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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
Is America For Peace?

We Americans regard ourselves as the most peaee-loving nation in the world and the leader in practical efforts for peace. It is time to stop kidding ourselves. The two leading powers of Europe. France and Britain. have just agreed to submit all cases of inter- national dispute to the arbitration of the World court, without exception. This is not a diplomatic flourish It is sober decision registered by the parliments the supreme gov- erning bodies of the two countries. The British parliament voted for the measure nearly two to one. regardless of parties.
 The British government is now Rejoicing in this accomplishment because it may lead to further disarmament in the conference at Geneva next year. Arthur Henderson, Brit ish foreign secretary, says: If nations are convinced that their governments have re- nounced war not only in name but in real intention. as shown by their willingness to support league proposals for peace, they will be more ready to dispense with the machin- cry of war.
 Now, what has America done and what is she doing3 We have circulated and signed pious resolution 'renouncing war as an in- We had a noble. but entirely private. part in organizing the Court of International Justice. and have not yet entered its jurisdiction. We are afraid to submi: our disputes to it, from fear that some time some case might be decided against us. We still refuse to join. even with the reservations of the Root protocol. by which we could forbid consideration by the court of any ueston in which we claimed special interest.
 Meanwhile the other two or the three powers that dominate the world choose to submit everything to that court without res- ervation. to avoid war. It is time to ask ourselves, as Europe is asking of us. Are we for peace or are we not9'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
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E. E. HALE's BIRTH

On April 3. 1922. Edward Everett Hale, famous American author. phil anthropist and Unitarian clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass.
 He graduated from Harvard at the age of IT and then studied for the ministry. In 1856 he became pastor of the South Congregational church of Boston and took an active interest in all the philanthropic movements of his city and time. In 1901 he became pastor emeritus of the church and two years later was appointed chaplain of the United States Senate.
 Although he wrote prolifically. Hale is best remembered for that classic of a patriotic fiction, "The Man Without Country His most influential book is 'Ten Times One Is Ten." This book led to the formation of Lend-a-Hand clubs. Kings Daughters and many similar charitable organizations.
 He died in 1909. at the age of 87, a year after he had been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
Illegal Alien Residents

The U s. Department of Labor is getting after alien seamen who are said to have entered the country illegally. It is said that 100000 of such men are In this country, whose laws they violated when they entered it. Also the labor department has increased its force, with the idea of deporting, as many as possible of the 400. 900 or more aliens of all occupations who are estimated to be living here illegally. No sympathy need be felt for these people. They slipped across our bord- CTS. or wormed their way through our sea- ports knowing that they were breaking the immigration laws. A man who will break the laws to get into the country. is likely to keep on breaking them after he gets in. He IS not desirable citizen.
 Many of them no doubt settle down and show themselves good workers. And yet such ones proved themselves at the start to be lawless people, and we have far too many of that type already. Most of these people are taking jobs away from legal residents. Some portion of the unemployed problem would be solved if the whole 100000 of them could be shipped back to the countries they came from. These people who succeeded in getting in here contrary to our laws. are altogether too slick for us They would better go back to their former homes, and exercise this smartness in dealing with their own authorities. who understand their lan- guage and know how to handle them.
 Our government will not be very much re- spected in other lands. if every year some tens or hundreds of thousands of people can be bootegged over our boundaries. Sending few hundred thousand of them back would have wholesome effect in the countries these people come from. It would teach some folks that while Uncle Sam may be regarded as very tolerant old bird, he is not to be trifled with beyond certain point.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
THE DANBURY RESULT.
(Hartford Timegl

S1drLLOFu llTNeSJ
 Outcome of Mondays mayoralty election is naturally pleasing to the democrats of Danbury and of the state generally. Deprived almost on the eve of election of the can didacy of Mayor Sunderland, whom they had expected to renominate. the democrats were abliged to re-. wise their campaign plans hastily. That they were able to do 50. and achieve a victory by more than D., 100 plurality, indicates that the party Is we'll organized and has the con- fidence of Danbury.
 This Is the second bye-election. if it may be so called, since the state election last November, when Governor Cross carried the state. The first was in East Hartford. Gov ernor Cross had carried that town by one vote, while Congressman Lonergan had run even with his op-. ponent, and the town had elected one democrat and one republican to the legislature. The democrat died and special election was called to choose his successor. Another demo- crat was chosen by a plurality of 600, emphasizing the significance of the democratic trend.
 tT is interesting, therefore, to ob- serve that Danbury has now gone democratic again by a large plural ity. Possibly the outcome has no relation to state affairs. On the other hand, 1t must be said that II indicates there has been nothing in republican conduct at the capitol since the legislature convened which has strengthened the republicans party.
 The party in the legislature began with a churlish attitude upon min. ority representation yon committees in the house. It has only with dif- ficulty and upon occasion held in check tendency to treat Governor Cross contemptuously and to ignore any right on his part to the leader ship which naturally accrues to the governors office.
 If the Danbury election is to be interpreted in the light of what has been going on at the capitol, think ing republicans may well question whether their party Is in any sense benefiting by Hartford procedure. Certainly the trend Is not turning back to republicanism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1881
Legalized Gambling

At the hearing before the legislative com mittee on cities and boroughs yesterday Sena- tor John F. Lynch of West Haven maintained that for twenty years there was no complaint against the gambling games and devices at Savin Rock, but as soon as the state had legal ized ten cent gambling at the shore resort there was an immediate uproar. It will be recalled that four years ago in the closing hours of the General Assembly Senator Lynch. then repre- sentative. slipped through the measure permit ting Savin Rock to continue to do legally what it had done illegally for so many years.
 Perhaps we shouldn't say slipped through as that might lead some people to believe that Mir Lynch used underhsnd methods to secure passage of this bill Far from it. The bill passed through the ordinary legislative chan nels. It was there for anyone who cared to investigate, but inasmuch as the Legislature was on its last legs interest was at a minimum. There had been no warning of the gambling measure. hence 1t didn't require much effort 10 secure its passage. But as soon as it be- came law howl of protest was heard from one end of the state to the other.
 1t really doesn't make much difference whether or not the Assembly repeals the sta- tute legalizing ten cent gambling. The same games will continue to operate illegally at Savin Rock just as they do at nearby Walnut Beach or any of the other shore resorts. It will probably be the same situation as exists in New York state where betting on horse races is forbidden but indulged in at Saratoga. Bell mont. and Empire state tracks. While the New York authorities frown on the eulprits one hand rests eomfortingly on the downeast CD one's head. How much better off the state would be. though. if pari mutuel betting was permitted.
 We aren't proposing raeetraek for Connec- ticut. although we don't think that it would be the den of iniquity that many call it. We do think. though. that these holier-than- thou people who protecting the weak from sor- did influences ought to interest themselves in some plan to provide more revenue for a state that annually needs more and finds its sources of revenue limited. A nice liquor business would just about put Connecticut back on its feet financially. and enable us to provide for major Improvements for many years to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

The proposed state prison farm may be located in Enfield according to present ad- vices. The board of directors of the prison has taken an option on l.500 acre farm and unless all signs fail will exercise it before 1t expires. The site formerly was Shaker set- clement and many of the old buildings are still standing there. although they have oeen used for farming purposes of late years. Enheld is more than 20 miles from Wethersfeid' put is believed to be near enough not to interfere with plans for prison farm. It IS hopea that by 1934 when the Hawes-Cooper Diil stopping interstate shipment of prlson-made goods goes into effect Connecticut will De operating its prison farm and finding work for idle hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

We were pleased to see the birth control bill defeated so overwhelmingly in the house Wednesday. As crushing defeat in the ser- ate is confidently expected. While Connect cut may have the most stringent birth con- trol laws in the United States moral conditions throughout the world now are too upset to find state legislatures aiding and abetting re- taxation. By the way good many people don't know that the use of contraeeptives in Connecticut is absolutely forbidden. There are few organizations now actively battling birth control advocates, but there are plenty of individuals who will demand that their representatives at the seats of government maintain constant vigilance to protect the home from commercialized vice such as is proposed. To permit contraceptive information to be widely diffused and to make available for everybody contraeeptives would be fatal move on the part of this nation. already i1- sensible in some degree to moral obligations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
What Are Prisons For?

From 27 years of prison experience. and having seen l7.000 men go out from the pen itentiary. I want to say that prison does not reform men. If they are changed. it is be- cause they have been talked to and have changed their thinking" That is the theory of state penitentiary warden. It is thought provoking statement. even for persons who think prisons are maintained for punishment of wrong -doers rather than their reform Pun tilment may SO harden and embitter a man fIsat he will return to society more vicious criminal than before. Imprisonment is only a temporary protection for the public if it does
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
muoTATIoGSS oGSS
 A<--.---T

To attempt any wheat production for export in the United States is foolish.
 --Alexander Legge. former chair man of the farm board. A reasonable amount of learning must, of course, accompany an ed ucation.
 Nicholas Murray Butler. To be happy, live. It is as simple as that. Mine Ernestine schumann-H Heink If woodrow Wilson had been as- sassinated at the climax of his pop ularity, his fame today would equal Lincoln's.
 George Bernard Shaw. The trouble with most people to- day Is they treat sin as if 1t were
 -Biny sunday. I have been more or less shocked by the reports of the framing of in nocent women.
 Mayor James J.. Walker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

not reform prisoner but srouses his desire for revenge.
 forms, but until there is some real understand ing of the purpose of imprisoning criminals. it will be hard to work out an ideal system. At present. there is such confusion of purposes
 reform. punishment protection of society. cheek to potential criminals through fear. and so on that none of the purposes is really accomplished very often.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

If reservoirs aren't overflowing after the rainfall of the last week or so then something is radically wrong. Every brook in and around the city is swirling along at merry rate. The Naugatuek river is high but noth- ing like that memorable spring of seven years aqo when the Freight street bridge went down. We can't ever recall seeing the river as hign as that year. although we do recall the old golf lots flooded on many occasions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
OHMiGosH

Not yet, she cried, her face aflame, Don't enter and her voice was | just @naI"i can's be disturbed right now. I'm giving Fid0, dear. a bath.
 o-O-o Good practice for rumble seat rid- ing is speeding along in the side car of motorcycle.
 They're trying to popularize cotton cloth. Soon they'll try the same with Cotton Hollow. Spinach contains iron and 1t takes cast iron nerve to eat the stuff.
 o-O-o
 America Is becoming a nation of professional jugglers. Too bad they can't get jobs in vaudeville.
 o-O-0 We're having so many earthquakes 1t begins to look as if Old Mother Earth has joined in the jazz dancing.
 o-O-o
 It takes five months to make the average moving picture feature. Reelly.
 o-O-o Typewriters are like football teams. Now they're advertising new type of shift.
 Some folks get paid for read- ing books. The newspaper and magazine reviewers for instance.
 o-O-O
 Many flapper has a scream line body.
 o-O-0 This completes our regular Friday evening program. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the waterbury Evening Democrat. pio- neer in this type of newspaper work We are signing off at this time. to be back on the afr again tomorrow at noon with a special Saturday pro- gram.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
Personal Health SerUice
 (By William Brady, M. D.)

sisued letters pertaining to pcrsona' health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment will be answered by pr braoS' Au' dress him. care of the Democrat se'""s stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

Business should follow the example or poh- tics and start its next years campaign now not forgetting the value of advertising.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

Those Russian communists will never get anywhere until they straighten out their alpha bet and turn the letters right end up and fae- inc in the same direction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:48 o'clock tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
DING DING

Beneath this mound.
 Sleeps Slxinflint Blair, He charged autoists Q dime
 To use Free Air.
 o-O-o Who can remember the good old days when they had zinc under the kitchen stove and mother would dip rag in kerosene in order to clean it? An, them was the good old days.
 o-O-O
 When a man falls in love he lands on an expense account.
 0-O-O The gal who has eyes for but one boy and one only has lost her single sense and is suffering from double vision.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
Good evening.
 o-O-o ALL HAIL, EASTER!

ALL HAIL, EAS Once again the joyous shout,
 Easter season all about, Let your happy voices raise,
 Join the world in hymns of praise. Spring is knocking at the door.
 Knock on knock. we know what
 for. Open. friends. and let it in,
 Harkl. challenge comes to win. Easter. season of great joy,
 When human love can never efoy, When hearts just open up and sing,
 Hymns of praise to living King. Young and old join in the song.
 Marching with the passing throng. Easter has charm and swing.
 Resurrection day and spring. Shops have symbols of the day.
 Tributes of the Easter way. Newness, freshness, all around,
 Buds break through the heated
 ground. There's something in the air.
 That makes Easter. day quite rare. Let us rise and gladly sing.
 Hymns to Easter. songs to spring.
 o-O-o
 Had two hot cross buns this morn- ing. They were not hot, bore no cross and tasted more like bread than buns. So sit down and figure this one out for me.
 O-O-o
 Many a man thinks he holds
 the whip hand, only to discover
 he lacks the whip.
 O-O-O
 Short girls try to get up in the world by wearing high heels.
 After a while as special in-
 ducement, they'll probably give
 one of those pee-wee radio sets
 away with every standard
 model. Why not?
 A new lip stick admonishes the girls to Keep Kissable." As if a
 
 dark. Or wants to. o-O-o An auto driver seems to take keen delight in morning in on things. o-O-o l The honeymoon is over when he breaks the hand painted china plate that she worked on for months, prior to the wedding. | -fv + J s OH, MY GRACIOUS. Tommy fell in love, Like others of his kind, | And so he married Clara To cIarify his mind. l o-O-o Words of wisdom the wise men forget: It takes a gangster to cause to stir. o-O-o Prayer may be able to move mountains but it won't budge a car stuck in the mud. o-O-o Some people are as fussy about wall paper as they are the evening paper. o-O-o Then there was the depart ment store that hired an athlete so he could tell the number of running feet in g. yard of cloth. ] O-O-O Edison says we sleep too much suppose he wants us to stay UT nights and enjoy the electric light he perfected. l o-O-o If lot of people acted natural they'd be dumped in the l nut factory. | o-O-O | They say charity begins at home We're interested in where 1t stops. I O-O-O |
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-03
Commissioners
DROP FIGHT ON
JUDGE PAY hike.
$4,000 Year Salary Scale
Is Approved, Following
Mandate Action.

Discharge of several clerks and
stenographers at the courthouse
may be necessary to pay $4,000 in
increased salaries to eight county
judges. it appeared today, following
agreement OF county commissioners
Tuesday on a $4,000 yearly salary
schedule for the judges.
Commissioners announced they
would not carry their legal fight for
reduction of the judges salaries
from $4,000 to $1,000 to the su-
preme court, because it appeared
futile.
The judges recently obtained an
order from Samuel Dowden, special
circuit court judge, mandating the
county auditor to pay the higher
salaries. Mandamus petitions were
filed in behalf of the judges by the
legal committee of the Indianapolis
Bar Association.
Release of the other employees
will be necessary, it is said, because
the $4,000 is not provided for in
the 1881 budget and a legislative
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all city departments except the
police and fire departments.

all city departments except the
police and fire departments.
Seriousness OF the situation in the
county became apparent Monday,
when, despite the taxable wealth of
approximately $4,000, 000, 900, it was
necessary to default on payment of
81, 1868, 400 of bonds and interest.
McDonough said bonds and inter-
est to be met during the remainder
of this year would total more than
100000 more, all of which he said
must be defaulted unless the legis-
lature passes Immediately a pro-
posed law making it legal for the
county to refund bonds as they be-
come due.
Mayor Cermak said that in be-
half of the city he would urge and
demand immediate passage of a
proposed bill for consolidation Of
taxing bodies in Chicago.
He said he believed that this, plus
curtailment of city expenditures,
would go far toward solving the
financial crisis. He predicted dire
results if the bill is not passed.
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CHICAGO Bees
AID OF STATE;
CITY IS BROKE
Cermak Goes to Capital;
Says Chaos Facing
Metropolis.
United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, June 3.-Mayor Anton
J. Cermak and Joseph B. McDon-
ough, Cook county treasurer, led
a delegation to the state capital at
Springfield today to demand that
legislation be enacted at once to re-
lieve Chicago and Cook county in a
financial crisis which Cermak de-
clared was leading to certain chaos.
IF the legislature does not aid
us, we must by July l, reduce the
city forces to minimum, regardless
Of civil service" said the mayor be-
fore leaving to beg that Illinois
come to the assistance of its largest
city.
Unless something is done at once
the county will be forced on the
first Of every month to default on
payment Of bonds and interest, "
said McDonough.
Inability to collect tax money was
blamed by officials of both city and
county for the critical situation
which Cernak said might make it
necessary practically to discontinue
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under 81 years Of age. Three
types Of models are entered, R.
o. G. (rise of ground, indoor
tractor and indoor commercial
types
The planes are made Of balsa
wood, with rubber bands provid-
ing the motive power for pro-
pellerS. Many of the planes will
fly for several minutes at a time.
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FOUND LASTING
RELIEF FROM ASTHMA
Was Better in 4 Days, Trouble Left
and Has Not Returned.

Folks who have choked all night
from asthma or bronchial trouble
will be glad to read what w. H.
Hughes, 1928 Clifton ST., Indian
spolis, Ind, says:
Il had asthma for 8 years I could
work only half the time. Before l be-
gan taking Nacor in April. 1926. I was
completely down, and hadn't been in
bed for 3 weeks. In { days, relief came
and / could sleep soundly. Nv asthma
soon disappeared, and has not troubled
me since"
Hundreds Of people who suffered for
years from asthma and bronchial
coughs. state that their trouble left and
has not returned. Their letters and a
booklet Of vital information will be
sent free by Nacor Medicine Co, 4OS
State Life Bldg, Indianapolis Ind.
Call or write for this free information,
and find out how thousands have found
lasting Observation-Disclosures.
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Three of the many model
planes entered in the city-wide
municipal model airplane indoor
endurance contest Saturday at
Butler field house are shown
above in the hands of their
youthful builders.
Airplanes will be offered as
prizes for winners in each OF
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three divisions of the contest. In
addition, efforts are being made
to arrange to send the contest
winner by airplane to the ma
tional model airplane contest at
Dayton, O., later this month, &C
cording to Herschel Knight, city
recreation department. model air.
plane director.
The contest is open to boys
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THEY TELL NE

man Codd South Bend faction in
their drive for control of the state
Democratic organization.
There can be no doubt that the
big test Of McNutt's strength in the
race for the nomination for Gov
ernor lies in Peters reelection as
state chairman.
If the insurgents gain control and
GUST Peters, then McNutt's chance
for the nomination will be preca-
rious, indeed.
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Gold Hunters Need $500

% AftfSA tSSo
JUNEAU, Alaska, June 3.-Gone
are the days when all a prospector
needed to hunt gold and stake out
claims we're pick, shovel, some pro-
visions. and possibly a sled. Gold
was reported discovered in the
Yukan, forty miles northwest of
Carmacks. recently, but nobody was
permitted to trek to the district
unless he had at least $500 to start
with.