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Evening star., 1931-06-21
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home, and might say it became an unfortu-
nate occasion One evening at dinner Enid and
Glarissa got to whispering together and laugh
ing kind of surreptitiously in way that felt
SiiSpIeasing because what amused them seemed
DO be something about myself. told them that
they spent too much time giggling generally
SIts a habit I don't like to See," said. ITS
shout time you began to display little more
dignity"
~You mean like you, Papa?" Enid asked me;
and then both of the girls and their mother
burst out laughing in way I considered
offensive and told them so.
But you couldn't blame us, Papa" Enid
vent on to say. mot if you'd been there
today and had seen what Clarissa and I saw"
Been where?" I asked her. Been where?"
Behind the dressing rooms at the club pool,
she told me- "Clar!csa and some of the boys
and heard a funny kind of screeching around
there and went to see what it was. That
cute little Paulie Timberlake was strutting
tlp and down before a lot of other children,
clapping his hands together and with his
stomach stuck way out in front OF him.
'Chapmin o. the house committy! Chapmin
o. the house committy!' he kept Squealing,
and the other children were all just bowling.
TO tell the truth we did, too, Papa; we nearly
died! Because, of course, everybody could see
whom he meant!"
I guess I must have been pretty red with
Indignation because I could feel my collar
nearly burning me. why didn't you instantly
come into the club house and report it to
me? I was there. and you knew I was! I'm
chairman of the house committee of that club,
hnd it's my business To-"
didn't get any further because Mrs Massey
and the girls began laughing so loudly I
could hardly hope to drown them out. waited
till they had quieted down; then told Enid
what thought of her lack of respect. was
pretty sore and went talking, getting
more and more severe, until Mrs Massey looked
serious and said she thought I'd gone about
far enough. "I haven't said half Of what I'm
going to-" I told her pretty sharply. "GirlS
Of this generation don't show any respect for
anything but don't intend to let my daugh-
ters be brought up in that way. I'll teach
them to show some respect or else they'll look
elsewhere for their monthly allowances!"
suppose it was unfortunate that said this
In such tone of voice, because Enid took
advantage of 1t. She deliberately burst out
crying as If her heart would break and got up
and left the room. What made it worse, Mrs
Massey put her fork down on her plate, looked
at me, then got up and followed Enid; but
made remark on her way out, seeing at to
add another unpleasant expression to one she
had used before. you've got so pompous and
irritAhle lately I don't wonder the poor girls
feel they can barely manage to live with you'll"
So Clarissa and were left to finish that
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body in the place before they got Mr.. Dalrymple
to take it-the Dalrymples first came her the
Summer that We did, you remember-and when
Mr.. Dalrymple only kept it three weeks and re-
signed, they were almost distracted, old Mrs.
Abercrombie says. They just didn't know where
to look for a chairman, and had about given
up when luckily somebody happened to think
of you. She says it's the most splendid thing
that you were willing to serve, and she hopes
you won't be discouraged by all the complaints
that are going around because she thinks
you've just done wonders in the way of keeping
the place up"
Never mind!" said. 'T don't care to hear
any more
mop" Mrs. Massey asked me: then she gave
a musing kind of laugh and pinched up her
mouth, in way she has. II thought maybe
it might help you to get your face back to
normal instead o. trying to keep it looking
like the Emperor Augustus's all the time
\A/ 18TH that, she laughed again and went on
upstairs. I didn't have thing to say
of a sudden it had kind of come over me what
my associates in the Logansville Chamber of
Commerce would think If they knew had let
myself be soft-soaped into a craftsmanship that
nobody else would take, and that had got me
trying to order everybody around, including my
own family, and pretty principally involved me
in fighting with little boy.
1t isn't too much to say that after Mrs.
Massey went out, what she left behind her. sit
ting in the chair by that desk was mainly a
state of collapse. My condition was q good
deal like that of person coming out of coma
or maybe just realizing that he'd been pretty
sick for some time, but might get well. I tried
to figure out what it was that had happened
to me, and why it had done so: and about the
first conclusion I came to was that commu-
nism isn't practicable-at least, not for pros
porous people in a condition of Summer un-
occupiedness. I don't know about very poor
and busy people-they might do better at
it, maybe-but when a rich Summer commu-
nifty owns property in common its members
and their offsprings, have got the sense of in
dividual ownership too much developed
In considerable pain perceived that had
been making really remarkable mistake about
Little Paulie Timberlake. For that child had
come to be such a disturber of my state of
mind as chairman of the Rocky Meadow House
Committee and occupier of the main sociable
position at Mary's Neck, I'd begun to feel that
If could just once and for all put him in his
place and excommunicate him, or something,
I'd be happy man again. But now I saw
it wasn't so; it wasn't Little Paulie I'd have
to eradicate in order to be happy, it was some
thing in myself something Little Paulie had
instinctiyely been having lot Of fun with.
Right there saw that Paulie wouldn't have
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the cottage and sat down at my desk TO look
over the monthly bills that had just come in.
The very first one I opened was from the
Rocky Meadow Club, and, when glanced at
the total amount thought 1t must be a hor-
rible kind of joke on the part Of the treasurer.
Mr.. Bullfinch I went over the items and
then took up the telephone and called him.
Look here!" said. you've got all mixed
up in your accounts. You've charged me with
that new billiard table and upholstering three
chairs and two new antique glass lamps and
a new sofa and re-wiring a piano and"
YES yes" he said. Whats the matter?"
Matter! Why, those things were all ordered
for the club!'
well, you ordered em, didn't you9"
Eyes, but not for my own"
"You ordered EN-" he said again, inter-
rupting me kind of testify. "Of course, they
can't be charged to the club, you understand.
because the club hasn't got any funds to meet
such expenses. There's a large faction de-
termined to reduce the dues at the next an
nual meeting and very indignant because the
place isn't run more economically than it is.
AS a matter Of fact, that clubs inSolvent right
now"
Look herel" said do you mean to say
I've actually got to send you my own per
sonal check for that billiard table and those
three chairs and those two"
"You certainly have" he told me- "You
ordered em Of your own free will, and the
club budget hasn't got any funds to meet"
Look here!" I said, interrupting in a tone
I expect probably sounded kind of hoarse.
"Listeni If I've got to pay that bill, I'll do
it. but I've been having altogether too mucn
trouble over there making my authority as
chairman respected; and what with one thing
and another, tell you frankly If things don't
go better pretty soon I'll resigni"
"Oh, for goodness sake, don't do that!' ne
said, and his manner changed completely.
He'd been speaking with some sharpness but
now he sounded kind of frightened. "For
heavens sake, don't talk about resigning!"
he went on. please dismiss that idea from
your mind, Mr.. Massey, beg you, pleased"
ct won't dismiss it." told him. "If things
don't go better I'll do It'll"
It was just then, as was hanging up the
telephone, that Mrs Massey came in from
outdoors looking cheerful, in q superior kind
of way that she does sometimes "Your right
ear certainly ought to be burning" she said.
1--WE just been hearing such splendid COM
pliments for you from Mrs. Abercrombie, that
nice old lady in the green cottage who claims
she was the first Summer resident at the
Neck. You'll be delighted to hear what lovely
things she was saying about your chairman
ship"
Never mind!" told her. ''I don't care to
hear any"
Mrs. Massey didn't pay any attention, but
went right on: MRS. Abercrombie says she
thinks it was perfectly lovely Of you TO accept
the chairmanship. They'd asked nearly every
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meal alone I went on eating kind of dog
gedly though I knew I was in too wrathy q
condition for good digestion and just before
ClariSSa got up she didn't make me any
calner. She gave kind of gurgle, the way
people do when they remember something
funny. Everybody says Paulie Timberlake is
just natural-born little leader" she told me.
He certainly has the most phenomenal powers
of mimicry I ever saw in child"
This last she added when she was already
in the next room, and as she went on out Of
hearing right away I was thrown back on
brooding upon what would have liked to do
to little Paule: Even In my own home which
had always been happy and loving one, that
child it seemed could produce discord. Well,
sir, it could hardly be believed that a man of
mature age could get to spending as much
time I did thinking about the troubles
nine-year-old boy was making for him, or
planning what he'd like to do in return. It's
actually a fact that when I'd be falling to
sleep at night I'd often have pictures in my
mind half dreamy-nke, of myself getting little
Paulie to eat big, sour pickles and box of
SOFT sweet chocolate together and I'd see my
self watching what happened after that with
a kind of relieved, pleasant feeling in my chest.
No, sir, If I hadn't gone through it, myself,
couldn't have believed it possible that buSi-
ness man in middle life could get worked up
to spending the bulk of his time despising a
oright-eyed little boy nine years old.
THEN, one night, after I'd gone to bed and
= was mulling over my troubles in this con-
nection, an idea struck me that seemed such
a splendid and satisfying solution wondered
I hadn't thought of it before. I'd make a
rule and post it up in the club house abSo-
lutely forbidding the use of the club to all
minors under the age of IA. "Thatrl fix little
Paulie I gueSs!" I thought, and I slept well
that night for the first time in over week.
So the next morning. told the steward about
it and instructed him to have the new rule
printed in large letters and pasted up on the
bulletin board in the hallway. He just looked
kind of feeble and got that pathetic smile of
his on his face.
Whats the matter with it." I asked him.
Don't you know that it's the very thing most
Of the members would be delighted with?"
Those that have children over IA would,
sir" he told me. "Mr. Dalrympe tried exactly
the same thing when he was chairman but
about an hour after he had the rule posted
he came to me, kind of pale, and instructed
me to cross out IA and write IL UP, in
stead. The next day, after a good many peo-
pie had been talking to him at the beach, it
seems, he came in and told me to write -four
unless accompanied by q nurse instead of
IL. It's been attempted, SIR, you see, and
it doesn't do at all"
So there I was-down again, but determined
to fight this thing out to the end. and was
stM feeling that way after I'd gone back 20
Evening star., 1931-06-21
Sunday Morning Among the. Cross Words

ACROSS.
/. Magnifles.
z. Thief.
IA. Dried fruit.
20. Former kingdom
of Europe.
81. The surface, of the
earth. y
AZ. Decorated in ex-
cess.
%. An obvious truth.
"a. A qualified voter.
,25. Certain parts of
the whole.
20. An edge-tool.
.27. Pertain ing to
tones.
%. Masculine name.
81. Soak.
80. Prove.
"a. Energy; colloq.
SO. Tube upon which
silk is wound.
.38. Kitchen utensil.
SO. Fertilizing mix
ture.
40. Pert. to Summer.
AZ. Perplexities.
A. Backslide.
46. One who releases
on word of honor.
90. Expediter.
so. Spirit.
SO. Ripped.
,54. Tax.
SIS. Producing with
difficulty.
50. Resembling a net
work of threads.
go. Factions.
81. Protuberances.
SO. ASterisk.
.64. High in the scale.
.65. Admittance.
66. "The lily maid"
.68. Devoured.
50. River; Span.
20. Thus.
II. Proposition.
II. Be prone.
73. Decline.
IA. Apartments.
,79. Mnrninators.
83. Electrified parti-
Gle.
"a. Regrets.
Sc. To barter.
81. Circumstance.
80. Town in Luzon,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06
PORTSMOUTH IN
 NEW HAMPSHIRE
 HAD COSTLY FIRE
Damage of Quarter of Mil- lion Was Done - McIn= tOsh Block Was Totally Destroyed

Portsmouth, N. H., May 6-CUP) Damage of more than $250,000 was caused in a fire which threaten ed destruction to this city late yes- terday. Several buildings were destroyed, including the Mcintosh
 block, of which only the walls were left standing. Loss to that building alone was set at $175,000. More than 10000 worth of stock in the furniture store of Duncan M. Me- Intosh. owner of the building, was burned. Children playing with matches were believed to have start ed the blaze. It began in barrel near the bottom of waste paper chute and shot up through the chute and an elevator shaft. Soon the Mcintosh building was hopeless ly envelOped in flames.
 Assistance was called from towns within a 2O-mile radius of Ports mouth. IT. $. Marines from the Portsmouth navy yard kept order as the wind carried embers through the town, starting fresh fires. An abandoned building of the Concord & Montreal Railroad was burned. Navy tugs were used to extinguish small fires on unused railroad docks. A stable and garage of the consoli- dated Coal Company was destroyed. Owners of homes in the fire area played streams of water from gar den hose on their roofs as sparks dropped on them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06
NEVADA PIQUED
 AT PUBLICITY
State Tells RefOrmers to Keep "Hands Off, and
 M Not Meddle
By EARL H. LEIF


 United Press Staff CorrcspOndcnt.) eNrReno, Nex:-Nevada was amazed, am used and slightly piqued at the deluge of publicity and commone deluge of publicity and comment throughout the nation that has been directed at this Hast frontier state of. theN Union" since enactment of the wfde-open gambling and six week divorce laws.
 Nevada has served notice on the rest of the country through news paper editorials, and speeches and letters of private citizens and pub lie officials, that it wants to work out it's own destiny, that it intends to think and act independently pre- serve it's own sovereign states rights and wants other states to mind their own business"
 The people of this state, at least that articulate portion of them, de- clare they have nothing to apologize for and they only ask that the pro- 1essional reformers leave Nevada alone.
 Gambling has always existed in this state and the people were in- credibly amazed when hordes of photographers. news writers and feature writers arrived in Reno when the gambling bill was signed by the governor to write up the fact that Nevada has gone Old West"
 Nevadans are intensely proud of their state and resent any slur upon it. But adverse comments by other states and by reformers because of gambling only has brought the charge that conditions are much worse in other states, except here they are open, honest and regulated.
 About 154 years ago a bunch of patriotic fellows got together and planned 8 country to have personal freedom," says a typical editorial in the Winnemucca Star. "One of the leading ideas was that this new country was to be democratic and free. So they all signed on the dot ted line, fought a couple of lively wars and the birth of the United States was announced.
 Nevada is all that is about left ot that grand idea" it said. "If it's necessary to be a frontier state' to preserve liberty let's remain a pioneering commonwealth"
 Nevada is perfectly capable of working outh CT own destiny with out the help of outsiders who would do well to keep their own back yards clear of rubbish" says the ElkO Independent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06
New Hoover Dam To Harness Colorado
 River At Cost To Nation Of $49,OOO, 900
Five Years Expected to See Gigantic Task of COn- structing 727 Foot Dam Resulting Reser voir Will Be Bigger Than State of Connecticut

The stupendous task of building the Hoover dam that will tame the l Colorado river is under way. Boulder fCity, which will house the construc- tion workers, is rising in the bleak country bordering Black Canyon and machinery and supplies are be- | ing moved to the damsite.
 In five years the tempestuous stream will be harnessed. Floods will no longer threaten the lower reaches of the river. A steady sup ply of water will be available for | irrigation and domestic needs, and on its way into pipe lines and ditches it will tumble through giant turbines that will convert its energy into electric current sufficient to light many cities.
 Will Move River.
 Before the dam that will rise 727 feet above bedrock can be built, the river must be literally moved. rms will be accomplished by by-passins it through four record size tunnels in the solid rock of the canyon walls Work on these bores will start lm- mediately and is scheduled to pc finished by October, 1883. When the river bed has been dried at inc damsite, excavations for key ing the great arch of concrete to the solid rock of the sides and bottom will be started. A year and a half will be devoted to pouring the 3,60O,- 100 cubic yards of concrete that will bring the stream under control
 So great is the basin to be created that IS months of river flow will be ,, required to fill it. The resulting reservoir will have surface area of 193 square. miles and will store enough water to cover the state or Connecticut to depth of 10 feet.
 Must Elevate Spells
 Vast quantities of solid rock must be drilled and blasted away in the construction work. Engineers have computed that 5000 miles of drill holes will be required-enough to form a hole clear through the cen- ter of the earth. Each of the four diversion tunnels thruogh the canyon walls will be St feet in diameter and 4,000 feet long. An average size 5-story house could be moved through any one of them without scraping the sides or roof. All told, 5,8O0,000 cubic yards of rock must be excavated. If placed on city block 200 feet square, it would form a solid block nearly 4,OO0 rect high. Because there is no room to dispose of it in the river bottom. all this material must be elevater hun dreds of feet out of the canyon.
 Many CompressOrs Required.
 Compressed air to operate the hundreds of rock drills that will be required will be supplied by bat tery of compressors driven by elec- tric motors totalling 4.500 horse power. In addition. other portable compressors will be moved from point to point to furnish the power for rock drills that will scale all loose rock from the canyon walls. Six companies, Inc, of San Fran cisco, will carry out this Swear job for the United States Reclamation Service under contract of nearly $49,OOO,000. It is an alliance or six | individual concerns who joined ] forces because of the unprecedented size of this government reclamation service project.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06
BRITTSH FLYERS
 FELL 1000 FEET TO THEIR DEATHS
Farmers Tell of Fatal Dive
 of Lieut. Commander Kid=
 ston and Mechanic in
 South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa, May 6.-(UP).-A weakened airplane wing which crumpled while their plane was flying at height of al- most 1000 feet carried Lieut.. Com mander Glen Kidston, one of Brit aims outstanding flyers, and his com panion, Capt. T. A. Gladstone. to their death on the rocky cliffs of Drakensburg mountain.
 The broken wing dropped the lit tie craft into a nose dive almost straight against the mountainside, farmers who witnessed 1t, said to- day in describing the accident which ended Kidston's charmed life" The plane fell 16 miles from Van Reenen, in the hills between Natal and the Orange Free State.
 The bodies weer taken to Harri- smith in single coffin and it was understood they would be buried there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06
Bremen At Attention
 While Buddy Passes
Gong at Headquarters Sounds as Funeral COrtege of Private Shea, World War Vet Moves EnrOute to Naugatuck

registered it's official tribute. Hun- |dreds viewed the cortege passing al this point, all traffic being held up as the long procession moved on.
 Corporal Cosmo Vendetti blew church call as the body was borne into the church this morning. Spe- cial music was rendered by Professor Robert Birt. America" at the processional and The Star Spangled Banner" at the close of the mass. John Bowling rendered the National |anthem.
 After the interment ceremonies Bugler Ayotte sounded taps. It was re-ecnoed by Cosmo Vendetti. Father Lawlor conducted the ceremonies.
 The funeral was attended by Chief Henry H. Heitman, Commis- sioners Harry w. Minor, Martin Parker and Fred Chesson and City Clerk O'Donnell.
 The pallbearers were Privates Hickey, Moran, Joy, Bonley, Murphy and LaChance. The fire department s color guard consisted of Private Legge. Carroll, Cosgriff and Cor. coran.
 The entire off shift, the nis sht platoon was also in attendance.
 A delegation of Connecticut Ma tional Guardsmen, representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars took part in the tribute. The delegation in cluded, Privates Brady, LaChance Anderson. Santopietro, Benson, Dun phy and Duffy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06

The gong in fire headquarters on Field street sounded six times this morning shortly after 10 o'clock A long line of firemen stood at atten- tion in front of pieces of apparatus that projected from the three doors of the sttaion. They were paying their farewell to a buddy, whose re- mains were passing by in long funeral cortege of nearly sixty ma chimes. 1t was their token of re- spect in which the city and its mili- tary organizations joined most im- pressively to-day.
 The tribute was for the late Pri- yate Lawrence Shea, World War Vet eran, who was buried to-day in St James cemetery, Naugatuck The funeral procession after leaving the Church of the Immaculate Concep- ton, where a solemn high mass of requiem was sung by Rev Thomas Lawlor of New Britain, assisted by Rev James Butler, local fire chap lain, and Rev John Mccarthy of this city, was escorted by two motor police cars over Church street to Grand street and then to Field street. As it passed headquarters the gong
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-06

An investigation was started by Fire Marshal Frank w. Holland to- day to determine the cause of the explosion which early last evening wrecked the tailoring establishment of Jerry Russo at IA Baldwin street, forced three families to va cate their homes and resulted in a fire damages to the store and build ing. The tailoring shop was mass of flames when firemen arrived. They succeeded in confining blaze to the store. Smoke damage result ed to the adjoining confectionery parlor of s. Rose.
 The neighborhood in the vicinity of IA Baldwin street was startled by explosion, which occurred about 8 o'clock. A few minutes later an alarm was registered from Box 51. The force of the blast wrenched the door of the place off its hinges, blew out the front window and sent shower of glass across Baldwin