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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Coin to Iun
..uM Mark HeIinger
Bette Davis Attains New Peak
in Her Latest. In This Our Life

DANDOM Notes Pictures You're Seeing: You've
~ Bette Davis unsympathetc role but Hoyvoods
top actress really outdoes herself In In This Our Life
Playing schemng liar who will do anything to achieve her
ends Miss Davis undertakes Characterization here that would
frightened less sarand the fact that she
through magncenty more tribute to her great
talent
Olivia de Haviland George Brent and Dennis Morgan
Bette this offering and the brilliant John Huston has
turned in another outstanding piece OF direction
I'm This Our Life" is strong stun deity handled and
shrewdly produced.
Gene Terney Henry Fonda teamed Rings Her
Fingers and they work capably and smoothly together
The story light times it Light that It seems
about disappear entirely. has been well directed by
Ruben Mamouan who usually for much heavier vehicles
and there shot Miss Tierney bathing suit thaoh
we'll let II
a comedy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Conscientious Director Can Help

MAN be conscientious objecor and still be OF great
IA service to the In World War Pvt Richard Sterheim
proved this Seem said he would not kill anybody but he would
save lives II he could.
In mo Mans Land" Stierhem volunteered to the
wounded and under He conducted himself
calamity that dispatches for
mertoriou service and galantr There's idea
forI Avres
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26

ADvERriSEMENr
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
A Thought for Today
From American Hearts

Who doubts the determination of the
fering the literal blood of their hearts to
safeguard as best they may the lives of
the soldiers and sailors who 60 out to risk
death for their sake. In response to an
urgent call from the Army and Navy for
blood plasma, 200, 900 Americans are step
The American Red Cross is receiving the
donations of BLOOD and taking care of its
processing into dried plasma, shipping it
then to army posts, ships, and first-aid
stations where it may save lives. 1t is not
desperate or heroic action, this giving
of pint of blood yet blood is life, and
who gives blood thus gives a little 1.-THE,
perhaps, of his own life to save that of an
other. Literally from the beating heart of
America comes this offering, freely and
automatically given.
Have you forgotten what America
means? Go to one of these Red Cross
stations for the receipt Of blood donations,
and watch the people come quietly, with
suppressed eagerness hidden beneath an
outer layer of depreciation, lest they be
CduSllU lOOkulS IlClOQI I1CIc Is al
old and frai-looking lady, seeming ten
years past the allowed limit of 60. Is
it a son or even a grandson she sees
bleeding out his life for lack of the plasma
that might save it? Here is skinny,
drugstore sort of youth, the kind you
would have sworn yesterday had never
had serious thought. Yet he is here,
ard tomorrow when they ask him about
it at the drugstore he will back away with
a deprecating "A-a-aW 1t amt any
thing!" But he is here.
Here is sender young woman, her
eyes too bright, her cheeks too rouged,
her fingernails too scarlet, her dress and
manner suggesting that even in her youth
she has seen things better left unseen.
Yet she is here Has not she too heart,
Ind does it not beat with American blood?
Here is a shapeless woman with great red
hands. She speaks not word of English
But her blood, gushing through the tube
into the glass receptacle, speaks elo-
quently enough Here is brawny truck
driver, casual in his second gift OF blood;
fat and rosy woman; an embarrassed
salesman of neckties; young man al
ready wearing the uniform of his coun-
try; rich man, poor man, beggarman,
they come. ..
Little enough they had in common,
these strangely assorted people; they
might never have met, never have known
the others existed. Yet they have come
together to open their veins into q COM
mon life giving pool. sThey have some
thing in common after all, these people.
1t is America Here they found that
their own innermoSt hearts are part OF
the great throbbing, beating heart OF
America
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

word and not hearers only He
had observed that in religious mat
tiers, especially, people often enter
tain ideas which for one reason or
another are never translated into
practice.
Another writer by the name OF
James, Professor William James OF
Harvard, writing centuries after the
James who wrote book in the New
Testament, expresses the thought
In this way: THE current Of life
which runs In at our eyes and ears
Is meant to run out at our hands,
feet, or lips. The only use Of the
thoughts 1t occasion while inside
Is TO determine its direction to
whichever Of these organs shall, un-
der the circumstances actually
present. act in the way most pro-
pitious to our welfare"
Thought without action benumbs
the soul and makes us unhealthy
Of mind.
All Rights Babson News
paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
boarding Doesn't Pay

Grocers report that there is evidence
of small-sized boarding going on in some
Of our homes, judging by recent commod-
ity purchases. There is no need for this
and if it continues it's only going to make
it harder for everyone to get along. There
are no noticeable shortages in such COM
modities as sugar, but naturally there will
be if all available supplies are snatched
up by housewives anxious to have an
adequate supply on hand at all times.
Normal consumption can be handled very
nicely, local dealers maintain.
The Catholic Transcript even felt
impelled to call attention to the threat OF
boarding in it's current issue. The editor
urged that family boarding be of differ
ent nature than that reported in mer-
camille circles He stressed the need OF
men and women boarding U. S. Defense
Savings Bonds If American housewives
do want to have the war end soon, then
and those of their families to help finance
the campaigns against foreign aggres-
SOrS
Rather than resort to boarding let each
and everyone of us make some sacrifice,
a real one this time. There are lots of
sacrifices that are simply in name only.
The real sacrifice is depriving ourselves
or loved ones of something to which we
have become accustomed and whose lack
will be felt Once made it is easy to re-
peat this sacrifice That's the way wars
are Won If we want a lasting victory
we must expect to achieve it in much this
manner and by quietly resigning our
selves to period in which we'll accept
bare necessities as sufficient unto our
needs.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
The Second Time

Serious charges are preferred against
the State Highway Department as
result of the recent discovery of irregu-
larities in the official conduct of an Off
cial of Is years standing. AS result OF
the alleged irregularities Thomas c..
Flood, Middlesex County States Attor-
ney, claims that it is entirely due to
"laxity, dishonesty, disloyalty, negligence
and improper supervision" within the
department itself. He has so notified
Governor Robert A. Hurley and if we're
not mistaken the governor will proceed
to air the matter thoroughly.
If you recall your state history you will
remember that it was Governor Hurley
who touched off the blast that produced
an upheaval in the State Highway De-
partment few years ago. AS Pubic
Works Commissioner Governor Hurley
was assigned the job of probing into the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

We still continue to marvel at the man.
ner in which the Public Utilities Commits
sion is exercising all the powers con-
ferred on it by legislative authority. Evil
IDENTIFY the commission has always had
such powers, but also quite evidently it
never chose to use them in the manner
in which members now do. All of which
is in keeping with recent years efforts to
get more action from the commission
when petitioners have urged it to do
something about conditions. Right now
the commission has just ordered another
water company in the state to improve it's
supply of potable water. This company
supplies Derby and Seymour. Last fall
another water company also got peremp-
tory orders to do something about its wa
ter supply. And the New Haven Water
Company is engaged in legal discussion
of long standing with the commission. II
Democrats accept some of the credit for
this change Of heart on the part OF the
commission, it may be due to the TACT
that the commission was tWo-thlrds
named by Governor Robert A. Hurley
year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
Congress Cares for Congress

Is it a good idea to pension congress
men? With affecting unanimity con-
gressmen have agreed that it is. Frankly,
we don't know. The whole thing has
been sprung so suddenly, without public
discussion or generally reported hearings,
that almost nobody had thought of it
until the bill lay on the Presidents desk
for signature.
The idea may have merit But it
comes wrapped up in bill providing
changes in the existing retirement pro
visions for federal employees, which is
something else again. At time when
everybody's future is obscure, this sud
den concern of congressman for their
own pulls blanket over whatever merit
the idea may have in itself. Few would
rebuke President Roosevelt if he should
send the bill back with his veto. That
would at least require enough considera-
ton for the country to learn what's 60
ing on.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

affairs of the State Highway Depart
ment. He did such a thorough job of it
that there was a resultant Grand Jury
probe of land sales for the Merritt Park
way. And the late John A. Macdonald
soon after resigned his Highway Depart
ment commissionership
SO it will be no new thing for the gov
ernor to dig into the affairs of the depart
ment. In fact, without doing too much
delving he probably could quote from
his extensive report and reveal that his
knowledge of this branch of the govern
ment is considerable. However, he may
not be inclined to concur in the claim
that the department hasn't been i'm
proved since he made claims against it
and since changes were made in its ad-
miniStration. But the state can rest
assured that the governor will not hest
tate to bring about reforms if he deems
them necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

The Chairman of the Federal Power
Commission, Leland Olds, isn't too OPP
timistic about electric power consump-
ton throughout the United States. He
thinks that if the war is long drawn out
there will have to be rationing of electric
power in districts where there is a lot OF
defense manufacturing going on. House
holders will be the first to have their sup
ply of electricity rationed, according to
the chairman. There may be a call for
less drain on electric power from homes
during the peak hours of and 7:30 p. m.
If those are peak hours in manufactur-
ing, they are doubly SO in the great
American home, which will be truly max
ing a sacrifice if cut down on electricity
at such a time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
A is a handy little word, but
be careful not to use 1t in
place of that or If; as II do
not know that Tor II, but not
as) he is living"

@. I received a bad conduct dis.
charge from the navy just after
World War I. Will be permitted
TO re-enlist now?
A. Write to the Bureau of Navi-
cation, Navy Department, Wash
ington, d. c.. stating the facts in
the case. If your application is APP
proved, and you are otherwise quail
flied. you will be permitted to re-
enlist.
@. When did the u S. govern
ment start to build Hickam airfield
at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii?
A. The work was begun in 1885
and the total cost was estimated at
$25 900 900.
@. To what extent has the hosiery
industry been affected since impor-
tation of raw silk from Japan
ceased?
A. The hosiery mills have been
able to keep going under curtailed
production schedules They are given
allotments of synthetic yarns. At
present, the hosiery industry Is OPP
Grating at about rs per cent of nor
NAL capacity.
@. Where was Billy the Kid"
starring Robert Taylor, filmed; es-
pecially the scenes showing rock
formations?
A. The rock formations we're pho
tographed in Monument Valley, Ariz.
Other scenes were filmed in Tucson
and Flagstaff, Ariz.
@. What electric voltage is re.
quired to operate Crooke,s tube?
A. They operate at voltages OF
10000 volts or more.
@. Why are pocket handkerchiefs
square?
A. That shape was originally i'm
posed by law in France. Louis XVI
issued an edict concerning the
shape of the pocket handkerchief,
dated June 2, 1875, presumably at
the request of Marie Antoinette. Be-
fore that, handkerchiefs had been of
all sizes and shapes; oblong, round,
triangular and square. The Queen
believed that If the square form only
were used, the handkerchief would
be very much more convenient. The
decree declared that, "the length of
handkerchiefs shall be equal to their
width, throughout my entire king
DOM Handkerchiefs have re-
NAMED square since that day.
@. In what book or collector.
can find a copy of the old song
beginning ooh, the MINISTRIES sing of
an English king?
A. 1t is entitled THE Busted
King of England" and is contained
in Sound Off" by E. A. Dolpi1,
1929.
@. Why was the radio program
"Midstream" discontinued?
A. Because it failed to win
sponsor 1t was replaced by "In Ca.
Of Aggie Horn"
EDITORS NOTE: IF you are
DESTROYS Of securing this weeks
STAINS AND SPOTS, address
F. M. Kirby, Dept. 8-109, Water
bury Democrat Service Bureau,
1913 Thirteenth st. Washington,
ID. c., with 10 cents to cover pos
tage.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

They told him that the Demo-
cratic National Committee was
over 100000 in debt, from the
1910 third-term campaign, and
was continuing to 60 deeper in
the red at the rate of $1,000 a
month. Also, that while he was
lulling Democrats with soothing
talk about political unity, the
Republicans were quietly raising
a big war chest and building up
their fences in preparation for
waging slashing election battle
this fall to capture control Of
Congress.
The Democratic chiefs asked
permission to stage Jackson
Day dinner in Washington to
help replenish the party's empty
Golfers.
In recent years, with a cover
charge of 500 a plate, this ira
ditional affair has been an i'm
portant fund raiser. AS much as
100000 has been Melted at one
NlAAiACl. ouI 4dSU yCdl, dlICl
nearly 1000 tickets had been sold,
Roosevelt ordered the dinner can
celled as a gesture Of political
unity.
Despite the urgent pleas Of
his political lie ,ders, :ile Presi-
dent again turned thumbs down
on a Jackson day banquet this
year.
But he didn't turn them away
entirely empty handed. To their
request he offered counter pro-
posal series of private din
ners where the party's affairs
would be discussed and contribu-
tons solicited.
I'll contribute $1,000 my
self" he beamed.
NOTE - During the discus
sion, plain talking Treasurer Rey-
nolds remarked, This town is so
cluttered up with Republican dol
lar-a-year men that a good Demo-
crat can't get jOS any more. The
one way not tO> get job around
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

OsWaldo Aranha and the per-
suasiveness of Sumner Welles.
How tough it was to line up
some of the countries Is illus
trated by Peru, whose foreign
minister at the last minute
backed away from breaking re-
lations with the Axis. Peru has
a long Pacific coastline to de-
fend and is worried over Japan
csc raiders. So finally Aranha
and Welles put the squeeze on
Peruvian Foreign Minister Solf
Y. MurO, who is part German
and secretly sympathetic with
Franco.
They summoned Solf together
with Peruvian Ambassador Prado,
who is the brother of the Pc
ruvian President. Ambassador
Prado is strongly anti-AXis and
the two Peruvians had row in
front of Welles and Aranha. Fin
ally, Prado, being the brother of
the President, prevailed and it
was agreed that Peru should break
diplomatic relations. Helping to
clinch the argument was a prom
Use from Welles that the United
States would protect Feru's Pa
cific coast.
Exhausted from the long argu-
ment, Welles left. AS soon as
the door closed behind him, Solf
remarked, Eyes, and they also
promised to protect the Philip
pines."
However, despite this crack, the
two chief factors that convinced
the delegates that Hitler could not
win were: U. S. participation in
the war and the continuing VIC
tories of the Russian armies. These
were tangible realities that count
ed potently in. the final agreement.
Thus without Stains military
might, U. S. diplomacy might
have been less productive.
RY-GO-ROUND
Shortly before the House voted
down a bill to facilitate the fill
ing of claims against the govern
ment by Cherokee Indians, husky
Representative Usher Burdick of
North Dakota, hacker. of the
measure, brought roar OF laugh
ter with this wisecrack: There
are more Indian fighters in Con-
gress than were with Custer at the
battle OF Little Big Horn"
Battling young Congressman Clyde
Ellis of Arkansas is taking bows
from Rural Identification Of
ficials for his effective efforts in
helping put over that Defense
Plant Corporation contract under
which the REA will supply $4,000
XVIII of power for the governments
aluminium plant being built at
Lake Catherine, Ark. Ellis fought
the combined forces of Arkansas
private utilities and Defense Plant
Chairman Jesse Jones, but won
out when he threatened to take
the issue to the floor.
Copyright, 1912, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
What's Your |. O.;
Can you answer seven Of these
test questions: Turn to back page
for the answers. ,s

1. In which country is the TIA
Mahal?
2. Name the last president VIII
wore a mustache.
3. Topography is the scene which
deals with horoscopes; true o.;
false?
4. What port In Africa Is neares
to South America? a.
5. Who was secretary of wal.
while the United States was en-.
gagged in World War +?
6. In which city is Picadilly cir.
Gus? q,
7. If you were living in an urban
area would you be in a city or or
a farm?
8. Does a U. s. soldier wear the
insignia OF his rank on the right
sleeve or both sleeves?
8. What have the following in
common: Pimlico, Hialeah, Sara
toga? ~a
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne was q
noted actor, novelist or historianq
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
here Is to admit you're a Demo-
crat."
BI-PARTY DINNER

here is to admit you're Demo-
crat."
BI-PARTY DINNER
The Presidents plan for private
dinners did not bring cheers from
the party chiefs. Whereupon he
produced two other suggestions.
One was that the Democrats
and Republicans merge their Jack
son Day and Lincoln Day din
ners and hold joint banquet, the
proceeds to be divided equally
between them. The other was
that the National COMMITTEES of
both parties be finarse<i by an
appropriation by Congress.
The Presidents argument for
this was that with the country
at war it would be in the interest
of national security to put the
staffs of both National Commit
tees on the government payroll SO
that the two parties would not
have to solicit funds from sources
that might have a personal in
terest in the outcome Of the forth
coming congressional elections.
Neither of the Presidents pro-
posaIs got anywhere.
The Democratic leaders turned
down the second as impractical.
The Republicans declined to
have anything to do with the
first, the joint dinner plan.
They are making plans for
big Lincoln Day rally to- be held
in Chicago, where the Martyred
President was first nominated.
COP bigWigs from all over the
country will attend, and the &C
casion will be the opening salvo
in the party's political Often
sive this year.
NOTE-Despite the Presidents
ban on a Jackson Day dinner in
Washington, Democratic organiza-
tions in some states will hold their
own. Prominent among them is
Iowa, where Democratic National
Committeeman Frank Comfort,
State Chairman Jake More and
Ex-Governor Nels Kraschel in
sisted on a dinner on the ground
that the COP has not adjourned
politics and they saw no reason
why the Democrats should "cut
their own thrOats".
GENERAL KNUDSEN
In moving over to the War
Department as spanking new
Lieutenant General, William
Knudsen was given the ornate
office of the Secretary of War
which Secretary Stimson has re-
fused to use. Stimson has in
sisted on remaining in the plain,
rough-and- ready room he occupies
in the nearby Munitions Build
ing.
But while assigned to the
elaborate Secretarial suite, Knud-
sen also doesn't plan to spend
much time there.
The first day he set up shop
there, several Army chiefs dropped
in and asked about his plans for
an office force.
"There's my office force"
said Knudsen with a big grin,
pointing TO a travelling bag. Pm
going to be out on the road,
looking over plants and keep
ing things moving. That's my
job and / won't need an office
force for that"
NOTE-1n leaving OPM, Knud-
sen paid a high tribute to his
former Associate Director, Sidney
Hillman. Sidney is top man."
Knudsen said. HE Is not only
q good labor executive, he Is also
a good business man. He's got q
good head on him. never worked
with a better fellow"
PAL JOEY
Behind the scenes, one man who
played a very influential part in
swinging Pan-American delegates
into line at the Rio Conference
was none other than Joe Stain.
He was not present and his
name was not mentioned but the
Soviet boss played second fiddle
only 10 the dynamic diplomacy OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
Selected Poem
HOPE IN WARTIME

George Able in the New York Sum
The locust is tortuous tree,
Twisted and dark,
It has a dubbed and thorny bough,
A pitted bark.
Yet in this winter cold I saw
It's seed pods clinging
Through merciless wind to those same boughs,
Through bitterest singing
OF ice and air. Thin, shriveled pods
Yet holding fast
The birth from dying that is Gods
Future from past
I thought: from ugliness Ike this
The sapling springs
So shall we find God bursting from
Our sufferings.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

to be turned over
in the mind may
be as harmful to
the mental life of
the man who en-
tertains it as an
infusion of deadly
germs would be to
his body.
In the Epistle
of James, written
centuries ago, the
writer says, BE
We doors of the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26

Don't get feeling too cocksure about
winter being about over. True we've had
a long spell of cold weather and we have
had one good snoWstorm. But that's not
all Connecticut winter can produce.
There's more to come and beware CT what
February and early March have in store
for us. Winter, we are sorry to say, IS
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-26
Current Comment

The Church should minister in
mercy to those on whom the cruelty
of war most heavily falls.
Pastoral letter of Federated
Churches of Christ in America
In serving each other and in sac
rificing for our common good we
are finding the true life.
king George vi.