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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Encouraging News

The reaction of Governor Robert A. Hurley to the insiStence of Senator Ed ward P. Egan that this city get consider ation for a state trade school was most encouraging. Reports from Hartford yesterday indicated that the chief eXecu- tive will use his efforts to see that Wa terbury is not skipped when it comes time to expand this institutional pro- gram. It would have been too bad if Waterbury had been omitted from among those cities which are to get trade schools, for if any community in the state de- serves such an institution certainly Wa terbury is. And Governor Hurley recog nized this without having it urged upon him.
 It's up to the Legislature now to pass some measure guaranteeing us of getting a school. Without a bill authorizing establishment of a trade school here in Waterbury the governor himself would be helpless to do anything for the city. But with legislative action disposed of it should not be too difficult to find the nec- essary state funds which will allow plans to proceed for the building of the local school Whether or not this will include the recently announced plan of utilizing funds set up in the Porter will remains for the courts to decide.
 But Waterbury legislators seem to think that the courts would be disposed to in- terpret the bequeSt of one of Waterbury's pioneers of the 18th century as permit ting it's use for the trade school. In view of the urgency of completing preliminary plans for the local school, it would seem as if steps should be taken immediately to determine the status of this fund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

narrow must be granted soon. The situa- ton has become such that unused ca- pacity can no longer be tolerated. Knud- sen is dead right when he says that the public generally is 100 per cent behind the defense effort And he is right again when he says that ''the only way to get this program going is to get concerted effort and a cooperative effort = an ln- centive fired with a spirit of sacrifice from everybody from the bench to the managers desk"
 KnudSen hit it again when he said that our problem is to prove that free people are capable of self-diScipline and of productive work superior to that of. a dictator'S subjects. It is not too much to say that the whole future of free gov ernment hangs on what the United States is able to accomplish during the next six months We believe that the Ameri- can people are prepared to make any re- quired sacrifices to win through on this front, provided that the sacrifices are evenly distributed
 The armament effort is the joint effort of all the American people, not of classes or groups It is for their joint safety as a people, They have never failed before to do what was necessary to be done. They vii lnot fail today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
All Together, Now = Pull!

Speculation about the American de- fense effort may now be put aside. We have the verdict of the man best quail fled to know. And his verdict is Not good enough" William S. Knudsen, production member of the Defense Com mission, has made, so to speak, his re- port on the first six months of the arms production program. And his considered verdict is that, particularly in the vital field of airplane production, we have fallen 30 per cent short of the goal. The basic reason for this shortcoming, Knud- sen says, is that industry and labor, ''the two most important clements" have not been "sold" on the gravity of the situ- ation.
 Knudsen believes that there are certain fields in which the only way marked and immediate increase in production can be shown is by working six or seven days week instead of five, When such specific situations are uncovered, it should be done. There are plants not yet working three shifts which can be placed on this basis. Every situation is it's own problem, with varying degrees of urgency and varying degrees of unused productive capacity. It seems certain that more centralized power must be established to iron out quickly specific kinks in the production line
 This does not mean that all social gains af shorter hours and better conditions must be thrown down the drain at once But the power to Increase the pressure at certain points where the bottlenecks are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

The good news contained in the prelim- mary report on the operation of the Waterbury city government during 1940 may be concealed below the mere figures that there was a $417OOO surplus at the end of business. This, of course, imme- diately catches the attention and we'll it should. But we were more or less pre- pared for pretty sizeable surplus at the end of 194O and $316,00O was the gener- ally accepted amount. That it exceeded this is only proof of how well city off cials did their job during the past year. But there is more to come and a year from now we'll be getting the benefit of the 194O surplus and what is to come in 1941, expressed in terms that the average taxpayer understands best-lower taxes The mere fact that $100,000 of the 1940 surplus must be carried over to the 1942 budget makeup is proof enough of lower taxes for 1922, unless unforeseen events upset everything this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Don't Take It Serious

There was song, not long since, which had as one of it's lyric lines, Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious :" We feel a little like that when we read the reported offer of Germany to clear the way for 450,0OO political and racial refugees (their choice) to come to the United States - provided that they are ransomed by proper amount of the gold the Nazis profess to detest.
 There are, as we understand it, several thousand refugees in Europe, already possessed of the United States official OK to come here, but who cannot come because of the red tape ensnarling Europe. Let those we wish to come, come first; then we shall be ready to consider the proposal of the Nazis Gf there be such a proposaD that they send whom THEY wish to come We owe our obligations, if one may put it that way, first to hu- manity, next to ourselves, and then to the convenience of the Nazi party of Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

worry over the possibility of becom- ing insane? But as a recent writer has pointed out, perhaps it is more fun to be nutty with fancy psychoSis."
 But the State has a solemn duty toward its mentally sick citizens ant in order to check the prevailint "nuttiness" we must pay greater at tention to the children to make sure that they develop into men and women with sound minds in healthy bodies, To begin to plan for a men, tally healthy society NOW is the States plain duty and this will have to be done through the rising gem eration. While it may be too much to hope that the mental deficiencies of the well-known human race can be diminished, we must concer- trate upon the children that they may develop into men and women more interested in the huinanities than in the wretched behavior of today's badly cracked" leaders in public life and elsewhere whose pc tential strength seems to lie in the harm they are able to infiict upon their fellowmen. There are many persons outside the mental institu- tions in whom the emotional eie- ment is quick and easily moved, but fewer ;n whom the roots Of real service to humanity strike deeply and hold firm enough to check the present alarming rise of neu-oses and help to depopulate the mental hospitals.
 EUGENE BERTRAM WILLARD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
In Today's Mail

A few months ago we received a letter from Boston man who wrote: I've never been & mental patient. I've never been inside a mental hospital and all know about such places is what I hear people say or occasionally read in the press when scandal arises in one of them like the recent killing of four aged patients in a mid western institution by 'buns' em- .ployed as attendants. But this I do knOw! Too many people are being sent to State Hospitals. It is get ting to be a sort of racket and something ought to be done about 1t. Everybody is a little cracked on some subject-I know I am."
 Some tune ago a comprehensive survey of mental diseases by special- lists in psychiatry and allied fields was undertaken. After labors cov- ering some three years, new clasSi- fication of such diseases had been published, the chief divisions of which are: Amentia, neuroses, and psych- -neilroSes, Schizophrenic neu- roses, psychopathic constitution, af- fectiye and emotional psychoses, toxic psychoSes, epileptic psychoses,
 organic brain disease psychoses. and other miscellaneous types. Which ought to catch nearly everybody on one count or another, including some of the members of the hospital staffs themselves. In this connection 1t. is of interest to note that a men, tai diagnosis of the late Sigmund Freud, the eminent psychoanalytic expert, revealed that he himself was "a bit goofy." through Tack of in- ward integration." While it is fact that certain of these investigations in mental science and pSuedo- science have not been of much prac- ticalsuse in making men and women more decent in their interelations, or making society less animalistic a great many discoveries of real value to the race have been made. A close analysis would probably re- veal that Gll of us are bit "goofy," :" either habitually or occasionally. Fact of the matter Is, as has been said more than once, "crazy people are just like other people, only more so" And if, as some contend, men, tally unbalanced people are the happiest, why should anybody
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

There hasn't been much said in public utility circles throughout this state as to what steps are going to be taken on the recent Securities & Exchange Commis- sion ruling, affecting the United Gas I'm provement Company of Philadelphia. It was ordered to dispose of all its extensive holdings in Connecticut and other places, save tri-state area around Philadelphia The Connecticut Light & Power, and Con- necticut Railway and Lighting Company are two state utilities controlled by UGI. Undoubtedly there will be hearings before the disposal order becomes effective. And who knows what will follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

servation was one who had thought deeply about spiritual matters, and he knew that crosses lead to saliva tion when people take them in the right spirit. There were three men put on crosses in one day on hill called Golgotha One cried out against his cross and railed on Jesus saying, If thou be the Son of God, save myself and us." But the other malefactor and the Lord Jesus both took their crosses with out protest. We are told that the thief went that day to Paradise, and we know through 200O years of Christian experience that in the cross of Christ abides all human salvation.
 Crucifixion is a terrible and hope- less thing # we carry out and pro- test against 1t. Crucinxion rightly taken is the beginning of all things good and substantial for the soul.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
DUTY OF STATE CLEAR .s,,,stl TOWARDS ITS MENTAL DEPENDENTS s.

\ ; February B. l941
 Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 We have received a very interest ing. letter from a Stonington gen. tlelnan who writes that he spent two and half years in State Hospital. We make this. abstract from his long letter: 2 2, x
 T have read. your several articles published in The Waterbury Demo crat aiad twisl1s to commend you for their excellezicY and tfor. the good job you arc doing in helping Ito en- tighten the public to the work being done tn the mental institutions. However, I fear that you soperpiay the hospitals side and forget tsurely you must know)a that in every State | Hospital are large number Of sane tinsane who shodId be released but Fare not. T can take you through, the Ehospitak where T spent two and 8 ,lsalf yeats they called my trouble Lsi1ianle depresSiyeD and point out I3atient after patient no more crazy lot Of people who never saw ktile inside, ofssa State Hospital. The..'
 iassenst any place to go so are held lip. the haspital lsat an added expense to, the State.
 fl lad the niyfortune to be born ..t1iittyg Ny father was .Ilutty' be- ! fore sIile and beforesI entered the hospital I ,kheW "a lot of nuts il my community who, although nut tyss were happy and gainfully en1- ployed. We hear a lot, about oyer- crowded mental hospitals. Why don't you take up. your pen and suggest that other provision be made, for the harmless men and women who are being denied their liberty merely because they haven't eny place to go' or have the bad luck to have callouSed relatives who prefer to shift the responsibility for their care upon the State?"
 Our correspondent has raised an interesting point. It is not a new one. It is quite possible that in every State Hospital will be found patients who should be released but are not, chiefly because they have the mis- fortune to be alone in the world and the State in its over-solicitude for their welfare" prefer to keep them on the wards rather than re- lease them even if 1t becomes me- cessary for them to go on the re- lief rolls. But when 1t is suggested that the State prefers large hospital populations because it provides jobs for men and women who want to remain on the State payroll" we have our doubts of the truth of such an assertion. It is true that some State Hospitals have excessive employe rolls but a study of the situation shows that many of the institutions are undermanned, espe- cially so far as professional work. CTS are concerned. Tn certain State Hospitals there are not nearly enough physicians and because Of this tine rounds Of the wards ere routine and often made with no thought of the patlents' welfare. 4 former State Hospital doctor rec gently said; "f had to look after some 300 patients and naturally the job had to be c hurried one. How does anybody expect a physician to ] properly care for 300 patientgf"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

At the 38th annual convention Of the American Roadbuilder's Association held in New York recently, New Jersey High way Commissioner Donald Sterner urged a super-road between Boston and Wash ington. What familiar cry! Who hasn't urged such a road. We'll, Connecticut has provided the start for it with the Merritt Parkway and soon will have the Cross Parkway added to make such a super-road all the way across this state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

There's Massachusetts legislator who has a right to complain about the .phy- sical condition of the 50-year old House chamber at Boston. That's Rep. Arthur L. Youngman of Medford who weighs 29O pounds. He claims the chamber floor wouldn't bear his weight and he was en- dangering his life every time he entered it. He got up to speak recently and his desk came with him. That's cause for complaint in any legislative chamber
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

motor company; Harry Bennett, its rd-boiled personnel czar; and Thomas F. Dewey, Labor De- partment conciliator who was dispatched to Detroit with per senal orders from President Roose- welt to mediate union discrim- ,iilation case.
 The conference lasted three hours, with Bennett doing most of the talking. Easel leaned back in his chair and confined himself chiefly to giving Bennett moral isupport-except at one point. l This was when Dewey charged that Bonnet has failed to make good a promise to$rehire approxi- lnately $50 men, who, the United Auto Workers alleged, were let out last fall for union activity:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

That's not true" broke in EdseI. we've never fired any one because of union member ship. We just don't like trouble makers, that's all"
 '%The United Auto Workers would debate you on that, MT. Ford" replied Dewey. "The union has scores of complaints about its members being beaten up and thrown out of your Lin coin and River Rouge plants. All the men I am asking to be reinstated are union members"
 we have no objection to them because of their union member ship" reiterated Edsel firmly.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

1. Does an automobile travelin, at 20 miles-per-hour consume nor or less gasoline per mile than at T miles-per-hour?
 2. A perfume made from or lmi. tating the odor of the red jasmine of the West Indies is called f 1?
 3. Was Julius Caesar or Augustus Caesar the first emperor of the Roman Empire?
 A. Name the native country of ths composer Gounod.
 5. Which play opens with the line. When shall me three meet again"7
 6. Which character in "The Mix ado is the Lord High Executioneri
 T. Who composed the music oi La Traviata"?
 8. Name the vice President of the U. S. who was tried for treason.
 g. In which group of islands is Palawan?
 10. What are homophones?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Selected Poem
THE FACTORY
(Reed G. Law in the Poets Column,
 Hartford Courant)

THE FACTORY
 (Reed G. Law in the Poets Column,
 Hartford CouranD A cool grease odor rises brightly upward AS stters, demakers machinists pour past, Amber dawnng glstens on high smoked glass; Foremen shout at cranemen; hooks are lowered; Furnaces are gurgnng bloodless fires. And acids give off bitter, buish odors, strident symphony off bitter buish nor Rises from the feet of restless, rattling tires. The press rolls click in careless haste While billets roll from sheetless bed. The scrap-room's empty shells count up their dead And the tumbril rattles its human waste O. man cries out for living wages his pay Is death for another man another day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Current Comment

guess I can shoot as straight as anybody else Bob Teller. Cleveland pitcher, declining to seek draft eS. eInption.
 can truthfully say to you that ail We children at home arc full Of choerfnlness and courage. --prlncess Elizabeth of Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
A Thought for Today

But verify God hath heard me; he hath at tended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God which hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me.-Psalms 66:19, 2O
 
 God dwells far off from us but prayer brings him down to our earth, and links his power with our efforts.-Mad. de GaSparin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

-od, has become a useful part, of the national de- fense program.
 Under direc- ton of the Na- tional Youth ministration, Quoddy is serv- ing as a center in which hun dreds, of young men are being fitted, for future roles as produc- CTS of wares
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Daily Almanac

Moon sets i:l8 Q, m.
 Sun rises 6:5e a. m. sets 5:i3 D. m
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 There should Dc at least one good SIow- storm during February but fl weather condi. tons aren't Just right we're apt Co get it in the shape of slect or even rain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

friend, These fellows are cru. cifying me. They have put me on a cross..' "Yes, !" r e p Ii e d his friend, dryl'y You are on a cross all right. but you are not dead yet. You're still wrigglihg. ;"
 The friend who made this Ob-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

Sential matertaR.
 Within few days, approximate ly 1000 young men from New Eng land, New York, and New Jersey will be in residence aS ,Quoddy, to learn trades and acquire skills for various phases of defense protec- ton. The training program Is much more elaborate and thorough than anything IVA previously offered. Formerly, a youngster getting an IVA shop course put in only about two months at 1t and got little more than a grounding in safety habits, shop terminology and so on. At Quoddy, he will. get, from four months to a year of training, and will come. out-if not a fully quali- fled machinist or mechanic, at least a man who is fitted to start in somewhere as a helper with pros poets of developing quickly into a skilled worker. ',e3 ..r,ei ss%'a.,
 The long-idle barracks and other quarters are filling up. Each boy as he arrives is assigned to job in one of the maintenance units. There he. does the ordinary work of keeping the Quoddy plant in shape-painting, plumbing repairs, carpentry, electrical repair work, and the like. After about eight weeks he is ready to take; t spe- cial1zed course. .:,, AVIATION MECHANICS.
 IN THE MAKING
 Biggest of the classes is in avia- ton, where some 200 boys are get ting a grounding in airplane me chanics, construction and repair. The boys who take this course must be high school graduates; the course lasts for year, and boys who grad uate will be permitted to take Civil Aeronautics Board examinations for aircraft and engine mechanics li- censes.
 Another large class is in the ma chine shop, which will have some 200 boys by. March. A third is a sheet metal shop, where slightly more than 100 boys will get six months of training. Courses in ag- riculture, radio and in the opera ton of a cafeteria are also avail- able. @ ; ,s+=s gs ..
 Instruction in all of these classes is given, not by IVA. but by in- structors from the state of Maine's educational system. This scheme was worked out after conferences between Aubrey williams, head of IVA, and Dr. John w. Studebaker, U. s. commissioner of education. The Maine instructors who do this work will be paid by federal funds. YOUNGSTERS CONCENTRATE
 ON ONE LINE OF WORK
 A significant change in the IVA program at Quoddy is the dropping of the old system whereby lad at a training center received instruc- tion in various skills, getting a Smattering of several vacations but usually not getting any very thor ough training in any single one. Emphasis now will be on giving a youngster as complete a grounding as possible in some one line of work. For the work they do at Quoddy, the MA boys get paid, monthly earnings ranging from $14 to $24, They don't < get paid for their schooling. but the tuition is free. Meanwhile, the maintenance and shop: units get3.a good deal of use ful work done, The Quoddy boys recently assembled and installed a complete two-way police radio sys- tenn for all the; highway patrol cars of the state of Maine, for exam pie. eco trucks used in Maine have also been getting repairs and servicing at the iQuoddy shops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Washington Merry Round
Production of udde Coordination Snored Red ope; Some Urqe Reyv of SCobnet Air Post Pons Fo For Short
DREW PEAR s o N
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

If you want a copy of the fascisimile of the Declaration of Independence and the Text of the Constitution of the United States send to Waterbury Demo- crat's Washington, D. c. Enclose twenty-five cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Your I.Q.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
STRENGTH. :. FOR THE DAY
By EARL |. DOUGLASS. D, p,
SOLICITATIONS RIGHTLY TAKEN @ 5

A man who felt he was not re- ceiving proper recognition and not being promoted as fast as he. should be cried out in deSneration to a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05
Questions
 

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED. The Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau will answer for you free' any question of fact or inf0rma- ton, not involving extensive re- search. Write your question clear- ly, sign name and address, en- close . three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot be given. Address The Waterbury Democrats Washington Service Bureau, 1913 18th Street, Wash ingtOn, D c.
 O. What religious denominations are represented in the U. s. Army by Chaplains?
 A. Baptist, 20; Catholic, g; Con gregationaliSt, 8; Disciples of Christ 4; Episcopalian, 6; Lutheran, F; Methodist, 24; Presbyterian, IA; Re- formed, 9; United Brethren, l. Evangelical, 1; Universalist, l.
 o. What treatment should knots and Sappy streaks in new wood be given before painting?
 A. They should be .hellacked. after the priming coat is dry, witt: pure shellac varnish, brushed out very thin. When the lumber is ex- tremely knotty, less oil and more turpcntine may be used in the paint. as too much oil in the knots causes later coats to draw and check.
 @. When was the first "Oldsn1o bile" automobile built?
 A. The Olds Motor Vehicle Com pany was incorporated at Lansing, Michigan. on August q, 1897, and the first "Oldsmobile'' was built the eorna wear
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR "VilIain" is pronounced vil-in;
 not villain.