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CHARLIE McNARY

The death of Senator Charles L. McNary Ore gons, last week removed from Congress one of its ablest members and most lovable characters. He was lifelong Republican but in the Senate he numbered many friends among democrats as of his own party associates.
 Only three of the current Senate have served longer than he. He first entered on May 20, 1917, appointed to fill out unexpired term. He was elected in November, 1918, and took his seat on December l9, 1918. His three seniors were Cot ton Ed Smith, South Carolina, since March 4, 1909 Kenneth McKear, Tennessee, March 4, 1917 and Hiram W. Johnson, California, March 16, 1918.
 His record for continuous reelection, his expired term ends in 1949 proves his ability as a politician. His service in the upper chamber is that of an able man, one of courage and of under standing of the needs of his people He that rarity among the group of elder statesmen in the Senate of liberal trends with under standing of the difficulties confronting the die hard reactionary conservatives. He was con siderate of the rights and sensibties of his fe1- lows but did not, on occasion, hesitate to assert his own. His defeat for political office since 1917 came in 1940 when he went down as candidate for vice president the ticket with Wendell Will kie. II he felt any disappointment this, it was never shown in his daily contacts. To the end he remained he had always been-Charlie McNary-the Senator from Oregon
 His sane counsel often carried the Senate over some rough spots Ii will be missed as he will be missed by his fellows.--CJessens Weekly
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Communications
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY

Tn article appearing in The Nome Nugget on March 3, written by Miss Alberta Schenck, seems to me to warrant further considera- ton.
 Tha. there are people in the community who feel they are be- ing treated in an undemocratic or un-Christian manner should be the concern of anyone inter ested in democracy and Christian ity.
 Democracy and Christianity have both been in the world long enough to have devised methods of solving this problem. Democ- racy and Christianity both main tain that there should be no dis crinination because of race class or creed.
 Yet we know that holding ideals of Democracy and Christianity does not mean they will be auto matically be put into practice.
 It reminds one of the parable Jesus once told. A father asked his two sons to go work in the vineyard. One said he would go but later decided not to go. The other said he would not go but later decided to go. Which did the will of his father?
 So it may be with those who profess 10 be Democratic or Chris tian in comparison to those who do not. We may say we believe in democratic and Christian prin- ciples but do them not. Others may not profess to believe in Democracy or christianity but practice Christianity in this field of race relations. Which do you
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THE NOME NUGGET

that they walked not uprightly ] accordingly to the truth of the gospel, said unto Peter before them all If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews, why com peilest thou the Gentiles to live as :. do the Jews? If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we our selves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. Ye are all the children.o of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been bapts ed into Christ have put on Christ. There is nei- ther Jew nor Greek, there is nei- ther bond nor free, there is nei- ther male nor female, for ye are all one ln Christ Jesus.
 Now the amazing thing in this account is that Paul, who once per secuted the church of Christ, had to stand boldly against Peter, the chief disciple of our Lord. Barna, baS, who had been sent out with Paul to minister to the Gentiles, and the leaders of the Christian church at Jerusalem, which were sent out by James, the brother of our Lord. Why did Paul have to take this stand against these peo- pie? They knew the teachings of Jesus, but they were not big enough to overcome their racial prejudice.
 But thanks be to God who giveth Jesus to us, the victory through our Lord, Jesus Christ, Paul be- ing right, won out and the Christ ian church was carried to all the races and classes of the. world. We have made some progress to- ward the solution of this problem but it seems to me we could do much more than we are doing if we took our democracy and our Christianity more seriously.
 REV. VERNON L. BOOKER.
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LITERARY CUIDEPOST
THE AMERICAN HOUSE. by Virginia Chase tDuell. Sloan & Pearce; S2.7S.)

VIRGINIA Chase says that The American House" is not autobi- ographical, and that all but three characters are pure imagination. It's too bad. for the world would De better if her fictional figures hao been alive at one time or an- other.
 Thebookis not a novel, but a long and imaginative narrative about things that might have hap pened. Miss Chase uses a young girl as narrator, and pretends that the girls father was. a good doc tor who wanted 10 be a business man. One day father learned that the closed hotel in his Maine vil- lage could be bought for $500, and that was equivalent to saying that he intended to buy it. He did. He installed a manager pro- Vided by an agency, and the whole thing went to pot. Then the doc tor, his twife and.his threee daugh- ters moved in to salvage what they could. z.@,.
 Two gentlemen. in derbies ar
  rived, and convulsed the natives by paying up to. a dollar for a cherry bed, and sometimes Is cents for jelly dish of Sandwich glass. When the villagers discovered they had been hornsWoggled, they blamed the strangers less than the one villager who had held out against them. The furnace was a menace, Cousin Victoria arrived with several volumes of her jour- nal and sheep was stranded in a blizzard on an island off-shore. Cousin Victoria went home in a huff, the furnace could be watch ed, but the Doctor and the Hu- rnane Society representative had to rescue the sheep personally, on Christmas Eve. The Humane So- ciety lady cussed, toasted her feet on the office stove and smoked cigars, by the way.
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REV. VERNON L. BOOKER.
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nln17 7GnaEI. MSA@D DE RgE R
Vegetable Nut Loaf

cup chopped salted peanuts
 cup boiled rice, noodles or
 soft bread cubes
 cup cooked lima or navy beans tablespoons minced onions
 tablespoons minced parsley
 l2 teaspoon salt
 IA teaspoon salt
 IA teaspoon pepper
 34 cup hot milk
 1 tablespoon melted fat
 1 egg, beaten, or 2 yolks
 Mix ingredients and pour into greased loaf pans. Boke 40 min utes in moderately slow oven about 325 degrees F. Let stand 5 minutes in warm place and un- mold carefully. Cover and sur round with creamy or savory brown sauce. Leftover loaf can be used for sandwich filling or 1t can be cubed and added to cream sauce and served on top of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-25
Conferences Arranged
By Diocesan Institute
Problems of Mutual Interest to Labor, Management to
Be Discussed in Series of Public Meetings

of Labor, to the forum series on May
10.
Mr.. Burns is the son Of Police
Lieutenant and Mrs. Bernard j.
Burns Of Pearl street.
On May II, panel comprised Of
public, labor and industrial men,
bers Of the New England War La
Dor Board viii ltake the conferences
platform to discuss their respective
sides Of "War Labor Board Policy
The speakers will be Board Chair
man Wallen, John ]. Mankowski,
Ansonia, labor member Of the board,
and George F. McDonough, person
mel director Of Chandler-Evans
Corp, Meriden, an industry pane
member.
Mr.. Fuller, an outstanding repre-
sentative Of industry in Connecticut
and Mr.. Mcdonald, one Of the ma
tons top-ranking labor leaders
speaking for the G. I. o., and Joseph
s. McDonough, secretary of the
A. F. l.. Metal Trade Workers, will
address the closing forum May "a.
Their subject Is 1.-The Postwar Pat
tern Of abor-Industry Relations. :"
The meetings are open to the
general public. Question and an
swer periods will follow each ses-
sion.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-25

Dorothy Thompson who is to
speak at the Second Church this
evening at 8 under the auspices Of
the Second Church Forum and the
Waterbury Zionist Emergency
Council is one of the most OUT
standing columnists and commen-
tators of modern times. No other
woman and very few men in the
journalistic field can match the
audiences which she commands
with her pen and by her voice. She
is in such demand as a public
speaker that she Is forced to turn
down thousands of requests each
year.
Miss Thompson has been in the
public eye for a considerable num-
ger of years. Very shortly after she
landed in Europe on her first visit
she met and talked with the
famous Irish patriot, Terence Nc
Sweeney, only a few hours before
he was arrested and put in Jail to
begin a hunger strike leading to his
death. This scoop was destined to
mark her debut as a journalist. An
American newsmen bought the
story and Dorothy Thompson was
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conferences is to create more uni
fed understand between employees
and employers as to the problems OF
each.
Among those who will share The
Elton platform during the series are
Alfred G. Fuller, Hartford manu-
facturer and president o fthe Man
ufacturerS Association Of Connecti-
cut; Roger Gay, president of Bristol
Brass Company, Bristol; David j
Mcdonald. secretary of the United
Steelworkers union; Saul Wallen
chairman of the New England War
Labor Board, and Joseph M. Tone
consultant to Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins and formerly state
labor commissioner.
Joseph M. Tone, former state
labor commissioner and now con-
sultant to Secretary Of Labor Fran
ces Perkins will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers at Thursdays session
subject Of which will be 'Tomor-
rows Job, Americas Postwar Prob
lems". Other speakers will include
Timothy Collins, Waterbury. presi-
dent Of the Connecticut Federation
of Labor and Edward J. Lavery,
president Of the Connecticut State
Industrial Union Council.
On Wednesday, May 3. the subject
will be Wartime Collective Bar
gaining" and the speakers listed
are Mr.. Gay, who in addition to his
connection with Bristol Brass Com
pany, Is chairman Of Connecticut's
Industrial Postwar Plan committee,
and John j. DriScoll, waterbury,
secretary Of the State CLIO. council
Exploring Wartime Industrial
Labor Relations" will bring Attor-
ney Joseph F. Burns, counsel for the
Manufacturers Association OF Con-
necticut, and John J. Egan, Secre-
tary Of the Connecticut Federation
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Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY

they are u, when they can choose
what manners viii please them
best. It is positively unfair to force
young men and women to 60
through life with. manners they
were not even free to select: such q
thing should never be tolerated in a
true democracy"
CATHOLICS AND MEDALS
News stories indicate that many
nom Catholics, particularly IN the
armed services, wear Catholic med
ais as acts Of superstition. But
Catholics attribute to medal itself
no power whatsoever. AS we honor
the images Of the heroes of our
country SO we honor the images Of
the heroes Of God. It Is as silly to
believe that the medal itself has
any special power as it is to believe
that q picture Of George Washing
ton has any special power.
But we do believe that, as when
We honor the picture of George
Washington we honor his memory,
In wearing the medal Of saint
with devotion we honor the saint
who IS with God, and we believe,
too, that we may ask the special
intercession Of that saint with God
for our spiritual and temporal
needs. We have a right to expect
nothing from medal but we have
q right to expect the special pray
erS Of the saint. Catholics should
make this clear to nom Catholic
friends who wear medals.
pnGT-WAD NRH00HnNYC
Bishop Richard ]. Cushing Of
Boston and Director of the Propa-
cation Of the Faith for the Arch
dioceses, claims that the future of
the missions will be one Of unpre-
cedented growth both in numbers
and in fervor.
He writes in his new book, 1.-THE
Missions in War and Peace" that:
I'm all the mission areas the
Catholic faith has stood the
supreme test. In every land, with
out exception, Catholic missioners
have kept faith with their people.
Common people and rulers alike
have been deeply moved by their
example"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-25
UNIV. TO EXPAND
PROGRAMS FOR.
MEN OVERSEAS
BY MARION FORD

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Ann Arbor, Mich, April 25.-(UP)
The man in the foxhole is anxious
to keep up his education, accord
ing to reports from the University
Of Michigan's extension service.
Beseiged by requests from more
than 1000 servicemen, in letter fire.
quently written during air raids
and between major engagements,
officials of the 127-year old inStitu-
ton has decided to expand al
ready extensive courses.
Fred G. Stevenson, director of
the overseas correspondence at the
University, and more than 400 in
quiries pour in weekly-from fox
holes in the Pacific, ships in the
Atlantic and from men weary of
the monotony of outpost duty in
Iceland.
Seek Head Start
Most of the requests, he said,
are from youths eager to get a
"head start" on their post war edu-
cation. Others want to prepare
themselves for advancement in the
service or for jobs when they come
back.
"And a lot of them are just
anxious to while away the lonely
hours away from home" he added.
Mathematics is the most popular
single subject, Stevenson reported,
land in the case of almost 200 men,
we have been able to prepare them
sufficiently in mathematics to enter
naval officers training school"
English is a close second on the
list, he continued, followed by pho
Biography. OF the languages, Span
ish leads with German and French
next in that order.
Sees POSt-Armistice Need
Many of the inquiries are from
high school students who wish to
prepare for college entrance after
the war. Often they come from
students just short of a degree who
want to finish by mail so they will
be able to look for a job as soon as
they return.
Maintaining that correspond
ence courses represent public
service the University cannot side
step. President Alexander Ruthven
pointed out their worth as profit
able expenditure Of enforced leis-
ure such as may result from a
transitional unemployment period
following the armistice.
"The University must be pre-
pared" he said, "-as it certainly
was not at the start,of the depres-
sion periodic assist in the profit
able expenditure of enforced leiS-?
ure, pending unemployment"
The University is member of
the National University Extension
Assn. and one of the rs co-operat-
ing with the Armed Forces insti-
tute. At the present time courses
from the engineering, architecture,
public health, education and fores-
try schools are available and liter
airy school courses are being ex-
banded.
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Overflow Audience
At Church Likely
Dorothy Thompson at Second Congregational Forum
Tonight; Mayor to Introduce COlumnist

launched on her career as a foreign
correspondent.
Miss Thompson spent three years
in Vienna as correspondent for
the Curtis newspapers and three
years in Berlin as a reporter of the
Central European Bureau of the
New York Evening Post. She did
independent work in England
France, Italy, Russia and Hungary.
In the decade of the twentieS the
people of Vienna used to say that
two things of major Importance oc-
CURED in Central Europe-the first
was the world economic crisis and
the second Dorothy Thompson.
Miss Thompson met Hitler in 1881
when she interviewed him as a cor
respondent for the Saturday Even
ing Post. Her references to Hitler
were not complimentary and three
years later after Hitler came to
power Miss Thompson was expelled
from Germany at Hitler's PERSONAL
command.
Dorothy Thompson'S column ION
the Record" appears in the New
York Post and several hundred
newspapers across the country and
reveals an amazing fund of know
ledge regarding diplomacy, econo-
mics, politics and history. She has
an estimated reading audience of
some ten million people. Miss
Thompson is the outstanding writer
Of the Bell Syndicate. Among other
well-known writer's sponsored by
this syndicate are Grantland Rice,
Louis Bromfield, Henry j. Taylor,
Dorothy Dix, Raymond Moley.
It is expected that there will be
large crowd to greet Miss Thomp-
son. Arrangements are being made
to take care Of an overow if this
proves necessary. Mayor John S.
Monagan will introduce Miss
Thompson.
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ASeV" q U~ homes In which
there Is plan Of training
by precept and example to i'm.
pei children to recognize their good
fortune In being Americans"
Mr.. Hoover reported that "thir-
teen per cent of all murderers ar
rested here last year were under
twenty-one years of age, as were
flfty-nine per cent Of all robbers,
fiifty-f1ve per cent Of all burglars,
thirty-seven per cent Of all thieves,
thirty-two per cent Of all rapistS,
and sixty-five per cent Of all car
thieves"
More boys seventeen years Of age
and more girls eighteen years Of
age were arrested than any other
group.
IRRELIGIOUS EXAMPLE
Mr.. Hoover emphasized in this
report, as he has consistently in
the past, that the lack Of religious
education of children and the in
difference OF parents to religion
have played a major and sad part
in the increase Of juvenile delin-
quency.
every Church and Sunday
School in the land should start q
year-round campaign to extend
their facilities to attract every child
in the country to the Church Of his
own denomination"
Adult America can well hang its
head as it reads the indictment Of
Mr.. Hoover's report. We have given
our youth bad deal. Is not this
generation with its appalling GRIM
inal record the same that has COM
piled the glorious record Of self
less courage and valor in every part
of the globe? Indeed 1t is baSically
sound, but it has been given over
by its leaders to an education root
ed In the disastrous theory that
good character does not require a
religious foundation.
CANON 'JACKMAN
Ana to the stupidity held theory
that every child should have the
right to choose his religion and,
therefore, as a child he should not
be instructed in any, the follow
ing words Of Canon Jackman Of
London have an answer in a novel
way.
Some parents say: will let my
child be taught religion when he is
old enough, to choose for himself
what religion he will belong to, or
whether he wants any religion at
all. And If this is true it is sheer
cruelty to teach children clean
habits before they can give their
opinion as to whether they ap-
prove Of clean habits at all. And
look at the unfairness Of teaching
them reading, writing and arithme-
tic, when most children violently
reprobate that nonsense, as soon
as they reach the use of reason.
But what calls for immediate inter-
vention Of the Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Children, is
the odious habit that parents have
of teaching their children good
manners. instead Of waiting until
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-25
WORLD WAR II
A YEAR AGO
APRIL Is, 1913
(By United Press)

(By United Press)
In Tunisia, British capture Sidi
Medien after twO-mile advance,
only rs miles from Tunis at that
point; French troops force enemy
out Of Djebel ManSOur.
British radio report sinking Of
14,5OO-t0n U. s. aircraft carrier,
Ranger, by a German U-boat in
the North Atlantic.
Berlin admits Russian Occupa.
ton Of the mountains trimming
NOv0rOsSisk on the Black Sea.
DIR. Edouard Benes, President
Of CzechOslOvakia, tells his people
to expect decisive military events
very sOOn."
U. s. War Department an
nOunces that Lieutenant General
Lesley ]. McNair, commanding
general Of the Army Ground
Forces was wounded in action
April 70 on. the Tunisian front.
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ONDA ADVOCATES
NATIONAL UNITY

Advocating a city clinic" where
labor and management could meet
to discuss and diagnose all local
employment and industrial prob
lens, Andrew Onda, speaker at last
nights YMCA forum, stated he fore
saw q grave employment problem
In Waterbury followed the war. Mr..
Onda pointed out that 10000 more
workers are now employed In the
city than there were IN the boom
days Of 1929.
The speaker urged q cooperative
program on the part Of capital and
labor In a striving toward national
unity 50 We may better be prepared
to handle reconstruction paroblems
elsewhere in the world.
walter Angle. chairman, tntEO-
6ildad Mr. 0ndo
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The first session of a series Of five
weekly conferences under the aus
pices Of the Diocesan Labor Insti-
tute will get underway at The Ell
ton Thursday night at 8:15 p. m,
it has been announced by the Rev
Joseph Donnelly, New Haven insti-
tute director and former curate
here.
Thursdays session will be among
the first of a similar series to be
conducted within the principal In
dustrial centers throughout the
state Fundamental purpose Of the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-25
MANY INTERESTED
in WITK CASE

Decision is still awaited from SUI
perior Court Judge James e. MUIR
ply in New Haven on the motion
to set aside the $4,000 jury verdict
returned for Mrs. Margaret o. Wi
tex Of Oxford in her civil action
against the town Of Southbury. The
woman sued as the result Of injuriee
sustained January q, 1912 when her
car skidded on a n icy highway in
Southbury.
The defense pointed out during
the original hearing 1t would cost
the town $4,000 to sand its 40
miles Of roads, while an apprcpria-
ton q only $3.50 Is made annually
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-04-25
GROW LEMONS IN BASEMENT

Grand Island, Ore. (UP)-Al-
though Oregon's enthusiastic vic
tory gardeners have tried almost
everything since the outbreak Of the
war, most Of them would hesitate
to compete with Californians in cit
rus fruits. But Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Stoutenburg Of Grand Island are a
couple Of confirmed Webfoots and
refuse to concede superiority in any,
thing to the Sunshine State. They
have harvested a crop Of 81 choice
lemons in their basement from q
tree growing in a nail keg.
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Staff Sergeant

Stf. Sgt. Hamel who was employ
ed at the French Small Tube plant
in Waterbury prior to his entrance
into the Army Dec. 5, 1912 had re-
ceived training as gunner at Fort
Meyers, Fla, and as a radio man
at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He
went overseas with his outfit. Feb.
% and participated in many bomb
ing missions from bases established
in Italy.
The last word received direct from
the Stf. Sgt. by his parents was a
letter from Italy dated March q
in which he stated that he was well
and being kept busy. His family to-
day expressed the hopeful belief
that the aviator is now interned
somewhere in Austria by enemy
forces. Many Of those men forced
down in that area have been report
ed interned subsequently.
Stf. Sgt. Hamel was graduate Of
WATERFOWL High school and was
well known there and in Waterbury.
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MEAT FATS FOR SHORTENING

Camp Elise, OIL. - CU.P.) - The
Camp Elise cooks school has de-
veloped a method of rendering meat
fats for use as shortening in cook
ing and baking. Use of the material
once thrown away, saves from 40
to so pounds Of shortening ordin-
arily allotted to each mess-hall per
week. Slices of potato or onions are
used in eliminating odor and the
product is an easily worked creamy
white shortening.