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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
Quotations

Listen, you high-combed roost- CTS, don't go away from here and say I'm a socialist, because I'm not. Martin s. (Mike) Conner. gov
 ernor-to-be of Mississippi.
 Our problem is to fight unem- ployment distress and not to waste time fighting theories.
 Walter S. Giffordj jobless
 relief czar.
 With his eyes wide open to risks as extreme as any national leader ever yet ran in time of peace U. he staked his all. the leadership of his party. his whole career. his political life and associations dearer than his personal ire We say. Thank God for him."
 James Louis Garvin, editor.
 speaking of Premier Ramsay
 NacDonald's action in Eng
 lands political crisis.
 can't resist observing that much of the man-monkey relation ship is based on feeble arguments. think that 1t is the inconsis.. tency in monkey psychology ana ability that undermines his position as mans ancestor more than any thing else.
 -Rnymond Lee Ditmars. New
 York curator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
NEA Service Writer

Washington.-The political-psy- chologicaI factor which usually is given careful thought when the two political parties select cities for their national conventions is ex- pected to carry more than Its cus- tomary weight when the republican and democratic national commit tees meet this winter to choose their sites.
 It probably will be regarded as m ore important than the financial consideration and certainly more So than such matters as physical comfort and geographical conven- fence. The committees will not ig- nore the size of the cheeks that representatives of the bidding cities will wave under everyone's nose. Not with republican political con tributions coming in such an un- usually tiny dribble and with the democrats still deeply in debt to Chairman John J. Raskob. having indefinitely delayed the drive which they once planned for a $6,0O0,0O0 campaign chest.
 Strategy in Choosing But all the contending cities Will have big checks to wave and the prospect is that instead of throw ing the conventions onto the auc- l ton block, both parties will go into important states where the hght- ing Is likely to be hot and doubtful
 in the 1892 presidential election.
 The probable party nominees Will
 have more influence in the choice of convention cities than anyone else. The republican committee
 certainly will not thwart any desire
 President Hoover may nave and 1T Governor Roosevelt is still out in
 front among democratic aspirants next January most of his support CTS among committeeman and com mitteewomen will heed his wish as
 to the place where he wants to be
 nominated.
 Chicago and Cleveland are con- sidered as among the most logical convention cities, although senti-
 ment has not begun to crystalize. You hear just as much talk about San Francisco for the democrats and Atlantic City for the repuph- cans.
 Eastern cities began bidding
 early, apparently aware that 1882
 would be big political year and | lIdL lHc "o9iu eteA AoSs large crowds even though the presi- dential nominations were pretty well forecast in advance. Phila- delphia. Boston, Atlantic City. Chi cago, Cleveland, Detroit, St Louis. San Francisco and Los Angeles have all been reported as after the
 g. o. p. meeting.
 C. o. P. to Stay in East It is doubtful whether the repub- | licans. with wet east to worry
 about. will go west to Chicago. De-
 troit is unlikely because the re- publicans would hate to convene | among so much unemployment.
 Boston appears to have little chance. Atlantic City, offering $150,000 and a new $15,000,00 audi torium seating 10000 persons. is i attractive to more republicans than
 Philadelphia with its $6,000. 900
 electrically refrigerated auditorium. One argument made for Philadel- phia by its boosters Is that Penn sylvania is not surely republican
 now. but If the republicans can't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

One of the penalties of being municipal employe is being at the beck and call of the administration or the taxpayers. New Ha- ven has always been stirred up by the fact that firemen or policemen were residing in nearby towns. although they drew their salaries in New Haven. We believe some regulation was put into effect there of re- cent years to take care of this. Now Hart ford is stirred up over the fact that school teachers are residing in surrounding towns. Of course Hartford still sticks to the school district plan and naturally it would be hard for teacher perhaps to find residence in the district in which he or she instruets. Still there will always be fault found with those who seek employment from a munici- pality if they don't toe the line It's too bad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IF, 1881
We Don't Agree

Although many may welcome the an nouneement that the athletic field at Hamil- ton Park is to be fenced in so that high school baseball, football, and track teams nav charge admissions, we don't think that this plan is the wisest one that could be adopted. We realize full we'll that anything is better than nothing. Now high school athletics may be run on a paying basis, Ii attendance in future years warrants the faith that is now being put in 1t. However, to our way of thinking there should be no ath- letic enclosure in public park which shouldn't be open at all times to the pubic. It seems to defeat the very purpose of park to place an athletic arena right in its midst.
 While the drive for $50 900 to purchase a suitable site and to erect the necessary buildings fell far short of the mark that con- not be laid at the door of the committee. It worked hard to raise the $6,000 that it did. The lack of support must be blamed on the conditions over which this committee had no control Public drives are meeting with scant sympathy from the general public to- day, let alone support. It is enough for most of us to be contributing our weekly quota for the relief of the unemployed. However, that does not offer an excuse tor an enclosed athletic field in Hamilton Park.
 The particular spot has long been pub lie ground Its name, Proprietor's Con- mon, goes back to the pioneer days of Waterbury, In those days it was ground on which anybody could graze his cattle. It was set aside by the authorities for this purpose Ever since it has been parkland it has been free to the public. Of course of recent years with baseball leagues and the like camoring for public diamonds there has been more or less supervision to assure everybody of fair share of its use. Per sonally we think 1t should never be fenced in, although we are as anxious as the next man to see the schools secure an adequate site for their contests
 We would much prefer to have the fund remain intact with periodic efforts to increase it to a substantial amount. The city should be interested to the extent that 1t would donate site. It owns considerable land that might be adapted to such pur- poses. When one is found suitable stadi- um and clubhouse can be built that will sui flee all needs. Within the enclosure there could be the necessary athletic fields. such as gridiron, baseball diamond. circular track with straightaway. and possibly room for developing such other sports as soccer. It may sound like an extravagant idea. but we must remember that the modern school building is well equipped for the training of the child mentally as we'll as physically We have the latest in classroom and laboratory fixtures. Our gymnasiums are up to date. The old addage mems sana in eorpore sano still holds good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

whose definition denotes exclusion. in dis paraging sense and as such we prefer to keep it. To us good monopoly is con- tradcton in terms. But there is no sense quibbling over a mere term. We can un- derstand the governors point of view with regard to public utilities. After all electric light bills are the smallest householder gets. But if it is necessary for entire Legislatures and public utilities commissions to be con- trolled so that these rates may be ratified and laws governing public utilities created there is something wrong with this monop- oly. It needs investigation. Perhaps gov- ernment ownership isn't the way to do this. Probably not. But there is way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
THE BOONE TRAIL
(New York Times)

(New York Tfmes)
 Byron in Don Juan" accounted General Boon," "backwoodsman Of Kentucky" (though mis-spelling his name and conferring upon him a title which he never enjoyed. the "happiest among mortals any where" He poetically made Boone shrink even from the men Of his own nation when they built up to his darling trees" In prosaic fact he moved on westward from the state which now proudly claims him as its patron pioneer not be- cause of the Inconvenience of civ ilization" but because he lost all his holdings in Kentucky and moved on to the present Missouri. where he succeeded in making enough money to come back to Kentucky and pay off all his debts, though according to tradition this payment left him a surplus of only fifty cents. But, as Byron said, he left behind him a name, mot only fa- nous but of that good fame with out which glory's but a tavern song"
 Now that the state of North Carolina, from which he made his excursions into the wilds of what are now Tennessee and Kentucky, has completed its "hard-surfaced" highway from the sea up to the Yadkin Valley, where Boone's cabin stood on the frontier, and then on through the mountains following his trail into the sometime wilder ness, his good name will continue to be sung across these three states. It becomes incidentally as Presi- dent Hoover said in his message of congratulations, ''an important link in "our great nationwide system of roads" And 1t has been. pro- claimed as not only the most mag nificent thoroughfare" across the Blue Ridge but the finest ex- ample of engineering skill in the construction of mountain highways to be found in Eastern America.
 The Host provinces" back of the mountains where the sturdy stock still fingers that in the winter of 1775 sent it's unpublished senti- ments of liberty" to congress are now reclaimed. Byron would no doubt be disappointed that his hero of the solitude who lived hunting up to ninety" should be welcoming millions over his trail. where the young, unawakened world was ever new" But 1t is Boone's good fame that his trail has brought these great stretches of mountain valley and forest within reach oi those in "cities caged." It is mol so much that the lost provinces have their outlet to the coastland and the sea as that they who live in these lower and crowded levels have access to the heights where the waters of the Watauga and the forks of the Holston flow toward the Tennessee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

rely on Pennsylvania they can't rely on anything, so the argument isn't very cogent.
 Democrats have spent less time discussing their convention city choice, but they've been thinking of Chicago, Cleveland San Fran cisco and the bid from Kansas City. They think they have a fine chance to carry Illinois and ohio next year. as we'll as New York and Massa- chusetts. But they regard Illinois and Ohio as the most doubtful.
 Chairman James A. Farley of the New York democratic state committee, Roosevelt's unofficial campaign manager, was report ed to have told San Francis cans that he personally favored their city for the convention. It has not become clear whether he reflected the governors view or whether he was partly inspired by a wish to make the boys out there feel happy. But there are some democrats who believe party re- ports that their ticket can carry California next year and who con- sequently think it would be a splendid idea to go out and nomi- nate their man in Herbert Hoover's own home state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
Public Versus Private Ownership

Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland dearly loves his states rights So much so that he finds in the growing anmosity to- wards the power interests of the nation trend towards public ownership of such public utilities which will defeat the very purpose of our founders. He views with alarm the efforts of various political figures to make an issue of public utilities. He IS convinced that the trend towards public ownership will only end in conditions over which we will have no control whatsoever. In passionate address to the American Bar Association at Atlantic City this week he
 rallied strongly to the defense of the power industry with the plea that since it IS only in it's development we must avoid noble experiments with regard to it.
 We should advise nobody to attempt criticism of the governors excellent speech without having read it all in full detail. It is a remarkable one and credit to the Maryland executive. We have never heard him speak on any public question in a vain or senseless fashion. And as the outstand- ing Jeffersonian democrat in the nation his every utteranee is probably quoted more than any other partyman. 1t was as no power corporation man that he spoke, but as defender of the principles which he has always defended. He is supremely confident that the state and the state alone can cope with any situation arising from the en- croachment of public utilities.
 However. when he speaks of good mo- nopplies he enters a different field. While not disputing his remarks we wonder if sher& hasn't been new meaning created for this Iworld in the industrial development of ibe United States. Governor Ritehie re- tnaiks, Justly or unjustly. the public util- lies seem to be more or less under suspicion. Perhaps this is due in part at least to the fact that through natural economic evou- ion the utilities are generally monopolies. md by tradition monopolies are odious. It E hard for some people to believe that there can ever be a good monopoly or indeed that ,nv of them try 10 be good =
 Just as there are states rights there IS aoms rule and personal liberty Ali have ,een sneroscied upoa' the one by the fed. .rsI govsramsnf. l6e othsr by the state and f,s municipality Down through tlns ages E trvs <aa.s q W '5r word monopoly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
TODAY IS THEA ANNIVERSARY S SgeZA
FIGHTING AT LENS

On September IT, 1917, SIT Philip Gibbs wrote an account or the fighting and bombardment or Lens in which Canadians and Eng fish troops faced the enemy.
 Liens is a town Of batterea houses without roofs and With broken walls leaning against rup- bish heaps of patchwork and tim- Der. The enemy sent out a wire less message that the English gunners were destroying French. property by bombarding the city, and then made a deep belt of de- struction by blowing up long blocks of streets.
 After that the British guns completed the ruin, for there was A German garrison in every house. and in this kind of war fare there must be no tenderness of sentiment about bricks anu mortar if the enemy is between the walls. So now is Lens the on ly cover for the Germans and tneir only chance of safety is below the ground in tunnels and cellars.
 'The Canadians have filled the city with gas that kills and soaKs down heavily into the dugQuts anu stiles the men in their sleep pe- fore they have time to stretch out their hands for masks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
Before the Red Cross

The 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Red Cross was celebrated a few days ago at Danville. New York. Here Clara Barton started the first chapter of this society. People who deny that the world IS growing any better, should consider the his- tory of this noble organization. Also they should think about the conditions existing before the Red Cross started. |.
 At that time. when great fire. flood. tornado. earthquake, or other catastrophe occurred. little could be done to relieve suf- fering. The people. of the immediate local ity would take hold to help. but in most cases they would have no supplies. no equip ment, practically no trained workers. The suffering following such calamties must
 have been pitiful People would just have to languish and die. The loss of life, for a calamity of a certain magnitude, must have been far beyond what it is today. Now the labers of the Red Cross prove the growth of human sympathy. Our people will not tol- crate the unrelieved suffering to which the people of 50 years ago were hardened. and which they accepted as a matter of course.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
PRESERVING AN EARLY
 RAILROAD
(Christian Science Monitor)

Christian Science Monitor)
 Though justification for saving the first railroad in the United States is made on the grounds of economic necessity, may not the layman attach a touch of sentiment to the purchase by the Erie rail- road of a portion of the Honesdale branch of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, over which the first steam locomotive in America is said to have been run?
 Increasing competition by mo- tor cars has made thetwenty-three mile line nonprofitable to the D & H. The Erie found that a one-mile section of the branch would serve its purposes in af- fording additional trackage on both sides of the Lackawaxen river in Pennsylvania. Therefore, with the approval of the interstate commerce commission, the short piece of track has been purchased for $65.000.
 Just 1o2 years ago the locomo- tive Stourbridge Lion. now on ex- hibition at the national museum in Washington, made its epic run over this line, carrying a load Of "stone coal" as anthracite was then termed. The coal was taken from the mines to Honesdale, there to be loaded on barges and thence moved by water to its des- tination.
 There is always a touch of TO- nance in railway operations, and even the Erie railroad directors may have felt sense of regret at the proposed abandonment or the first steam railroad. At any rate. the line will continue to exist. ana. although other American railways have grown and disintegrated, the forerunner of them all continues to function.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

Westehester county. New York, which is probably one of the most beautiful regions in the East if not in the entire nation due solely to efforts of the Westchester County Park Commission is vitally interested in aid ing the unemployed. So much so that 1t is seriously discussing plap of providing jobs for many of its residents that would go long ways toward relieving conditions dur ing the next year. The plan would pro- vide both manual labor and that for the so-called white collar man. It would pro- vide a mere living wage which is all that many are asking. today. In connection with the plan its proposers definitely oppose the state appropriation of $20.000.000 on the ground that it is nothing more than dole. such as has practically bankrupt England and other European countries. One of the proposers states. T have come from one of the great countries of the world (England) that has been ruined by the dole and this proposition of Governor Roosevelt is noth- ing but dole in a thin disguise. - The plan involves reforestation of Westehes- ter county. Plots would be laid out for truck gardens on unused park lands to be rented at nominal fec Standing forests would be thinned. new ones planted and in general the entire county beautified There is mutual satisfaction to be found here. Work is created and property enhanced
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
SEPTEMBER DAZE

Where the gOldenrod is blooming, Now pardon please, the 'whcezc, We need no snuff or pepper, To bring about a sneeze
 o-O-o Now they're building clocks in radios. So you'll know when it's time to shut 'em off. suppose.
 o-O-o A man is fond of his moustache until it starts to turn gray.
 o-O-o The season of thrift is ending. Daylight saving passes soon.
 o-O-o
 so IT GOES Night is merely a curtain, That sullcnly hold at hay, Another show of many acts, Billed for the stage of day.
 o-O-o Night clubs are slowly fading from view in New York. Like the night itself. they fail to last.
 o--O-o
 Aviation is having its great est year, which proves that high flyers so good in a de- pression.
 o-O--o This completes our regular Thursday evening program. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Even- ing Democrat. pioneer in this type Of newspaper work. We are sign- ing off at this time. to be back on the air again tomorrow even- ing at the usual hour.
 0-~O-0 Coed night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
PLAN GAS TAX.

Salt Lax City-lt is highly prob- able that Utah will levy gasoline tax on all gas used by airplanss in the state. The decision of tho U. S. Supreme court, which recent iy permitted Wyoming to levy thiss tax, Is snid to have innuenocd Utah in thls direction. Last year an agreement was made with Air- lines not to collect this tax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

The low bidder on stretch of the new Worcester Mllbury road in Massachusetts was a Hartford. Conn., contractor. If he is awarded the contract it will mark a definite step.down in the attitude taken by Cover nor Ely and his executive council with re- gard to the letting of road contracts. Hith- erto the esntraets have been given to state concerns whether or not their bid was the lowest. So many complaints have been registered against this practice that it is be. lieved the governor will recommend a change. The New England Council even took hand in the rumpus recently. Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

The new Soldiers Home may be built at Glastonbury, according to all reports. Hart ford county seems to be getting considerable public building these days. Of course, being the Capitol it attracts. The Veterans Home Building Commission now is entertaining a proposition to erect a new structure on the Main street of Glastonbury. Anyway. Darien is sure to lose the present institution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

course. if Massachusetts sticks to this attitude of favoring only state concerns for public work then there is sure to be reciprocation by such neighboring states as Connecticut and Rhode Island. In the long run it would be far better for the Bay State to have some regard for the lowest bidder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
THE OUTER TRIUNfPHs
(Hartford Courant)

NE1dFliOTo SOufdutJ
 All summer the fairways have seethed with revolt against the edict of the United States Golf Association requiring the use of a larger and lighter ball this year. The protest began when the first twosome returned to the clubhouse in early spring; indignation mounted when the foursomes got on the course in the summer. and with the coming of the tourna. ments in the fall the movement attained the proportions of an or- ga anized rebellion. For long time. the U. S. c. A. sought to quiet It's critics by telling them that they would like the new ball once they became accustomed to it. but to no effect. Like wise ruler. 1t has now made concession by an- nouncing that, next year. the onl- cial ball will be chanGed. It's s'xe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
Personal Health Seruice (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., 1931-09-17

High tide at Milford Friday, September Is, 5:04 p. m. Daylight time); low tide, l2:13 a. m. daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

Fortunes await the men who have the money and the nerve to buy stocks and real estate at present prices and hang on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
SUCH Al DUMMY!

How are you getting on with George ?"
 ooh, he's 6 most disappointing lover. purposely blew out the electric light fuse before he came over last night. and he spent the whole evening mending C." - Tit- Bits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

Democracy with all its faults has proved to be the steadest form of government in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 7:29 o'clock Daylight saving time) tonight.