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Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

preaching too near your subject or in pictures taken from a normal distance it will result in an over- abundance of foreground.
 Longer focal length lenses and telephotos-there is a difference between these two which your deal CT can explain - produce a much larger image from the same camera subject distance and include mar rower viewing angle-from one-half to one-third that of normal focal length lens. Consequently. you must back up considerably sto get much area in your picture. While excel lent for distortion-free portraits, scenery and long distance work, and only slightly slower than nor nal focal length lenses. they are more bulky generally and demand a much steadier camera to produce sharp negatives. They are also cap able of less depth of field than shorter lenses and require more critical focusing.
 Your dealer can give you expert advice on the lenses best suited for your needs, but remember that no lens will do everything and for each advantage there is a limitation in any photographic equipment
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

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Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

only great nandleader but he's great musician, too He has just won Orchestra Worlds Annual Achieve ment Award as the. best musician" Goodman and his orchestra are now in New York to play theatre engage ments and hold a confab about a
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

Opry," was another famous radio comic. Bob Burns, star of his own
 NEG Thursday program, who pur- chased one of the unusual new toys for his eight-year-old daughter, Bar bara. Children love the Bumsteads as much as the grownups do. The latest survey shows that the Sunday
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

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 program Is one of the three top favorite r. a 10 s h 0 W S in city areas. Stars of the radio com- edy dramas are Penny Singleton andArthur Lake. Benny Good man, the king of swing, Is Ot
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

cent she Is por- trayed by [ n e versatile come dlenne and ac- L r e S 5. Virginia Gordon One Ot the first buyers ot a M 1 n n 1 e Pearl doll. pat termed after the b a c k W oodS CO., m e II e n n e ot
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Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

her brother Jack sang with the glee club before he joined the Navy. He's expected out soon, to resume his place among the Pennsylvantans.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-05-18

A NEW character added to the - Abbott and Costello radio fun Icsts this season is the snooty so- phistlcate. Bessie Mae Mucho." who affects an exaggerated broadA ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Democracy at Its Best

Connecticut Democrats this morning have ample reason for feeling pleased with their state convention Not only did it produce slate of able and outstanding candidates but 1t proved again that the orderly of democracy best exempfed by the party which has chosen to call itself the Democratic Party.
 the ticket who has served we'll his partys repre- sentative during the Republican administration about to end He has shown liberal intelligence fortnight honesty and personal charm and magnetism which has made friends for him up and down and the entire state None listen ing to the roll call yesterday could fail to realize just now strong hold he had the ordinary citizens of the small of the state the 1.-two for Snow three for Snow rolling back in response to the clerks query.
 The rest of the ticket is equally gratifying Joseph M Tone has record which recommends him for Senator by contrast with the conservative man boss of the recent Republican convention Ray Baldwin For the lesser offices the Democrats have named representative ticket which Ill giving adequate representation to various geographical and racial groups has sacrificed nothing of ability in doing
 Yesterdays nomination proceedings gave powerful i'm petus to the coming Democratic campaign It became obvious that Snow gained the nomination only because the little men of the party wanted him. the everyday runo thene Democrats, that could miss the striking con tras with the Republican one man show which shelved Joe Talbot last week. Most of the Bowes strength came from New Haven Bridgeport and the lesser cities of the state where positive leadership readily felt Shows came from the rank and file.
 Senator Brien McMahon honors by his tactful handling of the leaders ob Known to be friendly with It. Gov. Snow he yielded far his personal vote was concerned to what seemed growing demand for Bowes nomination Yet did he attempt to counter the maJor ity opinion of his partys members He finds himself and his party both stronger and far better tactical position today by of his forbearance.
 Action of the delegates provided rebuke to the happily few pressure groups who sought to bring about the with drawal of LGov. Snow earlier in the campaign notably the CIOThe will of the people, given chance by Senator McMahon and others to exercise se spoke definitely and with authority.
 And so, on to the campaign.
 This morning finds the Democratic Party of the state united ve confident aggressive led by candidates whose liberalism and sincerity goes unquestoned Its opponents the other hand stand condemned for reaconay dictator ship within their party and united only by com
 fear of what the consequences of their convention of last week and the hundred percent American Democratic convention of this week. may to their greed for continuance in power
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
by ThOm1aS Stokes

and practical cooperation with ally without "get-tough" attitude and by following policy of without reference to British foreign policy.
 One hopeful result would be encouragement of efforts to eliminate Communists from key places in labor unions and organizations in the field of public affairs.
 Politically MT Wallaces stand may be helpful. In the Congressional campaign Republicans are mak ing major issue out of alleged Communist te-ups with the Democratic Party Anything MT. Wallace might say of course, will not stop slow down
 His speech was. among other things, political document.
 the Republican Party "the party of economic nation alism and political isolation" and to recall Gov. Thomas E. Deweys advocacy some time back of military alliance with Great Britain.
 Republicans retorted in kind, shouting that MT. Wallace still is trying to appeaSe Russia and to main tain alliance with radical political clements to win the election They also accused the Commerce big three sphere of influence proposal that would yield up to Russia domination neighborng small countries in which MT Wallace said we had no busi- ness politically
 The Wallace sphere-of- influence proposal, which he suggested reluctantly and because of "the hard facts of power politics" disappointing to many liberals in the Democratic Party and outside, though he proposed it a stopgap did MT. Roose- welt before him. until functioning, powerful United Nations protect small nations with body ot international law.
 But some of the criticism was not founded thus in sincerity. It came, and with ill grace, from of those who previously had ridcued the Atlantic Charter and whose sudden ardor for the charter mostly political and certainly synthetic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18-(NEA)-As far as any into the future in this town controversy and agitation will continue unchecked
 There are individuals who deliberately plot trouble for the future a carefully planned sched ue Two of their sinister schemes have recently to light.
 The names of the ring g-leaders involved can now be revealed They Charles Alldredge assistant to the secretary the Department of Interior Bar bara Mullins member of the staff of Calfornia's Senator Downey, and Alfred Little designer at the National Housing Agency.
 Their strategy is to lay back under cover until this country the rest of the world have definitely decided what to do with the atomic bomb. Then when John Q. Citizen stops dreaming about fission under the bed and Sotopes in the cebox and things there's nothing but brave new world ahead, whambo these sinister three will cut dooSe.
 Their plan consists of the formation of two so ceties patterned after several of the atomic energy societies operating today And they plan to pursue their aims with just much vigor as the atom groups display.
 The names of these two outfits are to be: The Society for the Establishment of the Dogwood as the National Flower and The Society for the Re- storation of Red Ham Gravy.
 The plan to establish the dogwood as the nation al flower is not entirely new idea. It kicked up quite ruckus in the country in 1926, when nation wide vote on the question was taken.
 It appears that the wild rose won by wide margin, but for some reason the results weren't claimed stuffed ballotboxes or something. This in- formation comes from peppery P L. Kicker, national president of the Wildflower Preservation Society.
 MT. Kicker is wild himself. He thinks the dogwood idea isn't too hot His reason is that Eastern dogwood just doesn't grow in the West and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Capital COnSpiratOrS
by Douglas LarSen

it doesn't flourish in enough states to warrant it's ing the national flower He also claims there's noth- ing official about the goldenrods being the national flower
 Mr. Kicker is considerably disturbed about the dogwood agitation. He said he thought he had quashed the whole thing several years ago. when a Virginia Congressman, A. Willis Robertson, inStgated drive to have the dogwood made the national flower. Robertson was talked out of the idea by Kicker, though the dogwood is the state flower of Virginia.
 The whole thing will do nothing but create hard feeling between the East and West, MT. Kicker claims But then, isn't that what Aldredge, Little, and Mullins want?
 In his own words, Mr. Kicker says: T think the Idea of making the dogWood the national flower Is completely absurd They won't get anywhere with it, and it'll just stir up lot of controversy"
 It seems that in the past decade something has happened to red ham gravy. This strictly Southern delicacy, and on top of honny grits noth ing could touch it for taste.
 What has happened to it, according to Alldredge, has been source of deep agitation below the Mason Dixon line he speaking 'you-aer" from Atlanta, Ga. He claims it's something the South shouldn't just sit back and take. He nmates the whole thing Is inspired by you-know- what yankees-that the North's vulgar taste for tenderized hams is behind
 A check with the American Meat Institute re- veas that maybe Alldredges suspicious to whence went red ham gravy might not be far from right An official of the Institute says that it's possible the tenderizing process does remove of the juices that formerly went as red gravy.
 He claims, however that the meat industry went to great lengths to determine whether majority of the people wanted their ham tenderzed or country cured style He unable to say what the division of opinioh in the South.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Views of the Press

1 enough voting" was his valedictory. The Irishman was the late Con- gressman William J. Gallagher of Minnesota.
 The Pole was really born in Po- land. He came to America when he wah 16, worked in the coal mines, and in factories. Then he enlisted in the armed forces of his adopted land, because he wanted people to stop calling him foreigner. He wore the uniform of an enlisted man for 34 years. Just year ago June he stood amid phalanxes of brass hats and gold lace to watch his son get his commission and his gold bars at West Point.
 The Pole is Master Technical Ser geant Anthony Jagiello, USING, Re- tired.
 These are two stories, but we think they fit together very niceB. In these days, while a nation fumbles through a fog of reaction from war, disillusionment, and family quarrels to recapture it's faith in what James Truslow Adams calls "the American Dream" it helps to be reminded that this dream does come true now and then. In fact, of just such stuff this dream is made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
URGE TO LIVE IN MAINE
 (NeW York Sun)

A suggestion from Maine's Com missioner of Education that New York city's retired teachers might be interested in some of the 300 vacancies in Maine has brought more than 150 replies. The sugges- ton, as reported in The Sun, was that those forced here to retire at 70 easily could continue teaching in | a State in which no age limit for re- tirement is fixed. This is under standable in that rugged State where mere septuagenarian is con- sidered as not much beyond middle age; when an octogenarian recently was heard to remark that he now was confining himself to inshore lobStering and boat building be- cause he thought that grandfathers shouldn't deprive fathers of the more profitable grounds.
 It is not surprising, either to hear from Edward E. Roderick, Maine's Deputy Commissioner of Education, that requests have come not alone from retired teachers but from ministers, lawyers, judges, shoe salesmen and housewives. Most of these, Commissioner Roderick may feel sure, are persons who at one time or another have breathed deep of the pineladen air of the woods country, inhaled the tang of bal sam mixed with the salt spray along the coast, or Smelled fresh-turned earth in the Aroostook potato re- zion. Against such odors how can the carbon monoxide and the smoke of metropolis compete? Perhaps it will be wise hereafter to soft pe- dal the attractions of Maine. Other wise there may be an exodus which would deplete all our professions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
RUSSIA'S LITTLE GAME
 (BoSton POSt)

Russia's system of tactics in re- gard to the United States is ob- vious. She intends to make our relations with those countries upon whom her iron curtain falls so dis agreeable that we will get away from them entirely-she hopes. Yugoslavia is at the moment the skirrnishing ground for these Rus sian tactics. If Tito refuses to pay the indemnity our government has demanded for the airplanes Tito's men shot down and the Americans his men killed, a natural reaction for us would be to withhold fur ther aid to the Yugoslav people and to sever relations. This is what Stalin wants.
 How the President and the State Department are going to meet this brand of Russian tactics remains to be seen. But it appears that it can't be done by gentle diplo- macy nor by withdrawing from the trouble spots.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Privately Built Homes Are Increasing

About Al, 900 privately financed permanent dwell ings were completed July of this year. and Government survey shows that this is the largest number made ready for occupancy in nonfam since the returning service men, civilians and other homeless folks began calling upon the Government for easy credit For time the Federal plan so easy that too many home builders exceeded their abilities to meet payments they plunged in debt their heads
 The Government statement is valuable and shows which way the wind blows. When homebuder seeks private credit he will get good advce-which he needsprovding he stays away from the sharks and talks his friends in local banks and loan associations.
 The output of building materials labor shortage, and high of everything else continues to slow down the 1946 goal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
TWO STORIES IN ONE

(The Christian Science Monitor)
 Ever hear about the Irishman and the Pole?
 This Irishman wasn't born in Fire, but in Minneapolis, where his fath- CT, a policeman, probably found him. self spicing his brogue with pinch of Morse. As he grew up he de- veloped a sense of responsibility for the government of his community and his country. He wrote articles on economic and political subjects. But he found he had to work with his hands to make living. So he toiled as a laborer, janitor, then a city street sweeper.
 But he never lost his interest in government. He ran-unsrcceSS- fully-for several local offices. Then two years ago, at Il, he was nomin- ated for Congress. He earned his campaign expenses at manual labor. His district elected him. He didn't make a great Congressman. But a good many paused at the homely incisiveness of what few words he had to say. "Too much talking; not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Legalized Gambling

New Jersey judge has urged that his states consttu ton be revised to permit egazed and regulated gamog Thus voice has been added to the small, faint chorus which recently has been making the suggestion
 The very idea of putting gambling legitimate basis and sweetening the public till from the proceeds repug nant to many, perhaps most Americans. They are un moved by the classic arguments that gamblers will gamble official is getting rich on protection where gambling four shes that this protection might we'll be paid in taxes
 What to have sweed the faint chorus of support
 the experience where legal gambling is actually in tion In little Saratoga County, N r., betting taxes from four-week meet netted the county $1062OOO As result the county tax has been abolished the budget n creased for next year, surplus $3l2 earmarked for retirement of county bonds.
 It is perhaps understandable that moral resent ent by Saratoga County citizens have e@aporated in the of this wndfa It's pretty hard to get mad lower taxes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Dora M. Egan

Dora Egan, Waterburys first woman town clerk, was the first in Waterbury and Connecticut to take advantage of the women's suffrage amendment leader in Democratic womens organizations, meticuou stats can she served in many capacities and from 1921 when she first elected to office town clerk reelected repeatedly until her retirement in 1887
 Miss Egan always vitaly interested in the civic and cultural progress of the city She had the friendship of
 wide circle Reserved in she possessed innate dignity and held the friendship of during her lifetime
 Miss Egan of late had been away from Waterbury but always shared in it's civic program though not identified with any office in number of years Her death Tuesday night matter of deep regret to her friends and former associates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
THE PAUL REVERE
Boston Post)

The New York Central is to be complimented for selecting fine name for its first streamlined, de luxe-coach passenger train between Boston and Chicago, as The Paul Revere. The train is a pioneer of its type of service. Revere was 8 pioneer of his. While Revere's mes- sage was older and more important, perhaps, that of the new train should not be minimized. Both de- serve present-day appreciation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
Kisses and Cheers

WASHINGTON-seldom is hiss more welcome than cheer in politics.
 But good many people in the liberal or progreS- sive wing of the Democratic Party, as contraSted with the far left where the Communists do their devment delighted with the misses that greet ed Henry Wallace in Madison Square Garden when he castigated of the political methods of Russia and what he called native Communists faithfully following every twist and turn in the Moscow party line"
 Mr. Wallace anticipated such reception. He knew that many Communists and party-inerS would be in his audience at the rally of the National Cti zens FAC. and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts and Sciences It might be expected that they would express themselves when he made the public gesture of Sngling them out to shake them off.
 His gesture was carefully prelneditated and cal culated It we'll timed and in the proper setting.
 It served to dispe confusion among many New Dealers and liberals and progressves who have sat about wringing their hands and moaning and groan- ing about what goes in the world with among them able to define position, and no Franklin D. Roosevelt around to tell them what to think.
 
 For some time they ahve been disturbed by Rus sian moves and tactics the international and, directly, by the infiltraton of Communists in organizations here at home to confuse objectves and bring down attacks They feel better now that leader in the New Deal wing of the party, the only still left in the Cabinet His voice carries author ity and commands respect among them.
 MT Wallace outlined valid position by condemn ing Russian methods in what he, himself, recognizes the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and by denouncng the tactics of native Communists At the same time he held out hope for friendship
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18

T should list the factors which make for Russian distrust of the United States and of the Western world follows: The first is Russian history, which we must take into account because it is the setting in which Russians all actions and policies of the rest of the world Russian history for thousand years has been succession of attempts, often un- successful, to resist invasion and conqueSt-by the Mongols the Turks the Swedes the Germans and the Poles. The Scant thirty years of the existence of the Soviet Government has in Russian eyes been continuation of their historical struggle for national existence.
 "Second it follows that to the Russians all of the defense and security of the Western powers seem to have an aggressive intent. Our actions to expand our military security system-Such steps as extending the Monroe Doctrine to include the arm- ing of the Western Hemisphere nations, present monopoly of the atomic bomb our interest in outlying bases and general support of the British Empire appear to them going far beyond the requirements of defense. From the Russian point of view, also, the granting of loan to Britain and the lack of tangible results their request to borrow may be regarded as another evidence of strengthening of an anti-Soviet bloc.
 Finally, our resistance to her attempts to obtain warm water ports and her security system in the form of friendly neghborng states seems from the Russian point of view, to clinch the After twenty five years of isolation and atfer having achieved the status of major power Russia believes that she is entitled to recognition of her new status.
 Our interest in establishing democracy in East ern Europe where democracy by and large has never existed to her attempt to re-establish the encirclement of unfriendy neighbors which ated after the last war and which might springboard of still another effort to destroy her.
 Most of us firmly convinced of the sOund- of position when suggest the nternation- alzation and identification of the Danube of the Dardaneles but we would be mortified and angered by any Russian counter proposal that would involve also the internatonaliNng and disarming of Suez RlSSianS these seem to be identical situations.
 we should make an effort to comteract the ir- built up in the American people by certain tndivid- uals and publications. The slogan that Communism and capitalism, regimentation and democracy, can- not continue to exist in the world is, from historical point of view, pure propaganda Several religious doctrines, all claiming to be the only true gospel and salvation have existed side by side with
 reasonable degree of tolerance for centuries. This country was for the first half of its national life democratic island in world dominated by absolutis governments
 "We should not act if too felt that were threatened in today's world We by far the most powerful nation in the world the only Allied Nation which out of the war without devasta- tion and much stronger than before the war. Any talk part about the need for strengthening our defenses further is bound to appear hypocrtical to other nations