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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
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FIRST TELEPHONE SPEECH
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FIRST TELEPHONE SPEECH : |, On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the tele- phone, sent the first complete sen Itence over the telephone. It was an order summoning. an assistant in an- other room: "Mr Watson, come here: want you"
 Bells earliest efforts were devoted to the perfection of harmonic telegraph" with which he hoped to send several telegraphic messages over a single wire. At the same time he also tried to. transmit speech electrically. # On June ?, 1875, he succeeded in trans
 mitting by wire the sound of a ltwanging clock spring. ii Others had predicted the possibil-. lity of transmitting speech by wire.
 but had not hit upon the only practicable method. Bells original system used device similar to the.
 modern receiver, both for sendine and receiving. The transmitter of to-day, whicl
 has been developed by many scien. lists, is much more delicate and satisfactory. At present the telc, phone consists essentially of q trans hitter, an induction coil, and @ rt :. lceiver. connected .tby, copper wire.
 and supplied with a source of direct current
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

In recent talking news reel. exhibited at theaters throughout the country. Governor Roosevelt of New York is shown announcing that taxes will be held down in his state in order to assist business recovery. He then asks the public to turn its attention to mu- nieipal and county governments, which he says, have been the principal promoters of high taxes in recent years. Governor Roose- welt has selected one of the best possible ways of reaching wide and varied audience. and it is to be hoped that his remarks will be taken to the public heart. Every state exeeu- tive should give every effort to holding down government expense in the interest of em- ployment, industrial progress. home building and property ownership.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
NEA Service Writer

Washington = That lame duck amendment is one of those inevit- able things. It is bound to get into the Constitution sooner or later. despite the fact it died again in the latest session because the senate and house could not agree as to whether the second session of congress should be unlimited in duration or be kept down to four months.
 The most important point is tha. the amendment, bringing congress and the administration into active. service in the January following election, has been passed by very large majorities m both houses and that it has overwhelming support from the country.
 Senator George w. Norris of Ne braska apparently could we'll afford to refuse, along with Senator Bora h of the senate conferees. to agree to the house proposal sponsored by Speaker Longworth which would have limited the second session.
 Norris to Get Support.
 Passage of lame duck legislation
 
 of the next congress, in which Long, worth presumably will be unable to dominate the house as at present, and the likelihood is that Norris will find sufficient support for unlimited second sessions. His objection t1 limited sessions is that they permit small group te filibuster and that a provision permitting filibus.ers should not be imbedded in the con- stitution.
 Norris has fought for the amend ment for So many years that he feels he can afford to wait another year with the prospect of getting one through which will achieve all his objectives. e..
 Congress usually has fight ci, constitutional amendments in prog ress and the apparent certainty that the one abolishing lame duck ses- sions will go into the constitution probably as the goth amendment is all the more interesting swhen t is considered that nearly 1,5OJ amendments have been proposed in congress during the last 40 years, of which four have actually been passed by the requisite two-thirds maioritieS and ratified by the states.
 Legislatures Act Quickly.
 Generally speaking, amendments have been preceded by. long. hard fights and a gradual mobilization of public opinion. but their ratification by the legislatures has in nearly all cases been accomplished within com paratively brief periods. ssss, !,
 The amendments since those which followed the Civil War have been the 18th, authorizing congress 70 levy an income tax; the 17th, for direct election of senators instead of election by legislatures; the 18th (you know what that is)., and th.. 18th. giving women the vote.
 Flocks of resolutions have been introduced which would limit by amendment the period one man might occupy the presidency--i-to to one or two terms of four years eaci, or a single term of anywhere from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

High hopes are held for the success of the metal curtailment program now being put into effect by the mining industry. Basieally the problem is like that of the oil. the farm. the rubber industry and others to adjust supply to demand. When an industry pro. duces more of commodity than it can sell the result is depression. Surplus stocks pile up and prices drop to the point where it is impossible to make profit. When any major industry finds itself in a predieament such as this the entire industrial structure of the nation is affected The efforts of mining to regain its economic balance are worthy of support.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
GOES TO VIEW LATEST
 BRITISH BATTLESHlP

London. s(UP)-.lIis. Majestys s Ship Queen Anne's Mansions" or to be precise, H. M. S. Nelson will show American sailors Britain's latest thing in, battleships when she offl- cially visits the American fleet in the Bay of Panama in February.
 Nelson got her facetious nick name from her. crew. who are re- minded of the great block of flats in London called Queen Anne's Man sions whenever they perceive the huge steel tower towards the after part of the ship.
 The vessel; which cost $37. .500, ,O00 to build, is regarded as the oldest and ugliest ship ever built. She is. however, the nearest thing to an unsuitable warship yet designed.
 Che has nine 16-inch guns. So large and complicated is her, inter- for that @ battery of no loudspeak- CTS and telephone installation equal to that in many small towns is necessary to convey orders to her 1,Se1 officers and men. The cost of keeping Nelson in commission is over $2.500, 900 year
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
LILLaAN LEITzEL
 (fIaf4Hord Courant)

The cold arcs high up in the big top grow dim. The white spider per- formers in the rings scamper for their dressing rooms. A single golden spotlight snaps sharply through the dusty air to the center ring. Dofiing his top hat. the ring g-master steps into the circle of light and bellows hoarsley: "iad-e-e-s an gent'mun. It Is my pleashah and, great privilege to introduce to youS the queen of .a-e-e-riaI pahfohrSlhs. Miss Lillian Lettzel." And then she comes to life. q tiny figure wrapped ins white cloak. her mass Of red gold hair blazing in the light:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

This country is surfeited with laws. There are so many statutes that it is utterly impos- sibe for the average citizen to be conversant with them even superficially. This super fluity of statutory law tends to lower general respect for law. It should be the purpose of all legislative bodies to keep down to the minimum the number of legislative enact ments Fewer laws, and laws of better quality is the supreme need of the hour throughout the nation says the Pasadena ar-News.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
MuoIATpESS pES
 AS@~S~ = @ol

This is the age of idiocy--the age QUOTATIONS-- u. ...f.t.. ... - of brass and gas.-Edgar Lee Mas ters.
 Prohibition has raised the thinker from the gutter and put him in good ociety.--Kenneth Mackintosh. mem
 Der of the Wickersham commission. On every hand we see the loos- ening hold of religion on our social |life.-George w. Wickersham. I couldn't join the Socialist party because I'd be too lonely.-C Clarence Darrow. - Business. tfatfis industry, already
 has begun the upward trend.--Gen- lerai w. W. Atterbury, railroad ex- We must denounce that thing. and by that I mean that thing over in Russia -John D. Rockefeller. Sr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
SAVING SARAH

She wouldn't have q photograph, She was too tight, they say. They claim she secs her picture, in The mirror every day.
 o-O-o trouble car expect it to meet him more than half way.
 o-O-o The female eavesdropper, she snoops to conquer.
 o-O-o Some of the salads look so pret- rty you just hate to start eating 'em.
 We're slaves to custom. Con- sider the man who insisted there must be a place to wind the electric clock.
 o-O-o My idea of nothing. A couple of wrestlers losing poundage in heap of sweat and grunts before five thousand on!ookers.
 O-O-o
 This is the time of the year when mother reminds dad that he'd better start painting the porch furniture and repair the couch hammock.
 o-O-o A rabid socialist says machinery doesn't count. Hasn't he ever heard of the adding machine.
 O-O-o A gusher may be oil or just a deb trying to make an impression on the world at large.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
DECEIVER.

Oh fhppcf gay, why SO, sad, Is my gin so ri,W and bad? Why so gium. why SO lifelcss Shall I move my silly carcass? You're not smoking. you're not jOk-
 ing,
 Is the party so revolting? You're not dancing, you're not
 prancins,
 Don't you like those tunes they're
 jaZZin2? Come. come, cOnftdc in me. Then we both can make wIlOOpcc. Slowly she answered me at last, Saying. II was thinking of my
 past. If they spill it. l get the raxx. ! was.' and then sine faItcred: Laid her head upon my chest Seeking comfort and some rest. ''Is it murder?" insisted. "NO, mo-" she resistcd: Wiped sprOuting tear or two. | Then replied, 'I'm telling you. You must know, alas. forsOotlle. was Il Girl Scout in my youth.'
 -v. A. M.
 o.O-o The Waterbury real estate dealer who has quite q few doctors offices to rent, isT't eating an apple a day, not much.
 The man who finds time to admire his wife will discover she has no time to admire any other man
 O--O--o Words of wisdom the wise men forgot: Saying little and thinking a lot means fewer apologies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady. NJ. D.

Sigmesi letters pertaining to pcrsoM' health and hy.icne not disease diaS''''>is of treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. A"' drese him. care Of the Democrat. se"u'"S stamp and addressed envelope
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
Good evening.
 O-O-o LONGING FOR HOME
"A SMILES THD THING"

LONGING FOR HOME Oh. editor, don't write of snow, It's horrid, how l wish 'twould Down south we have no slush, oh
 dear.
 Sometimes think I'll have to clear And just go back to ma and dad, Good gosh, know that they d be glad, Oh. editor, it~would be fine, With you below the Dixie line. The peaches soon will be in bloom, Their fragrance filling every
 room, Below my window there's tree, That daddy planted, just for me. I get so homesick. now and then. It reaches to my desk and pen, So that is why this poem is sent. With you down south, I'd be
 content
 Florida Fanny.
 C-O-o The man who sits in chair do- ing nothing, seldom gets beyond the chair.
 o-O--o
 Chinese lounging robes prom ise to be quite the thing for men this year. It might be good stunt to crawl into one while waiting for the Japanese sand man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

We don't print any such stuff las that" said the editor, loftily, IS he handed back the poem
 Well. you needn't be SO print it.''--Answers. <
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
DING, DING.

 His wifc's blonde, And very fair, But she's light in more ways Than her hair.
 O-O--O The man who always eats sinkers for breakfast can well afford to wonder why his health is going down.
 o-O-o With wild life' in the cities, what further use have we for forests anyway?
 o-O-o And then there was the man who said good times will start for sure on April first.
 o-O-o Not to forget the flapper who wanted a marriage with punch, so she wed prize < fighter. o-O-o A lot of people become round shouldered from trying to be on the square.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

We're pretty gentle with the railroads and the trusts nowadays, but the sport of jumping onto banks grows in popularity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10

When Smedley Butler takes up featuring regularly, it would add to the interest of life if he and Mussolini would change countries for while as guest lecturers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
UO-U OHMIGOSH.

That little ray of sunshine, Came through i'm radiant gleam, Twas just the thing we needed, To make your diamond beam.
 o-O-O
 This completes our regular Tues day evening program. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Demo crat. pioneer In this type of news paper work. eW are signing off al this time, to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour.
 GOO Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-10
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

WHAT THE EDITORS AND. ELSEWHERE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS. THAT AND THE OTHER
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
Make Money Available

Members of the subcommittee District appropriations
Of the House and Senate to begin preparation of the
cy's annual supply BILL face opportunity to deal
severe blow to unemployment in Washington.
By simply adding few words after various items in the
bill they furnish jobs hundreds of men and women
who walking the streets
These few words make Immediately available the items
to which they appended.
Without such action Of the funds carried in the bill
will be available for expenditure until the beginning of the
next fiscal year. starting in July.
Construction items in the bill lend themselves particularly
TO such treatment.
Undoubtedly the bill will appropriate millions for
buildings for the street repair work. for Improvement to
listing structures
The proper time start such work in the spring. just
about the time the appropriation bill will be passed
Congressman will find good reason for holding these
funds in the Treasury all spring
The dollars should be put to work order that
they may put the city's unemployed to work.
Congress set precedent along this line in the last session.
when 1t made Immediately available several appropriations
carried in the bill.
It would be well for the city generally in the coming
session made the bulk Of funds to be used in obreang
endeavors available at once. '''''
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

Not as ragged as the old
tramps used to be, not as dirty.
Sometimes, indeed, very smartly
dressed and groomed. But
scratch the surface and you'll
find the tramp.
A person who didn't care. E.
who didn't care to make \
home or start a business. who
didn't pay taxes or rents. :.
who didn't bother about wha5
people thought or said. who
just wanted to be free and
happy n keep moving. that
was a tramp.
Tramps of 1881
That's a tramp today-and
this country is swarming With
them.
People who don't care.
People who cant be both
ered."
People who are always "just
gettin by. :. living from hand
to mouth. lodging rentals,
ducking bills, moving along.
People without roots or stand
ards.
Who boast that they live
their own lives
Tramps. Frequently charm
ing, merry, fascinating tramps
but tramps nevertheless.
AND AS POTENTIALLY DAN
GEROUS AS ANY RAGGED
HOBO THAT EVER BEDDED
DOWN UNDER THE RAIL
ROAD BRIDGE.
You never can tell what
people like that will do
FOR THEY NEVER CAN TELL
THEMSELVES. They'll do
what seems convenient and ex-
pedient. They don't INTEND
or PLAN to be bad-but neither
have they any definite inten-
ton to be good. They're op.
portunists-fitting into any sit
uation-thinking Of themselves
first in any emergency. And
if that emergency happens to
involve your life, happiness or
pocketbook-why it's just your
bad luck.
Just Drifters
Tramps-drifters, that won't
work or fight for the things
that you and I work and fight
for-that don't believe the
things that you and I believe.
That don't care for anything
or anybody. as long as they
can keep moving.
They're a menace! They're
a worse menace than our actual
criminals our detectives,
degenerates. alien enemies. For
we can detect a criminal and
segregate a defective.
BUT WHAT ARE WE GO
ING TO DO WITH THE
FLOATING MENACE OF
THESE PEOPLE WHO DON'T
CARE AND CAN'T BE BOTH
Erred?
Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1931-11-30

But-somehow, a tramp was diff
ferent.
For one thing, a tramp didn't
care enough for any place to
hang around it. He was always
on the move. Even when he got
a job for a few days, cutting
wood, or Spading gardens, he
wouldn't keep it. He had to
move along-try something new.
Nothing seemed to hold a tramp.
He didn't want a house, like
other, people. Or a job-or a
busineSs-or a family-or neigh
bors. He didn't have anything
and he didn't want anything.
He didn't care for anything ex-
cept to keep moving.
He didn't care-that's what
set a tramp apart from other
people. He wasn't necessarily a
thief or a murderer. He just
was a person who didn't care.
That was what made him differ.
ent and dangerous.
He Didn't Care
For, of course, you couldn't
count on a person who didn't
care. The things that meant
a lot to you didn't mean any,
thing to him. He wouldn't
work for them, or fight for
them. He just kept moving
along, and you never could
tell what he would do next.
Tramps weren't very common
in the nineties. Nobody both
cred much about them. They
camped by themselves in the
Jungle" across the railroad
track.
But it's different now. Some
thing has happened. Some
times I wonder If about so per
cent of this nation isn't going
hobo! For you'll find tramps
everywhere. Not just camp
ing in jungles or hoofing it
across the highway. Like as
not, they're living in the next
apartment. working at the
next counter.
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
Something Radically
Wrong With Roads

There was something radi-
cally wrong with them in
1918 when they were on the
verge Of collapse in the crisis
of the war. The Govern
ment took them over as a
war measure because there
was no other way. The war
had to be waged. We have
heard quite enough twaddle
and trash about that Incl
dent. The condition of the
roads today has no connec-
ton with it.
Wages were increased
under the dictatorship OF
McAdoo as they should have
been, and had to be. In
many branches Of the serv-
ice the wages paid before
were a disgrace to American
industry; and with wages
high in every other branch
of industry there was no
other way to hold the rail-
road workers to their jobs
when the roads we're vital to
victory in the war. When,
after the war and the imme-
date period Of readjust-
ment, trade began to boom,
the roads prospered as be-
fore; today they are in the
slough of despond like every
other industry and most in
dividuals.
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
Public Safeguards
Must Be Maintained

Whatever agreement may
be possible regarding wages,
the President probably will
propose legislation in the in
terest of the roads, and his
recommendations naturally
will be dispassionately con-
sidered by Congress with
the view to helping the
roads-without in any way
tearing down the safeguards
of the public.
But these safeguards must
not be pulled down.
We are hearing much
these days about the "out-
rageous" policy of govern
mental regulation; and
sneers are directed even at
the Interstate Com merce
Commission. We are hear
ing that the roads should be
permitted to "attend to their
own business" to fix their
own rates as they see fit, to
do whatever they please.
The reason they are not
now permitted to do "what-
ever they please with their
own business" is that when
they did, they operated on
the motto of "the public be
damned; and it was.
The history of our rail
roads is one of vast achieve.
ment, of much heroism, Of
unthinkable swindling, Of
wholesale corruption, of con-
scienceless greed-a medley
of good and bad. The time
came when the bad predoml-
mated and farmers, shippers,
consumers, literally were
robbed with intolerable in
science.
Cove emit fin ally
stepped in because it was
necessary to the public in
terest; and public interest
demands that the Govern
ment must stay in.
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
ONCE-OVERS

press the learned one with
your own knowledge Of the
subject in which he shines
particularly?
What a waste Of valuable
time!
The reason some persons APP
pear to have such accurate
information on certain subjects
is largely due to the fact that
they never miss an opportunity
to associate with those who
possess worth while informa-
ton.
They listen intently and talk
little before educational au-
thority.
To draw out an expert is to
get many leads which pursued
would make the interested one
very well versed In useful
topics.
fcopyriRht, 1881. by International
Feature Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
Politics, and the
Railroads
Blu Claude G.. 'BOIUerS-

conditions. It was not fair
to the public, however, to de-
ceive it as to these condi-
tons, though that was the
sole strategy Of the Admin
istration during the first
year of the panic.
Now the roads are de-
handing a wage reduction on
the ground that the state Of
the roads demands it; and
the employees are protesting
that the purpose is to reduce
the earnings of the workers
that the earnings of capital
may be maintained. The
roads offer an agreement
that the reduction be con-
fined to the period of the de-
preston, and there is a pos
slbllity of some settlement
upon that basis. 1t is not a
controversy to arouse the en-
thusiasm Of the thoughtful.
The roads are vital to pros
perity; their securities are in
possession of life insurance
companies and savings banks.
The roads are suffering enor-
mously from the loss of for
eign trade; and bus and
truck competition is taking
it's toll of their earnings.
There unquestionably is
something wrong with the
railroads.
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
Listen

Listen
Do you ever try to get out
of your particular class or busi-
ness strata in order to learn
something?
Are your efforts to meet
prominent people prompted
solely by the thought that
you'd like to be able to say
that you know them?
This satisfies your ego but
that is all it means to you.
Conversation with those who
have gone far and done things
worth while should give you
some valuable information.
If you are sufficiently intel
ligent to say things that cause
a learned person to talk, you
gain much Of educational
value. .....
Instead. you don't try to i'm
The Washington times., 1931-11-30

known centuries ago the City of vayanagarCity Of
Victory"
For two hundred this Cty Of Victory held back
Mohammedan invasion from the north
But the City Of Victory lost its toward the end
Of the 10th century, when the sutans of Bapu Ahmadagar
and Goconda combined to destroy Vjayanaga and reduced
it to ruins.
All things pass Those that the form the great
hollow trough gone, and the victims whose blood
used to fill it are gone.
And the gods in whose honor glory the blood
shed longer remembered except by deeply persous
Asiatcs.
The great Hindu temple is only ruin. The priests that
served within it are gone and forgotten.
Men come, till the soil build great buildings and great
hopes And they their buildings and their hopes lie under
the SOIL which covers and smooths out everything
The Washington times., 1931-11-30
Spells System of Work

The iron ball partisan politics about to roll over some
400 Republican employees Of the House of Representatives
The spos system to work unfortunately for those
As long their party holds power everything is fine
when public sentiment shifts and their party stripped of
peH they must suffer
Many Of those who will lose out when the
gane the House have their ability and demonstrated
filled.
Dismissal Of this large number of workers this particular
time will be most unfortunate and party leaders might well
special provision made, will be compelled join the army
Of unemployed Just at Christmas