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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
Judge Pickett Given
 Legislative Approval
Confirmation Averts Embarrassing "SpOt" for Cover
 nor EIurIey-Q Question of Residence Agitated

House vote in favor was 155-2o.
 The secret vote was taken after Gov. Hurley had announced that if Judge Pickett were rejected he would nominate another Republi- can in his stead. Earlier the gov- ernor had said that before giving Judge Pickett the New Haven county nomination he had asked the judge about reports that he was a resi- dent of Washington, In Litchfield county, rather than New Haven. Judge Pickett insisted, as he did be- fore the judiciary committee at a hearing, that his legal residence was in New Haven. He declined an offer by the governor of appoint ment to the common pleas court bench in Litchfield county, where he would have replaced Judge Thomas Wall of Torrington, an interim appointee of former Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin.
 Capitol circles yesterday and to- day buzzed with reports that Judge Pickett had been promised a su- perior court appointment if Gov. Baldwin were reelected and that for this reason political advisers had urged him to spend enough time at his Washington home to qualify as resident of Litchfield county. This, so the gossip goes, would have enabled Gov. Baldwin to nominate him as a resident of Litchfield county and thereby make a gesture toward giving an import ant post toward that county.
 As it turned out in the end the residence question proved only academic for, before the vote yes- terday, the judiciary committee re- ported that it had found in the state constitution a provision that any resident of the state can re- ceive any state appointment. This provision would invalidate a statute requiring that a common pleas court judge be resident of the county in whose court he is to serve.
 Had Judge Pickett's nomination been rejected, the administration would have been subject to sharp criticism by Republicans, and it was with a sigh of relief that Demo- cratic leaders at Hartford wrote "finis" to the incident today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
Month Of Music Boycott
Summary Finds ASCAP Satisfied With Results And of the Opinion Chain Radio Listeners
 Have Dropped 25 to 50 Percent

New York, Feb. 6-At the end of the first month of the radio chains complete boycott of AECAP music, John G. Paine, general manager of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, summed up the situation as follows:
 1. Independent radio stations throug h ut the country, with ASCAP music, report gains in hs- teners running from 25 to 50 per cent, as shown by mail responses to various programs.
 2. Chain stations (CBS, NEG and MBS), in turn, are rapidly losing listeners.
 3. Public protest against the boy colt of favorite music and the "mur- dering" of classics by CBS, NEG and MES has steadily increased, as in- dicated in letters to newspapers, radio stations, orchestras, singers and ASCAP. Some blame ASCAP, more blame radio, but without ex- ception, all are violently critical of preSent-day chain programs.
 4. Newspapers and magazines have joined the protest in increasing numbers Exclusive of papers which own radio stations affiliated with the chains, about 95% of the na- tion's press is now supporting the ASCAP cause) Even many papers with chain-affiliated stations are favoring ASCAP.
 5. The Society's own program, "ASCAP on Parade" being heard on 109 independe mt stations throughout the country, has brought the greatest avalanche of mail ever experienced by these stations; the most convincing proof that the pulp lie has missed ASCAP music.
 6. AS a result of the little sta- tions becoming the big stations through giving the people the music they want, radio sponsors are in- creasingly contacting with the in- dependent stations. No new business
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06

has been signed by the chains since the first of the year, and quite q few big programs have been can- celled.
 2. An open plea made oyer the air on January 25 by Gene Buck, president of the Society, asking the radio chains to meet with us and work out the issues in the music controversy, brought no reply from the chains. Our only conclusion is that the chains don't want to sit down with us and work out nut ually fair contract.
 8. Negotiations have been resum- ed by ASCAP counsel with the De- partment of Justice looking toward @ settlement of the governments six-year old suit. We are hopeful of an amicable conclusion which will enable ASCAP to cooperate with the government without destroying the services and benefits built up by the Society in 26 years of endeavor in behalf of composers, music users and the public.
 OS OuI O1 ulOTe CLldu q CIlOuSdIl0 copyright violations and infringe ments reported by ASCAP listening posts" throughout the country, one court action against CBS has been filed in New York, and some two dozen cases are under way in other cities. Broadcasters also have been notified that three BMI numbers, T Hear a Rhapsody" 'I Look At You" and "All I Desire" are re- garded as infringements of ASCAP's T Found A Dream" My Heart Stood Still" and T Got A Guy" res- pectively.
 10. Plans for popularizing new ASCAP songs through channels other than the networks, particular ly the moves, bathrooms, night clubs, hotels, theaters and personal ap- pearances, in addition to more than 200 independent radio stations sig ned with ASCAP, have progressed with astonishing rapidity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
WARNING GIVEN
 TO ASSISTANTS
Severe Penalties Are Pre- sCribed for Failing to
 Give Address Change

Reelstrants under the selective Training and Service Act who change their addresses are required by law to notify their local boards promptly, Colonel Ernest l.. Averill, state director of selective service fer Connecticut, warned today. Those who fail to do 50 become li- abe tc severe penalties, Director Averill pointed out
 Director Averin said he has been advised by National Headquarters, Selective Service System, Washing ton, D. C., that investigations by the Department of Justice of many de- linquencies reported by local boards revealed that carelessness on the part of registrants, rather than will full intent on their part, was often responsible for these violations of the law. He cited the following pro- visions of the selective service regu- lations:
 Tt shall be the duty of each regis trant to keep his local board advised at all times of the address where mail will reach him. The mailing of any order. notice, or blank form by the local board to 8 registrant at the address last reported by him to the local board shall constitute notice to him of the contents of the communication, whether he actually receives it or not" Paragraph 159)
 If a registrant or a person re- quired to present himself for and submit to registration fails to per- form any duty prescribed by the se- lective service law, or directions given pursuant thereto, within the required time, he shall be liable to fine and imprisonment under section Il of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940." Paragraph 159).
 "In many cases of reported de- the director said, "tlle registrants have merely been care less in failing to comply with the requirement. that they keep their local boards advised at all times where mail will reach them"
 Therefore, he urged all registrantS in Connecticut who have changed their addresses, or who hereafter change their addresses, immediately to notify thir local boards of such changes so that these registrants may not be unnecessarily penalized for failing to perform duties required by the Selective Training and Serv- ice Act and the Regulations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
'tHeard And Ouerheard"
Republicans Anxious to Enjoy Prestige of Being Liberal = "Sock the Utilities" Slogan = Wat erburian Secret Candidate for Finance Com missioner = Baldwin "Out" as National
 Chairman
Chairman.

the next few years.
 The emphasis now is being talk en off his candidacy. He prob ably will run again for governor in 1942, and former State Treas urer Joseph E. Talbot is being mentioned as a candidate for Ieutenant-gOvernor.
 The basis of Gov. Hurley's recommendation for an entirely new state milk control set-up, ac- cording to an administration ally, is this:
 There is a great under con sumption of milk, probably due to the unwillingnesS of the public to pay high prices which continue to remain fixed by dealer controI.
 The only way to stimulate greater consumption is lower prices, which may be produced by putting dealers into competi- tion for the market.
 Thus, by more efficient opera tion of their organization, the idea is the dealers would be able to reduce prices. The dealers, how ever, don't think so and already are organizing to work against the measure. The farmers, of course, are for it, because the measure fixes the price the dealer must pay them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
JOHN P. BACCHUS
 GETS JAIL TERM

New Haven, Eco. 6-John P. Bac- chus, 28, of a Meadow street hotel, was sentenced to jail for 30 days and fined $25 and costs when he appeared before City Court Judge Joseph Weiner yesterday on a charge of operating a motor vehi- cl., without the permission of the owner.
 Bacchus was arrested last week in Naugatuck, two hours after he had taken a truck from State and Humphrey street. The truck, which was loaded with whisky valued at $1 1000, was recovered with it's load intact. He was granted a discharge On a theft charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06

(By Democrat Legislative RepOrter)
 State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. B. Confirmation by the Senate and House yesterday by Judge Walter Pickett for another four-years on the bench of the common pleas court at New Haven saved Gov. Robert A. Hurley from. a situation that would have been at the least embarrassing and that might well have endangered the prestige of his administration only a month after 1t started. After days of maneuv- ering and delay, the Senate voted confirmation of the governors nom- nation a 21-0 vote, while the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
ETCHING DONATED
 TO CHASE FOREMEN

The Chase F'oremen's Association will meet tonight in the associations club rooms on North Main Street, at which time an etching, donated by Frederick s. Chase, will be pre- Sented by E. Roland Chase.
 Final plans for Saturdays annual association banquet will be discussed during the business meeting. Bridge and pinochle will follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
ABRAHAM NESKY
 IN BRISTOL MISHAP

Bristol, Feb. *-Automobiles op- erated by Samuel Grasso of 18 Nal 20 Place and Abraham Nesky of 145 Plaza avenue, Waterbury. were damaged Wednesday morning when they collided at the intersection of Grove and Walnut Street. The po- lice said the drivers agreed to set- tie the matter between themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
LegislatiUe NeWs
(By Democrat Legislatiye Reporterl

(By Democrat Legislative Reporter)
 State Capitol, Hartford, Feb. G. Rep. Nicholas Tomasetti, New Brit ain Democrat, was elected chair man of labor bloc formed yester- day in the General Assembly. One of the nine othre members is Rep. Francis Fahey, Enfield lawyer and a Republican member of the power full judiciary committee.
 Police Supt. William J. Roach of Waterbury called at the Capitol yesterday on official business.
 Gov. Hurley's proposed budget for the next biennium includes an ap- propriation of $930,728 for the state training school at Southbury. The school was erected as part of the state institutional building program directed by MT. Hurley while he was public works commissioner.
 The legislature will not be in session tomorrow, according to plans informally agreed to by party leaders before tOday's session started. A recess to Tuesday was to be voted at the close of busi- ness today.
 Walter R. Brooks, legislative re- porter for the Waterbury American Republican, was operated on for an arm ailment yesterday at Waterbury Hospital. He was reported resting comfortably today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06

The Laurel club, organization of legislative reporters, Tuesday night chose Frank Quinlan, political writer for thre Bridgeport Times Star, to his third term as presi- dent. Raymond J. Fitzpatrick of The Democrat was elected mem- Der of th> executive committee.
 Gov. Robert A. Hurley has ac- cepted an invitation to attend the clubs biennial dinner and gridiron show at the Hartford club April 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06
HOG WEIGHTS

A weight of 250 pounds Is con- sidered the most desirable weight for hogs at market. Selected light hogs. weighing from 1855 to 195 pounds, are considered bacon hoga
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06

William J. Farley, New Britain, treasurer of the Democratic State Central committee and former State PWA Director, is being mentioned for appointment as State Liquor Control Commission CT, Public Utilities Commissioner and member of the proposed State Labor Relations Board as a rep resentative of the public.
 The best crack in weeks came during the judiciary committee hearing on the renomination of Judge Pickett for the New Ha-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

motions and other restraints
prevent the making of million
aires!
1t is just as simple as that.
Anyone who will take time to
examine the income tax laws as
they now stand and also as they
will be next year, will find that
only Enthusiastically impossible
income could make a man mil
lionaire today, starting from
scratch.
Ford became many times
millionaire; but if Ford were to
start today, as he started when
he first turned out primitive
gasoline buggy in a shed, he
couldn't accumulate even one
million.
1t just can't be done. Income
taxes will rise; other restraints
will tighten. Even now you can
keep less than a million out of
five-and so much gets sheared
off in getting that five that it
becomes a matter of fairyland
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
Good Old Name
Is Grand Asset

An elderly business man OBJ
served that he is still responsive
to the advertising he read more
than thirty years ago. He is a
pushover for products that were
advertised on barns and fences
as long ago as 1900. The i'm
pressions of his childhood re-
main indelible. When it's a
choice between the old and the
new, he finds himself buying the
old, whether it's soap, cough
drops, smoking tobacco, or lax
ative.
If you stay in business, your
advertising is always working
for you, he insists. AS proof, he
cites the impact of the old ad-
vertisements on himself.
A good old name is a grand
asset.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

According to Chester M.
Wright, writing in the (Chicago,
Ill., Federation News, it is a
fact, and it knocks something
that used to be taken for grant
ed right in the head.
Those who care to go down
the list of old-time noveau richie
will find lot Of names that once
adorned the printed pages almost
every day, for their mean doings,
or their glamor, or their pecu
liarties.
Men found gold, or they back
ed an invention, or they cornered
the wheat market-and they
piled up millions. They got to
be more than millionaires; they
got to be multiple -millionaires.
And they were allowed to keep
it!
Some one said that "the pow
er to tax is the power to de-
stroy" and that is true. 1t also
is the power to regulate and to
check-and to keep people from
getting to be millionaires.
Today taxes, regulation of pro-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
Receivers and Giyers

Here are many wise failures!
Often the failures know more
than the successful people do.
Often have wondered about
this. Now, l think l have the
answer. The failures are re-
ceivers only. Into their minds
they have poured facts, culture,
ideas. Like a sponge, they have
soaked-up knowledge. They are
not creators but just recorders.
Their minds are like photograph
records that never are played.
Successful people, fundament-
ally, are givers. Their minds act
as channels through which ideas
pass along to others-not as
static storehouses. They do not
merely read what others have
thought and done-they have
thoughts and ideas of their own
and carry them into action. They
live creatively.
The mass of the people escape
the pain and toll of creative eff
fort merely by listening to the
radio, watching the movies, read
ing the magazine and books.
The successful people are the
creators of these things!
The mass of the people do the
routine work, following the we'll
worn grooves of life. The suc-
cessful men build the factories,
design the products and create
the jobs!
Our destiny depends upon
whether we are just receivers
or givers in life. To which class
do you belong?
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
New Tabloid
Publication
At Lancaster

Malcolm Forbes, new publish
er of the Fairfield Times, last
week announced the birth of
new tabloid publication for the
city of Lancaster with a 5000 cir
culation, going into every home.
Name of the new paper is The
Lancaster Tribune and it is COM
plete with pictures, cartoons,
"angle items," columns, special
articles, comics, as we'll as plen-
ty of display advertising.
According to Publisher
the paper has been received
enthusiastically by Lancaster
business men who look to it for
a new advertising medium with
which they can help build up
sales and general business acti-
vity, yet save money on their ad-
vertising appropriations.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

Miss Ruth B. Hitchcock, director
of nurses.
Included in the freshmen class
are: Joy Bash, Kenne; Elizabeth
Bishop, Alexandria; Eleanor
Brooks, Newark; Margaret Ann
Driscoll, Newark; Dorothy Da-
Wis, Newark; Sophia Evans, New
ark; Mildred Free, cambridge;
Louise Jones, Granville; Phoebe
Jones, Marion, Ind; Lois King,
Thornville; Helen Lukasko, New
ark; Camilla McCollum, Hanov-
er; Betty Morrison, Thornville;
Louise Moore, Newark; Ruth
Nutter, st. Louisville; Genevieve
Proctor, Granville; Mary Jose
phine Thompson, Granville; Mary
Welch, Uhrichsville; Mary Ellen
Williams, Hanover.
Members of the new class
which is considerably larger than
that Of last year, are exception
ally talented Miss Hitchcock
1eelS dlIef making survey oI
their high school records.
Among the new students there
is at least one high school first
honor student, one salutatorian,
and a number who were gradual
ed high in class rank. Other ac-
tivities in which the girls were
outstanding include dramatics,
music, forensics, and literary So
cieties.
In addition to ranking high ir.
her class of ZIG students at Mar.
ion, Indiana, Phoebe Jones won
the A. A. U. w. award as the
most typical high school student
in her class.
Glasses in the school of nurs-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

ing will again be taught by Miss
Ruth F. Lea and Miss Ruth "A.
Koppert. Miss Lea, a graduate
of Ohio State university, will
teach classes in anatomy, psyche
logy, physiology, chemistry, pro-
fessional problems, and the his
tory of nursing. This will be
Miss LEAFS second year at New
ark hospital. Miss Koppert teach
es the nursing arts. In addition
to being a graduate nurse, Miss
Koppert has taken special work
in ward management at Colora-
do State Teachers college.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

fantasy. 1t just isn't real any
more.
In the nineties and even much
later, street corner politicos,
yearning for a better order, in
weighed against the great rich.
Cartoonists bedecked vests over
fat paunches with dollar signs.
"The revolution" was seen as the
only prevention of millionaires-
OF making men very rich or very
poor.
That all sounds pretty hollow
today, as it was pretty unsound
then.
1t was once thought that there
wasn't any American way to-
ward a more equitable distribu-
tion of wealth; toward more
nearly complete prevention of ac-
cumulated wealth, and power
through exploitation.
Today you can't become a mil
lionaire-nor can anybody else.
If that isn't something very
revolutionary, then you name it.
More than that, a gradually
rising inheritance tax will one
day smash to smithereens the
great fortunes that were piled
up in the typically American hey
dey of exploitation, when Jay
Gould threw railroads around
and Diamond Jim Brady and
Death Valley Scotty were the
symbols of romance-when vul-
gar spending was the announce
ment to the cockeyed world that
you had "got yours" by fair
means or foul.
A great Act in the age-long
drama of man has passed from
the stage in this nation. A new
Act is on the boards; and it is
new.
An interesting fact is that
this new dispensation didn't come
actually out of any profound
school of thought-it wasn't the
result of build-up by years of
Jimmy Higginses, prowling by
night with propaganda leaflets,
yammering in meetings and GO
ing around scowling fiercely at
hated capitalist system" which
let fat men exploit lean men and
little kids for the sake of gold.
We have the gold even today,
but it is in Fort Knox, not in
Wall Street.
There is more, too, which
shows how a long, sinewy arm
which is backed by the authority
OF the nation, can reach out to
curb private power for the public
good. True, it is defense meas
ure today, but it is a marker of
what can be done. You may own
aluminium, for which you have
paid and which is in your possess
sion, just as your watch is in
your possession. But you can
not fabricate that aluminium un-
less and until the United States
government says you can. You
just can't touch it. The title
doesn't mean a thing until Uncle
Sam gives you clearance. He
can move it away if he wants to-.
Due compensation is a detail.
The POWER is the big thing.
1t no doubt confounds the an
cient propagandists to see a de-
mocracy behave in these strange
ways-and remain a democracy.
And if so, what of it? The
United States has from it's
founding had a character of it's
own, a way of it's own, a will of
its own-yes, a faith of it's own
in its own ability to meet it's own
! issues.
Totalitarian powers, egotisti-
! cal and pagan, could learn a
great lesson by taking note of
these facts.
They really mean that the
United States, with freedom, is
destined to live!
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
Prayed "Innards" of
JalOppies Valuable

Take care, junk dealers! Even
that fuzzy lining, dirty padding
and frayed upholstering in the
collegiate jaloppy is worth some
thing.
Old car dealers have been
burning fabric inside autos, saw
ing only the metal. But Charles
p. Justus, managing director of
the Ohio Auto Wreckers associa-
tion, said that there now was
an urgent demand for the mate
rial.
Each car will yield 20 to 40
pounds of material and it will
bring about $50 a ton, Justus
said.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
LIFE LONGER

Nearly 13 years have been add
ed to the average life of white
persons in the United States,
since the turn Of the century, ac-
cording to the Bureau of the
Census. 1t declared this week
that the average span of life is
now 62.5 years, an increase of
3.3 in the last decade.
Women account for the larger
part of the extension of the life
span. They not only live longer
but their expectancy has been
extended a year more than that
of men.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
No More Millionaires In United States;
Yes, 1t Is An Amazing State OF Affairs

If headline hunters to go in search of the most
sensational headline of the hour it they would find
which reads something like this: "You Can't Get To
Be a Millionaire in the United States Today"
How many citizens have thought of that? How
ms aliZpt he fact
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
Class of l9
Nurses Start At
City Hospital

A class Of 10 began training
this week as first year students
in the Newark Hospital nurses
>.training school, according to