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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Youth Week In 1914
 Significant Event
Nationwide Observance to Be More Important Than
 Ever; 42 Protestant Groups Give Endorsement

Chicago, Ills, Jan. 12-Govern- mental and business executives who are interested i'll the youth of American have endorsed the nation wide observance of Youth Week fol young people of A Protestant de- nominations in statements released today by Philip c. Landers, director of public relations for the Interna- tional Council of Religious Educa- ton. which is sponsoring the ob- servance through the United Chris tian Youth Movement.
 Miss Katharine F. Lenroot Of Washington, D. C., chief of the Children's bureau, United States De- partment of Labor. calls attention to the place of youth in the world after victory, saying: Victory will secure to the youth of the world the greatest opportunity in history-the chance to establish worldwide order based on the principles of personal freedom, social justice and human brotherhood.
 "In Youth Week. the young people of the United States and Canada have the opportunity to consecrate themselves anew to the lifelong pur- suit of the goals for which countless lives are being sacrificed. In such conservation youth must be able to count on the understanding and support of adults, in terms both of personal relationships and of edu- cation, civic and religious oppor- tunities accessible to all"
 Because of the wartime service problems and the postwar chal- lenges facing youth today, Cleveland
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lotted $l,400,000 mark. Each em- ploye has already pledged to sell $200 worth of bonds.
 William V. Hawkes., chairman of the payroll savings division of the Fourth War Loan Drive has an- nounced a luncheon meeting of the committee to be held tomorrow Thursday, January l3, at noon at the Elton. The purpose of the cam paign will be to formulate plans for the payroll divisions activities in the January IS to February l5 bond sales effort.
 Preliminary plans of the payroll division committee provide for as- sistance for all industrial and mer- chants establishments employing over 50 persons in an attempt to aid them in exceeding their previ- ously established outstanding record accumulated during the Third War Loan Drive when approximately chants establishments employing over 50 persons in an attempt to aid them in exceeding their pre- viousiy establishing outstanding record accumulated during the Third War Loan Drive when ap- proximately $l,000 900 per month was assured the nation by Wate p bury employees.
 Payroll savings division men com mittee members who will attend to- morrow's conference, in addition to Mr. Hawkes. consist of, Raymond Branch, Thomas P Cassidy, Mrs Fay Clarke. Leo Curley, Mrs. Mary Dewey. T. J. Moynihan, John K. Platt and Kenneth Robinson.
 James M. Moran, general chair
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Retail Merchants In
 Campaign Conference
Details of Drive to Be Mapped Out Tomorrow; Payroll
 Division Committee Also to Organize

man of the forthcoming bond cam paign and Raymond Tracy, local representative of the Treasury De- partment will be guest speakers.
 Further preparatory efforts for the coming local all-out bond pur- chase activities were formulated yesterday when at a meeting held in the American Brass Association Club rooms the labor-I1anagement committee ot al branches in the valley, representative of the Water bury, Torrington and Ansonia set- forth plans for an intensified cam paign within their ranks to be held during the week of February 2 to 12. This labor management effort will be conducted along similar lines in the company,s plants throughout the nation.
 A preliminary meeting of the Book and Author committee recently appointed by genera, chairman James M. Moran will be held in the city's aldermanic chambers Fri day night, January IA. Representa- tive members of many city organiza- tions will attend to draw up plans for the giant rally to be conducted by this latter division of the War Bond sales effort which will be held at Wilby high school, Feb. Il.
 Four nationally known authors, whose names will be announced la- ter, will be the principal speakers at the rally which is expected to be the outstanding rally of the entire drive.
 Book & Author committee meE- bers are as follows: Mrs. Robert w. Harvey, chairman, Miss Emelyn Barrett, Miss Mollie Cullen, Miss Ag- nes Fitzpatrick, Mrs. William V. Hawkes., Mrs. Donald Post, Mrs. Mark L. Sperry and Mrs. R. L. Wood.
 James M. Moran, general chair man and Raymond Tracy, local treasury department representative will attend Friday nights meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Treading Unit Picks
 Lawrence St. Louis
Waterburian Named National Institute Member for
 Two States in Bettering Retreading Standards

Washington, D. C., Jan. i2-The National Institute of Treadin9 Standards, Inc, of Washington, D. C., announced today that Lawrence St. Louis, Waterbury, Conn. of St. Louis Service, Inc. has been elected member of the Board of Control for the State of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
 The National Institute of Tread ing Standards, Inc. has been organ ised since 1886 for the purpose of raising the standards of retreading. and to identify to the public those firms who qualify by their skill, in- tegrity and responsibility. The insti- ute was recently instrumental in having national standards issued by the National Bureau of Standards, U. S. Department of Commerce.
 The recapping of tires will play a very prominent part in maintain- ing motor transportation, at least during 1944. The civilian tire situa- tion is still far from meeting the requirements. Many millions of tires have gone more than a year with cut tire service, and those motorists must depend on recapping and re- pairing in order to insure transpor- tation. During great part o1 l.43 comeback was not produced in sufficient quantities to meet recap ping demands. Under the present synthetic program more than 30,000,- 900 pounds of comeback are now being produced each month, which will insure better service to motorists than during the past several months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
ACCUSED YOUTH
 GIVEN BREAK
Judge Expressed Con- fdenCe in Accused to
 Make Good; No Bond

Facing a reformatory sentence, Raymond Petit, 19, of Waterbury today received the "break" of the current criminal term when he walked out of court free, with no bond required for appearance again on Feb. 28.
 Judge John McDonough who lis- tened to the youths story, part of it told without the assistance of his counsel, learned that the accused is an orphan and on his own. He had been given a suspended reformatory sentence in city court Sept. II on a charge of taking motor vehicle without permission, and the follow ing day was arrested on charge of drunkenness. He had been confined in New Haven county since October pending his appeal to the common pleas court.
 The jurist ruled that the accused must reimburse the owner of the stolen car for damage done, and placed him in the custody of the guardian ad litem, Attorney A Henry Weisman. He denied the re- quest of Prosecuting Attorney Will liam J. Larkin for bond stating he was satisfied Petit would report on the scheduled day and disclose whether or not the court order on payment of damages had been fol- lowed.
 Petit was charged with taking a car owned by Elizabeth Martin ot Il Laurel street. He drove it to Bethlehem where it was involved in an accident and abandoned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
WESLEYAN GETS
 NEW V-12BOSS
ST. Lieut.. Henry C. Herge Named Skipper to Direct
 Training Program

Middletown, Jan. II = Lieuten- ant Henry s. Herge, USNR, was promoted to the grade of Senior Lieutenant and became the new Commanding Officer of Wesleyan 5 Navy v-l2 College Training Unit on January 5, succeeding Lieutenant Lyle L. Morris, detached that date to special duty at Washington, D O., prior to his appointment as commanding officer of the v-12 unit at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash.
 Lieutenant Herge on assuming command today, said Having serv- ed for more than six months under Lieutenant Morris commani, I deeply regret that his new assign ment means the breaking up of the team ship tha' has proved so har- monious. Naturally, I feel highly honored that I have been seiected by the Navy to succeed Lieutenant Morris and shall endeavor to maintain the high standards he has set. In this, I have already received from the trainees, the crew, and the officers an expression of that desire and we are determined to have the Navy feel that the Wesleyan unit has produced and will continue to produce its best officer material"
 The new skipper is well prepared to direct the local Navy College Training Program, having served as executive officer of the unit since it opened on July l, last, after having had charge of its organization since early June. A graduate in 1929 of N. Y. U., where he was a member ot the Rho Chapter of the honorary Society of Phi Delta Kappa, Lieu tenant Herge was awarded his Masters degree there in 1881 and his Doctors degree in English in 1941.
 Upon graduation from college he became principal and supervisor of public schools in Bellmore, L. I. He left this position to join the Navy in October, 1942, and went immedi- ately to the Fort Schuyler Indoc- trination Naval Training Station.
 On December 19 of that year he was ordered to the Bureau of Naavl Personnel at Washington. D. C.. at which time he becomes Division Of- ficer in charge of enlisted per- sonnel. There his prescribed du- ties were the training, paying, in- specting and promotions of the en- listed men under his command He checked the casualties from telegra- phic reports from the International Red Cross in Geneva and notified the relatives of war prisoners. Af- ter these lists were cleared by the Provost Marshal, they were pub lished in the nations press.
 Becoming interested in the Navy's V-l2 College Training program. It. Herge entered the MidShipmen's school at Columbia University for the training of V-12 executive of- ficers. Upon his graduation on June l, he was immediately Sta- toned at Wesleyan for active duty.
 He resides at the Officers Club, 143 High street. Mrs. Herge, the former Miss Josephine Breen, and their five year old son, maintain their home in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Herr Hitler Appeals To
 Jops For FleIp

Cairo, Jan. l2-CUP)-well in- formed sources seid today that Adolf Hitler is doing his utmost to per- suade Japan to attack Russia at once in an effort to avert a Nazi disaster on the Soviet front.
 1nformeatS said Hitler, in a ser- ies of cent conferences with the Japan ;se ambassador to Germany, urged Japan to strike immediately. arguing that sooner or later the Soviets would join the United States and Great Britain in the war against the Japanese.
 Hitler was said to have proposed a Russian Pearl Harbor" as a di- versionary measure aimed at draw ing Red Army strength from the offensive against Germany in the west.
 Usually informed quarters under stood that Hitler insisted in his meetings with Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima that Japan launch an at~ tack on Vladivostock and on the Manchurian frontier, especially at Changkufeng, the scene of a bor- der incident" in July, 1888.
 Hitler, according to reports in in- formed quarters, feels that the time has come to play the last Axis card. He was represented as believing that a Japanese attack on Russia might counteract the effects of a second front and cut of Vladivostok as a source of supplies to Russia.
 Japan was believed hesitant to commit herself, which resulted in the news of the Hitler-Oshima talks leaking out through the occupied countries despite Axis efforts to keep them secret.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12

When completely out of control its fury makes men blind with rage" When left to the unguided caprice of feeling it comes out in bursts of bad temper, irascibility, and consciousness When it set- ties down into cold, calculating vim dictiveness, it can make the desire for revenge life's major obsession. When deeply aroused in childhood pugnacity can become the deter mining factor in character, inhabit- ing normal emotions. affecting so- cial relationships, and coloring lifes entire philosophy.
 Of course furious rage, bad temper, calculating vindictiveneSs, and chronic hate are wrong, but more than that, they are morbid.
 When Edward Everett Hale ill his later years said, T once had an enemy, a determined enemy, and have been trying all day to remember his name" he gave evil dence not only of right -mindedness but Of healthy-m -mindedness. So, too, AlIlSO1l, 1CDuhCO 1Ol dLl 4lIllJlCSSlOlA of magnanimity toward the South during the Civil War, and told bit terly that he should desire rather to destroy his enemies, was not only morally but emotionally sound when he answered, What, madam? Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"
 The tragedy of rage, i'll temper, vengefulness, and hatred is that they are the misuse of an emotional drive whose right use is a necessary ingredient of strong character. Pug nacity can be channeled in person ally satisfying and socially useful courses. A boy with no fight" in him is a weakling. The high-tem- pered personalities are the most promising. Pugnacity is latent power Anyone who has seen a gang of youths, the terror of an urban com munity, taken into a boys club. translated into an athletic team and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
01E d2eIIz9 H5
 REAL PERSON BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDlCK
Destroy Your Enemies by Making Them Your Friends, Lincoln Urged

set to defeating opponents in some competitive sport, cannot doubt the possibility of sublimating the fight ing spirit.
 One of the best tenor voices of our generation is that of Richard Crooks. When he was young child money was lacking for music les sons and he grew up without them. Even so his untrained voice was beautiful. The next we see of young Crooks he is working in an ice plant, getting up at 3 o'clock in the morn- ing to tug ice cakes about, begin ming a long, hard battle for money enough to study music. Then a New York church engaged him as Solo- ist, the New York Symphony Or chestra discovered him, and in time the young iceman became Richard Crooks the teror.
 In all such life stories the fight ing spirit is involved. No pugnacity means no flrst-rate achievement. No combativeneSs means no pioneer ing of uneXplored continents, no de- termied conquest of insidious dis eases. no discovery of obscure truth, no sturdy dealing with trouble, no patient, sustained endurance of drudgery and routine. The New Testament does not eliminate pug nacity but sublimates it. The early Christians were pacifists, refusing service in the Roman armies, but that does not mean that they were
 through using the indispensable driving power of combativeness. To be "a good soldier of Christ Jesus in the moral and spiritual struggle which they faced required that. not less but rather more than did the murderous trade of war.
 The same Paul who wrote the thirteenth Chapter of First Corin- thians, came to his life's end, say ing, q have fought the good fight"
 TOMORROW: Representative
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX
INCOME OF MINORS

A minor who receives income (a) from property belonging to him, or (b) from funds held in trust for him, or Co from earnings which belong to him, must file an income and victory tax return Cor return must be filed in his behalf by his guardian or paren0 if the total in- come for the year is $500 or more.
 A minor is one who has not yet reached full legal age. In some States both men and women come of age, or reach the age of majority, at the age of 21 years, while in other States men become of age at q and women at IS years of age.
 It is the law generally that dur ing the minority of a child his serv- ices and earnings do not belong to him, but to his parents, who are under a legal duty to support him and have a legal right to his earn ings. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, therefore, it is pre- sumed, for income tax purposes, that a parent has the legal right to the earnings of a minor and, &C., cordingly, the parent must include such earnings in his own return. This is especially the case if he claims credit for dependent or a status as a head of family with respect to the support of the minor, for that fact would be evidence that the parent was under a duty to support the minor. In such cir cumstances, the parent is entitled to take credit in his return for any income and victory taxes that have been withheld at the source by em- ployers from the wages earned by the child.
 If, however, a parent has re- nounced his legal duty to support the child and has relinquished his control and authority over the child by comforting on the latter the right to his earnings, together with the obligation of self-support, the minor must thereafter pay the income tax on his own earnings. Such relin- quishment of rights, or emancipa- tion, may be expressed as by volun- tary agreement of parent and child, or implied from such acts and con- duct as indicate consent. It may be absolute or conditional, complete or partial, as where the parent re- linquishes the right to the minors earnings but retains the right to the minors earnings but retains the right to control the social or moral conduct of the minor. In any case, 1t must be proved, and the burden of proof is on the parent who asserts that he Is not taxable lon the minors earnings. The laws
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12

E. Dodge of New York, financier and chairman of the International Board of the Young Mems Christian Association. one of the constituent agencies of the United Christian Youth Movement, believes that Youth Week has especial signifi- canoe"
 T am strong believer ill the necessity of religious education as one means of influencing youth, MT. Dodge declared in a statement about Youth Week. If our young people are to grow up with a proper sense of responsibility for things in their communities and in the world as whole, they must receive the ldealism and the sense of obligation that only religion can give"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
HUGE WAR LOADS IMPRESS
 TRAVELLERS

Passengers on Canadian National trains travelling in the Maritime Provinces have been intrigued at some of the towering loads they see on cars in passing freight trains These have ranged from sea-going tugs. ships engines for Canada's s wartime built freighters, with their huge boilers. to invasion barges. These invasion barges are 72 feet long and are built in sections. It takes four flat cars to carry one barge. They are being built in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ship yards for use in invading Nad-held Europe and were designed by w. J. Roue, of Halifax, N. S., celebrated designer of the famous champion fishing schooner "Bluenose".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
Current Rationing Regulations
MEATS AND FATS

Brown R s" and I~' stamps in III will be valid through January 29 Ration Book W vau TOT i've po or Hen pork sausage through January l5
 PROCESSED FOODS "F stamps will be valid through January 2O "C" HI and stamps through February 20
 SUGAR of w valid 10 in front of Book w Stamp 30 will be valid January 6 for five pounds.
 SHOES Stamp stamp the "arpane' sheet of valid for purchase of pair of shoes
 GASOLINE  B-i C-l valid for two gallons B-2 coupons valid for five gallons
 FUEL OIL coupons valid February Period three will be in force March A. ralnng
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Local retail merchants will gather tomorrow morning at the Conhecti- out Light & Power Go. auditorium to establish @ line of campaign for participation in the forthcoming Fourth War Loan drive. Clyde M. Jennings, chairman of the retail merchants division will conduct the meeting when it is expected that representatives of the 1,500 local merchants and their 4,500 employees will attend.
 Local merchants have already be- gun personal campaigning within their establishments to assist in as- surfing that their quota of bond pur- chases will reach or exceed the al-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12

The nations transit industry, by applying the wartime conserva- tion policies set forth by the Oflce of Defense Transportation. is con- serving almost 100000 900 bus miles annually.
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During the first seven months of l943. almost 2500 vehicles made forced stops in the Holland tun- nel-an increase of about one- third over l942. refiecting war time depreciation of motor ve- AiclAs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
CANADIAN MANUFACTURING

Among Canadian provinces, Britt ish Columbia ranks third in man. ufacturing; Ontario and Quebec are the only two provinces which ex- ceed in gross value of output.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12

regarding emancipation vary in dif- ferent States, and the facts in each case will determine whether the earnings of minor must be reported in the return of the minor or of his parent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-12
BEAVERS USE WIND POWER

Beavers cut trees down to a fine corea nd let the wind do the rest, Knowing 1t would be dangerous for them to gnaw completely through the trunk.
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we should immediately cease the raising of calves from inferior pro- ducers. There has been too much carelessneSs in this respect in the past"
 He further suggested 6 revalua- ton of all farm inventories, declar- ing that If We are willing to write off these extravagances of the past and estimate our inventories at &C., tual worth instead of using values which just aren't there, would say that our investment was worthwhile and that all of these farms should be continued in operation"
 Hartford, Conn, January 12. - CUP) - Mayors and selectmen Of the States 169 communities were invited by Governor Baldwin to attend a conference at Hartford on January 2l to plan a uniform pro- gram for the rehabilitation of re- turning servicemen.
 This is to be great postwar problem and we must be ready to meet it." the governor said.
 IlC WILL lONuoS LilCdAAo of utilizing all resources and facili- ties in offering job training courses to veterans and in placing them in jobs for which they are best suited.
 Members of the State Employ ment Commission will attend the conference which will be presided over by Albert N. Jorgensen. presi- dent of University of Connecticut.
 Hartford, Conn, Jan. 12-(UP) The states income declined $S17 ,8S9 during the last six months of 1S43, as compared with the same period of the previous year. Tax Commissioner Walter w. Walsh reported today to Governor Baldwin.
 Total income was $S,592 ,9S6. The biggest reduction, he said. was in liquor revenue, which was about twO-thirds of the 1942 total.
 Middletown. Conn.,, Jan. 12-
 (UP)-Edward A. COney, "A, Deep River, . telegrapher for 50 years, and who managed the New York office of Postal Telegraph for 30 years, died at Middlesex hospital today after a short illness. His widow and q daughter survive. Funeral services will be held Fri- day at Deep River.
 Hartford, Conn, Jan. l2 - (U. p = Governor Baldwin said to- day he was meeting Friday with Democratic leaders of the general assembly to urge their cooperation in limiting the special session of the legislature to a specific, non controversial program.
 Republicans already have agreed to this suggestion. but Senator Leon Riscassi, Hartford, and Representa- tive T. Emmet Claire, Killingly re- gently indicated they reserved the right to bring up matters which, in their opinion, warranted legislative consideration.
 Furthermore, Democratic Senator John L. Sullivan, New Britain, an- nounced he intended to ask the general assembly to investigate the purchase and alteration of the new governors mansion which thus far has cost the state $l7O.O0O.