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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
Hard to Reconcile

Some of the charges made before the legislative Finance Committee in Hart ford Wednesday afternoon are hard to reconcile with what most of us know IS going on right here in Waterbury. For example, how many people could Sub- scribe to the viewpoint that the proposed new reservoir and pipeline would cost the city mere $2O0,0O0, the remaining amount of the bond issue sought = $8O0,OOO-to be used for purposes that were described as nothing more than dishonest? We don't think the number would be large, yet this charge was actu- ally aired before public hearing.
 Similarly it was claimed that the City of Waterbury is presently operating un- der deficit and had one last year, where as both the City Controllers and State Tax Departments financial reports sub- mitted at Hartford showed an identical surplus amounting to $419,000. Substan- tiation of the city figures by those of the Tax Department should be convincing enough proof that our finances right now are not in the perilous condition they were described to be in for committee members.
 And Republican legislator Thursday remarked that the Waterbury bond bill was the pest yet SuDTllCCeu IO CoIHlHlItee this year All such things only go to prove that city officials are not being treated quite fairly by critics who are adopting tactics which plainly don't deal with the facts Criticism can always be appreciated even by the one criticized, but when there doesn't seem to be sound basis for it and claims are made without any substantiation, well it looks like some thing else and can't be regarded too seriously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
Dollars Volunteer, Too

Happy he whose income tax return figures out "No tax". So you might think, especially after an evening of struggle with the figures and the check book. But not all people whose tax came out that way are happy about it. So many such people are sending checks anyway, just to help the defense pro gram, that the government has had to set up a special procedure for handling them Most of them include little note saying that they're fully aware that they don't owe any tax, but they want to help anyway, so here's check
 This kind of voluntary payment relates only distantly to the traditional "con- science fund" maintained by the treasury, which is made up of money paid by peo- pie who somehow escaped paying in the past. Conscience may enter into these new payments, but not from any feeling of guilt. These payments are being made simply because people want to help, to take part in the defense drive, but would not be paying anything under a strict interpretation of the tax law. So they have paid anyway. Patriotism is not dead when men of their own free will open their purses in this manner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

Republicans in the Legislature want Thanksgiving celebrated on the last Thursday of the month. At least that's the way they voted in the House this week. The Democratic members evi- dently didn't want the last Thursday be- cause they refused to side in with the COP Actually what the legislators were doing was to remove one more privilege from the office of the governor. For some few years now or since Ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross first took over things at Hartford there have been efforts made to remove the legislative restrictions that have been imposed on the governors of- flee over long period of years. The Legislature is evidently now minded to replace some of them and few additional ones to boot. It has always been Connecti- cut custom and law to allow the governor to proclaim Thanksgiving Day without be- ing bound by any hard or fast rule as to the date. It has always been the same as the President proclaimed until President Roosevelt changed all this. Now with a Democratic governor Republicans seem to be afraid we'd get New Deal Thanks giving. It wouldn't have hurt us bit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

day improvements in synthetic rubber are made. Now Akron rubber chemists be- lieve that for $167 ,000, 900 factories could be built to supply as much synthetic rub Der as we now use of the natural product. This, with greater use of reclaimed rub Der, and some restriction on its con- sumption, would probably pull us out of any conceivable rubber crisis.
 Why don't we go ahead and achieve this independence right now? Because the synthetic product is still much more expensive than the natural. But it's a relief to know that it can be done, and that if necessary, this independence can be achieved at a cost less than that of three battleships, plus certain amount of inconvenience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
Selected Poem
THE BROKEN GOURD
HE bhOAEN OOOND (By Glenn Ward Dresoach in the Christian Science Monitor)

(By Glenn Ward Dresoach in the Christian
 Science Monitor) Someone has broken the gourd at the spring And left the pieces here on the ground. The roadside dust and pollen cling To all that is left of a thing found Through heat of c summer long ago And keep thinking how long it was here, And I wonder if one like 1t will grow To be hung by the spring some other year. It will take some time for another gourd To mingle favors of water and sun And show the tint of gold it had stored And the kindness that hung the other one Beside the spring may come to doubt The careless hands that dropped 1t so. And let the people look about
 For something to catch the springs clear flow. The maple leaves will cloud the spring For little while-then it will break Through them, with the flash of a silver wing, Along the way it has chosen to take. And think the one who hung the first Gourd here at the spring will come once more To hang gourd for the peoples thirst Though it be broken as before.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
A Museum Enlists

New York City is now undergoing a minor convulsion centering around its museums Robert Moses, the city's vol canic park commissioner has been erup- ting on the deadly uselessness of many museum collections. But, at the same time, John Hay Whitney of the Museum of Modern Art has hastened forward with a different and more vital conception of their place in daily life.
 The actual home or building which houses permanent collections of a mu- scum, Whitney believes should be merely a center for wider and more vital activi- ties, touching more intimately today's problems and today's artists. So the Museum of Modern Art plans to send representative modern work, and movies interpreting American life and art, to South America, thus actively fostering better understanding and relations there
 Thus Whitney has actively enlisted the Museum of Modern Art in the country's service and pioneered a course of service for all other cultural institutions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

There were all sorts of comments heard at the Capitol the other day at the hearing on the proposed changes in the state liquor laws But one of the most voiced remarks was that prohibition was on it's way back in the United States Maybe it's the war rumors that give rise to such claims as this, but somehow or other we don't think the generations that lived through the fifteen year period when prohibition reigned in our midst would ever wish to bring back the conditions that we knew then. There is still much to be done with our various conflicting liquor laws as administered by the wet states, Legislators should set themselves to such tasks to avoid our earlier mis- take.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

Republican; son, George, Jr.,
 secretary-$1,4 400.
 Total take for the group
 $2O,610.
 NOTE In fairness to the
 newcomers, however, it should be noted that they still are a long way from catching up with such veteran nepotists as Gene Cox of Georgiaa nd Bernard Gehrmann of Wisconsin, who have number of relatives on the government payroll.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Democratic politicos who ducked during the third-term campaign are getting a cool reception at Democratic National Committee. Plain- talking Chairman Ed Flynn who knows who pitched and who didn't, told a Nebraskan looking for favors: You didn't help the President when he needed you last fall and I don't see how you can ask him to give you any patronage now" The Stu- dent Defenders of Democracy Is out to prove that not all col- lege students are pacifists or isolationists. Leader of the new movement is Dorothy Overlook, University of Chicago graduate. The Justice Department made headlines with its recent two-way legal attack on the Aluminium Company, of America, but it was an old story to Will liam B. Chantland, general coun- sel of the Federal Trade Commis- sion. A pioneer in trusht-bust- ing, Chantland won an anti-mon- opoly decision against Alcoa 29 years ago, as a young Justice Department attorney.
 Copyright, 1941, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
In Today's Mail

that he was against any further expense to the State of trade schools, Senator Blansfield is quoted as say ing that neither the State nor City of Waterbury taxpayers would be under expense for construction. Why, certainly not-the $l50,000 would be eaten up in that capacity, and Senator Blansfield goes on to inform us, and We should insist on further enlightenment of expense to Waterbury taxpayers, that as he enthusiastically mentions, the cost to the city would be a modest $25,- 900 per year, and the expense to the State at large would only be forty teachers, and incidentally 8 competent instructor could not be secured now or in the future for less than an average of $4000 a week; and the six months clause of the Porter bequest would have to be abrogated to make 1t full year. If so, the forty teachers would be an added expense to the State at large, of which Waterbury taxpay- CTS would be assessed their propor- tionate share. Add the States and Waterbury expense would make a total of $108,000 per annum.
 The trade schol scheme does not loom up as rosy expenditure for taxpayers. ApprenticeshipS for youths are and will be increasingly available and sponsored by corpor- ate interests who are in a position financially to keep up with modern equipment and its frequent chang eS.
 It seems advisable to let the Por- ter Fund stay quiescent for 20 years, until there is a sufficient accumula- tion to defray the total expense if a trade school is needed.
 Can 1t ever happen that we will elect representatives to the State legislature to serve the taxpayers with good mental capacity and judgment in the line of economy that is so often thrown into the discard in favor of needless lavish expenditures of public funds. and sponsoring self-advocated bills that serve the purpose of inflicting high CT rates of taxation on the State and particularly on the constituent cy they profess to represent?
 I would advise the representa- tives of Waterbury taxpayers to cul expenses and not trifss with increas- ing them. such as lowering salaries of City Court judges and staff, and l drawing up a bill t0 lower all salar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

The task of celaning sidewalks has been difficult one for property owners this month. There has been so much snow that those with great stretches of sidewalk have been hard pressed to keep up with removal tasks. This is one duty, though, that any property owner ought to regard philosophically. Rave and rant about it, the fact remains we must con- tribute to community efforts along such lines as this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
ACTUAL NEED OF TRADE SCHOOL IN WATERBURY
 IS QUESTIONED.
Editor Waterbury Democrat:

Editor Waterbury Democrat:
 If the Waterbury Tax league is sincere, they should oppose the bill of Senator Blansfield for proposed trade school for Waterbury at this time. The committee of three ap- pointed by the Republican town committee should be advised to op- pose Senator Blansfield's trade school bill.
 The trade school bill that Senator Blansfield is endeavoring to bring into action, to take advantage of the scholarly MT. Porter's gift, one time resident of East Main street i'll Waterbury, who in a will of 1886 left an estate to found school for edu- eating boys six months each year, to be tutored in liberal art studies or technical and scientific objec- tives. The girls will have the chance to attend school three months per year - domestic science, study of birds, and astronomy, to be their curriculum.
 The intentions of MT. Porter, who was of deep scholastic trend, were commendable for the times in which he lived, but now all boys and girls have a. maximum of education in a school year, and the provision Of six months schooling and six months work worded in the be- quest, will not apply in these times, and also boys are not interested in liberal art or scientific studies; neither would girls have personal interest in delving into avian or astronomical subjects, and it's prob- lematical on the domestic science.
 Our public schools that were not in 1886, are now in 1941 equipped with facilities and knowledge fol the battle of life. It is estimated the David Porter fund now com prises, with the accumulations of 5s years, $l5O,000.OO. and in addition about IT acres of land on Merider Road. It's a question whether ar additional trade school is necessary and especially on the bequest plar formulated by the late David For | ter.
 Many industrial concerns are now | equipped to instruct practicable facts on trade learning, with cer' tain allowance financially whicf would not be available under th' ! Porter plan. As Gov. Hurley stated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

l. If you receive $1 & line for writing sonnet, how much will you have?
 2. A cyclotron is an atom-smash- ing machine, a type of bicycle, or a term of years?
 3. The expectation of life for white males ill the United States is 59.12, 48.34 or GOA years?
 4. Where is Fraser's statue, "yhe End of the Trail'?
 5. What word is the name Of a bird and also signifies having a jolly time?
 G.. Cognac is malt tonic, bran- dy, or type of whisky?
 2. Name the Governor of Illinois.
 2. Name the Governor of Illinois.
 8. The capital of California Is San Francisco, Sacramento, or Los Angeles?
 g. From which State was the father of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh member of Congress?
 10. Did Benjamin Franklin sign the Constitution of the United States?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

Secretary of the Hungarian Lega- tion. Friends of the Prince and the Baron say they had thought at the time that they were mak- ing friends with a dancer-not an authoress.
 NEW NEPOTISTS
 Although they have been in Washington only couple of months, number of the new corners on Capitol Hill already have found their way to the gravy bowl. They are catching on fast.
 Ten of the new congressman have members of their families ensconced on the congressional payroll. Here is the list:
 SENATE-Hugh A. Butler, Nebraska Republican,; niece, Eleanor Johnson, stenographer $500.
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES-Philip A. Bennett, Mis- souri Republican; son, Marion, tuU.
 c. w. Bishop, Illinois Repub- lican; son, Jack, stenographer -$2,500.
 J. Edgar Chenoweth, Colo rado Republican; son, William, clerk-$1 500.
 James DomengeauX, Louisiana Democrat; brother, Jerome, a ,clerk-$l 300.
 Walter K. Granger, Utah Democrat; wife, Hazel, clerk $85O.
 Oren Harris, Arkansas Demo- crat; brother, William, secre- tary-$2, 400.
 Lawrence E. Imhoff, Ohio Democrat; wife, clerk-$1 200.
 Augustine B. Kelley, Pennsyl- vania Democrat; son, Richard, clerk-$2,000.
 George A. Paddock, Illinois
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

jed City Officials of Waterbury 16 per cent on the dollar. I advocate the cut in order to compensate tax payers for the difficulty they have in tax payments, they being the backbone that holds the political head.
 Can the animal in the woodpils possibly be the forty teachers posi- tions that will add patronage of 2 political nature? Waterbury legis- lative agents are prone to party po' litical activity first and the inter- ests of taxpayers second.
 Our representative Senator E. P. Egan has introduced bill which if passed will authorize the city to is- sue $l0O.000 in bonds for the pro- posed trade school, and further burden the taxpayers with bono debts. There is doubt about tho state assuming any of the costs O this unwanted trade school, a sched' uled hearing on the bond issue fo this proposed school was held March l2 Waterbury, March a. ioll FRANK B. PARSONS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
Daily Almanac
on rises TAO D. m.

Moon rises TAO D. m.
 Sun rises 6;O6 a. m. sets 5:57 p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Yesterday mornings eclipse was not one to cause too much comment, for Connecticut didn't get much more than quick look at it. But prior to the actual blackening of the moons edge there was magnificent lunar display as the great golden orb sank towards the western horizon. hurrying to allow the sun to throw It's rays over the land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
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 e. Was Colonel Charles A. Lind. bergh present at the electrocution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann?
 A. He was in England on April 3, 1936, when Hauptmann was executed.
 e. In which campaign and by which party was the slogan "The full dinner-pail" used?
 A. In 1896 by the Republicans. when william Mckinley was elected ETeSl0eIlL.
 e. Can you give a brief bio graphy of Victor Jory?
 A. He was born in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, Novem- Der g, 1902 and attended high school at Vancouver, B. O., where he engaged in school theatricals. In 1918, he made his debut at the Pasadena Community Playhouse in Master of Shadows" He estimates that, during his theatrical career, he has appeared in 515 plays. He made his Broadway debut in 1930 in Berkeley Square" Among his other important plays have been "All Gods Chillun," "The Jest" Death Takes a Holiday" "The Command to Love" and Little Ac- cident. His first picture was "Renegades," in 1880. He is mar ried to Jean 1nness, an actress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

that all the misery of the com
 pany had its source in jealousies among the officials and in an un- willingness to cooperate. He &C., eepted the position offered him and started forthwith to get the personal difficulties straightened out. At the end of year the company was making money; at the end of two years they had doubled their business: at the end of five years they were prosperous
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14


 the British Ministry of Shipping under which the merchant fleets of both nations will in effect op- crate as a single coordinated unit. That is, British bottoms will be withdrawn from Pacific and Afri- can routes, and U. s. ships will take their place.
 This would give the British some cargo vessels desperately needed to carry the war materials soon to pour from the U. S.. and at at the same time enable the U. s. to obtain rubber, chromite, tungstenu, wool, and ther stra- tegic commodities without being dependent on British ships.
 However, while the advan- tages are apparent, the plan will entail some drastic changes in the control of U. s. shipping.
 The British war government now has an iron grip on all it's shipping. They first tried to regulate their merchant fleet by a licensing, or priority, system; but this soon proved unsatisfac- tory. When Churchill came into power the government bluntly re- quisitioned all vessels.
 The U. s. took similar action during the World War, but until Hopkins return from London, De- fense authorities had given little thought to the problem beyond the construction of more bottoms. But they have been doing @ lot of thinking about it since.
 U. $. PROVISIONING?
 It was direct White House prod ding that was behind the little noticed Maritime Commission or- der instituting voluntary" sys- tenn of priorities for the 747 ves- sels constituting the U. S. mer- chant fleet. Under this order, the Commission will advise" the ship lines on the routes and car- goes they will handle.
 Through this so-called "volun- tary" regulation, the governments control is admittedly mild - and also experimental. If proven in- effectual as the shipping crisis grows, then the lines can depend on it that the reins will be frightened.
 The days when ships plying the Far Eastern routes could load up with luxury cargoes at fancy rates, leaving behind bulky and less profitable shipments of strategic raw materials needed for defcp 2, gre definitely over. From now on, U. s. merchant ships are going to carry the kind of cargoes Defense authorities want them to haul.
 It is not generally known, but under the law the Maritime Commission has the power to requisiti0n all U. s. merchant vessels.
 NOTE - Significant recent comment by Maritime Commis- sioner Howard Vickery, an ex- Navy officer: "The emergency needs of a nation are not con- sonant with private ship opera tion."
 STRIP -TEASED DIPLOMATS
 Ann Corio, the intriguing strip teaser, has written a book, ,"Men, Gentlemen, and Others, one sec ton of which deals with cer- tain members of the Washington diplomats set.
 Wcrd of this has reached Eu- rope, where two diplomats who were once rivals for Ann's favor have forgotten their rivalry in a joint effort to suppress the embarrassing chapter.
 One of them is Prince Marcello del ODrago, former First Secre- tary of the Italian Embassy; the ofher Baron palll Schell One-time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

o. Which State consumes the most Portland cement annually? A. New York.
 @. Did Queen Victoria ever visit Ireland?
 A. Not until 1900, when she made three weeks visit to Dub- lin to show her appreciation of the gallantry of the Irish regiments in the South African War. It was one of the last public acts of her life. o. What are the combat elements of the new U. s. Infantry division, and what is its authorized peace time strength?
 A. Three infantry regiments of three battalions each; the battalion consisting of three rife companies and one heavy weapons company; two field artillery regiments, one of three battalions of three batteries each, totalling 36-75-mm. guns, ard one of two battalions of two batter ies each, totalling 16- 155 nm. howitzers. Peace time strength is 436 officers and S,517 enlisted men. @. Is 1t possible to obtain from | the government 99-year leases on land in Hawaii?
 A. Under the provisions of the Hawaiian Homes Com m 1 sion, created by Act of Congress, 1920, native, Hawaiians are offered 99- year leases on farm, pastoral, and residence lots, and long-term loans at low rates of interest. o. Is a national prize for cro- cheting lace offered for men as well as for women?
 A. The mems national prize was awarded to Harry TroXell, a 63-year- old metal polisher of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1940, for bedspread in which he used forty balls of No. 40 yarn. The prize consisted of blue ribbon, crochet hook and fifty dollars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

and not up, 1t is miles from any
 place to anyplace else, even in the same building. So, despite taxi fares the most reason- able in the coun- try, a man hesi-
 tates to set out from the Con- greSsional Library for the War De- partment without packing his lunch, and for the re- turn journ e y, many people con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

the WNOle WdS leavened."
 Here is a mod ern version of that para b l e . There was once a lawyer who was invited by an 1 n sur a n c e firm to take over their tottering business and try to save tn e m from bankrupt cy. Upon inves- tigation he found
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14

beyond the dreams of any stock holder.
 What was the secret? The newly elected president was a Christian who believed that his religion should be carried into business. He put the leaven of love, understanding, and cooperation into three meas ures of men until the whole was leavened. The procedure put new spirit into the company and unex- pected dollars into the checking accounts of the stockholders.
 Religion works if VIC have a will to make 1t work.