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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

to conduct itself when it comes time to or ganize the House in December. He practi- cally admits that the democrats will control and will elect the speaker. But he states We are going through with the fight for organization until it is settled by vote on the floor of the House. This is not the first time the republicans have been in the minor ity, and we are going to carry on. We have a duty to perform in enacting legisla- ton just as much as the majority party has. .' Mir Shell should remember that when his party held the majority there was little thought for democratic legislation. Now there's different story. We suppose the hard luck gag is going to be pulled. President Hoover will appeal to Congress to postpone organization until important legislation is transacted. It's just the old army game
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
Takes Rank With MT. Fess

Miss Katherine Byrne. vlce-chairman of the republican state central committee, is in a class with Senator Simeon D.. Fess of Ohio. national chairman of the republican party. by virtue of her remarks to the Esther Stanley chapter of the D. A. R. in New Britain last week. Senator Fess is the original gloom chaser of the republican party. When things are at their worst and the party is destined to ignominious defeat Senator Fess emerges smiling from his sane tum and releases statement to the press that for downright cheerfuness can't be sur passed. For instance we recall the senator's naive statement that prohibition wasn't political issue in this nation prior to the lo30 elections. He tempered it somewhat after they were over.
 Wednesday when it became apparent that the democrats had captured three of the five congressional seats in national cleo tons, not to mention electing democratic governors in New Jersey. Kentucky. and Mississippi. as well as carrying the large cities of Connecticut Mir Fess saw through nothing but rose-colored glasses There was no swing towards the democratic party in these results. the Ohio sage opined. Of course there wasn't a republican swing either. but that was all right. As long as matters weren't any worse all was we'll with the republican party. And that folks. is what we term real optimism.
 The same holds for Miss Byrne who in addressing the members of the D. A. R. said that Tuesdays was an emotional vote" and that when i932 with its state and national elections is here this emotion will not be present. Results of 1891 can't be used as a basis for predicting results in 1932. claims Miss Byrne. All we'll and good. but how many times. oh, how many times. have the republicans quoted figures and gleefully chortled at election results as indicative of future republican triumphs. As Maine goes so goes the nation. We've been hearing that for ages. It doesn't mean anything. but it certainly is republican fod- der for every campaign. Its psychology is appreciated. even in democratic circles
 Miss Byrne rather let the cat out of the bag when she said that If. in two or three months. conditions ehange-as they may --the whole outlook may change. :" In short return of prosperity would be due solely to the work of the republican party, we presume. Democrats are doubt less deliberately encouraging dull times SO that they can win the lo32 election on platform of better times. However We feel sure that the democrats won't urge two. ear garages where a one-ear would suffice. And the full dinner pail. we mustn't forget that We hope that times will change. but even if they do we hardly think that the republican party can claim credit or expect
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1881
Rev. William J. McGurk

{ While the death of the Rev William J. McGurk. permanent rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. had been mo-
 naentarily expected by his parishioners and the entire diocese. his death is no less shock to this city where he had spent the last nine years of his life. Waterbury will long re- ! member Father McGurk by the magnificent edifice which he had built on West Main street, opposite the Green where mighty ' elms lift up their arms to God before the very doors of this white limestone temple The city is indebted to Father McGurk for { this splendid House of God. But we do not pause to praise this priest solely because he builded well temple wherein many might seek consolation at the foot of the cross
 The priestly character that was Father \ McGurk's was self-evident to those who came in contact with him, who heard his sermons from the altar, who participated 2 with him in the mass He gave of his best { to his religion. From the very moment that he left the old Catholic seminary in Troy, }, N. Y.. his life was dedicated to the Master whom he chose to serve. And serve him 2 well he did. The amount of good that Father McGurk accomplished in the several parishes to which he was assigned, will prob- ably never be known on this earth. His charitable work was unostentatlously done and in the spirit that in giving there is suf- ficient reward.
 Held high in the diocese for his clerical knowledge and his ability as an orator | Father MeGurk was called upon time and again to join in advising in matters of re- : ligion and in practical business. His choice as permanent rector of the Immaculate Con- ception parish upon the death of the late Rev Luke Fitzsimons in 1922 was not sur priang. He speedily won the esteem of his parishioners and the good will of the entire city. religion disregarded. We can say that no matter the undertaking that Father MeGurk engaged in we never failed to reeog- nize the fact that he was priest. Those qualities were uppermost in him to the end.
 His name joins a long line of religious whom Waterbury has had the privilige of knowing. Nay. even more than that of enjoying the fruits of their labor. Father McGurk was with us only short time as pastorates go. Nine. years is but a moment in a long life that is spent in the vineyard of the Lord Yet it seems as if the deceased pastor of the Immaculate Conception had made his indelible mark on all of us in that time His death certainly demands moment in the life of everyone of us that we may pause and commend his spirit unto the Lord May his soul rest in peace. Amen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
NOTICE FROM WISCONSIN
(New York Times)


 Without some sort of Progressive conference, no week can take more than a drab and unregretted place in the calendar of time. In that of virtue 1t is but a blank. So it Is good to know that the eight Wis consin Progressive representatives in congress are to call at Madison a confabulation of themselves and six other statesmen, including our own MT. La Guardia and MT. Kvale, the farmer-labor party of the house. The fourteen, provided all the invitations are accepted. will lay down the policies that ought to be followed by the seventy-second congress. This is very kind of them and should be instructive to the congress. Of the members of the more illustrious progressive confer ence held at Washington last spring, MT. Coolidge wrote, with his customary neatness:
 They seek to guide all other
 public officers. Their official
 members have not always
 shown great capacity for CO.,
 operation.
 Even MT. La Guardia, hope of the stern and unbending progress sives of New York, was accused by the western brethren of coldness to their agricultural program; but the dissenters know well the value of non-cooperation with the regulars. save on definite terms and for due moral considerations. So the eight have served notice that they will not aid the regular republicans to organize the house except after definite promise that the bill con- taining their legislative proposals shall be duly considered and brought to vote. This Is not asking much. It is merely continuation of Senator Norris's tactics fin the last congress. The committee as- signments of the progressive Wis., eonsin representative are not csc pecially brilliant. and the new freshman. MT. Amlie, must begin at the bottom. Only Mir. Nelson has . chalrmanship. that of invalid pensions. Hut eeniorities are hard to part with, though we should never think of charging . progress sIvo with more than an uncon- sci0ua chnging t0 q c0ian of'svan- tage, whntoveF evidence to the cons trary may have been alleged by en- vi0us persons.
 On the ether hand, tho doubtful tide ef Drepondoranoo soo1ns ko ba
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
M1 TODAY gg;S
 / WORLD WAR \. ANNIVERSARY &&R gGSE
ACTION IN JERUSALEM

On Nov g, 1917, General Allen- by, advancing against the Turks be- fore Jerusalem, captured large number of prisoners and a trans port.
 General Allenby was command ing the British expedition. Mounted troops reached the south bank of the Wadi Hesu, Il miles north of the old Turkish front.
 The Turkish rail head at Belt Hannun was captured and the whole Turkish army retreated to- ward the north. More than 40 guns were taken.
 German troops landed on the is- land of Aland in the Baltic sea at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia, between Sweden and Finland.
 An American ship was torpe- doed of the Canary islands and an- other ship was torpedoed off the Algerian coast. according to re- port given out by the United States Photographic office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
INDEPREssIBLE TESS
(New York Timesl

\NcW 1OTk IlmeS)
 Unconsciously predicting the grand old Roman of Yellow Spring, Ohio, Horace got pretty dithyram- sticks to his theory and will re- main unterrified though the world goes to pot. It Is the theory or fix ed idea of Chairman Fess that MT Hoover will be "overwhelmingly elected"; that the republicans are united, and that all is for the best in the best of parties. There was no democratic "deluge" Tuesday. Why bless your heart, you could hardly call it a rain. Rather was there a beneficient dew:
 The usual protest vote in times of diversity did not repeat itself.
 The detractors of MT Fess can- not take shelter in the paltry quib- ble that the protest vote" was highly unusual. that it was extra ordinary for a democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey to get a majority of 230, ,000-odd and car ry the assembly with him. It is vain for them to pretend to chuckle because "Joe" Fordney's congress district. republican for a generation, has disgraced itself by SieCllHB QefuOCrdI-dnQ a We1 democrat at that. MT Fess is an old hand in politics. His seasoned sagacity, the wisdof om his too rare political utterances, his subtle and successful methods of campaign management, are so appreciated that when he says that there was no republican setback, even skeptics must acknowledge that ho is just the man for his job. He ought to stick to 1t. He ought not to be allowed to abdicate in June. In it's present condition and with its present prospects the republican party needs exactly that sort of chairman. He is not to be cast down. He is the best graveyard whistler in the United States.
 In one of his earlier incarnations he was the boy that stood on the burning deck and said: Father, there ain't no fire" He Is now net only Senator-C Chairman, but Hon. orary Colonel of the Twentieth Ma rlne Regiment of the, District of Columbia. No admiref of his genius as @ teller will deny his fitness for the last post. For that of Nation- al Chairman through the campaign of 1882 his virtual monopoly of the existing store of republican hope makes him the most sense- less and fit man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
Here, There And EDerytDhere

 democratic at present. To make the progressive fall upon the demo- cratic bosom would not only be a stroke of humor and malice but of political finesse. These progressive democratic fiirtations, and tempo rary marriages lave not been for tunate to the party of the second part. The strong desire to be speak CT or candidate for speaker that bites and burns in certain repub- lican heads makes so Machiavel- Han a scheme improbable or im- possible. And the Badger patriots are so mild and modest that it would be cruel to refuse the bar gain. They have not issued an ulti- matum or penultimatum or ante penultimatum or pro-antepenulti- matum. They have made a dis tressingly low bid. All they ask, in effect, is to be allowed to show their goods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

It is better. really. to be safe than rich.-Joseph Hergesheimer.
 The present depression has brought about situation which threatens to become tragic-Hey- wood Broun.
 The last 10 seconds always make q champion.--James J. Johnston. fight promoter.
 Homebreakers should be un- dressed and tarred and feathered, ns examples to the rest of their kind.--Al Capone.
 We have everything we need In this country. mohey, raw materials, workers. ability. all but confidence. MT H0over's suggestion has given tho people confidence, and that's all we need to pull out of this do. pression.--Wm WrigIey, IT.
 The raising of wages brings down the birth rate.--Julldn Huxley.
 There can Do no such thing as real, genuine and prolonged prOs- perlty in ono country only, t0 tho exclusion of ail the 0thers,-~stans ley Baldwin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
costs in England and five times as much as in Japan.

Meantime congressional advo- cates of strong fleet have taken the field in the battle to demand that the American navy be built up to a. parity with Great Britain at once.
 Representative Fred Britten, Chairman last session of the house naval committee, and Senator Day. i'd Reed, chairman of the military committee were leading these de- mands.
 Representative Britten an- nounced the full cooperation of Senator Frederick W. Hale, chair man of the senate naval committee and demanded program of i'm mediate construction of a $$122,- 500,000 program of destroyers, sub marines, a fiying-deck cruiser, and an aircraft carrier, 22 ships in all.
 He asked for $750,000,0 au- thorization for the navy to build up to the treaty limit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
Rubber From Coal

At last synthetic rubber has been pro- duced. It is the product of the chemical laboratories of the E. l. du Pont de Nemours Company. which has given industry so many remarkable discoveries in recent years. The only raw materials needed for this rub Der are said to be limestone. coal, salt and water. There is plenty of all four. Produc tion can probably satisfy any demand.
 It need not be so hastily assumed that Edison's labors were in vain. The new rubber does not possess all the qualities of vegetable rubber. though it has some that are lacking in our present crude rubber, re- sistance to oil and gasoline. for example. There may still be plenty of use for golden rod or any other practical source of the vegetable product
 It may be Illuminating to some folks to learn that the new rubber is made by the controlled polymeriZation of chloroprene. As for chloroprene, it is merely substance re- Sulting from the catalytic polymerization of acetylene to mono-vinylacetyene. which is treated with hydrogen chloride. Who would have supposed it could be so simple?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
The Navy league says:

The Navy league says:
 The United States has only 69 per cent of her treaty quota of naval tannage built or building, whereas Great Britain has 88.3 per cent and Japan 102 per cent. This ap- plies not to capital ships, but to aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroy CTS and submarines. It makes the present American -British-Japanese ratio of naval tonnage 3.8-5-3.S, with the Japanese built or build ing tonnage under treaty age with in 65 tons of our own and the Brit ish ahead of us by 31 per cent. We are ahead of Japan only in air. craft carriers and cruisers and are led by Britain in each category except submarines. A naval holi- day that would stop all building of aircraft carriers, cruisers, de- stroyers and submarines during 1892 would widen the gap and, placing American naval tonnage at a par of 10. give Britain and Japan comparative ratios of I'll and 1894 respectively. Such a year, taking into account the naval treaty program which runs through 1886, would result in gain of 15.5 per cent for the British fleet, 19.6 per cent for the Japanese fleet and no gain at all for the American fleet.
 Peace societies. as in the caes of the National Council for Proven tion of War of which Frederick J.. Libby is executive secertary. merely ague that:
 We are now building S7,000 tons fv,O built by Great Britain. England IS spending $20.000.000 a year for new construction and this country approved of $65,000,000 in con- struction for the next year in the new naval budget. The fact that we are allowed only 175,000 tons by treaty for replacement of cruis- CTS, destroyers and submarines, as against England's allowance of 219,O0O tons, shows that our fleet is more up-to-date than the British. Britain cant replace all her cruis- CTS that become over-age, but we are permitted to replace 150,000 tons of destroyers, many of which are as good as new. We spend more money on our navy than does any other nation.
 Secretary of the Navy Adams, using still another approach in reply to the peace societies, says:
 We spent $375,000 on our navy in 1880 and Britain only $85.000.- 900. but we must pay more for la- bor, materials and navy personnel and figures for Great Britain do not include expenses for naval forces. Percapita cost of our navy is $3.24 per year as against $6.21 for Great Britain. It costs us more than twice as much to build a ship as it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
FREE WEATHER AIp

London.~-More than b,000 pe0- pie aid the English government. free of charge. in keeping m ac- curate check of weather conditions all over the country. They afe members of the British Rainfall association, and are all volunteers who submit records of their nelgh- borhood each week Co the central Meteorologicai oliice. Reports on rainfall, prevailing winds and tenl- perature are sent in.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Address him. care of the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

We wonder what motive was behind the resignation of former Lieutenant Governor Ernest E. Rogers of New London in re- signing as chairman of the Fort Griswold and Groton Monument commission. He was among those who managed to secure passage of legislation creating this body which has had its place in the public eye this fall We hope it is purely business and not politics that removed him from the body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

John Philip Sousa. the March King. was v years old last Friday. And in his honor the National Broadcasting company ar- ranged musical party participated in by his countless musician friends and con- temporaries. In the presence of the great march composer, who has written over 200 in his lifetime such conductors as Walter Damrosch, Arthur Pryor. Edwin Franko Goldman. Erno Rapee. and Harold Sanford directed 60-pieee band. Such favorites as 'El Capitan' Washington Post King Cotton" were included in the repertory And. of course. The Stars and Stripes Forever was not omitted. No march has stirred more feet nor been played so much as this great piece of Sousa's. It is his favorte. he himself admits. Music with martial strain appeals to most Ameri- cans, just as the dreamy Strauss waltzes de- light central Europeans. Certainly in his field Mir Sousa is preeminent. The wonder IS that he has gone on year after year in the sefsame way. Why even in the past year he admitted that he composed six marches. Some men. gifted museally. might consider that lifes work. Not Sousa. He may not be the energetic leader that he once was. but he is still the immaculate band leader and king of them all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

China might extend the Great Wall around Manchuria to keep the Japs out. Those little fellows couldn't get over it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
fNEA Service Writerl

Washington-Pres Hoover's war with the Navy league Is really only a by-product of battle of statistics over the question of get ting our navy on basis of treaty parity with Great Britain.
 William Howard Gardiner's pam phlet, although it contained cer- tain nasty filings to which Hoover took violent exception, was pri- marily an analysis designed to prove in figures that this country was being let in for naval inferi- ority to Great Britain which would be made worse by the proposed one-year naval holiday.
 Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams and the peace so- cieties have been hurling other statistics and interpretations into the fight and the factual bases for the various points in view are sum- marized herewith because they may be of interest as developments wax warmer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
Good Rvening. AN EX-BUCK ON LEAVE
 IN PARIS
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 the days over there)
"A SMILES THE THING"

Gareon! Garcon! And make it
 snappy-- Champagne! Foot sweet, to make
 me happy. There's beaucoop francs ses swa,
 oui, ,oui! I've sure run dry in all these
 years No wonder I've been sheddin' Bring on your rum and pale win
 blank l love to shock my water tank. For this may be my final cfuise- My one last chance to get win
 rouge. And cognac. Tell me. pray. com
 bien The duty on a case of ten? Apres le guerre = tres bon, nes
 paw? Encore vermouth-Tll take it raw. Same benedictine, si VOC play And I'll part-ee without delay. lush one more glassh O pretty
 wine An en' we'll sing "Shweet Adeline. :" Aa But fore I go, I'll shay bon Here's hopes we have anozzer wari
 V. F. w. Magazine
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 A woman never puts her best foot down until she dons the new shoes.
 O-O-o The wish bone is always the bone of contention at a Thanksgiv- ing day dinner.
 O-O-o Dear Ed: Will you kindly print the following chorus to the best friend a fellow could have, Billy Thank you-Ralph sf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

reward at the polls That's really too 1sn1h 70 expect Even Senator Fess wouldn't expect that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

Representative Bertrand Fl. Shell of New York has quite definite opinions on the way ihe republican .nembership of conarasa is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5l0 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

If the dress designers are serious in their reported intention of making women wear bustles again, all we have to suggest is that one of them put on such contraption and seek seat in movie theater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09
OH DEAR ME

Oh OEAh ME The conversations on wash day Der tine back fence, goodness
 knows, Is often, just as dirty, As the line of wash day clothes. O-O-O The first heavier than air ma chine was a politician.
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 DING, DING Mary married q motorman, Divorced him in 6 month or two, Now she's going to marry con-
 ductor, To sec the transfer through.
 o-O-o The woman who can keep a secret can generally keep herself.
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 Brother Green, richest man in the world, is having a glass he can watch airplanes while riding along the highways. I suppose if he were fond of tom put in the yacht so he SOdAa "0hOh bAAC dL play.
 o-O-o Husbands who make love to cooks think more of their stom- achs than their wives. The depression brought paralysis of the pocketbook. And an "iron lung" was worthless. V
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 so IT GOES Eight hours of work. Eight hours of play, Eight hours of sleep, And then We toddle along,
 In our heart there's a song, While we do the thing
 Over again.
 O-O--O '. the hoop skirts come back they'll have to build wider tele. phone booths.
 o--O--o Many a man wears spats to please his wife's style Ideas.
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 The newspaper printing only part of the news Is only part ly newspaper.
 O--O-O This completes our regular opening program of tho week. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Even. ing Democrat. pioneer in this type of newspaper wcrk. We arc sign. Ing off at this time. to be back on the air ngnin tomorrow even Ing at the usual hour.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-09

Work is progressing on the canal from Mafseiiies, France, Co tho 3Aones