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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22
Legislative News

(By Democrat LegIsls tive Reporter)
 State capitol, Hartford, May 22 - William J Pape of Waterbury was one of those appearing before the appropriations committee yesterday afternoon to support the bill ap" propriating S74,00o for the pur- chase by the state of the bird paint ings of Rex Brasher of Kent. Wit nesses declared that the collection is almost priceless and the state should take the opportunity to buy 1t.
 Mir. Papc was chairman of the commission appointed several months ego by the governor to negotiate with MT. Drasher.
 The Connecticut Wholesale Milk Producers met at the Capitol at noon today to discuss teh proposed milk control act on which the House was to begin debate at l o'clock this afternoon. The principal point Of controversy in the bill Is the section providing for an equal- izatlOn fupd.
 Creation of Q state housing au- thority by legislative act was con. sidered by the judiciary committee at It's session yesterday. The author ity would be principally considered with housing facilities for defense industry workers. A committee vote on the proposal was postponed. 
 The first Monday session held by the 104l General Assembly will be conducted next week, party leaders have agreed. With mandatory sd- journment less than two weeks of, many evening session are also In prospect.
 The Senate yesterday sent back to committee the House.approve bill increasing the annual dirt roads appropriation for towns from $3,- 0o0 0O00 to S5,000,000. Connecticut participation in the federal governments soil conserva- ton program is provided in . bill passed unanimously by the Senate yesterday. The measure now gees to the Houes, where the agriculture committee has voted favorable re. port.
 Nomination of Patrick J. Wal
 lace of this city as Q member of
 the board of directors of the Con- necticut State reformatory at Cheshire has been confirmed by
 the Senate at Hartford.
 MT. Wallace. an employe of the ] Scovill Mfg. Go, and state direc-
 tor of the Catholic Youth Organi-
 zations, takes over his new post
 July 1. He succeeds the late WI.
 liam M. Harris.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22

When the air raid sirens sound at Thornton Heath, England, a big black cat sQieezes inside 6 garden roller.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22

hurly-burly of business and noise on one side--and on the other side the quiet, swAnk Park Avenue resi- dential section The moon knee-deep in clouds, serving as . backdrop for plane brushing the air out of It's way as 1t plunges into the night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22

The Senate yesterday sent back to committee the House-approved bill increasing the annual dirt roads appropriation for towns from $S,- 00O, 900 to 95,000,O00.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22

The first Monday session held by the 10al General Assembly will be conducted next week, party leaders have agreed. With mandatory sd- journment less than two weeks of. many evening session are also In prospect.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
INTERVENTION
FOR PEACE

christian Science Monitor)
The radio plea of John Cudahy for a
peace proposal from President Roosevelt
we'll illustrates the difficulties of aloof-
ness. For while the former American AM
bassador to Belgium attacks ''the war
party and ''interentionists" with one
breath, in the next he urges the United
States to intervene to obtain peace and
says it should be in the language Hitler
Understandable Language of force"
The fact is that the war has shown
most Americans that there is no such
thing as comfortable isolationism. Many
who formerly thought America could
wash its hands of Europe now urge ac-
ton to restore order in the world. There
might be less bitterness in the discussion
of Americas relation to the war if it
were recognized that the real issue is
whether the United States shall act alone
or with Britain.
Mr.. Cudahy urges intervention to bring
about peace That is the aim also of those
who advocate more active resistance to
HitleriSm-uSng men as we'll as mater
ials if necessary. Mr.. Cudahy apparently
means that the United States should pro-
pose a peace settlement and-since you
tell me the word of Hitler is worthless"
enforce it, Isn't that a larger role than
the interventionists or''co-operationists
urge for America? Isn't it the logical re-
suit of 'isolationist" thinking when faced
by the fact that America cannot live un-
to itself?
America may we'll ponder what kind
of peace it wants and what it should do
to obtain peace. Events are proving that
the United States must take some share
in obtaining and maintaining peace
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
SIX BITS FROM
WASHINGTON

A housing authority project in
New York has established a COM
munity workshop where tenants
can putter around fixing furniture
or the iror, or juniors tricycle..
Federal Works Agency has helped
four states remove 27 toll gates.
Senator Truman's Defense Inyesti-
eating Committee, which started
with a $4,000 appropriation, want
ed 100000 to continue the work,
asked for $4,000 and got SOS, 900
Commerce Department has received
word that Japanese and German
business agents in South America
have been packing up their files
and shipping them out Of the coun-
try on boats that put in at obscure
harbors. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics report average per cap
ita farm income in the U. S. is
S3O5 It's highest in Iowa at Sal
and lowest in Alabama at $12l.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
DON'T DEPEND ON
THE OTHER FELLOW

The tragic death of five Arizona resi-
dents in an automobile accident this week
on Imperial county highways proves once
again the old truth of the old admonition
to motorists: Don't depend on the other
driver to avoid an accident
. If every person behind every steering
wheel in the country drove as if expecting
the other man to be completely without
common sense Tor sense Of any kind, as
he so often is), there would be no auto
mobile accidents in the United States
and an annual toll as great as that of a
major battle on a European front would
be avoided.
In every accident, somebody is at fault.
There is no such thing as an unavoidable
accident. Mechanical defects can be
guarded against, poor driving can be pre-
vented The only deaths human beings
cannot prevent on the highways come
from Acts of God-storms, lightnings.
cloudbursts. And they are technically not
automobile accidents.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

be 100 per cent perfect for the drill
field. There are other conSiGera-
tions But it would certainly seem
that normal population, we,l-bal-
anced. with the sound mind IN 4
sound body" ideal of the Greeks,
would produce better than SO Per
cent of sound physical specimens.
Great efforts have been made to
preserve the health of the people,
especially of youth, during the past
decade of depressed conditions
While it would not seem to have
been too successful, it is a fairly
shuddery thought to consider what
might have been the effect had
the effort not been made at all.
Probably one of the things that is
needed now is to teach people how
to eat, as well as to provide a way
for them to get something to eat.
1t is perfectly possible to be fully
fed and undernourished at the
same time. Every effort to spread
knowledge of nutrition is a national
asset.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
A MANS WORK
{ Tulare Times)

Two years ago, California was in the
throes of its second bitter campaign over
the Ham and Eggs pension amendment.
Elder citizens, seeking security in their
latter years. turned out by the tens of
thousands for mass meetings in every
section of the State rallying to the promo
ter's shrill cry of Thirty Thursday
Dangerous as that scheme was to Cali
fornia, and as misleading as it was,
thoughtful voters, who helped to defeat
1t, found little cause for elation when it
was decisively rejected. For deeply-etch-
ed in their memory was the pitiful pic
ture of an army of oldsters, who had been
given hope-eVen though it was a false
hope-and then found it snatched away.
California, to be sure has the most
generous old age pension system of any
State in the nation, but even the most
liberal pension is palliative, not cure.
Actually, a mans work is the breath of
life; his reason for being. And so there
IS deep cause for satisfaction in the word
that comes from Washington that the
present emergency IS making work for
many elder citizens, whose work was un-
wanted during the years of depression
More than 250O persons a month are
giving up their old age insurance bene-
fits temporarily in order to return to
work, according to the Social Security
Board All in this group are men and wo-
men past 65 workers with gnarled
hands, but strong hearts; elder citizens
glad because their services are needed
again, and only too happy to serve their
country in defense production. That, we
can't help but believe, will make them
happier than any dream of pension
riches any promoter could conoct. That
is a mans work.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
by Willis Thornton :.
Our Health! It's Not Good Enouuh

How the United States would
stand up with other countries in
regard to the number of men called
up to military service and rejected,
we don't know. Other countries are
now up against more pressing mat
ters than compiling such statistics.
But after all, we do know this
When almost half the young men
called up for military service are
found unfit to serve, we know that
the national health isn't good
enough.
1t isn't as bad as it looks. but
it isn't good enough. Let's get the
favorable factors out of the way
first: A man may be quite healthy
enough for ordinary purposes, and
still be rejected for military pur-
poses, rs witness some of the pro-
fessional athletes who get 4 living
by physical pToWcsS but aren't good
enough Tor the army. Examinations
arc far more thorough than they
used to be, and unquestionably
many are rejected who would nave
been gladly taken in the Old days.
Standards are higher; the emer-
gency is not as Immediately grave.
In short, many man rejected by
the army may feel fine, and live to
be 104 and tell tall lies about wlaU
he did for his country back in 194l
The figures, in other words, don't
mean that half the young Ameri-
can manhood is ailing and unfit for
ordinary life. But they are dis
turbing none the less. 1t is not
the highest aim of a social order
to turn out a population which shall
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. % - The
Brothers Korda-Alexander, produc-
er; zoltan, director; Vincent, art
director-are making a movie out of
Rudyard Kipling's jungle Book, "
and the result really will be some
thing to see if it's as impressive as
the preparations.
About 40 miles from Hollywood
at Sherwood Forest, they've built
a 10-acre jungle complete with RI
yer, a village and handsome temple,
and many a barrel of monkeys.
They also have an assortment of
elephants, tigers, bear, panthers,
leopards, jackals, tropical birds,
snakes, crocodiles, water bullafo,
and snakes. BY now, most of these
are personal friends of Sabu. the
young East Indian star who seems
to be having more fun than any
body except a couple of dozen mon
keys who have got loose and gone
native in the forest.
KALA NAG MISSING
About the only thing they haven't
got is the boss elephant they want
ed. That's Kala Nag C'Black
Snake" in HindU which was used
in Elephant Boy" and is still IN
the interior of India. Ship space
probably could have been found and
they were willing to take chance
on submarines, but they couldn
bear to make poor old Kala Nag
walk 600 miles to the coast. He's
too tall for clearance if transported
by trucks or barge.
Lawrence Stallings, who wrote
the script, hasn't made all the an
imals talk as they do in the Kip
ling book. The python and cobra
will talk because they hiss anyway
and it will sound fairly natural
when sibilant words are dubbed
on the sound track for them. For
the other creatures, no voices
could be devised which wouldn't
sound distractingly unreal. There
fore a little girl barely mentioned
by Kipling has been given Il more
prominent place in the screen play
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
THE BEST FOUNDATION
Fer BUBLIC MORALE

If President Roosevelt and others in
his administration would be as frank as
he appeared to be Friday in a fit Of tenn
per aroused by senatorial criticism, the
low ebb of public morale against when
the administration has been heard to
complain would be boosted considerably
in this country.
The President became angry when
Senator Harry F. Byrd charged that de,
tense production is begged down ana
in his anger told what purported TO be
figures showing that production Is up to
estimates. and in some lines exceeds eS-
Inmates. 1t is too bad the country had to
wait for someone to make the President
angry before he revealed the figures. 1t
is too bad that when he did reveal them,
he did so as a gesture against political
enemy.
The President said someone must have
sold Byrd down the river by giving nm
a set of figures which the senator had
previously quoted.
The President would be surprised at
the vast number of people in this country
who have been sold down the river IN
the same way. But we think they are not
sold down the river by those who quote
false figures. We think they are sold
down the river by a government which
fails TO give correct figures, or any flg-
ures at all, on production. Ii the correct
figures were available, there would be
no opportunity for the sort of fifth col
umn work which takes advantage Of pub
lie ignorance to start false but terrifying
stories.
The natural inference is that the ad-
ministraton. when it hides such figures,
is covering up its mistakes.
1t is not as if divulging the figures
would help an enemy or a potential enc
my. After all. it is common knowledge
around any industrial plant what the out
put of that particular plant is, and all
"eneny agents" have to do is establish
one man in or close to each big plant IN
the country to get pretty accurate pri-
vate check on production. If the enemy
is interested, he can find out easily
enough He has the men and money to
make the necessary inquiries. It is only
the American public which is kept in ig-
norance. And ignorance breeds all kinds
of wild rumors.
Public morale is vital to the welfare
of any country in a time of crisis. The
best foundation for public morale in a
democracy-as the British leaders have
discovered and our own have not yet
found OUTS complete frankness in re-
vealing not only progress, but setbacks
as we'll
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Uranium Crackers g
MUSICAL MEN

Some of the best known men ip,
America are the leaders of our jaA.'
orchestras. Some have titles, other
are known through their theme
songs. How many of the following
do you recognize?
|. What band leaders are known
as The Old Professor" and The
Old Maestro?
?. Who are the Waltz King"
and the King of Swing?
3. Who do you swing and
sway" with?
4. Who is the idol of the Air
ways?
5. What orchestra leaders use
these theme songs: Aud Lang
Syne," "Whistler's Mother-in law"
and Hot Lips?
ANSWERS
|. Kay Kyser is The Old Pro-
fessor"; Ben Bernie is The OLE
Maestro"
2. Wayne King is the Waltz
King; Benny Goodman is the.
King of SWING u
3. You swing and sway" with
Sammy Kaye.
d. Jan CARRIER is the idol Of,
the Anyways ~
5. Guy Lombardo uses Aud
Lang Syne," Paul Whiteman uses
Whistler's Mother-in-l law, and
Henry Bussey uses Hot Lips"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

so that Mowgli (SabU can tell her
what the animals say.
The python is "a feet long and
lives, off the set, in bedroom
closet of his owners, couple of
snake fanciers in Glendale. BY
feeding him IL dressed rabbits for
breakfast they're able to start him
at work in slightly torpid state,
but when he gets warm he grows
frisky and the crew has to keep
him in check with the only weapon
he understandable torches.
The cobra is a very gentle white
one whose mistress merely has to
look at him and say, Hood, baby!"
and he does. But he's still cobra,
and the rest of the company keeps
clear. 4
Sher Khan, Lord of the Jungle, is
an unbelieveably beautiful half
Bengal and f-Sumatra tiger.
Real names Roger. He's plenty,
tough not the sort of beast for IA
Dorothy Lamour idyl The shot
made of Roger the other day runs
exactly three minutes, and Stall
ings says that only over MS dead
body will so much as a foot o. it
be cut.
BEAR PERFORMER
In the Kipling story, Baloo the
Bear taught Mowgli the law of the
jungle, but the Himalayan brown
giant that the Kordas are using is
no model of patience or virture.
Other day while scene was be-
ing rehearsed by the waters edge,
crocodile popped up snorting, and
scared the bear out of q three
weeks growth of inhibitions. He
turned on his trainer and the fellow
fled. In safe spot, the trainer eX-
planned he had been working bears
40 years but that the most import
ant thing he'd learned was when to
drop his pride and run likes blazes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
COFFIN COMPANY GOES
DEADLY

A metal coffin maker has con-
verted his plant to the manufacture
of bomb bodies and fins, while a
manufacture of parking meters has
been given a contract to produce
time bomb mechanisms. Both dead
ly devices, in this case were con-
verted to the making of still dead
lier devices.
Armstrong Cork, International
Harvester and Willys-Overland are
among the varied types of indus
tries which got shell making con-
tracts, While Goodrich Rubber got
one of the management and opera
tions contracts to run the big shell
and loading plants for the gov
ernment, at TeXalHana, Tex.
IN the line of gun mechanisms
and parts production, there are a
number of unusual contracts. An
adding machine company found
that it could make automatic pis-
tolls. A manufacturer of cream sep
arators was given the job Of max
inC machine gun tripod mounts.
Oneida, which has made silver
ware, is making shackles. The Dup
lex Company, which makes flat
bed printing presses, some using a
recoil mechanism, found that it
could convert its Plant to make re-
coil mechanisms I1r big guns.
To show what varied industries
can make the same thing, it is only
necessary to list IS plants that are
now making fuses, a manufacturer
of bathroom equipment, a watch
maker and a lipstick factory
And so it goes. If you have a
little trouble getting a new vacuum
cleaner, try to console yourself with
the thought that one of the vacuum
cleaner makers is now busy on
contract for gas masks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

There are three flags. on
top of the Acropolis, the Greek in
the middle, the German on one
side, the italian on the other. The
Greeks look at them and say,
Christ hung between two thieves.
Frederick Crane, U. S. oil man
formerly in Athens.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

Well, you know what moving is
Philosophical remark of Mrs
Manuel Mercado, Brooklyn, on find
ing they had left the youngest of
six children behind at the old ad-
dress.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

EDITORS NOTE: The foIloUinp
editorials are presented as Interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

The 2l00 miles of land frontier
between the United States and Can
ada are marked by 5483 monuments.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Thought for the Day

eousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Matthew $40. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

Wisdom has a bad habit of COM
ing with the years in which 1t isn't
needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

German troops are said to have
stormed to the shores of the Black
Sea. Now if someone will just push
'em in.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
barbs

It's a good idea to pick your
friends-but not to pieces.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
FROM POP TO POWDER BAGS


asking questions as to why a bot
There are still citizens who keer
tling works and a soap factory We're
given multi-million dollar contracts
to operate powder bag loading plants
as was done IN the cases Of Coca
Cola and Proctor and Gamble COM
panies.
These weren't exactly plant con-
version jobs, as the contracts were
made to operate new factories
which were 20 be built and owned
by the government, but operated
privately The Army was looking for
good management, which is as hard
to find as good politics.
The number of companies with
experience in powder making and
handling are decidedly limited
Dupont. Hercules, Remington, Win
chester and firms ike that. They
had already been given big eXplo-
sives contracts and were expanding
their plants and their manage
ment personnel as fast as they
could. The problem was therefore
to find operators with good finan-
cial records, regulations for good
management and plenty of expert
ence in big mass production opera
tions.
In the line of fish -out-of- water
contracts, though, there are plenty
which make the Coca Cola and
Ivory soap changeoyers entirely ra-
tional.
There is a manufacturer of beau
ty compacts in Linden, N. j., max
ing percussion caps for shells. An
old manufacturer of rat traps found
that the Army had beat a path to
his door with a contract TO make
camp cots, even at the risk that SOL
diers who had to sleep on the cots
might make odious comparisons. A
pipe organ manufacturer is making
saddle frames for the horse artillery
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. Aug. % IN
the big scramble to increase produc-
tive capacity for defense materials.
facilities officers in the undersecre-
tary of wars department recently
completed a swing through the
oit-Chicago-St Louis
area, surveying some 500 more
plants which have been making eli
william goods, to see if any how they
could be converted into military
manufacturers
Regional field officers Of the
Army, Navy and OPM's defense
contract service sat in, and some of
the plants they looked over in
cluded the makers of beauty shop
and barber shop equipment, heating
and cooking apparatus, filling sta
ton pumps, bicycles, musical instru-
ments. watches, soda fountains and
sewing machines. Not that the Army
or Navy had any great shortages
of beauty shops, soda fountains,
sliphorns or sewing machines, but
just that almost any plant with eX-
perience and good capacity for met
al working has a chance to be use
full in defense manufacture
Some of the plants looked at on
this latest survey aren't nearly as
foreign to the idea of defense man
ufacture as some Of the plants
which have already been converted
and are now turning out all man
ner of war orders.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

Bees are sold by the pound.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24

and cavalry.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-24
Famous Sayings

As you sow you are like to reap-Butler.
Evening star., 1941-12-14

Lindquist on December 6, forecast
an international philatelic exhibi-
ton in 1947 to commemorate the
centenary of the first United States
adhesive stamp and to assist in the
healing of a war-torn world.
Members of the Leland Junior
High School Stamp Club partici-
pating in a recent exhibition were:
Lee Applegate. president; George
Mason, Charlotte Fox, Betty Dellett,
Billy Madert, Malorah Christman,
Dona Denton, Paul Marx, Daniel
Gichner and Gladys Musgrove.
Ralph A. Davis. 27l6 Wisconsin
avenue NV, is an applicant for
membership in the Society of PHI
latelic Americans.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, 2206 Rhode Is
land avenue NE. Short talks by
William Boyle and Edward Miller
exhibition of stamps and covers.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington. Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV
Program, exhibition and bourse.
Wednesday evening at g. Wash
ington Philatelic Society. Lee Shera-
ton Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets
| NV, Philip Simms Warren will
discuss the early history Of the Or
ganization.
Thursday evening at 8-East
Washington Stamp Club, Eastern
High School, Sixteenth and East
Capitol streets.