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SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1941
A Thought for Today
Thou ahalt not take the name of the Lord thy
God In vain: for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that Uketh his name In rain.—Deuter
onomy 5:11.
• • •
Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in
Tain; It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.
—Herbert.
Doesn’t Sound Right
The charges that were made in the
State Senate Thursday during the debate
on the so-called State’s Attorney bill
seemed after a careful reading of the
same and comparison with many other
accounts published in state newspapers
to be somewhat extravagant and just a
bit far-fetched. We can’t quite see why
there should be any attempt at reprisals
by a party against a public prosecutor
who must bo regarded as simply having
fulfilled his duties In bringing about con
victions. Yet it was charged that Demo
cratic legislators are attacking State’s At
torney Hugh M. Alcorn through the med
ium of a bill banning such officials from
engaging in private practice or in poli
tics.
The charge is such a serious one that
It would have to be substantiated by
iomething more than just a mere claim
and that’s about all that was presented
in the State Senate Thursday when the
bill was debated and then passed with the
members dividing along party lines. There
seems to us to be a very determined ef
fort on the part of the audible opponents
of the bill to bend over backwards com
pletely, for why should it be claimed that
th# bill was introduced two years ago In
the Legislature by a Waterbury legislat
or. Rep. Hugo Guastaferri had no more
ulterior motive in mind in such action
than to put through a court reform that
had long been advocated.
Democrats advocated the same in
their platform of last fall, not, we know,
for revenge on any public official but ha
recognition of a need for such, a court re
form and as demanded by many groups,
including organized bar associations,
judges, etc. The facts hardly seem to
bear out the very heavy charge laid at
the door of the Democratic Party. On
the other hand who would blame the
Democrats for retorting that Republicans
seem afraid that imposition of such a
law would curtail the activities of some
of the present officials, such as the Speak
of the House, Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr.
An Era Come* to an End
*" Ah era of some of the vastest subsidies
ever offered by a government to private
industry is coming to an end. Ninety
years ago a developing America wanted
railroads, and wanted them badly. So it
offered land grants to those who would
build them. More than 158,000,000 acres
of land were given to railroad companies
— an area almost equivalent to the whole
Atlantic seaboard from Canada to the
Gulf. Usually they received great tracts
alternating on either side of their right
of-way.
This subsidy didn’t cost the taxpayer
anything directly. Land was what the
United States had the most of, and giving
it away to railroad builders by the mil
lions of acres did not seem extravagant
so long as the needed railroads got built.
But it was a subsidy — and a subsidy so
generous that those who received it
couldn’t even use it all.
In 1940 a new transportation act was
passed, providing for the return to fed
eral ownership of millions of acres of
this land. The whole system had become
antiquated. For many years much of the
General Land Office and the Interior
Deparement was spent in adjusting
claims concerning it. The government
had retained for itself certain privileges
for transport of its property and employes
at reduced rates, The tax situation
changed. Now the whole venture is in
process of being liquidated once and for
all. The interesting part of it is the rela
tionship of these vast subsidies to the
“free enterprise system.” It is just one
more evidence that we have never had a
. completely "laissez-faire” policy of non
interference of government in business.
The government has always "meddled”
with business. One of the first acts of
the new government after the Constitu
tion was first adopted was to set up a
protective tariff, which is a restriction of
free competitive selling. We have in our
day had mail subsidies for shipping lines
and airplane lines whose development was
nationally desirable. None was anything
like as huge as the land subsidies granted
at a period which began 90 years ago, and
•re only now being liquidated.
There is not, and never has been, an
tconomic system which flourished entirely
Irithout direction, restriction, encourage
ment, or “meddling” in one manner or an
fther, by government. When people talk
mt a “free enterprise system,” they are
talking of something that is always a
Man's Wont Nature
8urely events of recent days convince
God-fearing people that the very worst
nature of mankind Is coming to the fore
In Europe where the drums of war pound
with Increasing tempo. London under
goes Its most merciless bombardment of
the war, If that Is possible. The English
people cry out for revenge — on to
Berlin; let the bombs drop on every side
there. Rome is threatened if Cairo or
Athens are attacked from the air. Where
is this senseless and utterly-wrong war
going to end?
It can’t be called war, for some wars
have been waged for a just cause. No
cause could be so great as to demand the
tribute in loss of life and property dam
age that is now being taken all over
Europe. This is savage butchery and we
\ iuld hate to be the men of high station
who will be called to account for this
holocaust some day before the throne of
the Almighty God. Such a statement
may sound hypocritical, but it isn’t.
Principles aren’t being established by
what is now taking place throughout
Europe, Asia, and Africa. Men aren’t
creating a better world in which to live.
They are simply being destroyed so that
mastery of nations may be decided. It is
not too late for us here in the many times
blessed United States to point out the
error of their ways to the combatants; to
urge cessation of this horrible conflict.
Our duty is certainly not to encourage
brutality or revenge or destrutcion, but
to promote gentleness of spirit, brotherly
love, and construction. No nation is bet
ter prepared to do so than our own.
All Quiet Along the Seine?
We can only guess at what goes on In
the countries which lie beneath the Ger
man yoke; we are not allowed, to find out
the whole truth. Little scraps of informa
tion must be pieced together to form the
best picture we can draw. Here is such a
scrap: From Vichy comes word that Paris
police have issued warrants against 6,200
house owners, business men, and janitors
because the walls of their buildings have
been placarded with anti-German and
pro-Free French slogans and propaganda.
First, note the severity of the measures.
If you have anything to do with control
of a house, you are held responsible for
what somebody comes and paints on it in
the night. Second, 6,200 houses is a lot
of houses. Somebody, a lot of some
bodies, must still be active in Paris for the
cause of Free France.
Self-insurance is among the many
things urged for this city by the Water
bury Taxpayer’s Association. Instead of
having the city take out insurance with
various companies for fire and liability
protection, the city would probably set
up an item in the annual budget to cov
er any expenses which would be listed as
losses due to fire or claims allowed against
the city for various types of damage. At
the outset this might conceivably amount
to the same figures the city was accus
tomed to pay for its insurance protec
tion. Or it might be the figure that the
city estimated it had incurred in fire and
liability losses in the past year. But even
tually the items set up in the budget
would be considerably less than the
amount of the insurance premiums in any
one year. Some years these items might
just be nicked; others there would be a
heavy inroad. The contention is,
though, that over a period of years the
saving would be quite considerable.
Mayor John W. Murphy is evidently
out for some sort of a record here in Con
necticut. New Haven’s perennial chief
executive will be the candidate of the
Democratic Party again this fall. This
will be the sixth time that he has sought
the mayoralty and there is no reason to
believe that it won’t be the sixth succes
sive time that he will be elected to office.
He is still as popular as ever with the
New Haven electorate and there doesn’t
seem any good reason to believe that the
Republican Party down there is going to
be able to break the hold that the Demo
crats have on the city government.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler has just
released information which he has re
ceived from Belgium relative to the de
struction of the library at Louvain’s fa
mous university. This is sad news to
many Americans who have studied at the
university or visited it. It is all the more
tragic because American dollars helped
to rebuild Louivain after it had been
razed during the World War of 1914-18.
Such destruction is actually criminal.
I
Selected Poem
THE BATTLE OF THE FULL MOON
(Marian M. Casey in the Poet’* Comer,
Hartford Times)
The white full moon,, the gentle shepherdess.
Comes once again to herd her flock of stars—
Her solemn chore, a thousand eons old;
Her heavenly task In spite of men and wars.
Can she be sorry that her silver light
Brings out strange ghastly phantom moths, that
ride
Casting destruction In their every wake
Along the Thams, the Mersey, and the Clyde?
Can she look down on weary England now.
On places no long time ago so fair,
And see the gaping wounds, the smouldering fires,
And know her light has brought new havoc there?
Aloof, serene, the white moon-sepherdess
Herds her celestial flock across the sky;
Her pace unchanged, a thousand ages hence,
Whether men fight or rest, or live or die.
Daily Almanac
Moon rises 1:31 a. m.
Sun rises 5:08 a. m.; sets 6:35 p. m.
All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset. *
Tire daylight saving period will begin at
the customary date this year, but It wouldn’t
be surprising to have It prolonged after
September, if war conditions are still serious
and our defense program demands top-speed
production.
f,
National
Spollight
BY PETER ED80N
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
Washington, April 19 — At the
outbreak of the second World War
Oermany had for Its defense Indus
tries 12 million productive workers
and 800,000 ap
prentices.
When the
United States
began Its de
fense drive It
had fewer than
5 million work
ers In defense
Industries and
100,000 appren
tices.
And there, la
dles and gentle
men, you have
one of the nar
rowest of all
the bottlenecks
In the entire American defense ef
fort. It explains why, according
to assistant Secretary of War Ro
bert P. Patterson, more than three
fourths of the worker In U. S.
defense Industries are today em
ployed In plants working only one
shift. And It explains why 91 out
of every 100 men In the machine
tool Industries have to work 10
hours overtime every week. The
country with the world’s greatest
Industrial machine and the world’s
best public school system has fall
en flat on Its car.
EXCUSES
BARRED
Everyone Is to blame. Manage
ment for not having a trained re
servo of manpower. Labor for a
silly system of restricting appren
ticeships, limiting the number of
youngsters who could learn skilled
trades. Relief officials for putting
men to raking leaves and manicur
ing roads when they should be been
learning something useful. Politi
cians for being shortsighted. You,
me and the rest of the general
public lor allowing this to go on.
The man who has been given
tho job of seeing that something
Is done to correct this sltautlon, Is
a kindly, tall, blue-eyed, graying
colonel of antl-nlrcraft coast ar
tillery, Frnnk J. McSherry, who
lias been assigned from the army
general stall as director of derensc
training. H!s office Is under the
Federal Security Administration
and he has under his wing the de
fense Industry vocational training
activities of the Office of Educa
tion, WPA and NY A, co-ordinat
ing their school projects with tho
U 8. Employment Service and the
new "training within Industry"
program of the defense effort.
This industry program Is under
Channlng Dewey, Socony Vacu
um’s personnel director who. at a
dollar a year and with 22 district
offices headed by dollar-a-yearors,
gives plants advice on schooling
men for better Jobs, moving them
up from ordinary Jobs to higher
skllh whore there are still greater
shortages.
Colonel McSheri ft head Is an
amazing library of statistics and,
once started, he pours forth a
stream of figures on American
shortage of skilled labor for de
fense Industries so pitiful It makes
you weep. It Isn't just a shortage
of manpower — there are still six
million unemployed — It’s the lack
of workmen, who can do the Jobs
required.
SHOCKING
SHORTAGE
U. 8. Employment Service Is com
pleting a month's drive to register
workers. It has raised tho number
listed to five million, but In that
number It has found only 18B.000
workers competent to take Jobs In
the 383 key Industries, fewer than
28.000 competent for the 100 top In
dustries, and In 12 industries none
at all.
Bureau of Labqr Statistics esti
mates that In the next year two
million workers will bn put on
the payrolls of defense Industries.
Aircraft manufacturers, employ
ing 23,000 men In 1938. will need
308.000 men when plants under
construction are completed. Ship
yards, with 128,000 workers, will
need 300,000 more, and so on.
Only solution for this problem
Is to send the country back to
school — trade school — and that's
what's being done, literally. More
than 300 trade schools are being
run In three shifts, 24 hours a day,
so great Is the demand for skilled
workers — In a hurry. Plants on
two-shift production' are turned
Into schools for the third.
Douglas Aircraft, In Long Beach,
Calif., needing 20,000 workers for
a new plant, Interested the city in
acquiring a three-story building
which was turned Into a trade
school with 1800 students a day.
Los Angeles took over a garage
to train 28,000 shipyard workers.
Murray Body In Detroit, needing
6.000 men for a new airplane parts
plant, has a school for 1,700 a day.
Wright Aeronautical's new plant
In Cincinnati must soon have 120
trained men a week for 75 weeks.
Bulck and Studebaker's new en
gine plants in Chicago will need
12.000.
Trained men — not ordinary un
skilled day laborers — are needed,
so If you had an Idea of catching
the first train, don't till you know
what It’s all about.
Real head of this vast back-to
school effort Is the vocational ed
ucation system of the states, co
ordinated under Commissioner
John M. Studebaker of the U. S.
Office of Education. Starting back
In 1917, under a $7 million fed
eral grant later raised by 91* mil
lion, all of which must be matched
by appropriations from the states,
this vocational education system
could reach only 60,000 students a
year. The framework was there,
and supplemented by some <66
million in new defense appropria
tions, USOE Is doing a Job. For
the year ending June 30, 1941, it
will turn out a million men
traiined for a defense trade.
Next year, It hopes to make It
three million.
CdSOB
Current Comment
No one has the right to call the
Creator his Father If he refused
to be brother to all God's other
children.
—Premier Benes of Chechoslovakia.
* * *
The board of a museum is not a
House of Lords, nor yet an exclusive
club.
—Park Commissioner Moms of New
York.
The Policy Of The United States
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Washington Merry-Go-Round 87
Navy Press Censorship Stiffer Than Army's; Aims to Stop Criticism;
Admirals Suppress News of British Ships; But British Hand It Out.
(EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the seoond of series of articles on *overnment censorship of the press.)
WASHINGTON, April 19. — The War and Navy Departments, both run by Repub
licans, both having important military secrets to protect, offer a contrast when it
comes to censorship of the press. __
Ten years ago, tnc war De
partment, then under the ebullient
Patrick J. Hurley of the Hoover
Administration, placed a group of
martlnents In charge of Army
press relations, But today, the
Army, under public-minded Henry
L, Sttmson. has selected one of
Its crack officers, Major General
Robert C. Richardson, lo handle
Its press section and has rovo
lullonlxed its attitude toward
newspapermen.
War department executives even
Invito criticism. When this col
umn exposed the exorbitant fees
paid to real estate operators in
buying land for army camps, Un
der Secretary of War Patterson
gave every possible cooperation
and thanked the writers for help
ing to correct an evil.
General Marshall, Chief of
Staff, adopted the same attitude
regarding this rolumu's Investi
gation of inefficiency In the con
struction of army camps, lie
said that while tte Army made
mistakes, they rould he more
easily avoided In the future If
there was frank public discus
sion of the facts,
In contrast was the Navy's at
tempt to crack down on news
sources when this column report
ed that 30 of the brand new de
stroyers were so topheavy that
they tended to turn turtle If too
much fuel oil was taken out of
their holds.
PEACETIME CENHORSIIIP
Censorship In the Navy Is not
new, Colonel Frank Knox's ar
gument for news control today Is
based upon the fact that wo arc
In an emergency with a warring
world all around us. But even
In times of peace, the Navy has
done Us best to censor any news
reflecting on its own prestige
and efficiency.
For Instanoe, when the Inte
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
THE FAULT IS OURS
Emil Brunner, the great Swiss
theologian, lias said: “We sutler
most from ourselves, even when we
even when wo
of our grief and
suffering Is froth
without. The
deepest cause of
all that Is not
right, Is that wo
ouselvcs are not
right."
A headache,
an upset
stomach, a poor
night's rest can
make us feel
that all time Is
out of Joint. The
constant pursuit or a selfish Ideal
can fill us with bitter resentment
against what we consider the self
seeking of others. But nothing
changes the appearance of the
world and makes It appear a seeth
ing caldron of trouble so much as
to dwell on human weakness and
evil, and to keep our minds con
stantly stirred up by brooding over
the things we dislike In other peo
ple. But we ought to remember that
every unpleasant characteristic In
someone else can be matched by at
least an equal number of unpleas
ant characteristics In ourselves. And
we should furthermore remember
that we will never make people
more to our liking by brooding over
their disagreeable characteristics or
arguing about them.
Get on the positive side, there
fore, — the side of tolerance, good
cheer, quiet, understanding. Don’t
try so hard to chanae people. Ac
cept them aa they are. They will
soon detect In your a quiet nobility
of nature which will do more to
change them than any word you
could ever utter.
All Rights Reserved
Babeon Newspaper Syndicate
do not realize It,
suppose the cause
Secretary of Stotc Frank I). Kel
logg sailed for Paris to sign Ills
famous Outlawry of War Pact,
the United Slates certainly
faced no emergency. Yet when
one of the Merry-fio-Rounders,
accompanying Kellogg on his
voyage from Pnrls to Ireland
aboard the cruiser Raleigh, wrote
a dispatch kidding the Navy
hand on losing the music score
or the Irish National Anthem,
the captain of the Raleigh cen
sored the message. It reflect
ed on the efficiency of the
Navy.
A few years later, in 1932, when,
except for Manchuria, the world
enjoyed comparative pcaco, the
Navy sent a vessel to survey
possibilities for a submarine base
at Kodiak Bay, Aleutian Islands.
The survey was made secretly, on
the pretext of studying geologi
cal formations for the Coast and
Oeodctlc Survey. When ono of
these writers discovered the real
purpose of the mission, ho was re
quested by the Navy to suppress
tho news because It would reveal
a naval move to Japan,
Ho compiled with tho request,
However, the reasons for the sur
vey must have been quite obvious
to Japan: and shortly thereafter
the President publicly asked Con
gress for funds to fortify not
merely the Aleutian Islands but
also Ounm.
In other words, the admirals
went far beyond the President of
tho United States In attempting
to suppress nows—and they al
ways do.
PUPPETS OF THE BRITISH
Today Secretary Knox and the
admirals pass the buck, In part,
to tho British for their tight-fist
ed press policy. The British, tlrey
say, have specified that no Infor
mation should leak out regard
ing the Royal Navy’s ship move
ments In American waters.
If this Is the case, then It
Is tho first time that American
admirals, traditionally Jealous
of their own prestige and right
fully proud of their own navy,
liuvo ever taken orders from
the British Admiralty.
Furthermore, when these col
umnists Inquired at the British
embassy regarding tho Impend
ing approach of a British war
ship to be repaired In a U. S.
navy yard, no restriction was put
on use of the nows; merely an
caressed hope that the news be
withheld until the ship was rea
sonably near American waters.
HOWEVER, neither British nor
American ship movements are the
real essuo behind the Navy's high
handed methods of dealing with
the press. Washington correspon
dents are giving all possible co
operation regarding ship move
ments. Rcnl Issue Is the Navy's
attempt to control the traditional
right of American newspapers to
expose and criticize Inefficiency.
CONSCIENTIOUS PRESS
COMMANDER
In charge of the Navy’s press
relations at present (although
soon to be changed) is Comman
der Ray Thurber, capable, con
scientious and experienced. If
the Navy's press policy were based
upon Thurber’s Ideas It would be
better off. But loyalty to his
superiors sometimes carries the
commander far afield — even to
the point of making such state
ments as: “Now we could moke It
tough for you If we wanted to."
Not long ago, the commander
objected to a story which revealed
that Admiral Stark, Chief of Na
val Operations, had balked at a
State Department request to bring
the chiefs of Latin American na
vies to this country and enter
tain them as guests of the U.
8. Navy In order to foster Hemi
sphere solidarity.
Qeneral Marshall, Army chief
of staff, hod entertained all the
chiefs of stafr or Latin Ameri
can armies, and had flown them
all over the United States as a
goodwill gesture. Admiral Stark,
however, demurred for nearly six
months, despite State Department
urging, and finally consented only
to a very limited tour of the east
ern seaboard by the Latin Ameri
can admirals.
Disclosure of these facts In print
created a furore among certain
naval officers, who, however, did
not deny their truth. And loyal
Commander Thurber, In rebuk
ing this column, contended that
It was unpatriotic to criticise Ad
miral Slark, who held the Import
ant post of Chief of Naval Opera
tions.
“This is a time of emergency,”
■aid Commander Thurber.
“And in this time of emer
gency," he was asked, “would
you deny the press the right to
criticise the National Defense
Commission for the lagging de
fense program? And would you
stop criticism of the Army for
Inefficiencies of cantonment con
struction?”
Commander Thurber agreed that
this type of criticism was healthy;
that the Navy should make pub
lic Its own ei-rors In the con
struction of destroyers.
Nevertheless, it remains a fact
that Naval Intelligence today Is
hounding certain newspapermen
In Washington chiefly for the pur
pose of finding out where these
newsmen get their storlee.
(Copyright, 1941, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
In Today’s Mail
COMING OF “JOE MARTIN MAY
KNOCK HENHE INTO LOCAL
G. O. P. RANKS
Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
Watorbury Republican leaders
should feel very proud of the dou
ble honor to be bestowed on them
the latter part of the month of
April, an honor which Is questioned
as undeserved by a great many of
tho rank and file Republicans of
Watorbury because of the unpopu
larity of the leaders If they may be
called that. At least they control the
destinies of the Republican Party
most every Republican will agree
and the majority of Republicans
will agree that their control Is the
main reason for so much dissen
sion, bigotry, and race hatred In the
party locally.
On April 2Bth, 36th, and 37th the
convention of the State Young Re
publicans will ne held at the Elton
Hotel In Waterbury. Mark that
down as honor number one.
Honor number two which Indeed
Is considered by every Republican
as a real honor Is the fact that
Cong. Joseph W. Martin, minority
leader of the Republican Party, will
be the main speaker. Waterbury
Republicans, as well as visiting del
egates from the various Young Re
publican Clubs throughout Connec
ticut who will be In attendance at
the convention will have an oppor
tunity to see and listen to a Re
publican who tendered his resigna
tion as National Chairman of the
Republican Party, a position that
carries very high honors by the Re
publican Party and respect and
esteem by all Republicans.
Mr. Martin must have something
and most certainly must be deserv
ing of all the honors, respect, and
esteem that the office of National
Chairman of the Republican Party
commands because he was beslged
on all sides to reconsider his resig
nation and continue as National
Chairman. Mr. Martin agreed to
carry on and a great many Repub
licans feel now that his decision
saved the party from falling Into
hands of an Individualist. A man
who did everything he possibly
could during the last presidential
campagln to relegate the Young Re
publican Clubs throughout the
country to the sidelines for inde
pendent clubs bearing his own name |
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Questions
and Answers
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Street, Washington, D. C.
Q. Can the president send Ameri
can troops outside the territory of
the United Staets without getting
authority from Congress, or without
declaration of war?
A. Yes. Over the protest of the
Mexican government, President Wil
son sent an expeditionary force into
Mexico under General Pershing, to
punish the Mexican bandit leader
Pancho Villa, after he had attacked
Columbus, New Mexico. There have
been other occasions when presidents
used the armed forces of the United
States In foreign territory without
declaration of war or special sanc
tion by congress.
Q. Please name the Governors of
the outlying possesions of the United
States.
A. Hawaii, Joseph P. Poindexter;
Puerto Rico, Ouy J. Swope; Alaska,
Ernest Bruenlng; Virgin Islands. L.
W. Cramer; Panama Canal Zone,
Brig. Oen. Glen E. Edgerton; Guam,
Capt. George J. McMUlen, U. S. N.;
American Samoa, Capt. Lawrence
Wild, U. 8. N., and In the Philip
pines, Francis B. Sayre Is'the High
Commissioner.
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR
Do not say, “I could not help
from observing his actions”;
omit “from.”
Q. Is bituminous coal mined east
of Harrisburg In Pennsylvania?
A. An Insignificant amount Is
mined In Bradford and Lycoming
counties, east of Harrisburg.
Q. What are the several classes
provided by Selective Service Regu
lations?
A. Class I-A—vAvlalable; general
military service.
Class I-B-Available; limited mil
itary service.
Class I-O—Member of land or
naval forces of U. S.
Class I-D—Student fit for gen
eral military service; available not
later than July 1, 1941.
Class I-E—Student fit only for
limited military service; available
not later than July 1, 1941.
Class II — Occupational Defer
ments.
Class III — Dependency Defer
ments.
Class IV-A—Man who has com
pleted service.
Class IV-B—Official deferred by
Class IV-0-(Nondeclarant alien.
Class IV-D—Minister of religion
or divinity student.
Class IV-E—Conscientious objec
tor available only for civilian work
of national Importance.
Class JV-F—Physically, mentally,
or morany unfit.
Q. Who built the Sues Canal,
and how much did It cost?
A. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps
of France was the builder and the
total cost was about $148,800,000.
WITHOUT PRICE
Air and water—both are vital
necessities, compared with which
gold and pearls are as nothing.
Yet, in themselves, they have no
market value. We pay for the
things that we do with them, as
in air conditioning and city water
supplies, but the substances them
selves come free.. The Waterbury
Democrat maintains free for your
convenience a service bureau at
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D. C„ where you can get any
question of fact or Information
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What 8 Your I. Q.7
Cm you answer seven of th«M
tost questions? Turn to lust page
for the answers.
1. How many ounces are In a troy
pound?
2. Name the capital of Puerto
Rico.
3. Who wae the Republican Vice
Presidential nominee in 1930 and
what Is his present position?
4. Who wrote “The Cricket on
the Hearth"?
B. What is the title of the head
of the Oeneral Accounting Office
of the United States?
0. Is salt used in an Ice ere an
freesor to melt the Ice or to pre
vent it from melting?
7. Did either the United States
Congress or the Continental Con
gress ever vote on the question of
making English or German the of
ficial language in the U. S.?
8. Who was the author of the
newspaper column, “It Seems to
Me"?
9. What was the nickname a
Christopher Canon, famous wester*
scout?
10. In which State was Shayt
Rebellion?
and operated and financed inde
pendently of the Republican Party.
Cong. Martin will be royally re
ceived by local Republicans of all
denominations, members of all Re
publican clubs, cliques, and mem
bers of the Round-Table select cir
cle who control the local Republi
can Party with the faint hope thai
he can pass on to them somethin!
that will untangle the mess that
prevents Republican candidates
from being elected locally.
If the local manipulators show
him a record of their achievements
for years back he may suggest that
they all resign, insist that their
rubber stamp Town Committee do
likewise and urge that they instruct
their stooges to refrain from getting
in the way of men who would like
an opportunity to administer the
affairs of the Republican Party lo
cally on a basis of principle.
What a happy state of affairs
that would be and then maybe hon
orable. upright Republicans would
be recognized for their ability and
worth to the community and not
the associations they keep.