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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Staggering Figures

Tax bills for Americans, no matter what they may be earning today or next year. are going to constitute about the most important item in the family budget henceforth. When you stop to gaze at the size our national debt has become and learn how much more the govern ment is going to spend in the coming months it's hard to keep ones compo- sure. Once upon a time we talked ot war debts in terms of millions; then 1t became billions; now it's about to become a trillion.
 Anybody who says a war IS WorthWhlle from an economic standpoint should study the forthcoming tax figures pretty carefully. And over here we probably are better able to stand war, long drawn out or curtailed, much better than any other nation on the face of the earth We shudder at the thought of the taxes to come and distasteful as it will be. We'll es virtually amount to ransom. They have no choice in the matter, no say what soever through legally-elected represen- tatives.
 There is some satisfaction in the Am erican set-up, burdensome as it may be- come and distateseful as it will be. We'll have a lot to say about it from now until doomsday, for it will almost be then be- fore we have this World War II paid for, prcsuming, naturally, that we win the war. Of course speedy cessation to ac- tivities, brought about by our unceaslng efforts in every way possible, would brighten even a dismal tax picture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Migration Problems

Although apparently we have decided to be hard-boiled and adopt the principle of manpower mobilization or, if you pre- fer, the industrial draft = we have not yet reached clear sailing. The public, judging from most signs, recognizes the need for this ordinarily obnoxious step. Administrative Washington presumably has canvassed the situation pretty thor Oughly, or else as canny politician as Paul V. McNutt would not have gone overheard for the idea.
 All this could do more harm than good, however, unless the men who are fo draft the final bill shall think their way through many lurking pitfalls, and shall find workable solutions for problems that could bring bitter resistance to the working of a manpower draft. For one example out of many, there are the widely differing state settlement laws which everywhere except in Rhode Island pro- vide that persons must live there for specified periods before being eligible for any kind of public assistance.
 A worker might be understandably bit ter if he were required to leave his own state - which would bar him from relief
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Birth Control

In Poland, women are forbidden to bear children without express, written permission of Herr Hitler, granIed-or more often withheld-by his. authorized deputies. This is true of course only oI those not selected to share in the expan- sion of the Master Race. Livestock IS more favored in German-occupied Poland. Cows and sows are permitted to bring forth young, provided the offspring are registered after birth and marked with ear tags.
 If an animal dies, an official death cer- tificate from veterinarian is required Only the Poles are interested II natlve man or woman or child dies. From which if might be argued that the Nazis them selves recognize kinship closer to beasts than to human beings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

to the list but will say that in our judgment the history of Arthur J. Smith in itself is a good nlustra- tion of successful life.
 The conclusion of period of 50 years of, community service finds him honored, loved and respected. With his brother he took hold of the Newtown Bee when it was 6 tiny and all but unknown country publi- cation. Under the combined man agement of the two brothers and later under the direction of the surviving brother, the Newtown Bee has become one of the out standing weekly newspapers of the United States, known from coast to coast and valued by every sub. scriber as If each recipient held a personal interest in the newspaper.
 Arthur J. Smiths son Paul is carrying on the family tradition ably as editor of The Bee, posi- ton which he has now held for nearly a decade. We hope that the ideals and the ability of the Smith family will continue to dominate The Bee for the next 50 years as they have for the past 50 and with equally salutary and successful re- suits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Here They Come

According to word from New London the special session of the Legislature, called for next Monday, will witness not merely discussion of extension of voting hours in Connecticut communities, but also presentation of measures to make the new bridge across the Thames River a free structure. Present plans call for the charging of tolls for all vehicles us ing the bridge. We don't think the New London legislators will be able to have the change made; we don't think the New London legislators have any right to introduce such measures at next weeks sitting of the General Assembly.
 The session, as everyone knows, is called for but one specific purpose, namely, to take up the matter of allowing cities and towns to extend their voting hours if they believe the same is necessary. There may be prolonged discussion of the same or it may be all over in a few hours. But at any rate there is no reason to prolong the special session by taking up matters which are not contained in the call for the meeting. Special sessions are usu- ally devoted to but one intent; we don't see that New London's efforts to do some thing about the new Thames bridge con- cern the hours of voting.
 To be sure the new bridge will probably be opened before the Legislature con- venes in regular session next January, but New London's legislators should have made their fight for toll-free structure last year. And if we are not greatly mis- taken most of these new highway bridges that we're building are dependent to a great extent on such income to retire the bonds which are floated to finance their construction. Without this means of obtaining funds some other way of build Ing the bridges would have to be found
 All of which is not the same as talking about voting from a. m. to g p. m. or thereabouts, which is and should be the only order of business on Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Views Of The Press

his family than the man of 40, there will be general agreement that dependencies and the place of a man in industry should be con- sidered, and better the two factors jointly. At any rate Senator Ma loney's action brings up the prob lem in the right place, and there is hope that something may be done to clarify the situation which we can see right here is operating unfairly to individuals and industry with >lo- cal boards unable to do differently. The backing up of the huge army can be badly disintegrated by a con- tinuance of the inconsistencies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Wallhower Moses

In recapitulating the management errors being made in Washington, don't forget that New York's ineffable Bob Moses this generations prime specl- men of the executive for whom nothing is impossible - still languishes in innoc- uous desuetude while war production stalls for lack of his type of talents.
 MT. Moses is an arbitrary, overbear- ing, often quarrelsome and always acer- bic individual who can't be pushed around even by presidents. Obviously and understandably MT. Roosevelt doesn't want him under foot. But this is war. There are plenty of mean, nasty jobs that only a red-tape cutter can accomplish. We'd raise the odds on quicker victory the day Bob Moses and two or three other warwallflowers were put to work in Wash ington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Times Getting Short

This is the sixteenth of October and there remains but thirteen shopping days to Christmas. Wrong are we? We'll, yes, in way, but in another way we're not. We're referring to Christmas shopping for the boys in the trencheS-the Ameri- can forces in the far-away places of the globe where our troops are engaged in combat or awaiting the signal to attack. If you plan to send them either Christmas mail or packages, now's the time to do so. Unless the same are mailed before November 1 delivery in time for Christ mas can't be assured.
 If you're doubtful about how to send such packages, why not drop into the Post Office and get the official rules for mail ing them to men overseas. There's a weight limit of eleven pounds, for exam pie, but lower than that would be appre- ciated and probably would result in bet ter service all around A package about the size of the average shoe box is con- sidered ideal, both for handling and for safe delivery. Incidentally don't go to lot of trouble with fancy wrappings and the like for packages have to be examined, you know.
 Make your wrappings strong and secure with the address very legible. After all that's the really important thing and if the name and the military desig- nation are not clear the consignees will certainly be the loser. Don't let all your good intentions run into blurs or scratches on the wrappings. Do your Christmas shopping now and unite the boys at the front with the old home town and folks if just for Christmas Day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
SENATOR MALONEY DOING
 REAL SERVICE
(New Haven Journal Courier)

(New Haven Journal -Courier)
 Senator Francis Maloney of Con- necticut is one member of Con- gress who is alert to the wide spread uncertainty with reference to the selective service policy and the lack of consistency in handling the problem, and he is the one man doing something about it. His seeking of a rational basis for selecting group with dependents should be considered. for it is a civilian rather than military mat ter, one for congressional rather than army determination. When the men are inducted into the army, then is the time for army men to say where they shall go and what they shall do, but it is hardly to be construed that passage of the Selec- tive service act gave the army full jurisdiction over the manpoWer of the nation and would allow army officers to reach out into the civilian population to say who should or should not be called. Senator Ma loney's revealing to the Senate the non-committal reply of General Hershey to his proposal rather shows up the tendency of the direc- tor of the selective system to as- sume powers never intended by the act.
 There is logic back of Senator Maloney's proposal which must be taken into consideration if there is not to be a continuation of the chaos which has pertained in ad- ministrating the act, a confusion which he says will not long be toler- ated. He believes that age aud de- gree of financial dependency rather than lottery should now be the basis of selection in the calling of married men, for the great size of the army now being raised Is cut ting deeper than was anticipated at the time of passage of the act. Our Connecticut senator will have gen- eral support in his contention that Congress rather than the army should determine the answers un- der general lines.
 Although we may not all agree with Senator Maloney that age should be @ basis of induction. Chat the man of 25 or 30 can better leave
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

decided to build a plant and get a war contract. Fact is, they got the contract first - to build wooden bodies for big eight wheel Army trucks-and then started building the factory.
 A local engineer, who had been to Russia to help the Soviets build factories out of nothing, laid out a plant to do the same thing in Baker.
 For an overhead conveyer, the builders got meat hooks from a butcher shop, and built a trolley for the hooks out of old pipe and angle iron. To paint the truck bodies, they built big tank, filled it with paint, and dipped the bodies in it.
 To operate the hoisting mechan- ism over this tank, a compress sor was made from the air cylirl- ders of abandoned Sumter Valley railroad cars. A conveyer was made with the leather belt from an abandoned gold dredge.
 Before they were through, one of Bakers citizens remarked that not since the days of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves had so many things been stolen" (with per- mission) from the nearby coun- tryside.
 This improvised factory" is turning out auto bodies for the Army at saving of slightly over $l00 per body as compared with other producers.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
What's Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.

1. What is the nationality of Thomas MaZaryk?
 2. What Navy rank corresponds to lieutenant colonel in the Army?
 3. Captain Elliott Buckmaster was the commander of which U. S. naval vessel that was sunk by the Japan. csc?
 4. What significance does "calu- met" have to an American Indian?
 5. Does light from the sun require about 8 seconds, 8 minutes or 8 hours to reach the earth?
 6. Roger Bacon was a monk. a chemist, or an authority on optics?
 '. Champ Clark was defeated aspirant for the Democratic nomi- nation for the presidency in the 1912 Baltimore Democratic convention; who was the nominee?
 8. A bats wing consists of feath- CTS; true or false?
 g. What body exercises exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Col ulnbia?
 10. Were any women commits stoned as officers by the Navy in the last World War?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

was president of the Troy, N. r., Furnace Corporation, makers of blast furnaces and coke ovens. The new sponge iron process offers competition to the blast furnace process.
 Republic wants to establish a sponge iron plant in Canton to produce 100 tons day. But they were turned down on priOriteis 17O tons of steel to build the plant. In other words, the new Republic plant would, have pro- duced 200 tons in two days, enough to build itself-but was vetoed because of the steel short age.
 One great advantage of sponge steel plants is that they require little steel for construction. Yet WIPE has blocked them for months.
 NOTE: Engineer for Republic in the proposed new plant is H. A. Brassert, who has built steel mills all over the world, even undertook construction of the Hermann Goering Works in Ger many after being urged to do so by Prime Minister Chamberlain as part of British appeasement policy.
 COMMUNITY COOPERATION
 The town of Baker Ore, already has taken a leaf from President Roosevelt's recent radio advice on community cooperation.
 Located in the lumber area, Baker never had any manufac- turing. But Baker business men
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Current Comment

The Grimm brothers and Hans Christian Anderson wrote more violence and bloodshed into some of their tales than any screen writer ever imagined. Masquer- ading as fairy stories. they've been a staple diet for adolescent minds for centuries.
 Boris Karloff, film actor. I view with keen anxiety a ten- dency to place too much emphasis upon the honor attached to the rank of a general and too little upon the grave responsibilities in- volved in such a position. --Gen. George c. Marshall. U. s. chief of staff.
 
 If experience tells us anything 1t shouts that the creation of sound channels of international commerce in which private enter prise can trade in a free world is the very essence of lengthy peace.
 -Georse soule. editor Of New
 Republic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
AN ANNIVERSARY
eBridgeport Postl

Fifty years is long span in the lift history of an institution. It is an even more remarkable span when it measures the length of serv- ice given by one man to such an in- stitution.
 A conspicious example is the 50th anniversary of Arthur Judd Smith as business manager of the Newtown Bee, position which he assumed on October l, 1892 at the same time that his brother, the late Alison P. Smith. became editor.
 There have been many attempts to define success in life and we shall not add one more definition
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Selected Poem
BLUE GENTIANS

BLUE GENTIANS By Eleanor Robbins Wilson in the Boston Post Where amber distance late enthraled Drifts a low leaden mist: The sunsilght draws apart, subdued In greys and amethyst. rustiness creeps up the hills. Meadows are tarnished bloom, The winds lean chilly fingers drive Dead leaves with active broom The lively hubbub of the grass Dwindles to silence now And where was song and flash Of wing Bare silhouette of bough. Yet here to thinned rangs or the year, Dauntless, in bright array These lone recruiting gentians dare MacArthurize their day.
 Needham, Mass, 1922
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
TREMENDOUS TRIPLES

l 11c way d 1SW 1IlSlgIl1IlCanG WOTQS can shape up international affairs was never better illustrated than in the case of this classic runaround given the United States by the Chil- can government. The recent speech of Under Secretary of State Sum- ner Welles in Boston brought this situation to head, but the events leading up to that showdown make a story of tremendous trifles in themselves.
 In its October issue, the Foreign Commerce Weekly, overseas trade magazine of the Department of Commerce, printed an article captioned Wars Effect on Chile an Economy" First paragraph of that article follows:
 "Chile, the second largest cop per producing country in the world, possesses ore reserves esti- mated at more than 1,250,000, 900 tions. Although the Chilean gov- ernment has not yet severed re- lations with the Axis powers, the Chilean mining industry is ship ping to the United States thou sands of tons of coppor and other strategic metals vitally necessary to our anti-Axis offensive"
 The article then went on in routine style to outline Chile's domestic conditions, foreign ex- change, agriculture. manufactur- ing and so on. Copies of this article apparently were rushed to Santiago. Almost immediately thereafter, leading Chilean news papers appeared with obviously government inspired editorials, quoting the paragraph given above and then going on to say that in view of this official U. s. view of the situation, it would not be necessary for the Chilean government to break relations with the Axis powers.
 When this official state of mind was reported back to the United States things began to happen.
 Under Secretary Welles made his speech denouncing Chilean aid to the axis, the Chilean government protested, and then the facts came out on the participation of Chilean citizens in Nad spy ring furnish ing information to axis submarines.
 
 CIVILIAN ARMY
 The U. s. War Department now has more than 100000 civilian en- ployes, making it the largest em- ployer in the country. This means the War Department has one civil ian employe for approximately every four men in the armed service.
 If that figure looks high, the Army thinks it has a justifiable ex- planation. The civilian clerical force of the War Department in Washington numbers only 46,500, or about one clerk for every 100 soi- diers. That leaves 1,053,5OO civilian employees to account for. They're scattered all over the United States as machinists and helpers in gov- ernment- owned and operated ord- nance plants, as construction work CTS at Corps of Engineers. Army camp projects, as Quartermaster Corps storekeeprs, storage or main tenance employees, and so on.
 This million or more workers does not include any of the people work ing for private employers who have War Department contracts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

has been ofhctally confirmed by dis closures of tn e arrest, trial, con- viction and sen-
 tencing to death of an Axis agent n a m e d Luning, " ho operated a secret dio in Cuba to relay in- formation to sub-
 marines in Carib- bean waters. Lun- ing, after his con- victiol1, m a d e written confession
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

VA UAAC PnAO AAC played in an intricate network of Nazi spies operating in Latin Amer ica, linking a Nazi headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, with agents in Santiago, Chile, who relayed in- formation on the ship movements to Cuba.
 The Luning case is apparently the first conviction in a Cuban gov ernment roundup of Nazi agents which the Ruark disclosures helped bring on. But as Reporter Ruark wrote at that time, the quinqua- -col- umnistas were operating actively throughout the island republic, and charges were frequently made that Naz subs were not only being in- formed by radio from Cuba, but were actually being refueled and supplied from secret bases. So the Luning case is perhaps only 8 be- ginning,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
A Thought for Today

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me,saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in fasehOOd.-Jere- miah 14:25.
 Live truly and thy life shall be a great and noble creed.-HoratiouS Bonar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
, NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Axis Agentss Chilean Copper; Our Army
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrrespOndent

First news that Axis submarines were being furnished information by radio from Cuba on the movement of United Nations ships in western hemisphere waters was carried in an exclusive series of dispatches writ ten by Rober Ruark for NEA Service newspapers last June. Ruark is now an ensign in the Navy, but the news that he uncovered while on assign ment in Havana for this newspaper
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

Army officers burned up when Chns White House satonef nwhich to fy fomW
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

Daily Almanac Moon sets ll:55 D. m. twar tine), sun rises 7:03 a. m: sets 6:ll D. m. twar timel. All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
Washington Merry-Go-R Round
BY DREW PEARSON

Soong Gets Strotoner for Trip Home Despite Army Obeetion And Huge Pone Will Gerry of His Friends nsteod of Munitions Smouderng Row Over Sponge Iron Due for Congressional Airing Community Solves Production Problem with Mokeshft MoeroIs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16

O. Was the fanou Big Ben" in London damaged during the exten- sive bombing in May, 1941?
 A. The Tower in which the bell is situated was damaged, but the bell remained intact and is still in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
rODAY's COMMON ERROR The phrase seldom ever Is 2,
 garism. Say seldom" or
 "hardly ever"

@. When was sugar first produced commercially in the United States?
 A. Sugar was apparently brought over by the earliest settlers ot Am erica. The first refined sugar was made in New Orleans by Antonio Mendez in 1791.
 @. What is the actual title of the selection used as Warsaw Concer- to" in the photoplay. Suicide Squadron" and is it available in sheet music or on record?
 A. "Warsaw Concerto is the ac. tual title. It was composed by Rich ard Addinsell, and is available ID sheet music and on a record.
 o. How bright is the sun?
 A. At zenith. the sun has g brightness of 100000 candlepoWef per square inch of light surface. For comparison, the crater of carnop arc has brightness of 2OO,00O can dlepower per square inch.
 @. What does a dash over Ro' man numeral indicate?
 A. The dash line multipltes the numerals value by 1000; thu: x-lO,000; L-50, 900; C-100,00O, etc.
 @. Do all States recognize com mon law marriages?
 A. No. A list of States whicE recognize such marriages is contain ed on a summary of Marriage Law; in the United States which can be obtained by sending stamped, ad' dressed envelop to The Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau. 1913 Thir- teenth St., Washington, D. c.
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