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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10
Chorus in Concert

THE ALL-CITY Catholic
High School chorus will pre-
sent It's first annual free con-
cert in the Art Institute
Saturday at 8 p. m. DR.. Harry
Seitz is the conductor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10
Stars in Lineup

The lineup includes such stars
as Collette Lyons, singing COM
edienne who recently starred in
Eddie Cantor's Banjo Eyes"
and Kitty Carlisle, stage, screen
and radio songStress.
Others are Bob Hopkins,
Hollywood mimic; Roy Tracy,
singer; Del Parker. songstress:
Manon and Mignon, ballroom
team; Christine Forsythe. aero
batic dancer; c. Ray Smith and
his musical marionettes and the
Margaret Faber Dancers.
Louis Prima and his orchestra
made their Detroit debut in
the parks ballroom last FRI
day night. offering their Get
Happy" dance rhythms in addi-
ton to several good vocal num-
bers by Lily Ann Carroll.
In the park proper, the Great
Knoll" catches all eyes when he
swings with ease upon his
trapeze 120 feet in the air, with
out aid of safety nets.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

GEORGE BRENT, who stars In
"Silver Queen" was once middle
weight boxing champion Of Ire
land. He was born in County
GALWAY. ireland.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10
Monthly Musicale

THE DETROIT MUSIC
GUILD will present one OF its
regular monthly musicales at the
Scarab Club, Tuesday at 9 p. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

JEFFERSON BEACH will turn
u over its ballroom TO the navy
today for a huge navy relief
show which highlights the parks
opening weekend.
The navy has taken complete
charge. bringing in Phil Brest-
offs orchestra to provide dance
music from 2:30 o'clock in the
afternoon through the evening.
and enlisting the support of
entertainers from Detroit night
clubs.
Piloted by master of cere-
monies Paul Gilbert, the show
will begin between 8 and 9 p. m,
depending on what time the per-
formers can get away from their
club dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Moving the Scrap

About one feature of the scrap salvage situation there appears to be mlSunder- standing that should be corrected. large portion of the public is worrying because automobile graveyards in partic- ular, and junkyards in general, contain mountains of scrap while intensive efforts are being made to locate every pound that may be nislaid in somebody's basement or garage. That is not cause for legitl- mate worry, but rather for rejoicing. The old jalopies and other scrap are not lying Idle. They are in a state of flux. So long as there are piles of metal in the junk yards our hard pressed steel plants can run to capacity. It will be when the junk piles get small that we should start fret ting.
 The ferrous metal that reaches junk yards is not all the same. It varies from plain iron to the most valuable steelS, the latter containing allowing metals that are worth more than all the gold at Fort Knox so far as the war effort is concerned. It is the junk dealers job to sort these diff ferent metals, so that each can be sent where it is needed most; so that fine steels containing critical alloys can be reworked to salvage the alloying metals for reuse.
 & when you LOOK at an auCOUlODI1e grave yard it may appear to contain the same wrecks that were there month or six months ago. Apparently nothing has been accomplished. But in all probability, Ii month ago you had marked the cars there, now you would find them all re- placed by new lot A similar warning is needed in connection with the scrap collections in smaller communities, where personal observation shows that the Salv- age has not been moved since the town worked to get it together.
 With transportation at premium, the government cannot send trains or trucks to clean up small junkpiles as fast as each is ready. They must be added to the ln- ventory of potential supplies so transpor- tation facilities can be routed to pick up adjacent piles with minimum of waste motion. Regardless of how much scrap metal you may see in junkyardS, the heat must be kept on if we are to provide Amer ican mills with the 45,000,000 tons they need this year.
 Remember = the scrap salvage drive is not a one-Shot affair It must be con- tinuous, week after week and month after month. Don't think your duty is done because you have given once, or twice, or half dozen times. AS long as you can find anything salvageable to turn in or report, your country needs it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Health Bureau Changes

There's no doubt but what the changes made in the setup of our local Health Department by the Legislature last year now necessitate some sort of effort to aid this coordination of effort. As it stands now the question of physical inability to cope with the situation is one that can be met with degree of planning. Just as expansion of the work of the city's tax department made it necessary to change it around SO that maximum effort could be attained, so it would seem similar ef- forts must be made for the Health De- partment.
 The department now handles vital Sta- tiSticS, meaning, of course, great mass of records should be within it's quarters. But for lack of space they are kept in the vaults of the Town Clerks office. It can be seen that a Health Department office on one floor and records on another are not conducive to efficiency. Similarly the task of handling such statistics, in view of the ever-increasing number of births, has mounted.
 Any changes made will be the result of healthy growth in a city department. There have been many such of recent wears and fortunately the city officials have solved them with dispatch and good management. We rather imagine they'll be as successful in rehabilitating the Health Department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Why "A" Stickers?

There are approximately 27 million passenger automobiles in the United States. Under the gasoline rationing sys- tenn, each automatically is entitled to an A card Some, for special reasons, are entitled to B. c. or cards. The purpose of the windshield sticker is to corroborate to filling station attendants that the car owner does hold legally B, a c or an s card - if he does.
 Why, then, must 27 million A stickerS be printed, distributed and exhibited at great expense? There is no need to con- vince anybody that one has an A card. It is only if one has one of the supple mentary allowances that is called upon to show his colorS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
We'll Said

For a long time now, writing men have been trying to say something that needed to be said clearly and unequivocally. Some have done well, but it remained for a fighting man, Admiral Moreell, to beat the professional writers at their own game.
 To the A. F. of LIS building trades de- partment, Moreel said: "Your answer nav be, They can't live without us.' l Wlll admit that no one can live without labor, but they certainly can live without labor unions. They are living without them in Germany, and in Italy, and in Japan, and they seem tc be doing right MelI-- and, In my opinion they wllI damn =sil live without them here If all of us Han't Ret In there and pitch"
 e7hat more need be said7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

New Britain ought to take a lot of in terest in the November election. It isn't every city that can have rival candidates for the office of congressman-at-large The incumbent is Rep. Lucien Maciora, Democrat He is opposed by the former office-holder, Atty. B. K. Monkiewicz And both are not sitting back and letting the campaign pass them by. They have been doing a lot of work in behalf Of their respective candidates through the medium of letters to the press. And on the Democratic side it may continue to be that, for Congressman Maciora right ly judges the tenor of the situation by re- fusing to desert Washington at a time when he feels his services, together with those of every other national legislator, are required there. Of course it's kind of hard to attack your opponent when he won't come home to do forensic battle with you, but ex-congressman Monkie- wicz will just have to content himself with long-distance shots.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Rs In The Cards

The question of longer voting hours for Connecticut cities and towns is to be decided october 18th at special session of the General Assembly. The governor and the Legislative Council have acceded to the requests of organized labor and others who feel that it is absolutely nec- essary this year for voting hours to be heightened. We hope that the special Ses- sion can be confined to just this one topic, but there are signs that efforts in other directions may be made.
 There's little doubt but what the spe- cial session will pass the longer voting hour demand. We doubt if either of the major political parties will want to oppose organized laborS demands, particularly when they are in the middle of an cleo tion campaign And we don't think Spe- cial session would have been decided upon by party leaders if they hadn't prac- tically agreed that the longer hours were required.
 We would like to see some figures pre- sented at this session showing what per- centage of industrial workers would be deprived of the franchise by confining voting to 6 to 6. Any attempt at check up on this very important consideration has been bit too indefinite The general assumption, though, as we interpret 1t, is that the present hours are sufficient for everyone who actually will vote this year.
 Personally we like the idea of insisting that workingmen and women be allowed time of from their employment to go to the polls. That prevailed in the old days when hours were extremely long. It could today. And the fact that requests are go- ing to be made for time-off for workers even with the extended voting hours is enough to convince us that the latter do not constitute the desperate situation made out to be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Current Comment

Unless we find some way to deal with the farm labor problem and other problems of farm production satisfactorily, we must find ssne way in the not too distant future to deal with a shortage of food. Secretary of Agriculture Claude
 R. Wickard.
 The history of wars reveals that armies at the front don't break un- til the people ct home let the home front crumble under them. 70. M. Bookman, executive vice.
 chairman, Cincinnati War Chest, We are operating on the farmer and the laborer. Don't let the gen- eral consuming public get the Idea that 1t is not a blood-letting for both.
 senator PrentIss M. Brown.
 
 The sky flames above your head and the earth tnambles under your feet.
 --Konstantin slmonoy, Russian
 correspondent describing Lenin-
 grad siege.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

reason why either he or any other adult should do so. But the Baron, who was a very religious man, said, When I wake in the morning and think of all the duties which I must fulfill during the day, I must ask the Heavenly Father to help to slep and think of all I have failed me. And when at night I lie down to do or hove wrongly done, then I must ask by Heavenly Father to forgice me"
 Shortly e fter, Fichte died. and although he had sen him only on one occasion, he made Baron von sottwitz guardian of his only child. He wanted to entrust his son to a man who had Q relationship with Qcd to which he. with all his philosophy. had never achieved.
 The people who have the least re- ligion themselves arc often those who admire it most in others, and secretly long for it.
 All Rights ReseFved-Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

Major General Sherman Miles of the First Service Command doesn't think that New Englanders should be too blase about the chance of this region being bombed. He says there are two classes of people in this war-"the can't happen boys" and "the litter boys. He says he's in the latter class for he anticipates at tack from without, whether it's just an air raid or parachute invasion. His idea is that Hitler knows he can't win if Amer ican wheels of industry continue to turn, therefore he's got to try to stop them. Maybe so, but if you lose your hand m trying to stop a whirling wheel, you're pretty well handicapped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
WHAT YOU'D GET

WHAT YOU'D GET
 What Representative Eliot propos- eS to give you would include:
 Increase old age benefits from $1.50 to $500 a month, depending on earnings; pay unemployment in- surance to workers disabled for less than six months; set up system of disqualification benefits; extend benefits in the same amount as old age benefits to workers disabled more than six months; federalize un employment payments up to 26 weeks, with shorter waiting periods: provide additional disability benefits for workers dependents; provide maternity benefits.
 Now the chances of any bill such as this being passed are of course uncertain. But there is one point on which you should not let your self be kidded. If any broadened Social Security program such as this is passed as a war measure which would help check imitation, don't expect that this bill will be repealed when the war is over and the threat of imitation gone.
 Once this bill gets passed as war emergency 1t will be there to stay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

opposed to the kind of second front which would satisfy Stalin, namely in France or Northern Eu- rope, where it would be a direct threat to Germany. The occupa- tion of Dakar or French West Africa apparently would not sat- isfy Stalin.
 But the opposition of certain high U. s. Army Navy officers to 8 European front has been very strong indeed. There the matter rests, which is why Stalin has brought the matter so frankly and vigorously out into the open through Willkie and the Associat- ed Press.
 What the Russians have made very clear, and what most people do not realize, is that it is not merely a matter of munitions vital though that is-but also a question of keeping the Russian people alive. Russia has now lost her granaries, and millions this winter will suffer or starve. Rus sia has also lost her coal deposits and is completely cut off from her oil-while U. s. oil companies and U. s. government agencies have diskered and frittered away price less months trying to decide whether Russia should be given closed-down Texas oil refineries all because the Eig oil companies wanted to be paid royalties (even though they never too kout pa- tents in RusSia).
 Naturally, because of all this, morale is not too good i'm Russia. And the Willkie- Stalin state ments are relatively mild cOm- pared with the sentiment of the Russian people. This is what returning Ambassador Standley doubtless will report to the White House, and this is one of the big factors to be considered regarding a Second Front in Europe.
 For Stalin has his military lead- . CTS to contend with, too.
 Copyright, 1942, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Press Comment
THE VALLEY WHISPER
(Hartford Times)

(Hartford T1meS)
 The Pennington Valleys twister occurred close enough to the au- tumnal equinox to recall vivid mem- ories of the hurricane of 1888. It was by no means either as severe or destructive a storm, but it did damage enough to win its place in local historic annals. While build ings were unroofed, windows broken and trees blown down in Unionville and the Forestville section of Bris- tol. Plainville. which lost a church, was the worst sufferer. Connecti- cuts relative freedom from such storms is one of its assets as place of residence. We are reminded. from time to time. however, that even our reputed steady habits do not make us wholly immune to the vagarious antics of the clements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12
Selected Poem
BOY IN AUTUMN

Christie Jeffres in the Christian Science Monitor When gypsy -colored woods invite his roaming, He rises early to spy out the weather.
 Assured of sunshine, like swallow homng, He plunges in. Tall sumacs close together Behind his back, and he is lost to sight Only the sound of trampled leaves is heard, Only a startled echo of delight,
 And the long whistle of woodland bird. When he returns at evening pockets heavy With unhulled walnuts, and his cap piled high With shining rcd haws he makes instant levy On supper stores, and long before the sky Has darkened to night-blue, he falls asleep Before the open fire, his ardor spent.
 Beside him. the prized treasures in heap Glow and reflect rich autumn's wonderment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

This has little to do with Wendell Willkie'S visit and the clamor he touched off. The resentment was smouldering long before, and had been stated just as pungently and forcefully in diplomatic cables. The trouble goes back to Foreign Minister Molotoff's visit early in the summer which terminated with no clear understanding on Second Front in Europe.
 At that visit, the President agreed in principle regarding the urgency of a Second Front, but called in Chief of Staff Gen. Marshall and Commander of the Fleet Admiral King, who, after detailed studies, pointed out to the Russians the great risks in- volved in a Second Front before the United States was ready; also the effect upon Occupied Europe should Second Front fail.
 The people of France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Poland, Cze- chosloyakia and the Balkans would all give up their struggle and figure that future resistence was hopeless, Molotoff was told, If the mighty United States, which turned the tide in 1913, now should fail.
 STIRRING A HORNETS
 NEST
 So nothing was agreed to in de- tail-except the general principle that a Second Front in Europe would be started just as soon as the United States was ready. But no time was set.
 It was about then that Gen. Marshall delivered his graduation speech at West Point definitely promising Second Front. though fixing no time.
 Afterward, the President re-
 ceived phone call from
 Churchill which upset him con-
 siderably. Churchill warned
 that Marshall's speech was too
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

definite, would arouse false hopes.
 Gen. Marshall had made the speech obviously with the advance okay of the President, and for the purpose of worrying the Germans into diverting troops from Rus sia to France.
 By a stroke of circumstance, the President had scheduled a confer ence with Senate leaders, plus Gen. Marshall, Admiral King, Donald Nelson and other war chiefs, just before the Church. i'll phone call came in.
 AfterwArd, he was obviously upset, warned Nelson that he must have more steel, "and don't tell me you can't get it." Then turning sharply to Gen. Marshall he warned that there were to be no more Second Front speeches.
 Churchill, of course, was not present at the Molotoff conversa- tions, so high U. s. officials flew to London to get his views.
 This was midsummer. Mean while, the Nazi mechanical legions were plunging across the plains of South Russia toward Stalingrad at the rate of 20 to 50 miles day. Meanwhile, also, Army Navy needs had sidetracked certain supplies which might have gone to Russia, conveys via Murmansk had suf- fered heavily, and Stalin was get ting more and more irate over lack of Allied support.
 BRITAIN-U. S. 5O-5O
 But Churchill remained more convinced than ever that Sec- ond Front in Europe was out of the question this year. Among other things, he wanted an ap- proximate 50-5O participation of U. s. and British troops; enough American troops at least to re- place the British in England and defend it if the Second Front failed.
 So Churchill, the chief NO man, flew to Moscow to present his views to Stalin face to face, and if possible smooth down the run- pied feathers of the Russian lead- CT.
 On the first day of the confer ence, all went well. Stalin, the communist, and Churchill, the arch-conservative, got along beau- tifully. On the second day the experts sat down. but did not get along so well. On the third 6sly. Churchill and Stalin, reviewing the conclusions of the experts, came to grips. They parted on good terms, but only after being very frank and at times even bell ligerent with each other.
 However, though no Second Front was agreed upon, Church i'll did accomplish the main pur- pose for which he went to MOs- COW. That was to alIay fears that Russia might withdraw from the ar and make a separ- ate peace with Germany. How serious these reports actually were, perhaps never will be known.
 But at any rate. Stalin gave him assurances that Russia would put up the best defense possible at Stalingrad and fight to the bit- ter end.
 Meanwhile Churchill pr0mis- cd that the Second Front would continue under discussion. Ale though Churchill was against it, President Roosevelt continued to be for it-if humanIy possible. And this belief that Second Front must be established some how, some way, was behind his Labor Day speech, which. though ambiguous, was interpreted as pledglng a Second Front in Eu- rope.
 MILITARY ADVISERS
 OPPOSED
 Roosevelts chief stumbling block, however, has been his own military and naval advisers. es- peclally Admiral Leahy. Although they have not been opposed fo R second Front sn certain ether areas. they have been very much
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

1. What is the name for ceremo- nial suicide in Japan?
 2. Meat, vegetables, milk and eggs are shipped in dehydrated form to Europe from the United States: true or false?
 3. All bread served to military and naval service men is fortified with vitamins; true or false?
 4. What was "Stonewall" Jack sons real name?
 5. The ohm is the electrical unit of power, current. pressure or re- SiStance?
 6. Who would succeed to the Presidentcy if the President and Vice President should die?
 T. To which religious den0mina- ton have the largest number of D s. Presidents adhered?
 8. Name the Speaker of the Housa of Representatives.
 g. The names of Petain and Lava are associated with the governmen' of which country?
 10. American troops have recently been sent to the Belgian Congo: on which continent is the Belgian Con- go?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-12

October Il has just been proclaimed Pulaski Day by the President. Some time the date will be permanently fixed in our holiday calendar. Certainly we Americans should pay every respect possible to the memory of a man who gave his life TOT an adopted country one where he found the democratic ideals for which his race had long sought