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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
new COUNSELOR
ADDED TO STAFF
DR.. Thomas H. Reed,
Municipal Government
Joins Council

DR.. Thomas H. Reed, nationally
known authority on municipal gov
eminent, has just joined the staff
of the Connecticut Public EXpendi-
ture Council in the capacity Of mu-
nicipal government counselor, 1t was
announced today by Carter w. At
kins, executive director of the or
ganization Mrs. Doris Reed, Dr.
Reeds wife, has also taken posi-
ton with the council as researcher
and analyst.
In addition to being member OF
the New York and California bars,
DR.. Reed brings to the new position
varied experience in municipal
government from both the academic
and practical Standpoints. From
1909-1922 he was professor of mu-
nicipal government at the Univer-
sity Of California and 1922-34 at
the University of Michigan, and in
1880 was visiting professor at Har-
ward University. He is the author
Of number of standard textbooks
and works on government, including
Municipal Management" Munich
pal Government in the United
States" and others.
His practical experience includes
service as city manager of San Jose,
Calf, director of the Consultant
Service of the National Municipal
league and consultant to more than
40 communities throughout the
country, including Pittsburgh, Pa,
st. Louis, Mo, Atlanta, Ga. Rich
mond, Va, Wallingford, Conn, and
Nassau County, N. Y.
"Dr. Reeds intimate knowledge OF
of local government" Mr.. Atkins
said, will be of great help to the
council in finding the answers to
present and future fiscal and ad
ministrative problems of Connect
cut towns and cities. His services
will be especially valuable in amend
ing present city charters and draw
ing up new ones, advising on the
consolidation of overlapping govern
mental units, making detailed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

ridicule and the energy of admoni-
ton, and virtue lovely by animating
all the refined feelings of our nature,
and difplaying the enjoyment of the
Christian"
The public Is being with many
heads, and consequently pffeffes as
many different minds: as thofe can
amply teftify who are the fervants
of its will among whom printers,
perhaps, are the chief buffers and
bakers.
GIVE us more foreign intelligence
fayS the neWfmonger, and let
domeftic politics alone Battle the
fed; dafh away at the demos cries
the politician; fig for your foreign
intelligence, unlefs you can fend
Emperor Buonaparte into England
up to his knees in blood. We do not
want to hear about fhips fpolen at
fea-a courier paffing through Ham
pergocamperdum - Martial Heller
Shelter, holding audience with his
ferene highnefs, the landgrave of
Lubberdegullion or the marriage Of
Count WaddletWattle, with her lady
fhip the duchefs of Winkumfquin-
tum:- let not your paper detail fuch
unimportant adviceS.
Hit the federal or democratic
editors exclaims the third. Moth
ing like TO we'll as fquabbles among
editors. There if fome fun in that
Let us have another novel says Mrs.
Triple I like novels monftroufly,
Especially if there be fomething
fearful in them
Novels fayS old Groufe,-'Non-
fenfe! Give us fomething about
/ farming: tell us how to deftroy the
Hefian fly or fomething about fin
ing cider, or wheat upon clover I
like novels too fays Mrf Shipper,
but befdes them l want good deal
more poetry and a number of queer
ftories about An Necdtoes; I love
to read them terribly "All Witty
Wathy' fayS Jack Gadloper, give us
the fport of the turf; thell us about
the race between Madame Thorn
ton and Mr.. Flint; and her chal-
longing him after fine got beat;
that's dandy
Thus might we go ad minimum
and defcribe the modes which Mr..
Public points out for us to be guided
by in conducting our paper; IN
anfWer, we can only fay, that al
though we confider our own method
beft, yet as foon as they can all
agree upon one plan, we will cheer
fully adopt it, and until them we
thruft we may be permitted to jog
on in the old way of giving little
of everything which we confider the
most important, for
"If all the lad were paper
and all the fea were ink
1t would fill be impoffible for Us
to comply with all the demands OF
the Public, until thofe demands be-
came more united.
So back to Times Square in this
year of 1943, about one hundred and
forty years since that was written
and we find a sea of paper each
different yet all finding ready sale
TO people away from home.
J. JAY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
DAWSON CHOSEN
FOR CLERKSHIP
James E. Mcknight Sue
Ceeds Freeman as Supe=
riOr Court Clerk

Attorney Andrew D. Dawson was
named common pleas court clerk to
succeed Attorney James E. NC
Knight who was moved up to the
post of superior court clerk by state
judges at annual meetings yesterday
in Hartford. Mr.. Mcknight will
succeed George H. Freeman who will
retire July l.
A member of the bar since 1913
when he received his law degree
at Yale Law school, Mr.. Mcknight
was named clerk of the common
pleas court following it's reorganiza-
ton in July. 1941. He was at one
time associated in the practice of
law with the late Attorney James
E. Russell and later in the firm of
Mcknight, Mascolo, and Dausch. His
name led the list of possible can
didates for the higher court post
mentioned in the Democrat the day
Mr.. Freeman announced his resig-
nation, April 5, and his appointment
had been widely predicted since
then.
Also elected yesterday was Attor-
ney Miles F.. McNiff, Jr., to the post
of coroner He had been acting
in that capacity since William B.
Hennessy announced his resigna-
ton recently.
Mr.. Dawson who also will as
sumo duties July l is a graduate
of Waterbury high school and Cath
Ole University and received his law
degree at Georgetown University.
All other personnel Of the local
courts remains unchanged. Justices
Of the supreme court and judges of
the superior court met and voted
on the superior court appointments,
while the common pleas court Judges
decided the change in the lower
court.
The superior court judges also
named Attorney J. Howard Roberts
of Thomaston, prosecutor of the
common pleas court of Litchtield
county. to the post of states at
torney Of Litchfield. He will sue
coed William H. Blodgett July /,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
Good Evening.
THE HOUSE

There is the big house We always liked,
We passed it often biked
In the most exclusive part Of the toUn
Sort of tanniSh and trimmed with brown
We wheeled by with feeling of awe
1t was the incest, biggest house We ever saw,
All surrounded by an iron fence,
The shrubbery about houriShing and dense.
We often stopped parked bikes outside
To look in the lawns gre. ii and VICE,
Didn't tarry long for they said the owner was queer
But we loved to get a sight of tie iron deer.
Those were the days when the house seemed remote,
Among Cedar City's famous dWellngs-quote.
But time and tide changes have made,
And though the house" still sets back in the shade
There's no ron deer gazing at you across the lawn
Cars whiz by Idly from dusk till dawn
The iron fence is gone, also the porte cochere
THE house seems to have lost its looks so fair.
Changed it appears with new facade
From those days when you were a lad.
The shady street is alert and busy,
The traffic through would make you Cizzy.
Gone are the old owners, all their dogs and cats,
For the house" today is made into twenty fats.
EN- EN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
Breezing Round New York
Go and What to See Where to Eat and What to Do

New York, June 8 Those who
would like to meet somebody from
the old home town" sojourning
New York find it reasonably possible
by visiting one of the out-of-toWn
newspaper stands. The most prom
inent of which is located in Times
Square.
There is another group of people
that are interested in the news
papers coming in from everywhere.
They are they actors and actresses
who are keen to know how their
colleagues CONTOUR are making out.
Everything may seem lovely in the
Occasional letter, but the news Stor-
les on the local amusement pages
are much more enightening on a
real friend who would not take ad-
vantage of one who has scaled the
heights Of public acclaim and is anx-
ious to lend hand to another per-
hapS not so high on the ladder OF
success.
Leslie Howard was being discussed
at Sardis before matinee time to-
day, where among those present we're
Sally Turner assistant to the pub
Usher of NeWsWeek, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
Norman Tveter and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lou Erwin.
Howard it was recalled demon
Strated his ability to be eccentri-
cally thoughtful and considerably
tactiful In endeavors to help real
friend. He was constantly beseeched
by thousands of fair weather ones
that wanted only to accomplish
something usually mercenary in the
final achievement, and with no true
sense of responsibility OF friends
from the heart.
I generally judge celebrities by
their handling of neWsboys and other
callers of seemingly no consequence
to them. Excluded from this group
is the gang of thirteen and fourteen
year autographs pests that clutter
sidewalks And 43rd, 44th, 45th and
46th Street stage doors and pounce
on theatrical favorites at the slight
est opportunity as hey come or go
to work.
One in Mr.. Towards dressing
room 1 noticed a stack of out-of-
town newspapers he had been per-
using. His heart throbs came by
following some friends tour. Here
was an actor that could write about
their clippings quicker than his pals
could get letter to Broadway on
what was happening.
| He had expressed some glowing
opinions on newspapers and feat
ures. Though it might be an idea
for newspapers to write about news
papers. 1t had been my intention to
give him a quote from just such a
newspapers description of over one
| hundred newspapers of the early
180O's written in 1905 I hope good
news may yet arrive to make it
! possible.
/ The clipping in it's original form
/ prints "f' for IS" and states in part:
THAT no perfons might be difgufted
with this fspecimen of the talents
of thofe who write for our daily
and weekly chronicles of the times;
all political difcuffions, ieus d'esprit
and caricatures, although many of
them be intrinsically excellent in
themselves are entirely omitted. But
its purity recommends the volume
whilft many parts of it will produce
the hearty laugh" no one page Will
excite a blufh in the check OF
Inodefty, or fanction any impro-
priety of conduct. Its object is to
render vice odious by the lafh OF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

behind the sweeping orders and
regulations that come from the
Labor Minister and the Deputy
Labor Minister who also is Director
of Selective Service, as representa-
tives of the Governor in Council.
They act under the War Measures
Act of the First World War, revived
by proclamation, and the National
Resources Mobilization Act of 1910.
Those are legal blank checks. The
new law authorized the Governor in
Council to require person to place
themselves, their services and the
property at the disposal of His
Majesty in the right of Canada .
for the efficient prosecution of the
War.
NEXT: Canada goes into high
gear for war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

tween this and living under the Axis
So he cooperateS.'
NO PROPAGANDA
NEEDED
So too, government spokesman
add, when they decide on a new
man-poWer control-they just put
up a sign! They considered a cam
paign of public education to pro-
mote compliance with compulsory
transfers, but did not conduct any
because they found that notices
posted in newspapers and public
buildings evoked overwhelmingly
voluntary compliance.
The enforcing agencies, 280-odd
Selective Service and ManpoWer Of
fees, dot the country They have
about 5000 salaried stafferS, and
1900 non-salaried officials, paarti-
cularly judges.
The citizen has some recourse
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

You know, Canadians all grumble
it sort of keeps up our morale
An inspector of war materials
whose third son is about to volun-
teer for the Navy complained that
manpoWer rules fall harder on
civilians than military regulations
do on potential fighters. IF they
handle civilians this way, why don't
they conscript for foreign military
service?"
However, he answered himself,
saying, "Of course, the restriction
of foreign service to those who VOL
unteer for it is getting to be merely
technical: Men are called up for
home service and after they're
trained an officer lines them up six
inches from a wall and asks all
who'll not go over to fight for Can
ada to step back a pace, and ma
turally no man does. And I will say
the government does nice job of
keeping prices down"
LITTLE CHANGE IN
LIVING COSTS
Canadian price-control is spectac-
ular. The cost Of living index in
ched up but 81 points during 13
months to last November l; in about
the same time the U. S. index rose
8 points.
A cost-of-living bonus helped to
accomplish this OPA'S dream. The
cost of living is reviewed every
three months and when 1T has moved
point, cash bonus automatically
goes to workers. 1t is paid by the
employer or the government or both.
Rationed severely: Whiskey, ale,
tea, coffee, butter.
Regular wage rates are pegged al
so, but adjustments have been many.
The average weekly earnings of man
ufacturing Workmen rose about Is
per cent in the year ended last
September l. Farmers gross cash
receipts also went up, about 20 per
cent. Then the government attacked
food price increases and other
threatened further rises directly by
by substituting producers for speci-
fic purposes such as to reduce the
retail price of coffee 4 cents; tea,
10 cents; milk, 2 cents.
There is a 100 per cent excess
war profits tax. This, and steep in
come taxes, keep the average bust
ness man just about where he was
during four years before the war,
officials estimate.
1.-THE whole picture would look
simply preposterous to the average
business man in normal times"
explained a Wartime Prices and
Trade Board officer, formerly in a
large industry himself. He is nor
mally just as stubborn a stickler as
an American for free enterprise, but
he's smart enough to choose be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

nom compliance with the permit
system, 102 for failure to take en-
ployment; and but 165 appeals from
Selective Service officers decisions.
Critics say that means enforce
ment is limited, and that manpower
authorities use their vast admins
trative authority unequally from one
case to the next.
It's certainly evident that they use
pressures besides the many prescrib-
ed. One official told me that an en-
ployer who refuses to cooperate may
find himself low on the priority
schedule within his industry.
There's plenty of legal authority
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

analyses of municipal revenues and
expenditures, and the like"
Mrs. Reed has acted as secretary
to many governmental and educa-
tional organizations and committees
in Cleveland, Ohio, Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, Pa, and New York
City. She has also been connected
in managerial capacity with sew
eral educational radio programs.
During recent years Mrs. Reed has
participated closely with her hus-
band in making detailed surveys of
various city governments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Mrs. Ann Bessette of 369 Oakvile Avenue, with two
in the service deserves top place in the Waterbury
Bond Buyers Hall of Fame. She invests her entire SEQ
will pay every week in bonds and inaugurated that plan
since Pearl Harbor Her Order son, Bill is corporal
somewhere in the Pacific where he'll probably remain
i'm North Africa with anti-arcraft unit. The
War Bonds she is buying not only help to
keep them supplied with the materials they need
to defend themselves and beat the Axis those War Bonds
will build buy nee comfortable farm somewhere in
the country where Mr. and Mrs. Bessette and the boys
settle down to raise chickens or something in peace
and comfort and quet-without the worry of Hats
off to Ann Bessette!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
Dominion Citizens Complain But Comply
AS Rigid Rules Govern Work And Wages
Second Of Three Articles.)
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
NEA Staff Correspondent

Ottawa june Scanadian grouse and obey They toe the mark in
their
thing they do not judge them Americans standards of ndd
ual liberty different yardsck of what's
effective
time controls of civilian life.
Everything is different the chambemad the
governments paa baemented where
wealthy dned beside moake Everybody who
really works And the pay! Still maybe it's better this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
CAUSE FOR DIVORCE

San Jose, Cal. (UP)-Calitornians
invariably stand up for California
and especially Its climate. SO when
A. H. Harpr told Superior Judge M.
G. Eutolo that his wife had refused
to follow him here from Dnver the
Judge said that was cause for di-
Vorce and granted 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
w o r L D w A r
A YEAR AGO
JUNE 8, 1912

British broadcast warning to
the French to evacuate coastal
zone from the Belgian to the
Spanish frontiers; say "the sue
cess of operations of capital i'm
portance" would be predicated on
the evacuation of the Atlantic
coastal districts of occupied
France.
In Battle of Libya, British halt
German attack on Knightsbridge
position south of TObruk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Mr.. and Mrs Fred Erwin of East Main Street
residents of Franklin Street until month ago, will
celebrate 20 years of welded bliss Friday July Fred
by the way, is the keabe chap who waits table at
Chris Harmon's popular Baldwin Street eatery.
Charley "Son" Martin is home furlough from Camp
Forrest Tennessee elated at his recent promotion
to Corporal TeCnnician.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Jim Tracy, former resident of South Street and one
of the citys outstanding basketball players few seasons
back is passing out the smokes in compliment to his
born last week The proud mother is the former
Helen Mccarthy of West Main Street The Tracys are
now residents of Meriden Charles Daily Jr., of
the borough clerk in Naugatuck will join the u S,
Marines July l. His dad is ex-serviceman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Nunzio Perugini of Oakville is enrolled at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology in the basic engi
neering course of the Army Specialized Training Pro-
gram The basic consists of three 12week terms
at college level He is the of Antonio Perugini of
Tucker Avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Second Lieutenant George W. Schaffer, son of Mr.
and Mrs Frederick W. Schafer of sc TroWbridge Place.
Naugatuck stationed a. Luke Field Advanced Fly
ing School in Arizona as flight instructor graduate
Of Naugatuck High School George was an accountant
with the Naugatuck Chemical Company before entering
the Air Corps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Rev. Francis Murphy, Washington Hill native who
quite baseball player during his days at ST. Marys
School, guest of his mother and sisters the past
weekend. The former Washington Park playground
supervisor returned to New York City Sunday after
noon but will return to the Brass City Thursday morn
ing to celebrate his fathers first anniversary Mass ne
expects to depart South America Roman Catholic
missionary within three months He'll be in that country
10 years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

from official decisions. For example,
if he objects to the particular job
transfer arranged for him, he can
appeal to Referees Court COM
posed of workers and employers
representatives and an impartial
chairman. However, if he loses there
he is subject to penalties, including
forced labor in a work camp. Gases
of noncompliance go to the en-
ployment office manager, who talks
to the holdout, and, if that fails, to
the Justice Department for prose-
cution.
Both procedures have been in
Voked remarkably seldom. There
have been only light prosecutions for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Billy Kaosky former West Side Speedboys hoop
star, is second class at the Hotel Somerset
in Boston where he is studying radio Russ Mclean,
teammate of BiIy's, is studying aviation mainte
nance for the Navy in Memphis, Tennessee. Lois H.
Troske is lieutenant with the A.N.C at the sta
ton hospital in Camp Edwards, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Phyllis Walch of Torrington awarded the st.
Jane Theresa Alumnae prize merit for clinical nurs-
ing at annual commencement exercises of ST. Francss
Hospital Training School in Hartford Sunday after
noon. Another New Cityite Emily Wanat was recipi-
ent of the Mother Ann Valencia prize More than
two-thrds of the graduating class already pledged
to service in the armed forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08
THE PEDnLER
BY Daniel B. Straley

We thought 1t very jolly
When with cane ana STOPPING back,
The sweaty, wiley peddler
Came with strapped up oilcloth pack
Through the yard gate unafraid
OF the barking dogs TRADE,
Nor his shifts, for friendly clues,
At the thick soled dusty shoes,
How we waited agitated
AS he knocked upon the door
Then with many a word and gesture
Set his pack down on the floor.
There undid each shiny buckle
And the cover laid aside
To display to our amazement
All the treasures stored inside.
Oh, department stores are splendid
And exclusive shops are grand,
But none ever gave me pleasure
Nor enticed my ardent hand
AS the store the peddler carried,
Strapped and buckled in pack,
Over childhood's dusty roadWays
On his sweaty STOPPING back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-08

Good Night.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
FWA Refuses
School Funds
For Alexandra
Says City Is Able
To Beur Cost of
Enrolment Rise

The Alexandria Board of Educa-
tons application for $4,000 in Fed
eral funds for maintenance and
operation of schools has been re-
jected by the Federal Works Agency
on grounds of ineligibility.
The city's application for Lanham
Act funds was based on the number
OF children of war workers recently
added to the schools enrolment.
The FWA refused the request, say
ing 1T does not appear that the city
would find 1t impossible to meet the
financial needs of the school board
without excessively burdening it.
SELF according to Mr.. Sullivan.
T. c. Williams, superintendent of
schools, would make no comment on
the rejection, or on the next move
to be made until after the school
board meets tomorrow night.
The Alexandria School Board has
experienced long delays in obtaining
funds from FWA both for estab-
lishment of the day care centers
and for additions to the schools to
take care of increased enrollments,
but in both cases the applications
were approved and the checks finally
received.
Henry j. Sullivan, assistant re-
gional FWA director, in announcing
the rejection yesterday, said:
In our opinion refusal by the
Federal Works Agency to make an
allotment of Federal funds in the
amount requested would in no way
impede national defense activities.
Furthermore, it is our considered
opinion that the city can provide
the required funds without the i'm
position of an excessive increased
tax burden upon its citizens.
You have based your request for
Government financial aid on the
increase in the population and the
increased school enrolment caused
by the influx of persons connected
with war activities. While we fully
appreciate this fact, it does not ap-
pear from data presented that the
city would find it impossible to meet
the financial needs of the school
board without excessively burdening
itself, and we therefore disapprove
your request"
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Dr.. BeachIey Warns
AGAINST Spotted Fever

Although no cases of Rocky Noun
tain spotted fever have been found
in Arlington County, several have
beens discovered in nearby areas, it
was reported today by DR.. Ralph G..
Beachley, Arlington County health
office, who warned county residents
to take all precautions against the
disease, which is carried by ticks.
This disease returns each year
with warm weather. he said, and
ticks ordinarily are found on weeds
and shrubbery. People accustomed
to working in the garden or yard or
who 60 on trips in the country
should be especially careful. he said.
In removing ticks, special care
should be taken to handle them with
tweezers and to wear gloves. Iodine
should be applied to the points of
attachment, continued DR.. Beach
ley.
The vaccine which has been avail
able in previous years can be OBJ
tained only for immunizing individ-
uals whose occupation requires that
they be in the open continuously, he
said.
DR.. Beachley also suggested par
ents examine their children before
bedtime each night. If dogs or cats
are allowed in the house, he said,
care should be taken to remove all
ticks from them.