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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-07

ure before changing the Constitu-
 ton and the certainty that the
 Anti-Saloon league and other dry organizations will work to prevent
 a change of any kind.
 Whats Intoxicating? None of the vets or near-wets are suggesting anything less than beer of 2.75 per cent by volume, but many of the vets are demand ing 4 per cent beer with the as- sertion that 2.75 per cent beer would not attract many customers revenue.
 and hence would not raise great Then arises the question of what type of beer Is non-intoxi- eating, the question of how con- gress can decide that point and how the supreme court could de- eide if Q test case were brought. There are various points of view. beginning with that of the Anti Saloon league, which put the present limit of 1-2 of 1 per cent in the Volstead act.
 Senator David I. Walsh of Mas lsachusetts has decided that the limit is 3.75 per cent by volume. He has a bill providing such lim- 1t, which will be separate, from whatever measure is worked out by the house committees.
 Beer and Repeal
 Senator Glass resolution for re- submission more like the re- publican no-saloon, state protec- tion platform plank than the democratic naked repeal" plank lis on the senate calendar and will be offered by the drys and the near-drys. 0 The immediate fate of beer and repeal are closely, perhaps inex- tricably, linked with the prospect for a special session next spring l of the newly-elected, overwhelm- ingly wet. overwhelmingly demo- cratic congress.
 President -elect Roosevelt and democratic leaders, are said to be anxious to avoid calling a special session, but are afraid they can't unless the country gets beer, re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-07

peal and farm relief in the mean- time. Hence, the efforts of Speak, CT Garner and other democratic leaders to belabor the brethren into solidarity behind the party platform promise during the pres ent short session.
 And not the least of the consid- erations involved is the prospect for the estimated S300.00O,OO0 beer tax to be levied in time to help out with the budget for the coming fiscal year.
 TOMORROW: Relief = Unem- ployment and Farm.
 The stem of a giant bamboo tree may grow more than Q foot Q day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-07
''7he Lame Duck s Last Quack "--- CONGRESS BEER RACE IS
 ON FOR $500, 100000 TAX
Senate May Buck
 At Houses Speed
 On Repeal Moves

This is the third of five stories on the important problems fac- ing the last Lame Duck session of congress that opened Dec ?.
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fled. And that's what they call ere
signing"
4 X X
Alaskan sealskins are selling Tor
the lowest price in the history OF
u. s. government auctions. That's
an excellent argument for friend wife
this winter.
y 4
Notables and grandees of Madrid
are putting their palaces up for sale.
Wanta buy one?
X Y Y
The League of Nations is working
on a plan which will satisfy the de-
mands of Germany for arms equality
and France for security. 1t should
be finished in time for the next war.
Y Y X
A camping expert advises that,
when cattle are around, 1t is we'll to
keep on the right side of the law
and not disturb them. A bull holds
no respect for law!
Copyright, 1882, NEA Service, 1nco
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cure. Then began sopping my face
after thorough soap and water wash
ing each night. with glycerin and
busting on as much powdered boric
acid as would stick, leaving it on all
night. In short time my face was
clear and it has stayed clear. I have
told several friends of this and they
have tried it with the same result.
(MrS. G. H. A.
Answer-Thank you. Our readers
will soon tell us whether it is eff
fective.
Alcoholic Parentage
Can you send me a pamphlet on
the effects of booze Or alcohol on
people that are bringing children into
the world? (F. r. j.
Answer have no such pamphlet.
Alcoholism in either parent is likely
to cause epilepsy, feeble -mindedness,
neuroticism or insanity in offspring.
A number of cases are on record where
children conceived while parents were
intoxicated are epileptic.
Copyright, John F. Ollie Co..
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Straw Vote Ratios
(The Baltimore Sum

The Literary Digest makes light of
Prof. Claude E. Robinsons conclusion
mat the important thing about
straw vote is the light it throws on
the probable percentages Of the popu-
lar vote candidates are likely to re-
celve IN an approaching general cleo
ton. 1t must be admitted that Prof.
Robinson goes to an extreme when
he declares in his recently published
DOCK on straw votes that percentages
are more important than the standing
OF candidates. Just how the stand
ing OF candidates could be fixed with
out consideration of percentages it
Is difficult to perceive. and vice versa.
Nevertheless, the question of per-
centages is the thing that merits the
most careful consideration in connec-
ton with straw ballots, and study
OF percentages in the presidential
straw vote the Literary Digest is now
taking is absolutely essential to any
understanding Of that votes signifi-
canoe. The Digest has now published
the returns from 789O89 ballots in
twenty states. OF this number, 4O4,-
1872, or 5O7 per cent, were cast for
Gov. Roosevelt; 325,845, or 4O.8 per
cent, were cast for President Hoover,
and the remainder for the Socialist
candidate and the minor parties.
The figures are instructive. They
show that Gov. Roosevelt not only has
a lead over President Hoover but an
actual majority over all candidates
combined. A candidate who occupies
such a position in a poll of nearly
100000 voters in twenty states one
month before the election is clearly
IN position just as advantageous as
the Maine returns showed Gov. Roose-
welt to be. The advantage of the
Democratic candidate appears the
most impressive when the percentage
OF variation between the Digest poll
and the final electoral count in 1923
is considered. In that year, at this
stage OF the count, the Literary Di.
gest poll overestimated the Republic
can strength in the twenty states
under consideration by 9 per cent,
and underestimate the Democratic
strength by the same margin. The
error would seem to be accounted for
by the fact that the Literary Digest
list Of names Is compiled from tele-
phone directories, automobile regis
trations and other data covering prin-
cipally the more well to do families
In the various localities.
Allowing for similar margin of
error In the returns now currently
available, Gov. Roosevelt would be
destined to receive nearly 60 per cent
Of the total vote In the twenty states
covered, while President Hoover's per-
centase would be something like 81.
These figures are probably extreme
for the shift from the Republican to
the Democratic side may easily have
been greater among the families rep
resented in the Literary Digest's list
than among those not so represented
But even so, the present figures sug-
gest the probability that Gov. Roose-
welt will get considerably more than
half the popular vote in the states SO
far enumerated in the Literary Digest
poll.
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been relying upon the so-called
radicals to capture voters who for
merly were Democrats can read these
returns and weep. Will it be to them
the last straw Of an already heavy
burden? Here are results in sub
stance.
Norman Thomas, Socialist candi-
date for president, has now rolled up
more than 100000 votes in the Digest
poll. This is in excess Of 10 per cent
of Hoover's vote and practically 10
per cent of Roosevelt's vote. But
that loes not tell the entire story.
Thomas vote OF 106,352 reported
last week is composed of former Re-
publicans to the tune Of 48,945. For
mer Democrats, scenting victory with
Roosevelt, strayed from their po-
litical reservation merely TO the num-
Der of 24,354. Republican managers
who have been busy in this state to
see that Thomas, Foster and Coxey
got on the ballot may find these so
nominated reds" and "pinks' draw
ing more from former Republicans
than from former Democrats. Re-
publican strategy, Of course, is to di-
vert as much of the protest vote from
Roosevelt as possible.
One-fifth Of Thomas strength in
the Digest poll is coming from the
youth Of the land voting for the first
time. That fact may or may not be
due to the much criticized radical
tendencies of modern higher educa-
ton. Youth evidently finds in the
political intellectualism of a Thomas
much to attract. In the graduate
university of hard knocks, in which
many Of them are about to enroll,
some of their illusions and much of
their political idealism will be shat
tered.
In 1920, Eugene Debs polled nearly
{. million votes for Socialism. r. M.
La Toilette, ST., running on a So
called progressive ticket in 1924.
secured more than four million votes
With this background as a guide,
political observers believe that
Thomas will exceed Debs' 1920 vote
but hardly equal La Follette's liberal
following of 1924. Optimistic pro-
phets place Thomas vote in excess
Of 100000 due to the depression and
general spirit of protest abroad in
the land. In 1928, Thomas had only
267,420 votes out of what proved to
be a Hoover landslide.
1t is becoming more and more in
the United States a battle between
the conservative and liberal forces
with old party lines and loyalty often
Ignored. Ancient shibboleths are be-
ing ignored. Tried political bait is
coldly stunned. 1t remains to BIZ
seen whether out Of all this political
confusion there comes the birth of
two contending parties, liberals and
conservatives or whether one party
now in existence can be sufficiently
liberalized to attract progressives
formerly identified in label at least
with the Republican party.
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CHAPTER Tx

From the village dull. angry roar
rumbled. gaining in volume until it
reached the ears of the fighters.
by the Lord, Adela has done it"
Bob cried. 1.-THE townspeople are
coming. This will be black day for
Morales when his poems remember
past debts"
No time to say more. Suddenly
from the southern patio of the
hacienda burst a band of vaqueros,
fighting to reach the corrals. Saw
agely the Yaqui threw themselves on
their blood enemies, and the crack
of firearms gave place to the heavy
thud of flesh on flesh.
Close quarters now. The band of
Ell Coyote was settling old scores,
with knives and with bare hands.
Caught up in a swirl of fighting
poems, Ted was swept toward the
corral in time to see the villagers fall
upon a knot of vaqueros who had
fought their way to the gate. Tow
ering head and shoulders above them
all he moved like some angry war
god, raging through the thick of the
fighting until to the terrified va
queros the big Americana seemed at
every turn of the crowded courtyard.
Ted, too. was paying an old debt.
But always his eyes searched rest
lessly for something they could not
fnd-tle huge figure of Morales's
chief vaqucro. At length he stopped,
needless of the cries that rose about
him, and turned to the hacienda. Tito
and Morales-they must be there.
His hands frightened on the heavy
gun. and with narrowed eyes he ran
forward.
Just ahead he caught sight Of
Bob, automatics blazing in both
hands, fighting his way into the
hacienda. Death was flaming from
every window. For an instant Ted
saw the great form of Tito appear
above him and fire into the men be.
meath. But outside the shots were
less frequent. Except for the
hacienda itself. the forces Of Morales
were defeated. Leaping over pros
trate forms, pushing his way for
ward. Ted pressed on to the door.
Smoke hung low in the patio and
a deathlike silence lowered there.
The change from blazing morning
light to the haciel-da's smoke-flled
obscurity halted him. and for a mo.
m mt he closed his eyes.
Slowly the long patio took on
shadowy outline. At the farther end
the stairs revealed themselves
through the smoke-laden gloom, and
there, motionless in the half-light.
Tcd's startled eyes saw the two an.
tagonists at gaze. Halfway down
the stairs Morales had stopped. and
now looked silently down into the
upturned face of Don Bob. In the
Spaniard's hand was black auto
matte. and on his lips the same half
cruel, half-jesting smile. as for the
last time he confronted the man who
had wtested away his kingdom. Bob
made 40 move, no sound. Steadily
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mans doorstep. Rarely is the par
entage ever traced. More often than
not a note is tied to the bundle be-
seeching the rest of mankind to take
care of some unWanted infant.
Most of the foundlingS are taken
to Bellevue hospital. Now and then
trembling mother. torn with re-
morse. appears to claim her child and
beg the hospital authorities to pro-
tect her. Rarely is there an arrest
or prosecution. Nor do these waits go
unwanted for many hours. The ap-
pearance of picture in the newspa-
pers attracts a crowd of childless
married folk, all willing and eager
to adopt the nameless one.
FIELD FOR RUMORS
Now and then one hears whisper
ings concerning some individual who
has made his mark in the world and
whose parents are, seemingly, folk of
wealth and position. The whisperers
say that this was doorstep child.
just the other day, taxi driver
drove a young mountaineering
large basket-for dozen blocks. She
paid him hurriedly. Then disappear
ed around the corner. When he look
ed back into the seat a healthy baby
was wiggling there. Although he had
quite a family of his own, and times
were hard, the driver took the child
home and added it to his brood.
X * *
NEW WORKERS AT HOME AGAIN
In recent warmer weeks, Fifth
Avenues millionaire Row" presented
a more desolate spectacle than the
meanest tenement districts. From
Goth to 8Oth Street, a solid line of
boarded, dust-gathering mansions
suggested a deserted city. Blinds of
streaked and faded blue were drawn;
heavy barricades were over doorways
and windows.
This year, times being what they
are, there wasn't event the hint of
a caretaker or servant left behind. A
musty gloom enshrouded the neigh
borhood and, at nightfall, these homes
of the very rich took on a most mel
ancholy appearance. It was as though
some plague or invasion had driven
out the jewellers.
Actually they were at Newport, Sar-
atoga, Southampton and other
Swanky resorts. But now autumn has
come, the barriers are down, the cur
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N1he GAY BANDIT
" g~-*, Of the :, B 30 Cd
BY TOM GILL


his stecl-gray eyes burned back, and
the hands that grasped the auto
mates frightened. Like statues. like
shadowy portentous statues, they
stood there, while even the hushed
dawn seemed to await the destined
end.
Held by the deadly intensity of
that moment, Ted tried to cry out,
but only a hoarse whisper came.
So, for the space of heartbeat.
those two enemies looked into each
others eyes, then from their hands
blue flames leaped and the silence
of the patio was shattered with the
crash of death.
Morales's gun clattered upon the
stairs. His clutching fingers reached
to his throat. He tried to cough, but
could not. His legs doubled beneath
him. He dropped slowly. and lay
still.
At the foot of the stairs Ted raised
Fin his arms the outstretched figure
of Don Bob. The fighting, the hiss
of lead, the crack of rifles, were for.
gotten. All anger. all the wild exul-
tation of battle had died, leaving in
their place an agony of desolation
and unutterable pain.
Outside, one by one, the shots died
away. Quiet fell. The band Of FL
Coyote had conquered.
The sun rose higher over the
mesa, casting long shafts of light
through the half-drawn curtains, but
within the hacienda Ted sat on with
brooding eyes that saw nothing,
holding between his hands the calm,
untroubled face of one who had been
his friend.
A shadow fell across the doorway.
A slender form dropped to her knees
beside him and Ted's eyes looked
tor a moment into the eyes Of Ann.
Gently she raised Bob's head. press.
ing it against her breast. laying her
wet cheek against the grizzled hair.
Heartbreakinsly her soft fingers
touched his face and his closed eyes,
and tremulous lips breathed brokenly
the one word, Bob" Again and
once again that low voice called
Bob" until at last the heavy an.
guish of despair silenced all sound
and only the eyes spoke all that her
lips had found too late to say.
Moments passed over that little
tableau of desolatiop. An eternity
OF moments, then the mans lids flut-
tered feebly and for the last time the
gray eyes smiled weakly up. A new
peace touched that pale face. Once
the lips moved. as if to say some
word. but the word died back into
notliingness. and now for all time
the gray eyes closed. The long fight
was over.
Torn with a sorrow beyond the
reach of words or tears. she clasped
the body to her. while, with dry.
singing eyes. Ted gazed on the
Externally impassive face.
Slowly the great room filled with
the followers OF Ell Coyote. Som.
breros in hand. they ranged them.
selves silently about the walls. In
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For Sweet Charity's Sake

ate ,ismarck's Elks Lodge is engaged
suit very worthy endeavor to replen-
A its Golfers for the charity work
soIeit 1t lies ahead as winter approaches.
Tris great fraternal order is essen
houslly a charitable one. That end mo-
al pates its members more than other
ca bets which its teachings expound.
A., charity is not confined merely to
Der own members but reaches out to
cha,e needy of all classes, within or
strethout it's membership.
.a.pp.>The charity record of the Elks
ed fdge in Bismarck needs no repeti-
tior,n here. There are many evidences
o. all sides and the work is going on
seat aselessly without fanfare of trum-
mats or blatant ballyhoo.
cha This years drive to raise funds for
ano,arity is distinct departure from
her efforts. A great indoor circus
the World War Memorial building
the fine offering. The show is we'll
rorth while, full of clean acts to
.ra'hich anyone can go without Of
ease.
e There has been no time since the
World War when Bismarck citizens
lave found the necessity greater for
Ebstantial relief funds than now.
Ir national relief policy means a
III ompact union of all welfare bodies
IMlnd fraternal organizations so that
localities. insofar as is possible, can
hare for the needy within their own
yates. There could be no finer set-up
Than that, for charity is virtue that
.r,hould begin at home.
we Go out and, according to your
exmeans, swell the Elks charity fund
(which will have many calls upon it
slias winter approaches. Popular prices
tohave been fixed and the mite con-
petributed here, there. and everywhere,
in the aggregate will mean relief to
someone suffering and In want.
~ The Elks Lodge is always in the
to forefront of every civic drive. Here
K is an opportunity for Bismarck to
= show appreciation for past perform
" ances of this great fraternity.
u Get behind the Elks circus with q
- bang!
p IkEiey clown!"
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It Was Good Yarn
While 1t Lasted

Evansville, Ind, Oct. 19.-"Out
OF the mouths of babes" come
many strange tales, and Juvenile
Referee Adolph Stallman heard a
strange one from Richard Will
liams, alias Richard Finn, a TO-
year-old boy whom Stallman took
in and kept for two weeks after
he had been found in a railroad
station.
The boy told the official that
his stepmother had abandoned
him between st. Louis and New
Orleans, and that the latter city
was his home. But investigation
with New Orleans officials show
ed no record of the lad.
Then Stallman and the boy got
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Henry Oh. L. Mencken) has turned
into an ideal married man. All the
virtues he kept hidden for so long
have now burst into bloom like spring
flowers - Joseph Hergesheimer, nov
eliSt.
X X X
I have but one desire-to see my
country again on the road to pros
perity.-Herbert Hoover, president of
the United States.
X X x
I am serious about marriage-too
serious to indulge in it-Tallulah
Bankhead, movie actress.
X X X
The slums Of tomorrow are still be-
ing built today, because we have left
this field of low-cost housing to the
rugged individualism of the specula-
tor.-Robert D. Kohn, ex-president
American Institute of Architects.
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Roosevelt and Wall Street

Not all the demagOglc attacks are
cmanating from the Democratic hust-
ings. One that should be promptly
demolished has been too often uttered
by distinguished and scholarly Repub-
licans who know full we'll they are
INDUCING in the political sophistry for
which they are eternally berating the
Democrats.
So distinguished a patriot as Secre-
tary of State Stimson declared that
orgy of speculation which Gov. Roose-
welt has denounced took place under
his nose in Wall Street.
He did not tell his audience, visible
or invisible, that the legislature of
New York is controlled by Republi-
cans. 1t is standpat coterie of
gentlemen who take their orders
largely from Wall Street. Just what
Gov. Roosevelt could have done to
restrain trade in Wall Street, Mr..
Stimson, the great constitutional and
corporation lawyer, does not say, or
hint. He is as quiescent as the Re-
publican New York state legislature
has been where Wall Street is con-
cerned.
But Mr.. Stimson might have said
that the Federal Reserve board under
Mr.. Hoover's control through power
of appointment and direction, could
have curbed II not stopped the wild
speculation. Coolidge could have done
so but he told the public not to sell
its country short. Mr.. Hoover also
told the people this ticker prosperity
which was draining the people Of the
nation white, was permanent Repub-
lican prosperity, the outlawry Of pow
erty.
Both sides should be honest. AS
sailing Roosevelt because a Republi.
can New York legislature did moi
restrain Wall Street would be funny
if the situation were not so serious.
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# TO-DAY 81
WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY

SUB TOLL DWINDLES

On Oct. 20, 1918, the allied armies
strengthened their positions on a
broad front from the Dutch border
to the east of st. Quentin.
Spain received an official commun-
ication from Germany saying that the
admiralty had ordered submarines to
return Immediately to their bases.
Great Britain announced that the
loss of British shipping due to enemy
action and marine risk amounted to
ISL 500 gross tons in September. This
was the lowest monthly total in more
than two years.
A resolution for the complete dis
union of Hungary from Austria was
introduced by Count Karolyi.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The Whole Family

Found three reaches and haven't
slept since. Three big ones. Our
whole family enjoys better health
thanks to DR.. Brady. We take iodin,
turn somersaults, and for over year
haven't worried about constipation
everything fine, not pill in the
place. Our three boys have had
banana since they were 3 months old.
So you have the thanks of the whole
$50. family. Mrs. c. H. R)
Answer-Yeah. that goes for the
Raffertys but no such sentiment is
expressed by the Reaches. Send
stamped envelope bearing your adj
dress and ask for instructions for ex-
terminating the Reaches.
Obstinate Acne Cleared Up
For years I suffered with pimply
rash on my face. Doctors and spe-
cialists said it was acne, but their
treatment was without effect. I wrote
for your advice and followed it with
varied and intermittent relief but no
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to talking about baseball. The
youth knew all the st. Louis
Cardinals by their pet names, and
rambled on for hours about Pep
per- Martin.
Your home is in st. Louis"
Stallman declared. And then the
boy broke down and confessed. He
was sent back to his folks.