The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-30

aneSe ships out or the Pal
 Real reason why the Canal was barred to the Japanese was the discovery that two of their ships were floating bazaars being rushed to the east coast of South Arneri- ca to grab of the trade which Axis operators were forced to abandon. as result of the U. s. blacklist.
 Apparently the Japs had tip that the blacklist was going to be issued, because the two ships hast tily left the west coast and were waiting to go through the Canal, when suddenly the blacklist was published. Equipped with elabor- ate merchandising displays, and carrying high-powered Spanish speaking salesmen, the ships were literal arsenals of economic war fare. With them, the Japanese would have invaded the most luc- rative markets in Latin America before either the U. s. or the Lat- in Americans could have moved to block them.
 WOMEN'S TAX RIGHTS
 Representative Prank ("Doc'O Crowther of New York, high-rank- ing COP member of the House Ways and Means Committee, oc- cupied the center of the stage when House Republicans caucused behind closed doors on the $3,500,- GOO defense, tax bill.
 However, 1t was Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, Ohio's charming widow legislator, who stole the show with a firebrand lecture on "Women's rights"
 Crowther had just begun ex- plaining the section of the bill re- quiri2lg husbands and wives to file joint income returns, which he vigorously supported in committee, when Mrs. Bolton, who is just as vigorously opposed, jumped to her feet.
 ''I would like to ask the gen. tleman," she inquired tartly, If any women were called before the Ways and Means committee, while this bill was being cOnsid- cred, to testify in defense of the American hOme?"
 "The lofty subject to which the lady from Ohio refers was not discussed to my knowledge" grinned CrOwther. No one, man, woman or child, came before the committee and asked to be heard, though we held lengthy hearings and listened to many witnesses on various phases of the tax question"
 "WclI, if you had given Amer ican women chance to be heard" shot back Mrs. Bolton, ''you wouldn't have approved this outrageous jOint-returns section. It takes us hack to the days of feudaIism, when man was lord and master of the home and his wife was consid- cred little more than 8 chatteI."
 Then, waving an adrnonishing finger at her colleagues, Mrs. Bol- ton continued: This part of the tax bill is an invasion of the home. It says that a wife must pool whatever earnings she makes with her husbands income. It does not recognize her as an individual or a wage-earner, but as a sub- servient chattel.
 Mark my words, the women of the country will rise mp if Congress writes this attack on their independence into law"
 Mrs. Bottoms oratorical effort won a rousing ovation from her male colleagues, but no votes. Joint returns are calculated to bring in over $500, GOO 900 of addi- tional revenue.
 NOTE: Mrs. Bolton is one of the wealthiest members of Con- gress.
 MERRY GO ROUND
 The Presidents recent radio talk was one of the shortest he has ever made. It timed only IS min utes, 30 seconds. The broadcast was handled entirely by transcript ton. Each of the three radio net- works made a platter. or a rec ord, and then played the record back for the radio transmission The President wasted no time when he came Into the Oval Room