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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-25
A Thought for Today
Good Records to Beat

According to Republican sources at Washington the national party is confi- dent of cutting into Democratic mem bership from New England. The Connec- ticut election is one that Republicans are counting on strongly to show gain in membership for their party in the low CT house, for there won't be any senator ial contests here this fall. Of our six rep resentativeS only one, Joseph E. Talbot, representing the Fifth District, is a Re publican. He will face severer test in November than he did last January.
 According to the Washington dispatch Republicans are confident that three of the five seats held by Democrats in the House can be won. No mention is made of which three places among those held by Herman Koppleman, William J. Fltz- gerald of Norwich, James A. Shanley of New Haven, LeRoy Downs of South Nor walk, and Lucian Maciora of New Britain are the vulnerable ones. Democrats would be quick to claim that there isn't any sign of vulnerability in the delegation. On their records, however, they must stand or fall if they come up for reelec- tion.
 We hope that Democrats aren't going to make the mistake this year of claim ing that their reelection is vital to the war program so successfully launched under Democratic auspices. They should recall Woodrow Wilson's classic employ ment of the same claim and it's tragic results SO far as he and the Democratic Party were concerned back in 1918 and 1920. If there are any claims to be made this fall by Democratic candidates, let them be on the basis of services per formed to district, state, and constituents, which mean the country, of course. That's enough to win them renomination and reelection.
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telling of such unpleasant truths to keep us on our toes, to prick our complacen- cy, to needle us into correcting the malad- justments and doing better job.
 For export purposes, however, news is conceived of as a valuable weapon in to- tai warfare There is keen contest be- tween Germany and the United States to determine just how whole-heartedly Latin America shall cooperate with the United Nations. One immediate prize, of course, is Chiles decision whether to de- clare war on the axis.
 Rightly or wrongly, the Office of Gen. sorship is determined to see that no arti- cles shall be sent to Latin America which, by their pessimism, might help Germany to convince the Latinos that our cause is lost and that the sister re- publics should play ball with the win ners. That is why many news stories which are passed unhesitatingly for do- mestic use are clipped from publications mailed abroad.
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Censorship

Perhaps the Office of Censorship looked little silly, tearing pages out of na- tional picture magazine after the article in question had been examined and ap- proved in advance of publication. Prob ably there was bit of misunderstood ing involved. But actually the censors were following a consistent course which had been thoroughly considered and which is not illogical.
 That course depends upon the theory that censorship in wartime divides into two diSSimilar functions. The one is de- fensive-designed to prevent the domes- tic dissemination of war secrets which might be smuggled out to axis capitals The other is offensive-deSigned to beat Germany in the contest for Latin Amer ican cooperation. Apparently there was some mixup as to whether Canada is do- mestic or foreign. Perhaps the nature of the censored article placed it on the bor- derline in determining whether Canada sOuld see it.
 T1Ae article in question painted a doomy picture of Detroit's war produc- ion, and discussed such causes for the trouble as the bitter hatred between em- ployerS and unions; the ghlin-Smlth- Ku Klux Klan influence; the serious housing shortage; and the inadequacy 0f Mw materials supplies. Mr. Price has not told us, but we have reason to believe that for domestic use he would welcome the
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According to the International City Managers Association there aren't enough cities today making retrench- ments. The organization thinks that our American cities, for the most part, are spending too much money, whereas 1t contends there should be an inclination to cut costs of government. It cites num- erous instances where various cities have been able to cut down their expenses. Mentioned specifically are Yonkers and Watertown, N. Y.; Mason City, Iowa, West Palm Beach, Fla, Knoxville, Tenn, Pasadena, Calif., Winnetka, Ill.,, Ashe- vile, N. C., and Sterling, Kan. Among the means adopted in these communities to cut expenses were elimination of pub lie works construction, curtailment of various civic operations, doubling up of work where men were inducted into serv- ice, cutting down on traffic policing due to reduced accident totals. One import ant point was left out, though, in this report. There wasn't anything said about how these cities which had cut their governmental costs were treating the subject of city employe income. That's an important subject right now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-25
He Oughta Get It

After Max Stephan was sentenced to hang for assisting an escaped Nazi avia- tor fleeing through the United States, the owner of the shoe-shine establish ment next to Stephan's Detroit tavern was asked if he didn't consider the sen- tence pretty stiff "No," was his answer. "He oughta get it."
 That, in tabloid, was the feeling of most Americans about both Stephan and the six-Would-be saboteurs electrocuted in Washington. In time of war, they sought to help defeat this country. Let fifth columnists here, spies and saboteurs tempted to come here, take warning. tience.
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them. Denials seldom catch up with such juicy, hair-raising stories. However. Boss G-Man Hoover, who seldom slips up on his onions, has inforced Congress that "there was so sabotage conn., mitted there prior to Dec. ,, on Dec. 2 or subsequent to that time." MERRY -GO-ROUND
 Senator Waisf of Massachu- sets Is now taking rhumba les sons When Harvey Firestone gave a pigmy rhino from his Li- berian rubber plantation to Ring ling Brothers circus, John Ring ling North named 1t Betty" in honor of Mrs. Firestone.
 Nelson Rockefeller planned to celebrate the second birthday of his office as Latin American Co., ordinator by going down the river with his staff on picnic. But the Potomac River Line refused to carry the 26 Negro members of Rockefeller's staff of 500. He can- celled the trip :. Rockefeller has discarded his custom built limou- sine for the duration. He drives to work in a midget Crosley, with a package compartment in the rear.
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Press Comment
AS WE'LL TO FORGET
Meriden Journal


 The Wilbur Cross Highway is weed-covered and in danger of be- ing forgotten. The only reminders are occasional lawsuits by property holders dissatisfied with the awards given by the state for land taken for the layout These disputes have hinged largely around the question of building site values against farm land values. The state is no longer the generous giver 1t was when the Merit Parkway was laid out.
 Travellers on the Meriden Middle town road, as well as the Meriden- Wallingford one, are impressed by the cloverleaf formations that go with the new highway, but 1t must appear to them that the completion of the dream road is far diStant. Funds derived from Merritt Park way tolls continue to shrink, with the use of autos curtailed, and ma- terials for highway construction will be long time coming. Moreover. there must be tunnel bored through a mountain in New Haven as a link in the roadway.
 All in all, the Cross Highway is something that might as well be forgotten for the duration. Broad Street residents suffer disappoint- ment since they were looking ahead to the removal in the near future of much through traffic from their tho-oughfare. Business people with stands and establishment on the Pest Road are not too displeased oyer holding some of their patron age that would be taken away by the new parkway.
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InconcIusive

The plane order given Henry Kaiser by the WIPE has been interpreted as put up or shut up" affair. Kaiser must dem- onstrate that he can build 70-ton flying boats without endangering the fighting plane program. This interpretation is un- order is not big enough to test mass pro- duction methods. Therefore the inter pretation is unfair to MT. Kaiser
 Second, because the builder might ob- tain enough materials for that number of craft without diverting from war planes, and then be unable to step up output on the basis of leftover materials. what it isMan honest attempt to find out what can be done to beat the sub- marine blockade by use of air cargo
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A. No. Mfr. Baruch was head of the War Industries Board dur- ing the first World War. During the present war at various times he has been called into counsel on cer- tain legislation.
 @. Do the Japanese believe in . future life?
 A. Their ideas of immortality are very vague and play little part in their Shinto religion.
 @. Tn peace time, how many new businesses open and close in the United States annually?
 A. The number varies, but estim- ates for the four years from 1897 to 194O, inclusive. were: 1937-400,- GOO; 1938-388, ,0oO; 1889 - 376,OoO; 1940-381, ,000.
 Q. Who built the Great Wall of China?
 A. 1t was erected by Emperor Chin the First (246-210 B. O., who united and strengthened already ex- isting walls, as rampant of de- fense against invaders. The wall was built by forced labor, and the leg end is that 100000 convicts with iron collars about their necks worked until they died in their tracks, and their bodies were then tossed into the foundations.
 o. Why was Asylum, Pennsyl- vania, built, and how long did it last?
 A. It was founded in 1793 as a refuge for Marie Antoinette. She never reached 1t, but French ref ugees did. About twenty log houses were erected, and the settlementl existed for ten years. \
 o. Should mower clipping be raked from a lawn after cutting?
 A. Generally they benefit the turf unless the cuttings are long and thick enough to smother the grass underneath. Sometimes the clippings are removed because they detract frcm the appearance of the lawn when dry but that will rot occur if the lawn is moved frequently.
 o. In train of one hundred loaded cars, is the pull greater on the coupling of the first car or the last
 A. It is greatest on the first car and decreases on each car so that there is very little pull on the last one.
 e. Is helium gas lighter than hydrogen gas?
 A. No; it is heavier. A cubic foot of helium weighs .00112 lb. at o de- grees c. and 760 nm. pressure, while a similar quantity of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure weighs but 0.0058 lb.
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every particle of matter in the phy- sical universe responds is the pow CT which we call gravitation. Yet no one ever saw gravitation. Our life could not continue sixty seconds if our breath were to be shut of, yet no one has ever seen air. The greatest power in the modern world is electricity. We see the results of electric power on every side, but can we see electricity? When we get into cosmic rays we still are in the unseen. Why then this com- placent feeling on the party of the worldly that religion is mild and innocuous superstition because 1t deals chiefly with unseen things -- faith, God, eternal life. The sci- entist in the laboratory is all the time dealing with unforeseen forces. Business men. no matter how prac- tical they are, know that many 8 factor in every business situation Is beyond their calculation or control.
 Let us accept the fact that life in alf its aspects deals largely with the unseen and that religion is the best interpretation of the unseen which man has yet discovered.
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The number of states which actually have followed Connecticuts lead in cur tailing the use of metal license plates is on the increase It's said to be fifteen right now. Most of these are doing as we did, too, namely, issuing metal tabs to affix to permanent plates each year. As further elaboration on the license plate salvage idea there's the scheme of affixing decalcomania stickers to wind shields which seven states already have announced they will try. Only four states so far have said they will issue new full-size license plates. And so the trend goes, If this war keeps on, however, there won't need to be too much worry about license plates as the number of cars will decrease pretty rapidly in another year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-25


 The debate got started during a Detroit meeting of Henderson's OPA officials and tank and auto mobile manufacturers. Also pres ent was an uninvited guest, Ut. Col. Ralph G. Boyd of the Quar- termaster Corps.
 And while officials of the Price plans to put a price ceiling over tanks purchased by the army, Col. Boyd suddenly interrupted and told the meeting that he was dead against the plan.
 The tank and auto manufac- turers tilted back their chairs and chortled behind their hands. Here was one branch of the gov- vernment flatly opposed to an- ether branch, in fact undermining its work.
 However, Col. Boyd, a Boston lawyer, continued, and put up very persuasive argument against the OPA's price ceiling plans. He was in favor of the War Depart ment controlling the prices of all military supplies.
 SOMERVELL OBJECTS
 Later, when Boyd's chief in Washington heard about his un- scheduled stump speech, the sparks flew. It. Gen, Brehon Somervell chief of Service and Supply, called in Col. Boyd, told him his behavior was irregular and warned him that this was the kind of conduct which might result in court martial proceed ings.
 Meanwhile, some Of the War De- partment brass-hats apparently side with Col. Byrd. For Con. gressman bod Harter of Akron, Ohio, has introduced a bill, in-
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spired either by the brass-hats or Ohio industrialists, barring the OPA from jurisdiction over mili- tary supplies.
 However, OPA experts point out that on cost-plus contracts, tank manufacturers have no in- centive to keep down labor, ma terials, etc. They merely draw up a cost sheet, add $5,OOO profit for each tank, and the government pays the bill.
 NOTE = OPA Boss Leon Hen- derSon has been lethargic about moving on the army, but his as- sociates are not. Liveliest of the latter is Jonathan Bingham, son of ex-Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut. Scholarly Senator Bingham, once governor of Con- necticut, was arch Republican, ch-conservative, but Jonathan, youngest of seven sons, is archly accused of being an arch-New Dealer.
 QUEEN WILHELMINA
 After her recent visit to the United States, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands went to Cam ada for an official reception be- fore returning to her temporary home in Lee, Mass.
 In crossing the border from Canada to the United States, the Queen was nearly subjected to search. Her private car was hitched to train crowded with delegates to a brewers convention, and as the train crossed the bor- der, en route from Montreal to Albany, the brewers were thor oughly searched.
 Then the customs and immi- grafton inspectors were about to enter the Queens car. But a State Department official, inter- vened. He suggested that Her Royal Highness should be ex- cmpted from the usual search. The inspectors bowed themselves out and left the Queen alone.
 NOTE = The Red Lion Inn at nearby Stockbridge is full of New England dowagers who all fancy themselves ladies-in- waiting on the Queen. They carry them selves with a new hauteur, but are slightly distressed over the fact that Princess Juliana occasionally bfunces about Stockbridge in ten his shoes.
 POST EXCHANGE WASTE
 War Production Board was amazed when it received request from the Army for 6,000,O00 cig- arettes in "flat fifties"-rneaning flat tin boxes of fifty each.
 The WIPE asked the Quarter master Corps what they meant by demanding strategic materials
 tim in such quantities. The answer was-DOn't point your finger at us; we didn't do 1t; it was the Post Exchange.
 Since then, another odd request has come up from Post Exchange. They wanted to supply soldiers overseas with certain soft drink in bottles, thus wasting ship ping space with what is mostly water. The alternative is to ship the extract and make the Crink on the other side, which will be done.
 The faked army story that sabo- teurs plowed markers in fields and placed grain sacks to point the way to airplane plants may have given the War Department g headache, but it brought chuckles elsewhere.
 In Hawaii, for example, the peo- pie are getting a big kick out of 1t After the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor December T there were many naval stories of "arrOws cut in the cane fields" to point the way to the naval base. and simi- lar phoney yarns. despite the ob- yious fact that Pearl Harbor, with it's many anchored warships, was the most conspicuous spot on the tiny island of Oahu.
 Returning navy wives have spread this tale and the Navy ] has done nothing to discourage
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Questions and Answers
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YOUR oUEBTHONS ANSWERED
 The WaseEbwy Democrats Ser. vice Bureau win ansWeg fer you free. any question of fact e in- formation net involving extsns sive research. Write your quas- tSon clearly, aign name and aA- dress, enclose . three cent postage ssamp. Medical or legal aAvaeO cannot Dc given. Address Water bury Democrats Washington ser- vice Bureau. l0l3 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. 0.
 c. How much mail is delivered to the White House daily? Does the President reads any of it2
 A. Between three and four thou sand pieces of mail are delivered daily at the White House. President Roosevelt personally reads . few important communications that are brought to his attention by his staff of secretaries.
 e. Why is the government call, ing for used typewriters?
 A. Because new typewrtters on hand must be sent to the fighting fronts and also because the type writer industry has been converted to making war materials.
 Q. Is Bernard M. Baruch head of any Government agency?
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things which are unseen are vast ly more impor- tant than the t in s which are seen.
 Think about 1t for 8 moment. T h e greatest powers in the D h ysic al uni- verse are all un- seen. The one fornn t0 which
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All American city mayors have been asked to donate World War I cannon to the scrap metal drive. This is at the request of Army officials who believe that these trophies, distributed so generously back about 1919-20, will be willingly of- fered if only everyone can be made to realize how desperate our need for scrap metal.
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 for the answers.
 1. Which Japanese military leader said, Japan is determined to Ge. stroy the United States and Great Britain?
 3. What is the name of the great est oil fields of Russia?
 3. Name the capital of Jugoslavia. 4. Which is sweeter, saccharin or sugar?
 5. On a ship, is a galley a man of all work, the name for drinkingI fountain, or the kitchen.
 6. How many Muses are there in| classical mythology? T. The hero Roland was defeated at Roncevaux; true or falSe2 8. Father Divine recently trans ferred his headquarters from New York to which other large city? g. Does the government redeem counterfeit money9
 10. Which famous baseball played was called Barney" and "Bid Train? l
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TODAYsS COMMON ERROR The name of the thing remem- bered should never be pre- ceded by of. Wrong: 'T re- member of meeting you." Right: '1 remember meeting you."
 courage"
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from non-eSSen- tial to essential in d u s tries, in- creased e m ploy- ment of women and local labor, abSenteeisn, and SO on. All of them cried for action at once, but taking them one at a time it is possible to see what can be done a bou t these problems by v ol u n t ary CO., operation in any war prod uction
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Current Comment

was in Germany just before Hitler came into power and was terribly shocked by the militarism of the very young children.
 --Mayris Chancy, dancer.
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Selected Poem
SONG IN A RATIoNED SUMMER

SONG IN RATIONED SUMMER
 (Minnie Hite Moody in the New York Sum The wheels of whimsy roll no more, my country. Still is the whirling rubber, quiet the highway. We are turned static in the midst of plenty This is not your way and it is not my way. Engines have lost skirmish to their brothers, And so stand stalled beside the road to freedom We have foreseen this since the birth of motors Loudly they warned use, but we would not heed
 them.
 Yet ah my country, we who are young together, And thus resilient, pliant, bent but never broken Call this phase cloud over sunny weather Traffic will move when the last gun has spoken
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL. L. DOUGLASS D. D.

THINGS UNSEEN ARE ETERNAL
 Practical, hard headed men often declare that they will believe only those things which they can see. Show me-" is the rejoinder with which many men meet the funda- mental religious contention that the
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Moving Men
 Into War Work A Ticklish Job
This Is the second of a series On problems of nlanpOwer con- trOI in war industry areas.
By PETER EDISON

By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespondent)
 When the first production area War Manpower Commission office was opened in Baltimore recently, it had half a dozen ready made problems to tackle-labor piracy, labor hoarding, transfer of workers
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

Brossos and 0PA Argue Over Price Ceilings for War Equipment
 CoPus Plan Gives the Manufacturer No Incentive for Economy Queen Whemno Escapes Search By American Customs Officials GMon Hoover Bosts Story of Sabotage Markers in Howo Dec.
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Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Sun rises 6;l1 a. m.; sets 7:37 p. m (war time).. All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
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What Your I. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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EDITORS NOTE-Yf you are desirous of securing this weeks booklet. RACES OF MANKIND, address F. M. Kirby, Department 2-1OO, Waterbury Democrat Serv- ice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, ID. C., with IS cents tot cover postage.