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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
Scrap Rubber Needed

Pity the poor gasoline station owners! To add to their woes they now have the task of receiving scrap rubber as the nation swings into another salvage drive. This time it's rubber that's wanted = in large or small quantities. If you have ten pounds of old rubber scattered around the house and garage take it down to your favorite gasoline dealer and he'll give you ten-centS for the pile. In turn he can sell ton of rubber to the government for $25, which, mathematically speaking, gives nim quarter of cent profit pound sn each ton sold.
 However, it's not so much the profit as the spirit. After all we are aware of the fact that automobile tires are mighty scarce and if the war should be pro- longed lot of car owners aren't going to be able to replace their present tires. So it behooves us to bring forth the hidden and forgotten stores of rubber articles that no longer are of any use to us. Junk them all in the interest of patriot ism. There's no doubt but what the scrap rubber pile has been barely tapped. It was that way with scrap metal. There's lots of both scattered around just wait- ing to be salvaged for Uncle Sam.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
Cooperation for Victory

There are far too many exceptions, ot course. But in general it can truth fully be said that the emergency of this war is bringing about almost unbellev- able unity on the American labor front. Some employers still are trying to profit exorbitantly out of their Workmen. Some unions still are seeking to get the last golden egg even if it kills the goose. Over all, however there is growing a realiza- ton that capital and labor are sailing stormy seas in the same open boat, and should devote themselves Whole-hearted- ly to the common cause.
 When Donald Nelson first proposed labor management committees to spread war production, he aroused storm of protest literally Sprinkled with personal abuse. Employers saw in the plan a covert scheme by which the labor unions would be enabled to muscle in on man. agement functions. They would have none of such utopian dreams.
 A few did try the idea, then more, until now such committees are function ing in more than 800 war plants. There have been abuses here and there. On the whole, both sides have proven so sincere that abor-management committees no longer can be considered radical, eXperi- mental or essentially debatable. They have succeeded. Mill & Factory, trade publication, canvassed 88 plants chosen at random, of all sizes and with wide geographical distribution and diversity of product. Seventy-seVen reported that labor has not attempted to encroach on management functions. Eighty four reported that the unions have not tried to use the committees for bargaining purposes. Sixty-five said that labor has used the committees in sincere effort to increase production.
 The replies are as encouraging as the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
A Thought for Today
Priorities Win Out

The battle of keeping up highway con- vtruction throughout Connecticut is ap- parently losing one. Priorities on cer- tain building materials are starting to make themselves felt BituminouE or aSphaltic products, steel reinforcement screens etc, are practically out for the duration. So few projects now nearly completed throughout the state are in state of suspension. One of them is the new Sandy Hook -Woodbury roadway, involving some $214,00O. Another is a bypass from the Charter Oak bridge at Hartford, which seems to be moving along as per schedule after last December's set back.
 Presumably such big projects as the Wilbur L. Cross Parkway will also suffer from lack of materials. While nothing has been said of recent days about the tunnel through West Rock that un- doubtedly is out for the duration if not longer. The last plans mentioned were that the parkway would be entirely con- pleted elsewhere before the job of tun- neling through the rock would be started. The war has definitely pushed this further into the background. How ever, on the whole the Highway Depart rent is meeting the situation admirably.
 Wherever possible other materials are being substituted for those which can't be obtained Of course The Democrat has long contended that almost all of tho highway construction work now under way in this state is more or less essential to our national defense effort. And as such projects are supposed to get clearance in obtaining critical materials we can't see why roads, like the Sandy -Woodbury route or the Cross Park wsy, don't qualify for the same without any federal objections or holdups..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
Our Time Will Come

From Greece come the latest tales of systematic Nazi inhumanity. It is a shocking story A year ago it would have been blazoned over the front pages of all newspapers, and the Skeptical would have asked whether this was like the World War horror stories which were diScredited afterward. By now, more's the pity, we have learned that no savagery is too great for the Nazis to perpetrate. Atrocity has been heaped upon atrocity until authenti- cated accounts have ceased to be SenSa- tional news. After Poland, nothing seems worth doubling.
 Today, because we were unprepared, we can only pity. Tomorrow, all pulling together, we shall be in position to prom ise to the people of Poland, of Greece, of Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia and France and Scandinavia and the Low Countries that the Tanks are coming, and that those who manage to survive for yet a while shall see retribution exacted for the crimes of which they are victims
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facts. Many who assumed that the unions would prove thus unselfish will be astounded to find employers frank enough to give the unions full credit. It develops, for the benefit of those who doubted, that workers and managements can cooperate in the common interest. We must assume that in most instances such collaboration will continue until the war has been won.
 Is it too much to hope that the habit of meeting on common ground, of ex- changing views amicably, of subordinat- ing selfish groups interests to the com mon welfare in short, of functioning as reasoning human beings-can be carried over into peace time?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
Save Tin

The tin can salvaging campaign which has been under way in few communi- ties is going to be extended to 36 metro politan areas from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf The goal is to collect 25O,OOO tons of tin cans a year, which will work existing detinning facil- ities to capacity.
 This should not prove too difficult. New York turned in more than 5000 tons of cans in less than three months, from which 30 tons of tin and 5000 long tons of scrap steel was reclaimed. The tin from five old cans will plate four new ones Think of that, if you are tempted to shirk in the salvage campaign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12

Some time ago something appeared in the state papers about resurrecting the old trolley cars and putting them into service to help out the overworked bus situation. New Haven happens to be the only city in Connecticut now where trolley service is retained and so far as we know no efforts have been made to salvage any trolley rails down there that aren't being used. But the story was that Hartford might bring the cars back because there was sufficient track left in the streets to make it feasible. However, just this week Hartford aldermen voted to join with the federal government in salvaging all trolley rails imbedded in city streets, so it doesn't look as if Hart ford would get the car service back New Haven may retain it's existing lines, but nowhere else would it be economically possible to restore trolley service. Much more than rails are needed to run a trolley line and not only is the rolling stock scarce, but so are wires and poles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12

Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston acted wisely in tossing away without much comment bill prepared by the Boston City Council which would have imposed $1O license on all persons or concerns selling newspapers published outside of the state. Directed, 1t was charged, against one New York news paper the ordinance was certainly not In keeping with our American spirit ot freedom of the press. As matter of fact it's doubtful if any such law as this would stand up in the courts when put to test Certainly Boston, with its tight censor. ship laws, could better control sales of periodicals in this fashion than by penalizing all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
In Today's Mail

mum contribution only on the basis of his own abilities and resources without regard to those of his neighbors? Thus will we best contri- bute to the highest opportunity of Victory for all.
 Opportunity
 This land has progressed to our present point of achievement by holding to the ideal of opening to every citizen that fair opportunity to which his abilities entitle him. We have steadfastly sought to pro- tect this opportunity by strength ening our civil liberties. This secured the maximum exercise of individual liberty. It called for cooperation be- tween all citizens with tolerance of every point of view, and the exer- else Of justice between man and man. This growth of individual lib- erty left us free in peace times to go our own way, to satisfy our own ambitions, and to work at those tasks in which we could excel. This was our ideal of an equality of op- pOrtunity, imperfectly achieved, but always advancing.
 The Rebirth Of Sacrifice
 Tn order to protect equality of op- portuntty we are called upon for the fourth time in our History to under go rebirth of sacrifice. It requires that the only limitations upon OUT will to serve the Common Cause are those which our own abilities and resources impose upon us. We have been making halting progress to- wards this ideal. Under the call of the common sacrifice we shall make
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lantic, we could not match their battleship strength in the Pacific. They had photographs of the dam age done at Pearl Harbor, and they knew we had used no battle ships in the battles at Pearl Har- bor, and they knew we had used no battelshipS in the battles of the South Pacific. So probably they were able to make fairly &C., curate estimate of what we could muster around Midway. And the tremendous size of their own force shows they did not want to take chances.
 However, the Japs were not
 able to calculate that we would
 ge. wind of their movements in
 advance, and that the Army
 would concentrate so many of
 tis big bombers on Midway
 Island-hungry for the Jap at-
 tack.
 And reading between the lines. of the Navy's statements, it is safe speculation that our air: fleet, chiefly army bombers met the Jap ships 500 miles off Mid- way and never let them come within range of our battleships' big guns; also that the only U. s. naval vessels which really got into action were our submarines. (The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12

Japs presumably scored their hits against us with airplaneS or subs.)
 In which case you can un- derstand why the Air Corps is sore over having the Battle of Midway hailed as a great naval victory, with the Admirals isSeu. ing all the victorious announce meuts. "r' ADMTRALS RULE AIR
 Indisputable fact, however, is that no navy today can go near a heavy concentration of land- based planes. The British sup- er-dreadnaughts Prince of Wales and Repulse were not able to do 1t. The Jap battleship Haruna was not able to do 1t when we still had some air strength in thu Philippines. And the powerful British fleet today is not able to go near Nazi air bases on the coast of Europe.
 Yet today, the Air Corps around Midway is under Ad-, . nAiral Nimitz; the Air Corps around the Coral Sea is under Admiral Leary; and the Air Corps around the Caribbean ap- breaches to the Panama canal is under Admiral Hoover-none of whom has been trained in aviation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
UPON TO MAKE SACRIFICE TO PROTECT EQUALITY
 OF OPPORTUNITY
Hartford. Conn, June 10. 1922.

June lU, lS4Z.
 Tn our last letter we outlined some of the causes which have tended to reduce our individual contributions toward winning the war. A mistaken policy of neutrality and Isolation confused our minds at the start as to what we were fighting for. When finally 1t became clear that there was no way out but to fight, the conversion of industry as whole to war work faced us with a prob lem of general adjustment of vast extent. This adjustment is going on more rapidly than the President anticipated it poSsibl could. Indus try is now ahead of its schedule and war supplies are coming of the production lines at an ever increas- ing rate. There is still a shortage of many materials and war jobs can- not yet be provided as fast as we would wish. The feeling of confusion and illustration, however, which has faced civilians in clearing up and we are coming to distinguish between the essentials and the non-essen- tials. There is still much for every one to do.
 At times we are foolishly and up- necessarily bothered by the feeling that the sacrifices we are called up- on to make are not equal in many cases. The spokesmen in Washing ton are refusing to make any sacri- Aces of wages for those men al- ready receiving the highest increas- ed earnings of any group. The spokesrnen for farmers are insisting that they must get the maximum price the market will bear for those now profiting by a great increase in price than any other sellers Of goods. We do not believe that the rank and file of either group are de- manding any such racheteering ad- vantages. And those on small sal- aries having had no increases are fearful lest the larger incomes may receive a greater share than their contributions to war eIoFt entitle them.
 Is 1t not plain that we had bet- ter forget the mote in the other fel- lows eye and concern ourselves only with what we. Individually, can cosis tribute9 And is 1t not plain that each cs1e cf us can make hls nlaxis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-12
Selected Poem
BEFORE SLEEP

(Martha Banning Thomas in the Christian
 Science Monitor) Remember this road At evening, And the wild pear blossoms Tossed on the bough, In a beauty of white; Remember the tall, still dignity of ferns Coiled at the ends Like snails, Secret and green; And reticent violets Young in the midst of their leaves, By the dudst of the roadside; Remember the first thin jangle Of bells in the brook When the peppers are shaking The air of the night; Remember the gulls Crying And the long, last breath Of wave Leaving sandy shore.
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Current Comment

All categories of naval seagolng vessels are being launched and de- livered well ahead of time, in most instances from three months to one year ahead of schedule. HI. c. Smith. president Of National Council Of American shipbuildeFs.
 We would like to have tarTied and watched the later developments or fire and explosion, but even 70, we were fortunate to receive Q fairly detailed report from the excited Japanese radio breakfasts.
 Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle.
 after receiving Congressional
 Medal Of Honor for leading air
 raid on Japan.
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There are two chief reasons for this renewed demand for 8 sep- arate air corps at this time:
 l. The Battle of Midway
 and in fact all major U. s.
 victories SO far, have been won
 primarily by the Army Air
 Corps. The Navy has been
 in command, issued the con-
 muniQues, and received most
 of the credit. But at Mid-
 way and the Coral Sea, land
 based army airplanes turned
 the tide of victory.
 2. Army airmen claim that
 despite the vital importance
 of bombing planes, the battle
 ship still gets priority in ma-
 terials over bombers.
 Actually, construction of both
 bornbers and hattleships get top priority ratings. But when it comes to some of the materials going into bombers, it is another story. Army airmen say that cer- tain materials for bombers get only a No. 4 rating, whereas all materials for battleships are rushed through at top speed. Yet most of the battleships now build- ing will not be finished for two or three years; while bombers can be finished in a few weeks, and they can be dropping bombs on Germany a few days later.
 This question, many military Strategists feel, is one of the most fundamental faced by U. S. forces, and represents the difference between winning the war in 1942 with bombers. or winning it in 1S44 with battle- ships.
 And the Air Corps, they are convinced, cannot function if 1t is chained down to battleships. AIR CORPS MET LAPS
 To get clear picture of the situation it is necessary to study the strategy of the Battle of Mid- way Island. Admiral King, long one of the most air-minded ad- mirals in the Navy, gave the tip- off to what happened when he said that it was not wise for the U. s. Navy to follow the Jap fleet to mop up.
 They still have q lot of shOre-based air power," he ex- pIained, "as they found we had in the Coral Sea and at Midway.
 This was another way of say- ing that U. s. battleships could not go too close to Japan's Mar shall Islands, with their land air bases, because warshipS cannot stand up under concentrated air. plane attack.
 It was also another way of saying that before the Jap fleet even got to Midway Island it was met by 8 reception committee largely of U. s. Air Corps bomb- CTS which made it too uncomfort- able to advance further. "ShOre- based air power" is not the navy, but the Army; plus, in this case, a small contingent of Marine Corps bonbers.
 Thus, reading between the lines of Admiral Kings statement, it is safe speculation to piece to- gether this picture of what hap- peued at Midway Island.
 The Japanese were advancing with what Admiral King de- scribed as "the bulk" of their fleet. This was estimated at eight mod ern battleships and six aiFplane carriers, which left them only about six other battleships and one other carrier to guard their far-flung battle lines to Singapore and India. Tn other words, the Japs were putting most of their eggs in one basket and making 8 desperate stab at eventual in- yasion of the D. s, 4.
 PLANES RUSHED TO MIDWAY
 Calculating our opposition to this huge armada, the Japs must have estimated that considering our losses at Pearl HaTboT and our necessity Of protecting the At
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1. Corregidor surrendered afte five, seven or eight months fight- ing?
 2. How many daughters has Queen Wilhelmina of The Nether- lands?
 3. Under the sugar-rationina plan, each person is eHtitled to one- half pound, one pound, or thres pounds of sugar per week?
 4. Name the Hawaiian island O. which Pearl Harbor is located.
 5. Winston Churchill has been Prime Minister of Great Britain fof two, three or four years?
 6. Who wrote MT. Britling SeeS It Through?
 2. Stones grow; true or false?
 8. Is the moon larger or smallei than the planet Mercury?
 9. Which weighs more, gallon o fresh water or gallon of salt wa ter?
 10. The Mayo Brothers were 1a nous physicians, circus daredevii or clergymen?
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Uncle Sam wishes to remind his east ern nieces and nephews that they are not obliged to use all the gasoline their ration cards permit. He promises that if they will hold back and save they will not be penalized when the time comes to get new cards. Wasting gas wastes rub- ber Wasting rubber is treason, says Donald N Nelson.
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have the labor lawyers scratch- ing their heads until long after the nine young men get back on the job in Oc- tober. As far the wage . hour division of the Department of Labor is con- cerned, it has been thrown in- to almost com- plete confusion because, from its point of view, A.- a IL I
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o. Has passenger traffic on rail- roads and buses increased since rubber and gasoline shortages have restricted the use of private auto- mobiles?
 A. More than fifty per cent more passengers have been transported by public carrier since the Pearl Harbor disaster.
 o. Is there any way of treating alcohol to make 1t non-damlnable?
 A. The only practical way is to add large proportion of carbon tetrachloride. A mixture of equal volumes of alcohol and carbon tetrcahloride would probably suffice.
 e. What do the names Paraguay and Uruguay mean?
 A. Paraguay, great water" re. ferring to the river. Uruguay, birds tail"
 c. Was Matthew Calbraith Perry who was instrumental in estab- llSIllk1k 0AAN4 VI 6OV 4SA0- tions with Japan, related to Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie?
 A. They were brothers.
 @ Does the tin found in canned or natural foodstuffs have any harmful effect upon the human body?
 A. Apparently not. Tin has bee noted in many of the human til sues; it seems to be concentrated l' the suprarenal glands and occur in considerable abundance in tho liver, brain, spleen, and thyroid gland. One investigator found re- latively large amounts of tin in the mucous melmbrance of the tongue.
 o. How tall Is the band leader, Cab Galloway?
 A. Five feet, 1-2 inches.
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more determined and rapid progres. towards its fulfillment.
 The Way To Victory
 We have been through the frus. tration of the period of defense foI defense,s sake. We have now en. countered some of the bitter disap' pointments of defeat in battle. We will fight all the more vigorously if we keep constantly before us the cause for which we are fighting and the necessity for its sacrifices we are called upon to make.
 We are fighting not only because we hate aggression, but because we believe in the principles of equal opportunities for all nations as for
 Continued on Next Page)
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TODAY's COMMON ERROR One may go . little way with another, but not 2 little ways.
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EDITORS NOTE-IR you are desirOus of securing this weeks booklet Famous Structures of the World" address F. M. Kirby, De- partment S-1O0, Waterbury Demo- Crat Service Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington, D. C.. with IS cents to cover postage.
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Washington Merry-Go Round
DREW PEARS ON
 ROBERT 8. ALLEN

Mdwoy Bottle Stirs New DeGnd for Independent Air FOrce Smash Victory Was Due Pmoiy Armys LondBosed Pone up Armodo Seoehed by Bombes Before Reached Nuvo Un Strotegists Complain Pores Given B0ttIeshps Battle Midway Island a mile
  the attehippr preiudics the adnrals
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Questions
 and Answers
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The Wasexbmy DemoeEat's Ser. vice Bureau win answee for you free. any question of fact or am- formation, not involving extem- sive research. Write your qusg- ten clearly, sign name and ad- dress, enclose . three cent postage stamp. Medical CT legal advice cannot be given. Address Water bury Democrats Washington Ser vice Burenu, 1913 Thirteenth Street Washington, D. c.
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@. When was the United Service Organizations started and who 1s the president?
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Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon rises 4:48 B. m. twar time) Sun rises 5:l9 a. m, sets SPA p. m. (war ime) All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
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A. It was incorporated in New York State, February 4, 1041. Three men have served as president, Wall ter Flowing, Harper Sibley and the present incumbent, Chester I. Bar nard.
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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 e. Who is the youngest general in the American Army?
 A. Brigadier General Lawrence s. Kuter, who iS tlirty-si
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A. By Act Of Congress in Section 001 of Public Law 507, to further expedite the prosecution of the war.
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e. By whose order were soldiers, sailors and marines permitted to send first-class letter mail free of postaRe2
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Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions Turn to back page for the answers.
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Court Rulings Cause Complete Confusion
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington

WWEBGSYUHHWCAUV
 The Supreme Court, in it's hurry to get away on that nice long sum- mer vacation, left behind 1t three wage-hour law decisions that will