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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
TEACHERS PLAN
 APRIL MEETING
Rita Fitzmaurice Program Chairman Dennis J.
 Moore III at Home
WOLCOTT Nrs. 0. Nelson Cole, Todd Road-Telephone 5O930

Wolcott, March 25.-The Wolcott Teachers Association held their March meeting at the Kings Kitch- en, Hotel Elton, recently. Miss Helen Higgiston was in charge of the meet ing. Routine business was conducted and Miss Rita Fitzmaurice was elected to arrange for the April meeting.
 Those present were Miss Emma Terrill, Miss Sally Sweeney, Miss Loretta Barry, Miss Ellen Hunt, Miss Rita Fitzmaurice, Miss Helen Hig- giston and Miss Amelia Galucci.
 A card party was held in the Grange hall, Monday night in charge of the home economies committee. Prize winners were Alfred Overton, Mrs. Charles Tyrell, Mrs. c. Nelson Coel, Mrs. Albert Homewood, Mrs. Alfred Overton and Miss Caroline Snow.
 Those present were MT. and Mrs. William Peck, MT. and Mrs. Walter Smith, Mir. and Mrs. Richard Law ton, MT. and Mrs. Henry Norton, MT. and Mrs. Alfred Overton, MT. and Mrs. c. Nelson Cole, Mrs. Grace Washburn, Mrs. Frank Oppe, Mrs. William Libolt, Mrs. Albert Homer wood, Mrs. Charles Tyrell, Mrs. John Kirschbaum, Mrs. William Dum- schatt, Mrs. John Warner, Miss Caroline Snow, MT. and Mrs. Harry Cole and Benton Washburn.
 Easter Services
 The teachers of the Wolcott Con- gregational Church Sunday School held Q meeting at the home of Mrs. William Libolt of Center street, Tuesday. Plans for the Easter ser- vices of the Sunday School were made and supplies for the current year ordered. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Libolt. Present were Rev. Alfred M. Bells and Mrs. Bells, Miss Esther Bronson, Mrs. Charles Rogers, Mrs. Calvin Teller, Mrs. Howard Kraft and Mrs. Libolt.
 Rev. Orin E. Dice and Mrs. Dice of Fairfield and MT. and Mrs. Ward Porter of Waterbury were Sunday guests of MT. and Mrs. William Li- bolt of Center street.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. Arthur Berger and daughter Corrine of Nichols road spent the weekend in South Weymouth, Mass, with Mrs. Ber- gems brother, Dr. James Cameron.
 MT. and Mrs. Stanley W. Strever and children, Edna, Arthur and Charles of Woodtick road spent Sunday in Danbury visiting MT. and Mrs. Robert Robinson.
 Dennis J. Moore, music supervisor of the local schools has been con- fined to his home by illness,
 Mrs. Coe III
 Mrs. Elmer Coe of Coe road Is Ill at her ohme.
 Audry and Sandra Lee Outtrim spent Sunday with their great grandmother, Mrs. Albert Bassett in New Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
Widows Aided

The Waterbury chapter, Italian World War Veterans will have re- ports on the Italian show given Sunday at Temple Hall presented at a meeting tomorrow night in Liberty Hall. It is expected that another check for the aid of war widows and children will be sent to Italy. A sum of $2,117 was wired by the chapter to Italy on March. 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
BY ELMER c. WALZER United Press FfnEncsal EditOr)

New York, March 26.-CUP)-- Strength in rails and activity in Commonwealth 6 Southern com monstock featured a firm, moder- ately active stock market today.
 Commonwealth 6 Southern ap- peared on a block of 27,000 shares at 3-8 unchanged and equal to the low after opening 1-6 higher. United Corporation also was active, sell- ing at the previous close. Electric Power made new low while its $7 preferred firmed. North Ameri- can was strong spot while Con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
Suit Settled

Ross McKenna of Berlin was awarded $4,500 in Hartford supe- rior court yesterday as settlement of his civil action damage suit against Mrs. Pauline Perrault of Waterbury and Thomas H. Roland of Hartford, driver of Mrs. Per rault's automobile.
 The Waterbury woman was named co-defendant as owner of the car which struck and injured the plaintiff on october 26, 1889, on Pennington avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
THIRD ROLE AT RKO

Spring Byington, who appeared for RKO Radio in "Laddie," and in Lucky Partners" is seen again as Charles Coburn's partner in RKO's new comedy, "The Devil and Miss Jones'" Jean Arthur is starred with Robert Cummings and Coburn fea- tured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
Cash Stolen

About $11 in cash was stolen from the General oil corporation on Meadow street during the night, according to a. report by Lieut.. William Foley of the de- tective bureau today.
 A small glass in the front door was removed by the thief to gain entry, Lieut. Foley said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
MILLION-MAsTERPIECEs

One million separate pictures, each a beautiful painting in color, were necessary for "Superman," the Technicolor short produced by Fleischer Studio in Miami, Florida. Every individual scene in the film, in which the fabulous fictional char acter will make his screen debut, is 8 really fine painting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
NET INCOME REPORTED

Boston. March 26.- (UP) Tine Boston & Maine Railroad today re- ported c net income of s40O, ,320 for February contrasted with a deficit ot e2os,7el in February I0l0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff CnrreSnnndent

Los Angeles March 2 only about oo men were em Southern California plants the expected peak this be reached along about August. training each
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-26
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U. s. Contract

Award of a S52,9S0 contract to the ScOvilI Mfg. Co, of this city was announced at Washington to- day by the War Department. The contract is for plunger heads.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
THE GASOLINE
SHORTAGE INQUIRY

Not only on the east coast, but all the
way across the country. the people Will
watch with considerable interest the pro
gress of a senatorial investigation into
the purported Atlantic seaboard gaso-
line shortage and federal administrative
attempts to curtail civilian use Of gaso-
line
The sad fact is that the federal govern
ment has not been able to convince many
people there really Is gasoline short
age It has been unable 10 do So because
Oil Gar lckes has been patiently reluc-
tant to tell the people exactly what the
situation is. And on the west coast We
cannot help remembering that Mr.. lekes
recently remarked it would be good idea
to ration gasoline out here, even though
there is no shortage simply SO the west
ern part Of the country can share III the
difficulties besettlng eastern motorists.
Out of the turmoil Of #haIf-truth and
distortion coming from federal offices.
there has been d growing belief that the
so-called oil shortage IS nothing but an
attempt to make people suffer and
through suffering to realize the serious
ness of the international situation. There
has grown up a belief. in other words,
that the alleged shortage is nothing in the
world but propaganda TO get the public
all stirred up.
Perhaps this is all wrong. Maybe there
is an acute oil and gasoline shortage on
the Atlantic coast. It is possible the fed
eral agencies have been one hundred per
cent right in their efforts to curtail civil
ian use of gasoline in the east.
But, if the shortage does exist. the gov
ernment has done a very poor job of con-
vincing the public of that fact. It has
done poor job. in fact, of convincing
some of the experts themselves. The rec
ognized spokesman for the petroleum in
dustry on the east coast says there is no
need to curtail gasoline consumption in
the east.
It is time to get at the facts If there
is shortage. the people should be shown
where it exists why it exists, and-aboVe
all-that it does exist.
If there is not a shortage, the shoddy
propaganda trick that fact would dis
close should be made known.
An all round, thorough senatorial in
vestigation, hiding nothing and white
washing nothing, would do much to re-
lieve the public of a pressure that is
pleasant to nobody.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

work Is going to be allotted to GER
tam towns and plants deliberately
to alleviate unemployment, rather
than in strict economic basis.
The taxpayer will pay, again. but
it will be a price incident to de-
Tense, So with negotiated contracts
instead OF competitive bids there
will be Instances in which Beth
lehem Steel might be able to bid
lower on a job as a means re-
lieving the untitled order list of
Bethlehem and spreading the work,
Time and morale are both ele-
ments in defense, just as machine
guns and tanks. The proposed
OPM plans look like a way to buy
some of both by spending more
money than production of the actual
goods would cost if the lowest bid
der were always 10 get the Job
regardless of time and the effect
on the morale of small plant en-
ployeS thrown out of work.
1t might we'll be economy in the
long run to buy some time and
morale in this way along with the
actual goods.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
UNDER THE SURFACE

War, tragic and terrible as it is, has
always brought new developments IN the
machines mankind manufactures.
The first world war produced tine tank,
which by the grace of adaptibility became
the tractor in peace time 1t produced,
also, major refinements in the airplane.
1t brought forth several other inventions
as we'll.
So far in this war, battles have been
fought with equipment the world already
knew how to make. Refined, perhaps, but
not newly developed VIII there be some
startling new invention, before it IS over?
Perhaps. The tank did not make its ap-
pearance until the last days of World
War No. l. Some weapon similarly new,
appearing on the battlefrontS or in the
sky today, might turn the tide Of war
overnight
On that theme, it is strange how news
of rocket airplane development has dis
appeared during the last year 4 few
days before war started in Europe (re-
member?) news dispatches said federal
government agents were testing a rocket
driven airplane model, and that the only
problem still to be ironed out was one Of
providing landing facilities Since then,
not one word about rocket-propelled
aerial craft
Will this war, too, bring TO the world
a machine which a few years ago would
have been c1-,,sidered in the realm Of the
fantastic?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
by Willis Thornton =.
Spreading The Work Deliberately

The defense job naturally gravi-
tated into the hands of the large
companies best equipped to grapplc
with it directly, Immediately, and
on large scale.
Materials Vitally needed for de-
fense naturally were assigned to
these large industries. Mean while
many smaller industries, making
goods not Immediately necessary
III the defense effort, and unable
to get defense contracts, face shut
downs. Pools of unemployment arc
beginning to appear in the flood of
defense jobs. Something has to be
done.
The Office of Production Man
agement is facing the problem. AL
ready it has moved 10 remedy the
situation by forcing the spreading
out of defense work among smaller
companies. OPM proposes to pro-
ceed along this lme:
Special efforts to get defense work
assigned TO communities already
feeling the loss of jobs through
lack of priority materials for their
smaller industries requirement that
in all contracts over $4,000 a def
nite percentage of the work be
"farmed out' to subcontractors;
negotiation Of some contracts with
out competitive bidding, SO that
some small shop can get contracts
even though perhaps the large firms
might oulbid them.
Obviously this is not the most
economical Way to proceed. 1t
seems perfectly clear that some
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
COLLEGE ENROLMENT
AND DEFENSE
Nevada State JournaD

Many college administrative officials
are seriously concerned about their fall
enrolment In some instances it is esti-
mated that defense demands have taken
p per cent of the potential male enroll
ment. Graduate schools are likely to be
particularly hard hit.
This difficulty. plus the low yields Of
the invested endowment of nonstate col
leges and the increase in the cost of OPP
Grating all institutions of higher learn
ing. will create a serious situation IN
some instances.
1t is possible, of course, that the col
legeS have not counted sufficiently on
offsetting factors Employment is better
and many families which year ago be-
lieVed that they could give no encourage
ment to sons and daughters who wished
TO go to college are now in position to
help. There is no abatement of American
faith in higher education.
The preference given by the Army,
Navy and Marines to young men of some
higher educational experience has, as
during the World War, persuaded par
ents to make considerable sacrifice,
when conditions permit to enable their
sons and daughters to gain the benefits
of the best of all MISUNDERSTANDING
for professional and highly skilled call
ingS.
Coeducational institutions should bene
fit by higher enrolment of girls. With
sons in service, the family's ability to
provide higher educational opportunities
for daughters has been improved.
Looking to the peace that will come
sometime, and to demands of the new
era for highly trained people and new
dedication to the principles of democracy,
it is probable that the loss will be less
than the diversion of young men to the
defense program indicates.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
by Paul Harrison =.
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. ga fev
hours ago I would have guessed
that I knew, at least by sight and
name and waving acquaintance and
performance records. all the stars
in Hollywood Then I met Mona
Maris.
Just now, Mona Maris is the FEM
mime menace in one of RKO'S who
dunits-"A Date With the Falcon
The fact that it is not a starring
role detractS neither a jot nor title
from her prominence. During the last
10 years MISS Maris has starred in
10 of FoX's best pictures, and she
is one of the real headliners of
this hemisphere. For good measure
include Spain.
The pictures in which she starred
were Spanish-language versions of
domestic super -doopers. Few people
in Hollywood knew about the able,
earnest Latins VINO moved onto the
sets as soCn as they were vacated
by the regular casts, and who went
through the action and Spanish
translations of the script in a frac-
ton of the time needed by the
English-speaking companies. But all
the fans south of the Rio Grande
knew them.
BIG BUILD-UP
Mona Maris was better known
locally than most OF her supporting
players because she also appeared
IN seven English dialog moves for
three studios. Besides, she had had
an impressive build-up after her
discovery in Germany by a group
of Hollywood brass hats on talent
scouting trip.
1t was the English language that
interrupted and almost wrecked her
career, Spanish. French and Ger
man were cinch, but in the early
years of talkies her English re-
mained almost unintelligible, SO she
quit.
Mona Maris was born Mona Ma
ria Emlta Cap Gle Vile in Buenos
Aires about 27 years ago. Her faith
er was a French Basque, her moth
er Spanish Basque.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
LA GUARDIA LEADS
FIRE FIGHTERS

The big effort Of La Guardia's out
fit SO far has been Jne mobilization
setting up schools to tram fire
fighters and other home defense
Of aluminium pots and pans. It is
workers, and under state and local
supervision these volunteer home
workers have been registered and
card indexed.
USO, working through Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant churches,
the Y, K Of c, JWB, Salvation
Army, Legion and a host Of other
religious and patriotic bodies has
conducted its drive for funds and
in its own way Is going about its
business of using civilian effort to
bolster the morale Of the military in
off hours
The Health, Welfare and Related
Defense Activities organization is
the official government body cater
ing to the civilian morale, and
if the handsome phiz of the hand
some McNutt has not been a bea-
con and banner to bolster your
morale thus far, well what's the
matter with you. anyway Get in
there and fight, as the coach would
say.
If ever a government official was
handed a golden opportunity TO sell
himself to the American people as
hero and natural leader it is
Paul Voorhis McNutt.
McNutt's job as federal security
administrator alone was enough to
endear him to the masses, passing
out social security benefits, bet
efing education, helping youth n
istress, providing jobs FOR the un-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-Before
tearing out too many hairs about
the morale in the National Guard
and Selective Service army, it would
be good thing if everyone would
sit down quietly in front of a non
distortion mirror and have gan
der or two at the condition of the
civilian morale. To anyone not
afflicted Yth myoDia or acute
astigmatism, the morale at home
isn't any too good either and
what's being done about it isn't
SO good, either,
In the last war, the German
general staff blamed defeat On the
breakdown of morale among the
people behind the lines. The same
principle applies to the United
States today Soldiers don't suck
all their ideas out of their thumbs,
and maybe the doubts, the uncer-
tainties, and the blind Staggers
which are supposed to affect the
military are nothing more than a
reflection OF the confusion of the
boys and girls and the pops and
mons they left behind them.
The job of bolstering the civilian
morale now seems to be split three
ways, and they're all indirectly link
ed to the military. First IS the
Office of Civilian Defense under
Mayor La Guardia. Next is the
United Service Organizations under
Tom Dewey. Third is the Office of
the Co-ordinator of Health, Wei
fare and Related Defense Activities
under Paul McNutt, who is also
federal security administrator.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

Since she had proved her i'm
pulsive spirit with a runaway land
quickly terminated) marriage, her
elders schemed to cure her cellu-
loid fever with an overdose of the
old run-around. A letter made
fellow conspirator of Argentina'S
ambassador in Berlin, with the re-
suit that she met the president Of
UFA and was given screen test
without any film in the camera.
While she was in the studio
prominent director glimpsed her.
made a quick but genuine test, and
offered fiye-year contract. The
shocked elders, counseled by wise
grandmother, let her accept. Mona
Maris had been featured in four
pictures when Joe Schenck per-
suaded her to go to Hollywood
OUT T-HEADLINED FDR
That wasn't SO good, as five years
of effort showed Miss Maris is
ambitious beyond the limits of mere
pluShy living, and II 1t hadn't been
for her visit to South America
year and a half ago she probably
would have stayed in retirement.
Trouble was that press and public
stormed the piers her ship touched,
and in city or two on the way
down she almost crowded Franklin
d. Roosevelt off the font pages
BY the time she hit Buenos Aires
dozsns of marques were blooming
with the name of Mona Maris in
revivals of all her films. 1t spurred
her spunk.
So now she's back, starting up
the hard way, but confident that
her new fluency in English will
help. And here I am. at the end
of column, without describing her
green gray-blue eyes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
by Peter Edison :.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

employed, improving health keep
ing the foods and drugs pure and
properly labeled. When on top of
that was piled the responsibility
of "affording social protection to
individuals and communities Suf-
fering disproportionate burdens as
a result of defense activity as
the government manual SO feeling
~ puts it, there was created a per-
feet set-up for any statesman or
demagog to make himself great
guy with the voters and builder
upper Of pep.
Three million dollars were given
to McNutt as the co-ordinatQr Of
health, welfare and related de
fense activities 1t is now gone.
If you don't feel three million dol
lars worth better because of this
expenditure that's your fault. y
survey is being made TO see how
much more, it will take to do the
job, and if the president ever signs
the order supposed to be on his
desk, transferring the McNutt act
ivities to the Office of Emergency
Management, it is assumed that
OEM and the Budget Bureau will
get together to hand cut more.
Under the circumstances, Nc
Nuts Related Defense Activities
are getting along as best they can.
Roughly. they divide into the de
partments OF recreation, nutrition,
health. and sin.
The recreation work, under Mar:
McClosky, New Yorks capable di-
rector of recreation on loan, Is
doing all right. It has a small staff
out in the field. actually doing
something to provide advertisement
or lust a place to sit down fer
soldiers on leave.
The health program undef Dr.
Irwin Abel chairman Of the Amer
lean College of Surgeons, has good
ideas but no money. The nutrition
prcgram got off to bad start in
a Washington conference Ia st
spring, and the medical doctors and
nutritionists are still wrangling q
bout it.
The sin program, as it's called,
has to do with preventing pros
titution in the vicinity Of arne#
camps.
The administrator OF The federal
security agency and the co-ogdin-
ator OF health. welfare and related
defense activities, Paul V. McNutt
realizes that something must be
done about civilian morale
When asked about it, McNutt likes
to refer to speeches he made II
Milwaukee and South Bend The
speech he made at Milwaukee b.
gan like this: TT must be Wita
sentiments of humility and de-
pair mingled with pride and hope
that any speaker attempts to dis
cuss todays world" The speech
continues with magnificent col
lection Of beautiful thoughts ami
original expression such as these:
I'VE stand at the crossroads of
history" the record is clear"
1T is growing late The
speech ends, as you probably
guessed-"With a full understand
ing of the perils ahead, lei rs face
tnat future, a united nation, IN
daunted unafraid"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28

1t is all very fine for us to be
good at glof and swimming, at
making money and partying, but
these abilities will not help us to
deal with problems that are going
to require a widespread aptitude for
Statecraft.
Gov Charles Edison of New Jer-
Sey.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-28
LIGHT TALK IS OUT
(Oroville Mercury Register)

(OroVllle Mercury ReglSter)
Where are the words of yesteryear;
where the light talk that was so dear?
Time was when people held forth about
books, the theater, whether or not the
Brooklyn Dodgers could defeat the ST.
Louis Cardinals, and what a swell poker
party they sat in on last night. Some
times they laughed about amusing Incl
dents in their daily lives and sometimes
they told funny story and everybody
felt pretty good.
a little cautious shopping will disclose
that nowadays, nine out of every ten
times, when two or more people get to-
gether, they talk about the war. The
tenth time, its taxes
It seems that the average American
mind has become a vacuum, into which
is constantly pouring masses of sinister
information
Perhaps our people are becoming vic
tins of "neWS-neurosis.' If so, it's time
we began to apply ourselves toward di-
recting our thoughts into pleasanter chan
nels. A rose is still lovely and a song still
beautiful a trout, jumping in the stream,
make pretty picture to describe, and
the baby's first tooth provides infinitely
more soothing material for conversation
than the latest casualty list on the Tx
raine front.