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is another and newer angle to that. With occupation of a dozen new and faraway bases in the hemisphere defense plan, thousands of American boys are billeted in their garrison, far from home, and often in remote places where entertain ment is scarce. It's up to the short-wave radio to keep them entertained and to strengthen their ties with home.
 The Schenectady short-wave stations of General Electric, for instance, report an increasing wave of letters from sold- iers in the Canal Zone, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at St. Thomas, V. l., thanking them for the programs that are almost the only direct link with the folks back home. To young Coast Guardsman in Greenland or young Marine in Guiana, radio pro- gram might mean lot. We hope that all other short-wave stations are making their plans with this new and increas- ing audience in view.
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hoped the incident had been for- gotten, she sent this final shot nt her hoftess: "You did slip badly on the placing tonight, my deah!" GO EASY ON TIRES
 Those flossy, white-Walled tires on the family car may soon be- come a rarity, together with tire mileage guarantees, high speed driving, and weekend motor trips. These are some of the measures under consideration by Defense chiefs to conserve the nations rubber supply.
 How soon drastic curbS will have t0 bc imposed depends on what happens in the Far East and upon the increasingly tight shipping situation. The United States Is entirely dependent on rubber transported from the East Indies and Malaya.
 At present there Is six to eight months reserve on hand, with new shipments arriving fair- ly regularly. But no one can predict how long they will con- tinue.
 Last year U. s. rubber eonsump- ton totaled 848,500 tons, of which about 500,000 tons went into tires and tubes. Due to heavy defense requirements and increased car sales, present consumption is es- timated at the rate of 100000 tons, an increase which worries Army officials.
 They would like to sec immedi- ate restrictive measures imposed, but so far have not been able to sell the Idea to OPM chiefs.
 The OPM holds that the 20 per cent cut In new auto output, likely to be curtailed more in a few months, will make big
 dent in rubber consumption. Also, they are counting strongT on the new synthetic rubber plants belatedly approved by Jesse Jones. How much they will produce Is still c0njectural.
 If curbs are put on the use of rubber, first hit will be tires and tubes, because between 72 and .77 per cent of crude rubber i'm. ports go for this purpose.
 White-walled tires will be banned because 1t take as much as 20 per cent more rubber than the ordinary casing to obtain a perfect white finish. Driving speeds and weekend pleas trips will be cut down, and mileage guarantees eliminated in order to force more careful use of tires, particularly on trucks.
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@, Please give directions for pre-. pairing sensitized paper and ilaoist- ened pad for stainless finger print ing9
 A. A simple procedure is to have the paper on which the print Is to be made sensitized by soaking 1t in 0 dilute solution of feiTic sulphate and letting 1t dry, The fingers arc pressed against Q pad moistened with Q dilute solution of potassium ferroeyanide tyellow prussiate) and then against tho prepared paper. This will make sharp prints of Prus- sian blue. Instead of the ferrocy. anide, the pad can be moistened with Q solution of gallic acid, which will make black prints of ferric gall late.
 @, What Is the religion of Mrs. Grace Qoodhue Coolidge, widow Of former President Calvin Coolidgc9
 A. CongregationaliSt,
 e. Who designed the large statue on top of the Nebraska State Capl- tol, and what does 1t representa-
 A. Tho 27-foot statue Is by Lee Laurie, and is named "TThe Sower,"
 If you want . copy of tho latest booklet, Markets for Literature" send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thlr-
 tccnth st., Washington, D. c. Enclose ten cents postage.
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The American Eagle is matching war riors of the air at rapid rate these days. The other day at Maxwell Field, Alabama, 147 bronzed flying cadets from 31 states pinned on their wings, making 554 pilots turned out at that center since February T. Thirty weeks ago, these 147 young men wouldn't have known how to crawl into a cockpit. When those wings were pinned on, each of them had flown more than 26,300 miles, of 1900 miles more than the distance around the world at the equator. Together, they had flown 3,86e, loo miles without fatality. More than 1900 young men are now in that process of highly practical training. The nest of the eagle is full of pledglings. It is rapidly matching a mighty brood.
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Questions .andAnswers

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
 The Waterbury Democraes Bef- vice Bureau win answer Ter yoa free, any question of fact OF in" formation, not involving extens slve research. Write your ques- tlOn clearly, sign name and aa- dress, enclose . three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot he given. Address Water bury Democrats Washington Ser. vice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 @, Does the U. 8. Navy have its own types of training planess
 A, Yes. The newest Of these ID the Curtlss SNC.i, 6 two-place, low wing monoplane designed for the final step In training, before pilots transfer to high-speed combat snipS'
 @. which states have constitu. tional prohibition of the sale Of
 A, Kansas and oklahoma, which permit only S,2 beer. Mississippl has statutory prohibition on all liquors except { percent beer ana wine,
 e: Tn which play did EieanorA Duse give her final perforfnanceS
 A. Her last appearance was m Henrik fhsen's Lady From the Sea-" at the Metropolitan opera House In New York, in November. 1923,
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Selected Poem
PAY DAY.

PAY DAY. (By Helen Rowland Prommel in the
 New York Sum Every week, or two, or four, Pay day comes around once more Lifting you for one short hour To a place of wealth and power, Giving you the sudden urge To go out and make splurge- Bring the kid a ball and bat, Buy the wife another hat, Paint the car, or get new tires, Or a stove for camping fires. Order up a suit or two, Pay the grocer what is due, See the doctor, pay loan, Settle for the telephone Pay day, pay day, what a honey It can be for paying money Out until you're broke once more As you ever were before. still, next week you'll be in clover And can do the whole thing over.
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mittee than from any other group. In contrast, there arc no propa- ganda letters In the Presidents favor. All mail supporting his foreign policy comes from persons who write individual letters, fol- lowing no pattern.
 s7O00 LETTERS
 The ordinary days mall on regu. lar government subjects (social security, WPA, farm problems, etc) numbers from 3 to { thou sand. The war issue vastly in- creased the mall. A high figure of recent weeks was 37,000 letters in single day.
 But the all.timc record of White House mall was estnb- llShed when there was no con- tr0versy involved. This was on the Presidents birthday, Janu. ary 20, 1037. when the march of dimes brought the ast0upndlng total of l5S,000 letters In one day.
 About three.fourths of the or- dInary mall coming to the White House is answered, Mail that is obviously propaganda receives no answer at all.
 AFTER YOU, MY DEAR!
 Washington's latest social war, the question of whether Mrs, Stanley Hornbeck. wife of the State Departments political ad- wiser, should come In to dinner ahead of Mrs. Wallace Murray, wife of the State Departments Chief of the Near Eastern Di- vision, hes developed some new kinks.
 Czarinas Of Capital society, for whom social precision is religion, now have exonerated Madame Emmanuel Lombard, wife of the French military attache. for plac- ing Mrs. Murray ahead of Mrs. Hornbeck. They make the very delicate point that if Madame Lombard has arranged the seat ing otherwise she would have committed the criminal offense of putting wives next to hus- bands.
 In further defense of Madame Lombard. they point out that she considerably placed Mrs. Horn beck on the right of the Chinese ambassador. And since MT. Horn beck is the State Department! political adviser on Far Eastern affairs, this should have been a highly prized place.
 However, Mrs. Hornbeck doesn't take this view. Not only did she protest during dinner, but when she deported, and just as everyone
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Roosevelt was In cheery mood when he greeted the Capi- tol Hill group in tho Lincoln study on the second floor Of the White House. Although this Is the Presidents private office. it is not air conditioned. But Roosevelt, in his shirt sleeves, did not seem to mind the sweltcring heat.
 After his visitors were seated, he read the speech through care- fully and seemed to get big kick out of the phrases that dotted 1t. He seemed particularly pleased with the paragraph in which he told the Latin American Republi- cans: "YOu may disregard those few citizens of the United States who contend that we are dlSunited and cannot act"
 "QuislingS would he found to govern In our republics" ap- pcared to be another favOrite llnc.
 After he had finished, tho first question from the intently listening group was, "What about cOnv0yS?"
 "Draw your own conclusions" was RooseveltS cryptic reply.
 Exactly what do you mean by freedom of the seas, MT. PreSi- dent?" asked Speaker Sam Ray burn, 100 per cent supporter or the Roosevelt foreign policy,
 "Draw your own conclusions, Sam" the President again smil- inugly replied,
 "Well, do you mean freedom of the seas as limited by the Neutrality Act, or freedom of the seas as we understood it be- fore combat zone restrictions were set up?"
 The answer and genial smile were the same as before, Draw your own conclusions"
 The ono bit of concrete informa- ton congressional leaders brought away was that the purpose of the speech was to unify the nation behind the government in meet ing the growing menace of a Nazi attack. The President laid great emphasis on this danger and the need for unity.
 "T think this speech will unite the country" he declared.
 WHITE HOUSE MAIL
 The tons of mail poured into the White House by isolationist organizations plus Bundist-left- wing allies had little effect on the President.
 For two reasons: First, 1t was 20 patently an organized deluge. Second, considerable portion of the letters and cards were anony- nous and of a disgusting na- ture.
 When the flood first started Roosevelt was impressed. But as the mail was analysed 1t be- came apparent that only a small percentage was spOnteaneOuS and sincere; the rest was i'm spircd.
 The propaganda mail is easily spotted. When the White House receives 1000 letters in a single day, all using the same language, they are worthless as an indica- tion of true public sentiment. They are obviously part of an or- ganized drive.
 Mail sent to individuals by different isolatiOnist Organiza- tiOns is often found to be ad- dressed by the same addressing machines another indication of a central source. More propaganda mail is com ing from the America First Com-
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THE RED BROTHER LEARNS
(New York Sun)


 In the course of two centuries the American Indian seems to have learned much about real estate values. A group of Mohegans in Connecticut has petitioned the State Legislature for an indemnity or $5O,O0O GOO in respect of million acres of land taken from their aIl- cestors by the white settlers early in the eighteenth century. Professor Odell Shepard, Connecticut's Lieu tenant Governor, supports the prin- ciple of the claim, though he de- plores the mention of a specific sum. He thinks they are entitled to something. but hardly to as much as $3O,0OO per Mohegan, which IS how it would work out at the price fixed by the tribe.
 When the white man arrived the American ndian had a low opinion of land values in this country. He sold Manhattan Island at what seemed to him a boom price: $24 and a string of wampum. A tract on which Danbury now stands, 8O,OOO acres in all, was ceded by the Mohegans themselves for a sack of beans. The site of Colchester changed hands for "five or six shill- ings." But as time has gone on, the red brothers appreciation of Amer
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What Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

1. Name the first motion picture actor with star rating who was in- ducted under the selective Service Act,
 ?. Who said No man Is born an artist nor on angler"?
 3. Mary Read was c famous pirate; true or false9
 {. Name the last book in tho King James version Of the Bible.
 5. dreeneastle, Indiana is the seat of ------------- university?
 c. Benjamin Franklin of America, William Willett of England or Nd. poleon Bonaparte of France, orig. mated daylight saving time2
 2. What Is the British term foi mems Rarter'S?
 8. What was Mrs. Franklin D Roosevets maiden surnamep
 9. Are mall trucks owned by the P. o. Department obliged to obey oil city traffic laws? 10. In what year was the Panama Canal opened9
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In Today's Mail
WRITER. SAYS LET EVERYONE FORCE THE PRESIDENT
 KEEP HIS WORD
New York, N. Y. June 2, l04l.

New York, N. Y.
 June 2, l94l, Editor of The Democrat:
 In the Journal-America of May 20, George Rothwell Brown writes in his column "The Political Parade" a fine commentary on the Presi- dents Emergency" speech. The whole article boils down to this issue:-
 We can make a choice of either one of the following:
 l. TO embark on two-ocean foreign war, which might last for twenty years, which would involve to defeat Hitler, the invasion of Europe, Asia and Africa, which would cost perhaps $500, ,000, ,000, ,00C Give hundred billions) which would in all probability destroy the Ameri- can Republic" would kill and maim and render insane millions of our boys and create millions of unknown SolulerS OrV
 ?. REPUDIATE THE PRESI- DENT
 know which course 90% of us wish to take. Before the election last November we had a choice of two evils. Finally we decided to give MT. Roosevelt the benefit of the doubt because we just couldn't believe a president of our great country would break his pledged word ITO Keep Us Out of War" So we elected him. I know this to be the case of myself and dozens of my friends and I hear 1t Is the same all over.
 Let us force the President ts keep his word to us not to send our boys to fight other peoples wars. Let us force him to keep that pledge and form WE WILL NOT LET OUR SONS BE SENT OUT or THE AMERICAN CON. TTNENTS SOCIETY" LET US can vas every Mother and Dad, Sister Brother and Sweetheart of every soldier and draftee to join. Or would you rather weep and worry for years, Mothers, than do little work now which might still save your boys?
 (Aflss) BARBARA ANN DUNN.
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Pretty soon most Americans will be launching out on their vacations except those like the 38,000 in the vital Curtiss- Wright airplane plants, who have patri- otically given up theirs in order to pro- duce 60 more planes and 2so more engines during that tfme). The least those of us can do who go on the annual vacation is not to kill anybody while we're away. Yet some of us will. Vacation season IS always a carnival for death on the high ways, and the United States enters this one with 1,5OO more dead already on the roads this year than last In the first four months of this year, 10,780 persons have been killed in traffic. We are head ed for a new high record unless we can restrain our passion for speed, our road recklessness. Drive slowly - conserve your car, your tires - and your life,
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THANKSGIVING 194s
(New York Herald -Tribune)

(New York Herald -Tribune)
 It is good news taht Thanksgiv- ing Day is to be taken out of the field of New Deal experimentation and restored to it's traditional date. Now, why not start in to make the day worth celebrating? We set down Q few of the more obvious items deserving place on such a list of domestic agenda:
 1. The Federal budget balanced, so far as normal expenditures go. Borrowing only for defense.
 2. The dollar once more real dollar.
 3. One strong man to run in- dustrial defense with authority to command. Full speed ahead!"
 1. A new labor act and a new Secretary of Labor, fair to both sides.
 Every reader will have pet sug- gestions to add. No doubt the Pres- ident has a few of his own. Having found that confession is good tor
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has overlooked. When we are dis posed to complain and say that God has not given us as many blessings as we should have. we should look at the other side of the picture and become very conscious of the equally important reality. namely, that He has not held us fully accountable for all our mistakes and sins.
 Justice ls no more perfect in this
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New Job for Short Waves

The defense program means new jobs and new responsibilities for all of us. They crop up in the most unexpected places. For instance, short-wave radio. Naturally, that service has been expand ed to complete with European broadcasts 10 South and Central America. But there
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sword. II there were nothing but
 justice in the world. you and l would be in a sorry plight. If we had received our
 just deserts on every occasion, we would be suf- fering punish
 ment today for many evils which God in His mercy
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70 aQufeSS In aBks ing your question about where to get @ suh.con- tract to make left-handed mon- key wrenches or how tn make good gravy, the letter goes first to the United States Inf form a tio n Service in the Of- flee of Govern ment Reports.
 If USIS has the answer handy, asAaa .ak a-AA
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Views Of The Press

ica's possibilities has advanced also. He perceives now that his ancestors had too little faith in their country's future. They failed to heed the slogan, Don't sell America short" " They have lived - or some of them haye-to regret it.
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imperfect world than is anything else. There is not as much justice in the world as we would desire, but there Is infinitely more mercy than we deserve. Man may not give us everything that is coming to us, but God withholds His hand very often and the hand of irate man. that we suffer not the full extremity of our wrong doing.
 There could be worse things m life than injustice, and the infall-. ible working of the principles of strict justice in our lives every day would be one of these.
 All Rights Reserved
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. EDISON IN '@
 WASHINGTON
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington CoFrespOndent

Washington, June 4--rf you as . citizen, from your tumhledown love nest or palatial office, write Q let. ter to Uncle Sam, Washington, D. e." because you don't know whom
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
DO WE ALWAYS WANT
 JIJSTICE?

People often complain that they do not get their just deserts in life. This is true, and we can thank God that it IS. Justice is a two-edged
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Nineteen year old film actress elopes with four times divorced count. Looks like the Hollywood young actresses are not very fussy.
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Washington Merry Round
F. D. Hopes Preside Cho Will Unify Nation Meet Nozi Menace
 Refused Coneresmen His Views Conveying Sea Freedom
DREW PEA N $ o N ? ROBERT $. ALLEN

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  information than the of
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the soul, may he make G . hibtl If so. what . Thanksgivingl
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A Thought for Today

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them'-Matthew 21:lA.
 Every believer Is Gods miracle.-Bailey.
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ToDAY's COMMON ERROR | Never say, "I wish you hadn't
 of done that"; omit "Of."
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-22
SAN JOSE LEADS THE WAY

The small fruit center of San Jose,
Calf, has been changed into defense pro-
duction center There was no large COM
pany in the town to serve as prime contrac-
tor through which small companies could
receive subcontracts. All machine shops
in this town were small.
The local Chamber of Commerce took
the lead and made a survey of all the ma
chine shops in the metropolitan area of San
Jose, collecting information on personnel,
equipment, floor space, and possibilities for
expansion This data was disseminated
with the cooperation of the Army and OPM.
In June of this year the San Jose
Manufacturers, Inc, was organized as
prime contractor. In September the group
obtained s2,O00.0O0 army contract to con-
struct los millimeter howitzer gun car
riages.
The association is now installing ma
chinery in leased concrete structure, and
plan to go into actual production within a
few weeks. The association will allot to the
various thirty-seven machine shops in San
Jose, Oakland, and adjacent cities the vari-
Gus parts of the contract, according to eff
cheney.
This is an excellent illustration of how
one community has combined forces into a
cooperative endeavor which viii not only
prove extremely beneficial to the COM
munity but to the nation as well.