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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

Richmond. va.-(UP)-The swivel chair tops q list of office hazards released by the Virginia state health department. The report says office while at work of they were not satiscflyled with the Fealtlve com- fort ol swivel chairs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
POPULATION DECLINE

Newark, N. J., eighteenth largest city in the United States, had 8 population decline in the 1940 cen- sus, dropping from 442,337 in 1880 to 428, 8,236 in 1940.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

A fluffy form of glass wool has been developed for aircraft insula- tion and sheathing. Its noise and vibration resisting qualities indi- cate great possibilities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
New York. Stations . . wEAF-sSO = wOR-7lO WJZ-77O = WABC-sso

4:0e-WEAF-Back Wife WOR-Baseball Game:
 Braves vS. Cubs WJZ-Club Matinee
 WABC-Richard Maxwell 4:1S-WEAF-Stella Dallas
 WABC-American Serenade 4:30-WEAF-Loren Jones 4:45-WEAF-Young Wilder wJZ-News, 4:55
 WABC-Burl Ives 6:0e-WEAF-Home of the Brave WJZ-Ireene Wicker
 WABC-Story of Mary Mar S:1s-WEAF-Portia Faces Life WOR-Waite Hoyt WJZ-The Bartons
 WABC-The Goldbergs 6:30-WEAF-We. the Abbotts WOR-Duke Daly's Orch. WJZ-Adventure Stories WABC-The O'Neills 5:45-WEAF-Jack Armstrong WOR-Korn Robbers;
 Sports
 wJz-Wings on Watch WABC-Wings Over Jordan 6:00-WEAF-Three Suns; Scores WOR-Uncle Don
 WJZ-News; Allen Prescott WABC-News; National Golf e:l5-WEAF-News WOR-Travelogue, 6:20 WJZ-Bill Stern, Sports WABC-Outdoors, Bob Edge e:SO-WEAF-Heirs of Liberty WOR-News, F. Singiser WOR-Don Lindley's Orch. WABC-News, P. Sullivan e:45-WEAF-P. Douglas. Sports WOR-Here' Morgan
 WOR-Lowell Thomas WABC-The World Today 7:00-WEAF-Fred Warnings Orch. WOR-Sports, Stan Lomax WJZ--Easy Aces
 WABC-Amos and Andy 7:16-WEAF-John w. Wander cook
 WoR-Dunham's Orch;
 Sports
 WJZ-Lost Persons
 WABC-Lanny Ross a:30--WEAF-Cugat Rumba Re-
 yue; Lima Romay
 WOR-Confidential Yours t WJz-Joseph Gallicchio's
 Orch.
 WABC-Maudie's Diary T:45-Inside of Sports S:00-WEAF-House
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
1OSO-WTIC--2SS

F. M. ks 4:00-Backstage Wife 4:15-Stella Dallas 4:30-LorenZo Jones 4:45-Young Wilder Brown 5:00-Home of the Brave 5:15-Portia Faces Life 5:30-We, The Abbotts 5:45-Jack Armstrong 6:0O-News and Weather 6:15-Baseball Scores and Strict
 ly Sports 6:25-Five Dollar Facts 6:30-Professor Andre Schenker 6:45-Lowell Thomas 7:00-Fred Warnings Orch. 7:15-News of the World 7:30-Old Favorites Gone Modern S:00-The Housewarming 9:00-Kraft Music Hall 10:00-Rudy Vallee Program 10:30-Good Neighbors 11:00-News and Weather 11:15-Harry kogen's String En-
 semble :30-Barry Winton's Orch. 12:00-Michael Loring's Orch. 12:30-Orrin Fuckers Orch. 12:55-News
 :00-Silent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

Peru has a plan for constructing school buildings throughout the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

wATRMBS features tonight .6:3O Sports Page IL Fulton Lewis Inside of S:l5 Sky Over Britain Ill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
saes ana slanol Coas0lnw

Motor tlavsl being what it is today Sew. # any, og our city streets are nov safe for coasllnR during the winter months. The only way such sports can be enjoyed on hilly streets is to have these thoroughfares roped off for certain hours when the sliding is good. But the adJa- cent property-0wneFs would probably object to this and unless the hill was very much isolated there would be complaints from all sorts of trades-people because their trucks had to be rerouted around the restricted areas.
 So it more or less behooves the city fathers to find some adequate coaSting hills within the city parks. Fulton Park affords a natural spot for sliderS or sklers. There is good slope at Chase Park, too, that might be utilized, for 1t has been more or less of recent years by boys from this neighborhood for skiing. It's barely possible that some of the slopes of the municipal golf course would fit in such plan, if efforts were made to pro- tect the greens
 Of course there is always the thought that the city is laying itself open to claims of negligence and careleSsneSs # accidents occur among boys and girls coaSting on city-owned property. That we presume, will have to be taken into consideration when program Is finally outlined for general use. But, in this sport there really isn't any more differ ence in liability than there is in baseball, football, skating, swimming, all of which are indulged in on city property.
 Sliding and skating are sports depend ent on weather conditions and subject to their vagaries, SO they must be en- joyed in this climate at an opportune moment Let's plan that these oppor- tune moments won't be wasted because of failure to plan for them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Man Makes The Clothes

Mayor LaGuardia of New York has been criticised by the Custom Cutters Club on the ground that he doesn't Hnea- sure up sartorially with their idea of what the well-dressed statesmen should wear. The fiery little mayor has lots of achieve ments to his credit but we don't think his best friend would argue for his dress, which is negligent sometimes to the point of sloppiness. In advancing the immacu- late Grover Whalen as their ideal of how a public official should dress, however, the Cutters weakened their case, for Whalen is best known for his appearance.
 To dress well is a fine thing, and no one Is the worse for appearing at his best. The ideal, however, Is that clothes, like any package, should set of product of proved merit. Any good product is ina- proved by attractive packaging, but even a pretty package doesn't make mince pie out of black bread. If we were a New Yorker, we think we'd be content to let LaGuardia run the city and let Whalen wear the clothes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Press Comment
SHELTER BELT THRIVING (New York Herald-Tribune }

The long held theory that trees will not grow on the Great Plains, which received its most thorough test when i90.000,000 of them were set out, from North Dakota to Texas, seems to be diSproved by the result. The experiment began in 1885, acc companied by derislve hots and gen. eral prophecies of failure. Figures now available show average survival of 70 per cent, which would not be had In far more favorable circura- stances. In Nebraska, for example, 82 per cent of trees set out last spring are living. Figures for 1887 and l040 also were encouraging, while in 1886, when only 5l per cent pulled through, the tree belts defeat- ed one of the worst droughts in the states history.
 An important factor in the suc- cess of the shelter experiment has been the cooperation of farmers. who tended the seedlings in infancy. That agricultural sentiment has changed in favor of extending the windhrealEs is shown by the fact that many farmers have asked for new planting. The cases are not a pana- cea for all the Middle West farmers troubles. 'aThe Omaha World Her. aid" comments. and may not alter climatic conditions materially, but, in addition to crop and soil protec- ton, there are many indirect benz egits. Among them are improvement in the appearance of the landscape, wildlife shelter, especially fer insec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
A Thought for Today
Peace by Force

How shall the world ever attain peace? Every approach, 1t would seem, has been tried, and every approach has failed. For more than 1900 years the Christian world has struggled toward peace through re- ligious and ethical teaching - and 1t has failed Great powers like Rome tried to attain peace by conquering all the civilized world and maintaining peace by arms under single banner Napoleon probably had some such idea in mind, and Charlemagne, and Francis - all failed.
 The League of Nations was an effort at voluntary world order and 1t failed. The Kellogg -Briand pact was an effort to outlaw war and those who pledged themselves foreswore their pledge. Sen- timental, logical, ethical, religious, legal, organizatlonal, propagandistic - thou sand approaches to the problem of peace, and the answer still eVades weary world.
 Newest suggestion of them all now comes from Douglas Johnson, professor of physiography at Columbia University, writing in International Consolidation" organ of Carnegie Endowment for Inter- national Peace. Professor Johnson was member of the American peace commis- sion at Paris in 1919-19; there Is eX- perience behind his study. He has arrived at 6 plan for "peace through force" It sounds like a contradiction, or as some kind of return to the Pax Romano" by which Rome enforced kind of peace be. meath its own sword.
 But Professor Johnson has gone much farther than that. Force, he concludes, IS the vital clement hitherto lacking In peace plans. It must be behind any plan or peace that will be truly effective. No single nation can be trusted to wteld that force. Joint and united force Ito sustain the moral judgments of an upward striv- ing civilization against the evil actions of backward minority" is what ProfeS- sor Johnson suggests. The Monroe Doc. urine extended to cover all nations of good will, with united force to back up decisions reached through orderly pro- cedureS.
 This rather realistic approach will shock some of the peace idealists Yet the methods of pure idealism have all failed. While 1t Is true that mechaf1! ism of force such as IS suggested here might be manipulated for selfish ends and ieSs-than-idealistic purposes, never theless, the chance seems less sinister than another vista of naked and impotent idealisn wringing it's hands as sinister statesmen laugh and subject others to their force, nocking. Peace by force = 1t seems a come-doWn after centuries of peace idealism. Yet 1t might be better than no peace at all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Let the Light Shine

Never was there . better time to brighten the lamp of Liberty than In these dark days when its very fires are threatened by encroaching darkness. They are going to install new lamps in the torch of the statue that stands at the entrance of New York harbor bearing the name Liberty Enlightening the World" Twenty miles out at sea the new light will be visible to ships.
 It Is a symbolism. In every field, from the most exalted general concepts of our civilization down to the most common place relationship of our daily life, we need to make brighter the lamp of liberty, outlast the night, but eventually flood the world not merely with light but with enlightenment. In that first dim day. light of the world 1t was the voice of God Himself which said. Let there be light!" And there was light.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Five Warships in a Week

The U. s. Naval building program was begun, fortunately, before the general defense program was launched shortly after the fall of France. The reward of that foresight is now being reaped. Five warships. deStroyers and submarines, all from three to five months ahead of sched- ule, are taking the water in single week, including the launching of the battleship Indiana
 Two-ocean naval protection on the scale planned is still long way ahead, but the United States now has unquestionaply the greatest Navy in the world. True 1t Is not perhaps the greatest considering the divided tasks 1t faces in Atlantic and Pacific, yet the speed with which new ships are being launched gives good hope that the goal will be achieved consider ably ahead of the time set. It can't be too soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
A Trihe Lower

The time will come, we hope, when Waterbury will not be forced to go out into the money markets and borrow funds with which to defray its operating ex- penses until It's own income has reached the point where 1t may be used for this purpose. The fiscal makeup of this municipality is such that considerable period of time usually elapSeS between the setting into operation of new bud-- get, involving as 1t does the closing up of old books and accrual of funds being raised in this new budget.
 Tn short at the end of the city's fiscal year whatever funds are left over con- prise a surplus which cannot be drawn against for operating expenses in the first few weeks of the new budget. Funds usually aren't available until taxes start coming in. And the tax due date isn't until May, so the bulk of the city's 1n- come is not available until this time Of the year. A long time ago, this led to n.. the practice of borrowing sufficient money to carry the city's business along until these tax funds were available.
 Last year Waterbury borrowed 1,150,- 900 at this time of the year. But so rapidly did taxes pour in early this year and so heavy were the early payments that the city could pay off this floating loan before it fell due and had sufficient cash on hand at all times to carry it through the remainder of the year. This, everyone hopes, will be repeated during 1942. However, the city now only expects to borrow $1,0O0, ,000 and if the course of municipal business continues to run smoothly this will be retired before next June.
 The day will come, though, when no city or town need resort to such finan- cial arrangement to keep it's affairs in order. Efforts have been made to hasten sacn a set-up through uniform tax veavs. tax-due dates, etc., but so far the Ideal arrangement has not been pro- mn4rnaed. Elimination of borrowing in anffcguation Of taxes should be of suffi- eient concern tn make all public officials i0in anv naos k designed for this pur- unA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

have established Christian culture. They live In peace, have an un- usual regard for law and order and are progressively becoming bet ter educated. If anyone doubts that Christianity makes a differ ence in human thought, action, and culture, he need only examine what has happened in the Fiji Islands in the past one hundred years.
 The Christian church has never claimed 100 per cent success in deal- ing with the obstinate human will. Every community, church, and farn- fly appears to have certain mem- bers upon whose hearts Christianity seems to have labored in vain. But we should not be too quick in our judgment nothing is ever in vain. Furthermore. Christianity is to be judged not by the failure of those who have refused to accept 1t, but by the spiritual triumph of those who have accepted it.
 Today, and even in the darkest periods of world history, there has been a multitude of those who have caught the spirit of Christ and have been transformed thereby.
 All Rights Reserved -Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

Ham Fish, the witness, who is the congressman from the PreSi- dents own district and 0 grand- son of Q Secretary of State, may not know all the notifications either. But he may be able to throw light on some rather large checks which presumably had something to do with financing this much ramifled propaganda.
 For . long time around the Capital it has seneed strange that when 6 letter was written to Congressman Day Of Illinois (who wrote Q book for c NAKi-financed publishing houseA the name of the writer immediately turned up on 0 master mailing list, which was used to send out all sorts of iso. lationist, pro. German propaganda.
 The same was true ie you write Co Senator Wheeler or
 Senator Reynolds or various
 other isOlAtionlsts, Probably
 they, personally, did net know
 that their mall was going into
 Q common pool. But certain
 names were puFposely mlsspelled
 In letters to congressman, and
 tho same mlsspelled names im-
 medlately turned up on the
 master mailing list
 The Justice Department ole ready has thrown some light on how this master mailing list originally was compiled, namely in the offices of Q big motor com. pany. There, c battery of selected stenographers was kept working on the top floor during the fall of ieA0 sorting over the mall of Lindbergh, ex-Senator Rush Holt, Senator Nye and others, No com. pany employees were allowed on the top floor except these stenog- raphers, who were sworn to SO. crecy.
 SHORT WAVE RADIO
 Afterward this master list was sent to Scribner's Commentator
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Current Comment

Like the home unit, cities should be planned to provide all the requisites of comfort and con- venience for the residents therein. Gordon Whitnall, Los Angeles.
 There is one thing the American people have got to do. That is, to adjourn politics, stop 1t, shut 1t off, whether 1t is in the national gov- ernment or in the labor unions. Al Smith, former presidential candidate.
 When you come right down to it, that's what we mean by a mans being free: having choices. Leon Henderson, OPM adminis- trator.
 Whip murmurers and defeatists until they bleed ... Robert Farinacci, high Fascist official.
 I am a candidate for reelection, and I don't care what party turns me down.
 Borough President Isaacs of New York, on being refused redigna- ton by the Republican party.
 
 People really ought to take that postoffice provern about early Christmas shopping seriously this year. It's going to be a grand jam. Prank c. Walker, postmaster general.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

hope is with the Axis. And yet they remain worried by the pros. pect of being squeezed between Q powerful U. S. fleet and Q still fighting Siberian army.
 WAS FDR A WARMON0ER2
 Latest Congressional solon to find it doesn't pay to bring libel suits iS Senator I'd Johnson of Colorado, who sued State Supreme Court Justice Ben FIilliard for %200,000 because Hilllard quoted Johnson co having called Roose- welt Q warmonger.
 Senator Johnson has just with- 90 was that Judge Hllliard want- drawn the suit, Reason he did cd to summon him As Q witness and find out just exactly what the senator did say bAout Roose. welt. The last thing the sena. tor wanted, was to go on the wit- ness stand.
 So, to dodge being summoned, he stayed away from ColoEado. Meanwhile, however, his nollti-' cal fences very badly needed rebalrlng, and he. Just had Co 70 Co Colorado. Hn the end he dropped the libel suit.
 NOTE = Keep an eye on hard. hitting young Oscar Chapman, as. sistant secretary of the Interior, to challenge either Johnson or the successor to the late Senator Adams to Q Senate seat.
 Copyright, ioAi, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

dents of the social sciences are pre- pared to say that the social life of the people of these islands regis t CTS the most remark able advance that has probably ever been made by any group of human beings in the his- tory of the human race These f1epOle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Selected Poem
SHOP FOR CHRISTMAS NOW.

Crank Lynn in the New York Sun) Hurry, lady, don't be late Better not procrastinate! Time Is on the well-known wing, Soon those Yuletide bells will ring. Do your shopping-get 1t finished While the stocks are undiminshed. As the crowds grow daily greater, Clerks will find less time to cater; People loaded down with parcels May maltreat your metatarsals. Grab that tie for daddy's stocking While they've one that's not too shockingl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Daily Almanac
rises 6:l5 p. m.

Moon rises 6:l5 p. m.
 Sun rises TOO a. m.; sets 4:2b p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 wednesday and Thursday produced fog of unparalleled density. Not in a good many years has so wide an area been blanketed like this. It's all due to the shifts tn the weather --cold and hot. The earth cools ofK, then it warns up. Then cool air strikes the warm. And the winter is only just beginning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

A About @ psrceut wsFe e &anA and @coech-xrtah descon6
 q. WhaA ere ecnao e taae @6NN tural differences an alhsAtoEB ena cEocodilas3
 A Alligatcgo have Q mere oheass snout and c broader, ahortee heed. and fewer webs on tho eoeB. 36e jagged fringe on the hind lAgD ef tho crocodile are absent In the alAA- gator, and their fourth enlarged tooth of the under jaw is received into c pit in tho upper jaw, instead of proEruding Into an external notch, as in tho crocodile.
 e. What makes silver tAsniahs
 A. Small amounts of sulphw gases In the air, usually derived from the sulphur contained co aD lmpurlty in coal and other fuels. eil- yer has c great affinity for sulphur and takes up the gases out of the air and forms e black compound called sulphido of silver.
 e. What percentage of Amsr- ican-made aeronautical products ara now being exported9
 A. As of July, isAi, about % per. cent,
 e. How old is tho &re oe print. lngS
 A. Printing from movable typea i. is comparatively modern. Less thar 800 years hAS elapsed since the first book was Issued from the press; yet the principles on which 1t was ulti- mately developed existed among the ancient Assyrlan nations. Printing from blocks and clay tablets was practiced in China as carly at 30 B. Q. A circular concerning the in- troductlon and development of printing can be obtained by sending q stamped, Self-addreASed ehvelop tc The Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth st., W0sh- ington, D. Q.
 e. What does the surname Get singer mean9
 A. 1t k AR American vAEtenA spelling Of Q German surname meaning "son of tho hostage"
 e. Did tho famous ESenohmen> Clemenceau and Eocn, die the same yearp
 A. Marshai Ferdinand Eooh died March %, and former Premier Georges Clemenoeau, November z. io20.
 EDETORB M0TRs M yss ore dealrous Of securing thAs weokA booklet, FEEBLE FACTes eAdrsss F. N. Kirby, Depe. B-i0ab WaaeR. bury Democrat Service RuFea@ lOlS Thirteenth St. Waahln9tens D. O., with ten cents e osvee pest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

raw materials and tho growing scar city of many cona- nodlties.
 But next year 1owiei His bag, like Mother Hub~ barl's fam ous cupboard, will be pretty bare, for by that tune the full effect of the defense program will he felt.
 The reason for c o m ? tive AhlfNSiANnM khAa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

TODAY's COMMON ERROR One of Che coHnmonest MalD- takes In gpeaklng and wEat- lng ia theaVso oe unnecessary adverbs; as "XOu must Anlsh (ncA flnish nnl the work. we must cooperate" Cm0e cooperate tegethee.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05

for the answers.
 1. Give two former names for tasa city of Leningrad.
 2, An amanuensls ls c ehaperOA. Q scarlet flower, or Q secretayyS
 8. The Suez Canal connoch, which two seasS
 {. Fill in the missing oolors 14 these phrases: with 8uryt -. -. with cold: with envy; . with rage.
 6. Which of Charles Dickens novels is supposed to be largelS autobiographical2
 6. The present chief justice G the United States wears q beards true or false?
 2. Name the king of the gods 1A Greek and Roman mythology.
 6. What letter is used to descrihe that which fits accurately. e "fits ting to a -?
 Q. A person who is aliIiful sA the use of both hands is aaid @ Ls dextrous2
 10. Where was tho eoenO e Longfellow's famous poem ~DvaAp geline" laid?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Q NATIo IoNAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Defense Won't
 Deflate Santa's
 Bag Until 1942
Bx MILTON BROegNRn WaAsEaWy Democrat NEA Service
 Stan CaKENRnnmaen

washington, Dec. . - Santa Claus this Christmas season VIII DO iusk as formerly and win have his boz Just ns full of toys for tho kids. despite the national defense pro- graIn, tho priority rulings on nlanv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL [. DOUGLASS, D. D.
A TRIUMPH FOR CHRISTIAN
 TEACHING

The FIJI Islanders were originally cannibals. During the pas tone hun- dred years, however, Christian mis- sionaries have been working among the Fill Islanders, and today Stu-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-05
Washington Merry Go-Round
Flshs Testimony May Help Clear Up Propoeondo Mol Lsts Letters Isoloonst Congressman Go Into Common Pool
DREW PEARSON ROBERT 6. ALLEN

WASHINGTON December Few Congressman realize the rahcatons the aerandu uY