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Evening star., 1943-03-03
Address

@. Was aluminium ever regarded AZ .
precious metal?-N. M. E.
A. Eighty years ago aluminium vaS
more precious than silver and gold. 90
precious, in fact, that Napoleon III Of
France, lover Of luxuries, ate w!tl,
aluminium spoons and forks.
@. What is the number Of West Point
graduates killed in the last war?-E I'm
A. OF the 3.os1 graduates Of the
United States Military Academy who
served in the First World War 80 were
killed.
@. How many Roman Catholics are
there in Australia?-M. B. Y.
A. There are approximately 200o
Catholic churches in Australia. Arch
dioceses are at Sydney, Melbourne. Ho-
bart, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. The
Catholic population of Australia is L.
244,835.
A. When was fingerprfnting begun by
the FBI?-R. E.
A. The Federal Bureau of Investiea.
ton says that while some fingerprint
Identification has been done since its
establishment in 1908, the fingerprint di-
vision was not formed until 1924. at
which time the filing of f1ngerprints on
an extensive scale was started.
@. Is Lew Dockstader still hving'-
c. o. B.
A. Dockstader, whose real name vas
L.
Throughout his long career as a black
face comedian he never abandoned
blackface for white.
O. How much does a gallon Of water
weigh?-H. G.
A. 1t weighs SLs pounds.
@. Why is the Stars and Stripes shown
In the picture Washington Crossing the
Delaware? L. H.
A. This Is due to an error on the part
Of the artist, for In 177s the Stars and
Stripes did not yet exist.
Q. What is the average height OF the
japanese soldier?-E FIX
A. Their average height is 5 feet al
inches.
@. Who was the presiding oficer OF
the Continental Congress?-S. D. l.
A. The presiding ofI1cer OF the Con-
tinental Congress. known as the Presi-
dent OF the Congress, was Peyton RAN
dolph.
@. Is it true that the Pentagon Build
ing which houses the War Department Ia
heated by the un?-D. r. G.
A. The War Department says that the
principle of solar control is used In the
automatic control system which heats
the Pentagon Building. Arlington. Va.
According to this principle, less heat is
used at those places in the building ex-
posed to the sun, while more heat In
used in places not exposed to the sun.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

It is reported that our marines
stationed in the United Kingdom
plan not only to put a detachment
into kits in compliment to their
highland regiment co-hghters, but
to recruit full pipe band If we
know our leathernecks, they will not
be content until this unit can outpipe
any MacRimmons and wins the first
prize at the Braemar gathering.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

Germany has been directly respon-
slble for at least five wars in the past
one hundred years That is re-
markable output, and it is planned
to give her rest in this respect
which will last for several centuries.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hdskin.

reader can get the dns,cer TO any
question OF tact by writin1 The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau. Fred
eric J. Haskin, director. Washington.
D. c. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
O, How manv games are BOWED each
day in the United States7-E. B, G.
A, The American Bowling Congress
says that there are approximately o.
100000 games rolled every day In the
United States.
Q. Did all the passengers on the May
flower sign the Maytlover Compact
N. B.
A. Women and servants were relatively
unimportant passengers on board the
Mayfower They did not sign the COM
pact. 1t was the heads of families whose
signatures were attached on November
81, 1920.
@. Are ice and snow injurious to BIZ
cycle tires2-M NJ
A. The National Bureau Of Standards
says that cold weather, snow, ice and
water have no deleteriouS enect on
bicycle tires. AS a matter of fact tread
wear is much lower in winter than in
summer.
Q. Are all birds warm -blooded?-
" N. B.
A. Birds have complete double circu-
lation and very warm blood. Their bod
lily temperature ranges from 100 degrees
in the wingless kiwi to l02 degrees in
emus and penguins; from los to lot de-
grees among ducks. fowls and game birds.
and from lot to Ill degrees among the
sparrows and warblers.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Federal Law Wanted

To Protect Victory Gardens
To the Editor of The Star:
Can law be passed which will make it
Federal offense to rob or destroy a Vic
tory garden? Since bill was passed bv
the last Congress making it a Federal
offense to steal an automobile tire lob
struction of the war EFFORT, 1t would
seem even more important in this food
crisis to make it Federal offense to
destroy Victory gardens and growing
fruit orchards.
Many city dwellers would like to assist
their Government in producing an ade-
quate food supply this year, but most OF
them have no ground at their disposal
where they reside and must necessarily
plant their Victory gardens in unpro-
tected areas.
Let me recite my own experience. I
have certain unimproved acreage in
Montgomery County, Md, and I have
attempted in the past three years to grow
tify the place with a flower garden. Yes
terday I visited the acreage to prepare
for spring work and found that all Of the
fruit trees which could be torn from the
soil had been removed and stolen. An
entire rose bed of 16 fine plants had been
stolen, as well as grape vines The re-
naming shrubs and trees were partly
torn from the soil, and it seems reason
able to suppose that the culprit soon will
return, equipped with spade, and re-
move the remainder. I have already
purchased seeds and fertilizer and ar
ranged for the plowing of large Victory
garden this year. But why try, unless
protection Is afforded by stringent Fed
eral laws?
Last year I made several reports Of
acts OF vandalism to the Montgomery
County police. but the vandalism con-
tinued. n. A. LINGENFELTER.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Congress Told People
Will Not Forgive Delay.

To the Editor Of The Star
There Is historical character who
gained unfavorable renown by "nddling'
while his city burned.
Freedom of speech! Yes, we still have
1t and are we using it?
What are we most concerned about
while our boys are dying in the Atlantic
and the Pacific and the mud of Tunisia?
Well, we are perturbed considerably
about postwar reorganization and the
world of tomorrow. We haven't quite
decided who Is enemy No. l or who may
be the ruler Of Europe If Russia wins her
war with Germany. Another trouble
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Fable From Otega's Book
Offered for Current Considerable

To the Editor OF The Star,
The great Spanish philosopher. Jose
Oteea V Gasset, in Toward a Philoso-
ply of History" written some years prior
to the present war, says: TN my exile in
France, wandering alone through the
streets of Paris, l came to realize that
! really knew no one in that great city
but the statues. Among these at least
| found old friends who had stimulated
or had been the lasting masters of my
inner life, and having no one else to
talk to it was with them that I dis
cussed the great problems of mankind"
Oteea then recounts his "conversatio
with the statues of the philosophers and
great minds of old France who had
shaped the course of French civiliza ton
and influenced that of all Europe Then
of modern France he says: 1T was the
general belief in France-and this belief
spread through almost the entire conti-
nent-that the only method of solving
great human problems was the method
OF revolution, meaning by this-the will
to change everything at a single blow
in all spheres of life. 1t is thanks to
this that marvel France, has arrived in
such bad state at the conjunction of
the present
At the conluncture Of the present there
are Americans who are reduced to con-
Versatlons with the statues
w. r. WILMOTH.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

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The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Painters Seek
Benefit Fund

The General Executive Board of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers, is seeking union
approval of its resolution for the
creation of a special fund to meet adj
ditional liabilities caused by possible
casualties of war among its service
members, in order to protect its regu-
lar death and disability benefit fund.
According to the Brotherhood's
latest report published in The Painter
and Decorator, there were as of Dec.
IS, 1912, total of 1882 Painters in
the Combat Forces of the United
States and Canada.
More Have Gone
Of this number there were 81
members from Connecticut. The
Connecticut locals and their men
in the service follow: Local II,
Greenwich, five; 2l5, New Britain,
seven; 186, New Haven, five; 100.
Bridgeport, l3; 1872, Stamford,
five; Alb, Naugatuck, two; 48l,
Hartford, IL; 49l, Waterbury,
seven; p, NorwaIk, two; 8O8,
Ridgefeld, two; $40, Bristol, four;
1922, New London, 10; 1874,
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Labor League Teamsters
Is Established Expose Plan
In California On Tax Grab
Anti-Labor Firm Attempted
To Cheat On Its
Assessment

An attempted tax grab by the
notorious anti-labor Morgan Packing
Co. of Scott County, Ind, ignored by
the daily papers, has been exposed by
the International Teamster.
The magazine, official publica-
ton of the International Brother
hood of Teamsters, scooped the
dailies by telling how the Morgan
company attempted to cheat on its
assessed tax valuation to the tune
of $736,458 but was caught in the
act.
The magazine called Ivan C..
Morgan, head of the company, ga
sort of rural fuehrer who holds the
county in a despotic economic and
political grasp - an industrial
Goliath"
Morgan, the article disclosed, gave
the valuation of his holdings at $685.
517. The local assessor timidly raised
it by $4,000. Morgan beefed and
beloved, appealed to the tax review
board
The board backed the assessor.
Morgan appealed to the Indiana Tax
Board. The board sent in its own
assessors-and the valuation of Nor
gan's holding went up $500, to
81, 001, 975.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
New Haven All Out
For Mile OF Dimes

A minimum goal of $4,000 was
set by the Infantile Paralysis Com
mittee at the first meeting of the
March of Dimes group, when Chief
Paul P. Heinz said there will be direct
appeals for contributions from Jan. Is
to 80 to people who formerly bought
tickets for the big dance in the arm
DRY. DR.. Joseph l. Linde, treasurer,
announced that half the proceeds go
to the national foundation for research
and epidemic relief, and the other half
remains in this city, where direct re-
lief is given local victims of paralysis.
Matthew T. Birmingham announced
that New Haven was the first city in
the country to set up fund of this
kind, and is still the only city of its
size to maintain the fund. he said
if we were to have another paralysis
epidemic, this city would be we'll able
to combat the disease. All contribu-
tons should be sent to March of Dimes
headquarters, 179 Church Street, and
checks made out to DIR. Joseph l.
Linde.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Hartford Gu
ToCiiveDinner
To Bill Scott
Leading Members Appoint.
ed To Committee To
Arrange Plans

Plans to honor State Sen. Will
liam A. Scott, president of the Hart
ford Central Labor Union, are
under way. A committee was APP
pointed at the meeting of the C.L.U.
last week to arrange for the an
nual banquet of the organization.
Thomas Garrard, vice-president of
the Central Body, appointed the COM
mittee. Scott was asked to vacate the
chair until this was done. William
A. Crosscup, Jr., business agent of
the Painters Local, 381, proposed that
Scott be feted at the banquet in recog-
milton of his contribution to organized
labor in Hartford and of his election
as State Senator. Scott demurred, but
to no avail
The committee, subject to additions,
includes the following
Frank Norris, secretary of the
C.L.U.; Crosscup, delegate of the
Painters; Joseph J. Lombard, Meat
and Provision Workers, 81; George
Watson and Carmen DiCorcia, Brick
layers, l; Michael Barry, Carpenters,
43; Frank Devine, Electrical Work
ers, IS; Herbert A. Miller, Truck
Drivers, $50; John O'Donnell, Plumb
ers, 76; and John Miller, Bus Opera
tors, AS.
The committee will organize and
prepare to have the banquet in the
near future.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
NEWS
Quiz

The following questions are bas-
ed on labor news and personalities.
The answers appear on page A.
1. II have been told that this is
no time to speak of better Amer
lea after the war;" Pres. Roosevelt
in his message to Congress.
What was his reply to this warming?
2. Who was forced to resign as
consumers representative in the
OPA because of reactiOnary pres
sure?
3. How many dollars were saved
for the American people by rent
regulation in the last six months?
4. What international LABOR COM
mittee will meet in Miami Jan. 10?
5. Name the financial newspaper
which exploded stories of ''siIk
shirt buying sprees" by American
workers.
3. Which nation has the worst
industrial accident toll in the
world?
Z. For what was DIR. George W.
Carver, the Negro scientist who died
Jan. 5, famous?
3. Whose anti-uniOn lies are be-
ing used by Nazi agents to disrupt
U. ). Army morale?
9. For every day lost to war pro-
ductiOn by strikes in 1912, how
many days were lost through sick
ness?
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Building Trades In
Maintenance Drive

NEW YORK. - An about
campaign to organize thousands
of unorganized carpenters, cleo
tricians, elevator maintenance
mechanics and other building
maintenance workers in the
metropolitan area has been
started by the newly formed
New York Building & Construc-
ton Trades Councils Mantle
nance Organization (A.F.L.).
Heading the organization, be-
lieved to be the first of its kind
in the U. S., is Pres. Charles
Hanson of United Bro. of Car
penters & Joiners district cOun-
Gil.
The maintenance Organiza-
ton, rather than the Individual
craft unions represented in it,
will be the workers collective
bargaining agency. The initia-
ton fee will be only SIS. One
overall contract will be signed
with employers instead of many
craft contracts. Another aim is
to stop chiseling employers from
making maintenance workers do
carpentry, painting and other
work which is properly the job
of building trades workers.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Law Forbiids
Working
After lOP.M.
Court Rules Employer Loses
Aid Of Workman's
Compensation Law

HARTFORD.-Pointing to a re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court
of Errors, which stripped from manu-
facturers the protection of the Work.
mans Compensation Law in all acct
dent cases involving minors illegally
State Labor Commissioner
Cornelius ]. Danaher today warned
that the employment of females under
Is after 10 PM. was practice that
must be discontinued.
apparently there are some ope-
ratOrs of manufacturing or mercan-
tile establishments who are not
aware that the employment of girls
under Ii after 10 PM. is illegal.
l have notified my investigators
that | expect this law will be strict
ly enforced and that any violations
coming to my attention will be
prosecuted.
I'm this connection, it might be
well for employers to realize that not
only are they exposing themselves to
criminal prosecution by illegal hir-
ing, but accidents or deaths to minors
may involve serious civil damages.
The Supreme Court of Errors only
this week permitted common law dam
ages, and found conclusive evidence
of negligence in the employment of a
boy less than 10 in awarding damages
for his death. There is every reason
to believe that civil liability of the
same nature would attach in the case
of 18-year-old girls employed IL
legally after 10 PM"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Hartford To Raise
Five Miles OF Dimes

The Hartford Central Labor Union
is among the first contributors to the
Mile O. Dimes in Connecticut. The
CL.U. voted at its last meeting to
contribute $40 to the Hartford drive,
Jan. IS to 80. The city's goal is $44,-
936, the equivalent of five miles OF
dimes.
Last year the city raised more than
$4,000 to establish itself as the lead
ing per capita contributor to the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile Paral-
ysis. The campaign is held in connec-
ton with the celebration of the birth
day of President Roosevelt.
Only Chicago contributed more last
year than Hartford to the nationwide
drive. Hartford has, therefore, adopt
ed slogan this year that runs
Lets Beat Chicago"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
COOP BUYS REFINERY

JAMESTOWN, N. D.-The pur-
chase of petroleum refinery, ex-
pected to cost around $1,250,OOO, by
the Farmers Union Central Exchange
was authorized by delegates repre-
sentlng $50 local co-operatives at the
annual meeting here recently.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16

''THE AUTHENTIC BOurbons of
our Time" who according to the
Right Rev. John A. Ryan, are seek
ing to dispossess Labor of all its
recent advantages will indeed have
things their own way if labor
groups don't stand shoulder to
shoulder in common defense of
their rightful gains. After all, these
are the rights that labor loses under
relationships. Standing ground is
not enough. A fight must be made
for saving and extending progress
sive social and labor legislation.
LAST WEEK there was heard
some bleating from Washington
about am effort to persuade Presi-
dent Roosevelt not to press for
change of the Social Security Laws
on the grounds that it would affect
unity and embarrass the war effort.
Verify, it is amazing how certain
political hypocrites and other
rogues cIoaked i'm the shining garbs
of patriotism, are concerned with
national unity and the war effort.
FAILURE TO liberalize Social
Security legislation in order to pro-
vide adequate benefits in times OF
economic distress if and when they
descend upon us again, is nothing
short of an unspeakable derelictiOn
of duty on the part of the national
legislators. All this talk of putting
it off until after the war is both
unhOly and fooIhardy.
AS President Roosevelt has point
ed out, the failure to increase the
contributions to the Social Security
Fund, which should have been at
tended to i'm 1910, is weakening
the whole structure, and should be
attended to at once. Now is the
time for making contributions.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
New Organization Is Com
Posed OF ALL, CLIO,
Railroad Unions

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The organized
workers of Santa Clara County will
now speak with one united voice
through the United Labor League, a
new organization composed of ALL,
CLIO. and railroad union repre-
sentatives.
The unity group will function
with complete set of bylaws, elect
ed officers and an executive board
made up of delegates from affiliat-
ed unions. Sponsors are the cOun-
TVS three main labor grOups-the
ALL. Building & Construction
Trades Council, ALL. Central
Labor Council and Santa Clara
County Clio. Council.
The bylaws specifically state: "The
league shall in no manner infringe
upon the power or autonomy of any
existing union or council of unions"
The duties of the group are de-
scribed as follows:
''The purpose of the league shall
be to provide collective voice for
all of organized labor i'm Santa
Clara County-A.F.L., C.I.O., in
dependent and railroad brother
hood.
''This voice shall speak for VIC
tory in the war effort and for the
freedom and democracy of the
postwar period.
1.-THE league shall speak the
opinion of organized labor on the
legislative front-local, state and
national"
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16

Washington, ID. C.-Seven
agencies of the Federal Gov
eminent, six of them war
agencies, this week warned
against blanket suspension of
State labor laws.
The War, Navy and Labor
Departments, the War Pro-
duction Board, War Man.
power Commission and Office
of Defense transportation
joined i'm declaration that
longtime production had
been aided by preserving laws
regulating hours of work and
safe conditions.
With the legislatures of A states
meeting in regular session this year
and probably considering measures
to speed the war effort, the state
ment of the agencies was issued TO
State Labor Commissioners in re-
Spouse to inquiries as to whether
the war production and transpOrta-
ton programs would require furth-
err amendment of state legislation.
Preserve State Laws
The statement urged that state laws
embracing the following basic prin-
cipleS should be preserved, except
where modification might be neces-
sary to insure the maximum pro-
duction:
l. A maximum 48-hour week.
z. An 3-hOur day.
3. One day of rest in seven.
4. Adequate rest and meal
periods.
5. Adaptation of hours of
work and working conditions to
the age and sex of the workers,
except that there be no relaxa-
ton of standards governing en-
pIOyment of those under 10
years old.
6. Proper safeguards for
health and safety.
z. The same wage rates for
women as for men.
1t was pointed out that the rec
ommendation as to hours in no way
affected provisions # the Wage-Hour
Act requiring time-and-a-half pay for
all work over 40 hours a week. Re-
ports to the Department of Labor
show that practically all war produc-
ton plants in the United States are
operating at least 48 hours week.
Reports from the field show that
state labor standards have not in
terfered with war production, the
statement said.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Bridgeport, one; and 1889, Hart

Bridgeport, one; and 1889, Hart
ford, 10.
The number of men in the service
from locals have increased since the
national figures we're compiled. Local
1876, New Haven, has seven men in
the services. Hartford, 481, has ID.
THE UNION TINES is interested in
getting the up-to-date figures from any
local wishing to submit them. Secre-
taries or business agents are invited
to send this paper their latest figures
and names Of members entering the
services.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Some Optical Firms
Are Violating Laws

Facts uncovered in the Justice De-
partment's recent attempt to bust the
trust of the optical companies in the
U. S. reveal that 100000 Ameri-
cans are being deprived of proper
care for their eyes, because eye
glasses which should sell for $3.50
are sold for $40. At the request of
the Army and Navy, which said the
trials would seriously impede the
war effort" the Justice Department
dropped its suit.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-01-16
Comments on This and That Is
by ROBERT B. BICKEL
00IE0M0l0T0I0I0
by ROBERT B. BICKEL

TWO SIGNIFICANT straws in
the wind i'm regard to working unity
of organized labor was in evidence
in articles in TEE UNION TIMES
last week repoEting that AFL-CIO
permanent conatees have been
formed in Newark, N. ]. and i'm
Jefferson City, Mo. just as workers
had to learn to rise above their per-
sOnal differences in order to form
strong effective unions, their lead
ers are learning that there must be
working unity of purpose, aim
and action of both camps of labor
in order to fight effectively on the
social, political and legislative
front. And, unity to that end is
needed now.
THE NATIONWIDE co-opera-
tive radio program will go on the
air for the first time Feb. II, the
Cooperative League radio commit
tee announced this week.
''THE HISTORY of Labor has
been an epic of silence" says Ben
Hecht, famous author, writing in
the latest issue of The MOtOrman,
Conductor and Coach Operator. 1t
is this silence that is being broken
in our day. A new tongue is being
added to history-the Voice of
Labor. :. +. The Voice of Labor
says: We are History; and History
is the tale of our hammers swing
ing, our ovens roaring and our
sweat. - With this prelude, Hecht
outlines the heroic role-mOst
often unsung-of workingmen and
women of the United States, who
not only produced the wealth of
industry but served with glory in
every war that had to be fought.