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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
CRAZY AS THIS SORDID WAR
is, MILLIONS MUST DIE TO
PRESERVE DEMOCRACY
Everett, Mass,
February 10, 1912

Everett, Mass,
February 10, 1912
Editor of The Democrat:
1t is perfectly clear to the aver
age intelligence that many danger
ously insane characters are at large
in the world. Were this not so we
would not be suffering the impact
of the savage brutality which the
aggressor nations have been thrust
ing upon the world. This mad saw
agery respects METER age nor sex
and some of the worst deeds are be-
ing done by men brought up under
religious influences. These paranoic
megalomaniacS have set the world
back thousand years. This is why
we find some people having a
greater admiration for the harmless
insane confined in institutions than
for militarists and others roaming
free in the world to spread their
evil ard fill us with a deep repug-
nance and horror.
No man in his right mind believes
in war. One would think that after
all these years civilization would
mean something instead of plunging
us into one of the sorriest 1nesses
In all human history. Yet the world
Is at war and we have to face the
reality even though we deplore the
insanity of the whole business. Now
that war is here, and as we con-
template with genuine apprehension
and despair the aftermath of this
maniacal outbreak, in response to
the primitive urge for survival, we
are obliged to mobilize all our re-
sources so that peace-and- freedom
loving Americans may keep the in
sane hcrdes at bay 1t is useless to
ask WHY this thing happened, but
to crack down on the forces of Or
ganized insanity and ourselves ac-
quire a sort of toughness and a dis
regard for the traditional amenities
OF civilized living in order that we
may continue to live at all. 1t isn't
a very pretty picture but the mad
dicta.ors have succeeded in convert
ing millions of their weak as we'll as
strong people into blind followers
In these terrible adventures in
carnage. 1t is quite true that many
Of our own people are fascinated
by large-screen projection of the
bombing and killing of European
peoples, especially Japs, and only
the other day a new recruit in the
American forces said over the radio
that he will not be happy until he
"cuts off the ears of lot of Japs."
Even our own militarists and men
engaged in the business Of war are
grandiose at times; but it is also
true that they are engaged in the
| practical business Of altering the
appearance Of the geographical map
of the world and of changing the
shape of certain political doctrines
Of the mad war lords; so that their
entry into the battle forces is at
least justifiable if the freedoms are
to be preserved.
I have just read a book, THE
March of the Barbarians". by Har-
old Lamb, where is pictured the
sub-human leaders of savage hordes,
with a gift for torturing peaceful
Europeans and splitting Christian
blood. THE March Of the Bar
barians" achieves a rare combina-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
In Today's Mail

| ton of fine scholarship with the art
of blowing the breath of life into
the inert and dusty accounts of
half forgotten pages. Comparing
these early barbarians of that grey
dawn when primitive nomadic tribes
roamed the steppes of Asia, with the
beastial Hitler and his modern bar
barian hordes on land, on sea as
well as under it, it is hard to see
where the Mongols were much
worse than the present tribes of
so-called civilized beings that rain
death down from the skies. The
Golden Family" led the Tartar
Juggernaut in a blood -bathed and
ruined b1ackened swath across Asia,
through Russian Kiev, Poland and
Hungary to the waters of the DAN
ube. But the Beast Of Berlin" is
just as ruthless and when the his
tory of this ruthlessness is written
generations yet unborn will have
as much respect for Hitler and his
hordes as they vii have for Ogadai
Khakan, the Mongol conqueror.
While recognizing that war is a
dreadful form of insanity we still
have to face the reality and that in
order for the survival of democracy
millions must die, crazy as the whole
thing appears. Today psychiatry is
taking a prominent part in the war
and is building an impenetrable
barrier against lawless aggressors.
We know that American psychia-
trists are rendering yoeman service
as members of Medical Advisory
Boards, Army Induction Boards and
even as officers in the armed forces.
chronological advance and improved
lethal weapons has contributed
stupendously to the business of war
and thanks to what modern psy-
chiatry has taught we have recruits
and selectees sound in body and in
mind.
AS America engages more and
more in the battle to save our own
freedoms We will think of Hitler as
the lover of conquest for it's own
sake, just as ruthless a pllrsuer as
the notorious Genghis- Khan, whose
genius lay in his ability to turn
reckless men into a highly organized
military unit, to proceed by plan,
and never to be betrayed into mercy.
The new American army that will
put an end to Hitlerism has psy-
chiatry. to thank that before this
aura Of terror meets his end, there
will be no psychopath, psycho-neu-
rotis characters, paranoid personali-
ties, potential psychotics, ep.leptics
and related types in the nations
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
Current Comment

If we went to Moscow to give,
We went to Washington to get, and
getting is always more difficult
than giving.
Lord Beaverbrook, British sup
ply minister.
We don't want any alibis or ex-
cuses. I don't want them; the
President doesn't want them; the
people of the United States GER
tainly aren't interested in them.
Donald M. Nelson, production
chief.
Current history proves that
some grour, somewhere, must take
the lead in pointing the way to bet
ter things. The cooperative move
ment can, If it wants to, take the
lead toward an economic system
which will provide an abundance
of goods for all people.
Murray D. Lincoln, president Co.
operative League.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20

I. Name the man who began his
profe ssio,lal career as law clerk to
Justi e Brandeis and who has
served ~ member of the federal
trade co mission, chairman of the
securitie, ard exchange commission
and has ow been appointed exec
utive of she Office of civilian de-
Tense. '5s
2. Many the two U. S. high COM
missioners of the Philippine Islands
who were also governors Of states.
3. In which House of Congress
does the Constitutions require all
bills for raising revenue to ordg.-
nate?
4. Disregarding any consideration
of friction, four-inch pipe will
discharge as much water as 4, 8,
or Is, one-inch pipes?
5. Who killed the Gorgon Medu-
sa? y
6. The handling of toads causes
warts; true or false?
7. Name the smallest mammal
of North America.
8. OF what extinct government
agency was the blue eagle SYM
boil?
8. Braille Is a grain, a system by
which the blind can read, or city
In France?
TO- Red flannel undergarments
are w:~ner than white flannel
ones Of the same grade and weight:
true or false?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
Selected Poem
THE SOLDIER

THE SOLDIER
marjorie Leichner in the Poets Column,
Hartford CouranD
He walks unsinging in the night,
With no more laughter in his heart,
This boy who once had studied art,
And slows his palette far from sight
For who can paint the summer skies,
Or contemplate a peaceful ocean,
When he must spend his whole devotion
On some death-plan, ere he dies?
All, surely they who cause the wars
Will realize that they have hurled
A million soldiers, flags unfurled,
And thousand Titians through Eternal Doors
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20


fighting forces. The negligent att
tude towards the induction Of thes.
types during the first World War
has cost our country untold mil
lions In war compensations. This
experience will not be repeated.
However, it would be folly for any,
body to think that the achievement
of the task that the challenge of the
madmen imposes upon the peace.
d-freedom-loving peoples of thu
earth does not call for a simila
hardening of human nature to a toll
erance Of hostility and aggression
as way of life-indeed, to use thu .
words Of DR.. Bernard Glueck, tn,
eminent psychiatrist, "as the a.
tributes whose assiduous cultivation,
on their part carries the only as.
surance of survival"
EUGENE BERTRAM WILLARD
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
Questions
and Answers
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
The Waterbury Democrats Ser
vice Bureau win answer for yea
free. any question Of fact or Ia
formation. not involving exter
sive research. Write your CUES
ton clearly. sign name and I'D
dress. enclose a three cent postasr
stamp. Medical or legal advice
cannot be given. Address Water
bury Democrats Washington Ser.
vice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth
Street. Washington, d. E..
@. Will there be a shortage Or
women's full fashioned hosiery dur
ing the war?
A. Unless some change occurs, a
shortage of full-fashioned hosie9y
is expected to develop during The
current year, probably by late
spring. Stocks Of silk are becom-
ing exhausted. fine-count cotton
yarns are on short supply and ray
on and nylon yarns available to tie
industry are likely to be reduced. j.
@. When was the Office of Pro-
duction Management established,
with William S. Knudsen, Director
and Sidney Hillman Associate Di-
rector?
A. January 7, 194l.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20

be, contends he can be far more
useful to the war effort if he re-
mains independent, drawing no
salary, but free to criticize and
make suggestions. So once a week
Baruch comes to Washington,
drops in on MS old friends in the
War, Navy Departments, and the
OPM and "gives them hell"
AS a result he has made him
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20

America is going to be surprised by what
it can really do when it sets its mind TO
the salvage problem. Salvage OF paper
and magazines has been surprising, but
when old metal starts to pile up watch
how it accumulates. There is wealth OF
old and discarded scrap metal to be found.
Let's all pitch in and dig it out.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20

self one of the most useful men
in the entire United States.
Equally useful could be a
Board of Elder Statesmen COM
posed of Henry l. Stimson,
Cordell Hull, Jesse Jones and
Frank Knox. Add to them,
Bernard Baruch with his war
Continued on Next Page)
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get Other ana per-
haps better jobs
in war plants.
The real blow
comes below the
nj a n u f a C turing
level, hitting the
10000 or m or e
dealers with their
500, 900 employees,
the $4,000 repair
e s t a b ! ishments,
the 95, 900 other
retail outlets -
only a + e W of
which will be able
to keep going in
a business run on
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Auto Rations
Will Pinch
Many Activities

This is the last of series dis
cussing the wars impact on U. 5.
automobile civilization.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20

@. Was the father Of Admiral
Ernest Joseph King, new com
mander Of the u. IS. fleet, also d
navy man?
A. No. He was a master mechac-
ic on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road.
@. What is the diameter CT tie
moon?
A. 1t is 2,l6O miles, about IL
that of the earth, which is 1896
miles at the equator and 7,899t
miles at the poles.
@. Has the fire in the Goa! &C.
posts at New Straitsville, Oh.o
been extinguished?
A. No. 1t has been burning fCr
many years, but the area has been
completely surrounded by an I'm
pervious barrier, which. it is hoped.
will confine the fire. The success CT
this project will not be known for d
long time.
@. Please publish a brief biogra-
ply of Kate Smith.
A. She was born in Greenville,
Va, May !. 1909, and her childhood
was spent III Washington, D. c. To
please her family, she entered a
nursing school after completing her
high school course, but year later
decided that she wanted to sing.
She played with Eddie Bowling in
Honeymoon Lane" and after a
two-year run, Joined the cast Of
FLYNN High She started broad
casting over a coast-to-coast net
work In April, 1881.
EDITORS NOTE: II you are
DESTROYS of securing this weeks
booklet, WEIGHT CONTROL"
address F. M. Kirby, Dept. 8-109.
Waterbury Democrat Service Blu
reau, 1913 Thirteenth st., Wash
ington, d. c.. with 10 cents to
S0ver noSatSo
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Merry Suggests Policy Board Of Elder
To Include Older Cobneteers: Hull, Stimson Knox,
Country Would Have Benefit Of Their Wisdom and Experience
While Younger Men Ran Our Foovns Government Machinery
DREW EAR S O N
ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON February TO- In 1927 Franklin Roosevelt raised the most
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
CORRESPONDENT

Washington, Feb. 20 - Dislocation
OF the automobile industry it self is
only the first step on this down.
ward trend of Americas pre-war
civilization on wheels. Loss of jobs
by 100000 or more automobile fac
tory workers, while the plants are
retooling, is temporary. They'll all
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
What's Your |. O.?

Can you answer seven Of these
test questions? Turn to back page
for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-20
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac
Moon sets 1904 g. m. (War Time.
Sun rises TAO a. M; sets 6:32 p. m WAR
Time.
All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-20
On ss~vvooS & Strattoo Photo
But those pearls were found

But those pearls were found
in the Red Sea. In the ancient
days pearers followed the
coasts down Africa, across India and into the Paci
fc islands. Then for many years no one knew
where they came from.
One tale of the discovery of the South Sea
pearling grounds is that a white man visiting
beach tribe found them eating roast oysters and
splitting out the pearls without knowing what they
were
The report of that quickly brought ships and
scoundrels from every land. Convicts escaped from
the Australian settlements and stole ships to go
pearling and sandalwooding. Beachcombers bor
rowed canoes from their island protectors and
dived in offshore bays to bring up fortunes.
Then settlements of pearlers sprang up on the
Australian coasts and fleets of uggers put off with
their mother schooners to fish the reefs. They'd
fish Il through Summer until the willywly season
drove them to port. Then they tied up in creeks
until the next Spring.
The early divers were Malays and Kanakas.
Then Manila men joined the crews. Shell was
opened and pearls sometimes found Luggers were
wrecked and men died so that little milky pearls
could some night deck the neck of beautiful wo-
man in Paris or Vienna or London or New York.
And murder followed the pearls.
When Jem Taylor was pearl opener for Port
Redand fleet he had some strange adventures,
he told me-
You know, the divers went down, collected their
shell and that was handed over to the mother ship
every evening while she was with the fleet. And
each pile of shell was marked with the name of
the diver who'd got it. You see if a pearl was
found commission went to the diver. Another
commission went to the master of the lugger.
cut went to the shell opener too, just to ma.
all honest
Well, Jem Taylor was a down-east Yankee.
Tough as they come, but honest. Just the type
for shell opener. ~.
He had to be mighty careful though. He'd sit on
deck in the evening for then the shell would open
in the cooness. He'd shove in his knife, cut the
gristle that closed the shell and lift out the meat
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-20

kill it in the cow whale along and kicked
his ugger to flinders He just waited til morning
and along came mama whoofing through the water
like garbage scoW. The baby tucked itself under
her port fin and started sucking just like real
baby. Jem said it made him go funny all over
He used to watch the great finbacks running
along the reefs to scratch their barnacles. Some
times they'd get too close to the lugger and the
crew would pass out tin cans and gongs and raise
a bobbery to scare them away.
Once he had an old humpback that purred
alongside his lugger all one night. Just swan back
and forth rubbing his hide along the bilge. First
she'd list over to starboard, then while the crew
were hanging on and saying their prayers the big
beast would bout ship and rub along the other side
and almost send her over on her beam ends.
But those were everyday happenings in the life
of pearler.
Pearls have been known for centuries. The
Romans used them, Egyptians had them in their
Jewel caskets. The ancient Persans thought they
were Spring rain drops that had fallen within the
oyster shell and were solidifed.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-20
CHAPTER v

1912 by American Weekly Britain Rights Reserved
q kOU wouldn't think there's much connection
y between whales and pearls, would you?
But there is.
All along the coast of Western Australia is
where most of the finback and humpback whales
breed. And that's where pearls come from. Not
the only place, of course; they have been found
in mussels in the Hudson, but most of the CONNER
cial pearlers operate from that coast.
In the old pearling days a man bought himself
lugger got crew of Kanakas, Maays or Manila
boys and started fishing along the reefs off Broome
and Derby
They used what were called skin divers; ma
tives, stripped but for loincoth and belt for
knife, who, clinging to weighted line, groped
among the sea nettes and crevices in the coral for
three and sometimes four minutes at time bring
ing up mighty few she'll
In later days they used diving suits and they
could go far forty fathoms under water stay
ing down for hours That meant more shell. And
after all shell is the paying crop of the pearl fisher
Pearls are few and far between.
Sometimes the shell contains baroque, small
blisters of nacre that might or might not make
pearls. Sometimes it's blister that might be
worth five thousand dolars-or five dollars. All
too seldom it is fine "round," perfect and flaw
less Then the pearler takes holiday.
Those divers have plenty danger to put up with.
There are giant squds; those that fight the great
sperm whales, ready to drag man into under
cave and rip him out of his dress with beak
like monster parrots
Or there are poisonous sea snakes that will kill
a man before his handlers can get him out Of his
suit. There tiny stone fish invisible the
sand that will leave spines in the divers
hands. The devil fish stingray will lash
to agonized death if he doesn't watch.
Or the groper, kind of rock cod about hun
dred times oversize will shove the diver into his
hole and eat him alive
The diver keeps his white hands under his arm
pits while he's being lowered or raised in case a
wa them them
off.
And sometimes it's whale.
heard yarn once about Jap diver. He was
SeDtcmbpr 20. 1912
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-20

water like live pendulum.
The pull of the line frightened the whale and
he took off like a destroyer dragging the diver
after him. The men in the lugger felt the pull and,
though they tried to hang on the lines parted The
diver was found some days later.
Another diver working the bottom mile or so
away saw gigantic figure in the gloom of the sea
bottom working at something in a coral cave. He
stood still death watching. The creature backed
and filled and ugly slime rose about him. The thing
backed off and drove at the cave.
Then the diver found his pal
The giant groper tearing the dead diver
out of his suit
Another yarn my old friend Jem Taylor told
me. Jem had been whaler, but he jumped ship
and worked for couple of seasons as shell opener
in pearling ugger.
He was lying in his bunk one night about
twenty mile off Eighty Mile Beach. 1t was boiling
hot and the was like glass. All of a sudden he
heard baby crying. Jem said he thought he was
having nightmare for a bit. There no kids
within five hundred miles as far as he knew. Yet
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-20

there was a baby
C r y i n g a n d
whimpering not
a foot from his
ear where he lay
in the starboard
bunk.
He jumped on
deck and grabbed
a lantern to look
oversize.
So help me,
there was a baby
-
whale that had
lost its m a m a,
clinging to the
bilge of his lug
ger and crying as
though it's heart
would break.
Jem did mt
know what to do.
He was scared to
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-20

on the bottom,
and ee in g a
S h a d ow pass
over him he
looked up at the
white belly of a
h u n dred foot
sulphur bottom.
The beast swan
right between his
air pipe and life
line. The diver
crouched there,
turning off his
e S C a p e valve
so the bubbles
wouldn't scare
the monster. But
as soon as the
line touched his
flukes he lashed
up and down
with them, they
were entangled
and the diver
w a S S w u n &
thro u gh the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27
Photo by Times stsn Photographs

instead of smudging up your clean towels.
Yet LAVA leaves skin soothed and
smoother! No roughness in the wonderful
cream-like lather. It's amazingly gentle
even for tots hands or Mothers skin.
Yes, you'll all like LAVA Dad -.
Mother =. and the Kidsl For thorough
wash-ups it beats ordinary toilet soaps
even on n,oney-sayinel So get plenty, today
at your regular store.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27

seem to evidence less fatigue at
this type OF work.
The firm is now educating girls
wherever possible to replace men
who are being called into the
army-a procedure typical Of war
plants throughout the Michigan
production area.
Women of all three shifts at
Lyon are entered in their MISS
VICTORY search.
SPEED ON FINALISTS
All plants in the contest are
urged to choose their finalists as
rapidly as possible so the judging
committee in this area will have
more time to study their qualifi-
cations.
Each plant may select one area
finalist for each 100-girl workers.
The winner in this area will be
known as MISS VICTORY of
MICHIGAN and will be awarded
a 81, 900 war bond by the Times.
Her expenses to the final national
contest in Chicago also will be
paid by this newspaper.
For tho Inside News" of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column I'm the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27

For tho "Inside News" of
Washington, Follow Paul Nal
Ions Column In the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27
Women's Problems

IF am elected Governor, ] will have
in my administration a woman who
will act as contact between the Gov
ernor's Office and the women of the
State of Michigan-tbe housewives, the
teachers, the professional women, the
Office workers and the factory workers.
My pledge TO the people of Michigan
is unity-with equal and fair represen-
tation for the women of our State"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27
On Farm Problems

Farmers today are among the forgot
ten men, carrying on without ade-
quaee help. facing grave problems
with courage and resolution There
must be correlation between the Gov
ernor and the various State agencies
and federal bureaus 20 ease the far
mer's burden, to help him maintain
his farm and provide the food so
vitality necessary TO the prosecution
of the war. For guidance in agricul-
tural matters, l shall look &C all times
TO the farm organizations and the
individual expressions of the farmer
himself"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27
Harry F. Kelly makes his
position clear on six more
important issues:
On Labor Problems
Pho,e ), r,me. sistr Pao.ouaphx

Improvements in Unemployment
Compensation must not stop. Changes
are required in administration of the
Act. The Workmen's Compensation
Act must likewise be brought up 20
date and made .all-indusive to cover
all injuries 10 wprkmen, and properly
and adequately provide medical care
therefore, with benefits commensurate
with todays greatly increased living
costs"