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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
v For Victory, w for Weeds

A lot has been said about victory
gardens. Everyone who has piece of till
able ground is being urged to get out and
do some planting this spring. A good sem
Sible idea because it will give those, who
have any spare time left in these hectic
days of national defense, a splendid
chance to get in some exercise and will
take their mind off other worries. The
results, in all cases, may not be just what
were planned, but if you're diligent
enough you can produce a crop.
It's marvellous what Nature will do with
a small plot of ground that has been dug
up, fertilized>a bit, and planted with diff
ferent kinds of Seed All sorts of tiny green
sprouts are soon showing their heads
above the ground That's when the real
job begins It's easy enough to dig and
plant, but it's an endless task to keep the
flowers and vegetables free from weeds.
The successful garden is the one that is
free from weeds. So make up your mind,
if you plan a victory garden that you're
going to devote a lot of time to wedding.
The novice at gardening is too ambi-
tious to begin with and often takes on
more than he can handle. Be moderate
in your plans; curb your desire to have
anything and everything. Space your
rows well, plant good seed, cultivate both
10 give IOou anu dir. W Tile IOotS DIS well
as to keep down weeds. What you don't
get with your cultivator pull out by the
simple expedient of getting down on your
hands and knees and pulling out. It's the
surest and safest method yet developed
No garden was ever achieved without
a lot of honest toll And in this toll comes
almost the same amount of satisfaction
as there is in the eating of the vegetables
that you raise and pick with your own
month, but do SO with the avowed inten-
ton of making it good one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

of the Roman Empire" was COM
pleted. 1t was one of the most
monumental works of its kind ever
produced. He never wrote anything
else of consequence. His life had
been given to the pursuit of one
end and to the production of one
great historical Interpretation.
His life and his method of work
were examples of what happens
when a man picks out one thing
in life he wants to do and does it
with all the resources at his COM
mand. Gibbon was content to pro-
duce one historical work and let it
go at that. But he poured his life
into it. Tn his research he was
patient, in his survey of historical
facts judicious, in the expression
of his conclusions, fearless. For
% years he lived amid the declin-
ing glories of the worlds greatest
civilization, detached witness Of
those forces which were gradually
bringing the mighty mistress of the
world to ruin and grief. He lived
for one end only, He cast every
resource into the achieving of 3
single purpose.
CAN Rights Reserved Babson
Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Systematically Saving

Are you one of the IS million Aneri-
cans who are already arranging volun-
tarily to have something set aside from
your paycheck or envelope every payday?
The Payroll Savings Plan for buying De-
tense Savings Bonds is sweeping the
country, with $4,000 firms cooperating
People who always knew they ought to
save a little money, but somehow never
did, now find it easy to request their
employer to hold out little each pay
day to be used to buy Defense Bond
when the amount is large enough In
that way they are able regularly to save
money, help finance the war, and combat
initiation It's the regularity that does it..
The Treasury has set as its goal the
enlistment of all the country's 100000
regularly employed workers in this volun-
tary plan 1t is part of the fight, and part
of the price of victory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Current Comment

We can't have frivolous women
coming in with Lady Bountiful at
titudes. or sob sisters who do moth
ing but feel sorry for the patients.
Mrs. Edmond Butler, director OF
volunteers, st. Vincents Hospital,
New York.
None of the victories of the Axis
could have been gained without this
silent but very active partner =
from the Battle of Poland to Pearl
Harbor. His name is complacency
= Jim Barley, former postmaster
general.
There is but one business in Ameri-
ca today. That is winning the war.
There will be but one business when
the fighting is over. That will be to
win the peace. --Josephus Daniels
First World War secretary OF the
Navy.
To stop when one is tired Is the
best way to save energy. = Dr.
Helen D. Bull, New York State Col
lege of Home Economics.
# =
A wise man I think once defined
education as that which remains
when we have forgotten all that we
have been taught. = Viscount Hal
flax, British ambassador to the
U. S.
We have a freedom that is be-
yond the love of life.
-Atty.-Gen. Francis Biddle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

The above comments were more or less
based on a recent request from the Pub
lie Utilities Commission chairman, Joseph
w. Alsop who also urged that defense
workers double up as much as possible
with their friends or neighbors in going
to and from work. This can be done IN
lots of instances but again it isn't sure
fire answer. And encouraging the use
of personal cars for. workers may simply
raise the question Of what consideration
they are to receive when their tires start
to wear out or gasoline is rationed. In
situations like this you have to make the
best of them trusting that the future IS
not to be as gloomy as it looks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Press Comment
LITTLE CLASSIC OF 1901
New York Times)

Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice deserves to
be remembered by more than one
book, and her Mr.. Opp" the Ken
lucky newspaper man, may better
please some judges; but Mrs
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" was
SO extraordinarily successful as
book, play, photoplay, that it over
Swallowed her other writings. That
little volume with the green cover
and shovel on it takes us back
to days when the standard price for
novels was dollar and half. Far
off was the great big fat fiction OF
| today.
Yet the publishers of Mrs. Wigs
must have felt that they were TAX
ing a heterodox and dangerous step
when they brought her out, almost
a miniature for one dollar Dear
Mrs. Wigs, POI white, dirty but
cheerful, native of Panglosisa, be-
lever that life can be lived happily
even across the railroad tracks
laughing philosopher who worships
beauty in the dingiest surroundings,
as she shows by the rose in her
crepe veil.
We seem to remember consump-
tive little boy in the Patch. Perhaps
things were more sentimental and
banker than they ought to have
been. But at least in memory the
tumbledown region Of tenements
wears a smile as Mrs Wigs COM
municateS her theory of life: Looks
like everything in the world comes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

Guadeloupe is a less publiciZed
French island near Martinique,
and certain coded messages have
been intercea..eeal 4 i..4tt ca ting pro-
German activities on both islands.
Suspicion is strong that Guade-
loupe is being Used as a submarine
refuelling kase for Nazi submar-
ines operating in the Caribbean.
But when the State Department
officially denied this recently,
French ex-caoinet exiles re-
marked:
"YCur State Department is still
the gentlemen's game of dip
IOmacy. You bow graciOuSly and
believe what is told you. But
gentlemen do not know how to
deal with gangsters."
French friends warn that the
French Navy is fascist-minded,
that Admiral Robert, commanding
Vichy Martinique is pro-German;
that there will be sabotage against
French ships in Martinique har-
Dor if they should be threatened
with seizure by the Allies. These
same sources suggest that there
be quiet encouragement of pro-
Ally groups in the French islands
who could easily take them over.
McNARY FEEDS HIPPO
In the elephant house" at the
Washington ZOO, onlookers noticed
distinguished gentleman trying
to arouse the sleeping hippopota-
mus by poking him with walk
ing stick. 1t proved to be Sena-
tor Charles McNary of Oregon,
entertaining his little adopted
daughter.
"COme on, wake up RhinO,"
said the distinguished senator.
1t wasn't a rhinoceros, but the
name was effective for the hippo
raised its head out of the water,
opened its mammoth jaws anC
begged for food.
The little girl threw a peanut,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

in the cabinet to pioneer the
sale of nlanes to the A k HES NJ any
of his men. including able coun'
sci Oscar Cox and Phil Young,
son of General Electric's Owen D.
Young, still are running the show.
Morgenthau and Roosevelt, even
as early as 1889 at a time when
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee was berating them, had
conceived the idea that production
of American airplaneS for France
and Britain would expand our air.
plane factories for use in case we
got into the war.
At that !ime, no one dreamed
France would fold, and Morgen-
than got tons of Senatorial criti-
eism heaped upon him when a
French test pilot cracked up a
pane in Los Angeles, revealing
that the French had placed Or
ders here. However, he plugged
ahead.
Later we took over most Of
these French planes-thOugh
some have been rusting away on
Martinique.
NOTE: Roosevelt was denounced
by Senator Nye and other isola-
tioniStS four years ago when he
was quoted as saying Americas
frontier is on the Rhine" Only
mistake was he should have said
it was in Africa, Australia and
North ireland.
Copyright, 1912, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Alaska Needs That Road

The u. S. Army and Navy haven't been
asleep in Alaska the past two years. Land,
sea and air bases have been thrown up
through the territory in quick succession.
After all, only $50 miles from the Aleu-
tian Islands that jut down from Alaska,
lies the japanese naval and air base at
Paramushiru. But the intentional high
way through Canada to Alaska is only
half finished. Alaska must have road
over which men and equipment can be
shipped.
Military experts in Alaska have been
pleading for a long time, first, to have the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

but it hit the nlppo'S teeth and
bounced off. So Senator McNary
LOOK a peanut from her bag, aimed
carefully, and threw it right down
the hippoS throat.
CAPITAL CHAFF
Reason for Roosevelt's cough at
the Washington day dinner: He
had spent about an hour giving
his speech aloud for radio discs,
and he was hoarse. The discs are
to be shipped out all over the
country . High Navy officials
at Secretary Stimson's statement
that fifteen enemy rented planes
were over Los Angeles last week.
Navy insisted not single plane
was overhead :. Herbert .Hoov-
er, lunching with eX-Republican
Chairman John Hamilton on the
noon Pearl Harbor was invaded,
paid tribute to RooSevelt's handling
of foreign relations, said he was
convinced that the President was
trying to keep us out of war. Since
Mr. Hoover does not turn on the
radio much, he did not know
about Pearl Harbor until several
hours later when he returned to
his New York hotel . Professor
Andrew Simpson of Swathmore
college has been assigned by the
Navy to make a special study of
magnetic mines. To make his
studies, he has dug in on an At
1antic island Tammany,
which was boycotted by Roose-
welt in the New York campaign
for LaGuardia, in turn boycotted
the recent Washington Day Demo-
cratic dinner. A lot of seats had
to be filled with soldiers and sail
ors.
NEW COP CHAIRMAN?
It's very shush-shush, but in
certain inner Republican circles
there have been secret poW-woWs
on replacing Rep. Joe Martin as
national chairman.
The Woodworking little Bay
Slater wanted to quit last year,
but party chiefs decided that the
wisest course would be to persuade
Martin to stay for the sake OF
harmony.
Now some of the strongest adj
VocateS of his retention are after
his scalp. The hostile fire is
from two sources.
One is from midwest leaders,
sour on Martin, ~ for his failure
to give them recognition in ma
tional headquarters; 20 for his
secret financial wooing of Penn
sylvania oil millionaire Joseph Pew
and Pennsylvania still millionaire
Ernest Weir.
In the farm belt the two big
money contributors are political
dynamite and the midwest COP
chiefs can't understand why Mar
tin is palling around with them.
So they feel the time has come
for one of their group to be named
either National Chairman or Elk
ecutive Director and they have de-
cided that it's time that Martin
was checked out
The other group cunning for
Martin are anti-isolationists, long
opposed to his strong isolationist
leaningS.
After Pearl EarbOr ind Mar
tins earnest talk of national
unity, this faction was willing
to forgive his previous isOIatiOuist
voting record in Congress, But
they called bets off when out
of q clear sky he suddenly az
pointed Clarence Burlington KEEL
land publicity director of the
National Committee. Kelland is
a fervid isOIatiOnist and man
who, politically speaking, does
not know when to come in out
of the rain.
NOTE-If Martin does decide to
hold q meeting of the National
Committee next month. he plans
to stage it N Chicago as aa stop to
midwest leaders.
AIRPLANE PIONEERS
Reason the Lend-Lease admins
tration is made up largely Of
Treasury Department personnel Is
that Henry Morgenthau was first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

road, and now to have it finished. Current
hitch has been Canadian disagreement
over what route the highway should fol-
low Some Canadians want it to tap mines
far inland Latest news is that the high
way will follow the shortest and quickest
route, stringing from Seattle to Fairbanks
behind the coastal mountain range. It's
good news, if no barriers arise, because
fast action is needed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

A. Some married men were
drafted, but none who were the sole
support of dependents.
Q. How old is the reigning king
of Sweden?
A. Gustaf v was born June 16,
1858, and succeeded to the throne
or the death of his father, Oscar
II, December 8, 1907.
@. Why does California observe
Arbor Day on March z?
A. California observes Arbor Day
on the anniversary of the birth OF
Luther Burbank. 1t has celebrated
the day by planting trees on various
dates since 1886. The State Legisla-
ture enacted a law in 1909 desig
mating March of each year to be
set apart as Bird and Arbor Day.
@. When was the Library Of Con-
gress in Washington, D. c., founded,
and where was it first housed?
A. 1t was founded April "a, 1900
and until 1897 is was housed in the
Capitol. The first librarian, John
2 eelsley Of II tr1fd, WIS appointed
by President jefferson in 1902. 1t
was twice destroyed by fire. In 1897
books were moved to the Library of
Congress building on First Street,
S. E., facing the Capitol.
@. Which planets will be the eve
ming stars for the rest of the year?
A. Until May %, the evening stars
are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, being
joined temporarily by Mercury on
May II. Saturn leaves the group on
May %, and from that date until
June 25 Jupiter and Mars will be
the evening stars. Jupiter leaves on
June 25 and from then until October
5 Mars will be the sole evening star,
joined temporarily by Mercury on
September Is. From october 5 un-
til November Is, wnen Venus re-
turns, there will be no evening star.
Saturn joins Venus on December l.,
and these two will be the only eve
ming stars for the rest of the year.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

opportunity I o
see what it has
done and what
it's all about.
If it hasn't
made it's impact
on your lif e ,
where have you
been? Anyway,
you're going to
hear more of
the outfit from
now on, SO get
ODHWS consc-
ious.
There h av e
been some dirty
suspicious that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

decided t h a t he
would write q
book depicting
how the fall of
Rome had taken
place. TIE n years
later he produced
his first volume.
Five years after
that his second
volume, and at
the e nd of %
years Gibbons
0nnc1ina and Fal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

right, if we jes' wait long enough. a"
All, days that danced with down
upon your feet" generation of in
nocence from which even the muck
raker was five years off! Now every
thing in the wolrd comes wrong
and we don't have to wait for it.
Mrs. Wigs is not for our time, to
which Housman sounds altogether
too blithe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

/. Pvt. ]. L. Barrow III the u S.
Army is known by what ether name
in the prize ring?
2. Name the canal that joins the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
3. Why were the Minute Men OF
the American Revolutionary War
SO called?
4. Which of Shakespeare's char
acters is called The Melancholy
Dane?
5. California, Oregon, Idaho or
Montana has the largest National
Forest area in the United States?
6. Mulled wine is served heated
and spiced; true or false?
T. Chambray is the cry of an ami
NAL. a name for chamber music, or
a kind of cloth?
8. Which of the gem or orna-
mental stones is most valued by the
Chinese?
8. Who wrote "Thanatopsis"? 4.
10. African slave trade began be,
fore or after Columbus discovers.
America?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Selected Poem
THE COLD STARS FALL

Dorothy Hope McCroden in the Christian
Science Monitor)
Listen! the crystal boughs of the sky
Are letting their cold stars fall
Over the brittle trees in the orchard,
Over the low stone wall
That sprawls in silver confusion
Along the invisible line
Dividing your fields from my acres,
And the dreams of your heart from mine.
Hark there are whispering legions of stars
Adrift on the air tonight,
Leveling hills, and filling the hollows
Folding the world in white;
Till all our obdurate fences
Are buried and neighbors may go
From doorstep to doorstep, straight over,
On a star-buttressed bridge of snow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
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@. Where was Captain Colin C..
Kelly born?
A. He was born in Monticello,
Fla, and was taken to Madison,
Fla, as soon as he was able to travel
His paternal grandfather was Lieut.
James C. Kelly of South Carolina
@. What were winston ChurchilPs
words about England having her
neck wrung like chicken?
A. In his address to the Cana
dian Parliament, December 80, 1941,
Churchill said: when I warned
them (the FRENCH that Britain
would fight on lone-whatever
they did-their generals told their
prime minister and his divided cab
met, In three weeks England will
have her neck wrunk like a chicken.
Some chicken! (Pause) Some neckP
@. Were any m arried men
drafted in World War I?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Vichy Island Is Suspected Base for UBOots;
French Exes Here Beoun State Departments Policy
COP Want Replace Mortn National choirmon;
Midwest Group AntisoIutionsts Are After His Scop.
DREW Pc AR S o N
ROBERT S. ALLEN

WAsHNGToN March When you get then out OF Official esot ez
Government is doing in Martinique and Guadeoupe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D. D,

DEDICATED TO ONE AMBITION
On October 18th, 1854, Edward
Gibbon sat amid the ruins of the
Roman Forum and thought on the
grandeur that was Greece and lae
glory that was Rome. He forthwith
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
How often do we hear the
question; "Can 1 go fishing"
when the questiOner is seek
ing permission but does not
question his aObility to go.
Say: MAY 1 go fishing?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

Daily Almanac
Moon rises 7:42 p m. (war time)
Sun rises TBS a. M; sets 6:44 p. m (War
time)
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes otter sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
McNutt Spurs
Drive For
Defense Health
BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent

Washington, March 3-Governor
Paul v. McNutt's Office of Defense
Health and Welfare Services, known
in Washington by those people who
know of it at all as ODHWS, will
be six months old come March 3 and
this great occasion may afford fifth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03
What's Your |. O.?

Can you answer seven of these
test questins? Turn to back
page fir the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-03

A. Some married men were
drafted, but none who were the sole
support of dependents.
Evening star., 1942-06-15
lytteIton in Ottawa
For ParIeys With King
Pv tke Associated Press.

Pv TIE Associated Press.
OTTAWA, June 15.-Oliver Lyt-
telton. British production minister,
arrived by plane late yesterday for
conferences with Prime Minister
Mackenzie King and Canadian pro-
duction heads.
He flew from Washington. where
he has been engaged in conferences
with President Roosevelt, Donald
M. Nelson, chairman of the War
Production Board, and Harry Hop
kins, lease-lend adviser to President
Roosevelt.
Their conferences are believed to
have been mainly in relation to the
establishment of an Allied War
Production Board.
On his arrival here, however, Mr.
Lyttleton said only that he would
be discussing production generally
while in the capital.
Il shall be seeing Mr. King and
Mr.. Howe Munitions Minister C. D.
Howe) while I am here" he said,
"and we shall have some talks on
the production picture as whole. Z"
1t is believed however, that the
British production minister's WASH
ington conferences have set the
tenor for his meetings with Cana
dian authorities, and that integra-
tion of production in Canada, the
United States and Britain vii be
one of the topcs under considera-
ton.
Evening star., 1942-06-15
Canned Christmas Greetings
Prepared for Use of AEF

the point No. 20, for example,
simply says:
Love"
If you want to elaborate on this
theme a little, you might send No.
80, which says "All my love. dearest,
or No. IS, "Fondest love, darling >
The longest is No. 100: II wish we
were together on this special occa-
sion. All my best wishes for a speedy
reunion"
Under the heading of miscel-
laneous is this one, No. 1856: Hear
ing your voice on the wireless gave
me wonderful thrill"
Then, of course, there is the
classification labeled money" Nos.
98 and SO, respectively, are:
Please send me-pounds."
please send me-dollars."
No. ITO is bad news. 1t says:
Sorry cannot send money"