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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-10
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES :
Personal

Miss Sadie Fitzpatrick of Pleas ant street. and her nephew, Ray mond Fitzpatrick, Jr., of Nelson avnue, are vigiting in Newark, N. J.
 Miss Mary Scully of Sylvan ave- nue and Miss Dorothy O'Connor of Fairlawn avenue are vacationing at Cape Cod.
 Mrs. James Fryer and her daugh- ter, Ann. are spending several weeks at Indian Neck, Branford.
 The Misses Moreno and Sylvia Simmons of Draher avenue and Miss Mae Harty of Summit street have returned from a trip through Virginia, followed by 8 week at Vir- ginia Beach.
 Two local nurses, Miss Margaret Cassidy of 48 Coniston avenue and Miss Blanche Sakalas of g Summit street, have been called for active duty with the U. s. Army. Miss Cassidy has been assigned to Vest over Field, Mass, while Miss Saka- las will serve at Camp Edwards,
 Miss Shirley R. Buckingham, daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. E.. Buckingham of Academy road, Cheshire, was member of the com- mittee for the annual tea dance held Saturday at her dormitory at Penn broke College in Brown Diversity.
 MT. and Mrs. Fay Vincent of Wall nut street announce the birth of a daughter, Barbara Jane, on August 4, at St. Mary's hospital. Mrs. Vim cent was the former Alice Lynch.
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. McKENNEY
 ON BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY America'S Card Authority

In moving the summer session of the national tournament from As bury Park to New York City, the American Contract Bridge league took into consideration the problem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-10

Robert Benchley had to submit to Ginger Rogers breaking eight raw eggs on his heda for comedy shampoo scene in ."The Major and the Minor"
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over the world but Paul remembers particularly performance ct Sing Sing prison.
 T was tossing Grace around as usual" he said. When came off- stage one of the inmate stagehands slid alongside and growled out the side of his mouth:
 Bud. you'd better not treat that little girl so rough if you know what's good for you"
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A two- engine bomber uses about 24O gallons of gasoline (weighing about one ton) in 6 three-hour flight.
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Club Notes
TRUE SISTER

TRUE SISTER The True Sister lodge will meet tomorrow evening to complete ar- arrangements for the Grand Lodge session to be held on Tuesday, August 29.
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HERMAN SISTERS The Abelheid Hemrann Sisters will hold a picnic on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Bellevue Lake.
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ROYAL NEIGHBoRs

ROYAL NEIGHBORS
 A meeting of Royal Neighbors of America will be held at 7:3O o'clock this evening in Mechanics Hall, Il East Main street. Mrs. Jean Nc Lean will preside.
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Weddings
BIG TOWN MEDLEY

NEW editors sometimes with Hartman duly grateful editor who wahas all his months then suggested that perhaps terpsichore, journalism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-10

Damsel flies and dragon flies are separate groups of the same order of insects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-14

children the Near to be provided period following Juneau to raise f$l which begin the following week
 the States, Parks Chief Of the Chairman of both the He Colorado for the Christmas holidays Washington, D. c. Mrs Anna Dayw the Order Easter following elected other positions were Worthy Nina H Abbott Associate Nordg Leota Macke Treasurer Amy Guerin Associate Con- Installation take place the meeting in Jenuary.
 United George the States with prisoners He
  to the States join him Ketchikan. collector Prince Rupert according to M Whittier Deputy Customs Alaska MT Whittier had spending several Prince Rupert the Coliseum Theatre, the Alameda
 celebration of Christmas at the Douglas being prepared and gifts being child give to other child.
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  with maximum temperature of 25 and mini of 23
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Penny Puzzle
Philadelphia Recordl

Philadelphia Record
 What a war can do to proverbs! Since the dawn of civilization thrift has been virtue
 But Director of the Mint Nellie Taylor Ross appeals to the public, especially children to stop saving pennies
 Why? Because pennies are made ot copper and copper is needed for purposes
 Mrs. Ross suggested that if every family would unearth and put into circulation ten pennies this would make 000 tons of copper available for war industries.
 That represents about one-third of the mints annual coinage of pennies, which last year con- sumed 3260 tons of copper
 Mint officials particularly worried over the increasing withdrawal from circulation of pennies, dimes quarters and half dollars by persons who save their change in piggy banks, budget boxes and other devices-whe the demand for coins in circu- lation has been spiraled upwards by the slot ma chine age"
 It's always been sin for Johnny to break into his treasured savings But now instead of father $ slipper he demand citation for his patriotism
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DELAYS ON RUBBER

Actually, much more important principle is at stake in this ar gument than the personal prestige of two gentlemen from Texas. It is vitally important to every mem- Der of the armed forces, an every civilian left behind them. l It dates back to last winter when on April 13, four months after Pearl Harbor, Jesse Jones entrusted with buying rubber from the Amazon, had only about six men in all South America. During this period between December and April 13, Vice President Wal 1 lace-Perkins' boss-made perhaps 40 trips to the White House urg- l ing the purchase of Brazilian rub- Der and other strategic raw ma terials.
 There were perhaps IT different meetings on quinine which the Army wanted so badly from the ] Dutch East Indies. Jones scalleo meeting after meeting. Some oi this vital medicine was purchased but the big order to buy was cabled just one day before the fall of Java's capital, Batavia.
 I The BEW also proposed to buy chroms from the Philippines wher 1t was still possible But Jesse hag- gled over whether he should pay the freight between San Francisco and the Atlantic Coast. During thi. 1 delay the Japs got the chrome. | The correspondence on these things IS terrific. It shows that MT. Jones, good, honest, conserva. ! tive banker, just didn't have { mind geared for war. He was think, ing about freight rates and saf, investments, and there just ism anything safe about war.
 So finally, Roosevelt issued hi order of April 13, requiring Jones i Reconstruction Finance Corpora ton to lend the money for Soutl American rubber, and making i mandatory on Jesse to negotiat the loan on the order of Wallace and Perkins BEW.
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STRETCHING WAR POWERS

It is apparent from the results of beginning ses- sions of the Senate Judiciary Committees investiga ton of censorship that the Office of Censorship has been stretching the meaning of the first War Powers Act in opening mail between Alaska and the United States
 According to Chairman Van Nuys, Congress specifically stated in the first bill that the only trol of the mails that would be allowed was over communications between the United States and for eign countries That was the intention of Congress in granting the powers
 But Alaskans, according to the Office of Censor ship, must try to believe that they are foreigners living in a foreign country.
 The very fact that another bill, which would have made such censorship legal was being rushed ed, proves that the Office of Censorship knew that it was violating the law by opening mail in Seattle.
 And according to Van Nuys statement that the mail has been censored so far without any legal authority, all of the 400 censors in Seattle could legally be slapped into jail for tampering with the mails.
 If this thing necessary in preventing in- formation from reaching the enemy, few Alaskans would kick But it isn't Governor Gruening has presented to the Committee letter from high Navy officials in Alaska" who says that it is not necessary Earlier Lieut. Gen John L. Dewitt ot the WDC said practically the same thing These naval and military authorities know the situation better than the Office of Censorship in Washington does
 There has been too much of this grabbing fol the rights of American citizens under the guise that it is aiding the These very grabs hurting
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the war effort These the things which were happening in Nazi Germany before entered the war-the things toward which our government point ed a disgusting finger, pointed them out as things that couldn't happen in democracy.
 Recently, the Army at Fort Lewis, Washington tried to tell Seattle newspaper tha it couldn't re- lease story about a seditious young Army officer unless the newspaper put nothing larger than a one-coumn head the story. The War Depart ment and the Office of Censorship both jumped on that breach of military administration. But that shows how far these things can go
 We're still waiting for word up here in Alaska waiting for word that mail isn't going to be pried into and that Alaska is more part Of the United States, not foreign country.
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not compeP'
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15

Mingled good and evil planetary influences are active today me later hours are more promising than the forenoon.
 HEART AND HOME: This is time to look far ahead as social changes are recognized Holiday planning sshould ignore the past in cheerful acceptance of large hopes for the future. There Will be emphasis on phases of life which show increase in emotional artistic and mystical influences Closeness of the spiritual plane will be felt as material values fade through the grim realities ol war. Great teachers are to appear in the new year.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: There IS promising sign that seems to presage increased generosity in rationing. Business will continue prosperous to the end of the year and substitutes for needed com modities will open new lines of trade. In western states the use of automobiles will continue to be general enough to assure trans portation for workers of every class. New basic resources Of min- eral and oil will be discovered, 1t is prophesied. Gradually Ameri- can resourcefulness, industry and ingenuity will overcome many of the war handicaps.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Advocates of drastic restrictions in the sale of alcoholic beverages will become insistent next month. if the stars are rightly read. Reformers will demand that the cities of the nation are fighting for a better world in which to live, those who remain at home should fight for honesty, economy and decency in civic government, the seers declare
 INTERNATIONAL FFAIRS S: Better understanding and closer sympathy among the United Ma tions may be expected as our na- ton gathers momentum in war achievements. Transportation fa- cilities will improve in spite of severe storms and lend-lease sup plies will be delivered in quanti- ties greater than had been planned Progress will be definite in Unit ed Nations tremendous movements and severe conflicts but there are portents of great losses through ! disease as well as i'll far-flung bat ties on land, on sea and in the air.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of fail luck. Secret service will be fortu- nate for certain ones. Love af- fairs may lead to disillusionment. Children born on this day prob. ably will be successful in any vo- cation they choose. They shoule be popular. Girls may win fame through artistic gifts
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Daily lessons in English v %y. L. GORDON

WORDS We have been doing that doing that REGULARLY Cor PER- SISTENTLY)."
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Embryo Pronounce em-brio, as in o NO accent first syllable
 Dilemma. Observe the two Ms
 uncomfortable disturbed disqueted
 WORD STUDY: three and it yours. Let Today yield submit tracabe He obedieny he usually amenabe to his mothers com mandsn-Elen Glasgow
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LOOK and LEARN sy c. GORDON

1. counrys equator? amount of candy consumed by 
 the of gods? of calling nformer stool pigeon? sgner of the Mayflower Compact? ANSWERS:
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 2. IT pounds Mercury. A pigeon decoy other into net 5
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The Girls Will Give
Cincinnati Enquirerl


 War, according to many Cincinnati Miss and Mrs-is much than General sherman said it The recent request that all women scrap their compacts, save one in the scrap metal drive brands on the minds of the gentler sex the fact that world conflicts demand great sacrifice from the ladies of the land as from the fighting men.
 The idea of scrappng compacts was brilliant one. We suppose there is more metal in the dress gtabe drawers of our nations boudors than there is on the dump lots of junk dealers And the llades-God love em-are patriotic lot They'll dig down the bottom of the pile if they are con- vinced the effort is needed to insure victory We cat hear the ringing of metal metal as, with tear dimmed eyes the girls toss in the most precious of their possessions for the cause of liberty.
 Happily each ladyfair is asked to preserve one compact. That she should consider a patriotic duty Think how the morale of the fleet might be lowered if the boys came ashore to a bevy of washed beauties Soldiers leave, seeing their adies-fail pale and faded, might feel that the country had gotten to a place where it wasn't worth fightine for
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assistant to Jesse, left the room to telephone to Rio de Janeiro and Milo gave it to Jesse cold:
 'The reason the White House issued that order of April 13 was because you were not getting the raw materials. I am going to get them I want to work with you in every possible way. You can get all the credit But these materials are going to be purchased"
 Jesse seemed satisfied with this until Will Clayton came back from his telephone call and the argument started all over again
 But Perkins has stuck to his guns. And all summer he has been hurling his contagious energy into buying vital war materials.
 Among other things he bought in India, Mexico and South Am erica large quantity of cryptoste- gia rubber seed, which produces a rubber plant that natures in the miraculously short time of six eight months. Perkins wanted to plant it in Central America to obtain quick rubber. But Jesse Jones opposed on the ground that lit would be difficult to harvest. Six valuable weeks were lost while Jesse argued, and while U. s. rubber supplies got lower. Fin ally Perkins fell back on his di- rective from the President and overruled Jones.
 1 So now Jones is before the Sen ate trying to overrule the Presi- dent.
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come from the same town. I'm sure we can understand each other. I've been getting an awful rib ping from the newspaper colum- niStS.."e
 Milo Perkins softened, but when Jesse countered with the sugges- ton that Perkins would want to continue letting the REC purchase rubber, tin, etc, without too much BEW supervision the fight start ed. Jesse cajoled, argued, stormed Perkins opinion of him went up. Jesse was certainly a man who knew what he wanted and went after it. But Perkins wouldn' t budge from the powers given him by Roosevelt. Finally, Jesse re- sorted to sarcasm.
 "On what kind of food do you feed" he asked, that you're so much more important than Don aid Nelson? He doesn't demand the right to inspect everything we're doing"
 The situation is entirely diff ferent," replied Perkins. "I m charged with getting 40 to 50 ba- sic materials without which this war can't be run and I'm going to get 'em"
 All right" countered Jesse, you come over here at l pm. and sit ill on these meetings and you'll be here till midnight You can't af- ford to spend all that time"
 No" replied Perkins, but what do you think hire experts for"
 Well I sit in on these confer ences," said Jesse.
 I I'm not as good as you,' coun- tered Perkins. I don't pretend tc know the details regarding chrome or nickle or tungsten. That's why hire experts to handle them wed never get anywhere if tried to handle them myself"
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And when Milo Perkins heard that Jesse had testified before secret session of the Senate Committee he telephoned Jesse and asked for a copy of his testimony.
 What" said the Secretary of Commerce, Are you going ur there to testify with all that en- thusiasm of yours?'
 of course" said the executive of the Board of Economic War fare, and you can't tell what might have to say when I get up there"
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MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE

O. Is a womans wedding elaborate first? specific according to the of toward the marriage.
 engaged kind Of sport or game exceptionally play?
 will be quick to do and is popular. right folded napkin to brush the crumbs off table?
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Whereupon Jesse invited Milo to lunch and proceeded to turn on the charm. Jesse Jones can be extremely charming, and he wooed Milo as a second lieutenant woos a debutante, to get back his old power to buy rubber, tin, quinine and other war materials, which the President last April gave to his rival from Houston.
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JESSE GETS sARCAsr1c

After that order was signed, Jesse invited his friend from Hou- ston to lunch and turned on the old Texas charm.
 Look here" he said, we both
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Mattresses may not be the ones who make the soup, but some of them have finger in it.
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oranges in the New Hebrides Islands grow so large that two human hands can scarcely span them. LA ..ns
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The average pianists fingers move 2000 times per minute while the neighbors move just once.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DECEMBER IA Emeral O. Davis Naomi Forrest c. c. Carnegie Kenneth Loken Mrs. Dorothy Pegues Samuel Guyot Donald Pegues J. c. Michaelson E. F. Rodenberg. Jr.
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 WEATHER REPORT CU. s. Bureau)

Temp. Saturday, Dec. 12 Maximum AT, minimum 30 [ Snow-.66 inch Temp. Sunday, Dec. 13 . Maximum 33, minimum 29 ( . . . . .
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20 YEARS AGO f{ME {yfn EMPIRE
DECEMBER IA 1922

children the to be provided for during period Juneau to whi o the following
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SONOTONE

hearing aids for the hard of hear
 ing. Audiometer readings Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Blomgren Bldg, phone 636. adv.
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Washington Merry 6o-Round

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MILO STICKS TO HIS GUNS At about this point Will Clayton,
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go over the Presidents head.
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JESSE WOOS MILO
 Actually the two boys from Houston don't dislike each other.
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After working for six without missing shift, ight chef at the Gastineau Hotel leave for trip t
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-05
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
BY BOB THOMPSON

Raleigh, June 5.-More than ST..
100000 in back taxes IS owed he
counties. cities and towns Of North
Carolina, according to q compilation
just completed by the Local Govern
mcnt Commission.
State Treasurer Charles NJ. john
SON, eN-0IliciO director of local gov
eminent, had called on all local gov
ernments 10 push Immediately the
collection Of these old debts. Such
action might make reduction in local
tax rates possible during the period
of mounting federal leVies. he argues.
For years the matter Of delin-
quent property taxes has been a
problem in the administration Of
local government. created more or
less by the local governments them
selves" stated Johnson. Some local
units are much less affected than
others but or the whole it is a COM
mon problem. Information in the
tiles Of the Local Government Com
mission compiled as Of June 80. l94l
dlscloSes that the uncOllected taxes
levied by counties for 1889 and prior
years amounted TO Sll. 683.l70. all
more than a year delinquent. For
cities and towns this figure was S.
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SWE

/. The members of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina are as loI-
lows. Chief Justice ". y. Stacy. and
Associate Justices Michael Schcuck,
William y. Down, NJ. Y. BarnhliI, y,
Wallace Wlnborne, A. A +. Set
well, and +. + Denny The salary
Ot Il Justice Is S9,O50 per year.
> The legislature at Its first ,c'-
SION IN Raleigh in i19+ established
a system OF Legislative control over
the new { a OF government, and
held this control until an act Wa,
passed by the legislature OF 1901,
allowing a local town government to
be established
3. North Cardinals two delegates
10 Continental Congress in 1884 when
the Treaty of Paris, the treaty end
me the Revolutionary Var, WAS rat
fled. were DR. Hugh Williamson, OF
EdentOn, and Richard D0bb> Spalght,
of New Bern. Dr.. Williamson was
born III Pennsylvania IN 1873, and
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Local Government Units Urged
To Collect Their Back lakes

365, 1877. a total over all of more than
ST.. 900, 900.
The results of such delinquency
are obvious. Less cash revenues are
available for defraying the necessary
expenses of government and for APP
pliCatlon to the reduction Of debt. 1t
means also that the taxpayer who
pays his taxes promptly is having to
pay more. He therefore has a moral
right to demand hat other taxpayers
be compelled to pay likewise so that
he may receive the benefit Of a re-
duCtlOn of his taxes. From the de
lInQuent taxpayers standpoint. |
realize that circumstances are some
times such that he is unable to pay
promptly or to avoid his taxes be-
coming delinquent. To enforce his
prompt payment might impose undue
hardship upon him. 1t is reasonable,
however, that this kind of taxpay-
er should be n of only a few isolat-
ed cases.
"Permitting a taxpayer to let his
taxes become several years in arrears
IS not only failure of a local govern
ment to comply with the intent of
the law but is actually committing
an injustice to the taxpayer him.
self. Such accumulation of unpaid
taxes is much harder for him to pay
and they are an encumbrance agains'
| his real property which must be
l~lQuldatcd with penalty before he
can ever convey clear title to that
property.
"NoW is the best opportunity that
we have had in several years to
collect these delinquent taxes. There
fore, | urge that boards of county
commissioners and the governing
bodies Of cities and towns take posi-
tive action toward their collection
and without delay. The income Of
the average Taxpayer is higher now
due directly or indirectly to wal
expenditures, than il is during ordi-
nary times. Federal government
taxes arc mounting and will continue
to mount in order to wage a wal