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divorced. Margaret says not to put
coats all over her bed this time.
Anne says she thinks it's vulgar to
ask man whose wife don't know.
(She lives in another city; he is lust
visitor here.) Dolly comes out of
the kitchen to say she will make a
cake. explain that all my friends
are dieting, but she goes ahead lust
the same, and the day Of the party
she can't do anything else but slop
around with frosting for the cake.
what the crowd wants is a place
to bring cheese and crackers and
drink milk and pop. There's nothing
wild about us. We are as decent as
any group in town, loving writing
games and dancing. and with neither
money nor inclination for night
clubs. But the way my family acts
makes me want to join up with some
other girl and take a little place of
our own. What do you think? And
should l make it different city, to
save the family face? l could be
transferred to Philadelphia, but of
course l would miss my friends
here, and have to start from scratch.
Do you think it is utterly unreason-
able for me to long to get away"
The answer is that for every good
thing we have in life we have to paw
something. Young wives and hus-
bands pay in that loss of independ-
ence. that disciplining of character.
that changed attitude toward old
friends which is marriage. Mothers
pay, every hour of their lives. for
the privilege Of bringing sons and
daughters into the world. Single
women pay, IN odd moments Of
sharp heartache, for their freedom
from family ties. We must choose
what is worthwhile to US, and pay
for it, as long as we live.
A Royal Advantage.
It is royal advantage to live in
a family. A snippy older sister, an
other older sister complacent in q
happy engagement. q troublesome
noisy brother, = busy Woodworking
father. mother who cares enough
to fuss with candles and popoversL
these are pure gold, when it comes
to estimating human values.
Hour for hour. living At home TAR
outweighs in advantage any other
sort Of living for girls. For the
important secret il that there il no
Independence In this life for any Of
u, unt1 We learn 70 make tn
claims a those We love tie doorway
to un0el6ghnees and service. Than
Al asr valves uniracaalosasly turn
topey-eaRvy, and ~ discover TIT
only uaooo tooo1A hi nDsohnll aain r.
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The Queseisas

The Qoeseio0s
l. When did the Seminole war
:. What is the worlds oldest
3swel!
;. What king Of England was
beheaded IN London!
4. What Is the population Of the
Philippines!
5. What l. the minimum age for
Q United States senator?
6. Where was the home Of tie
ancient Etr1lScans?
:. Does The Stars and Stripes a
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The men in the service them
selves have solved the problem
Of what they want in the way Of
gifts from the folks back home.
First hand information from en-
listed men on shipboard, in camps
and barracks indicate that tobacco
is first choice in the gift lineup.
Actual sales figures from service
stores show that the favorite Gig
arctic with men in the Army,
Navy, Marines and Coast Guard is
Camel. Prince Albert Smoking
Tobacco is another special favo-
rite. Local dealers feature Camels
by the carton and Prince Albert
in the pound tins as doubly well
come gifts to the men in the serv-
ice from the folks back home
Adv.
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BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

6y kAlHLEEN WORMS
THE problem of the prodi-
gal son has quoted down
L in recent years; mothers
don't worry about their sons
as once they did.
Or perhaps it's just that they
are worrying more about daugh-
tiers, and haven't the time they
once had for anxiety about the
boys.
For girls certainly are doing
odd things these days.
Hundreds of them, when they
get to the early twenties, want to
live away from home. They are
in no hurry to marry; they are
not in the least concerned as to
their chances of marrying; but
they don't want to live at home.
One young girl knew left
mother, father, younger sister and
two younger brothers, rented an
apartment few blocks away, and
for the three years that preceded
her marriage maintained separate
establishment, often running in to
see her people, making no apologies
to society, and eventually settling
down into orthodox wifehood and
motherhood. But most girls 60 away
to another city, launching into in
terror decoration, photography. Of
fee jobs, preferring hard work, re-
sponsibility, the care of an apart
ment to the much easier life at
home.
Mothers Are Bewildered.
1t has been hard enough for moth
ers to lose their sons in this fashion,
but it is utterly bewildering to them
to lose their girls, too. 1t is one
more of the many elements that to-
day are destroying the American
home, and women feel it. and would
do something to stop it if they could.
But the current is too strong. The
girl knows she can be sef-support-
ing, and the thought of the independ-
ence of her own establishment, her
right to come and go unchallenged,
to make what friends she pleases,
intoxicates her.
A girl named Freda Sanderson
puts the situation very well. and
will quote verbatim from her letter.
Freda lives in Pittsburgh; she has
two older sisters, q and Is, and
younger brother, 10. Her father is
teller in bank: her mother, with
the help of colored girl, keeps
house for the family.
Anne is my oldest sister, a
school teacher who never has had
beau and looks down scornfully on
anyone who has, writes Freda.
"She is brilliant, admired and sue
cessful, but her whole interest is
education and poetry. Margaret
comes next. engaged for two years
and to be married in two more. She
and Dick murmur together in the
sitting-room three nights a week.
Rod is in college. but lives at hone;
he and friend usually are studying
in his room until ten or so, then
they race downtown for sodas and
movies.
-Elaberate Preparatieas.
IF want my crowd in at home,
Mama has to make preparations, of
course. Margaret and Dick will 20
downtown; Papa will 60 over to Aunt
Emma's, Rod can have 4 snack in
the kitchen. Will and my friends
be On time for supper, because pop
overs don't wait. No. she won't
just have plain bread and frank
frters, ne idea! Things must be
NICE WIN buy some yellow can
dies an1 esnd home some flowers!
win ~ ~ 70 remember Inst Papa
= txytsg p get - a1oep md keep
- reafsA1nu7
s1laGnG Ni1bes ! Wosald1't al he
11n1ss ~ becasss ~ useGhse =
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I. Formal fighting terminated
around l64l in the second Seminole
war. but the war has not yet ended
technically. since no peace treaty
has been signed.
:. Amber. gem Of the age"
3. Charles !, In 1910.
Z. Approximately IL, 000. 900.
5. Thirty years old.
9. Italy.
Z. Yes, b. ~ pears.
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the United States antedate he
Union Jack Of Great Britain?
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word or a glance may destroy the
pure love that hath been for thee.
Topper.
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Our Limits
As we advance in life we learn
the limits of our abilities.-Froude.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
Will It Work?

The ambidextrouS Edward UdeloWltz would make a number of changes Tn the city charter of Waterbury. Accordingly he is filing bills in the Legislature at Hart ford. Among the number is one which if it can be done, would provide solution to a problem that is not confined to Wa terbury nor to the State of Connecticut We refer to the elimination of the neceS- sity of any community borrowing - mak- ing a temporary loan in anticipation of taxes. It's done everywhere. We even do it in our own private life when we want to buy something for which we haven't got sufficient casl on hand.
 Over long period of years it's costly item in the operation of any government, because the town or city must pay inter- est on the amount borrowed. True, money is procurable in large amounts and bearing small interest charges almost any place today. But even so, this small interest charge in time comes to mean a definite portion of the tax rate. Hence, there is universal desire to drop this method ot financing.
 The uniform tax year is one good way of doing so. Perhaps MT. UdeloWltz's s scheme is also good, but it would involve imposition of special tax until the com munity had it's system readjusted to the tax collection dates, which probably would have to be changed, too It is the bridging of the gap from the old to the new that baked so many Connecticut communities several years ago when there was special survey made in this state to see if cities couldn't be helped out of this business of having to borrow to pay their running expenses.
 It would pay any city or town to make it's fiscal year generally uniform; to re- allocate tax collection dates, but even as the Udelowitz bill reveals it can't be done without expense to the taxpayer at the outset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
Many to Choose From

Out of the welter of bills and resolutions affecting the City of Waterbury will finally be chosen select few by our legis- latorS at Hartford. We are referring more specifically now to the numerous measures which have been introduced and will follow tomorrow affecting our char ter and mode of government. A good many of the proposals being submitted to the General Assembly have been care fully worked out by individuals or groups concerned with the general welfare of all. At least we take it for granted that they have; to do otherwise would be to ascribe perhaps selfish or ulterior motives to ad- vocates of changes or additions.
 Usually at legislative hearings more attention is apt to be paid to those bills which bear the stamp of the incumbent administration. If it wants to secure legislation it will go to the trouble of fulfilling all the necessary requirements which includes special pleader before the several legislative committees to which the various bills may be assigned for hearings Anyone who introduces a bill in the Senate or House should expect to do the same thing. There must be special defense of it, if it is to command the attention of the committee and earn a favorable report.
 But we often wonder if added and un- necessary burdens aren't placed on our senators and our representatives. It wouldn't be democratic to deny anyone the right to seek to have bill presented in the Legislature if it is worthwhile, but how many of them come within this classification? It does seem as if there ought to be line drawn at public hear ings in the various communities on the extent and variety of the proposed changes in the government of that particular town or city. The futility of this lies in the fact that no one is ever satisfied with existing laws and wants to change them to his own way of thinking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

Rarely a session of the Legislature passes without some mention of the needs physical University of Connecticut. Thanks to the diligence of the authorities at the school it now takes rank as among the outstanding state universities. It was pressure brought to bear at Hartford that ultimately resulted in it's change from mere agricultural college to the status of university where many cours- es are taught and degrees in the same are conferred. It was this same effort which resulted in increased appropriations to permit expansion of the several schools included within the university. It was this same effort which enabled the school to get in on the big bond program of few years back and thus expand it's plant physically. And the effort hasn't ceased, for at the current legislative session there will be more attempts made for more buildings at the school Such campaign not only is it's own reward, but is per manent dividend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

why would be going into unneces- sary details. We have represented the post in Legion affairs, more than any other member, and know whereof we speak.
 Didn't we wait for an hour and a half in Norwich at the state con- vention to be housed? Notwith- standing, on our own volition, we had previously contacted the hous- ing chairman for all the colored posts) through Rev. John Holmes Ca young colored preacher, a former resident of Waterbury, and at that time just appointed to his new charge and not f.;,ly acquainted making arrangements that should have been already provided for. And didn't it cause some of the delegates who came to become veXec and return home. hope the Wil- son post will not allow such a con- dition to occur. whether or not it is "committeed." When the Canadian Legion held its convention here it's local com mander, Mir. Rose, asked us to pro- vide for their colored delegates. we were glad to do it and did.
 I'm afraid my personal Legion activities are at an end.
 "Be not the first by whom the
 new is tried,
 Nor yet the last to lay slse ole
 aside"
 JOSEPH c. HAZEL.
 30 Bishop Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
Selected Poem
KNIGHT OF THE ROAD

 (By Ellsworth B. Lawrence in the Boston Post Like caged eagle at last set free, I'm oil to the road again For last look at the care1ree n1e uhAno"li 'o most of men. I've heard the turing whistle of freight in the rattlng rain, The magic calls of sunht roads where ethics are brutal and strange. You've never slept in hayloft or beside stag nant pond Dreamin' of pancakes and honey like We penniless vagabondS. You've never held the priceless jewels of memories we who roam Gather in leisure to enjoy until we wander our last road home You call us hobos ngrates, thieves as through the land we ride, We who are merely parasites without the social side Asking little, getting less perhaps deserving less You give us a shabby worn out coat or an anti quated hat You laugh as we go on our way without your chance for fame. We laugh at the safe economic life you men go mad to obtain. You sing of pride and prudence, Of wine and wealth in gold We sing round the open fire of moonlight nights on the road. So on across the chasms of life's years we'll sing our songs. Mine be the song of the wastreS yours of sOcietys throngs. And as the last great curtain falls and both our I'll see you at st. Peters gate. if I can get there n pass,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
Up From the Depths

A war always produces its share of those stories which are stranger than tlc- ton. But surely no stranger, more weird story has come out of the war than that of the submarine Thetis, resur- rected from watery grave to send an- other undersea monster down to take her place.
 The Thetis was on a trial run in the Irish sea in June, 1889, when she sank and carried 99 men to their death. Five months later she was laboriously raised, beached, and reconditioned. Now the British Admiralty says it was the same Thetis, recommissioned as the Thunder bolt, which sank an Italian submarine. Ships have been raised from the watery depths before to atone for this resurrec- tion by sending another down to take it's place on the serene, unearthly ocean floor, is deed no fictioneer has yet even dared to imagine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

We wonder how many people know that pair-mutuel betting is legalized ln the State of Maine. We didn't until we read that there would be an effort made at the present legislative session to re- peal the law. It was enacted in 1855 so there is no reason why we didn't know about it. However, despite the fact that pari-mutuel betting is legal it hasn't been indulged in at public race-tracks. The only places where there is such activity is at the various agricultural fairs. They are usually accompanied by horse-racing and the mutuels accompany them around the circuit of fairs. Wonder how the far promoters will react; they took in $1O2,- 900 on the machines in 1940.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
A Time of Opportunity

Most of US think of these as pretty scabby times. Our lives are interrupted, our spirits are frayed, and wherever we look about us there is no peace. Yet pr. Alexis Carrel, who looks at mankind from a somewhat longer viewpoint than most can achieve. believes "there has perhaps never been moment so opportune for human progress"
 Responsibility, sacrifice, and heroism are as essential as health, strength, agil- ity, and endurance, pr. Carrel believes, and moral training, too long neglected, should be added to physiological train ing. He believes it possible in America today to develop "men of greater physl-- cal and spiritual value than have lived at any other time in the history of the world" It is easy today to look down. ward and backward. It is good that we have still some men who can look up ward and forward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
Have We Forgotten Finland? ?

It is not so long ago - just year, in fact = that the world was applauding Finlands courageous stand against Rus sian invasion. Here was the little coun- try, unoffending, making a brave stand against unprovoked aggression. Here was the only country that paid its war debts to Uncle Sam. Here were free men and women. Cheersl But now the Fin nish-Russian war is all over, and the Films fight only against hunger, and cold, and disease. They are only rebuild ing now, not fighting That Is not dra- Tnatic. Courage is soon forgotten.
 The Films want lard, and margarine and wheat, oil cake and cotton, all sur plus commodities in the United States They have Q port. Petsamo; they have British navicerts for transport. But they have little money. If we are in earnest about wanting to help those who fight totalltarianlsrfi, one good place to begin would be to help the Films.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
In Today's Mail

post is. practically a stranger to us.
 Coming to the point, we feel that
 Wilson post, with only few mem bers, has tired, by and large, to adhere to Legion principles, and feel without question of being the out standing of the four colored posts of the department. I feel we have been part of this progress-or shall we say its abettor. And yet no post recognition at a time when efforts should be rewarded. Can this be mutual helpfulness?
 We (editorially) feel we've always taken the initiative to make the post Legion minded. Not for per- Sonal aggrandizement but for all- around community benefit. We feel that our post should have been asked to send a representative to the committees organization meet ing. There it could have been ex- pressed then what has been inn pelled to be related here. Recom- mendations would have been made to the general chairman. Post Com mander George McDuff, to appoint colored members to the housing and entertainment committee. Asking
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

units, comparable to a modern city of 67,000 population.
 The Navy, when asked where they got hold of Biekelhaupt, ex- plained that he was a Reserve officer engaged in the building industry for g years.
 But the records show that he did not become a Reserve Offi- cer until last year and his building expereince was chiefly in heavy construction. Here is his background: Superintendent of steel construction for the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.,; head of general contract ing firm in Alaska building air. plane hangars; assistant deputy NRA administrator.
 Bickelhaupt's method of direct ing the Navy's big housing under taking is to draw rough sketches, place the projects "on order" and pass the buck to local public works officers. Also, the emphasis placed on steel construction by Bickelhaupt and his chief tech nical assistant, Al Dunlop, de- signer of steel dwellings, has caused muttering among small contractors.
 They complain that they are being passed over in favor of heavy construction builders who never built homes before. The only previous dwelling experience of one contractor doing big Maryland job was the erection of an elephant house for a zoo.
 However, Bickelhaupt does have this to his credit. Out of 16,850 units urgently needed, he at least has built 2CO units, while the record of Palmer and the other defense housing agencies is blank.
 Copyright. 1941, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30
WILSON POST OVERLOOKED IN PLANS FOR LEGION CON-
 VENTION HERE.

Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 ITO consecrate and sanctify our
 comradeship
 Beyond devotion tc mutual help
 fulness"
 The above are the concluding lines of the preamble of the Amer ican Legion. AS a past and junior past commander of William Wilson Colored American Legion post, No. 135, [ wish to express my personal indignation relative to the direct oversight of the non-inclusion of any Wilson post officers or mem bers to the convention committee of the Department 1941 Convention Corporation" (the state convention of the American Legion which will be held in Waterbury, July 23-26.
 As perused the Waterbury Re- publican of January 27 noticed this caption: Hundreds Named to Committees Planning State Legion Session Legionnaires of Near by Towns to Assist" All these posts I think with exception of one, were organized before our post was. The exceptioned post, of this immediate vicinity was established several years after our post was, and still our post Is ineligible for representation on the committee. May ask Corporal Coyle post why?
 Tn 1882 when the last state con- vention of the American Legion was held in this city, our post (organ- ized in io3D was not established. However, some Of our members be- longed or attend Corporal Coyle post and participated in the parade. 1 believe. l still hear some of those men speak of Colonel Rice, Robert Hirt. Wally Ingiis. Walter Dews and e few others, who were very help. ful to them as comrades. Most Of these comrades. particularly Wally fnglis. have shown that same spirit of helpfulness since we became Q post, with the possible inclusion Of George Karnogeky, who has been more than Q good follow. With these exceptions our sister Cor bEothefl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30


 develop him to the limit. But we cannot deal with sin in our own lives beyond repenting for 1t and turning to God The strengthening out of these quirks in our natures, the changing of a love of evil to a love of good, the control of our worst impulses, the changing of hate into love--these things are never accom- plished until with faith we take our hearts to Jesus Christ and let Him do these things for us.
 It takes a thorough trust in the sufficiency of God to get us through any of the overpowering situations Of life. A life that begins and ends ln our own efforts Is destined to moral defeat, More and more are people realizing this In these days when the world k shaking about lis. We are never self f-sufficient. and especially not in q war-torn world. Ali Rights Reservod-- Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-30

batt!eship King George thought it was Emperor Halle Selassie who was coming aboard.
 NEW HOUSING AIDE
 The other day Charles F. Palm CT, heavily -bombarded Defense Housing Coordinator, announced the appointment of another $6,500 year aide-Harold Pomeryo, as director of newly-created Regis tration Division.
 Palmer's press release was worth more attention, not for what it said, but for what it left un- said.
 It described POmeroy as "for- mer State Relief Administrator of California (under defeated Re- publican Governor Merriam) and more recently Executive Director of the Sacramento Housing Auth critics"
 That from February, 1889, un- til last spring, POmerOy was executive secretary of the As Sociated Farmers of California, whose strike breaking activiteis were sensationally exposed by the Senate Civil Liberties Com mittee.
 NOTE = Although he has been on the job nearly six months and has yet to initiate his first de- fense housing project, Pairner's staff of high-salaried aides has grown steadily until he now has twelve assistants drawing more than $500 a year. His pay and that of Assistant Coordinator Ja- cob Crane is 5000.
 MIRROR LOBBYIST
 Palmer's antics are matched by those of the Navy, which named a Washington representative of the Mirror Manufacturers Association to direct its $45,000,O00 housing program. He is Ivan A. Bickel- haupt. and his job is to rush the erection of 16.850 dwelling,