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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

Announcement is made of the en- gagement of Miss Edith N F'itton of Prospect avenue, Hartford, to Robert A. Morehouse of Asylum avenue, Hartford. Miss Fitton is a graduate of Mount Holyoke college in the class of 1928 and is an investigator for the Department of Public Chari- ties, Hartford. MT Morehouse is employed by the Southern New Eng land Telephone company, Hartford.
 MT and Mrs Lawrence Hamilton Austin of Pelham Manor, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter Miss Roma Austin to The odore H. Wickwire, Jr, of 14O East Forty-sixth street, New York, for merly of Buffalo.
 Miss Austin is d granddaughter of the late Mrs William Harrison Day of New York and Paris and of Mrs B. B. Paxton of San Francisco. She attended the Westover School at Middlebury, Conn, and made her debut last winter.
 MT Wickwire is a grandson of the late MT and Mrs T. H. Wickwire of Cortland, N. Y, and of Mrs Charles G. Hedge of New York. He was graduated from Andover in 1925 and from Yale in 1929.
 Mrs William Garrigus and son, John. have returned to their home on Meriden road after a visit to Day. tona, Florida.
 Mrs Oscar Richmond of Stratford has returned to her home after a visit with her sister, Mrs Ernest E. Wilcox of White Oak Lane.
 Miss Joan Bowling of Orange street has been spending a few days in Bridgeport,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18
Miss Fritzi Shelf I'm
 Concert Program

Miss Fritzi Scheff, we'll known so- prano, will be the featured artist during the concert program to be broadcast oyer station WTIC at Hartford and the NEG network to- night at 8:30 o'clock. Miss Scheff will sing Kiss Me Again" from the op- eretta Mile. Modiste," by Victor Herbert. The concert program will feature Miss Scheff in g. presentation composed entirely of MT. Herbert's melodies. "The old Stager," Henry M. Nicely, will introduce Miss Scheff in his informal manner to the radio audience. .-.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

The hand was played at contract and South. the dealer, opened the bidding. with two hearts, which is Ia forcing bid and requires partner to keep the bidding open. West passed. North. holding less than two tricks, even though he has heart support. bids two no trump. no trump, showing an original four card suit holding. North jumps the declaration to six hearts, which closes the contracting.
 The Play
 Vests strongest suit is spades, and as the suit is headed by the queen, jack, ten, the queen should be open- ed, which the dummy wins with the king. Declarer leads the jack of trump from dummy with no inten- tion of fnessing. but hoping that if East holds the queen and one that he will cover, but in this case East has nothing to lose and everything to gain, so the queen is played and the declarer wins with the ace. As the ten and nine or both out are in one hand. he cannot pick them up, he plays the king of hearts, West discarding a small club.
 The declarer should make the fol- lowing deductions of Vests hand. The original suit opened headed at least four cards-probably five. The singleton heart now gives the addl- tional information that undoubted- ly the hand was @ 4-4-4-1 distribu- ton. The declarer has losing spade and a losing heart and must strip the hand down in order to make his contract.
 Therefore the ace, king and queen of clubs are led and South discards on the third club from dummy. The i've of diamonds is led to dummy's ace and the eight spot returned. declarer refusing to f1nesse, going right up with the king. The jack of diamonds is returned and trumped in dummy.
 Now a small spade is led. Even if East is out and trumps, the de- clarer will have nothing to lose. but East follows and the declarer wins the trick with the ace. Declarer returns the four of hearts, throwing East in the lead with the ten spot. East is forced to lead either club or a diamond. In either case the dclarer will ruff in one hand and stuff in the other.
 By stripping the hand down and throwing West in the lead with a heart, the declarer has made his contract of six hearts.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18
AMERICAN FLAG
 FOR TROOP 25

An American flag was presented troop 25 by the American Legion Auxiliary at a legion meeting last night ct the legion home. Miss Mary Coyle, Russell school principal, de- livered an interesting address on the flag and presented the az to the troop which is fostered by the Corp. Coy1e post.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18
WATERBURY GIRLS
 ON HONOR ROLL

Florence B. Dockum and Esther Silver, two local girls at Connecticut Aggies have won places on the honor roll for the first semester of the 1930-31 honor roll. The former was employed as a stenographer in the park department ofice before enroll ing at Storrs. David B. Lackman of Thomaston and Elizabeth Robinson of Roxbury are also included on the first semester honor list
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18
w HO w OULD T H 1 N K
 TT OF THE
 NOSE

Most familiar of our features-the nose. Sometimes desperately home ly, too. Frequently a seeming nuis- ance Yet, scientists tell us, gest jobs in Natures intricate mechanism of man =. Perhaps. on occasion, it may be thrust into other peoples business. But aways it Is Cor should be) in important business of our own.
 The nose is Natures "carburetor." It cleanses and conditions the air we breathe. It is our first line of de- fense" against infection-our pro- lection against colds. And marvel ously is it fashioned to serve this purpose Not one straight tun- nel-as we might suspect-the nose is a devious passage. It is filled with bafele plates like the muffler of . motor car. These restrain the inhaled air =. defect it from one membraneous surface to another. Thus only can it be thoroughly cleansed. warmed and moistened.
 An averaged 1,5O0 organisms en- ter the nose every hour. These are filtered out and trapped by it's deli cato mechanism. They are washed away by it's antiseptic secretions Tn emergency, the nose also sends out the "body police"-or 1eucocytes ito destroy invading hordes of bac- teria.
 Other vital functions of the nose are to warm and moisten the air we breathe The warming is neces- sary as protection to throat and
 hs~n4 t1<- These act like tiny electric heaters working automatically.
 Moistening the air is further pro- age of two pints of fluid are re- quired daily.
 But what if these vital func- tions of the nose should fail-as they so often do in winter? Our modern living conditions are the chief cause. An overload of dust or smoke. Dry air in over-heated homes and offices People huddling together in crowded places. Sudden temperature changes from inside to outdoors. Exposure to wet and cold. Over eating, over smoking or other excesses, with
  What happens then?
 It is . picture of how we 'catch cold" Natures defense fails. Colds find the nose an easy port of entry And 1t h in the nose that most colds start. How to prevent them?
 The question is answered by the makers of vicks VapoRub y. with a new product, based on a brand new idea. Vicks Nose & Throat Drops are designed to keep the nose functioning normally and thus aid Nature in preventing colds when un- usual conditions have slowed it down. The discovery marks an ad- vance of first importance in the scientific "control of colds"
 As a special introductory offer ot this new Wick product, local drug gists are now selling the soc pack age for 25c-half price. By using the coupon that appeared in the Demo crat Monday. you can test this unique new aid for better control
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

MT and Mrs Joseph l.. Cosgriff of Colonial avenue have returned after spending a few days as the guests of their uncle, Captain John Teague of Bridgeport. They also spent some time with Lieutenant Thomas Teague.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18
MASTERING MUSIC
 SCHOOL CI.JJR OI

triano's Music School club was elected at a meeting held February IS: Leader of band, Angelo Mas triano: assistant band leader, Salva- tore Calvo; manager, Alfred De Laurentis; assistant manager, Ray mond Gugoloski; president, William Luback; vice-president, Patsy Ciar- leglio; secretary. Vincent Crispino: treasurer, Angelo Mastriano; and librarian, William Gerelli.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

Ten men and 20 girls who are to be employed in new artificial silk fac tory at Wheatley, England, have been sent to Germany for special training.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

SHORT FALL COSTS LEG.
 Haverhill, Mass, (UP)-A six-foot fall from a ladder cost George Stanks, 40. his right leg. The leg was broken in two places, badly mangled. and had to be amputated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18
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By WM. E. McKENNEY

Secretary American Bridge League
 Many players are too quick to grant apparent losing tricks. At times clever card reading will allow the declarer sufficient information to permit him to execute a clever strip or end play. Both plays are com, bined in the following hand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

To care for the expected growth shipbuilding, Norwegian ship rnort-i gage banks will increase their capital at once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

As a special introductory offer of this new Wick product, local drug gists are now selling the soc pack age for 25c-half price. By using the coupon that appeared in the Demo- crat Monday. you can test this unique new aid for better control of colds in the home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-18

Other vital functions of the nose are to warm and moisten the air we breathe The warming is neces- sary as protection to throat and lungs, It is done by turbinates. These act like tiny electric heaters working automatically.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
CRIME REDUCER

The City Of Seattle has found out that it's Sunshine Club" which has been furnishing food to thousands of hungry, jobless men and women has been the means of reducing the city's crime total to on amazing ex- tent Says the Seattle Chief of Police:
 "A hungry man will steal be- fore he will starve but will glad ly accept any chance to stay honest if he can be assured of food for his family and himself. /"
 It does not take a college de- gree or post graduate course in a university to enable one to understand that the brains and conscience of the average man is in his stomach. If you don't believe it, just study up labor conditions and the eras of low wage and financial depression.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
AG1N HOOVER

A contemporary, the Pike County Democrat, published in Petersburg, Indiana, says: "All onr exchanges are filled with de- linquent tax sales announce that a large number of people are on "that side" of the Hoover prosperity line with very little promise of recovering. And still, the leaders of the administration are actual ly having the effrontery to want to run Hoover again. Do they want to finish" the rest of us? Surely the worm will turn some time. The nerve of some people. :"
 And again: It will soon be time to start to raising chickens with which to pay taxes-as it can't be done with wheat at the present prices. Howl with Hoover! Where's the man who
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
TO BE EXPECTED

Considering the policy ot Coolidge during his administra- as President of the United Stat es it is pot surprising that he now says: For the United States to go into the electrical business Muscle Shoals) would be @ cross misuse of it's powers and involve it in all kinds of political abuses. The thing to do with Muscle Shoals is to dispose of it to private interests with suit cble restrictions"
 Give it away for instance or give it's electrical energy away to private interests for two tenths of a cent per kiloWatt in order that they might sell it at eight cents per killowatt and when it is worn out and in bad rerair return it to the govern 1nent as proof adequate that government ownership is a fail ure.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
U. s. CAN'T STAND MANY MORE SHOCKS, LABOR
 CHIEF SAYS

America cannot go on facing such crises as the one occasioned st present by the millions of joblesS workers turnout the country, the American Fedora of Labor declared in a statement recently demanding aid for the idle.
 We feel justified in warming the nation and industry that the nation cannot continue to stand these economic shocks" said the statement, signed by Presi- dent William Green. Tt is the duty of every patriotic citizen to master and control the forces which make for unemployment and stabilize industry to prevent occurrences of unemployment. "
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06

time find even the foundations of it's technical and economic achievements crumbling. lI sug- gest that beauty is better and cheaper than the big stick as an instrument for maintaining law md Order and contCntment and satisfaction. That a reforeSta- tion policy can make possible vast areas of beauty in which the soul of this people can continu- ally renew itself is by no means it's smallest contribution to the social welfare of the nation.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
FORESTS AND AMERICAS
 FUTURE From Readers Digest

Conservation is something more than planting a few trees and protecting a few fish. It is something more than turning cur geographically fortunate states into profitable playgrounds for tourists. These things are important but they are only in cidental aspects of a statesman like conservation vision. Conser- ,atiCn has a wider, a social, sig nificance.
 The American pioneer left us, not only the physical heritage of denuded and disorderly land scapes, but, what is still more serious, the physiological heri- tage of lazy willingness to tol- crate them. As a people, We still think with the mind of the piO neer in terms of cash returns of a year instead of the civilization Of century. We must substitute stable and scientific agriculture for an unintelligent raping of the soil. We must substitute ra- tional forestry for reckless tim ter -slashing. We must learn to dress the land we have def1ower- ed. To date, we have been little more than high-pressue sales rlen of our resources.
 There is, I think, a fairly full greement on the fundamentals If an intelligent forestry policy, First, we should develop public rtorests-national, state and mu- 1icipal. At the gates of nearly every city and town on the Con- tinent of Europe we find delight ful woodlands. These little for ests are not for beauty alone, but constitute a permanent source of wood and lumber free of large transportation charges. Two hundred years of maintenance has paid in hard cash. There are towns on the Continent where citizens have not paid one cent in taxes for years-or at least had not up to a few years ago because of the revenues from these small communal forests. In France, in Germany, in Swift zerland, in Norway, in Sweden, private corporations have long maintained forests at a material profit. These nations, at any rate know that they must foot the bill of reforestation or fail to get it's benefits. We need that sense
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06

We see by the papers that a Congressional Committee headed by Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr. of New York, has made some fourteen recommendations for dealing with communism in the United States. Besides OutlaWry of the party, the committee re- comments strengthening of the immigration laws to prevent ad- mission of communists; enlarg- ing of the authority of the De- partment of Justice to inVeSti- gate activities; fOrbidding of naturalization to communists and the providing of additional funds for their deportation; and the keeping out of students of communism although born in the U. s. A. There have been communists in the world ever since Christ and his little band of disciples carried a community purse, probably much longer than that. Not many people in this country have felt any in clination to experiment along that line-perhaps they haven't sufficient confidence in their neighbcrs. Why, then, should Congress become exercised over ti.is or any other "ism?" An idea must be reasonably sane and practicable in order to gain as followers any considerable per centage of our one hundred twenty millions of Americans. If it does not appeal to the majori- ty of thinking people, why fear it? On the other hand, if the people want it, why fear it? Whose country is this? We would like to think of the U. s. A. as a free country; a country where freedom of thought, freedom of
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06

of must throughout the United States.
 Second, we should everywhere maintain a working cooperation between the government and the private owners Of timber lands that will make reforestation eco- 'nOmically feasible. This involves at least two things-state CO., operation in fire protection and a system of equitable taxation that will stimulate private enterprise in the growth of forests. Timber growing must be taken out of the situation it has all too often had to face-a situation in which a timber crop has been taxed over and over again during it's grow ing period.
 Third, we should maintain a constant and comprehensive re- search and information service from state or federal laboratories to the private owners of forest lands.
 Fourth, we should exercise some degree of public oversight of forest lands, even when pri- yately owned, to insure con- tinuing productivity. | do not mean a paternalistic interference in private enterprise, but simply some public method of insistin 2 that in return for state or federal assistance the forest lands in question be kept productive.
 There are, I think, four inn pCrtant contributions that a suc-
 
 cessful venture in reforestation can make to the life of the Unit ed States: First, it will train a state in cooperation as no other single venture I know can quite do. These states of ours must learn to harness all their forces in a single sweeping collabora- tion.
 Second, a successful venture in reforestation will stabilize and diversity the economic life of a ctate. We already know a hun dred ways, and shall doubtless find a bewildering number of new ways, to utilize the by-pro- ducts of the forest; and the stat es that succeed in reforestation programs will find that they have not only a great lumber industry assured, but many new industries arising out of the use of by-pro- ducts.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
ALASKA INSANE PATIENTS

For a number of years the Fisherman and The Alas kan have been objecting most StrenuOusly to the contract SyS- tenn of caring for Alaska insane patients in the MorningSide Sanitarium, Portland, Oregon Some very appalling pictures have been drawn and it is al- most unbelievable that pOliti- clans will use such poor unfor- tunates to make profit off of. It is unbelievable that miser- able as such can be that our government would tolerate any politician to make those unfor- tunates more miserable.
 The picture of conditions drawn by Jack Talbot of Ket- chikan is mild as compared to the actual fact which is and has been suppressed. There is only one remedy for this condition and that is the institution by the Territorial Legislature of an asylum in Alaska for the care of it's insane patients and other unfortunate half-wits. Every organization should make it their first order of business to give this idea their full support.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
COMNIUNISTIC SCARES

speech and freedom of the press IS not merely joke; with a gov ernment fashioned in the Image of it's creators, the people them selves, whatever their peculiar shade of political opinion. But when they talk of deporting A merican born citizens for daring to consider any proposition, old or new, CT for being students of this or that idea, we want to stand on our long hind legs and howl. How else may the philoso- phy of government progress? Our form of government was born when older forms no longer met our needs, and when this government fails to keep pace with the progress of the people it, too, will be discarded.
 And while we are on the sub ject, we would like the privilege of asking MT. Fish and his com mittee what makes communists, anyhow. Why is it that com munism and other "ismS" four ish in times like these and all out disappear as soon as the earning power of their followers catches up with their physical sppetiteS? And.if that is another way of saying that the philoso- phy of government progress in lean times and Stagnates in times of surfeit, we will abide even that, for it is in times of tribulation that the efficacy or weakness of any government is proven.
 Better then, that servants with the abilities and talents of a Fish devote themselves not merely to swatting the isms but to correcting the insanitary conditions which breeds them.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06

Albert Jedlicka was brot to, Petersburg from Port Alexander suffering from a broken leg re- ceived in a fall.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
JOBLESS MEN MARCH INFO
 SPOKANE

General James E. Drain, head of the Spokane relief bureau, did not want to see the marching war vets when they arrived from Seattle recently enrOute to Washington, D. c.
 Would you like to talk to the hoys?" he was asked.
 Mot a bit," the general replied. I'm not a bit interested in buns like that. What arc they march ing to Washington for?" A diff ferent greeting from a few years ago.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06

Third, a successful venture in retoresvation will add to the health of many states. Before pine forests were planted in southern France, it was an un- healthy region; today it is 6 health resort. And great forests safeguard our pure water sup plies.
 Fourth, reforestation will bring to a state the priceless boon of beauty. A people will not tolerate the absence of beauty from it's common life forever. For a na- tion that forgets beauty will in
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
OUR PART OF THE JOB

Justice Louis Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court 1as said: We can have children who think first of the public welfare if we are willing to take he trouble to train them to do it." In other words that is part If our job as fathers and moth CTS that we give no thought to
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
FARM PRICES

A recent report by the De- rartment of Agriculture covering prices of farm products shows that the farmers during the of December received the lowest prices in fifteen years for their products. When will they pass the dividend along to the consumer?
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06
PAGE THE EMPIRE

Oscar DePriest, Negro repre- sentative to Congress from Illi- nois and Mrs. DePriest attended President Hoover's annual re- ception to members of Congress, on the Both of January. This ought to make a raise of about three sticks full from the South ern editors of Juneau.
The Alaskan., 1931-02-06

said" Hoover and Prosperity?" It is more like Hoover and HI!
 And the press of the north accuse us of being anti-Hoover.
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SALE-LOTS.

LOT 10 BE 5ACRIFICED.
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OF 18th ST.; Atty feet frontaee. side alley
and Rock Creek Park in rear; carries flrst
trust five thousand dollars, 81 For sale
At a great reduction; Apply to CoNDIT,
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PROPOSALS.

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission
Navy Building. washington, d: @. Sealed
bids will be received in this once until II
am, Eastern Standard Time, April 8, 1881
and then publicly opened in Room 1913
Navy Building for building tunnel under
the Memorial Parkway to the Cemetery on
the Virginia shore Of the Arlington Me
the placing of about 2,l00 cubic yards of re-
inforced concrete and I'll tons OF reinforcing
steel. Further information upon applica-
ton. mhl6-3t
OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAP
IToL; Washington; D. G., March 16, 1891.
at 3 pm, April 2, 1881, for finish hardware
with plans and specifications. specifca-
lions may be obtained from this office.
Plans may be seen at the ONCE Of Wyeth &
Sullivan, architects, 726 jackson PLACE nv
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER,
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission.
Navy Building, Washington, D. @. Sealed
bids will be received in this once until II
am, Eastern Standard Time, April 1, 1881.
and then publicly opened in Room 1913,
Navy Building, for doing the grading ct the
west end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge
project, involving about $4,000 cubic yards
OF earth excavation. Further information
upon application. mhl6-3t