The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-01
News Of
Connecticut

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Assembly in January may be asked
to set up a Connecticut plan for
providing unemployment benefits
to returning servicemen, aside from
whatever provisions congress might
make, it was learned today.
Governor Baldwin received the
plan, which called for payments Of
$22 week for period Of Is weeks
to all servicemen whose earnings
during the calendar year in which
they entered the service, and for
tn previous year, amounted to at
least $144.
The benefits would be financed
from the Connecticut Unemploy-
ment Compensation Fund. and
would be awarded with the purpose
of giving Servicemen financial sta
bility until they could be adjusted
to postwar Jobs.
The plan was approved BY Carl
A. Gray, chairman Of the State Re-
employment Commission, who said
the payments would give veterans
an opportunity to complete voca-
tional training courses now being
planned by the commission.
The plan also included such per-
sons who, before entering the arm
ed forces. were not employed.
Hartford, Conn.,. Dec. L. (U.P.)
Governor Baldwin today laid the
blame for juvenile delinquency on
parents who. engaged In war work,
"just haven't the time for tho all
important job Of raising . better
citizenry."
The governor warned at q scate-
wide conference Of welfare and law
enforcement groups that IF we win
this war but lose the coming gen.
Grafton Of American boys and girls,
much of our struggle shall have
been in vain"
Declaring that 1.-The home has
failed in its responsibility" he cited
as a contributing factor, perfectly
legitimate attempts by industries
to obtain relaxation of child labor
laws to obtain more workers on the
production front.
Much as we need workers." the
governor said, 1.-The benefits derived
from relaxing the laws on the en-
ployment of minors would be more
than outweighed by their i'll effects
The governor praised the 'intelli-
gent and excellent" program offered
by boys clubs in areas where hous-
ing and recreational facilities were
lacking, and asserted that II Ger
many has proven that education for
the wrong thing can be successful
through its youth movement, Ger
tainly with all our youth organiza-
tons we can prove 1t success for
the production Of q better adult
America"
New Britain, Conn.,, Dec. I -
(U.P0 - A serious shortage of
workers in the bali bearing indus
try was being overcome in the
New Britain, Meriden and Bris-
toll areas, according to State War
ManpOwer Commission Director
William J. Fitzgerald.
Since the shortage was an
nounced recently, Fitzgerald said
that . recruitment drive had
brought encouraging results
and that production had been
stepped up considerably.
However, he said, still more
workers were needed to bring pro-
ductfon to peak level.
New Haven, Conn, Dec. / 10,
P) - A leak in a bathtub of the
future may call for the services of
a carpenter, rather than a plumber.
Robert w. Hess, assistant Yale
professor Of forest products, dis
closed today that wood will play
such an important role in the post
war period, that bathtubs viii be
made Of nodded plywood. fire.
proofed wooden buildings will be
Histories high. and bakers yeast
and photographer developers may
be obtained from trees.
Even wood floors, he said, would
come In rolls-like nnoleum.
Writing in Tropical Woods. q
technical publication of the yale
School Of Forestry. Hess said that
new discoveries promise the first
opportunity for the general applica-
ton Of the princile of Sustained
yield in millions of acres of mis-
handled and ruthlessly exloited for
ests."
Furthermore, he said, Owners of
woodlots and timberlands will prac-
tice forestry not because of threats
OF forced regulation or promise of
financial subsidies or appeals to pa
triotism. but because the growing of
wod crops will become a profitable
enterprise. The real incentive to the
business Of forest utilization win
come with the successful develon-
ment OF the many newly created