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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
John Hanson Life of Our First President Draws Attention to This Little Known Citizen
NEW YORK TIMES

they claimed outside of their bor- ders, holding that they should be the common property of the United States ito be parceled out by con- "gress into free, convenient ana "Independent governments" Mary land refused to agree to the articles of confederation till that assurance was given. To have had a major part in this accomplishment is Han sons chief title to remembrance. His election as president was the immediate recognition of that sre- vice to the union.
 As "president" he had no such powers and duties as are now de- volved upon the president of the United States. He was merely the presiding and executive officer or congress but took precedence of "all and every person in the United "States," When he was prevented by sickness or otherwise from at tending the house a temporary chairman was chosen flor the pur- pose of keeping order only" The president had still to sign ana authenticate papers. But undount- edly he had also much to do with Legislation during his brief team especially the creation Of several executive departments.
 Little is known about his person. ality and habits. But there must have been something Of romance m the life of one who was descenaso from Roger de Rastnick of the ancient parish of Halifax, on the one side. and from Gustavus Adol- phus. king of Sweden. on the other; who had as first lady of the land Jane Contee, almost beautiful and quite fascinating" mad who brought into the pages of Americas biigfa- phy memories not only of his own fife but also of . son and grand aOn
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When dairy companies down in south Texas redueed the wholesale price of milk farmers poured 1.500 gallons into the sew- CTS of Houston in protest. While there un- doubtedly was some justification for this action, how foolish it was. How much more good this milk could have done if it had been immediately turned over to some charity organization for distribution among the poor and sick. There are many organ izations doing just such work all over the nation and gift of l.500 gallons would be as welcome as June sun in the midst of February blizzard. The action came when the dairies dropped their price from 20 to l66 per gallon. Incidentally the producers association is going to distribute milk at cents quart as long as it lasts. Dairy companies had been retailing milk at l 1 cents. h
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THE LAST HEATH HEN (Hartford COurt)

We have heard of 1t for decade in various articles from the vicin- ity of Martha's Vineyard and now word comes from West Tisbury that 1t has been sighted again. Strictly speaking it is gentleman
 then" and 50, naturalists fear, the last of it's race. Disease, a restrict ed environment and the desire on the part of humans to go out ana kill something have done for the heath hen. It is, likely, of q ref1ec- tive frame of mind and cherishes memory of the days when 1t had many companions. Personally IL strikes us that 1t was an error on the part of nature to supply Mar tha's Vineyard with fowls of any sort save those having web feet:
 Man brings about this extermin- ation now and again, and, when he sees his error and strives 70 rectify 1t, he finds the task attend- ed by difficulties. He brings game birds into the state in the hope that they will increase to the point where he may kill them for what he terms sport, but If they increase they do so slowly, whereupon he Ieyies a tax in order to secure more funds. A closed season for a decade might results in an increase but we note that action of that sort IS not discussed. .,- However. he may think for his comfort that the decrease started long ago. The early files of The Courant tell readers that a bear was seen on Main street going south and that it reached the South Meadows where 1t was shot. It may be . little more than a hundred years ago that the files noted the
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Attention is called by publication today of a life of John Hanson to one whom Washington himself con-
 graduated on his appointment to "fill the most important seat in the
 United States" The time was No- vember, 17s1, the office referred to was that of "pdesident of the Unl- ter States in congress assembled" and it's first incumbent. elected
 unanimously on the first day of the session, was John Hanson of Mary land. Washington's letter was written two days after his reception by Hanson in the presence of con gress, sitting in Independence hall,
 upon his triumphant return from Yorktown. It thanks Your Excel lency" with "great sincerity" for
 the livery polite manner" in which
 "you had rendered me the advan- tages of your correspondence." Whether the two met again Is not
 stated. Washington's diaries for the three years following Hanson's
 election were lost, and Hanson. who
 served but one year, died after
 long illness in 1783. But their fig ures in bronze confront each other in statuary hall, Hanson, repre-
 senting Maryland, with Charles
 Carroll at his side. while Wash ington and Robert E. Lee reprsent | Virginia. Senotor Deliver of Iowa said at the ceremonies of unveiling that tardy justice had been done
 even by Maryland to a man whose
 "eminence in public service had
 "been almost lost in the waste of
 'time."
 The Dictionary of American Biog-
 raphy, in it's recent eighth volume,
 gives ample recognition to Han
 sons outstanding activity and
 achievements. He led the fight for
 the seccion to the United States by
 the several sates of lands which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16

formation that might permit them to launch Mr Baker as full-flsdged candidate. Perhaps Mir Baker realizes that the race isn't necessarily to the swiftest in this instance. He may have decided upon caution seeing as how Governor Rooevelts early campaign has probably been more injurious than good. And then again there is just pos- sibility that Mir Baker is actually serious in his endeavor to avoid the nomination. If called he would respond. as would also MT Smith. but they prefer to look on for the present.
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CONN FARMER NOT
 (Merideu Iournal)


 Tax relief for the farmer in Connecticut. as proposed by the State Grange, which is under the leadership of First selectman Louis ToIles, of Southington, did not seem to meet with sympa- thetic expressions around the
 "Whatever may be the trouble of agriculture ' in other states about taxation" commented the Middletown Press, which has n large farming clientele, 'it is cer- tain that the farmer in Connecti- cut is anything but over.taxed. In thirty towns in the stare, where farming Is practically the only industry, the percaptta list. ing of property Is around Sl,0o0 or less, going as low as $336 In Preston. In Haddam, to give a specific example. where homes are substantial and ofter beautiful, the average value for taxable purposes Is only about $1.500. In cities like Meriden and Middletown people move to the outskirts to escape high taxes ana benefit by the farmers rate. AZ for the farming towns It should be remembered that each receives from the state $17.500 year for rural roads and contributions for schools, for state aid roads and | for the trunk line highways that pass through them. And, except | for motor vehicle payments, the ' farms of Connecticut escape with very low demands for either stats or county taxes.
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QUOTATIONS

What Japan Is really seeking at Shanghai and in China is peace. --Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese
 minister at Shanghai.
 It would be foolish for me to talk about any problem until see whatt he problem actually Is. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, new
 governor of the Philippines.
 I always like stiff, high collars. and I think I'll wear them until the depression is over.
 John N. Garner of Texas, speak
 CT of the House.
 All mankind is looking to this disarmament conference. If we succeed, we shall have made a de- cisive contribution to the bulwark against war; if we fail. no one can foretell the evil consequences. Arthur Henderson, chairman Of Geneva Disarmament conference. . have never seen anything since 1918 that was worth the sacrifice of the war dead.
 -. B. Prie.tly; British writer' No game man ever hears the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
NEA Service Writer

Washington It is an extraor-
 dinary thing in politics when a southern democrat becomes recog-
 nized as a presidential possibility. Speaker John N. Garner of
 Texas is now commonly classed
 with Newton D. Baker of Ohio and Governor Albert c. Ritchie of
 Maryland as man who will have
 an actual chance for his party's
 nomination if and when Governor
 Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
 York is blocked at the convention.
 Many of the experts insist that
 Garner may be as strong a candi- date for the honor as either Baker or Ritchie.
 This writer still believes that the ability of the anti-Roosevelt
 politicians to stop the New York governor, even with such aid as they get from Al Smith, is prob lematical. But it is distinct possibility.
 And when you start looking
 past Roosevelt you observe that whereas Baker and Ritchie have acquired no perceptible new strength in the last month or so. Garner has jumped into the pie ture-for the first time--in an al- most phenomenal fashion. There's no space to analyze the
 Garner boom. its possibilities and its handicaps, here, but the main reasons why a southerner is at last actually given a look-in- at the nomination may be outlined as fol- lows:
 First, Garner is the symbol of recent Democratic victory and of mounting democratic hope. Every democratic eye has been upon him since congress met in December. He Is the democrat who holds the second most powerful political office in the nation. He Is the real
 leader of his party in its attempt to convince the country, by word and deed, of its superior fitness to rule.
 That is important. It would be considerably more important, of course. if he were from a large | northern state.
 The really solid thing behind the Garner boom, is to be found in the record.
 The rough, honest, straight-shoot- ing MT Garner of the Texas plains has given what can only be de- ! scribed as 6 remarkably fine per- | formancee in his twin function as | speaker of the House and party leader. He has served his party with the wisest possible brand of l politics while serving his country | in a time of strain. You hear hard | ly a whisper of criticism about the
 way he has done either job.
 Gamers leadership Che Is ab- solute boss in the house) and his qualifications for leadership are
 not being questioned any more.
 Even the democrats in the senate
 have had to fall in line behind him. The astonishing thing is that Garner has taken the reins with a
 mere party majority of five-a ma jority so small that nearly every one had confidently anticipated a chaotic congress and 0 great pro-
 longed brawl with the administra-
 tion in which politics would be the
 constant keynote.
 He began by organizing the house and distributing committed
 assignments without friction among mocrats--surmount @ hurdle
 which had seemed almost impossi-
 ble.
 He soon had even the Tammany delegation eating from his hand and attending sessions regularly for the first time in years. To-day
 despite that tiny majority. he heads
 a party organization as solid as any ever seen in congress.
 To achieve 1t, he had to demon
 strate superior combination o1
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the knowledge that Mir Cumming political experience and shrewdnem will be available to Roosevelt that is causing unessinsss among some democrats" Hartford Times. And then again there is no reason to create break in local democratic ranks if Mir Smith is not presidential eandi- date, as we believe. but is waiting the right opportunity to declare himself in favor of some other men. perhaps Governor Roose- welt himself
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
THE PROTEAN PROTEIN FACTOR
 OE ASTHMA

Couple on tour stopped at inn for lunch and had dog along. Dog lay out of sight under at a table nearby. In a few moments lady in the second party began to show great distress of breathing "Oh, dear. there must be dog here," she gasped her attack of asthma overwhelmed her. That sort of thing might seem mysterious even incredible, but it is happening every day, only in most cases of asthma the casual observer doesn't see the plot and in many cases the victim of the asthma is equally unaware.
 The person who suddenly develops great distress in breathing if Q cat enters a room is not always elderly neurotic spinster. The infant who suffers an alarming digestive up- heavel, an outbreak of hives or an attack of asthma soon after the first efeding of white of egg is not hysterical. We do not under stand yet why certain individuals are af- fcted with this peculiar sensitivity to the in- troduction of foreign protein substances, but we know this is the cause of true asma.
 Any animal vegetable substance of an albuminous character (nitrogen compound) is a protein, and some proteins are not ordinarily regarded as albuminous such as hair, feathers dusts and textiles.
 The modern diagnosis of asthma is a much painstaking task than mere physical examination. The routine physical examina- ton is only the beginning, the foundation. By such examination the doctor determines, by not from uremia not from Incompetent heart muscle and not from emphysema (dilation or over- -distension of air-cells in the lungs) or from bronchectass tsacculation or cavity formation in bronchial tubes).
 The next stop is to discover if possible the specific cause of the seizure attacks the patient complains ot.
 Sometimes the doctor may get a good clue from the history. For instance. the case of the little boy whose attacks occurred only when he visited grandma's place in the coun- try. Pollen? Horse dander? Goose or duck feathers? No, no, the child was not sensitive to any of these. but he reacted positively to the skin scratch test with cat hair But Grandma never permitted one on the place nevertheless little Robert chased old cat out of the barn every time he visited Grandmas, and inhaled emanations or wee particles of cat hair which brought on his at- tacks.
 Whatever the protein may be- it must enter the body through some other route than nor mal digestion. Perhaps through an ulcer or other lesion of stomach or intestine. Perhaps through a skin wound or sting or puncture or hypodermic inection or burn. Perhaps through 6 focus of infection in nasal sinus tonsil.
 Horse, dog, cat, parrot canary, mouse. rab- bit, pigeon, chicken. goose, duck bedbug. in. testinal parasite, silk mohair, house dust. glue, scores and scores of food proteins animal serums pollens, plant extracts, have all been found responsible for this peculiar malady. Homeopathic quantities of these substances are applied to minute scratches on the skn and if the patient is sensitive to any one a characteristic hve-like reaction appears with in an hour or two.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
At The National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
tact, firmness and intelligence. He

tact, firmness and intelligence. He had to convince virtually every democrat that he was being hon. est, wise and fair. Similar qualities were demanded as he was forced to devise a democratic tariff program which would back up the national democratic arrangements constant fire on the Hawley-Smoot act and yet command the general support of democratic congressman.
 He impressed everyone by the firmness and success of his effort to line up his forces behind the re- construction finance measure, the moratorium and other items of the Hoover economic program. He soon had people calling him a statesman.
 They may also soon recall that he used to be known as Fighting Jack"
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@ TODAY @
 /WQRlDWAR\ / ANNIVERSARY &xR oX2E
Dover Bombardeti

UOVcf 0OmU8IOcu t!
 On February 16, 1913, Presi- dent Wilson issued proclamation requiring licenses for all exports aind imports from and to the United States. l..
 In Q report to the House on that date, Congressman w. s. Oliver of Alabama reported that 424 war vessels were under con struction or contract by the U. s. Navy in addition to submarine chasers.
 Dover, England, was bombarded by a German submarine. One child was killed. .,a
 British shipping lost durin gthe previous week amounted to 12 ships of more than l,6O0 tons each.
 General Sir Henry Wilson was appointed chief of the British imperial stan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
Grammar Still Useful

An odd resolution was offered in the Senate the other day by Senator Hastings of Delaware. It concerned correction of certain congressional spelling and punctuation. A misplaced comma and misspelled word had been left in bill which had been sent to the President. Trifling typographical errors may completely alter the meaning of law or legal document, or they may make it possible for some one to evade responsl- bility on technicality. President Hoover sent the bill back for correction. The Sen ate promptly approved the correcting reso- lution and, presumably. all is now we'll in regard to that particular bill.
 The incident has other implications. It may seem foolish to be so particular about every comma and letter when the sense is clear. On the other hand, why should in- accuracy be tolerated' Surely lawyer writing a brief or legislator drawing up a bill should be able to use correct English authorized spelling and intelligent punctu- ation. There has been evidence in recent years of widespread ignorance or indifference to this sort of thing. Popular authors have been guilty of bad grammar and glaring misuse of words. and no one seems to mind save few purists, It begins to look as if progressive education ought to make room on it's program for old d-fashioned drill in English grammar and spelling
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nurse Loses Athletes Foot

I suffered for a year with rngworm OS the foot, cracked, bleeding, itching causing me great discomfort. I am q registered nurse. While nursing q surgical case in hospital saw your recommendation of WhitfeId's oint. ment, the cOcOanut oil one, and had the fOrm- uIa filled at the pharmacy and used it, The cure was almost instantaneous. The trouble vanished after only three applications! (W. M. H., R. NJ Answer--Thank you. am glad 10 mail any reader who asks for it the formula for Whit fields ointment with directions for it's use. Incose a stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress
 New Twist to Old Gag My mOther-in-law Is at deaths door. Do you think if she took your iOdin ration It would pull her through? (Mrs H. R. J.)
 Answer-Too late. But if she had started on it few years ago she might have been your daughter-in-law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
IT WAS EVER THUS
Little Red Riding Hood rides

Little Red Riding Hood rides no
 more,
 (I'Il frame this in one of my
 rhymcs,) The reason is simple, poor Little Red R.,
 Had to walk back, too many
 times.
 O-O-O The best things in life are free until you ask for them. .... ..
 O-O-O If hoop skirts ever come back, women who look like barrels now. will be right in style.
 0-O-o This completes our regular Tuesday evening program. It came to you over DBD and was broad- cast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat, pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour. 2 o-O-o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16

'Mr Cummings alliance with Roosevelt means that he is no longer identified with the Connecticut Old Guard leaders who stood by him in 1924 during the MeAdoo- Smith deadlock and places him shoulder to shoulder with National Committeeman Archibald McNei and other democrats who have long been opponents of the formers colleagues and who are now behind the Roosevelt boom in this state. It is an unexpected turn of events that lines up Mir Cummings against his former friends. Thomas J. Spellaey. David E. Fitzgerald of New Haven. James J. Walsh of Meriden. Charles c. Morris of Newtown and other
 old guard veterans who have committed themselves to Smith. Mir Cummings has always been associated with this group in state and national politics and when Gov erncr Cross was hit upon in l930 as the man who might give the state it's first dem- oeratic governor since Baldwin. Mir Cum mings became keynoter at the convention which nominated the former dean of the Yale Graduate school. It is this rift that has caused surprise in this state and it is
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Good evening.
 o-O-o TO A DANCING GIRL
"A SMILES THE TH1NG.'

Good evening. TO A DANCING GIRL An. nimble feet of thine.
 With soul afire. You vault the wall of life. And climb on higher Rare music thrills your heart, Your spirits rise. And star dust marks your way. Through untold skies. Would could catch the thrill. You covet most. But ah. it passes me.
 An unseen ghost, You play a dancing part. Lifes just a whirl. So here's to you and yours. Thou dancing girl. An, nimble feet of thine.
 With soul afire, You vault the wall of life. And climb on higher. The pipes of Pan for you Enhance your whirl. You play life's brilliant part, Thou dancing girl.
 o--O---o
 I suppose in those old "bicycl built for two" days, many a ga walked home from a ride.
 o-O--o
 The G. Washington coffee certainly gets a break in this, the Washington bicentennial. O-O--o
 When the poor have headache they take aspirin. The rich talk week end cruises. o-O-o
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county. On the other hand, deer count of 10. He is up before that. ---Gene Tunney, ex-heavyweight
 boxing champion.
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Here, There And Everywhere

killing of a moose in Litchfield were absent for a long period, but now they are not rarities. Some of the old types of game have return ed, but we hardly expect the heath hen to come back again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16
Personal Health Seruice (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.
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TEE, HEB
Where are the old red mittcns,
 And now I fain would swear, Where are the old red mittens,
 That grandmaW used to wear.

O-O-O As a wife thinketh, so thinketh her hen-pecked husband.
 o-O-O
 Some people live to learn and others learn by living.
 o-O-O California had a little snow a few weeks ago and now the rest of the country is cold to California.
 O--O-o
 Western pictures are in- creasing in popularity among movie fans. The fans are sick of mushy love scenes and want some he-man stuff for a change.
 O-O--O Now they're fighting about state rights. And what's left, you'll prob ably get.
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That New York stores advertisement of a week or more ago wasn't such a bad idea. The ad proposed that since European na- tions had no money with which to pay their debts to us they should do 50 in eommodi- ties. It was proposed that France pay us in wines: Germany in beers and wines; Eng land in whiskey and gin: and Italy in ver- mouth and wines. First we'll change our prohibition laws, so the debt money can be evenly distributed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-16

They say the sucker lists have been de- Hated even more than Stock Exchange seats
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All vehicles must be lighted not latef than 5:56 o'clock tonight.
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The Japs are said to be mostly vege- tartan people. but it looks to us as if they 've been eating raw meat.