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Evening star., 1941-02-23
Miss Cruikshank to Wed
Mr.. Sadtler April IS
Miss Thomson and Mrs. Delaney
Honor Guests at Many Recent
Parties in Alexandria

22Apl IS has been set the date for
Hasey Ckslank whose engagement to
Sader has announced her mother Mrs
will take place old ST. Paus
Episcopal Many guests from Phia
for the both
Sadtler will be widely entertained between
Sadt the and Mrs
G. Sadter OF Falls Church
Smoot Thomson daughter OF Mr. and Mrs Alfred
March to Mr. David Baumann and Mrs
Thursday morning Miss Sara
during the past few weeks
Selden
Thomson the home of Miss Swan where
associated with the observance George
Presiding the
Evening star., 1941-02-23

tug-of-war which has held up the
refinancing"
After hearing the report the COM
mission adopted a resolution to re-
quest the county board to appoint
a subcommittee to meet with the
commission to determine a course
of action.
Mrs. Ramsay was elected chair
man of the commission yesterday,
succeeding j. Maynard Magruder,
who was elected secretary, the post
left vacant by Mrs. Ramsay.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Perfume
Continued From Page BID

was a I'VE haven't that, we do have
this" attitude.
Customers were learning not to
expect Belgian glassware or Czecho-
Slovakian laces, the men said.
Even if the stock could be shipped
to Shis country, they agreed, the
public wouldn't buy products OF
Nazi- dominated lands.
British goods are another story.
Not one store here has yet lost a
shipment from Britain. If ship
ment has been lost, they said, the
goods were so soon replaced that
they never knew about it.
Where orders have been placed
with manufacturers whose factories
have been bombed, buyers in Lon
Evening star., 1941-02-23
GuiId to Serve Dinner

A chow mein dinner will be given
by St. Matthews Guild in the parish
hall of Pinkney Memorial Episcopal
Church, Hyattsville, Md. Thursday.
from 5 to pm. Mrs. G. Edward
Lanhardt heads the Arrangements
Committee.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Hospital Group to Meet

Ballston (VaD Unit of the Wom-
ans Auxiliary of the Arlington Hos
pital Association will meet at 1880
pm. tomorrow at the Ballston Fire
house, 300 North Stuart street.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Police Court Statistics
RecopituIotion of Jury Trols
Conducted by Judges Lost Yeur

recapulaon of jury trials by Police Court judges from
$40 through December 81 1910 follows
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
We Go to War

With her cnissaries in Washington veeking to find common meeting ground on which the United States and Japan might continue their friendly relations, the Japanese chose the moment to launch an attack and declare war upon us. At this very moment Americans are probably dying in this first battle of the Pacific. That is not pleasant thing to contemplate, but then war never Is and we have virtually lived on the brink of the war for the past year or so. We now should be convinced that only by and through war can the democratic nations hope to end the threat of world domina- tion by such rulers as Hitler, Mussolini, and the War-makers of Japan.
 Protection of our Pacific outposts no longer depends on vigilance and patrol. It depends on armed action-action of the most belligerent nature. If this na. ton has been divided into two camps, 1t no longer Is nor can 1t be. We have no choice in the matter; Japan wants war. She evidently wants war to the finish. Gazing ahead at the suffering and sacri- flee that this must mean for all of us we cannot help but shudder at the very thought Lives lost, bodies maimed, fafn- files broken up, property ruined-theSe aIG Dllb ~ AGW VI kllG gAlAlAB9 aAAGtk6 VI ho'
 But the United States did not achieve her position of respect and prominence in the world without such sacrifices, with. out such bloody offerings on the altar of wer. If the course of human events once again demands our fair share we will give 1t. We are all Americans today-Amer- jeans to the core. Our country has been attacked by foreign power, We must repel the invader; we must fight for the very things that this invader evidently finds repugnant to his mode of living.
 Oddly enough this invasion of America; this sacrifice of American lives came al. most on the eve Of great religious festi- val. We refer not to Christmas with its worldwide significance, but to today's feast-that of the Immaculate Concep- ton. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the patroness of the United States. To her care we should entrust ourselves Before her we might well prostrate ourselves in prayer-prayer for those who have fallen on both sides and for speedy cessation of hostilities through imposition Of a lasting peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

manded that the new government would not infringe on rights pretty generally conceded Co be basic. On December 1b, 170l, about three years after the Consti- tuition went into effect, the first 10 amendments became effective. They are called the Bill of Rights.
 There was nothing new about them. Practically speaking, they were part Of the original Constitution, since adoption was secured on the understanding that they would be included, They simply froZe Into basic law certain things often asserted before and generally agreed on as fundamental = the right of freedom of worship, of expression, of peaceable assembly and petition for redress of griev- ances, security against perSecutory searches and seizures, of fair trial, of security against loss of private property without fair compensation. All simple things; all things we take too much for granted. President Roosevelt has done well to call attention to this anniversary, asking that citizens observe Bill of Rights Day on December IS. Whole peoples have not only had these elementary rights snatched from them, but, more terrible still, some have even been persuaded that such rights do not exist at all.
 The fundamental rights of man can never be permanently taken from him by force More insidious, more dangerous by far, is the effort to Hull man into for. getfulness of his essential dignity and Integrity. It is against this danger, as well as the concrete danger from without, that the President has summoned the American people. It Is good to take part in the obServances of Bill of Rights Day. It is better still to read that list of rights itself, carefully and thoughtfully and then to ask oneself, "What would life be worth without them?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
Grin and Bear It

The National Safety Council is seeking out personal reactions to various driving experiences. It asks, for example, If you and you grin every time an impatient fellow shoots by you at the stop light or do you snarl, "Ya so-and-so, va aint gonna get away with thatI" and start in hot pursuit, regardless of all other traffic conditions. Or perhaps this happens when can't-wait guy cuts out of line and tries to cut in front of you, but you close the gap quickly and thus trap him put in the patch of an oncoming car with an "NoW you're in 1t, chum. How you gonna get out of this one?"
 The National Safety Council proposes ' very nice slogan for this holiday sea- son. It urges that you "Give Courtesy for Christmas. Revenge at 60 miles an hour pays only one type of dividend T an accident, often fatal one. You may not be involved but the car disputing the right of way with you may be. And after all if your little act of kindness, If your pulling over to let the "hoggy" driver through safely saves your own life and his, well, at least you can be proud of what you've done, even If the "hog" is still chuckling about 1t.
 Only when all of us have become convinced thct the best way is to drive carefully and to permit the other fellow to run the risks will you be contributing a full share towards highway safety. In time your courtesy and your forbearance will spread and all drivers will be out doing themselves to grant the right of way and to let other drivers have their fair share of the roads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
Fifty Million at Work

By the year-end 1t is possible that the United States will have fifty million peo- pie working at jobs for pay. The actual number now is croWding above 4o, ,3i0,000, the Alexander Hamilton Institute esti. mates. What many of us fail to realize is that this tremendous number of pro- ductive workers Is almost five millions higher than were employed in the boom year of 1929 (estimate, 44,s5o,00o on the same Scale). But there are at least five million more workers now than then.
 Since there are believed to have been at least 3,450,00o unemployed even in 1929, 1t can quickly be seen that we are close to a situation in which we shall have not only more employed than ever before, but a greater percentage of enl- ployed. The armament boom and the tremendous outpouring of Federal spend- ing has, of course, produced this temper. ary condition. Our task is to sec that when the emergency is over American life and living so expands that there will still be need for all these productive workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
The Bill of Rights

Has man, simply as human being, any rights in the world merely by virtue of being born into it? We Americans say, yes. The whole core of our political and social belief revolves around the thought that the individual is sacred - that there is something in each man or woman, simply as men and women, which not governments, not social organize tions, not rnonarchs, Caesars, nor dicta- tors may moleSt or dilute. The whole colonial history of North America, from It's earliest days, is starred with declar. aticns of rights. Government has always been limited. The people have always felt that 1t existed for them, not they for the government. Always, in a score of solemn declarations, Americans were asserting, ''1 am man. l can be per- uaded, but cannot be pushed"
 When the present American govern nent was organized, these ringing asser- lions If the YlRhtg og men were strongly ln American naAndg. Assurance Wae no-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

on the shady side of the street. There are some who seem to get an inverted kind of satisfaction out of fear, foreboding and self-pity. But the wholesome nature likes sun- shine. It picks the sunny side of the street every time. It holds that there is m.re to be got out of cheer than out of gloom, out of sunshine than out of shadow.
 One of the great words of the EIble is "joy". Sadness and relig- iOus faith do mt belong together. The man of faith nay often ke gr1eved, bewildered, temporarily cast down; but the man of religious 4ath makes it a practice to walk on the sunny side of the street Jesus spoke frequently of His Joy. Paul spoke # Joy in the Holy Spirit and of finishing his course with Joy. Peter used the term, Joy un- speakabie."
 A long face and q sound Chris- tan creed do not belong togeth.
 lAu Riehls Reserved - naheon
 g82W#mnUAK MHuHkNHfE9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
Selected Poem

:" FALSE INTERLUDE
 Dorothy Livingston ulrch in the New York T1meO With what prophetic caution were these years Called by the tentative, the transient name Of peacei Less permanent than steel and flame, Than shrtll recrimInations and old fears, Was this strange truce upon the hemispheres. For those who failed It's challenge is more shame Than for the battle-driven; theirs the blame For dead with no averaging but our tears. We lived at the still center of c storm, Believing the appearance of It's peace. We thought we were awake within our dream And would not leave a place 50 bright and warm. We had imagined none of it could cease uu&al We heard the siren and tho scTeam.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

dining room and At nlght into . dOFmilory. The meals were magnificent
 "T car tell you thAt fer me the journey was one ! had dreamed of for yeaw and then, In an extraordinary way, N came true. AS ! said before, this place Is beautiful, oil green with woods and surrounded by hills, The alr ls fire and healthy, my appetite very good and the food abundant and exs qulslte.
 we do not lack milk, butter, meat, bread, vegetables, fruit, sugar OF coffee. When ! am eating, \ always think of you, who are perhaps without food. no enc can complain about She guards. They treat us with every FeSpect and consideFa. tlOn,"
 NOTE, To Americans the effu- sIve description Of the food as abundant and exquislte" s in- teresting, because the alien prise oners ct Ft, Missouia are fed straight army fare, In quality and quantity their ratlons are exs actly the same as those Of U. 8. soldiers.
 MERRY.Go.R0UND
 Friends Of Senator George Nor" rIs have started c nationwide movement to dlSsuade him from his announced intention to retire next year. Judge Sherman Min. ton, former Senator from Indiana and 6 leader in the movement, wrote Norris, "If you didn't do another lick of work, your pres. ence in the Senate would be lr- valuable. Just to have you around to talk to and counsel with means much 10 many of those now in the Senate. know, because that was so when was there." =. . The Army Ar Corps Is winds tunnel testing 6 new singie- engine fighter plane that will do 6i2 miles per hour, 100 miles faster than any other plane In existence. All the bugs have been eliminated from the plane-ex. cept one-finding pilot who can safely fly Q plane at that terrific speed.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
Current Comment

If we eradicate from our system that immoral principle of national responsibility which the sovereign system now sanctlfles, we will have achieved the fundamentals of 6 peaceful world order. Rev. John ?. Dulles, chairman, Commission Co Study the Bases 0R a Jeast and Durable PeacA.
 
 fte tamo for Alaska to be les . mining and SAnneTy camp from which non-residents extract wealth and leave nothing.
 -Ernest 0Euentng, governor Of We barbers are called gabblers be- cause we arc an 6 measure like newspapeTp-we gather up news and alSD give it cat. --Ag. D. D0dd, Les Angeles. as Also claled Master DaEheEs ok Am4gs lea convention
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

The beer was wanted by the British in great quantities, es- peciaily for the fighting Tomniies in Africa. As Wilson himself put 1t:
 "Ef you deprive . British sol. dIer of his pint of beer q day. well, you might as well deprive him of his gin."
 stettlnlus saw the point, and was willing to write down beer on the books. But Wiigon changed his mind. He reflected on the public reaction in the United States among people who do not regard beer, as the British do, as 6 part of equipment for defense.
 So he said to stettinius, "ThIs item might some day give you aIi uncomfortable ten minutes with Congress. So let's forget iD
 Result was that the British Tommy in Libya will have to look elsewhere for his daily pint. HIDDEN TREASURE
 With American industries cry. ing for war materials, tho govern. ment has finally got around to seizing Q giant horde of seini- manufactured war materials ore iginally intended for the conquer cd countries.
 Tons upon tons of steel bars, steel rods, steel sheets, ship plates, tin plate, copper wire were ordered by Poland, Czechoslova- kIa, Holland and Belgium, some of 1t three years ago. It has been in warehouses and idle freight cars ever since, despite the scarcity Of raw materials and despite the fact that some indus tries are even closing for lack of them.
 Why this horde Of priceless material remained untouched for so long is c mystery. But the secret is first, government red tape and bureaucracy; sec" 0nd, the fact that owners of these materials, who were hold ing them for higher prices, did not want Co sell.
 The old Export Control Board under General Russell Maxwell, who Is now devoting his abilities to the Near East, did nothing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

It's hard to place responsibility for a disaster like the recent bridge crash in Hartford. However, Connecticut can rest assured that the most thorough check.up on the causes will be made by a number of agencies. The state is keenly interested in construction of this great bridge across the Connecticut River and when something like this happens it's a shock which can't be lessened by the fact that accidents are bound to happen. We have come to regard the construction of great engineering project like this as more or less everyday stuff, so that something like last weeks event is sober ing to say the least.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

Out of a prosaic special election this battle for the seat in the Fifth Congressional District Is gradually be: ginning to loom as a knock-down and drag.efl-out affair. Although no nonl- nations have been made as yet there are various indications that there will be at least four and possibly five candidates on the machines and ballots when It comes time to actually designate choice next January 20. Even the Democratic and Republican Parties are experiencing slight difficulties in making an early, clear.cut statement of candidates, what with several wing for the honor. Our own John s. Monagan and our next-door neighbor, Joseph Talbot, not to mention the peripatetic Edward J. Ryan, loom as potential candidates in their own fields. But variety of choice will not end here and voters of the district can't say that they weren't able to exercise any choice in selection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
Press Comment
HOMICIDE AT NRWTOWN (BrIdgepork Timeg.9karl

The death of the patient at the Fairfield State hospital at NewtoWn, who was beaten by some of the "in. stituticnal okies" serving as attend ants there, brings to q climax the case which already has received pub- lie attention from the arrest of the attendants concerned. The superin- tendant of the state hospital has made an explanation, the coroner has made an inquiry, and Governor Hurley himself Is Investigating the situation.
 Apparently 1t is not the policy Of the hospital administration, at New. town or elsewhere, to permit violent treatment of patients. If that is not already so, it must be made 90, by legislation or otherwise. Ig the in- dividual attendants acted in viola ton of the law, as well as in viola ton of tieir instructions and reg- ulations, they ought to be severely
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

the bright and
 cheerful side of life. He knows the meaning of shadow and the sig nificance of dark days, put when he has a chance to walk in the sunshine, he walks there and is grateful. Other men may cinooge to walk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

Can you eHsWSg seven 0b Staese test questions? Yarn Co back page for the answeTB.
 1. Name the new film comedy team that was recently featured in . picture called Hold That Ghost"
 2. 4 sampan is c frying pan. mu. slcai instrument, or Chinese boat?
 Stewart Edward White b aS American novelist, politician. Q financler7
 {. The Americas Cup was award cd for yacht, dog or airplane rac Ing?
 5. Name the prominent Iron manu facturer Of Cleveland, Ohio, wht successfully managed the pFesiden tial campaign of William McKinle! in i0e6.
 6. Tn which city was the heavy. weight title fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess WillaFd2
 2. The first Secretary of State ap. pointed by President George Wash. ington was John Jay. Thomas Jef. feTson or John Marshall?
 8. What famous general crossed the Rubicon?
 g. The Indians "Chlngachgock' and "Uncas" In James E'enimors Cooper's novels belong to what tribe?
 10. Who was President from ise to 1865?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

Opening of Pennington Avenue be- tween Roseland Avenue and the old trolley cross-over Is something that has long been anticipated. It is to be hoped now that the matter is being discussed some thing actually can be done about n1ak- ing the old trolley right of way public thoroughfare. Pennington Avenue should not be cut in two by this short private way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
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 @, What and where ls the highest. mountain east of the Mississippi RiYers -,t. X. Mount Mitchell taltitude e,eeA" feet above sea leveO in tho Black Mountains of Yancey County, N, c, Similar informative facts about geps.. graphy are published in the book. let, "0ueer Facts of Geography. which can be obtained for ten cents' from the Waterbury Democrat 9eEys lee Bureau, 1918 Thirteenth St,' Washington, D. Q.
 a, For what cause was Jules Verne sued when the stAtesnAan Raymond PolneaFe defended hlm2 ...
 A, Tn November, 1908, an inventor named Tlrpin brought libel suit against Verne, alleging that the mad inventor in the book For the Flag" was intended to represent him, Verne won the case.
 Q. How much damage was caused by the hurricane which swept over Galveston, Texas, on Sepeenas Der 0, ieo07 W.
 A, It destroyed property valued ct more than 9i7,00O ,000 and catised the loss of more than 5000 lives.
 q, How long before his death dld the late Senator Thomas ]. Wahh marry hIR second wIfe7
 4. He vas married February 2a. 1888 to Sonora ?. c, TFussin, and died the following March 3.
 c. How many persons gre em. ployed by the .. 2. Veterans Ad" ministration In and QUO of Wash' ington, D, C.9
 4. The latest figures available are for August, ie4i, when there were 42,73N employees, of whom o." 40 were h Washington, D. Q.
 e, Are women accepted by the civilian Pilot Training ProgFam5 4. No.
 e. What is the proper way 10 holSt and lower the fiagS
 4. It should not be permitted to touch the ground during either holsting or lowering. it should bs raised bFisisly and lowered slowly.
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Daily Almanac
Noon riDes 6:60 D. nl.

Moon rises 0:6o ?. m.
 Sun rises T:O3 q. m.; sets 4:26 ?. nn.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min. utes after sunset.
 The sun has reached the point now where ik is setting as early in the afternoon as it ever does In this climate. An approximate 4:90 D. m. sunset is the rule right nov and will be for several more days with just an impeEceptibie change towards q later sunset kEom the middle cf tho month en.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

who ranks As Q minister. Small, gray.haired, and sporting the authentic oxon- lon accent of Q graduate of Merton College, oxford Unlver- sIty, Sir 0irja talked with mo ct the press of- flee of the BTits ish embassy.
 He was ct great pains to explain hi1AA ftia tnl1 of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY Ru RARIL n0TfGLARR. D. D.
THE SUNNY SIDE
By EAItL L. DOUGLASS, D. D'

THE SUNNY EIDE
 5uiwer-Lytton, the English rovei- lst of a century ago, once wrote, Mark the man who walks on The sunny side of the street."
 Yes, mark him; for he is one whose every disposition yearns for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
e NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
BY MILTON BRONNER Washington Staff Correspondent

Washington, Dec. e--For the first time in ell lts long history, India has sent to major power, namely the United States Q Hindu diplos mat whose Job lt will be to make Americans fully India a-consclous.
 He iS Sir oirja shanker Balpal whose official title is agent general,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

dealt with, which, t may be as. suned, they will be.
 Tn the meantime, the relatives o. all the patients in this and other hospitals of that type naturally arr suffering disqilet, which it is up to tho state authorities concerned tc relieve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08
Washington Merry Go-Round

supply the other day in discussions be- Commission and Edward Ste Admin strator
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR One may be In need of help,
 funds, etc., not for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-08

c. when did Great Britain mhke the last payment on the principal Qt {, her debt t0 the United StateaS
 A, on December l6. leS2, when Ag0 600 900 wns paid on ehe princis pal and s0S .S6O, ,OOO in interest. Adac ditlonai payments os interest we're. made on June iS and December 10, loSS.