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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-25
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of question Is that which is report ed from Ohio, where the state treasurer reports approximately $SS 100000 cash on hand with the banks refusing to accept any part of it because present deposits rep- resent the maximum allowed. It is weird situation, that of difficulty in using effectively as they should be used certain public funds, yet of multiplication at the same time of public debt without precedent and almost beyond belief.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-25

p9rakyClc Who heu suffered for thirty
 and eight years
 and had long lain at the side of the Pool of Bethesda
 |wishin that someone would Id
 but him into the healing W a t e rs'
 B ut each time
 when the waters
 were troubled, and he made the at-
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THE VERY IDEA.

(New York Herald -Tribune)
 Science, forever snubbing popular beliefs and superstitions, loves at this time of year to scoff at the very idea of an equinoctial storm and the tiresome fallacy of Indian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-25

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR A common error is to use the wrong case after the verb tO be; as "It is me-" The core rect expression is Tt is r.; because the verb to be takes the same case after as before lt.
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e, which five countries have thA highest accident death rates9
 A. Chile, United States, Aus tralia, Switzerland and Canada in the order given. The figures quoted are for 1039, with the exception Of Chile which are for 1898. More recent statistics are not available.
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Washington Merry Round
DREW PEAR s 0 N ROBERT s. ALLEN
Washington Merry most powerful
Brass Ring and . free ride on next to Roosevelt, in Washington.)
WASHINGTON, octo

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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D,

THE CRY OF THE STRICKEN "While am coming, another Steppeth down before me"
 This was the complaint of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-25

am coming. another steppeth down before me" (All RiRht Reserved Babscn News
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a. what is the origin of the tOgm ''carat" as Q weight4
 A. The original carats are said tc have been seeds of Q locust tree 60 uniform in size that ancient dealers used them to weigh gems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-25
Whats Your l. o.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back uaKe for the answers.
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@. what Is the average tempeBAa t,ire in Moscow and LeningrA6 @ fall and early wimterP
 A. In September tho mean teEn~ nernture Is about Bl degrees . dropping to about % degrees m october and falling slightly below the freezing mark in Ncvemner. m December and January t registefs from a to l0 degrees in Lenin9rads and from i8S to IA degrees tn Mose COW.
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At present a battle royal is being waged between Jones and Harold Ickes over this deal which
Evening star., 1941-06-15

gather great wealth. In the midst of our in
vestigation received petition, signed by
scores of Super Utilities stockholders urging
me to stop prosecuting this great and good
man. " They fatty refused to testify against
him. All we could do was to get an injunction
forbidding him to sell stock, but he later was
sent away to federal prison. How this old
fellow could charm people into buying stock
in anything as overworked as a perpetual
motion machine is a mystery. Yet his victims
Evening star., 1941-06-15

honest. They had patents which they said
televison couldn't get along without
They sold nearly 100000 shares; then there
came ull. The list of stockholders names
and addresses was used by William II. Milne
Schenectady broker, and Fred Knapp and
Lewis Duell. his statesmen, as means of
selling more stock to these people. They sold
this stock at So, SIS or $40 share to aged
men and women who had already invested
in Television Corporation of America.
Witnesses, some in their late seventies and
eighties, testified that Knapp and Duell called
at their homes, casually mentioned the local
preacher, and then waxed eloquent about big
profits in Television. letting drop that they
were going to sue Radio Corporation of Amer
ica for Sl2.OOO,OOO because they stole our
patents" One man went with Knapp to
Albany, drew $500 from the bank and bought
forty shares at SIS each. Soon Knapp came
back and sold him sixty shares more; then
he came third time ('last chance to buy at
SIS share') and sold forty more
Il have never seen Mr. Knapp since" was
the end of his story
An eighty year old widow gave Duel
her check for $3.50 for fifty shares, but, grow
ing suspicious. stopped payment on it. DUEL
called again. declared that if the check didn't
clear right away she'd have to pay $40 for
the stock - and she let the check go through
Convicted of grand larceny, Milne and
Knapp we're sentenced to Sing Sing for from
five to ten years. Duell turned States evil
dence and got three months in prison.
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were not all fools by any means. The first
complaint was made by an intelligent bust
nesswornan who had invested Sl.O70.
1t isn't only the phony inventions that trap
the suckers Crooks exploit every important
new invention. When the newspapers began
to proclaim the wonders of television they
were unconsciously spreading bait for suckers
A group of promoters organized the Tele-
vision Corporation of America, Capital
S6,OO0OOO" shares at 81 each 1t seemed
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IN Article Complete on This Pagt

a MAJESTIC figure of man stalked into
A my Office not long ago, frowning as he
= u came. A bodyguard of five lawyers
surrounded him, demanding to know by
what right we had summoned him. 1t was
really simple routine, but the man acted as if
the State of New York were committing Rsf
mdjeSt&. Nobody in the room - except the
guilty man himself - guessed that we were
on the trail of series of swindles amounting
to more than S5OO.0O0
In examining the books of shady stock
broking firm. we had found the name of
William F. Peterson and invited him to come
in ard answer some questions That was all
When his lawyers stopped laundering about
the outrageousness of questioning a man of
his standing, they consented to have him
sworn as witness, to be examined in a few
days. But the man himself had no such inten-
ton. He skipped town. Two days later his
wife, fearing he had been kidnapped, asked the
police to look for him. The newspapers print
ed the story, and that brought his swindled
customers in swarms to our Office, many of
them too ashamed to testify.
Peterson's Office was gorgeous suite on
the fifty-seventh floor of Pine Street sky
scraper. He and his wife lived at the Sherry
Netherland and spent thousands entertaining
friends who invested with him - and who
introduced other victims lie was careful to
adapt his talk of profits to fit his clients, offer
ing ten per cent to smart businessmen, as
high as 1850 per cent to trusting women.
The police finally caught Peterson in Mil
waukee and brought him back to New York.
He put up $4,000 cash bail - and ran away
again. Fate did not overtake him until last
June, when he crashed his car into another,
in Kansas, and was killed.
When all was reckoned up it turned out
that he had stolen S5l6,745 in New York.
His victims got nothing.
Peterson s case should be of special interest
to every one of us right now, for as soon as
the billions of dollars of national-defense
money get into wide circulation. thousands
of swindlers just like him will swing into
action More people will have more funds to
invest than they have seen since the boom
days of 1929, and wherever that money is
in big city or small town, the smooth takers
will smell it out and get millions of it - I'm
less the public wakes up and learns how to
fight them off, And hope that by telling
how these smart swindlers operate - and |
have caught thousands of them during ten
years as Attorney General of New York State
i may be able to give the public few
pointers for that fight.
Evening star., 1941-06-15
PerpetvoI.Motion Hoax

I IRST, beware the scientific sharper.
Science has made such wondrous progress
that crook who can mix little science jar
gon in his sales talk rakes in money as fast
as he can spend it. Arthur LingelbaCh posed
as an engineer. He was small, suave, dignifed
and gray. and he told tales of his Super Utii-
ties Company and his perpetual motion ma
chine that charmed thousands of dollars out
of the pockets of simple folks. The machine
was to be enclosed in a refrigerator You
wound up his marvellous secret spring and this
kept the box cold without the use of gas or
electricity. There would be millions in it.
When Lingelbach testified at our invest-
cation he claimed every scientific achieve
ment imaginable. He swore that he had per-
fected Edison's phonograpb, helped Burbank
and Nicholson develop synthetic rubber
shown Ford how to design his Model T car
A pudgy seeress who held spiritualistic
seanCes in a Broadway hotel had steered
suckers to him. Trust him." she would in
tone in an awesome voice. and you will
gather great wealth.
They did trust him - but they did not
Evening star., 1941-06-15

ing suspicious. stopped payment on it. DUEL
called again. declared that if the check didn't
clear right away she'd have to pay $40 for
the stock - and she let the check go through
Convicted of grand larceny, Milne and
Knapp we're sentenced to Sing Sing for from
five to ten years. Duell turned States evil
dence and got three months in prison.
PortioI TO Rich Widows
WIDOWS are special target of the swim.
dlers - and many are shorn of their wealth.
Robert E. Lancaster was getting ready to
offer them some astonishing bargains in secu-
rites when we began an inquiry that stopped
his career. We stumbled on him by accident
- found that he was connected with a sus-
picious investment firm - and subpoenaed
him as witness. When he fed we examined
his books and issued warrant for his arrest.
charging him with selling $5OO,0OO worth of
fraudulent securities. He had been making
money fast, living in penthouse and enter
tanning in big way He was picked up in
Florida and sent to federal prison on mail
fraud charges that resulted from our investi-
CATION When that term is finished he will face
sentence in New York State courts.
The most interesting thing we found in his
Office was list of fifteen hundred widows
whose fortunes ran from 100000 to ST ,OOO-
GOO, with their addresses the names of their
children and other details useful to Swindler
| wrote a letter to each of them, telling OF
Lancasters list and warning them to beware
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to put their money into marvellous invest
ment. l hope they all took warning, but,
knowing how cunning the high pressure sales.
men are. fear some of them may have been
swinded by this time.
These are only two or three of thousands
of similar cases we have handled during my
years in office. We have sent 500 swindlers to
prison. We have obtained injunctions against
$500 others. forbidding them to sell secur-
ties in the State. And we have recovered
$lO.OOO0OO of the stolen money - only a
fraction. of course, of their total haul.
Yet there are still thousands of swindlers
and hundreds of thousands of suckers. And
there will be more of both when the defense
billions get into wider circulation.
Most people are so dazzled by the prospect
of getting something for nothing that they
forget to take the commonest precautions
But every man and woman who reads these
lines can escape the swinder's trap by re-
membering five simple points:
l. Big profits always mean big risks.
2. Strangers offering to make big money
for you" are, ninety nine times out of hun
dred, really trying to rob you.
3. Before investing get your lawyers or
your bankers advice, especially if the offer
seems to be in the sure thing class
4. When stranger offers you a marvellous
speculation, be sure to have him tell his story
before witnesses. Honest men don't mind wit
nesses; crooks fight shy of them.
;. In buying securities take at least as
much care as you would in buying a car.
And here's the best investment tip of all:
Put your money into United States Defense
Bonds. They are safe-and they are patriotic
The End
Evening star., 1941-11-18

reception. after a pause Of some
minutes" the chronicler wrote, 1.-The
embassy disembarked in regular
order, the chief ambassador first,
and the next in rank after, and so
on. The three principal ambassa-
dors we're escorted, one on either
side by a naval officer in full uni
form; and as soon as they had dis
embarked Commander Franklin)
Buchanan stepped forward from his
suite, and, shaking hands with the
iliustrious prince and his principal
officers, welcomed them to the Fed
eral metropolis in brief and
happy style"
The name of the first envoy was
given by The Star reporter as:
Simme-Bujen-no Kami; that of the
second as: Muragake- -AWage- mo-
Kami. They were the original pre-
curSors Of Saburo Kurusu, and as
such deserve their place in the his
tory OF modern times.
Evening star., 1941-11-18

came about simply because the Me-
diation Board, in one case, finally
refused to give the c. I. O. precisely
what it wanted
There is no doubt that Mr.. Murray
believes in national defense. There
Is no reason to suppose that he is not
in sympathy with the Presidents
foreign policy. In fact, it is reason
able to assume that he even meant
the nice things he had to say about
the Mediation Board at the time he
wrote his report. But there are
other matters that loom more i'm
portantly in Mr.. Murray's scheme Of
things, and one Of them is the
compulsory unionization Of $500
non-union miners.
Because his hopes have been dis
appointed in this relatively trivial
matter. all the fine words are
forgotten. National defense, the
preservation of democracy against
aggression, aid to Britain, the Media
ton Board-one and all are tossed
into the discard because $500 miners
won't join the union and because the
Government won't compel them to
join.
Truly, actions speak louder than
words.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce,DeH.
told them that 1t would hold" half {
dozen, or even dozen goldnshes

told them that it would hold" half q
dozen, or even dozen goldfshes.
~ ~
The truth is that an average-sized
goldfish of about inches long needs at
least two gallons of water all to himself
A five-gallon tank, which holds many
times the amount held by the usual
round glass bowl, will not do for more
than two, or at most three, ordinary
small goldfishes.
What usually happens, however, is that
from 6 to IL fishes are crowded into
a gallon.
This means that they do not get
enough oxygen and cannot get 1t. The
water itself cannot provide 1t for them,
and the surface Of the water is not large
enough to give it to them.
Few persons, whether elder or young
ster, who take up goldhshes, stop to
realize that the amount of oxygen the
fishes get is intimately connected with
the way the animals handle the food
they receive.
1t requires oxygen for them to digest
their food, and If they could get plenty
of "air" they would do much better,
though overcrowded. When they get too
little air, and too much food, the result
is sickness and death.
So II you want TO have g0ldflSheS,
bright and interesting hold down your
desire for "a lot of fishes"
Content yourself with two. or maybe
three. and try to give them as much
water as possible, with the largest water
surface feasible II you must use bowl,
do not fill it to the brim, where the sur
face is cut down in size by the con-
verging sides. but fill only to the point
in the vessel where the section of surface
water is the largest. 1t must be remem-
bered that this surface is more impor-
tant, in some ways, than the actual
amount OF water present.
As for the food, select good brand
OF manufactured food, preferably not the
white wafer so often used, and do not
give the fishes more than they can eat
in 10 minutes day. This means that
all Of it, positively every crumb, will be
eaten in that time.
Goldfishes can 90 for days without any
food at all. On the other hand. they
will not get. as so many persons suppose,
any food from the water itself. This
naive idea is sometimes taken as an
excuse for not feeding them at all
If goldfshes are fed properly and given
enough air. they will live long time,
even in limited quarters. Our last gold
fish was fiddle, who died at the good
age of 6 years. She passed away last
month and lies today beneath lilac
near the great Van Fleet rose on the
west fence.
We had fed her for eight years and
thought We knew how, but at last overfed
her. Maybe her time had come, who
knows? These are perilous days, fol
goldfish or man; maybe the months to
come will show us that it is better to
die from overfeeding. sometimes, over
night, than to slowly starve to death
even in a good cause.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Defense Economies

In addressing the New England
Council last week, Donald NJ Nelson
executive director of the Supply
| Priorities and ALLEGATIONS Board,
warned that it will be necessary to
increase defense expenditures to
$500, 100000 a month, or twice the
amount currently devoted to arma-
ments, if we are to win the war
against Hitler with reasonable speed
and certainty" These figures serve
as pointed reminder of the vast cost
of the preparedness effort. For at
this rate, expenditures under the
arms program will consume approx
mately 40 per cent of the national
income.
In view of his familiarity with the
production requirements of defense,
Mr.. Nelson's statement may be re-
garded as fair estimate of the price
of victory. With the country al
ready carrying a heavy financial
burden, soon to be increased, it has
a right to expect that the huge sums
voted for ornaments be expended to
the best advantage and without
needless waste Congress, therefore,
should explore possible economies in
military, as we'll as civil appropria-
tionS.
In times Of emergency, such as the
present, there is a temptation for
public officials to seek a defense
status for activities that have little,
If any, relationship to the Nations
war needs. An Illustration in point
is the st. Lawrence seaWay. Though
its completion would require several
years, and neceSSitate the diversion
of money, men and materials from
armament production, its hackers
are urging immediate construction
of the project as defense" meas
ure. To assure the American people
the maximum of protection for their
armament dollar, it is essential that
Congress restrict military appro-
priationS to agencies that really
contribute to the arms program. The
plea of defense" should not be per-
mitted to prevent justified econo-
mics, nor used to secure unwar-
ranted increases in appropriations.
After the appropriations have
been approved, every effort should
be made to assure a wise spending
of defense funds A careful scrutiny
of expenditures no doubt will reveal
opportunities for sizable economies,
thus releasing additional funds for
military purposes. Since the arms
program requires the expenditure of
such astronomical sums, there is
good reason to believe that a search
for economies would result in saw
ings as large as those accruing from
the elimination of unessentials from
the non-defenSe budget.
Evening star., 1941-11-18
Museum Period Room

A beamed and painted ceiling spreads
above
A strange ne1o floor, NTH stranger
DdHs betpeen,:
No piece OF all this furniture has
another piece before; no careless
shoDe
Set any chair: recurring death and
lope
Flo,red round these once, but no,o
they rest serene,
A placid part OF gallery routine,
Untouched by Hts-not sren q
dropped glore.
Once I hare seen their like: A So
called home
Where aged folk are grouped. strange
each to each
But all the same in period. The
embers
OF ,Darm life cold upon the hearth,
they come
For care that holds. no lope, and
little speech,
Where each is dead except that
each remembers.
DoAoTHY Known 7DoARDoN
Evening star., 1941-11-18
AStudy in Words

The report by Phillip Murray,
president of the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations, to that body's
Executive Board is a truly remark
able document.
Mr.. Murray recorded himself as
being in accord with the Presidents S
foreign policy and fully aware Of the
danger to this country and to organ
lied labor from the aggressive de-
signs of Naziism.
The workers." he said, have
been, are now and always will be in
opposition to Hitlerism. 1t must be
defeated and destroyed. Democracy
can survive in no other way" And
in another section of the report he
added: 1--WE are whole-heartedly and
completely in support of the ma
tional defense program. We are de-
termined that the program must be
effectuated and fulfilled with all
possible speed"
Those are fine wOrdS-WOrds which
seem to mean but one thing. Yet
they must mean something else, for
Mr.. Murray'S ringing pledges are not
being put into effect by energetic
action in behalf of national defense.
Instead, the c. 1. o. has pledged its
support to the mine workers strike
a strike which is calculated to wreck
the defense program, endanger the
survival of democracy and give a
very great measure of aid and COM
fort to Adolf Hitler.
The explanation, perhaps, is to be
found in still another section of the
report-that in which Mr.. Murray
voiced unstinted praise of the Ma
tional Defense Mediation Board as
one of the few emergency defense
agencies that has worked success
fully" On its face this is an ex-
traordinary assertion, because, five
days earlier, Mr.. Murray had re-
signed from the board in a huff, de-
nouncing it as an agency in which it
was impossible for labor to retain
any confidence.
Obviously, Mr.. Murray's revised
opinion of the board came after he
had prepared his report to the C.
I. O., and too late for the report to
be rewritten. Under the circum-
stances, however, it is clear that the
real change was in Mr.. Murrays out
look, not in the boards attitude
toward labor.
And this whole astonishing change