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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

chronicle of military aircraft, a history of battles won and lost, the testing of theories in actual combat and digest of opinions on air power, his own included.
 The author goes extensively into the writings of Gen. Giulio Dou- het, the Italian general who died in 1880 and left behind him ideas which have had a powerful influ- ence on the war in the skies. He advocated mass bombing, destruc- tion of targets as wave after wave of planes swept over designated area and banked on the resultant collapse of morale as the conse- quent death of civilians occurred. The gentle general also favored the use of gas bombs. Caldwell points out that, while Douhet's idea of using long-range heavy bombers has borne bitter and ef- fective fruit, his sum-and-total theories sound. And Douhet never reckoned on the heroic resistance of the people of London.
 The Battle of Bataan, the air battles of the South Pacific, the struggle on the Russian front and the limitations of air power are all carefully gone into. Foreworded by Capt. Eddie Richenbacker, the book is food for thought and ma terial for hot arguments. if you know any military aviation strat- egists, amateur or professional.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

but plastic surgery and an arti- fcial eye have left little trace of the damtge. Walter x is working now and doing well, but he didn't have lot of jobs to choose from In fact, it took several days of patient selling by the USES to get him job at all.
 Manchester has trained 40 vol unteers to go into USES local of- fees and there do for city veterans the kind of personalized selling job that the neighbors do for "Joe Taylors boy" in cross roads town. Also, at this center, able specialists are ready to check the veterans health, physical ano mental, and furnish him and his prospective employer with exact data on bis limitations and assets If necessary, he will be steered to free treatment, education, re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
By MARGUERITE YOUNG NEA Staff Correspondent

New York, Aug. 12 - "When the boys come back :" is a phrase you hear a lot these days, especially in speculation about postwar jobs.
 But the boys are coming back right now. Half million American ex-soldiers already are home, un- noticed by a nation still engrossed in combat headlines and vague talk about the postwar world. Another 6OO,OOO are expected to be mustered out of service within the next four months. They are the technically disabled, those who were seriously wounded or who otherwise are militarily unfit.
 They'd make quite a sight in a parade with bands and bunting. But they're being mustered out singly from some 2000 discharge points. The only places you'd be likely to see groups of them are offices of the United States En- ployment Service, to which they come for jobs.
 MACHINERY IS SET
 Veterans of World War II have been promised work, vocational guidance and other special aid in their reestablishment at home. The machinery for all this is set up and partly in motion, making connections between ex-service- men and hard-pressed employers who need help. In small towns, Selective Service boards have reverse-gear personnel who find 1t fairly easy to put veterans they know back into civilian life.
 But conditions are different in Eig cities, where veterans, place. ment interviewers and prospective employers usually are strangers to each other. The outstanding complication is the high prevail ence among discharged veterans of mental and nervous conditions labeled "psycho-neurosis." More than 35 per cent of the first half million discharged veterans are tagged psycho-neurotic on con- fldential military records, and word of this has spread far enough to hamper the employ ment of men who are perfectly capable both mentally d 
 In New York State last June,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

the U. s. Employment Service was able to place 2200 out of 5000 handicapped civilians, but only 162 of 300 veterans.
 Machinery to cope with the situation is being built in pace setting fashion here by James T Manchester chief of a reemploy- ment advisory division serving the veterans who were sent into serv- ice by the 280 local boards. His organization will swing into ac- tion in September. Meanwhile about 50,000 ex-servicemen ir1 New York state are haunting USES offices for jobs. The jobs are coming, but slowly.
 There's Walter x, for instance who won the Navy Cross and Purple Heart on Guadalcanal While signaling from hill, he was machine-gunned by the Japs Part of his face was blown away,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
CERTIFICATES FOR
 VICTORY GARDENS
National Institute Plans to Award Firms Aiding
 Home Front Battle

In recognition of the splendid CO., operation given the Victory Garden program by American industry, om- ficials of the National Victory Gar den Institute decided at a meeting yesterday to present suitable awards to participating firms. All who took part in the home food production effort will receive a certificate. In addition, companies which have made an outstanding contribution in the planning and execution of employee garden projects will be pre- sented a handsome plaque which will be in the nature Of "V' award.
 Andrew s. Wing, secretary man ager of the Institute has prepared a questionnalre to obtain informa- ton upon which to base the awards for individual concerns. MT. Wing is seeking he names of all firms which participated in the Victory Garden program either actively with company gardens or in other ways, as for example. local or national ad- vertising in newspapers, magazines, motion pictures and radio.
 In a letter accompanying the questionnaire sent to several firms known to have sponsored Victory Gardens, MT. Wing states: May l ask your cooperation ID this project? The food problem IS not solved and the situation will be- come more acute this winter. There Is real need for a redoubled ana more coordinated effort on the Vic' tory Garden front next year. Amer ican business. which has been so generous In It's support to date, can be the handspring behind the re- newed home food production effort in 1914" Headquarters for the National Victory Garden Institute are losated at 598 Madison avenue. New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
Half-Million Veterans, Home Again,
 Seek Promised JObS--And Find a Few
DISCHARGED MINOR NERVOUS HAMPER EMPLOYMENT

training, and even temporary fi- nancial assistance.
 Under the mobilization law, all veterans able to perform pre-war jobs must get them back, wher- ever 1t is reasonably feasible for the employer Manchester says that no employer has refused to cooperate - although occasionally his organization has had to do a little steering.
 An 18-year-old sailor, his back permanently damaged in North Africa, was sent to the mail-order house where he formerly worked as @ stock clerk. The personnel manager immediately telephoned the Selective Service center: "Thit boy was raised in Indiana and says he'd like to get back there now. We'll help him go, but if he decides to stay, he can have a job with us, any time, in the office." TRAINED FOR BETTER JOB
 A 24-year-old sergeant, former ly an errand boy, came out of a deep-sea accident with one leg. The center found him education ally qualified for a better job, sent him to school for 12 weeks and made him a $30-a-week comptometer operator.
 The boy who got farthest from home was James Y, who was in the hospital 10 months after &C., tive service in China. James wasn't physically injured, but suffered severe nervous break down as a result of his experi- ence. He is working now though it took week of work by the USES to place him and his em- ployer reports that he's doing . fine job.
 'The only treatment needed by the psycho-neurotic is just a job" i, declared c. w Carpenter, veter- ans employment representative in the New York USES. "It's Army and Navy policy to send any real mental cases to hospitals for spe- cial treatment"
 Those injured in line of duty will go, soon, to new Veterans plete rehabilitation. Such centers, Administration centers for com- to be operating within about six months, vii offer veterans as months, will offer veterans as new postwar occupations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
By CLARENCE HAWKES. Written for United Press


 Hadley, Mass, Aug. 12. (UP)-To. day have completed 60 years ol blindness-six dayless decades. Just how I have felt my way through this long night I do not know. vision and a strength that is greater than mine must have upheld me. When I was 9 years old, while returning from school, I sprainec my left ankle and the leg was final. ly amputated below the knee. I re. member it as though 1t was yes terday Would ever be able to en. joy the outdoors again? Yet witt an artificial leg I went back to al my old pursuits.
 When I was 13, a gun in a friend, hand plotted out the earth and the sky for me in a fraction of sec. ond. Finally about a quarter o. my eyesight came back-only tc disappear like water running from a leaky pail. It was SO gradual that I was able to calculate to a week just when would be totally blind
 My life's trail for the future hope in the heart of boy dies looked like deadend street. Yet hard. By the time I was 20 I had partially educated myself and was earning my living as a lecturer for the general public and Chautauqua I had regained the technique of life at Perkins Institution for the Blind, using my hands in place of eyes. I combined writing verses with my featuring.
 For 25 years I did public lectur- ing, but finally gave 1t up and de- voted myself entirely to writing books, of which I have published 53. at the close of the last World War, Eugene Brieux, the French dramatist, helped me publish my autobiography, Hitting the Dark Trail" in French braille for 5000 blind soldiers of France. I did not get cent for the translation, but this was the best-paying thing I ever did.
 Coolidge Was Friend
 For 32 years Calvin Coolidge was one of my best friends. I have al- ways been deeply interested in pol itics and my country. My article, Granite and Gold" which ap- peared in the New York Herald Tribune during the 1924 campaign greatly pleased MT. Coolidge, I also wrote one for Herbert c. Hoover.
 For the past year I have been writing war articles. They have ap- peared in eight New England news papers and over four radio stations, reaching more than million peo- pie. This is my bit!
 I have gospal of courage which is epitomized in my three P's-pa- tience, perseverance and pluck.
 Five years ago the town of Co., shen, where was born, placed a bronze tablet in their library, which reads as follows:
 ITO Dr. Clarence Hawkes., poet, naturalist and lecturer.
 Born Goshen, Mass, Dec. 16, 1869. Author of 50 published books He loves nature and little chill dren."
 Four American colleges have given me honorary degrees. Yet I still have one vanity in my system. I am hoping that I will receive an LID. before pass on.
 For all who have helped me along the dark trail I am deeply grateful. Their friendship Is my gold.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12


 diers and sailors, directors and dran
 So should writers who pick for eign setting for a short story of a novel, and may not be too sure and who is-of Greek, British Chi nese, Japanese. Irish, Czech, Aus tralian-to mention few of the 30 dialects thoroughly gone into.
 But even if you aren't in the acting or writing fields, this man. ual is entertaining and informa- tive particularly if you can read music. That may sound a little odd. But mastery of foreign dia- lects depends not only on the us- age of phonetics and pronuncia- tion, but on the proper cadence. Simple sentences such as "Is that Ali Bergen?" in the Irish dialect is not only illustrated phonetically as "Uh:z THAH:t AH:if bUHrg'n?" but is accompanied by a five note (plus a grace note to take care of the Hibernian trilD m u c a l score"
 Don't let the phonetics frighten you. A simple key explains them, and "noosepEHipuh" isn't half as formidable as it looks. It's Polish dialect for newspaper" Boot lAguh," and "sAHloon," also Pol ish, may at first glance read as though the typesetter had had a bad night in close association with both.
 Some of the most fascinating glossaries of slang and foreign ex- pressions are those of Britain, Australia, and pidgin English. T bought shoes and suspenders and mailed them," is properly trans lated into the British vernacular as follows: T purchased boots and braces and posted them"
 In Australian slang, the authors inform us that "bowser" is the counterpart of gasoline pump, "no fear" that of you bet" and good -oh," that of %. K." One of the first-water gems of Australian pidgin is the word for thirst: "him belly allatime burn.'
 From the Chinese pidgin, here's this one: "Hab got flower-heart makee love-pidgin you missy?" Translation: Have you a faint heart for making love to your girl friend?"
 German, Polish, Russian, Scot tish, Swedish, Yiddish, Hawaiian there are chapters on all of them and more, complete even tc the extent of diagrams showing the proper position of the tongue when uttering a specific and un- familiar foreign sound.
 WAR RESUME
 JAMES w. BELL, editor of the Evansville, Ind, Sunday Courier and Press. has prepared a concise history of the war insofar as Amer jeans are concerned, in an interest," ing paper-bound pamphlet. This War: From Pearl Harbor to To- morrow price 50.
 Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. 1t traces oul participation in the conflict from the stab in the back to March 6 l IS40, dIiQ COliIuiiio iutto "AN .'o ures that you'. want at your in gertips in discussing the war. Com pact index helps you pick out mos' any date you want,
 WAR ON THE AIR
 AIR POWER A N D TOTAL WAR" Coward McCann; $2.50 | natural for ~ armchair general! and hammock high commander who take the controversy over all power seriously. Seriously enough that is. to carefully read an andy sii by an author well qualified tt analyze the theories of Seversky Eff, Douhet and Billy Mitchell. Cl Caldwell is well known to all avia ton fans as an authoritative writel on the subject.
 J In effect, Mir. Caldwell's book t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
OPEN OFFENSIVE | ON GYPSY MOTHS
Serious Insect Pest Cause of Extensive Damages
 in Connecticut

Ire gypsy moth Is potentially . very serious insect pest of hard. woods in Connecticut and other New England sstates. It refoliatea oaks, poplars, birches, apples ane other useful trees. The Federal Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine some years ago set up barrier zone from Canada to Long Island Sound, in an effort to con. fine the pest to New England and prevent its spread westward. The section of barrier zone running through Connecticut includes Fair field County and the western parts of New Haven and Litchfield coun- ties.
 This year J. T. Ashworth, whro supervises the work under the di- rection of Dr. R. B. Friend, Stats Entomologist, is checking on c-s presence of the gypsy moth in Fair field County. He and his crew set out traps every square mile in parts of the zone to catch the male moths. The bait, consisting of 8 benzol extract of the terminal ab- dominal segments of the adult vir- gin female, will attract male moth2 from radius of mile. The extrat is soaked up by piece of cotton batting which is attached to a large cardboarde and nailed to tree trunk. Tanglefoot is smeared on the cardboard to trap the nlale moths as they fly to the bait. If male moths are caught, no matter how few, control measures will be immediately instituted to suppress the infestation in the bar Tier zone. Areas in which the in- sects are found will be secuted in August and September, and the egg masses destroyed by creosoting. If an infestation is heavy, the trees arc strayed in the spring with arsenate of lead to kill the moths as they hatch ont
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
RATIONAL AGREEMENT

There's one scene in a now movie guaranteed not to be left on the cut ting room floor. It's the scene in RKO Radios Government Girl'' showing Anne Shirley eating steak. She put up her own ration points to obtain the steak, so that she wouldn't have to eat ersatz, but only on Director Dudley Nichols agree ment that the scene wouldn't be deleted. You see," said Anne, T don't want to waste the points"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
1 MOOSE TO STAGE
 STATE CONVENTION

The annual state convention of the Moose Friday through Sunday at New Haven will hold its elections for supreme and state officers. Ap- proximately 50 members ofSthe Wa terbury lodge of Moose and Water bury chapter, Women of the Moose, are expected to attend.
 Representing he Waterbury lodge will be John Hannah, lodge governor, and Frank J. Egan, treasurer. Emil F. Dahl, lodge sec- retary and state deputy, will give
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
FAMOUS POET
 ROUN OUT
 so BLIND YEARS

EDITORS NOTE: Clarence Hawkes., nationally known as 'The Blind Poet of Hadley, Mass.," has just completed his 6Oth year of total blindness. In the following dispatch, he de- scribes the remarkable career which he has been able to build despite his handicap.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
SONG OF THE SOIL

SONG OF THE SOIL It's give us a shovel and give us a hoe This year we've been planting many row. Some of them crooked, some of them straight While with patience for the harvest we walt We've joined in adding to our felowmans bounty From the Connecticut River valley to Aroostook county With tender lettuces squash, beans and tomato To the fields that yield the ubiquitous potato It's give us a spade and give us hoe Working late into the sunset glow The harvest yield keeps us busy picking, We work with a song, sometimes kicking, While spend hours and hours on weary Weedlng As the summer advances speeding, speeding It's away the garden at break of day, This summer that's what we do for play Something quite different for us to do As we joyfully pick radish or two!
 FEM EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

Corporal Thomas "Chick" Carney, former Chase Grand Street Office switchboard operator is with an Army medical detachment in Nashville, Tennessee. Corporal Eddie Ragis, of Mrs. Margaret Ragis' returned to Topeka Kansas today after most enjoy able furlough here The former Georgetown basket hall star who earned weekly stipend with the White Cross before joining the colors is plane weight bal ancer in the Air Corps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

his annual report as state secre- tary. He has been state secretary since 1884.
 Mrs. Angeline A. Carisio, senior regent, will represent the women's lodge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
C. o. P. WOMEN IN
 MEETING MONDAY

Chief speaker at the meeting of the Women's Republican club at The Elton at 8 p. m. Monday, will be Republican Town Chairman Yer non L. Hall, announced Mrs. Viola B. Amelung, club president.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
Griffin Larn Pidgin Chop Chop With Manual Of Dialects

very title of Manual of Foreign Dialects (zi-Davs s by Marguerite to leve 1t reading valuable but to where reading 400page volume is anything dull Actors
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12
ANY CURE?

A special disease caused by in- halation of siliceous volcanic dust is known as pneumonoultramicris- copisilicovolcanok
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kelly of Vermont Street a1l- nounce the birth of their second daughter Claire Alice at St. Mary's Hospital Monday of this week. Mrs. Kelly is the former Ernestine Cannon. Robert Hornbecker is now at the Naval Training Station in Richmond, Va. Lieutenant J. G. Clayton Barker IS now receiving his mail at Pensacola Florida Harold Sanford has been discharged as Waterbury Hospital patient
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

Mrs Frank Casper of Grove Street royalty feted Tuesday afternoon at bouneous birthday party at the happy domice of her sister Mrs Joseph Cosgrove of Circular Avenue She's the eldest of five Ford Sisters who occasionally refer to themselves the Five Donnes All are married with homes Of their own but trey still manage enjoy get-togethels special occasions and are as devoted to each other though they lived under the same room The remainder of the quintet comprises Mrs Philip Kropp Willow Street. Mrs Margaret Miller of Niagara Street, and Mrs Edward Curley, ST., Of Washington Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

Some day some American city is going to succeed in getting all it's downtown sreetc torn at the same tme . Some fish have grown very quickly some very slowly this summer-depending on who caught them driverless auto injured two people in Missouri town It's lucky drivers we've seen weren't in it. Alter all is said and done, still can do lot more for the effort. Maybe some husbands buy pretty things for the wife in the hope they'll leave her speechless
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

Mr. and Mrs. William Francis Meehan, Jr, of South Street have decided to name their son Of August 9th after his likeable pop Mrs. M. is the former Mary Driscol daughter of MT. and Mrs. John Driscoll and the Tower is happy to report she and the newcomer coming along as well as can be expected at St Mary's Hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

When in mourning, the Chinese wear white instead of black.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-12

Fonsie Sirica and Gene Migliaro are vacationing in Detroit this week. Ray Clark of the Tax Col ectors Office is confident he'll have plenty to show from his surf casting experiences this week while of Sylvan Avenue veteran member of composing room personnel, has laid aside his apron this week and will devote his time to the of his valuable chickens.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
Sergei RaehmaninoH

Interpreter, composer and conductor,
SerAel Rachmanlnoff, for fifty years held
the center Of the musical stage as one OF
the greatest planlSts Of this day. The
tall serious gentleman was favorite with
American audiences His appearance on
the concert stage brought forth rounds
of applause II not cheers. No artist per.
haps, except Fritz Kreisler, Vlollnist, had
such a hold on his public; and no artist
has exerted fewer mannerlSmS that so
often are characteristic OF the individual
of inspired talent.
AS pianist Rachmaninoff possessed
technical stature that compared with his
physical stature, He was man well
over six feet and presented an imposing
and reposeful figure at the piano. His
control of the Keyboard was something
to admire, and the trained and unframed
IN the rudiments of music experienced
great Joy and satisfaction In a concert
recital by Rachmanlnoff, who passed
away Sunday at his Beverly Hills, Cali
fornia, home, just prior TO his SEVENTEEN
birthday Thursday of this week,
Rachmaninoff was equally distin-
guiShed as a composer, His preludes for
piano, concertoS, symphonies, symphonic
dances, Sonatas, and many songs are
IoSIHlS HeHOEAu vi SLSat CoHipVSSL'
His definition of music was that though
It should have color and rhythm, ut
must reveal the emotions of the heart"
This was we'll realized when he played
something like Chopin Nocturne and
gave to Il the beauty described In the
flowing melody with foundation OF
superb technique. Born in Russia, later
exiled, he made u splendid gesture
recently in the applying of the entire pro-
ceeds Of a concert 10 Russian war SUI
fererS, even though his works had been
banned by Soviet Russia. He will long
be remembered as one of the great artists
and gentlemen of this day and age; one,
that most OF us had the pleasure of hear
ing here In our own city.