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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1881
The Retort Supreme

It is our opinion that nine -tenths of the support that is now swinging to the side of those opposed to prohibition in its present form comes from people who are not drinkers in the ordinary sense of the word. We'll wager also that majority of this new fac ton is animated not by desire to return the opportunity of buying liquor to Americans but to correct the ntolerable conditions that the l 9th amendment has produced. The nun bcr of people in the United States who frown 3 in holy horror when they actually sec or are told of somebody raising glass containing spirituous liquor and convviay exelaiming Here's mud in your eye, is small.
 There may be hypocrites on both sides of the question, but at least those opposed to the prohibition amendment are as one in dis claiming any intention of returning the sa- loon. That is universally acknowledged. yet again and again ardent prohibitionistS assert that so-and-so would infiiet the saloon upon us once more or sueh-and-such plan is noth- ing moro than the saloon in disguise. We can only echo the sentiments of Mrs Charles II. { Sabin at this p.. l. Mrs Sabin is president { of the Women's Organization for Nation Prohibition Reform and has just returned to her home ins New York after successful convention in Washington.
 Mrs Sabin received at her New York home letter from Mrs Jesse w. Nicholson, chair man of the newly formed Women's National Democratic Law Enforcement league. The letter was intended for Mrs bin while she was in Washington as it was challenge to a debate on the subject of prohibition. We are sorry that W. did not learn the full contents of the letter. We can only judge from Mrs Sabins reply what it contained Suffice it to say Mrs Sabin would have been glad to have debated the point at issue had she been given carly notification. But at any rate she car ries off the honors in her letter which in part we reprint.
 In the second paragraph of your letter, writes Mrs Sabin, you express the dread of change in the prohibition law whereby liquor would be openly dispensed Am l to understand that the fact that at present liquor is being secretly dispensed the length and breadth of the country is matter of in- difference 10 you?
 Why is it that the prohibitionists refuse to discuss conditions as they are to-day! Is it possible that you are really unawc-e of them, I would earnestly suggest to your committee that they read the painstaking and thorough report of President Hoover's com mission on law observance and enforcement - We don't know as we'd suggest this latter move as prohbitionists draw as much consolation from the Wickersham report as do their opponents. In fact they tell Mir Wckersham openly that he didn't mean what he and his confreres said but he meant what prohbitionists wanted him to say, President Hoover included in that group. Some day prohbitionists will realize that their oppo- nents aren't habtual drunkards. brewers and distillcrs anxious to get back in the money. but arc sensible citizens who deplore the ruin ation of this country by misplaced devotion to duty
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chiefly on side streets where there are cheap-priced millinery stores. Instead of hte -fashoined sand wich signs, he now carries the nifty Frenchy wax head of q window figu- rine. .... The head wears tricky new hat and transplants and dis play windows right out on the side- walks.
 And while don't go in for num- erology and other forms of prognos- tication, a note from Lorna Fantin, the broadcasting young number ex- pert, advises me to write down on my cuff that the Cards and the Yam kees will lead the tickets next year. Or at least, so the mathematics in- dicate.
 GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright 1881, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
CLARENCE LATHAM's FARM
(Hartford Tirnes)

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 Every nature lover and hunter, in the southeastern part of the state, has known of the late Clarence c. Latham's farm of several hundred acres running into the two towns. Groton and Ledyard, and compris- ing large part of what has been since colonial times called "Gungy- wamp." MT Latham was Connecti- cuts leading cranberry grower and had acquired considerable fortune. For years he was in position to preserve the best of the many fine timber tracts on his woodland do- main. and they are exceptional. His hemlOcks, white oaks and white pines have no match in the eastern counties at present and until fire ruined its show, a few yeas ago. the lahrels of Clarence Latham's road" leading from immem0rial skunk lane" to the ruined chapman millo In Center Groton were famous feature of the early summer lands scapes.
 Tn his will, probated this week. Mir Latham has provided that his farm will retain It's character as an arboretum and will eventually pass into the hands of the New London Y. M. c. A.. or to. Connecticut for even more full public enjoyment. The news Is extremely gratifying. With it's wealth of streams. ponds. swamps, venerable woods. craggy ledges and bouldery glens the La tham tract Is not only a natural game refuge, but q delightful range to those who have affection for the Connecticut wilyd. MT Latham. could, had he so chosen. have more tanned and trimmed his wilderness but he preferred it as 1t was. little changed from the aspects 1t must have worn in older centuries, save that former generations had taken down the virgin forest. leaving re- growth which as to some parts Of the woods remaining dates back at least Q hundred and fifty years. A tremendous amount of slash land left by numbering operations in the oO's has been making rapid head way in reforestization. While there are none or the Latham white oakf as large as the notable Larabee Oak further north in Ledyard, the stand south of the house ie a majestic onf and many of the specimens In his white pine swamp are nearly as im- pressive as the Cathedral pines Us Cornwall. Tn the future no trees are to be cut except as may be for home use of the ytfc-tenant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
NEA Service Writer

Washington-The women of the country appear to be stirrel up more about prohibition than they have been about anything else during times of peace.
 The Women's National Commit tee for Law enforcement had no sooner concluded convention here with about 1900 women gathered than the new women's organization for national prohibition reform was in session with more than thou sand women registered. All the la
 dies were grimly determined and full
 of pep and for a day or two brick
 bats were being tossed from one
 headquarters into the other.
 It becomes obvious enough that a real fight is on between dry wo- men and wet women. but the absorb ing question is whether the wet women. when they get themselves good and organized, will be as in fiuential or more so than the dry women. To be influential they must get women to go to the polls and elect wet candidates.
 Dry Group Is Nine Years old The organization of dry women is nine years old and the organization
 of wet women is less than two years
 old. The dry women have really been
 organized for decades. through the
 w. c. T. U., the church organizations
 and other groups, but the prohibition
 reform outfit is the only organization
 --of importance, at least--that the
 wet women have ever had.
 The fact that the wet women had
 more people at their convention
 than the dry women probably isn't indicative as regards relative strength
 But for that matter, you can't go on the fact that the dry women's organization claimed to represent 12.000.000 women and that the wet women's organization claimed only 300,000 members. Most of the organ tions which make up the dry wo- | mems committe are church or pro- hibition groups. but there is also the General Federation of Women's clubs with 3,000,000 members and an obvious wet minority.
 Nobody profegses that the alleged
 12,000,000 women con be persuaded to go out and vote for any dry pres idential candidate. Some of the big wet majorities In the last elections and referenda made 1t apparent that | plenty ot women must be voting | wet; that they weren't all drys, at least. And the average member | among the 100000 of the wet wo-
 mems organization may be more ef- fective than the average women | among the millions represented by the dry womens organization. Drys Better Organized Nevertheless, 1t must be said that | more thoroughly organized than the wet women and 1t remains to be
 seen whether the wet women can get organized to the point where
 they will be an important factor in | national politics.
 Without making any guesses about
 that. one leaves off listening to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20

New York -- Notes from a. con- venient cuff: :.
 Back stage, at the biggest show on earth I ran into Wallace Beery of film fame, snooping among the cages and the animals. And why not? Have you forgotten that Beery began his career as a circus eie- phant man?
 At Will Oakland's night-spot, in the guise of guest at the seventh birthday of Wilfs broadcasting over remote control. And there was a table filled with famous old times of Broadway; all of them folk who have seen their names in the brightest lights. =. We'll after midnight. the orchestra swung into a grand old lifting melody: "The Merry Widow" waltz. .....A dap per, middleaged man. getting just a trifle portly, rose anu began to spin in a graceful, whfrling step... The dance of dances of another gen. eration The Merry Widow" <. :. And this was the fellow who put 1t on the map. To wit, Donald Brian.
 The old timers shouted and ap-
 
 asked curiously, Who's that ?" How were they to know that the women who now may be their mothers once framed his pictures and the matinee girlies stood in line just to get a peep at the gay Viennese prince of the operetta?
 Broadway has a funny way of putting tags upon its people. If anyone happens to ring the bell for any particular achievement, the tag is never removed. It makes little difference what the person may do bank president, a producer, pol- itician or a bum. but he's pointed to as the "guy that wrote that song'' or the bird that "once sang that swell number"
 George Conan will never be able to divorce himself from the "Yan- kee Doodle tag, or the Give My Regards to Broadway" no matter how many fine roles he plays. Gus Edwards can put over dozen nov les but he'll always be the school days man. Weber and Fields. after a generation of trying to be produc- CTS and individual stars, finally sur rendered to their old German-dialect duet. Anna Held never lived down her cant make my eyes behaven song. .... And if Eva Tanguay step ped back on the stage tomorrow everyone would shriek for T Don't Care" Harry Lauder's audiences sel- dom fail to cry for T Got a Ilassie. ]. ... No old-timer has ever forgotten De Wolf Hopper's eCasey at the Bat. And SO it goes.
 For these were the things upon
 which they made their first reputa- 1 tions. ... the things that stopped shows back in the days when .. V, They grow Into legends and are | passed from one generation to an- other. ;. The oid-f0lks want to
 hear and see them again and the youngsters want to know what 1 they've missed.
 My cur reminds me that a lnew ! sort of sandwich man has appeared upon the streets. He is to Do found
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
Good evening.
 o-O--o PICNIC SEASON WEARS
"A SMILES THE THING"

o-O-o PICNIC SEASON NEARS Father wears fated look. Like the villain in the book, Seems to scent the yearly row. And believe me. it's wow. Mothers got the basket down,
 This is why dad wears a frown, Life. to him is dark and dank.
 Picnics on the river bank. Sunday morning cutting bread.
 Stead of lyin' in the bed. Slieing ham, oh very thin.
 This is where the rub comes in. Spreading butter here and there.
 While ma lands knowing stare, Squeezin' lemons for the ade,
 Of such as these are pienlcs made. Folding napkins, one. two. three. What lot, oh. holy gee. Wrapping cake. guard well eac.,
 crumb,'
 Dad does his best. but acts quite
 dumb,
 Mustard, yep. must not forget,
 Now at last the partys set. Then his heart just starts to quake,
 He's been sittin' on the cake. Father sports a haunted look,
 Visions picnic near the brook. Flies and skeeters wait him there. Picnics are their bill O fare. Snakes. grass hoppers, bundle bees. Sowing jack -daws in the trees. Picnic seasons almost here.
 Tough on all dads. far and near. o--U--o When they tell you that your per- sonality is the million dollar kind, try and get loan on 1t. O-O-o Actions, sometimes, speak louder than loud speakers. o-O-o The girl who thinks of nothing but clothes would perhaps feel insulted if you offered her penny for her thoughtss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
Four Six-Hour Shifts

[ One of the most interesting of our indus trial experiments in reducing work hours is that of the Kellogg Company of Battle Creek
 Michigan, which began last December and is now pronounced successful Working time is reduced from eight f>urs day to six
 There is no corresponding reduction in wages
 The minimum $4 day is continued There is ''base wage increase of iz l-z per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 DPA1eaaa nR tha (Pt

Back in 1927 one day the mayor of Atlanta did not appear at his offlce Reporters found him living the golden rule of hygiene-staying at home day or two with the cri. In 1928 some publisher got out book telling all about common respiratory infections The publisher sent broadcast cards describing the book and mentioned that the term .cri" had been suggested to indicate any such illness in the stage before one can tell just what Is de- veloping.
 Tn the year 1881 Charlotte Hubbard Prescott In her book chart in the Sioux City Journal re-
 marked parentheticaly If you've noticed the blight which has come over this column, you can lay 1t to the cri."
 I hoping that some doctor may mad lvertenty the term in speech writing be- fore 1940
 Then I'll be ready to retire happy. Pastor Put In His Place My blood pressure test is around - to -. Will you please give me some suggestions as to diet and treatment? am 45 and weigh 105.
 with my cOndtlOn?-( (Rev T. S.l Answer.-If your business Is to keep we'll or get well. let me tell you your blood pressure Is none of your business. Better leave such things, which layman doesn't understand, to E the judgment of your physician. Do not be mis- led by the line of hokum dispensed by fad heal CTS and near-doctors about blood pressure.
 Child Chews Hair Our daughter, years old, continually pulls out her hair mad swallows 1t .. (C. A. G.) ' Answer.-Ths habit Is not uncommon. If not broken, it leads in time to accumulation Of q hair ball in the stomach or intestine, which is likely to produce obstruction and demand ops eration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20

We don't know what this mid April sun shine portends but certainly it is bringing the carly spring flowers along at rapid pace. Croeuses are almost gone and daffodils are blossoming. Forsythia is in flower, also. There must be few shy arbutus somewhere in the woods. We intend to find out shortly. If so. more anon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
TO-DAY'S SELECTED POEM
IMPORTANCE

y Arthur Guiterman In the New York Times) When the gay Horatius Laughed and sang-good gracious! How the Roman highbrows Raised their classic eyebrows. Yet when some abysmal Eegist was dismal, That" they condescended--- That Is great and splendid" England's hall and bower Praised the stately Cover; Merry-hearted ,Chaucer- "He is crude and raw. sir" What though Times reyisions Alter such decisions ef Poet. prince and peasant Want their pie while present So. 10 be respected By the self-elected, Freeze your spinal column Rigid, keeping colemn!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
Personal Health SerUice (By William Brady. M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal
 health and hygiene. aOt discise diagn,>is os
 treatment. will be answered hy Dr isrady Al.
 dress him. care of tic DcniOcrat. sending stamp and addressed envclOpe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20

Likeness breeds idleness and work breeds work. Every job provided starts two or three more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20

What do all these prison riots mean' Alp parently. as the Minneapolis Journal suggests that prisoners don't like penitentiaries."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
OHMIGOSH..
Beneath this stone.
 Sleeps Herman Saykcs, He waited too long
 IT,. ..~uf.~x. aa.z ux...g.

Beneath this stone.
 Sleeps Herman Saykcs,
 He waited too long
 To refine the brakes.
 o-O--o
 Funny, isn't it. But the athletic ally inclined son of the family thinks nothing of pulling chest weights for an hour to increase his muscles, but ask him to spade the garden for twenty minutes and there's long, loud holler.
 o--O--o
 It's the better part of wisdom to have the wisdom tooth ex- tracted. ere 1t gives you some thing to worry about.
 o-O-o The kid who thumbed his--well you know--at the lady next door when she asked him to refrain from trampling or the lawn. is q man now, and paints these Keep off the Grass signs.
 o-O--o
 Whiting Williams says prohi- bition will help get us out of the depression. Something dry when the country's all wet, eh?
 O-O-O
 The still, small voice of conscience pounds in your ears when you're do- ing sixty on curve.
 o--O--o
 DING. DING. Up from the meadows, rich with
 corn,
 Clear in the cool September morn, Four boOtlcggcrs rode, with heads
 held high.
 Pcddling corn, as the crowd
 passed by.
 o-O-o
 Doctors claim moustaches are un- necessary. We'll. perhaps mous- taches feel the same way about doc- tors.
 The honeymoon is over when she wonders if they can't get along on two pounds of butter week instead of three. o--O--O Riding through the country is very beautiful just now. Barns are not plastered with circus advertisements. o-O-o
 Now they are selling rings which tell the world that the wearer Is divorced. I suppose instead of being engraved with orange blossoms they're done in forget o--O--o Red is a popular color for mi lady's suits and coats this spring. But perhaps you've read this before. o--O--o The rich man has twin six The poor man six twins.
 o-O-o A man is never q success in life until he can speak at the Y. M. c. A. on Failures of Young Men" o-O--o It's hard for figures to lie now adays It was different when they wore bustles.
 o--O-o DING, DING. Just thought at twilight, When the day is done, Just a smile of memory, At Iife's rampant fun.
 o-O-o
 The man who has spats doesn't lack courage. as commonly thought. In fact 1t takes courage to wear 'em.
 o-O--o
 The only thing you get at sale Is plenty of showing. o-O--O A man is only as old as his meals. o-O--o I suppose two-faced person has to face the music twice. a-O--a This completes our opening pro- gram of the week. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat. pi- oneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at thif time. to be back on the air again to-morrow evehing at the usual hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
PRAY AND HAVE MORE CHEESE
 OR VICE VERSA

Recently correspondent asked something
 about pot cheese and we muffed it. Now another correspondent kindly informs the omnilscient conductor of this column that pot cheese is a name used in the east for what people out west know cottage cheese. She explains that In the east this cheese comes in little jars pots.
 Real cottage cheese. she adds, is not to be had | in the east. Oh. I don't know Maybe it isn't to-day. It was when I a boy in Canandaigua. though
 I can't remember whether it was called cottage cheese then or Dutch cheese. I'll tell the world
 or at least that portion of oft that follows this | column, that good old fashioned cottage or
 Dutch cheese is rarely to be had east or west, | north or south these days. At least I haven't come across any for years and I'm always sniff | ing around the cheese emporiums.
 Our correspondent goes to explain that real cottage cheese is really "smearkase,' what | ever that may be; in other words dripped sour or clabber milk, W.t.m.b.
 Maybe that's what the terrible stuff they off, fer nowadays cottage" cheese is suffering lfrom-the reduction craze. They probably take | off most of the fat from the milk for pur- pose or another, and then, just as they are ready to feed what is left to the pigs or ship 1t to Hollywood to to sell sell to folks on teen day cheese out of 1t and pay off the mortgage on | the farm?"
 | Marketing for cheese is a delightful pastime
 where foreign exotic brands or species are l concerned forf if you pretend you're really
 thinking of purchasing some in case you come
 across any polite person could carry into his
 own home theyp are as likely as not to give \ you a faint trace to try. In large market with mana stall Keepers dealing in cheese you can
 spend a profitable morning that way if you're
 not engaged for the afternoon and the evening.
 But when it comes to allegfed cottage or Dutch
 cheese, you have to depend on the mere looks of the stuff the superlatiye character the
 dealer gives the product I've been taken in on good looks time and again. The stuff you bring home just stimulates mans profanity
 Sometimes wonder if 1t is l, rather than the cheese. that have gone stale or hat. If It IS so, I'd rather hear no about 1t. Let me go on thinking cottage Dutch cheese ain't what 1t
 used to be. Here the other morning rose with Iaiacrity some three hours ahead of my custom a me a l. eqa,be delcacy, fried meal mush. Boy, oh boy, the memories the nameb rings back. But | I don't know-either the double qualified gas l company is palming off rank imitation of gas on else the farmers who grow the corn | have been doing something to it--anyway, the day all but ruined for me. l felt so de- l pressed about it that nearly took smoke 1 right after breakfast just some depraved Ivictims do quite regularly after painful session
 at the table. And when you consider the fright full connection that passes "cofee' with so many of these habitual smokers and drinkers, you cant blame them much for wishing to wipe out the atrocous taste soon as possible after finishing the meal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20

All vehicles must be lighted not later than t7:06 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20
TEEN,
TURKEYS BREAK

On April 20, 1917, the Turkish government officially informed the American embassy that diplocatic relations with the United States had been broken off.
 Abram Elkus, the American am- bassador, was ill with typhus fever at the time. and was compelled to remain at Constantinople for some weeks afterward. His staff remain ed with him.
 Three days later the American State department gave passports to Abdul Hak Hussein Bey, first sec retary and charge d'affaires of the embassy, and other members of the staff. The Turkish ambassador, A. Rustem Bey, was recalled by the government early in the war on ac-. count of injudicious criticisms of the president.
 Robert College and Bible Ho SC and it's branches were closed, and Americans left the Turkish capital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-20

national committee woman from New Y ork, promised to urge all wo- men to bolt their party if that was necessary in order to vote for wet candidate.
 It may be that those meetings of nearly 2000 dry women and wet women haven't changed the course of history. but they certainly have intensified everybody's interest in the prohibition fight and nthe 1892 campaign.