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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
Selected Poem

NOCTURNE
 (Robert Hillyer in the New York Times) Beyond the town I walked; late afternoon Bathed the furze August-golden and, far off, Picked out the dented contours of the dune, And there peace enough To Hull the warfare in the heart of man. And walked on Evening drew in the net Of sunlight from the hollows. Earth began Gradually to forget Daylight and distance. And with darkness, storm Flickered from sky to sky. There was no trace Now of path the dune color form, Or sense of time and place And now even the woes that make one lonely DWindled away in that immensity Where there were neither stars moon, but only The roaring of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
Press Comment
AS AUGUST "A, so GOES THE
 WHOLE AUTUMN

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 There is an ancient weather sup erstition, which has drifted down the years with many others, and 1t goes something like this:
 If the 24th of August be fair
 and clear,
 Then hope for goodly Autumn
 this year."
 How this rhyme came into being is lost in the dreamy folklore of g. remote past, but throughout the English speaking world. at least, the 24th of August has become a sort of weather vane for prognosticators. They look skyward and, whether the day is stormy or the sun brifhtly shines from the blue vault above, they predict: e.,..
 "As Bartholomew's Day comes forty days after St. Swithin's, and it has long been supposed that: "St. Bartlemy's mantle wipes
 dry,
 All the tears that St. Swithan
 did cry"
 This year no epidemic of rain fol- lowed St. Swithan'S Day. The day. as we recall 1t. was fair and without blemish of cloud, an omen of the hot dry summer through which we have come. Surely no mantle of Bartholomew is needed this year to yipe away Swithan's tears.
 What of the coming autumn? Will it be umbrella or sun-shade for the next six weeks? Sarry, we cannot say. You will have to look aloft tomorrow and be your own long distance weather prophet. Weather forecasts, St. Swithan and St. Bar tholomew to the contrary notwith- standing, are not permissible for the duration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

Crops in Connecticut are threatened if the drouth continues. What started out to be a brief dry spell has now reached the drouth stage, and rain which fell plentifully earlier in the sea- son is now much needed. Right now with the harvest at hand the farmers are much concerned and with continued scorching sun the situation is beginning to be regarded as serious. Potato pro. duction, thus far, is feeling the dry spell, and in all probability the harvest will be considerably less than last year in this state Home gardens cared for by anna teur gardeners are also suffering from the lack of rain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
A ROLL IS NOT A LEAP

I don't suppose old N. Webster ever iii his life rolled a somersault. Noah thought g. somersault was a Heap or a jump in which a person turns his heels over his head for ward or backward without touch- ing the ground with any portion Of the body'
 That's not my kind of somersault, although I could turn such air. springs on the lawns of the Main Street big bugs on my way to and from school when I was a boy in Canandiagua.
 In turning my kind of somersault, ladies and gentlemen, you never for an instant lose firm contact with the floor or ground and you do no leaping at all, at least not until you get over and come up on your feet smiling-then you may leap for joy if you feel like it, and few somersaults should make al- most any one feel like it.
 No. Don't leap and don't jump. Just crouch down as tight as you can, put hands on floor, fex head so that your chin presses on your chest, rest crown or back of head on floor (mat or small pillow holler Gangway! or Fore! or Look out everybody! to make sure your course is all clear give push with your toes, and over you go.
 If you are an old stiff probably frcf nFNrtc vryt1I ivH awful flop on the ground or floor. Perhaps you had better prepare for that eventuality by using a couple of mattresses or a suitable cushion or pad to soften the terrible bang as you hit the floor and maybe save the expense of replastering the cell ing of the apartment below. But if you remember to curl up as tightly as possible, like ball, and stay that way while rolling you should soon learn to finish your Somersauit or a string of 'em in workman like way coming up on your feet with smile.
 Readers who follow this column know that I am not keen about talk ing medicine but I'd be reluctant indeed to give up my regular half dozen SomerSaults on the bedroom floor first thing every morning, to get the circulation going and put the ol doc in high gear for his keep fit exercises.
 Then, too, whenever I am tied for long hours at my desk and some idea gets stuck in the subconscious or something or other irks me or worries me. ! roll few right beside
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

serve the right to land troops on Latin American soil if neces- Sary.
 Hull even approached the Chilean and Argentine delegates and thought he had their sup port for the American position of intervention But when they sur prised him by speaking publicly against intervention, he finally came round to the original Welles policy of no U. s. troops in Latin America.
 Since then, Latin American diplomats usually have. come to see Welles, not Hull, when they wanted to get things d0ne-an-
 other fact which has disrupted relations.
 More acide was poured in the wound during the State Depart. .ment row over European refu- gees. The President appointed a committee of distinguished citi- zens including the Catholic Arch bishop of New Orleans to select German and Austrian refugees, many of them Jewish, for admis- sion to this country.
 REFUGEES BLOCKED
 The committe was set up un- der the supervision of Sumner Welles, and it selected 651 profess sors, churchmen, and ex-govern- ment officials to get U. s. pass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

It's hard to catch the Christmas spirit in August but it would seem that now is the time to assemble boxes for overseas Christmas mailing This year of the war there will probably be less confusion among the senders who have been pretty free and easy with home-tied up pack ages in the past There is 8 definite system of wrapping and mailing and what to send and what not to send Packages to the far east and the far west stand a chance of reaching their destina- ton if you begin to think about it now in August.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
Labor Bosses Not Needed

United States Senator Rufus c. Holman has called on the Senate Committee on Education and Labor to amend the Ma tional Labor Relations Act and protect the American laborer from "eXploi- tation." He has denounced the act as responsible for force, violence, intimida- tion, and racketeering and says it should be amended to "save the good features of it and yet reform the misunderstanding provisions contained in it.
 "The National Labor Relations Act as it now reads and is administered, permits and encourages racketeering of a most vicious and unAmerican character. By means of force and violence, citizens - both employees and employers - are in- tinidated by legalized gangsters, so that many good American citizens no longer are permitted to engage in free enter prise either by use of their labor or capi- tai.
 "All this is wrong and immoral, in my opinion, and it is my honest hope that the committee will promptly offer the reformatory amendments which the ex- isting chaotic and unAmerican situation demands. The present law, in effect, sets up labor-bosses or strikemasters or racke- teers who are parasites on the earnings of the workers and an effective force in regu- lating the freedom and liberty of Ameri- can citizens"
 The Senator raises an issue which must be settled fairly for employees as well as employers if freedom of opportunity and liberty for the individual survive in this nation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
A Tip to the Courts

This suit not yet having been filed, there can be no contempt of court in making an advance suggestion to the nations judges. It is this:
 By law, workers are entitled to be represented in wage bargaining by agents of their own choosing, that is, by unions. Accordingly, the Mine Workers Union has negotiated a con- tract with the Illinois producers which, both sides say, is an advance com
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
(Hartford Times)

Professor William Lyon Phelps was Connecticut institution. His death at 78 might almost be said to close an era. Not to be able to count Billy" Phelps among the leading spirits of the day, is to move into another, less happy, period.
 Hartford, which nursed him through childhood, saw much Of him. His annual preaching, visit to the Asylum, Avenue Baptist Church anc his annual preaching engage me.ts at the united noor LenteE services at Center Church as well as his literary talks, had kept him in affectionate touch with the city of his boyhocd.
 C5reerwise, Dr. Phelps will be re- mcinbered as the beloved teacher of Tcgiisu literature at Yale. His long a.nd distinguished career at that in s5itution is enshrined in a great company of Yale Alumni spread over the entire world. Readers of his notable books and of his stream of literary reviews through the years are legion. They, too. loved him. His written word was as sin. cere, refreshing, enlighting and en tertaining as his spoken word never failed to be.
 Gifted as Billy UhelpS was as scholar, preacher, teacher, com mentator and conversationist, the essence of his Influence lay in his always edifying spirit. In him there was no folderol, no sourness( no idle trapping of any sort. Whether in the classroom, pulpit or at a luncheon club, always he was the winsome, penetrating and soundly optimistic counsellor and friend. He had full faith and confidence fn his fellowmen. They responded by awaiting with eagerness any word he might speak or write. He lived. because he shared. an abundant life. He was vademecunn for countless numbers who mourn his passing. His works will live.
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port visas. Months passed and nothing happened. Finally it was discovered that the clique in the State Department which takes or ders from Hull had blocked the viSas.
 Meanwhile MT. Hull had auth orized the admission of 500 Bata shoe workers from German -occu- pied Czechoslovakia despite the fact that the Bata firm was on the British blacklist. Gater the firm was placed on the American blacklist and the shoe workers who had already entered the coun- try were expelled.
 This and many another prob lem where Welles was doing a
 job at the personal direction of
 the President, and usually bat
 ting for a more liberal policy,
 have snarled State Department relations intermittentIy for years.
 So now, in the same way that Hull demanded the resignation of Raymond Moley as Assistant Sec retary of State, and of George Peek as economic adviser, he had now demanded the exit of the most important and liberal pillar in the State Department-Sun- ner Welles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

promise of potential damage suits for portal-to-portal pay. In this the union represented its members.
 If, now, this contract is approved by the WLB and becomes effective, and in- dividual union miners take their con- promise settlement and then try to sue to collect again, the courts should hold that by their legal agents action the miners are foreclosed from prosecuting such suits
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
MESSENGER OF THE KING
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

Some years ago I spent several days in the company of a man who following the first World War, act ed as the personal messenger of the late King George V. Every day. and sometimes several times each day, he took the large beautifully deco rated casket in which royal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
QUESTIONS AND ANSWES
 Fuzz

am an unhappy girl. We live on into the army I have to do extreme. ly hard manual labor and 1 have q farm and since my brother went been growing 8 great ceal of coarse hair on my face. Can anything be done for this? It Is an awful condi- tion and I do not even care to live as I am 50 miserab ble and unhappy.
 tC. s.
 Answer-Many women find that they can control such annoying superfluous hair by the regular use of fine pumice stone-toilet or cos metic counters supply a fine pumice stone for this purpose. Rubbing the hairy areas few times over with the stone every day or two keeps the skin smooth without ir- ritation. This is more satisfactory than any chemical solvent (depila- tory cream or pastel or ordinary shaving. If the growth of hair is not limited to a spot (such as a more) use of electrolysis or X-ray is impracticap1e. Try out the pumice stone and you will soon be happy again.
 Preparation and Realization Thanks to Preparing for Mater nifty" we have fine healthy baby at our house-after five years of disappointment. Now we are rais- ing the baby on 'The Brady Baby Book" and we believe it would do your heart good to see him.
 (MrS. F. E.)
 Answer-I know. That's what we thought about our firstborn, too. Shucks, everybody does. Readers contemplating having one, or stuck with one and not sure how to handle the situation, send ten cents for either booklet and inclose stamped , envelope bearing your address. Copyright, 1943, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

This week in the news was noted the death of Aunt Sallie" Aunt Sallie was Mrs Sallie Rogers McSpadden, sister of the late Will Rogers, Americas most admired humorist. Mrs. McSpadden also was known for her wit, and was the last of her generation of the Rogers Cherokee Indian family She was sometimes called because of her homely quick wit, "a Will Rogers in petticoats"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
{. INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Quebec Conference Scene Marred By
 Local Racial And Political Prejudice

Nothing could be further from the truth. Canada has sectional prob lems every bit as bitter as the north- south issue in the States. Sectional ism is just as pronounced. The iso- 1ationist block in the United States has its counterpart in Canada. Sus- picion of Russia is just as deep- rooted, and the French Canadians even contribute a large measure of suspicion of the British.
 The French vote in Canada rep resents roughly 35 per cent of the population. From 15 per cent to 20 per cent is made up of Polish, UkIainian, German and other Eu- ropean stock, residing largely in the prairie provinces of the west. The Br:tish--really the Scotch-who set- tied The Dominion and built it up, comprise the other 50 per cent of the population. and they really run the country. The French, however, try to split their opposition just ss the southern bloc in U. g. politics after tries to split the north ana west to wield it's balance of power.
 
 ENGLIsH-FRENCH RIvALRIEs, prejudices, mistrust or whatever you wsnt to call them, are today in stalen,ate and no solution ss in sight.
 The English refuse to learn French and fear their country is being forc- ed into becoming Catholic nation. The French refuse to learn Eng fish and mistrust the English at very step. Just for its nuisance value, and to annoy the other, both sides use the threat of forcing union with the United States.
 All this is written here not to be critical of Canada but merely to point out from another angle the realities of the sharp differences of opinion in every country today and to show that all such internal con- flicts may have to be wrought into some kind of harmony before any plan of international unity can be made workable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
By PETER EDISON NEA Staff Correspondent

Quebec, Aug. 27.-Some curious by- plays in the local Quebec scene were in evidence as an incongruous backdrop for the international con- ference at which, perhaps, the high principles for future world peace and fellowship-of-man were given consideration by the heads of the American, British and Canadian governments.
 Quebec, city of 150,O00 people, 14o,- 900 of them French -Canadians, has about 120 Jewish families. They are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
YOUR HEALTH. by Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per sonal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady, National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, III.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

largely a pros- porous type. in b u s i ness, l-un- ming stores. For some years these Quebec J e W S have wanted to build their owE s y n a gogue, in which to wor- ship ir the faith of their fathers. But it so hap pened that when the little con- gregation h a S acquired a site
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
Current Comment

We took 300 prisoners without losing man or firing single shot. Our greatest risk was being crushed to death by people trying to beg cigarets.
 Canadian officer in Sicily.
 am a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat is someone occupying a position that is wanted by somebody else who. when he gets in, will automati- cally become bureaucrat. Interior Secretary Harold L..
 Ikes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

messages are car- ried and b or e these m c s s a c s e ith CT to the House of Com mons, the House of Lords, or to certain persons of importance in the government. Y e t this man told me
 that during all t h ose years he n Q V or saw inc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

Since the life of Clarence Day and his wife Winnie became interested to the gen. eral public via the stage play, "Life with Father, there have been many Clarences and Vinnies entertaining audiences, and all fthem good at it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

my desk, and presently the idea comes unstuck or the thing that an- noyed me fades from view.
 Mind, now, old timers I do not prescribe, advise or even recom- mend somersaults for you or for any individual specifically. If you roll 'em at all you must do SO at your own peril.
 I merely mention here that I be- lieve this medicine is so good that take it myself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
Washington Merry-Go-Round DREW PEARSON
Roosevelt Rowing To ul Decides To Ditch Sumner Weles; Mrs. Hull Resented Undersecretarys Increasing Influence; Career Clique Poured Poison and Helped Developing Feud
 Presidents Decision Victory For Conservative Democrats

WASHINGTON 2 The President made major decision time s ry
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Copyright, 1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27
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La gaceta., 1943-06-03
DOS BARC0S
MERCANTES DEL EJE

LONDRES, JUNO 3.-Destruc-
torres aliados hundieron ell martes
dos barcos mercantes del Eje y un
torpedero que los custodiaba. HUI
yendo encall6 en- la costa, dOnde
las llamas 10 consumer, un des-
tructor del enemigo.
La escuadra aliada no sufrio
danos. Uno de los vapores mer-
cantes explot6, luego de que las
balas de canon 10 incendiaran.
Los cazas aliados siguen alta
cando ell territorio italiano situado
frente a la peninsula de Cabo Bon.
La gaceta., 1943-06-03
Ell MOVIMIENTO DEL SISTE-
MA SOLAR

Segun Ell astronomo americana
Edwin Hubble, Ell Sol, con su cor
tejo de planetas y satellites, Sc
mueve en- Ell espacio con una We
locidad de unos 200 Kilometres
hacia un punto situado al norte
de la Via Lactea. Ell sistema So
lar efectIa una revolution alre-
dedor de un centric de nuestra Ga
laxia con una velocidad de 265
Kilometres por segundo. Pero nues
ira propia Galaxia, o Via Lactea,
tiene una velocidad de 100 a 200
Kilometres por segundo en- la di-
recci6n general de las ATTITUDES
galacticas mas elevadas. Ell movi-
miento del Sol en- ell espacio es I'm
movimiento compuesto de su mo-
vimiento en- nuestra Galaxia y ell
de la misma Galaxia.
La gaceta., 1943-06-03
ESTRELLAS SUPER
DENSAS

Ell doctor G. P. Kuiper, utilizan-
do los gigantescos telescopes de
los observatorios de Mcdonald Y
Yerkes ha descubierto tres estre-
las superdensas enanas, blancas,
relativamente POGO alejadas de la
TERRA. Sc atribuye a la estrella
Wolf 1916 un diametro equiva-
lente a cuatro decimas parties del
de la Terra; Y es tan densa que
una pulgada c1bica de su materia
pesa entire 500 Y 1000 toneladas.
Ell numero de estrellas enanas
blancas conocidas, Sc eleva asi a
%.
La gaceta., 1943-06-03
UNA GRATA VISTA
Jose Manuel Paula

Recibimos hoy en- esta reduction
la grata vista de un antique ami
go, Jose Manuel Paula, expresi-
dente de la Seccion Atletica del
Circulo Cubano y un "experto" en-
.cuestiones boxisticas.
Reside en- Filadelfia y ALI po-
see un pequeno restaurant llama
do Pan America.
Paula dirigi6 Ell pugilismo en- ell
Circulo Cubano, en- los amos GUAM
do todas las semanas Sc llenaban
las Arenas de Benjamin Field Y
la Gale Catorce y Decima aveni-
da.
Nc ha perdido juventud Y antes
de regresar a Filadelfia hara una
vista a Cuba.
Reciba nuestro mas cordial sa-
Judo de bienvenida.
La gaceta., 1943-06-03
LOS REPUBLICANOS CHlNOS
SIGUEN AVANZANDO
poYAD LA oFENsIvA PoR LA AvIACToN AME-


CHUNGKING, JUNO s. Las
tropas chinas recapturaron aver
a Changyang, a IL millas por el
sur de la base nipona de lchang,
Y siguen avanzando en- ell frente
del rio Yangtze.
Sc repliegan las tropas niponas
hacia la orilla sur del rio. Usaron
los japoneses mas de 100000
hombres en- la batalla y sufrieron
unas 10000 bajas.
Una nota del Quartet general
chino, donde ell general Jose W.
Stilwell ejerce ell mando, informa
que la aviacion americana apoya
las operaciones de las tropas Chi
mas en- ell area de Tungting.
Los Liberadores B-24 derriba-
ron 20 cazas del enemigo y proba-
blemente averiaron o destruyeron
otros cinco mas.
Los photos mandados por ell te-
niente coronel John Allison, de
Gainesville, Florida, derribaron
tres Ceros y averiaron otros tres.
Perdieron los americanos dos apa-
ratios.
FL mando chino da cuenta tam
bien de la recaptura del puerto de
Chihkiang, 35 millas por debajo
de Ichang, 10 que representa- un
avance de 20 millas.
La gaceta., 1943-06-03
MATRIMONIQ

Robert T. Milliren, de IN
Y Frances Kemp, de AZ,
William E. Speights, o.
amos, y Ruth Virginia Jones' G.
Philip NJ. Militello, de "
V Carmelina Valenti, de "a
Robert Earl Maze, de 40 a
V Onnie Belle Jones, de 70
Harold Brown, de 20 amos
Mabel Morales, de 26.
Leonard Wayne Divers a'
amos, Y Eval Jewell Bryan, o'
Jose Manuel Renedo, de 10 a
Y Mary Jane Nelson, de ~ :
Ralph H. Springer de % o.
y Carol Martinson, de a.
Alexander Hill, de AZ an':
Mabel Mcclure, de 40.
La gaceta., 1943-06-03
Los E~lectricistas
Acordaron Volver
Trabajo

Los obreros electricistas de los
astilleros de McCloskey a%cordaron
aver volver al trabajo en- la ma
mana de hoy.
"Todos los hombres me han pc
dido que obtenga su libertad con
ell fin de poder ser mas titles, en-
otros trabajos, al e~sfuerzo de que
ira. La compania he r%esuelto no
reponer en- su cargo al supervisor
que fuera cesanteado, alegando
que ell asunto p~ertenece a ella por
complete"
Sc ha hecho a los obreros la pro-
mesa de que seran mejoradas las
condolences sanitarias en- los asti-
lleros.