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when we begin to realize the huge
financial burden that this war is
going 10 place upon the American
people for generations to come.
Navy Estimates Overtime Cost.
Let's look the situation In the
face. The Navy Department in the
hearing on this bill estimated that
the overtime payments alone on the
naval construction program already
authorized will amount TO $4,000
000, 900. -Four billions of dollars for
overtime alone on naval construc-
ton is being paid by the American
taxpayer. This $4,000. .O00. 900 is
equivalent TO the pay of 5000 900
soldiers at $2l month for over
three years and is Just overtime
alone on naval contracts alone.
Now why dio we have the 40-hour
week at all? It was enacted for
the express purpose OF spreading
work during times of depression.
The requirement of overtime pay
was solely for the purpose Of penal
izing the employer and thus induc-
ing him to spread employment. To-
day the United States Government
Is the employer. That means that
you and I and every other tax
payer Is being required to pay a
ridiculous and stupendous penalty
to remedy condition Of unemploy-
ment that no longer exists.
War has solved the problem that
the 40-hour week was designed to
correct. The desperate struggle for
national existence demands. on the
contrary, all of the labor, all of the
time, all of the hours. and all of
the energies that all of us put to-
gether can exert.
To persist In following q policy
designed admittedly, to retard pro-
duction and penalize employers is
tragic and intolerable.
Why should the whole of the
American people. engaged in the
all-out effort to preserve their Ma
ton, be thus penalized in order to
preserve the so-called social gains
of an organized minority. Why
should we cling tenaciously to laws
designed TO retard production when
our very existence depends upon our
capacity for all-out production?
] wish somebody would give us
a calm and logical answer to these
questions instead OF talking about
social gains, sixth columnists and
labor baiters.
Union Shop Curbs Freedom.
And now about the closed shop.
I maintain that it is a fundamental
principle of American liberty that
no free American citizen should be
compelled to either join or refrain
from joining labor union as a
condition to his right to work and
earn 8 living.
This right is as basic as the right
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the custom of q unicn 10 refuse to
admit new members TO the union
while any OF It's present members
are unemployed.
7 ask those who assume the re-
sponsibflity for determining our
labor policies and I ask the Con-
gress. upon whom rests the consti-
tutional duty TO determine cur labor
policy. this solemn question: Do they
propose now 10 fasten upon the
American people . closed shop labor
policy that will shut the door OF
employment In the face OF the re-
turning soldier after the war;
Let's face the facts. Let's be
blunt about II.
Racketeering and lawlessness Is
rampant In certain labor unions.
Strikes have materially reduced the
necessary arms and equipment fer
the soldiers We are sending to
the front.
Slew Downs Reported.
The chairman OF the Maritime
Commission says there IL loafns In
the shipyard construction. The Navy
Department has reported slow
downs In the naval construction In
recent days.
The <o-hour week, designed to
spread employment and penalize
employers, In definite deterrent to
our war effort. These conditions
have been common public knowledge
since the beginning Of our defense
program 10 months ago.
Consistent continuous effort has
been made in the Congress to bring
about legislation to correct these
evils. In every instance, these efforts
have been thwarted. In recent weeks.
since universal public indisna ton
has become aroused, the efforts to
thwart legislation have been re-
Notwithstanding public
opinion. only three days ago the
Smith -vinson bill, pending In the
Naval Affairs Committee. was saved
from q poetponement designed to
kill it by q tie vote. Every piece of
legislation passed by the House dur
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Of employment by the labor union
that sets itself up as greater than the
Government which cravenly tol-
crates 1t.
The pending Smith vinson bill
proposes to remedy these conditions.
II would permit present ciosed-shop
agreements 70 continue In exist
ence but would prohibit the current
continuous agfts tion TO enforce the
closed shop upon American industry
and American workmen. II would
also prohibit those unions that have
present closed shop agreements from
charging American citizens uncon-
sctonable initiation fees for the priv
ilege OF working for their country.
through executive agency the right
to work without paying tribute taken
from thousands OF supposedly free
American citizens in the captive
mine cases. At this very moment, In
Washington. there are hearings un-
der way before the War Labor Board
seeking to compel employees Of the
little steel industry to pay tribute
to labor unions for the privilege OF
working.
Violates Labor Act.
There are indications, in recent
decisions Of the War Labor Board
that that agency, set up by execu-
tive order without any legislative
sanction, Is seeking to impose union
membership or continuance of mem
bership upon supposedly free Ameri-
can citizens. No court and no ex-
ecutive agency has the power or the
right to compel any employer to
enter into agreements for the closed
shop demands of q union or any
other conditions which discriminate
against free men either because they
belong or do not belong TO . labor
union.
Such an order Is a clear violation
OF the specific provisions of the
National Labor Relations Act. The
law Is 50 clear and 50 positive that
1t Is difncult to see how any board
could unintentionally misconstrue
its terms. The National Labor Re-
lations Act, Section 8, makes 1t un-
lawful for an employer. by discrimi-
to encourage or discourage
membership In any labor organiza-
ton, except by voluntary agreement.
1 am deeply disturbed at the un-
signs that this Govern
ment, through the War Labor Board.
Is seeking to compel union member
ship upon free American citizens rs
. condition TO their employment.
Let me remind those who have
grave responsibilities in this situa-
ton that we have taken and will
take millions OF young men out of
their usual employment and place
them in the armed service of their
country. Many OF them have never
been employed In industry, have
never had the opportunity to exer-
else their choice Of making union
a Affiliations. Is it the policy OF this
during their absence, to i'm
pose conditions Of employment that
will compel them, on their return
after the war, to seek membership
in a labor union in order to earn a
living? II so. let me warn them OF
the consequences of that policy.
When the war Is over, employment
will be slack. In slack times. it is
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ing this period has been strsnsied
by the Senate. The American peo-
pie are about 10 rec o repetition
OF that performance
The duty to lerislate is imposed
by the Constitution on the Con-
gress. The Congress cannot delegate
its power and its duty 10 legislate.
to pressure groups or to executive
interference. Congress and Con-
gress alone is solely responsible to
the people in the field OF needed
legislation.
Congress is about 10 be given one
last opportunity TO put a stop 70
these practices OF racketeering. OF
strikes. OF slow downs, OF loanng
on defense work. of boycotts. of
jurisdictional strikes. and OF denial
ito American citizens Of their right
TO work
It remains to be seen what the
House of Representatives and the
Senate viii do about IL.
Text by Mrs. Norton.
tAt lCAS VA RaA - 4N0A bJhA &1GA Ecc
follows:
want you to listen TO what I
shall say. 1t concerns every man.
woman and child in this country
and the democracies of the world
yes and other generations to fol-
low.
Before proceeding with my talk,
may I take this opportunity to
thank The Washington Star for
the privilege Of discussing this very
much misunderstood subject TO-
night. I welcome the chance to
tell the radio audience the facts in
connection with the efforts being
made to change the existing 40
hour work week.
You have heard this measure re-
ferred to as the 40-hour law and
this through constant repetition
has created in the minds of many
Americans the belief that the war
production plants of the United
States turn of their power. stop
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

in popular and humanistic fashion. De Prorok found adventure and amusement as well as ancient knowledge in his travels across the desert and into the jungle.
 "TAKE HER DOWN" (sheridan
 A. House), by Commander T. B. Thompson is the story of the sub- marine L-9 and its crew during the World War.
 Thompson tells some rollicking tales of life abroard one of the older submarines, the engines of which from time to time ran themselves into pieces and were kept in op- eration by sheer wizardry of the mechanics.
 The L-9 was small ship but nevertheless was sent across the Atlantic for patrol work of in the North Sea. The worst hurricane In years tossed the little sub around for days on the first try and when 1t put back into port the crew was half dead of exhaustion and ex- posture.
 On the second trip. the L-9 made 1t by way of the Azores and went into patrol work where it had sev- eraM narrow escapes but remained. afloat to return home after the armistice.
 Thompson writes entertainingly of the life the officers led in the small coastal towns of England and with considerable wit and @ salti- ness becoming to a sailor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
Current Publications

''The Yellow Taxi'' (Crime Club by Jonathan Stagge.-Some sleep ing tablets and the vision of yel- low cab involve Dr. Westlake and his daughter in a new murder mystery.
 Mystery for Mary" (Crime Club by Virginia Hanson.-An absorbing mystery in which a woman's mur- der is of less concern to her brow beaten relatives than to the towns people.
 "Open Fire" (Macmillan), by Alec Hudson.-Vivid and realistic details of what happens on 8 submarine in action.
 'NO Boundary Line" (Penn), by Esther Birdsall Darling.-The story of a spoiled darling forced to spend winter in sparsely populated town in Northern Alaska.
 "The Black Baroness" (Macmil- lan), by Denis Wheatley. Fic- tionized version of the fall of Nor- way and the Nad invasion of the Low Countries and France.
 "The Case of the Seven Sneezes" (Simon & Schuster), by Anthony Boucher.-A dead cat started 1t all because if 1t wasn't for him, nobody would have sneezed seven times and started a long train of grisly mur- der.
 "The Case of the Drowning Duck" (Morrow), by Erie Stanley Gardner.-ThiS time Perry Mason is engaged in breaking Up a love affair and Investigating an l8-year. old murder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

thrlil acts, all part of Sky Follies, the feature presentation of zindah Grotto's sth annual Charity circus which will be staged twice nightly, ct 2 and 10 ?. m. from Monday to Saturday inclusive.
 A special performance will be held for the grammar, parochial and underprivileged children of Water bury, Oalxville, Watertown and Nau- gatuck on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock when they will be admitted ire of charge as guests 0g the propsets of zlndah Grotto. The ladies of zindah,s Auxiliary will also be on hand to supervise. the chil- dren and watch out for their safety.
 Tn addition to the circus there will be Q big Exposition Midway with rides, side shows and at least 50 different forms of good clean enter tainment to delight circus fans of all ages. This years circus is the biggest undertaking ZiYda1 0rotto has attempted during the eight years 1t has been presenting its an- nual charity circus in Waterbury. A large attendance is expected on Monday evening at 2 o'clock wheh Mayor Vincent A. Scully ofiicially starts the initial circus performance,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

For the first five months that Savings Bank Life Insurance has been available to the residents of Connecticut through the seventeen mutual savings banks now in the system 9e12, 300 of low cost life i1- slrance has been applied for in Connecticut. Of this total the seven issuing banks have issued 4603, 100 which is the amount that Is now in force. A check-up of the ap- plications show that 82% of the ape plications to date are for a thou. sand of life insurance or less. The records also indicate that 76% of the applicants held Q thousand or less of previous insurance at the time they applied for Savings Bank Life Insurance and of this amount A695 had no previous life insurance, of any kind. Approximately 63% of Che applicants to date have been from persons in the so-called low income group.
 Of the total amount of insurance applied for Medical Director Doctor B. Baylis Earle has approved $624,- myFaRMRAwv Nw xN7cT1Kp ANSrr AppT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
VFW REPORTS ON
 SALE OF POPPIES

Francis 4. Cullens, chairman of the recent poppy sale here reported to Wheeler Young Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars last night that i6,000 peoples were sold during the recent campaign. Only once did poppy sales reach higher mark in the history of the post.
 Six delegates and Commander Ed- ward c. scholey are planning to at- tend the annual state convention June 2T at Hartford.
 The post also learned from na- tional headquarters that the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars has been asked by the Army to undertake Q recruiting campaign for aviR- ton cadets. young men between the ages Of l6 and 26 years, The vFW is the only organization SO designated and preparations are being made for an all-out drive to enroll large numbers of youths. Further details will be announced later, CommandsT sch0ley said last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
DARING AERIAL
 ACTS FEATURED
Zindah GrOttO to Sponsor Most Thrilling Show
 Here in Years

Among stellar acts to be seen at zindah 0rotto's eth Annual Char ity Circus at the Municipal Stadium, on Watertown Avenue, for one week starting Monday, is that of Pape and Conchita. Their act is . picture in balance, breathtaking to watch and sl1illfully performed.
 Unusual is the performance oi this adept pair in that the entire routine of Conchita is completed on the high pile while being balanced on the shoulder of Billy Pape.
 Conchita's routines consist of head balancing, hand stands and other turns. The act is climaxed by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
$812,OOO Applied For
 Tn Life Insurance
Savings Banks of State Find Many Interested in Low
 Cost Insurance Now Available at 17 Institutions

700 and postponed 1S,OO0, declined s64,O0O, leaving 8 total of sl0s.500 still awaiting action. The average insurance applied for on an indiv- Idual basis during January and Feb ruary was $l243. Due to the large number of applications for amounts of thousand or less this average has been substantially reduced so that for the month of May the aver age was $949, now after five months the average insurance applied for to date is $1l54.
 During the past month the City Savings Bank of Meriden and the Meriden Savings Bank have both en- tered the system which brings the total of banks to seventeen and they are so located throughout the State of Connecticut that hey make this service available to the heavily pop ulated communities in the state.
 Summary of the insurance applied, approved and issued during the pe- riod January ?, 1942 to May 31, 1942 is as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
Washington Air

Army Air Force electrically heated flying suits are designed to keep plane crews warm In temperatures down to 60 bee low zero. . . . A new steel al- Joy, used as substitute for alu- mlnum in plane construction, adds only 3 per cent to a planes weight and saves 126O pounds of aluminium. ., . . Location of planes by sound is difficult on . cloudy day because the sound waves are reflected from one cloud to another, making direction deceptive. . A two-year investigation has dem- Onstrated the advisability of having pilots forced to bail out delay opening their parachutes tin they reach dense, safe air close to the earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

high speed spin while hanging from the pole by her teeth.
 Pape and Conchita present ( combination of daring, skill and beauty in a performance that is ur- matched in its field. This act has long stood out as one of the finest perch pole acts in the circus world today.
 This is but one of many top notch
Evening star., 1942-01-19
Your Income Tax
No. l5-NormuI Tax and Surtox Rotes

source, Is considered earned net in
come.
The surtax Is imposed upon the
entire amount of surtax net income.
In the computation Of the surtax
net income the only credits allow
able against net income are the per-
sonal exemption and the credit for
dependents.
The rates Of surtax increase as the
amount Of the surtax net income In
creases. For instance, II the surtax
net income is not over $1,000, the
surtax Is 6 per cent Of the surtax net
income. The surtax upon q surtax
net income Of $1,000 is $120; upon .
surtax net income in excess Of
$1,000 and not in excess Of $4,000,
$l20 plus 8 per cent Of the excess
over $4,000; upon a surtax net in
come Of $4,000, $500; upon a surtax
net income in excess Of $4,000 and
not in excess of 5000, $500 plus l3
per cent Of the excess over $4,000;
upon q surtax net income Of 5000,
$500, and upon q surtax net income
in excess Of 5000 and not in excess
Of 5000. $500 plus II per cent Of
the excess over 5000. Thus the
rates are increased from 6 per cent
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Income taxes for 194l are paid on
normal tax net incomes and on sur
tax net incomes. A study Of the In
structions that accompany the In
come tax forms will show how to
compute the tax on such incomes.
This brief statement should serve
to help to that end.
The Internal Revenue Code, as
amended. provides for only one nor
NAL tax rate. and that Is 1 per cent.
It Is upon the normal tax net in
come-that is, the net income less
the sum Of Cd allowable personal
exemption and credits for depend
ents, (2) the interest on obligations
Of the United States and its instru-
mentalities and 90 an earned in
come credit Of 10 per cent Of the
amount Of the earned net income
but not in excess Of 10 per cent Of
the amount of the net income. II
the net income is 5000, no more
than $500 earned net income credit
would be deductible from the net
income. The entire amount Of the
taxpayers net income up to and in
cluding $1,000, regardless of the
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app, Roman Catholic father

Gampp. Roman Catholic father
superior.
There were also many French
nuns among the 300 to 400 attend
ants. Mr.. Burgess added, one Of
them being Sister Caliexte, who was
decorated by the late Gen. Leonard
Wood for her years Of continuous
service to the lepers.
Workers Stuck to Posts.
Last spring the leprosy founda-
ton urged the American members
of its stan at Culion to return to
the United States II they believed
themselves in danger, he said, but
they unanimously refused and stuck
to their tasks.
The nearest Philippine port OF
any consequence for the shipment
of supplies is Port Princesa, about
$50 miles away on the penal island
of Palawan, Mr.. Burgess declared.
Mr.. Burgess said the radio sta
ton on the island was powerful
enough to send messages to Manila
or Hawaii, but had been silent since
Christmas. The source Of the radio
gram he received January IL from
DR.. Wade was somewhat mysteri-
GUS, he asserted.
1T appears to have been sent
from a boat" he said. Probably
from the Estes Filipina. small
inter-island vessel. It informed me
that Dr.. Wade was trying to ar
range for the declaration Of Culion
as q neutral zone"
Mr.. Burgess said he would leave
for Washington this week to confer
with the Philippine resident COM
missioner on the situation.
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Starvation Facing
Colony Of Lepers on
Philippine Island
Reply From Toxic Awaited
On Proposal to Send
Coreo Of Rice
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclateo PreSS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-War has
placed 5000 lepers and several hun
dred doctors and attendants on the
Philippine Island Of Culion in dan.
ger of starvation, Perry Burgess,
president Of the Leonard Wood
Memorial (American Leprosy Foun-
dation), reported yesterday.
After the hostilities began, he
declared, no word Of the fate of the
lepers or their attendants was re-
ceived until Christmas, when radio
grams Of assurance came from DR..
H. Windsor Wade, medical director
of the foundation, and DR.. John
Hanks, chief Of the bacteriology de-
partment. Then on January IL, he
said, he got . radio message from
DR.. Wade saying that those in the
colony faced AN appalling pros
pect." y
Mr.. Burgess said he had informed
the Red Cross that Culion, the larg-
est leper colony in the world, could
not support its population. Most
OF Its food was formerly supplied
by outside fishermen, principally
Chinese.
Tokio's Reply Awaited.
Through the Swiss government,
he said, the Japanese government
had been asked by the Red Cross for
permission to purchase q cargo of
rice and send 1t to Culion. He added
that reply had not yet been re-
ceived from Toxic.
On the narrow island, IS miles
long and about 10 miles wide, con-
ditions would soon become desperate
for both the patients and those
caring for them, Mr.. Burgess de-
clared. He said half Of the leper
population was incapable Of any
work. although some of the colonists
had boats and flshed.
Among the Americans there, he
said, were Mrs. Wade, who was ac-
tive in the creation of the American
Leprosy Foundation; Mrs. Hanks;
the Rev. Mr.. Jansen, Protestant
minister, and the Rev. Anthony
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on the first $1,000 to n per cent on
the excess Of surtax net income over
100000.
The maximum surtax rate Is II
per cent. On q surtax net income OF
Evening star., 1942-01-19

$5,ooo,000. the s,rtsx Is $3,723, ,7so.
When the surtax net income exceeds
5000, 900, the II per cent rate y
applicable to such excess, In addition
to the surtax Of $3,723, ,7So.
Evening star., 1942-01-19

There is no age limit at the saw
ings window. Take yours every pay
day and invest in United States De-
fenSe savings bonds and stampA
Evening star., 1942-01-19
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-22

-PoLltIcaI AaveItsement Authorized by The CandIaau
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-10-22

OF BROOKE LEE

population Montgomery County increased 3492l
83912 1910 and to 100000 in
1912 Since 1919 the Democrats Montgomery County have always
elected legislative representatives of Montgomery County at
Annapolis and for all but four of that wenhree period
the Democrats been elected to the Board of County
1919 Brooke Lee has been generally regarded
outstanding leaders the Democratic party Montgomery
the ballot Montgomery
Montgomery
without opposition Under
Democratic County administrations Montgomery
County developed of the really great public school systems
oustandngy good police system of public high
and adequate system of modern public build
ngs Rockville Bethesda Silver Spring and the only
side of Washington City which
people Public welfare public health
all other local of modern and metro
Montgomery
at reasonable and comparatively low rate.
strictly and
the present County paid off
s7G7O County during the past three dur
period they built $25000 worth of
and without issuing
any bonds