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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Extending the Draft

< Now that President Roosevelt has given green light to the step which the Army has been demanding, majority leaders in Congress are considering lowering the draft age to Is years. The Army has asked for the 18- and 19-year-oldSterS because they make the best soldiers, and in this war we need the best soldiers. No body who has served in the armed forces in wartime, or who has been in position to observe closely, can question that the younger men are superior in every way, except in that judgment which comes only through experience and long train ing. We have millions of older men in uniform, among whom there is abund- ant material for leadership Now we need men who can fight.
 But the President brought out another angle which is at least equally vital to those who saw American troops in action in World War l. Good training will save many, many lives in battle. The highest rate of casualties is always Suf- } fered by units comprised of inadequately trained men,"
 Nobody who realizes what we are up against in this war has any doubt that the younger men must be called into service. We face the choice. Shall we call them now, while there still is time to train them in the use of their weapons, and give them chance to fight for their lives, or shall we draft them at the last minute, send them directly into the fight ing lines and watch them die?
 We are not unaware how the parents of such lads feel at a time like this. Neither is the President One of the rare notes of emotion broke through his elaborate elocution when he said: "I can very Thoroughly understand the feeling of all parents whose sons have entered our armed forces I have an appreciation of that feeling - and so has my wife"
 Indeed they have, with four sons of their own in the armed forces, at least one of whom has participated in major engage ment. But MT. Roosevelt feels, and we believe that most parents will agree with him and with us, that the issues are too grave to permit personal reluctance to enter into this picture. The United States needs these boys Democracy needs these boys. They would be far, far better dead than slaves to Hitlerism, which is the only Alternative to winning this war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Opinion Audit

An interesting experiment is under way in Kansas City. The Civic Research Institute is conducting continuing poll to ascertain public reaction to the con duct of the city's business. The audit is intended, of course, to probe public opinion. It has the secondary function of discovering how much the people really do think about municipal problems.
 And an inevitable effect would seem to be to make the voters do more think ing about their government, know more about it, realize more alertly that it is their creature to be improved or degraded at their will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

This is the season of the year when a single sniff of the air is apt to bring the comment, burning leaves. Yes, householders are burning up the leaves that collect in their yards, while others are burning up the forests that make this state so delightful place in which to live. The seni-annual forest fire season is at hand. Lookouts are at their posts every day to detect the tiny wisp of smoke that denotes a fire in some area that IS labeled danger spot. With less motor ing this fall we can hope for dropping off in the number of forest fires. But we still can't help but urge everybody who plans an outdoor fire to be extremely eau tious about the same. Don't have ire you can't always control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

the State Department but every federal property. It will result in the collection of great quan- titles of decorative and undecora- tive old iron, steel, and brass every bit of metal which is not in- dispensable from post offices, court buildings, national parks, Army and Navy posts.
 First proposal was to have the President issue a request, but it was agreed that this would run afoul of red tape and ques- tiOns of title. But all doubt would be removed if the PreSi- dent issued an executive order. So an order 1t will be.
 NOTE: Iron at the windows of federal penitentiaries will not be classed as dispensable.
 COLLECTING TIN CANS
 One of the biggest problems in the campaign to collect tin cans is the fact that there are only two detinning plants in the area East of the Rocky Mountains, with another small one on the West Coast. Although these plants have increased their capacity, they still cannot handle all the cans which patriotic housewives col- lect.
 This, however, will be remedied. Six new detinning plants will be established soon in New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Birmingham, Dallas and Los Angeles.
 Also many shredding plants will be established throughout the country for the prepara- ton of tin cans before shipment. These plants mangle the cans, thus reducing bulk, so they can be transported without taking up too much space. Total cost of these new shredding and de- timing plants will be $12,OOO,O0O.
 Meanwhile, one handicap to the program is recent order of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
WALKING TO SCHOOL
(Hartford TimesJ


 A generation brought up to de- pend on automobiles for transpor- tation may find 1t hard to under stand why parents and grandpar- ents are not likely to be excited over Defense Transportation Director Eastman's order for revision of school bus services, to the end that physically able children living with in two miles of a school shall walk to and from their studies, weather permitting.
 The older generation, rural dwell lers as well as city people, thought little or nothing of walking to and from school. Boys and girls had to get up earlier, it is true, than they now do, in order to get to school on time, and they did not have much time to play between close of school and supper time, but they survived.
 Towns which have gone in for the centralized or consolidated school system, however. will not find it easy to satisfy the demands of all the families. Many children live more than two miles from the school house. It is not reasonable to ex- pect them to walk to and from school, especially small children. Here, ss in all war time problems, Teasonableness is called for in are ranging for transportation.
 The reasons for restricting school bus schedules are shortage of rub Der. scarcity of gasoline and Q steadily decreasing supply of labor. Already wives of men who used 10 drive the buses now are ct the wheel. while their husbands work in factories or do the work of tliem- selves and the former hired man. who has gone Co the city to work. or has been lnductad into the army. ReVislon Of Rehqcl bus aehedulen ls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Whats Your I.Q.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

1. Does a single silver or single gold bar worn on the shoulder or collar indicate Q higher Army rank?
 ?. Which Army oflcer has been called "a hell-to-breakfast baby'ss
 3. William M. Jeffers, the rubber administrator. was president of which railroad?
 4. Which is the largest country in Central America?
 s. What is the popular name o1 the fair labor standards act?
 6. A fascinator is 8 head cover ing. a vehicle, or food?
 2. Labor Day is the only legal national holiday in the U. S.; true or false?
 8. A prestidigitator is one who falsifies the truth, does Sleight-cf- hand tricks, or seeks prestiges
 9. Women with commercial pilot licenses will be used in what ca- pacity by the United States Army Air Forces?
 10. Name the capital of Puerto Rico.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

American Railroad Association gondola cars cannot be used to haul tin cans. Apparently the railroads are trying to force their boxcars into greater use; but the labor cost of loading box cars with bales of tin cans would be almost prohibitive, whereas they can be dropped into go1dola cars from loading cranes.
 Unless the railroads relent, this may put a serious crimp in the detinning program.
 MERRY Y-GO-ROUND
 Highest ranking graduate of the Harvard Business school is Vice Admiral Tomokazu Mogi, chief of the Japanese Navy's Bureau of Accounts and Supplies. He is an active member of the Har- yard Club of Tokyo, and his alumni dues are paid through Oct. 1922 OPA's fuel rationing chief, Joel Dean, finds that passenger driving has been reduced in East Coast areas from an average of nine or ten thousands miles a year to an average of 5,170 When Maufy Maverick, Jr., son of the Texas ex-Congressman, finished his Marine Corps training course at Quantico, Va, request came for ten replacement colunteers to go immediately to the Solomon Islands. Maury, Jr., stepped up, left for the South Pacific the day after he graduated Colonel Lehrbas, publicity aide to Gen. MacArthur, reported to his old press cronies in the State De- partment press room that no one could buy picture postcards of kangaroos or laughing jackasses in Australia anymore. The dough- boys can't send postcards of Aus tralian towns, because that would reveal their location, so postcards of animals are sold out.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
No Follow Through

When a golfer fails to follow through, fe slices, and his ball, curving, dissipates much of its energy in that curve, which is Wasteful and very annoying to the eoifer. The Citizens Emerging Commit fee suggests that the American taxpayer N like a duffer at golf.
 He pays his taxes, but he doesn't follow 1atougll to see that they go straight into Ihe sineWs of war. So the taxes slice, Hfe diverted to dispensable nen-war uses, nd lose much of their power to harm ts Axis. The new tax bill may remind
 to follow through.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Current Comment

Give us a couple of dozen air. craft carriers, properly balanced task force, sufil:ient marines to make landings, and we can cut 8 path across the Pacific to Japan. Lieut.. -Comdr. John Smith Thach,
 who fought in every major Pacific
 sea battle.
 Soldiers of industry are just as important to the war front as the armed forces.
 Joseph Keenan, associate director War Production Beard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

e. How did Greenland get its name?
 A. It is claimed that in 9S5 Eric the Red named its Greenland to ir1- duce colonists from Iceland to settle in the new country.
 e. What were the total Cana. dian troop casualties in the com. mando raid on Dieppe in Augustf
 A. The officially announced total of killed, wounded and missing among the Canadians was S.350.
 e. Did Katharine Hepburn di- vorce her husband or did he di- vorce her?
 A. Miss Hepburn obtained di- vorce in Mexico in 1884 from ogden Ludlow of Alexandria, Va. Mir. Ltd- low, on September IS, 1942, obtained a decree of divorce from Miss Hep burn in Hartford, Conn, because he doubted the legality of the Mexican divorce.
 e. What was the wage formula evolved by the War Labor Board in the Little Steer' case?
 A. It permitted wage increases of IS per cent over the January 1, 1941 levels, which 1t said would match the increases in cost of ny- ing since that date.
 O. Which agencies must now follow directives of the new rub. ber administrator, William M. Jef. fers?
 A. The agencies directed to fo.. low orders of MT. JefFers dealing with the rubber program include the Rubber Reserve Go, the Offics of the Petroleum Co-ordinator for War, the Board of Economic War fare, the Office of Defense Trans- portation, the Office of Price Ad- ministration. the Agricultural De- partment and any other agencies MT. Jeffers "may deem necessary" for cooperation in the rubber pro. gram.
 e. What is the maximum age for entrance in the U. s. Naval Academy?
 A. Candidates may not be less than IT nor more than 21 years of age on April 1 of the calendar year they enter. If their twenty-first birthday falls on April 1 of the cal- endar year, they are ineligible.
 EDITORS NOTE = If you are desirOus of securing this weeks booklet. "VITAMINS AND CA. LORIES" address F. M. Kirby, Department 2-1O0. Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Washington, ID. C., with IS cents to cover postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Selected Poem
INDIAN SUMMER DREAM

INDIAN SUMMER DREAM
 (Elva B. Nusbaum in the New York I1mes) The West is lovely with Indian Summers spell Of beauty on every tree and flower. A balmy quietude has come to dwell Tn mystic peace, full of healing power. The Indian Summer haze with silken sheen Is like veil: softly it draped around The shoulders of the hill, as in 8 dream The golden sun slips behind mound Of purple splendor deep in mysteries. The twilight comes-and I dream Of world blessed with peace Wrapping me in soothing reveries Soft and real like fog-mist scarves, Thrilling as the thoughts of heaven. While drowse it seems phantom Indians Come floating through the haze Of peacepipe smoke while they Make signs to the Great Spiris To bless all our future days
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

The explanation goes back to the loss of 300 tanks in the Lib- van desert, announced by Chur chill after Marshal Romnel staged his spectacular drive which cap- tured Tobruk and came so close to breaking through to Alexan- dria.
 Military magazines published by the German army shortly be- fore the war, pictures 88 milli- meter guns buried in the desert, their barrels protruding only 8 few inches above the sand, their brooches covered with brown cal1- vas. These illustrated camouflaged artillery traps in the desert. As the enemy approached, gunners could throw off the canvas and open fire.
 The German military journals had been studied by the 5. s. Army, must have circulated among the British. They were not secret. However, gun traps such as those pictured swung the battle for Rommel.
 His tanks had charged British lines, then turned back, and , the British followed straight into the camouflaged artillery traps.
 U. s. tanks mount 75 m. m. guns and can outshoot Nazi tanks. How ever, when the British ran them point blank against hidden 88 nm. guns, more than 300 tanks became desert junk.
 Having put them out of com mission, ROmmel'S fast-moving forces moved North at top speed behind the British mine fields,
 toward TObruk. The British had no idea where they were heading. For part of the British force guarding Tobruk had x moved south because they thought-before the 30O-tank ambush-that they had Rommel on the run.
 So Rommel caught Tobruk com- pletely by surprise. Only hand full of New Zealanders were on guard outside the city.
 Since then the British have been super cautious about taking the initiative against Rommel. They have been afraid of more thank traps hidden in the desert.
 NOTE: British experts t.gree that this was no reflection on the American tank, which has outshot German tanks when they meet in battle face to face. Off, ficial reports from Russia, despite some reports to the contrary, also are high in praise of U. s. tanks. KANSAS GERRYMANDER
 In the political re-districting of States following the last census, no House member got a larger dose of "gerrymandering" than the lone Kansas Democrat, Rep. Jack Houston. The GOP-con- trolled Kansas legislature added il Republican counties to his district, and Houston will have to do some powerful campaigning to overcome this handicap.
 However, he doesn't let 1t get him odwn. In 8 recent speech to new constituents, he explained his predicament:
 Reports that the legislature was trying to prevent my re- election because ann Democrat are false, ladies and gentlemen. The inside fact Is that Republi- cans in the legislature figured was doing such an outstanding Job in Washington, that they decided to give me more terTi- tOry."
 NOTE: Joking aside, Houston has done an outstanding job in Washington, is one of the most useful and farsighted members of the House.
 FDR COLLECTS SCRAP
 President Roosevelt is about to instruct Cordell Hull to pick up ell the big eannona and the little canncns around the State Dee partment and contribute them to Che scrap drive.
 A presldenllal order is being prepared which Will affect not only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
SOLDIERS INSURANCE
(BoSton Post)


 A year ago the men of our ex- banding armed forces weren't too interested in the life insurance offered by the government. Our sol- diers had purchased, it was true, $1 800, ,O00, 900 worth but in more or less routine fashion and often only after considerable urging.
 Today. according to Brigadier- General Hines, administrator of vet- erans' affairs, American soldiers hold $25. 900. .000, 900 worth of life in- surance and the figure is . growing steadily as the army itself grows. Here, indeed, is concrete evidence of the fact that they are think ing first and foremost of those they leave at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

There has been lot of talk in Massa, chusetts this fall about the birth control amendment that will be voted on in Nov ember. It's one of several questions Bay State voters must answer Racing IS moot subject up there and continuation of pari-mutual betting in one country
 it's resumption in another will be at stake
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

brought across the border to help take off the Cal ifornia sugar beet crop.
 These first 800 imported farm hands, by the way, are just the beginning of what win unquestion- ably be migra- tiol1s of thousands or tens of thou sands of MexicanS next year as the farm labor short age becomes more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Views Of The Press

not a whim of the transportation director-it is one of the many con- sequences of the disruption of nor- nal conditions by the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Questions and Answers
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

 YOUR QUESTIONS AfgsWERRL
 The Waterbury Democrats serv- Ice Bureau will answer for you free, any question Of fact oR information not involving exteaa- sfye research. Write your ques- tion clearly, sign nnmle and address, enclose . three cent postage stamp. Medical er legal advice cannot be given. Address Waterbury Democrats Washings ton Service Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington, D. Q. O. How many tons of steel are required to make medium tanka A. Thirty.eight.
 @. Who commands the Flying Training Command of the Army Air Forces
 A. Major General Barton K, Yount.
 e. When did Congress pass the Fair Labor Standards Act? What was its main purpose?
 A. The act, popularly known as the Wage and Hour Law, has as It's principal objective the elimination of "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standards of living necessary for health, efficiency, and well-being of workers and the elimination of oppressive child labor in the United States, by fixing minimum wage and maximum hours for ern- ployes engaged in interstate com merce or production of goods for interstate commerce. It was passed June 14, 1888, and approved by the president June 25, 1888, to become effective in 120 days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Do not say, "I couldn't get to g0;" instead say, 'T was not able to go." The use of get k with an infinitive is 2 pre- vinciaIism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Washington Merry-Go- Round
Fear of Artillery Trop Delays British Drive Against RommeI
 Hidden Guns Allies 300 U SMode Tonks in Tobru Bottle President Orders All Federal Properties Dig Out the Scrap Tin Salvage Handicapped Rail Order Forcing Use of Boxeos
BY DREW.PEARSON

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac
 Sun rises 7;05 a. m; sets $40 p, m. (war time)
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
National
 Farm Wage Minimum Seen
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespOndent

\ A minimum wage rate of 30 cents an hour for migrant farm labor for the entire United States may be in the offing as a result of national imposition of pay scales and work
 ing conditions set up for 800 Mex ican laborers- the first-recently
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-17

O. How many tons of steel are required to make a medium tank9
 A. Thirty.eigtt.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05

Pos is TellOf
Difficulties
toontinusd srum Rlra. rsEel

rest, and that pay will be the
keeping of enemy planes from get
ting within destruction distance
of our vital war industries and our
thickly settled areas without being
intercepted by our own planes. So
do not leave one single minute un-
manned, because when you expect
him the least, that is the time he
will appear.
Some chiefs stated several are
edging out on the rationing of tires
and gas. Well, the rationing board
will be very receptive to the faith
full observer who appears and will
lean over backwards when he or
she has bondfide claim.
Several of the faithful observers
have been called into other de-
fense fields, and of necessity have
weakened our structure somewhat,
so requirements the same as any
other army. See if you cannot get
your neighbor or acquaintances in
terested in this vital defense work.
We know there are many other de-
fense movements around that do
not require the sacrifices that the
observation posts require, but do
not think you are not appreciated,
and in time to come you will be
glad that you were one of those by
whose vigilance stated 'They shall
not pass" Contact your chief or
his assistants and let us keep the
operation of these posts pleasure
and not a burden. Contact the fol-
lowing chiefs: James X. Pettyjohn,
Charles ]. Cannon, Albert Peter
man, John e. Barcus, John D. Ire
land, A. E. Carton. If any do not
need you on their post they will
gladly notify you of the one that
does need assistance.
Do you know that the Ground
Observer SYSTEM is one of the
largest volunteer organizations in
the country that from Maine
to Florida alone, $500 observation
posts are manned by close to $780,
900 civilian observers -. that it
would take an army Of $4,000 SOL
diers working full time to do the
same job that similar armies
would be required along the Gulf
of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean and
the Mexican and Canadian borders.
Do you know that it is possible
for one interceptor plane working
in cooperation with an efficient
ground observer system, to do the
work of sixteen planes?
Do you realize that the great
number of men and planes released
for action elsewhere by the ground
observer system may mean the diff
ference between victory and defeat
for the United Nations!
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05
REDEEM

There will be services at Nc
Colley's Church next Sunday as
follows: Sunday school at 2 p. m.
Vernon Walker, superintendent.
Preaching at p. m. by Rev. Camp
bell.
The next meeting of the Sand Hill
prayer meeting will be held at the
Sand Hill Church on Friday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Rust called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rust and
family on Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Walton, Jr.,
and son Billy, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbert
]. Mitchell and daughter Doris Ann
and Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Burton were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. Donovan and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. BENJAMIN Morgan
and family entertained company on
Sunday.
Charles H. Donovan and daugh-
ter Florence called on Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Clendaniel and family on
Sunday.
Miss Edith Rust was the supper
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Bur
ton and Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Burton
on Sunday.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05
GREENWOOD

Philip Porter of Wilmington
spent the weekend with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Porter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold johnson of
Wilmington spent the weekend
with Mrs. Johnson's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. S. Lord.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Kubek of Phil
adelphia, spent the weekend with
Mrs. Kubek's mother; Mrs. Lottie
Johnson.
Miss Mildred Long of Philadel-
phia spent the weekend with her
mother, Mrs. Mayme Long.
Allan Porter and Philip Porter
spent Monday in Baltimore.
William Spanish of Fort Miles,
spent Saturday with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Spanish.
William Kennard of Newark and
Harlan Herdman of Newark spent
the weekend with Mrs. Harland
Herdman.
Miss Evelyn Wiley of Philadel-
phia spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Wiley.
Mrs. Mayme Long returned home
last week after spending three
weeks in Philadelphia and VIII
mington visiting her daughters.