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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Piping the Water

It does not seem sensible for Water bury to keep poStponing the lneVltaole task that confronts it of building another pipeline from it's municipal water sup plies in Morris That is project which loomed as important to the development of the city long years ago. It is nothing new; various city officials have called at- tention to the need of such a prolect down through their tenures of office. It does seem as if the Scully admlnlstra- tion would be doing the public good service by doing all it possibly could to complete the pipeline.
 We think too much stress is laid on It's importance as a defense project. There is just as much importance attached to the fact that second pipeline would expand present service and ellml- nate many of the low-pressure areas we now have. The Board of Works could furnish many examples of complaints from houSe-holders about lack of water at various hours of the day or insufficient pressure. Piping may cause this In minimum of these cases, but in the others it's the fact that even with pumping stations working Waterbury can't get sufficient water to many of the isolated and hilltop regions of the town all the time.
 Morally if not legally the city is bound to supply water to any property-owner no matter where he may build his castle. That's a fundamental duty of any munlc- ipality which collects taxes. The mere fact that if person doesn't get water, he doesn't have to pay for it doesn't con stitute good and sufficient reasons for not making our vast water supplies avail able to every household in the city. Ex- istence of a second pipe line, which wouldn't be an auxiliary one by any means, as some people think, would in- crease the availability of these supplies.
 It does seem as if city workers or WPA employees could be cutting that trench down through the Bunker Hill section where it is planned to lay the second pipe line. Precious time is being wasted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Women and Children First

It is good to see sudden solicitude for women and children. The Italians are reported to be seeking an arrange ment to evacuate to safety 80,000 women and children, colonists in Ethiopia We hope it will be possible to do this; that the British will be able to blot out for the moment the picture of their own women and children blown to bits buried under walls, mangled and torn by shell frag- ments, crouching night after night in stinking cellars as the bombers (some of them Italian) rumble overhead. Yes, we hope the British will be able to rise above thoughts like that, and to protect the helpless. Terrible things might happen to these innocents For the Ethiopians have probably not forgotten what hap pened to their women and children when their villages bloomed with Vittorio Mus solini's ghastly "roses".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
We're All in It Together

A Jewish taxi driver who got shot go- ing to help an Irish cop was discharged from a Catholic hospital and presented with new cab by an English dealer and a medallion-licenSe by retiring Scotch cab driver. They were Americans all, the nationalities mentioned being merely references to obvious ancestry. It all happened in New York the other day, an aftermath of the Fifth Avenue holdup shooting of January IA. There was no thought of racial origins or religion when guns started popping and frenzied feet pounded the sidewalks. They were all in it together the instinct to help was auto matic, instantaneous. In the face of a greater crisis, ought not the same instinct to stick together, help one another, to come naturally to the surface, without thought of race or creed? Of course. We're all in this thing together.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Jokers Galore

To restore prosperity to Milford beaches a bill has been introduced in the Legislature seeking to legalize games of chance A Milford legislator introduced the measure and it is his con- tention that a ban on all games of chance at the numerous Long Island Sound resorts within the town limits is driving business away from them to others in nearby towns where evidently the law IS not so strict He thinks that Milford ought to be allowed to be in on the gravy.
 And if Milford, why not every town in the state? Certainly no limitations or restrictions can logically be placed on a law that is to guarantee person the right to take a chance on wheel of for tune or any of the other hundred-and- one gaming devices made to attract the gullible, gambling public. And if every town can license "suitable persons" to conduct gaming devices within it's con- fines, why can't the state legalize betting on horseraceS?
 One thing leads to another. Legallza- ton of bingo is now bringing forward such requests as this from Milford. The next thing will be move from west Haven to allow Savin Rock to throw open all the forms of gambling that once Sprouted there until the legislative lid was clamped down on the resort. It's hard to make distinctions in such mat ters as the legalization of forms of gamb- ling. Once leeway has been granted ln any direction there will be constant pres sure from all sides. That's what the Legislature can expect for years to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

It began to look as if Waterbury would not have a rubbish disposal system. Judg- ing by remarks following the meeting this week of special committee named to investigate the local situation the city will not commit itself to a program as costly as the rubbish removal or garbage incinerator would be. Health officer Godfrey, however, feels that there is great need right at the moment for additional public dumping grounds. He's certainly right in this respect. There has been need of more of these for quite some few years There is only one dumping site in the city now and we'll wager that only few people know where it is. It's sup posed to be for the entire city, but inas- much as it's in the Town Plot section persons from opposite ends of the town certainly aren't going to use it if they can get away with dumping rubbish on private property. Put in the public dumps and keep the rubbish plan on file for action at not too distant date.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Selected Poem
THE GUNDY HOUSE
 (FarmingtOn)

George E. Tingley in the New Haven Journal
 Courier) Then I saw the ancient picket fence Protecting its possession from the stares Of casual eyes that turn to sudden interest, And almost dare to mount the stairs. Behind it peeks The Gundy,
 Awake with life, enwrapt In history; Through its door have entered years, Wisdom gaiety, and mystery. This, then is The Gundy
 Strange that should be allowed To wander midst its charming past, Absorb the gifts it had endowed What gifts! Must l pretend to evrsify What it in casual calmness states, A dignity in Beauty's bower.
 Increasing as it leaves it's fates This is beautiful living, learning; For these We humbly ask, Yet never find. and never dare. For Wisdom in the task. And We are too, too busy for The Gundy, No time to enter Wisdom's door Efficiency, intelligence are ours, And Death does slowly pace the floor. I wish the skies of the world
 Were like as The Gundys walls, Then nations would deal in living. Contentment would enter our halls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

retary George Meany and John Coyne, building trades boss, has a lot to do with the AFI'S coopera- tion in the national defense pro- gram. Meany and Coyne got up roster fo available workers in the various building crafts, and when men are needed for de- fense construction job, the AFL calls them from this directory .. Illustrative of cooperation between Greek-Americans and Italo- Americans, Dr. P. s. Constanti- nople, well-known Capital medico of Greek descent, greeted his Italian barber with: Los any GUS toners as a result of this war, Tony?" "N0 Greek customers" Tony replied, "but a good many Americans" 'They shouldn't hold you responsible for MuSsolini," observed the doctor.
 REPUBLICANS VS.
 REPUBLICANS
 Republican Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire has been opposed to Roosevelt on al- most every New Deal measure me- fore Congress. But on the lend- lease bill, much to the consterna- tion of certain COP colleagues, he is not.
 Hearing this. isolationist Sena- tors Taft and Vandenberg dropped around to see Bridges and try to convert him.
 "Why didn't you gO.with Will kie on his trip to LOndOn?" one of them jibed. You're no good to us here."
 And your partisanship," re- piled the New Hampshire sena- tor, isn't doing the party any good either."
 NOTE - Bridges has told Sen- ate Democratic leaders he will try to convert as many Republi- cans to the lend-lease bill as he can.
 DOUGHBOYS OF 1941
 In all the hullabaloo over slow ness of national defense produc- tion, not much has been said about the good old infantry, which despite modern warfare, still re- mains the backbone of the U. s. Army.
 Under the quiet, steady plug ging of General George Lynch, the infantry has been making such headway that by compari- son the infantry of 1917 looks like an antique.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

For instance, an infantry reg1- ment in 1917 had 2,500 rif.emen out of a total of 3,60O men in the regiment. But the modern in- fantry regiment has only 300 riflemen, with the rest of the men operating tanks, mortarS, heavy machine-gunS, light ma chine guns and repeating rifles.
 In other words, the modern in- fantry regiment actually carries its own light artillery. It can op- crate quite effectively without supporting artilelry. And instead of going into action, every man abreast, one man to a yard, the modern infantry regiment is able to spread its fire over a tremen- dous area.
 In 1917 the U. s. Army did not have one machine gun at the beginning of the war and did not have tanks until the war was almost over. So it looks as if the modern dough- boy would be equipped to handle himself even more effec- lively than the doughboy of 1917-18.
 NOTE - General Lynch, who has headed the Infantry for four years, has almost completed his term of duty, but friends are hoping he will stay.
 MERRY
 Nothing of any importance hap pens in the REC without board meeting, with resolutions and debate. At a recent meeting, a resolution was brought forward to provide each board member with a portable radio for use in his office. This time the resolution passed without debate Add to our earlier list of 20 foreign-born members of Congress the name of Harry Sauthoff of Wisconsin, born in the Province of Hanover, Germany Farm Security'S burly Jonathan Garst bursts from conference room saying, Many people confuse comforting with performing" =. A Viennese ar tist named OSkar Stoessel is mak- ing set of etchings of the Su- preme Court Justices. He has completed work on Stone and Douglas. Justice Stone, whose wife is an artist, helps arrange the sittings.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

Greatly exaggerated" is the way the Hartford Courant puts it, but to say that we are showing the reddest of red faces and actually hiding our head is no exag- geration It all goes back to recent comment in this column on Hartfords recent appointment of new Police Chief In the course of such comment we bllthe- ly and with no due concern for the alleged deceased consigned the very-mucn alive retired Police Chief Garrett Farrell to the grave. It was an early grave as the Courant very properly, but consider ately, informs us. Here's hoping we can live it down!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Views Of The Press

to succeed him, opened the way for the almost complete transformation of the court which has since taken place.
 He was an able jurist and wrote some of the historic opinions of the court, including that unanimously upholding the Eighteenth Amend ment. A consistent opponent of New Deal legislation, he was perhaps not quite so confirmed a dissenter as Justice McReynolds, his closest friend among the justices. His career was a colorful one, dating back to the turbulent days of the great Wyo- ming cattle ranges, where he got his start in law and politics. Little of the flamboyant era clung to him in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
"ROTTEN BOROUGHS"
(NeW Britain Herald)


 The General Assembly being in session it is almost a bounden duty to write a piece about rotten boroughs." Indeed, Rep Nichalos Tomassetti of New Britain already has taken a lunge at the system which gives to every town the same representation when it has more than 5000 population.
 We do not expect anything to come of the argument against the rotten borough" system, however. It would require the cooperation of the very country cousins who profit by the system; and of what kind of clay are the country legislators made to give up such manifest advan- tage?
 Besides the system has a prece- dent in the Federal constitution, which gives to every state, regard less of size and population, two sem ators in the U. S. upper house. It merely happens that in Washington the Senate is the branch with the rotten boroughs" while in Connecti- cut it is the lower house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

The coat, it developed, had been left in the office of Sena- tor Burton K. Wheeler of Mon tana, vigorous opponent of the lend-lease bill. Miss Russell had gone to Wheeler's office, hung up her coat and then put on the black robe in which she gave her death chant against the lend- lease bill.
 So police took her back to Wheeler's office, where she got her coat and then caught the train. MISSING BOTTOMS
 A few days ago the United States Lines announced that their Panamanian subsidiary was sell ing five small, slow, 20-year old freighters to England for the pur- pose of carrying war supplies. To insiders, this graphically illus trated the desperate predicament of British shipping.
 The problem is particularly acute in the transport of planes which these five ships were es- pecially chartered to carry. Off, ficials are not shouting it from the housetops, but the grimmest difficulting facing Britain today is not getting warplanes made in the U. S., but getting them into the hands of the heroic RAF in the face of heavy Nazi raids on British shipping.
 Britain now has on order ap- prOximately 16,0OO planes, with another 12,OOO contemplated. chiefly medium and heavy bOmbers. Of the 16,000 ordered, only around 200 actually have left U. s. borders and not all of them have reached Eng land. Many (the exact number in an official secret) are still in Canada awaiting shipment.
 Which adds up to this: If Bri- tain is to get the 14,000 planes remaining on order by July, 1922, as the schedule calls for, the minimum export during the. next IT months will have to be around 825 a month a threefold in- crease over the present rate of deliveries. Commerce Depart mnt figures show that in Novem- Der 241 planes were exported to Britain, while the output was ap- proximately 750.
 The problem this poses is colos- sal. Ferrying planes by flying them across the Atlantic is more dramatic than productive, since only long-range bombers can be transported that way, and only when the weather permits and trained crews are available. Pur- suits, fighters, interceptorS and other short-range planes have to be shipped.
 That is why those five rusty old freighters were taken out
 of the bOneyard and pressed back into service, and why Eng land is frantically securing the shipping lanes of the world for
 every available hull that can carry a crate. Britain has got to have ships if the planes she needs so desperately are to reach
 her in time.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 To ease the sore lot of Defense House Commissioner Charles F. Palmer, the President has writ ten a personal letter to each member of the Defense Commis- sion. asking cooperation with Palmer Representative Carl Durham,s comment on a Merry Go-Round note that he was a crack golfer: "YOu fellows have me SO want be able to get a golf bet in North Carolina" |. A foresighted survey by AFL Sec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
JUSTICE VAN DEvANTER
(New York Tlmes)

Justice Van Devanter was nonI- mated to the Supreme Court by President Taft. who was himself later to become Chief Justice. Both men were definitely in the cQnserva- tive tradition. but Justice Van De- vanter lived into q period which made him seem by contrast even moro devoted to the standards Of the past. lie did not retire until President RooRevelts court reorgaf- lzatlon bill was already on the verge Of defeat. His retirement. followed by the appointment of Justice Black
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

1. Dick Turpin was an English highwayman, slave trader, or mo- tion picture actor?
 2. The instrument used to meas ure the velocity of wind pressure is called a barometer, anemometer or hydrometer?
 3. Do Panama hats come chiefly from Panama, Ecuador or Para quay?
 4. Name the capital of Bolivia.
 5. How many degrees are in right angle?
 5. Which freezes quicker, hot or cold water?
 T. By what document were the thirteen original states first united under a basic law? 8. What was the nickname Of General Winfield Scott?
 g. Complete the proverb: "Neces- sity is the mother of -"
 10. Who wrote "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

builders, and state officials have been talking about for years. But this state went out and built a section of a route adaptable for such purposes Eventually we'll extend it all the way across the state. It's there to be joined by similar roadways in adjacent states. And the same all along the route. But if Uncle Sam intends to take over such project, why should the state do the same thing?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

We're beginning to believe that the Leg islature will come and go and Waterbury won't have municipal bond issue. Pres ent indications are that opinion on a capital improvement issuance is sharply divided and that the ultimate result may be dropping of the ideas of bonds com pletely. If so the city fathers will do some puzzling on how to launch few long-needed improvements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

50 seldom appreciate tho signiilc- ance Of interrupted melody. We think that life should always go on tremendously, the melody never neaSing. We chafe at those Inter. slptions whereby the sweetness of tho melody 6 halted even for . moment. We think that life should always flow along iike a beautiful song.
 But if it Ehould, fife would have
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

after life. Personally he was pol ished and affable gentleman. soft spoken and friendly. After his re- tirement he presided at a number of trials in the Federal courts here, gently instructing attorneys in cour- teous behavior toward witnesses and lightly cutting through procedural technicalities. Time had softened him, but to the last he remained 8 persistent and gallant defender or an older order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

no grandeur. The melody has to cease once in a while. else the un- interrupted flow of song would at last become irksome. We think we should prefer Q life which involved no burden bearing. no facing of problems. no enduring of pain. We say that we are fortunate when everything goes along pleasantly, and unfortunate when trial comes upon US. But the interruption Of melody Is one of the very things which adds significance to life's grand symphonies and makes them majestic.
 The cession Of melody at certain times adds to the sweetness Of the song when the melody begins again
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

c curry-cOmbS to the government.
 Your curry combs, you want the world to know, aren't just ordin- ary curry combs. T hey have a vacuum clea ner attachment, with a g a dge t that sterilizes the hair and packs 1t in bales so it can be made into horse hair sofas.
 Anyway, sin ce
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Daily Almanac
7,a0 b. il

Moon rises 7:3o D. m.
 Sun rises $40 a. m; sets SPA D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- utes after sunset.
 Mld-Febrlary may seem like the time 10 prepare for the coming Of spring and milder weather. but really lt'B only the pause before winter strikes with c fast furious and often prolonged assault. Be wary Of Fcbruaryb lhnwS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

The s Il d q e n S t o p S, the pauSes inter- spersed through s p e r s e d thro ughout a musical compo- sition h a v e much to do with lleightening the beauty and ap- peal of the piece.
 Yet in life we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

If you want a copy of the leaf let FEDERAL HOUSING" send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose four cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

O. Did Franklin D. Roosevelt sup port President Wilson's propoSa- 4 with respect to the League of Ma ! tions?
 A. Yes. On March 1, 1919, he made a speech in behalf of the League of Nations at a luncheon of the League of Free Nations Association. He made another speech on the SubJecf in Baltimore later in the month.
 @. What was the relative standing, measured In total naval vessels, of the U. S. and British navies on Jan- uary l, 1919?
 A. U. S., PA naval vessels; Great Britain, TOP naval vessels.
 o. Does light exert pressure?
 A. Light develops 8 very slight pressure on any object which it strikes, but the amount is so triflinG that it cannot be measured by ordi- nary methods.
 o. What is the origin of the fam- fly name PoSton?
 A. It is British, derived from locality. Originally, it is said, ths name was Putta's Town, putta be- ing an old English word for kits or falcon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Alternative means choice be-
 tween two things" or "one of
 two things" It should not be applied to one of more than two things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
Washington Merry !Go-Round
NEA ssrvise Inc
DREW PIE A R s o N
 ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON February being escorted to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

o. Is neon gas poisonous?
 A. No; 1t is completely inert. and has practically the same physio- logical effect as an equal amount of nitrogen, which constitutes nearly 80 per cent of the atmosphere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D,
pvSTs ABE NrcFSsARY

RESTS ARE NECESSARY
 Rests in music are necessary to its grandeur. A composition which went from beginning to end without any rests would be a nightmare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
A Thought for Today

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart
  shall live for ever.-Psalms 22:26. Selfish men may possess the earth; it is the meek only who inherit it from the Heavenly Father.-Woolman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
National Spotlight
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

Washington, Feb. 1S-A1 right, you're a manufacturer of curry combs. You want to do your pa- triotic bit for the defense of your country, and you want to sell your
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13

@. Who wrote T awoke one morn- ing and found myself famous?
 A. Lord Byron, after the publica- tion of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" in March, 1912.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-13
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