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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-08
Wasting Time

Doctors acting for a selective service board had Joe Louis before them They measured his height. They put him on the scales. They examined his teeth and eyes. They tested his hearing. They took his blood pressure. They heard his heart beats. They told him to say "Ah" They listened to the rumbling in his chest to get a line on his lungs. Then, after they confabulated, they Solenlnly report ed that so far as physical condition was concerned Joe Louis would be all right for the American Army.
 That's waste of time. All the Army had to do was to call in either Max Beer or Buddy Baer or Billy Conn; or Tony Galento or Lou Nova or any one of several others. The Brown Bomber made them all say "Ah".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-08
They Felt the Point

wyoming has Q sales tax, but owners of ranches do not have to pay the levy on feed bought for their cattle during the winter months. Seeing this, the bee keepers came to the State Board of EQua- lization with vigorous complaint. Every winter beemen buy sugar to feed their bees and they have to pay the sales tax. They asked for relief, but the law Seem- ingly was against them. It exempted only live stock.
 That did not beat the board. As the modern Solomons they are, without fear of contradiction by reasonable men, they classified bees as live stock. Doubtless as boys down on the farm, they had learned that stinging bees are very live stock.
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ambassador in Washington. The Czar, in reply told his ambassa- dor, confldentially, to sell for $5,OCO, 900, ,00O. But the ambassador, thinking there would be some bar- gaining, sent Q message to Sec- retary Seward one night and told him his government would sell for S7,0OO,0OO. He said he would come to the State Department to discuss the deal in the morn ing.
 Hut Seward summoned him Co the State Department that night.
 In fact he was 90 anxious to get Alaska that he sent carriages out for State Department clerks. and kept the lights b.s:"-..:.:.S I.l the Department until about ( .. m. when the treaty for the purchase finally was signed. The price was S7,20O, ,O00-ex- actIy s2,200,O0O more than the price proposed by the Cxar. The extra S200,00O was thrown In to purchase a Russian development operating there.
 After the treaty was signed, Con. greSs rehelled against ratifying 1t, claimed 1t was an area Of rocks and ice. So Seward sent Q slush fund of $3ooooo to Capitol Hill, of which si0,00o was paid to Thaddeus Stevens, famous cru- sador for freedom of the slaves and author of the Fourtheenth Amendment.
 Later the Rursian ambassador asked his government to relieve him from deity in such c center of corruption.
 CROWDED RUSSIAN CAPITAL
 Foreign diplomats are supposed to be expert at pink teas and pro- tocol. But ct KuibySheV, new capital of the Soviet Union, dip- lomats live like frontiesmen. spatS are not even unpacked from trunks.
 "The VOlga Boat sOng" is TO. mantle, but there is nothing ro- mantle about living on the Voiga today. Kuibyshev (Kee-be. sheff) Is q cold town and e crowd- cd town. The U. 6. amhassador, with all the other ambassadors, lives In 0 barracks which, although cold in November, will Do Q lot colder in January. KuibysheV is on the windy Steppes of Rus Eia, unprotected by woods, and with homes warmed by scanty fire wood.
 When Joe Davies and wife went to Moscow in 1887, they slowed
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Hartford Is taking the matter of con solidation with several surrounding towns rather seriously. Some days back we questioned whether or not the idea of a great metropolitan city with the present Hartford the center would be &C., ceptable to these surrounding towns. We still think that 1t may require lot of persuasion for the residents of such places as Wetehrsiield and Windsor, two of the states oldest towns, to relinqu!sh their township rights and all they imply and be submerged in the identity Of Hartford itself There may be a lot Of inducements offered, but there will be negative arguments, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-08
Today's Real Magic

Not so many years ago, the black, greasy, tarlike, thick fluid that was a residue in the coke-making process was simply burned as fuel No other use could be found for 1t, but today the same stuff Is carefully divided into It's rough parts tar, ammonia and light oils. From the treated tar come creoSote oil, used in the preservation of railroad ties and other wooden objects; pitch, used in roofing, in water-proofing concrete and in the manufacture of briquets and elec- trodes; napthalene, employed in making moth balls and in many sorts of plastics; and phenol, used in the manufacture of plastlcs, such as telephone receivers radio panels, automobile trimmings and bottle tops.
 them are derived benzol and toluol. Ben- woI blended with gasoline makes a superior motor fuel. It's solvent qualities makes benzoI important in the manufacture Of paints, varnishes, stains, lacquers and paint and grease removers. Toluol is used i1a the manufacture of one of the deadliest of high explosives, T. N. T. But even that does not end the list of things that stem from the Jumps of black, shiny, bltuminous coal, 50 familiar to every body. It is the foundation from which sprinRs by various chemical processes ex- dtiielfe perfumes, indigo and many other moro delicate dyes, oil of wintergreen, anaeiling salts, beads, buttons, artificial allk. linoIeuna, billiard balls, laughing gas, phonograpli records, and spectacle rims. The realm of healing is blessed with still 0kher coal derivatives such 60 pain killers, irnluAfna noyacaln and aspirin, and the NeW IIst og battlerg aeailIst disease -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-08
A Thought for Today
Red Cross Roll Call

The annual roll call of the American Red Cross will begin in Waterbury next week. It will, we know, receive the whole hearted and generous support of every one capable of contributing to the work that this world-fanous organization per- forms. Now more than ever is it urgent that all of us contribute to the Red Cross that its work may be intensified and car- ried on actively in those many sectors where in the wake of war now is found extreme want.
 Here in the United States with em- ployment at high level we must make the slight sacrifice entailed to insure the success of the Red Cross drive. For some lt will not be sacrifice at all; for others 1t may involve a deprivation of some little luxury or planned pleasure. By join Ing the Red Cross now we are enabling 1t to carry on the multitude of services that have come to be regarded as routine for 1t. They must not suffer any let-up and to insure against such an event. each and everyone of us should redouble our ef- forts to aid the local roll call.
 Often 1t is necessary in drive of this nature to rely on the large contributions of those financially able to make them to insure the success of 1t. Right now, though, 1t is possible for more people than ever to contribute to the Red Cross. This they should do and we beseech every family where there are several wage-earnerS to make sure that the fa- miHar insignia of the Red Cross is pasted on the front window as soon as possible. This should be roll call in which thou sands participate rather than hundreds. Let Waterbury, always stalwart packer of the American Red Cross, more than live up to past regulations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-08
The New Judge

Waterbury should be keenly interested and concerned when federal court con- veneS in Hartford Monday morning. Presiding for the first time in his off, cial capacity will be Judge J. Joseph Smith of this city, former Congressman from the Fifth District It is signal honor for any city to have one represen- tative on the federal bench, but to have two as Waterbury really has in Judge Carroll c. Hincks and Judge Smith Is the height of ambition and realization.
 The Democrat knows that Judge Smith will prove as industrious and as capable on the federal bench as he was during his many years at Washington. This district received capable representa- ton throughout his several terms of of- flee. More than that he was a distinct asset in preserving the industrial align ment throughout the Naugatuck Valley at e time when industry was seriously dislocated through critical economic conditions.
 Ills new role will be quite different from that of @ legislator. His will now be not the duty to making laws, but of seeing that they are obeyed. Ills qualifi- cations are sufficient to assure conscien- tious and liberal interpretation of the laws he will be called upon to enforce. The Democrat wishes him every success in his new judicial role. We feel the same will be expressed on every side here ln Waterbury where the new judge was born and where he grew up to manhood.
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into the yacht "Sea Cloud" 1000 pints of frozen cream, and two tons of frozen fruits, vegetables, and poultry, to defend themselves against the rigors of Russian food.
 But Moscow was . metropolis | of luxury by the side fo Kuiby- shev, where food Is already run- ming short, and the U. 5. Em- bassy is obliged Co dole out food Co Che U. s. newsmen. More serious than the feed shortage, however, ls Che fear Of disease.
 NOTE - Most restless members of the crowded American colony are the dozen military and naval attaches sent from Washington "t0 observe the war;. Not per- mitted to observe anything, they have been showed back to the Volga with the diplomatic corps. WHITE HOUSE GRASS
 For 39 years, William Reeves has worked as Q gardener at the White House, and he has never known a drouth like this one. Rain last Saturday brought re- lief, but before that, through weeks of dry weather. sprinklers Vied with the sun to save the White House grass.
 Tn spite of everything, how ever, the grass looks green. Tn September, Reeves scratched the ground, planted Italian rye, and sprinkled freely. "A light sprinkle k no q -'- goOd," he says.
 Now that the drouth is over (and frost is late), the new grasS has come up with Q beautiful green covering over tho South grounds, and with Q fair cover. ing on the more shaded Pennsyl. vaTlia avenue side.
 But still Rooves shakes his head, "Never in 38 years have ! seen anything like it."
 MERRY-GO.ROUND
 When pr. w. II. Fe.dman of tho Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn., wrote Senator Nye, asking what authority Nye had to mail out propaganda ct the taxpay- CTS expo nse, Nye replied he "could obta1n thls information ment"
 from the post office Department" Arkansas women's club are raising funds to buy 6 portrait of Senator Hattie Caraway, done by Cyril Gardner,
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LIlG EGSSAQSkAb ~ SSCOAAA VAA4A
 Mrs. Roosevelt's friends asked how she liked receiving so much royalty. Tn reply the first lady told in detail her husbands views on the subject. She said the President was talking recently to May Craig, correspondent for seV- erai New England newspapers, who told him sne thought 1t was bad public relations to have 50 many kings, queens and princesseS be- ing entertained by the head of Q Democratic nation.
 TO this the President replied that aside from his delight in en- tertaining such charming guests, he welcomed them as representa-. lives of truly democratic peo. pies. And many Americans, he added, sometimes forgot that these nations were of vital importance to tho United States.
 Holland, for instance, he said, was little country, but 1t had islands in the Pacific on which the United States was completely dependent for It's tin and rubber. And he explained how Queen Wilhelmina Ftill held sessions with her eabinet in London, and still had Q great deal to say about the fate of these islands.
 "And just this week." the President was quoted by his wife as saying, "I wrote to Queen Wilhelmins and tSld her that her daughter was tolng to visit us. again."
 When Mrs. RooSevelt's friends asked her how she liked having the Princess Martha Of Norway and her children around 50 much, she replied: "0h, we really like them!"
 HOW WE GO TALAsKA
 Army md Navy Strateglsts who stay up late studying the defense of the U. 8. A. consider on'y one part of the country in actual danger of Axis invasion In the near future.
 They have some definite Ideas about the Panama Canal, Texas and the Southwest # the NaSls ever get across from the bulge of Africa to the bulge of Brazil. But for the time being, with Maxi armies encroachsng on Russia, and with Japan becoming more and more belllgerent, they say the only real danger spot Is AL aska - separated by only % miles of Boring See from the mainland Of Siberia.
 Tn view of this, 1t Is interesting to dig Into the mugty archieVes of the State Department regRrd- ing the manner In which Alaska was acquired from Russia.
 The purchate took place shortly after the war between the States, when tho CEar was occu- pied in trying to get an outlet through the BoSphorus, which risked war with England. So he waS afraid England might take Alaska. Also Alaska was Valu. able chiefly for seal and seq ot- ter surs to beautlfy the ladies in waiting, and the Alaskan fur crop was getting low.
 Simultaneously, Charles Seward, Secretary of State in 1867, was anxious to extend the new Almerl- can "elnpire" both north and south and had suggested the Alaskan purchase to the Russian
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and judged by usual standards of measurement, he was Q man Of quite ordinary ability. But like don. eral Booth, founder of the aalya. ton Army, Moody had given hIm- self with complete abandon Into tho hands Of God, and because ho did 90, dod used aF ordinary man to achieve extraordinary results. Prob. ebly no man in tho history Of the Christian Church ever changed 60 many lives as did Dwight L. Moody.
 We ara told today that if atomic energy can be released, the whole face Of the earth will be changed. scientlsts are just beginning to learn that ali about Us are roNor. volrs Of power which the mind and calculation Of man cannot even be- gin @ measure. And this is true not only in the realm Of things, but ln the realm Of spirit. PhysIeaily and spiritually, We use only c small fgac- ton of our powers every day.
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tivate our faculty of ratiocInatIon do we weigh all parties carefully and by due process of Ollmlnatlon'' spot the caitiff at last? Probably we don't; we shouldn't. Let the author do the work. Let him exer. cife his intellect In throwing uS off the scent.
 We read these books for pleasure yet we must take them solemnly Tor Eliot Paul'S jovial burlesques ot the genre were not too well received by the faithful. John etrachey wept because the detective story ls tho most flouriShing form of English literature. But since MT. c. Day Lewis, Laureate Of tho Left, wTites detective stories under another name, nobody need be ashamed of the literary quality, often high, of his chief mental vitamin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-08
PARLAY
(NeW York sun)

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 A poor man went to the Jamaica race track on Thursday, determined to parlay a on the mounts of Jockey Robertson. At the end of the fourth ace he was 9iS,o7e to the good. so busy was he calculating the various taxes on this that he neglected to play the fifth race but got his bun- dc down on the sixth and seventh, which were won by Robertson's mounts at 6.3S to and 22.iB to 1 respectively. This loft our fortunate hero winner to tho extent of e4,22s.- eD0.10. Being somewhat Of c Spend- thrift, he tossed away tho odd 50 cents in flotous living end left the track confident that the remainder would cover his income taxes and even pay the luxury tax on q e40.e0 fur piece which he planned to buy foh his wife.
 Anybody who does not believe this story must contribute q. to the Us B, o.
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Views Of The Press

iished in the United States; in iaAo, 2e3. A fair supply of murders, though 1t wouldn't have been near enough for Earl Balfour, who was good for one every night.
 Why do we all read them7 Is it because VIC love puzzles2 Is 1t be- cause we seOk to find the icgic in unexplained events? It can't be from any hatred of the villain, such as made some of our great-grand. fathers hisg him on the stage. No, evon the corpus dellcti has noth- ing unpleasant about it. We have to have him to start tho game, Against the villain there is no aniSnoslty. He is merely the miss. ing piece in tho puzzle. DO we cui.
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Daily Almanac
'iSeS s;lo 3. m.

Moon rises 0;ie ?. m.
 Sun rises e;3o c. rn,; sets 4;4i ?. m.
 All vehicles must Do lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 These are very short days we're enjoying in this climate right now. The sun rises close to [ o'clock and is gope befoFe b. Tho day- light period IB ccnsiderAbiy lees than twelve hours and will Tsnain co fer about two months.
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sulfanilamide, sulfapyridlne and sul- fathiazole.
 Truly there are veritable miracles being performed in this 20th century and the magicians are the chemists with their test tubes. And chiefly it is beneficent, not black magic. Despite wars and thou sand other evils, man marches on.
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 l. Sir Walter Raleigh, Christo. pher Columbus, or Captain John Smith Is reputed to Do the frW European to see tobacco.
 2. Give Q four.letter word that means something done or said in joke.
 2. Give Q four-letter word that means something done or said in joke.
 3. odor has weight; true or falsef (, A Zebu is an animal, an old name for the letter z, or Q Chinese counting device [?
 s. Mount Vernon, the ancestral home Of George Washington, iS on the Potomac, the James or the Pawtuxent river?
 c. Who painted "Tho Angeius"S C What sort of tree grows from on acorn?
 8. From what language does tho word interim derive?
 Q. Into how many boroughs iS New York City divided?
 10. Is any one of the Great Lakes wholly within the boundaries Og tho Dominion or Canada?
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Selected Poem
GHOSTS

(Norah dodiry in the Poets Corner
 Hartford Times) Up from your moor and dell, Ghosts that can walk Come, spill your magic spell, That we may talk; Whimsical, gay and Memories in myriad, Eerily stalk. Race from the autumn wood Ghosts that can runl Come, swing your merry mood Painting with fun. Eagerly would meet Memories TneadowsSweet, Happily won. Down from the golden moon, Ghosts that can fly, Como, wing your happy tune, Heed not my sigh. Sing joyful choirs above Memories Hitting with love, Shouting Sky~hlgh.
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CENTURY or CRIME
(New York T,lneel

1t would Do hard to find . hearts fer centenaFian than tho dotec- tive story, whose first century was con1memorated in this city yesteT. day. Poe Was the father Of ( great Face, Somebody has called our time the Golden Ago Of this form Of fictlon. From the Btatistics Of literary cFiine we ioasn ttRt in 1o5o 23S eglsne novels wera sssl-
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tho great 0van- geliSt for only c few minutes, but he said that hG felt as # ho had been in tho midst of c mighty whirl- win (. flo de-
 ciared that com. ing in contact
 with Moody'S dynamic per. a0iaalitv W,aa flira
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py senator Con- nally and a really good speech by Senator Vanden- berg, the debate on revision of the neutrality act has been so dull and heavy that if any of the orationl W ere accidentally dropped on the foot, every bone would be broken from the Achilles tendon to the great toe.
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standing at the side of | railroad tNack and suddenly having . train sweep by at co miles m hour.
 What Wag the secret Of MOoGy'a great poWer7 zIe was anoducatod'
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

Washington, Nov. e-Maybe what this country needs to get everybody hipped on this war Is, instead of on Oface of Facts and Figures which the President set up a couple of weeks ago, an once of Fun and Frolio.
 So far, oil has been too, too seri- ous. Aside from few good crAcka
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
WE NEVER USE
By EARL |. DOUGLASS, b. D.

WE NEVER USE
 OUR RESOURCES ASian once said that his brief contact with Dwight |. Moody was the most exciting aend significant experience of his entire life. lEo mot
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Questions
 and Answers

 YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 The Waterbury Democras's Ger. vice Bureau VII anSweR eor you freq. any question oe eaet op an- eormatIon, not involving ezeone |. alva research. write yUuF Wmese tfnn clearly, slgm name and m4- aFess, emcl0se 6 three cent pogsmgo atamn, Medical or legal a0vico cannot Do Riven. Address water hmry DeMaocrat's tVashingeen Bers
 vice Bureau, 1O13 TkiEseensh Street, Washington, D. C.
 a. When e breeze wraps the nea about the stan, may it De said - be furledp
 A. No. To be furied lt must 70 wrapped by hand closely about the stan and fastened.
 e. Who played the roles of Tor penhow," ''NEaisie," and Bessie" " the plotoplay "The Light That Failed," which was produced abouA two years ago?
 A. Walter Huston played the role of aTorpenhow," Muriel Angelue was 'Maisie" and Ida Lupino played the part of Bessie"
 e. What is the highest wind ve. locity ever recordedp A, Two hundred and thirtysone miles per hour, registered at the Mount Washington, W. H., observa" tory, April l2, 1884.
 e. How long after the signing ct the Russo German non-aggression pact was Poland invaded by Ger many?
 A. The pact was signed August 24, 1889, and Germany invaded 20" land on September l, 1889. <. ---. -s-.---l
 TODAY'S COMMON ERROR PluraIs of nouns ending in ful are formed by adding 8 final s; as handfuls, spO0nfuiss
 e. How many persons in the of1ce of the president of the united States are paid from regular gov' ernment funds?
 A, There are I,l7o employees on the executive staff and 98 on the maintenance force. Of these, 4s9 are full time and part time employee paid from emergency relief admin. istratlon funds. The others are paid from the regular funds. 
 c. Please give me some tnfornla- ton about slaughter Of cattle by electricity.
 A. This method has been used to some extent in Europe, particularly in England, and experiments are being carried on In the U. s. AS far aS we know, no American plants are using the method ct present. 1t Is not permitted in federally in" spected meat packing plants because the killing electric shock causes le- sions in the lungs of the slaughtered animals which are dlf1cult to distins guish from tuberculosis lesions, ana the department of agriculture feeS that their facilities for port mortera inspection are insufficient to rule out ekAtISAy ttAg pVSsApAAAty VI AlAotaAAtA tuberculosis leslons for those caused by shock, thus permitting the mar ketlng of infected meat.
 c. When and by whom was thu song Pony Boy" composed?
 A. The music is by Charley ODonnell aind the words by Bobby Heath. It is from the musical coFns edy Miss Innocence" 1909.
 EDITORS NOTE: IT you are deslrous of securing thls weeks booklet, PIES AND PASTRIES" address Y. M. Kirby, Dept. B-I00, Waterbury Democrat Service Bu. reau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Wash. ington, D. C., with ten cents tO cover postage.
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Washington Merry Go-Round
DREW PEAR SON ROBERT s. ALLEN

Shortly Wdsor talking friends impending
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Whats Your I.Q.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR PIuraIs of nouns ending In ful are formed by adding a final s; as handfuls, spOOnfuiss
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c. When and by whom was thu song Pony Boy" composed?
 A. The music is by Charley O'Donnell aind the words by Bobby Heath. It is from the musical coms edy Miss Innocence" 1909.
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