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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24

front for German interests, and asked IT&T to reject the offer. IT&T President Sosthenes Behn agreed, then promptly turned up with a request for loan. IT&T had sold it's Rumanian property for $14,000,00O just before the Ma zis took over, and had hoped to get out of Spain as handsomely. It was suffering losses from all European properties because the operating units were being paid in blocked funds.
 It was at this point that Jesse Jones advanced the S20,000, 0,000 credit, following an earlier cre- dit of $10,O00, 0,O00-and put War ren Lee Pierson on the board.
 IT&T has used the new credits partly to buy up it's own bonds at low figures. Also, it has increased it's working capital in the Latin American field, where the State Department wants it to expand as rapidly as possible.
 CHUNKY LOBBYIST"
 A young Senate office building employe, new on the job, pointed out chunky, bespectacled man to Capitol policeman.
 "Now there's character for you," said the youth. "A great fellow for making friends. He doesn't know me from Adam, but every time we meet on the elevator, he gives me big smile and asks how things are going. I wonder what his angle is. Do you think maybe he's one of these lobbyists?"
 "No," replied the policeman, dryly, Ines the nemesis of lob byists. That's Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin"
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The prankster and the sentimentalist can now sit down and cry together
 Western Union and Postal Telegraph have gone and done it. They have abol- ished as of September IS the singing telegram" No longer can the person who takes great delight in having happy birthday greetings" sung over the tele- phone to friend at 12:01 in the morning have his fun. The office jokester who delights in having his sensitive fellow worker embarrassed by rendition of Happy Birthday to You" in front of the entire staff is soon to >be at a loss for ammunition. For the duration the sing ing telegrams are out and with them many special observance greetings. You can't clutter up the wires during war.
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Press Comment
STATES LARGE CASH BALANCE
(Hartford Times)

(t1aTGIOrQ l1meS)
 If this were not in the hectic times of war when large revenues roll into the States coffers because of war production, the unusually large cash balance of nearly $13,- 100000 in the General Fund would be matter of thoroughly cheer full importance. It could mean that taxes could be reduced. Now it is matter of merely temporary satis- faction. It suggests not reduction of State levies, but wise use of the surplus funds.
 After the war will come other days. The present war production is being financed by Federal funds, tWo-thirds of which are borrowed from the American people. As those funds move into industrial and bus mess production, the State takes a portion through the normal meth ods of taxation.
 Fundamentally, the surplus is not sign of prosperity at all but mere ly that some of the money which the Federal Government had raised by taxation or by borrowing has
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MOsIemS, whose hostility to In- dian independence is well known but also by the Sikhs and the powerful native prince of In- dia.
 If these groups would pull to- gether, they could upset the civil disobedience campaign, but they themselves have been torn by bloody religious riots in the past, and may fall to the same dissen- sion again = with the Japanese standing by, waiting for the kill.
 The bearded Sikhs of north west India are numerically small -only about COCO, O,O0O-but phy- sicaIly very powerful. They have no sympathy with the Gandhi program.
 Equallyl hostile to Gandhi's Hindu following are the Mos Iems, but to make the triangle complete, there is an age-lOng feud between the MOslemS and the SikhS.
 The native princes, for their part; are hostile to Gardhi be- cause he has threatened to de- mocratize their states, and break down the protection they have enjoyed from Great Brit ain. These fabulous and be- jeweled gentry of the Kipling stories control about 40 per cent of the area of India and 90,OOO.- OO0 people. There are no less than eco such princes, and many have large, well-trained armies of their own, which can be counted on to fight against Gandhi's Hindus, if it comes to civil war.
 As a man of peace, Gandhi re- voutly wishes to avoid any such conflict, yet in peace or war, he is playing into the hands of the Japanese.
 WILL ROGERS, JR.
 Among the many primary elec- tions which Washington is espe- cially watching this week is the Hollywood political battle where the son of Americas late much loved humorist, Will Rogers, Jr., is running for Congress against isolationist Leland Ford.
 Ford represents the district in which most of the film colony ,lives-Beverly Hills, Westwood, Culver City, and Malibu, the ritzi- est part of the Hollywood envi- rons. When it comes to isolation Ford is just as smooth as the golf greens of his sWank district. Without the bombast and noisy rhetoric of New York's Ham Fish or Michigan's Clare Hoffman, Ford can always be depended upon by them to carry the ball when it comes to opposing Roose- velt's foreign policy.
 Ford Republican, is running on both the Republican and Dem- ocratic tickets and is being op- posed back stage by both Roose- VelC ana Wlllkle.
 JONES ON THE TELEPHONE
 There is an important story be- hind the routine announcement that Warren Lee Pierson, Pres ident of the Export-Import Bank, has been appointed a board mem- Der of the gigantic International Telephone & Telegraph Company. This is one of the rare instances when U. s. government official has been brought into the board of a private corporation.
 The significance of the move is that Jesse Jones, having lent IT&T fistfuI of money, put a trusted man on the board to represent him. But PiersOn will do more than guard the govern ment's financial investment; he will also keep an eye on the in- ternatiOnaI operations of this giant utiIity-OperatiOns which vitalIy affect U. s. foreign af- fairs.
 Already the government had put its hand into IT&T business. blocking the proposed sale of the TEST property in Spain for ESQ., 100000 to what appeared to be Spanish company wass merely a
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Selected Poem
ISLAND BLACKOUT

ISLAND BLACKOUT
 CHarold Vinal in the New York Tmes) We walked through lost village and 1t seemed Time was no longer counted, for the road That we had known happy children geamed No more before us where the harbor glowed, The bridge was like menace; at the piers The dories huddled and a stealthy oar Was eerie in the darkness of the werS There was no landmark between sea and shore. And then the stars came like luminous tide Of silver in the west until we knew Familiar places and could see the wide Wash of the meadows so the village grew Before our eyes, village we had known, Whose walls were solid and whose doors our own
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This idea first was discussed tentatively last December, but nothing happened. Winston chur- chill was in the United States at that time and it was suggested to him, delicately of course, that it might be a good idea to settle the whole Indian trouble immedi- ately before it got worse.
 No suggestion was then made that the United States, China and Russia intervene, but later, as an cutgroWth of these talks, Gener- alissimo Chiang-Kai-shek went to India to emphasize the common bond between China, Britain and India.
 Later, when the British did not act, and things were drifting from bad to worse, the President dis cussed with Justice Felix Frank furter the idea of his going to h. dia as a sort of mediator. In- stead, however, the President sent Louis Johnson, former assistant secretary of war, not as mediator but as U. s. Minister to India.
 Now, however, with India on the verge of civil war and with the Japs ready to launch a new of- fensive after the monsoon rains in September, the idea of U. s. Russian Chinese mediation has been suggested.
 GANDHI VS INDIAN PRINCES
 This writer once visited at the home of Mahatma Gandhi and at the jail when he was imprisoned during another serious disturbance in 1923. And there is no question that Gandhi is worshipped as a saint by a great mass of the In- dian people = probably by well over 1OO,O0O,000.
 However, the fact remains
 that he is opposed by three pO-
 tent groups not merely the
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Current Comment

When these RAF boys work they really go to it. Maj. Fred M. Dean, U. s. A.
 ' I'm glad to be home but I'm ready to go back again, for we can't win this war too soon. Austin Edward Georgia, sailor, veteran of Coral Sea battle, on leave.
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see what a clever chap he was. He knew how to hold a snake so 1t would not harm him.
 But within a few minutes the snake began to coil its huge body around his arm. It soon shut off the circulation, and then when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24

The next few months are going to see a difference in highway traffic, unless we're greatly mistaken. Summer months always encourage driving, but people are going to start looking at their tires from now on AS the colder weather draws nearer there'll be more and more con servation of tires so that they will be able to go through another summer in l943.
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 o. Are American Indians subject to the draft?
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 A. The term 'man-year" refers to a unit of one years work by one man; "man-day" is one days work by one man; "man-hour" is one hours work by one man. In reports of labor disputes, the statement that so many tman-dayS' or so many "man-hours" have been lost means that the total mentioned is found by multiplying the number of men on strike or locked out by the num- Der of days or. hours they are out.
 o. How much has production Of in the United States been speeded up since December 2, 1941?
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law to draft work CTS and force their transfer to essen- tial in d u S tries. For Baltimore is the public guinea pig No. 1 on this whole business of solving all the problems of war labor supply and demand by volun- tary cooperation of labor, manage ment and the gen. eral public.
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ToDAY's COMMON ERROR

Do not complete an expression as the reason is with (a) a because clause; (b) a because of phrase; (c) due to phrase; (d) an on account of phrase. Complete with that clause. Correct: "The reason he failed was that he lacked courage"
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l. Tn retired president of which South American republic died re- gently?
 9 President Roosevelt has direct ed that U. s. Senators and members of Congress may not be given an active status in the armed forces; true or false?
 3. Which city in the Soviet Union was formerly named St. Petersburg and Petrograd?
 4. Which ocean is at the eastern end of the Panama Canal?
 5. What do the expressions used by sailors; "Tbe Cape" and ''The Horn" designate?
 6. A slight offense is called a D d o?
 2. Near which lake does the Mis- sissippi River have it's source?
 S. What method of baptizing do Baptists employ?
 9. The last Dutch governor of New York was Everardus Bogardus, Peter Stuyvesant, or William of Nassau?
 10. Of which country is Helsinki the capital?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Q NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Baltimore: ManpOwer Control Guinea Pig

Note: This is the first of several articles telling how Baltimore Is trying to solve critical manpOwer problems in guinea-pig experi- ments which may furnish a guide for the rest of the nations war production centers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24

Two thirds of 1t is still borrowed gravitated into the State Treasury. money, a debt on the American people.
 The Legislature will be wise if 1t remembers that a goodly portion of the large cash balance is money which the public will still have to raise in Federal taxes or support as public debt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
What's s Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
AVOID TEMPTATION
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D

A reckles sman in a geological garden once seized a venomous snake by the nape of the neck and held it up triumphantly before his com panions. He wanted everybody to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets 4:16 a. m. (war time). Sun rises 6:10 8. m.; sets 7:38 p. m. (war time). All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- utes after sunset.
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A Thought for Today

If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses-Mat- thew 6:15.
 His heart was as great as the world. but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.-Emerson.
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By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrrespOndent

Keep your eyes on Baltimore for the next few months, if you're inter ested in knowing whether there is to be a national compulsory war labor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-24
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

Civil War Feared Among Factions Opening the Door Jops; Washington Watches Young Will Rogers Hollywood Primary;
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Evening star., 1942-09-29

been too shocked to form words in
my mind.
We found that all we had was this:
A police whistle and
A small mirror and a pair of pliers
which were in the tool pocket of the
boat;
Another pair Of pliers that I had
stuck in my pocket and which broke
the first time I attempted to use
them;
An ordinary pocketknife-Gene's:
A can OF rubber cement patching
fluid, for which I found use:
A small piece of patching ma
terial:
A 45-caliber pistol which Pastula
had saved;
Three clips Of ammunition:
Two pneumatic life jackets;
And the clothing we had on.
The two lads threw their shoes
away, as I was afraid shoes would
scuff the boat, and also because we
needed the space. They threw them
away the next day, but we regretted
that later. I kept my shoes, think
ing we had better save one pair; in
case we made desert island we
wouldn't want to be entirely with
out shoes.
A Handy Jacket.
Tony fortunately had a dungaree
jacket over his shirt, which gave us
an extra garment. This came in
very handy later, 4as we used his
shirt for rags and he wore the
dungaree jacket.
We were, or at least pretended to
be, very optimistic this first night
as we talked over the situation.
We'll keep a watch" 1 said.
watch on, watch off, and relax in
between
It was a 4-hour watch the first
night. one. of us keeping a sharp
lookout constantly In case some1
thing came back. None of us could
more than doZe; although the sea
WAS calm. there were always tiny
surface waves, looping innocent as
ripple in your bathtub, but each
a sharp explosion when it hit be-
meath the boat with maddening
regularity We bobbled like a cork,
and to me one Of the most amazing
phases Of this adventure was that
we never became seasick.
Each little wave that struck the
bottom of our rubber bubble of a
boat was jarring blow across the
shoulders and the back of the head
of the man lying inside. Imagine
| doubling up on tiny mattress,
with the strongest man you know
striking the underside as hard as he
could with baseball bat twice every
three seconds, while some one else
hurls buckets Of cold salt water in
! your face. That's what 1t was like.
So it was waking night we spent.
and when we talked it was to 20
over and over the same situation
with the monotonous insistence of
three men with single all-engros-
sing predicament. None of us lay
down very long, though, as I said
Tony later seemed to become used
to it.
Hey, look it's dawn"
I don't remember who said it. but
we gave cheer and Immediately
began joking about breakfast. 1t was
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then we found out how much Gene
liked cheese, and he was never to let
us forget it. Whenever we talked
about food, and food was almost our
only topic of conversation in the
days and nights to come, Gene put
cheese on everything. Once he and
Tony talked for two hours about
ham and cheese sandwiches in every
possible variety, while 1 fought down
my growing temper and tried to join
in affably with my own suggestions
and remembrances. Every time
Gene mentioned eating he would
add cheese to it. He'd say, I'D like
to have dozen fried eggs with a
nice big slice of cheese melted over
the top for breakfast" He could
think Of more things with cheese.
The sun came in like an old friend
and We felt suddenly like three
schoolboys up early in the morning
for some youthful promised thrill
We chartered and shifted unwisely
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HELP MEN T. WOMEN.

a very good income by selling frst-class
homes for Boss g. Phelps. 1417 x st. NV.
Call Mr. G. D. Miller, director of sales.
COUPLE middle-aged to live in private
husband to be general houseman; room
board and 81 90 per mo. Apply at ofhce,
Yale Laundry, at 431 New York ave. n W.
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Platter and helper wanted
for defense work. Apply Art
Metal Finishing Co., 923 18th
st NV
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Each will hereafter be responsible only for
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Areo Lodge to Hear Talk
On Enemy-P Propaganda

Leonard v. Finder, Eastern re-
gional director of the Anti-Defama-
ton League of B'nai Birth, will
speak at a meeting OF the Argo
Lodge of B'nai Birth at the Jewish
Community Center at $3.50 pm. to-
morrow.
He will discuss enemy psycholoa-
ical sabotage propaganda and how 1t
may be fought. Members OF the
organization have been asked to
bring old KEYS to the meeting As
q contribution 10 the salvage drive.
Evening star., 1942-09-29
about the raft and scanned our vast,
expanding world for sign of ship or
plane. Three can do lot of looking,
and we needed all our eyes.
Continued Tomorrow
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Evening star., 1942-09-29

COUPLE, colored for domestic work to
live in residential club l4GS Mass ave.
NV Man experienced in dining room
work. woman maid work. Salary. Sl2o
per mo. and complete maintenance.
MAN AND WIFE, to take care of a group
Of 3 and 4 family apts. Apt. furn. and
salary. Call SH 579q
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AGES 4Q-60.
PART-TIME
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To take charge Of hish-class hotel dinner
and supper club. Give experiences and
salary expected. Box I46-E. Star.
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large organization. Top sal
aries paid. Ask for Mr..
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93 CoIored Registrars
Will Report Tomorrow

Army life begins tomorrow for
90 colored registrants of the District
who will report at 10 a m. for assign
ment to training camps.
The group was inducted Septem-
Der Is and given two weeks leave.
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HELP MEN r WOMEN,

COUPLE. colored. for farm work, 40 miles
from D. C. Salary and shares. NE. 1890,
or DU. 1900.
COUPLE, colored. cook and general house
worker, for boarding house; references;
S15 monthly 0ointly). room and board.
1424 Harvard st. NV.
COUPLE. settled, white, as caretakers for
small apt. house. near WASHINGTON Circle;
strictly non-drinEer, preferably nom
smoker: honesty, dependahility, cleanliness
essential; 2-rm:. kitchen and bath apt. and
small salary, also space for garden. Box
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