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The Nome nugget., 1941-01-29

Note The of the Alaska paid into the Treasury the Alaska Railroad re-approprated for operations appropriations are listed in the Budget for the Railroad However that to $3000O of accordance with tn Act of March purchase of the personal property structures and buildings Mckinley and Transportation Company construction of additional lodges and thereto the purchase rocondioning of equipment thereof"
 Survey increases recommended for ("Ths amount consists of $4178O Alaska including special photographic equpmen 400 for seinoogca including the completion of the observatory Ska, Aaska-')
 In the education of the natives of Alaska although substantial obtained in re- cent the appropriations up natives of Alaska still than given similar circumstances for the education of the Indians who reside in the United treated the the States particular item would
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-29

Extension of bachelor officers quarters 9O0o( Extension of roads walks and services 100 oot Extension of utility hangar 200 oot Extension of landplane rmways ~~-.--.-~.~. 500 ooo( Naval Air Station, Ska, Alaska
 Additional aviation facilities ..-.-~.~--.~. 143800t Extension of barracks building 125 OO( Recreation facilities for officers .~...-.-..~.- 537O( Naval Air Station, Unalaska Alaska:
 Additional gasoline storage -.--~.-.-~.-.--. 4O00t Seaplane parking area 255o0C
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-29

Additional funds for the three in Alaska has been by the Budget The amounts and allocaionS as follows:
 Naval Air Station Kodiak Alaska
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Higher and Higher

The United States is spinning dizzly toward higher productive activity than 1t has ever known before. The rate of the national income as measured by the total payments of money to individuals was such in September as to lead to eXpecta- ton of $92,000,000,000 national income for 1941. That Is full 10 billions above the former banner year of 1929, and 17 billions above the figure of last year. Those are Department of Commerce estimates At the same time manufac- turing activity Is reaching new high peaks every month. Such production registered 124 on the index of the Alexander Ham, ilton Institute for 1940, and is now on the way to figure of 16l for 194l, which would also be the largest or record, The index was only no in 1929.
 All this means that we must prepare for a bigger country than ever before. The old way of looking at things won't do any more. It is a bigger country in every way Our 133000000 people are more numerous by 10 millions than they were in 1929 We have developed new tech- niques and skills. Production ought to be greater and the national income ought to be greater. Thus, to an extent, there is no reason to be afraid of these new high peaks. They were inevitable, even if the "defense boom" had not come along.
 Tn addition to being inevitable, they should be permanent. Production and na- tional income will probably far exceed those of this year-they must, if our great armament effort Is to be successful. But some such level as has been attained this year is tomorrow'S normal, normal which we should already have attained anyway. It Is time to think big-to think of growth and expansion, of dynamic pro- grams. Any other course Is decline and death. Instead of feeling little dizzy at our present pace of normal, production, we must become accustomed to think of ! 1t as normal, and be prepared to make emergency efforts far iil advance of any thing yet achieved
 A sort of giantisn: has seized on the world. Somehow we must learn to think of the physical world its work and pro- duction, its social organisms, It's govern ments and wars, on the largest scale, and yet at the same time we must learn to segregate apart from all these giant things the little germs of personal life, the mighty essence of our individual souls, that they too may not be swallowed up in the giantism of society. The two must be combined; neither can be ignored if life in the future is to be worth living.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Ain't We Cot Fun

First 1t was explanations; now it's an apology. What a penance we pay TOT temerity in using anything that smacks of friendship for some of our less fortu- nate fellow citizens of Waterbury. Through the interpretative channels of the Waterbury Republican-American we have apologized for "the footing of the city by the Hayes-Leary regime"; we have "come out with what sounded fantastic ally like slur on the Scully administra- tion"; we have denounced the morning evening newspaper combination.
 All of which might seem pretty terrible if it weren't for the fact that most of it exists in the imagination (and what Q vivid one) and has little or no basis in fact. As a matter of fact we offered no apologies we did no slurring; we didn't denounce; we merely criticized. As for slurs, well, a corner on the same was established long time ago and has never been relinquished. The recent municipal campaign testifies amply to all such in- tents, if one cares to review the argu- ments of the Republican press used against Mayor Mayor Vincent A. Scully.
 But why bore a long-suffering public with a dog-and-cat squabble2 This could go on Indefinitely, because no good can be spoken of the condemned despite the amount of good that went before the downfall. At least that appears to be one philosophy of life. If we don't choose to share 1t or even appreciate 1t we see no reason to retire to either 8 monastery or hermit's cave.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Hard to Tell

Renewed efforts are being made to carry the Intracoastal Waterway through New Jersey and thus provide contin- uous inland water route all the way from New York Harbor down to Florida. It IS now being proposed as defense measure that the New Jersey link be supplied. Officials ct Washington are careful to point out that any effort along this line would have to be considered as necessary to national defense. And many people will wonder just what this necessity IS.
 Of course the uninitiated aren't aware of the fact that you can go by water all the way from the Delaware River at Trenton, N. J., to Miami, Florida, without getting out of sight or dry land or ven- turing outside of break-water. An ingen- iouS linking of existing waterways, plus a few artificial ones, provides placid river down which many pleasure boats find their way from the North to the South. How much freight traffic this inland course sees we don't know.
 It would be very fine, of course, to complete this route through New Jersey and thus eliminate what often is stormy bit of sailing for the smaller boats, but whether or not this comes under the head of national defense remains for the authorities in Washington to decide. lot of people might get the idea that 1t IS just to make easier sailing for those who haven't yet been obliged to give up their high-powered speed boats and motor cruisers to Uncle Sam.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Buying a Town on Shares

Home-seekers are buying, not individ- ual homes for themselves, but equity shares in the whole community of Au- dubon Park, New Jersey. It's new plan devised chiefly by Colonel Lawrence Vest brook of the Federal Works Administra- ton, sponsored by the federal govern ment, and ready for application to eight other similar projects. The buyer makes monthly payments of from SPA to $S6 a month, and this money goes not toward buying the house he lives in, but into a general fund for amortization of $l,- 500000 mortgage on the whole com munity. When the mortgage Is paid up, each holder will own not house of his own, but paid-up ownership shares in the community.
 How this new plan will work, time alone will tell. It could conceivably revo- lutionize real estate practice. It Is one of the new ways of doing things which are going to be tried out in increasing numbers in coming years, for better or worse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Kennedy the Iconoclast

Do not be surprised if you hear Con- nressraan Martin J. Kennedy of New York is being given the polar stare and that some of his colleagues make snooty faces or fail to speak when they pass bv. He is apt to be a lonely outcast, a qeritable paria with nobody in the capitol as washington to give him even stingy howdv. He has done the unheaTd of. He has broken the unwritten law He has tailed to be chubby. His dreadful offense is 0ne that his nerve-shocked colleagues srlII have a hard time forgiving or for veftinr. Even sack cloth and ashes will not appease them.
 s.l1le raeh brash man has actually in- s.nsssoed a hill in Congress to pay its sssnrahars on the basis of $25 per day for saNh anv tlaay HHe An session, instead oI
 ss 1o a30 lrtasee 'sFfs per annum sney
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

be Issued In this case. After all, soda water isn't essential to the national defense"
 "SOda water!" exclaimed Peter son. Who's talking about soda water"
 That's the principal use of phosphate, isn't it-tO make soda water?"
 "YOung man," said Peterson severely,T don't know where you came from or how you qualified for your job at the OPM, but ! thought every school-bOy knew that phosphate is the chief in- gredient of fertilizer.
 PARTY STALWART
 That 1S-vote House majority for the neutrality revision bill swould have been a lot less if 1t hadn't been for quiet-spoken Democratic National Chairman Ed Flynn.
 The President can thank his handsome political lieutenant that the outcome on this momentous fight wasn't another skin-o -of-the teeth victory as was the draft extension measure last summer.
 It was Hymns quiet behind-the- scenes work, particularly with the New York delegation, and not Roosevelt's last minute letter promising forceful action on the disturbed labor front, that swung enough votes to save the admin istration from another hair.hne majority.
 FIynn's yeOman efforts were particularly notable because only the week before he had taken 8 resOunding public rebufR from the President i'm the New York City may0ralty fight. Roosevelt g endorsement of LaGuardia, re. peated on the eve of the elec- tiOn was bitter medicine to Flynn, who was vigorously back ing ODwyer.
 But in contrast to the group of southern congressman, who holted to the isolationists because of personal pique over the labor situation, Flynn rolled up his sleeves when Roosevelt sent him an sos and went to bat with every thing he had.
 Ensconced in a hideaway office of Speaker Sam Rayburn, Flynn talked to small groups of waverers brought off the nearby floor by DemocraticS Floor Leader John Mccormack. To them, Flynn made on.y one argument.
 "The nations security is at stake on this v0se," he said. "Under these circumstances all ether consideration must De laid aside. Whatever your per- sonal grievances are, as patri- 0tic Americans you must upheld national unity in this crlsis.''
 To the New Workers, who were still boiling mad over what they considered the preaident,B a'mm- warranted lntgustloms in the may- oaaity scraps Flynn declared ioat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

Disregard for other drivers is one of the main reasons for so many accidents occurring along our streets and high ways. If driver wanted to find out how many laws are broken and how often all ne has to do is to get in the procession and do a bit of observing. Cutting in and out of traffic, passing on curves and hills, disregarding speed signs and stop signs are just a few of the complaints that are spoken about by motorists who really try to observe all the rules of the road. Unfortunately we lose sight of their good habits in watching the antics of those who refuse to he governed. It's high time that the civil authorities really cru saded against reckless driving. There's too much of it today. We'll never de- crease the number of accidents until we convince men and women that they are responsible for their actions behind the wheel just as they are in other cir cumstanceS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

national interests came before lo- cal politics. This plea coming from him had telling effect and kept Q number of the delegation on the reservation.
 MERRY.GO.R0UND
 The Air Corps Is experimenting with @ new type of autogyro that makes e vertical ascent without 6 running take-off. By using two sets of horizontal propellors, the plans can hover motionless in mid.air. Its big drawback Is slow forward speed A cons fIdential Commerce Department report estimates that by the fall of io42, 6,000,0O0 workers VIII be employed in defense industries. The number is now i,600,000 House Democratic Leader John Mccormack is one of the fastest dictators on the Hill. His office staff calls him "letter-a minute" man.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Press Comment
METAL SHORTAGE
(New London Day)

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 A man of European birth, who lived in this country for more than 50 years, 46 of them as an Amer ican citizen, never quite grew acc customed to the prodigal use of paper in grocery stores, meat mar kets, and other retail stores. Often, watching the grocer wrapping up parcels, he would shake his head and say to the clerk waiting on him: "One thing this country al- ways seems to have plenty of-- paperl Look at the paper bagsl Each item, almost, goes in Q paper bag. When was Q boy in the coun- try of my birth the housewife went to market with c basket on her arm. The things she bought went Into the basket, most of them without paper around them. To use paper as recklessly as we use 1t here in America was supposed to be wasteful."
 To use metal as recklessiy as America has used it in the past now begins to appear to be somewhat MH1tG4uAt W. 6AAA0bkkCk BONCA AeAAASAAs drive is to be organized soon to col- lect the metal needed, not so much for national defense needs as for the needs of other industry whose sup- ply has not been preempted by na- tional defense. Old aluminium, of course, was gathered some time ago In a much heralded drive which gave the impression that the nation was crying for scrap white metal. After 1t was gathered, it was a long and painful process to get any govern ment agency to come and get 1t.
 Nows though, different system is going to be used. Established salv- age concerns are to be used; the resident is going to be urged to gath- CT his scrap brass, aluminium, cop- per, iron, zinc and lead together and offer 1t to some dealer in scrap me- tals. These "junk" dealers will in turn see that it gets to the indus trial concerns that need these me. tals, although there is no actual shortage. The lack of availabil- ity of the metals to ordinary indus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

There will be many reasons advanced in another month or so for electing to Congress the several candidates standing before the voting public of the Fifth Dis trict. The Democratic candidate offers the industrial Naugatuck Valley the best representation to our way of thinking. We aren't war-minded not by long shot and we don't propose that our representa- tive be a war enthusiast. But in Dem- ocratic Congress and with Democratic delegation from Connecticut lone Re publican or Independent must be world beater to do justice to the district.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Current Comment

I think that if you don't tap wires your espionage work goes out the window. Attorney General Riddle. A communist is a socialist with out sense Of humor. President George Barton Cutten, Colgate University.
  The United States Is the preach fest nation on earth. We've done more talking about international morality and made as little effort to further 1t as any country. --Dr. Walter Van Kirk, Federal Council of Churches.
  Young people learn best from young people. ---Afrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

circles. Then after these people had used the device for a short time, the salesman would start around among the friends of the purchasers and would invariably find that the way had been pre- pared for them. Some salesmen declared that practically all they had to do was to deliver the ar- ticles to people eager to purchase them. after they had been sold to key families.
 The principle is a good one, pro- vided one has a good article to sell. Make your article So good that pur- chasers will consider 1t a privilege to tell their friends about 1t and so become your agents.
 Put your confidence in the in- trinsic value of what you have. It may not be much, but If it has any utility at all, 1t will need little or no promotion. Incidentally the Christian Church grew by just such a process. People who believed they had the best thing in the world told other about 1t, and e handful of disciples became mighty church.
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 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Selected Poem
HIBERNALIA.

(Oscar Williams in the New York Sun) We hibernate between the golden
 Moments of the soul, We sleep heavy sleep where olden
 Heavens burn and roll: Above the land cold-bright with rinie, The bells acclaim, chime upon chime, The rider and his charger, time. The somnolent and fattened senses
 Sleep away our prime, The future slumbers like a princess
 While its castles climb: The hoofbeats clack, the sound is weird, The flesh 1t has not stirred or heard, The answer flies off, like a bird.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

One of the oldest weather freaks of the season occurred Saturday night and Sunday morning. At midnight fog start ed to settle over the city. By morning it was thick down around the low-lying sec tions of the town. But up on the hills 1t was clear and the sun came up brilliant ly. From one side of the city you could look across a great fog bank to the oppo- site side.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

All three relatives owe their jobs to John L., who appointed them. Before being elevated to secretary of Local 50, Miss Lewis for mary years was on the UNIV payroll as her fathers con- fidential secretary. As CIO con. troller, Bell is in a key petition, He reports on the dues-paying strength of CIO unions. which de- termines their vote in the annual convention, now in progress in Detroit.
 In addition to their salaries, John L.. Denny" and Miss Lewis also have expense ace
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Daily Almanac

Sun rises 6:42 @. m; sets 4:32 ?. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The new moon phase occurs this evening at o'clock. If those north winds prevail the weather will remain fair and frosty, but n 1t hauls around to the south watch out for rain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

ed 0ut 70 bkle cVA~ stituents. T h c speeches ran all the way from one minute Co min c hours. Now that the shouting ls all over it's possible to take a glance over the right hind hip to see W that all this wordage amounts to as deathless lit. erature, boiling 1t down to discover the purple pass- A0Aaif aNv
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

try is simply the result of the de- mand for these metals in defense work; the shortage, therefore, means that the metal is available but not for ordinary uses.
 When the metal campaign gets under way 1t is to be hoped that 1t will be operated on different basis than the aluminium drive. Officials in Washington have given assurance that 1t will be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

now enjoy. He estimates this would reduce their salaries to about $5,000 and thereby set the nation a noble example of self-sacriflce. Here is where we offer to bet our best-laundered fancy shirt his colleagues will refuse to be noble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18


 1. What IS the principal ore from which aluminium is obtained7 2. Between wti"'' +- lies of water do the Philippines lie? 3. Copper Is the bese conductor of electricity; true or false?
 {. Florence (Kling) De Wolfe be. came the wife of which U. s. pres. ident?
 s. Henry L. Stimson was Score. tary of State, Secretary of War O Secretary of the Navy in Herbert Hoover'S cabinet?
 6. Who wrote "Penquin Island? 2. The executive mansion in Washington has always been paint ed white; true or false?
 6. Is musk obtained from e flow CT, an animal, or an herb?
 9. How many sheets are m Q rean of ordinary writing paper?
 10. Which is the oldest, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Purple Passages From Neutrality Debate
BY PETER EDISON waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

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 Washington, Nov 1s = Revision of the neutrality act is now fait ace compl as the lawyers like to say. Millions of words were spilled in Congress and everyone who had anything to say said it and revised or extended his remarks for the Congressional Record 30 that re prints of the speeches could be mail-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

TODAY's COMMON ERROR When . sentence contains both the perfect or the pluperfect tense and the future tense of the same verb, t iS neces. sary to repeat the verb after the tense sign in each easel as ''He always has sent and always will send me . mes- sage on my birthday"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

c ould depend upon the users of that artcile to sell it for him. He sent sales
 men out into certain districts and tried to get them to sell the device he manu- fractured in the homes of people influential in different social
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL |. DOUGLASS, D. D.
GOOD ARTICLES SELL
 THEMSELVES

Recently man passed away who had built up a large fortune on the principle that if he could manu- lecture a good-enough article, he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Washington Merry-G Go Round "
Lewis and Relatives Draw $485 500 Yeor From CO Unions; They Also Have Large Expense Accounts Shouded in Mystery

WASHINGTON Nov IS In the last few result of s0 @ classified the public mind peculiarly congressional institution
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
Questions
 and Answers

| YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 The Waterbury Demeorat's Ser. vice Bureau whM answer for yea free, any question oR Enct oR an. formation, n0e Involving oxtens slve research. Write your ques. tlon clearly. sslgn nalne and ada dress, enclose Q three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot Dc given. Address Water bury DehiOcrat's WashingtSn Ser Vice Bureau, lO19 Thirteenth Street, washington. D. c.
 e. Is there any State in which voters do not have to Do enrolled members of Q party to vote m the priEnaries9
 A. Five states--Idaho. Minnesota, Montana, wisconsin and Washing- ton-have "open" primaries In which no test of party affiliations is te- uuired. Under this system voters arc eiven Q single ballot, listing the can. didates of oil parties, or separate ballots for each party, the oiscafueo ballots being placed in a separate box after the voter hes entered the polling booth.
 e. When and for what reason did Charles A. Lindbergh and his family leave the United States to live an England2 When did he returnV
 A. He left the United States on December a, 1895. Dislike of pub- licity ard the fear of another kid- naping attempt were given as the reasons for their departure. Only Q short time before the LiEdberghs left America, pictures of their second son, Jon, had been surrepeAtously taken by e newspaper photographer. Lindbergh selected England as Q refuge because he believed the English to be the worlds most law. abiding people. He lived there for about three years, returning to the United states in April, 1889.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

However, this gravy-train prac. tlce is not confined to the deni- zens of Capitol Hill. It also Is to be found In other high places.
 One of them is the CIO.
 John l.. Lewis, whose captive c0al mines strike precipitated a national crisis and a boycott by CIO leaders of the governments defense labor-peace machinery, has one of the fattest nepotism records in Washington.
 Tn addition to himself, three of his Close relatives are drawing down paychecks that make a rnIn- CTS 97 a day look like chicken feed. The total take" of the family would make Q bank presi. dent envious.
 HecauEe Of the closely guarded secrecy cloaking CfO and United Mine Worker finances, 1t Is not possible to state positively what all the four Lewises are paid. Re- quests for this information have been repeatedly refused. However, from official reports and informed CIO and UNIV sources, the fol- lowing figures were obtained.