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Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-11
TICKET SALE WEDNESDAY

The ticket sale for the Halloween dance, Saturday, Oct. 29, I. o. o. F. hall, begins Wednesday at the Sew ard Drug store, Sylvia's and OSbo's. The Seward Rebekah Lodge, No. GA are in charge of the big event.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-11
PENGUIN WEST-BOUND

Enroute to the Aleutian Islands to pick up Bureau of Fisheries crews, the MS Penguin, Capt. Ely Boe, arrived in port Monday from Seattle for oil and supplies. The Penguin continued Westward at an early hour in the afternoon.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-11
A "NEW DEAL"

Now that Al Smith is going to campaign for the Democratic nom- lnee it is quite evident that there has been a new deal" between Tammany and Franklin D.
 A Republican
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-11

Mondays Interior temperatures registered from 28 to 40 above. Kal- tag came thru with the low score; Holy Cross 40 above and dear old Ruby, 30 above.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-11

Excellent assortment Of fresh candies at Sylvia's.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-10-11

Cabin for Rent-J. l.. Graef.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
Goldfish Values

The goldfish has arrived If there were
any doubt of this fact. it would be proved
by the issuance of free federal bulletin in
structing goldfish owners in the gentle art
of caring for them. Goldfish, it appears,
are almost human in their requirements.
They need clean, pleasant quarters, with
plenty of light, air and fresh water. and
balanced diet. They must have their pro
TENS and their salads just Ike the rest Of
US poor fish. Treated too carelessly or too
kindly, they grow sick and die.
Some critics are disposed to find fault
with Uncle Sam for botherng with gold
fish in a time like this. but surely such
view ignores lot of values. both piscatorlal
and human. The very fact that the public
is now SO goldfish minded as to invite
federal help in the matter reveals deep and
abiding purpose in goldfish culture. Con-
slider the goldfish He tolls not. neither
does he spin. He is beautiful in color. line
and motion. He is calm, poised, dgnlled,
elf-contained. He will not show any excite
ment unless the children insist on playing
with him. or his owner tries to scrub him,
or a turtle mistakenly placed in the tank,
bites his tail. He will live in celestial con-
tentment with little water and seaWeed,
few pebbles and an occasional helping of
ant eggs. Merely gazing at him is medicine
for men and women. sick or well, driven by
the stress of this human life.
1t is no chance that has made goldfish
bowls and household aquiriums SO popular
in period Of economic gloom. There is
l. l.,
Utilities, no cares, and whose life is pure
grace. Contemplation of such nrvana-llke
existence is good for this distracted age.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
15O-Foot Skyscrapers

London. news dispatch says, is going
in for skyscrapers. The city's new building
code allows height Of so feet. Hitherto
100 feet has been the limit, with most
buildings no more than 80 feet high. The
cross on St Pauls cathedral is 80 feet
above the street The lovely tower of the
Parliament building is only $50 feet high.
No new skyscraper will dominate those
honored structures SO long as the limit is
kept to 80 feet.
1t sounds very conservative to Americans
who take pride in office buildings which
rise as high as 1000 feet or more. he
British who long for real skyscrapers - If
there are any such should console them
selves with the thought that there can be
fewer empty suites in a building only SO
feet high than in one quarter of mile
high. Skyscrapers have their beauties and
advantages but they have their drawbacks.
too. and London is wise to approach them
slowly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
Banking Standards

The Chicago News, referring to the Ell
forts made almost everywhere in recent years
TO place the real estate business on a sound
basis, requiring licensing, experience, intelll-
gence tests. etc, wonders why the more
involved business of banking is left to the
unrestrained operation of what is called
economic law" 1T is notorious says
the News that many persons totally unfit
to assume banking functions and have charge
of other peoples money easily obtain per
mission to open what they call banks, and
what hosts of credulous men and women
mistake for well-managed banking instltu-
tons. Too many bank failures are due not
to general conditions but to ignorance, in
capacity, imprudence and, sometimes, the
dishonesty of so-ealled bankers
This is severe language, possibly called
for by conditions which are said to have
prevailed for many years in Illinois, partc-
ularIy around Chicago. In most states and
communities the comment may be less APP
plicabIe, but recent banking history certainly
suggests the advisabilty of improving bank
ing requirements throughout the country.
This would be not only for the benefit of
the public whose money is involved but
particularly for the benefit of the competent
bankers and the we'll managed banks, which
are themselves endangered by the failure OF
banks operated less experlly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1882
Protecting the Constitution

With the opportunity of voting upon
constitutional amendment near at hand once
more there is much discussion as to provl-
sions of the latest proposal, known as the
lame-duck measure. Primarily, Of course.
the amendment will eliminate the short ses-
sion of Congress which is held thirteen
months after the preceding national election.
Further than this the amendment changes
the date of congressional converting from
December to January and pushes the inau-
gural of the president and vlce-presldent also
up from March to January. Both are sensl-
BILE changes in our present archaic statutes.
However, it is proposed that the lame
duck amendment must be ratified within
seven years to make it part of the Constltu
ton. To this proposition Senator Norris
author of the lame duck amendment in ITS
original form. objects on the ground OF
unjust discrimination He complains that no
other amendment has been subjected to this
seven year provision. In this there is some
basis for protest, but after all # three
fourths of our states have not ratified this
amendment within seven years certainly we
could only conclude that there is something
basica,ly wrong with it and to the best OF
our knowledge it is worth while legisa
ton.
One provision to which we do lend
responsive ear is that which says that ratfi-
cation by a state legislature shall not be
valid unless the entire membership Of at
least one branch of that legislature shall have
been elected subsequent to the date of the
resolution S submission. The New York
Herald Tribune is quick to point out that
if this provision had been part Of the 9th
Amendment it would never have passed
However this is merely an opinion. 1t is
not definitely known fact. The chances
are that war hysteria would have swung the
] 9th Amendment through under any cir
cumstanees And it was a war measure.
wasn't it. That certainly was the basis or
the plea of the prohbitionists
We think Senator Bingham is on the right
track when he proposes that if the states
al. to vote on the lame duck amendment 1t
should be done by popular vote in all the
states of the Union and not by the legisla-
lures The senior senator from Connecticut
has bill to this effect in Congress already
seeking to amend the present reading of the
9Th Amendment SO that direct vote of the
people will decide future amendment and
not necessarily legislative action. The 9Th
Amendment now does provide for legislative
approval or constitutional conventions, three
fourths of the states being sufficient to insure
ratification. Congress is to decide which
method of ratification shall be followed,
We don't know if it ever has called for the
constitutional convention There is certainly
measure of popularity in the Bingham
amendment that meets with approval. 1t IS
quite obvious that before the Norris amend
ment is ever ratified the states as well as
Congress, will make sure there is no repetl-
ton Of the 9th Amendment hasco.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

to note that the first thing that the anti
prohibitionists voted TO do was remove
private profit from the liquor trade. OF
course. that will. or should be. the primary
move of the government Of any state. town
or nation that hopes to exercise control of
liquor manufacture and sales 1t is one of
the failngs of prohibition. However.
countries which today regulate their liquor
sales have been able to achieve higher de-
gree of efficiency in distribution and in
limiting profit Either the government is
in the business or it controls the companies
in the business. And that's what antipro-
hibitionsts ought to strive for in the
United States.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
McAdoo For Garner

With all due respect for Speaker Of the
House John n. Garner we don't believe that
support Of bis candidacy for the preslden
tial nomination on the democratic ticket by
William Gibbs McAdoo is seriously strength
ened. OF course, Mr. Garner occupies
place Of importance in democratic circles to-
day by virtue of his election to the Speaker
ship last December. He is veteran legis-
lator and undoubtedly his position at the
helm in the House Of Representatives gives
him command of the political situation
that isn't the fortune of every potential
candidate for the nomination, whether on
the democratic or republican ticket
We feel pretty sure that one reason why
Mr. McAdoo favors the Texan is the GER
tainty that Mr. Garner would be utterly OPP
posed to inclusion of a wet plank in the
democratic platform to be adopted at the
convention in June Perhaps we are wrong
ing Mr. Garner in this respect, But Of the
democratic candidates mentioned by the
press of the nation today in connection
with the democratic nomination Garner
seems to be the sole dry adhcrent, save for
Senator Robinson. who suffered omewbat
four years ago when he permitted himself
TO run with Alfred f. Smith on pretty
fairly determined wet ticket.
Mr. McAdoo, of course has been asso-
GATED with Mr. Garner The latter was in
Congress as far back as the days OF the
McAdoo secretaryshp of the treasury. 1t
is only fair TO credit to Mr. McAdoo a fair
knowledge of the principles that are Mr.
Gamers. But there seems to be more than
mere principle behind the movement to align
himself with the Speaker. Perhaps it is a
desire to circumvent Alfred E. Smith who
by this time has convinced most democrats
that he is not actively seeking the nomina-
ton but is preparing to have something to
say about the man whom his party finally
choose at Chicago. Mr. McAdoo has prob
ably never lost sight of the fact that he lost
the nomination in 1924 solely on account
of the Smith candidacy. However the
reverse was true. also
As we said above. we again repeat we
have the utmost respect for Mr. Garner. We
feel that he is entitled to as much consider
alton at the national convention as the next
man. But we are pessimistic about the chances
of Mr. Garner getting very far as the dem
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

Governor Murray Of Oklahoma has
definitely entered the race for the presidential
nomination on the democratic ticket He
declares that Il feel reasonably certain of the
election if nominated. But if not nominated.
! shall have escaped hercuean task and an
awful responsibility, and thereby won a
longer life. . E. | am not over-excted about
victory in the convention for the reason that
if the people do not shake themselves into
activity sufficiently to attend the party eau
Gus, or precinct convention. when called,
selfish politicians and flunkeys of the great
interests will control them and in turn will!
elect delegates to the county convention
and from it to the State and National
Conventions. The element that controls
the precinct caucus will control the Ma
tional Convention. | take this step only
out of consideration of profound sense of
duty to the great middle class and the little
man. for no one else seems to care to
champion their cause. We d hardly
90 so far as TO say that. There are plenty
of champions of the so-called little man in
the democratic party. For that matter, what
candidate to date mentioned for the nom-
nation isn't DESTROYS of securing the vote of
every little man" in the nation.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
1T PAYS TO BE CAREFUL
(Hartford Times)

(HarttOrQ IlmeS)
The marked changes which have
been announced for the Hartford
area in regard to public liability
and property damage automobile
insurance rates represent n further
application of the equitable prin-
ciple that careful driving shall re-
ceive a premium and the less care
full shall be penaliZed. While 1t Is
true that the personal merit rat
ing plan under which 10 per
cent discount was given to drivers
who had an accidentless record has
been abandoned that factor has
been included in the new lower
rates.
The distinction between the
careful and the careless driver has
been put on a broader basis by
making locality, type of vehicle
and the nature Of the accident the
determining factors in determining
the rate. Thus Hartford has low
err rate than Waterbury because Of
better traffic record and COM
mercial vehicle rates are sharply
increased because of their having
been involved in more serious ac-
cidents. The net result Is an in
crease in total cost of automobile
casualty insurance, but the burden
falls, broadly speaking, on those
who make higher rates necessary.
Rates move in the same curve as
payments made by the insurance
companies in terms Of losses paid
for policyholders.
No doubt many careful drivers
of cars will regret being Jumped In
such large groupings as to include
many less cautious operators and
will feel as though they had lost
an advantage which they had un-
der the previous 10 per cent dis
count system. 1t Is indicated, how
ever, that this personal distinction
may again be introduced, having
been shelved at the last moment
when objections by agents to a
demerit plan as drafted caused 1t
to be temporarily eliminated from
the new rate schedules. 1t Is to be
hoped that this feature will be
speedily restored, as it Is undoubt-
edly offers a. strong incentive for
careful driving.
The Connecticut law. permitting
an increase in automobile casualty
insurance rates as high as 80 per
cent in the case of "bad risk
operators, represents O sound prin-
ciple and car owners, except those
who have reason to fear Its ap-
pIication in their cases, would Ike
to see 1t operative. 1t Is good for
all concerned to know that in a
very practical way 1t pays to be
careful.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
THE RETORT COURTEOUS
(New Britain Herald)

Governor Cross has been heard
from concerning the action of the
common council for a special ses-
sion of the legislature. The gov
ernor's reply was tart and pointed.
It was in the line with the remarks
made in these columns yesterday.
The mayor had q good opportunity
to busy himself upon inducing the
legislature to study taxation mat
tiers last year but failed to accept
the opportunity. The governor de-
served approval at that time. but
our mayor chose to ignore him.
The governor In his reply did
equally we'll as when he replied to
our mayor on a former occasion. At
that time the mayor wanted action
taken to force banks to reduce their
interest dates. The governor asked
how that could be accomplished.
There was no answer that did not
transgress constitutional limita-
lions
Our mayor had better get even
with the governor and get himself
nominated to run for the Office on
the republican ticket. The party
simply must nominate somebody
to make the run. and II nigh tas
well be our mayor.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington - Notes from our
national capital. . Hot news;
Senator William Edgar Borah APP
| reared on the senate floor the other
day wearing a bright red necktie.
! No one remembered any other time
when he wasn't wearing his little
black or blue bow.
Borah is n good dresser, but
Mrs Borah has to see that he
| keeps pressed
| Norris of Nebraska almost in
variably wears a bow tie. He
/ hasn't yet borrowed Borah's red
four-in- hand.
Did you hear the one an Anti
Saloon League friend pulled on
| Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray in
introducing him to an audience?
alfalfa Bill is so ugly that when
he goes away on a trip his wife
| always goes with him SO she won't
| have to kiss him goodby." And
| the house passed a bill the other
doy to remove certain restrictions
on land owned by two Crow In
| dams and named Spottedhorse.
| The name of one was Benjamin
Spottedhorse and the others
name was Horse Spottedhorse.
Washington is teeming with
mean, untrue anecdotes about a
very high parsonage who lives here.
Latest: A hitch hiker was Boosting
that he had hitch linked from coast
to coast in II days. Asked how.
he said: II just wore a big sign
on my back, inscribed: IF you
''
don't give me a lift I'll vote for
Business men continue alternate
ly to berate the president and
congress and beg favors from both.
A story about Mayor Anton j. Ger
max, who will welcome both poll
teal conventions to Chicago. may
be more or less apropos of some
thing or other. Many of the city's
leading industrialists and mer-
chants gathered with him at q
very private banquet, worrying
about local affairs-Which were
plenty to worry about.
Someone made crack about
the ned of business men in politics
Cermark said: 81 know many of
you fellows voted for me as the
lesser of two evils. I know you're
men who control your corporations,
but you report to boards of direc-
tors.
"The city council, elected by
the people to take care Of them,
is my board of directors to which
budget cutting and whatnot must
be submitted. Where would a
business man get without 30 years
of political experience, forced to
get SO men from so wards to
agree? He'd try to cut the payrolls
in respective wards and wouldn't
get to first base. He would re-
quire three years to get what 1t
was all about and spend hsi last
year wondering how it all happen
ed and why everybody hated him."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

oerstie nominee. Anybody with an ear
to the ground can tell you that Hoover
Garner contest would result in complete
rout for the president. And it wouldn't
be due entirely to a preponderenee of rspub-
liean voters. but to back sliding upon the
parts of democrats who probably never
slashed their ticket before in their lives.
That's the handwriting we read on the
wall. 1t can be taken with a grain of
salt or seriously, but the opinion is given
just for what it is worth.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

Odtimers and scattering proportion of
the younger generation may be familiar with
the rollicking tune and words of ''Ta-ra-ra
Boom decay. 1t was written in 1890 by
Henry J. Savers and one Lottie Collins, an
English music ball star, brought it into
international fame. Mr. Savers died Satur
day in New York at the age of IT. Mr.
Savers got his inspiration for the song out
in St Louis where he attended a famous re-
sort of the day. 1t took the old time singers
to bring the house down with Ta-ra-ra
Boom decay" The verses were sung very
softly, but how the chorus exploded with
rush and bang and rustic of skirts and
much kicking Those were the days.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
NO HONOR FOR WASHINGTON
(New Haven Register)

(New Haven Register)
Historians of the early days pic
tured George Washington as fault
less, a paragon in all respects. La
ter historians---if we may call them
by that term have eashed In on
the interest in the bicentennial cele-
bration by smearing him with all
the political and other accusations
possible, like rats around. a gar
bage dump" in the words OF Robert
Gatke In The Farm Journal. 1t is a
pretty safe guess that the average
Americans reaction Is somewhere
between these two extremes.
BY exercising a little tolerance,
giving credit to the good as well
as to the bad, 1t seems that almost
everybody today could find some
little thing about the man that
would make him deserving of hon
or of some sort. The one who can
not strikes US as rather out OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

My own belief is that IL the cos
mic process is doomed to pass out
of existence there will be, and
probably are already, other world
orders of which we know nothing.
Dean William Inge of st Paul's
London.
Credit is the blood stream of
our economic life.
President Hoover.
All mankind is looking to this
conference.
Arthur Henderson, chairman,
Geneva conference.
We are all in the same boat.
Otto Fl. Kahn, capitalist and
philanthropist.
If Britain can only rule India by
the sword, we should come away.
George Lansbury, of the British
house of commons.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
At The National Capitol
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER
A Digest of Who's Who and What's What
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LET
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

DIR William Gerry Morgan, for
mer president of the American
Medical association, told the SEN
ate subcommittee holding hearings
on wet legislation that one evil re-
suit of prohibition was that young
woman were carrying liquor ION
the hip" Presumably because the
doctors work brings him in con
tact with so many hips, no ON
questioned the assertion.
Then there was the prize line
Of Walter S. Clifford, testifying be-
fore the LaFollette- Costigan sub
committee as head of the oHover
unemployment relief committee,
that he had estimated total unem-
ployment relief needs "for my own
interest and amusement" Hitherto
unpublished exceut in the printed
record.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
II TO-DAY Sc So
WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
&HH 9GSE
"a BRITISH SHIPS SUNK

On February 20, 1918, it was an
nounced that IS British ships OF
more than 1900 tons displacement
each had been sunk by German
submarines during the preceding
week.
A Spanish vessel, the Mar Caspio,
was torpedoed and sunk by a Ger
man submarine.
British troops in Palestine claim
ed another victory over Turkish
forces as the latter were compelled
to withdraw across the Jordan.
Germany made a new offer OF
peace to Russia. calling for com
plete rehabilitation of the Russian
army and navy. Meanwhile. Ger
man troops continued their advance
in Russia.
Turkish troops began an offensive
in the Caucasus region and occu-
pied Platana.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

Congress will consider at this session
bill to make it crime to advocate or
promote the overthrow or the destruction
of the government of the United States by
force or violence, and for other purposes
OF course the intent is to war
against communstic organizations and the
like whose general purpose is the ruination
of government as we know it and the sub
sttution Of the principle that the state is
mightier than the individual.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23

step with the times, all times as
well as the present.
So we look with feeling OF pity
on the Millburn, N. j. preacher
who has Just announced that. there
will be no service In his church
honoring Washington. His action
pigeonholes him either among
those whose breadth of vision Is
conspicuous by it's narrowness. or
among that class of individuals
mentioned above who seek to smear
their way to distinction.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-23
Here, There And Everywhere

come to an end Finland's "experi-
learned for it's sorry experience
that an experiment to be success
full must depend on something more
than a good intention.