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closed the door to colored Off
GERS. Colored commissioner Of
ficers served in the last war, and
until he retired recently, there
was one colored brigadier general
in the Army. So far, however,
the Army has not welcomed Mrs.
Roosevelt's proposals of colored
air squadrons and tank units.
PRESIDENT VARGAS DREAM
Madame Vargas, wife of the
president of Brazil, remarked
about her daughter the other day:
II don't know what to do about
AIzira. All she talks about is
the United States"
This remark illustrates not only
the tremendous wave of Brazilian
sentiment for the United States
but also one of the chief reasons
for President Vargas pro-Ameri-
can policy. All his children,
plus his wife, have visited here.
One boy spent four years at Johns
Hopkins; Alzira has made four
trips to the United States; his sec
ond son is now here studying
medicine.
Vargas himself has never been
to this country, though it is his
ambition to come. However, a
few days after his Rio de Janeiro
Conference ne sent his Minister OF
Finance and his closest friend to
Washington as step toward full
filling a long cherished dream.
That dream is to develop the
vast Amazon valley and make it
the heart of Brazil, just as the
Mississippi Valley has become
the heart of the United States.
For years, most Brazilian presi-
dents have considered the Amazon
the back door Of the country. They
were content to let it remain ma
laria ridden, without communica-
tons, inhabited by wild jungle
creatures and Indians. Few high
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21
Views OF The Press

Brooklyn late last summer, in which
a ship was destroyed along with
docking facilities, was an accident.
Note we'll that transportation Is one
of the essential keys to victory. The
rubber factory fire in Fall River
last year, in which more rubber was
destroyed than the rationing pro-
gram will save in six months, was
an accident. These are but few.
Green hands make accidents
more than ordinarily likely. Ex-
tra-large crews working on strange
jobs in confined quarters raise the
hazard. Haste always did make
waste. But when we see accidents
in succession wholly or partly de-
stroying immense quantities of crit
scarce in ratio to needs, or major
ical supplies which already are
units of equipment for war work,
precautions plainly are not getting
the attention they must have.
Although of different kind,
Pearl Harbor was an accident" Ac-
cidents might even lose the war.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21

The career of State Personnel Director
Harry Marsh in our midst has been
more or less uneasy one. Regarded as
one of the best men in his field he was
brought to Connecticut by Ex-Governor
Wilbur l.. Cross when Connecticut decided
it needed state civil service system to
spruce up it's government forces. There's
no question but what Mr.. Marsh did a
good job, but in 1910 he felt impelled
to resign to take up similar work with
private organization. However, he was
persuaded to return to his previous office
by Governor Robert A. Hurley last year
and has since handled the job as eff
GENTLY as in the past. He now leaves
to head New York Citys Municipal Civil
Service Commission, recently the object
of an intensified attack by Mayor La
Guardia Mr. Marsh goes to New York
with Mayor LaGuardia's personal bless
ing which ought to be enough. We're IN
clined to think, though, that if the Con-
necticut job was bit tempestuous, the
New York one will be much more so.
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Current Comment

I have one overall standard for
passing on these questions. It is
quite simple, and it is as follows:
What will contribute most to win
ming the war in the shortest pos
sible time?
Donald M. Nelson, chairman,
War Production Board.
Unless scrap rubber is collect
ed in larger quantities, we are fac
ing a much more dismal future.
j. j. Newman, vice president,
B. F. Goodrich Co.
I see no difference between the
man who turns thumbs down on
Wagner, because he was a Ger
man, and the man who bans Men
delssohn, because he was a Jew.
Deems Taylor, composer.
We are looking forward to per-
iod which may be as long in time
as the leadership of ancient Rome.
President Nicholas Murray But
Ter Of Columbia University.
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officials had ever visited the coun-
try until Vargas made an extern
Sive tour.
He believes that this vast tropi-
cal area can supplement the in
dustrial production of the United
States, supplying us with rubber,
vegetable oils, and all of the tropi-
cal goods we once received from
the Dutch East Indies and the
Philippines.
Finance Minister Souza Costa,
now in Washington, is not seek
ing a loan Brazil has $66, 100000
of lend-lease funds to her
credit but materials, technical
equipment and advice. With
him is Valcntim Boucas, Presi-
dent Vargas golfing partner,
who has made rs trips to the
United States and is another
important supporter of the
strong pro-American policy fol-
lowed by Brazil.
NOTE: Ever since Jesse Jones
1Ol LAD ANuOOS4 AeSoSANS ~AA
1910, the State Department has
been urging it to buy Brazilian
rubber, even at a slightly higher
price. But Rubber Reserve re-
fused, saying that to pay more
than 20 a pound would disturb
the rubber market in the Dutch
East Indies. Meanwhile, Ger
many continued to buy rubber
from Brazil at 80 cents.
But last May, with the rubber
situation more ominous, Brazil
promised to send all her rubber
to the United States, and stopped
shipments to Germany. Still the
Rubber Reserve refused to pay
more than 20 cents. Meanwhile,
some experts figure that our new
synthetic rubber will cost US
around 81 to $1.20 per pound.
copyright, 1912, by United
Feature Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21

1. What American national hymn
was written by Samuel F. Smith?
2. What British battelship, be-
sides the Prince of Wales, was SUM
on the same day by the Japanese in
December, 1941?
3. Francis B. Sayre, U. 8. high
commissioner in tile Philippines,
q son-in-law Of which former pres.
:dent?
4. Iceland lacks two of the fol
lowing; railroads, automobiles, tree
agricultural lands, fishing indus
tries. Which are they?
5. Ceramics is the art Of baske'
weaving; true or false?
6. Does Cuba belong to the Uni,
ed States?
7. Which state has the longes
Pacific ocean coastline?
W8ho wrtoe "P- ostcss and FGy
erty" and advocated single tax?
9. What was the title of the radi
dramatization by Orson Welles i
which men from Mars were repre-.
sented as invading New Jersey and
New York?
10. Name the capital of Vene.
Zuela.
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organizations. In other areas, the
dominant political machines freeze
out all opposition party members
from holding Office as warden and
so on.
This Is a situation over which the
Washington OCD headquarters has
no jurisdiction, authority or control.
Civilian defense in any community
is Infinitely local problem. Nation
al headquarters Of OCD vii, how
ever, probably get blamed for the
dirty work in any community where
a shirt organization can get control
Lands MAY
SWEEP CLEAN
1t Is going to be a tough Job, but
Dean James M. Lands may In the
long run be able to clean house at
OCD headquarters and. get rid of
all the fancy dancing. The tech
nique by which the face of the civil
ian defense effort may be saved Is
to transfer all the boondoggling &C
tiles to an outfit known in Wash
ington as ODHWS, which Is Paul
McNutt's Office of Defense Health
and Welfare Services. ODHWS now
has programs operating under a
nutrition division, a recreation sec
ton, a family security committee, a
committee OF community organiza-
ton, a health and medical commit
tee and a Social Protection section
which Is known as the sin section
and deals with controlling CONNER
cialized vice.
AS you can see, an existing organ
ization with programs as broad as
these could readily absorb a few
more plain and fancy activities, in
Guiding even some of the strange
things that have gone on in OCD
If amalgamated in ODHWS, all the
artificial morale building stimuli
would be under one tent, and 1t
would be circus TO put the greatest
show on earth out OF business.
| Impetus for the movement to have
the moving picture industry declar-
ed an essential industry so as to
exempt some private personnel from
selectiye service came from the be-
lief that people like Jimmy Stewart
and Frank Capra wre darn sight
more useful to the American people
:, If they stayed in Hollywood and did
tehir stuff there, than they would
be by jumping into a uniform and
playing soldier or sailor.
The names of Stewart and Capra
were not mentioned in Brigadier
General Lewis B. Hershey's orders
declaring the movies an essential in
dustry, but their cases personalize
teh whole sisue. Jimmy Stewart is
now lieutenant, doing nothing, >ap-
parently, that any other lieutenant
couldn't do. Capra wanted to be a
major to have hand In production
of Army training films. These Army
training films are important, but the
idea OF Government Film Co-ordin-
ator Lowell Mellett is that people
like Stewart and Capra have a still
more important job to do in keep
ing up the morale Of the American
people by providing good entertain
ment
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TOO MANY ACCIDENTS
New Haven Register)

INtW t1dVeII 1VtB1SOct7
The Normandie fire In New
York has been labeled an acci-
dent. No doubt the authorities
responsible for the label have the
facts straight. But there are too
many accidents, of more or less
comparable nature and conse-
quences, having a bearing on the
war effort and ON American
capacity to perform as this coun-
try must perform to survive.
A pier fire in the North River
a month ago, In which one pier
burned to the waters edge, was
an accident. A harbor fire In
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21

10 seize COnCrOl OF
loo al e f en- e
councils and di-
vert the local
civilian defense
effort to selfish
interests. Reports
are beginning to
trickle into Wash
ington of strong
Coughlirlite, Ku
Klux Khan, and
similar drives to
take yer local
civilian defense
councils in areas
where t h e S e
groupS have active
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and Answers
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The Waterbury Democrats Ser.
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sive research. Write your ques.
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bury Democrats Washington Ser
vice Bureau, 1913 Thirteentb
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@. What Is the distance from
Vladivostock to Tokyo and from
Yokohama TO Australia?
A. The first Is 665 miles and
the second is 5000 miles, air line.
@. Dan rubber be reclaimed
more than once?
A. Yes; but 1t cannot be re.
claimed indefinitely, because 1t loses
its bounce" eventually and the
quality Is reduced considerably with
each reclamation.
@. Is the grave of Col. John Nc
Craze, author Of "In Flanders
Fields" in German possession?
A. The grave is in the British
military quarter of Wimeraux Com
munal Cemetery, on the Channel
Coast of France, now in German
occupied France.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Roars And
Rumbles From
Capitol Hill
BY PETER EDISON

DL 4 EN- GDOOS
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
Washington, Feb. 81 - It was at
an affair attended by only the high
est officials in Washington. The
highest United States official pres
ent conversed long and earnestly
with Soviet Ambassador Maxim Lit
vinov. Afterward, the American re-
ported, you know. I talked to him
for over an hour about God, but at
the end he was still unconvinced."
An explosion which may hit Office
Of Civilian Defense harder than
anything yet may be an expose on
the way local interests have tried
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21
Selected Poem
WINTER BEACHES

(Mazie v. Caruthers in the New York Times
Neptunes wild horses with mighty din,
Rearing green foam-hecked names, come thunder
ing in.
While far at sea veil OF misty haze
Over the deep its quiet vesture lays.
Like ancient cronies shaw1ed and half asleep,
The shattered cottages their vigil keep
They seem to lean together gossiping.
white gull dips and scars on silver wing
The tide runs out-a gentle. lazy hiss.
No solitude so lovely Is as this
So thinks a watcher on the beach who stands,
Then strolls along the singing yellow sands
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21

When Waterbury stages it's black-out
test a week from tomorrow night there
are many advantage points from which
officials or others concerned in the way
it works out could observe the results.
Waterbury sprawls down valley and up
over encroaching hills. From these hills
YOU can look up, down, and across the
valley. Many will be doing that when
lights start to blink out
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21

Battleships are like kings In
game Of checkers. They can move
backwards or forwards with more
impunity .han lesser vessels; and
they can take" smaller Warships.
Therefore, a compact, powerful
body of battleships, making sur
prise raids on the enemy can prove
disastrous in the extreme-es-
pecially when the antagonist has
long supply lines spread out over
5000 miles of the North Atlantic,
guarded only by destroyers and
cruisers.
Surveying the new Nazi naval
strength, Allied commanders are
preparing for the worst. For this
Is what they figure the Nazis
have:
The Gneisenau and Scharn-
horst, $4,000 tons each.
The new battleship Tirpitz,
10000 tons.
The Friedrich der Crosse and
Hindenburg, $4,000 tons each,
under construction for some
time and probably IS per cent
completed.
Two airplane carriers, the
Deutschland and Graf Zeppelin,
Of 1880 tons earring $50 planes
each. -.
Eight cruisers of the Prince
Eugen class.
To match this, the United States
must have battle fleet of equal
strength capable of getting to
various parts of the Atlantic in
hurry. The size of our fleet in
the Atlantic is a military secret,
but 1t was no secret before the
war and is therefore known to
the enemy that many of our bat
tleships were built as far back as
1911 and 1912, making them thirty
years old. And battleship only
twenty years old is considered out
of. date.
That was one reason why Presi-
dent Roosevelt issued his grim
warning that the entire East Coast
of the United States, and even
Detroit, might be vulnerable to
attack.
All this is why u. S. strate-
gists are convinced that the Bril-
tish-American fleets must con-
centrate their operations in the
Atlantic even at the expense of
the Mediterranean; why the Bril-
fish may even have to withdraw
their fleet from the Mediter-
ranean.
The Pacific is different prob
lem. But in the Atlantic U. S.
admirals fear disastrous conse-
quences if the Allied fleets con-
tinue to be divided between the
Mediterranean and the North At
lantic.
This question Is going to be
one of the most vital debates fac
ing Allied commanders-especial-
ly with the French feet getting
restless in the Mediterranean.
MRS. ROOSEVELT
PROPOSALS
Mrs. Roosevelt has made some
proposals to the Army and Navy
that more recognition be given
Negroes in the armed services.
She has proposed colored fly
Ing squadron and colored tank
units, contending that If proper
recognition Is given to the Negro
he will prove just as valiant a
defender Of his country as any
other citizen.
Mrs. Roosevelt has also taken
up the cudgels on behalf of Ne
gro claims that they should be
eligible to the commissions in the
Navy.
Behind the scenes, this has
created quite a Juror, because
the Navy has not been open to
commissioned cOlOred officers In
the past. And SO far the Navy
has answered a flat-f00ted mo.
The Army, however, has not
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21

Local officials haven't yet given any
thought to the idea of surveying and
recording the physical outlines OF many
important local structures, the idea being
their restoration in the case OF severe
bombing of this city Perhaps it does
sound a bit drastic, but it was enough
to cause the National Park Service to CO.
operate with several other groups, not
ably the American Institute OF Architects,
in making records of any number OF MS
toric sites throughout the nation SO that
they could be duplicated if ever it became
necessary. Most of our existing public
structures are blue printed and could be
rebuilt according to original lines II
destroyed. It's more than likely, though,
that if there was such destruction here
rebuilding would be on entirely new lines.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-21
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
A person does not make a sal
airy of one hundred dollars .
month, although he may
earn it.

@. What is the lowest tempera-
ture of record in the United States?
A. Sixty-six degrees below zero
Fair, at Riverside Ranger Station,
Wyoming, in Yellowstone Park,
February 9, 1888.
@. Is there any way TO keep
rhinestones from turning green?
A. True rhinestones will not
turn green unless they are IN con-
tact with copper or brass, in which
case the discoloration is film or
coating, which can be removed with
weak solution of muriatic acid.
Care should be exercised in using
the solution, as it Is apt to cause
any metal around the stone to
loosen. The acid does not harm
the stone.
@. Was Sequoya, the inventor Of
the Cherokee Indian alphabet.
white man or an Indian? What
was his real name?
A. He was the son Of white
man and Cherokee woman of
mixed blood, daughter of a chief
He was born in the Cherokee toWL'
of Taskigi, Tenn. Besides his ma
tive name of Sikwayi, or Sequoya
he was known as George Gist
sometimes spelled Guest or Guess,
the patronymic of his father, gen.
orally believed to have been a
German trader. He has also been
claimed as the son of Nathaniel
Gist of Revolutionary fame.
@. What is meant by the claws
of the Modes and Persians"?
A. Laws which. cannot be altered.
The phrase comes from the book
of Esther in the Bible, chapter l,
verse 10.
@. When was the U. S. Battle
ship Maine blown up and sunk in
Havana Harbor, Cuba?
A. February Is, 1898. Two hun
dred and sixty members of the crew
were killed. Captain Charles D.
Sigsbee was in command.
Q. What is the record weight Of
a hailstone?
A. The largest that has def
nitely been recorded, fell at Pot
ter, Nebr, July 6, 1928, and weighed
/ IL lbs. 1t was weighed, meas
ured, and photographed immediate.
ly after falling. There have been
reports of much larger stones, but
they undoubtedly refer to masses
of ice resulting from the freezing
together of two or more separate
stones coming in contact with onA
another on the ground after fall.
ing.
EDITORS NOTE: If you are
DESTROYS Of securing this weeks
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Washington rry-Go-Round
DREW Pc A Il s o N
ROBERT s. ALLEN

u Believe Britain Must Withdraw Mediterranean Fleet;
Consolidation Atlantic Required Meet Maxi Threat
Bozon Envoy Seeks Equipment Here Develop Amazon Valley
Tropical Area Could Become Adjunct u Industry
bauhps
British
Allied the Atlantic
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TOPS IN
THEATERS

Smallest movie in Washington is
in the treasury building, occupying q
made-over Office suit right under
Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.'s
headquarters. 1t seats only about IS.
The walls are tastefully hung with
arty, coarse weave Grapes of pas
tel grayish brown and the soft green
upholstered theater seats have backs
that give little and beat an over
stuffed club chair for comfort.
Installed originally for the inspec-
ton of foreign films seized by the
customs men, this theater Is now
used for that and for pre-viewing or
special showing of other government
films. Sometimes these documentary
films are shown for inspector au-
diences of only one Or two. Meals
are ordered up from the cafeteria
and the inspectors wrok while they
eat. At night films are sometimes
shown for the of-duty entertain
ment of soldiers assigned to the
treasury guard.
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Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac
Sun rises 1889 a. M; sets $3.50 p. m. (war
time
All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset
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What's Your |. o.

Can you answer seven Of these
test questions? Turn to back page
for the answers.
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@. What is the lowest tempera-
ture of record in the United States?
A. Sixty-six degrees below zero
Fair. at Riverside Ranger Station,
Wyoming, in Yellowstone Park,
February 9, 1888.
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Copyright, 1912. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
OAR Plans Booth
At Americanization
School Bazaar

The Americanism Committee of
the District Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution will operate booth
at the annual Americanization
School bazaar to be held from 10
am. to 10 pm. tomorrow at the
Webster School, Tenth and H
streets NV.
Articles OF fancy work, made and
donated by members of the so Dis
trict chapters. will be on sale at
this booth. Mrs. John w. Edwards,
State chairman, will be assisted by
her vice chairmen and Mrs. william
v. Leech, past State chairman of
the committee.
Another project of this committee
Will be to equip a Red Cross room
at the school in honor of Mrs.
Godfrey Creyke. State regent and a
past State chairman of the Amer
icanism Committee.
Mrs. Russell H. Slime and Mrs.
Robert Van Denbergh, State chair
men, will be guest speakers at a
meeting of Thomas Marshall Chap
leg Thursday eyeniRG At The General
Scott, I Scott cire1e. Mrs Stifi4 will
speak On "HistoFteal 44agaxtaessard
Mrs. Van Denbergff on Museum.
Mrs. Acker, Mrs. Harris and Miss
McEnery will be hostesses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
Gamma Phi Beta
Alurnnae to Meet

Mrs. r. E. Fitzgerald Of Wau-
watosa, Wis, grand president of
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, will be
guest Of honor at 4 dinner meeting
OF the Washington Alumnae Chap
ter at $50 pm. tomorrow at the
Taft House Inn, 1901 X street NV.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who is a past
president of the American Medical
Association Auxiliary, will be enter
tanned by Beta Beta Chapter to-
morrow afternoon.
Mrs. Carl Sipple will be the speak
er of the evening and will tell Of
some Of her recent experiences in
Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-08
Chief Groves Withdraws
Petition for Retirement

Battalion Chief John r. Groves Is
the first veteran member Of the
Police or Fire Departments to with
draw a petition for retirement on a
plea by Commissioner John Russell
Young that his services still are
needed because Of the war, under
the new continued service program.
Chief Groves, who will be 81 in
January and who recently applied
for retirement, yesterday withdrew
his application at the request of
Mr.. Young and will be continued in
service If the Board Of Police and
Fire Surgeons finds he is physically
At.
Il regard his act as one of pa
triotisn," said Mr.. Young.
Chief Groves, with 41-year serv-
ice record, is in charge of the 4th
Battalion of the Fire Department
and holds the department gold
medal for meritorious service for
saving q man from drowning and
the silver medal for rescue of an
aged and blind man from a burn
ing building. Aside from his regu-
lar duties, he is an acting deputy
fire chief.