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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Two Prosperous Trades

Interesting statistics are given in the August issue of the bulletin of the National City Bank of New York concerning the retail trade. They are more cheerful than some of the economic facts which have con- fronted us lately. The figures come from department and chain stores. They show that the volume of goods sold by these stores this year runs well ahead of last year. though dollar sales have been smaller. The reports from these stores were the brightest among the major trade indexes for the month of June.
 The Federal Reserve Board reports that department store dollar sales in June were only per cent lower than those of June. 1930. and sales of chains dropped 2.28 per cent. Prices are estimated to average IS per cent lower. so it appears that the increase in volume of business is about IS per cent. Unfortunately this does moi apply to all re- t.n distributors. There have been more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Cuba's Troubles

The disturbances in Cuba are of consider able concern 10 the United States, The sugar situation. directly affected by our sugar tariff, is one cause of the present Cuban revolt, Another cause is dissatsfac ton with President Machado, who has been extravagant in a time when taxpayers were hard pressed for funds, and autocratic to the point of tyranny. He has censored and sup pressed newspapers, established martial law to control bis enemies closed the university when students opposed him and been over generous 10 favorltes, There are also rumors of graft. A new administration might be no better, but a populace angered by such misgovernmcnt wants any sort of change.
 America financial stake in Cuba amounts 10 SlO for each man, woman and child Tn the United States, total of $l,220765,- 000 That IS more than we have invested in any Central or South American country. It is SC per cent of all foreign capital in Cuba. Most of 1t is in sugar, some in real estate American sales 10 Cuba have been increasing in recent years while our imports from the island have dccreaSed There are many Cubans and Europeans observers- and perhaps some Americans - who believe the desperate economic situation there may be traced to our high sugar duty which amounts just now to l3O per cent of the price of sugar. As between intervention in the troubled island and lowering the exorbi- tant tariff. the choice is easy for most thoughtful persons but that doesn't make 1t effective.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
At The National Capitol
A Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER

Away from the triangle some $5, ,000, 900 is being spent to beauti- fly the Capitol grounds and you can see the foundation work on the $9,00O,000 supreme court building opposite the capitol, alongside the library of congress.
 There's the Shakespeare library all finished in the same vicinity and the new millian- dollar Snake house, with almost every known known kind of reptile inside. at the National Zoo. Not forgetting the new $4,00O,000 George Washington Masonic Memorial on hill above nearby Alexandria, or the magnifi- cent National Cathedral here, a large part of which has been built.
 The principal sightseeing stand- bys are still the Capitol, Smith sonian, Lincoln Memorial, Wash tional cemetery. The White House ington monument and Arlington na- hasn't retained a fraction of its for mer popularity since President Hoover discontinued the Coolide custom of shaking hands with everybody. Coolidge got himself used fir bait by all the professional guides in town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
UNDER WATER
lIIArtford Courant)

Eauly in the week a boat under the control of the United States bureau of fisheries cruised back and forth over wide area off Nan tucket Shoals. Reports which were taken as veracious had been brought in by New Bedford and Boston fishermen to the effect that thousands of dead cod, founder, mackerel and squid were floating on the surface last week. The fn- vestigators failed to see this exhibit. but they brought in records or temperature at various depths and took specimens of sea water for analysis. That was all. The dead fish had vanished.
 The commander of the boat not ed, however, sudden and wid varla- tions in temperature in bodies Of water that were very close together. His theory is that fish can acclimate themselves to wide changes of tenn. perature if the changes are gradual. but sudden change to hot or cold might have killed them. He said that he believes that no gov ernment boats had been using high explosives off Nantucket Shoals. adding that 1t would tf&e a blast of extraordinary magniture to kill as many fish as were reported.
 Unless an analysis of the water shows that 1t contained poison. the Ia process which has continuedcmf Incident is closed. So far as the un- fortunate fish were concerned. it had been closed for a week, but the incident calls to mind the prodigality of nature in the matter of marine life. Most of the forms of life live by consuming other forms. Literally the big fish eat the little ones, a process which has con- tinued from the beginning. but the supply of life seems inexhaustible.
 Less than fortnight ago, an ex- elusive beach north of Boston was covered by multitudes of dead herring and ohter small fish to tho extreme disapproval of occupants of the shore who were forced to employ men to remove the visitors. Tn this case, the theory was that the small fish had been driven ashore by larger ones and had been left stranded as the tide receded. Nature is either lavish or indif- ferent in the matter of marine life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Politics Everywhere

With the return of Governor Wilbur L.. Cross from his summer home in New Hamp- shire this week interest in the choice of new state chairman IS on the increase once more It is generally conceded at this writing that State Senator Frank Bergin of New Haven stands as good chance as any of being named to the post that was left vacant with the resignation of Judge P. B. OSulllvan. who was elevated to the superior court this spring. The Hartford Courant evidently forgets that Judge O'Sullivan held this post after James J. Walsh of Merden, for it states in news story ;hat the latter last held the eharmanship.
 We doubt if there is more interest in pc,tics throughout the country than at present moment. National, state and local elections are concerning parties and factions everywhere. A newspaper poll in St Louis recently gave Governor Franklin D. Roose- welt of New York d commanding lead over President Hoover while repeal of the pro- hibiton amendment was overwhelmingly approved Former Governor Alfred E. Smith ran third in this contest with Senator Dwight F. Morrow of New Jersey fourth. And the national conventions of 1932 are now less than year away.
 Returning 10 Connecticut there seems to be a tendency upon the part of the demo- cratic party to turn to Senator Bergin for state chairman, although friends of John A. Cornell. town chairman of the democratic pa.ty of Bridgeport are making desperate effort to keep him in the race. We are inclined to believe that the governor might side in with the New Haven man if it came to a showdown. He has consistently turned towards the city where he is best known and where he holds legal residence for both advice and candidates for various state offices.
 Just at present there seems to be little doubt but what Governor Cross will be candidate to succeed himself and that he will demand the right to name his state chairman and secretary as he did in l93O when he led the party to a splendid victory. On the sole basis of this triumph the first for the dem ocrats of Connecticut in sixteen years he IS certainly entitled to do some dctating as regards his campaign managers. However. we wouldn't be one bit surprised to find any action with regard to the state chair manshp postponed until after the first of the year. Then if there must be show down on present state central committee as- signments we'll it's anybodys fight with presidential plckings in sight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
WOMAN MARRIED 53 YEARS
 OBTAINS MEXICAN DIVORCE

Juarez. Mex-For 53 years Fanny Ely was married to Calvin Ely. and then she came to Juarez to obtain a divorce.
 She charged cruel treatment by her husband and Civil Judge An tonio del Rosal granted her di- vcrce. She and her husband were married In Mooregville. Ind, in Mooresville, Ind, in 1878. Theyl have one child, a daughter. Mina| Ely Edson. 44 who is married.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

Sportsmen of Texas are proposing three day hunt at the famous Goodnight ranch, 42 miles east of Amarillo The Goodnight herd of bison is world famous. It started about fifty years ago when Col onel Charles A. Goodnight captured four calves in the Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo Buffalo were rapidly being ex- terminated in those days and Colonel Good night set about preserving herd for the days 10 come. He established ranch of l2,OOO acres on which the bison flourshed and increased. Today the herd is composed of 195 full-grown animals and about 50 calves, The present owners of the ranch and herd, however. are being beseeched by nature and game lovers not to permit the three day hunt that has been proposed. l hey believe that it would mean the extinction of the largest privately owned herd in the eoun- try Seems like barbarous procedure too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
TODAY IS THEA ANNIVERSARY
 S2A9AZA
START ITALIAN DRIVE

On August IS, 1917. the Italian started their second and most spec. tacular offensive against the Aus trians. It was reported the most important and longest sustained assault upon the enemy in his owI territory since the war began. In the early stages of the drive Austrian casualties reached 150,- 900, of whom over 35,000 were known to be prisoners. The Aus trians also lost immense amounts of war material, principally aban- doned in the vast intrenched camps on Bainsizza or captured under convoy in the Chiapovano Valley.
 On this date also an official re- port was given out saying that since the beginning of the offen- sive on the Russian front on July 19, 42,000 Russian prisoners had been taken by Austro- Germans.
 It was likewise officially stated on this date that the armed forces of the United States included: regular army, 305,700;. national guard, 311,000: reserve corps. 93,O00; total land forces, 71o.- 024; scea forces, 233,117; grand total. 943.141
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
ANIMAL CYCLES
(New York Times. ]

Animals also have their periods of depression and prosperity. The scientists who have been in confer- ence on the banks of the Meta mek river have reported a clearly marked periodicity in forms of life that can make only instinctive pro- vision for future needs. There is the pleasant fable' that the bees and the ants (who provide their meat in summer and gather their food in the harvest) were once fully endowed with reason, but that they lost 1t "by so ordering their life as to dispense with it," But 1t is clear that neither instinct nor we'll ordered social system is an adequate protection against the "crashes' that suddenly come into the life of the forest, stream and sea.
 Mice, Jennings. ptarmigan, &c, increase enormously, feeding on the smaller life beneath them. But. as Du Maurier said of the reverse of the process: These in turn have greater still and greater still and so on." Foxes and owls and other creatures feed on them and multi ply "till the rodents and game birds begin to die by the thou- sand or million" The crash comes. Whether sunspots are back of 1t all no one certainly knows. The lem mings take to the sea. They eat their way to the coast and pMng- ing down the rocks swim in the salt sea to death; "Nor have they in acting thus to-day any plan for their Journey or prospect in the ayept Tha animals accuStOmed to feed upon them perish in great numbers till a new cycle of mice, lemming and ptarmigan, of owl and fox and still higher creatures begins again.
 The trees, too, have their cycles. So one sees all nature in a state of interdependeQcy, cycles within cy- cles. There are the short ones of three or four years and the more clearly defined cycles of nine or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Quotations

Too much attention is being given to'the student and not enough to the teacher.
 --I. l.. Wandel. professor of educa- ton, Columbia university.
 The dethronement of man as the undisputed head of the family Is one of the factors in the break down of the familiar old-style home.
 Rev Harold Holt, Oak Park, III. We must not forget that. finan- cialIy and economically, there are two divisions in the world: Part One, the. United States; Part Two' the Rest of the World.
 William c. Shepherd. In human affairs there is always somehow a slight majority on the side of reason.
 -Dr Henry Van Dyke.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Here, There And Eueryvhere

cen years. But accurate researches must be continued in the hope of finding the initial and contributing causes; for till they are known, man cannot, except by accident, ih- tervene to prevent or retard the re- currence of these crashes. The animals cannot without human aid declare an armistice or a morato- rum. And were the trees to have a convention again, as in the days of Jotham I, they would choose as their king the bramble that would later destroy them by fire.
 These cycles in the animal and vegetable kingdoms must infiu- ence the economic cycles of the human race. It is therefore grati- flying to learn that the researches which found their common meet inp-place at Metamek this summer will have their own cycles of con- ference, as is proposed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

Uncle Sam's most pretentious commem- orative stamp series will shortly be placed in print. Dies for the George Washington series to be issued in connection with the bicentennial in 1882 are all ready. It re- quired two months for the most skillful engravers in the postoffice department to reproduce on steel the twelve likenesses of Washington that will bedeck the stamps. In addition extreme care has to be exercised in the preparation of the dies to defy the threat of counterfeiting. The series will run as follows: 1-2 cent from Charles Wilson Peale miniature in the Metropoll- tan Museum: -cent from l785 Jeane Antoine Houdon bust at Mt Vernon: 1 1-2- cent from Peae l772 portrait at Washing ton and Lee University; 2cent from l796 Gilbert Stuart portrait in Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Scent Peale l777 Valley Forge portrait presented to Jonathan Swift and owned by Swift's great grandson, Will liam Patton. Rhinebeck. N r.; Scent Peale l795 portrait owned by N. Y. Historical Society; 6-cent John Trumbull l792 DOT trait at Yale University; 7cent Trumbull l780 portrait at Metropolitan Museum; Scent from crayon physiognotrace (portralt done in exact measurements) l798 by Charles B. J. F. Saint Memm, owned by J. C. Brevort, Brooklyn. N. r.; 9-eent adapted from w. Williams portrait for Masonic Lodge, Alexandria. Va. still owned by that lodge: l0-eent from Stuart l795 portrait in Metropolitan Museum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

Delaware has adopted a unique scheme. To aid the farmers of the state campaign is on to urge citizens to buy two bushels of wheat. The wheat will be stored until winter when it will be scattered in fields. woods, etc, as food for birds. The idea is fine. It serves two-fold purpose enables farmers to sell their grain and preserves the native birds of the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Tests Too Hard

Meriden auto salesmen arc contemplating trip to Hartford in the near future to complain to Motor Vehicle Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeokel about the strietness of the tests to which applicants for operators licenses are being put When supervision of the issuance of licenses was under the state police department the applicant usually was asked merely to drive around convenient block. During the course of this ride the examiner would question the driver on some of the simpler rules of the road. In nine cases out of ten the would-be operator passed with flying colors. Since July this has been changed entirely.
 The Legislature this spring transferred the issuance of licenses from the state police back to the motor vehicle department where It had originally started Civilian inspectors were assigned to the various branch offices throughout the state. According to the complaints from Meriden these inspectors are not satisfied merely allowing the appll- cant to drive around the block and answer few simple questions. They ask the driver to perform such tactics as turning around Tn a narrow road without the aid of a turnout or driveway, Stopping and starting on steep hill are also included in the itinerary.
 The general questions formerly employed by the state policemen are amplified by many more of strictly technical nature. In short the civilian inspectors are passing only drivers who are thoroughly familiar with the operation of the car they are handling. Off part of the inspectors is to be praised rather than criticized. If we aren't mistaken it has been the plea of editors and others of recent years that there were too many drivers on our highways whose knowledge of motor cars and their operation was too limited.
 It has been suggested time and again in the last few years that stricter examinations for drivers be inaugurated. Now that they are evidently being employed it is hard to sympathize with those who find the rigidlty of the tests objectionable. Auto saesmen maintain that such methods will kill their business. There will be fewer new cars sold if people begin to think that obtaining an operators license is hard job. Still, on the other hand, there should be a decrease in the number of auto accidents and fatal- ties, many of which are directly due to poor driving Commissioner Stoecke should be able to quote facts and figures to prove that the better the driver the fewer the crashes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

than 10000 failures in various retail bpsi- nesses in the first half of this year. But where retailers have been able and willing to pass on to consumers the benefit of low cred prices and have used an efficient dis tributing system. they have stimulated their business There's a lesson in this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Personal Health Seruice (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., 1931-08-18

High tide at Milford Wednesday, August 19. 4:l9 D. m. daylight time); low tide, ll3l p. m. daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

The trouble about Lindbe-gh flights Il after he's done them. every other flyer thinks they're easy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

Another solution for the petroleum prob- lem use the surplus as ammunition in world war against autos.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18

All vehicles must be lighted not later than S:lS 0 clock Daylight saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-18
Good evening. THE LEGION CONVENTION
"A SMILES THE THING"

Good evening.
 o-o-o -o THE LEGION CONVENTION "Opens Thursday in New Britain. Parade Saturday Afternoon) Here they come with a quiekened
 step.
 Legion on parade. Proud of a worthy fighting rep,
 Legion on parade, Heads held high as their columns
 pass,
 Proud of their eolors, mass on
 mass, Men of the 1918 class.
 Legion on parade. Doff your hats as their banners fly.
 Legion on parade. Theirs was a task to do or die,
 Legion on parade. Just thirteen short years ago. They marched off to a worthy
 foe. Buried their comrades. row on
 row. ..
 Legion on parade. Soft hats rest where the tin once
 cut,
 Legion on parade. Paved streets gleam. they once
 knew rut,
 Legion on parade. They're marching on, side by side. Pray for the ones who fought
 and died, Confined in France. on the green
 hillside.
 Legion of the dead. As Flapper Fanny would say. people with fiery tempers are easily put out.
 O-O-O A house at Rio Vista, Neva, is built entirely of beer bot ties. Ten thousand bottles were used. Of course, they're empty, my my. There are 1892 islands in the Thousand Islands. So remmeber this the next time you trX.to count them.
 It takes all kinds of peo- pie to make a world, but only few to break it. a o-O-o si It took western judge to HAND out stiff sentence to LEGS Diamond.
 DING, DING. Though he lost his job, He shows no signs of woe, It wasn't incfiiciency, And 1t was B. Q.
 O-O-o After Labor day father can put the lawn mower away and stst to paint the handle on the snow shovel.
 O-O--O What has become of the old fashioned Waterbury woman who would throw wet tea leaves around the carpet be- fore starting to sweep it?
 O-O--o Telephoning in Waterbury Is mans sized job now. You use an ear. your mouth and one hand.
 o-O--o Why not call 'em the Wicker slam reports? Sounds that way.
 o-O-O The chap who wants to throw cold water on every thing is perhaps an ice man.
 o--O-O The path of glory will eventually become a paved state road.
 o-O-o
 YOU DON'T SAY so. Men play tennis singles, Their wives sit by, ahem. Although they're playing singles, They're doubled up with them.
 o-O---o Some of the half-bakcd poll ticlans in town seem to be slo- baked.
 O-O-O A noted New York banker says prosperity will be here in 1882. so there's something to bank on.
 O-O--O The majority of adults have cut their wisdom teeth but you'd never think so by looking at them.
 O--O-O The way some of the sta tions sound. you might call 1t broadblasting.
 O-O-O A man can be as cool as cu- cumber and still have no physical resemblance to the vegetable.
 o-O--O They're naming important highways after presidents. I suppose to help ambitious can didates find the way to the White House.
 O-O-O Some of the newspapers come thrugoh with dandy editori-yells.
 o-O-o
 so IT GOES.
The Washington times., 1931-09-29
Messenger Boys
Deliver Bread
To Medics

An army of messenger boys
completed late yesterday the task
Of delivering several thousand
loaves of bread containing vita
min D to doctors, dentists, nurses
and rlatrons of schools and hos
pitals in Washington and ada
cent territory. it was revealed by
Mr.. H. C. Gibson, manager of the
General Baking Company plant
at 2146 Georgia Ave.
This advance delivery was un-
dertaken before the new bread is
made generally available to the
public, Mr., Gibson stated, to &C.
quaint the medical and dental
profession and other leaders in
the local health field with the
vitamin D loaves because of the
significance in health value to the
community which scientific au-
thorities attach to this latest ad-
vance in the food industry.
The Washington times., 1931-09-29

Pattern 218S may be ordered
only In sizes IA, 16, 1S, 20, 80,
"a, 50, 80, 40, a.. a. and 46.
size Is requires 23s yards of 49,
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Send IS cents. coin or stamps,
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hOOk. Price. Is cents. Book
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The Washington times., 1931-09-29
Cream Puffs

Add u cup butter to cup
boiling water. Bring to boiling
point and when butter is melted
sift in cup flour. Beat vigor.
ously until mixture cleaves from
sides of pan. Remove from heat.
Add 3 unbeaten eggs, one at a
time. Beat until smooth after
adding each egg. The beating
must be very vigorous in order to
incorporate as much air as pos
sible. Drop the paste by the half
teaspoonful on a buttered baking
sheet. Bake in a rather hot oven
about 20 minutes. When cold,
open on one side and fill the hol-
low centers with whipped and
sweetened cream. Place a little
bar le due preserves on top Of
each puff and sprinkle WITH fine
ly chopped pistachio nuts. Omit
the preserves and nuts if desired.