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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
A Book a Day
T, R. Steals the Show in
 Tale of Pre-War Epoch
by BRUCE CATION

The closing years of the epoch that ended in the World War make, when you look at them from this distance, Q gaudy and excit- ing show-a show, furthermore, m which the spotlight was focused chiefly upon the energetic dsure of Theodore Roosevelt.
 Mark Sullivan gives you an ex- celient view of the whole show, and especially of the above-men- toned chief actor, in Volume Four of "Our Times"
 This volume covers the years 1909 to 1914. It tells you what we wore in those days. what songs we sang, what books we read, what we did for amusement; 1t recalls the Vogue of the Ford joke, of the dawn of ragtime, of the hobble skirt, of the Turkey Trot; 1t tells of the sinking of the Titanic. Of the Bull Moose movement, of the Jeff fries-J ohnson fight, of the heyday of Ty Cobb, and heaven knows what else. l$
 But chiefly it tells about Thco- dore Roosevelt.
 In fact, this book contains just about the best study of that great and amazing personality you can find anywhere. It tells how and why the famous break with Taft came about. It recounts Roose- velt's famous tour of Europe and what followed. And it gives a truly inspired description of that elegant Donnybrook- which was the repub- lican national convention of 1912. Tn other words. Volume Four of "Our Times" Is just swell reading.
 It is published by. Scribner's, and it sells for $3.76. .
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
City Upon City

We take our cities pretty seriously-all of us And we live full busy, varied life. Every day is crowded with activity of thousand kinds. Our streets, stores. fae- tories, homes. are full of life Individuals groups. movements bulk big. A holiday. an election. is great affair. A million things worth talking about happen in year. The life processes moving steadily on. always changing, are infinite in variety. If all the things that happen in one town were written, all the libraries would not contain them. Over ii Asia Minor on the shore of the Hellespont, where Asia fronts Europe American areheoioe:sts have been digging into the runs of an old hill. The surface was bare when they started wilderness overrun by snakes and wild hogs. They dug down through the ruins of nine cities. built in succession. one upon the remains of another. through long ages.
 One of them was Homcr's Troy, which inspired the greatest group of legends and poems in all history. The lowest of those buried cities was full of life perhaps 5000 years ago. Troy. identified by its pottery and walls. destroyed by the Greeks more than 5000 years ago, was sixth in the series. The topmost city was Roman, built nearly 1000 years ago. Of several of those cities it is not even known what race built them. We can only be reasonably sure that they were all occupied by people good deal like our selves, though in different environment. with different equipment. People interested in things that interest us - born, living. working, adventuring. playing fighting, dying, like us. What lot of things must have happened on that hill!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
So They Say


 Let Great Britain default, but not with our connivance. Plat Harrison, U. s. senator from
 Mississippi.
 I am out of politics for good. Charles c. Dawes, former vice
 president.
 We must have wines as we'll as beer. The country has been edu- cated to hard liquor and we must have repeal.
 Arthur Race, chairman of the
 prohibition committee, American
 Hotel. association.
 I've often wondered if the Martians haven't seen the lights of our Hollywood motion picture premieres. That may have puzzled them already.
 -Dr Sinclair Smith. astronomer of
 Mt Wilson observatory, Pasadena
 Calf.
 The Christian churches would not only in the end win respect, but they would also save our civili- zation were they effectually to preach peace. But in regard to peace and war they are neither cold nor hot. --Dr Barnes, Bishop of Birming. ham, England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25

already ,pp,nnt, indicating ,h,f undsEnouf- Ishmlnl worry and nrsleet of pbysieal sx- animation and medical care arc beginning to injurs public health.
 pr. Dublin does not emphasize this warn- ing in order to alarm the public or to deny, the many recent reports of good health and low death rates. He is urging that in the widespread economizing which cannot be avoided, public health work be cut down just as little as possible. Child welfare work. in particular. needs to be maintained. Adults whose health has been undermined by privation can often be restored to normal by subsequent treatment. tChildren suffer ing privation are in danger of being perma- nently stunted both in body and mind. No amount of good food later can undo dam age wrought during the growing years. say authorities on child health Settling the problem of the international debts is import ant. but SO, too. is saving the children from the bad effects of the depression.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
Here, There And EDerylDhere

to figure up the actual cost in breath and energy expended, but the precise number of dollars used can be determined with approxi- mate perfection.
 Last spring Al Smith hit the electoral nall precisely upon the head when he proclaimed concern ing the coming campaign, Tt takes money! It takes money! He should know, of course, for he was the most expensive presidential candi- date in the history of the democrat tic party. A rough estimate of the total amount spent by both par- ties in all elections for 1928 shows that nearly seventeen millions passed through the party treas dries. This campaign broke all records. The only runnerup Is the Mark Hanna campaign of 1896. For the 1928 presidential race alone, each party expended ap- proximately three and one half million dollars.
 Contrasted with the one hundred thousand used to elect Lincoln in 1860, the 1928 sums seem posi- lively enormous. The growth throughout the years has been tre- mendous. In the past 65 years the major parties have spent about sixty-five million to elect fifteen presidents. But the totals shrink when considered comparatively The increase in amount has merely paralleled the increase in the elec- torate. For that 1860 campaign the expenses figure about IS cents per vote. For that record 1923 campaign, theys figure only Y cents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25

Connsrslsut |; proud of ,hs mos, t,t,nl award so iu governor. Wilbur |. CroE. At the annual party in the Old Yale bafn in Montclair. N. J.. December }. the .ward. the Yale Bowl for lo3z. will bs presented him. The award is made Co the alumnus who does the most meritorious work in life in the previous year. There is certainly merit in signalling overnor Gross out for this honor. As governor of Connecticut. he has achieved quite reputation, not merely as a politician who can compete with ths best of them at securing votes. but in handl- ing himself in a position where he lacks the necessary legislative support to make any program of his a success. We certainly think that Governor Gross has won bis Y in, fife. We know that the presenta- ton will be accompanied by demonstra- ton that has seldom. been heard in Nick Roberts old barn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
TwILIGHr oF THE BLoCs
(Ncw York Times)


 The final figures on the makeup of the Seventy-third congress should prove as reassuring to business as a rise in the price of commodities. They reveal that the ney president will have party majority of 21S --of which the house will contri- bute 191 and the senate 22. Some of the time the one Farmer-Labor senator and his five party col- leagues in the house will vote with the majority. Since, in the early life of any administration, the presi- dent has great authority as the recognized leader of his party, 1t is certain that the major points of the Roosevelt legislative program will be smoothly and promptly carried out by congress. At no time during his administration has President Hoover been sure of congressional support. Tn his first two years the house had a republican majority and, under the leadership of Speak CT Longworth, was dependable administration auxiliary. But the progressive republican bloc in the senate provided shifting majority and the fact that . measure was of administration origin was too likely to assure its rejection. For
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
Fighting The Seaway

The Senate Committee on Foreign Rea- tions begins its hearings on the Canadian treaty for the St Lawrence seaway. And immediately and unexpectedly comes d ter rife onslaught against the project. National sentiment heretofore has appeared strongly in favor of it. and Americans generally have taken. for granted that the treaty was going through. The present opposition comes from railroads lake shipping men, Atlantic seaports. Buffalo and Chicago. The self interest. real and imagined, of all these. is evident.
 The railroads are afraid of losing freight now hauled to eastern seaports for foreign shipment. especially grain. Buffalo at the foot of the lakes. and the salt water ports including New York city, are afraid of los ing their trans-shipment profits. The lake carriers apparently do not want ocean vessels coming into the Great Lakes fearing eompe- tition. Chicago objects to clause in tn, treaty recognizing the limitation set by the Supreme Court of the United States on her water diversion from Lake Michigan.
 These motives are understandable. They might win more sympathy if they were frankly admitted. The arguments actually presented to the Senate committee have much the appearance of smoke screen. The protesting interests profess to be worried be- sause the seaway would not pay and so the government would waste the taxpayers money.
 The, army engineers who have planned the waterway may be more dependable witnesses on that point than the self-interested groups that have been protesting. They agree that the channel, already largely constructed. will virtually pay for itself through power de- velopment alone. Disinterested economists. too. have frequently pointed out the advan- tages of such an outlet and inlet to the country as whole. and especially to the vast interior region which has not profited. as the seaboard states have. from the Panama Canal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
Was It Historic?

There has been much ado of recent days about the historic significance attached to the recent conference between President Hoover and his successor, President-Elect Roosevelt. Judging by the results of this informal get-to-gether history wasn't made at the White House last Tuesday. As Gov crnor Roosevelt stated when the invitation was proffered him to attend, he would oe merely an onlooker He may have engaged in serious discussion of the allied debts in the course of his several hour visit in the White House, but. if so. his remarks may never go any further than the confines of the Red Room.
 Much of what transpired at the session will never be known save to those partici- pating. therefore, we can see no practical good resulting from what was press agented as the epoehs of epoehs. From the very beginning we regarded the gathering as noth- ing more nor less than what it turned out to be. an opportunity for the two national figures to meet Since Governor Roosevelt stated that he would not act in any other capacity than mere spectator at any and all sessions at which national policies with regard to foreign debts were discussed. we saw no democratic influence being brought to bear upon this world crisis.
 And inasmuch as President Hoover and Secretary of the Treasury Mills were the only republican officials at Tuesdays meet ing. we can't quite see how much was to be accomplished at all by the conference. Ger tainly the ultimate decision as to our treat ment of the latest requests from foreign deb tors for postponement of immediate pay mknts couldn't very well be solved by sim ply these two republican notables There arc others whose opinions would prove in- valuable in these circumstances. It would be necessary to secure the support of others to grant to the allied debtors their wishes.
 We want to be fair to the president in this situation. All sorts of motives have been ascribed to him for asking Roosevelt's presence. There are those who think that the Tuesday incident completely disproved this prediction and made it seem absurd. Whatever we believe. it must be said that the president acted as he should have during the conference. But there again our imag ination plays us false. Better leave unsaid the thoughts that come cropping forth. Suffice it to say that if this White House meeting of president and pfesident-elect almost four months before the inauguration of the latter makes history we are sadly mistaken.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
ROOSEVELT LEAVES CABINET
 GUESSERS IN THE DARK
BY RODNEY BUTCHER NEA Service Writer

Washington---Governor Roose- welt is quite right in warning his people not to pay any attention to what they read in the newspapers about the possible makeup of his cabinet.
 Speculation is speculation and 1t is very much in order at this time, insofar as the next cabinet is concerned. But everyone who writes about 1t is just guessing and hardly any of the guesses arc better than the others. The guessing will become gradually more, accurate. of course, as March approaches.
 one reason the president-elect is so completely justified in warn ing the public not to take any stock in the cabinet scpeculation Is that no one knows whether Roosevelt wants a strong cabinet or a weak cabinet.
 Nearly all the current specula- ton has been based on the theory that he will be wanting q strong cabinet. That's why you find the correspondents picking posts for such folks as Newton D. Baker, owen D. Young, Albert c. Ritche, John w. Davis, James M. Cox, Al Smith, Carter Glass, Bernard Bruch, Melvin M. Taylor. William c. McAdoo, Frances Perkins and Thomas J. Walsh.
 Obviously, if Roosevelt were to pick cabinet out of that group he would have g cabinet of such heft that he would be in great danger of merely being considered as among those present. That Is one of the best reasons for suppos- ing not many of those persons will bc on the list, if one must so sup pose.
 A strong president can afford to have a weak cabinet. whereas a weak president ought to have Q strong cabinet. according to the orthodox theory here.
 Mir Harding, who was rather a weak president and doubtless an- ticipated it, picked a strong cabi- r,et---it Is still regarded as strong on account of Hughes, Hoover and Mellon. even if some of the boys did go wrong on him.
 Mr Hoover. who was exnected to be strong president and who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25

We're not so sure that We agree with Paul Whiteman in his recent utteranee that this nation is rapidly becoming music dumb. It seems to us that for a nation.
 composed of so many various races. We maintain fairly high musical staLdard, not to mention encouragement for its study among our children. Perhaps Mir White man may not like the effusions that come from Tin Pan Alley. but that is character istic and not to be deplored but to be studied for its effects and also for its throw back to primeval days. Among other things the famous orchestra leader said, Tn eight years we have almost exhausted music library it took 800 years to build. Billions of for eign music. but not cent for the creation of American music seems to pc our motto
 Why should we spend fortunes for Euro pean opera form of expression entirely foreign to us. :. If we set aside one thousandth of what we spend on foreign culture We could start some real creative American music. Some millionaire really interested in music ought to say to group of musicians. Here is an endowment. Now go off in the mountains and slave for four months turning out something good. then give half dozen concerts Gershwin didn't have to go back to the mountains for his Rhapsody in Blue" nor did Ferdie Grofe than whom Paul Whiteman never had better arranger. We're forming dis- tinetiye music of our own. In time it will vie with that of the masters of another day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Missing: A BOy,s Uylria

son's tonsils removed two months ago. Com- pairing his trOat with the thfOats of other chil. drcn who have had their tOnsils removed fnV his palate completely gone. Would this do hiin any harm later in life? (R. J. C)
 Answer--I fancy the boys palate is still thcre, but his uvula is missing. The uvula is the tongue-lik projection at the tip of the soft palate. It's absence will never harm the boy. We often snip the uvua off when 1t seems in the way.
 Juvenile Langu0r
 am IS years old and do not feel we'll at all. I am drOwsy all the time and Iow-mindcd witkhout reason. feel cold even when it Is warm enough for everybody else. And am getting too fat. I am i've feet three inches high and weigh f27 pounds (L. s.)
 Answer--Arc you getting your iodin? Most boys and girls in your part of the country should have a regular iodin ration, to prevent gioter and inertia. Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for instructions for taking the iodin ration.
 Personal Health Service should like to distribute to my classes cop- les of your monograph on the protective dict .. (Superyts0r).
 Answer--i am glad to mall to any member of your class who asks for 1t, copy of the monograph, provided he or she. incloseB. q stamped envelope bearing the address. ......
 (CopyriGht, John '. Dillo Co.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
AlIlpO|itI(d| FO||iQsy yf|972

himself hardly expected anything else but who-accordtng to large popular najority--was q hop, had a cabinet for whom no one had much respect. The only members who are still held in any esteem are Secretary of State Etimson and Attorney General Mitchell, two able and very loyal mon who have had to put up with. so much that their friends are quite sorry for them.
 All of which doesn't help us to pick Roosevelt's, cabinet before he picks 1t himself, The governor pre- sumably feels that he will be a strong president, although that's a point of excited debate in Wash ington, but thcrc is no very good way of telling whether his cabinet will be considered good, bad, awful or terrible.
 At this stage of the cabinet picking process. however. 1t may be considered fortunate thing for, the country that Governor Roosevelt is an expert politician and apparently knows all the tricks of the business.
 He will not ignore political con alterations, but he will at least be able to assay the value of the var ious pressures which will be brought to bear. upon him.
 And, 1t appears. he will be smart enough not to set off any trial balloons by letting it be known that he is considering this or that man for given tob. Trial balloons are nearly always Ishot down.
 Incidentally, the cheif reason so many guessers are guessing Fran ces Perkins for secretary of labor is that so many people think 1t would be such a swell idea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
SMALL. POTATOES
(Hartford 1,ines)

Democratic Senator James r. Byrnes of South Carolina, has let It be known that he proposes to ask the first democratic senate caucus at the December session of con- gress not to confirm any recess ap- pointments made by President Hoover.
 Good sense and fairness should urge upon such caucus g refusal or the request advanced by Senator Byrnes. The recess appointments made by Mir Hoover should be given the same treatment as though no election had been held. The session of congress and the term of President Hoover will ex- pire srmonths hence, March (. The responsibiIity of q new president and | new congress then begin. Meantime 1t should be assumed that the appointments of President Hoover have been made in good faith and should be endorsed by the congress unless for reasons based upon unfitness of the ap- bointee otherwise.
 Senator Byrnes argues that:
 President -eiect Roosevelt should have the privilege of appointing raersons to serve in his administra- tion and on which he will depend for the success of his administfa- tion.
 If that had been deemed good policy the law would have 50 rec ognized. Incoming presidents take such assistance as sound public policy. has given them. Tc throw Out all the administrative ofilcials upon the close of an adrninistra- tion would be most unwise.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25
A BAD CASE OF DUPLIc11,Y

This is just terrible What IS the world | coming to? The lndy confesses at the outset
 she is A years old, that she has always WorKea E | hard in her shop taking care of her business. l also running her home on the eide or by way oi recreation or diversion. Then few years ago she had her.
 tell about that at all. If anybody is going to tell about his operation in this column 1t must be the conduc.or himself. Now when had
 my operation tcicuse it, plensej-- Shortly cfterward the poor girl went bacj. to the shop, and by and by she had what her
 doctor good naturedly termed nervous breakdown
 How k.nd most good doctors are about that!
 It is such satisfactory allbi and so effectively disposcs of the curiosity of makc-belleyc friends.
 And change Of life. Oh-oh, that wasn't so kind. But never mind. It didn't fool anybody, for the correspondent remarks that she has not had any change of life. If she takes my l advice she'll never have any such thing don mean that am such wonderful doctor or health expert, but just that there Is no such | thing in other words that explanation for any i'll health what have you is pure hokum. Now comes the dreadful confession. Some
 one came along at this juncture and told the poor girl c.garets would quiet her nerves so She coniliehced smoking surrepltiously, and | nov she is an abject slave to the habit. How | many she burns per diem she does not say, but it is just rlining her morale for every time
 .he clnv.ng for smoke comes on she has to run to her home and hide in q closet or somewhere while she puffs at her flag She is constantly anxious lest her friends notice the odOr about her, or, worse yet, lest her sons discover she smokes.
 Now 1t seems the neighbors and the girls she comes in contact with in the course of bu.-ness. have the most outspoken convictions about females who smoke, and altogether 1t is simply fn.serabie wretched life of duplicity and all that sort of thing.
 My advice to her Is to explain to her friends that her doctor advised her to indulge in smOk- ing Us a less harmful thing than rcsorting to medicinal sedatives stimuants. This will be no lie. for Pm her doctor for the moment. Un- less the poor girls sons are queer ones alto gether, I'm wiling to bet they'll think none the less of little ole ma if she enjoys an occa
 sional gasper right in her own living room.
 There is really no good reason why an adult
 female should not snioke as freely as an adult
 male does. A gentleman who wishes to smoke
 smokes temperately and never inhicts annoy
 ance on others who may not like 1t. A lady
 may enjoy the same privilege.
 however, 1 sent this poor girl the best in-
 structions 1 can give to help victims of the
 tobacco habit break the grip of the habit. and
 I'm glad to send such advice to anybody who
 tells me he or she is addicted to this habit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-25

The militia of Minnesota are going tc be given a novel task this winter. Instead of spending all their time in drilling and learning the fundamentals of military tac- ties they will be employed in feeding the states wild life. Minnesota is one of those states where winters are long and heavy. Birds and animals suffer great deal from lack of protection and also inability to secure proper food. All over the country organ izations are sponsoring movements to ir- sure the natural wild life of their districts care during the winter months. We inn az ne the Minnesota National Guardsmen will be glad to aid in any such movement as this Who wouldn't?