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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
Le Circle Des FiUes
 Organized At "Y'

Le Circle des Filles was chosen as the name for the new club in the Young Women's Council of the Y. M. c. A. Those present at the organization meeting last night were Lena Bowling, Mary Foley, Genevieve Dervis, Theresa O'Connor Rita Payton, Virginia Casey, Jose phine M. Cianciolo and Ann Valen- ti
 Theresa O'Connor and Josephine Cianciolo were chosen to represent the club at the council meetings. The club will hold it's regular meet ings on Tuesday night.
 Prizes were awarded to high scorers at card party attended last night by members of Evergreen court, Order of Amaranth, in Ma sonic Temple. Refreshments were served.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
Weddings

Goldwyn-Mayer's farce. Love Me Not" co-starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor.
 Miss Patterson plays a comedy role, maid and advisor to Miss Shearcr.
 Miss Patterson has just finished playing the grandmother in 'The Vanishing virginian," with Frank Morgan, Spring Byington and Kath- ryn CraySOn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
Boyces Entertained
 At Sons FareUell

Patriotic colors decorated the home of MT. and Mrs. Bernard Boyce of Hillcrest avenue for the farewell party which they gave in honor of their son, Bernard, Jr.
 MT. Boyce, who has joined the army, was presented with purse and mary gifts from more than one hundred of his relatives, friends and co-workers in Depart ment 35 of the Waterbury Clock company.
 A buffet supper was served late in the evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
Contract Bridge
CORNELL CLUB

Scorers in the Tuesday evening tournament under the direction of Mrs. J. c. Moriarty included: north south, MT and Mrs. Herman Rehm, IA 1-2; MT. and Mrs. George Humphrey, 101; east-west, Mrs. Clarence Byars, Mrs. Arthur Booth, 113; Herbert Leas, Mrs. Ar thu Lease, 105.
 The official standing is: MT. Scully, MT. Nelson, 2l5; MT. and Mrs. Rehm, 213 1-2; MT. Alter, MT. Jaeger, 213; MT. Adduci, MT. Ed ward, 210.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

Will Peanut club. at the home of Mrs. Martha W. Angrave last night were: Miss Betty Tolman, Mrs. Viola J. Brown. Mrs. Lillian Johnson, Mrs. son. The business meeting was Marjory C. Wells and Mrs. J. John followed by social hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

Staver, James Coffey, John Brown, Al Light, Chris Poulsen, Edward Evans, Frank Dillon and William Breen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
PUsTIC FRIARs

O611O 1T 1V11AIVO
 The first annual reunion of the Rustic Frairs was held last evening at Patsy Browns Silver Chalet. Among these attending were Ray nlond Snyder, Louis Bennett, Henry Oespins, Alex Mazzarelli, Andy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
VERSATILE ACTRESS

Elizabeth Patterson. noted char acter actress, has been signed for the important role of Eve in Metro
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
Club News
ST. PAUL'S

ST. PAUL'S
 Due to the illness of Rev. Louis Higgins, the sewing for the needy done by the women of St. Paul's Methodist church, will take place at the home of Mrs. Newton LeaS of 206 Orange street, on Thursday, February 26, at 2:15 o'clock.
 NORTH STAR
 North Star lodge, No. 1855, s. F. A., will hold it's regular monthly meeting, at 7:30 o'clock, tomorrow evening, February 26, at Moose hall. Alma Gyl1enhammer will pre- side.
 A social hour and refreshments will follow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

British Columbia, Canada, pro- duces more than a million pounos of honey annually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

Dr. and Mrs. John Dillon of Chestnut avenue spent the week end as the guests of their son-in- law and daughter, Attorney and Mrs. Edward Henify of Belmont, Mass. While there they attended the Herald Religious Book Fair, at which Attorney Henify was the principal speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Murphy of Milton, Mass, announce the birth of a son, Paul Richard, on House. Dr. Murphy served as in- February 20, at the Richardson terne at St. Mary's Hospital, this city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

MT. and Mrs William F. Burke and daughter, Carol, have returned to the home on Newton Terrace after sending a few days in New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES :
Personal

pr. and Mrs. Joseph Burke of Eastfield road announce the birth of a son. Joseph, on February r at St. Mary's Hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

Announcement has been made of the birth of daughter, Marilyn on February 9 at the Waterbury Hospital to Dr. and Mrs. Roger B. Nelson of Nathan Court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-25

MT. and Mrs. F. H. McNamara of Plaza avenue, are entertaining Will liam Boyland of Cleveland, Ohio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25

bury, 238 trained, PIT quota; Litch- held, 464 trained, ASA quota; South bury, l56 trained, 153 quota.
 quotas were based on an average
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25
DEFENSE WORKERS TO OBTAIN CARDS
Names to Be Removed
 From Official List Unless \, Data Is Recorded
HENRY

1dentiflcations cards must be se- cured by all sivilian defense volun- teers or they vii be refused ad- nittance to defense centres and re- moved from the defense rolls, 1t was announced at a meeting of the blaming committee of the Water bury Defense Council yesterday afternoon.
 Mayor Vincent A. Scully, chair man of the council today appealed to all volunteers to secure their Identification cards. Joining in the appeal were Frank J. Green, secre- tary of the council, and Chief Air Raid Warden James J. Curtin.
 Persons enrolled in civilian de- Sense units can secure their cards by registering at police headquarters, where they will be flngerprinted. They must bring two small un- mounted photographs of themselves.
 Under the regulations, those without cards will be deprived of the right to wear civilian defense stnsignia or to use defense equip nent.
 The planning committee also took the pressing need for more defense volunteers Many workers are still needed in several defns units. It was proposd that offices of local factor tes be canvased to secure volunteers to perform duty at the. various re- port centers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25
R

training quotas established last September.
 Wolcott's record was 189 trained with only a quota of TIT; Middle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25
JOSEPH BOWEY
 IGNORED GUEST

A combination birthday and fare- well party was held last night in honor of Joseph Bowey former local amateur league pitcher at the home Qf his brother John Bowey of Hamilton Heights.
 MT. Bowey has been induct Into the army and is cheduled to report for dutp August 3. More than 30 frinods attended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25
TOWNS ACHIEVE
 FIRST AID QUOTAS

Walcott. Mlddlebury and Lltch- neld were among a group of nearby towns eertifloed by the State De- xalase Council as achieving first aid
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
INITIATION: ITS CHIEF CAUSES AND REMEDIES

The present intense interest in the
subject is the logical result, cumula-
lively, of past endeavors, aided by
many melancholy object lessons, espe-
cally the German imitation, after
World War No. /, eliminating in the
Reputation of 1923.
Yet the public understanding of the
problem is still very imperfect. In
PARTICULAR, we seldom find any recog-
milton, except among experts, of the
dominant factor silently at work to
cause the present imitation.
This dominant factor is what Mr..
Scherman. writing in the Saturday
Evening Post, has well named our 'in-
visible greenbacks.' Our visible green
backs were those issued in the Civil
War (sOme of which are still in circu-
latiOn). But the invisible variety now
being issued escapes general attention.
They consist of bank credit technical
ly called demand deposits, and better
called ''check-book money" This weird
kind of money, if we can call it money,
is created by commercial bank (not
by savings bank whenever it grants
a loan to it's customer The chief Gus
toner today is Uncle Sam, when he
"borrows money of bank, in return
for Government Bonds.
But what money does he borrow?
Not visible money but invisible.
i1f IL
One is exempifed by the visible green
backs, by Federal Reserve Notes, and
by other visible, tangible, paper money
and coins. This is our ''pocket-bOok
money" But our "check-book money
the money we have in the bank
invisible greenba ckS-is the important
sort of money today, and this is the
sort of money which the banks issue
and lend.
Many people imagine that check
book money is really money in the Wis
ible sense, and that, if the public has
recorded, on the stubs of their check
books, 80 billion dollars, those 80 bill
lion dollars really exist physically in
the bank. This is far from true.
What, then, is this mysterious and
invisible check-book money which we
mistakenly call our money in the
banll?" 1t is simply the banks prom
ise to furnish visible money to its de
positors if and when asked that Is
ION demand
In ordinary times, there is enough
actual physical money in the banks to
enable the banks to furnish any one
depositor all the money or cash he
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31

asks for. But if all the depoSitors
should demand all their cash at the
same time, the banks could not pos
sibly get enough. In fact, there is not
actual visible cash in the entire cOun-
try Our visible check-book money is
several times as much as our invisible
pocket-boOk money and does nearly ten
times as much Of our business.
Under our present system, then, the
banks create or destroy this check
book money by granting, or calling,
loans When ii bank grants me 81 l.OOO
loan, and so adds 81 900 to my check
ing deposit, that $1,000 of money |
have i'm the bank" is new 1t was
freshly manufactured by the bank out
of my loan and written by pen and ink
on the stub of my check-book and on
the books of the bank. 1t is just as
new as if the bank had printed and
lent me a thousand new crisp dollar
bank notes.
When later ! repay the bank that
81 900, | take it out of my checking
deposit, by drawing a check payable
to the bank and that much circulating
medium is cancelled on the stub of my
checkbook and ON the books of the
bank it disappears altogether. 1t dis
appears just aS if the money borrowed
had been visible bank notes handed
back to the bank and crematcd
Now the 81 900 transaction which /
have described is, of course, on Il
small scale, exactly what Uncle sam
is doing today on large scale. IL"
goes TO the bank ana sells his bonds
to the bank for newly created bank
credit-invisble greenbacilS. He re-
cords this newly created money on
the stub of his mammoth check-book
and checks against ii to pay his sol
dierS, sailors and others in order to
prosecute the war.
But by SO doing he increases the
circulating medium of the country By
the newly created depoSitS-increaSeS
this circulating medium not by $1,000
as in the example above but by bill
lions BY transferring this newly
created money to soldiers, sailors and
others he is pumping those billions of
invisible greenbackS into circulation.
Thus our chief money, our deposits
sub ect to check, are continually being
increased and decreased. Their in
crease. which is what is going on now,
is imitation. Their decrease, which may
occur when the war is over, is de
tlation.
These ups and downs of bank de-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
By PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER,
Yale University

This is the first of Il series OF
three articles written by Professor
irving Fisher, economist of Yale
University, who has made life
long study of initiation and deflation
and has written a dozen books on
the various problems of money.
The pinch of imitation is felt by
labor largely through a rise in the
cost of living, which, of course, is
simply concealed wage-cut. That
pinch is now being felt, though as yet
only mildly.
The best way to ''hedge" against in
hatiOn is a wage contract providing
for wage increase proportional TO
the rise in the cost of living. That rise
is recorded by an index number OF
the Department of Labor.
Such contracts were made by the
thousands during the last World War
in many countries, especially England
and the United States.
In the present war the chief re-
lance so far has been on the price
control under the Office of Price Ad-
miniStraton. But unless such control
is helped out by Il completer control
of the fundamental causes of imitation,
it will prove to be very disappointing,
leading to shortages, black markets,
and more and more ratiOning.
What are the fundamental causes of
imitation? Usually initiation gets very
far advanced before it is even per-
ceived, although, thanks to warnings
from the President, our country is
now more infation-conscious than ever
before in history.
twenty-five years ago, when much
the same economic situation existed as
at present, the term imitation was so
rarely used that a recent writer, after
consulting the Index of the New York
Times, through several months, re-
ported only one reference to that term.
That reference was to an article on
gold initiation by me. At that time /
was Il voice crying in the wilderness.
Had we then or soon after applied
the appropriate remedies, the inf1a-
tions and defations between then and
now might have been almost entirely
avoided Even this global war might
have been avoided. For the war was
largely due to Hitler; Hitler was
largely the product of the depression,
with a third of German workers un-
employed; and the depression was
largely due to defiatiOn.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
Past Is Prologue
BY RUTH TAYLOR

What is Past is Prologue" is
carved in the enduring stone of that
great marble building which houses
the Archives of the United States.
Past is Prologue" The dictators
whose insane lust for power have laid
waste one continent and whose mad
dreams have reached across oceans to
engulf us, should pause at these words
and should consider their meaning.
Past is Prologue" What is our
past but struggle for freedom for all
oppressed and disheartened people
religious freedom, political freedom,
economic freedom? The founding faith
ers, beloved of every patriotic orator,
incorporated this urge for freedom in
the classic phrases of the preamble to
the Constitution and in the Bill of
Rights, which is the Magma Charta of
our freedom.
2"'Past is Prologue" The past is use
full in determining what the future
shall be. With the past this nation
from the cries for help rising from the
victims of the new oppression, those
helpless people whose only fault was
that their ways were the ways of
peace, and that they had possessions
the gangster overlOrdS of Europe and
Asia coveted? With our past record
could we have turned away like the
Pharisee from the wounded traveller?
But for us-with our heritage of ac-
tion for freedom-binding up the in
jured as did the Good Samaritan is
not enough. The time of talk has
passed. The fight is ours. The task Is
plain. We must help drive the rob-
bers from the Jericho Road.
Past is Prologue But the past is
fulfilled only ;TS the desire for a better
future which it had inculcated into
our hearts and minds, bears fruit The
past is but the prologue to the future
and we must make the future better
Past is Prologue" To keep the
promise of the past we must stand
firm now and fight to preserve the
right. We must not compromise with
evil. We must put into practice the
truth by which we hold sovereignty
over this nation: 'That all men are
created equal and are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable
rights . life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness" The task is great, but
the past has trained us for the needs
of the present. We can and will do all
that is demanded of us in the new
year ahead.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
UNION AND DEALERS
IN SAN FRANCISCO
LIMIT MEAT SALES

San Francisco ULNS).-After Mil
ton Maxwell, international vice presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butcher Worllmen had said
he feared most shops here would have
to close by the end of the year be-
cause of the shortage in meats, union
leaders and retailers agreed to a vol
untary ratiOning system.
Recommended to the 525 shops OF
the Retail Butchers Association, it
calls for limiting sales of fresh meat
from noon until 6 p. m. daily. Cutters
and statesmen will arrive at the usual
time and work until II a. m., cutting
meat and estimating an apportionins
system for its sale, beginning an hour
later
The new hours would prevent early
morning buyers from sweeping the re-
frigeratOr cases clean, Maxwell said,
and give many housewives, otherwise
occupied with morning work, an OPP
pOrtunity to buy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
Green Denounces Nuzi
SdvdgeTY Toward Jews

Washington, y. &. GLNS).-In a
bliStering denunciation of barbaric
persecution of Jews in Europe by the
NaziS. President William Green Of the
American Federation of Labor de-
Clared:
Recent disclosures by the Allied
authorities of the pitileSs and cold
blOOded slaughter of hundreds Of
thousands of Jews in Europe by the
NaZi butchers give Us fresh evidence
of the terrible fate that awaits all vic
Tins of Adolf Hitler.
AT this season of the year it is par
ticularly fitting that men and women
everywhere who cherish the principles
of religion and humanity should join
III vOicing their complete condemnation
of such Satanic cruelty.
The American Federation of Labor,
now as before. denounces the Nazi
Savagery toward the Jews as a crime
against man and God.
We are resolved that those respon
Sble for such acts of infamy shall pay
the penalty for their criminality by
the time this war is over.
Likewise. we are more than ever
determined to do all that lies within
our power to provide immediate relief
for the victims of Hitler'S hate and to
insist upon their full liberation and
protection from future oppression and
intolerance when victory comes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
AT1oNAL BROTHERHOOD Of OPERATIVE porrERs' BUILDING,

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oke al n then een nights rooms %@eudab Iaa
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
CTU Efforts Beats
Wire Merger Bill

Washington, D. G. (ILNS).-The
Commercial Telegraphers' Union be-
lieves that the persistent and vigorous
opposition which it made to the pro-
posed telegraph merger bill in the
closing days of the 77th Congress was
responsible for the measures defeat
when Congress failed to pass it prior
to adjournment. The union fought the
bill because it did not provide ade-
quate safeguards for employees jobs.
By defeating the bill, the union said
that it has again saved the jobs and
of Western Union employees, particu-
larly in the district offices throughout
the country, many of which undoubt-
edly would have been closed in the
event of a merger"
The union further said:
Failure of the 18th Congress to
pass telegraph merger legislation
may result in the government taking
over communications for the duration
as means of preserving the Postal.
Otherwise it can be expected that the
merger bill will be reintroduced when
the new Congress assemblies in Jan
uary.
"The CONNER a | Photographers
Union will continue to fight all at
temptS to merge Postal with Western
Union until or unless adequate provi-
siOns are made for protection of the
employees"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
Germdn Music In New York
(From the New York Times)

(From the New York Times)
When TOscanini, arch-hater of Mus
solini, Hitler and all that Nazism
means, gave his recent concert for the
benefit Of the American Red Cross he
devoted the program exclusively to the
music of an immortal German master,
Richard Wagner. An American So
prano, Helen Traubel and leading
American orchestra, the New York
Z hi h armonic-Symphony, performed
the magnificent music, which an
American audience, comprising more
than one nationality, thunderously ap-
plauded.
This could not have happened here
in the First World War. At that time
German music, from Beethoven on
ward, was generally denounced and
excluded The condition was nation
wide, and necessarily needed by every
musical management. At the Metro
politan Opera House no opera during
or Immediately after the conflict could
be sung in German, and seasons
passed before the complete German
repertory came back to 39th street
and Broadway. This Winter the Met
ropolitan performs all the Wagner
operas, save 'Nleistersinger," and in
the tongue in which they were writ
ten.
All this is an advance in liberalism
and the public consciousness of art
greater than we may now realize.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
45.000 Longshoremen
Granted Higher Wages

Washington d. c. - The National
War Labor Board approved union
management agreement granting D.
cents-an-hOur wage increase to $4,000
longshoremen in North Atlantic ports.
An additional 5-cents-hourly increase
was approved for longshoremen hand
ling explosives and damaged cargOes.
The increases, retroactive to Oct. l,
We're incorporated in Il contract be-
citation of New York and the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association,
which the board said served as a mas
ter wage agreement for all Atlantic
ports from Maine to Virginia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31

New York City GLNSD.-Though
there are growing number of mer-
chant seamen's rest and recreatiOnal
homes in Great Britain. none of them
look after the interests of the seamen'S
families and provide allowances for
their. dependents. a report issued by
the main office of the federation III
England says.
Union Secures Grant
This difficulty has now been over
come by the National Union of Sea
men of Great Britain. an affiliate OF
the International Transport Workers
Federation. The union. which main
tains the Merchant Seamen'S War
Memorial Society Rest Home" at
LinpSfield has secured a large grant
from the King George Fund for Sail
orS, for the purpose Of caring for the
families of the men confined To the
home. Similar grants will be made
available later to other homes and or
ganiZatiOns, it is reported.
Union members in need Of rest are
admitted to the Limp>field home free
of charge for periods from two to
three weeks In addition they receive
five shillingS per Week aS spending
money. and their railway fare to and
from the home is reimbursed. Wives
receive an allowance of 81 Shillings
per week. and dependent children, not
exceeding three. five ShillingS per
week. Allowances for the dependents
of single men are also provided for.
The agreement has been the result
of negotiations between the British
shipping authorities, the Shipping
Federation and the union. cooperating
under the auspices of the SeamGn'S
Welfare Board. The LimpSfield home
is rest and recreational home and
not Il conyale>cent home.
Welfare Centers Opened
British merchant marine welfare ef-
forts in the United States, conducted
positS follow closely the ups and
downs of bank loans. Thus the volume
of demand deposits, constituting our
'llIt'I tlltHldLlll- lli'ululll. - INV dl
the mercy Of the loan transactions of
the banks.
BY lending money which they create
the banks build upon their meager
cash reserves an immense inverted
pyramid of check-booll money, the
volume Of which gels inflated when
ever the bank lends more than it col
lectS (as in the stock market mania of
1929 when spectators borrowed 50
much, or as now when Uncle Sam is
the big borrower and gets Debated
whenever the banks collect more than
they lend las between 1929 and 1888
and as may happen after this war is
overl. Such top-heavy and jumpy
system is angerouS-dangerous to de
po>itorS, dangerous to banks. and
above all dangerous To the millions of
Innocent byStanders," the general
public.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
Blood Donations Made
BY Women Bus Drivers

Los Angeles, Calif.-Thirty women
members of Transfers Local $40 do
mated blood at the local Red Cross
Blood Donor Center, w. A. kellOtat,
secretary of the local, reports. All of
the donors are regularly employed as
chautfeurs by the LANDER Transit
Company, which supplied a bus to
transport the group. Arrangements for
the donation were made by Mamye
Hale, union stewardess.