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Evening star., 1932-03-08
Corned Beef Stew.

Wash six pounds Of corned beef and
season well with salt and pepper. Put
over the fire with cold water to cover
Bring to the boiling point, remove the
scum, and simmer for three hours. An
hour before serving, skim off the fat,
and pour some of the liquid into large
Kettle. In it cook one cabbage quar-
tered. four turnips, four parsnips, salt
and pepper, three carrots and six pota-
toes. Serve the meat in the center Of
a large platter with the vegetables
placed around it. Serve with a gelatin
salad OF pineapple, cabbage and pimento
on lettuce with mayonnaise.
Commercial air service is to be etsab-
lished between Medillin and the Gulf of
Uraba, Colombia, to connect with the
regular air line to Panama.
Evening star., 1932-03-08
JOLLY POLLY
A Lesson in English.
BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH.

D. w. C.-The purist shudders over
the word fix" when it is used in the
sense of repair, mend or adjust. But,
as the dictionary tells us, this usage is
firmly established in the American Ian
guage. In its original sense fix means
to fasten, attach or secure firmly; as
Fix the clock to the wall after you
have repaired it."
Evening star., 1932-03-08
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Sliced Oranges.
Dry Cereal with Cream.
Scrambled Eggs.
Bacon.
Rice Wafies. Maple Syrup.

LUNCHEON.
Creamed Kidneys on Toast.
Buttered Carrots.
Graham Biscuits.
Orange Bavarian Cream.
Cookies. Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato Bisque. Broiled Schrod.
Boiled Potatoes, Carrots and Peas.
Waldorf Salad.
Mock Mince Pie.
Cheese. Conee.
Evening star., 1932-03-08

RICE WAFFLES.
Beat one cupful milk gradu-
ally into one cupful cold boiled
rice, add one tablespoonful
melted butter, half teaspoonful
soda dissolved in one tablespoon
full hot water. two eggs well
beaten and enough flour sifted
with teaspoonful cream Of tartar
to make a thin batter. Bake in
hot, well CREASED waffle irons.
Evening star., 1932-03-08
Tapper Discovers Thief.

without regard to wrong or right
old Mother Nature.
Evening star., 1932-03-08
Restoring Bleachcd Hair.

Dear Miss Leeds: % I had brown
hair and bleached it with peroxide. It
has become streaked with red, blonde
Evening star., 1932-03-08

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
Control Is Necessary

There seems to be some disposition upon the part of our federal legislators to ignore various appropriations of vital necessity. while at the same time sanctioning bills and estimates that are merely part and parcel of federal patronage on gigantic scale. Both houses of Congress dispense with a free hand where their own comfort is under consideration. Expense accounts of gov ernment officials are rarely if ever serutin- ized. But when the Department of Agri- culture asks additional funds to prevent the spread of such destroyers as the corn borer, etc. it meets with rebuff.
 Perhaps the control of the corn borec, Mexican bean beetle. fruit moth. and vari- ous other unwelcome importations is ae- companied by too lavish department ex pendtures But certainly this nation needs to be protected from such insect pests as threaten the staple crops Insect pests we will always have so long as there IS vegeta- ton for them to feed upon. But that is no reason why this nation should not spend some money to prevent the spread of new ones that are perhaps brought into the coun- try from foregn lands where they are com mon. It IS enough to put up With our own brand of insect pests without adding to the varieties.
 The Mexican bean beetle has spread all over eastern United States, Dr s. A. Roh- wer, assistant chief of the Agriculture De- partment's bureau of entomology. reports. He also expects that it will have reached the topmost point of New England by this coming summer. If the department is to d- vert part of its appropriation to eradicate this new pest it must act speedily and efl- ciently. We know that governmental econ omy is absolutely necessary. But it should be in the direction where money is spent So foolshly and not where every cent spent means a dollar saved We advise members of Congress to forego some of their extrav- aganees for which Uncle Sam pays so will ingly and give the country thorough de- lousing. such as it sadly needs to-day. over run as 1t is in both the insect and human world by pests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
New Year Values

'One has strange prosperity 10 hx upon some point in time from whence better course of life may begin" wrote Boswell in the journal he kept of his tour of the Jieb- rides with Dr Johnson. One has, indeed. It IS an almost universal human propensity. It's existence gives New Years Day its special significance Thoughtful persons who wait the coming of the New Year with prayer and resolution and the gayer souls who oele- brate the passing of the old year with noise and friyolity are alike fixing upon point of time from whence they hope to begin better course of life It is deep-seated. psychological need of the human soul to finish with one set of circumstances and start afresh at least once a year. Even if the new start is not really on different path from the old proceeding along it may be made happier or surer by the fresh attitude toward 1t.
 Every day, of course, begins new year. Every experience may mark point at which a different course of life may begin. Yet the spiritual and emotional values of the calendar New Years Day are greatest of all, when hope is born anew and opportunity may knock. once more, and when we con- centrate for day on wishing ourselves and everyone else Happy New Year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
Let The New Man Deal The Cards

We think it is wise procedure to permit President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt exercise the same prerogative as was granted President Hoover last summer, namely. that of recognizing government bureaus. One that Mir Hoover proposed carly this month was simply because we believed that the new president might have little different idea of what he wanted done at Washington and 1t would certainly not be fair to be- queath a Hoover heritage to him. That some simplifcation of overlapping and du- plicating federal bureaus. also overmanned and overpaid, is necessary cant be queS- tioned.
 The plan now is to allow Roosevelt 10 wipe out all bureaus that he feels are merely burden on the taxpayers. We know that there are many such. Many are performing duties for which they never were created. Others are doing anything except const- tute an expense account quite out of pro- portion to their importance. They are sources of patronage 10 which the democrats fall heir in March. But they are also pit falls into which democrats can stumble as
 
 Roosevelt will do thorough job when he takes the oath of office. He needs to close his eyes and ears to all party reproaehes and slosh the well-soaped brush over every thing in sight.
 As to the president stealing some of Con- gress' power let our representatives and sen ators cease their worrying. He won't do that. for there isn't any man. capable of being elected president. who could do that to-day. Congress is composed of too many legislators feathering their own nests to see its source of provender cast to the four winds Any blanket power that is con ferred on Presdent-elect Roosevelt will be no greater than that given to the present in- eumbent. However. in the latter's case, tt did him no good. All his suggestions will go for naught, unless his successor picks up few of them and incorporates them into bis bill of divorcement. Economy being the watchword, Mir Roosevelt should be lavis,1 in his use of the axe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31

msnl win coopeple so fas ss il can without actually spending any money. lhep dossn't seem to be any objection to removal Of the old fEisale from the mud flats near Charleston. S. C.. haFbor. But 1t is be- lieved that it may require as mueh as S300.000 to recondition the vessel so that it can be brought to the Connecticut river under it's own sails. This will have to be raised voluntarily. with Connecticut supply ing most of it. We suggest a drive for school children's pennies. Start it right away in every school in the state. Don't wait for too many plans or the idea to re- store the historic flagship will be lost as it was several years ago when enthusiasm flared and then died.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31

If present plans are carried out Savin Rock will in few years blossom forth witt, one of the most attractive seaside parks in the state. It won't be an amusement park. such as has existed in the West Haven re- sort for so many years. That is gone for ever since the gambling law is once more effective. But the Savin Rock Park Commission is even now pushing forward it's plans to construct beautifully developed park along natural and not artificial lines. The place is ideal for just some such de- velopment Let's hope it will be carried out with the necessary display of enthp- Siasm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31

Local currency is all the rage from the middewest out to the Pacific coast. More and more communities are falling back on this method of solving perplexing financial difficulties. Tenino. Washington. started it last February by issuing wooden money, Tenino deals in plywood used for making light weight crates. etc. It turned to this substance for money naturally. The action was necessary when the towns only bank closed. Trade is going on merrily with the wooden money as medium of exchange. Incidentally plenty of it found its way out side in exchange for real money. Haywarden Iowa, has issued stamp money. such as Professor Irving Fisher of Yale has suggested from time to time Milwaukee Wisconsin. and Evanston, Illinois. have also adopted this form of currency. It is necessary to affix uncancelled stamps to the bill every time it passes hands. After fifty such transactions it is converted into legal tender being then actually worth that much. There are dozen variations of this scheme not to mention others. One example is to place 34 three-cent stamps on the paper bills. the extra two cents paying tbe cost of printing, etc. Human ingenuity will put this de- pression on it's back yet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
So They Say

To deal with unemployment, we should keep children in school un- til they are IS, and keep the aged off the labor market by providing for them through insurance. Miss Frances Perkins, New York Industrial Commissioner.
 Women of high intellectual types who are capable of rearing fine children are the very ones who are giving the birth control theory the deepest thought.
 -Dr Charles r. Emerson, Indiana university college of medicine. Theirs (the British) is an at titudc of silence--almost quiet scorn. But they make allowances. They look upon the American peo- pie as undeveloped, not quite grown up yet, you know.
 -The Very Rev Charles w. Cor don, British author, commenting on United States war debt stand.
 
 Natures only mistake in making milk is that she left out alcohol. Rep William I. Sirovich (Dem, N. Y.,) practicing physician.
 By birth and ancestry I am an American: by choice and belief am a Christian: but by the years of my life, by sympathy and feel ing, am Chinese.
 Pearl Buck. authoress.
 A
 Disastrous competition should be relegated to the past just eg we hope violent war and use Of force has bene relegated to the past. Jacob Aronson, general counsel New York Central Railroad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
Buying American

About this buy American business which seems to be spreading over the eoun- try - Kant, the wise German philosopher, said that the test of any sort of conduct IS how it would work if applied universally. Let's try that rule. The British people. with a balance of trade running seriously against them, start movement to buy British" always preferring British-made goods to foreign goods. France. Italy. Canada and other countries begin to follow their example. Naturally we take it up in the United States. So far the practice IS sporadic and voluntary, but it may soon be made test of patriotism. We may even have law about it.
 The movement sweeps around the world. Even China is buying Chinese, Tibet is buy Tibetan and the Fiji Islands are buying FlJ Anybody of any nation or race anywhere who buys anything not made in his own country is unpatriotic. As the mutually exclusive feeling rises. he becomes traitor. It is no longer allowable even to buy for eign goods which cannot possibly be pro- duced at home. We must find substitutes or go without.
 Here, then. is whole world of 100 per cent patriots Only. England does not call anyone patriot except the English hundred percenter France acknowledges no patriots except the French. We see no patriotism except at home We are merely defending ourselves economically against hostile na- tions who want to take our jobs even our bread. So are all the other nationalities
 So international trade vanlshes All the freight ships lie rusting at their docks. he messenger ships, too, because none ot us aay longer will even buy foreign travel There are no moro exports anywhere. We arc ready to shoot Canadian or Mexican who tries to sell basket of eggs across our tordcr So every country fills up with it's cwn products. Some nations choke to death CT them. All suffer. Likeness increases. Depression is further depressed With the means of wealth, we grow poor.
 Is this an unfair picture? Think 1t over. But we can't do anything alone. Of eourse not. In a free -for-all fight. every fellow has to protect himself. But how about truce to such crazy fighting! How about substituting little economic cooper ation and tolerance for all-round destruetlonf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
NEA Seryice Writer

IN N1tA OGTNlCC vtEhkGE
 Washington.-Little gems from the House beer fight which ought be preserved:
 Tarver, Georgia: To-day mill lions upon millions of American citizens who are as much entitled to live in comfort as you or I come to the Congress with the cry that they are hungry, that they are naked, and this merciful Ways and Means committee of the House of Representatives replies: What You have neither food nor clothes? Buy beer. Buy your- selves billion dollars worth of beer!"
 Garfield, Indiana: Bishop Can non stated, T have heard within the last two weeks two individu- als say that they became intoxi- cated on one-half of one per cent when they took 1t on an empty stomach. Just that much alcohol made them unsteady and uncer- tain.'"
 Dyer, Missouri: Even MT Vol stead himself admitted that three per cent beer is not intoxicating. The new prohibition admin istrator Gin Minnesota) was intro duced to MT Volstead. He said to him, I am happy to meet you, MT Volstead, but would not have had any trouble recognizing you from your picture. Just last week in Baltimore, on Linden avenue, I raided a speakeasy, and there was a picture of you hanging over the bar
 Lankford, Virginia: "Can we not settle the very difficult question of whether this beer is intoxicating by having pr Calver, or somebody. to fix up a concoction of four per cent alcoholic content and let us test 1t for ourselves? Some say 1t is and some say it is not. Let us find out"
 Canfleld, Indiana: cone profess sor told us that anyone would be- come more intoxicated by smoking a good cigar than they would by drinking glass of 3.2 beer. while another professor said that through personal experiments or tests he had made that 3.2 beer was intoxicating. When he was asked about comparing 1t with a cigar he said he had made no tests with cigars. For your information, however. will say that I found out that the professor who said It was not intoxicating liked good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
A Book a Day
It's A Long, Hard Climb
by BRUCE CATION

There is no quick and easy way by which society can get out or the painful Jam in which it now finds itself, says Reinhold Niebuhr in. Moral Man and Immoral So- ciety." There Is no panecea,, no cure-all; yet what is needed most, strangely enough. is precisefy the illusion that some such panacea can be found--for it is only such an illusion that gives men strength to tackle problems which other wise look too formidable for hu- man. strength.
 The trouble, says Professor Me buhr, Is that men in the mass never are as moral as they are indiyid- ually. Modern society needs coer- cion to make it cohere; coercion inevitably breeds injustice, and in- Justice can only be overthrown by; more coercion-which sets the cir- cle revolving anew.
 What then, is the way out? Not the way of the intellectuals, who say that we need to make the so- cial sciences advance in the way the physical sciences have ad-s vanced. Not until the millennium canes can we reply on intelligence and education to make society per- feet. Nor does religion hold out any more hope; men who are individ- |,ually unselfish and humane must, in the mass, follow selfish and anti- social courses.
 Revolution? Professor Niebuhr secs no chance for it to succeed for generations to come; and if 1t should succeed he doubts that 1t would usher in the perfect state. And peaceful evolution of so-
 ciety toward socialism seems to him even less possible of attain ment.
 The way upward. in short, is long and gradual, he says, and we must be led by men who can be lieve in illusions. N
 Moral Man and Immoral So- ciety," published by Scribners. costs $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
IT WAS EVER THUS

Snow, then slush, fall of rain, The old grass showing through, Weather sure is changeable, No doubt you know 1t too.
 o-O-O Professor Felix Frankfurter may become attorney general in the Roosevelt cabinet. Hot dog!
 o-O--o A diplomat is merely some- body you think Is smarter than yourself.
 o--O--o A lot of men think themselves clever when they are merely suf- fcring from conceit.
 o-O-o
 With beer coming back we'll see the police patrol on the streets more frequently than heretofore.
 o-O--o The broader the shoulders. sometimes the heavier the load.
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 Who can remember when business was rushing along at such a rapid pace that office clerks often worked few nouEc Ul U ouHuay eo SatSh up?
 o-O-O Dreams are merely mental opiates. Still a lot of us wouldn't mind becoming drug addicts to en- joy them.
 o--O-O
 The chap who adopts a middle course generally combs his hair in the same way. % o--O--o People, get to the top by keep ing their head up when they hap- pen to be on the bottom.
 O-O-o This concludes our series of broadcasts for the week. They came to you over DBD and were broadcast by the Waterbury Even ing Democrat, pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are sign- ing off at this time, to be back on the air again Monday evening at the usual hour. o--O-o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
Courage Needed

Bridgeport is face to face today with such a crisis as the city may never experience again in this lifetime. Our wish IS that the Park City weathers its financial storm successfully. We should express the same win to any other Connecticut city or town similarly afflicted. We should desire the same expression of good will for ourselves were we in the same position. In such time as this courage IS apt to falter and panic replace wisdom. We don't look for any such display of emotion in Bridgeport Business must go on the same as usual
 Doubtless there are other communities in this state which are unable to meet cur rent expenses from current income The latter has dwindled to the point where t can no longer be estimated In this emer- geney it behooves every one of us to aid our cities as best we can. We should not make the demands upon them that we have of late years. There are many items of expense that could easily be omitted from budgets if there was whole-hearted cooperation upon the part of every taxpayer. Unfortunately each succeeding year seems to place additional burdens upon the city. Our government becomes more complex in- stead of simpler.
 It wouldn't hurt us a bit to retrogress instead of progress today. We've evidently progressed too rapidly of recent years. The At-down now is SO sudden that we aren't Aeeiimated. The sooner we arc the better off each and every community will be. Taxes today. large or small. are burden.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
To the Editor Waterbury Democrat;

Waterbury Democrat;
 Dear Sir:--
 Here are few items of interest to congress and the senate. Take away all disability allowances from those not 100 per cent disabled Pay the bonus at It's present value to those that have no income. Make the foreign countries pay all debts when due. Give us good beer and wine not slops. Beer ai>l wine will provide work and help every body directly.
 Investigate all national homes and hospitals and do away with all those paid jobs wherein the paid employees are already drawing com pensation or D. A. Knock the grating and greasihg of officials hands out of such places.
 Prohibition is complete fall ure. Billions of dollars annually spent and no complete success. :. There never will be. l also do not believe In any widows pension un- til they reach the age of 65 or are totally disabled. unable to work or without income. The cases shouiq be thoroughly investigated by com- petent men and not women. NO partiality shown anywhere. The children should be taken care of by all means. The real decent per- sonality of the opposite sex has fal- len off 65 per cent in the past ten years. Divorces, forced marriages, young girls too young to be mar ried forced into 1t by circum- stances they could have avoided. l. I blame four things for such cases: no training while Q child and poor bringing up: automobiles are too easy to possess; prohibi- tion--allowing the young to sneak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31

term. That should please the hard- pressed taxpayers almost as much as 1t does the politicians for the reason that the mayor will return to the city all his salary of $7,600 a year. save the sum of one dollar. He will be a "dollar-a-year" man and if ever city needed payiess executive, Bridgeport does at this time. For preceding the mayors 'ssacrifice," this announcement had gone forth to all public workers:
 sEverybody, from the mayor down. has this aiternative--accept thr4e weeks pay for four weeks service or get no pay at all from January 1 till April 1. There isn't any money and we can borrow none on any other conditionst"
 Tho interest 10 Meriden lies in | the fact that next March Mayor Maloney takes office as cOngEess- man from this third district. Thus |the possibility looms of saving in mayoral salary to Meriden, Whicl, is pleasant tc contemplate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-31
Our Daily Washington Letter
Echoes of the Beer Battle
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

, glass of beer but did not smoke cigars while the one who said 1t was intoxicating did not like beer
 but did like a good cigar" Vinson, Kentucky: With the present beverage containing four
 per cent by volume of alcohol, we
 find that the alcohol Is in ratio of
 one to twenty-four with the re-
 maining fluid and solids in the beer. To-day I took an average
 size tumbler, such as hold in my
 hand. It holds about fifty tea spoonfuls. Now. pour the water
 out. Put two teaspoonfuls of water
 back in the glass. It can hardly be
 seen in the glass"
 Stalker, New York: We are
 bound by our oaths to defend this immortal document. Lawlessness
 Is rampant throughout the land
 Let us not practice 1t In the halls of Congress. Let Us not bootleg the Constitution"
 Finley, Kentucky: Such reven- | ue would be the price of blood Neither the traitor Judas nor the
 murderous chief priests would per-
 init such revenue to enter their treasury. Is this Congress as self
 respecting as Judas and the chief priests ?"
 Maas, Minnesota: T never had a glass of beer in my life" Sirovich, New York: Milk for
 infants, children and invalids, and
 beer for adults"
 Guyer, Kansas: "Did anyone come before the committee and
 ask them to relieve their thirsts No. It was the brewers. :" Tarver, Georgia: About the wit ness who, questioned as to wheth-
 CT the defendant was drunk when he was lying helplessly in tho
 ditch, replied. I don't think So. judge. While he was lying there l saw him wiggle his little finger"