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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Many Changes Ahead

With the Waterbury charter revision bill now signed by the governor nuner- ous changes are made here with respect to our city government. Probably the most noticeable one to the average man will be the election of city officials in November instead of October. We have grown accustomed to the October elec- lions, although we are about the only large city of the state holding them at such time. But there doesn't seem to be any unanimity of thought on this subject here in Connecticut. Usually communities adhere to practices in vogue for long years past.
 However, the national trend is to con. centrate most elections, whether they be local, state or federal in the fall of the year with November being chosen in practically every instance. We hold our state and national elections then. It's easy for town that elects in the odd numbered years to make use of the same month for polling time. In Waterbury's instance the change is easily made and no upsets caused in the city government or in the ordinary lives of most of us.
 A few years from now we'll nave for- gotten that an election was ever held at any other time than that to which we have become accustomed. There IS no party or political benefit derived from the change to November, for local elec- tions will always be held in between state WfleS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Victories for Union

A great part of the success of the United States as an organized society and political unity has been due to the fact that it's vast domestic market has been open to all, without barriers to halt and hinder trade between the states. Tendencies to set up such barriers have been appearing in recent years, and even more recently the realization has come that they must be broken down.
 The Council of State Governments, then, has good reason to note with satis- faction that efforts to extend such bar riers were generally defeated before state legislatures in their 1941 sessions. Bills to give preference to local labor and materials were killed in several states, and discriminatory taxes on the prod ucts of other states were also repelled in several instances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

trial centers of Waterbury and Bridge port are bound to come to pass very shortly. So perhaps we can place more than passing interest in the old, old storp of a super, super route between Washington and Boston.
 If this ever came to pass Connecti- cut would supply link of the roadway a S62, 100000 one. However, according to State Highway Commissioner William J. Cox 1t wouldn't include either the Merritt or Cross Parkways. It would have to cover lot of new territory, but might conceivably utilize sections of U. g. Route No. l, particularly from Greenwich to New London. As this route is intended to aid in military defense purposes 1t cial travel, which should, of course, elim- mate the Merritt and Cross Parkways We must maintain their privacy as far as trucks are concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

basis.
 This tonnage almost exactly coincides with the steel shortage which OPM experts several weeks ago said would face the coun- try.
 Military chiefs also argued that there was no real need for this huge auto output since over i0,- GOO 0,000 good used cars are in the hands of dealers. They also claimed that in addition to taking urgently needed steel 'and alloys from defense, the auto industry was using tens of thousands of badly needed skilled craftsmen and machine tools.
 REPUBLICAN, REPLOGLE
 Tn this 1nomentous tug-of-war, the most strenuous advocate of . drastic curb on auto output Is J. Leonard Replogle, whose brilliant work as steel administrator of the World War Industries Board won him the Distinguished Service Medal. A Republican National Committeeman from Florida, he 1s c 100 per cent supporter of do. fense and all-out cid % Britain, is extremely critical of the prog. ress of both.
 Tn February 1918, confronted with the need to obtain moro steel for the hard-pressed Allies, Re. plogle banned the making of autos for civilian use. Some of the auto makers squawked, but Re- plogle stood pat. fze held that similar action now would again solve the critical steel problem.
 NOTE -- Some Defense chiefs favor dealing with the auto issue by c different method than cut. ting production. They advocate claim on steel output, with the leftover being allocated by Price and Consumer Adminis- trator Leon Henderson for civilian use. Under such c system, auto production might be cut to 2b per cent, or less.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Great Highway Plans

Highway building in Connecticut has been on an elaborate scale for the last few years. We visioned for long time c highway like the Merritt Parkway be- fore 1t actually came to pass. We could see a new bridge across the Connecticut River at Middletown replacing the old dingy one and good many Of us have lived to ride across the magnificent struc- ture. Some of us, too, will see the great bridge to span the Connecticut at Hart ford and the new Thames River bridge at New London.
 Others anticipate riding along great parkway all the way from the southwest corner of this state to the northeast corner over the Merritt and Wilbur |. Cross ParlSways. This is an age when dreams actually come true. Even here in the Naugatuck Valley we know that the Rloyifled accounts Of e great road Co par. alIcI tho river and to link the two indus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

What ever happened to those glorious plans revealed during the late legislative session to "up" the school grants two or three times? The original plans called for a grant of $10 to be paid to the 1e9 towns for each school child between the ages of and 16, but a later revision even brought the size of the grant to $20. This, of course, would have meant that the present school grant fund would have been quadrupled in one instance; in the other would have been almost 9 times as large as at present. There wasn't too much support for the proposal from the State Board of Education at the time 1t was proposed and even when there were hearings at the Capitol. We don't see how the state could possibly afford to do this without cutting some other form of service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
DIR. McLEvY
(rzartsord courant)

NAIVE tA0A0 SV0AOssW
 Let Us hear no more about the Bridgeport roofer." The Honor able Jasper McLevy, thanks to the doctorate conferred on him by Yves. leyan, Is now entitled to append to his name the initials D.M.A.-- Doctor Of Municipal Administration, and c well.eaFned title it ls. fl honorary degrees were granted on the basis of regional popularity votes, who can doubt that Mayor = no, Doctor - McLevy, would long ego have been honored as he was on Sunday? But honorary de- grees, like governorsilipg, are usus ally granted or withheld with iittis regard to the purely personal regard iil which the candidate is held by the public.
 Nor need Dr. McLevy De iassitans about using his title. # any man ia conversaft with c subject for which he has received . degree, it As he. Tn hig seif-appointed role as critiC- ifi-chieR of the Tsnaiadmiaiss tration from which Bridgeport sui. fered for 70 many years prior C 1881, he had suii opportunity to be- come acquainted with the seasny side Of municipal administration; as Dridgeport'e Mayor for . decade of reform, he has demonstrated hN capacity As . sound administrator. He has submitted no electoral thesis, but he is As much Q master Of hil subject aS any doctor whO has. IKe well deserves that welcome into "saM ancient and honorable company c schOlaFsv that pyieed0nt xs0w0li q ISaFvafd used Q extend Q tho mew.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

We haven't heard lately what progress Hartford has been making with the sur- vey started late in the winter, the pur- pose to determine whether or not sewer rental or service charge could be levied. Such a system has begun to find some favor among other American cities, 500 of them now using this method of ftnanc. ing their sewage systems. It has lot of advantages in that 1t gives the munict. pality ample funds with which to expand It's system and in the case of con- munity without the modern methods to install them. Proponents also claim that 1t makes sewer maintenance charges more equitable and doesn't impose the burden on those who are just getting sew- CTS for the first time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

ileve ttat the New Testament might rob our soldiers of zeal and devotion to their job.
 Ponder this for c moment. There is c great deai Of wisdom here. Men who were not Christian but who in the course Of their educa. ton had acquired some famii!ar- fly with the New Testament de. clared that # mankind really adopted the teachings of the Bible, there would be no more war. peO- pie are complaining today and saying ti1at God has caused this war. We should always meet such . statement with the vigorous re. jolnder that it b the devil who hes caused this war, working through agents willing to imple- fnent hig evil purpose. Divine rev- eIatlon is Ail against war. The promise og the Bible is that when men find God, they viii find peace; enA that when nations turn from the philosophy Of ex- pediency and try to put into cp- eretiOn. the teachings of Jesus, they viii live anicabiy one with
 A serious reading Of inc Bible win lead anyone e love Deace and
 tAii Rights RsssrvsA-- Dabscn 1geW1DaDee DyndloAle.t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Selected Poem
OUR BECKY

OUR BECKY (By Grace seweN Window in the Boston NoSt Our Becky started acting queer- Why, she used to be the first To run Up to the hen-yard fence, You'd really think she'd burst, The way sine ate the cracked corn Up, And didn't care Dit If it feil upon her feathers, white, Or her rosy comb got hit.
 And then sine started Scolding, And drowned on every hen, And even MT. Chanticleer, She fled from down the pen. And sometimes when looked for eggs, She tried to peck my hand, And sat upon her nest 90 close I couldn't understand. Well now, iEs all explained you see, For Becky "hid-away" And sat and sat on her big brown eggs, And just came of today. Now there are Q dozen chicks, So fluffy and So gold, Peeplng aS though they'd burst tehir ttroats, When only minute old. At first there were the weirdest pecky, Then, 6 little hole And then the shell came cracking off, And . chicken stepped out wholel It was ail wet and Sleepy-eyed, But t shook itself about, And Becky covered t with her wing, Til she had dried it out. I wouldn't really ever think That in an egg thered be The things to make z little chick, Because looked to see. All there was, was yellow bali, Tn little watery glue But Becky is the gnartest hen And you would think 90 tool
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

Furthermore, it first developed many militery tricks now made % effective by the Nazis, such as parachute troops and the mass use of tanks.
 Furthermore, the Russian army is weil.equipped, well-trained and weli-disciplined, though not nearly as well Snechanized as the Ger. man.
 However, Hitler has two big cd. vantaGes over stain. One iS the GsSman genius for organization and efficient transportation. The other 1s the fact thAt Germany can send tightening strokes against Russia In two or three different areas, and to defend against these the Russian army has to Dc seat. tered over Q tremendous area ir1- stead Of concentrated in two or three places.
 For instance, U. 8. experts Sig. ise Hitler will strire ct stain from three directions:
 1. Viz Finland toward Len. islgrad. Already General Man. ilerhetri, who hates Russia, hes been in conference with Ger. man generals, and for some time has been ready to cooper ate with Germany in ( drive on Ieningrad.
 2. On the other hand, Ger. many might strike from Warsaw through Brest.IAtovsk Into Pc. llsh Russia.
 2. Finally Hitler might move from Ruinania through the Ukraine to Kiev and Odessa. This would Do the deadiiest ct. tack Of ali, aimed to cut Rusia off from her main southern out- let to the see. Already German troop transports are reported ct Black Sea ports of RumAnia and Bulgaria, waiting to strike ct Russian oil on the other side Of the Black sea.
 Or Hitler could attack on all three Of these fronts ct once,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Press Comment
FREEZING THE ASSETS
(New London pay)


 The PresidentS action iss freezing the assets Of German and Italian 1ndiyiduak and companies In the United States, taken Saturday, may De regarded as another move toward open hogtslitieS or, perhaps, aS A step that should have been taken long ago, depending on the point Of view. It will inevitably mean re taliatory Actioat in those two nations. So far as itS bearing on the current strained situation between this na. ton and tts Axis is concerned, 1t may aggravate the feeling but t iS not likely, os itself, to prove the final measure to bring about . sey- erailce Of relations. More wariike gestures have been made than this, in other words; technically this lG not c seizure of assets but mearS o1 preventing their transfer, and, @ such, is not necessarily 70 final as one might suppose. If in some irl1orseen way the war were to end, the chances are that the freezing of the assets would be adjusted within c reasonable time.
 The purpose Of the move, it 1E oh. ViouS, is to prevent the shifting of assets of these nations from one Der. son, or firm, to another and to pre-. vent their use for purpoGey this Roys eEnfneflt does not approve Of, The move differs, in inst respect, from tile freezing of the asgetg of 1iatlon- alS Of the nations invaded by the Nazis during the war thus Ear, That was clearly intended to keep the conquerifig Germans from forcing the reAdefits Of these nations to siKn papers releasing these funds. There seems to be no doubt ttat consider- able of this was done keEcre the aAset9 of some of the islyadWd no. tons were held, by this government, in custody. In order to escapo phys sical harm CT Imprisonment, soma Of the nationa1g in the invaded nas tiong would willingly 1lsu papers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

Here in Connecticut Manchester, Mid. dletown, and New Britain have regular sewer rental charges. Manchester put the system into practice back in 1929, the others in more recent years. They seem to get along all right with the levies and their sewage systems are apparently modernized in most respects. However, we note that extension of new sewers IS not financed from proceeds in any Of the three cities. That, to our way Of think ing, would be the prime purpose O. the idea
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Current Comment

There is more to fife tn America than anywhere else iIl the world today. We must be wcrthy of tt Ali Landcn, io3e, c. Q. ?. psesi' dental candidate.
 By our victory in the last was, we won 2 lease on liberty nos . Alvin c. York, world war hero. at Memorial Day service at Az lington.
 Certainly the strong may be ex- pected to do more tit9n the weak, the rich to give more than the poor.
 -stacy May opM. The collaboration Of Mexico and the United states k not tale fes suit of 6 military alliance but Of 6 rgeional vnderstAnding Of . des fenSe nature. -PTesident Avis OAmsciso Of Mexico.
 For aiI Of tis, the democrats cE tiss world, you gre cur country. ~-MaFk AidagaOv, refugee who has oeon five revolutions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

as much co I6V
 million . year you may be in- tereSted in taking . look at the gov- ernment machin- cry set up to avert Q strike -
 the threat em- ployerS and the travelling and shipping public to gain their desired ends. It's all pare ticularly interest.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 2:17 6. m. daylight Nnle).
 Sun rises E:l0 c. na.; sets s:27 ?. n. (day. light tlme).
 All vehicles must Dc lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Spring haS run her course. t has been hy far the most pleasent spring we have enjoyed in many 6 year. True t hes brought variable weather, but for the most part it has been warm with . minimum cf rain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

q c s iH n c q to spoil soldiers. if soldiers read this book, re. piled govern. m c T [ officials, and took it's teachings ser- iousiy, there W ould be no more war; and since we eins ploy these men x0 YiUik. vsA iaAa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL [. DOUGLASS, D. D.

TTEEY FEARRD THE BIBLE
 Several years ago the mission- aties In Japan offered to give New TestamentS to ell Japanese sOi. diers. The government declined the offer, saying that the Bible was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
THURSDAY, JUNE 1s, 1941
A Thought for Today

And Jesus went forth, and saw great mul. tltude, and was moved with compassion toward them and he healed their slck.-Matthew A:lA We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. Merchant of Venice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

a. How many maii-order com panies are operating in the United States?
 A. Approximately 10000 with Q total annual volume of well over . billion dollars.
 e. When were one.half cent and one -and .one.halS cent postage stamps first Issued in the United StAtes9
 A. April { and March 10, 1928, re- spectively.
 e, Is the difference between Great BrltainS time and .. 8. East- ern Standard Time five or six hours?
 A. Great Britain has kept day- light saving time, which Is six hours ahead of E. 6. T., ever since the be- ginning of the war in 1899. On May 6, io4i, the British clocks were set ahead another hour, increasing the difference to seven hours from E. 8. T. and six hours from Eastern Day. light Saving Time.
 c. Did Charles A. Lindbergh give up his American citizenship when he lived abroad?
 A. During his various sojourtis abroad, Lindbergh never relinquish- cd his American citizenship.
 c. What old song contains the phrase "the girl with the strawber- " curls"?
 A. "The Band Played On" by John '. Palmer, music by Charles B. Ward, 1905.
 Ig you want Q copy of the latest booklet, MATHEMATICAL PUZZLEs", send Co the Water. bury Democrats Washington
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

giving Up their right to funds in America. Germany unquestioilably benefited thereby.
 Heretofore the purpose, therefore, ia freezing the aEsete of the nation. als of any country, in the United States, has been to protect the real owners of these funds, primarily, while the purpose of this present move is not 50 much to protect the real owners of the funds as to pre- vent them, or anyone in control over them, from using these funds tO the detriment of the British end thsaw Allies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

xOg the AmgWeEws
 1. Bob-o.link B or 6 not another name for bob white or quail7
 3. In army slang, what is c dos robber?
 3. What Is the date of Flag Dey7 {. On which continent is the Ba- nara Desert7
 s. What famous American actress married the actor, E. H. sothern7 6. Were Noah Webster and Dan. iei webster relatedS
 '. Who, for many years, contested against Alexander Graham Bell for the patent rights to the telephone7 0. Bridal wreath is Q towering shrub, 6 climbing rose, or c variety of strawberry plant7
 9. What is the abbreviation Of "cents"?
 10. With what kind of tales ia the name Andrew Lang associated9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

T0DAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "T,he engine is hit.
 ting good;" say, running
 smoothly"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Washington Merry Co., Round
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Q EDISON IN WASHINGTON
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Washington, June ie-one milllon, one hundred and flfty-tiree thousand five hundred railway employees have Ing presented demands for wage in. creases and change of working con-
 dttions which may cost the roads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
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 e. What was the ounpowder Plot of i00Dp
 A. A plot to blow up King JaneA end the Engllsh Parliament, enc gineered by Guy FawkeS and others as c protest against the severe an- ti-RoTnan Catholic laws. Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder, covered with coal faggots, were hidden in the vaults directly below the House of Lords. The plot was revealed through an anonymous letter; the conspirasors were captured, and most of lheyn were put to death. The event is commemorated by thA annres searching of the vaults oi the Houses of Parliament at the opr ezing of the session, and by festivi, ties on Guy F'awkes day, November s, during which there are bonfires end burning of Fawkes in efagy.
 e. What is tho Danish name for DeninarlEp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19

Yg you want c copy of the latest booklet, MATHEMATICAL PUZZLEs", send Co the Waters bury Democrats Washington Bureau, 10lS Thirteenth Street Washington, D. o. Enclose ten cents postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-19
Whats Your l. O.?

Gan you snswer seven of these test questions? Turn Co bsck page for the answers.
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Governor Whets
Ak for Budget;
Acts Tomorrow
Time. staff Correspondent

NSING. June 19.-Gov.
Murray d. Van Wagner today
wrestled with the state budget,
determined to squeeze appropria-
tons into the states SOB, 100000
a year revenue framework.
He said he had eliminated
$4,000, 900 from the legislative
allowance for the fiscal year start
ing July and an additional 81 ,500.-
900 from the total for the second
year OF the biennium.
The governor said details will
not be made public until the job
is completed, probably tomorrow.
FEW MAJOR BILLS
Meanwhile only a few major
bills remained for executive APP
proval or veto. Among them are
the act creating a commission 10
fix milk prices, and the measure
permitting wayne county voters
10 establish civil service in the
County Building.
Another controversial act on the
governors desk is the anti-sabo-
tage bill which provides stiff pen
alties for workers who maliciously
destroy property in defense indus
tries or Intentionally turn out de-
fective war materials.
Governor Van Wagner last night
signed the act allowing welfare
dependents in Detroit TO choose
their own physicians Under the
present system they are compelled
TO seek treatment from the city
physicians office.
He also approved the act allow
ing only registered voters to sign
nominating petitions.