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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Reading Technique

Two different kinds of reading are taught in the public schools of large city. One is work reading - which may be the prepar- ation of geography lesson, or anything else calling for book studying. the pupil must first learn the vocabulary peculiar to that subject Then he learns how to get import ant points while skipping unimportant de- tails. It requires judgment to do this kind of reading. If children in elementary grades can be taught to do it we'll. they will have learned something which should help them in other reading all the rest of their lives.
 Play reading. on the other hand, is mat ter of pleasure and entertainment. The reader can read as slowly and as thoroughly as he likes. He can finger over passages that delight him. He isn't gathering facts or ma terial for definite purpose Reading tech nique has not presented much of problem to intelligent persons in the past. Some people have been naturally gifted readers able to take in whole paragraphs and oceas- ionally whole pages, in glance or two. Others have never really learned to read, whether for work or fun. Those who can be taught this fine art will get much more from life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
VETERAN WEATHER MAN
(Hartford Times)

News comes from New Haven that Leonard M. Tarr, long in charge of the United States wealth CT bureau station there, will retire November 30 after service in the bureau which began in 1883 while it's business was done, not under the charge of the department of agriculture, as now but under the war department. The weather bureau'' was then a branch of the signal service. The men were en. listed as the soldiers are, and il the higher posts held the rank ot army pofficers. General Greeley was in command. A strict discip- line prevailed and the Observer" who made as many as fourteen errors in year, was eligible for involuntary discharge.
 The general public has little mo- ton of the eXacting character of the weather mans work. It re- quires an utmost of carefulness, considerable knowledge of science. much mechanical knack, long hours, constant application. And if a person is to be a forecaster. as Mir Tarr was, he has life study on his hands, for the reading of the probabilities from weather maps, with much degree of suc- cess, is an achievement in which experience is a prime factor. as is also a trained memory. MT Tarr has had excellent reputation in his profession. and New Haven has known him as an admirable citizen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
New Bible

A new, Amerieanized version of the Bible is to be published by the University of Chicago said to conform to the letter and the spirit of the original and yet to be un- derstandable by any intelligent American from eight years old upward. it is large claim. Many parts of the Bible will remain ineomprehensible to many. or be understood in different ways by different readers. This however. is one of the charms of the great Book - its infinite variety and its appeal to so many types of mind. Any translation that makes it more easily grasped by large numbers of people performs not only re- ligious but an educational service.
 The Bible remains best seller" year in and year out and the most popular book in Christendom. despite the irreligion into which the Christian world is supposed to have fallen. Whatever ones religious faith it may be agreed that of all the volumes in the book shops and libraries. this is the most wonderful There will probably be new translatons to make it available to new generations as long as civilization endures
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Fourth City-In What?

Boston. it appears, is all cheered up over the census report of its metropolitan area Although Boston proper has less than 800,- 900 population. its metropolitan district is reported as having 2.307,897. Say the Bos- tonians. that puts them ahead of Detroit and makes their city really fourth in the population tables. It may be so, but eiti- zen in smaller tommunity cant help won- dering why all the jubilation.
 It would be good for the whole country if its towns and cities began to cultivate other boasting points than population. There are many other matters in which 1t would be really worth while to lead, such as good government, good schools, clean and well-paved streets, fine trees and gardens, public parks, civic hospitality-and we don't mean greetcrs-cultural interests and intelli- genee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Arming Criminals

Six robbers held up restaurant recently in Canton. Ohio. and got good haul from, 25 guests, thanks to an armament of revolv- ers sawed-off shot guns and machine gun that kept their victims eowed. This sort of thing is getting to be an old story. It will doubtless continue until the public makes up its mind that something can be done about such outrages.
 That time may come when it begins to dawn on the man in the street. as we'll as the man in the restaurant, that nobdy has any business selling firearms to criminals = es- pecially machine guns. How ridiculous it is to urge international disarmament and yet tolerate irresponsible and murderous domes- tic armament! Our mandits will never be controlled until We control the industry that arms them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

A federal judge has ruled out the wine bricks that were sweeping the country at such tremendous rate the last few months. A corporation manufacturing them was convicted of violating the national prohi- bition laws through the distribution of un- fermented grape concentrate for use in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor on seven counts. It was brought out in testimony that the eompany's product would contain from 10 to l5 per cent alcohol in period of three weeks. That's if you bought real wine brick. of course. You might be duped as many were by buying fakes. However. the next time somebody decides to try wine bricks we'd advise hiring Mabel Walker Willebrandt as legal counsel. She has the open sesame.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Oil Wells Reopen

Oklahoma oil fields reopen after spec tacular shutdown lasting two months and enforced by the state military. The victory anticipated by Governor Murray is not com plete. Production is resumed with oil sell ing around 70 cents barrel instead of $l. But everybody concerned - governor. oper- ators and business interests seem to feel pretty good about it. Seventy cents is a heap better than 20 or 30 cents.
 Whether gains resulting from this pro- eedure will exceed losses incurred by it in Oklahoma is an open question. The indus try as a whole is probably better off just now for the check in piling up surplus oil Yet any violent action of this sort can hardly bring more than temporary benefit. Again and again in the last few years. efforts to rig prices by forced and artificial proeed- ure have failed. even applied on broad scale, Examples are rubber, coffee. wheat and cotton. What is needed is logical con trol and businesslike organization of over productive industry from the ground up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
NOT MEANINGLESS
(Hartford Courant)

Advocates of prohibition profess to see nothing of significance in the vote of the legislature of New ter sey for a modification of the laws to permit the manufacture, dis tribution and sale of wine and beer. The attitude of the people of New Jersey toward prohibition Is well known by the result of more than one election in the state, and the legislature perhaps was under no obligation to emphasize the point. Yet the very desire of the legisla- ture to underscore the previous expressions is significant.
 By itself, the vote of the legis- lature might be regarded as having little meaning in view of previous demonstrations as to how the peo- pie of New Jersey think on prohi- bition, but Representative Beck of Pennsylvania is quite right in say ing that, together with other ex- pressions by all classes and in all sections. the vote shows the impos- sibility of keeping the issue down. When such bodies as the American Legion, the American Bar associa- ton and the American Federation of Labor are determined to voice their opposition to the noble ex- pertinent" no doubt can be enter tained that it is live issue, of which the people demand an early settlement.
 Such expressions cannot be dis missed as meaningless because, of themselves. they cannot change the law. Because they represent q protest that demands to be heard. of the greatest importance. The prohibitionists dislike to he them because they are the first shouts in a battle which they dread.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
WOMEN AND THE KELLEY
 CURE

Christian Science Monitor)
 Under the heading, "Gin Drink ing Women So Numerous Keeley Institute Turns Them Away" a Boston newspaper publishes a Chicago dispatch which purports to be "a revelation to the W. c. T. U." The item says that the fa- nous liquor-cure institution at Dwight. III, has been steadily en- larging it's, quarters in the last few years and has been able to supply ample accommodation for increasing number of men pa- tients but as women patients are segregated and quartered in- dividually. their quota is limited and filled"
 A fuller and fairer story might have justified the head. "Keeley In- stitute Now So Reduced Women Patients Are Turned Away" What are the facts?
 CD Branches of the Keeley In- stitue were once to be found in every states, their total rising to 123.
 (2) Dozens of competing "cures" were opened to meet the demand (the George Washington Home in Chicago-now closed is reported as treating 300,000 in- ebriates in its forty years.
 (3) The parent institute at Dwight is to-day the only estab- lishment of prominence specializ- Ing in the treatment of alcoholics. Once 1t comprised large office building, a 100-room hotel and a laundry plant-recently 1t has been operating ffNn a bungalow and a large remodeled residence.
 (4) On some days in the 1S9O's business was decentralized there were more drunkards in Dwight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

We doubt very much if Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams will resign his cabinet portfolio. It would be a fatal error for schism to crop forth in the Hoover cabinet with election just one year away. It would certainly tear down the rather strong ramparts that the President and his advisers are building for 1852. Up to the middle of this year Mir Hoover's chances of being reelected to office were slim. He undoubt- edly would receive the republican nomina- ton. come what may. That custom of re- naming its chief is too ingrained in the party. However. when Hoover proposed moratorium of war debts republicans in general came to light. His plea at the American Legion convention added to his fame. Now his new rediseount bank has sent his stock soaring to new high, Therefore breach in the Cabinet is the last thing to be countenanced. It will be healed in some fashion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

We'll. after the hullabaloo over the siege of Yorktown. as it was to be presented at the sesquicentennial these last few days.
 there was no formal complaint from the British government nor were the feelings of English h-born residents of the United States hurt terribly by the pageant in which Cornwallis' surrender is depicted. As a mat ter of fact Lord Cornwallis himself was present for the ceremonies Saturday. How ever. it was descendant of the earl who laid down his sword in l78l. And this is what that descendant said Saturday when bust of his illustrious forbear was dedicated by Vir- ginia. T feel that it would be as agreeable to him as it is delightful to me that mem Der of the family can be here today. War is behind. peace is in the future. let us hope.
 forevermore. .'' Incidentally descend ants of other famous participants in this closing scene were present for the pageant Saturday. They included Major Rocham- beau whose name should be familiar to Wa terbury. It was Rochambeau's forces who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Quotations

.The time has come to paint the gunman criminal as he is-weak, cowardly, viLious-a thing to De despised by every right-thinking man and woman.
 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. The really great things in the
 world to-day are the gold of France and of the United States. Russia :
 experiment and the half-clothed Gandhi.
 Rev L. A. Edelblute.
 The miilionaires of tomorrow are
 getting their start to-day. Roger w. Babson. Prohibition is an indication Yf America's great courage. -Mahatma Gandhi. It( the British suspension of the gold standard) seems to me to be a hopeful and not a discouraging event. --J. F. Morgan. The trouble is that everybody Is talking about the economic situa. ton when they ought to be discuss ing the moral situation. George Bernard Shaw.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
NEA Service Writer

| NEA SCENICC
 Washington-Ther will always be speculation now as to what kind of a senator Dwight Morrow would have made had he lived.
 His brilliant record elsewhere caused him to De considered one of the two or three outstanding statesmen in congress. His suc- ces as a financier, diplomat, inter- national negotiator, as a friend and advisor of two presidents and In most else that he undertook ranG- ed him high among the public men of this country.
 Although l. served through an entire session, his death leaves the capital wondering whether he would or would not have achieved a. splendid senatorial career such as might have led him to the presi- dency in 1886. For in the few months during which he sat in the senate he effaced himself as far as possible from the public eye. lie sat, list. ned and ran around back stage asking questions. But he in- troduced not a single bill and made not even a one-sentence speech. And those who had expected him to raise a new liberal voice on Capitol Hill saw him vote each and every time to support the ad- ministration in any matter of con- troversery.
 Perhaps, if he had lived, he would have distinguished him. as a fighting champion for an administration which needs one sorely in the next session. Those who think so saw him emerging as one of the great conservative republican senators such as dot The past, breed presently extinct. They saw him five years from now as the logical man to succeed either Hoover or a democratic president, believing that the time would then certainly be ripe for the election of a leader as wet as Morrow declared himself last year in New Jersey. Of course there were others who thought Morrow who solved the Mexican unpleas: antness, saved the London naval conference from collapse and helped importantly to guide Hoover in recent critical international situations - was definitely out of his element in the senate, fitted best and never behind the scenes maneuvers and never likely to rise much above the level of the or dinary standpat senator. The mystery is now insoluble.
 Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico, here lately, confirmed some of the weird stories which deal ith his early attempts to master the Spanish language on the island to the point where he could make speech in it.
 For instance, the time he was on the platform trying to tell a few thousand Porto Ricans that he had four children and only suc- ceeded in assuring them that he had given birth to four children"
 Whereupon, according to the gov cno., President Sanchez Hor- ales of the Porto Rican Senate broke in and shouted:
 "All things are possible in the tropics!"
 Secret.ry of t,-e Interior Ray L.'man Wilbur. who is the most lugubrious-looking member of the cabinet, is always making wise
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER

cracks about something or other. He is just back from the west, after travelling extensively over the governments public lands and looking over various federal pro- jects. He was so impressed by the number of jack rabbits on the domain under his Jurisdiction that he returned with the boast:
 "I am A the king of the jack rabbits."
 William Allen Whites reported assertion that he joined the Hoov- er-Gifford unemployment commit tee so as to be in better position to criticize it recalls the promin- ent member who strolled out from one of the widely ballyhooed and supposedly important committed meetings and was asked by the correspondents what was going on inside.
 Don't quote me-" he said, ''but it's just lot of sublimated blah- blah"i
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
HISTORY OUT OF CLAY
Christian Science Monitor)


 Few sculptors ranked with Dan- iel Chester French in the prac- ticability of their art. Perhaps the rugged New England stock from which he came gave him the grouding in American traditions which in later years was to become the basis of idealistic conceptions that won great renown at home and abroad. His father was assist ant secretary of the treasury. His New Hampshire.
 Concord, which Emerson set forth in poetry, was as eloquently ex- pressed in the sculptor's conception of "The Minute Man" Poetry of lasting sumlimity marked the fig- for Concord Bridge while he was yet growing up in that town.
 Such was the practicability of his work that President Roosevelt sent him to Balboa to aid in beautify- ing the Canal Zone city. He had the aptitude of patience and ac- curacy that made Emerson say of his own portrait in clay which French had wrought, "Yes. that is the face l shave, every morning" His work bore a feeling that put the power of the words spoken at Gettysbng into the expression of the standing Lincoln in the State Capitol of Nebraska, and the glow of compassion into the face of the Emancipator in the seated concep- tion at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
 These were but few of the ac- complishments of the sculptor who began his art by fashioning a bull frog from a turnip before going on to career that made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France, a member of merit in the Royal Academy of Saint Luke in Rome-a great artist and sterling character in the estimation of peo- pie everywhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Money Hoarders

During recent weeks vast quantities of money have been withdrawn from banks and stored away in peoples safe deposit vaults and other places Probably some of this money is kept in peoples homes where the thieves are likely to get it. Even if it is put in good bank safe, the act repre- sents very poor judgment. These people have withdrawn their cash because of panic ky alarms about business and the stability of money. They help make business worse. because for every surh withdrawal the banks have had to sell securities in order to get more cash. When the banks were forced to dump vast amounts of bonds and stocks on the securities markets, prices dropped way down, and the spirit of pessimism and fear was increased.
 Then the fall of stock prices made it nee essary for many banks to sell securities held as collateral. or force borrowers who had loans based on securities to sell the same. That piled still more stocks and bonds on the maket. resulting in the lowest prices seen for years These money hoarders accom- plished nothing by their panieky action. ex- cept to do harm. They are losing interest on their money, when at least they might buy government bonds. which pay to l.. per cent. If government bonds are not good, certainly the promises of the government to pay in the form of money are no better. There would be nothing very serious the matter with business provided two eondi- tions could be relieved. First, people must get over imaginary fears. Second. some thing must be done to help Europe get on better basis. With these two things done. there is no serious obstacle in the way of high level of business prosperity and full employment for the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

Yale is going in strong for history in naming the colleges that will eventually form its English house. system. There will be Trumbull, Calhoun. and Edwards colleges. The first .is named for Jonathan Trumbull first governor of Connecticut and better known in our history books as Brother Jonathan George Washington gave him this title. John C. Calhoun was one of the best known orators and states men of the carly ninteenth century, while Jonathan Edwards needs no introduction to Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
DEATH CAME
Gin memory of Thomas A. Edison
 who died yesterday)

Death came, his chariot draped in
 sombre shroud; His spirit horses hoofs were muffled low; Death stopped and pointed to a
 heart with illness bowed To reap the harvest life wa'
 kind to SOW. Deaths sting, it pierces as an arrow does shield; It tears down life and in it
 place leaves gloom; We mourn the power it seems il
 loves to wield To take great heart from s
 world so soon. The very works of man all seemed
 to cease Along a far-flung human battle
 front; The turmoil of life gave way to
 ease,
 Although the method seemed SC
 crude and blunt. And then a stiffness fell, it fingers
 yet a while; The stiffness of a valley, just
 before the dawn: The spirit of the cenotaph before
 which man must file In carrying on the work of
 millions gone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
TODAY IS THEA ANNIVERSARY A AgeA@
AIR RAID ON ENGLAND


 On Oct 19, 1917. 13 Zeppelins raided the eastern and northeastern counties of England, killing 34 per sons and injuring 56.
 The Zeppelins were attacked oi' their return voyage by French airmen. Four airships were de- stroyed and three captured. The L-49 was brought down intact. the first one to be thus captured in tn" war.
 One Zeppelin aerial torpedo launched in London, killed eight children of one family. Alto gether it destroyed three houses. with a loss of 14 lives, wiping out two whole families. Those not killed were seriously injured.
 The raiding Zeppelins were chased all across France by air plane squadrons, aided by anti aircraft guns.
 All the crew of one of the Zep- pelins perished; another Zeppelin was believed to have drifted out over the Mediterranean and fallen into the sea during the night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Here, There And EDeruDhere

in 24 hours than now come there in year.
 One may we'll regret that women are drinking at all; but there is certainly no reason to grow doubt full about the value of prohibition because one small institute finds it's women's quota filled. And what if more women were now drink ing? Would making gin easier tt get lessen the number of appli-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

passed through this town during the Revo- lutionary War. Those who had qualms of conscience some months ago can now rest easy. Cornwallis has surrendered and no harm has been done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Personal Health Service
 (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., 1931-10-19

Hard times don't seem to have hurt th' market for goldfish and turtles. Nor rock gardens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

It's surprising how many people still in- sist that what this country needs most is a good five-cent drink.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5:37 o'clock tonight.