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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-04

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-04

Handsomely tailored double
breasted topeoas in tWeeds,
herrinsbonee,, eheviOt'. Blue,
brown, teal, green, navy. A
wonderful saving, at FsdsraPs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
May Get One Concession

While the Legislature doesn't seem disposed In It's closing minutes to do any thing about reapportionment of congress sional or senatorial districts, one conces- sion may be made by creating separate senatorial district out of the City of Greenwich. It would be termed the seth senatorial district. Legislation to this effect has already received a favorable report and may be approved by Senate and House If 1t isn't too busy to stop for this task.
 At the present time Greenwich and Stamford comprise one senatorial district and also are one of the main reasons for the demand for reapportionment. They constitute the 27th senatorial district with population of 96,000. This Is con- siderably in excess of the majority of other districts, but even among them there are several outstanding examples of inequality So If Greenwich can be made a separate senatorial district at least a start will be made toward reap portionment.
 However, it's easy to lose hope over this situation. Nothing much being accom- plished at this sitting of the General Assembly nothing more can be done about 1t until 1851. Some of us will be around then to exhort legislators to re- apportion; others will have passed along. But where an opportunity is given only once every ten years to make certain changes in our form of representation, 1t certainly is an insult to the intelligence of the voters of Connecticut that their duly-elected representatives in Hartford don't do what the Constitution provides for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
Still Disputing It

The milk industry is one that concerns the lives of so many people, their homes and their children, that it's hard to under stand why 1t can't be regulated amicably. But regularly session after session the Legislature falls out and fights and snarls and listens to organized groups of milk dealers and milk producers do the same thing over milk control. This year is no exception. One of the first things that Governor Robert A. Hurley set out to do was to have an adequate milk control act drawn up.
 The Legislature didn't seem to like all of 1t, SO leaders had some changes made in committee. But one group interested in the milk industry didn't like this final result any more than 1t probably likes the law now in effect. Now that the House has adopted a milk bill the governor is irate that 1t failed to include one of his proposals with regard to regulation of appeals taken from the ruling of the milk administrator. So we are again at the end of legislative session with prospects of having a new milk control act that won't please everybody and may be scrapped two years hence.
 Why is this? Certainly Connecticut's dairy industry, a very valuable one to- day, can be regulated. Everyone should admit that the man who owns the cows and nilks them is entitled to a price commensurate with his investment and labors. Everyone should likewise admit that the dealer must get fair price for the produce which he leaves at your door every morning. Beyond that the average laynan's knowledge of the complexities of the milk industry does not go. He isn't very much interested in equaliza- ton plans, pools and the like.
 But the milk producers and dealers are interested and they know all the answers. But even in the House we'll wager there aren't too many legislators who under stand why they are forced to take sides on an issue that really ought to be set tied before 1t comes on the floor of either house. There is no legislative issue on milk; 1t isn't political matter. If the milk industry can't work out good con- trol act, then 1t must expect to have the state take 1t out of It's own hands with results not always good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

seems even closer than six inches Prob ably In no period has so much progress been made in the fight against soil erosion as in the past 10 years. Millions of trees have been planted, thousands of check dams have been built to stop gullying. The beginnings of a tree shelter belt against wind erosion dot the prairles.
 It is only a beginning. The task of conserving our soil Is basic. If the soil goes, from which alone man is now able to get a living, all else is in vain. So all plans aimed at this vital form of conser- vation are worth study, cry for action. The Wild Life Federation is primarily interested, of course, in the restoration of those wild animals which are either rapidly disappearing. It lists more than 40 species which are either extinct or are rapidly disappearing. Those who are un- interested in hunting, fishing, or natural history may be indifferent
 But soil conservation and wild life go together. The game disappears, not so much because 1t has been killed off as because the forest cover is cut away and the streams polluted. It will reappear naturally when the surroundings in which 1t thrives are made to reappear. Thus the two problems are one, because 1t is restoration of this forest cover, and clear ing up of muddy and polluted streams, that lessen the erosion that rohs us of our soil. This is another American her. itage that must not be lost while we are intent even on more immediate things.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

times, and the fact that Saturday night is so widely considered 6 proper time for relaxation and en- tertainment that many people have lost all zest for worship before the day of worship arrives.
 But 1t seems most of ell that peo- pie are staying away from church because the spiritual aspects of life are not real and impressive in their scheme of things. They are con- scious of many dissa atisfactlons in their lives but they do not trace these things to the fact that they have lost their contact with God. And so they go on trying to satisfy themselves with the things of the world, yet being highly dissatisfied most of the time and not knowing exactly what Is the matter with them.
 God alone is the only true and satisfying center for life. When men seek another, they languish and die in unhappiness. Regular church at- tendance is one of the greatest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
The Desert Six Inches Away

In the time of our Revolutionary an- cestors, the desert was nine inches away from the United States. Today it is only six inches away That is the dramatic and startling methods taken by the Ma tional Wild Life Federation to call at- tention to the dangers of soil erosion. What the federation means is, of course, that there once was an average of nine inches of topsoil spread over the whole United States. The cutting ard burning off of the forest cover has resulted in such a washing away of that topsoil that now it averages only six inches in depth.
 If that, too, is allowed to wash away, the United States would be a desert, like the vast deserts of China. How long would 1t take if the present rate of wash ing away of the precious soil continues without interruption? Fifty years is one rather alarming estimate. Fifty years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
Current Comment

A country Is safe when it is cap- able of hearing the truth from the press. Thomas Mann, German refugee novelist.
  Social institutions are no more perfect for all time than was the dinosaur.
 --Mordecal Ezekiel, economist.
  Let me make 1t clear that the nation is calling for the sacrifice of some privilege but not for the sac- rifice of fundamental rights.
 President Roosevelt. The British people want Q friend- ly, civilized world of free peoples in which Christian virtues and more values are not spurned as decadent and outmoded.
 -winston Churchill. "AGr. Eng
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
In Today's Mail
SEES NATIONS NEED TO PUT RELIANCE IN WHAT THE
 PRESIDENT DOES.
May 2s, le4l.

as@hsI wv "~s@s
 Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 Tn answer to "Antl-C Conveys" lot. tor to you printed . few days ego I say this.
 The men who fought and died in the last War-"The American Le. zion" national headquarters, "The Veterans of Foreign WarS"-are for conveying if necessary to sec that supplies get, safely to England. That's enough for me.
 Governor Hurley of Connecticut made c stirring speech recently at the Hotel Elton stating we have got to keep England on her feet and her navy going ct least until we are ready with our own two.ocean navy.
 If we older men are too old to fight we oil have cousins, nephewS and friends In the army. He gave no argument there. I think that great leader to whom the vast ma jority of our citizens turned to again in this worldwide crisis who won hardly without fight and who is the best-inSormed man In the country today on what is going on, the first man ever elected three times, knows what he is doing. He is moving very cautiously and has listened to both sides of the argument. When he says we are going to move we are going to 90 In and that's ell there will be to that. If Hitler wins this war and controls world trade our standard of living will 90 away down, our people will never be satisfied, revo- luton will come and everything will Do lost.
 Yours respectfully, JOSEPH FELDMAN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

that Franco was merely . stooge for Hitler. Franco's brothcr-ln- Jaw, Foreign Minis- ter SuMer went to Berlin where he advocated open alliance with the Axis.
 But even thon, as late as oe- tober, 1040, the career boys pro. posed c credit of 9i00,000, ,000 by the Export-Import Bank to Hit- ler's ally, Fascist Spain. And al- though publicity upset any direct loan, 1t remains c fact that the United States did lend the iden- tical amount of $i0o oo0, 900 to Ar. gentlna, which In turn shipped the wheat to Spain which the career boys originally planned that the United States should send to General Franco.
 These are the gentlemen who are still running the State De- partment today.
 Copyright, i04i, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
War on Fork Disease"

If 21,000,000 Americans were suffer- ing from varying stages of disease, you might say 1t was about time something was done about 1t. They are, if a pro- portion carries through the whole popu- lation which Surgeon General Parran found in four-year test. In this experi- ment Parran found one person in six infected with trichinae, the parasite sometimes present in pork insufficiently cooked. The resulting disease, trichl- nosis, Is an elusive one for which no spe- cific cure Is known.
 A sort of one-man crusade against tri- chinoSis has been carried on by New York State Senator Thomas c. Desmond for some years. He has at last succeeded in getting New York to study the problem, and commission is working along such lines as preventing the feeding of un- cooked garbage to hogs, better state meat inspection service, and better tests to reveal presence of the rather elusive dis ease. Thorough cooking is the immedi- ate and best direct method of insuring against trichinosis; If thoroughly done, this kills the trichinae even If present in the pork. Part of the campaign is educa- tion in thorough cooking at temperatures above 1877 degrees. It Is field of pre- ventive medicine into which other states might well follow the New York lead
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
Selected Poem
PLowMAN BY THE SEA


 (Harry Elmore Hurd in the New York Times) watched the biting plowshare turn the turf In straighter furrows than the curling surf That troughed the surface of the watery field Within whose depths pelagic harvests grow Perennially. Laboriously and slow The plowman moved around the amber shield Of drier acres-bent upon the rack Of primal toll. Beyond the turn, he stopped. Resting with his team the farmer dropped Upon the strengthening sod, with legs and back relaxed against the earth. Refreshed, he rose, Antaeuslike and hung the reins about His neck before-gripping the plow-his shout Tmpelied the horses seaward, nose and nose, The mated pair uprolling matted roots And spraying dirt about the plowman's boots.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

It was good to watch those Street De- partment workers hoisting long trolley rails out of the pavement near Stanley Park the other day. Some nuch-needed repairing was done at this congested crossing and 1t was good idea on some- body's part to pull out the rails while fixing up the surface. The same thing ought to be done all over the city, re- gardless of the cost and arrangements made to have 1t shared between the city and traction company. There Is one sec- ton of Bank Street spoiled by tracks; we suppose they won't come out until the city lets the contract for the new paving job along this thoroughfare.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

This Is one of those legislative weeks when the members of Senate and House are forced to come to Hartford on Mon- day. However, Friday being Memorial Day, they'll have that off, so It'll only be a four-day week for them after all. As a matter of strict fact the Legislature ought to meet every day and every night this week. They've got enough to do at Hartford - all important stuff to keep them busy every day and night. The last week, which is the next one, never counts. The members will probably go up there on Monday and clean up few personal matters in which they are in- terested. They'll suddenly remember that adjournment Is two days away. Tuesday will be given over to thoughts and plans for adjournment. Wednesday will witness the bursting out of pent-up emotions. Legis- lators can act like school-kids when allowed. The colsing day of the session Is one of those times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
Daily Almanac

Moon rises 44s 6. m. daylight time).
 Sun rises D:2S a. m.; sets 8:lO p. m. (day- light time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 May Is month with long period of day- light TO enjoy 1t fully one must arise early for the sun is rising ct It's earliest for about a month now. once the middle of June is reached the movement Is back the other way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

From there is iS Q short hop to Brazil and South America.
 In other words, Spain the moth- or country of most of South Amer ica - Is the real speaFheaA of Maxi attack and influence among our Good Neighbour. This was deliberately planned by Hitler as long aS six years ago, and the rec suits of this far.sighted policy are now beginning to bear luscious fruit.
 The Marquis do Asular, agent of Catholic groups in spain and certainly no Communist, this week gave eloquent testimony of this fact. Already Hitler has twelve divisions in Spain, tho Marquis said, and has sent four ships loaded with yaunitolIlS to NaSi sympathixers in Latin America.
 General Franco, whom the State Department career boys helped install @ Spanish do. tatoF, signed . secret agreement with Hitler on October 6, 1888 by which Germany took over Spain. However, according Co the Marquis dc AguiAr, Hitler found it more expedAent to use Spain as a blind to get anything possible out Oe the United states. So, for the time being, Fas- Clst Spain wee instructed to be neutral. FALAN0YsTs IN CUBA
 Real fact Is that Spain Is more neutral than France. Today span- iSh Talanglsts are operating throughout Latin America, even next noor in Cuba. The Falang. fists have started c tremendous movement to take that island back to tho mother country Spain.
 Obviously if Spain did win Q foothold in Cuba, the island would become equivalent to Crete, only nearer, in serving as 6 stepping stone for invasion Of the United States.
 Meanwhile wealthy Mrs. Alex- ander Weddell, wife Of the .. s. Ambassador to Spain, donated an orphanage to the wonen's auxlli- ary of tho ralangists, arch. enemies of the U. g. A.--a gift which the Madrid press credited to the Ger. man ambassador.
 This was not half as bad, how- ever, as the short.sightedneSS of State Department officials who helped put Q puppet of Hitler'S Into power in spain.
 For instance, when civil war broke out In Spain in 10S6, it
 made no difference to the State Departments career clique that
 General France had consulted with Mussolini before he began his revolution. Joseph o. Green, head of the state Departments Munitions Control Board, went ahead and urged U. 6. nauni- tlons dealers not to sell as1ns to the established government Of
 Spain Co protect itself against the revolutionary agents of Hit Ter and AFussolini.
 Also the State Department ca- reer boys dld their best to keep the Spanish ambassador from see- ing the President of the United States; 50 that he was only able to get to the White House through such c roundabout channel as tho then Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace. When he did , see the President, Ambassador de los Rios warned him--even as early as ie36-that if the seeds of Fascism were planted in Spain, the mother country, they were sure to sprout In Latin America, Q warning which the career boys respectfully remember five years later.
 MUNITIONS AEANEUvERS
 When the spanish revolution first broke, no law prevented the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

Lack of adequate playing fields for young men and women has never before been as noticeable than this year. Of course it's due to the fact that SO many people are working long hours and are demanding bit more in relaxation, such as tennis, baseball, softball The city shouldn't lose any time in rushing it's program of supplying new sites and Tnak- ing them available at all times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24
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 The Waterbury Democrats Ser. vice Bureau will Angwer Tor yeu free, any question O9 fact or in- formation, not involving oxten- sive research. Write your Quess tsom clearly, slgn name and ad- dress, enclose Q three cent postage stamp. Medical CT legal advice cannot Do glven. Address Water bury Democrats Washington Ser ylcc Bureau, lOiS Thirteenth Street, washington, D. Q.
 e. What is 6 trotllne in fiShingS
 A, A stout line reaching ecroS Q stream, or for some distance ron one bank, bearing at frequent in. tervals single hooks hung by short lines.
 e. What was the ancestry Of tlp late John D. Rockefeller
 A, He was of French descent. Ills ancestors came to this country from near CohlenE on the Rhine in lT2O The family, originally named Roch- efeuille or Rocquefeullle, according to genealogists, left the Province of r.nnguedoc in tho south of France during the prosecution of the Huge nots in i696.
 e. Which Congressmen spon- Sored the Railroad Retirement Act of io379
 A, The bill was introduced slmul- taneously into the House of Repre- sentativeS and the Senate on May il, 1887, by Representative Robert Crosser, of Ohio, and Senator Ro- bert r. Wagner, of New York. It was popularly known as the "CrosS- or Railway Retirement Bill"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-24

shipping of munitions to the Spanish government, But Secy. Hull'S good friend from Tennessee, Rep. McReynolds, immediately in. troduced Q bill, and c 1.-the forces Of the United States government were brought Into action to pre- vent Q shlpload of munitions from sailing on the Spanish steamship Mar Cantabrieo until MT. Me- Reynolds could get his bill through Congress.
 Customs officials pried open packages on the ship ct the last minute to delay her. Army of. fieers held up the ships departure until S2 cast-off field Kitchens he'd the word "U. S. Army" paint cd out. Then as the vessel sailed out of New York harbor, the Coast Guard cutter icarus steamed alongside ready to stop the ship the moment tho law was passed by Congress. Tho Coast Guard even ordered the Mar Cantabrico to heave to ct the last minute to serve 6 writ on behalf of the disgruntled American flyers who claimed they had not been paid by the Spanlsh government.
 All these handicaps were thrown in the path of . gov. ernmcnt which was trying Co combat Hitler, ana whose defeat has teddy put Hitler in Q stra- tegio position for . hop to South America.
 U. s. A. WAKES UP
 Some time later, American puh- iie opinion and various branches of the U. 6. government began to realize their mistake. But not the career boys. Not even in l038 two years later--had they learned their lesson. (Thls did not apply Go Under Secretary Of state Sumner Welles, who has been opposed to the Spanish Fas- , clstS.)
 By that time, however, presl- dent Roosevelt had. And he in- dicated to friends of the Spanish government that even though the now.amended neutrality act pso- hib!ted the shipment of arms to help the Spanish government, nevertheless arms could be shipped to France or any other sovereign state, and that sovereign state had e right to send arms wherever she wished, with no questions asked by the United states.
 So the spanish Government, acting on this information, sent its representative to Paris. But curious Ambassadors Bullitt sent Q routlne cable asking tho State
 Department # such . tra1as- actlon was all right. And ehe
 career boys, apparently double crossing the White House, cabled premptOry demands that any
 munitions shipments to France Do stopped.
 Later, Greece ordered and paid for Bellanca training ships in- tended for transshipment to Spain. But again MT. Joseph Q. Green sent . peremptory cable stopping the shipment.
 Finally, Turkey ordered 50 0rumman pursuit planes from Canada. This time the United states was not directly involved. If Turkey wanted to transfer these planes to Spain, presumably 1t was the business Of Canada, not the United states. However, the sleuthing Mfr. Green found that some of the parts used in these Grumman planes were sent from the United states to canada, so once again he played directly into the hands of Hitler by stopping the shipment.
 CAREERXsTS DON'T LEARN
 Shortly after that the Loyalist government capsized and Hitler's puppet, Franco, came into power.
 Even by that time, the career
 awpeasers in the State Depart mlent- had not learned their lss-
 son. Three years passed. xt becaans msEe and msRe evident