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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
Happy New Year

New Years day this year may seem to many folks time for sad consideration of wishes more drably practical than hopefully gay. Happy. New Year" if agricultural or commercial hard times are uppermost in one's mind may have sound of hollow op- timism. Yet pessimistic hard bargaining for better business cannot in itself work a mir acle. We must go forward with certain sureness of heart. This is the soundest kind of gaiety. It holds with wisdom that better times will develop from careful reasoning and good will.
 A many page volume could be written on the times in the history of this world when active common sense optimism has pulled na- tions and individuals through their appar- ently blackest hours. This is not the mud ding policy. nor is it the dilatory practice of letting George do it. It means using our heads and our hearts simultaneously - and actively.
 There is no reason why 1891 should not end up by being a good average year for those who produce practical commodities. A scanning of the horizon is giving observers good ground for concluding that better Styling" of practical textiles such as cotton will prove good commercial move. This should be good news for plantation farmers. The industries promoting cotton have big plans for l93l. Hundreds of mills through out the country will be using durened cotton in garments styled we'll enough to suit the most fastidous taste for beauty. yet these garments will not be beyond even the some- what thin purses of so-called depression period
 This will be an excellent year for good housewives to invent new ways of making potatoes and beets. corn and cabbage espe- cially delectable to eat. In short, if every body would stop right this minute TALK ING hard times and make New Years res- olution to make good old standby American products more attractive than ever before we should leap ahead several months in the re- storation of BETTER DAYS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
Getting The Robbers

The epidemic of robberes taking place in many localities all over the country is some thing that should be taken quite seriously. A large element of young fellows have formed the idea that money can thus be obtained without work. Innumerable holdups rob- berries of stores. dwellings. filling stations. banks. etc. are taking place. The citizens of Keene, New Hampshire. had the right idea few days ago when rewards totalling $3,000 were offered for the capture of two young men who held up six stores and killed the proprietor of one of them. Now if such plan could be followed up all over the ooun- try. there would be some results.
 In the case of large part of these rob- berries. there must be some person who could supply information leading to the arrest of the guilty parties. Now if the one who supplies that information could be sure of earning Sl.000 or more. the amount veryin2 according to circumstances. the needed in- formation would come forward in a great many eases. Many more of these young mis-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01

Washington-The five-day work ing week as partial solution of un. employment. proposed by Senator Watson of Indiana, Democratic Chairman Raskob and many others, is unlikely to be endorsed by the administration.
 In fact, the federal employees in Washington haven't even been able to wrangle flve-and-ahalf-da week out of their superiors, despite the fact that the law appears to grant them q Saturday half-holiday.
 Hardly anyone has been propos- ing that the government undertake to pass laws for a five-day week in private industry, but 1t has been widely proposed that both the na- tional government and various states and municipal government stimulate the practice by leading the way. Uncle Sam, however, proves very cautious about giving his workers any more leisure. When President Hoover issued an executive order al- lowing government workers the aft ernoon off on the Wednesday before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
THURSDAY, JANUARY l, 1881
One Day Of Grace

Yesterday was the first day that the 1891 automobile markers could be legally displayed on all vehicles. Yet these registration plates have been obtainable at the motor vehicle de- partment in Hartford Of any of its branch of- fees throughout the state since November. It occurs to us that the department is caused considerable rush by not allowing new mark CTS to be used at least one month in advance of the day on which they go into effect. We feel sure that more people would buy their markers at an earlier date if they could only place them on their automobiles at the date of purchase. When they must wait until the last day of the year they naturally procrasti- nate.
 We know that Commissioner Stoeckel has suggested change in this section of the motor statutes for some years, but our legislators have not needed him in this respect. In past years local officials often took it upon them- selves to issue proclamations in which they granted from one to three days of grace to motorists who had not secured new license pldteS. llOWeVeI, t1dt peIHllSSon Gan uo longer be extended. There is but one day of grace and that is to allow early use of new plates. rather than to extend the period during which the old markers may be displayed. The law is final in this latter respect. Probably an effort will be made at the coming session of the legislature to change the existing statute so that new markers can be used earlier in December than the 30th.
 Of course we don't expect that change such as we suggest would cause an immediate stampede to motor vehicle offices in October and November for new licenses, but it cer- tainly would ease up the rush that comes in the last 48 hours and which taxes the en- durance and efficiency of all department workers. It is up to the legislature to change the present situation. we think. Comms sioner Stoeckel knows better than the aver age motorst just how much leeway should be given in securing new plates and in display ing them. His word on the matter ought to be final. Let the legislative committee 'on motor vehicles approve change this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
Thanks To MT. Lucas

Is it possible that Robert H. Lucas, execu- tive director of the Republican National Com mittee. has unwittingly furnished an answer to the prayer for third political party' Mir Lucas open efforts to get Senator George Norris out of the party after his secret efforts toward the same end were uncovered have emphasized the question of what constitutes a republican. Senator Norris and his broth CTS in the wild jackass' group think the voters should decide the issue Mir Lucas and his stalwart supporters evidently think the re- publican headquarters in Washington have that right. Public opinion on the subject is splntered all sorts of ways
 It isn't likely that this latest breach in the g. O. D. ranks will heal itself. as other dis sensions have, before next eection day. It seems unthinkable that states whose repre- sentatives have been bitterly denounced by the heads of their own party will instruct their delegates to the l932 republican convention to vote for the regular republican candidate.
 Already. names of presidential candidates sponsored by the third party (presumably composed of progressive elements in both parties) are being suggested Clifford Pin chot of Pennsylvania leads the list with Sem ator Borah of Idaho and young Bob La Toilette of Wisconsin in a tie for second place. Some democrats. like Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana, whose democracy is well salted with progressivism, are also re- garded with favor. It is generally regretted that Uncle George" Norris, as the Nebraska statesmen is affeetionately termed, will be somewhat past the age of play and stellar role in a presidential campaign. At any rate, Mir Lucas maneuvers as executive director of the Republican National Committee have added a new interest to the year l932. For this we thank him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
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PAUL REvERE's BIRTH

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 On Jan. 1. 1735, Paul Revere, famed American patriot, was born in Boston, Mass.
 He learned from his father the trade of goldsmith and soon became skiIlful as an engraver on silverware. He engraved the plates and printed the paper money ordered in 1775 by the provincial congress and in the same year established a powder mill in Boston.
 Revere took an active interest in the disputes with the English. He participated in the Tea Party and carried the news of 1t to New York and Philadelphia.
 On April 1919, 1775. at the re- quest of Joseph Warren, Revere made his memorable midnight ride to Lexington to warn Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approach of English troops. Then. passing on to- wards Concord to warn the people there, he was captured by a party of British soldiers, and was brought back to Lexington. where he was re- leased the next day. This ride was the theme of Longfellow's celebrat- ed poe. "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
Gl}uotAT'QN8S
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Pre-school. education for children is an excuse, for mothers. to go out and play contract bridge.-Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel, republican com mttteewonan. j." ~s
 I believe that when man has put limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do. Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate
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 We may see ip our, time the re- turn to that firm, visib1e unit which marked the undivided church before Christendom wab.s sundered into it's various fragments.--Archbi Cosmo Gordon Lang of Canterbury.
 one of tic greatest luxtiries in the world at the present time is to be let 'a1one.-Df.'Alle Hoben.i
 A lawyers wife really becomes her husbands secretary in spite of herself.-Dr Edward Lyman Cor nell of Northwestern University
 All you need to induce people to visit France is an excuse.-Lord Derby.
 Prohibition is eternally right Thomas A. Edson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
TEE. HEB.

Beneath this mound,
 Sleeps Jenny Lee.
 Killed by radio.
 So let her be.
 o-O-o We'll, if it's anything like 1880, we might as well wish one another a Happy Blue Year."
 o-O-o
 She was only a dressmaker's daughter. so we asked her to handle the needles that fell from the Christmas tree.
 o-O-o
 The man who invented the rocking chair must have been woman.
 Makers of beer are greeting one another with this one. Happy Brew Year"
 The real test of q lip stick is the stuff they serve on New Years eve.
 There's safety in riding in an Aus tin. you haven't very far to fall. o-O-o This completes our special New l'ears day column. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Demo- crat. pioneer in this type of news- paper work. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour.
 Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01

Mayor Maloney of Meriden is going to do away with wood block pavements in his city in 1931. New asphalt surfaces will replace the wooden ones, if the chief executive can carry through his program. Also elimination of trolley tracks on many streets leading to the center of the town is advocated We can agree with the mayor that wooden block pavements are not as satisfactory as asphalt or other hard surfaces. Waterbury has tried them but is gradually replacing them for something that won't hold rain water in sum- mer and ice and snow in winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01

made their employees work overtime or on Sundays or holidays they should do so "by special order, stat ing the reason.''r lsirg. s.l
 Nevertheless, the government clerks have gone right on working Saturday afternoons and they are doing that now. No one has been able to find any order. general or special. to account for this seeming defiance by the executive branch of government of what was the origi- nal intent of the legislative branch.
 The Federal Bar Association made a long exhaustive and futile search for such an order. It submitted q brief to the president last summer expressing the opinion that the Sat urday half-holiday here was manda- tory on the government.
 But there is no promise that any thing will be done until Congress acts again and meanwhile the gov ernment clerks will continue to feel that they are being gyped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01


 We're off, Let's hope it proves banner year.
 We're off, "A smile to start the new year right. Helps give new year appetite. Wipes off the dark. brings on the
 light.
 We're off. Nineteen thirty-one is here,
 We're off, All hail the bright and glad new
 year.
 We're off. May business hit swifter pace. Lose old depression in the race, Bring smiles to every drowning
 face.
 We're off. Nineteen thirty-one is here. We're off, So let's stand up and give a cheer.
 We're off. Here's luck to every friend of mine. drink a toast. yep lift the stein. May darkness leave, the new sun
 shine.
 We're off. Happy New Year one and all. Big hearts on New Years eve. Big heads on New Years day.
 This is the time when people get treat your riding habit that way. better days are coming.
 o-O-o
 New Year resolutions are like those packages marked DO Not Open Until Christmas" In other words, the warning is not respected.
 O-O--O A good New Year resolution is not to make any, then none will be broken.
 O-O-o New Years came in like a blind tiger but may go out pro- hibition at that. Who can tell?
 o-O--o Very often, says Papa Waterbury. the wheels of justice do q rank in- justice. ... The girl who is fond of par rots wants to remember they're the pets of old maids. Nowadays virtue has to go looking for its own reward.
 The vets are out giving us the bottle cry of freedom. Don't think girl is athletically inclined because she has athlete s foot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
CONNEAUT LED IRON PORTS

Buffalo. x. Y.-UP)-Conneaut. o, led lake ports in iron ore receipts with 5,651.3S1 tons unloaded this year. shipping figures revealed. Cleveland was second, Ashtabula third, and Buffalo fourth, the re- port said
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
OBJECTIONS AND ANSWERS


 took my niece to clinic. They gave her T. B. test and 1t showed positive. Does that mean she must grow up and have the disease? The nurse didn't explain it-slc just told me it was nothing to he alarmed about and gave diet (Mrs B. D. S)
 Answer.-That is the way they do things in ''clinics." Such rockets are the disgrace of med icne in America. They may be good enough for the lower classes in Europe. but here in coun- try that is free 1t is sad thing to tolerate them at all No nurse is competent to advise anyone whether a tuberculin test is significant or not. Except in these humbug "clinics" and in factor ies and other industrial places where the work CTS are regarded as so much material, nurses are doing minor surgery. Another place where the little tin doctor is foisted the poor people who dare not protest is in comical public school health inspection scheme-there the nurse who takes the job must, wily-niy, make pre- tense at rendering services which only a physi- clan render
 What, VaricOsc Veins and No Children: l have yaricOse veins both legs. What childbirth. hut I haven't any children. Is there anything he done for them? (J. B.
 Answer.-Ive seen many cases In men-I failed to inquire whether they had children. Send stamped envelope bearing your address. and mention your trouble. Do not send clip ping of this answer. No advice unless you tell me you have varicose veins. Nowadays the chemical Obliteration treatment. which any good doctor can give in his office without inter- rupting the patients usual activities satisfac- torily dsposes of this common trouble.
 Hot Lemonade
 For several days | have been drinking isOt lemonade without sugar just before breakfast. They say it Is very good for the complexion. Answer.-It does the complexion no harm anyhow. but think q good dash Of sugar in tt would improve it.
 Copyright John r. Diile co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01

Just A years ago the Newburgh, N. Y., Wheel aens Club was organized. The b- cycle was,a novelty in those days, but rapidly became popular and the membership of the club increased To-day its remaining mem- bers. including one charter member decided to disband. inasmuch as they believe that the bicycle will never again be popular means of ocomotion. Probably not among older people, unless they visit Bermuda. but the youngsters still should enjoy these two- wheeled vehicles.
 The Wickersfam commission riddle has supplanted the crossword puzzle as the na- tional pastime.
 You can't judge man by the company he invites, but by the company that comes.
 All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5.03 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Sgned letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Ad. dress him. care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed cnvelOpc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
D1LETTANTES IN THE DOCTOR BUSINESS AND AMATEURS IN HEALTH PROMOTION
 SHOULD NOT GET SWEI.LED HEADS.

A item last summer told of the of victim from the surf and the resuscitation ef- forts of the life guards who had rescued him. While they were carrying artificial respira- ton in the proper way (except for the hand der the head) ambulance arrived, and in it an inhalator. The ambulance doctor wished to lapply the inhalator. But the heroic, excited and shall we Say rather bumptous life guards waved the mere doctor aside They did not purpose Ito have any such machine used on the victim They informed the doctor that his inhalator thing was dangerous.
 And the victim died.
 The guards. were taken to the police station.
 presumably for "questioning." Probably they cious conduct. The news item ended with the taking of the life guards to the police station There was no subsequent news. Maybe the life guards were shot at sunrise; or maybe they were given banquet or memorial of some kind by the reporters who work up human interest stories.
 How did these life guards get that way? How do certain firemen get their regulations demon life savers? What makes so many Boy Scout
 instructors and Red Cross first aid teachers cocksure of themselves and naive in explain
 ing to a mere doctor how these littetricks should
 be done?
 I have received a fine collection of amusing
 letters from just such folk, who tell me, as
 how and why they do thus and so in the resus-
 citation work. l am afraid good many doctors
 are in position that compes them to submit
 to such patronzing by the dilettantes who are so complacent and so cocksure.
 The life guards who prevented the ambulance doctor from administering the oxygen-carbon dioxide had probably heard that lung-motors, pulmotors and similar machines dangerous they are in fact dangerous. They meant well, but the grievous offense they committed was simply pwresumption: they readily opposed their own amateurish knowledge to the professional or expert knowledge of doctor. That is quite characteristic of the general state of things in
 this country to-day. We have many diettantes
 assuming the functions of doctors and health
 authorities, that it is only natural some of them
 should begin to believe they know just much
 as common. ordinary doctor does and probably more than many.
 Policemen have a similar streak of conceit in them, especially when they have had six easy lessons in resuscitation first aid. Something should be done to knock the con- ceint out of all these amateurs who get swelled head.
 The victim who died while the life guards held off the doctor and his life-saving inhala- tion did not die in vain, let us hope. Maybe his sacrifice will be a great lesson to other first aid
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
THE DAY AFTER.

To you who have gone through "thc night befOrc,' Remember the raven, which said, "Nevcr morc," It's a tough thing to smile when your heads nearly split, And the money you've spent is not helping a bit. The cup of good cheer. was fine while it lasted, But what of the resolves I know that 1t blasted, You'll probably grin and say, "GOslI 1t was fun," But it's you, not New Years, that's been on the run. You can snickcr and sheer at this ''can't or this preaching" But bitter experience is the price of my teaching, I've been there that night, the same friends, as you, So l know all I've said, is only too true.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5O3 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-01
WE'RE OFF

Nineteen thirty-one is here,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

that those who have goods to sell think
it -ould be a good thing if the former
soldiers of the World War had money
with which to buy them. 1t is not
strange that neither class should look
far enough ahead to see what would De
the effect on the country on the issu-
ance of bonds sufficient to cover these
payments at this time. The arguments
advanced by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon and Undersecretary Mills
should be given careful consideration py
all those who are interested in thell
cCuntry's welfare.
The plan which has been adopted IN
wolves the gradual accumulation OF a
fund which can be paid to the veterans
in 1945, without seriously disturbing the
financial or economic condition OF the
country. To suddenly require the United
States to find the money to pay debt
which does not legally become due Tor
IA years is Just as bad as demanding
that a householder who has promised
to nav for his house in IA years should
Immediately find the money to pay In
full.
Every one can appreciate this would
cause great distress to the householder
and might bring him to the brink Oh
financial disaster from which 1t would
take him years to recover. the same
thing is true Of the United states.
Il cannot believe that the soldiers who
Voluntarily entered the armed forces OF
their country to serve it with their lives
in time of need would knowingly con-
sent to the passage of legislation which
would deal a body blow at the eco
nomic welfare of the country in time
of distress and want"
Copyright, 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

King George recently gave an OK for
a dinner of the employees on the royal
Deesire estates in Scotland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01
BRITISH AIRWOMAN
NEARS END OF TRIP
Asserts Hop Across Three
Continents Gives Her
Distance Record.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, January 31.-Near the
end of fight alone across three con-
tinents, Mrs. Mildred Bruce, British
pilot, whose plane overturned here
Tuesday, sighed today like Alexander
for more worlds to conquer.
Her flight of 10000 miles from Lon
don to Toxic and from Vancouver
across North America, she asserted,
gave her a world record for solo pilot
ing of an airplane. And, she said, she
already held records for "a hours con-
tinuous plotting of an automobile and
a motor boat.
New York Next.
AS soon as her small biplane. which
Tipped over in the mud of landing
field here, is repaired, probably in a
York. There the plane will be Grated
and shipped to London and then her
solo trip around the world will be COM
plete.
Later this year, she said, she and
her husband Victor Bruce, a motor
racer, plan to fly to BuenoS Aires by
way Of the South Atlantic.
THE only real accident had in the
trip across Europe, Asia and North
America was at the end OF the flight
here at Baltimore" Mrs. Bruce, a
stocky, smiling woman of 29, said.
Left Home September rs.
She obtained her pilots licepse only
last July and left England for Toxic
September 25.
Mrs. Bruce's plane suffered broken
propeller and a bent wing when the
wheels dragged in the mud and the
plane overturned. She has been stay
ing at hotels here and at Washington.