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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

church, will be in charge of the ceremonies.
 A solemn high Mass will be cele. brated at II a. m, with special musical program to be rendered by the Girls choir. %
 A procession through the streets surrounding the church will open the afternoon program, in which hundreds of persons are expected to participate. All societies C the three Italian parishes will be repre- sented. A band has been secured to furnish music. ~- Services at the church will fol- low the procession at o'clock. with special sermon and Benediction to be included.
 The occasion will be used appro- priately to offer prayers for men in the service, and Catholics through out the city will pause for remenl- brance of the feast day of the servicemen's patroneSs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
TOKEN PAYMENTS
 FROM HOSPITALS
No New Water Meters Are Available Board of
 Works Informed

Mayor John s. Monagan informed the board Of works las5 night, Wa terbury and St. Mary's hospitals will contribute annually the amount of $2,5OO each as token" payments to the city for water. The mayor eX- plained this is being done because war conditions make it impossible for the city to secure new water meters.
 The board voted to notify the wa ter superintendent, controller and tax collector of this new arrange ment. Eventually when it is possible to secure water meters the hospitals will be billed for the amount of wa ter they use at the same rate as regular consumers. Until the new water schedule went into effect a few months ago, the hospitals were not invoiced for water.
 Commissioner Daniel Driscoll, on behalf of the street committee, sug- gested that something be done to eliminate surface water on the sidewalk on the west side of Wood- tick road from Chase school to Mansfield avenue. The street level is above the level of the walk he added, and suggested that the street be cut down, or that a storm sewer be installed. The board recom- mended the street superintendent to cut down the grade of the street
 Street Supt. Herbert Scott-Smitf announced that the grading ol Edgewood avenue from Hamilton avenue to Sylvan avenue is fin ished. The board sent his com. munication on the board of alder. men for the purpose of getting the bills out to the property liners foi assessments.
 The superintendent was empou- cred to act upon petition from residents of Neil street who desire to have the street oiled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
News Of Connecticut

Hartford, Conn.,, July 14-(UP)-- The Torrington company, denied ex- emption from a Securities Exchange Commission regulation requiring publication of the salaries of officers and directors, endeavored today to persuade the SEC to allow it's stock listing to be withdrawn from the Boston Stock Exchange.
 A. w. Burg, treasurer of the con- cern, testifying before SEC Exam iner William J. Cogan. contented that most of the sales of the con- pany stock werey over-the- counter, and in Connecticut, and that only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

few actually were negotiated through the exchange. Furthermore, he said, the majority of sales were to Connecticut shareholders.
 Wesley J. Ross, vice president in charge of sales, testified concerning Exhibit R." which showed that a survey made last August revealed 67 per cent of the company's shares were held by Connecticut purchasers and that 68 per cent of the sales were made in this state.
 William R. Read, president of the Torirngton company, took the wit ness stand briefly to corroborate the testimony of Burg and Ross.
 Several officers of the Boston Ex- change, which is not opposing the e-listing petition, were scheduled to testify during the afternoon hearing
 The company previously applied to the SEC at Washington for ex- emption from the salary publication clause, contending the information was confidential. The petition was rejected. In an appeal to the fed eral court the decision also was un- favorable.
 Hartford, Conn.,. July 14-(UP) Carl Gray, Plainville manufact-
 urer, appointed by Gov. Baldwin
 as chairman of a cOmmitte on the unemployment of men returning from military service, will address
 the Conference of New England
 Governors at New London Friday, it was announced today.
 Massachusetts Gov. L e we rett
 will be chairmna of the confer
 ence.
 Hartford, Conn.,, July 14-CUP)- Gov. Baldwin today vetoed three pension bills passed by the recen General Assembly session as h' completed action on more than 100' special and public acts approved b. the lawmakers.
 Thus far he has vetoed IT bills including 13 special and four publi acts.
 The latest vetoed bills provide' pensions for persons not regula , employees of the state. ''If these acts were approved, ,, he said, "it would tend to open wide field for special legislation 0 . this kind"
 The bills concerned pensions fo Robert A. Winslow. Jr.. Hartforc former secretary of the legislativ !, judiciary committee; Albert i New Haven, Conn, July 14-(UP . Mrs. Helen Hightower, "A, Brook . lyn, N. Y, died last night fror injuries when car in which sh was riding collided with truck a Branford. Her husband, the Re' Richard Hightower, 20, was injure critically, and MT. and Mrs. Josep c. Cooper, New London, rdiing i , the same car. were less severel lhurt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

Tribute to the Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness saint of men in the armed forces, will be rendered by residents of the City of Water bury at solemn celebration of her feast day Sunday at the Church Of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Highland avenue. The observance will be part of nationwide pro- gram arranged in Catholic churches for the intention of servicemen.
 Parishioners of St. Lucy's church and the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, the other two local Italian Catholic churches, will be among
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

bombing of consuls1mate accuracy. And new bombers are coming with greater ranges and loads. In 1918 we talked about filling the air with planes. Today, we do 1t.
 NEXT: Our Lessons in Produc- fion
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Our Ladyof Mt. Carmel Feast To Be Observed
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Special Ceremonies Arranged for Sunday; Prayers for Men in Service to Be Offered By Parishoners

those joining in the celebration, and
 pastors of those churches, Rev. Felix Scoglio and Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph
 Val ambrini as well as others of the city will participate in the church services. Rev. Patrick w.. Flynn, pastor, and Rev. Austin R: Saunders. curate at the M. Carmel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
MARINE HOS 41s TROPHIES

San Diego, Cal - (UP) - Carl Haynes, gunner of the U,S.M.C.' had so many medals for sharp shooting with rifle and pistol that his manly breast by no stretch or the imagination or breathing exer- cises ever possibly could display them, so he uses bedspread. He has 419 such trophies. He has been Marine for IS years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
LITANY FOR A NEW AEF

Epauettes of Farragut. PoWder-horn of Boone, Hawaiis fateful morning, Shilohs fearful moon. (Be with us as we embark) Bayonets in Belleau Wood. Song of Marion's men, Foxholes in the Philippines Wakes grim garrison. (Be example unto us) Lncon's face its sadness; That from these honored dead We take increased devotion Other things he said Support us in the Battle) Stars above our cornfields, Morning -colored wind, Snow, and Wood-fires burning On hearts we leave behind (Shine for us, dear beacons) God of the hidden purpose, Let embarking be The prayer of proud men asking Not to be safe, but free.
 HENRY MORTON ROBINSON,
 in the New Yorker.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Good Evening.
LONELY ROAD

The shady road is deserted and hurt, Not enough to raise any dirt Even the chickens feel lonely and blue No cars to sdeswpe them passing through All is quiet along Elm Tree Lane, Hotel Proprietor Tompkns feels with pain That his chicken dinners thing Of the past, And his clam chowder suppers have quite lost caste The shady road is lonely early and late, As much or in '70
 When the only noise at early morn Was the once-a-day sound of the coachmans horn. The road so proud of its naples and oaks Where folks used to park eat sandwiches and cokes, That road is lonely for very few pass In this day and age without benefit of gas - Elm En
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

The Town Crier Tells The Wetmore school in Torrington is being converted into Freshman High school A new lock has been finished at the Sault Ste Marie Canal in Michigan and has been named for Gen era Douglas MacArthur the entire construction done in 13 months St. Anthonys Church in Litchfied is reported to have purchased tract of land in Bantam for chapel the land located west of the Bantam ceme terv on the Litchfied- Bantam highway They have started ong the roads in the Terryvile locality Woodbury had violent storm and blow last week and trees were uprooed Ten Connecticut High schools were represented in recent art exhibit in Washington D. G. and is now display in the Congressional Library
 The fishing fleet off Stonington has staged strike something to do with ceiling prices What no sWord dsh! Goodbye now!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
There are presently 5000 Waterbury men and women

There are presently 5000 Waterbury and women enlisted for active service in the Armed Forces At the present rate of induction it believed likely that approx imatey OOOO will be in branch of service early in 1914 And each of the 10000 will be interested in knowing his her status with the government far as hosiptalization insurance, compensation pensions are concerned With that thought in mind the Denlo cra will print interview series of interviews start ing tomorrow between local DAV Rehabilitation officer and prominent executive of the Veterans adninistra ton It makes swell reading and gives plenty of valuable information Incidentally the Tower has received several young servicemen and the CDD In today's mai, dis abed veteran the query why banks charge service fee of ten cents to cash United States government check He writes that he took his check compensaton allowance for World War injuries to a bank and was obliged to pay marked his first experience of paying to have Uncle Sams LOU. honored. Cheer up, Buddy why worry about 10 cents service fec How about 418 other taxes less, all bound up in red tape and labeled "For Victory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

Sergeant Henry F. Carin is spending lO-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Margaret Carn of 104l Watertown Avenue Sergeant Carn is stationed with the U S. Marines at Cherry Point North Carolina Miss Powers of Edn Street ten years old and student at the Hopevile School in the sixth grade has contributed tin foil for the benefit of the needy On Monday, July 12, son. Joseph Anthony, was born to Mr. and Mrs Fred GraziOsa at St. Mary's Hospital Mrs Graziosa is the former Bertha Theroux of East Liberty Street
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

Cisse Loftus of the stage and screen, particularly of the stage spent fifty years in the profession She was regarded as one of the geraest mmics well as yer sate actresses the American and British stage Her death this week occurred at the age of 67 years Her personal life less chaotic starting with her elopement at the age of IT with Justin Huntley Mccarthy playwright and novelist. Her parents were variety artists of Glasgow Scotland and their daughter followed in their footsteps Long ago she was earning stupendous salaries those days the London stage as a mimic She played in practically all types of shows from Hamlet" to Little Dark Horse in 1941.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

Farcy That .. Touring season has become the time when everybody is ready to go but the automobile Any soldier will tell you that the best thing to induce chest expansion is medal In wartime, says our gov- ernmenv, should not do work that women do. How about the dinner dishes? We wish to retract kicks about the bitter cold weather last winter The bells that used to ring for that boy and his gal still ringing if you complete radio fall The Gibson girl would ent day imtators .. The folks who spending hours these days standing crowded trains and busses would pull stdown strike if they asked to wear them selves out to that extent in their respective places of busl Now that father has finished pruning the hedge he's b;sy wedding his vegetable patch which will keep him busy until it's time to prune the hedge again Today's cheater will be tomorrows dead beater Good bye, now
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
FACING THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
PAY AS WE GO

A MEXICAN workers are doing and want to
continue TO do their part in this war. Millions
are already in the armed services. Others have
sons and brothers either at the front or soon
to be there. The rest working at home, turn
ing out the ships, planes and other items needed
for victory
TO help pay for the war we all have to give
from our earnings. Workers have been buying
bonds under agreements whereby employers de-
duct from pay envelopes a stipulated amount each
week. Since January the new victory tax has also
been deducted. Then came the federal income
tax, which reached many who had never previous
ly had to pay this tax. Money that formerly went
for clothes, rent, medical bills and other necessary
items will go into income tax.
Workers and other patriotic citizens do not
shirk wartime sacrifices, but the burdens should
fall equitably. TO help all to meet their tax obli-
cations there is an insistent demand throughout
the country for a ay-as-yOu-go scheme. The idea
has been popularized by the widely discussed
Ruml plan.
To overcome The obvious deficiencies of that
plan and to help everybody to pay the income tax
with less hardship, the American Federation of
Labor has urged Congress to put withholding
system into effect not later than July l. Under
the Federations plan, income tax would be col
lected through deduction from wages, salaries and
other income payments, just as money is now
taken from the pay envelope for war bonds and
the victory tax.
AS to the latter, we ask that it be repealed at
the same time that the withholding provision is
adopted, in the interests both of administrative
and of fairness.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
IT HAPPENED IN KANSAS
1T CAN HAPPEN IN OHIO

IF MEMBERS of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters have the idea that the Nazl
way of dealing with organized labor cannot be
imported to this country, then guess again. 1t has
happened in Kansas and it happen right here
in our state of Ohio.
Here is what Kansas has done to labor by
adopting the Schickelgruber method, in other
words a replica of the Anti-Labor French bill
which our friend Mr.. Rickenbacker has urged the
state assembly to pass. 1t has put the supervision
of all unions under state politician, abolished
and forbidden the closed or union shop, denied
the workers the right to boycott non-union prod
ucts or jobs. housewife, under the Kansas
statute, can be sent to prison for refusing to buy
a non-union product Finally, all persons accused
of violating the Kansas Nazi law to kill unions
are denied the right OF trial by jury.
Yes it can happen in this country. Unless we
are everlastingly watchful
Remember last November? We had an cleo
ton Yeah-and many potterS too busy, too
tired too disinterested in politics to go to the
polls The result was that some of labors best
friends took a beating.
Well, last week the Ohio Senate spurned the
pleas OF labor and governmental war agencies and
passed the Ross Bill to lengthen the hours of
hour week and 10-hour day
What have we as union men and women got
to say about it? What can we say? If we had
voted there would be different story to tell. But
so many Of our people did not vote that ouI
enemies won. Now have received swift kick
in the teeth. viii we ever learn?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
SUBSTITUTE FOR FRENCH BILL OBJECTIONABLE TO
LABOR AS ORIGINAL. PROPOSALS

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
LET'S DO 1T RIGHT THIS TIME

THE PRESIDENTS "hold the line Executive
Order of April limits wage increases to the
Little Steel formula, as established by the Ma
tional War Labor Board last year. Under this
formula, wage earners are entitled to fifteen per
cent increase-no more-on the wage or salary
they were earning January 1, 1941 This fifteen
per cent increase was granted to take care OF the
rise in the cost of living during the period from
January 1, 1941, to September, 1912, when wages
were frozen by Executive Order. Inasmuch as
most cost-of-living items were also frozen in
September, 1912, at the same time that wages
were frozen, it was supposed that this arrange
ment would check imitation and at the same time
satisfy the workers.
ing to schedule. Although wages have been held
to their September, 1912 level with wage in
creases-if any-restricted to the limits of the
Little Steel formula, there has been almost COM
plete breakdown of price control, and the cost OF
living continues to spiral upward. Millions of
workers are still trying to meet the 1913 level OF
high prices with wages which have not been in
creased much, if at all, beyond the 1941 figure,
and even those fortunate enough to have been
granted wage increase based on the Little Steel
formula find most of it dissipated on the higher
prices of commodities which were supposed to
have been put under price control last September
1t is true that the Presidents Executive Order
of April contemplated the Trolling back OF
prices to their September, 1912 levels. If this
could be accomplished, and if every worker We're
automatically given wage increase Wlthln the
Little Steel problem, the problem Of stabilizng the
cost of living would doubtlessly be solved But
how can the Government expect to successfully
roll back prices to what they were eight months
ago, when it was not able, during those eight
months, to prevent them from getting beyond
control? If the Government couldn't make the
price-freezing regulations of September, 1912
stick, what hope is there of enforcing them at
this late date?
The situation, we think, calls for new wage
increase formula and new price ceilings, based on
the present cost of living and with guarantees
and safeguards against any further breakdown
of control.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
ABSENTEE HULLABALOO

fT'HERE HAS been more talk about absenteeism
lately than is warranted by the amount of ac-
curate information in the possession Of most Of
those discussing the subject.
Comparatively few companies keep records
listing the reasons for absences. There have been
complete changes in production in many plants,
with quick expansion Of facilities and work force,
accompanied by expansion of the managerial staff.
In the hurry to get going, there have been numer-
Gus inelIicences in planning supplies and routing
them, in writing work orders, in failing to guard
machines properly. OF course some Of the diff
culties lie quite outside the responsibility of the
firm. Many are due to the newness of the war
agencies
Wage-ealners have shifted from old Jobs to
new jobs from one city to another, from East to
West. Some have taken their families with them,
while others have the extra costs of living apart
from their families Gasoline and transportation
difficulties have been another handicap. Under
rlde-Sharng arrangements flat tire delays four
or five workers instead Of only one.
The sharp Increase IN Industrial accidents has
meant lost days of production. For this negligent
employers must bear the major responsibility.
Longer hours and the pressure of war work spell
more fatigue. One day Of rest is not long enough
to remove it and return the worker to his Job in
prime condition Sooner or later accumulated
fatigue illness forces absence. In addition, IA
tioning and other war regulations make life in
creasingly complicated.
Yet in spite of all these difficulties produc-
tion has increased enormously. But instead of the
praise labor deserves there has come a great hue
and cry about abScnteeiSm. The aim is to dis
credit the unions, which are the only agencies that
can assume responsibility for group work habits
True, there are some workers who are deliber-
ately taking days off without good excuse, but
such workers are the exception. TO penalize
others, who do have valid reasons for absence
from work, by passing drastic legislation would
be an unwise and ineQuitable procedure.
The way to keep workers on the Job is to let
them know why it is necessary for them to be
there regularly and to put responsibility upor
them for being there Unions and management
will do the rest 1t is matter that calls for per
sonal adjustments and for the removal Of diff
cuties-not for legislation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-04-29
LA GUARDIA BACKS STARR
FOR EDUCATION DIRECTOR

New York, n. Y.-Mayor La Guar
dia declared there is no question
about Mark Starr'S qualifications for
the position of adult education director
in the schools of New York City and
asserted that 'in all probability he
will be appointed" He made this
statement after receiving the report
submitted by Commissioner William b.
Herlands condemning the action of the
Board of Education in rejecting, by Il
vote of 4 to =, Mr.. Starr, who is edu-
cational director of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union and
Il member of the American Federation
of Teachers.
The appointment of Starr was
recommended by the Board of Super
intendents and the Board of EXamin-
ers, but was rejected by the Education
Board because of his record in favor
of labor unions.