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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03
NEW ENGLAND PIE
(Hartford Courant)

If one is in New York and cares to do so, one may visit theater in the afternoon and, by sitting tight, may see MT. O'Neills new tragedy from beginning to end and still be able to catch a train the next day out of the city. With re- gard to the play the New York Times suggests that there is dam ger of people coming to regard horror as peculiarly New England product" To which 1t adds: Per haps 1t 1t =. but possibly 1t Is the food. It will be recalled that all the woes and crimes of Clytem- nestra and Agamemnon and Orestes had their origin in that hideous ancestral banquet at which Aureus presided. In New England the im- polling cause cannot be cannibal- ism. Could it have been the native pie?"
 Emphatically, no! In fact, we feel that more New Englanders would go to New York and become bankers, heads of great corpora tions, even editors, did they not re- fleet that mere wealth could not compensate them for the lack of the foods to which they had been accustomed. They wisely decided that the work in building eighty six stories high makes no amends for a continuing lack of apple pie, meaning an apple pie which con- forms to the best traditions of New England.
 And we do not forget the squash pie, which we prefer to speak of as pumpkin pie, for the squash. winter squash, should appear on the table we'll buttered and seasoned" as a vegetable. The yellow pumpkin, allowed to remain in the field un- til a killing frost threatens may be made in New England, but not in New York, into a food so delect- able that one willingly remains here near the source of supply rather than to exist elsewhere.
 Neither time nor space permit adequate mention of New Eng lands other pies,--current. rasp- berry, blueberry or cranberry, though the latter should be com pounded by a housewife whose inl- pulses are generous in the matter of sugar and who realizes with the Ecclesiast that there Is time to spend as well as a time to save. Even now we have refrained from alluding ot the New England short cake, strawberry or peach. for space and time forbid it. These cates should not be given up for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

broadmindedness It also opens the box office to some millions of pos sible paying members who were unavailable in the days of the Klan that Klan from which Colonel Simmons parted because the ideas of its later members were tainted with bigotry.
 Colone, simmons Is the kind of man who, under any form of civii- ization, would turn up as shepherd of the fiocks of ignorance and fear. In ancient Rome he would have formed Q secret society to combat the propaganda of the early Chris tians. In Moscow he would quickly find himself a soft spot as an arch detector of horrible tendencies toe ward capitalism. In America to-day he is a not very dangerous and is a moderately comic nuisance.
 The White Band boasts menl- bership of 3B0.0 .000. So that for every American who has paid his dues to muiticoicred bigotry there are 3G5 who have kent their heads. If connmon sense doesn't prevent the Whitc Band from growing. perhaps the depression Will. Let that be re. corded as ono of tho depsesslons s~s~~p S.taastws-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.)

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis OF treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him. care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03
Here, There And EDeryOhere

life in New York, where a short- cake filling is simply an imaginary line between two slices of bread. MT. O'Neiil does not lack in horror. but we feel sure that it came from no New England complex. t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

can't dress the way want to without criticism, can't eat what I want without inquiry, I can't go where I will without suspicion and can't associate with those whom I prefer without accusations.
 Mayor Walker of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

Communism has been abolished and the Soviets are now operating on a state capitalism basis. Event ually they plan to swing to modi- fled system of private capitalism. Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, Ameri-
 can hydroelectric engineer just
 returned from Russia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

Poor old Nautilus! It's hard life the old submarine leads these days After fail- ing to satisfy Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted ex- plorer. that she could carve her way under the icy wastes that make the North Pole no mans land, she was ignominiously lowed to port in Norway where she has since rested She was condemned to die. though, and last week Norwegian sailors attempted to scuttIe her out at sea. Nautilus broke her tow rope and almost escaped, but was dragged back to harbor to await better conditions for her last plunge into the depths. What fate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

A city man has discovered to his aston ishment that good breakfast cereal can be produced by grinding up ordinary wheat in coffee mill. But cereal manufacturers needn't worry; the neighbors won't believe it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

For the frHt time ia more than 100 years q wedding was held in ht Nury's Church, Dundee, Scot. land, tho evert attracting nearly T And na@,s,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

Anyone who takes featuring se- riously should be very careful of his grammar.
 Professor Erwin Edman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03
@ TODAY &eS
 / WORLD WAR A. ANNIVERSARY 8S9 qGSE

Business conditions are spotty. to say the least, and there is ev. cry reason to believe that improve ment will be equally spotty.
 Gage P. Wright.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

Really. isn't the gentle sex getting bit rough with its killings?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

Senator Fess of Ohio is going to hold his job of national chairman of the republican party for a few more months. Announe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5.l7 tonight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

Between you and I and the gate post, I hate publicity. Aimee Semple McPherson Hut ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03

In New York we have the best judges money can buy.
 Jacob Panken.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-03
"A SMILES THE THING"

NOW, LII, uOH tDlnk m dlWdv.
 blue,
 Some nights 1 have lot to do Take in the movies, have som'
 cream, At little tables, just a dream. But when girls pass with bo,
 friends cute. My heart just drops into mJ
 suit, You're not the only one who
 lonely, Because you haven't got you
 only.
 Mabel C. J.
 CO., o Life is to the swift. You'd think so if you were travelling along the Boston Post road.
 c-O-o Wouldn't q doughnut dunk ing contest saturate you, as well as the doughnut?
 O-O-O Dizzy Dorothy, Waterbury's in. tellectual idiot, thinks the presi. dential range is a stove they use 1T the White House.
 o-O-o
 When love KEYS a man up he asks his gal for q LOCK of her hair.
 o-O-o Suits may suit some women bur q lot are never able to wear 'em
 o-O-o
 DING-A.LING Legion holds election,
 Tonight at Barry hall, After votes are counted,
 Somebody's gonna fall.
 o-O-o Platinum blondes are just q bit iohter in more ways than one.
 o-O-o Nero fiddled while Rome burned. But at that, 1t was better than footing saxo- phone, adding insult to injury. The good book says, Broad i. the way that leads to destruction. Mebbe Broadway is mean.
 o-O-o A car that's always good or 'pick-up" Is one with a rum ble seat.
 Doctors claim that women whC wear heavy ear rings are subject to headaches. Sc are the mer who have to watch 'em danglinf from shell like hearing appara. tus.
 o-O-o
 OHMIGOSH And this Is no pun, Although Mister Swcctic, Weighed a third of a ton.
 o-O-o When a singer goes flat it's per. haps due to the fact that she knows her sharps much better.
 o-O-o You always see an Inncrease in drinking at an Inn.
 o-O-o Another thing in favor of tht horse. It wasn't necessary to fil his radiator with Prestone wher the winter season arrived.
 o-O-o Ocean anglers have discov- cred a fish that laughs on be- ing captured. Aha, I sup pose it comes up smiling.
 0-O-o Words of wisdom the wise meI forgot: A man who drinks any thing stronger than water l. showing his weakness.
 o-O-o
 AND so FORTH o-O-o He called her his lamb bcfOr, marriage, I'm her diary, this fact she wrote But now that they're Quarrelini daily, The lamb seems to have gottel his goat.
 o-O-o Of course news of a fortun' comes by heir-mail.
 o-O-o During the march of event you'll always find millions on tn sidelines.
 
 IT WAS EVER THUS A little bit of sugar. To coat life's bitter pill, That all of us at times must take When we are worldly fll.
 O-O-O Footprints on the sands of tim are soon forgotten, but be care full what you have chiseled on tombstone.
 o-O-o
 A dreamer only dreams. A worker builds.
 o-O-o A wisdom tooth always comes | life after we've finished maxim mistakes.
 o-O--o This completes our regular Tues day evening program. It came { you over DBD and was broadcat by the Waterbury Evening Demo crat, pioneer in this type of news paper work. We are signing oi at this time. to be back on the ai again tomorrow evening at th usual hour.
 o-O-o oana uisht.
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
That Prosperous Look IS
1r~orN0r.forAf
ImpOrtant

These gorgeous days Of Indian summer have cheered the
of people in ways than one We have just
passed through unusually trying summer extending in
of its unpleasant and phases unconsclon
ably far into the fall season.
These last golden days flooded the streets and stores
with from and far bent upon their fall shopping
Men have thrown away their old straw hats-with the
throwing away long overduser white trousers and Shoes
buying somewhat precpitaey the approved garb OF
autumn. Women doing the same thing.
The streets gladly and happily alive with shoppers
The Times honestly believes that way to encourage and
persuade- word may be applied in this sensepros
perity smile upon again for people to LOOK
prosperous.
Ordinarily citizen afford to economic TOO rgdy
in the matter of his personal appearance.
We do not that people should spend beyond their
means surely is sensible thing to spend within ones
especially The Times thinks, in the matter OF
personal appearance.
ONLY millionaire can afford-if he REALLY can-to be
unmindfu inattentve to his personal appearance
Those of us who mllionaires must LOOK we'll or
nav the INEVITABLE big price of not seeming be DOING
we-here Washington this is true just surely as in any
other city or community of the nation.
That Prosperous Look not only the surest to keep
your best GIRL equally good in helping you keep
lob or your business Trade follows the flag Of prosperity
and that flag is prosperous look
Wear it office the store wherever you coma
in contact with the purchasing public It will help to brnN
more business Wear it in the street wherever 1t will at
tract others to wear it.
To your wOmenfo is the badge Of and every
woman admires a successful man.
It was the cavewoman and the who started
civilization She started when she began to decorate her
self the and made him scrape his feet before walk
ing on bear rug That set him to decorating himself
Noting much she admired the hair his chest he put
on a bear skin with still more hair. .
The "big shot, then the with the big bear lion
or tiger skin Only the md and the failures rabbit furs
Same thing today.
That swank hat and smary tailored suit date back to the
time when the tiger skins furnished that prosperous look
which the of the and commanded the
respect of other cavemen.
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
JACK CHAPMAN

You interested in this fine young American who thinks
Of stepping into plane and flying solo than you do
Of stepping into automobile.
He was eleven years old on January g. made his first
air trip at the age of four.
He had seven and half hours of flying instruction before
he tried his wings.
Ho soloed twice. last Tuesday at Suffolk Airport West
Hampton L. L. staying up than ten minutes each time
His take-offs and landings were perfect.
Young Mr. Chapman is modest He nothing unusual
about flying plane himself The fact that he the youngest
human being that soloed does not strike him remark
able He says he would rather fly to California than to spell
it. It is easier, he believes to fly than to spell.
Nddleaged persons who remember when flight called
crazy dream much think about in this eevenyear
old boys achievement reminds them that the world has
moved farther ahead in the last thirty years than it did in
the preceding three hundred
They also find here to their question: whats
wrong with the young people today"
The answer course, is Nothing at ALL Young people
today have more intelligence imagination and NERVE than
their grandfathers thought Of having
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
Married Women in Federal
Civil Service

Representative Knutson starts redhot discussion when
he advocates replacement of married in the Federal
civil service with single aid to unemploy
'ment
nation against married those who do not have de-
pende and whose husbands are getting salaries sufficient
to maintain them.
This an old old story has been agated for years
Presidents their Cabinets have talked about it. Senators
and Representatives have talked it but NOTHING has
ever been done except in the direction of letting out
married when there must be reduction OF forces
There hundreds Of important angles to the question and
these faught with social moral economic and po
itical dynamite keep statesmen from attempting to
solve it.
On the face of things it quite unfair that married
men and their wives should be drawing good salaries while
many girls with dependents and men with families are
without positions but must be remembered that under
presenday laws and practices women are on an equality
with They must make their living the same as men,
therefore,
Why put married women out of their jobs any than
married men? Why pick the women alone?
Women win their positions in the civil service on their
merit fitness Not many of those already married receive
appointments Most of them marry after they qualify Their
right to marry not be denied Might as well deny men
Women legally in the civil service entitled to remain
is it Justly determined that married women should get
disissals? Suppose married dropped from the
list the theory that her husband making enough to sup
port her? The husband becomes ncapacated or e
Hhe left helpless Would she find it easy to get replace
ment?'
Most of this agitation the traditional feeling that
belong homes and not at work. that they snouo
rear children and perform the duties Of mothers and wVe
that they should be dependent men, 1t may be pretty
thought but national laws put women on tne same
footing as men and discrimination against them is forbidden
Laws be lived up to ones must be made tnst
their former status OF nonworkers OUTSIDE
the homes Does anybody think this will be done? :,
The problem might be half way solved Congress snouo
pass law establishing sort of an investigating agency
TO 20 the financial status of married couples IN Inc
service their dependents and obligations with
view to determining whether injustice would be done either
were let out Of the service w 80
Vacancies of this kind would have be filled with single
women married single What is to stop eltneI
newly appointed men from promptly marrying a1o
bringing about very condition that is being dlscussed
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson.

even while they worked! Their
yellow streak was as wide as
mine and their bump Of con-
ceit as great! And even the
most faithful wives, often
dreamed of curly-headed tenors!
They hadn't Gotten Good. It
was still as hard for them to
be good as it was for me. They
shared all my handicaps and
temptations. YET T H E Y
WE'RE GOOD IN SPITE OF
THAT!
Things Eventually Changed
I'll confess, I was both sur
prised and shocked when I first
discovered this fact. Being very
young and idealistic. 1 thought
that Righteousness wasn't worth
much unless it was 100 per cent.
And I frankly doubted the
honesty or courage or kindness
of people who were inwardly
longing to tell whoppers, run
away or smack some one in the
Snoot. But eventually I saw
things differently.
I saw tina; goodness Is all the
more beautiful and miraculous
because it is mingled with so
much badness.
How amazing that man should
be good at all! Such a short
time since we were all savages,
running naked through the
brush, lying, stealing, killing,
as naturally as we breathed.
And now we wear pants! And
tell the Truth. But still there
is a scattering of hair along
our shins. AND STILL THERE
IS THE PRICKLING OF HATE
AND FEAR WITHIN OUR
HEARTS.
Don't be surprised that there
isn't more goodness in human
nature. Be surprised that there's
any at all.
Don't be discouraged because
you're full of secret cuSSedness,
even in your best moments.
You'd be a freak If you weren't.
And you have plenty Of COM
pany, kid.
The Washington times., 1931-10-03

ment, promoting industrial ef-
ficiency or adjusting the bal
ance of trade"
Evidently these men have
studied America, not without
profit. A high tariff here has
not prevented the greatest
amount of unemployment in
history; it has, in other days,
enriched private interests at
the expense of the community"
and it has now been met with
international retaliation which
deprives us Of foreign markets
we once enjoyed, and inju1l-
ously affects both the railroads
and the shipping interests.
The Washington times., 1931-10-03

I used to believe we could
Get Good.
1 though that if we made
enough righteous decisions and
gestures, goodness would be-
come a habit. i. we would no
longer want to be bad.
All around me I saw people
who seemed to have reached
that blissful state. Noble peo-
pie. Who DIDN'T lie, or fly in
temperS, or act mean. But who,
on the contrary, were always
calm, strong, sweet, wise, gen.
erous and refined, as befitted
civilized gentlemen and ladies.
How wonderful to be that way!
To have no unworthy motives,
no contemplate temptations
if only I could be like that!
That was how I thought
once. Now I know I was wrong.
Those people weren't really like
that. Nobody is really like
that. They hadn't Gotten
Good. They just looked as if
they had. And that was all
anyone could do!
No Matter How Good
Now, don't misunderstood
me. I'm not saying that there
is no goodness. or that SEEM
ingly righteous people are hypo-
critics. I'm just saying that
you can't Get Good all through
:. so good that goodness be-
comes automatic. No matter
how good you are, you could
be bad without half trying!
Those Perfect People-they
didn't tell the truth because
they couldn't tell anything else.
They weren't brave because
they had no yellow streak.
They weren't kind because they
couldn't hate. or industrious
because they dotted on hard
labor. or modest because they
lacked egotism. or faithful
because they were temptation
proof.
Actually, they wanted to fib
as much as / did! They wanted
to fib even while they told the
truth! They wanted to loaf,
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
Pay for D. C. Workmen
Why Not Protect Unorganzed WOrkmen, Too!

The District Commissioners have adopted prevailing wage
scales to paid all workmen District building projects
That the right and proper thing It has been done under
compulsion of the minimum act but just
oil the same.
DONE because union labor organizations are power
IN politics in this country and they fought practices that
enabled contractors outside Of Washington to bring IN
nderpad wormen take the place of Washington workmen
What thought are the Commissioners giving to protecting
that large unorgand workmen who are employed
By contractors on paving and other municipal
Are these residents Of the District to be LETT to the wnm
Of contractors their wages reduced whenever desred7
If minimum wage is far-and 1T Is-why not minimum
wage unorganzed the fellows without potlcal or
other backing?
No law is necessary Commissioners to fix fair wages
for these men and put before contractors for street paving
and repairs for example the scales they think right In
NAV not be able to contracts already let but they
can do it future contracts
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
1884 a Week for Four
Here Is the Weekly Menu for Family.

On the authority of the Federal Bureau of Home Economics
of this cy family of four be we'll fed current retail
prices for 1894 week. average If the family lives in
Los Angeles $7S1 will be enough it lives in New York.
however, 5000 is necessary.
Here the bureau figures it, taking prices in leading
cities throughout the country:
Bread to bs flour lbs. cereal. Al lbs; whole milk,
lbs potatoes IS to 20 bS legumes l3
lbs; tomatoes fresh canned lbs other
fruit canned 2025 bs fats lbs;
molasses bs lean meat liver fish, cheese $40 lbs
There you It is unlikely that the Federal diettians
allowance but possibly it be done you Wash
ingtOn housewife limited budget you might how
you to itfor week. anyway. Prices ARE going
down in the cost of necessities, that is certain.
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
Studying the Stars

Professor Ensten is this country again soon
for period of observation and study at Pasadena close to
the stars Of heaven and terra frma Being scientist and
asSduousy attended by his wife, the famous German will
conne his observations to the stars above and below
Study observation and contact with mundane around
Pasadena Los Angeles and Hollywood also involves relatively
and plenty Of money There little science connected there
with Much experience follows divorce courts and other
affairs have shown.
In realms RELATIVELY emotions and knowledge that
Of the latter expoundng the doctrine that all knowledge
q and through relations, or by relating activity.
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
By Claude G. Bowers

private hands. and that the in
tera1lied debts be cancelled.
It advances with long strides
toward pure socialism: In the
event of an election now it is
not impossible that the Labor
party, more radical than ever,
would prevail over the Tory
combination.
The the Labor pronounce
ment proclaimed the party's
opposition to the Tory tariff
plan, which, it says:
"WouId artificially increase
the cost of living, enrich private
interests at the expense of the
community, and further preju-
dice international cooperation.
While tariffs would permanent
ly injure the shipping and ex-
port trades, they would not be
effective in reducing unemplOy-
The Washington times., 1931-10-03
TIMES TEST

Do you know:
/. What Cromwell said about
trust in God?
2. What Pinckney said about
money for defense?
3. What Dickens said about
accidents?
4. What Keats said about
melody?
5. What Shakespeare said
about a woman's voice?
Match correctly:
6. Lake Maggiore
capital of Bahama Islands.
7. Pompaii
"See it and then die"
8. MarSeilles
the northern part belongs
to Switzerland
9. Nassau
considered a continent
10. Toronto
contains the Sorbonne
II. Monte Carlo
the chief seaport of France
(Answers on Magazine PageI
The Washington times., 1931-10-03

Tories Did Not
Want to Sacrifice
He has made sacrifice enough.
Mr.. Baldwin and his party did
not want to make any sacrifice
at all. A test vote at a Cabinet
conference on the tariff pro-
poSal of the Tori revealed an
equal division, with three of
the four Labor members and all
tn Liberal members voting
against the Tory bloc.
Meanwhile Lloyd George, con-
ferring with his chief lieuten-
ants at his country home, had
given the word and the Liberals
unanimously, in conference, de-
clared against the tariff pro-
gram and an immediate elec-
ton.
In the event of an election
with the tariff as the issue,