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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-23

The Doric Male Quartet. Pacific Coast favorites, will be heard in a repetoire of popular songs over an NBC-WJZ network. Saturday, June 27, from 4:15 to 4:30 p. m, E. D. TT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-23
WEAF x.,.:ss,.. :ss
 New York

4:sO-Unveiling of the Bust of
 President Zachary Taylor,
 from Capital Building, Rich
 mond, Va. g:SO--Talkie. 5.46-Mountaineer e:OO--Black and Gold orchestra. 6:30-Who's Behind the Name?-
 Edwin Alger. g.l5-The Stebbins Brothers
 Sketch. 7:00--La Rosa Entertainers. 7:30-Sketch. S:O0-Concert. s:30--String Ensemble. 9:00-To be announced. s:s0--orchestra; Earle spicer,
 baritone.  and Peep-Sketch. 1i:15-Little Jack Little, songs. orchestra. 12:OO--Vallee orchestra. 1e:3O-Continentals music.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-23
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z:1g-l:Oo = WTIC synchronized with WEAF on 660 k.c. (See WEAF for program).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-23
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5 s4s ! Meters
 
New York

5sO0-Frank Ross, songs. 5:15--Adventures in Words-Dr
 Frank H. Vizetelly. 5:30-Mr and Mrs F. c. H. 5:45-Sweetheart Music. c:O0-Our Part in the George
 w s h n gton Bicentennial
 Celebration in 1932-Repre-
 sentative Sol Bloom of New
 York. 6:1S-Tucker orchestra. 6:30-Postal Presents. 6:45-Eno Crime club. 7:OO--Kate Smith, songs. 7:15-Dennis King, songs; orches-
 tra. 7:s0--Daddy and Rollo. 7:l5-Orchestra; Morton Downey.
 tenor. S:O0-Pryor's band. 8:15-Orchestra. { S:30-Kaltenborn Edits the News. S:45-Gloom Chasers. 9:0O-Sketches. 9:3O-Symphony concert. 1O:OO-Ben Bernie orchestra. 10:15-Tito Guizar, tenor. 10:30-Savino Tone Pictures. 1l:O0-Henderson orchestra. 11:30-Asbury Park orchestra. 12:00-Romanell orchestra. 12:30-Ann Leaf, organ; Ben Alley,
 tenor. 1:0o-Woodmansten Music. 1:30-Abrams orchestra.
 422m-WOR, Newark-7f0k 5:00-Playland orchestra. 5:S0-Program Resume. 5:40-Limericks. 5:45-Hawaiian ensemble. G:O0-Uncle Don. 6aS0-Sports Talk. 6i45-The Blaisdell Boys. 7:00-Canterbury Singers. 7:l5-Timely Investment Topics
 Jay T. Mccoy. 7:30-Jack Arthur, songs. 7:45-Orchestra. S:O0-WOR Minstrels. Si30-Orchestra. 9:O0-Hill Billies. 9:15-Orchestra. s:30-Eddy Brown, violin; Salon
 orchestra. 10:O0-Piccadilly and Broadway
 Sketch. 1O:15-Astor orchestra. 1O:45A-Globe Trotter. 11:OO-Oakland's orchestra. I1:30-Moonbeams. 4eo.7m-WICC, Bridgeport-600k 5:00-Ted and his Greater Gang. < 5:2O-"The Poetic Postman. 5:25-Show Tunes. 5:30-Around the Campfire. 5;45-Uncle Jerry's Safety club. 6.0O-The Dream Girl, presented
 by Doreen Glover. e:1s-Confessions of a Racketeer. 6:30--News. 6:40-Baseball scores. .6:45-Eddie Welch and his orches-
 tra. 7:O0-To be announced. T:15-Joseph Lopez, baritone. 7:30-Joe Tansi and his Hotel
 Garde orchestra. S:00-The Gossipers. S:15-Corinthian Male quartet. S:3O-Yankee Network Matinee
 Drama. 9:00-Meyer Davis and his Le Par
 adis band. 9:30-Organ recital. 1O:OO-Emery Daugherty and his
 orchestra. 1O:30-News Flashes. 1O:45-Melody Mirror. 11:0O-Paramount Club orchestra. 11.3O--Cocoanut Grove orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-23
DIXIE DUGAN-Here Comes Eff!
ON EklTh THE. DANCE

l,E WEs OSA1NSE BUSINESS CARES ARE TOSSED AWAN- SALES AnO cRn96N cuSror1ERS ARE FoRcoHEn--- CASH o,RlS DANCE WGH r1ANACERS AND SHIPPING clEn<s DANCE WITH LnOv BUyERS WHILE ALL r1AkG MERRY AT
 HE
 MFaFFlEHElr1ERS Er1PLOYES' Ban!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-23
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228 Meters
Hartford

E:00-Frank Ross, tenor. 5:20-The Poetic Postman. 5:25-Show Tunes. 6:O0-National Security League
 Broadcast. 6:15-World Bookman. 6:20-Stock Quotations. 6:30-Saxophobia, Andrew Jacob
 son. 6:45-Summary of programs. C:50-The Dusky Twins. 7:O0-Kate Smith and her Swanee
 Music. 7:15-Dennis King and orchestra. 7:30-Lee Bryan and String ensem-
 ble. 7:45-Morton Downey, Anthony
 Wons, Jacques Remarks or-
 chestra. S:00-Arthur Pryor's band. 8:15-Melodiers with Frank Lu-
 ther, tenor. S:30-Time. S:3O-Kaltenborn Edits the News. S:45-Comedy act. 9:00-Time. 0:00-Sketches; orchestra. 9:30-Time. e:so-Phyllis Chevalier and Irene
 Holroyd, vocalists. with Har-
 old B. Smith, pianist. 9:45-Organ Reveries, Frank o.
 Hjerpe; Alfred Kettledon,
 tenor; George Westerman,
 violinist. 10:O0-Ben Bernie and his Blue
 Ribbon orchestra. 10:15-Weather report. 10:15-Tito Guizar, tenor; Vincent
 Soreys orchestra. 1O:30-The Columbians orchestra. 11:00-Fletcher Henderson's orches-
 tra. 11:3O-Asbury Park Casino orches-
 tra. 273m-WLWL, New York-1,1OOk 6:0O-Maria Georgievskaia, songs. 6:10-Youth at Any Age-William
 A. Woodbury. 6:20-Harriet Joyce, harp; George
 Williams, tenor. 6:45-The Virtue Which Endures-
 Rev Henry Courtney. 7:00-Commod orchestra. 7:15-Victor Herbert Musicale. 7:3O-Children and Vacation
 Thoughts-Edward F. Boyle. 7:50-Songs We Love. 33Om-WGY, Schenectady-79Ok 6:00-Same as WEAF. 6:3O-Orchestra. 7:OO-Times-Union program. 7:15-Ike Walton Hour. 7:30-11:00-Same as WEAF. 11:0O-Baseball scores. 11:O4-De Witt Clinton orchestra. 11:30-Organ recital. 12:00-1:00-Same as WEAF. 12:30-Egyptian Serenaders. 3O8m-KDKA, Pittsburgh-9SOk 6:0O-Woodwind ensemble. 6:30-Skippie and Ray-Paul J.
 Miller. 6:45-Same as WIZ. 7:15-Rieck Revelers. 7:3O-Sacred Song concert. S:O0-Same as WIZ. S:30-Orchestra. 8:45-Phoenix Review. 9:00-Same as WIZ. 10:00-Quartet. 1O:15-Tamburitza orchestra. 10:30-Same as WIZ. 10:45-Jersey Melodiers. 1t:0O-Sport Review. 11:15-William Penn orchestra. as WIZ.
 3O3m-VBZ. Springfield-99Ok 5-Talk-Governor John G.
 Winant of New Hampshire. 6:30-Same as WIZ. 7:15-Melodies. 7:30-Same as WIZ. 7:45-Ginger Boys. S:00-Same as WIZ. S:30-Repertory theater. 9:0O-Same as WIZ. 1O:00-Rainier orchestra. 1O:30-Same as WIZ. 1O:45-Radio Billboard. 10:50-Louie's Hungry Five. 11:O0-Sports Review. 11:15-Scollay Square show. 26fm-WHAM, ROchestcr-1,15 ,15Ok e:25-Steinway Memories. 6:35-U. of R. Talk. 6:45-Children's program. 7:00-Same as WIZ. 7:15-Ben's Barber Shop. 1:30-Songs. 7:45-Same as WIZ. S:30-Concert Hour. S:00-Same as WIZ. 10:00-On Wings of Song. O:30-Same as WIZ. 1:00-Concert ensemble. | II. 20-Draap Pictures
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

 Andfew JsGkson'o example and eslabldhsd the Unifed States TfsaBuFy iAispendens of any bank. His political enemies fought him on this and blamed it for the panic. When General William Henry Harrison de- feated Van Buren for reelection in 1890 the plan was upset. It was later reestabIished and exists to this day. a credit to democratic rule of the nation, too seldom credited.
 However, we are not 60 much concerned with that as with Van Buren's third attempt to be elected president. Gle made four in alb Van Buren easily had majority of the l844 convention votes but could not muster the necessary two-thirds Polk had been ostensibly seeking the vice-presideney. but gressional leader and swept the nomination into his lap. It is hard to say whether the country was the loser by the victory of Polk over Van Buren. Both were brilliant men. Certainly none could surpass Polk in ora torieal ability at that time. But why argue over their merits when we know only what we read of both' We doubt if the two- thirds rule worked an injustice on the coun- try. Certainly it didn't on Van Buren, since it was rule to which he had always adhered.
 The same holds true in the 1912 conven- ton. Champ Clark was safely nominated if majority of delegates meant anything. It didn't as usual and the obscure governor of New Jersey. Woodrow Wilson, quondam college proxy. was nominated and elected. We can always wonder if Champ Clark would have been elected. We think he would under the circumstances. But could he have done any more for the nation than Wilson did in those troubled years he was in the White House? While we rail at the two- thirds rule Gts very nature eontradiets the name of the party). we wonder if it hasn't proved advantageous in the past. It may have deprived some candidate of nomination. but it certainly didn't place the nomination in the hands of candidate who proved un- equal to the occasion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

Speaking of starlings the Hartford Cour- ant remarks that Especially do we regard them highly when we read what the Bureau of Biological Survey has to say as to their food habits and since this report was made. it has been found that the birds include Japanese beetles in their menu. We have no criticism for any bird that will feed upon in- seets. It may be seandalously indifferent as to its type of nest and it may be no song ster but if it feeds upon bugs and worms and such small gear it meets with our ap- proval. :" Everybody's for that matter. We regard too lightly the depredations our feathered friends make upon insects and pests that are warning on mankind in increasing numbers. Protect the birds and they'll pro- teet you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

West Stockbridge Is going quite native these days. Discovery of family of beav- CTS in West Stockbridge recently has caused considerable commotion. So much 60 that everybody is looking after the welfare of the family which is extremely rare in this section of the country. We don't imagine there are any more beaver nearer than the Adirondack mountains. although that state- ment may merely display our ignorance. However, West Stockbridge isn't going to lose it's most recent additions Hunters are being warned away and every means is being taken to protect the broad-tails. The game warden of the district is patroiling it daily SO that the colony will not be molested. The beavers have already damned swamp stream and are comfortably ensconced for the winter. Time was when beaver were common in this section of the country, but trapping and pollution drove them back country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Was It Injustice?

Louis Seibold well known political writer and authority. in recent article in the New York American. speaks of the fragrant in- justice of the undemocratic two-thrds rule under which the democratic party has chosen its presidential candidates for a century" Mr Seibold refers to the classic examples of Woodrow Wilson and James K. Polk. neither of whom would have been nominated had the convention followed the majority rule. as has the republican party since its birth. However. in both instances perhaps. 1t was better for the nation that the rule worked an injustice upon some candidate Certainly the administrations of either Wilson or Polk did not prove the wrong man bad been nom- mated. We make this statement with due con sderation and respect for Martin Van Buren and Champ Clark.
 Nobody has ever disputed the fact that the fwo-thirds rule is highly undemocratic. Rare ly national convention passes without its preliminary skirmish on the very question. However. proponents of the majority rule have never been able to muster sufficient strength to bring the matter 10 an actual test on the convention floor. We rather im- agine that next year something will be said about changing to the majority rule. but we doubt very much if the change will be made. Democrats have habit of clinging to few of their customs with bulldog tenaeity. It is too bad that more worthy ones have not been adhered to with the same fervor down through the years.
 When the demoerSts met in national con vention in ls44, it speedily became apparent that Martin Van Buren had majority of the votes. He had already served one term from ls36 to lS40. His administration witnessed the worst financial panic the ns- lion had then known. although it was not Van Bufens fault. Van Bufen followed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
A PIGEoNHoLE MYSTERY
Christian Science Monitor)

Where do they all sleep? Some of the most prominent residents of our cities have no visible lodgings. By day they are seen on the streets and the boulevards, in the parks and at the railroad stations. They amble, they strut, they scurry, they wheel. They are part of the city itself-during the daylight. Then they vanish. The city by night has never yet seen one of them. Where do they go?
 Yes, what do all the city pigeons do when night comes? This Is an unsolved question of metropolitan life which puzzles certain of our city dwellers. They see plump pigeons running almost under their feet on the busiest of downtown streets, pursing an cratic peanut. They see them hocking to the win dows of tall office buildings when they find one where they are fed. They see pigeons even venturing Unto the windows of business block. They see lone pigeons soaring past their high-up offices. and see them circling together in a great whir- ring cloud-perhaps the most beautiful picture to be found in all city.
 Then dusk comes. lights begin to flock the buildings the pigeons have 1 lived about all day, and here and there n ball of feathers may per haps be seen on some classic wall. No more. It seems as If the pigeon flock has posted few sem tries, while the rest disappear to- where? Night simply wipes them out. The rather more difficult ques- ton of where does the light go when the candle goes out has al- ready been answered. A light-foot- ed gnome softly treading the ca. pacious caves of city halls and other public edifies may find that kind -hearted architects have pro- yided comfortable apartment houses for feathered hocks. And possibly some day a wise child will tell his inquiring father where all the pigeons go when the day goe' nnf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Here, There And EOerywhere

peace time congress since the coun- try's history began. And notwith- standing the memory of the Ohio gang, of the dismal revelations of the oil scandals: notwithstanding the almost unbelievable paucity Of constructive legislation enacted under republicans at Washington since the remarkable record of democracy under Wilson, still there will be campaign slogan as of old. If the democrats get in business will be ruined"
 As a matter of fact, sensible business men do not dread parties: they dread violent partisans and extremists whether of one party or the other. Their confidence. prl- marily, is the men. They look to presidents to restrain control and guide parties. In Connecticut. for example, q Governor Cross could have been elected whether he was republican or n democrat. inasfar as the confidence of the voters Is concerned. It Is SO in other states. It is so nationally. Strong. praise worthy leadership inspires conh- dencc.
 And again, as matter of further fact, business dreads congresses not because they are republican or democratic but because they are congresses, hotbeds of discord, cockpits of squabbles, and often times miserably narrow-minded and inefficient. It ought not to be that blind faith in parties can be capitalized to win national election. And the times should be passed when blind prejudice against parties can supply an alternative material. All the same. the experiment will be tried in many a constituency next autumn. Governor Roosevelt does well to protest against 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
EDNA TERRIERS
 CONNECTICUT NOVEL
tHartford Courant) )

"American Beauty" Edna Fer ber's new novel, Is. in Tact, Q taie of Connecticut beauty, of the beau ty of the Housatonic Valley, of the old houses, old furniture and old culture still surviving there. anu also tale of the crude new hie' the strength and virility injected py the peasant immigrants who have made their homes there, of their ambitions and growth, and espe- cially tale of the beneficient re suits that may come of the mix. ture of the old thin blue blood with the red corpuscles or Poiano.
 As . mural painting in brilliant coiors and bold outline, with pa- triotic message as stirring ane optimistic as a sousa march played by a brass band, the novel is sue cess. It looks at the new and the old Connecticut with the tnquisi- tive eyes of the Middle West Miss Ferber was born in Kaiamazoo). It sees here the American dream como true as dramatically hs Tn Kansns or in California and sees the spirit of equality and oppor- tunity tending not to level but 70 leaven.
 Miss Ferber studied her scene on the sypot. She absorbed the behu- ty of antique craftsmanship. the problems of share-grown tobacco. the dangers to health in making fine hate. What she has so vividly described in this novel will be read and believed from one ena of the country to the other and probably later be translated Into q talking motion picture, which VIII reach hundreds of thousands more In America and abroad.
 TO those who know from hfe-| long acquaintance these people ana these places. reading gthe book " like looking nt Q huge shiny litno- graph. Some details will be. hotv debnted. tho characters may Do an.I
 sailed ns no moro than types ana
 cnricaturen. the intermarrihKes '
 eajled improbable but there VII p3
 few Co deny the startling rcuiisitN
 of the descriptions and the up.toe
 dnte and vigorous ideallsm os tns ! thesin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
 Washington-The long history of the debts-reparations problem has been described both as tragic and as comic.
 The worlds great statesmen and financiers of the last decade have all had their fingers in it., and now they are going to figure It out all over again.
 Once there seemed to be an AL lied theory that hundred billion dollar indemnity might be collect ed from Germany. But since then a reparations commission, the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, the debt funding commissions and the Hoover moratorium have all taken their hacks at the huge sums in- volved in payment of separations and debts. And now 1t Is a com mon theory that the whole account will have to be wiped off the slate. If that Is true 1t would appear that go many great statesmen and f- nanciers were never before so un- animously wrong on a single issue.
 Several facts which might be classed as absurdities have be- come increasingly clear since Premier Laval visited President Hoover and the two men worked out some sort of m understanding about n combination debts-repara- ton cut.
 Take for example the phrase. capacity to pay" It has been used in fixing reparations sched- ules and 1t was the keynote of our own debt funding negotiations which in effect cancelled 50 per cent of. the British debt, so per cent of the French debt and so per cent of the Italian debt. The theory appeared to be that "ca- paclty to pay" would remain static. Instead, 1t is estimated that while French capacity to pay" has greatly increased, Britain's has dropped to the point where, If It were fair to charge 70 per cent of her actual debt then, she could be assessed no more than 25 per cent now. The funniest thought Tn this connection Is the idea that France might be induced to increase debt payments because of her improved capacity"
 A general re-examination of everybody's capacity to pay first of Gcrmany's is understood to be on the program. The Initial question will be whether Germany now cut off from foreign private loans, will have any capacity at all --or enough not to make previous estimates seem ridiculous by com. parison. Germany will never re- sume reparations payments if she can help 1t, and France will try at all costs to retain the $10,000,00t q year which represents the diff ference between present reparationi payments to her and the debt pay. ments she makes to England and the United States. It seems, from this side or the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
The League of Nations

Many have felt that the first real test of the value of the League of Nations came with its request to Japan to evaeuate Man churia on the 10th of November. On the morning of the l7th. large proportion of those people felt that the league had failed. The matter is not yet completed. Japan be- lieves-doubtless in all sincerity-that Eu- rope does not understand Cathay. The sit- uaton is not what the league thinks it is. General Shigeru Honjo stated to a cofre- spondent that although the league request was not fulfilled Japan meant no disrespect to the league. was not attempting to obstruet it's objectves or lower its prestige. We are doing what necessity dictates to protect Japanese lives. rights and interests in this part of the world"
 This may be so, though at tt1s distance it hardly seems the whole truth. And the note from Tokio to China saying that the leagues request had no standing because it was not unanimous when everybody voted for it save Japan. gives the world the weeks best smile. But while rumors fly of Russian troops increasing in numbers. General Nah massed his troops in menacing array. and the Japanese army receiving winter supplies, real work is being done in quiet quarters in Paris where constructive plans are being worked out over table to give Japan and China each what they need and to preserve for the world its necessary peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Quotations
Don't blame the people in the breadline for being there: it's not their fault.
 -Owen P. White. writer.

their fault.
 owen P. White. writer.
 It is the right of every citizen to help 6 boy through college and the fact that the youngster happens to be a great football player should not bar him from receiving such aid from some enthusiastic grad uate.
 Glenn s. Warner, football coach
 of Stanford University.
 The oxford accent is merely an establishment of plain speech used by people who feel inferior. --Dr A. A. Brill. New York psycho-
 analyst.
 Expect no miracles. Your arter- les won't get softer as time goes on. Logan ciendenning. M. D.. and essayist. There is no one group of which the public expects so much In as- surfing stability as the bankers. --President Hoover. It tx becoming increasingly ob' vious that during 1929 and 1vSO ' world which does most of It's busi' ness on credit has been steadily destroying the confidence upor which credit 10 based.
 --J. Bartlett Isrebner, assistant
 professor of history. Coiumbia U
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
At The National Capitol
A Digest of Who's Who and whats What
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

ocean, as if at the end of the Hoover Year" the whole situation would prove to be badly frozen" And just how the ice on the inter- national pond will ever be broken Is something no frank, intelligent authority here professes to know. The sour thought which has been slowly sinking in for several years and rapidly sinking in quite recently is that American private loans of between two and three billion dollars to Germany have financed the German separations payments which provided the Al- lies with their debt payments to this government.
 The International bankers have been down here arguing with Hoover that ot may be possible to save the private loans, but that we can't save our war loans. The prevalent attitude in congress ap- pears to be that the war debts are a debt to the American people and that the bankers should be told to 20 chase themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
AN OLD BoGY
(IIartford Times)

4Ahg0y
 There should not be. from any contradiction of the remark made bv Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt quoted in Fridays issue of The Times by Raymond Clapper:
 Legitimate business has nothing to fear from q national democratic administration.
 But from the days of Grover Cleveland republicans have pounded interminably upon the thesis that prosperity and national thrift must suffer, and calamitousiy, If and whenever the government at Wash ington falls into democratic con- trol. And the worst of It Is that many independents have had that argument pounded into them for SO long that they, too, have fallen Into the silly habit of believing fin 1t.
 one might suppose that the story | of what has happened since 1928, adding together the collapse oi prosperity, the failures within the republican party, its pitable record of inefficiency In congress and tnt gigantic deficit now afflicting tnt national treasury, might of itsell be all necessary to disclose tho fni. lacy of the myth that successful American business depends upoT any particular party rule. Never the less in 1882 we shall hear thu old charge reiterated that the dem ocrntic party is inherently unilt tt take charge of national affairs. i will be said that they would mnk' a worse tariff bill than the last on' of republican construction. Eener ally confessed Co be tho npotheonln almost, of bad job, horribly done We .hnil hear that the deinocyat would no oven moro extrnvnEnn thnn the republicans who Co fhei last congress voted away moro. Q the peoples money than any othe