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But the British commercial line carries only passengers es- sential to prosecution of the war. All other kinds of British fly- ing were stopped long ago."
 Hartman also reported that the British are making excellent use of American food, and that there is no prOfiteering. Natur- ally, he said, food is distributed through grocery stores, just as our grocery stores handled food under the AAA card system. MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Governor Gene Talmadge has illuminated noisily against cer- tain Georgia liberals who made trips abroad for prominent U. s. Foundations. However, Tal- madge's son, Herman E., and his wife, made a trip to Japan in 1899 as the guest of the Japan csc government with all expens- es paid. Youfng Talmadge is now an ensign in Navy Intelii- gence Lady Astor, Virginia born leader of the once famous Cls7eden set, is not likely to visit the U. S. for some time. The Bri- tish government, taking no chances with her temperamental temperament, will not give her a passport. Supreme Court Jus- tice Stanley Reed doffed his judi cial aloofness to make a speech for the Council for Democracy calling for united support of President Roosevelt's anti-Hitler policies.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21

Producers of the sinews of the nations defense effort-iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, molybdenum, manganese, mercury, gold, silver and other metals, are planning to meet in San Francisco, September 29 to October 2, at the annual American Mining Congress convention. Metals for Defense" is the theme chosen for this meeting. Taxation, labor relations distribution and economic problems of the mining industry will be considered, as well as the need of adequate priority ratings for mining machinery and sup pliers, in order to assure continued cap acity production of this great natural resource industry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21
In Today's Mail
CHASE KIMBALL ACCUSES DIR. EDWARD LODGE CURRAN or
 PRO-FASCTST LEANINGS
August 2l. ls4l.

August 21, 1941.
 Editor of the Democrat:
 Recently by going to Washington to try to weaken our army in this time of danger, the leaders of the Mothers of American Sons" ex- ploded the theory that they favored adequate United States defense. Now at the mass meeting that this organization is holding in Water bury tonight, their pro-Fascist ten- dencies are indicated by their hav- ing as their speaker the well-known associate of the working Fascist front in this country, pr. Edward Lodge Curran. pr. 8CUrran is too smart to come out directly for Fas- cism, but he is reported to have been associated for several years with leading American Fascist sym- pathizerS and groups. In February, 1899. he and Patrick Scanlon were members of a committee sponsoring a "prO-American" (actually pro- Franco) mass meeting in New York. The committees chairman was Mer- win K. Hart, said to be the real leader of the America Fascist front.
 Though Dr. Curran is reported to have denied membership in the or- ganization, he has been frequent speaker at Christian Front meetings. January 25, 1939, he spoke with John F. Cassidy at Prospect hall in Brooklyn. Cassidy was one of the, leaders of the seventeen Christian Frontiers indicted for conspiracy against the government. In Oc- tober, 1889, he addressed Christian Front rally in St. Paul. At the time of the trial of the Christian Front CTS q number of defense rallies" were held in Brooklyn for their gup- port and Dr. Curran spoke at a number of them. When they were acquitted, the victory" rally was addressed both by him and the ac- quilted Cassidy at Christian Front rally in Brooklyn. Earlier. pr. Curran vas reported to be negoti- ating with Station w. M. c. A. as a member of Q committee reported to include Bernard D,Arehy, q well- known pro-Nasi ympathizeF, and Patrick geanlosl. .
 pr, curran has been freauenk speaker with Wclissnown Warcirt or NaHl sTmpathlzers and ls not knoWn @ have Fepudlafcd any of enc ntate- naenls Whieh theg made at hueh
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meetings October 90, 1sss; he vas 8 principal speaker at a pro Amer ican Rally" in New York. along with Elizabeth Dilling, well-klloWn anti-Semite and pro- -Nazi, who is the author of the Red Network, and 'Roosevelts Red Record", and re- ported to be one of the authors of ''The Octopus" (the most anti. Semitic book of the last few yearS) She has been recommended by the German propaganda organlza& a&lon, World Services. March 28, 1899. Curran appeared in Philadelphia on the same platform with General Van Horn Mosley (retired) we'll known anti Semitic and pro Saxi sympathizer and even reported by some NaziS as once considered for the position of American ffiehrer." i" In November, 1889, Dr. Duran spoke in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, one of the other speakers being Francis P. Moran, Boston leader of the Christian Front and strong aTti- Semitic and pro-NaM, wiio made anti Semitic statements in his speech.
 pr. Curran and others of his peE- suasion are reported to have been trying to procure control of the America First Comnnitte which realized that association with Mieh persons would greatly tniuTe it with most Americans. John '. Wynn of the New York America First Com mittee tried to prevent Dx. Cut1an from delivering the invocation nt the Brooklyn mas meeting, ard t ts said that he has hoen barred from America First" platforms isa ws09Eal cities. Perhaps that iB the rsnson he appears ia this city under the auspices of the 'hgothersp rather than At the America First" nest ing to Do held no2t week.
 Undoubtedly most WaterhuElana and perhaps many ieadoEB cf the "Moiherg do not know UuEfAn1 connections and reputation, hli W4sl Iislen to him on Thufadag oR4a1 f know these faefs about hlm,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21

'I hope" said the YugOsIav Minister, "that our treaty will now work and that Russia will help JugOslavia in her hour of need.
 "Oh, my dear colleague" re-
 piled Ambassador Oumansky, you must realize that Russia considers the capitalistic gov- ernments of the United States and Great Britain much great CT enemies than Germany"
 Several weeks later, on June p, to be exact, the Jugoslav min ister telephoned the Soviet ann bassador again. By this time Hitler had turned the tables on his former ally by invading Rus Sia.
 "DO you still think" asked the Jugoslav Minister" that Great Britain and the United States are greater enemies than Ger many?"
 My dear colleague" implores Ambassador Oumarsky, please say no more about it." NEW NATIONAL
 DEFENSE BOARD
 After Roosevelt gets out off the glamour of international affairs and settles down to mundane donnesticity, one of the first prob lems waiting on his desk is an effort to end wrangling between the OF Mand OPACS.
 This wrangle is over the ques- tion of priorities for national de- fense. When congress passed the Priorities Act last spring, it di- vided authority between the Off, flee of Price and Civilian Supply, which is Lean Henderson. Since then they have been at odds over which agency was to do what; which was to cut the production of automobiles, which was to al- locate steel, copper, etc.
 Finally, just before Roosevelt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21
Current Comment

I do not want to live in e coun- try in which I do not know but that every other man pass on the street may be a secret officer iis- tening to everything I say. or break ing Into my office or home to look over everything I may have. Senator Norris, Nebraska, on the
 proposal for . Navy secret police
 force.
 We have at least the advantage of prcfitlng by the experience Of the British, or. ln other words, we start where the Engllsh now find themseives, and not at scratch. Mayor Laduardla of New York
 on civilian defence.
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.a . l. Saccharine is sweeter than su- gar; true or false?
 3. Who wrote the epic poem ''Ths Aeneid"?
 3. Where is Mc0ill University? 4. Tn which ocean are the Mid way Islands?
 5. What does EXP" stand for in the army2 .. ..aA..-.-. 6. A coif is a casket, a ':hair-do" or small cap or hood2 '. What relation was Queen Vic. toria of Great Britain to the late Wilhelm II, former Kaiser of Ger many?
 8. What is the name for an adult female hog? p@ f g. Rowena is the heroine of which of Sir Walter Scott'S novels? 10. Is the common field daisy . weed? <. .
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here lie down in the same river bed. But it's Q legal wedding and the only
 shotgun aspects of the case are a rearmament program, and in such times you can't question the motives of anyone, tycoon or bureaucrat, for wanting to dn nunr.rr khila O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21

When the war is over, there will cer- tainly be a great increase in civilian fly ing. Thousands of trained pilots in every major country will seek to use their skills in making q living. It has already been predicted that the day Is in sight when every bit of first-class mall in the country will be air-borne. That means airports, bigger, better, and more frequent airports. plvldend2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21
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 e. Where can I get q copy. of the new postal laws and regulatio1s7
 A. Send money order for 4l,S0 to The Superintendent of D0cu- ments, Government Printing Office. Washington, D. C., and ask for the 194l issue of Postal Laws and Reg ulationS. tgr
 e.. What was the remark about patriotism made by Edith Cavell, as she was about to be executed as . British spy2
 A. To the British chaplain who administered a final sacrament, she made the remark, patriotism isInot enough,n which at once became 70 historic phrase. ''
 e. What Is meant by ''pour point" of g lubricating oil?
 A. The ''pour test" or pour point of an oil is the lowest temperature at which the oil will flow when 1t is cooled and inspected under def. initely prescribed standard test conditions.
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as well as to provide a way for them to get something to eat It is perfectly possible to be fully fed and undernour- ished at the same time. Every effort to spread knowledge of nutrition is 8 na- tional asset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21

whose name hap pened to be Roth
 cram, Nelson led the captain up to the Admiral and said, Look! Yon- der is the enemy. You two m e n shake hands like Englishmen.
 The pages of history, both sa- cred and secular, are flarIxanei with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21
. EDISON IN
 WASHINGTON
By PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

VNI5 -7c-7EV11,.s W--T-1-l13VSU
 Correspondent
 Washington, Aug. 2l.-Behind the rather surprising action of the Aluminium Company of America and the Tennessee Valley Authority in throwing their arms about each others necks and making a deal to let IVA control the company's power resources in the upper Ten nessee Valley is one of those strange romanceS of big business and big government that illustrates the old principle, If you cant lick lem, jine 'em."
 In this case, it applies both ways. The corporation and the government
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@. What proportion of the to. tai area of China does "unoccupted China" embrace? sas
 A. About ninety percent, inelud- ing Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Tibet. @. Is the Kremlin in Moscow, ID. s. s. R. a building?
 A. In some old Russian cities tho central portion was surrounded by strong walls with towers and bat dement's, and sometimes by embark mentS and meats filled with water Kremlin is the name of these ,et1- closures, which really were fortresSes and usually were located on an ele- vation dominating the surrounding territory The Kremlin in Moscow is in the center of the city and is shaped like an isosceles triangle, one side being parallel with the Moskva River. It has huge pyramidal walls of pale pink brick, surmounted by battlements, which are pierced by five gates. Within the Kremlin, and along its single street, are the more important government offices of the Soviet Union,
 e. Does King Peter of Jugoslayia speak several languages?
 A. His Serbian is described as perfect; his English very good, and his French and German, fluent.
 e. When freight moves over morE than one railroad, which road iS paid for the shipment?
 A. Revenues from the shipment are divided between the interested railroads on an agreed basis.
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
WONDER IS THE ENEMY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

On the eve of the battle of Ira falgar. Lord Nelson discovered that quarrel had taken place betwen Admiral Collingwood and his cap tain. Sending for this captain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21
Whats Your I. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back pAse for the answers.
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR He did ncbIe;" an expression
 commonly heard, Is ilIiteFate.i YOu can say, "He did nobIy."
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1941-07-04
Hold Fast

In this day of crisis when pessim' SIN
hangs like a murky pail over so much
of our daily life and Conversations
behooves us to stop and consider-not
the tribulations of the moment but the
long range view Of eternity.
Is this Overwhelming thing that is
happening to us a calamity which Is
ours alone to face-or are we gong
through one of the great cycles of MS
tory through which countless others
before us have passed?
Whatever it is, we should in time Of
trouble get back to first things and con.
template the eternal goodness. In
Whittier's poem on this subject he states
his faith thus:
Assured alone, that life or death
His mercy underlies."
If we hold fast to this we can say
with the Psalm st David-"Yea, though
l walk through the valley of the shadow
of death, shall fear no evil, for Thou
art with me. Thy rod and Thy staff
they comfort me Once we can arrive
at this state of trust, then we are able
to face all problems with the prop ar
courage and perspective.
And above all, we can go about our
daily life and carry on our daily tasks
as we should-with high morale anc
even with modicum of happiness. We
have much for which 10 be thankful
The rest of the wrold has been at wal
for nearly two long years. We have
had peace at home. We have free speech
free press, uncensored decision, and
all the rights guaranteed under the
Constitution. We have a chance to uv,
and work and learn and work aecordirf
to our talents.
Continued on page potu7
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1941-07-04
LOOK TO YOUR
LEADERS

positlon-pr which is most usual
through their indifference.
David Harum said, "You can't have
an honest horse race until you have an
honest human race" And you can't
have honest and honorable leaders I'M
less the honest and honorable people
will get out and put them into power
and help them in every way to carry
out their appointed tasks.
The crying need of the world today
is leadership-in international relations
in national affairs, in local offices-and
in all branches of our daily life. Good
leaders are hard to find because the
task of conscientious, honest, objective
leadership is a d fficult, thankless one
AS people we are too apt to put
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1941-07-04
By Ruth Taylor

From the beginning of time the IA
vorite alibi of man, nation or race
for goirg astray has been the detection
of the leader. He was the one to blame
His was the sin. The others simply
followed
But that is one alibi that won't hold
, water in a democratic society. For
where the people determine upon their
leader-he is their servant-their re-
preventative.
Wherever a corrupt or dishonorable
leader is in authority he stays there
with the consent or Though the toIer-
alton of those who placed him in such
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1941-07-04

up with mediocrity rather than to get
out and bestir ourselves to find mon
who can properly represent us. We are
too easily taken in by a glib tongue
and easy confident manner.
What we must do is to remember that
cur leaders represent us-they are the
embodiment of the things for which
we stand, of the princp es in which we
believe. We must be as sure of their
integrity in all things as we are Of
our own. They must measure up tc
our highest standards. Orce we have
found such men we must back them
Fundamentally, in action as well as in
speech-for we are responsible for them
If they turn out we'll we can take
the credit. If they turn out badly
there is no abb, for we chose them
AS long as we tolerate them we remain
responsible. Let us look to our leaders,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-06-27

easy money, easy living and easy
morals; by, his fearless teaching
of Judaism which, in its essence,
has the solution of all the worlds
ill if properly taught and applied.
and by the exemplary conduct of
his own life, a rabbi has it within
his power to educate and to spir-
itually revive and rejuvinate the
community to which he ministers.
But what do we actually find?
With isolated exceptions (and,
thank God, there are some) the
spiritual leader has atrophied into
a mere social fixture fitting
from influential member to influ-
entail member engendering, or
trying to, goodwill" towards
himself, not having the courage
to take a decided stand on any
communal problem lest he antag-
onize someone; (some asses call
it diplomacy-as though such dip
lomacy were an integral part of
the moral rabbits equipment); in
stead of perfecting himself in
Jewish scholarship, he has become
an expert in auction bridge; in
stead of preaching the word of
God as culled from Torah and
Talmud, he has become a review
er" of books and playa task for
which he is, nearly always, emf
nently unframed and glaringly I'M
prepared; instead of conducting
daily Talmud Torah he prances
around "lecturing" to Rotary and
Kiwanis clubs on subjects con-
corning which most of his audi
ence knows more about than he;
instead of walking humbly with
his Cod, he stands ever ready to
blast to bits any barrier that may
stand between him annd publici-
ty; instead of elevating and refin-
ing the souls and actions of his
own people, he is ever ready to be
a regular" fellow Whatever that
means), to flow with the current,
to be social butterfly, to be an
emissary of goodwill" to the
Gentiles instead of being a rabbi
and teacher to Israel. Even the
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against the money barons who
have and are exploiting them
even in the democracies; failed to
implant in it's adherents a horror
of that form Of legalized killing
which we call war; failed to COM
bat injustice, poverty and vice to
any appreciate extent.
The natural result of these sins
of omission has been the total
loss of interest on the part of
huge numbers of people in organ
lied religion. AS an inevitable
concormitant, the heads of organ
lied religion and those who were
out are most responsible for its
proper functioning, the spiritual
leaders, have suffered an almost
irretrievable loss of prestige,-a
loss which has almost singed them
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clean of any influence on huge
sections of the population. Many,
all too many ministers, priests
and rabbis are literally function
ing in a void.
To paraphrase an old adage,
every religious organization gets
the kind of spiritual leader it de-
serves not the kind it needs.
AS Jew and a Rabbi, the writer
is particularly panied by the en-
ormous indifference displayed by
our people towards the synagogue,
towards Judaism, towards Jewish
education, towards Zionism and to-
wards the Rabbi. Many syna-
gcgues and temples are empty of
worshippers the better part of
the year; parents deliberately keep
their children from Talmud To-
rahs and much more often than
not, avoid classes for adult educa-
ton themselves. Of almost five
million American Jews but
handful of 10000 are Zionist mem
bers- to most Of these Zion
ism means $500 a year and moth
ing more; Jewish ceremonial life
is rapidly being discarded with
very little substitution, and the
Rabbi himself is regarded by many
as nothing more than a well-ap-
pointed, decorative tassel on the
cap of Jewish society.
Not only are the congregations
responsible for this spiritual bank
ruptcy, but the spiritual leaders
themselves are largely culpable
for this tragic state of affairs.
At no time in the annals of our
people has the Rabbi had such
golden opportunity to make him
self heard and felt, even as the
prophet Of old, in his generation
and it's crisis, dared shout down
the demands of the crowds, had
the courage to swim against the
current, had the moral fibre to
fight godlessness and to go down
fighting, when the need arose. By
a vigorous display of his interest
in the economic plight of most of
his people and a readiness to bat
tie for the alienation of that
plight, by his constant, consistent
and courageous demonstration a.
gainst this generations greed for
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THE SHINING STAR

venerable title of rabbi" has be-
come an ear-jar and an eye-sore
to some in the rabbinate with the
misleading title of DR." taking
it's place.
Upon whom can the blame for
this tragic state of affairs be
placed? You both, congregation
and spiritual leader. AS long as
religious groups stand ready to
discharge the courageous rabbi
who takes his calling seriously
and regards his duties as sacred;
as long as congregations are run
by men who are always prepared
to draw the economic moose around
the neck of the rabbi who dares
to speak that which his conscience
dictates, just so long will we have
rabbis with rubber spines and
flexible souls = vice, innocuous,
fawning servants ready to dance
attendance upon the synagogal ty-
coons. Were the powers of en-
gaging and disengaging of rabbi
in the hands of the seminaries or
other unbiased groups, it is GER
tain that a measure of this evil
would be destroyed.
And the Rabbi must realize that
his highest purpose in life is not
the maintenance of his Job, that
he must be the scholar of the
Jewish community, and that his
task is to Jewishly educate, NOR
ally uplift and spiritually inspire
his people; that he must be the
living example of a good. sanity
Jewish life. He must learn to
realize that he was engaged as a
spiritual leader-not the commun-
ltys entertainer nor the life of
its parties the moral force,
the spiritual power from which his
Continued on Page Five)
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CONTINUED on Page Five)
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Divide the Blame
For Jewish Ills Today
CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED
MOBILE, ALABAMA

Editors following stimulating article
especially Southern Jewish Weekly We
appreciate receiving the reactions from readers
throughout the South the various points brought out in
faults that through
public opinion evils in Jewish leadership may be
eradicated)
1t has said by and with perspcacy that
ganized of people the interest,"
the stimulus faith the hope which they had
religion has failed
support their ageOd struggle
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-06
OFFERS TOOLS

fITIr
CHICAGO, Feb. 5-R-Louis E.
herman, Who said his company
.l.Folled about IS per cent of the
+o,ce, used machine tools in the
..'eo States, offered today to
aye 100000 worth of them for
:, year at the rate of 81 apiece.
n n MADE the offer, he said, Gin
ss' attempt to break the bottle
WA a. Of Official red tape holding
y geiehSe production" Emerman
ANY, anu GULF