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Evening star., 1941-06-24
Schools Enroll $50 Teachers

ROCKVILLE, Md, June "a fSpe-
ciaD. - Approximately $50 Mont
gomery County public school
teachers are attending summer
schools, Edwin w. Broome, county
superintendent of schools. said to-
day. A majority are enrolled at
the University of Maryland, George
Washington University and other
nearby institutions.
Evening star., 1941-06-24
PETERMANS
ROACH FOOD
Tired Kidneys
Often Bring
SIeepIess Nights

Doctors say your kidneys contain Is miles
Of tiny tubes or filters which help to purify the
blood and keep you healthy. When they eet
many people have to get up nights: Don't
neglect this condition and lose valuable. rest
When disorder of kidney function permits
noisonous matter to remain in your blood. it
NAV also cause nagging backache. rheumatic
pains. leg pains. loss Of pep ana 6ssdsebs: ehers:
and dizziness.
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doans
pills, used successfully by millions for over 20
years. They give happy relief and will help
he is miles Of kidney tubes flush out poison
oos vssts from your blood. Get Deans PuiS
Evening star., 1941-06-24
Marriages Of Diplomats
Restricted by France

By the Associa ted Press.
VICHY, France, June 24.-Ofi-
GERS of the French Foreign Ministry
whether serving at home or abroad
were forbidden today to marry with
out the approval of the ministry
The decree specified that in no
case could approval be given for
marriage to a woman who was not
a native citizen of France.
Evening star., 1941-06-24

ton of the Nation in general and
of the Chief Executive in particular
to the undemocratic disabilities un-
der which Negroes labor in private
defense agencies, in the Govern
ment and in the armed forces of
the country. ."
Evening star., 1941-06-24

Pretty soon even CARELESS men
weren't looking funny.
-T5-A dime spent by mer-
49, chant in newspaper advertis-
" ing, helping yout to buy better
style and value, cuts his selling costs
and saves you dollars. And who
wouldn't spend a dime to saue dollar?
Evening star., 1941-06-24

Electric locomotives designed
especially for operation in iron and
steel plants are being made in
Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

Just to show what can be done with a little effort, plus lot of planning, New York City has converted Riker's Island which for ten years past has been a garbage dumping ground into tree nursery. Actually the work of convert ing the spot began year ago. Some 25 acres of land are now producing saplings which when big enough for transplanting will be used to supply the many parks and playground areas of New York City with needed trees. More than 13,000 of these saplings are growing now where only nauseous stretch of land existed short time ago, However, this same debris proved a mighty good foundation for this type of reclamation. The non-dis- integrating refuse was first removed; then an ash fill with lot of fertilizer applied. Manure crops were planted dur ing the past year and plowed under. An other one will go down for winter growth. Next spring lot more saplings will be planted. Five years from now 10000 trees will be planted each spring and 10000 trees taken up in the fall for transplant ing. Incidentally inmates of the Riker's Island Penitentiary did most of the work which is to their credit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
The Rent Situation

No one seems to know just what the flair rent" situation is here in Water bury. Presumably our public officials haVe in their possession many facts about st, but if so they prefer to keep the Information to themselves, which cer-
 ainly is no cause for complaint. After Ill this is serious and delicate matter md can't be settled by a lot of bluster and loud talking. If Waterbury is to be classed with those communities where it is claimed there have been many in- stances in which tenants have had their rent "jacked' sky-high or have been evicted for failure to pay increased ren- talS, then we can do lot of public announcing about 1t.
 On the other hand there is the more urgent need of checking promptly and thoroughly the complaints that have been received to date by the city'S fair rent committee. If 1t is once established that this fact-fnding body is making progress and is bringing about a state Of better understanding between landlords and tenants, then the entire situation here in Waterbury should iron itself out. If rents are unfair here they should be so designated and some effort should be made to show on what grounds the con- mitttee came to this opinion and what 1t plans to do in the future to prevent any such occurrences.
 According to the United States Labor Department there has been marked rise in rents at Hartford Also Water bury Is cited as one of four cities in which there were evictions for failure to pay rents. These facts are supposed to be authentic, although the latter claim has left local officials somewhat dazed aS they don't seem to know anything about 1t. It proves to this writer how easy 1t Is to go overheard on this sub- ject of fair rents. If our local investi- rating committee is wise 1t will con- tlnue It's fact-finding with the idea of satisfying the general public that there are instances of unfair tactics and that they won't be repeated or that there are no out-and-out cases of profiteering. The sooner this is done the better, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Back to the Bicycle

Flocks of jokes have been cracked about the country going "back to the bicycle" " in about the same tone as those about "giv- ing 1t back to the Indians" But, as so often happens, while the jokes arc being made, the thing itself has happened. The country really has gone back to the bicy- cle. More bicycles are being built (for one, however, seldom any longer for two) than ever before. The pictures from the Bicycle Age in the Gay Nineties are still amusing, and nobody stops to think that more bicycles are built today and ridden than ever there were in the days when Daisy was being importuned for her an- Swer true.
 Defense, steel and gasoline shortages, have speeded up the building of bicycles, but the business was booming before that, and last year saw 1,3S0000 bikes built. This year of 1941 will probably reach a million and half. Suggested slogan: American pedals help beat Goering's medals"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Exodus Begins

October 1 may mean only the begin ming of the l94l World Series between the New York Yankees and one of two National League contenders to most peo- pie, but to many others 1t also will be a sad occasion. For on October 1 New Yorks Aquarium, housed in that little old odd-shaped building down on the Battery for 45 years past, will be no more. That's moving day for the ln- habitantS of the Aquarium as well as for thousands of New York City residents.
 Actually most of the fish and other aquatic animals will have been removed prior to the deadline next week. Sunday attendants started to remove all of the large turtles which have been In the Aquarium since 1902 Most of these big fellows have watched the passing years with slightly impaSSive countenance. 50 long their supply of New York Bay water was kept fresh and dainty mor- sels were provided at regular intervals they were content to be gazed upon from the rim that marked the limits of their watery home.
 The valuable species of fish in the Aquarium are to be given a temporary home in the lion house at the Bronx Zoo. How long they will remain there doesn't seem to be known right now as disposi- tion of both the Aquarium and it's denizens has not been any too pleasantly con- ducted, judging by reports in the New York press 1941 construction being what it is in a few months all traces of the old Aquarium will vanish as the Battery Park development plan progresses. All that will be left will be a few pictures Of the ugly old building and the many pleas ant memories possessed by thousands or Americans scattered all over this land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Advertising, War Asset

Fears have been expressed that there are officials within the U. s. government who look askance at advertising. No actual move against it has been made, but it is suspected that certain men with in the administration regard it as an eco- homie waste, susceptible of curtilment in times like these.
 If any such there be, they should read the testimony of w. B. B. Ferguson, Lon don advertising man, who reports that British firms are continuing advertising even when they have nothing to sell. This has two good results: it keeps brand names before the public, so that goodwill survives the crisis; 1t keeps free news papers alive, the only substitute for which is the government-subsidized and con- trolled press. The British don't want that, even in time of crisis, and neither do we.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

self, and later great masses of his feIlowmen, that the economic fac- tor is of chief significance in mold ing mems thought and action. He made no place whatsoever for spic- itual factors and influences.
 The worst result of this material istic outlook on life was not the establishing of any sect or party, but the alarming fact that Marx started many other people think ing in these same materialiStic terms, Many of them had no use for socialism and did not agree at ali with the political and social conclusions at which Marx arrived. But either consciously or uncon- gciOusly they did accept hls alc- tum that economic pressure M everything and spiritual factors are nothing ln the fashloning Of world events. The result was that the generation which largely Eepudiat- ed Marx caught from thIB free thinker . malignant and devastat- ing mateFiaiism,
 We cannot set ID things as the object Of our worship and not at least experience the penalty Of be- ing crushed under the heavy hand Of this deity, If there is no poser but economic necessity, then the true cod leaves those wlae worship tlals false 0od to peTlah ct hls iias meFclful hands.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Methuselahs of GerontoIogy

Gerontology that's new word. It means that branch of chemical science con- cerned with the processes which occur in the human body as result of growing old According to those who concern themselves with such things, if the death rate among humans remained where 1t is at the age of 10, then men would live to be $50.
 If gerontology had been perfected $50 years ago, man born then would be to- day about to die His earliest recollections would be concerned with the defeat Of the Teutonic Order of Knights by the Poles at Tannenburg. with the driving of the Mongols out of Russia, with wars be- tween England and France, with the end of the Roman Empire, with the Hustle religious prosecutions, with dynastic wars In Japan.
 We suspect that such man, coming now to die, would take last look about him and murmur, "Well, this is where came int"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

will prove to any open-minded ob- server.
 Only a few years ago we were uttering pleas to industry not to retire middle e-aged men from serv- ice. Every employer guilty of such a practice in the past must be kick ing himself today as he realizes that the veteran employees, by and large, were the most valuable ho had. #
 me other fallacy is that tnsg0 m fixed age at which human beings suddenly become incapacitated for further active service. This fallacy is represented in rigid laws requir- ing retirement at a certain age. The fact that within modern times Connecticut has turned three times to men who were thus retired by law and has called them into office as governors of the state is suffi- cient proof of the absurdity of the general theory.
 The Townsend plan for paying a handsome salary to our old folks for doing nothing is an absurdity. It highlights the injurious notion which society has entertained tool long that it's old people ought tol be turned into mummies and de-l prived of the opportunity to dGl useful work in the world and td| share the satisfactions which coms only from such work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Current Comment

 Defense, even if successful, is not the same thing as security, which we have had in the past, and which means freedom from fear of attack.
 -Dr. Eugene Stanley. professor
 Of International Economic Re.
 lations. Fletcher School. Dresses are just as short today as deeency and grace will permit
 Maurice RentneT. ". Y. fash.
 ionist.
 It Is all very fine for as 10 be good at golf and swimming, at mak. ing money and partying, but these abilities win not help us to deal with problems that are going to require a widespread aptitude for stAte- craft.
 Governor Charles Rdison Of New Jefbey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

Sunday was the third anniversary of New England's greatest single disaster, the hurricane of 1888. Memory of 1t is still bright for most of us. Those who lived through the hurricane in the badly devastated areas will probably be haunted by 1t until they die. It was bad enough for us over here in the Naugatuck Valley, but our sufferings and losses were mild compared to those along the shore and inland through the eastern part of the state. Visiting many of these areas little trace of the hurricane and tidal wave are seen today. Take Ocean Beach as a good example of how community can cS clean m h house Ns after shsmSes It's typ prise, and courage met desperate situ- ation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

Yet they are armed with Q great mass of data which someone must have dug Up for them. The other members of the subcommittee al- SO admit they haven't seen the alleged propaganda pictures. And the Senate as Q whole rejected the investigation and declined to ap- propriate any money for 1t.
 But despite all this, five Sena- tors are going ahead anyway, spending considerable money and even more time to stage e solemn investigation of Hollywood,
 Senators are famous for their laZiness. They don't 90 looking for extra work. Obviously someone coked them up.
 The answer to this mystery has for some time been in the hands of Wendell WilTsle, counsel to the picture industry. But he has no right of examination, and so far this has prevented his making public the solution.
 However, he has significant evi- dence that for several weeks the America First Committee has had @ group of research people busy in New York studying the movies and radio programs. They have been working under the direction of John T. Flynn, head of the New York America First Committee. And one research worker hired to listen in on radio programs was Guy Juneman, @ henchman of the famous Joe McWilllams, Christian Front leader in New York. These were the people who dug up part of the dope for the Senators.
 HOLLYWOOD GHOSTS
 But even more important than this New York group has been the little group of ghosts in Los An- geles, who helped inspire the pre- sent Senate investigation. Its members include:
 c. Allison Phelps--Los Angeles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

sis of Newspaper opinion shows that about 90 per cent of the newspaper editorials banned the Senate for Investigating the mov- tes Ninety-three per cent of the newspapers also were cri- tical of Lindbergh for blaming the trend of war on the Jews.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 First thing oPM chiefs did when hard-bolled Price Administrator Leon Henderson became an OPM executive in the recent shake-up was to put under his Jurisdiction the auto, paper pulp and machine tool industries, all subjects of hot controversy.
 Fl nderson's reply was, "The tougher they are the better I like 'cm" .. Smoking is prohibited in the Senate chamber but that doesn't prevent South Carolina's Cotton Ed" Smith from enjoying his tobacco. He loads up with a huge wad and chews furiously during sessions, splitting carefully into spittoon placed especially at his desk :. Although Floyd Odlunn is a leading Wall Streeter, his strongest packers as head of the new OPM Division for Con- tract Distribution were inner circle New Dealers.
 Copyright, l94l, by United Featur,
 Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Press Comment
RE-vALUING OLDER WORKERS
(The Bridgeport Post)

NAAAG AS4AA6StSAN q SRV
 A German official bulletin quot ed in Newsweek magazine remarks that the policy of calling aged or retired mechanics and other work CTS back into active service as part of Gerniany's war effort has been so successful that it will be con- tinued after the war. This is worth noting for two reasons. First, be- cause 1t parallels our own experl- ence and second, because 1t punc- lures a long established policy.
 We, too, have been recalling into active service many workers who 6 few years ago considered them selves too old or were so considered by their former employers.
 We are drafting with particular eagernesS, toolmakers and expert mechanics whose superior skill has by no means deserted them with the years. And as we get them back into harness we wonder why they were ever allowed to go.
 A widely-held error is the idea that every man looks forward to the time when he can retire and will eagerly quit work as soon as his economic circumstances per- init. This fallacy underlies most pension schemes and is featured regularly in the advertisements of insurance companies which are try- ing to sell endowment policies.
 The truth of the matter is that the only man who can afford to re- tire is paradoxically the man who is so busy that he merely drops one form of activity to engage more strenuously in some other.
 There is no more pathetic sight than group of retired elderly men with nothing to do. They are suf- fering the tortures of boredom. as their pathetic eagerness to find some occupation, however trivial,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Daily Almanac

Moon sets s:3e p. m daylight time).
 Sun rises 6:lO q. m.; sets 6:45 D. m, (day- light timel.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty mln' utes after sunset
 Forest fires will be worse than ever this fall unless New England soon gets lot of rain. Time was when late sEcptember al- ways produced . three or four day nor'- easter, but all weather signs have fallen bee fore an onslaught of mild, sunny days this month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

James Melton's famous collection of old motor-cars will be housed in a mu- scum to be built on Den avenue, Stam- ford, just off the Merritt Parkway, ac- cording to present plans. The 1941 Legis- lature voted funds for this project and state officials have been working on good site for some months past. Fifty thousand is to be spent on the building.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

Germany has done - is that there will probably be no price control legislation before Jan. l, if then.
 Congres ssman Henry B. Steagall of Ozark, Ala, chairman of the House Banking and Curren cy Committee which since Aug. { has been dilly . daily ing along with hearings on the nronoSed le1iSla-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Questions
 and Answers
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 e. What is meant by prioitieA unemployment7 g,,s3
 A. Unemployment caused by th, shutdown or curtailnlent of pro- duction caused by shortages of critic cal material of equipment, or by direct orders to cut or close of pro- auction in the interest of national defense.
 e. Who was the shortest ?. g. president?
 A. James Madison, who was only five feet four inches tall.
 e. What kind of sheep have their tails supported on wheelsp
 A. The fat-tailed sheep of Asia are chiefly characterized by an enormous accumulation of fat on each side of the tail bone. The tail is esteemed a great delicacy, and to protect 1t from being injured by dragging on the ground, 1t is sometimes sup- ported by a board or small pair ot wheels. The tail fat Is often used in place of butter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
What's Your l. O.!
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn t0 back page for the answers.

1. A stallion is an ungelded mals:. horse; true or false?
 2. Name the opposing generals al the battle of Saratoga. H 3. Which prophet was lowered into a miry pit?
 {. Winslow Homer was a poetg artist, or musician? -
 5. A standard piano keyboard has e8, S8, or l08 keys?
 6. Which has the longer coastlinep California or Florida? E
 2. What is a scarab?
 8. Name the chief justice of the United States.
 9, What famous man was born at Stratford- -on-Avon in Englandr
 10. There has never been g. Roman Catholic president of the United States; true or false? VI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Selected Poem
HEARER AND WORD

HEARER AND WORD anita MacDonell Balcom in the New
 York Times) I am a burdened cloud Towering to burst Over a desert, vowed ... To slake Its thirst. I am a riven mast
 Splintered from the deck, Floating on a vast Sea of wreck. I am a candle flame Pickering on page That a poet wrote for fame In a distant age. I am a voice from the skies Wind-hurtled along the corn When my last echo dies, A new is born. am both cloud and land, Strewn sea and ocean floor. The word. the nearer, and l am more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

essity. For years he fingered Tn the library of the British Mu- scum combing the ages of history and in-
 terpreting every fact he found
 there in terms of a material istic philosophy. He succeeded in nnnvincinO him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
e EDISON IN '9, WASHING GToN
Baruch'S Same Old Story Still A Good One
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Corrasnondeatk

Washington, Sept. 23 - Most im- mediate effect of Bernard M. Bar uch's bonbshell statement that price ceilings should be slapped on wages, rents and farm prices as well as on all commodity prices - just as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
Washington Merry-G Go-Round ''
DREW PEAR S o N
 ROBERT S. ALLEN

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

ToDAY's COMMON ERROR Would is used to express GUS. tomary or habitual action, as "The stOrekeeper and his cronles would sit around the stove on winter nights and swap yarns"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

e. Tn which of Dickens novels iA Mrs. Harris" a character?
 A. Martin Chuzzlewit." She was fictitious person invented by "Sairy Camp" for the purpose ol enforcing her statements by quot. ing the opinion of Mrs. Harris upon the subject under discussion.
 o. To whom was the first tele- graph message sent?
 A. The first message, What hath God wrought D, was written by Samuel P. B. Morse and was sent by Annie Ellsworth, daughter of ths United States Patent Commissioned from Washington, D. C., to Alfred Vail in Baltimore, Md, on May 24. l844.
 e. Are all aliens required to be examined in court before they may receive naturalization papersP
 A. Yes. .
 c. HAw long arc draftees In the Canadian army required to serve?
 A. Although their original period of service was four months, 1t has now being extended indefinitely and they will serve for the duration ue the war. s=
 e. Has the play Sergeant York" been presented on the stage?
 A. No.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.
A MODERN IDOL

Seventy-five years ago Karl Marx called upon men to drag God off the throne of their thinking and crown in His stead an usurper whom Marx called economic nee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-23

e. Has the play Sergeant York" been presented on the stage? A. No.