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Evening star., 1942-12-26
BY SERGT. RICHARD J.
MURPHY, Jr.

COCO SOLO, Canal Zone, Dec.
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Evening star., 1942-12-26

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Marines in Panama
Believe Mail Is a
Necessity Of Life
Former Stur Reporter
Now in Coco Solo, Tells
Of Yeorning for Letters

fMr. Murphy, Wto Urote the
tolIoDing item, formerly waS
reporter for The STAR
Evening star., 1942-12-26

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Out in the Cold

Members of Mayor Vincent A. Scully's administration are more or less out in the cold so far as receiving any credit for effecting governmental economies throughout the past year and during the preparation of the 1922 budget At least the annual report of the Waterbury Taxpayers Association seems to accept most of the credit for lot of things during the past few months. We believe the association is doing first-class job and that it can perform many services for the taxpayers of the city, but we wonder if it may not be exposing itself to criticism.
 As a matter of fact if you go down the list of economies cited in the asSO- ciations report they seem to be ones that were seriously considered by the mayor and his aides at various times throughout the past year Certainly there was consideration given to the queS- tion of installing a modern disposal SyS- tenn and the financing of the same was probably the one factor that made city officials postpone action until such time as they believed the city was in posi- tion to tackle such job.
 Salary increases for various groups of city employees, too, were not rejected because of association opposition, but chiefly because the city officials believed a slight tax reduction more important for all taxpayers than the increases at this time. We don't profess to know what went on in the minds of all the city officials who discussed these matters, but we do believe that their own counsel prevailed most of the time. That they may have been guided by recommends tions from the Taxpayers Association we'd not want to deny but that it was the means whereby the city was kept on It's feet financially we'd scarcely admit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Why a Democratic Congressman?

A good many people are adopting the attitude that the approaching special congressional election is simply contest between three candidates, any one of whom would be capable of doing good job down at Washington. That's quite true up to a certain point Beyond that there lies the necessity of choosing one of the candidates whose party affiliations are such that he may prove to be the best representative we can find. In this respect we believe that the Fifth Con- gressional District is bound to receive more representation from Democratic congressman than from anyone else
 The claim is often advanced that Dem ocrats who go down to Washington now merely offer lip service to their constltu- ents back home. They are supposed to be bound hand and foot to the New Deal machinery. Actually that isn't the case and has been very capably proved right here in our own Fifth District. Judge J. Joseph Smith was a Democrat from the moment he was elected until his reSlgna- ton was submitted If elected, Attorney John S. Monagan of this city, will be the same type of public official, for he is very much similar to the former incumbent in a lot of different ways.
 But there was more to it than just this. By being a Democrat Judge Smith did not concede his right to offer an opinion that might differ from that of other Democrats or party leaders. lie was not hesitant in arguing against steps that to him did not appear to be to the interest of the greater number ot people In other words he stood on hls own two feet; he did his own thinking Despite claims to the contrary we think this is typically Democratic. We think that the Democratic candidate for cleo tion on January 20 - MT. Monagan - has all these traits and will reveal them in public life.
 Democratic representation has done much for the Fifth District. It should be continued.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

beside them. Wherever there was an interesting parsonage, he made it a point to try to get to know him. If he saw public interest running in certani direction, ne got into the current and let It sweep him on until it washed nm up on a shore where multitude of interested and excited people was gathered.
 Volumes have been written about opportunity and the necessity oi grasping it as it passes. While It would not be quite correct to say hat an opportunity, once we let it pass, never returns again, 1t cer- tainly is never quite the same op- portunity as if does return. It mas been changed and modified. It has probably shrunk little in size. US prestige has slightly diminished.
 The best rule for all of us to fol- low is to watch out for vital hap penings at all times, to observe ana study them and to be on hand when they occur. There is plenty of heroism around about us all the time. Adventure stalks our streets, goes up and down ill the elevators of our tall buildings, or sits quietly in little living rooms and Kitchens.
 Life is on the move. Put your self in the pathway of what is hap pening and let it happen to you.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
We Have Not Yet Begun to Buy

Paul Jones, in his famous fight with the Serapis, startled the enemy com mander by announcing from the raked deck of his half-sinking Bon Homme Richard that he had not yet begun to fight. The Defense Bond drive is in no sinking condition, but it is nevertheless time for the American people to an- nounce that they are ready to begin buy ing In December, despite the stimulus of the attack on Hawaii and the Philip pines sales of Defense Bonds and Stamps were just under half-billion dollars.
 We are in for a 50-billion-dollar war budget. Half of that, at least, ought to be put up by citizens in the form Of bond and stamp purchases. That means a half-billon in week, not a month. Do your share. In the coming year let no week, no month, pass without buying Defense Bonds and Stamps. It is the least any one can do who is not with the lighting forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

that every farmer has an aver age of about 50S pounds of usuable scrap iron and rubber rusting or rotting behind the barn. On this basis, the OPM estimates that it should be pos sible to collect 1,50O,00O tons of scrap from American farmers.
 Not many people realize the importance which scrap plays in the iron and steel industry. Or dinarily, steel is made fifty per cent from ore and fifty per cent from scrap iron. But today or- dinary supplies of scrap iron are diminished, not only by previ- ous sales to Japan but by the fact that war industries supply no scrap. Many tanks, guns, and military motor trucks are shipped off to Egypt, Malaya or Russia. They never come back. Ordinarily, industry supplies its own scrap iron from junked automobiles, etc. But now there will be fewer auto mobiles to junk.
 So the scrap iron problem Is one which will require every farmer and householder to look around behind his barn or in his basement to see what he can spare for war industries.
 GOODBYE, LEAD
 You can check off lead as next strategic material to be put under interdict for civilian use. OPMs banning order will be issued short ly. That will mean the end of lead foil and numerous other items of normal everyday use. One possible exception may be lead fo, automobile batteries, but even that will be under severe rcsJric,i ,ions
 Reason for the ban is made quacy of domestic supply to meet the increasing need for bull lets. War production tables call for a lead consumption of co., GOO tons monthly by June; 1Oo,- GOO tons monthly by next January. For military reasons, figures on U. $. supply can not be disclosed, but it is below what is needed even with production increases now under way plus imports from Canada, Mexico and other foreign sources. So civilian use will be restricted for the dura- tion.
 Copyright, 1942, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Questions
 and Answers
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 The Waterbury Democrats Ser vice Bureau will answer for you free, any question of fact or i'm formation, not involving exten- sive research. Write your ques- ton 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.
 c. How much is the present Brit ish tax on a package of cigarettes?
 A. Eighteen cents.
 o. When was the Mediterranean fruit fly first discovered in North America?
 A. The long-feared pest was dis covered at Orlando, Fla, on April 6, 1929. It has not been determined how it gained entrance, although it was known that since the passage of the Federal Plant Quarantine Act of 1912, plant inspectors at maritime ports of entrance had intercepted them several times. The threat of this pest to American horticulture was met by Florida and the Fed eral Government. Steps were taken to determine the extent of it's spread, to destroy all fruit in in fested and surrounding orchards, and to spray the trees with an at tractive poison bait as a. substitute for the natural food thus removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Current Comment

The German national anthem, Deutschland ueber Allies" will one day ring through all Europe as the song of 2 neo-happy Europe. -Dr. Robert Ley. head of the Ger
 man labor front.
 Sobriety. courage, ard industry are characteristics of those peopS who believe they know where they are going and why life is worth while at all.
 President c. A. Dykstra, presi-
 dent, University of Wisconsin.
 Anything that breaks down bar rierS between man and man, be- tween nation and nation, is funda- mentally tool of democratic un- derstandi;
 -Dr. Edwin H. Zeydei, University of Cincinnati, pleading for ex-
 pansion of language teaching.
 Remember Pearl Farbor! -l33 100000 Americans. Could Hitler, the Mikado, or Mus Solini remain in power if their peo- pie had freedom of speech? Mayor LaGuardia of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
HEALTHY SOLDIERS
Boston Post)

(Boston Post)
 The New Englarders who con- prise the 43d Division, made up of national guardsmen from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut, right now probably comprise the healthiest group of men in the world. Their rate of illness is practically infini- tesimal. It Is placed at six cne- thou sandths of l per cent. For 16OO0 men that certainly must be consid- cred close to perfection.
 Since their division was activated last March, the health of the men, individually and collectively, has been improved to tremendous ex- tent.
 The record these men and their officers have established in this par ticular alone speaks volumes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

Asked what the United States and Britain could do to check Japan, Churchill replied:
 "The Japanese have been eat ing all over the table. They have big appetites and for the time being there may he noth- ing much we can do about it. But sooner or later we shall turn over the table,"
 This strategy of turning over the table, in other words direct ing a move at the main islands of Japan themselves, is something which has always been ill the books of the War Plans experts.
 However, the American pub lie may have 10 reconcile itself to more discouaging news from the south Pacific before Allied strength reaches a point where the table can be turned.
 General MacArthur's situation in the Philippines has been com- pared with that of Aguinaldo, the Filipino guerilla leader, who kept American forces at pay for two years after the Spanish-American war. It has been hoped that MacArthur, like Aguinaldo, could fight in the Philippine jungles for an equal period.
 However. Aguinaldo never had to ccLc with the airpIane, and MacArtIur does. Airplanes can search every inch of Philip pine jungle; md in addition, MacArthur's munitions will not hold out forever.
 The situation of Corregidor, island fortress at the mouth Of Manila Harbor, is better, but even so it is not half as good as the army's original expectation that it could hold out for year or so. For apparently, the ground minded generals of the War De- partment did not do very much
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Whats s Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

l. "The Hay Vain" is the title ot a book, operetta. or painting?
 2. Name the bride of Hiawath in Longfellows poem with thu title.
 3. A large, tall glass used fol serving beer or ale is called q SC I?
 Who wrote the familiar song T Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair?
 5. Caius Cornelius Tacitus was 6 Roman emperor, statesman, or historian?
 6. Tall buildings are designed tt sway with the wind; true or false? T. What is the temperature of steam (not superheated) at ordi- nary atmospheric pressure?
 8 In which state is Cape Ann?
 g. U. s. Navy cruisers are nam ed for men, states or cities?
 10. Where is the lowest spot ill the U. S.?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Selected Poem
ANODYNE

(Francs L. Montgomery in the New York Times) Day breaks-itS gate is silver of the dawn.
 Noon comes--its laughter marks not any sand. Eve reers-WoodWind and it's strings demand Our going on beyond the gus that yaWn Between Us and the unknown world withdrawn. I have not words to make you understand
 How once my hair was rufled by a hand The touch of which still liveSthe hand is gone. Yet memory remains, the conscious will
 To conjure things cannot see nor feel
 Out of the shadow, as a turning wheel Gathers cloud-colors on the dreaming hill.
 It is an anodyne to ease the way
 Across the darkness at the end of day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

o. When was the United Mine Workers of America organized and who was the first president?
 A. On January 25, 1890. at Col umbus. Ohio, the United Mine Workers of America was organlzed. Its founding was the fruit Of a peace settlement between two rival national miners unions-the Ma tional Trades Assembly 1855, Knights of Labor; and the National Progress sive Union. John B. Rae was the first president.
 @. Name the most important mineral products of Bolivia.
 A. Tin. copper, ar imony, lead and silver. Tn constitutes two thirds of it's mineral exports.
 o. What is an appropriate fem mine name for a founding?
 A. Eppie, from the Gaelic mean ing flair fame,' is the name of the founding in George Ei.oJ's famous novel "Eilas Marne;'.' Wanda, from the Anglo-Saxon meaning & wan derer," is another
 Q. What was the Colossus of Rhodes?
 A. A bronze statue of Apollo, sit uated at the port of the city of Rhodes, on the island Rhodes, in the eastern part of the Mediterran- can Sea, off the coast of Asia Mi nor, north of Alexandria. It was erected by ChareS of LinduS. who spent twelve years in casting 1t. Ih cost about $253,000 and was com pleted about 280 B. c. Its height is variously estimated as 90 and 120 feet. F.fty-siX years after it was erected the statue was thrown down by an earthquake and lay in ruins until 653 A. D., when the Arabs sold the pieces to a Jew of Edessa for old metal.
 o. How much do the annual re- ceipts of beauty shops in the UnlUed States amount to and which of their services produces the largest rev. enus? ,.. A. Annual receipts are eSC-maCed at $4CO.O0O, GOO of which permanent waving accounts for 40 to 50 per- cent, and finger-waving produces 20 percent.
 o. How long a time elapsed &fser Giuseppe Zangara attempted to as sassinate President-elect Roosevelt and killed Mayor Cermak Of CEl- cago, before he was executed. A. The shooting occurred on Feb ruary 15, 1883, and zangara was electrocuted thirty-three days lat-r, on March 20.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Woods As We'll As Trees

Let's not get into the myopic habit of looking so closely at the trees that we can't see the woods We are in war. It is not merely war in which we pick up the Japanese challenge to defend our selves against attack. It is an all-out, total war against the aggressive powers which have tried to change the face of the world by force, and dominate that changed world.
 Our task is not merely to defend our selves against the Japanese attack. It IS to lick Japan to a fare-thee-Well and put ar end to all that in the Pacific. But that is not all. Our job is to devote all the rest of our energy, before and after Japan is licked to licking Germany Italy and such satellites as continue to adhere to them after the writing is on the wall Cit won't be many.
 The world is our battlefield, not merely the Philippines or Wake Island There will be no peace until victory is final, complete, and unquestionable. Whether Britain's fight was our fight all the time doesn't matter now It is our fight to- day Whether China's fight was ours doesn't matter either. It is now. Whether RuSsia's was ours doesn't matter. At thlS moment, now, it is ours.
 When the Russians hurl the lmpudent invaders back out of Moscow and Rostov, that benefits us When the British fight the Japanese invader at Hong Kong or Singapore, that benefits us. When the Chinese fight to relieve Hong Kong and equip their armies for the later offen- sive, that benefits us. When the British drive the Germans out of Libya With American tanks, that vindicates the pol icy which cent those tanks to them, and we reap today the benefit of yesterdays foresight
 The free countries of the world let the Fascists have Spain because they were afraid they might not like the color o1 Spanish government that might emerge. They sacrificed Austria and Czechoslo- vakia out of sheer reluctance to get ln- volved in dirty business We ot the United States drew back and temporlzed and hoped, only to find that after two years we, too were attacked just as all those others had been. Now we have sald goodby to all that.
 What kind of a Russia what kind of China, what kind of a British Empire even what kind of a United States Will emerge from this war, we do not know. We only know that any alternative put victory, total and final, is unthlrkable and intolerable It is no time to halt, hesitate and ask for written guarantees. Wars write no guarantees. We know that whatever world emergeS from victory, u is preferable to the world that we know would inevitably emerge from defeat That, for present purposes, is enough
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

Down at Yale University the college authorities are gradually whipping into a shape, curriculum that will see stu dents rushing in and out of New Haven like cross-country runners. While the present senior class won't be disturbed by the war, save that it will graduate one week earlier in June, following classes Will find themselves moved up on an ever accelerating program, The 1943 class, for example, will be graduated in February of 1943, while the "A class will come out in September of 1943 and the '45 class graduates in June of 1944. If this war keeps on very long you can imagine what old grads will be doing at their goth reunions - trying to figure out when they should celebrate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

This speed-up in the collegiate ranks, though, is quite typical of American en- terprise and ability to accept conditions as they occur. In another year we may expect collegemen to be turned out, o1f a production line just as the big plants are pushing out airplanes, tanks, etc. The difference lies in the ability of the 1ast- moving young men to become part of the all-out movement to kill off the forces of aggression and dictatorship,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

Experts on na- tion al taxation have shied away from this pro- posal in the past b e c a u s c of the difficulty of col lection. t h e ex- emptions which would have to be granted, t h c be- lief t h a t it has not b e e Il neces- s a ry, the reluc- tance to resort to more hidden tax es, the inflation- arv tendencies of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
ReVenuerS
 Fondly Eye General Sales Tax
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespOndent

Washington, Jan. 8-All kinds Of strange new tax proposals may be expected from the new Congress as potential producers of war revenue, but one that seems certain to re- ceive more support than in the past is the idea of general manufac- turerS' sales tax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Daily Almanac

Sun rises 7:15 a. m.; sets 4:40 D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Watch the sunrise and sunset periods these days. This is the time of the year when the change towards longer periods of daylight all most imperceptibly sets in It's so gradual you hardly notice it at first but there is definite switch in the other direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

of things that
 were happening, and he found that they ex- erted a tremen- dous effect up on his career. He caught up W i tn all the good m ov e. ments of Il i S day and learn ed all he could as he walked
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

We've heard this before and so have many Americans It needs lot of study before it's accepted. Senator w. Lee ODaniel, Democrat, of Texas, has urged a "voluntary' prohibition status be ere ated throughout the nation. That's all right as far as it goes and we do think that great many people will voluntarily curb their appetites for sprituous bever- ages during the war period. And there is a lot to be said about placing ban on sale of liquor in and around military camps, reservations and the like. But extreme caution should be taken by all our legislators federal, state, and local, not to get the idea that we ought to take the same step that we did back in 1913 when this nation entered on perlod that probably never has been equalled in our history. If there were any good results from prohibition they were clearly lost sight of in the face of an overWhelm- ing tide of crime and corruption that swept the nation and left an imprint diScernible even today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D.

LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU
 Jacob Riis, the social worker and author, once declared that he had made it a habit during his life to put himself in the pathway
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
4 Thought for Today

With men it is impossible, but nat with God: for with God all things possble.-Mark IO:27.
 Commonly we say judgment falls upon man for something in him we cannot abide. -Selden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08
Washington Merry-Go Round
Jap Pones May Wreck Plans for Philippines Guerilla Composn More Expected Before Allies Tokyo
DREW PIE 4 R $ 0 N ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON January Many remarks still being quoted the regard allied strategy against
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR To form the p0ssessive plural
 of nouns add an apostrophe if the plural ends in S; as boys
 hats; the Ladies' Home Jour- nal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-27
Mystery Of Orient
FaScinateS YankS

TRENCH NORTH AFRICA, despite the spread Of Vest
culture in coastal cities still, it has been for
centuries essentially Oriental.
Reminder Of this given emphasis in Gen. Eisenbow-
es famous order the AEF refrain under any condition.
from addressing the Mosem
Johnny Doughboy must conform to the customs Of the
East, matter how much he may he fascinated by the
srangeness and mystery Of the life about him. reflected in
woodenroofed shopping souks, in bazaars and
mosques and, specially. in the yelled Mohammedan women