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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-29
News for Modern Women
Fe ct Need
Extra Care
In Summer
By DONNA GRACE

SUMMER MAY be the time
for recreation. 1t should be the
time when we relax from the
strain of work or social demands
and just rest 10 our hearts con-
tent. According 10 some Of
the popular foot specialists, we
seldom include the feet in this
recreation. They are given free
dom while on the beach but even
then some Of the shoes are not
conducive TO comfort.
Walking and most activity
during the hot weather has a
tendency 10 swell the feet. This
may do no harm if the shoes are
roomy and fit well but every one
needs the refreshing ease of
good footbath and massage at
the end Of the day.
One of the reasons for this,
besides the urge 10 be comfort
able is the effect il has on ones
walk. II is impossible TO walk
with grace and smoothness when
the feet are in misery.
Soap Soothing
Soap is soothing 10 the aching
feet. Use plenty of it with warm
water for the first dip. The little
brush will help 10 remove the
horny cuticle that binds the
toes. After this thorough cleans
ing. plunge the feet into a cold
tub. A spray of cold water will
do or they may be held under
the cold water faucet.
Continue with the cold water
until the skin feels smooth and
cool. Dry without too much
rubbing, then stroke gently with
hands wet in an ice-cold skin
lotion. Keep your lotions and
colognes in the refrigerator if
possible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-29
OFFERS TIPS
butter

comeiy musical comedy
star, VIVIENNE SEGAL,
offers clothes tips for the
short girl in today's Ida
Jean Kahn column.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-29
Latest Whim
. Is JeweIry
Of Iron
BY MARI LUCAS

HOLLYWOOD, CAL.
SOMETHING new and bril-
liant under the Hollywood sun
are the fantasies in jewelry
which Margery Cummings is de-
signing for filmdom beauties.
Mrs. Cummings. who in private
life Is the wife of Jack Cum
mings. motion picture producer,
only recently decided TO go
a-careering after the sensational
reception given her idea for the
use of IRON as a setting for
precious stones.
Paul Flato was the first 10
successfully execute this un-
usual new jewelry. which Mar
gerry says she conce we'd
originally for men. She designed
iron cuff links and studded them
with gold nuggets for sports
wear, and diamonds for dress;
they were magnificent mascu-
line accessories, as were her
iron band rings, and cigaret
cases.
Iron Bracelet
But strangely enough, the
girls became agog about iron
first 49, and Ann Sothern set a
fast pace when she wore Mar
gery'S first iron charm bracelet
"a wide band combined with
gold and set with tiny gold
jeweled charms.
This clever young designer
was suddenly working overtime
turning out equally original
pieces for the gals who envied
Ann. But the designs were not
all confined 10 iron. Some one
called the Cumming fabulous
pieces "Extrava-gem-zas," and
indeed they are.
Evening star., 1941-01-01

But in the meantime defense requirements first As an
example, the railroads who aluminium for streamned trains
may have to wait for the aluminium alloys which would be
supplied promptly in normal times The very qualities which
make aluminium desirable for streamned among the
factors which make valuable for the defense program
and which give defense prior call the metal Immediately
available
you find difficult the to get all the aluminium
you want whe you want you will know that aluminium has
gone off to defend your home and your country
When supply aluminium for national defense in this
crisis, your business and your family served infinitely
deeper than if the aluminium actually you.
And when the emergency past, there will be
aluminium than available before lower prices
and more ways in which ALUMINIUM industry and
the nation.
Evening star., 1941-01-01

is loose in the world Men and metals be drafted
to meet dire emergency
I The biggest job aluminium has right help defend
America For that job, this needs aluminium than
was ever used before.
To provide that of aluminium the industry now
than DOUBLE Of months the production facilities
it had built up through more than half century.
Aluminium Company Of America, part of the industry
has undertaken carry program Of expansion which
in normal times would require decades.
This company alone investing hundred and fifty
million dollars in factories mills new machinery
:. dams power projects new ships.
From the 1889 atme annual peak production of 3a7oooooo
pounds Aluminium Company Of America expects be produc
ing the than pounds per year before
the end of 1o42.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
27 Years-Two Stars

No army can be a thoroughly democratic institution. Military discipline will not permit the freedoms and dwellings, of pure democracy We found that out years ago when troops used to elect their own officers it didn't work. Russia found that out just recently when it threw the guardhouse lawyers (political commis- sars) out of it's army organization. That hadn't worked, either.
 But there are degrees in army democ- racy Ours is one of the most democratic. Distinctions between high and low are only such as seem necessary to promote effectiveness and discipline; the oppor tunity to rise is always open. Major General Clifford R. Powell added one more to long list of examples the other day in announcing the sending of two companies of New Jersey National Guard infantry to the inauguration. Twenty seven years ago Powell was marching in the Woodrow Wilson inaugural, private with gun on his shoulder. Today he wears the twin stars of major general.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
News from the Ark

Paul Satko has earned the right to be heard whenever he speaks Satko is the unemployed Virginia welder who built an ark, trucked it across the country, and sailed it from Tacoma to Juneau, Alaska, with his numerous family. That was last spring Now SatkoS back on bis first trip to the States, his wife and seven children snug aboard his ark while the log cabin in the 122-acre homestead tract awaits completion.
 Satko came to the States to urge that the whole region of the Eagle River Val ley, 30 miles north of Juneau, be opened for homesteading. He wants opportunity for people like myself who want to give their children better chance, who want to build for the future on something Sub Stantial." He wants the fertile bottom lands of the Eagle and Herbert rivers thrown open for settlement (they are now forest preserve), confident that dead-in-earnest settlers like himself would find the ways necessary to make living better than you could plan for them"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
STILL BEING LED AROUND BY NOSE = "OLD UNCLE
 SUCKER"

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Another editorial Hot Potato" from the pen of Frank Parsons ap- peared in the columns of the Water bury Democrat under date of Jan- uary 23, 194l. MT. Parsons speaks his mind quite candidly; he is not satisfied with all aid to Britain, but he advocates aid to Britain. at all costs, in face of all appeasement groups. Undeterred by the most primitive form of common sense, he would turn over to warning power goodly portion of the United States Navy against the repeated statements of Senators, Navy De- partment Officials and Officers of the Navy, that the ships are needed for our own defense.
 But this is only one phase of this insane performance. We get in ex- change leases on British possessions in this Hemisphere. But only leases
 What good will these leases be if Hitler should acquire title to these islands by right of conquestP And who can say that he won't? I'll leave that question for you to answer MT. Parsons, and you certainly can ans wer it. No matter how much the fickle public changes it's opinion, you are always able to trim your sails to the current wind.
 According to regent news reports released from the United States government, 97 per cent of all orders for National Defense have been given to Eastern concerns. Now according to all the hue and cry that has been going up in recent months, the whole reason for all this activity and expense as l understand it, is to get America in a position to repel invasion if this is the real reason, then why is 1t the bulk of the money for new plants, is not spent in the interior of the country, where they really would be safe from invaders? If I remember right, MT. Parsons. the British once burned Washington. There IS something very peculiar about this whole situation.
 Tn all sincerity you should desig- nate what constitutes an aggressor. Germany and Italy are chased as aggressor nations in the conflict abroad. Was America in i776 and the Transvaal Boers m 1901 aggres- sors, too2 I suppose If the $50 niil- lion poor, persecuted enslaved peo- pie of India who have for centuries suffered from the tyrannous. gold based financial capitalism Of Eng. land should become powerful enough to battle their prosecutors that they too would be labeled "ag- gressors" by those who permit their love Of empire to warp their con- mon sense. The English people arc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
Four-Year Term

There probably will be considerable con- troverSy over the proposal to change the gubernatorial term from to 4 years be- fore the 1941 Legislature is adjourned. This has been moot point ever since 1t was first proposed during the Wilbur L. Cross regime. Democrats at that time supported Dr. Cross in his contention that a two year term actually failed to provide more than training ground for the in- cumbent. However, in his own case he didn't have to worry because he had the equivalent of two four-year terms.
 But there have been a number of one term governors of recent years and no one knows how many more there may be. Therefore, it is worthwhile discussing Seri- ouSly the question of changing the present constitutional term. There would be no advantage to Governor Robert A. Hurley in passage of the resolution seeking the constitutional change because it could not be accomplished in two years or four. But when the legislators do decide to put such constitutional amendment up to the people they should not hedge it with fences.
 The present plan is to allow a governor to have but one consecutive four year term. In other words he couldn't sue ceed himself, but would have to wait four years ct least after his first term ended before he could think of seeking office again. We don't believe that the people of Connecticut want such a proviso at- tached to SO important a constitutional amendment as this. It probably would go the longest way towards killing off the entire proposal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

There is considerable talk right now about the present Legislature doing away with the law requiring semi-annual in- spection of all motor vehicles. Of course, no one knows just what the legislators will do with such bill when it actually comes before them but the impression is gained that there is much sentiment in both the Senate and House for repeal of the compulsory inspection law. There is also said to be well-organized support throughout the state ready to descend on the Capitol when it becomes necessary to lobby against the statute. All of which doesn't jibe with what many officials have said about the advantages of this law in the past year or so. Our only fault with the law is it's elasticity. There were supposed to be two inspection periods in 194O, but the last one has extended into 1941 and now will be continued to Febru
 ary 8 owing to bad weather conditions. Such. leeway may aid the recalcitrant motorists, but it doesn't help the law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

Repeatedly throughout the play, the American visitor was overwhelmed by the tragic power of the girls acting. Upon his. return to the home in which he was being enter tained, he asked about the girl. The German housewife led him to the kitchen, and there, seated before the open oven of the great stove, her face flushed with the heat, was the young girl basting the goose which they were to have for sup per. Later she served the meal in utter simplicity. apparently un- conscious that she was a person of artistic distinction.
 Few people can stay simple and llnasSuming when success begins to bow and scrape before them. It takes real character to rise to the achievement of big things and then to assume without protest the de- mand of very humble duties. The swelled head and the proud heart are both hard to treat. It takes real health of soul to avoid such afflic- tons when one lives in an atmos- phere contaminated with too much praise.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

4 Connecticut isn't the only New England state toying with the idea of changing the gubernatorial term from 2 to years. Up in Maine measure has just been in- troduced in Legislature calling for such a constitutional reform. If the Legisla- ture approves of it the voters of Maine will have to vote on the question. It is evident that more and more of our states are beginning to get rid of some of their older methods and are modelling them selves, in governmental functions, on that at Washington. Of course the Federal Government has done the same thing, too, so it's fair for both to study what's progressive in governmental re- forms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
Selected Poem
SPINNING SQUAW

 She roamed the hills above the lake, Thru winters cold and summers heat; With feathers in her raven hair And moccaSins upon her feet She saw the wild hawk sailing high, She read the track of hoof and claw; And every rippling brooklet knew The lovely face of Spinning Squaw. The rock fringed lake held her canoe, And felt her paddles skilful stroke, The painted laurel saw her pass, The robin sang when she awoke. The gray rocks echoed back her voice. The stately pines her beauty saw, As, light of foot and gay of heart. She passed among them Spinning Squaw. Now, she is dust, all that remains, Where once she danced on Compounce brin, Is just her name below a cross Upon a parchment old and dim. But when the autumn paints the hills, In red and yellow, brown and gold, She comes in robe and moccaSins To haunt the trails she loved of old. (Grace Lee Kenyon in the Poets Column,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
Limit the Issues

No city official from Mayor Vincent Scully or Controller Thomas M. Conlon down should be subjected to any critl- ciSm through publication of a proposed method of financing a number of capital improvements this week. If this city is going to ask the Legislature during its l941 session for permission to sell bonds 1t must be prepared to explain the why's and Wherefores. But prior to that 1t must have the consent of the public ot Waterbury to such plan, not merely the incumbent administration or any other group.
 There is much to be said for the pur- pose of the proposed bond issue. In the light of recent developments most of us must admit that Waterbury will have to undertake in the coming years every one of the capital improvements for which funds would be provided. Yester- day we even said that the list was not all inclusive and that before the year was out the city might find itself involved in an argument over the extension of it's sewage disposal system, which right now is far from complete or up to date.
 The additional pipe line, the new reser- voir dam, the bridge renovation program, the municipal incinerator, and street paw ing on an extensive scale are projects With which we are more or less familiar. There is general acceptance of the fact that they are actual necessities, although attempts to argue the Justification of them has been made, but without signal success. Any far-sighted program of civic improve ment would necessarily encompass all these and, we think, the additional one of 8 sewage disposal plant, involving as it does a trunk line sewer up the Mad River.
 The question really cannes down to a point of how many the city proceed to- Awards accomplishing these aims econom- ically yet rapidly. They can't be defer red indefinitely for to do so is to retard actually the physical growth and we'll being of this city. To do so now, too, might mean actually an interference Ill national defense plans which in New England take precedence over everything else.
 The stumbling block is obviously char acteriZation of the plan as retundlng bond issue. Perhaps the impressive i'm provement scheme knocked down to ln- dividual items, each bearing label of so many thousands, would appeal to the practical-min as well as those who don't understand the business of financ ing such projects and don't intend to try to learn it. But the fact of the mat ter is that with it's present bonded in- debtedness Waterbury must seek any means whereby it can do two things sim ultaneously = secure millions for needed improvements; continue it's bond retire ment program at no additional cost to the taxpayer.
 If Mr. Conlon's plan doesn't satisfy in all these respects, maybe somebody else has one which will. If so in all jus tice to the City Controller it should be brought forth, not merely for compari- sons sake, but for the sake of all of us here in Waterbury who demand the inn provements itemized and more, too, yet at the same time seek lower taxes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29
In Today's Mail

not to blame for this record of ty- ranny. It is the gold worshippers who are responsible, those powerful internationalists who. through a usurious gold-based capitalism have dominated the money of every na- ton in the world and who have brought poverty and disaster to all countries including America. Ger many, Italy, Japan have justly chal- lenged this vicious persecution and thus became aggressors.
 "The buK of Britain,s gold has long ago been shipped to North America; so, too, we are told, have many of the empires valuableof6ci records. The gem stocks of Amster- dam and London rested in Canadian and New York vaults long before the "Blitzkrieg" swept over Holland. All of which gives rise to some in- teresting speculation. What has the administration done to avert disas- ter? Have the politicians in Ma tional Office conducted America s monetary and foreign policy along the lines drawn by the founders of the republic? Decidedly not. They have hooked these policies to the coat-tails of John Bull, letting him pull them in whichever direction he desired. In fragrant violation of all standards of neutrality, our politi- clans in office have entered the Eu- ropean war on the side of the British Empire"
 There are about twenty pro-war organizations in the United States for every group in favor of peace. These odds however, were slightly lowered recently with the formation in Chicago of an organization called The National Committee of Amer ica First" The roster of directors of this committee contains some of the outstanding names in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

in advance by magazine rep resentative. He. started timidly, reluctant to intrude on the mighty. He asked J. Edgar Hoov- CT if he would receive the lady, and if, perhaps, he would be willing to pose taking her fin ger-prints. Without hesitation, the Big G-Man said he would be delighted.
 Mrs. Caraway was asked if she could lay aside the business of the Senate long enough to ride with Deanna ill the little subway car from the Senate Office build ing to the Capitol. Mrs. Caraway consented.
 Vice President Wallace was asked if he would receive Miss Durbin in his suite behind the Senate Chamber. Henry sent word that Deanna could have the right of way with him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

country-Henry Ford, General Hugh Johnson, Mrs. Kathryn Lewis. Han- ford McNider, Edward Rickenbacker and General Robert Wood. AS might have been expected, the work of this committee has been practically ig- nored by the press and already the word is going round that it is "Nazi fifth column" group. The war mongering committee to aid the AL lies can ring every residential tele- phone subscriber in New York City urging our involvement in the Eu- ropean war, but when few good and true Americans get together to oppose intervention, it's treason!
 Among the few amusementS that imperial BritonS get out of the pres ent war are the strange diplomatic antics of the American "colonials" otherwise known as the United States of America. When London turned on the pressure" a little more than three months ago, Pres ident Roosevelt banned the export of American gasoline to Japan. Con- sequently, thereupon, British-owned oil companies are now reported
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

It's hard to believe that this is the same Waterbury we lived in last year. A walk down some of the more central streets, not the busiest ones, in the fore noon of a bright, sunny day, will find ample parking space along the curb You couldn't find it three months ago in the same spot, but the meters have made all the difference in the world and at this rate we wouldn't say that the city would get rich overnight on meter proceeds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-29

eide how to put into effect a law which will change the whole eco- homie foundations of the island of Puerta Rico
 Back in 1900, Puerto Rico passed law forbidding any corporation to own or control more than 500 acres of land. The law had no teeth and never was enforced. Under IckeS' guidance, however, an enforcement act was adopted in 1885, and this law has finally been upheld by the Supreme Court. The island govern ment with Ickes' aid, is now nov ing to enforce it.
 This could turn Puerto Rico up- side down. Upward of 100000 acres of land in huge sugar plan tations could be broken up. One suggestion is to parcel such land out in small tracts for family sized farming, This, of course, would shift the island away from its present one-crop dependence on sugar and would constitute about , the biggest experiment in land-use planning the government has ever undertaken.
 Tugwell's committee, which in- cludes Ben Cohen, is made up chief ly of experts from the Agriculture and Interior Departments. It. is now beginning to make prelim- mary surveys, and will go to the island late in February, probably for two-month stay, to figure out the speed with which enforcement of the law should proceed, what in- demnisy should be paid the dispos- Sessed corporations, the size of the farm parcels that should be eStab- liShed, and so on.