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The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
PLATFORM
FOR 1914 CAMPAIGN

IN JANUARY, 1886, the Republi-
can National committee established
an Office in Chicago with Harrison
Spangler, vice chairman of the COM
mittee, in charge. Between Janu-
ary and the time of the party con-
vention at Cleveland in June, Span
gler gave much thought to the party
platform. He discussed the subject
with Republican leaders as they
called and considered many pro-
posed planks. AS friend, not as a
partisan, it was my privilege to drop
into that Chicago Office at frequent
intervals and listen to the discussion
of platform planks. I proposed, not
a plank, but complete platform.
It was brief, explicit, all inclusive
and emphatic. 1t was expressed in
four words: Preserve the American
system" That would have been an
adequate platform for any party at
that time. AS a home front plat
form it is as adequate today as it
was in 1886. 1t is platform on
which any party adopting it can win
the next national election. 1t would
not be attacked by any opposition.
It is the most vital problem that con-
fronts the American people and the
one in which they are most interest
ed. It is the paramount issue.
IF THE SOLDIER is not fed, all
the guns, tanks and planes with
which he may be supplied will be
of but little value. Food is first
essential of war, but to the farm
producer is not accorded priorities
on the essentials of production, man.
power and farm machinery.
1T IS HARD TO ENFORCE law
or an edict when the violation is
committed by an aggregation of in
dividuals who collectively are not
responsible and have no legal sta
tuS.
GIVE THE American farmer the
tools, help and weather conditions
and he viii produce maximum o.
food.
THE POLITICAL POT is simmer
ing but it has not, as yet, replaced
the war on the front page of the
papers.
HOW VALUABLE would be thoss
red elm logs / growled at in boy
hood days, as ! cut them into fire.
wood, to provide heat now in these
days of fuel shortage.
The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
Origin of Coodby

Our goodby is a shortened form
of "God be with ye.' $50 long is
thought to be an American cor
ruption of the word salaam
("peace") as heard in the Moslem
greeting "Salaam alei-kufn,"
meaning "May peace be unto
you," perhaps brought to America
by Moslem slavers, or African
slaves.
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Midrif Frock.

How the junior crowd loves
= = frocks with well-defined mid
riff section. This one is so color
full with dramatically placed con-
trasting details.
Pattern No. 8465 is in sizes 9, II, 13,
Is, II and 19. Size II takes 3is yards 49,
inch material. 8 yards braid or ric-rac.
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School Winner.

THE center panel of this dress
1 adds both height and slimness
to the appearance of the girl who
wears it. There's the reason why
this is one of our most popular
school girl patterns.
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WORLD RELIEF:
Big 4 to Cooperate

In accordance with the principles
of the Big Four pact of Moscow, the
U. S., Britain, China and Russia will
work together in the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation admins
tration for obtaining supplies for the
postwar's needy countries.
The U. S., Britain and Russia will
cooperate in estimating the require
ments of the different European
peoples. To get the necessary sup
plies as speedily as possible, it was
suggested that raw materials be
especially allocated to pre-war in
dustrial nations with available ma
chinery for manufacturing goods.
United Nations not invaded are
to contribute / per cent of their ma
tional income toward a fund for
financing relief and rehabilitation
operations.
Rationing after War
Because of prospective demands
on U. S. food supplies for feeding
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Jap naval forces serving their embat-
tied troops on their last Solomons'
holding of Bougainville island. OF a
force of six Jap destroyers, two were
sunk by torpedoes and two more by
gun6re by smaller squadron of u. S.
warships.
In ground fighting on Bougainville,
u. S. forces expanded their base of
operations under support of heavy ar
tillery barrage and bombing attacks
of Mitchells and Venturas.
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a great degree on the supplies we
have on hand when the war ends.
All tillable land out of the 0,000,-
600 acres owned by the government
should be returned to farming by
sale or lease after the war, Wickard
said,
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! M A 0Rkw fEARs0N |
PRESIDENT AND NEWSPRINT

Washington, D. C.

IhESlDENI AND EWOT MINI
Some of the Presidents newspa-
per friends who have been consis-
tently for him over long period of
years are now suggesting that this
is good time to turn the other
cheek regarding his constant feud
with the press. They suggest that
he personally could step into the cur
rent newsprint shortage and take
strong stand on an issue which seri-
ously threatens one of the basic free
doms of the country-freedom of the
press.
Actually, good many bureaucrats
have been nibbling at the newsprint
problem, but no one has stepped in
with any forthrightness to cut red
tape and solve the problem. 1t now
looks as if only the White House
could do this.
Not generally realized is the TACT
that newsprint shortage is due not
so much to decreased woodpulp pro-
duction in the Canadian forests, but
to much greater use of cardbo ard
and packing material in sending war
supplies abroad. This is a terrific
drain and, though U. S. publishers
have patriotically cut their news
print, they will have to cut to the
bone unless energetic moves are
made by the government.
The plan put forward by news
paper executives friendly to the
White House includes:
/. Greater use of war prisoners
in the Canadian and Maine forests.
2. More equitable distribution of
newsprint among publishers. At
present, the papers with the big Sum
day editions have scarcely suffered
at all, being able to aborb their
paper cuts out of their Sunday "fat."
On the other hand, medium-sized pa
pers may have to take terrific pun
ishment.
8. Stricter supervision of cuts by
throw-aways, dodgers, comic maga-
zines and newsprint users who have
not kept such accurate records of
their past consumption. The news
paper industry has suffered by its
past efficiency, having kept very ac-
curate records.
4. More emphasis on the paper
salvage campaign. At present, only
35 per cent of the nations waste
paper is being collected and sal
vaged. The waste paper reclaiming
machinery is running at only 81 per
cent of capacity. Approximately
5000, 900 tons of waste paper are nor
mally collected and sold for paper
board but now only two million.
The newspapers stepped in and did
a great job of collecting scrap iron
when the nation needed it, but now,
when the newspapers need news
print, they themselves are somewhat
handicapped in blowing their horn.
What the White House will do re-
mains to be seen.
The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
u. S. SPENDINC:
Sees Need

Special advisor to the board of
governors of the Federal Reserve
bank, Economist Alvin H. Hansen
proposed annual government ex-
penditures at the rate of Is to 18
billion dollars to prevent postwar de-
preston.
Declaring that the last great de-
preston was the result of a drop of
Is billion dollars in private invest
ment between 1929 and 1882, Hansen
said it was necessary for the govern
ment to develop program for meet
ing such crisis, so as to halt big dips
in consumer buying and attract
capital back into business.
The present war will be followed
by a period in which people win
spend money for accumulated
needs, Hansen said. But unless gov
ernment stands by with some kind
of program to take up the slack in
employment that will follow the fill
ing of all these orders, we might well
run into another depression, Hansen
asserted.
The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
RUSSIA:
Counter-Punches

Red armies launched a heavy at
tack on the northern sector of the
1000 mile Russian front as German
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein's
troops pecked out new gains in the
vicinity of important railroad juno
tions to the west of Kiev.
In their drive in the north, the
Reds took another step closer to the
pre-war Polish border, and pressed
against the upper section of the rail-;
road system constituting the Nazis'
last north-south rail link in Russia!
After recapturing the rail hub of
Zhitomir in a whirlwind comeback,
the Nazi attack lost some of its i'm
petus against stiffening Red resist
ance, and although the Germans
beat forward for further gains and
spread the scope of their drive north
ward to take in still another section
of the rail line previously cut, their
pace was slowed by concentrated.
Russian artillery fire.
The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
u. S. Forces Advance in South Pacific
AS New Air, Sea, Land Blows Hit Japs;
1914 Farm Machinery Output Doubled;
Germany Stunned by Bombing of Berlin


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WAR BONDS:

Record purchases OF government
securities were made in the third
quarter of the year-July, August
and September-the Securities and
Exchange commission reports. Dur
ing the period individuals and nom
corporate businesses invested more
than 51s billion dollars in federal
bonds, largely war issues.
For the first nine months of the
year, bond buying amounted to
more than IL billion dollars worth.
of which nine billions were w'u
bonds.
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WORLD BANK:
For Reconstruction

To join with private capital in re1
construction and rehabilitation in the
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LICHTINC:

A new type of electric light that
requires no wires, but obtains its
current from beam of high-fre-
quency radio energy, was demon
strated recently in New York. Ex-
perts said that this will be the light
ing of the future. Also shown were
radiant heat lamps that gave off
enough heat to cook food, and mer-
curry vapor lamp, the most brilliant
known. It uses 10000 watts, and
produces light one-fifth as bright
as the surface of the sun, it was re-
ported.
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tee repayment of loans made by pri-.
vate capitalists.
u. S. contribution to the bank
would amount to 700 million dollars
at the start, and possibly 31h billion
dollars in all. Great Britain would
advance less than a billion dollars,
Soviet Russia's share would be sub
stantially less.
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GOOD NEIGHBoR PEACE

Ten years ago, there was very
serious war between Bolivia and
Paraguay in the jungles of the Gran
Chaco. Last week, the presidents
of Paraguay and Bolivia met at the
border of the two countries in the
Chaco, erected large cross, and
pledged themselves and their coun-
tries to everlasting peace.
The bitterness which animated
these two South American countries
has been wiped away, and they are
Good Neighbors in every sense of
the word.
Some diplomats hope this incident
is forecast that the bitterness actu-
ating the enemies of World War II
may likewise be eliminated after
the passage of time.
The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
CONGRESS-:
Ban Subsidies

To the senate for approval went
a house bill prohibiting payment of
subsidies to reduce or maintain re-
tail food prices and only allowing
their use to stimulate agricultural
production.
Championed by the administration
as means of keeping living costs
down, retail subsidies were attacked
in the house as inflationary, in that
such savings to consumers only add
ed to their purchasing power, and
money borrowed for the purpose in
creased the national debt.
The administration is now spend
ing approximately 800 million dol
lars annually on retail subsidies for
meat, butter, milk, and other prod
ucts. Under the house bill, subsi-
dies would be continued only for
domestic vegetable oils, fats and oil
seeds.
In approving subsidy payments to
stimulate production, the house vot-
ed to extend the life of the Commod-
ity Credit corporation to June 80,
1945, and maintain its borrowing
power at three billion dollars. CCC
also was given permission to re-
sell at loss perishable fruits and
vegetables bought to support prices.
Vote for Higher Taxes
Also to the senate went a house
bill providing for 21s billion dollars
in additional taxes, far below the
1012 billion dollars requested by
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen-
thau.
Largest source of new revenue in
the bill would be obtained from
taxes on goods, such as beer, liquor,
jewelry, luggage, bulbs and cosmet-
les, and from services such as tele-
phones and telegraphs, amusements,
transportation and club dues.
Adjustments in individual and cor
porate income taxes would provide
substantial revenues, with approx
mately 600 million dollars being OBJ
tanned from additional levies on
business.
Local postal rates would be in
creased to three cents and charges
would be raised on money orders
and special deliveries.
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RatiOning after Var

Because of prospective demands
on U. S. food supplies for feeding
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INSIDE STORY OF HORNET

The navy department has okayed
publication of the inside story of the
famous airplane carrier Hornet,
written as a book, "a Ship to Re-
member" by Alexander Griffin Of
the Philadelphia Record.
For the first time it reveals the
spectacular operation of the ship
which carried General Doolittle's
bombers within stones throw of
Tokyo. Among other things, the
navy okayed publication by Griffin
of the fact that, at one time, the
Hornet practically acted as SUBJ
stitute for Henderson Field in the
Solomons. That badly messed-up
airport, on the night of October IA,
1912, had only five planes left and
gasoline to send out only four. So
the Hornet came alongside the is
land, threw her planes into action
and, for 36 hours, substituted for
Henderson Field.
Even more astonishing is the
revelation that, at one time during
the low point in the South Pacific
battle, the U. S. navy had only one
aircraft carrier left undamaged in
that entire expanse of water-the
Hornet.
The Ely miner., 1943-12-09
MERRY-GO-ROUND

q Wheeler Macmillan, Farm Jour-
nal candidate for President, arrived
in Wisconsin two days after Willkiel
q OPA will soon hoist prices for es-
sential war commodities being pro-
duced by small war contractors.
This is to compensate the contrac-
tors for higher labor costs.
q The Truman committee has re-
ceived reports of Sanctioned loiter-
ing" in the naval torpedo plant at
Alexandria, Va.
q Washington is interested in u. S.
Judge "Jefty" O'Connor's proposal
to punish the Germans by making
them stay in each country until they
build up all the property they have
damaged.
q 1t looks as if there were enough
house members from coal and oil re-
gions to put across the Disney-John-
son bill giving Ickes complete con-
troll over coal and oil. How the coal
and oil boys hate OPA and love
Honest Harold" is really some
thingl!l
q The newspaper world may have
a new editor. Senator Bob Reynolds
may take over the editorship of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, owned in part
by his wife One America First
friend of Senator Reynolds is getting
up a petition in Georgia to have
MIN run for President.
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Pattern No. s470 is in sizes 6. 8. 10, II
and IA years. Size 8 requires pa yards
35-inch material, 3Ia yards ric-rac.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions. slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
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THE POLITICAL POT is simmer
ing but it has not, as yet, replaced
the war on the front page of the
papers.
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HOW VALUABLE would be those
red elm logs / growled at in boy
hood days, as cut them into fire.
wood, to provide heat now in these
days of fuel shortage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-11
YMCA Notes

The Planning Committee for the
Pageant "This Is America" will
will meet at the Y. M. @. A. tonight.
The pageant will be produced at
Wildly High school Sunday, Febru-
airy 2Sth. Representatives Of % Ma
tional and Racial groups Of Water
bury citizenship will take part,
Patrick ]. Wallace is chairman q
the program committee and Joseph
Gaber, chairman Of exhibits.
The Stamp France" sponsored by
the Tri-Y Interclub Council Of the
Central Y. M. @. A. will be held
Saturday, February 18th at 500 p.
m. in the Boys Lobby. The dance
will be run in spirit with the VAL
entine season.
The Interclub Council members in
charge Of the dance are as follows:
Monica Pagan, Ann Culhane, Gloria
Mannetti, Pauline Movers, Beverly
Schuster and Marjory Wingblade.
The Hi-Y and Tri-Y Clubs who
held meetings at the Central Y. M.
G. A.. last night are as follows:
Sigma Hi-Y, Beta Phi Tri-Y, Delta
Phi Tri-Y, Lancers lily, Tech Tri-
Y, Engineers Hi-Y, Alpha Hi-Y,
Epsilon Hi-Y and Fairlawns Hi-Y.
The Beta Hi-Y will hold Its regu-
lar weekly meeting at the Central
Y. NJ. G. A. this evening with VIII
liam Webster presiding. The club
will draw up a six weeks program
to cover club meetings for the next
six weeks period.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-11
Prenupti0L Party
Fetes Bride-tO-Be

Miss Ruth o'Neill entertained at
currency shower at Harmon's
restaurant in compliment to her
sister, Miss Claire P. O'Neill Of
Easton avenue.
Those attending were: Mrs. Mar
tin Egan, Mrs. Martin Egan; Jr.,
Mrs. John Ryan, Mrs. Edward Con-
nell, Mrs. william st. John, Mrs.
Clifford OLoughlin, Mrs. Patrick
Sweeney, Mrs. Thomas Sweeney,
Mrs. Edward Sweeney, Mrs. George
Sullivan, Mrs. Daniel Telesca, Mrs.
George Dragon, Mrs. Maurice SPELL
man, Mrs. James Ramano, Mrs.
John Kinney, Mrs. Augustin O'Neill,
Mrs. Anna O'Neill, Mrs. Carmen
George, Mrs. Timothy Shea, Mrs.
Howard Gagain, Mrs. Mary Stolh,
Kelly, Mrs. John Fitzmaurice, Mrs.
James Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Arthur
Lewis, Mrs. Marion Lynch, Mrs. Ed
ward Kerr.
Misses Edna Maloney, Marguerite
Maloney, Margaret Egan, Margaret
Shugrue, Margaret Sweeney. Anne
Sweeney, Mary Sweeney, Catherine
Sweeney, Constance Winterhalder,
Mildred Polletta, Diane Polletta, Jo-
sephine Stolfl. Anne Stold, Margaret
st. John, Peggy Pilkington, Margaret
Ryan, Matte Culhane, Julia Punk
EFT, Fay Lynch and Anne Lynch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-11

STATE
Thomas Studio.

Capacity attendance at Warmers
State theater yesterday marked the
opening performance Of Alfred
Hitchcock's Shadow Of Doubt"
with Teresa Wright and Joseph
Gotten in co-starring roles assisted
by a brilliant supporting cast.
SHADOW OF a Doubt" Is Alfred
Hitchcock's latest suspense drama
and will unquestionably be listed
high in any forthcoming index Of
outstanding motion pictures.
The. new production out-points
all previous Hitchcock productions
in human, romantic appeal. This
has been accomplished by a very
amazing screen play which deals
with an average American town and
instead Of modifying the famous
Hitchcock suspense, this simple ele-
ment has nagnifled 1t to the nth"
degree. t...... ..... ~,
Remarkably effective casting en-
hanceS the plot. Teresa Wright and
John Gotten are the co-stars por-
traying respectively q niece and
uncle. The niece idolizes this hand
some young uncle despite the nys-
ter1ous circumstances attending his
arrival on visit to the small town
family. The niece Is the one who
tries desperately to shield the fam
lily from disgrace when she alone
discovers the uncle to be a notorious
fugitive murderer. The logical but
shocking elimination, as enacted Oh
the screen, Is one of the most grip
ping cinema moments Of all time.
Miss Wright's performance Is
comparable. II not finer, than her
work in MRS. Miniver" and Pride
of the Yankees" Cotten's difflcult
portrayal is even more potent than
the roles he essayed III Citizen
Kane" THE Magnificent Amber
sons" and Journey into Fear"
Foremost in the supporting cast
are Macdonald Carey and Patricia
Collinge. Others in the distin-
guished group include Henry Ira
vers, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn
and Edna May Wonacott.
Fun, music and mystery are
blended In the second big hit Be
hind the Eight Ball" which features
such favorites as The Ritz Brothers,
Carl Bruce, Dick Foran and Grace
Mcdonald.
Remember, this show positively
ends Saturday evening to make way
for the spectacular double hit show
opening sunday at the State. "One
Of Our Aircraft Is Missing" will be
the feature attraction and accord
ing to reports it is the biggest thrill
spectacle ever filmed with the CO.
operation of the r. A. F. silver
Queen" co-starring George Brent
and Priscilla Lane will be the Sec
ond hit of Sundays new show.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-11
Lucille C0UielLo
Has Birthday Party

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank coviello en-
tertained at their home in honor Of
their daughter, Lucille, who was
celebrating her seventh birthday.
Valentine favors and o large
birthday cake decorated the re-
freshment table.
Among the guests were: Richard
Romaniello, Eleanor LAMA, Louis
Montello, Katherine Montello,
Nicholas Coviello, Patty Juliano,
Lorraine Julian, Sue Coviello, Peg
gy Coviello, Melba Marchitto, Mr..
and Mrs. Richard LAMA, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anthony Coviello, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anthony Coviello, Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Guistianni, Mrs. James Mar
chitti, Mrs. Ernest Juliano, Mrs,
Angelina Coviello, Mrs. Sam va
nelli, and Anthony Rornaniello.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-11
Quota International
Cancels Convention

quota Club international, Inc. as
sists in Che war transportation prob
lem by cancelling It's annual con-
vention in 1913. President Francis
l.. Landry Of Baton Rouge, Louisi-
ana, announces this decision to the
officers Of all Quota clubs In the
United States. Canada, and Aus
tralia. The request Of the once Of
Defense Transportation that groups
voluntarily cancel their conventions
was the deciding factor in the can
collation. Of the twenty-fourth an.
nual convention.
Conventions Of Quota 1nterna-
tional rotate from section to Sec
ton Of the United States and Can
ada; attendance each June ranges
from four to FIVE hundred delegates
and members, each woman an exc
cutive representing q different line
of business and professional work In
her own club.
Mrs. Landry asks all quota clubs
to use the money usually spent on
convention travel and attendance
for the war effort and needed COM
munity service. She asks also for
hearty support Of all local meetings
Of the clubs and for increasing par.
ticipation In war work.