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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
PeriIs of Diplomacy

The troubles in the life of a diplomat are weightier and more numerous than the average citizen comprehends. Paul Film and Nicolai Feonoff are the head of a Russian trade delegation currently conducting negotiations in London. Caught in an air raid recently, they scur- ried from their automobile to the nearest shelter. It was the doorway of building.
 Feeling they were reasonably safe from falling debris and shrapnel, they began to look around To their acute diplo- matic embarrassment, they discovered they were taking refuge in the doorway of the Polish embassy. Now Poland and two loyal Soviet envoys drew themselves up, walked out into the street again, proud in the knowledge that their per sonal peril was not so great as the fact they had preserved the honor of their country.
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The trend of the time and the watch word of the future are expressed in the key Christmas card of the season-Merry Christmas, the American Way! Already the American type card has appeared in the vanguard of the Christmas 1940 series. The thing is to make the words actually mean more than popular sen timent or catch phrase. If you express the wish that you wish your friends Merry Christmas in the American way, mean just that. The American way, we expect, means the democratic way, with no entangling subversive affiliations or attachments. If this Christmas is to have the patriotic motif, it will also attach a deeper feeling for the religious side which is the foundation for Christ mas. We might do well to commercial ize it in a patriotic way, but it is also the duty of all of Christian ideas to com mercialize it in a religious way by greeting friends with cards that express the spirit of the feast.
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With America all set and ready to go training large army from coast to coast and northern to southern boundaries vast acres are being bought by the United States government. Every corner and every section will have it's training ground, New England included, ten thousand acres of land here just pur- chased. Included in the New England section are over five thousand acres near Fort Devens military reservation at Aver, Mass, and over forty-five hundred acres on the Fort Ethan Allen Artillery range at Burlington, Vt. It won't be long now when it will be natural sight to see as many men in khaki as in civilian clothes with the air and the marine and the naval uniforms mixed in. The Agriculture De partment of the government handles the sales of the added acres.
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kO114Us
 The debate is whether to impose an almost complete embargo on the sale of raw materials to Japan particularly fuel oil.
 One group within the Cabinet sees no reason why we should keep on feeding the Japanese war machine. The other group = and this includes the entire State De- partment = fears that if we cut off the sale of these supplies too abruptly, Japan will strike back.
 To get the full significance of the present picture, one must com- pare it with an almost identical situation which faced the Roose- welt administrator when Japan invaded China in 1887. For the most part, the details of this story have not been told.
 When Japan first launched its
 invasion, series of conferences
 took place between roosevelt,
 Hull and the British embassy
 during which both sides agreed
 that Japanese conquest of
 China, with it's cheap labor and vast raw materials, would mean a new industrial empire in Asia
 which eventually would challenge Australia, New Eea:and and the United States in the Pacific.
 Secretary Hull went further than this, and pointed out that the dictators of Europe Hitler and Mussolini-were just begin- ming to show signs of going on the rampage, and that while the United States could not afford to get mixed up in Europe, it did have treaty obligations in China. He. felt that to invoke the peace machinery of the world in order to make an object lesson of a dic- tator nation. Japan-might have 8 very salutary effect upon Hit Ter and Mussolini.
 LONG DISTANCE BLOCKADE
 As result of these conversa- tions, plan was evolved whereby the United States, Britain and France invoked the peace mach inery of the League of Nations and the Nine Power Pact guaran- teeing the sovereignty of China Backbone of the plan was a long distance naval blockade worked out by the Admirals of the U. s. Navy and the British Admiralty. Under this plan British war ships at Singapore and U. S. ships along the California coast and Panama undertook to starve out the Jap anese military machine by cutting off scrap iron, copper, cotton, fuel oil and gasoline.
 Japan, absolutely dependent
 upon these raw materials, has to get them either via the United
 States or via Singapore. And
 because of the long distances be-
 tween Japan and California, and
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between Japan and Singapore (seven days sailing) it would have been impossible for the Japanese fleet to attack either the British or American navieS.
 The element of distance was the essence of the plan. And Admiral Leahy, who helped conceive 1t and was head of the Navy at that time, estimated that the Japanese war machine would be starved out in three months without the United States or Britain losing anything save a few gunboats on the Yangtze.
 With some misgivings the State Department finally OK'd the idea, and the British de- tailed four battleships, twelve cruisers and twenty destroyers to sail through Suez to Singa- pore.
 But just at that moment-the summer of 1937-the dictators of Europe, playing just as close ball with Japan as today, started their submarine piracy" campaign
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Of Men and Horses

We don't know how Adolf Hitler feels about horses, but he might do well to study them. Equine war booty, says dispatch from Berlin, is giving the Ger mans trouble. After their juggernaut rolled through the Netherlands, Belgium and France, the Nazis took back with them e number Of horses from these cour- tries The horses, Of course, don't under stand German, and when their drivers shout the German equivalents Of "uec" and "ffaw", the horses are just co likely ns not to go In the wrong direction.
 If that's true Of horses, why not Of
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What's Your l. O.!
Can you answer seven oe these test questions? Turn C last page fer the answers.

1. What is the slang term for the securities of companies engaged in the manufacture of munitions and other war supplesf
 }. Which fan flower is nicknamed mum?
 3. Name the novel for which Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings received the Pulitzer prize in 1889.
 {. In which middle western state is the Miami river7
 5. What is the sign of subtraction called?
 6. Which is heavier, milk or cream2
 T. For what invention is Simon Lake notable?
 6. Arthur B. Purvis Is a famous G-man, head of the British Pur- chasing commission in the U. s. or an American labor leaderf
 9. What is the common nation ality designation of all persons born in the U. S.7
 10. Is the sea robin a bird or fsh2
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in the Mediterranean, sinking two or three British merchant vessels near Spain and causing the Bri- tish to keep their ships in the Mediterranean instead of sending them on to Singapore.
 So the long distance naval blockade was suspended.
 BRUSSELS CONFERENCE
 However, it was revived again a month later after the Mediter- ranean crisis had calmed. In preparation for the second ate tempt, President Roosevelt de- nvered his famous Chicago speech in which he warned the Ameri- can people that the time might come when they would want to impose a "quarantine" against an aggressor nation.
 Shortly thereafter, a conference of the Nine Powers which had guaranteed the sovereignty of China a treaty initiated by
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men? It may be that their reaction time is slower. They're not so likely to balk at not understanding the Germans lam guage, but in time they'll find far greater differences in the Nazi philosophy which they can't understand and don't want to. And then the men of Belgium and Holland and France will balk too, and start off in the opposite direction, just as the horses are doing now.
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Current Comment

Tn thls period of international crisis America neds . powerful cons sumer cooperative movement tc preserve and extend democracy and to act as . yardstIck to prevent pos- slble exorbItait price increases gFow- ing out Of war boom. --E. R. Bowen, general secretary, Cooperative League.
 
 Culture and literature. Mr. Man. f0ia, afe Rll vofy well, bat q clll. Ans without slrnngth soon ceases t0 Do a living culture. Winston Churchill 10 Maurols lfl iesb, according 70 MaufofA
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and production is carried on for use instead of for profit.
 When the majority of workers de sire such as society (and the onl, alternative is an American brand of Fascism) they must organize poll tically for purpose of voting Capital ism out of existence and organize into Socialist Industrial Unions fol the purpose of enforcing the deci- sion of the majority rendered at the ballot box. These Socialist Industria Unions will not only be Q bulwarf against any reactionary attempt t. subyert the wishes of the majority but they will also serve as the fram' work of an industrial form of so. ciety with workers electing theb representatives to an 1ndustria Congress. The sole duty of this Con- gress will be that of cO-ordinatine the vast productive machine of the nation with the capacity of the peo. ple to consume the wealth produced Under an Industrial Republic O. Labor the good things of life will be available to everyone as well es the necessary leisure in which to enjoy them.
 JAMES 4 HUrCHIN,
 Socialist Labor Party Nominee
 for D. 6. Senator
 4006 N. Main Street,
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Questions
 and Answers
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 THE EDITOR e. Did Marvin Stephens ever ap' pear in film comedies with Mickey Rooney?
 A. Yes, he played small parts in ''Micky Mcclure" comedies with Mickey Rooney.
 @. What are the birth dates ot Earl Browder, Nikolai Lenin and Josef Stalin2 A. Browder--May 20, 1891: Lenin April 10, 1870; Stalin-D December 21, 1879.
 e. Was the Department of the Interior ever called the Home De- partment? z A. It was established as the Home Department in 1ez9. and the title subsequently, was changed to thS Department of the Interior.
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hang the outcome of the war could easily be decided by what the United States does in the Pa cif1c. And they don't mean it would be necessary to fire any shots, either.
 Here's the way it's being fig- ured:
 Britain can spare few, if any, men to defend the eastern Med- iterranean. The Suez Canal and the near eastern oil fields may be of vital importance, but they will have to be defended with men on the spot or with achievements from Australia, New Zealand and India. Because of the Japanese threat in the Pacific, however, large bodies of dominion and In- dian troops must be kept at home and can't be sent to the Mediter- ranean.
 JAPAN KNOWS
 SINGAPORE'S VALUE
 Japan, however, has not yet act ed. If the United States should get in ahead of her = say by sign- ing an agreement for use of the Singapore naval base, and putting 8 part of it's fleet there-any Japan csc threat in that area would be nullified. Should that happen, the AnZacS and the Indian army corps could go to Suez and to Asia Minor in safety.
 Should the U. s. fleet be visit ing in 8 northern Australian port 1t would be within 2500 miles, or easier striking distance of Singa- pore = and the effect would not be lost on the Japanese. Navy men here are highly con- hdent they could beat Japan if they had use of the Singapore base. They could clamp on a tight blockade, they believe, under circumstances which would com pei the Japanese to fight at a great disadvantage. Further, they think the Japanese are quite aware of it flor which reason the belief is growing here that Japan would not force 8 war if the U. s. fleet should suddenly materialize at Singapore.
 GENESIS MAY
 GET GASOLINE
 Opinion in Washington is that re- opening of the Burma road will be an excellent tonic for Chinese morale, although 1t will not come close to offsetting the material loss China takes through closing of the route through Indo-C China.
 Via Indo-C China, the Chinese have been importing around 100.- 900 tons of war materials a year. Hardly more than a third of that quantity can be brought in from Burma, but chief material impor- tance of reopening the route, 1t is believed, is that the Chinese will be able to get some badly-needed gasoline.
 CHINESE GOOD ~
 FOR LONG FIGHT
 The long overland haul to Rus sia has been the third route by which supplies could get in to China Bringing things in that way is exceedingly expensive. for the road isn't too good, and it's a long, long grind.
 Informed circles here believe the Chinese can go on fighting for long time. They haven't the artillery or planes to attack the Japanese in fortified strongholds, but they produce their own rifles, machine guns and ammunition. and they can create plenty of trouble in open warfare.
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Daily Almanac
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Moon rises b;3i ?. ni.
 Sun rises e:0l c. m; sets b;ii D. m.
 All vehicles must bs' lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The fuil moon phase occurred this morning carly, Coming as it dld shortly after . o'clock Co brlngs promise Of f0llF weather, rain and wind for the m0st part. Ips been long des layed and n this spell aoss break now it should result ln the lest part of the month turning very favorable again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16

RuluStlLe WaTTl0l . and handed him a great sword and a mighty shield, a h e l m e t, and . breastplate.
 It was a great equi p m 1t but David la g h e q with the glee oi boyhood as he put on Saul's helmet and found that 1t came down over IhiS ears. He lift- cd the great. sword
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tralia lies the agitation to have the U. s. fleet lease the Sin- gapore n a V a l base.
 Strategists in Washington are b e g i n n i n g to suspect Brit aims s tru g g l e to retain her hold on Suez and the eastren M e d i t e r. r 8 n e a Il - on W h i c h m a y
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This is the day that year ago most people had not dreamed of. The young men of the country are being registered. Tomorrow, Registration Day, will be less of a wonder and already passing into history
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16

e. Where is the office building that has no stairway or elevator How do tenants get to their officei
 A. The Westall Building in Ash. vile, N. C., was built without an elevator, stairway, or plumbing or heating plant, and, at present has no tenants. It was erected in 1924 at the same time as the adjoining Jackson Building, and an agree ment was entered into at the time for the mutual use of the facilities of the Jackson Building. A disagree ment over charges for the use of the latter;s stairways, elevators, plumbing and heating necessitated the closing of entrances into the Westall Building.
 e. What was the fastest camera lens ever made?
 A. Probably an F: .02, an experi- mental lens that was not very prac- tical. The fastest practical lens in general use today is F: 1.o. A few movie cameras are equipped with F: IS and F: IA lenses.
 If you want . copy of ''ELEC- TTON PACKET" of four publica- fions, send to The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Fifteenth Street, Washing- ton. D. c. Enclose fifteen cents in v.N1ka 1e
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Washington Merry-G Go-Round

DREW PEARSON N
 ROBERT s. ALLEN
WASHINGTON, October 16. '

 regarding the Far East taking place behind the scenes in Ana rmne the policy toward Japan There complete naprn on the
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National Spotlight
BY BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Washington, Oct. 16-Behind the rumors of a possible goodwill tour" of the U. s. fleet from Pearl Harbor 5000 miles down the Pacific to Aus
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STRENGTH FOR. THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D
BE YOURSELF

In the story of David and Goliath there occurs the interesting account of how King Saul called before him the young shepherd boy as he was about to go out to meet the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16

TODAY's COMMON ERROR Dc not say, "I got . raise in
 salary; say, My salary was
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Evening star., 1940-05-12
John Ringing North
Weds French Actress
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. May 11.-John
Ringing North, Ringing. Brothers
Circus executive, was married today
to Germaine Agassis, French movie
actress.
Professionally, Miss Agassis uses
the surname Aussey.
The bride Is 30; the bridegroom,
SO.
Judge George Gowen Parry per-
formed the ceremony in his City
Hall chambers. Miss Agassis, caugh-
ter Of q retired government EN-
ploye In Paris, wore q black dress
with an ermine stole.
Mr.. North discovered" Miss
Agassis on q talent hunt in Europe
last winter.
The marriage Is Mr.. Norths Sec
ond. He was divorced In 1890 from
the former Jane Dourelly Of Pitts
burgh.
The bride and bridegroom left for
honeymoon at sasasota, Fla.
Evening star., 1940-05-12
Norwoy's independence
To Be Celebrated Here

Norway's independence day will
be marked Friday night by the Nor
wegian-American Society of Wash
ington with a program in Pierce
Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard street
NV, the proceeds of which, IRON
ically, will be used for relief of Morse
war sufferers.
Norwegian Minister william
Munthe de Morgenstierne is expect
ed to speak briefly or send repre-
sentative to acquaint members of
the society and others interested
with latest war developments in Nor
way. The program, scheduled to
begin at $3.50 o'clock, also is to in
clude mass singing. vocal solos, Or
gan music and dancing.
Friday is the anniversary of rat
ification of the constitution of Nor
way in 1848.
Evening star., 1940-05-12
Pianist 10 Play Today
On Dollar Clubs
Symphony Broadcast
Reino Luomu to Be Guest
Artist in Musical Appeal
For Orchestra Funds

Carrying the message of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra cam
paign into the homes of all WASH
ington, the N. B. C.-Star Dollar
Club today will broadcast q musical
appeal by RENO Luoma, noted Finn
tsh-American pianist.
The pianist, one of the many
guest artists to broadcast from the
Dollar Club at 728 Fourteenth street
NV. during the campaign, will play
Chopin's "Etude in A Minor, Opus
25."
On the same program, to be
heard at 4:30 pm. over w. R. c.,
Margaret Wilder and Amelia Mar
schat will present vocal duet.
Betsy Winter. founder of Young
Friends of the Symphony and a
member of the education commit
tee for the symphony drive, will be
interviewed and make her contribu-
ton to the Dollar Club.
DR.. Ben r. Cherrington, chief of
the Division of Cultural Relations
OF the State Department, will Join
the Dollar Club during the broad
cast tomorrow at 1890 pm. over
Station WMAL. Mrs. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, wife of the president of
George Washington University, will
sing Dawn" by Leoni and Dorothy
Radde Emery, pianist, will play a
Chopin nocturn.
A brother and sister will be the
featured artists on the program
broadcast from Dollar Club head
quarters tomorrow at 4:30 pm. over
Station WRC. Milton Schwartz,
Wolinist. will play Fantasia" from
the garden scene of Gounod's
Faust" and his 12-year-old sister,
Phyllis. who sang on the final
student concert presented by the
National Symphony Orchestra this
year, will sing Mozart's Lullaby"
Membership in the Dollar Club
will be awarded to the music group
from Friendship House when dele
cation OF young people from the
settlement present $25 to the CAM
Haign during the late afternoon
broadcast. Another gift for the
drive will be presented at that time
hv Miss Ninette Roll, representing
the Chevy Chase Junior College.
DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor of
the National Symphony Orchestra,
came to the Dollar Club for the first
time yesterday to express his con-
Wction that the drive would be a
success. He pointed out that in
time of war and crisis abroad, music
IN this country should be encouraged
and preserved.
Herbert Hodge, 16-year-old stu
dent at the Dmitrieff Piano School,
presented a $45 contribution from
the pupils at the school and, during
the broadcast yesterday, gave
brief piano recital.
Among the contributions mailed
and brought to the Dollar Club to
aid the symphony campaign yes
terday was a $38 contribution from
the faculty and Parent-Teacher AS
sociation of Whittier School.
Evening star., 1940-05-12
Symphony Campaign
Enters Last 5 Days
With 40 PET. Raised
Special Appeal Is Made
For Additional Small
Contributions

Volunteer workers in the 10th
annual sustaining fund drive of the
National Symphony Orchestra today
enter the last half Of their Today
campaign with 40.39 per cent Of
their SLOT 800 already raised.
The progress the drive has made
since the first report luncheon
Thursday will be announced to-
morrow when the workers gather
for their second report luncheon
at 1890 pm. in the Carlton Hotel.
headquarters for the campaign to
sustain the orchestra through the
1940-H season.
The final report meeting will be
held on Thursday, the last day
of the drive. The luncheons are
arranged by a committee headed
by Mrs. Milton w. King, assisted
by Mrs. George Hewitt Myers. Mrs.
r. H. Dunlap, Mark Lansburgh ana
A. F.. E. Horn, general chairman of
the symphony campaign.
Appeal for Small Gifts.
An appeal to the smaller con-
tributors to make up in the number
of their gifts what the campaign
lacks in larger contributions was
voiced last night by Mrs. Dunlap,
secretary for the campaign. Mrs.
Dunlap is also a member Of the
Special Gifts Committee.
Because of the short time In
which we had to prepare for the
campaign" Mrs. Dunlap said, "and
because of the lateness of the season
the Special Gifts Committee is be-
hind in its quota. Ordinarily this
committee begins its work at least a
month in advance of the campaigns
actual opening. This year, we were
able to begin our soliciting only a
few days before the opening of the
drive. The warm weather is upon
us, and more people are leaving
Washington each day. Although We
hope to reach our quota before the
end of the campaign, it is within the
realm of possibility that we may
have to make up in some way for the
loss of some larger contributions we
had counted on.
Not All Can Be Reached.
consequently, we appeal to the
people of Washington to do two
things: To contribute whatever they
can for the maintenance of the
symphony, and to contribute without
waiting for solicitation.
Heretofore, many have said they
would have liked to contribute to
the National Symphony. but no
one had solicited them. This year,
with our limited time, our TOO volun-
teer workers cannot appeal person.
ally to each resident of Washington.
We must appeal to you publicly to
subscribe to the limit Of your ability
at one Of the three places which
have been established for that pur-
pose."
Contributions to the symphony
may be mailed or delivered in person
to campaign headquarters of the
drive in the Carlton Hotel; the
Offices of the National Symphony In
the woodward Building, or to the
Dollar Club, 72S Fourteenth street
NV. A special symphony desk in
the north lobby of the Carlton has
been established for this purpose,
with q volunteer worker in at
tendance at all times.