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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
A Valentine dinner dance was

A Valentine dinner dance was held Saturday evening at Lakeside tavern by members of the Bean club. Those attending. were: Misses Flora Joce!yn. Cecile Rochon, Gen. evieve Campbell, Adeline Jacquet, Catherine Kelly, Bertha Raymond, Hattie Reymond, Dorothy Leary, Margaretta Jones, Helen Mcclure, Molly Hutchinson. Grace Began, May Dwyer. Gertrude Dwyer, Sophie Cairns, Irene Ippoliti, Marie Pelle- tier. Violet O'Day. Alice Hedderman, Marjorie Donahue and Anna Riley, Harry Leary, Ambrose Scully, Rich- ard Altman, Sam Collins, Laurence Cairns, Victor Thunburg, Ted Thur berg, William Brennan, William Fhelan, Joseph Allard, Edward Faye, James Kenny, Joseph Joy, AL bert Herman, Frank Cribbons, Ber- nard Mullen. Walter Ely, Conrad Larson, Arthur Rompree, Lester Carotenuto, Michael Janetty, Fran cis Mulhall and Arthur Wingerts- man: Mir and Mrs Joseph Ippoliti. MT and Mrs A. Theriault, MT and Mrs Casey, MT and Mrs Schaeffer. MT and Mrs A. Fallon, MT and Mrs H. Johnson, MT and Mrs H. Dodd. MT and Mrs Bergin, MT and Mrs l.. Pellitier, MT and Mrs Joseph Tobin. MT and Mrs Miller, MT and Mrs A. La Vigne, MT and Mrs Madden, MT and Mrs Armand Wolff, MT and Mrs Riley, MT ani Mrs Cole. MT and Mrs Ruchard, MT and Mrs Mcclure, Mir and Mrs La Vigne and Mrs H. La Vigne.
 Mrs P. s. Holland was hostess to the members of her bridge club at her home on Randolph avenue. The guests included: MT and Mrs Mer- win Bronson, Mir and Mrs George Faber, MT and Mrs Joseph Linehan, MT and Mrs Randall Frink, MT and Mrs Clarence Ranger.
 Announcement is made of the birth of son on Saturday to MT and Mrs Charles Burnes of Spring field, Mass. The child is grandson of MT and Mrs Fred Burnes of Bun- Ter Hill avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

Miss Agnes c. Brothers of 44S Willow street will present her pupil, Louis Anthony Boisvert, in a piano recital at her home tomorrow eve- ming. Mr Boisvert will be assisted by Mrs Eric Pape, soprano.
 The Waterbury chapter, College of Saint Elizabeth, will hold a dinner meeting tonight at 6:3O o'clock at the Hotel Waterbury. Miss Agnes Fitzpatrick, president, will preside.
 Mir and Mrs Lawrence Hamilton Austin of Pelham Manor, N. Y., an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Roma Austin, to The odore H. Wickwire, 3rd, Son of MT and Mrs Theodore Wickwire, Jr, of New York city. Miss Austin attend ed the Westover school in Middle bury and made her debut last win- ter. MT Wickwire was graduated from Andover in 1925 and from Yale in 1929.
 Mrs Roy Murphy of Oakville re- gently entertained at double mis- cellaneous shower in honor of Mrs Paul Manwaring, the former Miss Esther Lorenson and Mrs Paul Pohn- son, nee Miss Madeline Dunn. The guests included: Mrs Charles Loren son, Mrs J. Andrews, Mrs Harry Da- vidson, Mrs William Ogriesk, Mrs Harry Pierce, Mrs Samuel Fenn, Mrs Neil Lorenson, Mrs William Krull. Mrs Chester Stoddard, Mrs Warren Palmatier, Mrs Dennis Dunne, Mrs Louis Pierce, MF'rs Louis Lorenson. Miss Dorothy Dunn, Mary Riley, Marjorie German, Ann Davidson and Helen Johnson.
 Attorney and Mrs Francis T. Reeves of Sands street sailed Satur- day for few weeks West Indies cruise.
 Mir and Mrs Adam Bansleben of John street were rendered a surprise reception at their home Saturday evening in honor of their 9th we'd ding anniversary. About 50 guests were present. A chicken supper was served. Out of town guests includ- ed MT and Mrs Joseph Katinas and Mir and Mrs s. Cooper of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The marriage of Miss Marie Kiess- ling, daughter of Charles Kiessling of 159 Frost road and Thomas Ash ford of Naugatuck took place Sat urQay aItefnOOn at the parsonage or the First Lutheran church, Rev William Meyer performing the cer- emony. The attending couple were Miss Caroline Kiessling, a sister of the bride and Paul Kiessling, the brides cousin.
 The bride wore gown of blue silk crepe with hat of blue straw and shoulder corsage of butterfly roses. The Bridesmaid wore a gown of power blre silk crepe with cor responding hat of straw and shoul- der corsage cf pink rosebuds. Fol- lowing the ceremony, a reception was held at the home of the bride. MT and Mrs Ashford are to reside in Naugatuck upon returning from their unannounced wedding trip. The Parent Teachers Association of Bunker Hill will hold silver tea in honor of the annual observ- ance of Founders day tomorrow afternoon from to o'clock in the Bunker Hill school gymnasium. The proceeds will be given for the ex- tension work in the state of the Parent Teachers association. A mu- sical program will comprise part of the entertainment Mrs Louis Wenzel is chairman of the arrangement committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
The Kidding

The Kidding
 The hand was played at contract and South, the dealer, opened the bidding with one heart, West, hold ing three and one-half high card tricks. doubled. North passed, East responded with three diamonds, South passed, West bid three spades, and East carried it to four spades and his partner has made an origi- nal bid, the double is rather dan- gerous as the doubler's hand does not contain high card trick.
 The Play
 North opens the jack of hearts, the top of his partners suit, which West, the declarer. wins with the ace and returns the deuce, trump ing in dummy with the seven of spades. The missing high cards are spotted in South's hand by the orig inal bid. Declarer proceeds to set by leading the king, South coveds with the ace, declarer trumping with the deuce of spades.
 As the declarer held five of the suit bid by South, he may expect to find five trumps held against him by North. who doubled. If the de- clarer were to return a heart and trump in the dummy. North would get valuable discard. Therefore the declarer leads the six of spades, winning the dummy with the ace. The ten dropping from the South hand clearly warns him that there are four spades remaining in the North hand.
 The queen of diamonds is returned from dummy and the seven of clubs discarded. Another diamond is led and trumped by the declarer with the eight of spades. Deciarer cashes his ace and the king of clubs and leads the ten of hearts. North discarding the jack of diamonds, South win ming with with the queen of hearts. South returns the queen of clubs which the declarer refuses to trump. discarding the seven of hearts, as he knows there is nothing but trump remaining in the North hand. This forces North to lead into the declar- CTS king, jack of spades, and declar- CT has made his contract of four spades doubled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

The Mattatuck Musical Art society will hold it's third anuaI meeting and banquet at the Waterbury Wo- mems club tonight at 6:30 o'clock. A song recital will fol- low the business meeting and cleo tion of officers, the society present ing Miss Mildred Roche, soprano, Miss Florence Cassidy, contralto, &C., companied by Miss Georgia c. Wolff. Miss Fannie L. Mccormack will pre- side.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
BY VIM F. MCKINNEY

Secretary American Bridge League
 The following hand shows two doubles .One, an informatory double to convey to partner definite infor- nation regarding the high card holding. The other double, made for business, is dangerous as it con- veys information that allows declar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

Miss Agnes c. Brothers of 448 Willow street will present her pupil, Louis Anthony Boisvert, in a piano recital at her home tomorrow eve ming. MT Boisvert will be assisted by Mrs Eric Pape, soprano.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16

The Waterbury chapter, College of Saint Elizabeth, will hold a dinner meeting tonight at 6:30 o'clock at the Hotel Waterbury. Miss Agnes Fitzpatrick, president, will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
What For the
"Marseillaise"?

Dear Comrade Sparks:-At recent Para
Commune celebration given by our Polish COM
radeS in this city, was burned up to hear the
Marseillaise played and sung Many of our
comrades, particularly those in foreign branches,
seem to be under the impression that this ultra
nationalist bourgeois French song can be fifty
played at our demonstrations.
ut doesn't belong. 1t is just as though the
French comrades would play the Star Spangled
Banner or as though the Americans would play
God Save the King" The MarSeillaise is the
national anthem of the French bourgeoiSie and
should be so regarded by our comrades.
"It is particularly maddening to hear the
damn thing sung at Paris Commune celebra-
ton 1t was to this tune that the French bour-
geos butchers shot down the Communards. This
fact should be told to all our comrades SO that
they never again. disgrace our affairs with the
rendering or the Marseillaise. Cleveland
Worker.
You said, comrade; so there's nothing much
left for us to say This song don't belong to
the working class, which had the song inflicted
upon it by the Second International. If Kill
quit and Abramovitch want it, let em have it.
We don't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

along on starvation, part time wages. In a sur
vey of 945 families in Wheeling who applied for
help. it was pointed out that 1913 families we're
left without support through the death of the
head Of the family, SO families we're forced to
apply for help because OF sickness, and $50 be-
cause Of unemployment and insufficient part
time wages. At the same time the Wheeling
News carries stories about wheeling Steel Cor
poration Continued Growth Through $780," an
nual profits amounting to $2688,60197, while the
total financial assets Of the corporation were
$40,7o2,897
The conditions of the working youth are even
worse. There are about 500 young workers be-
tween 10 and 25 who eat at the soup kitchen
of the Union Mission daily In QUESTIONABLE
survey that the Y. c. L. is conducting here, we
find that in out OF 10 average families. the
wages Of the young workers in the families are
the only source Of making living In one in
stance, for example, Y. G. L. member in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

operation of the Unemployed Council and Ma
tional Miners Union, are preparing protest
mass meetings to arouse mass sentiment against
this reign of terror. The Associated Charities
and the bosses fake Emergency Relief Commit
tee announce that no more relief will be given,
not even the slop-soup and garbage can charity
that are dished out, owing to lack of funds"
We find that it is national policy of the bosses
to withdraw even the measly charity that was
hitherto given out. The Communist Party and
the Young Communist League are preparing to
nominate working class and youth candidates
for office in the municipal elections here under
the slogan of Don't Starve Organize! De-
Inand Relief" The Unemployed Councils are
making house-to-house registrations of fam
lilies, and we have come across many needy fam
lilies on the verge Of downright starvation and
disease Around each case of desperate I'M
employed family we are developing campaign
demanding immediate relief from the city and
charity organizations FOR each case
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

Wheeling unit reported that his whole family of
six depends on his weekly wage of $40 for the
last year and a half In the whole period this
family only received one charity food basket of
So. Many young workers. especially the nigra-
tory youth that look for employment from
town to town, have no place to sleep. The jails
are full Of young workers who we're arrested be-
cause they break into A. g. P. stores for food,
milk, bread, etc.
Meanwhile the terror of the police against
the unemployed Negro and white workers is
growing. Those unemployed workers who are
found to be members Of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis have their charity-orders taken away from
them. The Wheeling City Council is going
through with the introduction OF the chain
gang and vagrancy laws, despite the supposed
repeal" Negro workers are taken out for a
ride and threatened to be shot or thrown into
the river if caught distributing leaflets. Mean
while, the Y. c. L. and the Party, with the CO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Starvation in Eastern Ohio,
w. Va. and Western Pa.

extraordinary demands for county help over
and above the usual mid-winter pressure"
This is how correspondent for conserva-
tive bourgeois newspaper writes Imagine the
actual suffering that is going on!
This same correspondent goes on to describe
the situation in the mining camps What little
relief may be given is handed out to scabs only
while those miners who belong to the National
Miners Union and who struck two years ago.
are permitted to die slowly Of starvation
Mr. Fullerton makes very significant remark
in summarizing the situation: "It is strange
when one thinks that the fathers of these men
supposedly fought to do away with slavery, and
are now living under conditions far worse than
those of slaves . And as we passed those
small, bleak cemeteries, thought to myself
Those are the lucky ones, up there on the hill
sidep"
Housing conditions arc terrible as a result
OF unemployment. Many families, unable to
pay rent, are forced to double, triple or even
quadruple up in rooms for only one family.
know of case where 10 men, women and chill
dren live together in two rooms, filthy small
stuffy, no ventilation, and child sick in bed
with dphtheria.
In Wheeling the impoverishment Of the
masses of working class families is almost un-
believable In the Congressional Record" of
Feb speech of Senator LaFollette is re-
corded, in which he cites figures on the unem-
ployment situation. The percentage OF unem-
ployment in proportion to the whole population
in Wheeling is 1871 per cent, while such leading
industrial centers as Detroit and Cleveland have
unemployment percentages Of 1876 per cent and
11.6, respectively. 1t is interesting to see that
Chicago, with 225 per cent, is the only city in
the United States with higher degree OF
relative unemployment than exists here in
Wheeling. According to recent report Of the
Associated Charities Of Wheeling, which is
very conservative report, 1914 persons, includ-
ing 1884 children, are forced to eat daily at the
soup kitchens. And the Associated Charities
are only one Of the three or four large charity
organizations in Wheeling. According to the
same report, there are LOLA families In extraor-
dinarily desperate need of immediate relief, in
addition to thousands who are forced to stagger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
BY LEO THOMPSON.

NTH the possible exception Of the South,
W there is probably no major industrial section
of the United States with such appallingly
widespread condition of abject poverty, mass
starvation and disease-pestilence as in Eastern
Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania.
The situation is so disastrous that even the most
conservative bosses newspapers can no longer
hide it, In the Feb. / issue Of the COLUMBUS
Dispatch" a special correspondent, Hugh Fuller
ton, who is touring this section, is forced to
speak Of "PestiIence Is Stalking Ohio Hunger
Belt" Full Extent Of Famine Unrealized,"
Sufferers Hopeless" "Red Cross Failing to
Reach Even Most Desperate Cases in Many
Sections etc.
This section is not only an important indus
trial district, but also big agricultural terri
tory. AS a result, the farmers, just as well as
the coal miners, steel workers and clay workers,
are feeling the pinch of starvation and disease.
Along the Ohio Valley, from East Liverpool to
cincinnati. from Steubenyille, southwest to Gin
cinnati-there exists the worst situation Of pri-
walton, hopelessneSs and suffering.
Thousands Of children are huddled in poor
homes without clothing or shoes to attend
school. Thousands Of others go hungry and
undernourished, easy prey to disease. Fathers,
unable to find employment, go gaunt and hol-
low-eyed and mothers stare at a stranger va
cantly. There are few tears-merely despair.
men are cuUtlng Coal lor AZ Genus a ION
loaded in the mine and In one district for 25
cents a ton Men are supporting large families
on an average Of less than $3.50 day when
they work-and begging for two or three days
work a week.
1.-THE drought left the small farmers and the
farm hands without winter supplies. Gardens
and small farms failed. The entire district,
whether one strikes coal or clay products sec
-tions, has been, since 1921, poverty stricken the
buying power exhausted, wages low, employ
ment part time, families large.
"The situation is actually desperate in many
districts. Every county infirmary and every
chidren's home We visited is overcrowded and
finding it difficult to care for the cases forced
On the county
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
A Lenin Set for Every Party
Unit

OUR Party now faces the important task OF
" raising the theoretical level of the member
ship In this connection it is necessary that tho
writings of Lenin be widely distributed among
the whole membership and that not only Party
functionarieS, but every Party member use them
for study and constant reference and guidance.
To expidite this work a special arrangement
has been made with the International Publishers,
381 Fourth Avenue, New York, by which the six
volumes of Lenns Collected Works now publ
ished are available at just half the former price.
These books, formerly sold at minimum Of
$3.50, now issued in a special subscribers
edition at 1925.
This arrangement was made for the specific
purpose of making it possible for every Party
member to use these books. A drive is now being
conducted with the support of the Central Com
mittee to distribute them
1t is immediate task for every unit 10 Sc
cure set of Lenin's works for its library.
These books should be made available to the
membership either through some form Of cir
culating library or other means worked out In
the unit. The problem of acquiring and using
these books, particularly by unit libraries but
also, wherever possible, by funtionaries and other
members should be taken up in unit meetings
Immediately.
1t should be noted that a further arrangement
has been made by which units are to receive
a $100 discount on their sets, making them cost
only 1925 Subscriptions with money order for
full payment should be sent to International
Publishers, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York
The volumes far issued in Lenin's Collected
Works contain the complete writings for the key
periods of his career. They are:
THE ISKRA PERIOD e volumes)-the for
nation of the Bolshevik Party Lenin's writingsj
on the problems of Party organization; includer
the famous pamphlet What is to be Done?
THE IMPERIALIST WAR-Written irnnys-
diately after the outbreak of the World War: an
analysis of the role OF the socialists" and Labor
elements who supported it; Lenns plans for
turning imperfalist war into civil war
THE REVOLUTION OF 1917 e yolumes,-
The period from the March Revolution to the
outbreak of open struggle against the Provisional
Government; the Boshevik tactics that led to
October. NF
MATERIALIsM AND ENPIRIo- CRrTICIsM-.
theoretical volume brilliant polenlic against
deviations from Marxism, as important and time
ly now as in the days it was written
as the day it was written
1t is urgent that every unit acquire these six
books Immediately.
Use the order blank below
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Hoover Overalls

From little country paper in Howell Count
Missouri we learn that a special make of over
als, christened Hoover overalls," has been
adopted for workers and poor farmers. They
are described as follows:
1.-The overalls have all the latest features, in
Guiding no pockets, legs sufficiently long so no
socks are necessary, big belt having sixteen
notches which may be frightened to relieve hun
ger (what we may call adequate relief"-Jorge),
two patches sewed on the knees so the wearer
may pray for a job. With each pair of overaIls
comes Mr.. Hoover's guarantee, made one year
ago, that prosperity will be back in sixty days"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

Tammany Social Notes
BY JORGE

She didn't get home until morning but taaen
Vivian Gordon didn't get home at all!
We refer to the leading lady in the following
dispatch from the New York News Of March q,
about what Jimmy Walker is doing to restore
his health" in Southern California
Jimmy was escort at a party given by Adoiph
zukor movie magnate, last night, to Miss j.
Carr Hollywood beauty. She returned to her
hotel from the Unterneyer home at 10 a. M
today, wearing sky blue sports pajamas, rubber
sneakers and carrying pink silk beach robe"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party q. g. A.
p o. Box 81 Station D.
New York City.
Please send me more information on the Com
munist Party.
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Mail this to the Central once Communist
Party. P. o. Box 81 Station D. New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27

Organize an Unemployed Coun.
Gil in Every Workers Neigh
bOrhOod of Twenty Blocks;
Register the Unemploy-
ed; Investigate Starva-
ton Conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
international Publishers,

international Publishers
381 Fourth Avenue, New York
Please send. sets of the special subscribers
edition of six volumes now issued of Lenins Col
ected Works at the special price to units Of $8.25
the set. Money order for $... enclosed
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
PARTY LIFE

Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21

Highway projects of construc- tion and reconstruction under the town aid appropriation of 1881 passed beyond the 400 mile mark in length to-day when Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald announced the addition to the pro gram of nine more jobs, totaling 17 IA miles. Macadam, asphalt and gravel construction are in- cluded among the nine new pro- jects.
 Bids of these jobs will be re- ceived from contractors at the highway department headquarters in the State Office Building on Monday, October 26. at ? p. m.
 With the addition of the projects announced by Commissioner Mac donald to-day, the town aid pro- gram hears it's completion for 1881. The mileage under contract when these jobs are awarded will be 404 miles and work will have been assigned to 143 of the states 169 towns.
 The projects are as follows:
 Town of Berlin-About S,350
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-21
Nine More State
 Highway Projects
I03I Program Has Now Passed the 400 Mile Mark
 l43 Towns Already Assigned

feet of unrolled macadam on the Southington road.
 Town of Bethany-About 14,O4S feet of rolled gravel on the Bol- ton Center-Hebron road.
 Town of Canaan-About 10.915 feet of rolled gravel on the Upper Barrack road.
 Town of Hartland-About 21, 32S feet of loose gravel on five sections of roads.
 Town of Middlefield-About STOP feet of unrolled trap rock macadam on the Mack, Way and Strickland roads.
 Town of Stamford-About 2,9S5 feet of sheet asphalt on bitumfn- ous base on Haight street.
 Town of Thompson-About 14,700 feet of rolled gravel on the Putnam, Quadic 4-Corner-Putnam line, Porter Plains roads and the Church Corner bridge.
 Town of Wethersfield-About 2,6OO feet of waterbound macadam on Griswold street and about $500 feet of rolled gravel on Highland street,