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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
Stroking the Dragon

Now in these days, when each new lawn brings new sensation and no man Rnows what new situation he may face De wakes in the morning, comes the pos &bility that Japan may back off and lake stock of It's China war, Bear in mind that this adventure began 10 years Ngo. Since that time Japan has been, if not always at war, always living under war conditions. Since July 2, 1887, the war has been continual four years of an ex- pensive foreign war, costly in rnanpower, Ln money, in morale. The Chinese have been beaten, steadily and repeatedly beaten, yet they have not been conquered. Sn one of the most heroic migrations of Rll history they simply withdrew vest ward, to lay the foundations of new China. Building from the bottom, new nation has been created almost literally, which has fought on for nearly four years, unconquered.
 Comes now the Japan Advertiser, an influential newspaper, which would scarcely dare to speak so without official sanction, suggesting that Japan give up some of the territory It's military have gained in China, consolidate the rest and seek peace. The task this paper proposes is no less than that the Japanese army should prove that its presence in China tion of new, progressive, militarized west ernized China as neighbor, Instead of the old, sleepy, disorganized, bandit-and- tradition-ridden pushover which was her neighbor in the past. Time and China can both walt to see just how great gain this will have been for Japan In the long run. Japan has awakened the sleeping dragon It will not be easy, by stroking 1t, to lull 1t back to sleep.
 means no encroachment on China's polit- ical and territorial integrity but instead means peaceful friendly intentions" One hears great deal about the Oriental mind" and It's subtleties. Perhaps 1t will be possible for the Japanese to prove to the Chinese their essentially peaceful intentions though there are million and half Chinese dead, thirty million home less, and fifty million who have had to make new homes in the interior. Their testimony may influence China's feeling about Japanese friendship
 Probably the Japanese newspapers pro- posal Is trial balloon. But suppose the Japanese peace plan is a success. Suppose China agrees to stop fighting, yielding vast territories and concessions. What, even then, would Japan have gained by 10 years of war on China? Simply the crea-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
Come, Josephine

Way back in the days when the airplane was fantastic and slightly comic devel- opment, there was song which began Come, Josephine, in my flying ma chine. Josephine of 194l should take notice of the fact, now being stressed by the Civil Aeronautics Board, that flights with student pilots accounted for over 40 per cent of all the passenger fatalities in civil aviation during 1889.
 If you're learning to fly, don't get enthusiastic over that first solo and in- Hte all your friends for hop. If you're one of the friends invited to ride with a private pilot, be sure he's properly qualified before you accept. There are plenty of private pilots who are fully qualified to fly accompanied with pas sengers. But that doesn't go for mere students or those who have not yet proved themselves worthy and experi- enced. Modern Josephines will be smart enough to say, "Okay, chun, but let's see precisely what kind of a license you carry"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
Prisoners for Food

The fact that holds the Petain govern ment of France helpless, and must hold helpless any government of France to- day, is the fact that nearly 100000
 So when Germany bargains the release
 So when Germany bergains the release of 10000 French prisoners for an agree ment to exchange certain food surpluseS with unoccupied France, 1t is making shrewd use of the power that lies in the misery of French wives and mothers, sons and daughters of the prisoners. The French hold certain cards in this game of exchange: their fleet, their North African possessions, their men and lands in the Near East This bargaining with and while 1t is hard to reproach the French for playing 1t, since 1t is the only game available to them, 1t is also futile to try to think of France today as an independent government or ration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

United States. Troy, Maine, is an ex- ception. Troy took 1000 acres of tax reverted land, cutover and deteriorating timber land and abandoned farms, and made 0 municipal forest of 1t. Plant ing of some 50,000 seeding trees began in May, 1940 IVA and All Clubs CO., operated; a forester was hired. old wood- lands were reconditioned.
 Already, reports the American Society of Planning Officials, the city has sold l,250 worth of pulp, firewood, and other byproductS, overbalancing total expenses of 7$1, ,180 put into the project by way of improvement. Whether such a project really stands chance of paying out in view of the fact that IVA (federaO funds were also used, remains to be seen, but 1t might be worth Investigating by communities with dead tax-reverted lands an their hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
The Americas Act Together

Every time the American nations act together on a matter there is net gain for the principle of a united Western Hemisphere Their joint action in reconl- mending common policy toward for rfgn-flag ships lying idle in their ports Is excellent. It is a reasonable, sensible attitude, too The American nations do not normally have between them enough ships to carry their trade.
 In normal times this trade is largely carried in foreign, European, ships. Those ships are either at the bottom of the ocean today or blockaded. So it is only sensible to use for inter-American trade those ships which lie rusting at anchor in American ports. That should release for war service any ships the British may be using in that trade. Without going into long disserta- tions on international law, it is sensible thing to do, if, as is only right, the ships are paid for when peace comes again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

Finally, Senator Wagner, Ger. inan.bosn but staunch New Dealer from New York, has been suffer- ing from q heart ailment. Latest reports are that he viii Do able to come back wherever he is reed- cd for ail important vote. Wag- 1ler Is the author of more New Deal legiSlation than almost any other senator.
 NOTE - In contrast, e3~year. old Senator Garter Glass Of Vir- giniA, ten to fifteen years older than any of his above.rafned cole leagues, still is spry and elerges tic, having just taken unto him. self c new wife.
 MERRY-0O.ROUND
 George Powell, young inventor, has submitted plans to the Army for afl Anti-aircraft shell that operates on the electric eye" principle. The shell explodes when c plane comes within the range of it's detonating photo-electric cell Ralph A, Bard, assistant secretary Of the navy, packed his fishing tackle and went to the old Hoover fishing camp on the Rapi- dan, came back witht iree small trout. Disguested, he said, There's no fishing there at all' Rural Electrification Administrator Harry Slattery Is proud of having strung up wires In Alaska and tho Virgin Islands. Also, he is making q sure vey in Puerto Rico .. The late test edition of Who's Who in Ia. tin America does not contain the names of President Avila Ca- iiacho of Mexico, President Me. dina of ven1ueia, President Ca- rias of Honduras, or President Morinigo of Paraguay.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

It is said that profanity thrives when war is rampant. The assembling of vast numbers of men in camps tends to cen tralize the habit In current fiction and the stage profanity for some time has been a come on. In reference to foul language" as SO described by Rev. John s. Kennedy in his "The Sitting Floor" that appars weekly in the Catholic Tran script, he gives this presence of such language as one of the reasons for the long run of a show that has just beat the record. He comments on the presence of profanity In contemporary comedy. Those who make 8 practice of going to play know this, for the minute charac- ter comes out with strong oath or brings the name of the Father and the Son, not as a prayer, the laughter resounds throughout the house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
Current Comment

We have no choice as to whether Or not we will be attacked. Our only choice Is whether or not we will resist.-Colonel William j. Donovan on his return from Eu- rope.
 There is a great deal to be said for anything that brings men--any human beings, as Q matter of fact closer together.
 Private Sidney Kingsley, in civil life Q successful playwright
 
 If Lincoln was right and this country could not live half slave and half free, how much less chance is there for the world to live three quarters slave and one-Quarter free! Al Smith, one-time Democratic presidential candidate.
 Missionaries are under the dogma. tic deluslon that the holy war Japan is waging In. China is 6 war of inc perialistic aggression. Governor of Korea, quoted in the Tokio AsnhL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07


 ask themselves and anyone else who will listen to them, Does God really care2
 The Bibles answer to this ques- ton is always positive and un- wavering. Yes, God does care. He is for us. He Is always against our sin, but He Is never against us. Tn sunlight and darkness. in health and disability, in prosperity and poverty, in achievement and dis- appointment, God is always with us. Even the old Testament writ CTS to whom the fulness of Gods loving purpose had not been re. vealed. affirm that God is good. In the New Testament we find the full answer to this question as we look upon the life and purpose of Christ. ! Like . spearhead cleaving it's way through mems dark rumina- tions. is the pledged Word of God Himself that His Heart Is tender toward man. God stoopg down from the lofty majesty of perfect power to sooshe the humble heart Of man in trouble and pain.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
When Philosophers Rule

A plaintive little letter to the editor the other day showed pitilessly the fu- tility of certain type of mind which still, in these hard and realistic days, lives in an ivory-towered Never-Never land. Bewailing everything in general, this gentle, well-meaning soul pleads, T have often thought 1t would be better If the worlds governments were headed by philosophers rather than by log-roll- ing politicians"
 Of course. Lots of other people have o asoo we years rs ago. Hs But governments % aren't headed by philosophers as a general thing. It's like disarmament, it's great If they all do 1t at once. But world with 50 countries ruled by philosophers and one ruled by Hitler Is still world in which an ivory tower Is nothing but a bonb-target.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
Press Comment
RARELY NORMAL
(New York Sun)

NANVW 4VAA 0dAH
 The poetic inquiry, "What is se rare as q day in June?" may be ans swered. Far rarer is the normal day ia any month. Tn the most recent issue of the Monthly Weather Re- view appears . table which tends to confirm this opinion. It gives the percentage of normal precipi- tation by months and for the year l040 as whole for forty States and for two areas, one comprising six States and the other two. Tn eli there are 604 monthly figures; only four of them record normal preci- pitation. There are forty-two fig ureS for the year as Q whole: one of them iS normal. Montana, the one State which had normal pre- cipitation in 1040, achieved that re- suit by combining twelve abnormal months; its precipitation ranged from a low of 26 per cent of normal in August to Q high of lS8 per cent of normal in February. Precipita- ton was normal in Arizona and Kansas in May and in Idaho and South Dakota in November. There were no other examples of har- mony with the norm.
 It may well be that many of the monthly records of abnormal pre- cipitation hide the fact that there was normal precipitation on some of the days of each month some- where, but 1t can be argued that if the normal month was rare, the normal day must have been equal ly rare. It can be argued, too, that man is SO disposed to quarrel with the weather, calling it too cold or too hot, too wet or too dry, that he would not recognize c normal day if confronted with one for twelve hours on end. And he might not like it if he recognized it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

When Leon Henderson, Price and Supply official announced reduction of about 20e6 in the maximum price Sched- ule for combed cotton yarns he stirred up a hornets nest. "An inflationary move ment in the price of any basic material and related products raises costs of pro- duction for the entire industry" said Henderson in defense of boosting cotton yarn. He believes that raw materials should be watched to prevent highter costs in manufactured cotton goods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

The Rev. pr. Frederick Herbert Sill, familiarly known as Father" Sill, re- linquished his duties as headmaster of the Kent (Connecticut) School for Boys at the Prize Day exercises Thursday. Father Sill had come to be a well known character in these parts. He founded the school over thirty years ago and since that time established him as a notable educator and disciplinarian of boys, and the school as one of high standing where self reliance, hard work and religious belief predominated. The traditions formed by Father Sill will be carried on by his successor who took over at the Prize Day exercises. Father Sill Is not yet seventy, but i'll health necessitates his curtailment of active participation. He will be on hand, however, to watch the progress of the school, so 1t will not quite be with the boys case of - Goodbye, Father Sill!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

that he considered some or the provisions unnecessarily broad". He strongly advised tho legisla- tors to make certain that nothing remained in the measure that might be construed as permitting the seizure of property not need- cd for defense.
 "SOme sort Of legislation is
 needed" he said In effect, ito
 enable tho government to deal
 with situations where defense
 requirements are obstructed. But
 nothing % drastic aS this"
 Roosevelt was particularly crl- tical of the provision to take over property permanently. He declared that c two.year limit waS ample.
 He also told legislative leaders that his original intention had been to ask Congress to broaden the draft industry" law, which applies only to plants that tree fuse to cooperate with" tho gov- ernment. He proposed to amend this language to read tor fall to cooperate" But the War Depart ment took the bit in It's teeth and brought out the sweeping bill now before Congress.
 LABOR CURB
 Real purpose of the measure is to deal with two serious problems untouched by the law! (l) ob. streperous labor situations, (2) lack of control over essential raw materials. .t-
 With ship construction c life- and-death matter, Defense chiefs were outraged by the San Fran cisco strike of AEL and CIO ma chinists, tying up $500 000, 900 worth of shipping, and insisted on steps to prevent Q repetition of such . deadlock They declared that the Army and Navy could not be responsible for the defense of the country if constantly thwasted by obstructive strikes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

part of the Eastern seaboard. The
 vel. Informed Wall Street Journal, for one, states bluntly that the big question for Mir. IclkeS to settle ts
 whether British oil interests have used or eudeayored to use the lease-
 lend law to further their commer-- cial interests at the expense oS
 American oil companies and the consumers the latter serve"
 None can complain if the con. servation of oil supplies for defense purposes, because Of limited trans portation facilities, requires the
 iessened use for auto-riding, but those who would have to make the sacrifices have Q right to know the facts, which Ickes will undoubtedly produce. The petroleum industry has cast doubts upon the necessity. It has claimed there Is an ar- parent excess of something like 500
 tankers under British control, ex- elusive of the 50 American ships lately diverted to their use. It may be proved, after D fun investigation, that the Maritime Commissions diversion of tankers, was fully justi- fled, but that fact must be fully proved before the Eastern industrial region Is called upon to 90 on short rations of fuel and motive power. 0asless days would be far differ ent now from what they were in
 lei7-le when there were relatively few motor cars and the public had not come to depend upon them. Most of the states get their road money from gasoline taxes and the
 federal government itself Teaps 6 rich harvest from this source. Many thousands of Americans make their living from selling gasoline and servicing cars.
 The East is willing to 90 along
 with xGkes if he finds beyond a doubt that drastic action is mecos- sary, but we want Go be sure before endCEsing any measure tlaat viii cripple our ecoEaoiniC machinery,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
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 a. Was c woman nominated Sca rresiderit of the United states iD tne ie4O canipalgn7
 A, A convention Of tiae National dreenback party, meeting lfi 1ildians apolis ln July, 1e4O, nominated tor ureeident, Mrs. Anna Mtibur1 Of Seattle, wash. About two weeks later, she withdrew, aiid her name was not on the ballot i1 asiy state. a. fEas the war stimulated the export Of American logs end lsifI1s
 4. Exports in i0A0 were the lowest isi more than 70 years.
 a. When did the State Of Ohio begin to keep birth records7 1Iow may one got . certified copy Of birth certificate and what iS the cost?
 A. Records began December 20, 1908, Send c money order for 50 cents to Chief, AuditS ard Statistics Division, Department Of Health, Columbus, 0tio. The place and date of birth, full names of parents and of the applicant must Do given.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
Selected Poem
RECOGNITION

(By Anita Laurie Gushing in the Christian
 Science Monitor) Here is another spring to lift my heart Not with the beauty of this year alone, But of the other springtimes I have known, As well. For this is not a time apart; The wonder is in recurrence-seeing how The blossoming path a tiny rock-plant took Is retraced, and finding the remembered look Of curled-up leaves on familiar bough. love forsythia the more for some Past spring. some golden memory of 1t; I watch amazed when buds of tulip split Into unforgotten colors. Having come TO another year mark another height zn a ionR ascending spiral of delight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

0c@QefnG about c question of this variety. Men ask 1t as the circun- stances of life jostle them. It is in hours of darkness tha { they doubt the goodness of God. As they lie along
 the roadside of life, broken by
 the juggernaut of evil fortune, f.hev anxioilslv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

1. CocoS Island ig ifl tl1e Pacific, Atlantic, or Indian Ocean?
 2. What iS c baiaiaika?
 3. Supply the missing words in the following: "Wiil you walk into Sny-said the -- to the fly"
 {. Tn which North CaroiinG city, Winston. Salem. Charlotte Cr Ra- leigh, did the United States for- ineriy have a mint?
 5. fs the Moon always the same distance from the earth?
 6. Who Is head Of the vichy Coy. eTnnient of France?
 2. Are oid.age insurance benefits under the Social Security Act pay- able upon retirement st age co, e2 or eb?
 9. May the ashes of . cremated person be sent by parcel post?
 9. Sir Joshua Reynolds was 6 British explorer, orator, or painter?
 10. Henry Ford ig c college grad" uate; true or false?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

more enecttvo ir putting over the Idea that the United states is not only unpre- pared, but Is inc capable of get. ting prepared ever.
 All this talk has unquestion- ably sapped the morale of Q good
 many people in army, navy and once of Pro- duction N an n- AMANaAAMk An A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

The inches of rainfall that came this week will do much to help along the crops and improved things that grow. The May drought was unusual but eventually the rains come. If June is rainy we must appreciate the fact that certain amount of rain is needed to balance off things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
A City's Forests

It sounds a little fantastic-a city's forests. Yet in the Europe before World War I many cities of the continent oper- Ated their forests at the edge of town as part of municipal operations. The prac- &icB han not yet become common in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
0AsLEss SUNDAYS
(The Meriden Daily Journai)

VThe MeFlden Daily JOufnAU Just what is the necessity for those ''gasless Sundays" that
 Honest Harold" 1ckes, secretary of the interior and oil coordinator, hes been chinning about7
 There is Q wide diversity of oplnS ion on the subject, it seems, and 6 growing inclination to kick on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
GOD CARES
Ny EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

GOD CARES Does God have any real care for our needs?
 Men have asked this question with bated breath from the be. ginning of time. There Is nothing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

c. Is Lord Beaverbrook, who has recently been named as the assist ant prime minister Of Great Bfits ain, on ariStocrat7
 A. Tn the sense Of one having aristocratic lineage, he Is not He was born in Canada to ati obscure Presbyterian minister and his wife, one of ninc children, and no started to work ct the age Of ie washing bottles iil . drugstore. At the ase of 90 ne was c Islultimillidcna and in 1906, after he had been attacked politically in Canada, he fiioved to England, where four years later he was elected to Parliament. He wAs raised to the peerage after World War I, and nc bought a decrepit London newspaper which no built up to 6 circulation of 2y60O, 600, the largest circuiAtlea Of any daily newspaper in the world.
 c. When was the Holy Name society organized7
 A. 1t dates from tte Council Of Lyons in 1274. Pope Gregory x gave to John Of verciiii the authofity 10 form the society.
 c. Of the regular line officers Of the .. S. navy who served in the World War, what percentage were graduates Of tic .. 6. Navai Acads
 I 4. Tom 60 to 70 per cent.
 c. Was Gone with the Wind" the longest photoplay ever pEos duced7
 A. The longest finn probably was Les Misefables," 6 French produc- ton released in 1034 isi three sec- tons, the total running time Of which was 6 hours and IS minutes. Gone with the Wind" runs 2 hours and 37 minutes.
 If you want . copy of the latest booklet, Markets for Literature"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR Never preface . remark with "sayJC as "Say, d0 y0u knew who inst is7"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
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FDR Finds DroftndustY Bill Drastic Would Defense AryNoW Designed Get Around Strikes Control Materials
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 ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON June The War Departments draft industry bill got some leaders last week He declared that had bill introduced
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
b EDISON IN TYR WASHINGTON
"Booeed Down" Defense Gossip
 Does Aitler's Job
BY PETER EDISON

BY EkIEM EDISON
 Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent
 Washington, June 7-The report. cd begging down" of the defense effort continues to be the main topic of conversation in your coun- try's capital these days, and if e whispering campaign had been started by the fifth column to spread confusion, 1t could not be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07
What's Your l. o.?

Csn you answer seven of these test questions? Turn Co back page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-07

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