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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-10

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-10
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27

very romantic about gorillas, for the
following week they decided to get mar
ried, and the next month they left for
Europe and Africa. Since then the
Gattis have made three expeditions
into the Belgian Congo, discovered
new race of okapi. studied the intimate
life of this strange jungle giraffe -
have even captured few. They have
each burst into print with novels,
fiction, and articles The story in this
issue is their first full collaboration,
QUERY. Recently we told you about
Aart Marius van den Hook, the roof
top gardener at New York's Rookie
Teller Center. Another of his horticul-
tural sensations started one evening
about six With Is Of his men, he began
digging l5-foot square in the Fifth
Avenue sidewalk in front of the Center.
They were preparing to plant the first
of eight 50-foot trees in the concrete
pavement.
Several hours later, after siren
uous labor, the elm - weight, eight
tons - was unanswered into place.
YEARLY Mr. van den Hook patted the
last clod of earth into place. For the
first time in the history of Manhattan,
a full-grown, 52-year old tree had been
planted in a sidewalk As he straight
ened up, little old lady - fascinated
spectator all evening - came close.
She looked up at the gardener and
piped: Tell me, sir - wouldn't it be
much simpler to plant seed?' M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27
WHOSE FAULT IS 1T?
by Charming Pollock

is doomed, ne says, ana ne awaiting the
dawn of bright new day when there will be
a chance for everybody.
For my purpose, | have selected extreme
cases, but you'll gather what's in my mind.
Its always bum season for bad plays
Few of us will deny that the new generation
has had some hard shedding - but it wasn't
so darned soft for Thomas A. Edison when he
sold peanuts on railway trains, or for Henry
Ford when he worked ten hours day in a
machine shop for $3.50 a week. And if you
insist that they were unusual persons with
remarkable gifts. must go back to my story
of Charlie. who wasn't gifted. but simply did
the best he could with what he had. Chiefly,
he never thought of handicaps Whatever is
wrong with democracy, or our social system,
or our lost frontiers and opportunities, didn't
keep Charlie from forging ahead. He never
discovered that he was part of underprvileged
Youth - with big Y. He was enthusiastic
about his job, whatever it happened to be,
and proud of getting on in it, and of his home
and family and standing in the community.
You couldn't have told Charlie there was
nothing to defend in America.
I've an idea that in almost any country, at
almost any time, the Charles are the boys
who get ahead. And that the nation that has
the largest number of Charles will get ahead.
too. The Walters are not exclusively products
of the machine age, or of any other age, or
country, or economy. They lived in Egypt
and Greece and Rome, and had the same
theories and alibis. When there were enough
of them, Greece decayed and Rome fell.
At this moment. whatever the handicaps.
an awful lot of the successful men of tomor-
row are starting as office boys, or mechanics,
or statesmen One Of EN- walked in on me
Yesterday He is the son of small farmer in
Kansas and, when | first met him. he was
working as an harvest-hand to pay his way
through college. He said then that he intended
to try New York" When | mentioned that
jobs we're few, he smiled. There's still one,
guess, and that's all want"
Yesterday he called to report progress.
I've been in New York since September" he
related Began as soda jerker in drug
store We did little neighborhood business,
and asked the boss to let me try widening
our territory. In my off time. got the names
of people in nearby apartment houses, and
wrote each person short note saying he
didn't even have to 60 round the corner for
drugs: if he'd phone me his order, I'd guar
antee delivery within half an hour. Business
has shot up, and I'm making good money
Your starting at the wrong moment.
told my young friend. People are worried
about general conditions and squeezing their
pennies. Every field is overcrowded. and
something all wrong with our social system. y
John grinned. Il suppose So he said,
but haven't time to think about that. I'm
working nights on scheme to organize this
service for a lot of other neighborhood stores y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27

~ youth movements, speaker said,
4 - Our defense problem is complicated
by the question, What have we to defend'
American youth is reluctant to fight for
social system that has left it without hope or
opportunity
I've heard good many statements like this
of late. They have been made to me in univer-
sites throughout the country; | have read
them in newspapers; and they always remind
me of line heard in Broadway show
long time ago. 1t had been "a bum theatrical
season." one of the characters remarked, and
the heroine answered, Its always bum
season for bad plays
Similarly it's always bum time, and
a bum world for people willing to make
that their alibi I've stood in Union Square,
New York, looking at and listening to agita-
tors attacking our social system and I've
wondered under what system they'd be any
thing but what they are. 1t isn't conditions
that make men. but men who make conditions.
When was a lad. all the other boys knew
were reading the success stories written by
Horatio Alger They reflected the experience
and faith of that era - that any newsboy or
bootblack who had 1.-The right stuff in him
could become a prosperous and valuable citl-
zen We began questioning that faith, and our
social system, right after the World War.
1t was not 50 long before the War that
my wife and became part of the story of
Charlie. My wife had taken him on as an
office boy when she directed publicity for
chain of theaters. Her new assistant was
hardly more than child living in tene-
ment, but you could see he had something
He didn't know much, but how he wanted to
learn! He opened the office an hour before
anyone else arrived, and stayed hours after
everyone had left He invented new jobs for
himself Spare time he devoted to self
improvement.
WHEN my wife retired, Charles went to
work for an advertising agency at treble his
original salary. A few years later. he became
assistant advertising manager of metropoi-
tan newspaper, and then business manager.
Charles useful and happy career ended
last year but he left two fine sons to carry on
well-educated men of high capacity and
ideals & good Americans.
That's an Horatio Alger story, brought
down to date, but know half dozen far less
inspiring My best exemplar is the son of
prosperous and Woodworking merchant. The
boy spent five years in leading university.
where he discovered that democracy is fail
ure, that our social system is all wrong. That
being true, he wasted very little effort in
trying The same year that Charlie became
manager of metropolitan newspaper, Walters
father got him post in a bank. Walter kept
it three weeks. The work was too hard, he
said, and it was really mental position any
way. Walter was taken into his fathers office,
where he remains dead weight. Capitalism
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27

LIGHTS. William Beebe, the nature ex-
pert, tells us that one of the most I'M
usual things he ever saw was beetle
with a searchlight! The great elater,
or click beetle, has pair of headlights
which glow brightly as he flies. Be-
hind, he has red taillight. No one,
yet has figured out the purpose of
that rear illumination.
ExPL ORERS. The Gatti team, who
wrote Reward for Valor" in this issue,
got the background for this moving
animal story firsthand. Commander
Attic Gatti came to the u. S. when
he was 35. having fought all through
World War | on the Allied side He
spent the following l3 years leading
seven expeditions in Africa. In New
York he met Miss Ellen Waddill then
an advertising executive. Next day she
translated Gatti's first article - on
gorillas.
There must have been something
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27

FINDING a job is serious business.
But often little humor and originality
will pay big dividends in results. That
is the conclusion of Walter A. Lowen
and Lillian Eichler Watson. advertising
employment experts who are writing
book on how to get job. Here are
few of the examples they cite:
WINGED VICTORY. One young man
used homing pigeons to apply for job.
He sent pigeon and carefully pre-
pared folder about himself by special
messenger to each of dozen important.
advertising executives. Release the
pigeon" said a note attached to the
cage, land he'll wing straight home
with your message inserted in his leg
band" Two of the pigeons came back
with offers of immediate jobs.
R.S.V.P. A young married couple - he
a copy writer, she an expert on fashion
publicity - presented themselves in
combination, as working team. The
cover of the portfolio which they sent
to prospective employers was in the
form of an engraved wedding invita-
ton. 1t brought quick results.
BlOTIER. A young woman, Just out OF
college, had her qualifications printed
on blotters which she distributed to
advertising executives. Now she's
successful copy writer.
BINDER. A young man prepared pre-
sentation bound in denim - the ma
terial from which overalls are made. He
called it ITO the Denim Born" and in
it he told how his family wanted him to
remain in their threegenerations-old
overall business, but how determined
he was to make advertising his life's
work. The presentation brought him an
excellent job.
ADVICE. In discussing these unusual
Job applications, the authors add these
important words of caution: BE diff
ferent in your presentation, but use
good Judgment and good taste. Stunts
are acceptable only if they have the
merit of clevemess and originality; or
if they have made some vivid point
that could not otherwise be made 50
effectively. Such presentations cannot
be prepared in an hour or even day.
But we know from the experience of
people with whom we have worked,
that it is we'll worth the effort"
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Man-power Shortage
Seen if 0ne-Man.Car
Request Is Denied
Locke Tells Trude Bourd
Unit Conversion of
16l Is Necessary

Unless the Public Utilities Com
mission approves the Capital Transit
Co.'S request for permission to con-
vert 161 two-man streetcars to one
man operation, the transit firm may
be faced with serious" shortage
of man power, D. ]. Locke, staff en-
gineer of the company, told tho
Board of Trades Committee on Pub
lie Utilities and Transportation
yesterday.
Mr.. Locke said the problem of
finding sufficient numbers of motor
men, and conductors and bus oper-
ators already has become acute as
the result of a tremendous increase
in passenger traffic, which has ne
cessitated addition. of many more
care and buses.
Many employees are doubling up
and working overtime so we can
render good service to the public"
he said. Difficulties experienced In
obtaining man power led the COM
pany to petition for conversion of
161 streetcars to one-man operation,
he said. If this. is not granted, Mr..
Locke added, the firm will be faced
with very serious situation"
He reported that passenger trafiic
has increased a per cent in the last
two years and II per cent In the
past six weeks. All steps are being
taken in planning for future trans
portation demands and unless
something unforeseen occurs, the
transit firm feels that the streetcars
and buses now on order will be
sufficient to take care Of the city's
needs. =.
The petition for conversion of
street cars has been pending with
the Utilities Commission for some
months. In the hope of speeding
action on this and other matters
awaiting attention, the Utilities and
Transportation Committee went on
record recommending that the
Board of Trade urge the President
and Congress to expedite the filling
of the two vacancies now existing on
the commission.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.

Connecticut avenue NV, 8 o'clock
tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Dance, Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rines Club, 1015 L street NV, 8
o'clock tonight; hostesses.
Street dance, street between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets
NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Dance, Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth
and K streets NV, o'clock tonight;
small charge to cover refreshments
and music.
Dance, Y. M. C. A.. 1885 G street
NV, 9 o'clock tonight: hostesses.
Dance, National Catholic Com
munity Service Club, 918 Tenth
street NV, 9 o'clock tonight, host
eSSes.
Dance, Jewish Community Center,
Sixteenth and @ streets NV, 8
o'clock tonight.
Dinner and dance. sponsored by
Covenant-First Presbyterian League
for men in the service, Fellowship
House, 1868 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, 6 o'clock tonight; transporta-
ton to Fellowship House provided
from church, Connecticut avenue
and N street NV.
Dinner, dancing and games. spon-
sored by Foundry Methodist Church,
Let's Building, Sixteenth and P
streets NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
Dancing, games and refresh
ments, Arlington Recreation Center,
Tenth and Irving streets north,
Clarendon, Va, l pm. to midnight
today.
Music party, sponsored by Council
of Social Agencies and Council for
Defense, Friendship House, GIG D
street Sc, 8 o'clock tonight.
Open house, National Capital
Service Mems Club. o'clock to-
night; music, game facilities, host
esses.
FOR COLORED SERVICE MEN.
Dance. Banneker Fieldhouse, Geor-
gia avenue and Howard place NV,
8 o'clock tonight.
Dancing and games. Phyllis
Wheatley Y. w. c. A., 901 Rhode
Island avenue NV.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Testimonial Dinner
Will Be Given for
Maj. Brown Tonight
Retiring Police Chief
Will Receive Tribute
For As Yeurs' Service

Five hundred civic, business and
professional leaders will assemble at
the Willard Hotel tonight for tes-
timonial dinner honoring Maj. Err
nest w. Brown, who is scheduled to
retire November l as superintendent
of the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment.
Tribute will be accorded the ma jor
for the As years he spent in the serv-
ice of the Capitals law enforcement
agency, the last nine of them as its
head. He was appointed January
10, 1896, and rose by successive
grades to the superintendency on
October %, 1882.
During his administration, Maj.
Brown founded the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club He also served
a term as president of the Interna-
tional Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice.
All Arrangements Complete.
James E. CollifloWer, general
chairman, said today that all ar
rangementS for the dinner are COM
plete Details for an unusual en-
tertainment program were perfected
at a final conference of the Pro-
gram Committee. of which James A.
Councillor is chairman.
L. Gordon Leech is secretary of
the General Committee. Other Off
GERS are William L. King, treasurer;
E. Goring Bliss. assistant treasurer:
Max harrington, budget officer, and
Albert K. Brown, assistant secre-
tary.
Serving as chairmen of the vari-
Gus committees are Claude w. Owen,
invitations; James A. Councillor,
program; Morris Cafritz. testimonial
and gifts; Lawrence E. Williams.
dinner; David Lynn, decorations;
Raymond F. Garrity, ticket; DR..
Malcolm G. Gibbs, reception: Frank
lin G. Sartwell, publicity; Milton S.
Kronheim. printing: L. P. McLach-
len, sponsors, and Richmond B.
Keech, participation.
Vice Chairmen.
The following are vice chairmen
of the General Committee: Mr..
CafritZ. Mrs. James A. Councillor,
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox. Ara M.
Daniels, William Dolph, Mrs. John
Allan Dougherty, Charles Duffy, c..
B. Duican. sr.; Robert v. Fleming,
the Right Rev. James E. Freeman.
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld, Law
renee Heller. Stanley Horner, A. F..
Jones, Capt. Donald S. Leonard,
B. M. McKelway, E. D. Merrill and
William Montgomery.
Also A. G. Neal, John O'Rourke,
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Stephen T.
Porter, E. Barrett Prettyman, John
A. Remon, the Very Rev. Msgr. Law
renee J. Shehan, Carleton Smith,
Fred A. Smith, Harry P. Somerville,
Marcy L. Sperry, Harry N. Stull,
w. Waverly Taylor, Arthur J. Sund-
lun. Mrs. Arthur Watkins, Jess Will
lard and Frank j. Wilson.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Catoe Continuance Plea
To Be Argued tuesday

Jarvis R. Catoe. 36, colored, sched-
uled to go on trial Wednesday on
a charge of numbering and criminal
ly attacking Mrs. Rose Abramowitz
in her apartment at 1901 Sixteenth
street NV. on March s, today filed
a motion for continuance at District
Court The motion will be argued
Tuesday.
Through Attorneys j. Robert
Esher. Walter M. Shea and George
J. Boden. Catoe asked that the
trial be delayed until such time
that the i'll will and prejudice
existing in the public mind against
him would subside"
Yesterday, Justice James Morris
overruled Catoe'S motion for q
change of venue. Catoe had argued
through counsel that an unbiased
jury could not be selected from
District residents because of motor
iety given the case. Police say Catoe
has confessed to killing and at
tacking five women here.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Grand Jurors
Hear Another
Fish Secretary
Justice Department
Examining Mail Bags
In Weeks Recess

Walter L. Reynolds late yesterday
became the second member of the
office stan of Representative Fish,
Republican, of New York, to be a
witness before the grand Jury in
vestigating activities of alleged Nazi
agents.
Mr.. Reynolds is the isolationist
leaders first secretary. Mr.. Fish's
second secretary, George Hill, was
before the grand jury earlier yester-
day.
Il was just getting the records
straight" Mr.. Reynolds said today.
II wasn't before the jurors for more
than Is or 20 minutes"
Mailbags Produced.
Both secretaries made their jury
appearance after eight mailbags,
which previously had lain outside
House Office Building storeroom
assigned to Representative Fish, had
been turned over to the grand jury
yesterday. Justice T. Alan Colds
borough had ordered Mr.. Hill to
produce them by yesterday noon or
explain why not. House Postmaster
Finis E. Scott then delivered them
to the grand jury at the written re-
quest, he said, of Mr.. Hill.
The eight sacks, containing
franked envelopes of isolationist
Senators and Representatives and
other material, were transferred
later yesterday from the grand jury
room in the Police Court Building to
the Justice Department.
AS the Justice prosecutors delved
into the bags, the grand jury was
permitted a weeks recess, until
1890 am. Friday. Three special
assistants to the Attorney General
George A. McNulty, William Power
Maloney and Edward j. Hickey, jr.
are supervising the investigation fol
the department.
From Dennett's Office.
The Justice Department contends
that the mailsacks in question came
from the Office of Prescott bennett
secretary of Make Europe Pay War
Debts Committee. This organiza-
tion, the Department asserts, re-
ceived contributions from George
Sylvester Viereck, who yesterday
pleaded innocent to a charge OF
failing to give full information in
his registration with the State De-
partment as an agent of the Nazis.
The sacks disappeared from Mr.
Dennett's Office at 1890 Rhode
Island avenue NV, on September
10, a few hours after Mr.. bennett
was summoned as a grand jury wit
ness, according to the Justice De-
partment.
Mr.. Fish says that some of these
bags were delivered to his Office
without authorization, but were re-
jected by his staff. They then ap-
peared outside his storage room
without permission from his Office,
he declares.
Evening star., 1941-10-11
Kiwanians Demand
{ nd Of Unnecessary
Federal Spending
Powers Of Government
Burdensome in Money,
lost Liberty. Is Charge

An end to unnecessary" Gov
eminent spending during the emer-
gency was advocated by the Capital
District, Kiwanis International, at
its closing sessions today at the
Mayf1oWer Hotel.
Holding the Nation is suffering
from too much Government and ex-
cesSive taxation" the group cau-
toned that unless the present trend
is properly checked, our system of
self-government cannot endure"
Celebrating for the reasons for
such curb, they stated that pres
ent adverse conditions" result from
the Governments expansion of its
activities to point beyond defense,
where its powers of discretion in
all things have become a burden
some cost, not only in money but in
loss of liberty and self-respect."
The Kiwanians also pledged them
selves to support goal of greater
national unity to aid in destruction
of Hitlerism and restore order in the
world.
The resolutions were prepared by
committee headed by Willard l..
Hawkins.
Delegates last night heard Floyd B.
Odlum, director of the Contract Dis
tribution Division of the o. P. M.
declare that the small plants of
America represent the balance of
power in the world conflict"
1000 Hear OdIum.
Mr.. Odlum spoke at banquet at
tended by more than 1000 persons
in honor of Harry B. King, Dover,
Del, governor of the Capital district.
Addressing himself particularly to
the manufacturers present, Mr.. Od-
lum urged that small plants take
defense orders wherever possible
Immediately.
Results must mushroom from
the bottom upward" he declared.
You manufacturers must follow up
the leads we give. You must make
just as vigorous an effort to sell
your facilities to defense contrac-
tors and procurement officers as
you would to sell them to CONNER
cial customers in normal times"
The United States, he said, has
Travelled the same road as Great
Britain in believing for a time that
defense preparations and business
as usual" could be carried on at the
same time.
Situation Shifting.
England today is really produc-
ing" he continued, adding that this
country is now in the transition
stage from an added effort on top
of business as usual to all-out de-
fense."
Small business has a job to do
in the interests of your country and
your own preservation" he declared.
That job is to assume your proper
and essential place in the mobiliza-
ton of the industrial might of this
Nation for all-out effort"
The Rev. John w. Rustin Of the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, delivered the invocation.
DR.. Oscar B. Hunter, president of
the Washington Kiwanis Club, pre-
sided. Dancing and an entertain
ment followed the banquet.