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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-07
News Of Connecticut

New Haven, Conn, Sept. 7-(UP) The Connecticut Federation of Labor opened its annual three-day convention today. with the status of its veteran Secretary John J. Egan in doubt because of withdraw al of the International Machinists' Union from the American Fedora ton of Labor.
 Egan is a member of the IMU, and the AFL at its Boston convention next month was expected to order IMU locals expelled from state or ganizations.
 The state convention, however, was expected to retain Egan in the Secretaryship he has held the past 20 years, deferring definite action until after the AFL convention.
 Meantime, Peter J. Tracy, secre- tary of the Hartford local of the IMU, said that other locals through out the state were being boiled to form an independent state federa- ton of machinists, in the hope that Egan would become secretary of the organization.
 Among resolutions to be proposed during the Connecticut Federation's convention was one diScontinuing further annual meetings until after the war.
 Hartford, Conn, Sept. ' - W.P0 -The Rev. Dr. Duncan Black Mac Donald, 30, professor emeritus of semitic languages at Hartford Sem- mary Foundation and widely-known Islamic scholar, died late yesterday at a convalescent home.
 Born in Glasgow, Scotland. April g, 1863, pr. Macdonald was bradu- ated from Glasgow University, and after receiving his bachelor of Di- vinity degree, studied at Berlin for several years. He was appointed in- structor of Semitic languages at Hartford Theological Seminary in 1892. retiring in 1881.
 He was a pioneer in missionary educatio nand established the '.Field Ph. D." by means of which the foundation supervised the re- search work on the mission field. He was 6 member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain. the Amer ican Oriental Society. Glasgow Uni versity Oriental Society and an honorary member of the Arab Acad- emy of Damascus.
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been going on for nine days.
 Meanwhile, new raids by the 10th and 14th U. s. Air Forces in India and China were announced
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
The Lenten Season Approaches

The penitential season of Lent, which begins next week on Ash Wednesday, is variable as to date but never in its sig nificance. This year, however, we ap- proach 1t with different viewpoint than is customary. Lent Is before us, the same as 1t always was, with its lessLn of penance and historical meaning. People, however, have changed. They are living now as they never did before, with more restrictions. They are giving more time to serious thought because there is not the amount of diverting life and pleasure offered them as formerly.
 Many have turned to religion who have given 1t the go-by, more or less, in the past. An impetus in religious fervor is noted in some instances, but also pagan tendenc& are pretty much in evidence. Christiah churches of all creeds will observe the Lenten restrictions and will point out the lessons taught in the liturgy that covers the forty days.
 From Hartford the Roman Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. Maurice F. McAuliffe, uaodifes to some extent the Lenten regu- lations due to existing conditions and food problems, but as a Catholic Tran script editorial points out, this does not mean the abolishment of Lent altogether. This year, more than any other, there should be more serious contemplation of what the season stands for. The sins of the world must be considerable indeed to bring down upon SO many parts of 1t misery and destruction through the medium of war.
 Those at home should redouble their efforts during the coming season in a spirit of atonement. Self-denial for one and all should not be dodged. Tt brings home to us," says The Transcript, "the fact that penance must be an integral part of our whole existence here on earth and that the opportune time for begin ming 1t is now"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Greer Miniver Paula Carson

Greer Carson seems to have been 8 happy choice for the moving picture (Oscar) award for notable acting by an actor in the profession. There was men, tion that Miss Rosalind Russell was a good bet. Miss RusselPs work in the movies rates high and she put across a number of good light comedy portrayals in the last year. Miss Carson runs to pictures of a more serious nature.
 She got off to a good start in Mrs. Miniver, a story so slight that one wond- cred what manner of picture would re- suit. However, good script writing de- veloped the episodes of the book into a dramatic plot; the result Miss Carson in a splendid presentation of the English scene when the bombing started. A lovely person of definite talent Miss Gar son plays natural. She has no particular manneriSm and does not remind you of some other Hollywood actress. She is not, as the critics describe 1t, hammered All the time you are watching her play of expression and listening to her reading of lines you are impressed that she's a nice friendly person, and a beautiful one at that.
 If she went places in Mrs. Miniver she also did some going in Random Harvest, Q nostalgia sentimental piece that was most convincing, and which proved a perfect story for moving picture effects Miss Carson has given much to the movies in intelligence and good acting Most people thought her selection as first lady of the screen good choice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
When Peace Comes

The broad subject of world peace Is widely discussed these days However, near the end of the war Is, the general opinion seems to be that we are nearer the end than the beginning. Peace and peace terms and life after the war occupy the thoughts and are the spoken and written expressions of this one and that one. The working out of lasting peace is going to be a tickllsh job and 1t has been pointed out that the foes of peace are already busy working for anything but right and just peace.
 The general consensus Is that our aims should embrace those included In the Four Freedoms. Let us hope that we can approach the working out of Q peace in this pattern without diabolical Interference. Greed and selfishness seem to be as rampant as they were dur Ing and after World War l. Each day We arc reminded that this selfishness will again be olir ruin. A Chinese lady has plainly pointed out some important truth. Preachers from our Protestant and Catholic pulpits speak wise words. Platform lecturers and radio speakers give valuable advice. All this being SO, tnere Is still great danger ahead
 There is plenty of Christianity in the world today, but unfortunately there Is a balancing portion of paganism. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
No Harm In Anticipating

The snow that comes after March first doesn't last long The sun Is too high in the sky for much more winter These are just two of the familiar phrases heard each year at this time. They don't do much good but they don't do much harm either. And regardless of signs and onens winter just goes along. Sometimes it stops short about this time; and other times 1t just strings along into April.
 This year 1t looks like we were getting good measure. From experience we have learned the right and wrong answers. The snow can last pretty long in March, and days can be zero cold. So 1t really isn't worth while getting out your pads for this particular right and wrong part of the program. We will sec what hap pens up to and including March 17 and then begin to think about crocuses and daffodils. As may be recalled or checked up in the five year diary March 17 Is quite often a mean day of either cold or sleet or rain. Yes, and sometimes it's great day in the morning or the afternoon or night.
 The New York Zoo announces that It is still winter In the Geological Gardens, but that the animals arc beginning to act as If spring were around the corner. A cold winter has been experienced, so an early and seasonable spring Is antici- pated. There's no harm, anyway, in anticipating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Current Comment

arn determined to try tho vol. ultary method and do everything In my power in all sincerity to make the voluntary method work. --Manpower Director Paul V. Mo. Mutt.
 The course of God will bring about the fall of those civilizations and violent orders which deny corporal liberties.
 --Vatican Statement. Our goal Is the triumph of do. illocracy, which cannot Do achieved without the complete destruction Of the military and political power of totalitariAiliBfli
 --Italian.A .AmeTi:an Labor Council. If you send Ave fortresSes against ono target, the chances arc that all five vii lDe knocked down. But send 260 against the same target, and it is likely that our leases will still be only Ave, and with luck, even less.
 Capt. William southworth. Jr., son Of St. Louis Cardinals' manager.
 
 Tho people Of China and India are now forced to the conviction that we are not fighting for freedom as Q principle of human life, but to maintain ourselves with the Brlts igh in c position of superiority, --Pearl 6. Buck, author and Far East authority.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

The next week or two according to the calendar has quite weather pro- gram In store for us. Don't bank on what the calendar says, however, be- cause no 1943 calendar had the loWdown on twenty, thirty and forty below zero in our own vicinity. Here's brief summing up of the days to come: blustery and colder, foggy, unsettled, stormy, warner again about March IS, colder about March 16, blustery on March l7, local storms, snow or rain, and then fair about the twentieth of the month. From then on until the end of the month we have 1t threatening, windy, stormy, snow or rain, unpleasant, gales, clearing, colder, windy and unsettled which brings us to the end. VIII March go out like a lion? Wait and see,
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 Edgar Mowrer, crack Chicago News correspondent recently with the Office of War Information, should receive Q passport to go to North Africa.
 Elmer Davis, who Is Mowrer'S chief, had ordered him to go, but Hull was opposed, sJ Hull wanted the President and other high ranking cabinet officers to decide tho matter.
 MT. Roosevelt replied that he felt the matter of Q passport for Edgar Mowrer could Do decided by his cabinet members without him, and hinted that tho President of the United States had more ina. portant things to worry about.
 In the end, Secretary Hull do- cided to give Mowrer the passport, but by this time there had been 50 much delay and 50 much or. gument that Mowrer in disgust resigned.
 The incident Is important not 50 much because of the personalt- ties involved, but because 1t H. lustrAtos the manner In which the various government departments, especially the State Department, have endeavored to block the Of. flee of War Information.
 EVOLVED FROM CHAOS
 That Office was sormed with the almost unanimous approval Of the nation, certainly of the newspa. pers. It evolved from c cono fused group of bureaus - the Office of Facts and Figures, the Bureau Of Government InforMa. ton and other information agen- cies, sometimes working ct cross purposes. Elmer Davis was ap. pointed to weld them together, and he has done 0 good job. He has done 1t despite, not because Of, other government departments.
 It is almost inconcoivable that other agencies should have put 50 many obstacles In his path. Gables sent to him by his field representatives are frequently cens sored by tho State Department. U. 6. diplomats set themselves up aS judges as to whether certain information should reach Davis.
 Davis men cannot got prlorl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

Roman Catholic Cardinal of England, Arthur Cardinal Hlnsley, points out that America and the British Commonwealth of Nations have before them the splendid chance of building a new world with freedom and lasting peace resulting. These sentiments were expressed by him in recent broadcast in which he de- scribed a peace founded on universal justice. The Cardinal said in part:
 "And by justice l mean no steel-cold calculating opportunism, but law of love, which seems in our fellowmen images of God, and souls precious in his sight, because redeemed by the sacrifice of his son.. We must redress the hide ous wrong and cruelties inflicted by the Herrenvolk on Jews and Gentiles and on peace-loving nations. We must assert the unchanging principals of Christian justice and charity"
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to destroy 1t. Prolonged conserva' tlsnn wrecks on institution or q nation. It kills initiative and makes 1t impossible for aspiring men to use their talents. On the other hand, nothing Is more unfortunate for nation than to have tho cofl- troi of It's affairs fali Into the hands of the mob. The people who want to hold on to the old just because it iS old are c menace to progress, but the people who want to destroy the old and usher in the new just because 1t involves change can, in . few years, destroy the culture os centuries.
 We shaii always need liberals to check the wllifulness of the cotls eervatIonS. and by the same token we shall always need conservatives to keep the liberals from going to extremes.
 Read tho New Testament and ob. serve therein the perfect balance between conservatism and liberal. Ism. Everything is built on a vest tradition which comes out Of the past, yet the superstructure ig new, Jesus combined within Himself the best Of the past and the full pror1- lse 0s the future.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Co.Operation Wins

After some four years of negotiation the states of Kentucky and Indiana have settled one of the last lingering boundary disputes. Cooperation and mutual consid- eration accomplished what a century of pickering and litigation, including one Supreme Court decision, did not achieve.
 The trouble all began when the Ohio river inconsiderately shifted It's channel, leaving five square miles of Kentucky territory stranded over in Indiana. The situation became complicated when Evansville built waterworks on the Ken lucky soil, while Bluegrass officers hesi- tated to police an area in which Hoosier cops had no jurisdiction. Now both leg islatures have agreed upon friendly solu- ton, which Congress can hardly fail to ratify. How different than the way boundary disputes are settled" in Europel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

The absentee problem which will prove difficult to solve might be attacked in this fashion, says the assistant secretary of the Navy. He believes that every effort should be made to punish the chronic offender, or to weed such of- lenders out They are the most serious menace, In his opinion, to war effort. He also says that too much optimism on near victory brings about an indiffer- ence in the worker, the result absentee Ism. For every serious-minded war worker who Is right on his or her job there Is the indifferent one who feels no particular responsibility. It's just a job, so what the heck! There wil lbe much about absenteelsm from now on. It Is difficult problem and not particularly easy to solve, as Is many another war problem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

Ohiang's eye as she left the speak. CTS office for the House floor. She paused for as pitt second to gaze at 1t, looked up, smiled into the face of the wearer, then passed on.
 A smile from Madame Chlang Kal.Shek Is we'll worth . trip to Capitol Hill, but the Capitol visitor was not prepared for the next act of Che drama.
 Some minutes later, William T, Roy, assistant parliamentarian, emerged from the Speakers of- flce with 0 rcd oarnAtion, which he handed to the woman.
 cWith the compliments of Madame Chiang Kal-shek," satd Roy.
 That Is how Q package bearing Q red carnRtlon came to bc In the malls that night for It. Col. Wil- liam N. McKolvy, somewhere 4n the Pacific. The white.haired lady who received 1t had every reason to send the mascot" to Mcxelvey. She Is his mother. EMBRYO SAILORS
 While merchant ships are being turned out at tho rate of four per day, each one demanding Q new crew, men who have completed Q seaman's training course ct sheepshead Bay, l.. l., are strain ing ct the leash, unable to got Into service.
 This training school was estab" lished by War Shipping Adminis" tration to supply crews for Liberty Ships. Today nearly 2,000 men are at sheopshead Bay, having completed tho three months course, but can't get the necessary dis' charge to 90 to seq.
 VISA explains that these trainees mugt be mixed with vet eran seamen, that ships cannot absorb them all at once.
 But this doesn't quiet the restlessness at shcepShead Bay. Despite certain dangers ahead, and the disastrous toll by sub. marines, the young sailors want to get to sea.
 Some of the men have tried to get away by finding jobs for them selves with shipping lines. Even then, however, VISA declines 70 release them, on the ground that the union hiring agroements must be followed, for the protection of experienced Seamen.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
MORE HIDDEN HUNGERs
tNew York Herald. .TribunO

Families in tho iow.!nconae groups may be caught almost ct once in Q squeeze between the high prices of fresh fruits and vegetables and the rationing restrictions. Tho squeeze means not necessarily too little food but too little nutrition, Q loss of some essential minerals and vltamIns from tho diet. This is the consensus of nutrition specials igss. Nor does it tNke any great asumen to sec that this must, uiis less means are found to obviate 1t, be 70. Meat is already too expen. sive, even when 1t is to Do had, for many consumers; with such stapl0 meat substitutes as dried ientils and beans rationod, why would there not be q gap in nutritional values? Fresh vegetable prices have already frightened iniddie.iFcome house. wives; why would they not scare oil the provider for c sInAllsincoil1e family? The governments move to stabilize prices on the five main" stay vegetables is c move to pre-. vent the squeeze becoming worse, but not to remedy it.
 Naturally tho whole prospect Of feed shortaees, now brought into sharp focus by the sudden cut in amounts to be allowed under tho point ration system, emphasizes the need to plant, to make use os every available plot Of ground 60 that fresh vegetables may take tho place of processed ones, 50 that home dried and canned foods may take the place of rationed articles. But for the people who have no land, other nieaslires are necessary to pre-. vent, in Miort, hunger, at least Of the hidden" variety. To say that tlais is but one Of many urgent prob- iemS connected with waT.tlme foce
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

Ther0 you have q total of 2242 ships already scheduled for delivery Up to June 90. io46, but on top Of that 1t is proposed to lot contracts for an additional 2iei ships, which would give the U. 6. Merchant Ma rho c grand total of 4403 ships by mid-i046, less SlnkingS or other losses. And this does not include some 1900 additional ships built for Army, Navy and other United Nc. tons.
 Tho total cost of this program will run over Sii billion. If the war should end suddenly, oil contracts could be cancelled overnight.
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ties on alrplaneS. Military com. Tnanders in various areas can decide whether or not they want representatives 0e the OWI at- tached to them, and their word ls final.
 But, worst of all, the State Department frequently exercises the high-handed privilege Of de. ciding whether or not certain OWI men should get passports. If the State Department doesn't like their politics, or what they have done as newsmen, then the State Department blocks their passports. DELAY TECHNIQUE
 Tho President hos given Q di- rective that all OWf passports shall be cleared. And immedi. ateiy after receipt of that direc- tive they were cleared. But now the State Department has adopted the expedient of delay and delay and delay.
 In North Africa, the state Do. partment refused to let the OWI take over the local radio station, and permitted tho Moroccan radio to continue pouring out prosVichy propaSanda for weeks after tho American occupation.
 Friction has become 90 acute that recently the irate Mr. Hull proposed privately that the OWI Do abolished. Elmer Davis, hOWs ever, is sticking tO his guns, and gradually seems to be com. Ing out on top.
 MADAME CHIANG's
 CREMATION
 It. col. William N. MoKolvey, one of our greatest Marine heroes, recently received another award in addition to the Navy Gross he won for bravery at duadalcanal. It is Q red carnation from Q bou- quet belonging to Madame Chi- ang Ka!.Shek, and behind thiS $ the story.
 Among tho many Sight.seors who ilocked to Capitol Hill tho Iday Madame Chiang addressed Con. gress was Q little white.halred lady, who stood In the corridor outside Speaker Rayburn's office for almost m hour waiting to glimpse ChinN's famous first lady.
 She could not get . ticket to the House gallery, and had to be satisfied with . peck Into the Speakers office filled with car. nations which Congressman had ordered for Madame Chlang. The whlte.hAlred lady hersels wore Q C0Fsage of iris, Q flower loved by the Chinese.
 The corsage caught Madame
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apply to persons who owed more than the withholding tax as well aS to those whose taxes were fuly covered by it. Tax payments made in addition to the withholding tax after July 1, in other words, would apply against IolS income. An ad- jlstsnent could be made on March l6 next year on the basis oS what the taxpayers Income of io4S ac' tuAily wes.
 The Sltuatlon would then Do this. In the taxes paid in the flrst half Of io43 the taxpayer would discharge his liability on his io43 income by paying oaoshalf of what would otherwise have been his iel2 liabil- | !ty, In tho second half of i0lS the taxpayer would discharge his li9s bility on i043 income by paying one half of what would otherwise haW been his 1888 liability. The esSect E iO43 on the taxpayers payments would then be the same aS # hs had been put on 2 pay.aS.you.:ge.: :e.: basis from Jan. 1 of this year witt his taxes based neither on iel2 h. como alone, nor on i04S !ncoiv alone, but on an average og the income in the two years 1e43 afie io43. Beginning on Jan. l, 1el4, aD taxpayers would be on c paysassyou' go basis for each full year.
 Such Q plan, while perhaps e first sight complex, might prove to Do the sisnplest way of transferring to c pay-as-you.go basis In the mid de of the year, ag c withholdinA tax beginning on July would make necessary. The plan would have the added advantage Of placing all taA payers on an equal basis iii regard to the way In which their income l tax liability was treated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Views Of The Press

production-problems which there ia little time to solve-is rather 'polntless generality. But that the food situatlon threatens Enalnutri- ton for large groups of Americana is Q specification which makes the urgency inescapable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES
 BALANCE
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D

Liberalism is sometimes Q tonic at other times 1t iS Q disease. Like wise conservatism Is sometimes . stabilizing force holding society to. gothcr and ct other times iS . form Of dry rot which causes civilization
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to crumblo and fall.
 There iS noth- Ing so terrible as the heavy hand of !, those who hold high position and are determined ct any cost to keep their power, save only the fury of those who hate the status quo and nf0 d0ke Ffnined
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
A PAx.As.YoU.0 GO SOLUTION
(NeR York T,lmes)

If July 1 is to Do the date on which the new withholding tax gees into effect, advantage might be taken Of it for c compromise solu. ton of the pay.as-you-go problem.
 The taxpayers will have paid by June i6 oao-half Of their tax on i042 income. Congress could rule that this payment of one-hais 0 years taxes cancelled their liability on lo42 income. Congress could then put oil taxpayers on c pay-agsyous so basis from July 1 on. This would