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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2s, 1ss
College Or University?

[ Speculation is rife just now as to what : direction the special committee named by < the l93l Legislature to consider a change l. of name for the Connecticut Agricultural { College will turn. The first meeting of this <. body is scheduled to be held in November. z Its members have not been inactive since {. their appointment. They have consulted ' with the faculty of the state college, its | students, and it's alumni. The general pub ~ lie has not had chance to express itself Tn < any way other than to appeal through the { press of the state. That change in name < is desirable seems to be unquestioned. The sole point in dispute as far as we | can ascertain is the name of the institution {. that has grown up at Storrs. It has arrived { at the stage where it is even suggested that the college become university. University < of Connecticut or Storrs University is sug- { gested Of the two we prefer the former, f although it might be worth while preserving \ the name of those men who made Connecti- 2 cut agricultural College possible. There are . variety of names with the suffix college. Storrs College and Connecticut State Col 2 lege head this list. We prefer Connecticut
 State College if the institution is to remain college and University of Connecticut if
 it is to rise to the ranks of a university. ] We believe that the title today is mis- . leading and probably does work hardship
 to some extent on graduates who submit the name of their Alma Mater for references 5 There are many residents of the state who
 believe that the college is an agricultural , college and nothing more. There are, however, five separate and distinct divisions
 open to students, so to label the college an agricultural school is not quite exact. A school whose course includes engineering cer-
 tainly isn't devoted to agricultural pursuits.
 We refer to the action of other state legis- latures to back up this assertion. Massachu-
 setts Agricultural College is now Massachu-
 setts State College Connecticut remains the only New England state with agricul- tural describing its state-maintained insti- tuition.
 A change is certainly called for and we anticipate a report from Messrs E. Kent Hubbard. Frank H. Peet. Commissioner Ernest w. Butterfeld, James Gwin. and President Charles C. McCracken of the col- leee to this effect. Whether this commit tee will recommend the form the new title will take is more or less irrelevant for the moment. We simply urge the change in names with the entire state being considered when it comes time to christen the college anew. Its name has already been changed
 twice by the Legislature. The third time should be the lasting one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
THOSE YORKTOWN STAMPS
(Hartford courant)

The superintendent of the divi- sion of stamps in the post office de- pertinent says that the demand for the Yorktown stamps has exhausted the supply of most post offices. especially those in the vicinity of Yorktown and Wethersfield. We note that he spells "Weathersfield" with an "a,' but that Is purely his affair. What he says, though, is of considerable interest, for he makes it clear that no more of these stamps will be printed.
 He asserts that they may be printed only in sheets of fifty. Reg ular stamps can be printed at 400 to the sheet. It is apparent that the Yorktown stamp is more ex- pensive to print and each printing requires more time. Because of the difficulty of printing a new is- Sue and the possibility of an anti climax retarding their sale, the de- partment feels that it Is not war ranted."
 This, something tells us, will be good news to those who bought lib- orally on october 19. for the same article adds that "the sale of the 4oEheoWh ctdiup Wd1 xHoIe kuriOuS and exceeded any other such sale ever held in this country :. Nothing like 1t has ever been known to the Division of Stamps" The first day cancellations will total more than a million. Collectors place exceptional value upon these first day cancellations. Aside from their value as curios. their mone- tary value will increase amazingly within the next hundred years.
 It is noted, also that at Honolulu the rush, for these stamps was 60 great that the entire supply was sold out in two hours. The Frigate "Constitution." which has post ofiice on board. was visited by a crowd who sought the stamps and mailed them on board In order to secure the special cancellation mark. 'U. s. Frigate Constitution Oct 10, 1931.s
 From all this. one may infer that the person who bought Yorktown
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
Breakers Ahead

There are plenty of worries for the dem- |. ocratic and republican national committees . without considering their urgent need of ! raising funds to conduct the l932 presiden- . tial campaign. One of these will be brought to light in December when the national republican committee meets. Its members will be called upon to decide whether or not convention delegates will be selected on the . basis of the new congressional apportion- ment as as they were in 1928. The last . session of Congress authorized the reappor- tionment on the basis of the l930 census. Various states gain and lose in representa- ton.
 There are twenty-seven congressional seats affected by reapportionment. That means twenty-seven presidential electors undergo the same changes. Connecticut was one of the states gaining in membership. our delegation being increased by one seat. Inasmueh as the Legislature this year failed
 to redistrict the state the new congressman will be elected at large in 1932. Only three other states are in this same category. Florida and Oklahoma, both of whom gain one. and
 Ohio gaining two seats. have failed to take
 action on redistrieting Sixteen states have
 proceeded with redistricting. Two others.
 New York and Minnesota. have questioned
 the legality of legislative action without con
 gressional assent.
 \ Out in Missouri there is likelihood of the
 states entire delegation being elected at large.
 That is due to the fact that the governor
 vetoed the Legislatures plan for looping off
 the three representatives that the state loses.
 The Legislature failed to act over this veto
 and as result it looks as if there would be no congressional districts at all. In Wiscon- sin and Texas special legislative sessions to
 xedistrict are forecast. In several other sfzfes there will be regular legislative sessions <his winter at which it is expected the re- disfricfing will be authorized.
 On the face of things urban regions 1hould show their heels to their rural breth- m h choosing convention delegates. In the rnsf, zs we all know in Connecticut. the rounfry has ruled the city. However. reap rnrfionment has transferred part of this con- 1rul to the cities. We can anticipate uerry time when che day for selecting dele erlrs arrives. In the meantme let the na- I|onaI Iesdrn wrszfl< with the problem and |slvs t C bsst they <an.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
OVERLOOKED INVITATION
(Hartford Times)

The married woman teacher problem has become a live topic in Detroit's discussion on municipal economy. Reductions in some city appropriations have been effected to make possible the use of such saving for unemployment relief. That involved transfer of funds. Another aspect of the new program Is the transfer of jobs, and the married teachers, of whom there are 800 in the automobile city, are being asked to give up their positions for the coming winter in favor of unemployed teachers. Only nineteen agreed to this plan.
 Now there is wide suspense as to what will happen. One prediction is that new contracts will be re- fused the married women teachers for next year while others main tain that the present economic sit- uation should not be permitted to drive this substantial group of ex- perienced instructors from the ranks of the staff. The fear is ex- pressed that once new teachers take their places. the return of the old teachers will have been made practically impossible.
 The Detroit discussion is but an- other sample of the trying situa- ton facing educational authorities because of the strain of economy. They cannot afford to disregard 1t for that might mean, in the case of Fall River. Magsac chusetts, that wholesale retrenchment is un- avoidable later. In that city 140 teachers and supervisors were dis- charged last spring in one stroke when state-appointed board of finance took charge of the muni- cipaiity's bankrupt treasury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
LILY WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

legation between the departure of one and the arrival of another. students sent here by the Manchu He was one of the first Chinese government to be educated, and he was in the class of 1884 at Yale.
 He was at the legation when the famous Minister Wu Ting Fang was appointed, and he was here to greet and bid godspeed to Wu Ting Fang's son, Dr Chao- Gnu Wu, the last Chinese minis ter. whom he had known here in the latter's childhood. He re- members when the Chinese had the most popular legation here; when it was a show place full of bizarre interest to Americans.
 No diplomat is more urbane and courteous than MT Yung Kwai. But during the Manchurian crisis his responsibilities weighed heavily upon him and he was neither as ebullient nor as talkative as Jap ans MT Debuchi. e~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
FISH AND GAME IN CONNEC.
 T1CUT
(New Haven Journal-Courier

(NeW Haven Journal-Courler
 Connecticut people in general know little about one of the states leading enterprises. That is the re- adjustment of her land resources to reap their best potentialities. There have been farmers in Con- necticut for three hundred years. but the state has. never been an agricultural commonwealth. Our hills are stony and steep, our woods stubborn and much too lovely to destroy. Obviously, then, if culti- vation was impossible. the land might revert to its primeval usages. This is what the state of Connecti- cut Is now attempting. Connecticut is by way of becoming a thoroughly balanced economy with every square foot of territory applied to its appropriate use. We shall have farms where they flourish, manu- facturies where they thrive and one of the finest natural game and forest preserves on the continent in the remaining acres.
 To this end the state superin- tendent of fish and game has long been working, of course. He is now to have the assistance of an active organization of citizens directly in- terested in his progress. The Con- necticut Game and Fur Breeders association will meet soon at the Hotel Waterbury in the Brass City to discuss ways and means of this cooperation. The group consists of those who are raising for the state the game upon which the whole enterprise rests. Connecticut leads the country again here in its meth cd of raising these birds and anil mals. By following the canny Yam kee principle of private enterprise 1t is permitting citizens to raise the specimens rather than indulging in the extravaganza of state farm which 1t has already tried and found wanting. The Waterbury meeting will improve the program, and hasten 1t. The whole project is worthy and useful enterprise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
TO ASSIST BUDGET MAKERS.
(Meriden Journal)

(MeIlueu JOuTudiI
 Acting upon iccommendation of John M. Hutchinson, its new president, the Waterbury Real Es- tate board named a committee of its members to sit in with the budgeting body of the board "f aldermen in or4er to make sugges- tions concerning appropriations that would tend to lower the tax rate.
 The Hutchinson idea was to help the small property holder in parti- cular and he certainly must need 1t following 8 levy of AZ mills and 35 mills in the past two years. Hutchinson also would postpone a proposed revaluation of the grand list pending an improvement in business.
 The aldermen will probably well come proposals and constructive criticism from citizens represent ing the real estate interests. They undoubtedly would like to hear from other interests. too. If the budgeting sessions in Waterbury are similar to those in Meriden about the only persons appearing are those asking special favors for departments and projects. John Citizen never accepts the invitation to say something to the board and does al his talking upon receipt of his tax bill.
 The Meriden Board of Appor- tfonment and Taxation, which oy law sits. as a fifty-fifty body poii- tically. Is vested with entire con- trol of Meriden in a money sense and its members are supposed to be hard boiled on stepping on excessive spending that would re- tard city ..ess and overburd- ening taxpayers. Words from the rank and file of residents would help the board to arrive at decis- ions in making appropriations that will determine the tax rate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
Quotations

A man can love i..ore than one woman at the same time. He can divide his affections and yet feel absolute loyalty to both women. ... -Gary Cooper.
 There seems to be reverence only for >leasure and wealth.
 Cardinal Hayes.
 Unemployment is the largest and most powerful of our (British) vested interests. 's'I Sir Ernest Benn.
 By and large our political and economic thinking looks to the past. We should look to the future. w. c. HotchI<ias. dean of sfan- ford School of Business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
TODAY IS THEA ANNIVERSARY SGA@
FIRST AMERICAN WOUNDED.
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FIRST AMERICAN WOUNDED.
 On Oct 2s, 1917, the first Amer ican was wounded after General Sibert's forces entered the trenches
 The wounded man was First Lieutenant De We're H. Harden, signal officer in the reserve corps. The War department announced that Harden received a moderate shrapnel wound in the leg.
 On this same date Dr Dumba. former Austro-Hungarian ambas- sador to the United States, in speech iA the Reichstrat, declared that the giant naval program of the United States was mostly blum. Allied forces in Flanders captured the entire Mercken peninsula, and German-Austrian forces took Cor izia and Cividale and pressed for ward from the Julian Alps to the sea. Monte Santo was likewise captured.
 This day Sunday was observed as a day of prayer for the triumph of American arms. in compliance with Wilson's proclamation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
Absurd Stock Prices

A financial writer pointed out the other day. near the bottom of the stock decline, that there were 85 preferred stocks listed whose current income return was 10 per cent or better. Sixteen of them were yield ing over 25 per cent of their market price, one of them 40 per cent, one 4 per cent and one 55 per cent
 These dividends it may be assumed, have been paid largely from accumulated surplus. It has been generally recognized that the stocks in question are not earning such divi- dends at present. Brokers and spectators have been expecting that many of them will soon begin emitting their dividends. Yet the writer declares that there are two or more score of preferred stocks on which yields range between 10 and IS per cent, where there is every prospect of an indefi- mite continuation of dividends"
 Here is remarkable example of the way a stock market behaves in extremes. Com mon stocks. or equities" have been acting even more irrationally than the preferred shares. And both have unquestionably gone as far below logical level as they went above it at the height of the bull market Stock speculation, which professes to be so logical and mathematical. is one of the most emotional of human activities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

Over in Madrid they are contemplating installing electric heaters under all sidewalks to take care of the poor and homeless this winter. Heat mains would be laid with the cost being defrayed by sale of heat to house. holders. In New York to-day there are heat mains, but the idea hasn't become universal. It remains to be seen whether or not the structure of the walks would be injured by electric heating apparatus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

Glancing through the Editor and Pub fisher recently We encountered an item re- lating to the struggles of Tom Thompson. small town editor. His paper is the Howard, Kansas. Courant, and MT Thomp- sons friends in the newspaper craft are legion. But what we are concerned with is not the story of Tom Thompson and his Howard Courant nor his friendly rivalry with Fred Flory. editor of the Howard Git izen. A son of Thompson's is quoted by the Editor and Publisher as follows Tn 1888 Harrison and Cleveland were the presidential candidates. A democrat in Howard bet republican $400 that Cleve- land would be elected and they chose Dad as stakeholder. Dad was so sure Harrison would be elected that he bet the whole pot. $500 on him. Harrison was defeated and so was Dad. He had to borrow $500 from the bank. ." But that's enough for the point we want to drive home. Some body is wrong somewhere for to the best of our knowledge Harrison was elected pres- ident in 1888. President Grover Cleveland being defeated. Probably what Mir Thomp- sons son referred to was the 1892 election when Grover Cleveland defeated Benjamin Harrison. And Grover Cleveland established quite record in his presidential aspirations. He was three times candidate; twice elect ed; thrice the popular choice with majority of the votes but not sufficient electoral votes in his second attempt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him. care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
sHP-BUILDINc OFF

The volume of merchant ship- building under construction in the principal ship-buiIding countries any time since pro-war days-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

Yes, in Dwight Morrow Mexico has los a great friend; but thanks to him, she ha more friends now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
Here, There And EDervDhere

stamps on October 19 made a good investment, if he can contrive some means by which he can live for a century longer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

After trying to grasp this alleged science of economics we're inclined to think Ein- steins right and everything is just bumps and curves in time-space.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5.24 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

An artist in the rough, But when this same cute baby, Tells in the family ear. Ma frowns on the idea. He'll be an auctioneer. (CHORUS) Destiny. destiny. it's just a little word,
 But in this little vale of tears. The term you've often heard, The genius babes exhibit. Is peddled far and wide,
 The dumb is soon forgotten. Dropped on the other side. o-O-o The late Tom Edison, said genius was. 99 per cent precipitation and l per cent inspiration. Now they're going to stand ardize golf, whatever that means. Mebbe hold players to to plus fours instead of the additional shorts that featured many a course the past sum- mer.
 The depression reminds me of what a Waterbury merchant said years ago. One dissatisfied cus- toner can make more noise than a thousand satisfied ones.
 o-O-o
 And if the depression en- :, listed the aid of college cheer leaders we might pull out of it a heap sooner.
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 A debt holiday is all right, but what are you going to do when the bill is presented at the end of 1t?
 DING. D1SG Life is like Q bottle, ... I'll prove the fact to thee, Each day we pour some from 1t. At last 1t goes empty.
 o-O-o
 Fashion experts claim the hoop skirts are coming back. Roll your own, eh?
 With hoopskirts reported near, why not revive the old peg top trousers for the play boys. A laugh all around, so to speak.
 I suppose it was a musician who coined the saying, Fit as a fid- dle."
 If whistlers are morons, I'd hate to think what radio so- pranos might be.
 o-O-o
 A politician builds fences and then forgets to lock the gate.
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 so IT GOES A ray of sunshine,
 A few drops of rain, It's life's big program,
 Over and over again. Sues to Recover for Glue Fac tory Purchase-Headline Huh, stuck.
 o-O-o The honeymoon is over when she stops wrapping the silver in chamois.
 o-Oo A man thinks nothing of wash ing, wiping and polishing the fam lily sedan, but if the wife asks him to clean the kitchen windows he goes into a tant.
 o-O-o To-day's foolish question: How high Is siio?
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 YOU DON'T SAY Stars dot the heavens, Stars dot the stage, The former, by far Are considered the rage.
 o-O-o That grand and glorious feeling. When you make the last payment | on the family chariot.
 o-O-o In taking a vote on columnists, | the Is have it.
 o-O-o Even the bees suffered from unemployment the past summer. Believe it or not. the nations honey crop experi- enced a heavy slump.
 o-O-o 5, What has become of the old | girl who used to spend | Saturday afternoon washing and | drying her long hair?
 O-O-o
 OH DEAR ME Now when smoke comes from the
 kitchen, (I don't care how you feeI.) But I wonder if the bride is smol-
 ing, Or cooking the noon-day meal.
 o-O-o This concludes our regular mid- week program. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by | the Waterbury Democrat, pioneer | in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. to l be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour.
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 Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28

Yung Kwai has been here long CT than any other diplomat. He has seen procession of Chinese now. he has been in charge of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-28
Good evening.
 o-O-o DESTINY

When baby thumps piano, And shouts with baby glee. The mother swells right up with
 pride.
 A musical prodigy. But when this same cute baby. Plays with coal, ma doesn't
 chuck, But frowns upon the idea, That the kid will drive a truck.
 (CHORUS) Destiny. destiny, it's just little
 word,
 But in this little vale of tears. The term you've often heard, The good that tumbles from us, Is bounced upon with glee. But the bad is quickly covered. And dropped from memory. When a baby grabs a pencil. And draws some baby stuff. The mother swells right up with
 pride.
 An artist in the rough, But when this same cute baby, Tells in the family ear. Ma frowns on the idea. He'll be an auctioneer.
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