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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Small Houses
Gained
From Dorms

Houses from barracks al
minimum cost.
Such will be one of the post
emergency stories relating
lasting benefit to accrue from
the present feverish effort to
house workers concentrated at
vital defense industries.
For many of the dormitories
being completed under Farm Sc
curity Administration direction
in various parts of the nation
are designed to be demounted
later and converted into small
, houses for tenant farmers and
other low income groups. Plans
for these houses of the future
were drawn by FSA architects
even before starting work on the
barracks.
Outstanding example of the
double-purpose buildings are the
IA dormitories just completed at
San Diego, Calf, to house 1000
workers. These buildings are
all-plywood with inside and out
side walls comprised of four by
eight-foot sections, prefabricated
in shops of house 'manufactur-
ing" plant.
Because the walls and floors
are of plywood panels, FSA Off
cials anticipate nearly 100 per
cent salvage of materials when
the dormitories are disassembled.
Re-erection of the sections will
be into four-room farm houses
and similar small dwellings poss-
IDLY located far from present
barracks.
When permanent dwellings are
erected, the cestions probably
will be glued together; the pan
els already are glued to frame
work, system of construction
rapidly gaining acceptance. Fin
ished houses will be usable and
durable. The inner walls of fir
plywood easily can be papered,
painted or stained; exteriors,
painted.
incidentally, this type con-
struction of the dormitories also
serves admirably the current
need as speed of erection is a
paramount consideration in the
defense housing program. These
demountable barracks were
scheduled for erection in ITO
days; they were finished in go
days.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Consumers Gas
Company Office
HOlOphane Equipped

The new home of the Newark
Consumers Gas company is
equipped throughout with Holo-
phane lighting, not only of the
new Fluorescent type but by the
indirect method permitted by
glass block construction.
The Holophane company cease
lessly conducts research in the
field of light. Because of this
workers achieve better results,
eyestrain being eliminated.
Many of the new defense fac
tories have been equipped with
Holophane lighting. LaGuardia
field in New York is illuminated
with Holophane Luminaries.
1t follows naturally that new
construction in Newark, such as
the building now housing the
Newark Consumers Gas COM
pany, is equipped with the lat
est in lighting devices embody-
ing the foremost theories of
modern design.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Robson And
Callahan Roof
New Building

The roofing and all the sheet
metal work in the new building
of the Newark Consumers Gas
company, including the heating
and cooling ducts were installed
by Robson and Callahan, 145
West Canal street.
The heart of any building is
the heating; the protection of all
buildings is the roofing. The
Newark public can be assured
that their gas bills will be paid
to the tune of Rain on the
Roof" and not Singing in the
Rain"
The company also recently
completed large repair job on
the roof of the Newark Market
house.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Care of Screens

A screen door or window
screen lasts longer and looks
better if it is kept well painted
at all times, but the home own
er should remember that if or
binary. paint is used, it should
be thinned out considerably to
avoid clogging up the mesh.
A number of special screen
paints are on the market. One
treatment, well-known to decor
ators, is placing a coat of thin
white paint in the screen to
make the interior of the house
less visible from the outside.
Authorities recommend paint
ing cheap grades of screening
each year. Copper or bronze
screening needs little attention.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Mastic Tile Laid
By L. A. Stare
In New Building

The tile and marble of the
rest rooms in Newark Consum-
ers Gas company building were
installed by L. A. Stare.
Mr.. Stare's father began to
work with tile over fifty years
ago. Since then rest rooms have
progressed to tile and marble;
asphalt has been improved; rub
Der tile was originated, and the
idea of wall covering other than
wall paper was advanced.
Since then Mr.. Stare's business
has expanded and stepped along
with the times; for besides tile
and marble, L. A. Stare handles
asphalt, rubber tile, floor and
wall covering.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
THE WORKERS VISION

To preserve peace for our
country
To protect the livelihood of
our people
To assure better future for
our children
To ensure security for the
aged
To give opportunity to the
youth
To guard the liberties of the
people
And "crown thy good with
brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea-"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Powell Electric
Installs Fixtures In
Consumers Building

The Powell Electric company
located in 20 East Church street,
had charge of installation of all
electric wiring and fixtures for
the new home of the Newark
Consumers Gas company.
Modernistic in every detail the
Fluorescent lighting and the Hol-
ophane Luminaries add greatly
to the appearance of the interior,
as we'll as giving daylight Wis
ibility.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31
Vegetable Growers
Attend Meeting

Attention of vegetable grow
ers in Licking county is center
ed on Columbus and Ohio State
university, where intensive re-
search and experimental work is
being conducted preparatory to
the 33rd annual national meet
ing of the Vegetable Growers
association of America, Aug. A
to 7.
DR.. H. d. Brown, vegetable
crops specialist at Ohio State is
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-07-31

secretary OF the association. He
pointed out this week that seven
graduate students are doing re-
search work under his direction.
They all have fellowships from
commercial firms or govern
mental divisions with a special
interest in what might be term
ed retooling of the best ways
to produce good yields of the
highest quality vegetables.
The privilege of being rich i'm
plies the ability to take care of
Yourself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
No Need For Excitement

Creation of a rent control committee on Waterbury should prove effective in Silencing the claims and counter-claims of rent-gouging. Whether or not there are any instances of profiteering by local landlords remains to be established. And in doing this lot of things will have to be taken into consideration. The mere fact that a rental has been raised in recent months may not constitute rent gouging. There are number of other factors constituting deliberate profiteer- ing.
 That's why it's so necessary to have deliberative body like that Mayor Vincent A. Scully proposes and which very shortly will be acting in concert with similar groups representing the other communi- ties of the state The actual naming of this group, though, will be definite step towards satisfying great many people. They want to express themselves to some civil authority on what they be- lieve to be an attempt at persecution. The commission can soon find out if it is "perSecution" or just normal business procedure.
 Not only will the individual tenant be control committee, but there will be con- sideration for the landlord. It's easy to incite feelings to high pitch against some individual or concern over increased rentals. It should be the endeavor of the mayors committee to be firm in it's pur- pose of preventing rent-gouging, but just as firm in protecting invested interests from unfair charges or from boycott.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
A Thought for Today
This Is Unusual

4 forced close-down of any local factory for lack of the necessary materials with which to turn out products that have long been ordered is certainly unusual, but according to reports that must be regarded as reliable, is not going to be very unusual in the months to come. A division of the Scovill company was forced to close down over the weekend because it couldn't get processed copper needed for the type of work in which it is pres ently engaged For the peace of mind of the population of the city this doesn't look like anything that will be prolonged.
 But from time to time there may be other "breaks" in the steady output of finished articles in our local manufactur- ing plants. It doesn't sound right for this great nation with it's tremendous re- sources and it's wealth and it's ability to surmount all sort of obstacles to have to slow down the wheels so that the raw materials may be supplied. We have long prided ourselves on our Self-Suffl- ciency. It begins to look now as if there might be chink or two in our armour.
 Backed up by just such situation as this, though, watch for American reac- tion. There'll be efforts all over the coun- try where defense manufacturing is prominent to overcome just such bottle necks. And before long they will have been broadened and the orderly process of production will continue without any more of these interruptions. We are con- fident of the nations ability to surmount these technical brakes"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
The People ' You Said It

When a man reaches the age of U. s. diStirct judge, people usually permit him the privilege of looking oown lean nose at the modern world and the mod ern people in it, and musing that neither is as good as they used to be. Judge George A. Welsh of Philadelphia took himself 60O-mile bicycle trip (at cost of $30) this summer, and he met and talked to a lot of people. Just ordinary people, Americans. He came back reas- Sured.
 He found out that the people are all right. They haven't changed. At heart they are the same people with whom the judge grew up years ago. The changes are all on the surface. You can trust these people, the judge concluded. Lincoln liked them, and trusted them, and al lowed that there is no better hope in the world. Carl Sandburg felt that way when he wrote "The People = Yes!" Now Judge Welsh echoes both, with a resounding "The People - You Said It!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Spread It Out!

Almost three-quarters of the total dol lar value of defense supply contracts for the Army and Navy have gone to only 56 corporations. The other quarter is di- vided among several thousand. The supply contracts are those through which are furnished ships, planes, tanks, guns, equipment, food and fuel, as differen- tiated from contracts under which can Comments, bases, depots, arSenals, and factories are built.
 To see concentrated in 56 companies ree-quarterS of the whole job of sup plying the defense program is somewhat surprising. But it is even more concen- tyated than that Six companies ac- counted for 31 per cent of the supply contracts at the end of May. Bethlehem almost a billion dollars. To an extent, of course, this concentration is inevitable. Contracts are almost certain in the nat ural course of things to go to industrial units in proportion to their size in the Geld in which they operate.
 But it is probably time to consider whether this is in every case necessarily fne best way. Smaller firms are now be- nfnnine to feel the impact of the defense srorrafn. and those which have not been ahle to get orders for defense production are being ia many cases cut off from z4rnslfial materials through the priority erHtnra Materials of which there is 4tnrkace must go first, of course, into the .'lT7Ife building the vital things like sr1tets. ships, and tanks. But America s,,.Sf nsa nii of her facilities. Is there s+r rh#nra that large firms with vast ''..e1<f ol untitled orders awaiting pro- .|fH 4Te noi turning out those orders
 Eha4 nesIH AAlf tho work were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

The Wilbur L. Cross Parkway is getting closer to home. Actual construction work on that section of it which will pass through tho City of Meriden is now un- derway Two contractors have begun operations in the vicinity of Meriden's East Main Street. Although this isn't of- ficial it is believed that the job will last probably a year if not longer before the stretches through the city are completed and ready to be linked up with others At that the route may not be open to Meriden then, for before it can reach the Silver City there is the task of ramning a tunnel through West Rock down at New Haven. While this may not be big en- gineering feat to the average laynan tunneling through any hill is quite job. However, it would seem as if there wouldn't be an awful lot of sense in get ting part of the parkway built before it could be linked to those sections already ready for use.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Important Difference

Japan now cries loudly that in seizing bases in Indo- China from the French, it is doing only what the United States has done in acquiring Atlantic bases. There is an important difference. What the United States has done in the way of acquisition of bases was done only after years of aggressive warfare on the part of others had proved the necessity for doing so. No bases have been acquired by the United States against the will of the people who yielded them. It is a little late in the day for Germany, Italy, or Japan to claim that anything they do at this time is sanctioned by U. s. prece- dent. Who started this business, anyway?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

company, perhaps of vice-presi- dent. Then the agent or "VICE- President" is paid $500 a month, and if he lands a contract he gets additional pay amounting to ten per cent.
 John Dawson sat in his shirt sleeves in hot hotel room, his head in his hands. It was typi- cal summer weather in the Iaa- tion's Capital, and he thought of his family on the coast of Maine. So far he had spent three months knocking on Government doors and cooling his heels in ante rooms.
 Finally Dawson decided: T don't like this lobbying busi- ness. But other people are do- ing 1t and signing the con- tracts. So I'm going to employ a lobbyist myself. When you're in Rome, do as the Romans do."
 NOTE-This is not an isolated case. On the contrary, several score of small business men have been given the same War and Navy brush-off every day since the De- fense program first got under way.
 Copyright, 1941, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

subcontracted to smaller firms ready and able to handle it? In some cases this must be true.
 To the extent that this is true, several bad things result: CD The goods aren't produced as fast as they might be, because the limit on even vast productive facilities holds them up. (2) Machinery and skills available in small plants is not used for de- fense purposes, and may ever be tied up possible. The defense effort is so great that America cannot allow to lie unused a single sinew of the great productive capacity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Press Comment
PITTSBURGH VOTES TO
 CLEAN UP
(Hartford Tines)

(Hartford Times)
 Frankly following the lead taken by St. Louis, the City Council of Pittsburgh has adopted two ordi- nances intended to eliminate the pail of smoke that has made Pitts burgh the butt of many joke for many year. If Pittsburgh can be cleaned up a modern miracle will take place. With the successful demonstration in St. Louis Q matter of national publicity, the least the PittSburghers can do Is to make a try at miracle making:
 Pittsburgh is perhaps the only city in the United States in which, in normal times, the electric lights in the hotels, stores and business of- fees are never extinguished. The smoke that comes from Pittsburgh factories and other establishments is thick. Pitsburghers get used to it.; they have called it the proof of pros- perity; they welcomed it in place of the atmospheric clarity that accom- panieS dull times. The smoke of Pittsburgh is gritty, while that of St. Louis was flaky and bore the odors of packing houses. It is a toss up whether tke smoke of Pittsburgh Is any less objectionable than was that of St. Louis.
 At any rate, St. Louis having demonstrated that by the use of modern combustion equipment soft coal can be burned without smother ing a city with smoke. Pittsburgh has launched itself on the clean-city movement. Octobar 1 is the dead line for factories, ofice buildings, mills, factories and apartment build ings. A year later railroads must conform, and by Oct. l, 1943, river craft and private homes will be re- quired to obey the anti-smoke laws.
 The chief coraplainantS against the iaw were the railroad manage ments and the river craft owners. Engineers have testified that smoke prevention is as possible on a loco- motive or a locomotive or a steam boat as 1t is in 6 factory, SO the City Council put the carriers ob- jections one side. The coal operators and miners are for the bill. for they know that S demonstration of smokeless consumption of soft coal would increase the market for the fuel. It looks very much as if, a few years from now, it may be pos- sible for Q person to come "clean from Pittsburgh.S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Down in New Haven officials had a lc

Down in New Haven officials had a lot of nice ideas about improving the muni- cipal airport, but most of them are quiet ly but firmly being pigeon-holed right at the moment. After all the planning was over and the figures for the proposed inn provements were in it was found that the cost of the job would be about $2o0, ,0OO. That was just bit too much for city of- ficials, particularly with an election com ing up this fall So the $20O, 900 project won't come to pass. But the airport au- thorities will be allowed to spend little money in fixing up things and making the place more presentable for the in- creased use that it will undoubtedly see in the next few years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, ''My father thought
 I should go and I thought
 differentIy;" say, ''but I thought differently"

O. When were the RtnglinG Brothers and Barnun & Bailey circuses combined?
 A. The Rtnglings acquired thG Barnum & Bailey Circus In 1907 and in 1919 consolidated it with the Ringing Brothers Circus.
 @. What is the smallest native fish found in North America2
 A. The live-bearing top-minr1oW, which ranges along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Flor. ida, inhabiting cypress swarnpS and tidal ditches. Females of the species are between 1 1-4 to 1h inches; males seldom exceed three-quarters of an inch. Both sexes are similarly marked; sides are rich, greenisb brown, and dark band extends longitudinally from mouth to bast of caudal fin where it ends in { black spot. Six to nine vertica dark streaks cross this dark band at intervals along the body; dorsal and anal fins are marked with tiny dark spots.
 o. When was the present stand. ard'' keyboard arrangeIAent of . typewriter first devised?
 A. Tn 1868.
 c. Is the suez Canal in Asia or Africa?
 A. The canal intersects the 18th. mus of Suez, which unites Asia and Africa. The isthmus is politically part of Egypt, and therefore can logically be cosidered a part of Africa.
 o. What was the final vote of the National Labor Relations Board election in the River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Company?
 A. United Automobile Workers CIO-51 ,866; AFL-20,364; Neitler union-l, ,958; Challenged ballots 3,492; void and blank ballots-143. o. Who Is the "voice" of Donald Duck. in the animated screen car- toon?
 A. Clarence Nash. @. What is the purpose Of thG Dawn Society recently formed iu northern California? A. It is composed of persons who pledge their eyes at death to give sight to the living blind. As result, 1t is hoped that surgeons will have enough cornea tissues from healthy eyes for people who ara blinded by damaged corneas.
 EDITORS NOTE-If yOu are dc. sirous of securing this weeks popu. lar booklet, Armed Forces of The United States, address F. M. Kirby Dept. B-1SO, Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth st, Washington, D. c, with 10 cents tG cover postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02
Current Comment

 We certainly could take a lesson from the way the British are hand ling their commercial affairs these days in South America. James S. Kemper, former D. s. Chamber of Commerce president, after trip south.
 We are going to build up 6 dual system which will combine all the benefits of a planned economy and of free enterprise.
 -Geoffrey Crowther, editor, the London Economist.
 
 Regardless of who is the poll- tical leader fo France at the mo- ment, the everlasting qualities that have made France 6 world power can never die.
 -Mrs. 6. ". Lorge, French teach CT. deplorlng decline ln study of French ainee Vlehv dsy&
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

There are a lot of cities that make plea to their citizens for cleaner and neat CT streets by offering them means Of aid- ing in such campaign. Boston is one such among the larger metropollses. Right now it's engaged in providing more and better-looking rubbish disposal cans along it's streets Officials feel that II the container is good-looking enough no one will complain and they'll probably see considerable use, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

Some people think they are under no responsibility to tell the truth to people who ask an impertinent question. or to tell the truth to children when they are too inquisi- tive, or to inconvenience themselves or anyone else by telling the truth when telling Q white lie will smooth things over. Tn fact, many people do not consider such statements to be lies at all. A lie. they say, is something that injures another person. What they should remem- Der, however. is that e lie. be it white or black, always injures at least one person, namely. the one who tells 1t.
 Ruskin once wrote: "A lie may be told by silence. by equlvocation, by the accent of Q syllable. by a glance of the eye attaching a pe- culiar significance to e sentence |" And later he wrote this good word to his sister: "If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but fl not, you have infinite power against ycu."
 All Rights Reserved Dahaon Newapenng Hyndicata.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

Yet today, the Roosevelt Ad. ministration and Big Business a.e walking hand-in-hand as far as the Defense program is concerned, while the little fellow looks or1 ruefully from the side-lines. The Brandeis theory that this nation prospers most when business is broken into. small parcels scat- tered over the country still exists but only in theory. In prac- tice, the big contractor, the big engineering firm, the big muni- tions company gets the govern. ment job, almost every time.
 Thus the Roosevelt Administra- tion now finds itself in the unique position of having awarded one- third of all Army Navy expendi- lures during the past year to ex- actly six firms: Bethlehem Steel, New York Shipbuilding, General Motors, duPont, Newport News Ship, and Curtiss- Wright.
 These six firms were given
 contracts totalling nearly ten
 billion dollars.
 Some of this concentration of orders is necessary, because these are specialized firms. Much of 1t, on the other hand, is rlanec- essary but comes about because the big companies have their close friends in the Army and Navy, with whom they have done business for years. Tn the con- tracting field, for instance. a half dozen big building firms have frozen out practically all other competition.
 THE RUN-AROUND
 There are any number of build ing projects which could be ham, dled by small firms. But nine chances out of ten, they don't get the jobs. All the paths in Wash ington are greased to give the little fellows the run-around as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-02

tions as they exist in a defense cell- ter the public will be explointed, de- fense morale endangered. and the well-heing of society lowered.
 Rent control. to be most effective. must be out of the grip of the real estate interests themselves. The Legislature failed. to pass an nde- quate law, being too busy with jobs: yet 1t may be called into special session for the purpose. Meanwhile the Federal government is vitally interested ard has had its repre- sentative in Hartford. To the surs. prise eg many locals. the Eeoeral government considers every defense city in the nature of Q sedsFalizeu
 community. and win nee p4fnlls rent aouglng lc take place