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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17
PINE ROCK CIRCLE LADY
 FORESTERS OF AMERICA

Installation of officers and an en- tertainment by the pupils of Miss Lillian Mccoy featured the meeting of the Pine Rock Circle, Lady For esters of America, held last night in Mechanics Hall. The following of- ficers were installed: Commander Mrs Richard Savage; vice-command- CT, Mrs Charles Lynch; right guide, Mrs James Stenson; left guide, Mrs John Ryan: inside guard. Mrs Peter Dunn; outside guard, Miss Mary Dow ling; recording secretary, Miss Cath crime Reilly; financial secretary, Miss Sophie Carroll: treasurer, Mrs Nora Doyle; and trustee, Miss Alice Mo- Grath.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17
Free Loan Ends
 Year With Balance
Secretary Sol Alexander of Hebrew Organization Files
 Report for Year

Announcement is made of the 18th annual report of the Hebrew Free Loan association as of Decem- Der 16, 1880. The financial state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17

GATIOUS. HORATICS
 Master: What did Horatius do at 1 the bridge? ;i
 Budding Genius: Probably trumped his partners ace. the silly ' fool.-Tit- Bits. n,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17
600 Y MEN ARRIVE FOR STATE CONVENTION
DOCTORS TESTIFY
 IN CASS CASE
PatroIman Excused But Warned to Be More Care-
 full in the Future
TECHNICALLY GUILTY

The board of police commissioners at an adjourned meeting yesterday afternoon voted that while Patrol man Edmund Cass was technically guilty of the charges preferred against him there was no intentional violation of the rules of the depart ment and no drinking of intoxicating liquor as beverage.
 The board came to it's decision after hearing testimony of the off, cer's physician. Dr J. H. McGrath who said. in answer to question by Commissioner Michael Noonan. that Patrolman Cass' condition the night he reported off duty. was due as much to heart condition as to the liquor he had taken. Chairman Harry Minor warned Officer Cass that if the heart attack ever again affected him he is to report it i'm mediately or trouble will result.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17
$297 ,648 Increase <
 In Motor Revenue
Car Registration Fees Show Healthy Gain During Past
 Year

An increase of more than a quar- ter of a million dollars is reported by the state motor vehicle depart
 ment in the amount of revenue it
 collected on 1880 business from all
 sources. exclusive of gasoline taxes.
 The total was $8.29O, ,4O411, or s297.-
 648.82 more than the $7,992.755.29
 collected in 1929.
 The major part of this revenue was from fees paid for registration
 of cars. During the year. 36O.561 motor vehicles of all types were reg istered and fees amounted to $6,- I77,0S8.99. While the increase in the number of cars was compara- lively small. being only 1146. the increase in revenue amounted to $284, 4,342.77. This is accounted for, according to department officials, by
 an increase in the average amount
 of fee. The average registration fee in 193O was S1S.10. or eighty cents
 more than in 1929, and was brought
 about by the registering of larger
 number of cars of greater power,
 calling for higher fees.
 Second in size was the amount
 paid for operators licenses. This
 was $1,234,969 or $74,93S more than
 in 1929. There were 40S,979 oper- ators registered. as compared to 379,563 an increase of 29,416. with the usual type of license, 3SS licensed to operate motorcycles and
 4,016 public service operators.
 Fines paid to the department be- 1 cause of violations of the motor ve- hicle laws decreased more than $2S,- GOO during the year, the total being | $3O3, 194.95, as compared to S331,- | 305.04 in 1929: There was also a | considerable decrease from the pre- vious year in the number of new op-
 orators examined. Only 51 .22S. exam nations were given. while in 1929 | the number was 60.50S. Fees for this service decreased from S12.01G to $102.4 4J6.
 Department business in transfers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17

of registrations from one car to an. ff , other, usually indicative of the acst tivity of sales of both rev and useds
 cars was less than in 1929. Thefes were 80,3S0 transfers for all classes.
 of motor vehicles, as compared tos S9,383 in 1929, the fees amounting 10 $S3,073.50. decrease of s8,875. t Fees received for inspection ands licensing of gasoline stations dei
 creased slightly during the year.!
 from s50.0S3.33 to $49,l30.21. Fewci.
 junk yards were licensed in 1880, req sulting in a decrease of approximatcstt ly $2.300 in inspection and licensing, fees. The total from. this source was $3,125. Other amounts collected in.s cluded: Temporary registrations $4 :, 291; re-examinations. $936: extrs
 registration plates, sS.25S: duplicate | registrations and licenses, $6,9J5 <
 certification fees. $12,725; accident ! report copies, $6,327; miscellaneous $2,612.21. A classification of types of car ; | shows that 296,9O1 private passengcts
 cars were registered, an increase of ! 4,627. There were 47.692 commer- cial motor vehicles or 3,571 fewer
 than were registered in the previous year. The number of motorcycles al-
 so decreased from 2,6S8 to 2.5SI, | Other types registered under various clasifications were: Dealers regis trations, 2;362; repairers'. 1888; mo- torcycle dealers, 21; manufa cturers' ' l [; public service livery. SS7; taxiI I cabs, 991; intra state jitneys. 635: mi terstate jitneys, 17S; combinations. | 3,654; hearses, PIP; trailers. 3,00as f camp trailers, 486; tractors, 23: fac! ] tory trucks, 196, besides several mis- l cellaneous types.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17

retary. Henning Carlstrom; assist ant secretary, Martin Anderson; financial secretary, Gust Grandell; assistant financial secretary, D. R. Johnson; treasurer, Eric Larson: chaplain, A. M. Anderson; master of ceremonies, Elmer Severson; assist ant master of ceremonies, John Pet erson; inside guard. Victor Larson; and outside guard, Algot Johnson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17

ment compiled by Secretary Sol AL exander, follows: Statement of Cash Receipts and Dis-
 burscmcntS 1929
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17
GOTA LEJON ORDER
 OF VASA OFFICERS

The officers of Gotta Lejon, Order of Vasa, were installed at the meet
 ing held last night in Moose Hall. District Deputy Severin Benson of Ansonia, and his staff. installed the executives. who are as follows: Pres ident. Andrew Anderson; vic>pres- ident, Oscar Backman; recording sec
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17
Water Receipts

- 1880 figures unobtainable Sn- til March 1st.
 The figure on the number of customers for 1929 included. in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-17

error, 2.157 inactive meters which should be deducted from the 1929 total when comparison is being made.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
WASTED TALENTS
IS PASTORS TOPIC
Rev. R. |. Wood to Preach
Tomorrow at PetWorth
NJ. {. Church.

Rev Robert L. Wood. pastor Of Pet
worth Methodist Episcopal Church.
Grant circle, will preach tomorrow
morning on Wasted Talents" In the
evening the symbolic candlelight serv-
ice, Send Out the Light" will be held
at o'clock. Preceding this service the
Epworth and Intermediate Leagues will
meet for deVOtions. Sunday school Is at
$50 and mems Bible class at 10 o'clock
The Christmas party for the children
of the cradle roll and beginners depart
ments will be held Monday afternoon
and IN the evening the junior classes
Will be entertained at 73C o'clock. An
entertainment and party will be given
at 8 O'Clock by the Mothers Round
Table for the benefit of the debt fund.
Rev. and Mrs Wood will receive the
young people Of the church at an infor-
NAL party in the parsonage Wednesday
evening.
The study class of the Women's For
eign Missionary Society will meet at the
home Of Mrs Leland r Rice, 2l5 Emer-
son street Thursday at 80 pm
The watch service on New Year eve
will be in charge Of the pastor, be-
ginning at 3 O'Clock
The committee IN charge Of svangel-
ism has announced the selection Of Rev.
P. RAYMOND Powers Of Chicago 10 con-
ourt services from January 81 to Feb
mary
Evening star., 1931-12-26
PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN
AT ALL SOULS CHURCH
Pierce Hall Players and School
Cooperating in Christmas
Presentation.

"The Christmas Pageant of the Holy
Grail" combination of the Nativity
story with the legend of King Arthur,
will be presented In Pierce Hall, All
Souls Unitarian Church, Sixteenth
and Harvard streets, tomorrow eve
ming. Pierce Hall Players and the
church school are cooperating in this
presentation. which involves large
number of players and chorus. In the
morning at IL o'clock the minister,
DR.. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, will preach on
The Souls Prospect"
At 5 o'clock Charles Trowbridge
Tittmann, bass, will assist the organ
ist, Lewis Atwater, in a program Of
Bach music. Dr. Robert c. Dexter,
secretary of the department of social
relations. American Unitarian ASsocia-
ton. will be the speaker at the book
chat at $50 O'Clock. DR.. Dexter will
review Our Lawless Police a recent
book by Ernest Jerome Hopkins, Sps-
cial investigator for the WickerShafh
Commission.
During the week several parties for
the different departments of the church
school will be held. Thursday evening
there will be pageant service Welcom-
ing in the New Year, starting at 1l:30
o'clock. This will be preceded by a
presentation of John Mccormack in
the sound picture Song O My Heart. )"
Evening star., 1931-12-26
Church WILL HEAR
ITS YOUNG PEOPLE
They Will Conduct Services
Tomorrow at Calvary Bap-
tist in Evening.

Rev w S. Abernethy. pastor of Call
vary Baptist Church, will preach to-
morrow morning on That Cluster of
Keys in your Possession" At 8 o'clock
the service will be in charge of the COL
lege young people, the pastor speaking
on Why Compromise Those having
part in the program will be Othniel
Pondlton, Bradford Abernethy, Ernest
HaineS, Dorothy Clore and Bruce
Fowler
The world friendship groups will
meet at the Junior church, II o'clock
tomorrow morning, assembling in Baker
Hall for the devotional exercises and
then going to the various rooms for
meetings. Jewels in charge of Mrs.
Ieake; heralds, Miss Mabelann God
dard, crusaders, Mrs. Isabel Ward ::
Junior w. w. G.. Mrs Alberta Mcneil,
and royal ambassadors, Mr. j. @.
Buzbee
A tea for college young people will be
given in Burial Hall tomorrow at 30
O'Clock. Mrs Irene Waldo, college
counselor, in charge
The annual Christmas dinner of the
young peoples department will be held
Wednesday in Burial Hall. G. N.
Dagger, associate superintendent. in
charge
Walter Strong Will conduct the meet
ing of the Christian Enoeavor Society
TUESDAY evening.
The church will hold a watch night
service followed by the communion
service Thursday from II to - O'Clock.
Prior to this service. beginning at 9
O'Clock. a program entitled Father
Time and His Three GraCes," viii be
given IN Woodward Hall, followed by
q social
Evening star., 1931-12-26
"ART OF FORGETTING"
is SERMONS THEME
DR.. H. H. Harmon to Preach at
National City Christian
Church Tomorrow.

At the National City Christian Church
tomorrow DR.. H. H. Harmon will speak
at II am. on The Art of Forgetting ."
The evening service will be devoted to
Christmas music. The service will open
at 7:45 o'clock with a group Of carols
played on the tower chimes and will be
followed by an organ recital by Robert
Ruckman. The vested choir, augmented
by an antiphonal choir. will also render
we'll known carols and in addition some
of the olden Slovenian and Hungarian
Christmas melodies. The church
school will be held at 9:45 am. and
the Young Peoples meeting at 6:45
p I'M, as usual.
A party will be held at pm. New
Year eve in the Vermont Avenue
Church, to which all members of the
congregation and their friends are cor
daily invited The program and re-
freshments will be in charge of the
Alpha Christian Endeavor Society The
tower chimes will welcome the new year
with several selections.
The church night suppers and mid
week prayer service will be postponed to
next week.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
TABERNACLE WILL HAVE
TWO YULE SERVICES
Rev. H. L. Collier Will Preach on
"Bethlehem's Glory" and
"Infant and Emperor"

The Full Gospel Tabernacle, North
Capitol and K streets, will have two
Christmas services tomorrow, when a
special musical program will be given
by the chorus choir and orchestra. The
pastor, Rev. Harry L. Collier, will preach
at IL I'm. on "Bethlehems Glory" and
at 7:3O pm. on The Infant and the
Emperor. The Sunday school will
meet at $50 am. and the Young Peo-
pies Society at $50 pm.
The annual Christmas service Of the
Sunday school will be held Tuesday at
7:3O pm. A watch-night service will
be held from to II o'clock Thursday
with a change of leaders every half
hour.
The annual all-day convocation and
fellowship supper will be held New
Year day. when the pastor will give
his New Year address and announce
ments of plans for the coming year will
be made. The Wednesday night meet
ing will be omitted. but the special
radio program over WJSV will be held
Wednesday at 1890 am.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
PASSING MILEST0NES
HOLLISTER'S SUBJECT
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
to Have Lecture Series by
DR.. J. R. oliver.

At Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
Passing Milestones" will be the sub
ject of Dr. j. H. HOLSTERS sermon to-
morrow morning At $50 pm. the
young people are sponsoring tea in
the church house. All those who are
home from college for vacation, all
high school seniors and graduates, and
all other young people in the church
are invited.
At 8 pm the Oberlin Mems Glee
Club will render a program Of sacred
music Provost William A. Wilbur Of
George Washington University will give
short talk.
A watch night service will be held
Thursday, beginning at II O'Clock and
closing at midnight.
The Fireside Discussion Group will
have a dance for the members and
their friends Friday night in the Chevy
Chase, Md, Library.
DR. John Rathbone Oliver of Johns
Hopkins University will give a series of
lectures beginning January 7 on the
general subject, Life Adjustments ="
These lectures, which will be given
January 7, IA and %. will be free.
Each lecture will be followed by an
hour OF questions.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
AT CLOSE OF DAY TOPIC
OF REV. CLIFFORD H. JOPE
Ninth Street Christian Church
Congregation to Hear Pastor
Tomorrow Morning.

Rev. Clifford H. Jope, pastor Of the
Ninth Street Christian Church. Ninth
and D streets northeast, has selected
for his subject tomorrow morning AT
the Close of the day" The choir will
render special musical selections. The
Christian Endeavor Societies, Alpha
intermediate and Juniors, will meet at
GAS pm. At 7:45 pm. the choir and
orchestra will give special musical
leadership in the singing of the Christ
mas carols and Rev. Jope will give a
stereopticon lecture on the carols.
The Timothy Bible Glass will hold
its regular business meeting Monday
evening at the church.
The Alpha Christian Endeavor Execu-
tive Committee will meet Tuesday eve
ming at the home of Misses Doris and
Mildred Bishop, STA Sixteenth street,
to make plans for the next quarter
work of the society.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
NEW YEAR" is TOPIC
OF DR.. ]. ]. RIvES
0ld-Time Hymns Will Be Sung at
Francis Asbury Methodist
Church in Evening.

Dr. J. J. RiveS, pastor of Francis
ASbury NJ. E. Churh South, Sixteenth
street between Irving and Lamont
streets, will preach tomorrow morning
on the timely topic. The New Year" ="
The informal services will be continued
IN the evening with congregational
singing of old-time hymns
The Mems Bible Glass will meet at
$50 am. in the church auditorium
and hear Tracy L. Jeffords lecture on
There Was No More Sea-" Rev. xxi
The Young Mems Bible Class led by
Rossel E. Mitchell will continue to
study and discuss B. Stanley Jones
The Christ of Every Road"
The EpWorth League will hold a
special missionary program at pm
with Miriam Riyes in charge of the
meeting
New Year eve will be a watch night
service beginning at 1890 O'Clock
After a brief period of worship there
VIII be a social, after which service
Will be held in the auditorium.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
PASSING OF OLD YEAR"
TO BE PASTORS TOPIC
Or. Bernard Braskamp to Deliver
Sermon at Gunton-Temple
Memorial Tomorrow.

At the II O'Clock service tomorrow
at the Gunton-Temple Memorial Pres
byterian Church, Dr.. Bernard Bras
kamp will preach on The Passing of
the Old Year"
The Christian Endeavor Societies
will meet in the chapel. The Young
Peoples Society will have tea at 6
O'Clock, which will be followed bv a
meeting to discuss the topic. What
Things Make Life Worth Living?"
The senior topic is, Understanding
Christ. the intermediate topic, "What
Prayer Means to Me-" and the iunior
topic, Being Loyal to Our Eaws Which
We Know"
A New Year eve prayer meeting will
be held Thursday at O'Clock.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
WILL CONCLUDE SERIES
Rev. r. S. Lloyd Will Preach on
"The Wise Men"

Rev. Robert S. Lloyd, rector of
Georgetown Preparatory School, will
conclude his series Of sermons on the
Washington Catholic radio hour to-
morrow. He will preach on THE Wise
Men at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Eighth and N streets,
through Station VOL at 5 O'Clock
Father Francis j, Hurney, pastor of
the Immaculate Conception and direc-
tor Of these broadcasts, will preside.
The blessing Of the sick and other spe-
cial Lourdes devotions will take place
In the Grotto Of Our Lady Of Lourdes
In the church.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
How Old Is Christmas?
Scholars Can Trace Early Beginnings of the Festival
We Know Today Beyond the Birth of Christi
anity Hself-Many ancient Customs Survive.

papacy Of Liberius (352-356) the ma
tivity was observed together with the
marriage at Cana and the feeding of
the 1000. which were never feasted on
any other day but January g."
Chrysostom, in 1856 or 388, says that
the feast Of December 25 was known In
the West, from Thrace to Cadiz, from
the beginning. There is little doubt
that it originated in the West ano
spread to the East In 353-36l it was
commemorsted by Constantius and his
court. Basil of Caesarea Cdied 379J
adopted it. Honorius, emperor of the
West from 395 to 423. persuaded his
mother and his brother, Arcadius, tc
introduce the festival in Byzantium.
In 400 AID. in Rome an imperial re-
script included Christmas with Easter
and Epiphany as a feast on which the
theaters must be closed
Some Eastern Christians still OBJ
serve January g.
1t is noteworthy that the Christian
Church adopted many of the ancient
pagan customs relating to the feast OF
the Winter solStice as well as the actual
feast itself
The Christmas tree. for example. has
been traced back to the Romans of an
tiquity. 1t came TO America by way ot
Germany and Great Britain.
Ancients Gave Presents.
The custom of making presents al
Christmas is derived from very ancient
usage. 1t was a Teutonic invention
In Latin countries gifts were exchanged
at New Year
The decoration Of churches with
mistletoe and holly is likewise pagar
survival
Nativity plays and pageants trace
back to a pre-Christian era. The sport!
OF the Lords Of Misrule in England are
supposed to be an inheritance from the
Saturnalia OF heather Rome.
Father Christmas or Santa Claus i,
identified with St Nicholas or Nicolas
and also with Knecht Rupercht anc
Robin GoodfelloW Grimm says that ir
some parts of Germany Knecht Nicolas
is merely an attendant on the real gift
giver, who Is sometimes the infant
Christ and sometimes Dame Bertha
but who is also frequently conceived as
an ugly dwarf, called Krampus.
Carol singing by waits, strolling street
musicians, is an old British custom.
The first Christmas cards date from
about l846.
The setting up in Latin churches oi
Christmas creche is said to have beer
originated by St Francis.
In England the observance Of Christ
mas was forbidden by act Of Parliament
in 1914 Charles II revived the festival
but many of his subjects, particularly ir
the North, refused to abandon the
Puritan view of the feast The early
settlers of Massachusetts, did not keer
Christmas.
Interesting works on Christmas are
Miles Christmas in Ritual and Tradi-
ton" and Crippen's Christmas and
Christmas Lore" both of which are
generally available.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
Sunday School Lesson
BY
\ Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson.

whom he urged to come quickly to see
him. He evidently was putting up a
strong defense by sending for chris
tian lawyer and an eloquent orator.
When the end came, he had fought a
good fight and waited with the faith of
conqueror to meet his Lord face to
face, believing that He would reward
the Apostle with the crown OF right
eousness for his fidelity and service.
When he died, as a martyr to the cause
of Christianity, Paul had planted 1t IN
Europe and from the influence OF his
teachings everything in modern civiliza-
ton has come directly or indirectly,
through the power of the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ. Christianity, through its
introduction into Europe, has influenced
the lives of men, changed the character
of nations and turned the streams OF
civilization into new channels.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
Christmas and Human Values
BY REV. w. l. DARBY.

The Christmas homes
have had gatherings exchange Of gifts
churches helped happy with and
and perhaps the Salvation Army and
missions old
Groups people the hospitals and other ns
tutionS distributed
In their homes Thank all such blessed minstr
has been and has spent for practical purposes in
considered the human values this year That as
should after birth OF
the fact that each baby born whether in mansion or MANAGE has
possibilities chance cultivate
those le poenaies which reside in them The Babe of Bethe
hem makes this supremely the festival Of childhood
The song the angels has its theme peace and good will For
should live today
such as they create humanity attain its best Never there
than in this
from all that hurts life build the
carry Christmas
and practical manifestation
relations with will
reality of religion
Evening star., 1931-12-26
Christmas Programs Planned

Rev. Homer A. Kent, pastor of the
FIRST Brethren Church, will preach at
II O'Clock tomorrow on How to Live
the christian Life During the New
Year. At 7:45 pm. a Christmas pro-
gram VIII be given which will be COM
posed of Christmas Music, pageant
and speaking. Sunday school win meet
at $3.50 am, at which time a Christ
mas program will be given by the pri-
mary department of the school. Young
Peoples Christian Endeayor meets at
6:45 pm.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
PLANS STORY-SERMON
Rev. Frank s. Niles Will Deliver
Yule Message for Children.

At the Georgetown Presbyterian
Church tomorrow morning Rev. Frank
S. Niles will preach at IL o'clock on
The Christmas Inn" There will also
be a Christmas story-sermon for the
children. The Young Peoples service
at 7:3O pm. will be led by Miss Meta
Dean Scantlin of American University.
The topic will be: Shall We Learn
From the Experience of Others?"
Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock the
Sunday school will give Christmas
pageant In the church, and this will
be followed by Christmas party in
Cissel Chapel for the children and
friends of the church.
On New Year eve there will be a
watch night service in Cissel Chapel
Evening star., 1931-12-26
TOPICS OF SERMONS
SELECTED BY PASTOR
DR.. John C. Copenhaver to Preach
on The Spiritual Panhandler'
Tomorrow Morning.

The Spiritual Panhandler" will be
The subject Of the sermon Of DR.. John
{, Copenhaver, pastor of EpWorth
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
Ihlrteenth street and North Carolina
avenue northeast, tomorrow at IL
O'Clock. Sunday school is at $50 am.
For the O'Clock service DR.. Copen-
haVer will take as the subject of his
sermon First Things First" The Ep-
worth League service will be held at !
pm. The community Christmas tree,
planteo on the lawn Of the church, will
be lighted during the entire week.
A social will be held bv the vounp
people and the Epworth League Thurs
day between $50 and II pm. latter
which a watch meeting will be held, and
Will be conducted by the pastor.
Evening star., 1931-12-26
Pastor to Give Coins.

The Petworth Baptist pastor. Rev
Henry J. Smith, will present those who
attend the evening service tomorrow
with a new coin. The subject of the
sermon is The Poverty of Infirmity' -
In the morning the subject is Wind
Tossed" The week will be given to
the entertainments OF the various
groups. Mrs Firmin's department will
have its Christmas party on Monday;
Bible school, Tuesday night; inspira-
tional hour, Thursday night. The
B. Y. P, U. is planning a three-act
comedy for the middle of January.