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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1881
Come Out In The Open

The national democratic party has been fooiing around with the prohibition issue too long now for the mere mention of it by Chairman Raskob to cause such commotion as the papers tell us is occurring in Washing ton First off, we were informed that Mr Raskob had extreme effrontery in calling meeting of the democratic national commit tee at this time of the year. It was without precedent. Maybe SO. but Mir Raskob, to our way of thinking. is entitled to call meeting of his committee any old time he de- sires. We don't care how much Frank Kent critcizes him or calls him the mortgage holder of the party, he has actually produced more results than his immediate predecessors.
 Of all the men at the gathering Alfred E. Smith and James M. Cox, both presiden- tial candidates in former years showed more control of their feelings. Senator Robinson outburst against Mir Raskob's prohibition plat form was unnecessary. Mir Raskob is chair man of the party. He can make suggestions. It does not mean that the party must follow his advice, but at least he is entitled to an expression of his opinion. We like the way former Governor Smith jumped to his de- fense The trouble at the meeting was that a XOOo HdHy oethOSIdlS SdHhe PleP"Aeo " AA~AA inveetves at their chairman regardless of what he said or recommended. The unusual sum- mons went against the grain.
 Mir Robinson in his impassioned attack upon Chairman Raskob called prohibition a controversial issue upon which democrats are divided. Not only democrats, MT Robinson. but also republicans. liberals. conservatives or any other political group are divided on this issue. And they will continue to be So as long as the present deplorable conditions exist. Why not as party with historic lineage and whose tenets include those of states rights, make fight to restore equilibrium in the nation? Why continue to straddle the issue as we certainly did in 1928 with Mir Smith wet. and you, Mir Robinson, a dry. as the candidates? Why not, indeed?
 Certainly Thomas Jefferson stood for the principles of home rule and states rights such as are violated by the 18th amendment and the liquor laws. And certainly Thomas Jef- ferson would never have denied the chairman of the national democratic party the right to express his opinions on matters of grave importance. Mir Raskob did not attempt to dictate policy for the democratic party nor did he point out that the course of action he advised should be followed. He simply made recommendations which can be adopted or recommended. They do not deserve to be treated with the insolent treatment that tempestuous dry members of the party advo- cate. They are for consideration. Why not look at the situation in this light?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
No Political Courts

The Hartford Courant doesn't think that Governor Gross should have replaced two of the five common pleas court judges with democrats. Inasmuch as the deposed were performing their duties well and if they did not wish to resign they should have been re- appointed is the gist of the Courant com plant. It goes on to say that. We believe the public cares not fig whether a republic can or democrat is made judge. But once he is made. and during his term he aoquits himself ereditably. we think the public desires his retention. If we understand the public mind sright, it wants the courts to be kept out of politics and the judges to keep out of poll itics. Confidence in the courts. in their in- tegrity, in their wisdom, in their strict im- partiality, is the very corner stone of society. This the governor should know; this he does know. :.
 That is fine principle, but it is being laid down rather late in the game. It should have been preached years ago when the republican party set to work systematically to clean the courts of every democratic official. That they succeeded in doing this is quite evident. And that politics should play an important part in judicial appointments is taken as matter of fact today. Why wasn't demo- crat proposed for the federal court position that was lately bestowed on Judge Hincks of this city? There never was any thought of democrat for that office simply because the republicans control the federal administration
 We repeat again the Courant breaches good lesson, but it is too late for it. What ever high thoughts we may have had of our judiciary appointments have been smothered by republican greed for office. Nos that we deery the calibre of our present judiciary. It is only at our lower courts that criticism of ability might be leveled. But by failure to appoint democratic judges the republican administration has tacitly conveyed the im- pression that the democratic party does not contain men capable of being appointed to judicial positions. The party is denied repre- sentation in one department of the state gov- ernment to which it is entitled as the minority.
 Abuse of appointive powers cannot be laid at Governor Cross door. He is merely trying to correct bad situation that was not of his doing He probably is aware of the fact that political affiliations should not enter into judicial appointments, but he also is conscious that the democratic party has been denied representation in the courts. By giving equal representation to both the democratic and republican parties only can the charge of politics be downed The first thing that most of us ask when we read of new judi ciary appointment is the question = Is he democrat or a republican? It's practically impossible to make even merited appoint ment today without the candidates political affiliations entering into it. Maybe 1t is wrong ethically, but it's the spirit of the times Democrats have been out of step SO long it will require some time for them to catch up with the procession. They will eventually
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
Few American Linguists

A fact about educated foreigners which occasionally astonishes Americans is the facility with which the former use languages in addi- tion to their native tongue. Americans are among the worlds most inveterate travellers. but they are about the poorest lnguists of the lot. Is it fundamental inability to master any foreign language or is it funda- mental laziness and. perhaps. indifference?
 A native critic says that hardly per cent of American students keep on reading or speaking the foreign languages they study from one to six years in school and college No matter how we'll they've succeeded in French classes with supposedly good teachers very few of them can get along with the lan- guage when they land at Cherbourg or Le Havre
 Americans travelling abroad nearly always find natives who understand and speak some English. Whether this is the result of our failure to master the foreign tongues. or whether it is the reason why we don't try. is hard to tell. American students who have been attending special schools of international relations in Geneva, Switzerland, in recent years, have come home little shocked by the discovery that they were almost the only ones unable to converse or follow lectures in more than one language. Can't we do something about this?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

Add to the worries of water famine in New York city the danger that the famous Ashokan reservoir may be sold in default of payment of taxes within week or so. The battle between New York city and officials of Ulster county, New York. goes along mer- rily And for the fifth time the treasurer of the county is preparing to sell at public auc- ton the dams. reservoirs lakes. lands. and ap- purtenances of the New York city water works in the towns of Hurley. Marbletown. and Olive. A few years ago New York pro- tested its taxes and since then the battle has been waged through various courts with the Ulster county officials finally upheld by an appellate court decision. Therefore, pre- pare for the fifth attempt to auction off Ash okan dam and reservoir, all ye interested in waterworks. The date is next Tuesday at Kingston. Maybe it will take place and may be it won't.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

Representative Thomas bill forbidding the removal of sand from our Long Island Sound beaches between high and low tide marks pro- voked quite few arguments in the General Assembly when heard before the judiciary committee Wednesday afternoon. 1nasmuch as Mir Thomas is a member of that group he ought to wield enough influence to have the measure passed. It develops that resi- dents of Madison are doing most of the com plaining. As many as $50 tons of sand are annually removed from the shore in the towns vicinity. It is used for various pur. poses, such as in chicken feed. pigeon grist.
 manufacture of files, and for casting pur- poses. However, opponents of the bill were able to show that despite the large amount of sand removed there is no appreciable diff ference in the height of the beach. And they displayed maps to prove this. That may be SO. but some portion of the ocean bed is be- ing scooped out to cover up the holes men
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
nUoIATIoNS %S S@@m @~o@J

a Neither evolution or evolutionists in general have been atheistic- win least of all.
 -Dr Robert A. Millikan. am not a politician. find the job of ruling and regulating my own life is much as my limited mental powers can manage.
 Sir Ernest Benn. The best preparation for business Is an engineering education and this is becoming generally recognized. Professor George Fillmore Swain of Boston.
 Cocktails do have q certain so- cial function. -Staniey High. Better a nation drunk than a na- ton dishonest.
 --Rev James Malcolm Macleod. Tn the face of calamity let us unite fin common effort to drive suffering and want from our country.
 --Presldent Hoover.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
DANBuRY LOOKS FOR WATER
(Bridgeport Telegram)

While the Connecticut legislature is considering the question of wheth- CT or not there shall be 8 survey of Connecticut's water resources, the city of Danbury is experiencing a practical demonstration of the fact that the problem of finding adequate city water supplies is difficult. Danbury, nestling in a country of hills, brooks and lakes, ought to have enough water for metropolis. But 1t lacks sufficient for it's own use and is going to have difficulty in getting more.
 It is now proposed to dam Mar gerie pond and swamp in the north ern outskirts of the town, near the New Fairfield line. Just a mile or two farther north is Balls Brook, an adequate stream which, if diverted into the proposed reservoir would give Danbury an ample supply of water.
 But Balls Brook is owned by the Connecticut Light and Power com pany; it helps to feed Candlewood lake and the power company has no intention of letting Danbury drink up it's power supply. The Margerie reservoir which will lie in steep
 narrow valley, must depend upon it's own resources. On this point George i E. Brundage, citizen of Danbury we'll familiar with the locality writes
 in the Danbury News:
 | Having known that section for
 more than 60 years it is surprising
 to know that the state engineer se-
 lected that site. as there Is only a
 small watershed and but very few lsprings which, together with the
 seepage from the clay subsoil, would
 never fill the dam. As far as the
 water in Margerie pond is concern
 ed, you will find foot of water in normal season if you are careful in
 taking your measurements. other
 wise you will get a rich mixture
 compared with nothing have ever
 seen, but which is really good old Margerie muck, which has a person.
 ality all it's own. .. forgot to men. tion that the water is a pale tar color but am advised 1t Is harmless for human consumption. It is ap- parent that one must acquire ths
 taste before it will become popu.
 lar beverage"
 With much more to the same ef-
 feet MT Brundage ridicules the plar
 to add Margerie swamp and pond tc iDanbury's water supply. It is ironi.
 cal that Danbury. which has a DOT
 tion of the largest lake in Connect. cut lying within it's town limits
 should wonder where it's next drink of water is coming from.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

News reports on the closing of the 7lst Congress state that it marks new era in senatorial history, for with the departure of Gillett and the veteran, Joseph s. Ransdell of Louisiana, that body is now without beard. Twenty years ago the senate looked like gathering of the cough-drop magnates. but Ransdell with his small white beard and Gill lett with his close imperial are the last of the whiskers :" But not for long. Don't forget James Hamilton Lewis is in the offing. He will bring his celebrated pink whiskers once more to Washington in December. And then the senate will be in its glory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
 -IoI- WHAT THE EDITORS OF TIlis STATE AND EIsEwHERD HAVE TO SAX ABOUT TEals THAT OTHER THING

untenable. Anyone who has driven along country roads at night and
 observed the number of mysteri- ously dark cars here and there will. agree that the betting parkers are
 numerous enough to start the fires.
 whether they do or not
 A bill giving the governor au-
 thority to close the woods ought to
 be passed in any case, as forest fires in Connecticut have been numerous
 and devastating in recent years. There seems little sense in the states maintaining a forestry de- partment, in encouraging refoesta- ton and taking similar steps,. when
 in one year the acreage burned over is more than can be replaced
 by planting.
 tree big enough for timbering, then
 25 seeding trees must be set out
 to replace each one destroyed by a forest fire annually. This is a dis couraging proposition.
 The bill offered before the Parks woodlands to all save the owners. or persons given permission by the owners. excepting only hunters and fishermen. Why the latter should be excluded is not at all clear ana the objections made to this part of the bill were well taken. If the
 owners of woodland wish to assume the responsibility of allowing any persons access to their woods in the | dry season, they should certainly have the privilege of giving access
 to hunters and fishermen who. as
 a rule. are better versed in wood-
 craft than ordinary wayfarers and
 less likely to start forest fires. The general purpose of the bill is good even though it does not
 reach the betting parkers. who will still continue to pull up along the sides of public highways where | they may toss cigarette stubs into
 the undergrowth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
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 On March 6, 1906, Elizabeth Bar rett Browning, English poet, was born near Durham.
 She early displayed great literary
 precocity. composing when about Il an epic poem on the Battle of Mara thon. When she was 20 her family
 moved to London where Miss Bar rett established her reputation by the "Seraphim'' and other poems. In 1845 she met Robert Brown ing, whose writings she had pre- viously praised. A year later they were married against her fathers wishes. Proceedings to Italy they made Florence their home and there in 1849 son was born, Robert, who became known as an artist and poet. The married life of these brilliant poets was singularly happy, and their mutual influence is clearly seen in their verse. Mrs Browning's
 "Sonnets From the Portuguese"
 which were in reality original com
 positions, written after her engage
 ment to Browning, "are unrivaled,
 of their kind, in the English lam
 guage, as an exquisite expression of pure yet passionate love-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
TO.DAY'S SELECTED POEM
WINTER soLsTICE

 (By Arthur Truman Merrill in The Christian
 Science Monitor.) Spring had gone, Narcssus, daffodil and crocus, Gone! Summer too Gorgeous -flowering summer, Smellful, luscious bee-time, Gone! And Autumn, Golden Hour of Midas, Mandarin -colored, Brick and straw and russet, Malucca-spiced! Spring and Summer. Autumn. Gone! And Winter, rasping- -branched, Released his panther winds Down ice-ribbed hills. But Memory knitting by a kitchen stove Heard April robins sing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
FOREST FIRE PROTECTION
Bridgeport Teiegram)

Something new as to the cause of forest fires was disclosed in a hear ing before the legislative committee on state parks the other day when Gordon B. Beach. speaking on a bill giving the governor permission to close the woods during dangerous dry seasons. said that spetting park ars," on woodland roads. tfFowife cigarette stubs into the undefbrush, caused most of the fires.
 This is a new theF~e but t Is not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

are making along the water front. Whether or not the state can prevent sand removal re- mains to be seen. If it was private property and the owner was willing to sell his right to the sand we don't see how the state could prevent such sale. If beaches are being defaced it is another thing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

| Signed letters pertaining to personai health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or
 treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Ad- dress him, care of the Democrat sendins stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

for the senate last fall. Jed c Adams of Texas came on the com.
 mittee only in 1928. but has proved
 himself frank and outspoken. Ani so. as everyone knows. has Sena. tor Cameron Morrison of Nortf Carolina, the ardent dry, who is thu only senator on the committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

A Viking sail boat named Roald Amundsen. an exact copy of the boats used by Eric the Red and other early explorers, made the trip across the ocean from Palos, Spain, to Havana, Cuba, in AZ days, during the months of March and April, 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

We have had very mild and open win ter. There has been little snow so far this season. That's what we read in the news papers, but it certainly doesn't apply to Con- nectieut. In the last five years we can't re- call as many heavy snowstorms as we've had this year. We have had snow on the ground almost continuously since Christmas. And that will be three months ago in very few days. We'd cali it a good old-fashioned winter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

When a Chinese girl gets married her attendants are usually the old est and ugliest women in the neigh. borhood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
SUCCESS IS THE HARVEST
Little grains of wisdom, Planted i'm the soil,

Little grains of wisdom,
 Planted in the soil,
 Grow to crops of knowledge,
 For the men who toll.
 o-O-o
 Women's hips will be fashionable this year. Style Hint. Hip, hip, hooray. A New York doctor says one meal every day should be made up exclusively of fish, nothing else. I suppose for dessert he'd have us eat jelly fish.
 o-O-o
 The honeymoon is over when he drops her mothers picture on the floor.
 o-O--o
 With the average husband eating canned goods day in and day out, it's a wonder we don't hear of more cases of canosis of the stomach.
 Mussolini says his rule of Italy needs no apology. Mussolini re- ceives, he never glves any. o-O-o Lock Autoist in Car. - Head line. I suppose for fear he'd fly the coupe. o-O-o A bride darns stockings the first year, damns them the second and ignores them entirely after that. o-O-o Singer Goes to Sing Sing. Headline. For his swan song, I suppose. o-O-o NI- xvvt1@ l1l~ h. in a restaurant, probably drinks cof- fee from a saucer at home. o-O-o | With western farmers suffer- ing from a drought there isn't much chance of customers get ting watered milk. | o-O-o | A scientist estimates that women will be shaving one hundred years from now. So don't sell your Gil lette stock for a while anyway.
 SPEAKING OF CHIPS ''Why this is a chip diamond" l POuted his gal, Minnie Block, l'You said it," was his answer, ''It took n chip from my sock"
 o-O-o l Mems hats this spring will be ligh' | in shade so it is quite evident tha fashion at last is making light o, mems wear. | An old fashioned home is a place where they still have a photograph and a gas toaster.
 o-O-o
 The fellow who went looking fol I a Ynf little Child's shall lead them.
 o-O--o
 In the old days you could put the feed bag on the horse ant go away for hours without find ing tag on the whip when you came back.
 Years ago, the real dyed in tn, wool American always had his pic ture taken in front of the postoffice Today gas station is the required background. | O-O-O
 Then there was the manager of a bird store who always wore a swallow tail coat.
 O-O-o
 When the democrats meet oppo sition on their plank, that's wher the SOutn DeSlHS.
 O-O--O
 A DOGGY LINE, ED Timmy lead . dogs life,
 When his wife was around, And so Ire sought seclusion, In the city's old dog pound.
 M. L. c. | o-O-O
 "Batter out" said the cook as sh poured the last of it in a cake tin. o-O-o | This completes our regular Frida, evening program, broadcast by DBD Waterbury's pioneer station, owne, and operated by the Evening Dem@ lcrat. We are signing off at this time to be back on the air again to-mor row at noon with a special Saturda program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6:17 o'clock tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

The coroner of Cook county. Illinois. talks of running for mayor of Chicago. That's fine. If there's one thing that town needs. it's a good. coroner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

It's plain. builder says. that we're going to live in glass houses hereafter. And you needn't make that old crack about glass houses, either. because they'll be built of nonshatterable glass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

White gold is ordinary gold con- taining alloys which make it appear white.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
THE FAME OF A YES MAN

He was a yes man,
 That's easy to guess, And when she proposed,
 Of course he said yes.
 o-O-o A man prefers new pair of shoes to a hat, but woman wants both.
 o-O-o
 "The Star-Spangled Banner" is now the national anthem. And if you can hit the high notes you're better patriot than I am. A man shows lot of horse sense just as soon as he gets in double harness.
 o-O-o
 Dizzy Dorothy, Waterbury's intellectual idiot, wants to know what kind of golf course the city is going to have, reading in the papers it was being built on the water shed. Why not re- move, the shed first, said the dizzy one.
 O-O-o The woman who can wear clothes, generally has husband who can wear them, too, providing he could afford it.
 SUCCESS IS THE HARVEST
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06
Good evening.
 o-O-o YOKEL WARNINGS
"A SMILES THE THING"

O-O-O
 YOKEL WARNINGS Love made a dreamer out of Jim, No longer will he toll or spin. Which proves that love can wreck
 much harm, On love sick swains, down on the
 farm.
 o-O-o When a person is overcome with the blackness of despair, it's merely realization that woe has color all it's own. ~
 O-O-o
 An optimist is man who be- lieves in the pretty pictures on the front of packages of garden seeds.
 O-O-o I suppose the electric clocks are proving shock to the old time watch makers. o-O-o uaA A n HG a
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-02-13

in a deed recorded in liber 1853, folio
20. Taxes, interest and costs,
$111.50.
Rapee, Frank j. and Doris M.
present owner-Elmer j. and
Thelman B. DeVore)-Lot 5, block
80 and improvements, Garrett Park
as described in deeds recorded in
liber 1884, folio 491 and in liber $40,
folio 80. Taxes, interest and costs,
$67.91.
Staeger, Gustave A.-Lot 81,
block 90 and improvements, Garrett
Park, as described in a deed re-
corded in liber 428. folio 16. Taxes,
interest and costs, $685..
Shakespeare, Adelaide J. pres
ent owner-The Mortgage Com
pany of Maryland, Inc. Lot IL,
block 100, and Improvements, Gar
rett Park, as described in Deeds
recorded in liber 438, folio POP and
in liber 510, folio 49S. Taxes, in
terest and costs, $57.94.
Walker, Frances Staw-Lot IL,
block 95 and improvements, Gar
rett Park as described in a deed
recorded in kber 1892, folio 81.
Taxes, interest and costs, $59.86.
Warren, Edwin C.--Lot II, block
1903, Garrett Park, as described in
deeds recorded in liber 494, folio
1913 and in liber 492, folio 381.
Taxes, interest and costs, $11.76.