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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
DRISC0LL EXPLAINS NEW MEDICAL BILL

Speaking on medical insurance" in reference to the act sponsored by U. s. Senator Wagner on socialized medicine, John H. Driscoll, State C.I.O. secretary. speaking at last nights fourth Diocesan Labor 1nsti- ute session pointed out that this bill did not prevent the patient, beneflting from 1t, from choosing his doctor.
 Speaking further on the subject, MT. Driscoll explained that the med- ical plan applied only to those earn. ing under $3,000 a year who would have six per cent of their pay de- ducted with their employer con- tributing an equal amount.
 Rev. Joseph Donnelly, director who was the principal speaker at the sesison at she Waterbury High school last night, spoke on the ob- ligations and responsibilities of both management and labor and told ot abuses of these duties on the part of both.
 As example of the latter Fr. Don- nelly called to mind the practice of few years back of management in their hiring of private detectives to spy on unions, and in turn such practices of certain unions such as those led by Willie Bioff and their intimidation and subsequent ektor- ton methods used on the movie izi- dustry.
 Attorney Maurice P. Wrenn ti1-
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1 filing machine, which was built in the Basins machine shop.
 This device operates like a huge pantograph, cutting out the proper lines and curves from outlines pro- vided by the engineering office. The final work of blaming and rubbing the hull to hairline measurements is done by hand.
 Models get various towing and self-propelled tests, mostly to meas ure the resistance of waves and eddies which are caused by the hull's movement through water. Such resistance. doesn't show up in blueprints, but 1t does in model tests. American naval architects for the past 40 years have been adding speed, subtracting horsepower and saving millions of dollars through discoveries arising from these basin voyages.
 Model hulls at Carderock are lowed down a 963-foot long pool by & carriage that looks slightly like a peramulating bridge. It spans the 61 foot width of the basin and runs on rails on either edge. This track took two years to build. It follows the course of the earths curve so that the pull of gravity will be constant, and varies no more than .005 inches vertically or later ally.
 The towing carriage can give a uniform speed anywhere from I to IS knots. Its shipboard equip
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
By JAMES THRASHER NEA Staff Correspondent

Washington, Nov. 16--One of the least known chapters in the specta- cular history of the U. s. s. Laf- yette is in the process of being written in a huge, dark, concrete building a dozen miles out of Wash- ington. Before the former liner Normandie can be put to sea as a troop carrier, after her rescue from the Hudson River mud, engineers of the David w. Taylor Model Basin at Carderrock, Md, are going to have to find out how she will behave as a transport. They're collecting this information with the help of big pool of water, a variety of ingenious instruments, and what looks like a 20-foot rowboat.
 This is simply 8 routine job with them. They make similar tests for every ship designed for government service, and for private firms and foreign countries, too.
 BUILT TO SCALE
 Their ship models are not the detailed miniatures you see in ex- hibits, but the gray-painted hulls give engineers accurate forecasts of the completed ships perfor- mances.
 In the Model Basins shops, a rough hull is made of pine boards. They're begged, glued in a press capable of a million pounds pres- sure, then passed along to the pro-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
O. a2e1.g H'
 REAL PERSON BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDlCk
Sound Physical Health Is Not
 Essential to Being a Real Person

Three factors enter into the moulding of personality: heredity, environment, and personal response. The importance of the first two we take for granted; they vigorously limit the control of the individual over his own life.
 As Oscar Ameringer puts It.: Except that I inherited certain characteristics from an unknown number of unknown ancestors, was deeply influenced by persons most of whom were dead pe4ore l was born, and shaped by circum- stances over which I had no con- trol. I am & self made man." Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.
 One of the dearest illustrations Of this fact Is found in the very place where its discovery might seem most difficult. At no point do heredity and environment iIIl- plnge upon us so intimately as in our own physical organisms. Some ills of the body, such as certain glandular diseases, can utterly dis rupt the person. We are psycho- physical organisms, and as a building site profoundly influences the size and kind of house that can be built upon 1t, @ the body limits or expands the possibilities of the personality associated with 1t. Yet even in this most interior impact of inheritance and cir- cun. stances on personal life an as- tonishing pre- alence of disor- ganized and sr"awling personah- .:cs with sound bodies, and con- summate personalities with handi- capped bodies, confronts the oh- server.
 Mans inner self is rooted in the body. To be sure, the personal faculties mind, memory, hops, affection, purpose - belong ir a realm unseeable, intangible, non- metric. A man sees not his friend but only the outward integument, the physical mask that at once corceals and reveals him. A man never sees himself; no mirror or Horoscope can make visible that mysterious center of phychic ac- tivity which is the real person. Yet this inner self, invisible thought 1t is, is 50 interleced with, dependent on, and influenced by, the body, that no discrimination Is fine enough to tell where the one ends and the other begins.
 The roster of the worlds real per- sons is astonishingly inconciderate f sound physical health. Charles Darwin, as he himself lid, "almost continually unwell'; Robert Louis Stevenson, with his tuberculosis; Helen Keller, blind and deaf; Stan- ton Kirkham, bedridden for 25 years, yet saying: "As the most bar ren regions of the earth yiele some- thing to the botanist a.id the geolo- gist, the most desolate aspects of life are not wholly without interest to the philosopher" .
 Innumerable people, counting III health no reprieve from the primary demand to be real persons, find abiding satisfaction and achieve ad- mirable personal life despite cala- mitous physical conditions
 Things act under the influence of stimuli; they may even be said to react to stimuli, but persons ;an respond. Reaction is mechanical,
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while response Is personal, and the endeavors of rnaterialists to reduce the latter to the former are unconvincing because in actual ex- perience the two are so radically different. Billiard balls e t.; persons can do more. A sneeze is a reaction, but the triumphant an- swers which some personalities make to life's difficult situations cannot be convincingly subsumed under such a category. Socrates reply to hls judges was not sneeze, but a response.
 Whatever may be the evolu- tionary relationship between bod lily reaction and personal response, they are now In practical experi- ence so widely diverse that to identify them Is to obscure one of the most significant contracts ir human life. Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron both wee lame, but they took 1t differently. Sir Walter lived radiant life, while friend said of Lord Byron: He brooded owe. that blemsh as sensitive minds will brood until they magnify a wart into a wen. His lameness certainly helped to make him skeptical, cy. nical, and savage" If this capacity tU confront life with 8 distinctive personal rejoinder is thus evident even in that most intimate realm where heredity and environment i'm pinge upon us in our physical or ganisms, we may certainly expect te find 1t everywhere else.
 TOMORROW: Do you hold the degree of Builder of Alibis?
 Copyright, 1943, Harper & Brothers
 New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
Honey Touches Stud
 '43 Christmas Cards
FavOrite Ones Bring Beloved Symbols of True Old'
 Fashioned YuIetide to Those Away From Home

a card that shows the Wise Men fol- lowing the Star of Bethlehem re- minds him of his boyhood pal Joe now an American soldier in the Near East, and perhaps watching tha same star this very Christmas Eve.
 This Home Town Christmas could go on and on, scene after scene speaking of some part of our towns appearance and celebrations at Christmastime. There are Christmas cards with snub-nosed, bright cheek ed children just like those who thunder down the stairs on Christ mas morning in nearly every house in town and there are scenes Of Con- necticut- style farnlhouses, warm and winter-cozy, with the wood-smoke curling from their chimney tons.
 The imperishable symbols of Christ mas appear on this years patriotic cards, too. Santa Claus rumbling along in an undersized jeep is likely to bring chuckles from a lad who's always associated the jolly old gent with chimneys and sleigf1s. And just as captivating is the Christmas card on which Santa Claus visits a battle ship by way of brooches buoy, with his pack on his back and his shor fat legs dangling from the straps that support him.
 And to top off this Home Town Christmas" for those far away, there's one cheery Christmas card that has space on it for the attach ment of snapshot-one of the best reminders of home and loved ones.
 The home town spirit being the American spirit as well, we find Christmas cards with War Stamp al- buns enclosed. Many a War Bond will be started on its way by this very practical-and very patriotic kind of Christmas card-and many a gift of War Bonds themselves will be presented in novel and useful war Bond Holder Christmas Cards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
COUNCIL PROTESTS NEW CONTROL PLAN
Labor Pri0rities Unneces= sary; Surpluses Reported
 in Various Areas

The Connecticut State Industrial Union Council, CIO, with head quarters at 95 Bank street, Water bury, has protested the establish ment of a new labor control plan in Hartford and New Britain by the War Manpower Commission.
 This plan, which sets up labor priorities for different plants, may later be established in Waterbury. it is indicated, although the CIO Is using every possible measure to keep 1t out. -F s,an was established in New Britain and Hartford on the theory that there are critical labor short ages in those cities, but the C1O asserted that in a number of large war plants in Hartford there have recently been heavy layoffs of help. Tn New Britain, the worst shortage cited by the War Manpower Con- mission is in the ball bearing indus try.
 The CIO said that the critical sit- uation in the ball bearing industry was due to that industry's long-es- tablished policy of grossly suostand- ard wages. This policy, said the ClO through It's president, Clarence Wy man. has finally caught up with the industry. ..
 Applications for jobs in the ball bearing industry have been virtually nil for long pt, iod, the C1O said, ever when there has been plenty Of surplus manpower.
 The CTO is hopeful of getting the new manpower pr. ities plan re- scinded before 1t spreads t. other cities, such as Waterbury. Accord ing to the C1O, the plan is a long step in the direction of a labor draft
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

William Walton, foreman of the Closing Room, Build ing 712 at Scovls completed 25 years service with the Mill Street factory last week. He's Watertown native who learned the toolmakng trade at the American Pin Company in Oakvlle In December 1916 he went to work in Scovills as toolsetter in the Tack Machine Room for Charlie Warner But the coming of World War
 interrupted his service there. He member of the National Guard and March 1917 called out with the 102nd Infantry go with the 26th Division He reached France in February 1918 and from then until the Aristice actively participated in all the campaigns of the A. E. F. around Chateau Thierry He reached the good old USA again in April 1919 and soon was back at work in Scovls; this time as assistant foreman in the Closing Room. He continued in that position until June of this year when he made foreman On the outside Bill has been busy fireman sportsman and Legion nare. He has played professional baseball basket ball and football and still is darn good bowler He's Past Commander of the Watertown Post of the American Legion and for 30 years has been member of the Wa tertown Fire Department
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Meyer Don, probably the citys most efficient Neon man, is patient at the Waterbury Hospital Mr. and Mrs Harold E. Henrckson of 177 Monmouth Avenue have Irene Ben Rabinowitz is recuperating at St. Marys Hospital |. Mr. and Mrs Eddie Navage of Sunnyside Avenue want the world to know the Stork left them ond son last week. The proud Momma and the newcom- discharged Sunday morning from the Waterbury Hospital The equally proud pop is still passing out smokes to his co-workers at the American Brass. The newcomer is to be christened Raymond Gregory. Barbara Ann Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Joseph Evans of Hill street had five candles burning on her birthday cake today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
Good Evening.
ON THE SHELF

Do you recall when all by yourself es4B MY GrandmaS pantry and each pantry shelf? A bygone day when you took food for granted, about butter and elders never ranteo! There the pantry, eight foot square, Unlike Mother Hubbards cupboard or shelf was pare There the for salt, pepper and spices, Grandma had many little handy devices The sugar air-tight in its homemade bin, No crack opening for the mice to get in The for the storage space for flour, ice but the butter went sour. Each shelf held it's quota of stuft
 Buckwhea cereal grains both fine and rough. There the dark cupboard into which Grandma dug she had for the old molaSses jug. All the foodstuffs lined upon one side Remember that tricky place where the ooughnu she'd hide? On side of the pantry window way up high, A wide shelf underneath for each fresh-baked pie, Or at least five six loaveS of bread, Loaf cakes and cookies higher than your head, So that looking in all you got was just peek Of all the goodies Grandma baked every week. Oh, bet most everyone often thinks to herself only could each and every pantry shelf In the old house where you spent each vacation Long before you heard that awful word ration EM EN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
CRENIER-J0HNS0N
 SEEK PRESIDENCY Scovill Recreation Asso' citation Election Thurs-
 day; Scout to Meet
TERVILLE Correspondent, Alice MacMul.
 len, Phone 3-7217

Waterv!lle, Nov. 16-The Recrea- ton Association of the Waterville Division of Scovills will hold elec- tions Thursday. Ballots containing the names of those to be elected will be given to all members by their foremen.
 Those up for election are: Presi- dent, Frank Grenier and Bill John son; wee president, Art LaBelle and Sam Pilch; treasurer, Jim Holly wood, Ray Kozen; secretary, Fran ces Lane, Gertrude Carew. The board of directors will also be elected.
 Four of the eight candidates will be elected. The nominees are Percy MacMullen, Patrick Shea, Bertha Arsenault, Stanley Stephens, David Hanley, Tom Kelly, Colin MacKellar, and Raymond Caffrey. Bill Gleason is the chairman of the nominating committee for the association.
 Scouts Farley
 Girl Scout troop No. 16 will meet tonight at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. Frank Carney of Chapel street. First aid class will begin under the in- struction of Miss Pelligram. Miss Alice Peak of the Red Cross Nurses will be a guest at the meeting.
 Boy Scout troops No. 31 will meet tonight at 7:30. Plans for party will be discussed.
 Pfc Ernest Caron, stationed at New London, spent the weekend at his home on Thomaston avenue.
 Rosario Fappiano has returned to an Army camp after spending a leave at the home of his parents on Thomaston avenue.
 PICK UP 2-
 Bowling Party
 The Weever club of St. Paul's parish will meet Wednesday for bowling at Sena alleys at g p. III. All young people of the parish are invited to attend. Anyone desiring transportation is asked to meet ct the church at 8:30.
 December Social
 0CtUOA A-OV W040CAA6 4A1VC OVsAA- pleted plans for a social, Dec. at St. Michaels hall. There will be a grab bag and refreshments served. All residents of D-S6 are urged to attend.
 This section is from north side of Driggs street, easterly side of Thom- aston avenue, up to 2000; Sprague street and Fort Hill avenue illclud- ed. The funds for the party are being provided by the treasury that has been set up by the wardens. The committee is comprised of Harry Cottrell, Catherine Dubay and Willard Smith.
 All residents are urged to cooper ate tonight with wardens when the blackout takes place. This is the last one that will be given by the state though the Army may call one at any time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

The Treasury reported $19 PAT 969 in circulation in October $4o37 in every persons pocket It's nice to think about anyway ;,. Womens fur coats have "What's the difference between the gil of 1923 and 1943?" professor queries About 20 years we'd say The call to has taken the place of the good old apple in keeping the doctor away The older you are the quicker Christmas and the younger you are the quicker 1t goes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

William Fiorio of this city and Marie M. Barbiere of Milldae paid dollar for marriage license at the city clerks office in Meriden last week Jeanne Me- Dermid of Watertown was bridesmaid at the wedding of Marion McGar of SOuthington and Albert B. Thach CT of South Orange N. Saturday at the home of the brides uncle and aunt MT. and Mrs Donald K Cramp ton of Marion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Sergeant Alfred A. Benevento with the 208th Coast Artillery Band somewhere overseas, writes the natives speak English fairly well and are forever giving Amer ican doughboys stalks of bananas Bob Moran, Jr. of Bunker Hill Avenue recently received letter from Lieut. Oily Petrillo German prisoner, which which took two months to arrive here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
SOULFUL WHITE ELEPHANT

Belief that white elephants are lucky spread from the cult cf Sue white elephant, a religious order. In Siam, 1t is believed that a white elephant contains the soul of a dead person.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Ruth Skilton and Elizabeth Keilty of Watertown among the 15oo0 who sat through the rain Saturday afternoon to watch Yale rout Princeton in the final col
 ege football game of the in New Haven Corp. Ken Purdy of Hamilton Avenue returned to the Army Air Field at Greenwood Miss today after very enjoyable 15-day furlough here He's former Chase Co., employe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

structed 6 class on parliamentary procedure and Arthur J. Bowling, Wilby High school faculty member,
 instructed class on public speaking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Mrs. LeRoy Newell the former Doris Beers who has been making her home with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Beers of Sunset Avenue Watertown, has signed her position in the office of Taft School to join her husband, Sergeant LeRoy Newell who is currently stationed in Taunton, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Raymond Ndo recently celebrated his sixth birthday at birthday party his parents carefully arranged for him. Attending the surprise social were Francis P. Perazel Robert Paolino, Carole Manzols Daniels and C. nnie Belvedere MT. and Mrs. Julius NidO, MT. and Mrs. Armand Paolino Mrs. Anna Zelo, Mrs. F. Nido, Julius NidO David and ArmandO PaolnO, James Man. zoIi Mrs. F. Perazeli and Mrs L. Pettinichi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Fancy That The shortest days of the year are the longest to the children who waiting for Santa Claus
 Nine varieties of peanuts produced in America, the peanut politicians making it ten Think what you will but have will enough to keep some of your thoughts to yourself More heat is what the pays after showdown With holidays so early anticipated, advance Christmas shopping, any day now yo can expect your neighbor t. wish you Happy New Year Early to bed and early to rise makes the defense worker wealthy and wise
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16
REGENT ADDITION

Dennis King, New York stage star has an important role in Outward Bound" John Garfield starrer.
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, MAKES IT OFFICIAL

Halliwell Hobbs, the film butler recently joined the cast of the Bette Davis starrer, MT. Skefangton."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-16

Wood veneers as thin as paper have been made on commercial scale.
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Tall Tower
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nm ESII. uaisl BY THE MAN IN rr TOWER
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Good Night.
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Reception 10 Be Held
On tuesday for New
Georgetown u. Head
Very Rev. L. c. Gormon
To Be introduced TO
Faculties and Alumni

The Very Rev. Lawrence c. Cor
man, S, j., new president of George
town University, will be introduced
to the various faculties and alumni
at a reception Tuesday afternoon
from 4 to 6 pm. in Copley Lounge,
on the campus.
Announcement was made yester-
day by the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh,
S. j., vice president of the university,
that war conditions made it inad-
visable to conduct formal inaugural
ceremony for the new president.
Father German, soon after taking
office on December 10, had expressed
desire that the university be
guided by conditions of the war in
making the simplest possible ar
Evening star., 1943-01-17

committee membership to IS on a
9-to-6 basis, and the Committee or
Committees was willing to go along
with such recommendation The
Republican leadership baked how
ever, because there were so many
new Republican members they felt
they needed the extra committee
posts.
Of the nine Republican seats
there are five hold-over members
Mr.. Dirksen, the ranking Republi-
can, has been drafted to continue
on the job The Republican Com
mittee on Committees is to meet to-
morrow, and hopes to complete its
slate of assignments.
Representative Rowan, 81, of Chi
cago, has lived all his life there
He majored in civics at the Univers-
ity of Chicago He has been CITY,
editor and editor of a newspaper
in Southeastern Chicago for 20
years, taking an active part in all
civic affairs.
He served for 16 years as Chi
cago alderman end headed import
ant committees including housing
industrial relations, and zoning. He
was vice chairman of the commit
Evening star., 1943-01-17

s. j., at Georgetown, The latter
is now on parochial duties with st.
Aloysius Church in this city. Before
going to Loyola, about six and half
years ago, Father German had been
on the Georgetown faculty and was
at one time acting dean of the
college.
Father Walsh will lecture on
America and the World Revolu-
ton in Boston this afternoon be-
fore the League of Catholic Women.
He will return In time to present
Father German at the reception
and then leave again on weeks
lecture tour.