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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

North Canaan -- Eliminating rail- road underpass about 1 mile east of the village of Canaan. Winches- ter-Constructing miles of rein- forced concrete pavement on the Winsted-Norfo road from the vil- lage of Norfolk easterly.
 Route No. 63: Middlebury and Watertown--2 1-2 miles of bitumin- ous macadam surface from the junction of Routes 63 and 73 south- erly. Naugatuck - Elimination of underpass.
 Route No. 67: Woodbridge--In- stallation of drainage on Ainity hill
 Route No. 9l: Woodstock - Gull vert replacements on South Wood- stock-West Woodstock road.
 Route No. 94: Glastonbury: 1 3-4 miles of bituminous macadam pave- ment on Hebron avenue.
 Route No. 97: sprague: Three span deck girder bridge and ap- breaches at Shetucket river in Ball. tic.
 Route No. 1ls: North stonington Bridge and culvert at Assekonk brook.
 Route No. 125: Trumbull: IA mile of storm sewer and bituminous gut ter
 Route No. 132: Bethlehem-Con- structing ? miles of bituminous macadam from south end Of pres- ent improved section.
 Route No. l58: West Haven-Side drainage on Campbell avenue.
 Route No. 1892: West Haven-Side drainage on Jones Hill road.
 Route No. 190: Suffield-l 1-2 miles of bitunlinous macadam sur- face on Copper Hill road.
 Route No. 203: Windham-Cul- vert replacement on the South Windhanl. .Windhaif1 Center road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
|21 MOTORISTS
 | FACE HEARINGS
Nine Local Drivers Among Number Notified to Ap-
 pear Tuesday Morning

Twenty-one motorists, including nine local drivers, will be given hearing in the city court room Tuesday morning, May 6, at 10:S0 o'clock, at which time their peti- tions for restoration of their driving licenses will be heard by Deputy Commissioner of Motor Vehicles Francis w. Hogan.
 Local drivers are: Ubald Belle mare, 205 Washington avenue, op- erating under the influence August 9, 1940; John Meehan, l8l East Main street, second conviction on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

POhCeiAAeAl 1A4u W c s finally confined in e cage until the Purchase Hill school m arm could convince the authorities that he was not dangerous. Later, Molunl- .phy took Up m u s l c and played a mouth organ with Q dance band.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
NEW YORK DAIRYMEN AIDED

Ithaca, N. Y.-(UP)- Financial help to dairymen by establishment of new meadows and pastures on their farms and improvement Of old fields is. afforded by the le4l New York State agricultural con- servation program for New York State. Under the program, two meadow seeding practices are of- fered to dairymen this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

On c National Defense Program tho other night, Lieutenant T. c. Molumphy, chief instructor at the diving tank at the "PlgbOat ColIege",, (subnzarine school), ex- plained the workings of the Mon- sen lung. The lieutenant had his picture i'm the paper and he's Q dead ringer for our Molumphy. He was getting ready to escape from Q submarine and his profile were that same determined ex- 9fessi0n that everyone associates with the freckle-faced youngster st' Fiat Hill Farm. Wherever you ar, Carry On, M0luinphy! We're .Aesting on you whether it's in 6 sage Ut the New York Worlds Fair or in Q submarine at the hettom of Pearl Harbor.
 Running into that Molumphy pic reminds us. did you know that several submarines are leav- ing Connecticut water under seal- ed orders? FACTl The Navy doesn't want it noised about but sailors will talk and lots of sailors have hitch-hiked into. the inter- for and spread the word about. If the Navy wants silence, it better teach the ratings not to discuss national defense with every mo- torist who gives a sailor a lift. Don't blame the gobs. They have little enough opportunity to talk and when they get Q chance, they'll visit with a cigar store In- dian., M
 Smoky Jensen just returned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
AMBITION HIS UNDoING

How rich mans lust for power finally brings about his undoing and the collapse of great business em- pire. makes for the basis of "Citizen Kane" RKO Radios remarkable screen drama, produced. directed and acted In by oEScn Welles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
::Walter WincheII
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dsS0aO 1sarh RessNOFsas 0OpyyisNt IStO DAy MIVseI

THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A ,~.-- CUB REPORTER
 What's all this editorial .hosh about the President trying to de. prtve Lndbergh of his freedom of speech? s. He did nothing of the kind The President gave his, opinion of Lindbergh, and Lind 'bergh gave his opinion of the Presi- dent.
 That's what 6 democracy is- where even the President has as much freedom of speech as any, body else.
 N,,
 ( Senators Wheeler and We took up the cudgels in defense of Their Hero '"rhe President sets the pace," they complain, which is followed by the New Deal column ists, in a smear campaign against Lildbergh for exercising his free- doIA of speech" .. See how funny this gets? Tn defending Lindbergh's freedom of speech, they denounce everybody else's.
 Senator Wheeler in Boston We'd nesday said: T denounced Hitler while Lord Lothian, Lord North cllffe and others were persona grata with him" That shows you how well the Senator ain't Lord Northcliffe has been dead 19 years-long before Hitler came into power We repeat--we hope Wheeler isn't that careless with his charges on the floor of the U. s. Senate.
 Sth
 East night . group of intelligentle- men were discussing the reactions of newspaper readers and others when their sacred COWS are socked with something harder than confetti .. 1T never knev that there were 50 many ISMbeciles reading my column" we said.
 There's an old saying that you should remember" said The Man Who Came to Dinner. Many peo- pie are so anxious to prove they're as good as you are--that they for- get you're as good as they are" 
 ,,.Dfany Americans are peing drafted Into the army, and many are vol- unteering, but the "national hero" quits 1t.
 aRz.
 '.t kindbergh wants the British to quit .. Apparently he thinks everyone quits US easily as he does He once quit America, re. member? If ever he had a real reason to quit 1t again, 1t is now.
 1t is just as well Lindbergh won't bedable to fight for his country .y M that's the way he faces criticism, can you imagine the way he would face the enemy? g'
 Author Rex Stout put 1t neatly when he replied to Lindbergh's speech with: T know what Ameri- cans would call a baseball player who said to his team mates: We can't play those guys. Let's sneak out and go home. They have chal- lenged us and threatened us, but if we play them.we might be beat They would call him Q quitter. I | use the word quitter. Am call- Ing names? Yes. The various American committees call people | like me warmongers, intervention ists, ct al. I can't quarrel about | those words; and, anyway, re. inmeberlng that the appeasers and | defeatists of past generations | Screamed 'warmonger' at Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton and Abe Lincoln, that word seems to have been more honored in the observ- ance than in the breach"
 Ex-GenT Hugh Johnson claims | the ex-Kernel Lindbergh is sincere Others have made a similar ob- servation What of 1t? So Is Hitler Hitler believes in murder and hate.
 rosincerity is no substitute for loy- city,
 . sR the Kernel is stuck for a new way of landing on the front pages,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
CAPE TOWN. IT'S 9 WORDS

Cape Town, South Africa-(UP) Settling e controversy among geographers which has existed since the town was founded, the Cape Town Municipal Council has de- cided that the spelling shall be two words. Hitherto they have adhered to the one-word spelling which Is now condemned by the Govern ment,s Place Names Commission.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

we offer him this suggestion, which would be c novelty for him: Let him attack all aid to Britain, but attack Hitlerism too.
 Women United, the outfit that tickled Hitler with an anti-Admin- istration gabfest at Carnegie hall, is alelgedly the emergency" name for the No Foreign War Commit tee .. That's the group in whose behalf Verne Marshall became known as the Self-Made fas-Been
 Marshall now announces that the No Foreign War Committee Is no more A champion of the re-labeled group, Women United, Is Clarence Burlington Kelland, who, according to recent Life, called himself: Americas best second-rate writer" ~. If Kelland thinks the handouts of this outfit are sec- o11d-rate writing, he's belittling his
 mates .. Joe Goebbels would con- sider them first-rate.
 Ali Landon announces he will speak for the America Firsters in the name of tolerance Ali, be- ing so far away from the scene, ap- parently doesn't know that the Firsters attract the most tltoler- ant people in the world--the Bund- CTS, the Frontiers, the Shirters, all of whom are waiting for their Storm Troop uniforms.
 Walter D. Fuller raps those who minimize defense strikes He says they are ostriches who refuse to face stark realism Fuller is also head man over at the Sateve- post-which has been following the ostrich policy and refuses to face stark realism concerning our foreign policy.
 J. Elinson would have you be- lieve he heard Mussolini and Hit Ter talking .. "Well, Adolf" said Benito, tive certainly smashed our enemies to bits, didn't we2 Our mighty armies have proven invin- clble, eh? Now that we have con. quered Jugoslavia, Greece and all the others, both of ,is can go on to defeat the British. Nobody can stop two great men like Us. Together we will rule and become the two most powerful leaders the world has ever known. The earth will be yours and mine, won't it2"
 "Yes, 1t certainly will" replied Adolf looking down and patting head. "Now shine my other ghoe!"
 A newspaperman was greeted the other morning with this: "You've got a great reputation as an hon. est reporter. Why do you risk your prestige for partisan causes like the war? You know England is taking a shellacking. Yet you close your eyes to that and only sec her high morale, the courage of her women and children and the daring of the RAF. I know your sympathies, but do they warrant rlsking your honor as journalist?"
 The Fourth Estater thought e mo- ment and then answered.: If the Allies win, the fundamental cause of truth will be served. I will get credit for an assist in the cause of truth. If the Allies don't win, what the hell? There won't be enough honor left in the world to worry about"
 So anxious are we that freedom of speech is not interfered with, MT. [,indbergh may use this column for he wishes to write.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
BY BILL GARRIGUs

Has anybody seen Molunphy2 The last we heard of him was when he got lost at the Worlds gair, bit Q couple of New York sNs '; ..n7lan,,4a,a anA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
LARGEST TUNNEL

The Mersey tunnel is the largest underwater tunnel in the world. Four lines of traff1c run through it, an the digtance of three miles from the street level at Liverpool to Birk- enhead is negotiated, under normal conditions, in eight minutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02
OLnRsT CITY

Among ruined cities, probably the oldest in the eastern hemisphere is Nineveh, the ancient capital of As- syria, which was known as far back s 2500 B. c.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

buddies would like to be with you and, maybe, few of us may yet make the grade and sign on for the darMtlon.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

Egypt has decreed that only puro soap may enter the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-02

Smoky Jensen just returned from the American Youth Con- ference in Hartford, but he didn't have m y1ey eQed tames Me claims
Evening star., 1941-10-07
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The isolationists, those who
would go to almost any lengths
to keep this country from involve
ment in the war abroad, have for
some time taunted the admins
tration with assertions that it was
afraid to put up to Congress a
declaration of war against Nazi
Germany. Representative Fish
of New York went so far as to say
recently he would offer a war
resolution himself, in order to
bring the matter before the
House. Senator Bennett Clark of
Missouri, who seriously and hon.
estly believes that it would be
disastrous for this Nation to go
into the war, attacked at an
America First Committee meet
ing in Pittsburgh last night pres
ent proposals to revise or repeal
the Neutrality Act and at the
same time said that the only clear
and honest way to deal with the
situation was for President Roose-
welt TO send a message to Congress
asking for a declaration of war.
The speech of Senator Clark
Evening star., 1941-10-07

when and if he has defeated the
British and the Russians. In
deed. he may be willing to take
on the United States as soon
as he has disposed of Russia
effectively. without waiting for
an overthrow of England.
Congress. under the leader
ship of the President. long ago
committed this country to the
defeat of Hitler. The isola-
tionists are not willing to admit
this. They think that the
American people would turn
away from a declaration of war.
They believe that a majority of
the members of Congress, think
ing of the elections coming off
next year, would turn down
war resolution. Well, they may
be wrong at that.
Senator Clark has urged that
1t Is time to fish or cut bait"
1t is. Too many of the non-
interventionists wish this coun-
try to go on cutting bait, while
Hitler mops up. I have no
thought that Senator Clark
wishes Hitler to win. But If
this country continues to sit
idly by-cutting bait-Hitler will
mop up.
Evening star., 1941-10-07

wedge for break Jay u. HAYDEN
ing down the whole wall of sus-
picion which has been a major
obstacle to effective American
British collaboration with the Soviet
regime for more than two decades.
The cynical viewpoint as re-
spects Russia's profession of re-
form in its practices with respect
to religion is expressed in the old
Rabelaisian adage:
The devil was sick-the devil a
monk would be;
THE devil was well-the devil g
monk was he"
If Joseph Stain is giving ground
to his foreign critics, the skeptics
assert. it is only because he sees
this as way of securing the
foreign help he so badly needs. and
his reformation will last just SC
long as his predicament persists
and no longer
State Department experts and
others whose business it has beer
to follow closely the twists and
turns of the Bolshevist serpent
since it came into power "a years
ago, are less inclined to diScredit
its present outward change OF
heart. These people who know
Russia find the nub of the problem
in the assertion of S. A. Lozovsky
the Kremlin's official spokesman
that the Soviet constitution guar
antees religious freedom. but as.
/ sumes that freedom of religion will
not be utilized for the overthrow
of the prevailing regime
Identified With Gar.
The Orthodox Russian Church
was distinctly an adjunct Of the
monarchial regime, which the
| Bolshevists overthrew. So was capi.
| talism an ally of the cZars, in the
sense that all of the property own.
ing classes and the foreign in
vestors supported the monarchy anc
/ were used by it, in the years pre-.
ceding the revolution, to keep dowr
and enslave the Russian masses
| 1t was not unnatural. therefore
that the Bolshevists should hav'
moved to exterminate at one anc
the same time all of these opposi.
ton elements.
Linked with this was the antago
nism of the whole capitalist ant
| Christian world, which the Sovie
state Immediately encountered. Par
of this was inspired by the ideolog,
of MARKHAM socialism. which Lenil
proclaimed, but more, it was ,
product of the then existing wa
situation. The central powers
which had been at war with Russi
for three years, still regarded it a
an enemy, and the Allies saw onl,
that Russia was running out OF
them.
The first act of the Soviet was al
offer of peace to Germany on tn
principle of no annexations and NJ
indemnitieS." Germany rebuffe'
this overture and in the treaty o
Evening star., 1941-10-07
Complaint Of Police
Brutality Investigated

Inspector Maurice Collins today
was investigating charges of a 40
year-old, one-legged colored man
that he was beaten by two police
men Friday.
Milton McNair of the 800 block of
N street NV, told Inspector Collins
the police officers approached him
as he stood talking to stranger
at the corner of Seventh and l.
streets NV. at about $50 pm.
Inspector Collins said the COM
plainant declared the two officers
asked him what he was talking to
the stranger about, following which
the alleged beating took place.
Mr.. McNair said the two officers,
whom he cannot identify, then took
him to Freedmen's Hospital where
he required hospital treatment.
Acting Supt. of Police Kelly said
the investigation was in the hands
of Inspector Collins, head of tbs
inspectors district which encom-
passes No. 2 precinct.
Evening star., 1941-10-07
A Cooperative Wedge?
Approach to Soviet Religious Issue Seen
As Possibly Yielding Other 6oins

Brest-Litovsk forced Russia to sur
render the provinces of Estonia,
Latvia. Lithuania, Russian Poland
and Finland.
White Russians Given Aid.
Germany's defeat in the World
War annulled this treaty, but only
to face Russia with a new war. On
the ground first of saving Russia
from Germany and then, following
the armistice, of saving Russia from
Communism, the United States.
Great Britain, France and Japan
assisted the White Russians In an
abortive attempt to overthrow the
Red regime.
From the Soviet point of view,
Russia had little to choose between
the two sets of ''imperialist" powers,
and this attitude has been the con-
trolling note of Soviet international
relations ever since. Because the
Soviet had repudiated debts, both
public and private, incurred under
the czarist regime, foreign nations
for a long time refused to have any
dealings with ner either political
or commercial.
Through the 20 years that pre-
ceded the present war there were
many attempts to bridge this situa-
ton. Great Britain, under it's first
Labor government, tried first. Then
came Soviet attempt, successful
for while, to deal with republican
Germany. Hitler upset that one in
1888. Late in 1888 came the Roose-
velt-Litvinov pact for resumption of
relations between the United States
and Russia. largely a failure from
the standpoints both of commercial
intercourse and the bettering of po-
iitical relations. Through all of
these efforts world antagonism to
Russia and Russian sntagonism and
suspicion of the whole outside world
steadily increased.
SOurte0 DIV Two FACTIONS.
Finally there came the contest for
Russian allegiance in the period
Immediately preceding the present
war. For months there were nego-
tiauons for an alliance of Russia
with the European democracies. The
Russians insist that these failed
because Great Britain and France.
while seeking Russias assistance to
stop Hitler's march into Czecho-
Slovakia and Poland. refused on
their side, at least until it was too
late, to make a counterpromise to
go to war in defense of Russia if she
was the one attacked by Germany.
In the end, Russia signed up with
Germany, from sheer fright.
Now Russia has been forced to
cast her lot with the democratic
nations. and the democracies. sno
less, have no other recourse but to
accept Russia as an ally. Much of
the old antagonism between Bolshe-
vism and capitalism persists. but as
result of the war these ideologies
are becoming strangely intermixed.
In the end. neither of them may be
clearly distinguishable 1t is more
than hope that out of this ANAL
gam, born of life and death neces-
sity. will come new order in which
giant Russia will be permanently
restored to the community of ma
/ tions.
Evening star., 1941-10-07

not interested in the old men and
women.
Religious institutions in the u.
S. S. r. are treated like clubs. The
statement of S. A. Lozovsky, the
shrewd vice commissar for for
eign affairs, that the freedom
of religion will not be utilized for
the overthrow of the prevailing
regime puts the whole situation
in nutshell. The principal
agency which protects the safety
of the regime is the famous
Ogpu. The mere mention of this
secret police fills every inhabitant
of the Soviet Union with terror.
And since religion has been de-
clared by all the political leaders
as a bromide" which obscures
the Judgment of the people, the
Russians deem 1t wiser 10 keep
away from any kind of church or
synagogue. Believers might get
into the books of the Ogpu. and
church attendance might be held
against them if they got into
some minor trouble.
Set Out to Destroy Church.
The anti-religious clubs, which
enjoy constitutionally the same
privileges as the religious organ
izations, are government-spon-
sored. Any individual who wants
to prove his loyalty had better
join these organizations. The
Russian government is totali-
tartan. Individuals who want to
get on any kind of pay roll had
better follow the tendencies" of
the government, which are strict
ly non-religious.
President Roosevelt was cor
rect in stating that the constitu-
ton of the U. S. S. R. permits
worship. But the application of
the constitution is such that very
few are inclined to attend
Catholic. Jewish or Protestant
club of worship" One Of the
fundamental institutions which
the fathers of the Russian revo-
luton set out to destroy soon
after Lenin took over the gov
ernment was the established
church. And they did a thorough
job. Not only was the clergy
practically exterminated. but
millions of posters, some of them
Evening star., 1941-10-07

Louis Brandeis ought never to be re-
versed. To the conservatives of
America his life means a record OF
sicerity and fidelity to the public
interest. To the liberals his life
means a courageous and fearless
readiness to battle at any cost for
a just cause. To the Jews of the
world his life represents a great
contribution to Democracy and
American idealism plus an unwaver-
ing solicitude to the very end for
his co-religionists as he saw them
prosecuted and denied the right to
hold office in many countries of the
world.
Radical, reformer, liberal, famous
jurist and beloved friend of most
everybody he met in public and pri-
vate life, the epitaph of Louis
Brandeis will always be an enduring
phrase-he was "a great American
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Evening star., 1941-10-07
This Changing World
Washington Must Foee Reality Thot Soviet Shadow
Of Suspicion FoIIs on Russion Worshipers

unbelievably obscene, deriding
the church and all it stood for,
were distributed throughout the
vast empire. Bolshevik leaders,
including Lenin, with whom this
writer had an opportunity to dis
cuss the matter in 1918 and 1920,
declared then that the church is
by definition reactionary and in
deadly conflict with everything
Communism stands for. Hence"
said Lenin. "it must be eliminated
by every possible means from the
minds and the hearts of the Rus
sian people"
II is true that after almost a
quarter Of century some of the
policies of Lenin have been modi-
fed with those of the outside
nations. Hierarchy has been re-
established in the army. The
theory of money has undergone
a drastic change, and Sc have a
number of other economic theo-
ries. But the fundamental prin-
ciples on which Communism is
based are unchanged.
As far as we are concerned, the
only thing that matters today Is
Russias ability to fight the Axis.
The principal job we have before
us Is to put an end to Hitler's
orld-conquering ambitions.
Nazi-ism More Dangerous.
We have seen how things work
in Russia and in Germany. There
is no question that Hitler's and
Germany's Nazi-ism is by far
more dangerous to our way of
understanding life and freedom
than the Russian Communism.
The latter expects TO convert
other nations through propa-
PanOa. 1nlS, tne ADMINISTRATION
in Washington believes, can be
easily Offset by counter -propa-
ganda and by affording the people
of this country opportunities
which cannot be found in other
countries. NaZi-ism has proved
in the last two years that it in
tends to enforce its doctrines
through the sword. Hitler has
proved TO the world that, with
the help Of the bayonet, he wants
to ram down the throats of the
non-Nszis his national socialis-
tic doctrines.
President Roosevelt and his ad-
visers are fretting over the con-