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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
IN DEFENSE OF FooTBALn
(New York Heraid-Tribune)

NINGW 4Ot n 4AVA 0A4F 1A'
 The more we read about inter- collegiate football the more con- fused we become; the more we read the more amused we are. A lot of people sem to be taking simple game as one of the great prob lems of the moment. comparable with our emergence from a period of depression or the definition of MT Elnstein's latest theory. Our football experts have given second sight not only to the Murphys and Kelleys but to the Latiyians and Lithuanians who compose our backfields. z And then comes a member of Phi Beta Kappa, who calls plays in the huddle. Forum ately for this fine sportsman, his plays have come off more often than not. Perhaps he Is a wizard. a magacian, a seventh son and all that, but we are satisfied to regard him as an intelligent youngster, who through the years has learned that just poundage and power never won either on the gridion, in the prizering, on the battlefield, or in the everyday struggle. We are still to be convinced that human nature has changed much in the last generation or that the football players of today have greater foot bali ability than that of the Hins keys, the Poes, the Rockwells. the Haughtons of another era.
 The fiare-up on Morningside Heights amuses us. It smacks Of the Far West of two generations ago. A journalist speaks his mind and the football captains and a couple of guards threaten him with a beating. The editor Is fortunate he was not shot, the spot; news taper accounts indicate that he was a reasonably good target. Our. first thought has to do with all we have been told through the long years about football as Q teacher of self control, mastery over ones ser. Our next thought has to do with the profession of Journalism and all the admonitions regarding ac- curacy, restraint, avoidance Of sen sationalism. Modern football seems to annihiiate all the rules which we have learned so painstakingly.
 Nevertheless, we are so keen on the game as to believe that all it's followers will be intelligent enough to recognize that all this smoke means there Is some fire. We trust they will lose no time in stamping 1t out, even though 1t means the breaking of several windows and the tearingf down of two or three walls. The game continues much more important than the indivi- dual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
Pleasing Customers

Clarence Saunders, meteofic chain store man. has opened new grocery in Memphis and is showing patrons few new wrinkles in service Here arc couple of them:
 When a customer steps up to the meat counter. he automatically trips lever which opens a refrigerator door, so that he can reach in and pick his own meat. The vari- ous cuts are all neatly labeled and wrapped in transparent paper.
 Potatoes are likewise offered in wrap pers. ready peeled for cooking Surely the motto of this age is service" Saunders. one of the men who writes it large. says he expects to reeoup in three years the two for tunes he has lost Very likely he will. And many another man will grow rich from these and other innovations to make buying easier pleasanter and more tempting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

Almost everybody. even in this gener- ation, has heard Casey at the Bat reeited at some time or another. It IS one of the immortal ballads of the country Perhaps there are some fortunate enough to have heard it given by the famous DeWolf Hop per. Mr Hopper has probably reeited this classic more than anything else in his repor- toire. Certainly if Casey at the Bat IS famous Mir Hopper brought it some of its fame. But we are not concerned with that phase of the poem. We want to say few words about its author. George Whiteheld Dvys. an inmate of the Cambridge. Mass Home for the Aged and Inhrm. One might think that Mir Dvys could have snug in- come from the royalties of his famous work. but he never realized one penny on it. In fact he has had hard time all his life getting credit for the authorship. When he wrote it and succeeded in getting it published he de- liberately withheld his name. His father was hard-boiled old sea captain and if he thought his son was writing poetry he eer- tainly would have laid about with belay- ing pin. When D'vys finally succeeded in establishing his authorship he was too good natured to sue the false claimants or to try to collect royalties. As result Casey at the Bat goes down in our annals as the in- mortal work that never made cent for its author.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
MONDAY, NOVEMBER l6, lssl
Is The Senator Right?

Onee that U. S. Senator Hiram A. Bing- h.m of New Haven was converted to the cause of anti prohibition. his zeal in its be- half has been unmistaken. We doubt if in the Senate there is more active worker in the ranks of the vets than the same urbane Mir Bingham. His 4 per cent beer bill Of carly this year received scant attention from his colleagues but nothing daunted MT Bingham, he will reintroduee it when the 72nd session of Congress opens next month"; Tn addition Representative Edward w. Goss, of this city. will present companion bill in the House. Of recent days Senator bing- ham had dwelt much on a thought which we have frequently published
 Speaking before the Milford Wheel Club of this state last week the senator said that It will be task to change the law when 17 states containing over half the popula- ton of our country do not wish 1t. Inc representatives of B states do not want the change. The 9th amendment has no place in the constitution of the United States and I believe it is the cause of more drinking among young people today. .' That's the situation as we view 1t. Nobody can convince us that conditions today as regards drinking would be as bad had the old saloons continued to exist.
 Continuing along slightly different line Senator Bingham remarked that legalization of the manufacture and sale of 4 per cent beer would put half million to work and would necessitate the use of hundreds of tens of coal to run the breweries and help to nav off the national debt. If the manu- faeture of beer were allowed more taxes could be derived. summing up to easily S25O,O00.000 year for the federal treas ury. It is estimated that five million dol laes a day is being lost through prohibition. .. Four per cent beer would make us all a lot happier.
 We don't know how reliable the figures above are, but they will be questioned by prohibitionists who in turn will quote fig- ures to show how many more people are engaged in other pursuits and how small a proportion would thus find employment Tn brcweries. We admit that all such statis- ties are subject to criticism. but we still re- rain convinced that legalization of the man. ufaeture and sale of beers. wines, and liquors would have such a stimulus on business in this nation as did the automobile and the radio each in their turn. It isn't the mere fact that e~me thousands would find em- ployment in breweries. Opening up brew cries and distileres throws business to kin dred concerns which in turn makes orders for our factories The cycle is quite complete. It doesn't begin and end at the brewery door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
Carleton E. Hoadley

Five first meetings in bankruptcy are scheduled to be heard at the regular United States district court session on Monday morn- ing. Referee Carleton E. Hoadley will pre- side. .' From page of Saturdays Wa terbury Democrat. From page of the same issue we clip the following quotation. New Haven, Conn. November l4 - (UP) - Carleton E. Hoadley. United States referee in bankruptcy died suddenly at Grace hospital of spoplexy today in his 69th year with his bride of three days. the former Kather- inc Roys Spencer. 60. of Waterbury. at his side. =.
 It is seldom that newspaper will publish the actions of the living man and his obt- uSry notice on different pages of the same edition. When the reporter who covers the bankruptcy court wrote his story on Mon- lays schedule. he did so with the evident thought that he would see Mir Hoadley in his accustomed place when the session was called to order today. The deceased's death was so unexpected that many here in Water bury could not believe it when they heard the news. The late MT Hoadley was well known and respected in this city.
 Although not native of this city. Carle- ton E. Hoadley was familiar figure in our courts where his official business carried him. His name is an old one in Connecti- cut. Mir Hoadley himself being of colonial ancestry. Although not active of late years in politics. Mir Hoadley had always support cd the democratic party and in the imme- diate years after his graduation from Yale Law School. worked intensely for the in- terests of the party His appointment as U. s. referee in bankruptcy came during the administration of the late Woodrow Wilson from U. S. District Judge Edwin S. Thomas with whom he had been associated in law practice.
 Prior to that he had served as county health officer. being named to this position by Governor Luzon B. Morris Mir Hoad- ley was a courteous official. well liked. and competent. He did not mix politics with his official tasks. but remained conscious of his duty as a public official. He gave un- sparngly of his time His conduct of the bankruptcy court was dignified and at the same time encouraging to those appearing before him. His death will create a vacancy that will be hard to fIl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
Quotations


 An Intelligent man with good idea can make more profit now than at any other period in re- cent times. 't -J. Clarke Colt, president Nation al Radio Manufacturers Asso- ciation.
 Why do they talk about writing jazz operas, when it's SO easy to jazz up the old ones1 ~ Ted Lewis. celebrated jazz band leader.
 With me pitching for them Cards in 1882 we ought to win about 115 games-maybe 120. -"Dizzy" Dean, baseball player.
 The Soviets respect the indc- pendence and the sovereign rights of China.
 Element Voroshilov. Soviet war commissar.
 Money hoardings in the United States today amounts to upwards of billion dollars.
 Prof. Edward W. Kemmerer of Princeton.s
 If colleges cannot weed out morons, the movies cannot be ex- pected to do so. p. B. Schulberg. movie producer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
M TODAY QyR2,IAs S @e$
 /WORlDi WAR X. ANNIVERSARY 889 gH2E.
coI. HousE sTATEMENT.

On Nov 1e, 1917, Colonel D. M House, chairman of the America[ commission sent abroad to con- suit with the Allies, declared il London that America would not be represented on the political end of the Supreme Allied War Coun- ell. and whether she would be rep resented on the military end re- mained for President Wilson to de- eide.
 The French War office gave out statement concerning the Austro- German offensive on the Italian. front: "The Germans have greatly exaggerated the importance of the Italian defeat. The Italian armies are far from being defeated.
 "The Second Army only has seri- ously suffered. On the 24th of october a violent offensive of the Germans between Prezzo and Tol- mino took the position Of the Kolovist and gained the high val leys of Judrio and Natisone. on the .25th and 26th. after the loss of Matajur and Mont Magior. the Second Army fell back, first on the Tagliamento and then on the Piaye. The line of the Piave is actually solidly held"
 Henry Ford was appointed as sistant general manager of the United States Emergency Fleet ] Corporation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
Here, There And EDerytuhere

teetotalers have been morally obliged to withdraw their support from the prohibition law. leaving its defense in the hands of obsti- nate party politicians, hypocrites and fanatics, and, of course the smuggling community. The coun- try must at last be extricated from the economic and moral abyss and the terrible ,awlessness created by prohibition" E..
 Whether or not the picture has been overdrawn by Governor Ja- lander, the fact remains that the Finnish government saw fit some time ago to appoint a committee of experts, a sort of Wickersham commission, we take 1t, to inquire into every phase of the prohibition experiment. This committee on Wednesday submitted its report. It recommends in place of prohibition the manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages by q state controlled monopoly in which pri- vate individuals may hold shares. This company would be the sole importer and 1t would be empow- cred to regulate sales and fix prices. Realizing that the busi- ness thus legalized would have to compete with the now well-organ- ized bootlegging industry, the com msttee emphasizes the importance cf the company's selling products of the purest quality at prices low CT than those of the bootleggers. The making of homemade wines will be permitted. Municipalities would be empowered to impose local veto on manufacture, but not on the consumption of drinks im- ported by individuals.
 The factual finds of the com
 mittee are like those contained in the Wickersham report, and upon them the committee based its con clusions and recommendations Having condemned prohibition as unavoidable and productive of more
 harm than good it did not leave the question in the air. It fol- lowed through with definite program. What action the Edus-
 kunta- Riksdag. the legislative as-
 sembly composed of 200 members. will take on this official report Of
 the committee appointed by the government, lies In the realm or
 uncertainty, but it is predicted that
 1t will either enact the recom-
 mendcd legislation or refer the
 question to a plebiscite.
 If prohibition has thus failed in
 a country so small as Finland. with | it's homogeneous population S2.S per cent rural and III per cent urban. it is far to ask how 1t can possibly be expected to succeed in
 a vast country such as ours, with 56.2 per cent of It's 122.000.000 population urban. Here as in Fin land. we must eventually choose
 between the nullification of an un- popular law, with all that that in-
 wolves, or revision of the law that
 will take account of the inescap-
 able realities of the situation. A
 federal judge now sitting at Tren- 1 ton. N. T. has called America "the
 most iawless nation in the world" If the charge he true. what but an obnoxious law has made it so? Gov
 ernor Jaiander finds that 1t Is a
 law of like character which ac- counts for the terrible lawiess-
 ness" existing in Finland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
OH DEAR ME

Times arc never hard, Said dear old Winnie Croft. When some onc's burdcncd with THAT'S SOFT.
 o-O-o The turkeys might select No- vember 11th as a day on which to discuss an armistice and pre- vent Thanksgiving slaughter.
 o-O-o
 When a woman sees a new hat 1t goes to her head and the husbands pocket book.
 o-O-o A penny sale is always bound to be 8 cent-sation.
 o-O-o A man is never success In life until his wife tells him so.
 o-O-o Accidents are always unavoid- able. provided you never figure in one.
 Baruch claims the country is back in second gear after being in low for the last couple of years. We'll feel lot hap pier when they start free-' wheeling again. F. o-O-o Gloria Swanson has been mar ried for the fifth time. hope this will be her swan song.
 o-O-o Find Lions With Dots On Hide News Item. l suppose hunters engaged in the discovery. sort of signed on the dotted line.
 
 Natural gas is found in its most natural state in the United States congress.
 o--O--o Footprints on the sands of time have nothing on dust prints along the dining room table.
 o-O--o
 Some men have more starch in their shirts than their back bones. o-O-o When the family skeleton is rat tied in the closet. the poor fam fly hasn't q ghost of a chance. 0-O--o This completes our opening pro- gram of the week. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pioneer in thls type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time Co be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour. Good nisht.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
FINLAND's "wICKERsHANf" REPORT
(Hartfrod Courant)

Finland, the little Baltic repub- iic with an area of about 1bO,0Oo square miles. chiefly lakes ana woodlands. and q population of ap- proximately 3.600, 900. has had na. tional prohibition by law but not by constitutional amendment since 1919. Itss experience in trying 70 make total abstinence compulsory closely parallels that of our own country. The conditions now ex- isting are thus described in m in- tervicw printed yesterday in tn. New York Times with General Bruno Jalander, governor of Wy iand province, and relentless prosecutor of smuggicrs and boot leggers:
 ''i'rohibition has failed utterly In all It's objoctives. Ths whole country Is flooded with liquor ana tt in easier now to obtain drinks everywhere and at ail times than hsfnrs prohibition. Eve" "s~'""s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
NEA Service Writer

NEA Serv1ce Wr1tcr
 Washington - John Baker Hol- lister who was elected to succeed the late Nicholas Longworth in the first congressional district of ohio is still young man but has been active enough in republican affairs to justify his party's confidence.
 Hollister is 40, a Cincinnati at torney, a World War veteran, and an ardent wet. BALL..
 He graduated from the Cincin- nati public schools, spent two years at St Paups College, Concord, N. H., and was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree by Yale in 1911. Four years later he received his ILL. B. from Harvard.
 After a year abroad, studying in Munich, he returned and entered a law firm at Cincinnati.
 In. 1916 when the United States instituted the Citizens Military Training Camps, he went to Platts- burg. ism played in moving me to en- list, Hollister explains his tempo rary vacation from the bar, but at the time was also courtins a girl who lived in Boston,"
 The girl, Ellen West Rollins, be- came Hollister's wife, August ..15, 1917, the day he was commits stoned. il.,1. .i.t .,1
 After being made lieutenant in August he soon received a cap tain's commission and, in the fall, was sent to Fort Sill.
 In September he left for France and there commanded Battery B. 46th artillery corps. Later he was with the third battalion in south France.
 It was after the armistice he met Herbert Hoover in Paris when the future president of the United States was directing the American Relief association. From January
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
"A SMILES THE rHlNo-

Good evening.
 o--O-o "A LITTLE OF THIS AND
 LESS OF THAT At Thanksgiving. at Thanksgiving. Kids just eat to beat the band. That's why they ask a drum stick From each turk throughout the
 land. She's started Christmas shopping. Visits every little store. Thanksgiving will find her
 thankful. She'll have much to give thanks
 for. When dreams come true, dear
 honey"
 Then she stopped her love sick
 Rob. Dreams won't come true, young
 feller.
 Till you go and land a job" Tom was a great tap dancer. You should hear his tootsieS
 rap, When they fed him lots of liquor, That they always had on tap. If you haven't seen the Frolie At the Palace. just get set, For they claim that it's the greatest That the old home towns had
 yet.
 a-O-o Winter Is the season when auto mobile radiators smell of alcohol, much the same as some drivers do the entire year round.
 O-O-o
 The honeymoon is over when she shines the kitchen stove without first donning leather glove. o-O-o Wife Claims Her Bert Made Love to Seven Married Women News Item. What she wants to do Is come out in favor of Bert con- trol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

Attempts to establish a branch of the Crusaders nti-prohibition organization at Wesleyan University are not being eneour- aged by school authorities. In all fairness we must admit. though. that they aren't be-
 ing hindered by faculty interference. Dean Chanter claims the groups aims are simply to secure liquor and not to bring about re- forms in the nation. On the other hand President McConaughy has expressed him self on prohibition as follows: Personally think the curbing of liquor is an undoubsed advantage. l believe that colleges are better of under prohibition than they were before.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
DING, DING

Bill Wilcox hasn't made a prcdic.
 tion, 't Nope, he hasn't-yet, He'll wait for the first snowstorn, Before predicting how many
 we'll get.
 Fire by friction Is what hap pens when you get fired after fric- ton with the straw boss.
 o-O-o
 Real angel cake results from the heavenly devotion given it during the mixing and baking process.
 o-O-O
 The Little Theater presented "The Devil in the Cheese" If it was Swiss cheese he probably got in through one of the holes.
 o-O-o After figuring in a traffic jam for an hour or so you cant blame the poor driver for looking like a jar of jelly.
 O-O-O A pull-over sweater soon looks like the part 1t has to play.
 O-O-o Who can remember the good old days when you could buy something that wasn't wrapped ir cellophanc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

To offset the candidacy of Governor Ritchie of Maryland for the democratic nomination for president. Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia is now being boomed by southern democrats Senator Carter Glass of Virginia Wilson cabinet member. has just endorsed Governor Byrd as his colleague. Senator Claude A. Swanson, did some months ago. Behind the move is the idea that eventually Governor Byrd will be Roosevelt's running mate if the latter gets the presidential nomination.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

Thad Caraway's widow is going to be the second woman senator that this country has ever had. She has just been named to sue- ceed her late husband in the Senate by Gov ernor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas. She will take her husbands seat in the. Senate on De- cember when Congress convenes for its 72nd session. She will hold it until Jan uary 12 when Arkansas will elect a successor to Mir Caraway. Even then she may remain in the Senate as the democrats are figuring on nominating her for the office. Governor Parnell has endorsed Mrs Caraway. The first woman to hold Senate office was Mrs Rebecea Felton who was appointed from Georgia several years ago. but died within A hours of her appointment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
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., 1931-11-16

Although the British air trans- port has expanded from 2b0 miles to n .000 miies in eleven years. the American system ia far more ex- tensive than that flown by British ninneR. American fines now hs 1G3.0so plane miles daily over bi.
 4Bk miles of airways, while tho British planes operate t1.0e0 miles
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

If, however, in certain cities and states the present laws and methods of enforcement are proving intellectual and causing other evils l for one, am willing to revise my definitions and face frankly the necessity of modified ton of the law. :" Would that there were more Proxy MeConaughys.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

Japan preemptorily demands that China cease from propaganda against her. Which is quite right. And what shall be done about Japanese propaganda against China?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16
OOV OHMIGOSH

Somebody wants . dollar,
 Or two, some seek but dimes, Which merely proves dear reader,
 That these arc touching" times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

After the gold standard. What?" asks an economist We'll. how about platinum standard? We have that already in jewelry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-16

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5:03 tonight