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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
TO-DAY'S SELECTED POEM
LAUGHING SONG

(Rc- Printed From The Christian Science
 Monor) When the green woods laugh with the voice Of
 Joy And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with merry wit And the green hill laughs with the noise of 1t; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry
 scene; When Mary and Susan and Emily With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha Ina
 he!" When the painted birds laugh in the shade, Where our table with cherries and nuts is
 spread Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha ha hen
 William Blake. Poems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
THE "LEGS" DIAMOND MYTH


 Those who have followed the trial of Jack Legs" Diamond. head of the Catskill beer racket, must have realized how great was the light 1t threw on the character and activities of typical gangster He is not a glorious figure. Diamond was a boaster, squealer and good deal of fool. More than that. he was yellow. So happily passes the tradition that the leader of gang is a strong, silent, even ad- mirablc character. Robin Hood has been stripped of his romantic for est green, and found to be a vicious and selfish rat.
 With the tradition of the gran deur of a leader of the underworld goes the belief that he Is above the processes of law. The case of Cap one had already demonstrated that even the most powerful of the gangsters is not the superman for whom the law holds no terrors. The case of Diamond confirms the demonstration, and brings the proof nearer home. True, Diamond was able to avoid conviction from one jury. which based it's Judgment on at least partially perjured testi- mony, but the second trial effective ly showed that his power over the processes of law was, at best, tenn porary. His conviction and the case of Capone, should be answer enough to those who demand extra legal methods of ridding the coun- ltry of the gangster and the rack eteer.
 Whether or not the fate of Dia- mond will have its effect on other lpracticing gangsters is an interest ing speculation, Presumably 1t will. But more important is the sure realization that his trial and the unheroic qualities he demonstrated during it's course cannot but have their effect on hero- worshipping youths who might have contem- plated career of crime. Diamond has been caught and sentenced and his ring broken up. Even more i'm portant is the evidence of the futil- II ity and cheapness of crime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

We live and learn. For instance, we never knew that shoe sizes were actually estimated in inches. We are indebted to Senator Cap pers Pathfinder for this bit of information which goes as follows: Tn the United States, Great Britain and the British domln- ions shoe sizes are based on English inches beginning at the fourth inch. he grada- tions of length are in units of l 3 of an inch or fractions thereof, that is. the sizes pro gress at the rate of three to the inch. l he sizes begin with l and run to } in chil- dren's shoes and then begin with l again and run to 1 } in shoes for adults. l bus number represents ohild's shoe four and one-thrd inches in length. and number l ] represents a shoe eight and one-third inches long. Likewise number represents an adults shoe eight and two-thlrds inches in length, and size represents shoe 12 2-3 inches long, The article fur ther states that these standard measurements date back to 1886 when shoe manufacturers met in Boston and after lengthy oonsulta- tons worked out the present system which to the average layman IS still as complicated as it was when be or she was taken to the shoe store to be fitted 10 shoes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1881
Legion on Parade

Perhaps the greatest convention ot the American Legion in the history of Connee- ticut is now in progress at New Britain with such notables as General Smedley D. Butler and U. S. Senator Hiram A. Bingham in at tendance. Not merely does the numerical strength of the delegates impress the on- locker or the reader but the earnestness with which the leglonnaires approach the many problems of the day IS sufficient proof to overweight those criticisms which have been hurled at veterans organizations with little regard for the truth of recent years Connecticut should be proud of its Amer- can Legion; every city and town should be proud of its post and auxiliary.
 Though primarily created for the mutual welfare and protection of its members, the veterans of the World War, its scope has gradually widened to include wives, widows, and children of legionnaires. Its program of activities has heightened with the years. Its accomplishments have become too num- erous to mention. The American Legion today is a powerful force in this nation. It can do much good if turned in the right dl- rection just as it can wreck itself on the shoals of ambition by forgetting the orig inal purpose of it's founders. We feel pretty sure. though, that there IS enough strength of character in the Legion to carry it through these detours.
 Coming so soon after the dedication Of the U. S. Veterans Hospital at Newington, it is only fair that the Legion take some ot the credit for this much needed institution upon it's shoulders. It deserves all the credit it can get and especially those members who devoted so much time to securing the sup port necessary for this big project. Like most such organizations good deal of the charity work is never made public. lhere are thousands of cases throughout not mere ly Connecticut. but the entire nation on which the Legion has laid helping hand Perhaps it is better that these deeds are un- kpown Still little publicity might temper the harsh criticism so often uttered. Suffice it to say the state can be proud Of its Amer ican Legion Department and Auxiliary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

Washington.-Ifa all children un- der 16 and all married women were kept from working there would be great number of jobs available for able bodied men who are now unemployed.
 But there would be as much starvation and perhaps more. Fed eral studies have demonstrated that job-holding wives and chill dren is largely a matter of econo- mic necessity. Most of them work because people must eat.
 You don't hear much any more of proposals to take married wom- en out of business and industry, perhaps partly because Miss Mary Anderson, the chief of the Wom- ans Bureau. has swatted the idea so often and so vigorously.
 A national campaign has begun to keep young people in school who might otherwise be going to work this fall, however, and to keep in school every child under l6 years of age. This campaign, which has support from nearly all the national educational groups, is sponsored by the Hoover Emer- gency Committee on Employment and probably will do some little good, just as most of the commit tees efforts have had some slight measure of success despite the tre- mendous scope of the unemploy- ment probablem.
 What the committee runs up against, as usual, Is the fact that 1t has no authority to do anything except to whoop and holler for such non-controversial steps as 1t believes may create few more jobs here and there. It can't strike blow at the commonly deplored situation which finds more than a million child wage earners of 15 years and younger and more than 6,000,000 adults unable to find work.
 Both the White House Confer ence on Child Health and PrOtec- ton and the Children's Bureau agree that child labor is largely q question of poverty and urge first of all solution of such problems as adult unemployment, farm eco monies and living wage. Most child workers are from families of unskilled or other low paid work CTS or from farm families which have more or less desperate struggle for existence.
 Unable itself to tackle such problems, the White House con- ference has recommended such minor measures as mothers aid, scholarships and special education- al facilities to encourage children to remani in school.
 | Widows children form a small percentage of child workers and the conference urges adequate state aid laws for widows and de- pendent children which will allow the latter to stay in school ntil at least the age of 16. Mothers aid laws in most states don't allow enough money to maintain an ade- quate standard of living. the con- ference decided. Scholarship funds publicly or privately or jointly created, are suggested to enable children and young persons to re- main in school who would other wise have to go to work. Causes connected with school have motiv- ated large proportion of children who have left to go to work, vari- ous studies have shown. especially
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
TODAY IS THEA ANNIVERSARY s ngkXA
PRESENT PEACE NOTE

On August 21, 1917, pr Michaelis, the German chancellor, presented the peace note of the pope to the main committee of the reichstag with the statement: q. is to be understood that in view of the attitude of our enemies the German press maintains that 1t is impossible for us to make fresh peace proposals"
 The chancellor quoted the Vor- warts of August 19, as follows: "At no moment of the war has it been as clear as it is now that the re- sponsibility for the prolongation of the war rests alone with our ene- mise. Their answer to our out stretched hand was smashing blow with the fist. At this mo- ment there is for us only one pos sibility, that is to defend ourselves and our skin."
 A debate ensued in which so- cialists, liberals, national liberals, independent socialists and mem bers of the German group partici- Dated.
 On this date also the French captured new positions along the Mouse, and the Canadians drove the Germans from trenches at Lens with bayonet attacks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

fidenee in your ability to drive your car anywhere and at any time, but il is going too far when the rules of the road are broken because the driver feels sure that he will have perfect control of the vehicle should he be forced to stop suddenly or avoid a collision Unfortunately the other driver doesn't always possess the same de- gree of confidence in himself or his car. Usually a crash follows. As a result the cocksure drivers are going to be made over into careful operators.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

Prohibition evidently has no terrors for the German people. Of late years they haven't been forced to the point where they had to abolish wines. beers or other intox- icating liquors. In fact continental Europe would find it harder than the United States does to enforce prohibition. That is proved by the unsuccessful efforts of several coun- tries, most of whom are now experimenting with other systems of legalized control of liquor sales The largest wine cask in the world has just been built by two Munich coopers It holds 23,220 gallons or l2O.- 900 bottles of wine. It is much larger than the famous Heidelberg castle cask which has a 56, 100 gallon capacity. The latter is merely for show purposes, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
Quotations

There were gangsters in my day. too, but their fathers took them home and spanked them. The gangsters now are bad boys who didn't get enough spankings. Mrs Harriet Abbott Clark. re-
 ligious leader of Portland, Me.
 God save us from commissions and we'll save ourselves from pog- rOms.
 -Dr Nahum Sokolow, president of
 the World Zionist Congress.
 Friends and foes of America alike are of the opinion that your country Is the last stand or the western civilization.
 Grand Duke Alexander of Russia
 More than 100000 families earn their living to-day producing goods for export, and another mil lion families earn their living in manufacture of raw materials which we import in exchange for our exports. --Herbert Hoover.
 My chief concern is not with the young fapper but the adult Hopper. --Dr Daniel A. Polling. preslden.
 of the United Society of Chris
 tian Endeavor.
 At the sound of the first bullet one is overcome with a certain en- thusiasm.
 , Paul von Hindenburg.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
THE DIRT ROADS DANCE y.,tx

What is happening to the dirt roads, those hinterland bogs which were all going to be improved through the great dirt roads bill which was put through the last legislature?
 Although many contracts have been let, and not a town has failed to reach out the official palm for its share of the dirt roads appro- priation, the Manchester Herald $ authority for the statement that the towns are mostly concerned with ignoring the worst roads bu, are making the "middling road into fine ones."
 From which 1t is assumed tha legislatures will come and go. bui the dirt roads will be with tho farmers for years to come
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
Here, There And EUerylDhere

variably a potent poison. We can imagine that now and then q bar rel may leak though 1t strikes us that the fact would be easily de- tected, but where does all the eva poration take place? Prohibition agents who are instructed as to the deadly nature of alcohol would. we feel sure, die rather than taste it, and the only other tenable theory is that the liquor is subject to loss in transit. We can see how that may happen until the public is fully aware of the deadly char acter of this drug which physicians still prescribe for elderly or weak patients. But we wish that Com missioner Doran would go more into detail regarding this inevitable shrinkage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

in the cases of mentally inferior children. The conference says spe- cial provisions should be made for dull children which will keep a large number in school and off the labor market at a period in the lives of such children whe nthey most need special preparation for adult life.
 Only Montana and Ohio now have laws specifically prohibiting employment of children under 16, which the conference says should be working age minimum except as for agricultural work in respect to which 1t recommends that no child under 16 Der permitted to work during hours when public schools are in session. Only Utah and Wyoming have no minimum working age, but most states set the age oat IA years.
 About so per cent of the wage earners of IF years and under, ac- cording to available figures. are employed on farms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
To Drink or Not to Drink?

7 It seems to be problem just now whether Mayor John C. Porter of Los Angeles will secure quorum to join him tomorrow in drinking toast to the Presi- dent and people cf France. Mayor Porter was one of that bevy of American mayors who early this summer paid visit to France snd set the folks back home to wagering
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

For the benefit of those who are com planing about the severity of the tests given applicants for motor vehicle opera tors licenses Commissioner Stoeckel has announced that they are merely in an experi- mental stage, Perhaps the worst IS yet to come. However, there is one sure thing there will be no more operators licensed Tn Connecticut who think they know more than their examiner and the entire motor vehicle department. Over confidence Tn driver will be eliminated as far as it is pos sible. It is to blame for too many accidents. It is all right 10 place a good deal of con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
TT WAS EVER THUS

They came to take hack the fur
 niturc,
 The ncighbOrs thought 1t mean, Then gathered round to witness A saddencd debt bed scene. o--O--o A pessimist Is d chap who sees only the Bills. forgetting the Toms. Henrys and Bobs.
 ,o-O--O
 Beach pajamas this year will become plain overalls next.
 o-O-O The pinch of poverty like any other kind of pinch leaves It's mark.
 o-O-o
 Who can remember the good old days when money came so fast over the bar that 1t was wet, both going in and com ing out of the cash register?
 O-O--O Some kids have eyes as large as SAUCERS when they see pie on a PLATE.
 Wine bricks are turning out to be gold bricks.
 O-O-O Some of the so-called big guns at political rallies turn out to be mere air rifles.
 O-O--O
 TEE, HEB
 o-O--o And SO they were married,
 Harold and Beat. It paid her to spoon,
 In n rumble seat.
 o-O-O The honeymoon is over when she doesn't tie an apron around his waist every time he goes to wipe the dishes.
 o-O--o The first rule of grammar to know Is that figure of speech IS always feminine.
 O-O--o
 Lindbergh's In Japan for a vacation. hope he doesn't bring back any Japanese beetles.
 Nowadays girls riding habit Is just one of the many habits with which she is afflicted.
 O--O--O
 The municipal golf course will be thrown open to the public next August. Just In time for arguments on the presidential election next fall.
 O-O---O Soup and electric ice boxes should be seen and not heard. O--O--o It takes a western judge to put the "stir" in gangster. O-O--O The new fall hats for wo- men are merely abbreviated derbies with female com plex.
 The man who lacks back bone sometimes has super-abundance in the head. O-O---O
 The United States lies pret- ty much in the temperate zone SO this should be a natural aid to prohibition. O-O--O DING, DING The woman who spends her time in the sun. May figure it lengtlicns her life But 1t gives her the kind of com plcxiOD, Worn by the farmers wife. O-O-O It's a great era in the country business history. Even the steam ship companies are offering 1 special sails at reduced prices. |
 The bath tub burglar is as hard to handle as bath tub soap.
 When the house starts to set tie and the plaster gives way. th' results are certainly not wise cracks to the landlord. o-O--O When the workmen get back on standard time in the fac tory it will perhaps mean as l much to them as daylight saving to summer golfers.
 O-O--o Divorce is merely a love stor! that has been discontinued. | O-O-O | This completes our regular Fri day evening program. It came t you over DBD and was broadcas by the Waterbury. Evening Demo crat, pioneer in this type of news paper work. We are signing of at this time, to be back on the al again tomorrow at the usual hou for Saturday broadcasts. o-O-o ! Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
Personal Health Service (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to pcrsona' 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., 1931-08-21

New Haven is beginning to understand the woes and worries of municipal investl- cations Auditors have discovered $4.OOO shortage in municipal accounts. However. 1t cost the city S25,000 in expenses. That shouldn't concern those people though who insist on such probes. Waterbury went ln- to this subject on big scale - SlOO GOO.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

Hiqb tide at Milford Saturday, August 22. 8:O4 p. m. Daylight time); low t'de' 1:4l d. m. (daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

Maybe what America needs IS set of policies covering business industry, natural resources, finance, immigration and lntef- national relations that will last more than ten years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 8:l4 o'clock (daylgiht saving ume) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

Our simple minded pioneer foreiathers could never have understood that good crops make hard times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21

Stockholm, Sweden. has arrang- cd for the construction of apart ment houses having n total of g. 600 rooms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
DING, DING

She loved well, not wisely, Did poor little Kitty, If she hadn't, OIi gosh, Wed all lack this ditty.
 O-O-O Travel broadens one. Look at the fat lady, back from trip around the world.
 O-O--O
 Some men on becoming tight after elbow tipping. get extremely loose with their money.
 O-O--o Pity the watchman's children. Their dad is never home at night to tell 'em bedtime stories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-21
Good evening.
 o-O-O OHMIGOSH

Good evening.
 o-O-o
 OHMIGOSH Tread softly here,
 It's sacred ground. He invented the want ads Lost and Found.
 o-O-o As one of my readers dropped in to remark, She was only a sheep mans daughter, but she knew how to pull the wool over their eyes"
 O-O-O Walt Clifford, president of the American Telephone x Telegraph company has talk en charge of plans to relieve unemployment. He'll prob ably try the dial system.
 O-O-o If we had a tone control on 'soloists in church choirs we might be able to stand them heap more.
 o-O--O Hay fever victims might improve by taking their medi- cine through a straw.
 O-O-O The most outstanding points on some men are fat stomachs.
 o-O-o
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The Washington times., 1931-07-22
Kuhn Vice Chairman
of Memorial Park

Upon recommendation Of Gov.
ernor Albert c. Ritchie, Of Mary.
land, Oliver Owen Kuhn, manas-
ing editor Of the washington
Evening Star, has been elected
vice chairman Of the George
washington Memorial Parkway.
Mr.. Kuhn is q resident of Mont
gomery county.
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
BINGHAM TESTY
OVER BUILDING
/. DELAYS
SIipshod Methods He Declares
Show Government Cannot
Conduct Active Business

Long under fire from Demo
Gratis for delay in the Federal
building program, the Treasury
Department today drew censure
from Administration circles for
failing to speed new construction
work authorized in the last few
years for the relief of unemploy-
ment.
Senator Bingham CR0 of Con-
necticut, declaring mo one person
is to be blamed" declared any
private corporation so conducted
would soon "go to the wal" I"
Rather than aSSail Government
officials, Bingham said the delay
in new construction work proved
the Government was a failure
when it entered business.
In his statement, Bingham re-
aterated that $2,000,000 had been
appropriated three years ago for
a poStoffice in Bridgeport, though
not even a site has been selected.
In Hartford. he added, a site
has been chosen but no con.
struction work started. He said:
''What big business corpora
tiOn could continue to exist and
merit the confidence Of stock
holders If the board Of direc-
tors in the spring of 1928 had
voted to build $3,0OO,0 1000 in new
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
NEWSPAPERMAN
GIVEN POST

BALTIMORE, July 22-Ap-
pointment Of Frank A. Woodfield,
former Washington and Balti-
more newspaper man, IS execu-
tive secretary Of the Maryland
Academy Of Sciences to succeed
DR.. Robert Bowie Owens, director,
has been announced.
Mr.. Woodfield was o secretary
Of the first international labor
conference held at Washington
after the war.
The academy has an endow-
ment exceeding $4,000, 900.
The Washington times., 1931-07-22
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