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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

to the Germans, we suspect that it is less than friendship. Are the German and Russian peoples friends? The Japanese and Russian? It seems doubtful.
 Perhaps we need a new word to define the relationship between peoples. The bulk of one people feel kindly disposed toward the bulk of another people; they may have joint ambitions and projects; considerations of safety or advantage may draw them together; but friendship is sacred term which applies to none of these things. Greece has few allies toGoy, perhaps; there are few armies ready to spring to her assistance or lend helping hand while she fights so stoutly for her independence. It is entirely beside the point to argue that Greece favored" Britain rather than Germany; to say she refused to climb aboard the noisy and gaudy band-wagon now numbering across Europe. She chose to remain Greece, and to fight him who tried to compel her by force.
 Greece is no friendless orphan of the Nazi storm. On every continent, includ- ing the new Dark Continent of Europe, she has friends in plenty. Not so many government hierarchies, perhaps, but in- dividuals, people, men and women who admire and love her for her courage to fight for her own. Those, too, are friend ships, and they may yet bring powerful weight to bear in the scales of history
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
The Law Is Heavy-Handed

While opinions may differ as to the Justice of the severity of punishment meted out to those men convicted in the Waterbury conspiracy case, there seems to be new school of thought now in this city. This feeling is one that the state through it's enforcement agencies was more than heavy-handed in its treatment of those men who were denied stay of execution or new trials on the basis of appeals made to the Supreme Court of Connecticut Maybe that's the way it should be in case which developed the angles that the local one did.
 The speedy incarceration of the &C., cused was, to say the very least, some thing you might read about. We have heard tales of how political enemies of foreign governments have been whisked away with speed and secrecy to dungeons and concentration camps, but in the United States we doubt if anything quite matched the precise rounding up of the convicted Waterburians like the process sion of late Thursday afternoon. It smacked a little too much of iron-hand treatment and not humane considera- tion for all concerned.
 The sight of former mayor of this city manacled in the admittance room of the State Prison, likewise is bit dis turbing. Reasons for doing this pale beside the fact that the general public, as well-acquainted with MT. Hayes as the state police or other officials, is not so dull-witted as not to perceive ulterior motives for the handcuffs. If there were not bitter enough taste left in Water buIy's mouth by the prolonged court fipht the climax after the Supreme Court decision added distinct acrid flavor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
Neutralizing Book Burners

Every time we see a book banned by the totalitarian censors of Europe, our first impulse is to rush off and get the book and read it. Such an impulse seized us on the word that France Cor rather that painful stump of a government which at Vichy without authority of the people, claims to be "France'D, has ban ned Roman Hollands "Jean Christorhe." !"
 This book has been acclaimed mas terpiece all over the world, translated into many tongues Frenchmen were proud of it. Now they cannot even read it. And why may not Frenchmen read one of their own masterpieces? Because the Nazis, French and German, think it bad for them. Maybe one way to neu- tralize the foul work of the book-burners of Europe would be to create in the rest of the world new reader of every ban ned book for every one cut off by totali- tarian censors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
U. OF c. STATES ITS WANTS
(Meriden JournaD

Give 1t time, says one editor, and the University of Connecticut will catch up with Yale" President Jorgensen has a way of getting things out of the Legislature. Last session he scored with a $11.O0O.O00 bond issue and this time he is ask ing for:-
 Agricultural industrial building, $440O0O; equipment therefor, $ll0,- GOO; armory. $300000; mems gym .nasium, $300,: remodeling of older buildings, unstated amount; second addition to Atwater laboratory, S2,- 000: appropriation for greenhouses. barns, campus, grading and land- scape projects: dormitory for short term students, unstated amount; additional instructors in agriculture, $20.000 Q year,
 Thus 1t would appear that the new state university, which entered the general college field. would rec turn in part to Its original status of agricultural college by providing Q two-year course in agriculture.
 Other institutions of higher learn- ing are finding the times most dls- ficult, even wondering if they will survive. while the state universit,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

Increased state revenue for Connecti- cut is shown by figures of State Tax Col lector Charles J. McLaughlin's report for the first two months of 1941. This is an encouraging report and should make Governor Robert A. Hurley and the Leg islature confident that budget can be adopted for the biennium, 1941-43, which will stand up well under whatever the future has in store for us. Almost every section in which the state, collects taxes showed good increase for both January and February This probably won't con- tinue right through the year, but it's enough that two months have showed such nice pickup.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
Rock Carver

Going back to the days of prehistoric man there were always a number of artists in tribe or a race who inscribed on rock characters of pictures. So 1t has been right down through the ages. So 1t is today we pay our respects to Gutzon Borglum, the great sculptor who has been hammering out permanent memorial to his craft and industry and artistry out in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Bor- glum's death this week finds his master piece as yet unfinished, but SO nearly so that his son and assistants can easily complete the vast undertaking.
 It was fourteen years ago that Bor- glum started work on this memorial, to Include the heads of four great Ameri- cans, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. Work is so far advanced that the likenesses are recognizable three miles away. Minor details must be supplied still and will by the Borglum organiza- tion. And when the job is over, there will be Borglunn's greatest monument, real tribute to his skill, his tenacity of purpose, and his ability to surmount all types of obstacles.
 Who knows but what some day the Mt. Rushmore carvings will be hailed among the wonders of the world. Who knows but what some race may come across these gigantic carvings and wonder that they could have been heWn out of solid rock high up on the face of cliff Man has overcome much to leave an indelible mark on Mother Nature. Here is one example of improvement over what has long existed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

The age-old question of subjecting motorists to periodic examinations to determine their fitness to continue oper- ating vehicles on Connecticut highways has come up again in the Legislature. Commissioner Michael A. Connor is ap- parently in favor of some such legislation for he appeared at legislative hearing this week and spoke for it, saying that poor improper drivers would be driven off the highways. As a matter of fact the proposed legislation would probably only affect those drivers whose records were poor. In short if you were involved in an accident and it was proved that your operation contributed to the charges in- volved you might be called upon once year to satisfy the authorities as to your continued ability to drive a car. We presume that every motorist involved in an accident would not be so subjected to inconvenience, but where the dividing line would be drawn we don't know.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
Unhappy Orphan of the Storm"

Greece is without friend on the Con- tinent," wrote German newspaper after Bulgaria had yielded and let the grey 1egionS flow on down through her terri tory to the Greek border. Unhappy orphan of the storm" continued the Teu- tonic weeper of crocodile tears. Without friend on the Continent? Nay, not SO. Wherever men are free, and wherever men remember freedom, there Greece has friends. And there are such men on the Continent of Europe, as on all continents. The number of governments friendly to Greece may be declining. It has been reduced by round dozen since Hitler began his advance. But to say that Greece is without a friend is not true. Where free hearts beat, there are friends of Greece.
 This term, friendship, is loose word to use in international relations. Friend ship is a personal thing. Man may be friend to man, but the relationship be- tween those great organizations of people which we call nations, and other vast masses of people, may be something more or something less, but it is not friendship. To use the word is convenient, but scarce " accurate. Czechoslovakia revolves in he German orbit. but are the Czechs Friends" of the Germans? Whatever may be the relationship of Poles, Belgians, Dutch, French, Norwegians and Italians,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

Not much is heard these days about the big super-highway between Boston and Washington. Connecticut would have to supply big link in any such roadway, so we want to know right along what is being planned. Our guess would be that not even in the name of national defense would such highway be built. And cer- tainly the thought that one may be built should not cause us to lessen our activi- ties in expanding the Merit Parkway into the Wilbur L. Cross Parkway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

are now seven senators present out of 96.
 Where are the others during this "momentGus" debateP Some are in the Senate barber shop, get ting free slaves and haircuts. Most of the others are in the pri- vate dining-rooms set aside for senators. Here every table has a full quorum and the talk is lively and brisk.
 THIRD FOR ME
 Up in the Senate, Wiley finally sits down. The bells again ring a quorum call. It takes fifteen minutes before the required num- Der answer the roll. Senator Nye of North Dakota, who twice before has emptied the chamber with long-winded harangues, rises for a third time to exercise his senatorial right of endless ora tory.
 Five minutes later only 12 mem bers are present and only one of them, kindly little Senator Shep- pard of Texas, is paying any at tention to what is being said. The chamber is 50 still the breathing of the air-conditioning system is clearly audible.
 Four members drift out, leaving only eight remaining. Nye, read- ing from a manuscript and giv- ing every sign of seeing 1t for , the first time, is bitterly assail- ing British imperialism. At great length he recites the record of British conquests, says nothing about the aggressions of Nazl Germany, Blackshirt Italy of Ja- pan. The speech will make good reading in Berlin.
 Up in the press gallery, two newsmen, logey with lunch, doze off.
 At 4:3O, Nye is still at it. By this time only five senators are on hand, counting Nye. He has been speaking for two hours and fifteen minutes and with the possible exception of Sheppard, not a senator has paid the slight est attention to what he has said in the "momentous" debate.
 Out in the marbled Senate lounge, Senator Josh Lee of Okla homa, ardent supporter of the bill, is striding back and forth angrily denouncing the opposi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
THE MDLrFE
(Host0EpostN

Sess&EU3tl
 The figures of th Fish and Wild life Service on NeVEngland fishing and hunting licenst are truly star ting.
 Who would belle that heavily settled, industrial Massachusetts would have issued sa34 licenses to hunters and fisherms in Q single year?
 Maine had ee0ss. k Maine is a State of wide forest ,ras and thoa- sands of ponds and teams.
 In all New Englaaa there were 327. .i03 persons licenec to fish Or hunt or both last yer.
 Wildlife has certanA caused A good nest egg to be sured in to the State treasuries and ade ras,eh good business In the spoina aoo6s line.
 In addition 1t should stiulata tsae replacement Of birds and niu,als at Q greater rate than ever lfore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

tons tactics.
 "Iiey call this democracy" he sfDrts. "This is democracy stalenated and rendered im- potent by obstructionism and possibi worse."
 WHILETHE WORLD BURNS
 Finally at 4:40, Nye turns the last pageof his manuscript, sits down andsends a page boy for a package ( cigarettes. Another page boy irbves the reading stand to the desk of Senator Holman, oregon oppsitionist, who picks up where Ne left off. He fol- lows the marlscript with a thick finger, from ine to line, as he reads. Like Ne, Holman gives every indicatio of having seen his speech for Ne first time.
 The Senate cttinues to sluln- Der in indiffcrAce as Holman saws away for al hour. But as he hears the endand adjourn ment approaches, the chamber comes to life a bN
 A half-dozen meibers wander in, chiefly antis, an up in the press gallery the rwsmen get their pencils and note-paper ready. From long exptience they know that the opposibn always tries to close the day with a publicity "whip-cracker\ for the morning papers. Senaor Burt Wheeler, No. 1 anti eieftain, doesn't disappoint them.
 This is his closing shotsnade In all seriousness: Ina fur ther discussion in the "mt,en- tous" debate be suspended \hiIe q poll is taken of the snti- ment of college students, Ind that the result determine he fate of the bill.
 As Wheeler Is making his ro- posal, the ticker In the press ron taps out this: "A competent soufe reported tonight that German has concentrated the bulk of he forces in Bulgaria near the Turk ish rather than the Greek iron tier. According to this informa ton Turkey rather than Greco, may be Germany's next intended victim"
 Copyright, 1941, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

Daily throughout long weeks the front pages have reverberated with the Senate's embattled thunder ings. The headlines and crack ling statements have given the impression of fierce struggle. But the reality has been far differ ent.
 There has been no blood shed. The Senate has never presented @ more peaceful, more indolent ap- pearance. If a great battle is raging, there are few signs of 1t on the floor of the greatest de- Lucrative body in the world"
 Most of the time 1t looks more like q lounge of a ritzy club than a council chamber where history is being made. Here is a blow by-blow account of a typical day of this "epochap debate:
 QUORUM, QUORUM
 Eleven Q. m., the converting bell rings. A quorum calls is de- manded and the clerk calls the roll. There is no quorum. The bells ring again. The clerk again calls the roll, very slowly. Sena- tors struggle in. Finally, after much stalling. enough senators answer the roll to permit the chamber to get to business. The clock reads ll:35.
 Vice President Wallace bangs the gavel and the debate re- rumes. Senator Harry Schwartz, Wyoming New Dealer, has the floor. He favors the bill, says, "We are killing time while Hit Ter is killing people," Schwartz finishes in half an hour, making the score 18 hours to talk for the proponents of the bill, 52 hours for the opposition.
 When Schwartz sits down at l2:05 the antis take up where they left off the day before. They are no half-hourers. When they talk, they talk. Senator Alex W. ley, portly Wisconsinite, takes the floor and holds 1t until 2:05.
 High spot of his harangue is 0 passage obviously intended as fine rhetoric, but 1t brings Q ripple of laughter from the gall leries. "As we ride above the clouds of this world conflict" he says, i've see below us Ger many, Italy and Japan astride the dogs of war;" To save Wiley from ridicule, Senate stenographers quietly change the phrase to read, "having unleashed the dogs of war;"
 EATING AND DRINKING
 There are now only eleven sen- ators in the chamber. Senator Radcliffe of Maryland strolls in wearing a red carna.ion, making an even dozen. Wiley drones on. Senator Clark of Missouri, opposition generalissimo, writes a note on a pink memo pad, calls a page boy and sends it to Wiley's Wisconsin colleague, Bob LaFol- lette. Bob reads 1t, grins broadly at Clark, who grins back.
 Attendance dwindles even fur ther. Wallace has left the ros- trum. Democratic Floor Leader Barkley has disappeared; so has Senator George. chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who has charge of the bill. Republi- can Floor Leader McNary is on hand, but in a moment he, too, gets up and walks out.
 In the press gallery, one bored newsman quips to another: "This is what you would call govern ment by hot air"
 Wiley breaks in with: 'T have already spoken too long"-and then keeps right on talking. There
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08

was settled and forgotten by the time the shades of night had fal- len. She never allowed Q child to go 10 sleep cherishing a grudge against another child.
 Modern psychologists rise up to call such a woman blessed. She knew the tendency of resentment to eat into the mind. And she was particularly aware of the devastat- ing effect of such suggestions just as the child went to sleep. Further more, she knew that the time to stop any evil Is at the beginning. She understood that little precau-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
Selected Poem
NOSTALGIA
(Marjorie Leichner in the Poets Column,
 Hartford CouranD

Marjorie Leichner in the Poets Column,
 Hartford CouranD If should see the young tobacco plants, That roll so greenly on beneath the shade, (Although the sun is hoD, and so enhance The hills and wales and hills in still parade If could know the grim and rugged coast, Beleaguered by gigantic Atlantic waves That often gather up in a mighty host Which floods the shore, and all the coast ensaves- If should see the gentle Berkshires rising CThickly, greenly wooded every slope), And feel anew their friendliness enticing, Filling me with warmth and ardent hope And O! if I should see some low white house, clean red barn, lowing cows and horses; And hear some morning rooster give his call To show that he the brave new dawn endorses If I should taste such pleasures once again. And find myself so wildly free to roam. Why would know had been dreaming then . i. Still dreaming, dreaming dreaming still, of home
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
THE WPA GRAFT CASES
(Hartford Times)


 The people of Connecticut cannot but feel humiliated and shamed by the outcome of the charges against the recent State WPA administrator and eight men associated with him in the management of this public relief system. As the most culpable of the group the former admin istrator is fined $500 and sentenced to three months in jail; his former chief of operations is sentenced to two months in jail and is fined $400 while others are fined from $750 to $50 on various counts.
 While the offenses for which the men are penalized are bad enough, more distressing are the implica- tions of Judge Hinck's remarks as he imposed sentence. The former WPA administrator never had a free hand in running his office, sad the judge. He was ordered "by Washington" to add to his staff. Everyone, from the administrator down, "had to play ball" under fear of losing his job. When asked to do something crooked, they did it. Imagine free American citizens who don't dare to be honeSt!" said the judge.
 Imagine. indeedl Imagine men on WPA, with families to be fed, turn- ing to politicians to get jobs. Ima- zine them facing starvation or pulp lic welfare if they do not get the jobs. And then imagine the petty cheap grafters whom political in- fiuence put in places of authority requiring such men to join with them in conspiracy to steal from the Goyernmentl Judge Hincks wal disposed to consider less culpable the lesser figures in the conspiracy because ot their fear of conse- quences if they told the chief graft ] CTS to ''go to hell"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
Views Of The Press

It is too bad that the information on which Judge Hincks based his comments is a confidential proba- ton report. Since all but one of the nine either admitted guilt or pleaded nolo contendere, the details of the conspiracy are not on the court rec ord. Judge Hincks might, if it is permissible, render further public service by showing who 1t was that prevented the former State WPA administrator from running his of- flee with a free hand. The politics behind this petty graft case ought to be exposed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
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 c. How large must an urban community be before 1t ceases to be Q village2
 A. In many states the laws pres cribe minimum populations for new villages, most commonly 200 to 300 But the maximum population varies more widely, being from 1000 to 10,- 900.
 e. Are postmasters required to open all foreign mail to inspect 1t for possible lottery tickets?
 A. No. If mail is opened in the postoffice without permission of the addressee, the facts should be re- ported to The Postmaster General, Washington, D. 0.
 e. How is Anne Boleyn pro- nounced?
 A. Ann bool fin, with co as in foot.
 o. Please give Q list of movie stars whose deaths occurred during 1940.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-08
Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions?. Turn to last page for the answers.

Is the kingfish a fish, bird or qusruped?
 2 Fl Caudillo is the title of dic- tatd of Spain, Russia or Greece?
 S:Which of these officers ranks night in the U. s. army-Major, LieuAant Colonel or Colonel?
 4. That city employees are called "whitewings"?
 D. A mechanical inventions protecH by the Copyright LawsP 6. Inwhicn city of the United States 1.-the famous street named Pennsyltpia Avenue?
 ': Wit what country do you as- sociate eaeen Liliuokalani?
 8: For vhat was the team of Gilbert an Sullivan famous?
 9. Who ras Sir Edward Burne- Jones?
 10. Namethe administrator for the Federal rorks Agency.
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times that they are known by heart by the galleries in the Capitol, but the debate goes on.
 The c a r l y Americans coin- ed the word for this. The word was "hlibuster" and in those days 1t meant to equip armed ex- petitions from the U n 1 [ e d States to oper-