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is leading Wall Street law firm which has three members, Black well Smith, Frederick Eaton and John P. Oohl, as dollar-a-year men in strategic defense jobs A confidential Democratic Ma tional Committee analysis of the November vote in the Midwest dis closed these significant items: CD That the New Deal picked up 1-2 of 1 per cent i'll the strictly rural districts, but this small gain was heavily offset by large losses in the small towns; CD German cen ters that were traditional Dem- ocratic voted strongly against Roosevelt Interesting sight at Theodore Granik's Sunday night radio forum, when foreign policies debated, is Alice Long worth, Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler, and Mrs. Bennett Clark sitting together in the front row and loudly applauding attacks on the Administration.
 HECTIC DIPLOMACY
 On a dull day recently, a "hand- out" was posted in the press room of the State Department. News men paid no attention; it merely listed routine changes in Foreign Service personnel. But to John K. Davis, whose name headed the list, the announceemnt meant breathing spell in a life of ad- venture.
 Davis was the last American official to leave Warsaw in Sep- tember of 1889. Ambassador Riddle left on September 5, but Davis, who was Consul General, remained through 16 more days of bombardment from aircraft and field artillery, and finally got out of Poland through the German lines.
 Today, Davis sits in an obscure State Department office, wearing a green eye-shade, studying his new assignment. For the recent State Department "handout" list ed him as Chief of the Office of Philippine Affairs-a long, long way from Poland.
 Copyright, 194l, by United
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least of the humble people who have been ruthlessly "sent back where they came from"
 There is no use berating personally this house-guest of the Nazi Consul-G General Fritz Wiedemann who claims to be anti Nazi. She is either violating the law or she is not The matter should be judi cially determined, and the decision auto matically enforced precisely as in the cases of thousands of unknown and friendleSs people
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DANGER OF DICTATORSHIP VISIONED IF WE DON'T
 BEAT HITLER

January IT, 1941. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Some of our citizens are worry ing about the dangers to our lib- critics if Roosevelt should be given powers which they think would make him dictator. Probably they do not sufficiently realize the powers a full dictator has. But the real danger of dictatorship comes not from the man approved by the ma jority of our voters in a free election but from Adolph Hitler, who illegal ly seized power in Germany after setting the Reichstag fire, who runs many formerly neutral nations, and who never received the approval of a majority of his fellow citizens in free election.
 According to Elmer Davis, Hitler has indicated in "Mein Kampf" that, if he can, he will conquer the | world. He has stated his idea much more specifically to Rauschning (for his plans for the United States and Latin America see especially pages 61-72 of Rauschning's "The Voice of Destruction") and others. AS long as England holds out, there is little danger that Hitler will be able to set up dictatorship here, either di- rectly or through some Quizzling. But, if Great Britain were conquer ed and the British navy sunk, Hit Ter and his allies would this summer have about 25 battleships against 17 in our navy, and proportional ad- vantage in other types of vessels. The reason Hitler has found it inn possible to cross 20 miles of the Eng fish Channel is that the English control the sea. The 90-mile straits between Sicily and Tunisia are 8 highway to English conveys (des- pite an occasional sinkingD al- though Italy controls not only Sicily but also the small island of Pan- telleria-45 miles from TuniSia and 60 miles from Sicily. Without the British navy we might still be able
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Then the Army went out to buy shoes-thiS time as the industry wanted, in the old way. This was the result:
 1,84O,COO pairs of shoes cost S6,1O2,57O as compared to
 2,397 ,0OO pairs Folsom bought for S6,5OO,0O0 (appr) two months earlier.
 Under Folsom the average price was $2.83. Under the new "ex- pert" regime this average had sky rocketed to $3.31.
 Another interesting item was that the McElwain company in- creased its business threefold. Under Folsom it received an or der for 5O,0OO pairs. Two months later, with him back in Chicago, the McElwain share was 150,OOO pairs. In btn instances it was low bidder, but under Folsom it bid SS2.65 a pair, later $3.1O a pair. RUSSIA BUYS LEATHER
 Shoe manufacturers attribute the abrupt and precipitous price boots to increased leather costs, which they claim are up 36 per cent over August quotatoins. The tanners charge this is due large ly to enormous and unusual ex- ports to Russia.
 They asserted that enough sole leather was shipped from U. S. ports to Russia in November to make more than 100000 pairs of army shoes. Also that this 1896, ,000-pound shipment was only part of an order placed here quietly in September and October by Amtorg for transport to Rus sia via Vladivostok.
 How much, if any, of this leather winds up in the hands of the Soviets' NaZ ally is anyone's guess. The new trade treaty, just signed between them, might pro- vide an answer if the terms were known.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The heavy inroad of Wall Street insiders in key defense posts has given rise to this pun in the fi- nancial district, "Pd rather be Wright, Gorden than President" Wright, Gordon, Zachry & Parlin
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e. With what business was El- liott Roosevelt associated at the time of his resignation to enter the army? What was his estimated annual ir1- come?
 A. Elliott Roosevelt was president and managing director of large radio broadcasting company. It was estimated that he gave up an an- nual income of approximately $76,- 900 to enter the service, since he received salary of $24,000 from the broadcasting company, and in addi- ton was paid slightly more than $1, 900 a week by tooth powder company for weekly radio programs.
 o. In which countries is the largest amount of life insurance in force?
 A. Two-thirds of all life insur- ance in force in the world Is in the United States and Canada.
 If you want copy of the book let PRESIDENTS AND THEIR WIVES, send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washing
 ton, D. c. Enclose ten cents in postage.
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In Today's Mail

to control the Western Atlantic from New Foundland to Trinidad, and the Eastern Pacific, but it is clear that Axis fleets would control the Southern Atlantic between Africa and Brazil, and would be able to aid in the revolutions Franco and Hitler would start in Latin America.
 Moreover, if Hitler should con- quer Europe and England, his ship building capacity would be at least six times ours. We are talking now about two-ocean navy-in 1943 or 1914. But the navy we are now building would by no means defend us in both oceans if Hitler were able to use all the present European shipyards in a naval competition with us. Even if he did not actually try to invade us, the economic war fare of barter which we know he would carry on would bring the grave risk of our having to set up some kind of dictatorship in self defense.
 It is clear that despite the strength of the British fleet Eng
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. HIGHLlGHTS FROM
 LATEST BOOKS
Poker Players Get Rules, Winning Tips

The poker days are here again, the dearest of the year. They don't need to be so dear this winter, how ever. If you take a few tips from two small but helpful new books about the game. The first Confessions of Poker Player" by Jack King Qves Washburn: $2), and the sec- ond is Oswald Jaccby on Poker" i Doubleday, Doran: $l).
 Either makes a very acceptable guide to the game. but if vol; want a bit of entertainment served along with your lesson you should turn first to what MT. King deals out. King is a newspaperman, many of whose best poker years were spent in the press room of city hall" He spins some amazing tales, including the story of the press room fatty who could deal while he slept, even snored, and the banker who took the boys for all they were worth. But reporter King likes his rules right along with his poker. Most of the trouble that arises over poker has its roots in rules, or lack of them, he points out. Accordingly, he lays down an eminently reasonable and workable set at the end of his book. If there's a misdeal there should be a rule about it, then the matter can be settled, King tells you. If a fellow plays out of turn. a rule laid down clearly in advance will take care of that also
 All in all. MT. King seems to have the game of poker sized up for its true worth, fun. and his lively little book is a simple and entertaining guide to just that fun.
 Oswald Jacoby proceeds with the same theory but gets right down to business at the start-no remin- iscences for him. His subtitle. as a matter of fact, is How to Play a Winning Game"
 There are 2,598, ,960 possible poker hands in a 52-card deck, says MT. ! Jacoby, who is one of Americas bet
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land cannot hold out indefinitely against Hitler if she f1gfts alone or only with the help of Greece. Great Britain contains less than 50 mill lion persons, while the territory un- der the control of Hitler has 30 mill lion Germans and at least 80 million more conquered peoples subject to forced labor, without counting the 43 million Italians, or the Spaniards, Swiss, and Swedes. A study of Ger many's sources of raw materials shows that despite the blockade her only serious shortage is oil. The British have stated, and such otti- cials in our government as Secre- tary Hull (whoSe honesty no one can doubt) are convinced that Eng land cannot hold out without our economic aid. There are claims that Germany's airplane production is still over twice England's. It is Of the utmost importance, therefore, that in our own self-defense we give every bit of material aid pos- sibIe to England SO as to insure that she holds out and if possible wins. buC very SGfenuOuS euOrLS HuSt Ut made to see that our industrial pro- duction is not diverted from defense into luxuries. Such things as new private automobiles should be avoided in order that the Detroit plants may concentrate on air. planes.
 Yes, there is danger of real dic- tatorship in this country, unless we devote all our energies to beating Hitler, even to the extent of giving semi -dictatorial powers to a pres ident who on November had the confidence of the majority of the American voters.
 Sincerely yours,
 CHASE KIMBAIaL.
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largest department stores, greatest merchandisers in the country. That he wasn't there when the "bite" was put on the government was not his fault, but that's ahead of the story.
 It really begins g years ago, when Folsom returned from France as First Sergeant in the Air Corps. AS he was mustered out of the service, he made a solemn resolve:
 That if ever there was another national emergency, and he could do anythin gabout it, he would see that the men who did the fighting had shoes that fittde, uniforms that didn't look like bur- lap sacks, and blankets that were long enough to cover the feet.
 Last fall, Folsom got the
 chance to gratify this ambition
 when his old Sears, ROebuck
 business rival and close personal
 friend, Procurement Director
 Donald Nelson, summoned him
 to Washington as 8 dOllar-a-
 year expert to help clOthe the
 new selective service army.
 In five months Folsom super vised the placing of more than $1OO,0OO,O0O worth of orders, and made a number of money-savlng innivations in the Army's buy ing practices. One of these was in the purchase of shoes-2,297, 900 pairs, of every possible length ana width, at saving of around S1.5O a pair under what the Army paid in 1917-18.
 HOW IT WAS DONE
 Folsom accomplished this feat by the devise of asking large number of shoe manufacturers all over the country for informal bids covering the number of shoes they could make.
 Under the old system, the Army announced it was in the market for SO many pairs of shoes and asked for bids, which gave the edge to a few big firms who could deliver contracts of such size in the time specified. Small com panies couldn't cope with such giant orders, but Folsom's plan made it possible for them to get contracts of a moderate size on an equal price footing with the big fellows.
 Under his method of informal negotiated bids, seventeen shoe plants in New England, the Midwest and the South got nice slices of the 2,297,OO0 pairs at prices ranging from a low of S2.65 to a high of S2.97, averag- ing S2.S3 8 pair or about S1.5O less than the World War prices. BIG BOYS SQUAWK
 Everybody was happy = except the big manufacturers who, under the old system, had for years en- joyed a virtual monopoly of the governments shoe business. They didn't like Folsom's method one bit, and they let out series of loud squawks.
 The New England Shoe Manu- lecturers Association, dominated by a few big firms, held a pro- test meeting and irately de- nounced the new buying plan. A big Midwestern company com plained indignantly to its sena- tors. Controlled trade papers printed scorching editorials infer ring that he was a long-haired amateur and demanded thath a "shoe expert" be appointed to the Defense Commission.
 This bombardment, plus some potent wire-pulling, was success full. Folsom was quitely eased out of the picture and with him his money-saving ideas.
 In his place the commission appointed a d0llar-a-year shoe expert - Francis F. Murphy, former Governor of New Hamp- shire and director of the J. F. McElwain Shoe Co.,, one of the big New England concerns.
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Selected Poem
INTERLUDE

INTERLUDE Arthur Wallace Peach in the Christian
 Science Monitor) The nighSlngales are silent In England, am told, Singing no more at dusk By field and wold. The skylarks still are singing In England, in the day; The sunshine clears the mists Of hate away. But there shall come still twilightS Sweet with peace, and men Shall hear the nightingales Sing again!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-18

Persons who come down with head colds, grippe or flu these days ought to segregate themselves from the rest of us who are fortunate enough to retain good health. Contagious respiratory diseases demand as much isolation for the sui ferer as possible. Keep away from fellow workers by staying home and you'll be cutting down on the number of victims
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- D0US SOSSAsss say, 1IGQuGIlI delay in the delivery of aluminium forgings, which is what causes the talk of an aluminium shortage-and I which, they add, is often the fault of the airplane people themselves. Aluminium forgings are made with dies, which have to be cut by hand from the most high-grade steel ob-
 tainable. Cutting the die for a sin- gle forging may take as long as six months-it's such 8 specialized job that one man has to do all of it from start to finish, it's impossible
 to work men in shifts on it-and
 the die may cost $15,000 or more. A couple of years ago, the ordi- ] nary plane built in this country
 used perhaps a dozen aluminium forgings. Today 8 plane being built
 to military order will use as many
 as 250.
 Thus it may be nearly six months
 after @ plane company gets a war
 department contract before produc-
 tion of its forgings can begin. But that isn't all. Each month of the
 war raises the standards for military planes. A design for model which
 has been contracted for but which
 is not yet in production may be
 changed slightly-and the change
 may easily mean that weeks of work
 on dies have been wasted and that
 entirely new ones must be made.
 OF HUMAN
 ERRORS
 At this point the aluminium peo- pie begin to talk about human er- TOTS.
 Engineers are human. AS sam- ples of the newly made dies begin
 to reach the factory (these are lead samples, by the way, run of to be fitted together into a factory model before regular production begins) it often develops that this part or that part is of by hundredth of an inch or so. You can't do much to an aluminium forging, once you've got it. Generally, if there has been even a tiny error in design, you've simply got to make a new die. And when airplanes are using 20 times as many forgings as they used to,
 the chance of getting such errors
 is naturally 20 times as great.
 There are other kinds of mis-
 takes, too. The aluminium people tell of one company which ordered
 a certain aluminium alloy tubing for 1 landing gears. They got it, then
 reported that it broke every time they tried to bend it. "Of course it did" replied the manufacturers. You didn't tell us you were going to bend it, so we used the one kind of alloy which can't be bent. Now we'll have to make up new lot for you of a dif- ferent alloy"
 DELAYS IN
 ORDERING
 Lastly, there are delays in plac- ing orders. Aluminium industry peo- pie assert that in one recent wide ly-puzlicized case, where officials of an airplane company announced their production was being held up by a shortage of aluminium, that company's order for aluminium forg- ngs was received at the factory on the day the aluminium shortage" statement was given out. Funniest case of all, though, comes from the shipbuilding indus
 try. One shipyard put in an order for big quantity of sheet alumi- mum, and insisted that 1t absolutely had to have 1t right away. The stuff was needed to make crows nests for a set of new destroyers. When are these destroyers to be delivered?" the yard was asked.
 "Oh," was the reply, Were go- ing to lay the keels next July"
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ter poker players. By the time you have finished his book you feel you've held most of them.
 At least, there is an exceptionally thorough, inclusive guide from seven-card stud to the conventional draw (Mr. Kings favorite game, in- cidentally). One of the most inter esting features is chapter on Prob abilities and Mathematics (your chance to draw a full housle is once in 588 deals) while the following chapter on Problems, derived from actual games, is perhaps the most helpful portion of the sNt'<e book.
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Daily Almanac
S 11:o1 D. m.

Moon rises 11:01 p. m.
 Sun rises 7:13 a. m.; sets 4:52 D. III.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 If there's one thing that Connecticut weather can provide, it's variety Where can you have below zero temperatures, snow, Sleet rain, and above-freezmg temperatures all rolled into three days? Nowhere but here
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industry before long if the Gir- plane m a ke r S don't quit blam- ing production elayS on a shortage of alu- minum.
 Spokesnen for the aluminium industry insist there is no shortage of alu- minum metal, There is, they saw a franliaYai
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Washington Merry-Go Round
DREW PIE AR s o N
 ROBERT S. ALLEN

 the wasn't Chcagos
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TODAY's COMMON ERROR

Do not use . prOnoun followed by an antecedent in paren- thesis, ass 'Tf Davis treated Dixon discourteousIy, there was no objection to his (Dlxon's) declisiOn"; omit the pronoun "his," and the parenthesis.
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A Thought for Today

But truly as the Lord lveth, and as thy soul Hveth there is but step between me and death. -I Samuel 20:3.
 One life; little gleam of time between two eternities; no second chance for us forever more. Carlyle.
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Questions
 andAnswers
YOUR QUEsTIONs ANsWERED

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED The Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau win answer for you free, any question 0e fact or infOrma- ti0n, not involving extensive re- search. Write your question clear ly. sign name and address, en. close . three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot De given. Address The Waterbury Democrats Washington Service Bureau, 1013 18th Street. Wash- fngtOn. D. 0.
 e. Who coined the term ''in feriority complex?"
 A. Dr. Sigmund Freud of Vienns noted psychiatrist.
 Q. What Latin-American country was once ruled by viceroys from Spain?
 A. Peru is the only one.
 o. What will be the duties of the proposed home guard units?
 A. They will perform military guard duty for utilities, power plants, water works, industria' plants, docks, railroad yards, al fields, and other areas vital to na. tional defense activities.
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National Spotlight
Aluminium BigwigS Deny Shortage
 Delays WarplaneS
BY BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

Washington, Jan. 18.-Theren be a hot verbal war between the alu- minum industry and the airplane
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-18
Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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1. Is the raccoon good swim mer?
 2. How should a woman who oc- cupies the chair at 8 meeting be addressed?
 3. Which of the three States, Ari- zona, New Mexico or Florida, was first settled?
 4. Kaolin is an animal, a white clay. or vegetable?
 5. The Washington, D. C., pro- fessional football team is called the -?
 6. Which is the leading dairy State of the United States?
 '. Where was the Circus Maxi mus?
 8. Who preceded William Green as President of the American Fed eration of Labor?
 g. Complete the proverb Where there's a will . s"
 10. When the arrow on weather vane points to the north, from which direction is the wind blow ing?
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Q. What Latin-American country was once ruled by viceroys from Spain?
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A. Peru is the only one.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07
Hayes Begins Term
In Theft From Civ

WETHERSFIELD. Conn. March
7-INS)-T. Frank Hayes, for
mer Democratic lieutenant gov
ernor of Connecticut and five times
mayor OF Waterbury. began the
first full day of long prison term
today.
Convicted as the head of a DO
litico-official ring which mulcted
the city treasury of Waterbury of
more than $1,000.0O0, Hayes lost
his final appeal TO the State Su-
preme Court of Errors and was
brought to Wethersfeld to begin a
sentence of 10 to Is years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07
MeaneSt Man
Loop NeuOsboy Robbed
of Nights Receipts

Twelve-year-old George Pokas
of 682 Macomb street. a newsboy,
knows better today than to show
his money to strangers.
George worked last night on a
downtown corner from $50 until
1915 and had rs cents when a
stranger asked George TO show
him his money. The stranger
grabbed it and ran, saying he
would be back later.
George has two brothers and
three sisters and the family is on
welfare. His money keeps him in
school and helps the family a little,
too. 90
George is in the ninth grade at
Foch Intermediate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07
Pension Refused
Drdftees' Wives
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, March County
supervisors and cae workers were
notified today to reject all appli-
cations for mothers pensions from
wives of drafteeS. Dr.. Philip A.
Callahan, director of the State
Social Security Bureau. wrote;
1--WE have been informed that
army officials do not want pri-
Yates and non-cOmmissiOned Of
ficers. including those indicted
through the selective service
program. in training il they have
dependents without means of
support.
fhe army Will discharge such
men if the facts are brought to
their attention. Therefore, IL
applications are received for aid
to dependent children from
mothers whose husbands are In
military service, such applica-
tons are to be rejected"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-07

American Maple Syrup Rec
ipes. They VIII Bring the Flavor
of "Sugaring OF" Right Into
Your Own Kitchen. Don't Miss
Them in the Housewife's Food
Almanack Page, That Popular
Feature Appearing in The Amer
lean Weekly, the Magazine Dis
tributed With This Sundays
Issue of The Detroit Sunday
Times.