somebody
Some people thought maybe the
speech was a press agent stunt, but
iSolationists disagree, saying the
Post is so militantly isolationist it
wouldn't connive at anything like
that.
IsolationiSts hero who were irked
by Cromwcl's speech cot sardonic
chuckle out of the adj
Hes going to be somebody now.
all right said Senator DoWney.
Somebody to keep an eye on
SENATE POWERLESS
TO CONTROL ENVOY
Like his felloW-is olationists. SEN
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

atOrS Clark and Nyc, DoWncy in
siStS that the Cromwell speech calls
for some counter-statement by the
president.
This statement must terrify a
ajority of the American people
unless it is promptly repudiated by
the president. he said. when one
of gu: foreign ministers urges on the
American people a course of war as
ally of the nation to which he is
accredited, he apparently is more
concerned about the welfare of that
nation than he is about the welfare
of his own people
of course, if the president is
willing to have one of his diplomatic
appointees adopt line which if
not checked would lead toward war,
there isn't anything the senate can
do about it."
Which is what inks the isolation
lists most. Senator Clark points out
that the only way tho senate could
exercise any control over a minister
would be to cut off the appropria-
ton for his salary and legation eX-
penSc; and this years State Depart
ment appropriation bill has already
passed
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Among
Our YESTERDAYS

Probably more interesting today
than they were 20 years ago when
published - because folk nowadays
have forgottcn-were these facts
ABOUT the San Diego and Arizona
railway published on this date a
score of years ago in Ell Centre:
Distance San Diego to Ell Gen.
tro las miles.
Elevation at HipasS, highest
point on line, 1860 feet.
Elevation at Ell Centre, lowest
pv.nt on line. 40 feet below sea
level.
Cost of railway, approximately
Sl8O0OOOO.
Railway crosses United States
Mexico border at Tijuana and Lin
dero. Boundary is crossed at LinderO
in tunnel No. &c feet from the
west end,
Railroad runs Al miles through
Mexico and 10 miles is the fartheSt
from the boundary.
There arc u tunnels on the line,
three in Mexico one partly in Mex
lCO ana lIlc ItSJ Ill lIlc Olllttu
States and II in Carriso gorge.
Cost of tunnels $1,760,200. The
longest tunnel is 1904 feet while
the shortest is 287 feet. Total length
of all tunnels is 298 miles.
Distance through Carriso gorge
is II miles and cost of construc-
ton $3.50 900. Depth OF gorge from
railroad 900 feet. Mountain are
Coast Range of Sierra NevadaS.
Campo Greek Viaduct II miles
from San Diego, length 600 feet,
height 1877 feet and cost $ll5,70O.
The S. d. and A. was the only
railroad to continue construction
during the entire period of the late
war"
Another filler" was sandwched
into the newspaper of that day that
carried a mysterious thought:
Leach e. DuSold are exhibiting
a truck loaded with a tracer and
disc. Just why tractor should be
loaded onto a truck, depOnent say
eth not, but the exhibition is at
tracing attention anyhow. The
truck would evidently bear the bur-
den of the average married man, if
such burden could only be sloughcd
off the shoulders"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
COOPERATE WITH
THE CENSUS TAKER

A smattering OF congressman have
made political hay Of census questions
to be asked United States citizens next
month. but thus far their criticism have
made no sense to anyone but politicians.
In Imperial VALLEY. there should be
little opposition 10 census questions. In
FL Centre. particularly, the census TAX
ers should be welcomed by all residents
with full cooperation.
A review Of the questions to be asked
by the census takers fails to show any
thing that can be called ''prying into per-
Sonal secrets.
The census takerS. on the other hand,
will be doing Imperial Valley great ser
vice. For ten years we in the valley have
skidded along on the basis of 1880 fig
ures. Everyone in the United States who
has for any reason been interested in
the valley from q factual standpoint, yet
has no personal knowledge of the valley
has been forced 70 accept the 1880 census
figures.
Now new set Of figures will be avail
able-up TO date-to show the valleys
growth. the real comparative size Of the
valleys cities and the true rural pOpula-
ton
When ia" census tak"r cOnn's around,
meet him wifi a welcome. because he Will
be doing YOU aprvico through the ser
vice he is dong YOur community.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Willis Thornton
Says:

Tariff walls are growing too high,
state officials are gradually begin
ming to realize. The trouble is that
the barriers work both ways. It
all right for a state to set up a
formidable hurdle to make out
siders think twice before they try
to mount it; but the walls are not
only keeping outsiders from getting
ln-thcy are also keeping the ma
tiveS from getting out.
The only conclusive and univcr-
sally equitable way of removing rid
iculouS trade barriers that now pen
in almost every state in the Union
is to call a nationwide conference
and to get the states to agree sim
ultaneouSly on a new set of rules
prescribed by authorized represent
tatives. Ultimately, perhaps, that
will come about.
In the meantime, however, the
Public Administration clear in G
house has noted a definite sectional
trend to chop down the figurative
fences that now bar the way for
interstate commerce.
Two recent conferences helped
untangle some of the snares of Ii
quor traffic. In Chicago, representa-
tives of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan and Indiana talked over con-
flicting liquor control legislation.
One immediate result was the prom
Use of the Illinois liquor control
commission to check bootlegging
of Illinois liquor in neighboring
states. A similar meeting in Buffalo
was attended by representatives of
seven states.
At another midWeStern confer
cncc, highway problems were ironcd
out and reciprocal agreements eS
tabllShed between Iowa. Nebraska
and Minnesota. Other states rep
resented at this meeting arc still
thinking the matter over.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
TRADE TREATIES
NEED RATIFICATION
{ EIkO IndCDendCnD

y determined effort to amend the So
called reciprocal trade treaty act to pro-
vide that all treaties entered into by the
president must be ratified by the United
States senate before they can become
effective. Is being made by Senator Key
Pittman of Nevada who has introduced
an amendment TO the act providing for
such procedure.
As Senator Pittman points out. There
is only one chance of making the act safe,
and that is by making necessary the rati-
fication of these agreements by the SEN
ate
He goes on to point out that there are
only two ways of making laws IN the
United States. and they are by act of
congress and by treaties No act of con-
gress can be modified except by law; that
Is. by another statute or by a treaty. If
these agreements have the effect of law,
then they are treaties and they must be
ratified by the senate in accordance with
the constitution.
In few brief words the Nevada SEN
ator has touched the cruX of the whole
reciprocal trade agreement fight.
1t appears to be Just one more instance
wherein our national law making bodies
are faced with the necessity of battling
for the return of powers which are inher-
ent in them but which have been abbro-
gated by those seeking greater powers
under the guise Of economic necessity.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
RIGHT FOR THE
WRONG REASON
wall Street JournaD

Colonel Fleming, administrator of the
wage and hour law. includes curious
bit of reasoning in the opinion accompa-
nying his decision to set up a minimum
wage of 80 cents an hOhr in the boot and
shoe industry. He describes as without
merit" the contention of certain manu-
facturers that data introduced at hear
ing and bearing on wage transportation
and living conditions We're Inadequate ;
he further finds that the examiner who
presided at the hearing should not have
received for the record the opposition
testimony and exhibits He says:
In my opinion the issues raised by
these contentious are not properly be-
fore me and the action of the presiding
officer in receiving such evidences should
be overruled. | have, nevertheless, be-
cause of the importance of the proceed
ingS, carefully considered the contentious
and find them without merit.
Colonel Fleming's consideration of the
opposition testimony was right. but of the
reason he gives. The importance Of the
proceedings could not Justify his con-
Sideration of evidence improperly sub
mitted. any more than its lack of proba-
tive weight could have justified denial
to the opposition Of its day in court.
Quite possibly Colonel Fleming exam
ined the disputed evidence with care be-
cause he realized that even the minority
opponents Of proposed administrative
order have an unalienable right to open
their mouths before him.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Barbs-

Hitch mixers arc trying TO got
their thumbs insured. Probably
need protection against getting
them clipped off by some of those
guys who don't stop.
Prisoners detained under defense
regulations, such as blackOut viola
tions in London will be served
pint of ale each daily. There will
be a lot of lights burning in the
window.
A sewer in California was clog
ged, and investigators found kid
die car, d play wagon and a tricycle..
Perhaps they were stored there for
quick getaway from the truant
officer.
Alabama counties will not furnish
motOrboats to their sheriffs to chase
criminals fleeing by water. One
bathing suit each will be the limit.
A New York Holstein COW has
been assured of an old-age pension
in the will of her owner No more
worrying where the next ton 81
alfalfa was coming from,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
ARMY LOSES RECORD
OF PVT. McLOSKEY

An odd mystery of the A. E. F.
popped up in congress the other
day, when the house okayed a bill
to pay government war risk inSur-
ance to the mother of one time Pri-
vate Arthur Lee McLoSkey. of In
dianapolis.
McLoSkey entered the army on
March 90 1918. The last record the
War Department has about him is
that he was discharged from camp
hospital on May of that year after
treatment for minor disorder. His
outfit sailed for France on May 10
but there's nothing to show he sail
ed with it, the records don't men
ton him again, and the War De-
partment has him listed as a desert
err.
Partly because there exist a couple
of letters from buddieS who say
they saw him in action in France.
and partly because of evidence that
he was dutifu! lad who supported
his mother and wouldn't be likely
to go over the hill' without ever
communicating with her again, the
house approved the bill.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31

triots claimed that they, and they
alone, could bring salvation to the
suffering masses.
Finally these well-meaning, but
unrealistic friends of the common
people mired the chariot of de-
mocracy so thoroughly that there
was no other way out but to sur
render the government once more
to the old forces of monarchy.
Fortunately, this time a few OF
these rulers proved to be of sufficient
intelligence to bring about some OF
the inevitable reforms and improve
ments.
1t was better to compromise just
little than run the risk of losing
everything. After the middle OF
the last century. every citizen, be
he rich as CroeSuS or poor as Job,
could take a direct part in the gov
ernmenC by means of the ballot
box.
Came the Great War, and in the
wake of this calamity world
wide spread of what this time SEEM
ed to be true and lasting form
of popular government.
The fight seemed to have been
won. But today, only 20 years after
Versailles, nearly every one of these
democracies, started among such
high hopes, has passed out of exist
ence.
In the smaller neutral countries
of Europe, popular government sur
wives. it is a strange mixture OF
socialism and devotion to some par
ticular royal family.
Everywhere else. democracy has
persisted. 1t passed out of the pic
ture through its own inherent weak
ness, a deliberate cult of mediocrity
an absolute unwillingness to face
unpleasant facts, an exaggerated de-
votion to material interests, an al
most mythical belief in the efficacy
of the. spoken word and the UNI
willingness of the leaders to have
the courage of their own convictions
That is where the matter stands
today. All over Europe the last
strongholds of popular self-govern-
ment are being threatened with ex-
tinction by their powerful neighborS
who have submitted to the will of
a dictator.
AS for those who survive (our-
selves included, they seem abso-
lutely unable to save either their
friends or themselves. They waste
their time in talk. They pour out
words, words and more words. But
they do not raise finger to sustain
that cause in which they pretend
to believe with such glorious fervor
whenever they get together and
treat each other to some fine
OratOry
For alas. none of their leaders
seems IS yet TO have learned that
democracy being the most difficult
and complicated form of government
ever devised by human ingenuity,
can only be maintained by constant
Watchfulness on the part of all of
the citizens and by most careful
scrutiny and selection of those
whom they wish to recognize as
their leaders.
Without that unSelfiSh devotion
to the interest of the community at
large. all democracies are bound to
end in a dictatorship. That is the
great lesson which the history Of
the last 5000 years teaches us, be-
yond tho vestige of a doubt.
This Is not a cheerful conclusion,
but don blame me. | don't make
history. 1 only write about it.
(THE ENDl
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
You re Telling Me-

zadok Dumbkopf says he now
knows what becomes of the water
in which experimenters are grow
ing vegetables without soil. He says
it's sold as soup in the restaurant
across the street from his house.