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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11
Plane Production

LII VI OCIlllS d IOullu-I ll6-ClOCk pro-
duction schedule for warplane plants,
War Department officials took cog
nizance of series of articles pub
ished recently in The Star, in which
it was disclosed that the American
airplane industry as whole is
operating at about sixty-five per cent
OF its capacity. Those articles, pre-
pared by Joseph S. Edgerton, The
Stars aviation expert, showed, with
other things, that many plants hold
ing vital Government or British con-
tracts are working only five days a
week, that a majority are on a two
or tWo-and-a-half shift basis instead
OF three-shift, twenty four-hours-
a-day basis; that, generally speaking,
present production facilities are idle
from ne-fourth to one-third of the
time. This condition, as The Star
pointed out, has been tolerated de-
spite the fact that Britain is pleading
for more and more planes, while the
$4,000 planes of our own expanded
defense program are still ION order"
Shortages Of skilled labor, of expert
supervisors and of certain materials
were among reasons given by some
manufacturers for remaining on a
part-time production schedule But
there were other representatives of
the industry who frankly attributed
the failure to speed up production
to lack of initiative" of pressure, on
the part of the Government. I'VE
are ahead of the schedules set for
us by the War Department in their
contracts with us-why should we
move any faster?" was the gist of
their explanations.
Assistant Secretary of War Patter-
sons instructions to Major General
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army
Air Corps, for an all-out tempo at
plane factories is, in effect, the War
Departments answer to the amazing
allegation from private sources that
Army officials are not taking full
advantage of the Nations production
capacity. Defense Commissioner
Knudsen told the Army Ordnance
Association this week that whereas
it had been hoped that 1,133 planes
would be turned out this month, the
total probably would be around 900
or 950-if the present rate of manu-
facture were adhered to. BY Janu-
airy /, he said, he hopes to see the
rate stepped up to 1850 planes per
month, and by the spring of 1912
to 5000 per month. This would mean
a yearly production rate of $4,000
planes-Which is yet far short of the
$4,000 planes envisioned by President
Roosevelt some weeks ago.
1t is indeed high time that Amer
icas plane industry was speeded up
to the maximum capacity compatible
with the supply of labor and mate
rial. Why the three-shift system has
not been instituted long ago wherever
conditions permitted is a mystery
which is yet to be explained. 1t is
noted that Mr.. Patterson advised
General Arnold that the twenty
four hour plan is lone of the steps
necessary to increase production to
fullest capacity" If there are other
steps, the Government should lose
no time in taking them. Surely the
time has come to dispense with half
way measures and part time sched-
ules in rushing our imperiled de-
lenses to completion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11

Rome is promising certain British
colonies and dependencies as rewards
to the United States if she stays out
of war. Italians might well ponder
the adage, Don't sell Britain short"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11

The very latest, according to
beauticians, is that pompadours are
coming back. Oh, Yatsl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11

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SSoiCeiy WdS IIle WAL Degun-d year
ago in September-when Iraq severed
diplomatic relations with Germany. AL
most $4,000 Syrians volunteered for mill
tary service in behalf of the Allies. But
neutrality. Among all Arabs his name
is the most imposing. The all-important
oil lines, however, lie outside his do
minion. The line commences at Kirkuk,
in Northern Iraq, above Baghdad 1t
runs southwesterly and then divides in
two at Haditha on the Euphrates. One
line, formerly controlled by the French,
runs across Syria to Tripoli, the other,
controlled by the British. across Trans
Jordan and Palestine to Haifa.
The British have air bases at Ramla
in Palestine, Amman and Aqaba in
Trans-Jordan and Dhibban and Shaiba
in Iraq. The French had maintained a
military air base at Kayak in Syria and
seaplane base at Tripoli, Syria, which
the British probably would consider
available to themselves in the event of
Arab difficulties.
Thus it is a strong British position
with which Britain's enemies have to
contend in the Arab world. Adolf Hitler,
it is true, has promised the Arabs that
he would put an end to their period Of
'ill-treatment," and the British believed
that German-Italian inspiration lay be-
hind the anti-British mob activity in
Iraq in April, 1899, which led to the
murder Of the British Consul at Mosul.
The British possess still q further ad.
vantage In the Near East, which has .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11

@. Has the space Of a hairs breadth
ever been defned?-M. @.
A. In measurement, a hairbreadth Is
considered to be the forty-eighth part Of
an inch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11

@. Please tell me If tulip bulbs which
have been in the ground since last fall
should be transplanted-D. M. S.
A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says
that it is best not to disturb tulips bulbs
now Wait until after the next Towering
period ends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
Judge Origen s. Seymour

The death of Judge Origen s. Seymour must have come as a complete surprise to the state at large, although close friends and intimateS may have been aware of his physical condition of recent weeks. Certainly though, many of us had no idea that his distinguished career was so close to an end. Of fine and pioneer Connecticut family Judge Sey- mour more than carried on the tradition and heritage that was his.
 Although termed a Democrat in poli- tics one would never characterize him as a rabble-rousing partyman. He had been mentioned on occasions as a poten- tial candidate for the nomination of governor on the Democratic ticket, par ticularly so during the past winter when Democrats were pondering on the make up of the ticket to be decided upon this fall. He was close friend of Ex-Gover- nor Wilbur L. Cross and it was the latter who appointed him to the Common Pleas bench.
 Sturdy stock like the Seymours of Litchfleld is the foundation of most of our Connecticut communities. Would that more of his busy lifetime might have been spent in our midst. But we are thankful indeed that his lifespan ended here where 1t began.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23

London. Not legal page would be ruffled by royal decision to govern the empire from ottawa during the emergency. If the British navy should prove at length to be no match for the Nazi bombers, it might we'll accompany him, to remain buiwark of the far-flung empire though no longer effective in protecting the British Isles.
 Such a suggestion implies no defeat ism. It might well be the best way to win long-drawn-out war. It might be the best way to face postwar reorgani- zation. Such a change in administra- tion of the empire as whole would not directly affect the British military effort in Europe. In fact, 1t might even facili- tate it by freeing the government ma chinery from details of empire adminis- tration, leaving the way clear for single minded military effort. It is specula- tion, but it is the sort of speculation to which we might as well get accustomed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
New State Guard

Establishment of State Guard to take over the position ot the National Guard in the event Of war in which this nation would be involved recalls to most of us some of the real stirring and exciting days of l917-l9. Although the World War never got very close to our shores, right here in little old Connecticut there were all sorts Of rumors and stories about enemies in our midst. We had a State Guard then per forming the functions very capably of the militia We also had Home Guard which did yeomen service for short time.
 As the war progressed it became appar- ent that concentration had to be placed on filling the ranks with able-bodied men and perhaps there wasn't as much atten- ton paid to these other semi-military units. But to the men, who through dis ability or other valid reason mad to re- main at home while others marched off to war, they were fine outlet for all the pent-up patriotism that was theirs. Often you'll find the man who is denied the right to shoulder arms for his native land is a red-hot, briStling warrior although his chest may not be as full nor ms shoulders as broad as the one in training.
 The State Guard could and would per- form valiant service throughout this state in the event of war. None of us want to wish a war upon uS but these pre- parednesS steps are better taken now than on the very eve of battle or when they do little but reveal how totally open flo foreign aggression we are in New England. Everyone should welcome the foresghted call for mobilization of the State Guard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
Ottowa, Seat of Empire?

The world has seen, during the past two years, many strange and scarcely believable things. It is of little use to look at the Whirling events of today with the eyes of the past. It is hard enough to comprehend the present. New align ments are in the making. No matter which side wins the colossal super-War now shaking Europe, can anyone believe that the world which will emerge will be like that of 1919, that of 1929, or even that of 1889? Most certainly it will not What it will be like, we do not know. We only know it will be vastly different.
 Hollands Queen rules her colonial empire now from London, and Nether- lands corporations are rushing to trans fer their main offices to Batavia, Java. Much of the Dutch fleet has already gone there. Are not some of these changes permanent, no matter what the outcome of the war? Do they not suggest other possibilities?
 Suppose that establishment of Ger man bombing bases on the channel makes London besieged city in danger even of invasion and occupation. Prime Minister Churchill himself has said that once the situation in France is stabilized, the United Kingdom may expect concen- trated air attacks from the new Nazi bases only 100 miles distant. Is it not to suppose that administra- ton of the British Empire might then argely tranfer to Canada? George VI is ring in Ottawa exactly as he is king in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
Sorrowful Louvain

It seems ironical that the same cities and towns of Europe which were visited by death and destruction twenty-five years ago are again being reduced to ruins in the latest Nazi blitzkrieg. Yet we only have to pick up the papers to read that once again beautiful LouVain has been trampled in the dust. The World-famouS library which was blown to bits in the last war and then painstakingly rebuilt, chiefly with American money is smashed to smithereens.
 Peaceful little Belgium asking little of its neighboring nations save to be left to rule its own destinies rose from the World War without any thought of vengeance. In this latest series of light ming thrusts all over Europe 1t desired to play but the part of quiet neighbor, Yet it's lands are once again overrun by the trespasser The flower of it's man. hood is killed and maimed it's justly famous treasures are reduced to pulp. This is not civilization of which we boast so loudly; this is barbarism at it's worst.
 Americans who read more than the headlines cannot but shuGder at the ter rible tales which are slipping through censored press in Europe today. Safe in our own homes some of us surely must feel that all this wreckage in Europe is not productive of any better living, All of us are vitally affected by it whether we are interested or not. In our own secur- ity we must be conscious of duty as felloWmen of the war sufferers Let us follow this duty to the end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23

As previously indicated on several occasions the Connecticut State Medi- cal Society is not committed to the theory or practice yet of prepayment medical plan for this state. The idea has been broached many times and is being given considerable attention and thor ough study. Only the other day the state association voted to continue for another year the study of the plan. Most physi- clans and surgeons admit there is a need for some such plan as this, perhaps along the same lines that disqualification is now provided to thousands of Connecticut workers and their families, but they are not in accord on how this plan should be set up. By the end of another year there will be very valuable reports at tainable on the success or failure of many such medical assistance plans elsewhere. A number of them have been put into operation in eastern states during the past winter and results obtained from these actual operations will give Connec- ticut an idea of what may be done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
In Today's Mail

A fiesta is holiday with street fairs and games. music and dancing, confetti and fireworks. Everybody takes part, old and young. Most of our people dress in what you call pajamas. The men wear gay vari- colored blankets, we call them serapes, over their shoulders; and on their heads beautiful sombre- ros. And our girls! they are bee utiful!" Nothing like 1t is ever seen in Europe except in that land of beauty-Italy.
 And then our tourists by way Of contrast might make tour of our Soldiers Homes and Hospitals which are still crowded with the relics of our former wars and the last war we fought to save Democracy and end all wars. Here they will find soldiers who are in the prime of life in wheel chairs and on crutches, who will never again do a days work as result of our intervention in the affairs of other nations.
 And then there's Reno. Don't for- get Reno. A wonderful place to re- lax and rejuvenate. A real frontier town, with the oldest of traditions. according to Quentin Reynolds, who calls it "a bright, colorful and con- tradictory place, whose watch word is tolerance" In Reno a man can play little stud or roulette or faro. or keno at six in the morning or three in the afternoon or at any time of the day or night without risk of interference of the gendar- mes crashing in to say, you can't do that, mister, it's against the law" Reno is in Nevada-and Nevada is in Reno. A fine place for American tourists who don't know their own country to rusticate. Reno is still a frontier city, the closest link in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
MUCH TO BE SEEN IN OUR SIDE OF
 WORLD NOW
Editor the Democrat:

Editor the Democrat:
 It seems to me- as Heywood
 Broun, used to say, that one class of our Americans has been ignored and discriminated against by the overseas war of idealogies. that of the American tourists! Now that ocean travel to Monte Carlo, the Riviera, Gay Farce, London town and the King with his golden crown, and the exhibition battle fields of Europe, are no longer pos Sible of access to the idle rich of America, what's to be done about it? It just means that our globe-trot- ting American aristocrats will have to stay at home. and get acquainted with the beauties of their own coun- try, and incidentally keep their dol- lars where they will do more good than in Europe-at home.
 As President Roosevelt said: Let them stay in America and take in the two great worlds fairs, New York and San Francisco" or take a cruise In the Pacific Ocean and see some real scenery that can't be seen in Europe.
 Or take trip through Mexico and the six South American Repub- lies, and Central America, Panama, the West Indies, see some real TO- mantle scenery that the unfortunate natives of Europe have never dreamt of. Or as Lowell Thomas's Don Carlos said: Revolutionsl Bah!
 That's movie stuff. Come on down to our side of the Rio Grande, my friend. and see for yourself. We have a fiesta here every third day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
Press Comment
U. s. 1 IS "sUICIDE HIGHWAY"
(Meriden Journal)

NMeEaue1l JOurHuU
 Suicide Highway In the U. s. A, has been discovered by one news paper. It Is none other than famous No. l, which goes through New York Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing ton, Richmond, Raleigh and on to Florida and all points in the south- east.
 In sections 1t is a miserable high way and wholly inadequate for the amount of travel 1t Is called upon to take. Its record for deaths and injuries would be even worse If many tourists did not choose to take the coastal highway and ferry across Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk. Just how dangerous U. s. 1 Is can be judged from the fact that 400 per- sons were killed on 1t last year be- tween New York and Miami. There were thousands of injured. And wrecker business is the best along the entire Atlantic seaboard.
 In Connecticut, the seashore Post road is U. s. 1, but 1t becomes wide and handsome when drivers turn of to the parallel Merritt Parkway. Similarly, the drive to New York over parkways is a pleas ure. After that, the motorist en- counters both boulevards and nar- row, black roads.
 A project is underway to recon struct many miles of No. in Penn. sylvania but Suicide Highway will probably justify its bad name for years to come. One trouble Is that some states divert their heavy re- ceipts from motor fees and taxes to uses other than road building
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23

America to the lusty, vigorous Gold en West of hundred years ago. The Goddess of Chance and the Goddess of Luck, have pedestals in Reno. Monte Carlo is a piker along side of our little desert town, in a desert state where there are great valleys flung to wide horizons cov- cred with sagebrush- nothing else. And Nevada is a state which refuses to grow up, and Reno is still the swashbuckling, independent frontier city where men from the plains and gold mines go to relax at the week ends. What a place for our tourists, some of who never heard of 1t.
 Then there's California and Los Angeles. There can be seen the American Devils Island, known as Alcatraz where time does not exist. Where the U. s. Government sends its too enterprising citizens, who speculate in watered stock and the other crimes.
 Then there is the City of the An- gels, with its Arabian Nights, enter tainments and sea beaches that rival any of famed Italy's exotic re- sorts, and last but not least the most famous city in the world, the Bag dad of movie creations-H Hollywood, whose fame brings even the mem bers of the families of the crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe. Hollywood where they manufacture movie stars. Home of fantasy, illus tration and exploitation. No place to go in America, "say our blase tour- ists. Let them Stop, Look and List en-" and go to Coney Island to con- vince themselves that their country is the greatest in the world
 COLUMBIA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23
Selected Poem
A SOLDIER
Drank T. Murray in the Pets Column,
 Hartford Times

 Today liked a man. Twas not for hatred Or because the cloth he wore Was faded grey-not faded tan-ike mine Twas suddenly. From out the haze of dawn There loomed this now cold clou He bore a gun, not different much from mine With bayonet hardly sensed his nearness- Glimpsed his shape-but bndly (We they taughtD Dropped knee to earth and forward iungec. It was so easy-sharpened point ripped flesh mangled throat-a gasp-and 1t was done No shriek-no plea for mercy-only this: course of squirting blood-a feeting query In his eyeS-a sense of freedom as his sinking Form released the tension in my arms. But here sit And as free the blade from rusting stain My thought Brings view of valley topped by lofty crag- The laugh of children and a womans smile Soul shining in dogs brown eyes. The smell Of sprng-a new plowed furrow. Flowers in A garden-food-and appetite that is well-earned By toil. For me-they may yet be. For him-they might have never been! Today killed man. wonderfully?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23

and to reconstructing minor roads for the benefit of local citizens. The voters must be pleased.
 There will have to be some intel- ligent planning in the near future to take through traffic outside of the congested sections of such cities as Baltimore and Washington, and Philadelphia, with It's bypass. is still too crowded.
 An improved highway could be provided in sections needing 1t at reasonbale cost. There is no actual need of a fancy highway such as Connecticut's Merritt. which cost $l,000.O00 a mile. Many drivers would be willing to forego the scen- cry If they could have three or four lane highway that would accomo- date the immense traffic with some degree of safety.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23

e. How many versions of Gone with the Wind" have been produced on the screen?
 A. There Is only one screen ver- sion, but many prints of it are in circulation.
 e. Who is chairman of the Re. construction Finance Corporationr
 A. Emil sehram.
 e. Which one of the air-eooled automobiles was first on the marketp
 A, Daimler, with Q fly wheel far; prior to 1898,
 e. Where arc the famous ruins known as Angkor Watp
 A. They are the ruins of Q Temple Of SiVa built in the l2th century In Cambodia, French Indo-China, and are famous for the variety of scenes seulptured In relief, representing the royal court, the priesthood and the army.
 e. How many miles Is 1t from the top of the highest mountain to the greatest depth of the sea9
 A. i22 miles.
 e. Tn his duel with Aaron Burr, was Alexander Hamilton killed h. stantly9
 A. He was wounded and died the following day, July i2, 1904.
 Tf you want a copy of the book. let "How A Newspaper Is Made' send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir. teenth street, Washington, D. c. Enclose ten cents In postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-23

duction of some of the most es- sential war ma- terials; 1t sug- gests stron g y that Q number of these bottle- necks are under the control of German inter- estS.
 As long ago as last January a memorandum was drawn up by anti . trust division inVes. tigators, After asserting f h n f