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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16
What, No Controversy?

The two major radio networks stirred up a hornets nest when they decided not to permit the Consumer Cooperative movement to buy time on the air in which to promote their philosophy and program. Originally the networks seemed bit un- certain of their reasoning. Columbia eX- plained that it was barring the program to protect the cooperative movement against counter-attackS from powerful opponents who might buy time in which to blast the coopS N. B. C. cited long standing rule against controversies other than political.
 Now the two have got together and agree that the philosophy of consumer cooperation in purchasing is controversial and must not be placed upon the ether waves. In common with many others who have been bred in the democratic tradition, We are shocked. And our reac- tion has nothing whatever to do with our attitude toward the cooperative move ment.
 Of course the movement is controver- Sial. If it weren't, either there would be no such movement at all or it would be universally accepted. In that event there would be no reason for it's sponsors to seek time on the air in which to explain and argue their theories and practices. And what of that? Have We reached a stage in which purveyorS of information and opinion, licensed by the government to utilize the air which is common public property, can decide what controversies thCir listeners shall be privileged to hear, and from which they must be protected?
 We are fighting today to preserve de- mocracy. + democracy means anything at all, it means the right of the people to hear arguments on every side of every question, to repeat and elaborate them, to decide their merits, and right or wrong = to act on those decisions. Who are the nabobs of radio to say whether we shall be privileged to hear the cooper atorS tell their story and then, if oppo- : nents choose to hear the contrary argu- mentS?
 If the cooperativeS had beSought the networks for free time, then the nabobs would have a right to decide whether the proposed program would have public appeal. But the cooperativeS did not seek something for nothing. They offered to pay for their program just, like any ad- vertiser. Their proposed program con tained nothing offensive to good taste, nothing injurious to public morals, noun ing harmful to national safety.
 Democracy has survived and flourlSned in this country because up to now every medium of public education has been wide open for presentation of the most controversial ideas so that the people could accept what they chose, reject what they pleased. If radio cannot live up to this fundamental of democracy, then the time may have come to reaSseSS the place of radio in our educational system.
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them up, many lives might have been saved and injuries avoided. WILD BILL" DONOVAN
 A lot of people had a hand in preparing the African Expedition ary Force, among them being Col. wild Bill' Donovan, now head of the Office of Strategic Services, which deals with the tough job of spurring on the underground" in Europe.
 Donovan made a flying trip through the Mediterranean in the spring of l9i1 and was partly re- Sponsible for the stand of the Jugoslavs against the Nazis. Lac ter he reported to Roosevelt that the Mediterranean was the soft est" part of the Na1 armor.
 Later, the President himself had most to do with the actual plan ming of the campaign, though the best part of the whole thing was the way everyone-Army, Navy, Donovan Committee and State De- partment pulled together.
 NOTE-Wise Admiral Leahy, former Ambassador to V!chy, con- sistently told the President that the French would not fight. even when State Department advisers on the eve of battle said that they would.
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take great care to haul their idols away in carts. Isaiah laughs at the whole scene and taunts those who are so silly as to worship a god they have to carry. God. says the pro- phet. is supposed to carry you. You don't have much of a religion if you have to carry it. A religion is use- less unless 1t carries you. The true God. who is Jehovah. says. T have made, and I will carry"
 Here is a lesson for many of us, Do we have a religion which we have to lug about and take great care of lest something do it harm? Or do we have a religion which car- ries us through deep water and over rough highways and is every ready to protect us?
 For some people religion is bur- den; for others 1t is a well of water springing up unto eternal life. If we really believe God made Us we can believe that He will carry us through until the end.
 Religion when it is sound is not burden but c support. We don't have to wear ourselves out carrying it--it carries us.
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Press Comment
TO SELL MORE WAR BONDS
Hartford Times)


 Connecticut is among the ten states which have made the best records in sales of War Bonds through payroll deductions. We are topped by only six states all hay ing much greater population. Some of our industries, such as United Aircraft, Bridgeport Brass Company General Electric, are among those heading the list of corporations which have made outstanding rec ords.
 This is gratifying to industry and workers alike, but 1t is not enough. The Treasury Department says that on Sept. some 20,000,000 persons were buying bonds through the pay roll deduction plan. The percentage of payroll turned into bonds was 7.2 and the average monthly deduction was SIS. Bond sales were at the rate of S265 100000 a month from pay roll deductions. By the middle ot November the percentage was ex- pected to rise to 8 and the monthly deductions to s300,000, 900.
 Now the Treasury is about to be- gin campaign to raise the average payroll deduction to 10 per cent and to increase the number of workers pledged to buy War Bonds through deductions by 100000. go that with- in short time 3i 100000 will be buying bonds, and the average monthly individual investment will be SIS instead of the present SIS.
 This campaign should have the cooperation of all employers and employees. Of course it will remain for ach worker to make his own de- cision as to what he can afford to
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New York City gasoline

New York City gasoline rationing authorities mean business. Notice has already been served on number of hold CTS of ''B" and ''C" books that they must surrender them. The reason - well, "spotters" have been working at various sports stadia in the vicinity of New York in the last month or so. They have noted down the numbers of cars, with "B" and "C" ration Stickers Then the owners were summoned to hearing by the ration board. If they could prove that they had driven less than the 90 miles of "non-occupational" usage per mitted month they were not held. But those who were exceeding the limit were told they would have to give up the ex- tra-allowance ration card. And not only that but a bit of notoriety will be at tached to the check-up So all in all attendance at horse races, football games, and such must be governed, if you drive by car, by the rationing regulations.
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This was the plan put forward by Michigan's Senator Vanden- berg and other Republicans iln- mediately after the big COP gains Nov. 3. Some Democrats at first were reported to favor the ideas, but Administration leaders used a very simple thought ef- fective remedy to block it.
 They invoked the pride, power and prestige of Congressional committee chairmen. The chair men of committees in the House and Senate enjoy enviable posi- tions. Their influence with the executive branch of the govern ment is great. They can call at the White House almost at will. The Committees run Congress, and to a considerable extent, the chairmen run the committees.
 So the last thing the chair men want is to have their power sidetracked by a super-commit- tee, which would go over their heads and confer direct with the White House, State, War and
 Navy Departments.
 To make sure the super war committe idea was circumvented, Senator walsh of Massachusetts, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, agreed with his com mittee members last week that he would demand a full report from Secretary Knox on the status of the Navy since Pearl Harbor. Naval Affairs Committee mem- bers said they were tired of get- ting information about the Navy from Washington columnists, and wanted a report first hand.
 Senator Reynolds of North Carolina, chairman of the Mili- tary Affairs Committee, will make a similar request to the War Department.
 NOTE: Last May, when the Naval Affairs Committee wanted
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16
Speedster Smith

Some time before election Gerald L, K, Smith, fascist-minded independent can didate for the U. s. Senate, threatened to drive from Detroit to Kalamazoo at 60 miles an hour, to see whether Leon Hen- derSon was boss in Michigan. We never did hear what happened.
 We hope that, even for effect, Michigan did not let Smith get away with such an act. If he did what he threatened, and it can now be proved, the election is over and the time has come for action by the authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16

Members of Chicago's Mercantile Ex- change predict that there'l be butter ra- tioning after the first of the year. And here's one commodity that the house. wives won't be able to hoard. Spoilage will prevent anyone trying to lay in a large supply of butter. It's surprising there hasn't been a shortage before this, for it's obvious that the dairy industry has been extremely hard hit by the war. There aren't enough dairy hands now to take care of the great herds and as a result farmers are selling off their cattle and even their dairies. Sooner Of later some means of apportioning out farm la bor to prevent serious foodstuff curtall- ment will have to be discovered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16
Systematic Saving

Only through systematic saving on the part of everybody can imitation be averted, Assistant Treasury Secretary John L. Sul- livan told savings bank officials the other day. He might have gone further and said what is in the back of every official mind and many others.
 Only by systematic voluntary saving can an otherwise objectionable scheme for compulsory savings going far beyond the tentative start made in the Victory Tax - be avoided. In other words, you can save voluntarily or under compul- sion, but save you must.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16
Tvuewriter Strategist?

Criticism of United Nations war con- duct has teen rather scoffingly brushed off by high authority as the product Of typewriter strategists, with an inference that critics would keep still if they knew better. The jibe was occasioned in large part by second front agitation
 Then came Jan Christian Smuts, pre- mier of the Union of South Africa, British imperial field marshal, urging an imme- diate aggressive. Is Marshal Shuts, too, a typewriter strategist?
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 e. How may Q worker obtain . copy of the rules and regulations concerning the stabiiizing of the no" tlonal economy by the Presldents
 A. The National War Labor Board has been flooded with TO. quests for information concerning the executive order signed by the President on october 2. They re quest employers and employees not to write, telegraph or telephone Washington with specific inquiries. Rules and regulations will be issued as promptly as possible. The board plans to issue explanatory bulletins and rulings which will reach eln- ployers and employees through their daily newspaper, over the radio, or through their trade association or labor union publication.
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have taken from his wages for inc vestment in bonds. Many may not be able to do more than they have been doing. but there are many em" players who have not given their workers a chance to buy through de. auctions. These should join in the payroll deduction plan. It Is a vel. come form of cooperation with the government at c time of national crisis. The more money is invested in War Bonds the less need there will be for increased taxes and the less danger of infiation. Empioyes invariably are responsive to the ap. peal for bond purchases. Employ" CTS should be equally so, and no doubt will be.
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Incidentally, authorities tell us now that the proposed meat rationlng pro gram won't go into effect until next spring It was supposed to begin Janu- ary l. The postponement is to permit further study of meat consumption taoleS for different sections of the nation. All of which means that we can help lot by our own individual conservation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16

family and occupational driving, what mileage per gallon does the OPA allow7
 A. Fifteen miles per gallon.
 o. A finance company has noti- fled us that an auto our son was buying before he was drafted will be repossessed. We understood thai this was not possible under the law protecting soldiers and sailors from loss of property.
 A. Under the Soldiers and Sail- ors' Civil Relief Act of l940, as amended in i942, an auto may be repossessed because of the rapid de- terioration of such property. How ever. finance companies cannot re- pcssess such cars until court has had them appraised, and the com panies must pay the serviceman any excess over the amount Of It's claim.
 O. When was the last time the United States had a national Day. light Saving Time law?
 A. The Daylight Saving Act, ap- proved March l9, 1918, advanced standard time throughout the United States and Alaska one hour for the period each year beginning at 2 a. m on the last Sunday Of March and ending at 2 a. m. on the last Sunday of october. The law was repealed August 20. 1919, ovei President Wilson's veto. and be- came effective at midnight, October 25, 1920.
 c. Is the word none" singular or plural?
 A. It may be either. dependinl on the context. As a subject 1t l. usually plural. as None of theii works are extarlt" A familiar uSI in the singular Is "None but thG brave deserves the fair" There fl none" means not one; "there ara none" implies the absence of more than one.
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IT h c strategic possessions are SE Pierre and MtQuelo on, is. lands just south Of NewfoUnd., land, MNret. "a 1 a n c and 0uadeloupe in the eastern Caribbean, and
 French Guiana on the northern coast of South
 America, While all have been the cause Uf
 trouble and dip- InaaAnllA allnirnn.
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Current Comment

If we are fighting for our lives, high schools and colleges and finish ing this and finishing that must be secondary.
 , Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey.
 The aircraft industry is on the threshold of fulfilling President Rooseyelts apSeal for an annual production rate of 60000 planes. -Aeronautical Chamber of Com
 merce.
 All businesses must look forward to losing many more employees to the armed services. They must expect that most of their employees of draft age for whom they have secured de- ferments will soon be called up for military duty, and they should be already training requirements. Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayres, econ omist.
 Most important in prolonging life after 50 are sound rules of diet and personal hygiene and suitable atten- tion to the detection of degeneratiye diseases at the earliest possible mos ment.
 Morris Fishbein. editor of The
 Journal of the American Medical
 Association.
 Hitler sees with amazement that our defeats are but stepping stones to victory. and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.
 Winston Churchill.
 We are in the midst of man. kinds greatest war, a war to decide whether tn march of progress shall proceed or be halted. President Roosevelt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16

AVH thhG @nnWGaoe
 i. Name the two Aleutian Islands occupied by Japarese which they have now abandoned?
 2. Do foreign women who marrS American men automatically ac. uuire citizenship of the United States?
 3. Iraq is in Mesopotamia; trus or false?
 {. Tn which government depart ment is Sumner Welles Under Sec retary?
 5. Which U. s. President iived longest?
 G. Tn which game must one pes 6l holes to wir?
 2. What country did the Sas' sanid kings rule?
 8. Does a cats upper jaw move up and down or sideways?
 9. "The owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea" in what kind of c boat?
 10. Who converted Timothy to Christianity?
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you who are left in Isr c a l, my load since your mother bore you, Even down to old age I will hold you up. .. I have made, and I will carry"
 The words are preceded by an account of how in case of defeat in battle the Bab- vinnfang Wnfild d
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Selected Poem
LEAST sANDPIPERs

(Harry Elmore Hubb in the New York Times) Where dripping flats lay steaming in the sun I watched a flock of least sandpipers run Erratically alon gthe neutral shore; Earthbent-inquest of nourishment-before gust of purpose lifted them Ike leaves Swirled in strophic patterns by a breeze In Autumn Flecks of shade beneath the sun They moved as though their many wills were one. Fitting synchonously their feathered wnite Against the wider wingspread of the light
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. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
French Islands Over Here Are
 Again In Limelight
ny PETER EDsEN CNateFAury Democrat Washington CorroSnandensl

French possessions ln the West. eEn Hemisphere are again ln Che nmellsht NS A result Of the North African occupation by ., & troops,
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ToDAY'S COMMON ERROR The verb contemplate should
 not be combined with . prep- osltion. Do not say "T con.
 template to sec him next week.; "contemplate seeing him."
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D.

RELIGION CARRIES THE LOAD
 In the 46th chapter of Isaiah oc- cur words which may well escape the notice of even the most careful Bible reader. They are as follows: Listen to me, o house of Jacob:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets l:O5 a. m. (war tine). Sun rises TAO a. m.: sets 5:34 p. m. twar time). All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
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WASHINGTON November Quietly but firmly Administration leaders nave Republicans Tn President regarding
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16
Washington Merry Go-Round DREW PEARSON PE

Administration Leoders Quietly Kill ldeo of Super Woommittee Chomen Foresow Eclipse of Power and Pestse Cc Wronsed Full Publication of Roood Accident Fsures
 Lines Dene uneed for Mokns Eoe Reports Aid Safety Record
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Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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family and occupational driving, what mileage per gallon does the OPA allow2
 A. Fifteen miles per gallon.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-17
Bouts TO Aid
War Stamp Sale

Nine bouts OF boxing will be
staged in the outdoor amateur
boxing show and community en-
tertainment TO be held at s
tomorrow night on the play
ground of the Birdhurst Recrea-
ton Center. 20455 Woodingham
drive. Admission will be by war
stamps on sale at the Center.
The show is sponsored by the
Birdhurst Youth Organization for
the purpose of stimulating the sale
OF war stamps in the community
and TO develop greater co-opera-
ton in the war effort.
The feature event will be the
match between Johnnie Saputa
and Jimmie Owens at 112 pounds.
Other bouts have as contenderx Joe Dob.
bins vs. Henry Smith. Larry Green VS..
Charlie Rookard. Herbert Rhodes vs.
Reuben Newkirk. Charlie PadAlino vs..
Willie Jeter.
Willie Fiournoy vs.. Bobby Renrick. Sam
Hughes vs.. Eddie Owens. Eddie Callahan
ys. Ralph Charton. Pharaoh Brooks vs..
johnnie Hill.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-17
DR.. Eddie's Hopeful
Anderson's Squad Is Small at Iowa and Faces One
Of Toughest Schedules
BY LEO FISCHER
International News Service sports Writer

Bon Lauterbach Is the only vet
eran, but Forrest Masterson, q
220-pounder, has shown enough tC
take the inside track for the reg
Iular berth.
The best OF the backfield ma
terial seems to be Tom Farmer
He has been working both at left
half and quarterback and car
pass. kick or run with any in the
conference.
At right half. senior Bill Strauss
Is top man. Jim Youel and Ben
Trickey, both of whom won let
ters last season, are listed as the
leaders among the quarterbacks
So far as fullbacks go, two sopho-
mores are the best hopes. They
are Dick Doerner of Dubuque and
Charles Uknes, a cotton-top from
Sioux City.
Ted Curran, a sophomore from
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-17

Jackson, well known breeder OF
English Springer spaniels, has
been arranged. Champion English
settlers, pointers and hound dogs
will be on display for hunters.
COON CHASE TOO
A coon dog chase, with the coun-
try's finest hounds will be held
both days. Joe Joe, the world
champion coon dog, will run with
nine other hounds a mile and a
half course that ends in front OF
the grand stand, where live coon
will be securely and safely placed
well out of their reach.
Announcing the events on the
public address system will be Jack
Story, the Mail Order Cowboy"
from the plains of Kansas. Story,
who is on his way here from Ore
gon, where he was master of cere-
monies of the famed Pendleton
Round Up, is a show. in himself.
he is a down-to-the-earth
rancher Jack has had his share of
risky adventures too. He flew
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-17
.PhiNy Hockey
Team Quits

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. II
INS).-Lack of first class mate
rial was the reason given for
with drawal of Philadelphia s
Hockey Rockets from the Amer
lean Professional League for one
year.
Pete Tyrrell. general manager
OF the Arena, which operated the
Rockets, has received permission
of Maurice Podloff, league presi-
dent, to withdraw his team. They
finished last in the 1941-42 season.
Tyrrell, however, left the door
open for possible competition next
year by stating that if conditions
improve and enough material is
found, the Rockets would apply
for reinstatement.
In the meantime, Tyrrell an
nounced that college teams may
avail themselves of the Arena ice.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-17
Local Yachting
Year Nedrs End

Local yachting will wind up its
season on Lake st. Clair as far as
the bigger boats are concerned in
next Sundays fourth annual
Crosse Pointe Yacht Club Blue
Nose Race"
This event. inaugurated four
years ago by Tore Franzen. who
is still chairman of the GPYC
race committee, is one of the
popular events of the season. on
the regatta calendar.
Only one of last years winners
in the three classes provided for
in the program will race in the
fleet of 35 expects boats Sunday.
She is Andy Langhammer's Ram
bier vi, on top again in cruising
class racing locally this season.
Fred Temple, who won with
Siren in the racing division, will
be sailing his second new eight
meter, Warrior. Her skipper. Dave
Kathmar, racing-cruising winner,
is in storage. Sloss is now an Of
ficer in the coast guard.
Apache. Toot Gmeiner's cutter,
which lost to Kathmar by four
seconds a year ago. will be out TO
make clean sweep of -honors IN
her class for the year. She hasn't
lost a race this year on Lake st.
Clair.