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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
When Human Beings Are Junk

There is always apt to be trace of tragedy in an auction room. Things are being sold for what they will bring, things that somebody prized once, and worked and planned to possess, and which no one else will ever, perhaps, prize so much. Most tragic of auctions, however, was held the other day at Staten Island, New York The United States sold a warehouse full of pitiful household ob- jects sent here by people who had hoped to get out of Europe, who Lever made it.
 Some of the boxes had been piling up for two years or more, storage charges unpaid, taking up room that had to be found for new boxes. Egg beaters and rolling pins, pieces of silver, things valu- able and worthless, useful and pitifully useless. But the people who sent them were unable to follow. So their belong ings became junk, sold for storage charg- es and to make space. That is sad enough. But what of the human hearts that beat so high with hope when those boxes and packages were sent to America? They are junk, too, human junk, rotting and wasting away for lack of means to come to the land where they might have chance of freedom and hope.
 Thousands are standing on the piers at Lisbon, waiting for the ship that does rot come. Other thousands are in France and Germany and Austria, in every land where the Nazi boots have trod, con demned as human junk to rot in ghettoes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

New Haven and Waterbury will be other large cities also holding elections this fall and they may be both in November, too, for Waterbury expects to have the Legislature change it's election date from october to November. In New Haven it should be Mayor John w. Murphy con- tinuing his perennial job, while we don't doubt but what Mayor Vincent A. Scully home here in the Brass City can have the Democratic nomination hands-down and win almost t.s easily. There doesn't seem to be a ray of Republican hope in either the Elm City or Waterbury at the writing. Only sensational events could change this outlook.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
What's Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
 1. Name the seasons in the tenn perate zones.
 2. Which production received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences prize for last years best movie?
 3. Calvin Coolidge was the 2oth vice president of the United States; who was the 30th?
 4. Which New England State is omitted from the following list: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island? "
 s. An electric generator produces an electric current by electroinagne- tic induction, contact or friction of dissimilar substances, or chemical action?
 6. What exclamations are used to direct horses and oxen to turn to the right and the left? Y
 2. What was the maiden name of the Duchess of Windsor? g. Who wrote Zen Hur"? A O. Tn which House of Congress did Abraham Lincoln serve? ,-D
 10. Guatemala Is in Central or South America? "."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

This mild weather has served one good purpose. That's let-up on coal supplies in New England bins. What with coal miners still at odds and government of- ficials urging conservation of existing supplies the weather has been very gen. erous. Whether or not it will continue, we don't know, but it would be wiser to settle the coal strike and not try to settle the weather question. No one ever suc- cessfully did that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Years of Discretion

If speech be silver and silence golden and an old saying ayers 1t is so-then Justice Hughes at 79 may be regarded as having reached years of discretion. On day. the learned and venerable judge had only this to say: that he had nothing to say.
 Justice Hughes is wise in years and in experience, in learning and in life. He proved it on his birthday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

we attendants must study to under. stand them better. Why do theyado what they do? That is much more sensible than strutting around with a chip on ones shoulder hoping some patient will up and knock it off. Unless man has sympathy, tolerance and kindness he has no place working in a mental ansti. tuition. a.
 Tt has been my experience that the best way to get 8 thing done is to make the patient want to do 1t. Being tough with e patient has sharply undesirable representations. I have found 1t possible to make patient on my ward carry out reasonable instructions by making him feel important. Each morning when I 90 on ward duty I have q cheery good -morning for each patient. inquire about his health, and ask if there is anything can do to make him more comfortable. make him feel that am interested in him and that he IS somebody after all even though Q patient in Q State Hospital. This procedure almost ifis variably makes the patient willing to give full cooperation. And last but not least, I never forget to thank him for any cooperation, re- gardless of how unimportant 1t may seem to be-" sss, If every attendant in c Stak Hospital was as much interested iA his mental patients as Is Pat Davis we wouldn't be reading about pa~ tients being dumped" by tenpera~ mental attendants. In most statA Hospitals it is now the rule that the interests of the patient coma first and the attendant unwillina| to respect this rule is told to pacl1 up and get out. There are many hundreds of Pat Davis. in the Stata Hospital service throughout th& land but unfortunately there ara also too many of the kind of at1
 tendant one wouln't trust to clear< out ones cellar in the enrrgnt Spring clean-up. e,
 EUGENE BERTRAM wlIxaARu Everett, Maas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

was another way of saying that the new wine of the gospel belonged m the hearts of new men.
 We can always detect falsity Tn religion by noting the extent to which it emphasizes the external and neglects the internal. If 1t puts its first emphasis on custom, tra- dition. ritual, 1t is one with the old superstitions that the progress sive gospel of Christ rendered oD- solete. If, on the other hand, 1t primarily emphasizes consecration. faith, purity, and loving service. It demonstrates that 1t is definitely part of kingdom which shall never end.
 False religion is on; true religion Is in.
 All Rights Reserved-Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

Around this revolves a highly interesting story, which involves a fight between the Presidents fa- nous ex-braintruster, Tom Corco- ran, and Sol Rosenblatt, counsel of the Democratic National Com mittee. Both Corcoran and Ro- senblatt, now private attorneys, have been trying to pry the ships loose, but got Into Q lawyers row while doing so.
 The British haven't been able to get these vitally important ships because the Norwegians don't want to give them up. Norwegian shippers point out that most of their ships already are under the Union Jack, that they aren't get- ting paid in ready cash, and that more Norwegian seamen now work for the British than there are sailors in the British mer- chant marine.
 Therefore, the Norwcgians want to sell these vessels to the United States for operation in Western Hemisphere waters, and their attorney, Harold Deming, has been working to this end-- with no success.
 DEMOCRAT VS. DEMOCRAT
 So Sol Rosenblatt was brought into the picture by Thomas Olsen of New York, member of the Norwegian Shipping Commission.
 Sol came to Washington and had a talk with the President, during which he proposed that the United States buy the Nor- wegian ships in North Africa for use in American waters. Subse- quently Rosenblatt wrote a letter to Jack Dempsey, Maritime Com missioner, to the effect that the President had virtually directed that the President of the United States was sending orders to the Maritime Commission through a Democratic lawyer, caused Q rum pus which had wide reverbera- tions.
 There were reverberations in- side the Maritime Commission, where Admiral Land, the chair man, took the matter up with the President.
 And there were even more violent reverberations In circles outside the COmmissi0n-name-
 ly in the breast of Thomas G.
 Corcoran, one time braintrust- CT, who Is now Democratic lawyer.
 Democratic lawyer Corcoran protested vigorously at the tactics of Democratic lawyer Rosenblatt. No one, he told Maritime friends, had @ right to take liberties with the Presidents word.
 Some of these friends flarveled at the Corcoran wrath, remember ing how for many years he him- self had quoted the President. Later, they discovered that Tom was close to Harold Deming, the other lawyer for the Norwegian Shipping Commission.
 Note All-important objects or this lawyers row, the much-need- ed Norwegian ships, still are in French Africa, with Germany fast encroaching on that area. sol Rosenblatt, finally was told by the Maritime Commission that the ships could not be purchased by the U.S.A. because they lacked proper baths and toilet facilities for American crews under the La- Toilette Act.
 ONE-WOMAN MONOPOLY z No man in the history of the U.S.A.-not even Teddy Roosevelt has done more to break up mo-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

nopoly than Assistant General Thurman Arnold. He has indict- ed aluminium, motion-picture, oil, and dairy corporations; labor unions, even farm and medical or- ganizations.
 The other day, while attending a crowded cocktail party, MT. Ar- mold was standing beside beauti- ful young lady.
 "I wish," he said, "that you and were on Q desert, island"
 That" remarked Ernest Cu-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Selected Poem
THE CHERRY BOUGH OF SPRING

Frances Frost in the Christian Science Monitor) You who seek the cherry bough of spring will find 1t suddenly upon a hill
 beauty as brief as any blowing wing but for this hour tranced and white and still There was a man once who beheld the tree lovely against the winters darkened end, and, gazing hillward, he smiled upto see the cherry bloom returned, and spring. his friend. You who seek the signal of the white ,. and fragile flowers on the cloudy sky, will hear far more than northward crows in flight, will see far more than cherry bloom blown by.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

phasise conformity to certain GUS
 toms. But Jesus made it plain that He came to change the human
 heart. His object was not to patch up the old life, but to give new life. He came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. He demanded that new wine be put into new bottles, which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

Llm CTS around Washington ad- init that for a slick running political mach inc, the organ ization of the present congress beats anything that has been in operation for q long time.
 Not that the Democratic ma jority control of the House is now a rubber stamp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

his acts, which are external, but 1t relates every act to an inner impulse W h ich has been vital ized and renew ed by faith.
 Religious oth- CT than Chris tianity usually put their em- pl1asis on exter- nals, They em-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Daily Almanac
es 11:04 p. m.

Moon rises 11:04 p. m.
 Sun rises 5:14 a. m.: sets 6:3l D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 This is the mildest and pleasantest April the Naughtuck Valley has enjoyed in many long year. Springs have been early in this part, but not of recent years that with open winters and much variable weather ranging all the way from hurricanes to droughts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

TRUE RELIGION AND FALSE
 Christianity is superior to all other religions because 1t is the re- ligion of the heart. It deals with the inside of mans life. Of course 1t exerts a profound influence upon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Questions
 and Answers
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 vice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth ;, Street, Washington, D. c. If'.
 e. Which States produce bitunn
 A. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan. Ms souri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Ten x1essee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming, the Territory of Alaska and some other states in small amounts. ... Y,
 @. Which birds lay the largest and which the smallest eggs2 e.,
 A. The largest known birds egg Is that of the now extinct epyornB of Madagascar, which was 10 inch es in its smallest diameter. The larg. est egg of living species is that Of the ostrich, and the smallest IS that of the humlning bird. ..' :,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, Let us examine {, into the proposition"; omit "intO."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
National
 Spotlight
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent .af.s

Washington, April IS - The say- ing is that you never can tell what will happen in the House of Repre-. sentatiyes, but some of the old
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
Washington Merry-G Co., Round By sssH s
DREW PEA R s o N ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON April people don't know it. but with the democratic African with to put rhandso on them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

c. How large are red blood cor '' puScles? .n,
 A. A little more than 1-4ooo ot~ an inch across. .st. e,
 Q. What articles are in sol- dier's full, field pack, and how much does 1t weigh2 4ea.
 A. The articles are: rifle, first aid kit, bayonet and Scabbard, gas mask, cartridge and belt, canteen and cup, toilet articles, trench tool and carrier, haversack, blanket, shelter half (stakes, rope, pole), |. raincoat, helmet and mess kit. The total weight, including clothing Is 63 pounds, 8 ounces. t. .r
 O. Name the islands included in Oceania? w.
 A. Oceania is Q vast, loosely de- fined region on both sides of the Equator. Some geographers include Australia, New Zealand, the Neth- erlands Indies, and the Philippines. Others omit these areas. By any : definition, however, Oceania con-' tains the archipelagoes of Microp- |. esia (little islands,, Melaneska (black islands) and Polynesia (n1any islands,.
 REFUSED TO STOP GROWING On a building site cleared in
 London and left about two years, q botanist found growing 2S flow
 erlng plants and ferns, as well as
 m0sses and liverw0rtS. Nature started her own garden. But, 1t
 isn't necessary for you to wait two
 years to have . garden. Flower
 Gardens" guide for the anna tcur gardener covering the prep
 aratlon of the beds, kinds of flow
 CTS, fertillzing, and general i'm
 structions on planting will be Of
 inestinaable help to you. It is
 available from The Waterbury
 Democrat Service Bureau, 1918
 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. O.,
 for 10 cents in coin or stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15

neO, "is q fine statement from one who has sworn death to mo- nopoly."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
"OUT OF THE NIGHT"

Jan Valtin, reformed Commun- ist author of "Out of the Night, has offered to make an interesting wager with Ralph Ingersoll, pub- fisher of the New York newspaper PM.
 Ingersolls paper has claimed
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-15
A Thought for Today

For verify say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to sec those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.-Matthew 13:17.
  Faith is higher faculty than reason.- Bailey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
Lions Club Holds
Brief Business Meet

A brief business session max.
ing plans for the new year was
held at the luncheon meeting yester-
day of the Lions club in the Cape
Fear hotel.
Lion President L. D. Latta gave
a short talk of the activities OF
the civic club presidents in con-
junction with the Chamber of
Commerce, and said considerable
prospects are in view around Will
mington and should point to in
creased 1941 activities.
He read a report from the Safe
Driving School for the period end
ing January l, and commended the
club for actively endeavoring the
keep the school going in view of
the many people interested in the
classes. A total of 1852 enrolled
in the school during the past
period, with 6,054 white students.
s82 colored students, and 226 per-
sons in the special classes.
Lion O. H. Shoemaker reported
for the Red Cross sanitarium
committee that IA additional head
phones for the radio are needed.
Lion Mexican Maffitt said thai
three pairs of glasses have been
furnished by the sight conserva.
ton committee during December.
Ladies Night was announced for
January %.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
1871 Cotton Allotment
Set At 2~6,699,9l7A Acres

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 ZAP -
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration announced today a
national cotton planting allotment
of rs, 1893, GIT acres for 1941.
This allotment compares with
the 1910 allotment of 27,070, 173
acres and with an average of about
40, 600, 900 acres planted to cotton
in the late EOS and early SOS.
Cotton production has been cur
tailed sharply under AAA crop con-
troll programs since the 1888 rec
ord crop. Continuance of restrict
ed paintings with possible further
reductions in 1912 is made neces
sary, officials said, by loss of for
eign markets resulting from the
war and the accumulation of large
SURPRISES.
The AAA said that if, as in 1899
and 1910, the allotment resulted
in the actual planting of about U.s.
600, 900 acres, normal yields would
produce a crop of about IL, 500, 900
bales. The 1910 crop totaled IL, $780,
900 bales.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
|S0K0LSKY SPEAKS
HERE JANUARY "a
Lecturer Is Defendant Of
Status Quo In The Ameri.
can Way Of Life

George Sokolsky, writer and lee
turer on economic and political prob.
lens, who comes to the New Hanover
High school auditorium on Tuesday
evening, January IA, to address mem
bers of the Community Forum, is an
outstanding convert to capitalism
and defendant Of the status quo in
the American way of life"
This journalist and economist, who
was recently characterized by Time
Magazine, as "a star-spangled spieler
for capitalism, began lis adult life
as a rabid young radical. Two years
in Russia during the Kerensky and
early Lenin regimes cured him and
placed him i~rrevocably in the ranks
of the conservatives.
1T was this first-hand acquaint-
ance with Communists and actual
practice Of Communism that made
me a conservative" Mr.. Sokolsky
said recently. 1.-THE Russian revolu-
ton made me fearful Of all revolu-
tons, the brutality of the mob, the
r~uthlessness in the suppression Of
the individual, the dire suffering of
innocent men and women who want
ed to be left alone, the utilization
of all the machinery of despotism to
achieve an ideal, the trickery of
rising politicians, 80. to me all this
was disgusting"
Mr.. Sokolsky' first went to Russia
in 1917, just after his graduation
from the Columbia University School
of Journalism. In P%etrograd he edit
ed the Russian Daily News, the only
English language newspaper there,
and saw Kerensky's rise and fall and
the beginnings OF the new Commun-
list regime. What he saw, as he ex-
presses it, "disgusted" him and his
reactions were reflected in his writ
ings. In March of 1918 he was or
dered to leave the country and
placed, virtually penniless, on a
Harbin-bound express train.
What George Sokolsky witnessed
during the fateful year that he spent
in Russia and of Communism dur
ing IA subsequent years IN China
and the Far East convinced him that
there was no place for him like
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
Beaverbrook Says Britain
Getting Very Good Flour
Of Warplanes From u. S.

LONDON, Jan. O. LR Lord
Beaverbrook, the minister for air.
craft production said today Britain
has more planes in service and
more in reserve than ever BEFORE"
and that a very good flow is COM
ing from the United States, some of
them flown across the Atlantic.
The ministry, he asserted at a
press conference, is pushing indus.
try ito the last point of endurance"
but he confessed he did not know
whether production was anywhere
near that of Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03

America and no economic and politi.
cal system Is good as Americas.
He defines his position thus: 81
am a conservative in the major ways
of life, a capitalist in my economic
thinking and a rigid constitutional
list in my political thinking. More
than anything else, I fear the con.
centration of power in the hands Of
any n individual in government,
no matter how benevolent he may
be, no matter how sweet-tempered
and kind hearted, I fear the dicta-
torship of anybody"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
Greek Pilot Downs
Italian Plane And
Then Captures Crew
ON THE SOUTHERN AL

ON THE SOUTHERN AL
BANTAM FRONTIER, Jan. 3
R-A Greek pilot claimed to-
day he downed an Italian
bomber with the propeller of
his plane after running out Of
machine-gun ammunition and
captured its crew of three at
pistol point.
His story as related by mill
tary sources said he exhaust
ed his ammunition in a dog
fight, then streaked for the
bomber's tail and veered away
just in time to avoid a full COL
lision,
His blade cut the Italians
rudder and elevator surfaces
and forced them to land, he re-
ported, and he sat down in the
same pasture with his propel-
Ter bent. The Greek met the
Italians with his pistol drawn
and they surrendered.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-03
Gales, Exiled Former
President Of Mexico,
Plans To Return Home

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 2-(R-.
Plutarco Elias Gales, exiled form
er president of Mexico, disclosed
today he would return to Mexico
City Shortly to reside as a re
tired citizen" :
Earlier this week the ~63-year-old
former iron man. president broke
a long silence to endorse the adj
ministration of President Avila Ca-
macho, urging his countrymen to
support the newly-elected chief
executive lin order to save the ma.
ton in these hours of world I'M
rest"