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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
The Boy Scouts Oath

America is big country. And yet, III
almost every city, town and hamlet IN the
United States you will find Boy Scout,
or man who was q Boy Scout. With
total Of 10 million men and boys who
are, or have been Scouts or ScouterS dur
ing the life of the Boy Scouts Of America
it is hard TO imagine many places where
you would not find one or more Scouts.
Scouts are celebrating this week - they
are celebrating the thirty-second anniver-
sary of the founding Of the Movement IN
America The Boy Scouts Of this com
munity are part OF this gigantic, nation
wide birthday week. In very real sense
this birthday celebration should be our
celebration. We will be SO much the bet
ter if we keep Scouting alive and vigorous.
Character and citizenship, the aim and
purpose of all Scouting activities are the
real life blood of this and any other
democratic community. These boys we
see carrying on their Scouting and good
turn" activities are going to take our
places some day. They can receive no
finer training than Scouting affords
them for citizenship in free country.
Their course will be true-their heads
high-because they stand by the Scout
Oath and Law which reads.
On my honor well do my best
To do my duty to God and my
country and to obey the Scout
Law
To help other people at all times.
To keep my self physically strong,
mentally awake and morally
straight"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

The Connecticut savings bank life in
surance plan is evidently taking hold
here in Connecticut, the third state TO
adopt this plan Waterbury has father
ly interest in the plan, because one OF
our local banks is a participant and be-
cause State Senator Michael V. Blans-
field sponsored the plan in last years
Legislature. With only one month to its
credit participating banks have sold a
quarter of million dollars worth of in
surance When you stop to consider that
this is all in small amounts, purchase
being limited to So 900 in any one insti-
tuition, it's quite an accomplishment and
would seem to indicate that despite Con-
necticuts prominence in the field OF in
surance and the presence OF so many in
surance firms within the state, there is
still room for more in the field. The fund
trustees can well afford TO be proud of
what they have accomplished TO date IN
SO short period
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
Current Comment

The habit of passlvity about gov
eminent be )mes more dangerous
in wartime, because even "A demo-
cratic government In wartime must
greatly enlarge It's scope.
President Marguerite M. Wells,
National League OF Women
Voters.
think OF you as one great fam
lily, for that Is how we are learning
TO live.
King George vi TO the Empire
peoples.
When American ships are being
sunk and enemy submarines lurk
OF oln shores. the strike OF some
Wcldcrs in west coast shipyards Is
n shocking act OF disloyalty 10 the
nation.
Sidney Hillman, associate dircc-
tor, OPM.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

extension OF their bureaucratic
powers, the Ssh slipped into the
bill provision placing under
their control all state unemploy-
ment insurance systems. This
was done without consulting
either the White House or Nc
Mutt and Hillman.
IF the Ssh had any idea they
could get away with this scheme,
they soon learned differently.
Quickly discovered, 1t has stirred
up a terrific Juror among state
officials, who are bombarding
As q result, the original Nc
Mutt HiIlman unemployment
relief proposal has been COM
pietely sidctracked. Weeks have
gone by and IL is still hanging
fire In committee while the
Ssh moguIs and state officials
battle furiously over on the
formers attempt to grab Off
more power.
Meanwhile, thousands walk
the streets trying to exist on
meager jObless benefits further
reduced by the steadily increas-
ing cost Of living.
Copyright, 1912, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

Never has the American press been
more united than it has been of recent
weeks on the subject of Kidding the or
flee of Civilian Defense of two persons
Eleanor Roosevelt and Forcla La
Guardia Admittedly both are sincere in
their efforts, but are not fitting into the
scheme Of things. It's too high a price for
the Roosevelt administration TO pay TO be
subjeced to criticism for their continued
earnest but misguided efforts. The situa-
ton should be righted before it is TOO late.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
Your |. O.?
Can you answer seven of these
test questions? Turn to back page
for the answers.

Is Japanese citizen OF tho
United States permitted to vote?
g.. What relation is r. v. SoonR
foreign minister Of China, now ii
the u. S., TO Chang Kai-shek?
3. The symbol a., Is for and, Is
called an asterisk, ampersand or
ambergris?
4. The source OF linseed oil Is
cOttonseed, flaxseed or hempsecd?
S. What is the term applied to q
college or university by Its grad
uatesP
6. One who makes barrels and
casks Is q C rp
T. The 1910 census OF the United
States was the fourteenth, fifteenth
or sixteenth?
g. Bamboo is grass; true
false?
o. What Is bon WANT?
TO- Who wrote "Sonncts from
the Portuguese"?
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

tIIdL pcCIcJdty TIdllCco fcIklilS Ii
not persistent.
Excluded IRON an important
role In the war labor admins
tration, the Secretary Of Labor
for months has made repeated
undercovcr attempts TO elbow her
self into the picture. Invariably
she has been rebuifed, but always
she has doggedly tried some new
maneuver.
Her latest was an ambitious
scheme 10 grab off the war la
Dor division that Sidney Hill
man has ably directed since the
days Of the original National
Defense Commission.
Miss Perkins popped her plan
shortly after Donald Nelson was
named War Production Chief.
Nelson told the President and
Hillman that any set-up of the
labor division agreeable to them
would be agreeable to him. Get
ting wind Of this, Miss Perkins
thought she saw a promising
chance to stage blitZ snatch for
power.
So she quietly prepared an ex-
ecutive order t be signed by the
President placing under her con-
troll all activities for the supply
and training Of labor. The eff
feet of the order would have been
to strip Hillman's division of Its
chief functions.
Miss Perkins slipped her order
to the Budget Bureau for trans
initial to the President. But,
meanwhile, Federal Security Adj
minislrator Paul McNutt was
tipped Off what Miss Perkins was
up to. McNutt also Is ambitious
to play a bigger role in the war
organization. Unlike Miss Per-
kinS, the Whitc-crested Indianan
Is on good terms with Hillman,
but McNutt figured that If Hill
mans division was going to be
reshufiled, he, too, would put in
strong bid.
so McNutt cooked up an execu-
tive order OF his own, little diff
1erent from Miss Perkins. He
proposed setting up Labor Sup
ply Board, operating under him.
His formula, on the surface, was
different but the practical effect
would have been the same as the
Perkins scheme.
But like all of Miss Perkins
other attempted grabs for pow
er, this one also got nowhere.
The President a.:ce.ed that
both proposed executive orders
be shelved, while he and Hill
man decided what they wanted
to do.
SOCIAL SECURITY MEDDLERS
In the past two years repeated
efforts have been made on Capt.
toll Hill to extend the scope and
Increase the payments OF the So
cial Security Act. But every at
tempt has got nowhere because
OF the modelling ana bureaucratic
shipping OF the moguls OF the So
cial Security Board
Now these moguls are up TO
their old obstructive tricks-this
time regarding the plan to in
crease unemployment insurance
benefits for workers who have
been made iale by the about war
production program.
The plan was drafted by Fed
eral Security Administrator
Paul McNutt and War Labor
Chief Sidney Iiillman, and pro-
pOses---during 1912 Only--tO In
crease the period of unempl0y-
ment benefits from l3 to rs
weeks and raise the weekly
maximum 10 $24. President
Roosevelt warmly approved the
program and recommended to
Congress that $500, 900 900 be
appropriated Immediately.
To speed action, the Social Sc
curity Board was asked 10 pro-
pare the necessary Dlll. This,
however. was II had mistake.
Seeing what they thought was a
swell chance 10 sneak through an
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
Selected Poem
INEVITABLE

(Arthur Wallace Peach in the Christian Science
Monitor
Here In the winter sences the fields prepare
The looms whose weaving makes the summer fair
The green OF meadows warm beneath The sun
The harycats rising with the weaving done.
The bitter winds that Whir across The height
Reveal no music 10 the listening night,
But the verge OF gray evenings hush
The spring shall hear the ve6pers OF the thrush.
These winter days Of ours of storm and stress
Hold In their shadows promises, less,
or daWnS when bitter winds OF hate shall cease
And meadows Of the earth be sweet with peaccl
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

A. Only one individual can claim
the status OF "hea1 Of a family
You should submit all the facts of
your case to the Collector OF Inter-
nal Revenue in your district 10 de-
termine who Is the head OF the
family.
@. Does the Fair Labor Stand
ards act require employers to pay
employees for time of on legal holi-
days?
A. There Is no law to compel an
employer to pay his employees for
holidays that are not worked. Only
when it Is specified in contract
that holidays shall be granted with
pay is the cmploye entitled to pay
ment. The maximum standard work
week provided by the Fair Labor
Standards act fWage and hour law
is 40 hours. A work week Is seven
consecutive 24-hour Gays. IT may
begin at any time of the day, but
no changes in the work week may
be made for the purpose OF evading
the overtime provisions OF the act.
There Is no limitation on the num-
Der OF hours that may be worked in
any one day.
@. I wish to enlist in the navy,
but / am due for army induction
within week. Will l be accepted
for the navy?
A. After the order to report for
n pure induction physical examina-
ton has been mailed to registrant
by the local draft beard, enlistment
in the navy Is not permissible. How
ever, If the local draft board is con-
suited, 1t is possible that some spe-
cial arrangement may be made II
the case seems to warrant 1t.
O. When was the wife Of En-
peror Franz Joseph OF Austria as.
sasinatcd?
A. Princess Elizabeth Amalie Eu,
genie, Duchess OF Bavaria" wa.
married to Emperor Franz Joseph
in 1854, but they became estranged
long before her death. She was as
sasinated In Geneva, Switzerland,
September 10, 1898.
q. Who played the role of MRS.
Copperfleld" in the photopiay David
Copperfield?"
A. Elizabeth Allan.
@. Is the proverb "He thai
touchcth pitch shall be defiled there
with" in the Bible?
A. 1t Is in Ecclesiasticus 1877 IL
the Apocrypha.
@. What are the principal uses
A. The chief uses are for station
airy washtubs, sinks, acid tanks
hcarth-stones, fire brick, mantel
and griddles.
q. What is the title Of the class
ical selection played at the begin
ming of the Looncy Ture eliminated
cartoon comedy, 1.-THE Coy Dccoy'i
A. Moonlight Conata," by Bee
thoven.
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Withdrawn III Or
der that they may
be multiplied by
two and reisslicd.
For this unfortu-
nate outfit, struB-
Cling into an at
tempted reorgan-
ization under It's
new executive d.
rector Dean James
M. Lands, has
stumbled into a
mess with the APP
p DIN t IN c II + OF
movie actor Mel
vim Douglas as
head Of the War
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09


Last fall u. S. officials in these
two countries informed the jus
tlcc Department that Nazi agents
were distributing japanese
pamphlets, printed in English as
well as the native language. 1t
was believed they had been writ
ten by an American.
A quiet check-up disclosed, it is
charged, that the writer was
Ralph Townsend, an editor OF
Scribner's Commentator.
Further inquiry also revealed
that the pamphlets we're being
widely distributed in the United
States. At this point Albert T..
Aren't and Arthur B. Caldwell,
able young attorneys Of the Grim
inal Division Of the Justice De-
partmcnt who had dug up the
facts in the Auhagen and Trans
ocean Nazi propaganda cases,
were called In.
Aren't and Caldwell made two
trips--onc to San Francisco and
one to Lake Geneva, Wis, where
Scribners Commentator was pub
lished. Aided by a staff OF crack
G-mcn, Aren't and Caldwell un-
covered some startling informa-
ton from the books oi Jap firms
and individual business men.
One Of the most significant
discoveries was that the Japs
were following the IIazi tech
nique Of using newspaper men
and writers as propaganda
agents. According to testimony
which will he presented Fred
crick v. Williams, Pacific
coast newspaper man, not only
was the correspondent of the
Japanese Times and Mail Of
Tokyo, but also was making
prO-Jap speeches before many
Organlza lions.
AS correspondent Of the Jap pa
pers, williams was registered with
the State Department and APP
parently felt tnis was sufficient.
What the G-men did not
overlook was that the Trans
ocean and Auhagen cases had
taught them that the favOrite
Axis device was To give their
propaganda agents nominal en-
piOyment as newspaper men to
cover up their real operations.
Investigation of williams ac-
tivities led 10 evidence involving
David w. Ryder and Townsend,
who with Williams are about to
stand trial a. Jap agents The
indictments charge the three men
with conspiracy TO violate the
Foreign Agents Registration Act
and with willful failure to state
material facts In registration
statements"
MAURY MAVERICKS FLAG
The flag that flew over the
Capitol when Congress declared
war on all three Axis powers -
Japan, Germany and llaly-is In
the hands Of Maury Maverick,
lOIIIlVI SoIiEt tooiiiuil iicii' AtH""''
Maverick, Whc now works for
the OPM exercised Congress
mans privilege OF buying a new
flag TO be clown over the Capitol.
He took 1t TO the Capitol late In
the afternoon Of Dec. 8 and was
allowed to make an exchange OF
his new flag for the flag that had
been flying that day, which was
the day after Pearl Harbor and
the day Congress declared war on
Japan.
A few days later, when he
heard the President was going
10 ask for n declaration Of war
against Germany and Italy.
Maverick rushed up to the
Capitol with his already historic
flag, and had II raised on the
flag pole Just before war was
declared against Hitler and
Mussolini.
Then he took 1t away again.
and now keeps 1t MS d cherished
mcmcnt2 In his own home.
PERSISTENT FANNY
Whatever else she may be
charged with, no one can say
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
Questions
and Answers
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bury Democrats Washington Ser
vice Bureau. 1913 Thirteenth
Street. Washington, ID. e.
@. Are spark plugs and auto bat
terics going TO be rationed?
A. Leon Henderson announced
January Z, 1912, that there Is no
present intention of interfering with
the free sale OF batteries or spark
plugs for replacement in automo-
biles and trucks. Likewise, there Is
no intention Of rationing these
products.
@. Can my brother and l claim
that we are the heads Of our family
for federal income tax purposes2
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Melvin Of
Movies Goat
In OCD Comedy
by PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

Washington, Feb Amy dispar-
aging remarks this department may
have made concerning the ONCE OF
Civilian Defense in Washington are
hereby sincerely apologized for and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09
DREW PIE A Il S D N
ROBERT S. ALLEN
Washington Merry-Go-R
Americans Held Jap Agents After Sku Work by GMen;
Tips Thot Led Arrests Came from Mnnchuo and Costa Rco
Fanny Perkins Rebuffed Again BIz Snatch More
Bueoucrots Scrap Delays Relief Of War Production Jobe

WASHINGTON February pon
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
If a salesman has his goods set
out in a straight row, he
may properly refer to II as,
line of goods; otherwise he
had better say kind or class
of goods.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

EDITORS NOTE: IT you are
desircus of securing this weeks
booklet, SECRET WRITING"
address +. NJ. Kirby, Dept. 8-lO9,
Waterbury Democrat Service Bu-
reau, 1913 Thirteenth St., Wash
ingtOn, ID. c., with 10 cents to
cover postage.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-09

A. Only one individual can claim
the status OF "head of family"
You should submit all the facts of
your case to the Collector OF Inter-
nal Revenue in your district 10 de-
termine who is the head OF the
family.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-31

war news
BY Mrs. ChaS. Krantz
Pine County Farmer Fieldwoman.

The army and navy needs all the
fine feathers and down our country
can supply. Pine county has no one
large poultry farm that, SO to speak,
has all its eggs in one basket-but
there is hardly a township that doesn't
have one or more farms where ducks
or geese are raised as a sideline.
Mrs. Kate Keltner, Hinckley, Leonard
Chicos, Askov; Adolf Lemke, Stur-
geon Lake; and Geo. Rieser of Be-
roun, are only few of the many
from Pine county that contribute
toward the supply of down needed
for sleeping bags and garments used
in Alaska, Iceland and Russian terri
tory. Turkey and chicken feathers
are not wanted now.
Boys and girls who are working
on farms for pay, or those who have
volunteered their services are elig-
IDLE for purchase of bicycles needed
for transportation.
Farm children who do chores are
included in this classification.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-31

The mixer on the nations farms
may not be in khaki or in service
blue, but he surely is in the army, so
far as victory is concerned. He is
part, yes and a vital part, of the pro-
duction army. Fighters can't win
without food. Never has the dairy
industry been asked to do so much.
The needs of the armed forces, lend
lease demands, and the nutrition pro-
gram on the ''home front" A three
way call for more, more and more
milk and milk products. Everyday
and everyday, the mixer does his
part to keep full milk cans rolling to
city and factory.
There is no ''time off, in the milk
ing chores. Often it is a family
affair Mother and sister and little
brother have their special cows to
milk. Often it is pleasant get-to-
gether. So much so that when we
farmers get tout" we are lost when
chore time comes around and no
milking to do.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-31

pay during the year 1943. If the
amount thus deducted exceeds the
amount of his victory tax and in
come-tax liability, as finally COM
puted, refund will be made by the
government of the excess. If the
amount withheld is less than the
amount computed on the return, he
will owe the difference.
1t should be pointed out that the
payroll withholding tax will not apply
to agricultural workers, domestic
servants in a private home, casual
labor not in the course of the en-
ployer's regular trade or business,
members of the armed forces of the
United States, and to certain other
less important classes of employment
Also, it cannot for obvious reasons
apply to self-employed persons. Those
not subject to the payroll withhold
ing will simply pay the full amount
of the victory tax when filing their
return on March Is following the
close of the taxable year.
against lilc dIIlOuIlt VI VlCIOTy TAX
liability, a person is allowed a post
war credit or refund equal to 40 per
cent of the tax, if married, and Is
per cent, if single. An additional 2
per cent is allowed for each depend
ent. In no case, however, can the
credit exceed $500 in the case of
single persons, $1,000 in the case of
the head of family, or 500 for
each dependent. The postwar re-
fund will be payable as soon as prac-
ticable after the war ends. How
ever, at the option of the taxpayer,
the amount of the credit may be
taken as current offset against the
victory tax, on account of any ex-
penditures for increased holdings of
war bonds during the taxable year,
for premiums on life insurance in
force September l, 1912, or for the
retirement of outstanding indebted
ness incurred prior to September /,
1912.
The following example indicates
how the tax will work out in a given
case, where the taxpayer, a married
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-12-31

essential levy to help finance the
staggering costs of war. Such sales
tax, according to Mr.. Taft, would pro-
duce about four billion dollars an
nually in additional revenue.
Under the tax bill that became law
in October, the government will raise
approximately 26 billion dollars,
which is only about one-fourth of our
war expenditures. This means that
we will 60 into the red something
like IS billion dollars during the COM
ing year unless we can find new
sources of taxation, which will result
in more bonds and greater national
debt Already economists and 9TH
ers, are expressing apprehension that
it will not be long before the ma
tional debt exceeds our total assessed
valuation and that would mean bank
ruptcy. Congress will have to find
new sources of revenue. On that
there can be no difference of opinion
The New Victory Tax.
A number of civic organizations
and employers of labor have asked
me to explain the new victory tax
and this l shall endeavor to do as
simply as possible.
Actually, it is just an additional
income tax, but it is computed sep
arately from the regular income tax
since it has different exemptions and
is imposed at flat rate. The same
form of return will be used, however
Z The victory tax applies only to in
dividuals. In general, it is imposed
upon the gross income in excess of
1924 annually, or SIP per week,
whether the individual is married or
single. In the case of income from
rents, and from business, professional
and farming activities, the tax applies
to the net income, that is, after de-
auctions have been taken for the ex-
pense of doing business. Income from
capital gains, and from interest on
U. S. obligations issued prior to March
l, 1941, is not subject to the victory
tax.
Since the victory tax applies only
to income received on and after jan
uary l, 1943, it will in no way con-
Germ taxpayers when they file their
returns next March 18th covering in
come received in 1912. The first re-
turn of the victory tax will be in
March, 1914, covering income re-
ceived in 1943.
Although no return need be filed
in connection with the victory tax
until 1914, actually millions of tax
payers will have paid all or part of
their victory tax for the year 1943
by December 31st of that year. This
prepayment will result from the fact
that beginning January I, 1943, en-
ployers will be required to deduct
from the pay envelopes of their en-
ployes, as agent for the government,
5 per cent of the excess of all wages
and salaries over $12 per week. This
withholding of the victory tax will
be made in a manner similar to that
by which the social security payroll
tax is now being deducted. When
the employee makes out his return in
March, 1914, he will then take credit
for the amount withheld from his