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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14
U. s. Piles Up Stock Of Precious Quinine
War Cuts Imports 3 to 4 Years If Supply Will Last
By DIR. JAMES A. TOBEY Noted Doctor of Public Health, Written for NEA Service

The United States is stocking up on quinine. The largest single pur- chase. of this precious drug ever made is gradually being shipped to American ports. When the last boatload arrives, 8,500,000 ounces will have piled up to supplement the vast quantities already on hand enough, in all, to last this coun- try for three or four years, even if war should stop all imports.
 Of this latest consignment, B. 500,000 ounces are the finished product. The rest is coming as cin- chona bark from which the quinine will be extracted by two large American chemical firms.
 To combat malaria fever and some other diseases, the United States uses more than four mill lion ounces of quinine annually. Without 1t, millions of people might lose their lives. So after the war began and there were rumblings in the East Indies, the U. s. govern ment arranged for the immediate purchase of enough quinine to tide this country over.
 Even before this step was taken, pharmaceutical houses had enough quinine on hand to meet the .na- tion'S normal needs for about two years. A year ago, the government bought and hoarded an additional 100000 ounces to keep the army and navy supplied for at least year.
 Between three and four million malaria cases occur in the United States yearly, with most of the trouble concentrated in the south.
 Army medical men are safe guarding soldiers, especially those encamped in southern states.
 The cinchona tree, from which quinine is derived, curiously enough is not indigenous to the East Indies. Europeans first discovered the mir aculous aspects of cinchona bark in Peru, just about 300 years ago. Word got around that the Indians had learned to brew a tea with cinchona bark and that the con- coction cured the moi the dreaded fever. The tree itself was named after the Countess of Cinchon, who is supposed to have cured herself with the tea and who subsequently introduced 1t to Europe.
 Today, the Dutch East Indies control 95 per cent of the worlds quinine output. Whats more, the Indies have been able to raise the quinine yield from 3 per cent to IS per cent of the cilchona bark.
 With the present supply on hand, American medical men breathe cas- fer.
 They say even if things really be- came tough in the Pacific and qui- nine imports were Topped of, sym thetic drugs have been developed recently to do about the same job against malaria. The army, in fact, has already purchased some of these synthetics. Biggest trouble is that these synthetic anti-malaria drugs cost much more than real quinine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14
FLORISTS TO HOLD STATE CONVENTION

Retail florists and commerci, flower growers of Waterbury an nearby communities will attend tf! third annual joint state conventid' of the Connecticut Florists Associa
 ton and Florists Telegraph Deltve1' Association Thursday January 16, 4 the Taft Hotel, New Haven. Meya wilson, New Haven, president of tf
 c. F. A. predicts an attendance \ more than 300. There will be desi9 demonstrations for registered mem bers of the trade during the mor1| ing and afternoon and the state a
 sociation will elect l941 ofacer| Final feature will be the annut banquet at night.
 Mrs. Nettie s. Floto of Saxe an F1oto, this city, is member of tH convention publicity committe| while Richard R. Birch, O'Rouri| and Birch, is serving on the pri3 committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14
HENRY CHATS VISIT RECALLED

Hicksville, O., (UP)-Mrs. Mary Ann Arrowsnith celebrated her Tooth birthday by telling of Henry Clay's visit to her parents home. "Al- though we onyl lived in a log cabin MT. Clay was an affable and enter taining gentleman" Mrs. Arrow smith said: However, his body ser- want put on airs"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14
CROSBY BAND FEATURED

Bob Crosby, singing maestro of the famous Dixieland Band, makes his screen debut in RKO's novel comedy with music, Lets Make Music" Also appearing prominently are the noted band leaders special ty artists, the Bobcats and Bobo- links.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14
UP IN THE AIR
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
(Reprint from Another Flying Year)

He flies through the air calm and serene The daring young man in the flying machine, Way up in the clouds with visibility rotten He steers his air boat and land is forgotten Ricocheting in air pockets like pumping down hills. Making passengers look bit pale at the gills Pennsylvania looks like a field way below And mountains make going just bit slow. Then up and up in great open spaces, Cleveland, Detroit, and other such places - Clear the Rockies or die, the pilots fond motto, Looks for while as if things might go blotto All set for the drop and to the pilot toast As he lands and completes nice coast to coast
 FEM, EM,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Four mobile cinema units and a concert party entertain troops in Iceland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Editor Tall Tower Topics The Winona Rebecca Guard Team of 1941 under the jurisdiction of Noble Grand Mrs Anna Book will be reorganized At the same time a new drilmaSter will be appointed. some time ago at the home of Mrs Carl Loether of Grandvew Avenue officers were appointed for the new year This meeting not egaized by the Noble Grand hence the elections were void Mrs Book will announce her new drmaster in the very future and after that regular meetings and drills will be conducted by him Sincerely Gunther E. H. MatheS, P. G. and P. F. G. ot Franklin Lodge, AZ, Odd Fellows, Thomaston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Nicaragua expects to break its gold productions records this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Portugal fishermen are usir| melons to attract new fish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Ernest R. Long, local gauge maker, and Margaret F. Smith, Hartford secretary, applied for marriage license in the Capital City recently George Byrnes son of the we'll known mail truck driver broke his in fall while skating at Hamilton park the other evening Clifford Mickett former local resident, was called to his reward at St. Vncents hospital, Bridgeport last Friday =. Vito Rinald was guest of honor at a surprise farewell party tendered by the Branch Street Club Boys recently. He's been their leader for many years Mr. and Mrs. Connie" Horrigan of Mddebury have just added another baby girl to their household The newcomer was born at St. Mary's Hospital yesterday
 The George Scott administration for Kiwanians is underway It started very smoothly last Wednesday de- spite the fact that there another and competing ln- Ruguraton that day. But the local service club had Major John Burral on hand while Governor Robert Hur ley had the of the Food Guard and everybody but Harold Post claims the Kiwanis drew the long straw The doughty major is battalion in himself with or without that tall bearskin hat And that George is firmly established in office his deal objectives for Kiwanans will include lively meetings, provocative speakers and an extra rasher of bacon on every pate Wanted seafaring men, LandSmen who attempted to sign up the American Marines of Revolutionary days not given very cordial reception even though drummers and trumpeters paradng the streets of Philadelphia sharp lookout for recruits. Only men those days, although such qualification is no longer required In fact, many modern marines never had glimpse of the before they enlisted and assigned to shore station. While authorizing the formation of two battaons of marines in 1775 the Con- tinental Congress resolved: That no person be appointed to office enlisted into said battaons but such good seamen acquainted with maritime affairs to be able to to advantage by when reuired." Why Congress demanded seasoned mariners for it's soldiers of the is difficult to understand Except in some emergency when they volunteered to perform tasks ordinarily given to seamen American Marines have always been strictly military men. George Washington known to have been dissatisfied with land troops who ordered aboard ship to marines and this may account for the "seagong requirements in the marine resolution of 1775 Even today U. s. Marines could by no means be called "landlubbers" when they first go aboard battleshp cruiser They trained at schools ashore in preparation for such activities Log of the U. S. Marines
 Good Niohf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Minnie Weisman of Pine Street and Marion Frank of Fulton Park Avenue recently returned from an ex tended sojourn at Miami Beach Florida. Both report splendid weather and display lovely tans acquired in the Southland James B. Walker has proposed Frank w. Marshall of Delaware Avenue, we'll known shipping clerk, for membership in the local lodge of Elks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Francis Ash, secretary Of the Immaculate Concep- ton Holy society for several years left yesterday morning with Joe Famiglietti as members of Battey G. 2O8th Coast Artillery Connecticut National Guards Edwards Falmouth, Mass. Francis will have to cele brate his birthday at camp tomorrow but he doesn't mind
 Jack Calvin Washington Hill basketball player, an- tcpates plenty of back skipping his natal day. Janu ary IT Olga Kayzis and Peggy Walsh had the pleas dent about the city Sunday With guides like the comedy pair I'm sure Carr will become weekly visitor here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

Joyce Bennett of Providence, E. f, recent vis- itor at the home of Patricia Knight of Putnam Street She also visited with her uncle Edward Joyce while in town On her return trip she stopped off at Hartford to visit other relatives The death of Luclen Luke Williams former Yale tennis star, at his home in Chca- former court acquaintances here in Connecticut He was one of the best players to matrcuate at Yale and enjoyed national prominence for some time after his graduation He explained the first Yale Harvard tennis team play Oxford Cambridge Universities and also intercollegiate champion in 1922 =. Mary C. Mcdonald of Park Road obliges with nice big can ot tinfon for which the Tower offers hearty thank you
Evening star., 1941-09-21
By Marquis ". ChHds.

crosses. In a process begun with the
first World War and now accelerated
under World War II, capitalism, in
swift decline, is rapidly being replaced
by state ownership. In this country the
New Deal is doing the job of taking
over.
The author rules out socialism, arguing
that the Classics society,"" implied by
all Socialists of whatever political stamp,
is only a dream. Soviet Russia has
produced, in Burnham's argument, not
the classleSS state of socialism but the
new managerial" order. A class OF
bureaucrats the upper IL or II per cent
of the Soviet population, now receives
so per cent of the national income, ac-
cording to Burnham who quotes Trotsky
as his authority. These are the exploit
ing class of managers
Discussing Germany, Burnham finds
"pre -ent-day Nazi-ism is - primitive
stage of the managerial development OF
society" Nevertheless the managers in
Germany are far more skillful than those
in Russia, in the authors view. The
book was written before the Soviet-Nazi
war began and Burnham failed to fore
see that these two managerial states
might demolish each other.
Superwars seen in Future.
Prophesying the future with remark
able dogmatism, the author says that
Germany will emerge triumphant from
loar i,ody1Strioc haup
been co-ordinated around a central plan
by skilled managers" who have not
had to think of profit" The British
doom became certain, he argues, with
the fall of France. The future, this
dogmatic prophet says, will see super
wars between world states. These new
states will be three in number: Ger
many dominant over Europe with one
huge area of industry; the United States
dominant in the Western Hemisphere
with another industrial area; and finally
Japan ruling Asia with the third area of
heavy industry.
On the whole Burnham is hopeful for
the United States, feeling that Roose-
velt has taken many of the necessary
steps to consolidate the superstate of
which this country will be the center.
The bunglng of the armament program
he ascribes to capitalists" who have in
truded their insistence on profits into
the armament drive. He speaks con-
temptously of Congress which he says
has been deprived OF even the power
to make war. The New Dealers come
in for high praise from the prophet of
management who characterizes Roosevelt
as "a brilliant and demagogic popular
politician who did not in the least
create, but merely rides when its fits
his purposes, the New Deal"
In his attack on the book, Lilienthal
gives voice to one of two opposed philo-
sophies that divide the New Deal. He
speaks for those who believe that
authority should be decentralized. The
Evening star., 1941-09-21

skies came the drone of a bomber return
ing from a target in Germany. Mickey
lifted his little head, his eyes bright.
Terrible, amt it?" he said. Those
fellas been doin' to them what they did
to us. But it's good, too. used to
think you could do your part by takin'
care of old people in shelters. seem the
kids get food and stuff like that"
He sighed and his frail body shook.
Il know now you can't stop at that.
I don't want to live in a world where this
sort of thing goes on. But them Nazis
amt goin' to stop. We know that down
here This complacency read about in
the papers, there amt none of it in East
End"
The drone of the bomber was dying
in the distance. Mickey waved his hand
in its direction.
Bombs is whatu stop the ferries"
There was immense pride in his voice
when he added. they can't take this
stuff like us. Well keep bombing and
then some day, please God, it'll be over"
We shook hands and I went down the
stairs into the subway picking my way
over the sleepers lying along the wall.
Evening star., 1941-09-21

A group of careerists created by the
New Deal have at last found a prophet
who holds out to them, and for keeps,
the promised land. This is James Burn
ham. who, in his much discussed book,
The Managerial Revolution, predicts
Government ownership of all industry
under the direction of managers" on
the order of the New Dealers.
Behind the scenes here In Washing
ton this book has Won considerable &C
ceptance. For many, particularly young
er Government officials who got the first
feel of authority in their New Deal jobs,
THE Managerial Revolution" (The John
Day Co., New York; has become hope
full Bible. While they may not accept
it all, they subscribe to the central
theSis-capitalism is done for, socialism
is unworkable. the coming order will be
governed by an exploiting class of man
ayers.
On the other hand. many New Deal
ers have indignantly rejected the books
persuasive theme. David E. Lilienthal,
a member of the T. V. A., has written
a devastating review of The Managerial
Revolution" in which he says bluntly
that the new managerial society is
nothing more than Fascism under a
fancy name. Lilienthal, writing in the
Public Administration Review, also hits
out at those New Dealers who follow the
'managerial' line and are susceptible
to the managerial" argument.
There is an evil tendency" Lilienthal
said in his review, among some in
dividuals within the new managerial
group in America that leads toward ex-
ploitation of society by those who should
be its servants. This tendency public
but speak out plainly before it has be-
come accepted and habitual.
Used As Stepping Stone.
"I refer to the acceptance of public
administrative responsibility with an
eye to using it as stepping stone for
personal advancement. Every expe-
rienced administrator will recognize
what I am talking about. We all know
of the young men who come into public
service with high-sounding talk about
devoting their Well-trained brains to the
public interest; we have seen them de-
velop a kind of Phi Beta Kappa Tam
many Hall, placing their friends in
important posts in the service; develop
ing contacts active in promoting
vendettas; intent upon personal pub
licity. Having laid this groundwork
they then leave the public service in
order to represent private concerns
which seek Government contracts or
loans or clients having business before
administrative agencies manned by men
indebted to them for their posts"
Burnham's theory is that power is in
evitably shifting not only away from
capitalist OWNERS of industry but also
away from such outmoded instruments
of democracy as parliaments and con-
Evening star., 1941-09-21
By DreU Middleton.

I apart and there amt no signs they will
Looks as though they've shown some of
these war of11ce toffs how to fight Jerry"
I asked the dock worker If there was
feeling Of sympathy for the Russians.
II hope to see my wife again, there
is," he replied why shouldn't there be,
they're people like us. They're fighting
bloody well. I amt never been a Com
mie but damned If I don't think we all
oughta be after seeing what they can do"
He told me there were only few Com
munists in his borough Of Stepney.
There's lot who think things are all
wrong. but not many really in the party
Probably be q hell of lot Of them If
this keeps up-he gestured around the
f1ghtin"
Now these people are important. They
have endured and survived the greatest
air attack in history. They were singu-
larly unprepared by their government
to meet this attack. They currently are
getting ready to endure another such at
tack.
Not In Terror Of Winter.
The coming winter holds no terror
for them. They can, they say, stick
it and come out" no matter how many
bombs are dropped. They place their
faith in underground shelters such as
SubwayS and cellars. When I mentioned
the new surface shelters the government
Is building, I was greeted with shout
of laughter.
Mice for kids to play in during the
daytime" said the young soldier but
they amt no good in raid. You don't
feel safe, so you don't Sleep"
One thing about which these people
were uneasy was whether the hazards
and risks of bombing were evenly dis
tributed. They wanted to know about
the West End. I told them it had been
heavily bombed and that a great many
people who made in week what they
made in a year had been killed.
''Ho, jus that's all right" said the
docker but them's the folks who gets
out of town nights there's big one on.
Why, they get out of town seven nights
a week. Them that's killed in the West
End is almost all soldiers and their girls
in night clubs and such"
A Dwarf Takes Action.
I went around to see a dwarf I know
in that section. His name is Mickey
Davis. He is about feet in height and
about 10 feet in courage. When his op-
tician's business was blown out from
under him last September, he went to
an underground shelter. He found it q
hell of misery and chaos.
He has remade it, with government
help. This night 1t was clean, well ven
tilated. There was a canteen and hunks
for all. The shelter holds maximum OF
4,500 Even this summer during the
long lull, there have been between 1l00
and 1000 people sleeping there each
night.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Middle Eastern Front

South of the Caucasus Mountains,
many miles from the Donets and Don
Rivers, where the next major Russo
German crisis may occur, lies Iran. Iran
is in the Orient, but it is a backdoor to
Russia and conceivably it is e. route the
British might take to reinforce the
Russians.
Reza Shah Pahlevi, the Iranian ruler
abdicated on TueSday-a move pleasing
to the British and Russians, who now
occupy large strips of Iran rs result
of theit invasion of that country. The
Shah was succeeded by his son, Prince
Shahpur Mohammea Rezza, 81, whose
first decision was that he would give
his fathers wealth to the state. The
abdicated Shah was one Of rich Asia's
richest men.s
The abdication followed reported de-
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Russian Front

Last week the Germans invading Rus
STA found the secret which had eluded
them, how to put their
Still Hold armies across the
Block Sea Dnieper River and push
eastward into an area
from which the river long had cut them
of. Their armies, too, completed an
enveloping movement long in the making
aimed at Kiev, the third city Of Russia
and the capital of the Ukraine, which
by the weeks end was in German hands.
The German armies pushing eastward,
far south of Kiev, almost cut of from
the mainland the Crimean Peninsula
with its great naval base Of SevaStopol.
But the Russians still command the
Black Sea. which Sevastopol guards.
And the Russians still hold beleagured
Leningrad. The Germans are yet many
miles from Moscow. When the war be-
gan in Russia 1t was generally expected
that Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev would
fall. German successes Of the past week,
however, have brought to some observers
q sense of disaster. Does the misfortunes
Ul VIC SOulIlCIi Ituooldll LlllCS lOl UOQC
a general collapse? Russian defeat now
would enable the Axis to get its troops
out of Russia before the cold weather
immobilizes military action in that vast
country.
The Russians on Monday admitted the
first German crossing of the Dnieper
River south OF Kiev. The army of
Marshal Semeon Budyenny had been
holding the rivers east bank after de-
stroylng all the bridges, but the Nazis
were able 70 send q wedge into Bu-
dyenny'S positions by taking Kremen-
chug This city. a railway junction, Is
It's miles south Of Kiev and its capture
portended the fall of Kiev. Berlin re-
ported that the German air force
destroyed more than 500 Russian motor
vehicles in the armies east OF the Dnieper
which in its southern reaches is 1000
yards wide.
Weeks of bad weather in the Lower
Dnieper Valley was giving way to good.
On Tuesday Berlin issued q boastful
communique about Nazi successes in
the south:
I'm the Ukraine German Army units,
in an audacious attack effectively sup
ported by the air force, established
bridgeheads on highly important points
across the broad Lower Dnieper. After
these bridgeheads were held and widened
In several days Of fighting against strong,
embittered enemy attacks, partly assisted
by tanks, German divisions now have
pushed victoriously eastward in q broad
front"
Two days later London heard that the
German armies in the extreme south Of
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Continued From Page BID

Spain as it is in other Reich-occupied
countries. 1t is one of the main sup
porters of Generalissimo Franco.
Success of British arms in the Mediter-
ranean would unquestionably cause i'm
mediate repercussions in Spain. Re-
gardless of what the arrangements be-
tween the Franco government and the
Nazis may be, it is felt here that the
Spanish people will make it impossible
for the generalissimo to fulfill them.
The preparations which Britain is now
making in the Mediterranean will not be
a repetition of the past failures of its
general staff. The British are far better
trained and equipped than they we're
when they went to Norway and into the
Balkans. Moreover, the Germans are
beginning to feel the strain of the war.
Facing a shortage of oil and the basic
raw materials for the manufacture OF
arms, they can no longer boast OF unlim-
tied manpower.
This is the picture as military experts
in Washington see it. OF total of about
4,00O,0 900 Germans called to the colors.
some 100000 have been killed, taken
prisoners or otherwise disabled. This
leaves some 2,400, 900 men in the Reich's
fighting armies. Adding 100000 men
the new reserves who will join the fight
ing armies in November-the Reich will
have 5000, 900 fully-trained men at its
disposal.
100000 Must Remain.
Regardless of how many western cities
In Russia fall into Nazi hands before next
spring, it is conservatively estimated that
at least 100000 men must remain on
duty in Russia during the winter. No
fewer than 800 900 soldiers must garrison
the occupied territories from Czecho-
Slovakia to the Atlantic. This leaves
about 100000 men for the forthcom-
ing campaign In the Middle East and in
North Africa.