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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

All this would come under the heading of good, clean fun except for one thing. If Senator Clark had the slightest knowl- edge of the Americas he so blithely plumps to annex he would know that his Statement will be immediately picked up in newspapers all over the hemisphere, and all over the world
 He would know that every Nazi, Fascist, and Falangist propagandist in South America will reprint it and circulate it as proof" of what they have been say ing all the time - namely, that the United States really IS the Colossus of the North, really waits only the moment to subject all the Americas to it's sway. Senator Clark will (we hope) be embar- rased at the thought that he has supplied such wealth of ammunition so beauti- fully calibrated to the Nazi propaganda guns in South America. But it is so.
 In hope of making duds of just few of those shells, let us repeat here what every North American knows - that this wild scheme of Senator Clark has no responsible backing whatever. Not only is no body of American opinion back of this hare-brained and lurid dream, but the vast majority of North American opinion is back of a directly contrary view - the view of developing friendship with steadily progressing and independ- ent American peoples, to the end that we may go forward together.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

According to reports heard around Hartford now the federal government will proceed to repair the damaged dike along the Connecticut River at it's own expense But so far we haven't heard anything from local or state officials whether or not they'll want to go through with the plans for running memorial boulevard along the top of this dike to link the present Connecticut River highway bridge and the one that is now under con- struction. Maybe authorities won't be so keen for roadway of this type with the knowledge of what has just happened fresh in their minds. We presume it is possible for such dike to be built along the river-front which would be good solid base for modern roadway but it does seem bit odd that one, supposed ly built to withstand even the most vio- lent attacks of the Connecticut River, should dissolve without any external force striking it. Of course the final off cial report on what actually happened to the dike and how it can be prevented from occurring again will doubtless de- termine policy with respect to the mem orial highway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Yes, They're Healthy

It is nearly year now since the boys began to go to the training camps in large numbers Enough experience is behind us to make it clear that in general the army has taken care of their health. Ru- mors get around from time to time, as rumors will-rumors that this camp has had an epidemic of pneumonia, that doz- ems have died from scorpion or snake bites at that camp. No such rumor has ever been substantiated
 On the other hand, the evidence of gains in weight, low mortality, low incl dence of sickness and social disease piles up impressively. At Camp Upton, new ly inducted soldier died the other day What makes this remarkable is the fact that he is the first to die of 10000 pro- cesSed there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

the bottom.
 At last one of the engineers had a bright idea. He took an old flat boat and. when the tide was low, fastened 1t to the sunken ship. Then he waited for the, tide to rise. What tug boats could not do, the great energy of the sea did with ease When the tide swept in, the dere- lict was loosened from the bottom Of the river, freed from the mud in which it had for generations been imbedded.
 There is Q spiritual truth here which must be apparent to Us al. We have sins and weaknesses in our lives ct which we have been tuggIng for years tn an attempt to get rid Of them, The message not only Of the Incident related above but Of the whole revealed Word Of God iA that if we will let the tidal energy Of the divine swept Into our lives, it will raise cut Of our souls the deFelleiS that have beeome lnibedded there,
 We fight s losing light against sin when we tfy with our own efforts Alona t0 dslodge lt, [ IA only when we give 0uf lives Into the hands 0f eiod that ile does ieF uA what we cannot Go goF ourselves,
 All Rights ReseFved - ilahaoA
 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Daily Almanac

Sun rises bI47 a. n.i sets SOS ?, m, tday' light llmel,
 Al vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes sitter sunset,
 High tide at Milford saturday Aug, 2, 7bb D, mi low tlae, ilti D, m daylight llmel,
 Moon'a phaAeA-.iul moon, Aug, [, ii5s 6, mi last quarter, Aug if, piaD D mi new ln00ni Ang, 93, alaa D, Hl,i nFkt quarter, Aug, 70, iol0a a. n ldayahl llmel,
 Morning Mercury, Marn, saturn, jupilff evening, Venus,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Current Comment

Night driving offers nine times as great a hazard to the average mos torist as daylight driving, pr. Edwin H. Silver to the Amer lean optometric Congress.
 We North Americans often think We can take our foreign trade or leave it, but every Latin American country is desperately dependent on lts foreign trade.
 John ", Evans, New York, cd. wiser on Pan American trade,
 
 [ love America and I want 10 TO. main here I also' have Q love for Italy, but have no desire to return there, pray that she soon may Fes turn 70 . course that will make ub proud of her,
 -Atillo oFlolanl, Italian consul at Fort Worth,
 We oAn exist without the sup. port Og ihe population -- Vldknn onlkilng, kaKl hiooae dictator lIl Norway, ln A telephone interview With the New York Times,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Press Comment
DUSK OF THE SPRUCE GUM
 TRADE
(New York Herald-Tribune)

(NeW York Herald-Tribune)
 Industry has much to commend it, particularly in a time of tanks, but it seldom has been praised as aromatic and refreshing. There are plenty of agreeably odorous things in trade-licorice root, arnica from soft yellow mountain flowers, es- sence of cloves and peppermint, birch beer, nutmegs, star anise and dark pods of the vanilla-o orchid s seed-but few of us are privileged to breathe in their centers of pro- duction. Coming home from a fragrant woodland or salty SC a vacation, entering again the gaseous metropolitan procession to an d from offices where neither win tergreen nor sweetbrier prosper, who would not wistfully consider the vanishing occupation of MT. Harry Davis, of Monson, Me?
 Does MT. Davis deal in cabbages, fresh ambergris or printers ink? Does he fill the cold pure streams of his inspiring state with debris of dyeing or tanning? So far from 1t that you must press into the north woods to find his plant. He traffics in the choicest spruce gum, and his company Is believed to De the last of it's kind. Futile, then, to rush off an application for em- ployment as courier de gum. His supremely blessed professional em- ployes number no more than near ly twenty" and certainly would permit no vacancies. One can, how ever, pick spruce gum as 6 free lance, and perhaps If 1t were pos- slble to carpenter Q little cabin with . fat stove before snowtime, and dedicate days not given to the spruces to making garlands of gold bracken and balsan fir. An well.
 Children, as well as fires and Fapaclous luInbermen, are Co blame from an ever narrowing spruce gum market. fnept As gourmets, they gladly chew manufactured gums, whereas if they sayofed their euds as dld thair forefathers they would demand the true tang Of the for. est. Folks who cut their teeth on llnspolled spruce sn Maine, New ilaFiipahire or Vermont and ehewad lt on tho way t0 school when aO bigger than q plnt Of elder send clear back from the West for q leaf taste of old lllnee. Although oneAplslA can cherish Aeaft hene nov os beslnnlng an aromatic sas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Bull in a China Shop

There are about 133,00O0OO people in the United States. One of them is named D. Worth Clark. Unfortunately for the other 132,999, ,999, Clark happens to be U. s. senator from Idaho. Were he not senator no harm would be done by the peculiar view of American foreign policy he recently expressed Because he is, much harm may result.
 Senator Clark, with a perfectly straight face, has suggested that .he United States "take over control of all Latin America, and Canada to boot Rather than sending U. s, troops to distant Europe (3000 miles, Senator Clark would send them off to Bahia Blanca, Argen- tina (7000 miles,, and Bagellanes Chile l6,600 miles,. By setting up puppet states we could seize the hemisphere, says he, without a shot. We in the United states, of course, do not take any of this minimizing, irresponsible talk seriously. We think of the hot weather, and realize that the summer sun pours down with equally disturbing effect on senator and almpleton.
 Further, we know (those Of as who have heard Of D. Worth Clark At AlD his background ln foreign affairs, We know that the pundlt of Poeatell0 eampalgned aa ali avid follower Of the late BIll Borah af lhe kllne when the said Bofah was aS, MfrinQ fhe electorate from hIa own private EllF0neaii sources of Information - bet. |ef than those oi the State Department
 ihht there wasn't going to Dc any war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Selected Poem
THE CATS OF SIXTH AVENUE
(Thea Walker in the New York Sum

IIHta Wa1htI III OIIt 1VtW IO1h DuIIy The cats of Sixth avenue fascinate me When go out shopping. The nice A. & F., The butcher, the baker the fshmonger too, Have each their particular feline on view, A round -as-a robin. contented and fat, A be-your-age, settled, respectable cat The cats of Sixth avenue seldom are seen To frisk or to frolic, An alderman's mien Is far more their custom, being gorged to the gils By owners whose love for them lavishy spills; And if one advances to sniff at your foot IL comes very slowly, and sits down en route. The cast Of sixth avenue dream it may be, or days when Q kitten was llghtsome and free When all the world beckoned, adventure was young, When claws were ak razors, and siren tongue. But each of them yawning, agrees sure enough That youth Is SO silly, and dreams arc such stun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

o. What was the political body known as the "Wool-hatS"?
 A. They were 8 political faction in South Carolina who were mainly instrumental in the election of "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman as Cover nor. The designation "Wool-hats" was incident to their being mainly the farmer or cracker" element who customarily wore wool or felt hats. They were also called Our gallus-men."
 o. When was Hamilton Fish Sec retary of State?
 A. Hamilton Fish, father of thu present member of Congress. wa: Secretary of State under President Grant. He died in Garrison, N. Y, September T, 1893, and was buried in St. Philips cemetery.
 o. What is rernuda?
 A. It is Spanish American name for a group of saddle-horses from which are to be selected those to be used for the day.
 @. Can galvanized iron be paint ed?
 A. Yes, but before painting new galvanized iron it should be wiped over with vinegar to cut the greasy deposit always present on new gall vanized iron or tin. Old galvanized iron surfaces are usually free from oily deposits and do not require any preparatory treatment or the use of a special primer. However, 1t would. be better to use red lead or some other metal protective paint, for the first coat, or specially pre- pared galvanized iron primer, ob- tainable from paint stores. The fol- lowing coats may be an outside house paint.
 EDITORS NOTE-If you are de- sirous of securing this weeks popu- lar booklet, Armed Forces of The United States, address F. M. Kirby, Dept. B-19O, Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth st., Washington, D. C., with 10 cents tc cover postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

The recent report of State Motor Vehi- cles Commissioner John T. Mccarthy showing that gasoline consumption for June was less than the preceding month would seem to indicate that Connecticut motorists are already needing the many requests to be economical. We may not need to be put on rations in this state If voluntarily we can bring about such re- suits as this. The decrease is all the more amazing in the face of figures showing that the number of automobiles being driven along highways and streets IS steadily on the increase. We don't think Connecticut needs to be threatened with gasless Sundays or night closing of gas stations We're doing pretty good as it is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

jeans out of large sums of money. The racket was an ingenious one.
 Posing as mail-Order houses, the crooks flooded Latin Ameri- can papers with ads offering at cut prices goods formerly sup piled by German and Italian firms. In each instance the ad required the buyer to send pay ment in advance.
 Some of the promotions were on a huge scale. One advertise ment which offered sets of self fitting false teeth for $10 brought hundreds of responses. Another which offered well-known pa tent medicine netted the raeke- teers more than $50,O00.
 In every case, the buyers lost their money. The alleged mail order houses consisted of nothing more than lock box in a post office, changed at frequent inter vals to avoid detection. No goods ever were shipped.
 Authorities first got wind of the racket when U. S. consuls report- ed being bombarded with com plaints from victims. The consuls warned Washington that the fraud was giving U. s. business a black eye which no amount of good willing could overcome
 So the Postal Inspection Serv- ice, which has jurisdiction over rackets of this nature, immediate ly got busy, with the result that in few weeks ring leaders of the frauds will be "jail house bound"
 Copyright, 1941, by United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

Several weeks ago Waiter Win chell was barred from three Mon- tana radio stations owned by Wheeler intimates. Latest to feel the scourge of Wheeler's ire is John Erickson, three times gov ernor of the state and for a short term U. s. Senator.
 Erickson presided at a Helena meeting addressed by Senator Claude Pepper, militant Florida anti-isolationist. A few days later, Governor Sam Ford, Republican closely allied with the Wheeler machine, fired Erickson from his $250-a- month job as assistant ad- ministrator of the Montana Liq- uor Board.
 NOTE: The state convention of the American Legion and the Butte Miners Union have adopted resolutions condemning the bar ring of Winchell from the Mon- tana radio stations.
 CREDIT TO FASCIST SPAIN?
 On December 13, 1940, this col- umn published the fact that the State Department was considering a $100,000O00 credit to Fascist Spain in order to keep General Franco from throwing Spain into the war on the side of the Axis. That story was emphatically and officially denied by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and also by the Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles.
 Subsequent cable dispatches
 from Spain and Portugal to the
 New York Times referred to the
 proposed $10O, ,0O0, GOO credit, but
 there was no official cOnfirma-
 tion of the story.
 Seven months later, however, on July IT, General Franco, speak ing before the National Council of the Spanish Falange Spanish Fascist Party) delivered violent tirade against the United States for attempting to intervene in the European war. During the course
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

The question is being raised in state circles now whether or not a motorist can be deprived of his license if he ignores a parking tag and refuses to pay for it. The average layman would say there should be no deprivation for this violation of the law, for after all there is nothing to in- dicate that the driver is unfit for opera ton, such as can be found for other vio- lationS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Questions
 and Answers
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 The Waterbury Democrats Ser vice Bureau will answer for you free, any question of fact or ln- formation, not involving exten- sive research. Write your Ques- tfOn clearly, sign name and ad- dress, enclose three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot be given. Address Water bury Democrats Washington Ser vice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. c.
 o. What is the relation of the length of the Flag to its width2
 A. As 1.9 is to To-, according to the Executive Order of President Taft, issued October 29, 1912. Com mercial American flags are made in somewhat different proportions, however.
 o. When was the late German Kaiser's daughter Victoria Louise married?
 A. On Novembebr 1, 1913, she married Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, and became the Duchess of Brunswick. She was considered a great beauty at the time.
 o. Name the American surgeon who performed an eye operation some years ago on the late King Prajadhipok of Siam (ThailanO.
 A. The operation was for the re- moval of a cataract in the left eye and was performed at Orphir Hall, Westchester county, N. Y., May 10, 1881, by pr. John M. Wheeler, mo- ted ophthalmologist. Dr. Wheeler died August 9, 1888.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
HEDGES AND wELDLIFE
tchrIstlan science Monltorl

NNnEaotahu Scieuce h3on1tofj
 4 few years ago, clean fences and walls were one of the signs Of good farmer. Today wise farmers are ieavs Ing a strip Of grass and brush along their boundaries.
 The experts Of the Department Of Agriculture and the State expegl. nieslt stations have found that t pays to leave these strips of brush, These hedges arc heavens foF wild. life. The song birds, enail, and pheahafts EAake their hoInes ln these protected aFaas. in return foF sholF resting sides, the ieasheged frisndi of man ald him ln controlling in, aaeih of all klnda This la practical lnsNDanelve eonsagvntsoM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

Washington to save his coun- try. He should be ordered to speak his piece into every pri- vate office and over every pri- vate telephone in government circles. Secre- taries who are Ii s t e min g in should take the speech down in shorthand and put neat little tH,y1aur-iffoYo ra
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Whats Your I. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. How many cubic feet are in one cord of wood?
 2. What is the first of the ten Commandments in the book of Exodus in the Bible?
 3. What masculine nickname is also the name of an apparatus fer raising heavy bodies2
 4. The sun rotates on its axis in the same direction that the earth and all the planets revolve around it; true or false?
 5. Is Montpelier the capital Of New Hampshire or Vermont?
 6. What does quid pro quo mean.
 T. Who is the mayor of New York City?
 8. What is the popular name for euthanasia?
 g. Who wrote the poem ''Flowel in the Crannied Wall"?
 10. Tn baseball, a legally hakted ball, not swung at, but met witt the bat and tapped slowly within the infield by the batsman is call ed a D - t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
PADEREwsKI
(Boston Post)

The hands of a great pianist have been stilled forever. For three score years Ignace Paderewski had no equal, but the new world war, bring ing with 1t grief for his homeland, saw him failing. His last eifort for Poland indirectly resulted in his death, even as the armies of two ruthless dictators were despoiiing the lard he loved. His niche is SC. cure in the histories yet to be writ ten,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

ship sunk deep in the mud just where one of the piers of the bridge was to be located. Try as they would they could not dis ledge the hulk, and apparently all the tugging in the world was never going to raise it from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
. EDISON IN
 WASHINGTON
BY PETER EDISON (Waterbury Democrat Washington Correspondent

Washington, August 1-The sage brush, crackerbarrel or waterfront philosopher who first wisecracked, 'The best kind of committee to ap- point is a committee of three mem bers, two of whom are dead" should be rounded up and brought to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
A Thought for Today

For whOsoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother and my sister, and mother Mark 3:35.
 If we look closely at this world, where God seems to be utterly forgotten, We shall find that 1t is He, who, after aL commands the most fidelity and the most love-Madame Swetchine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01
Washington Merry-G Go-Round
DREW PEAR s o N
 ROBERT S. ALLEN

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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
LET THE TIDE DO TT

Many years ago when the Hell Gate bridge was being built over the East River in New York, engineers discovered the hulk of a derelict
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

reer among the moose and spruce, it is treat merely to know that our country still supports a spruce gum industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

TODAY'c COMMON ERROR Never say, "You must not do that without he gives pernis- sion; substitute unless" for without"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-01

Copyright, l941, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-12

William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, de-
clared that the 100000 A. F. of L.
members are "eager to give service
to capacity" in the present national
emergency.
In an editorial appearing in the
June issue of the American Fedora
zionist, official monthly magazine Of
the A. F. Of L., President Green
wrote:
"The Chief Executives proclama-
ton declaring an unlimited national
emergency confronts us with the i'm
mediate necessity for putting our
military, naval and air defenses in
readiness for action.
eve face the most grueling test to
which our nation has ever been sub
jected-in discipline, loyalty to ma
tional ideals and ability to achieve
Upon our ability to produce the
weapons, of defense the fate of de-
mocracy rests.
"The American Federation of La
Dor knows our unions and their mem
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-12

of the action taken by the Executive
Council in ordering that any union
which goes on strike without seeking
conciliation and mediation shall be
strictly disciplined.
"The need of the hour is for ma
tional unity" Mr.. Meany continued.
"Sound management, constructive lib
eral government and free, loyal labor
we must all unite in this effort, we
must all roll up our sleeves and we
must work. We must work as we
have never worked before. We must
all work and we must work together.
People talk and people have written
of the production which Adolf Hitler
achieved in Nazi Germany, but say
to you now that when our industrial
setup here in free America really be-
gins to roll, no country on earth will
be able to equal the production rate
attained.
"Organized labor, as represented by
the American Federation Of Labor
stands four-square behind the Presi-
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-12
A. F. Of L. Will Give "capacity Service
To Nation In Its Defense Emergency

bership will do their full part and
more. We have as much at stake in
this worldwide battle for human
freedom as any other group in our
nation. We pledge our cooperation
our services and our devotion.
"The results of defense progress
after one year have not yet reached
the production goals which we set
for ourselves, but we have reached
preparedness for mass production in
defense industries.
From now on we need better plan
ming, better coordination, better man.
agement and more efficient sustained
production. To this end our EXecu-
tive Council has pledged the coopera-
ton of all affiliated unions in making
full use of the conciliation and medi-
alton machinery set up by the govern
ment, so that every effort can be made
to prevent stoppage Of work.
"The American Federation of La
Dor early pledged every effort to pre-
vent stoppages of work due to strikes
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