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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
Former Pastor
 at Bunker Hill

Rev pr John w. Flight, assistant professor in the department of biblical literature at Haverford
 college. Haverford, Pa, delivered a sermon on "One Need of St Paul' at the morning service of the Bunker Hill Congregational church yesterday. Dr Flight Is a former pastor of the Bunker Hill church and has been spending the summer at Highland lake, Winsted. St Paul, with the exception of Christ, was the greatest figure in all Christianity, according to the speaker. He added that the great saint made Christianity world religion through his great person. ality and his tremendous zeal or passion for in doing Christ's work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
State Adopts New
 Grades for Apples
Most Radical Change in
 Recent Years

Hartford, Sept 14-Connecticut aple grading prescribed by the state department of agriculture for the 1881 apple season represent the most radical changes in recent years.
 The department is informing growers that the former compulsory state grades for closed packages have been abolished an in their place a new set or voluntary state grades, including the recently re- vised United States grades. estab- lished.
 At the last session of the gen. eral assembly many changes were made in the Connecticut apple law so that under the existing set-up, recently prescribe by the commits sioner of agriculture, the grower Is offered three alternatives: First, he may grade and label closed pack ages according to the 1881 United states grades; second, he may grade and label according to 1881 Connec- ticut grades; third, in case he does not wish to designate any particu- lar grade upon a closed package
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14

he will not be required to do so provided his name and address, minimum size and variety or 1rult are stamped or labeled on the out side of the package.
 Growers are advised to bear In mind that the former Connecticut grade terms, namely, A and B are no longer legal as a new set or standards and grade designations have been adopted. The new Con- necticut grades, with the exception of extra fancy, are identical with the corresponding United States grades except that the grade desig- nation is prefixed by the word "Connecticut" instead of the words United States"
 The new state apple grades es- tablished consist of Conn extra fancy, Conn fancy. Crop No l., Conn commercial and Conn utility.
 The Conn extra fancy grade calls for higher standards than any or the United States grades and was adopted in order to allow local growers to pack high quality, highly colored apples If they so desire.
 A comparison of the new United States grades shows that United States fancy apples require a high CT percentage of color than the United States No 1, other require ments being the same. United States commercial has the same quality requirements as United States No l minus any color re- quirements. United States utility IS the next lower quality grade and Is similar in requirements to the for mer Connecticut B grade now dis placed by Conn utility.
 United States hall grade meets the same requirements as United States No excepting that cer- tain amount of hall injury is al- lowed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
Former Local Woman !
 Dies in Bridgeport

Mrs Ruth (Stoddard) Behm, wife of Bernard Behm. died at her home on Nash street, Bridgeport yesterday after a long illness. She leaves, besides her husband, one daughter, Virginia; one sister, Mrs Frank Altman; three brothers, Thaddeus A. and Frank R. all of this city and Irville E. Stoddard or Bantam, Conn. Mir Behm is the son of MT and Mrs Frederick Gould of Ashmun street.
 The funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon at o'clock from the Dennison Funeral par lors in Bridgeport.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
Roosevelt Lodge
 Smoker Tonight Luncheon Added Feature -Four Boxing Bouts Scheduled

mailed to all the members of the lodge and complimentary tickets have been sent them for use by their friends. Friends will be ad mitted only upon presentation of such tickets.
 The committee in charge of the entertainment include Lou Levin, chairman, Rubin R. Braverman, Lou Rieger, Fred Reich and Will liam S. Schneer.
 According to the plans of the entertainment committee, several affairs will be sponsored by this lodge during the fall and winter. All members are requested to at- tend the meeting and bring their friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14

A luncheon and smoker will fog- low the first meeting of the fall season of the Theodore Roosevelt lodge, Knights of Pythias, this evening, at the Pythian Temple.
 The entertainment committee has arranged the affair which will also include wrestling match, four boxing bouts, four vaudeville acts, free smokes and free eats.
 Alderman Charles Schnitman will act as announcer of the bouts. Gene Oviatt will render piano solo and accordion solo. Edward Goldberg, chancellor commander of the lodge, will take charge of the meeting and smoker.
 Announcements rave be n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
Tom Kippur .
 Is Observed

Tom Kippur, the day of Atone ment, started at sunset last eve-s ming and was marked by prayer and fasting. This is one of thes most holy days in the Jewish cai-.. endar. Beginning the 25th, Suk-
 koth, the Feast of the Booths. Will
 be celebrated by Jews everywhere.
 The holiday is known as the harr'- vest celebration and lasts for seven dave
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
leader of the Christian social

leader of the Christian social party.
 Dr Primer advocated abolition of the present constitution. He is the leader of the Heimwehr in Styria and rival of Prince Star hemberg for national leadership.
 Police broke up an attempted Heimwehr assembly in Vienna. The Heimwehr attempted a March on Eivenna" in October, 1880, but it was frustrated.
 During 130, Wisconsin slaugh- tered total of 3.S45 retired horses for animal food.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14

The Waterbury Girls club, which had attendances of more than 46,000 girls and women last year, is looking forward to an even larger registration for this years classes. A very large number
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
Waterbury Boys ..
 at Wesleyan

Ernest A. Anderson. Jr, of Rose land avenue, and Richard L. Platt of Newton terrace have been defi- nitely approved for admission to Wesleyan college.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14

Airpianes intended to fly at alti. tudes of more than six miles. where they can reach high speeds. are being constructed in Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-14
The Hotel Elton Cafeteria

will be the place you will land should you just follow the crowds that come daily for the finest lunches in the city. A cup of tea and a delightful sandwich will be just the thing that will help your shopping when it becomes tiresome.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
Information For Buyers

If the buyer for business concern is go- ing to make an important purchase. he makes a careful study of the trade news relating to the line in which he is buying. He examines price quotations, supply and demand of raw material, and every fact he can get hold of that can affect the price of that merchandise. If he was accustomed to meet salesmen without that preliminary preparation. and bought goods of them without such previous study. he would make many mistakes in the course of year, and could not be expected to hold his job.
 The buyer of household and personal sup making purchases He or she needs to know what things cost. what people are buying. what values and qualities are offered Mod ern store advertising has developed won- derful system for giving the public this in- formation. which is comparable to the knowledge which the buyer for business needs.
 The buyer of clothing and home supplies can look through good newspaper, and get an idea of what people are buying. what should be bought. and what prices should be paid. Consequently after reading such advertising, people are far better equipped to make intelligent purchases. They form general idea as to how goods should look, and what service can be expected of them. People value the information thus distribut- ed more than some realize. They look with favor on a store that is willing to describe its goods in this public way. They raise some question about store that does not furnish this information
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17

Missus and three children defying any and all efforts to dislodge them. Indeed this is an incident unique in American annals.
 Of course we have no knowledge of Louisiana state laws on the subject. but we don't see how Governor Long can be dis possessed until he resigns. He has precedent to back him in his holding of two offices a governorship and senatorship. His lieu tenant-governor, to our way of thinking. has merely eased himself out of the official portrait by vaeating his office and allowing it to be filled. As for the ex-bill-coilector he will have hard time convincing any court that he seized abandoned property. Still Louisiana's three-ring circus may serve to attract larger crowd of Noftherners than usual to NOrleans' Mardi Gras, especially so if the three contestants can be secured to go through their paees for the edification of all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17

Speaking in Meriden this week Governor Wilbur L. Cross said that Senator Dwight w. Morrow. who died recently. was the ideal type of man in politics. He was just as good for one party as the other. AL though he belonged to one of the great major parties and was elected to office with it. he was one of the few men who understood that questions of government are economic and not political" We wonder if that doesn't explain the governors own attitude towards politics. While he was elected to office on the democratic ticket. he is not the type to be found running through the streets Haunt ing his democratic tendencies so that all may see them. Continuing along this vein the governor remarked that. My aim has been to get acquainted with all the people in the state. My aim has been irrespective of party to become Governor of all the people, Very early in my term learned there was con flct between the political and economic di- visions. Low cost of government should be aimed at by those directing the municipal state or national government. .. There are times when bond issues are necessary, but too many bond issues lead to bankruptcy. That government is best and most effective which is least political. .'' Those are good sentiments to stand by in this day and age. Let everyone subscribe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
Cops In College

In curious educational institution called Cleveland College. which runs day and night, and where everybody over high school age can study anything there is class of 100 men and four women taking a course in police work. They sit at the feet of Dr. A. Caswell Ellis. director of the institution. who along with their other academic work is giving them course in jiu jitsu.
 Some outsiders are inclined to regard that college course for cops as joke. Dr. Ellis is quite serious about Within my life time," he says, ''the army became pro- fession. The police force can do it. too. if the means at its disposal are used" Some of the students are patrolmen. Most of them are candidates for jobs on the force" Some of last years graduates are said to be doing remarkably we'll in the city detective bureau. The college and the police author ities work together.
 Here is new viewpoint and new spirit. Many college graduates with 'A.B." de- grees are going into police work lately. Col lege men have had leading part in the Chi eago drive against gangsters It may really be that police work is evolving into pro- fession." Development along this line is one of the most hopeful features of the war against crime. The winning of this war requires high degree of intelligence. special training and professional spirit. And those who have been asking what substitute for warfare the paeifists would provide may find their answer here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17

Senator Joe" Robinson is up against 1t. politically speaking. The veteran statesman from Arkansas has been potential presiden- tial candidate for good many years now. He was Al Smiths running mate in 1928. We don't doubt but what his aspirations went notch higher for next year. However. even the legislators of his own state aren't agreed upon his candidacy for the presidency. The State Senate Thursday passed a resolu- ton in which it recommended Robinson to the l932 national democratic convention as "a seasoned statesman to lead the militant hosts of democracy to victory. =. How ever. it was only last week that the House adopted concurrent resolution endorsing Governor Roosevelt of New York. So what's poor Arkansas bloke to do in this predicament. It doesn't look as If the Sen ate would pass the Roosevelt resolution, so after alrs said and done the state will re- main true to its first love.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
Here, There And EueruOhere

a tale of old California and plea for justice for the Indian.
 Mrs Jackson's life was en- riched by travel. marriage, mother hood and literary fame. Emily Dickinson, on the other hand, turned away from life because marriage for her would have meant running another woman's happi- ness. Some hold that the other woman was Mrs Jackson herself. Not only did Emily decline to see any but a few close friends; she also refused to publish the verse to which she was devoting her life. Only a few poems were published during her life time, and her fame only began six years after her death, when Thomas Wentworth Higginson brought forth the first ilttel volume under her name.
 The years have brought increas- ing fame to both of the Amherst women, for all the difference in their lives and characters and in the subjects and style of their work. Ramona" sold 21,000 copies the year after Mrs Jackson's death. the sales fell to an annual six thousand. but in 1915, after the production of a motion picture based on the book. they mounted to 18,000 and in 1928 reached the record number of 22,000. Just then Emily Dickinson too came into wide fame. The publication of new poems and a collected edi- ton was followed by two biogra- phies, a moved, play. reminis- cences and many magazine ar ticles. So with the celebration of the centennial year of the birth of these two daughters, Amherst feels assured of their lasting though very different, places in literary history and in the lives of the American people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
Waitin' By The River

~ Old Man River is ehuckling to himself
 4these days as he meanders by Baton Rouge. s..the capital of Louisiana. For things aren't
 4just as they appear to be away down there. < Louisiana is much in the eyes of the public < these tempestuous days. It was only short ~ time ago that she claimed fame by asking s-for years moratorium on cotton growing. ..1And we mustn't forget that episode involv- sing the we'll known Huey Pierce Long. xSursly everybody remembers when he
 : greeted foreign notables clad in resplendent < silk pajamas. Huey is nothing if not orig kinal. However. Huey is also human. As s~result he wants to be both governor of Louis -siana and United States Senator. He was
 elected to the latter office in November. ~1930. He has been governor for almost four
 \ years. his term expiring in May. l932. He ! assumed his senatorship in March of this eyear.
 A Now the mere fact that Governor and < Senator Huey Pierce Long is both of these 2 officials irks his lieutenant governor, Dr ]. Paul Cyr of Jeanerette. He declares that he ' is governor of Louisiana and has been ever
 \ since governor. pardon our error. Senator AOug LOOK OiIiCe. fAS IeSult ne udS NdSalSo , his own position to which he was duly E elected four years ago and is now trying to ! match the Long orders. Since he has vacated the office of lieutenant-governor it was filled only this week by Alvin O. King. 2 president pro tenn of the state senate. He strengthened his position by having himself sworn into office. so it begins to look to us that Mr King might have chance of slip ping into the governorship if both Messrs Long and Cyr are carted into exile.
 But to make matters even more interest inR than that one Walter L. Aldrieh of Shreveport who at the present moment is unemployed. but who admits to having oc- supied himself at times as plain ordinary bill-collector now claims the governorship. Considering the office of governor "aban-
 dpaeds lie has taken possession. He even
 Ill notary public swear him into office
 snd just as his predecessors issued orders to
 fb< state police, so did he. He maintains
 Inf any lawyer knows that anyone may
 tzke possession of and retain abandoned
 propsrfy. Hence his seizure of the office.
 1Ithoush possession of the gubernatorial
 ai1nsion is still held by the Long family. the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17

Here's good news for hunters of Connee- ticut, at least that portion of them who live down around Lyme. The Stone Ranch. re- gently acquired by the state for National Guard purposes, will be open to hunters from October 20 to the end of the season. According to all reports the tract is well stocked with quail pheasant, grouse. fox. raccoons, and rabbits However. that mustn't be taken to mean there are unlimited quantities of this game. And, of course. by next year we won't expect to find much game at all in the preserve. What won't be killed this fall will have moved to more remote regions of the state where hunters are few and bird or animal can enjoy it. self without hearing the roar of rifle or shotgun. X
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
NEA Service Writer

| NEA Service Writer
 Washington-Recen "razzberry''
 books and magazine articles have
 wilted some of the excess dignity
 always found in this capitals off,
 cial life. Nothing is more calcu- lated to do that than the wide-
 spread circulation of some of the ] nicknames which inevitably attach themselves to certain more or less
 illustrous public servants.
 For instance, everyone has heard | now that Theodore G. Joslin, sec retary to President Hoover, is nick named Goose" And about Wrong Horse" Harry Stimson. secretary of
 state; Egg Charlie" Curtis. the
 vice-president, and Boob" Mac Nider American minister. to Cana da.
 Some of the other celebrities here are often known as Secre- tary of the the Interior "Ishabod
 Crane" Dilbur, Chief Justice
 Charles the Baptist" Hughes. and Senators "Rowboat" Hale of Maine,
 "Babbling Brookhart" of Iowa;
 "Sunny Jim" Watson of Indiana, sad Sam" Shortridge of Califor- mia, "Banjo Jim" Davis of Penn sylvania, Big Bill Borah of Ida ho and Uncle George" Norris of Nebraska. President Hoover has, no set nickname. His friends and asso- ciates still call him "The Chief" His detractors often refer to him as
 'The' Great Engineer" or "The Great Stationery Engineer" not without sarcasm. In ordinary con- versation, with neither admiration
 nor malice, he is most often refer red to as "Herbie."
 Probably the next expose of the way things are here will deal with
 the grost writers who produce speeches and magazinne articles for public officials whose words are most in demand. From the president down, and especially among the cabinet officers, it's a
 common custom to employ
 ghosts"
 Prepared speeches delivered in congress are sometimes ghost-
 written, but often not. Identities or the ghosts are usually kept con cealed because public officials ap- parently prefer to leave the impress sion that they write their own speeches. Hence it would not be l fair to mention the names of only a few ghosts" some of whom might be fired. One ghost" now writing inspirational speeches for a celebrity here who has to make quite a few, used to write them fora cabinet officer. He lost the latter job because it became com mon knowledge that he had 1t. But that was his own fault because he used to go around bragging about it. Now, like others of his craft. he is more discreet
 Executive Director Robert H: Lucas of the Republican National com mmittee got himself off a speech
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-17
THE CHARITY GAMES
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

Once more we ask the profession al baiters of Yale to contemplate the university's tactics .n a major social crisis. Adding to the direct monetary contributions already an- nounced, the university states it's tender of the Yale bowl and its team for football tournament De- cember 12 in direct and dramatic accession to the plea of the presi- dents relief committee for college cooperation through football. The details of the plan were outlined in our news columns yesterday. Briefly they contemplate three 20- minute games, two of them elimin- alton contests between opponents to be selected from the group participating, the winners of the preliminaries to play for the tour nament title directly Yale, Brown, Dartmouth and Holy Cross have agreed to play. the proceeds to be divided equally among the four colleges, and to be administered by their presidents. Columbia, Penn sylvania and Princeton plan sim liar tourney in New York. And what we would like the Yale bait CTS particularly to note is that be- sides her share of the proceeds, Yale also gives the bowl without charge.
 We may trust the judgments of Dr Angell, acting President Mead of Brown, Dr Hopkins, and Dr Fox to apply the funds to the utmost advantage. Probably the Dartmouth allotment will go to some urban center where the need is infinitely greater than any that can exist in the agrarian domain of Hanover The whole scheme is attractive. by which some rattling good football can be seen in a cause to beneht our neediest.