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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-01-23

Nor In her enthusiasm for "effect"
has she at any time lost sight of COM
fort She has chosen a costume in
russell and crimson. The short skirt
of deep red is fashioned of comfy"
wool while the snug jacket is fleece
lined suede. The jaunty stocking cap
winds its lcng scarf streamer around
her neck. Her russell and crimson
leather boots are laced on the inside
of her foot and they are topped with
as gay pair of striped wooden socks
as can be located in any up-to-date
hosiery department. The gloves?
They are crimson knit.
1t seems that skiing costumes have
gone Norwegian to a great extent.
The long trousers snuggle up around
the angles in most protecting way,
revealing just enough Of the gay
socks to give the proper touch of
color. In making the jacket of the
same material. the idea uppermost in
the designers mind is to maintain a
solid color background which will the
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-01-23
United States Frat

No such executive as president" as
the head Of nation had ever existed
until proposed and adopted by the
United States.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-01-23

Readily obtained at any drug
store, the genuine easily identified
by the Chas. H. Fletcher signature
and the name Castoria on the
wrapper like this:
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-01-23

TO DRESS to environ
L ment is a fine art which
should be cultivated. Evil
IDENTIFY the charming young
sportswoman In the picture
thinks just that. In her
selection Of all the trap
pings which 20 to make up
a perfect costume for a per-
fec. winter day this fair
lady shows a sophistication
which declares her to be
rightfnlIY STYLE. minilnh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Human Dog Biscuit

A girl student at Ohio State University is credited with producing concentrated. omnibus food which will supply all the ele- ments needed to sustain human life. in the form of cracker. That is, all except vita min e, which is found in lettuce The head of the agricultural chemistry depart ment has checked up and found all the other vitamins, together with the requisite proteids, fats, carbohydrates and mineral salts. As for calories, that is merely ques- tion of the quantity of crackers. A working man, says the professor, might need two or three for meal. One would probably do for an office girl.
 This invention will fill great need. Die tetic philosophers have long pondered on how much simpler and easier life would be if there were sort of dog biscuit for people. Here it is! A man can carry his lunch in his pocket, woman in her purse. And if anyone must have that missing vitamin, just split biscuit and slip in a, leaf to make a lettuce sandwich. It will be hard, though, to get this wonderful improvement adopted by women. Meals wouldn't be fussy enough
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Here, There And EOerytOhere

chart her precarious path. York town was as MT. Hoover declared, one of the few genuinely decisive battles of the world. It helps us understand our own powers, our potentialities and our significance as a nation to have this epic spec tacle reenacted again. It is a kind of laboratory experiment in his tory, a textbook quickened into life.
 One point the president made has waited long to be recognized but was always true. That is the essential integration between our revolution and the larger drama of the development of the English canon of liberty. A mistaken pa triotism, an access of jingo fever fomented by false doctrines of Anglophobia have too long blinded us to this essential unity. The Ann erican revolution was not a divorce from England except. physically; it was one episode in the whole evolu- ton of one of the great original contributions to government, the Anglo-Saxon formulae of freedom.
 This doctrine was first persuas- lively presented to laymen by Woodrow Wilson in some of his esays and in his formal histori- ography. It has been emphasized recently by James Truslow Adams an dagain by Professor Andrews in the new edition of his study of our Colonial backgrounds. The presi- dent does good work in further clarifying the point as Secretary Wilbur did in his address of a few days earlier. As this fact emerges out historical thinking will be purged of one of it's major errors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
SATURDAY, OCTOBER A, 19s
United We Stand

Evidently the motto of the congresslonai Allegation from Connecticut Tn the /Zno sConQress is to be united we stand on the
 prohibition question. The ranks of those
 sponsoring measures to amend the liquor laws is growing daily. Representative Will
 liam L. Tierney of Greenwich whose wet viewpoint has been known since his election in the fourth district last year is the latest
 to announce plans for introducing beer bill in Congress. His bill will call for 4
 percent beer and 10 per cent wine. lie VIII
 also introduce resolution asking tor the
 repeal of the 18th amendment
 Most Connecticut people are familiar with
 the Bingham beer bill. The dignified sena-
 for from New Haven cast discretion to the winds last spring by introducing his 4 per cent beer bill. It was not given much con- ,sideration. but will be reintrodueed when Congress convenes on December 7th Like wise Representative Edward W. Gess of this city intends to resubmit the com .panion bill to Senator Binghams to the House. No doubt there will be host ot such bills for House consideration. Some of them will never even get to committees; others will die there; perhaps one or two may get to the floor.
 | We think an encouraging note ot the prohibition situation is the stress that more Legislators ate placing on the need of amend ing the liquor laws to permit legahzed beers, wines or liquors as a source ot gov- .ernment revenue and as means to pro- lviding employment for thousands of men and women, not to mention utilizing sur plus grain crops. While prohbitionists are doing their utmost to discourage this phase of the wet attack they will find it harder than heretofore The 18th amendment was primarily war measure, borne of the stren- luons times. There are those of us who be- llieve that times today are as perilous and 'as needful of some special legislature to recti- .fV them.
 ' We are glad to note that the Connecticut iecngressional delegation will be behind the movement to change the present prohibition Jaws. Even Senator Frederic C. Walcott of Norfolk and Representative John O. Tilson lof New Haven, intimate personal friends ot President Hoover. are rallying to the sup bort of those shouting down the 18th Amendment. It must be understood that many of these public citizens who decry prohibition are not elamoring for return lof the saloon nor are they merely express ling their own personal capacities. We'll .wager many of them are teetotalers They merely recognize the fact as do we that pro- Inhibition has failed to make us temperate in .drink. We are inclined to believe the con- strary is true.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24

proof of the theory which. many years ago. declared from the evidence of the known elements that matter was made up of 9Z such combinations. graded evenly from rhe simplest and lightest up to the most complex and heavy. with the number of electric par ticles composing them increasing uniformly up the scale. Only 85 remains to be dis covered, and scientists will doubtless find it eventually = if not on earth. then in the sun or in distint clouds of star-dust.
 Nowhere is there more compelling evil dence that this is an orderly world, in spite of its seeming confusion. Matter, in its infinite variety, is found to be made up of few simple combinations almost as regular as the multiplication table. Maybe every thing would work out just as simply. if we had the key. e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Truck War

Indiana. Kentucky and Tennessee have got into merry little war over the use of their roads by each others trucks. The last two states have been impounding Indiana trucks for operating on their roads with only Indiana licenses. Indiana. which grants reci- procity to other states. prefers the single state license plan to multiple licenses. It has been threatening to retaliate and impound the Kentucky and Tennessee trucks
 A good many automobilists would like to see them all impounded. But that's all the good it will do. The truck companies and state officials will patch up truce somehow. and the heavy. over-sized trucks will continue merrily smashing roadbeds. blocking pave ment strips and interfering generally with the pleasant and safe driving of the immense majority of road users.
 Trucks have right to use the roads, ot coarse. But when trucks turn into freight cars. destroying public highway rights for private passenger vehicles and killing rail- roads, without paying a proper share of the expense. the situation becomes unbearable. There will have to be separate highways for trucks eventually. In the meantime there is need of better regulation, especially as re- gards size. weight and manners.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Women and Government

Mayor Cermak of Chicago urges women to take more active interest in govern ment. Voting is not enough, he says. Women should know what goes on in the community before and after. election day. For the benefit of any who may be indif- ferent to their responsibilities and oppor- tunities as citizens, he lists few reasons for more intelligent participation in public affairs.
 In the first place, women own property and therefore pay taxes. It is to their inter- est to know how the tax money is spent and to have something to say about 1t. The school system should interest them douoly. because it is supported by their taxes and because it handles the education of their children. For the same reasons they are vitaly concerned with the condition and management of public playgrounds and parks They drive automobiles and are therefore directly interested in traffic conditions, in pavements. in location and maintenance of streets and alleys and SO on. Certainly the health of the community IS primary con- eern of women.
 Women are regularly taking more interest in public affairs than formerly. but too often they are seriously concerned only in unusual and spectacular matters. The day by day and year by year government of their city and county seems routine and dull Yet that is where they might make their votes and intelligent interest count the most.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24

Washington.--Some years ago 1t began to be observed that pants wear out quicker than coats and today two-thirds of the suits sold are two-pants suits.
 Authority for that: The Depart ment of Commerce.
 You can find out almost any, thing over there, thanks to the great fact-finding organization built up by MT, Hoover when he was a cabinet member. Get curious about the popularity of the two-pants suit for instance, and they will cite you a survey showing that last sea- son 67 per cent of suits sold were two-panted, and that Al per cent of all suit buyers ask specifically for such suits.
 Besides it's own statistical and factual research, the department culls facts and figures from all the trade associations, many commer- cial organizations and the other government bureaus.
 People eat more green vegetables than formerly, but how much more? We'll, consumption of green foods has doubled in the last seven years. Consumption of stored root yegetables-potatoe turnips and things like that-has declined pro- portionately. m
 Why do drug stores offer an in- creasingly varied line of mer- chandise? One reason is that the average drug store is visited by far more customers per day than Af Tho Ma tional DruG. Store Survey in St Louis ind htes that five times as many people visit a drug store daily as enter the average food store. Only a very few drug stores in the country can get along by filling prescriptions. Most drug gists," says Wroe Alderson, direc- tor of the survey, twill be forced to become merchants to an increasing degree"
 This probably isn't frightfully important, but the raising of gold fish for the market has now be- come a, million-dollar-a-year in- dustry.
 Research experts of the res- taurant industry "a $2,600,000,- O0O-a-year business-report that:
 One of every four city inhabit- ants eats at least one restaurant meal a day.
 Restaurants get six per cent of every consumers dollar and IS per cent of every out-of-town visitors dollar.
 There's a restaurant for every S59 persons in the urban United States"
 Restaurants buy s1 165,000.000
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Our Reputation Vanishing?

We noticed with interest in a recent edi-
 ton of the Hartford Courant an article on Clock manufacture in Connecticut. It was written not from the historical or romantic viewpoint, but from the practical. It seems that clock manufacturing is one state indus ltry which has held its own throughout the recent business slump, depression or call it what you will. The writer did devote some few lines to hint at the background of this mighty industry which now gives Con- ,neetieur good ranking.
 I Waterbury is not disputing the leadership lin clock or watch manufacture with any town or city in the state. but it does seem that our fame as the Watch City" of New England is gone forever. Either that or fame is as fleeting as the writers tell us. Time was when mere mention of Water bury would lead one to exelaim invariably. g"That's where all the watches are made, isn't it?" You would proudly answer, .'yes' in your best manner without trying to let your chest swell more than two or three inches.
 Of course that was at the turn of the century when the Ingersoll Dollar Watch had revolutionized the industry. Thomas ton. Bristol. Terryville. Winsted, and New Haven were turning out clocks even in those days. just as they did in the colonial
 ages when every piece that went into the clock was wooden. However. we learn from the Courant that the day of the spring clock is vanishing. Few are made today and mostly on order. The electric clock has superseded all. It is so distinctly part of
 this era that it would be strange if it didn't force every clock maker to turn to it as inevitable.
 But even SO we feel that Waterbury is keeping pace with the times, although the wrist watch may have made the dollar watch out of style and the electric clock junked the spring style. We still feel that this 'city's reputation for producing good clocks and watches is safe. While our claim to
 industrial fame today is based on our brass
 products we still recall when Waterbury
 was the Watch City of New England
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
WHY HURRY!
,(Hartford Times)

The Roosevelt Memorial associa- tion announced early this week
 that it had purchased Analoston Island in the Potomac between
 Washington and Arlington upon which to erect a memorial edifice in pursuance of the general project for which the association was in- corporated with the permission of congress in 1920.
 Funds in the association's hands, raised by popular subscription, had amounted to $1,750,000 before the Analostan purchase was consum- mated. No doubt 1t may be found later that increased subscriptions are desirable to perfect the memo rialization which is planned to ri- val in impressiveness the Washing ton monument and the Lincoln memorial.
 Thus far there has been no defi- mite decision as to precisely what kind of a memorial structure, insti- tuition, or improvement should be deemed most appropriate for the purpose contemplated. Suggestion of a stadium has received consid- erable support. At one time prob- ability seemed to be that a foun- tain with colonnades would be de- termined upon. John Pope Rus sells plans in that regard had won praise. They were laid before con- gress, but that body neither ap- proved nor disapproved.
 Authorization by congress, by public opinion or private initiative should be slow to make adjudica- tion in such matter. No matter how high our estimate may be of the character and national service of former President Theodore Roosevelt, 1t is the judgment of years to come rather than of years past which ought to be considered paramount on an issue of the es- tablishment of a physical memorial in the national capital to stand as peer or near-peer to those of Washington and Lincoln.
 Theodore Roosevelt was living until after the national campaign of 1916. Not two decades have passed since his passing. Is It agreed now that he was the great est national figure since Lincoln! Is it dependable, at present, that America of 1850 will rank him be- fore Woodrow Wilson as that presi- dent who in the interval between '6I and 1881 should firss have me- morialization of type comparable with the countrys expression of It's reverence for the Father of His Country and the Preserver of the Union?
 So close are the people still to the living presences of every presi- dent since Grant and every states- man since James c. Blaine. that to trust their perspective in appraisal of appropriateness of monument memorials in Washington as per- manent tributes to the public mind and heart would be to indulge an impulsiveness which Is unwar- ranted. f
 Our hope is that what the Roose- welt Memorial association is to do with Analostan Island will be kept under a liberal restraint and in its ultimate accomplishment be left to the vision and constructive effort of responsible charge at least fif- teen years hence. Possibly in that time, the last significance of the hero of San Juan may appear to take on ever more majestic pro- portions. On the other hand 1t may appear dwarfed by intervening cir- cumstances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
CUT FOR CoNGREssMEN

The public undoubtedly approves the posal made by Congressman Treadway of Massachusetts that the salaries of all senators and rep resentatives be reduced from $10.- 900 to $8,O0O year. How the solons themselves will feel about the suggested cut may be quite an- other thing; in fact. there prob ably won't be much heard about the bill which MT Treadway is said to be ready to offer.
 It could not become law, any, way, until the succeeding congress but there would be nothing to pre- vent the congressman from donat- ing the $2,O00 to the public.
 A cut of $2,000 by the 531 sen- ators and representatives would mean saving to Uncle Sam Of $1 .062,0 ,000 each year. These 1egisla- ttors are highly paid; receiving more than any body of their kind in the world. Tn Great Britain where service in parliament is Q mark of great distinction. the members are gla dto serve for $2.000 a year.
 Many a congressman has ranted and raved against persons who are paid as much aa $1o.0O0 a year and it will be Interesting to note how they act on the proposal to reduce their Income, which is much too high isider present circumstances. Many of them could not earn any eneh st'n ln urlvnfc endeav0rH.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24

the election laws to make it possible to elect his successor. There wouldn't have been enough time under the existing statutes to have called a special election. held 1t, and qualified the successful candidate for the opening of Congress on December z. How ever Governor Larson expects the Legisla- ture to take care of the matter by amending the present laws Incidentally there will be five representatives elected on November 3 in various states. And we presume New Hampshire will also take steps immediately to elect the late Fletcher Hale's post. All of which focuses interest on the 72nd Congress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
At The National Capitol
A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTEl

worth of food products a year.
 Of every dollar you pay the res- taurant man he spends 45 cents for food.
 The annual replacement rate for restaurant china is 48 per cent and the annual glassware replacement is 250 per cent.
 The commerce experts all stress the fact that American busi- ness is now giving more respectful, earnest attention to the consumer than ever before. They cite, as in- didicating present-day consumer reactions, statements of Paul H. Nystrom, Columbia university's s professor of marketing, which may be summarized as follows:
 American consumers are demon strating growing sensitiveness and unrest toward retail stores, prices charged, qualities and styles offer ed and service rendered.
 Hand-to-mouth buying seems to be increasing.
 Consumers object to high-pres- sure selling.
 Advertising appeals offering aids to youthful appearance, beauty and health still get across.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
THE LAME DUCKS
lNew Hayen Timesl

What blessing 1t would be, fof the country if the administration could solve the unemployment problem in general as readily as n solves the particular unemployment problem arising in the case of re. publican lame ducks from the Sew enty-first Congress. Take, for in- stance. the case of former Repre- sentative Louis c. Cramton, for eighteen years the member from the Seventh Michigan district, and during the greater part of that time one of the wheel horses of the Anti-Saloon League forces in the house.
 MT Cramton went down to de- feat before Q wet opponent. in the 1890 electoral contest and hence was out of a job on March 4, last. He had been a wheel horse for the republican party as we'll as for the Anti-Saloon League, and 1t was, of course, unthinkable that he should be allowed to remain idle. Six million workers might be walk ing the streets looking for jobs. but 1t was out of the question to have a former republican member of Congress cut off from the public pay roll. So things were arranged to give MT Cramton a job.
 First, it was planned to make him a director of the Washington Bi-Centennial Commission, but em- barrassing representations followed the premature disclosure of this plan, and 1t was finally abandoned. Later the Interior Department. whose appropriations Mir Cramton had always handled while in the house, sent the defeated congress- man out to Boulder City as a sort of legal advisor on the Boulder Dam contract. That Job. too. hos blown up now, but scarcely vas 1t ended when the department SCI | the former Eerresentatsve off oa another official mission n study Indian claims to water rights on the Owahee river at S9.O00 Q year. If that job peters out, another wlli no doubt be found. t
 What a success tho ndmtristrh- tion has made of finGing jobs for Mir Cramtoni If only the same inc gonuity could bn applied tU the task of placing other possous in search of employment. tha troubles 'of the country would be at an end
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
TODAY IS -TtiEA ANNIVERSARY & &leAZA
VEGETABLES RESIGNATION

On Oct 24, 1917, Dr Georg Michaelis, chancellor of Germany. resigned and his resignation was accepted. E Dr Mishaelis, who had been chalcellor since July IA, 1917, re- signed because of his lack of sym- pathy with the majority groups of the Reichstag and his suspected attitude of opposition to broadened parliamentary powers.
 It was charged that he was not candid in his declaration regarding the Reichstag peace proposals, and showed a partiallty to the ex- treme. Pan-German annexation- istS.
 He was succeeded by Georg F. von Hertling, who had been accu- pying the position of prime minis ter of Bavaria. Dr Michaelis tenn porarily retained the office of prime minister of Prussia.
 Six tons of bombs were dropped by British aviators on the Bur- bach works, west of Saarbrucken, Oct 24. Four German airdromes were attacked, and 45 heavy bombs dropped, and direct hits were made on a group of hangars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Quotations

The world now realized that hu- man greed is the greatest of all causes of war-Mrs Nellie Ross Taylor.
 If do not accommodate report CTS with an alleged wisecrack, they manufacture one.-Mayor Walker.
 Prohibition has made great pro- gress since the president issued his message to congress in trans mitting the Wickersham report Rt Rev James Cannon, Jr.
 Finding work for people who need it is a local problem-Sena- tor Reed of Pennsylvania.
 The most hopeful event that has happened in America is this finan- cial panjc-Harry Carr.