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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
SATURDAY, AUGUST l, 193l
Don't Be Alarmed

Although one case of infantile paralysis has been reported in Waterbury there is . nd cause for alarm among local residents. The danger of an epidemic in this city IS slight, although it is within the realms of possibility that more cases may be reported before the summer is over. From all reports the state has over one hundred cases of the dread disease just at present. The majority of them can be aseribed to the spread of the disease at several shore resorts. Either youngsters or grown-ups brought the sick ness home from casual visits or vacations and passed it along to others.
 Waterbury's case did not occur in this fashion. so parents can draw sigh of re- lief However. it is possible for the disease to be spread by carriers without the carrier being i'll. Extreme care should be taken by all people returning from shore resorts where the disease was present. Mingllng in crowds is said to be one way to contract infantie paralysis or to pass 1t along to somebody else. says the health officer. in is- suing list of don'ts for parents and chll- dren. While there is no desire to alarm anybody we do wish to advise parents to exercise unusual precautions to prevent any disease such as this spreading in the city.
 Last night the health officer gave some good advice. Rest is one essential as we'll as quarantine. Prompt medical attention. Of course. is required. And while we don't wish to injure the business of the various shore resorts it might be well for parents children to our shore resorts where there to make full inquiries before taking young have been cases reported. We never saw any sense in the lion tanner who thought 1t feat to put his head in the lions mouth. There's no need to get fustered about an infantile paralysis epidemic in Waterbury. but everybody should realize that success full avoidance of disease is half the battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

heat is radiated oa1k and forth between brick buildings and paved streets. It was bad enough to have gangsters' bullets mow- ing down tiny tots. but every summer takes it's toll of the youngsters who never get chance to enjoy the fresh air or the green meadows such as Connecticut kiddies take as matter of course. Occasionally we read about fresh air youngsters enjoying two weeks or ten days vacation up at Torrington or some nearby city. If we aren't mistaken some used to be boarded at Watervile. Some time it might pay some of our kindhearted citizens to investigate these fresh air funds that enable New York's kiddies to enjoy few days away from the city's sultry blasts and hard pavements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
Magazine Weight

Some Canadian on Premier Bennett's famous tariff commission had the bright idea of putting tariff on American maga- zines He thought probably it would work as luxury tax on those who could afford it and as an encouragement to home editing and publishing on those who could not. What the announcement has produced so far k "a mess. Word went forth that duty k 25 essts pound would be collected be- Kinning July l. Protests rose from hun dreds of women accustomed to feed their families and dress up their parties with ideas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

New York.--Odds and ends, but
 chiefly odds. In an old-coun- | try cafe on East 30th street, the Turkish gents play backgammon
 according to recipe taught same 2000 years ago. And the moderns
 who drop in for dinner comment
 on "the up-to -dateness of these people,"
 And place that effects Algerian
 trimmings has corned-beef hash as
 its speciality.
 There's . swinging door spot on the East Side where three old-fash- toned brewmasters still turn out
 'musty" ale. .. Which, If you
 haven't been reading your old Eng
 fish tales in late years. means that 1t is slightly soured. On the
 walls of this place hang original programs of Harrigan and Harts
 "Mulligan Guards"
 keen's chop house has one of the
 largest collections of clay pipes to be found on this side of the At-
 lantic. Old-tlmcrs have pipes re-
 served for them and make regular visits for puff at the good old
 long-temmed clay variety.
 The longest barefsted fight in
 history was staged in q saloon on Cherry street. "Of course, that's when the boys were really
 tough" And George Wash
 ington once had dwelling in the
 same strasse. So did John
 Hancock, who is frequently re-
 called by persons signing some document.
 Union Square is credited with being the/cradle of the movies.
 starting in a penny arcade. With a gent named Zukor taking tickets. And the most color
 full old bookstores in this land are parked on Fourth avenue in the
 Union Square neighborhood. Those expensive studios in Wash ington News and MacDougal Alley
 were all stables of the rich Wash- ington Square folk in the early days. There are people In Grove street who seem to know that Thomas Paine lived and died
 And there's at least one farm
 house in the big town. It's dates back to the Revolution. ~ V n uoOuhh
 If 1t mukes any difference to you where famous folk once lived, 1t
 isn't hard to find the one-time hab- itats of such persons as Lafayette, Captain Kidd, Washington Irving.
 Mark Twain, Aaron Burr. Theodore
 Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant. Peter Cooper, John Jacob Astor and Poe.
 The Bowern still has an ld-time
 "mile marker" by which distance to the city hall was once figured. Although but 50 feet wide, the Bush Terminal building rises almost 500 feet above the street and is credited with taking up less room than any other structure of And 1t was none other than the elder Willie Vanderbilt who made the famous Cleopatra's needle a tourist attraction in Manhattan. |. It cost him $100,000 to get 1t here from Egypt. but that was in 1881. To-day they'd probably It's still against the rules to car ry camera in Central Park, which never fails to astonish newcomers. l.. And is ridiculous. ] A lot of people who seem to Dc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer Washington.-Censorship Is sell dom very successful in Washing
 ton, presumably because 1t can't be
 enforced by threats of dungeons or death.
 The only form of censorship that is ever really successful here
 is the sort imposed upon govern ment officials, who, either through loyalty or fear, do not make pub lie such facts as their superiors
 may desire suppressed. But even that type of censorship often
 boomerangs itself and stirs up an
 unpleasant mess with plenty of extra publicity for the censor. Sometimes, of course, mislead- ing facts and figures are made public in place of those more ac- curate and applicable. But some one shoots holes in them sooner or later, just the same.
 In other countries. such as Italy. Russia, Argentina, China and Poland, the government can make it's censorship stick by in carceration, exile. suppression or newspapers or even execution. That's what makes most of our own government attempts seem 50 puny and futile.
 The fate of two recent attempts at censorship here are in point. One Is President Hoover's effort to suppress news about his own movements and the other Is the
 department of commences at- tempted suppressino of statistics compiled by one of its financial ex- perts. Dr Ray ovid Hall.
 Hoover Inccnscd
 You find President Hoover in- censed at publication of the story that he suddenly jumped into his automobile at the Rapidan camp and was driven back to Washing ton at very high spede. The story is not denied, but secret service men and correspondents are called in on the crapct. Newspapermen are told that news about the presi- dent must come only through au- thorized channels.
 Nearly all the newspapermei' get sore and pound out some warmly worded stories about cen
 sorship, generally with passing
 reference to MT Hoovers pen chant for fast motoring over bad roads. The president then makes another fast trip to camp and d ne ewspaperman and his wife are hurt when their car double-somer-
 saults as they try to keep up with the Hoover party at 55 miles an hour.
 Stories written about that are plainly worded and the Washing ton News says editorially: "The president should set better traffic example to the nation, and
 more specifically, should refrain
 from making the highways here abouts unsafe by giving rein to
 his manifest appetite for speed" Last reports were that the White House wouldn't try to cen- sor the newspapermen, but was determined that no person em.
 ployed by the White House should slip them any news unless the president authorized 1t. Secret service men are being warned about the danger of friendships with correspondents. The news papermen are continuing as be- fore, asserting confidence that no White House censorship of any kind will ever succeed and point ing out that the latest episode has merely drawn the president some unfavorable publicity.
 Public Gets the story
 Dr Hall was fired after a row
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
Will It Be Roosevelt?

. Just eleven months before delegates to the national democratic convention gather Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York looms as the outstanding candidate of his party for the presidential nomination. Roosevelt has been in the limelight ever since 1920 when he was the running mate of James M Cox of Ohio on the presiden- tial ticket. His speech at the San Francisco convention that year was regarded as mas terpiece and focused immediate attention upon him. He figured in both the 1924 and 1928 conventions to some extent, but his warm friends and admirers have been looking forward to l932 with keener ex- pectations.
 He was regarded as sure nominee fol- lowing his election as governor of New York. However, in the last year with such stawarts as Newton D. Baker, Wilson's war secretary in the field. not 10 mention Governor Ritche of Maryland, Owen D. Young Senator Robinson of Arkansas. and even Ex-Governor Smith himself. he may have suffered somewhat from the competi- ton. He also had quite strenuous tune with the New York Legislature and was subjected to considerable criticism because of the unpleasant municipal and judicial scandals in New York city. But just at this moment his star seems to be in it's ascendancy once more.
 There are those who believe that no can- didate but Roosevelt can unite the dry south- ern democrats and the wet northern ones. They declare that he is dry enough to swing the Solid South and wet enough 10 hold the North. All of which is good reading. but we wonder if the governor will go into the campaign on such platform as that. Off hand we think he is a bit wetter than his preeampaign friends state. Certainly his action in signing certain legislative bills that republican legislators swept through the Assembly just to ascertain the governors stand would disprove any dry motives.
 We can't help but feel that if Governor Roosevelt does take the field for the dem- ocratic nomination he will not do so as the champion of the dry cause. It doesn'c seem consistent with his previous broad-minded stand on questions of national importance. However. he realizes that his predecessor was left high and dry by championing the wet fight. But perhaps Governor Roose- welt aseribes other causes to Smiths defeat. At any rate the New York executive is again leading the pack. Can he stand the pace. we wonder?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
THE SEVENTEENT.YEAR
 LOCUST.

(New York Times.)
 In one war tho Boy Scouts en- gage with notable success--the dis- covery and destruction of insect pests. In many states the Boy Scouts collect and burn thousands of tent caterpillar nests during spring months. On Long Island within a day or two the orgnaiza- ton has reported the appearance of seventeen-year locusts, concern ing which the American Museum of Natural History had issued warning. It Is North American Insect (Tibicina septemdecim), but confines its depredations to that part of the United States east of Central Kansas and north of Flor ida. Professor Wellhouse writes of 1t:
 For nearly seventeen years 1t
 silently tils in dreary tunnels un-
 derground. Then 6 springtime
 comes when countless thousands
 of the creatures issue from the
 earth, undergo their startling
 transformations and swarm into
 the trees. Now the very air seems
 swayed with the monotonous
 rhythm of their song. while the
 business of mating and egg-lay-
 ing goes rapidly on till the twigs
 of trees and shrubs are every
 where scared with sllts and
 punctures where the eggs are
 placed.
 In the south 1t is a thirteen- year locust, but 1t does not fol- low that, because the insect takes thirteen or seventeen years to ma ture, 1t may not appear in inter- vening years. There may be differ- ent times of emergence, and the count must be taken on each brood. According to the New Jer- sey department of agriculture, there arc some eighty species of plants that the locusts puncture for the laying of eggs. The time to come out of the ground is usually the afternoon, and the emergence goes on until well into the night. The seventeen-year locust Is cas- fly recognized by its wings of q has many enemies. including hogs. chickens, cats and birds. Numbers arc often destroyed by q fungus disease. It is sometimes said that this cicada infiicts 6 poisonous i'm jury on human beings by bite or sting. It may pierce tho flesh. but there seems to be no evidence that poisoning follows. It is an unweI- come visitor. but, aside from the damage done to the crops. which may be guarded against. 1t ts harmless,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

There aren't going to be any sore heads hanging around Governor Cross's office in the State Capitol. According to all reports there are any number of residents of this state who have had occasion to visit the reigning chief executive. In the waiting room adjoining the governors office gen erally is placed line of chairs along the east wall As each mans appointment may vary it has become customary for the anx- ious and harrassed to cool their heels in the waiting room. Invariably declare office workers everyone would sink into chair and then bump his head on the shelf that overhung the chairs The shelf was so placed that it met the cranium with good force unless the sitter happened to be a child or very small man. This situation has existed for years. But Governor Cross is eliminating all that. The office is being gone over thoroughly this summer and the guilty shelf will be no more when His Honor returns from New Hampshire and opens the door to the hundreds that seek his immediate presence. It will be good news to the hundreds who are regular visit ors 10 the royal sanctum.
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 Th;e r.ot ,yooL y,uSt bave been awful for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or treatment, will he answered by pr braaS Address him, care of the Democrat. schdins stamp and addressed envelope
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

For every evil there must be eompen- sating good. Although grasshoppers have destroyed acres of food products through out the West farmers are cas,ing in on their visit. They are collecting them by the millions and storing them in sacks to dry. Next winter they will be used as chicken feed. One farmer recently gathered thirty bushels of grasshoppers to an acre. It might almost pay to raise them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
AND HOW THEY DO

Ministers Wife: I'm collecting for the suffering poor and shall be glad of your help.
 Mac Nab: suffering poor7 Are you sure that they really do suffer?
 Ministers Wife: I'm quite sure. Why, go into their homes and talk to them for hours.--Passing Show.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
NEW YORK
uth Gilbert Swan

visiting the famous Grant tomb on
 Riverside drive are actually getting
 peep at the "glngko" tree which grows near 1t, and which is the
 only gingko you're likely to see in these parts.
 GILBERT SWAN. Copyright 1891, NEA Service Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

High tide at Milford Sunday. August r. 2:O2 a. m. Daylight time); low tide, 8:46 a. m. (daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
Good evening.
 o-O-0 NOW YOU TELL ONE
"A SMILES THE THING"

Good evening. o-O--0
 NOW YOU TELL ONE old Mother Hubbard, Went to the cupboard, It was 8 o'clock in the morn, When she got there, The cupboard was bare, The tce box burglars had gone.
 o-O-O F. N. writes to say that she went out with a fellow named Jack, because that's what she thought he had. Oh, oh.
 o-O-o People in tight bathing suits should keep away from rip roar ing swimming parties.
 o-O--o
 American necks are getting longer, according to a noted English doctor. Rumble seats must be developing 'em fast.
 0-O-o The unemployed out west are digging for gold. Mining their own business, as 1t were.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

All vehicles must be lighted not later than $40 o'clock Daylight saving time) tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

Next summer lot of thrifty souls will be sorry they didn't take advantage of this summers bargains.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

The two hardest days in the year -- the last day before vacation and the first day after it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

Amcrica's saved Germany. That's what the Germans shout, Who wouldn't save the country
 that
 Invented saucrkraut.
 O--O--O Then there was the chap who joined the navy to see the world through porthole and they put him on Q submarine, where he had to look at 1t through a perlscope.
 O-O-o
 Experience Is a hard tcach- CT. That's what the bride said as she felt of her first cake.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
S-H-H-H-H

Beneath this mound, Sleeps Tommy Saykes, The mountain road, Burned out his brakes.
 o-O--o If gas stoves came equipped with accelerators, the modern girl would know how to work one.
 o-O-o suppose the devil will make 1t hot even for electric Ice box salesmen.
 O-O-o Boiko gets the D. S. c. and then he's mentioned for politics. Evidently It's not fame, but the upkeep.
 o-O--o
 CUTLERY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

This past week must have been awful for the children of New York where scorching
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
U--O---U OuMIGOSH

Corn bOrcr spare that corn, It hasn't harmed soul, And If you don't, we're gonna tell, The gosh darn corn patrol. o-O-o The June brides are wondering if they'll have to hook the family jewels in order to insure q supply of coal this winter. O-O--o
 Your friends who have cot tages at the shore are like the tide, generally out when you go down to call.
 o-O--o
 Some people go looking for the silver lining when there isn't a cloud in the sky;
 o---O--o
 Years ago girls carried parasols 50 the sun wouldn't tan them. Now they're tanned So well 6 parasol wouldn't know 'em.
 SURCEASE FROM WORK Another weekcnd's nearing,
 And folks can hardy walt, To gasoline down to the shore,
 Via the family crate.
 o-O-o Perhaps the politicians will give jobs to the under-employed, have them fix their political fences" so to speak.
 Then there was the fat wo. man who had to appear be- fore the weighs and means" committee.
 o-O-o
 What has become of the old- fashioned Waterbury woman who raised sun flowers and then in the fall, dried the seeds to feed the canary bird during the winter?
 o-O--o
 This concludes our series of programs for the week. They were broadcast by DBD, Waterbury's pioneer station. owned and oper- ated by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again Monday evening.
 o-O--o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

Lives of all great men remind us, (Oh at least they should my dear,) That 1t pays to be quito silent. When n traffic cop Is near.
 o-O--o If you'd feel cool at all times, hang a framed picture of q 25 cent piece of ice in the kitchen and look at 1t every every five minutes during the day.
 o--O-o Berries are being canned every day and how jealous the old soaks must feel.
 o--O--o
 TEE, HEB.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01
He ate with his KNIFE,
 Did Henpcckcd Jin,, So his sour wife

ht dVc WiCu DtS hNlf H., Did Henpcckcd Jim, So his sour wife
 Looked DAGGERS at him.
 O-O-o Another Cost race" has been found. If this happened in a horse race, some of us might get those few dollars back.
 O-O-O Gras Sis like q straw hat. It turns brown as the summer goes on.
 O-O-O What has become of the old fashioned Waterbury butcher who used to wear straw cuffs.
 O--O-o And who can remember when a summer picnic consisted of home made root beer and ginger snaps?
 O--O-o
 IT WAS EVER THUS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-01

A little bit of sunshine, Then clouds to veil the sky, And then q rainbow over all, Completes life's lullabyc.
 O-O--O Furnace Kings Son Left Mil. lions--Headline. That's what you'd call hot heir.
 o-O-o HE'S RIGHT, YOU'RE WRONG
Evening star., 1931-12-30
Swain, Minus Car,
Steals Girls Dads,
But All Ends Well
Family Forgives After
Speeding Charge Re-
veals Theft.
pv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 3O.-The trans
portation question, for a time, was
problem to Edward Hansen, 10, In his
courtship of Miss Lena Thomas, also
1e chiefly because he had no motor car.
1t was all very well to ride around
In the yellow and black car OF Lena
father, George Thomas, but 1t emoaT-
rassed him nevertheless.
But just wait he would tell Lena
"I'll have a car Of my own soon"
It was some time later that the vel
low and black car disappeared. Inc
Thomas family was bit glum, but Ed
ward was cheerful.
"Just never mind" he said. I'll have
nv own car soon and you can all
use it." ..,
And he was as good as his Woro.
He appeared soon in shining blacK
car and everybody was happy until
Edward was arrested for driving 100
fast It was then that the police learned
that 1t was the automobile that De
longed to Lena's father.
But the incident had a happy END
ing in Judge Stanton's Criminal Court
Yesterday. Lena'S family took it gooo
naturedly and the judge said that Ed
ward could go free on years prooa-
ton.
Evening star., 1931-12-30

consumption of electricity in the homes,
mainly because of the installation of a
greater variety of electrical appliances.
In this year, also, industrial COM
panies have moderniBed their productive
methods, requiring new applications OF
electricity.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has en-
barked on a program of electrification,
ari this undoubtedly will be followed
by others, where density of traffic, the
convenience of the travelling public and
economic considerations show that a
change to electric operation is advan-
tageous.
Because these things have been true
in such poor year as 1881, we look
forward to 1882 and the succeeding
years with confidence"