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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21

IN THE CENTER of Waterbury. A mill constructed building. 1lx4ks 2 stores, hot water heat, excellene condition. Suitable for warehouse distributors or light manufactur- ing. Sacrificed to settle estate. Cal John c. Herhst G Son. 4-4370.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21
BARGAIN HUNTERS
 PARADISE!
CASINO TRADE SPECIALS

OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY Packard Waterbury, Inc.
 Open Evenings 482 Watertown Ave. Dial 4-6109
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21
HOuses For Sale
A Real Investment 161 PLAZA AVE.

A UtAULuUI O"4auAuy1 AV 4OVAl.'5 steam heat on 3 floors, separate furnaces, 2-car garage. Monthly inc come $108. Total expenses includr ing taxes, $9o per month. This sum includes payment on the mortgage in full in IS years. Only $1,O0O cash required.
 D. T. HARRINGTON, Inc. Al West Main St. Dial 3-3112
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21
LiUe Stock
Dogs, Cats, Pets

ST. BERNARD-Puppies. Male, $30. Female, $25. Registered American
 Kennel Club. Doberman pinscller female (51z months) $35. c. Richi-
 telli, 156 West St., New Haven, Ct.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21
Employment
Women Wanted

GIRL for light housework and care of child. Good wages. IA Grand view Ave. 3-4014.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21

RESPONSIBLE WOMAN OVER
 25, SALES ABILITY, HELPFUL. WRITE BOX B-1, Wtby Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21

RELIABLE M aid for general housework. Plain cooking. Live in. Reply to P. o. Drawer 429, Naugs- tuck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21

CHICKENS ib. Boosters, 15c lb. Broilers. 17c lb. 1st Class Poultry Mkt. Moved to Il Union. 228 Bald win. 3-9086.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-21
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
The End Is Bitter

The end of Waterbury's now-famous conspiracy trial came with startling abruptness yesterday afternoon. The Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors wiped the slate clean for four of the men held in connection with the charges, but denied ten others any hope for clemency or further chance to be exonerated in our state courts. With just as startling abruptness the steel doors at Wethersfield opened slowly, then changed shut on those accused
 This was bitter end of promising careers for all of these men. It marked, perhaps, for some of them the end of everything good and deSjrable on this earth of ours. Somehow or other we can't adopt the r-than-thou atti- tude that this was inevitable and comes to all those who digreSs from the narrow patch of righteousness. That sounds bit snug to us, although an uncomprom- iSing attitude may be better for the morale of the community. Fortunately for mankind there dWells within him a fountain of pity and sorrow
 The law has taken It's course. 1t must be regarded as just one. Consequently to those near and dear to the imprisoned men we can merely offer the strong, friendly hand of consolation; to the pris- onerS themselves the clasp of friendship and encouragement and hope for new day; to the community the advice to shake off the old, advance with the new. Our sins found us out; we repented; we make reparation. That's the old story. Let Waterbury be the bigger and better for having survived the fires that make criminals of men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
What's the Reason?

The Waterbury Tax Collectors office should be excused if 1t fairly dazzles one by its brilliance these days Everyone is beaming over the fact that such splen- did record of collecting old age taxes has been achieved. It's a notable total that was reached at the end of the legal period. But in passing out bouquets don't over look the taxpayers themselves After all, they are the ones who make such collec- tion records really possible. Without their fullest cooperation no agency or indi- vidual could hope to get results.
 The Waterbury record Is remarkable one when you read, for example, that down in New Haven there were 25,000 delinquents after the figures had first been added up at the end of the legal paying period. Whereas here in Water bury we have more than enough to cover our assessment by the state, in the Elm City they now have to get in $15,000 be- fore the date for the state payment falls due. Now why should New Haven fall so far behind and Waterbury go so far ahead?
 Even the New Haven Journal Courier puzzles over this as follows "When the Waterbury tax office closed February 28, the deadline for payment of old age assis- ance taxes, 96.3 per cent of the full assess ment had been collected enough to pay the sum due the state and leave com fortable balance in the city treasury. When the New Haven tax office closed on February 28, about 68 per cent of the full assessment had been collected-not even enough by about $30,000 to pay the sum due the state. What a whale of a difference few miles makes"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
The Universal Universe

Astronomer-talk fascinates. Light years, and spectra, and spiral nebuloe are quite beyond the ability of the average person to comprehend; SO they are fascinating. Dr. Walster s. Adams of Mt. Wilson Observatory has made some studies which convince him that The atmospheres of the largest stars are boiling wildly, in violent motion, part of the atmosphere rising, the other falling, with difference of velocity of 12 miles second.
 Well, it's nice to know that our own at- mosphere here on earth isn't the only one that's troubled, and that the turbulence which shakes our own little planet is all of a piece with thak of the rest of the universe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

Connecticut golfers may get some addi- tional surprises this summer besides those which occur when they discover the bad lie their ball is in. The War Department has announced that survey of all golf courses is to be made in the New York City area to determine their availability as emergency landing fields. AS a matter of fact some precautionary steps may be taken on some of these courses to provide adequate landing spots along various fairways. Rows of trees separating fair ways are being marked for removal and steps also taken for leveling off various areas elevated or in rough condition. So it may be that before the 1941 golfing season is over some of our Connecticut courses might even find their sacred pre- cincts invaded in the interests of national defense. Whether or not such tactics will ever extend up as far as the Naugatuck Valley and Waterbury we hesitate to say, but here's the news for what it's worth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
Sheep in Cotton Clothing

You've heard, of course, about the wolf in sheep's clothing. But Laramie, Wyo., ranch has done something more about it. To keep the wolf away from the ranch-house door, in fact, they have rigged out several hundred of the ranch's sheep in cotton clothing.
 It's all part of test being made by the Department of Agriculture and cotton research laboratory. When ewes are thus clothed, the theory runs, they keep warmer, need less supplementary feed, and produce better wool Thus by using industries get break, to say nothing of the sheep themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
Delays Are Costly

Proof that the State of Connecticut should never delay it's plans for develop ment of a public project was amply demonstrated this week at Hartford when there was a hearing on the proposed $3,O00,200 state park and forSet bond issue There were many interesting fig ures revealed by those who attended and spoke at the hearing showing how the cost of developing Sherwood Island State Park in the Town of Westport had in- creased since the first day the state ac- G;ired seashore plot there. The park is not yet completed, according to commis- sion taste.
 We don't doubt that land prices in the vicinity of the state park on Sherwood Island have risen, but if so, then the state has only it's legislators of past years, it's officials of past years to blame. After all this area could really have been properly developed twenty years ago if there hadn't in theainist place been oppo- sition fr0.1 owners of poreprty near the state land and perhaps from Westport residents themselves. Finally when this was overcome there wasn't the whole . hearted support for the idea at Hartford as there should have been.
 So the result is now brought home to us. The park itself has cost ridiculous sum when compared to the manner in which the state acquired and developed Hammonnassett and Rocky Neck, our other two shore parks. It has been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

The recent fire in New Haven which resulted in loss of ten lives of employees of a quilt factory has brought a rather scathing indictment of Connecticut fire laws by the Department of Labor. Former Labor Commissioner Joseph M. Tone pre- pared the report after survey and probe in New Haven and Secretary Fran ces Perkins says: Connecticut is with out adequate legislation. The law doesn't state the types of fire escapes and where they should be enclosed or screened or located. There are laws limiting the number of employees or occupants; there are a; no laws providing for fire drills or Legislature for such things as this.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

The report on the crash of fire trucks on Baldwin Street was just about what we said it would be. It was one of those unavoidable things for which could be conjured up any number of reasons why they shouldn't happen again, but which just don't apply in this instance. There certainly was no failure on the part of the men involved. In fact the crash could have been much worse but for their alertness. It was tragic occurrence; we have learned something from it. Let's hope for no recurrence
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

1t came from Norway. Food and Drug Bureau experts Say 1t also can be obtained from other fish, including sharks; and are consid- ering an educational campaign to get physicians to prescribe sub- Stitutes.
 WRONG NUMBER
 A certain chic young Justice Department telephone operator is going to be careful about whom she confides in from now on.
 The J. D. operators gave Q tea and invited the Department of ficials, among them Attorney Gen. eral Bob Jackson. Very demo- cratic, he approves of these de- partmental parties and was wan dering from one group to another when very pretty miss took him into tow.
 She began pouring out an acc count of her duties. One of them, she related, was seeing to 1t that Ugo Carusi, energetic executive assistant of the attorney general, had his phone calls answered promptly.
 "He is . very important man." the young lady explained earn estly. "He's the only official in the Department who has a red light over his number on the switchboard, and we have strict crders to drop everything when the light flashes and give MT. Carusl immediate attention"
 "He must be important" ex- claimed Jackson. "I wonder how one would go about getting that sort of service?"
 "Oh, you couldn't get it," was the emphatic reply. "Mr. Carusi is very special"
 They chatted a few more min- utes and then as Jackson rose to go his hostess remarked, "Say, you're awfulIy nice. Who are you?"
 "The name is Robert Jack sOn."'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

For many years the drug in- dustry has been dependent upon foreign sources for such essential items as belladonna, from the Bal fans; rux vomica from India, quinine from the cinchone tree grown mainly in Java; opium from peoples grown in Turkey and Jugoslavia; and gum arabic from the acacia tree in the Sudan.
 Virtually all imported botanical drugs can be grown in the United States, but low pre-War prices made 1t unprofitable. Now, with shipping facilities daily becoming scarcer and costlier, the U. s. faces a serious shortage of these drugs plus soaring prices and profiteering.
 Authorities learned that re- gently, out of a shipment of 1,- 800 tons of gum arabic - trans- ported by a Greek freighter from Alexandria, Egypt, via the Red Sea, the Pacific and Panama Canal to an Atlantic port -- one importer got four-fifths of the stock. The remaining one-fifth was distributed among his com petitors. This tn effect gave him a corner on gum arabic, as, &C., cording to Defense experts, he ob- tained what amounts to 6 three years supply.
 Under an import control all dealers would be treated alike; also the Government would be able indirectly to keep Q lid on price kiting.
 DOMESTIC DRUGS
 Meanwhile the situation has re- vived interest in domestic produc- tion of botanical drugs. Several state universities have begun ex- periments, and Defense experts say that if this is pursued seriously the country would be made self sufficient within a year. Synthetics are still another field for replacements, but they have not been popular and only
 dire necessity will make their use general.
 NOTE The price of cod liver oil. leading source of natural vit- amin D, has scared from $22 to $75 @ barrel. Formerly most of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

"Oh, dear! The bOss!"
 Don't wory," said the attorney general, grinning broadly, tits all right. won't tell MT. Ca- rusl on you"
 BULGARIAN MINISTER
 For five years, Dimitri Naum- off has lived in grey stone house overlooking Rock Creek Park, comfortably mingled in the dip- lomatic circle, comfortably watched trade grow between Bulgaria and the United States.
 Ever since Versailles--and before --the United States has been friendly to the aspirations of Bull garia. Though she was on the German side in World War I, American delegates at the peace conference opposed carving wes- tern Thrace from Bulgaria to give 1t to Greece. ,.s
 A few years ago, American manufacturers increased the blending of Turkish tobacco with Virginia, and this meant. big exports of Bulgaria's Turkish type tobacco.
 Naoumoff, as minister to the United States. travelled about the country meeting many of the 90,- 900 Americans of Bulgarian origin, giving lectures in American coi- leges, reminding his audiences that there is an American colelge in Sofia. But all that is over now.
 Today, Naoumoff sits in the drawing room of the grey stone house, with the afternoon sun slanting across the red plush fur niture, and wonders what Ameri- cans think of his country's line- up with the Axis. The prized tobacco trade is gone, and now what will happen to the treas- ured friendship? To friends he says he hopes America will have "the wisdom to be generous, and the courage to be just"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
Current Comment

Human kindness has never weak ened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.-President Roosevelt.
 I've learned from long experience that when you don't want to say anything. you shouldn't tell any thing to anybody, not even your wife.-vice-President John N. Gar ner.
 If measures are necessary to safe- guard liberty. let them be voted by Congress. given the sanction of law and applied to all citizens impar- tially.-PTesident Henry N. Mac Cracken 10 vassar College.
 The nations problem is whether we are to build and defend q civil ixation on our continental domain or to resume. in effect, our former status as Q dominion in the British Empire and rely upon British policy and arms for our very existence. = Charles 4. Beard, historian.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
In Today's Mail

tional suicide. America comes first. There are other ways of bringing peace to the world, than by start ing fresh war, that will lead to endless wars.
 The trouble is that there is too much money laying around for gov- ernments to squander on ainmuni- tion, guns, bombing planes and other instruments of destruction. In times of depression the poor workers have to beg and cringe to be placed on relief, and have to suf- fer humiliation, the kind that those who are poor have to put up with at the hands of those who distribute charity. The people are lied to and gypped because they delegate the power to those who gamble with that power in making war, merch- ants of death, international gamb- lers; gamblers in war ammunitions, who amass billions from wars, who are the curse of peace loving world, while the blood of the work CTS is spilled like water; who are forced to kill other working men or be killed.
 The truth of the last war has never yet been told, but Is kept locked in the archives of the coun- tries involved. At the time when the bonus that was promised the veter- ans was about due, the people were told the country would be ruined if it was paid, and no thought was paid the thousands of cripples that are still in the hospitals of the land, many of whom will never walk again. But now billions. not millions are thrown into the lap of a foreign country, not one cent of which will probably be repaid. The country is filled with sycophants who hang on the fronge of governments. who have no conscience. honor or patri- otism. and who sheer at the honor of Q patriot. If the people do not speak out now. they never will, for the Bill of Rights Is clouded in darkness. As Henry Ford. the 77- year-old manufacturer, whose life has been devsted to the course of peace. has said. "There is no honor or righteousness In this war between the nations. Both arc motivated by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
SHOULD BE NATIONAL REFER
 ENDUM IN U. S. ON WAR
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Political events in this country in the past two years prove that when 1t comes to elections, or to depend on niass psychology in determining events of national importance the appeal to the people is untrust- worthy, unreliable and that results are as often as not obtained that are bad for the country as a whole. The recent election is a point in fact. The majority of the voters either do not understand the issues at stake, or the political leaders manipulate the elections so that in the last analysis, the plotters behind the political screen attain the iden- tical results they seek. The recent debate in the senate of the U. s. Senate has proven that the threat ened involvment of this country in 8 typical European war, was plot of clique that deliberately acted without the thought of consulting the wishes of the 30,000, 900 people who have no heart or stomach for a war that may destroy our form of government. end our free Republic, 8 people who believe only in war to defend our Bill of Rights, and the defense of our homeland and our possessions.
 Occupying the position of the only country in the world that could restore peace to war torn Europe, we have deliberately hopped of on the wrong foot as in 1916 to prolong that war, and to cause the butchery of hundreds of thousands of our native borns. The one and only way that the American people can make sure that they are not going to be exploited for generations to come in other European wars. is to retain the power to declare war themselves by having such q question put to all the people by a national refer endum. We need senators of the stamp of Borah. Nye. Holt Lundeen and Walsh. men of that stamp who are not involved in financial gamb- ling in international capitals. A war to prolong war ct this time Is na-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
Selected Poem
TO OLD NEW ENGLAND
(By Nettie Louise Lord in the Boston Post

tBy Nettie Louise Lord in the Boston Post) You may have the Southland, Have the North or have the West. But give me old New England, I love her far the best. She has her snow-capped mountain, Her bits of rolling plain, She even has desert, In the good old State of Maine One can view the blue-green ocean From sand or rocky shore, Or rest beside an inland lake, With pine trees by the door. Her roads are long, smooth pavements, Winding over hill and dale, Or else they're narrow country lanes, Where beauty doth prevail Her winter cloak is ermine, Her lakes with crystals gleam While springtimes lovely picture Is the plow-man and his team. Her varied moods in summer Bring enough of sun and rain, To bless the plowmanS labor And rlpen fields of grain. I make no choice of seasons, Each one seems best of all, Naught can surpass her beauty, When dressed in garb of fall. Just give me old New England, You may have the North. the South, the West, But New England is my homeland And love her far the best.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
Press Comment
CUT IN HALF
(New York Sun.

(New York Sum
 Hard as 1t is to believe, carefully. compiled statistics reveal that tho people of the United States spend $15. .000, 100000 @ year in motor. vehicle transportation - betweer one-fifth and one-fourth of the en. tire national income.
 It has been calculated, also, tha the annual consumption of gasoline amounts to 10000, 900 900 gallons and the amount of mileage travellec is even more astronomical, some. where in the vicinity of 300, 1000, ,00O,. 900 miles per year. f,
 These figures are more than mechanically interesting, because they literally mean dollars in your pocket. Only such phenomenal ex. pansion could cut your divinity costs virtually in half in the past SC years, as has been done.
 The standard figure for passenge car operation, counting deprecia ton. repairs. taxes, garaging ane every conceivable tractor used to b, 10 cents a mile. Now the figure i z close to five-56 to be exact-ans 1t is dropping steadily lower.
 That is neWs that affects every pocketbook and it is one big reason why the motor car industry is lock- ing forward to a bumper year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
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 e. What is IS nm. motion pic- ture film?
 A. The film is 16 millimeters wide. A millimeter is 0.03oS7 of an inch.
 e. Please state the preamble to the U. s. Constitution.
 A. We, the people of the United States, in order to form more per- feet Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the gem. eral welfare, and secure the bless ings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America" A copy of the Constitution and the Declaration oj Independence suitable for framing may be obtained from the Water bury Democrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. C.. for twenty-five cents.
 e. How many farmers are now served by electric power lines, corr1-' pared with 20 years ago?
 A. More than 2 million farmers in l940 compared with about 100,- 900 twenty years ago. Tn 1q40 the in- crease was at the rate of about 25,. 900 @ month. '!.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07
Daily Almanac
sets l:47 a. m.

Moon sets l:47 a. m.
 Sun rises 6:i7 a. m; sets $50 p. in.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- utes after sunset
 There aren't too many signs of spring In thcsc parts as yet. A scattering bird or two has arrived ahead of the crowd. That always hapoens. But out in the woods in secluded spots the evidences Of aroused nature are very scarce. It needs another spell of thaw- ing and drying to bring them out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-07

dragged across the front pages of every state newspaper so many times that most people are beginning to think it's all a joke. The final bill for Sherwood Island may well be staggering one. Its con temptation from time to time should be lesson to all of us that delays in such matters as this are tremendously costly.