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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-15
WITHHOLDING TAX
"REDUCES" CHECKS

Many a sigh was given at local
banks this week as the Waterbury
working public cashed the first gov
ernment-deflated pay check, but the
prospect of an arfthmetic-less March
is next year brought many CHEEKY
afterthought.
Deductions under the Withholding
tax plan hit the single men and
women hardest, with married per-
sons with three or more children
facing the lowest percentage in cuts.
The total amount Of tax in all cases,
however, will bethe same as paid
under the old plan.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-15
receiving specialized army training
at Louisiana State University, Ba-
ton Rouge, La.

officers for the Marine Corps Wo-
mems Reserve will be selected from
the ranks after July g. Il Was an
nounced today at the local Marine
recruiting station, and qualified
young women will have their last
opportunity to apply as officer can
didates tomorrow and Saturday.
AS an aid to young women who
are employed at night, the local
station will remain open from $50
to 8 o'clock each evening Monday
through Friday, and the closing
hour on Saturday has been set at
"a Q. n.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-15
LAST OF FOUR ARTICLES
u. S. IGNORED INDUSTRIAL LESSONS
OF 1918, YET PRODUCTION SCARS

BY THOMAS M. JOHNSON
NEA Service Military Writer

wonderful that undertake
production history
right
We the length Of time
world conflict That experience 10 months
smashing
happened again what
trying improve gum the
French u.s. and wasted shipping
But
made reached the front
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-15
PILLS SET sHAKE-UP RECORD

rHILS oCI S1HHN
Philadelphia (UP)-The Phila-
delphia Phillies set new all-time
record in the realm of rebuilding a
ball club this year. The National
League Green Book, published in
March, introduced eight new play
ers. Not one of them now Is with
the team.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-15

Frank Kabylinskas of At Robinson
street, who is a seaman first class
in the U. S. Navy, is serving with
the Atlantic fleet.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-23

a bill auto
graphed by a
member of
he Sh ort
Shorter Club,
a MIR. Keith
7 ha er. l
X n e W very
little about
the orgAniLa-
y H. a III u
Al ce then
have search
ed high and
wide, but the
only thing i
G GU Id find
was that 10
g o n c q rned
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-23
5sek Pickering
Here
and
Now

JAZZ KITCHEN. a Caro- gaso-
line dealer, writes:
81 handle = lot OF 81 bills
mostly two-gallon customers
now.
a. few weeks ago, i found
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-23

Double-tiered one-piece door to keep
albums free from dust Eight roomy
compartments choice of walnut or
mahogany finish - adds charm to any
room.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-23

Practical, dual-purpose cabi-
net that can also serve as
end table. Smart walnut
finish.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
MCFARLAND ENROLLED
AS AVIATION CADET
Especial 70 The .c,ltikenl

- f
MAXWELL, FIELD, Ala, April
17-Leebert Worth, Mcfarland,
son of Mr., and Mrs, Leon McFar-
land, of 1910 Virginia Street, Key
West, Florida, is now enrolled as
an aviation cadet in the Army
Air Forces Pre-Flight School for
Pilots at Maxwell Field, located on
the outskirts of Montgomery, the
capital of Alabama.
Here the new class of cadets is
receiving nine weeks of intensive
military, physical and academic
training preparatory to begin
ming their actual flight instruc-
ton at one of the many primary
flying schools in the Army Air
Forces Southeast Training Cen
ter.
Cadet Mcfarland is a graduate
of Key West High School and
worked as a blueprint operator
and turret lathe operator before
he was accepted as an aviation
cadet in the Army Air Forces on
Feb. 3, l943, at baskerville, Ten
Hiiessee. iaiIp.p ha
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
DANCE, MUSIC AND
FUN AT SLOPPY'S

It's Saturday again, tonight's
the night to have big time at
Sloppy Joe's Bar, the spot where
the crowd goes to swing and sway
to the music of Joe Russo's Band.
The dance music starts at Z o'clock
and if you want to nave a lot of
fun, go early and stay late !.
those of you who have never
been to Sloppy Joe's and those of
you who are in town for your first
Saturday night, all this reporter
says is - go to Sloppy Joe's and
see for yourself the fun that is had
by all, the regulars as well as the
first nighters.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
OCEANVIEW SERVES
EXCELLENT MEALS

One of the best places in Key
West to eat is the Oceanview Res
taurant, $40 United Street. To-
morrow, Sunday, delightful din
ner will be served at a moderate
price.
AS usual this popular place
will be closed on Monday on ac-
count of the shortage of compe-
tent help. The management re-
grets this situation and will open
on Mondays as soon as the situa-
ton can be remedied.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
:: SOCIETY ::
sssssssssssssssssssssssssss
MISS CLAIRE G. MONNETTE WEBS
LIEUTENANT ROBERT c. PITTMAN

Miss Claire G. Monnette, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Mon
nette of Chicopee, became the
bride OF. Lieut.. Robert c. Pittman,
of Key West. Fla, recently giu the
Church of the Assunlptipn EA1co-
pee. Rev. John D.. MestaE~ per-
formed the ceremony and celebrat-
ed the nuptial mass which was
followed by reception at the
Monnette home. RI a a
Miss Alice Monnette attended
her sister as maid of honor and
the bridesmaids were Misses Lor-
aine Bolduc and Cecile Dauplaise.
Thomas Gravel served as best
man.
A white slipper satin gown with
formal court train was worn by,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

the bride. Her long train veil of
illusion was caught to a Juliet cap
of seed pearls and she carried
roses and orchids. The maid of hon
or was costumed in a champagne
rose gown of satin and tulle,
with matching shoulder veil and
carried iris and roses. Pale blue
gowns in similar fashion were
worn by the bridesmaids. Their
shoulder corsages were roses and
pastel sweetpeas.
The bride is graduate of Cath
edral high school and has been
employed in the accounting de-
partment of the United States
Rubber Company. Lieut.. Pittman
is stationed with an air force unit
at Columbia, S. C. He was former
ly stationed at Westover field.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
DIVISION STREET SCHOOL PIT. A.
HOLDS INTERESTING MEET TUESDAY

Vice President-Mrs. James
Sheppard.
Secretary-Mrs. James Higgs.
Treasurer-Miss Miriam Ca
rey.
Historian-Mrs. Earl Hamilton.
Installation of these officers
will be. held at the May meeting.
The count of parents was held,
and Mrs. Amalia Cabot's class of
4A's won the honors. The door
prize, defense stamps, went to
Mrs. VIM. Knowles, one of the
Room Mothers.
The meeting was then adjourn
ed, with the announcement that
the next meeting would be the
last one of this term, urging all
numbers to attend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

The regular meeting of the Di-
vision Street School PIT. A. was
held Tuesday, April 18th, with the
President, Mrs. Grace Lynch,
presiding.
4. A play, Safety For Children"
was presented BY Mrs, Anna Rob-
erts' ZIP class This was greatly
The minutes, and. Teasurers re-
port were then given. Following
this the Nominating Committee
Submitted the names for officers
of the Association for the coming
year. An election was held with
the following being named as
new PIT. A. officers:
President-Mrs. Fernando Ca
mus.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
PRIZES AWARDED
AT ART EXHIBIT
Especial to The citixen)

CAMP BLANDING, April IT,
Five prizes were carried off by
the Camp Blanding Attic Art Club
for works submitted to the Sol
diers' Art Exhibit at the Society
of the Four Arts IN Palm Beach,
Fla.
First water-color prize went to
Private Ulfert Wiike. German
refugee, formerly resident of Kali
amazoo, Mich; second water-col-
or prize was awarded to Private
Howard D. Becker, Albany, N. Y;
Second oil prize was awarded to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
FINE ENTERT AINlNENTI
AT RAUL'Ss TONIGHT

Raul's Club, on the Boulevard,
where nice folks congregate to
dance to that orchestra of distine-
ton, "John Pritchard's Orches-
ira" is having another Saturday
night dance tonight. John starts
his orchestra at 8 o'clock sharp,
and from then till the curfew
says Its time to close" delight
full time is had by the customers.
There is plenty of parking
space at Raul's, and Raul himself
win be there to meet and greet
you and your friends, if you go
out for an evening of enjoyment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Private Paul Weinstock. New York
City; Fifth oil prize went to Pri-
vate First Glass Leo GlueckSelig.
New York City; and the second
drawing prize went to Private
First Class A. Fralix, Charlotte,
N. c. All are soldiers at Camp
Blanding.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
Prepared

Has young Spendmore any
thing saved up to prepare for his
coming marriage?"
''Yes, he has a white necktie
that goes with a dress suit"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

his dependents. The family allow
ance is contributed jointly by the
government and the man in SER
vice and is obligatory for class q"
dependents.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Q.-My husband lost his tire in
spection receipt. Where can he get
a duplicate?
A.-His rationing board.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

The worlds first law to safe
guard the health of factory work
ers was passed in Great Britain in
1902.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Q.-Where can donate my old
fur coat-collar for the war effort?
A.-You can send it to War En-
Urgency Board, Fur Vest Project,
1876 w. 18th ST, New York City, or
ask the fur department of your
store to send it for YOU ~
Q.-Is a boarding house allowed
to increase price on room and
board?
Aboard isn't covered by price
regulations. Contact your Area
Rent Director about rent ceilings.
Off l surrender points for but
ter, what does the farmer do with
them?
Ale turns them in to his ra-
tioning board with his monthly
report of sales.
Q-My brother has a farm def
erment. How long will he be clas-
sified?
A.-As long as his farming is up
to required standards for defer
ment.
Q-Is it a violation of WPB reg
ulations to sell a 1882 model type
writer? 19s IS
A.-Regulations do not cover
models made prior to 1885.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17
Answers 70
YOUR WAR
QUESTIONS
Send Homc-Front Queries to
Regional OEM Information Office
In Care of This Paper

Q.-Where can l get permission
to buy a bicycle?
A.-From your War Price and
Rationing Board.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Q.-My husband in the Army is
stationed in another state. Will
the government pay my way to go
and see him once a year?
A.-No ma'am
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Q.-My 20-year-old son, recent
ly indicted, wants to go to OCS.
What should he do?
Ale must take Is weeks basic
training. Then he can apply to his
commanding officer for Officer
Candidate School.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Q.-What is the difference be-
tween an allotment and family
allowance? Can a person get both?
Am allotment is a voluntary
contribution from the soldier to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-04-17

Q.-Can a small grocer going out
of business sell his sugar and cof-
fee to housewives without receiv-
ing sugar and coffee ration
stamps?
A.-No, sir. He must collect
stamps for it.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Coal Control Low

A new element Of uncertainty is
being injected into the coal situation.
as the Bltumlnous Coal Act, under
which the soft coal industry is regu-
lated by the Bituminous Coal Divi-
sion, expires April 26, and it is i'm
probable that it can be renewed bv
that date. The House Ways and
Means Committee, in charge of this
legislation, has given precedence to
extension Of the reciprocal trade
agreements, and as these hearings
are not to start until next week it
seems evident that the coal law is in
for delay.
The prospective expiration of the
act IS unlikely to affect prices as the
current demand for coal should pro-
tect the nlininlums set by law and
maIInlumS are fixed by the Office of
Price Administration. The division,
however, is preparing to open hear
Ing on April IS, at the request of the
operators, to decide if new prices are
warranted by higher costs, and this
study takes on added Importance in
view of the possibility that miners
wages will be raised The hearina
originally was set for February when
the operators asked for relief, con-
tending that costs had advanced five
cents a ton since the scale was set
IN 1912 Now the proceedings are
Scheduled at a time when higher
costs virtually are assured. and for
this reason it is important that there
be a determination of the exact bur-
Den which the public (no doubt will
be called upon to bear. Just what
the division hearing can accomplish
however, in view Of its own uncertain
status, is questionable.
Advance indications are that the
move to continue the coal law will
precipitate fight in Congress. The
administration is sponsoring a bill
that simply extends the life of the
legislation, but Representative Coo
per, Ohio Republican, is pressing
measure with the support of the
United Mine Workers that would re-
constitute the division as an inde-
pendent commission with labor
management and public representa-
tlon. The operators are reported
against this measure-some, in fact,
would like to see the law abandoned
Consumer groups also are agitating
for discontinuance.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Welcome Refrain

AT a Red Cross rally in the South
the chairman, to start the ball
rolling, offered to sing song for each
twenty-five dollars collected from
the audience. The first twenty-five
came readily. and was followed by a
song, as per contract. The second
twenty-five took longer to collect;
they knew now what to expect The
third twenty-five was delayed still
longer, and the fourth arrived in
painful dribletS, including pennies.
Then it was that the amateur Caruso
had stroke of genius. Ladies and
gentlemen" he said, Il now offer YOU
a special refrain. If you make the
bid high enough, will refrain from
singing any more" In a flood of
generosity and relief, the assemblage
fairly poured an additional hundred
and fifty dollars into the kitty and
thereby strangled six sour songs
before birth.
In this wide land of ours there
exist countless numbers of bathtub
baritones with songs in their sys-
TENS worth many millions of dollars
not to hear. Thus there is presented
a new field of endeavor, a veritable
happy hunting ground for the silent
songbird.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Crusade to Be Continued

One hundred years have passed
since DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes of
Boston, great physician as we'll as
great philosopher and poet, wrote
his famous essay on THE Conta-
giousness of Puerperal Fever" He
was 81 at the time, a graduate Of
the Harvard Medical School and an
alumnus Of the classes of Louis and
Larrey in the hospitals of Paris. His
talents had been recognized by ap-
pointment as Professor of Anatomy
at Dartmouth College, and he soon
was to be called to similar position
on the faculty of his alma mater.
The principal hazard of childbed
perhaps was of particular interest to
the young author because his wife, to
whom he had been married in 1910,
recently had gone through the
experience Of the birth OF their son,
the future Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. But it was not
merely a selfish concern which led
Dr.. Holmes to- undertake a special
study of a problem which involved
thousands of women annually. The
common professional view of the
period was one of Indifference aris-
ing from abysmal ignorance. A dis
tinguished contemporary announced
that he preferred to attribute deaths
from puerperal fever "to accident
and to Providence of which I can
form clear conception rather than
to a contagion of which I cannot
form any clear idea"
But DR.. Holmes was correct in his
belief that physicians and midwives
themselves were the carriers" of the
disease. He reasoned that: eff it)
prevailed in a single locality, it must
be evident that some local cause is
there active in its production; if
large number of cases occur in the
practice of single individual, and
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Rail Rate Problem

Two Government agencies which
have been surveying the controversial
field of railroad class rates have
come to somewhat different conclu-
sions Recently, the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority, in an argument for
universal mile-fOr-mile level of
freight charges, contended that rate
inequalities were sitting industrial
development in the South and West
to the advantage of the North and
East. Now. the Board of Investiga-
tion and Research, which was created
under the Transportation Act of 1910
to make a series Of transportation
studies, also proposes uniform claS-
sifcation of freight and a uniform
scale of class rates. so far as is feas-
ible, but declares that it is an over
simplified explanation of the prob
lem to argue that differences in the
rate structure are wholly or even
largely" responsible for the varying
stages of industrial development at
tanned in the several sections of the
country, as many other factors must
be considered
The board comedies, however, that
regional rate differences ARE
source of constant irritation because
of the competitive Disadvantages
which they frequently cause" and
it is on this premise that readiust-
ment is recommended At the same
time. the board majority-with
Chairman Nelson Lee Smith dissent
ing-proposes that Congress direct
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to formulate uniform schedules
within two years.
The wisdom of such legislation is
questionable. In the first place, as
Chairman Smith points out, admin
istrative agencies require a reason
ably wide range of discretionary
authority, particularly in a field so
technical as rate making. Secondly,
1t would seem unnecessary, since the
1CC has just concluded a study of
class rates, and it is reasonable to
expect that changes in tariffs will be
made where called for, because there
is no doubt that certain inequalities
exist as between the five class rate
territories into which the United
States is divided.
While the class rate issue has been
strongly to the fore in recent years,
particularly in the South, these
scales, designed primarily for less
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Allegedly Cured Lunatics
Blamed for Restrictions.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star
Only a decade ago, not the faintest
adumbration had fallen across even the
brightest American mind of the impor-
tant role to be played in social amelio-
ration through governmental agencies
by the then newly discovered electro
thermal treatment of general paralysis
of the insane once known as paresis.
Under the cabinet heat treatment
many homicidal maniacs have become
mild-mannered and apparently rational
A number of them have been released
from institutional treatment and are
now filling positions-usually key posi-
tions-under the Government.
Perhaps not our cause, but certainly
numerous industries have registered
substantial gains roofing from thermal
therapy. For example, clothing and shoe
manufacturers For more than so years
makers of mems clothing have been op-
posing the economical urge of provident
men who demanded tWo-trouser suits.
Only those who were accustomed to wear
the cheapest "hand-me- downs with
single gallus did not know that one two
trouser suit lasted as long as two suits
of one pair of trousers with each suit
Now an alumnus of our own ST. Eliza
beths has clinched victory for the
clothing industry by making it unlawful
to sell a two-trouser suit despite the
present unusual plenitude of woolen
cloth!
Credit is properly given to graduate
Of the Shepard-Pratt Foundation, an
asylum near Baltimore for stopping the
production of the tiny metal toe plates
(48 million pairs from ton of metaD
without which 20 per cent Of our people
cannot wear a pair of shoes more than
few days without resoling. Within three
months of the PRONUNCIATION of that edict
it was announced that leather shortage
made shoe rationing compulsory.
1t is matter of common knowledge
that piece-work payment in our munition
plants would double production and re-
lease millions of quasi-incompetents for
military service, that by removing de-
fective workmen it would stop the output
of vital war instruments with defective
parts, that it would shorten the war and
save countless American lives.
Piece-work payment strenuously is
opposed by organized labor Really, its
adoption has been prevented by the
issue of mastery theses composed by
men who few years ago were considered
hopelessly insane and who still exhibit
Argyll Robertson eye pupils and exag-
gerated knee reflexes. They have proved
beyond doubt: That payment by output
would destroy the prevailing beautifully
democratic system that gives the same
pay to the lazy and the industrious and
to the incompetent and the capable; that
Evening star., 1943-04-05
GroundIess Fears

1t is to be hoped that there is no
foundation for reports that the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee intends to
extract most of the teeth from the
anti-sabotage bill which passed the
House last week
ThlS measure, or something COM
parable to it, is needed to cope with
persons who conspire and plot to
sabotage our war program, but who
fall short of an actual attempt to
carry out their designs. Existing civil
law provides no adequate penalty in
such cases, as is illustrated by the
fact that the Nazi saboteurS who en-
tered this country last year could
have been punished in the civil courts
only to the extent of two years i'm
priSOnment. To refuse to remedy
such a weakness in our laws can
serve no better purpose than to en-
courage other enemy agents and
sympathizers.
The hostile attitude Of the Senate
committee is said to rest on the re-
fusal of the House to accept certain
amendments to the bill. The Spon-
sors of the amendments in the House
said they feared that some of the
language in the measure would en-
able the Department of Justice to
intimidate and persecute innocent
citizens and muzzle newspapers and
radio commentators unfriendly to
the administration. but it does not
appear that these apprehensions
have any substantial foundation
1t should be noted in the first place
that the House adopted an amend
ment expressly safeguarding the
right of citizens and newspapers to
discuss and criticize the activities
and policies of the Government.
Secondly, in any prosecution under
the proposed law, it would be neces-
sary to prove that the defendant had
acted with intent to aid a country
with which the United States is at
war. And finally, the bill was studied
and sponsored by the House Judiciary
Committee and its chairman, Hatton
Summers of Texas. Neither Mr.. Sum-
ners nor the members of his COM
mittee deserve to be classed with men
who would sponsor any legislation
designed to intimidate or persecute
their fellow citizens.
When the Senate committee begins
its study Of the bill, it is to
be hoped that the members will give
to all of these factors the considera-
ton to which they are entitled If
that is done favorable report should
be forthcoming.