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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Sardinian Grace

Most people know the island of Sardinia merely as place where sardnes used to come from. The natives caught the little fishes and somebody put them in little tins to be eaten in sandwiches. Now that most sardines are small herring caught off the coasts of Norway and Labrador. the island in the popular mind has lost its last claim to fame. A woman professor in the Uni versty of Western Ontario, has been visiting in Sardinia, and recommends highly trip to it.
 Picturesque costumes of early days are still preserved in these remote communities. and for US they are beautiful for their grace, delieaey of handiwork and brillance of color. Grace is in every line of these calm faced women, who walk barefoot over rough. stony paths carrying on their heads with the utmost ease and nonehalance in- credibly large bundles of laundry baskets of vegetables and even buckets of water. Even the men. especially the older ones. still cling to the traditional costumes of the past. which arc so rapidly dying out elsewhere.
 Yet the most distinct impression to be carried away is the constant variety of the scenery! Our usual method of travel was by motor car and the road led us with sur prising rspidity from barren erass to deep forests of chestnut trees or evefgreens. from olive groves to heather-elad hills. from mountain peaks to the shore of the blue Mediterranean. from primitive villages to pfospefous modern towns. Nor are the mountains themselves monotonous for the granite rock varies from sombrs gray to the fsmous Red Rocks of the western coast oi Corsica" Few tourists go tbere Of to Cor sics. Both are beautiful and interesting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Here's the Best of Years
 Crop of Mystery Tales

It Is always exciting to read q book which turns out to be. ever so much better than you had any reason to expect; and just that kind of excitement filled me after I had finished "The Conjure.Man Dies" by Rudolph Fisher.
 Here is a book which seems to me to be, by healthy margin, the best detective story of the year. In fact, 1t is so good that it ought to appeal to readers who~never ordi- nariIy read mystery thrillers.
 It Is an unusual sort of yarn. In the first place, the scene Is New York's Harlem. and every character in the book is colored-the people who get killed, the murderer, the witnesses, the detective, the police, everybody.
 Secondly, 1t has weird, hair raising mystery. The conjure-man who gets murdered Is native or Africa and Harvard graduate. Slain while conducting seance, he comes to life bit later. con- founds the investigators and injects an eerie, supernatural note into the proceedings.
 Thirdly, the book is full of first- ratc low comedy which Is certain to jar q lot of coarse laughter out of you. The picture of Harlem life Is excellent, the characters are slendidly drawn and the solution of the murder Is as legitimate as 1t is unexpected.
 You may gather from all of this that think "The Conjure-Man Dies" is swell book. do .. It is published by Covici-Friede and costs S2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Other Peoples Troubles

Psychologists say we do not know any thing except by comparison with something else. Accordingly. we do not know much about depression until we make some foreign comparisons. Take Europe first. "A good place to gauge the business status of that continent is Monte Carlo. An American traveller says when he visited that gambling capital six years ago. the average stake was 500 francs. Now it is 10 francs. Not many American business institutions have lost 98 per cent.
 Next take Asia. America. says the traveller. has no idea of what depression means in terms east of Suez.' A family of five in China lives on the equivalent of S25 year. Many millions have less than that. Yet nowhere did he find people making such fuss as they were here at home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Here, There And Everywhere

There Is no reason for doubtins ths l...s.l.on, even though the grower says he was led to cultivate the wild type because q few plants bordered his strawberry patch and he gave them like cultivation. He discovered the quality and flavor or the fruit and called the attention Of his patrons to what they might have known had they been reared in sections of the country where wild strawberries are found.
 All who have had experience must know that in flavor, nothing excels the wild strawberry and we feel sure that no- one can recall having possessed too many of them. It is possible, though. that after some years of captivity of the cul- tivated types, they will degenerate. but one hopes they will retain their personality, even though they may increase their size slightly. Certain 1t is that no one is likely to raise too many.
 There are other berries that growers might well consider. among them the low type of na- tive blackberry. which is ripe at about this time and which will con- tinue until mid.September. There IS also the huckleberry--not the blue- berry, which has also been given treatment which has brought 1t al- most the size of the Clinton grape but the firm. delicious huckle- berry, endowed, not with seeds but nutiets, which are hard and angu- lar. Great fame awaits the man who can change this berry as the man in Michigan has changed his chosen fruit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Vanished Money

Where has all the money gone?" people are asking. There is 2 general feeling that there must be just as much money in the country today as there was three years ago. and when some of us have lost it. others must have 1t. Probably good deal of bad business and bad legislation is based on this fallaey - for fallaey it is. Colonel Leonard P Ayres. prominent American banker and economist. explains the mystery in current business review.
 There are two kinds of money in use. he says. primary and derivative. The primary money is the currency we carry around with us to make cash payments. The derivative money is the bank credit represented by checks. It is the latter that has shrunk Cash is about the same as ever. but credit is far less. The derivative or secondary money representing it has been lost. sure enough and nobody has it now not even the banker. It will reappear out of the void when business improves and the goods and values on which credit is based are re-ereated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Garage Roof Gardens

Architects are attacking the garage. They feel it has not been utilized to its full possi- bilities. Their proposal is to convert the tops into roof awnings or umbrellas. swings and chairs grouped among potted shrubbery and vines. Either an outside or inside stairway. according to the architectural requirements of beauty and utility. would lead to the roof garden. where afternoon tea might be
 served or bridge enjoyed.
 There certainly is something in this idea. In some places garages have long been built with sleeping quarters overhead. for the chauffeur Of domestic servants. Apart from that use. however. garages have been merely houses for cars. There is no reason why they should not be made to do double duty. playhouse for children, screened and airy room for summer entertaining or, with out the awning place for the family to take it's sun baths. are all attractive sugges- tions. Something will surely come of the proposal. The architects are inspired
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
Can't Deter Him

New Britain delegates to the republican state convention to be held in New Haven the first week in September will go to that gathering pledged to support Mayor George A. Quisley of their city for the guberna- torial nomination. The candidacy of the New Britain executive has probably caused more comment than that of any other man mentioned for the first place on the ticket. Even in democratic circles there is consider able talk about Qugleys progress. Many are of the opinion, both democrats and re- publcans that he is foolish to seek the gubernatorial nomination in view of the state of conditions in his own city. How ever his boom was practically built on hiS conduct of affairs there.
 As to the mayors standing with the state organization that remains to be seen. It IS claimed that Chairman Rorabaek maintains no animosity towards the New Britain leader That is something which we wouldn't care to decide. though. We can recall quite clearly the attack that the mayor made upon J. Henry Rorabaek and tn: Connecticut Light and Power Company some years ago during a rate warfare Tn which New Britain was concerned. There were bitter words passed then and Mayor Quigley Che wasn't mayor at the time) was quite outspoken. So far as we know that difference has never been patched up and we believe that Mayor Quigleys sentiments on the controversy remain the same today. Probably those of Mir Rorabaek are un- changed. too.
 But if the sentiment of the republican state convention is for Mayor Qu;eley we know that State Chairman Roraback will be tts last man in the state to try to change II. The trouble is the republican state eonven- ton this year isn't behind any one man. MT Roraback. we imagine, would like to have il pick one outstanding figure such as former Governor John Fl. Trumbull, an established vNe getter, but Mir Trumbull is shy. At sny rate he's had the office good many years We don't think there will be any more support for Mayor Qufgey than for Lieutenant Governor Spencer perhaps not as much. And State Treasurer Wilcox must also be considered in the running not to mention States Attorney Aleorn, and a half dozen others whose political future is as bright as Mayor Quigley's.
 Our guess would be that Mayor Quigey might find the convention looking askanee at the convention. perhaps gently suggesting to him that he devote his entire time to the solution of municipal problems rather than state He has hard job on his hands right now in New Britain. We don't see how he very well can devote much time to cam paigning and without that the republican party will be hopeessly sunk this fall. It may even be sunk with lot of campaign ing. It remains to sec whom the democrats will choose to support Governor Gross this fall At any rate one must admire the fixed purpose of Mayor Ouigley. He has the gubernatorial bug. Perhaps he will only lose it by winning the nomination and then finding Governor Cross just as hard to beat as he was two years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
According to Representative John Q. Til

According to Representative John Q. Til son of the third congressional district Con- nectcut republicans aren't worrying about the independspt boom of Professor Albert Levitt of Redding and his dry supporters. He says. We are not worrying about any independent ticket for senator in Connecti- cut this year. Connecticut does not go in much for independent tickets. That's quite true, but two years ago there was sizeable independent movement. although deeply tinged with democratic eolors We still think today that Governor Cross will attract far more independent voters than any other candidate in all the political parties of the state. If Professor Levitt does intend to oppose the nomination of Senator Bing- ham and succeeds in getting himself on the voting machines as an independent can. didate or even as the candidate of the pro- hibtion party he will only smooth the path of the democratic candidate for U. s. sem ator. It is going to be hard enough for Senator Bingham to be reelected. provided he is renominated. without the republicans splitting over his prohibition views. As democrat, we view the situation with some elation, but we have seen Levitt booms de- Hated too quickly on other occasions and his supporters Hooking to the regular re- publican candidates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

The state of Florida is puzzeld by its drifting population. It is still state of tourists. However today many of these tourists are becoming public charges and as a result Florida is finding difficulty in making both ends meet. It has enough to do to take care of its native citizens who are in want without playing fairy sod- mother to thousands from every state in the Union. Once the counties maintained a hobo express by which they shipped va. grants, from one county to another until they were out of the state. via auto truck. The riders, however. simply returned for another trip They seemed to like it. Why not signs at all border entry points - Only Paying Guests Wanted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
So They Say

They may take me out 10 tne county jail and just don't know what to wear. Mrs Dorothy Pollak. 26, admit ted husband-slayer.
 No measure taken thus far hae even scratched the surface Of un- employment. We must create mil. Hons of jobs. Shortening working hours is a first step to 1t. William Green, president. Amer ican Federation of Labor. {:
 If another war breaks out. pub. lie opinion throughout the world will not pardon the organised church it's incapacity to do the thing that 1t knows ought to DC done.
 --Professor Wilfred Monod, lead ing F'rnech Protestant.
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 No horse hesitates to follow ( man he trusts.
 Tom Mix, movie cowboy.
 
 We're offering the people ol Texas real bargain. Two gov ernors for the price of one! --isx. Governor Jim FerEuson ol Texaa, husband of candidate and Ax.GovernoP Ma" Fergueen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

q lot He was going to be svieted for nom payment of rent and he had to do some thing. He thought he had better take his lumber and his lot and his four dollars and begin.
 The request was referred to the building inspector. and the end of the tale has not been told. The authorities. naturally would be dubious about the type of house to go up in the neighborhood. Four dollars is not great amount of money for nails. screws and hinges. not to mention window sash and other millwork. The reader of the item. however. can but hope that so gallant an effort at outdoing fate should not be allowed to go unfewarded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

the Toronto and Montreal markets in all liquor stocks Canadian Industrial Alcohol rose from 50 cents to Sz.50. Distillers Sea- grams is up to 7 5-s. whereas few weeks ago it sold as low as } l-2. Walker is selling at 7 l-2. another sizeable jump. The reason - if Uncle Sam goes back to legal ized sales Canadian manufacturers will profit tremendously by sales until the American distillers have their product ready for consumption. Hard liquors must ma- ture several years before being sold. 50 there's the story in pint bottle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
GERMANS IN RETREAT

On August l6. 1918. German forces began the evacuation. of a five.niiie section of their defenses near Albert, and were reported burning huge quantities of sup piles.
 Australian and Canadian regi- merts continued their advance in Picardy. taking hundreds of pris- oners. officers attached to these units reported that German morale wRs nAtr the breaking. point and predicted q disaster for the central powers before the end of the year.
 The French war department announced tho sinking 0f tho steamer Djemnah in the Mcdfter- ranean on July i5 with the loss Of d42 troops aboard her. n,
 Secretary of War Newton D. Baker announced the landing of American troops at Viadivostok' Siberia. WI"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15

If President Hoover's acceptance speech did one thing it was to send Canadian liquor stocks soaring to new highs. Distillers in the dominion wsre overjoyed to see that finally the president of the United States had admitted the failure of prohibition. They could have proved to him years ago that ii must be failure. Not that they wanted to. as they were certainly profitng handsomely by the restrictions of liquor manufacture and sale imposed by this sov. ernment. New highs were recorded Friday at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
SONGS THEIR MOTHERS
 TAUGHT THEM
fchriatian science Monitorl

Christian science Monitor)
 The voice of the violin is once more the voice of Hungary. And the throbbing music of the Tzigani bands swells fin a sure crescendo along the Andrassy ut--The Penn sylyania avenue, the Champs Elysees, of Budapest.
 Hungarians are rejoicing over the fact that no longer is the bleat of the saxophone loud in their land. From their famous capital come reports that in each of It's principal safes and restaurants again may be found a "primas' leading his gypsy orchestra with dexterous bow, and now and then stepping down from the dais to piav his violin over the table Of some favored patron. Thus ends q dissoftant decade in which friss and fox trot. lasBu and blues held caco- phonous contest for public favor.
 Many Americans as we'll as Eu- ropeans will join with the Hungar- ians in approving the return to gypsy and national music. In the years just after the war America succeeded In exporting not only highly desirable commodities but much of its own Tin Pan Alley at mosphere. And some European cities became quite disappointing to travellers who took their ears as well as their eyes atripping with them. Their disappointment is cited as one reason for reserving Hungary for Hungarian airs. Irv- ing Berlin apparently is one thing in New York but quite another In
 Ali this despite the fact that American jazz and Hungarian music have something in common. both being blends of the musical incllnations of numerous races. Tartars, Mongolians, Wallachians, Jews, slavs and gypsies have con. trlbuted to make the csardas what 1t is. Perhaps an even greater variety of racial feeling Is repre- sented in American dance tunes. Saxophone players of many na- tionalities---inciuding the Hungar- iai,---no doubt will wish there were room for both kinds of music n tha iand of Liszt. Others see m inc musical exile of ragtime rhap- sodizers d possibility Of . renais- ance Of Hubay and Mislta Hauser. Kaidy and czirlka. if tnis snouio s' occur, globe trotterg ana .vsn some fox trotters probably VIII pe content to take their jazz where they ind it--and to leave it there when they start for the Danupe | nfld Budapest.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
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incided with q situation which found our prosperous corporations possessed of large surpluses of cap ital and a relative scarcity of cap ital abroad.
 The resultant rush to establish foreign plants recahcd Its high wa ter mark in 1928 and 1929; 1t ap- pears taht many American indus tries which went into 1t on the eve of the unexpected depression now feel they overreached them- slves and wish they hadn't.
 The factries more recently es@ tablished in Canada despite the de- pression include 12 In vegetable products and foodstuifs, 17 in wood and paper products, 35 in iron and It's products, 23 in manufacture of other metals, 14 in chemical prod ucts, 8 in textiles, 6 in animal prod ucts and 20 miscellaneous.
 Arguments for and Against
 American manufacturers who set up plants abroad not only escape tho selected country's duties, but also save transportation costs and avoid various Internal restrictions against foreign products.
 The stock argument of those who pretend to see anything. in It contrlbutory to the welfare of this country is that branch plant", by increasing employment and raising the standard of living for foreign workers, increase the demand for American products fin the countries where the branches are estab' lished.
 But that assertion is usually ..coffed a tby those who deplore the obvious effect on domestic employ ment, exports, internal commerce and transportation finance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
VO--V SOON!

OlI, here's to tlic school ffiarii, Who soon Is returning To tolls and to troubles Of teaching the young. She's back from tine old farm With energy burning! Her praises arc seldom By anyone sung. Tllc old fashioned school ttfarm; The prim looking school iiiirm; The hard working school ninrn Who teaches tine young. How oft when the others Are seelsing their pleasure Or even are sliirking The tasIxs they're assigned; With honaebOdy's brothers FnjoyIng their leisure, The school nlarnl is working, To duty resigned. The work loving school marin; Tine rtauch. .siialigncd school siinrm ; sl'l,e sienr uatient school Enarim Who teaches the young.
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 A blowing champion kept his title in q contest at Big Rock. Looks like none of his competitors could share Big Rock with him.
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 Governor Alfalfa Bill" Mur- ray once stood on his head just Go prove to newspnp npermen he could do it, but he wouldn't give photographer q tumble.
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 An advensurer has forsasen Arc- tIu exploring and African Jungle hunting Co enter the stock OK. change. Evidently doesn't know when he's safe.
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 Sentenced fo 90 days e Chicago gunman broke Into tears. He might forget how many n0tehes no had on his gun and have Co start OH over. aoed nishl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
PoETICAL NONSENSE

When twilight wrinkles through
 tho air,
 In mellow rays reflected, And scintillatcs like jewels rhre--- Pray, are these lines connected? When golden moonbcaIns fall
 about
 On snow that brightly glistcns--- Is there much reason in this chant If one profoundly listens? .. .. When gentle spring fin nasccnt Wakes up the earth to splcndor---. What would they make tho final If such common verse I'd rem
 der? A medley of fantastic words Told ccasclcss, undiIninislicd, May thrill us like the song of birds, Behold! My verse Is finished.
 LAT.
 o--O-o The Soviets, says pastor. wouldn't tolerate modern Ameri- can musical comedy show. Prob ably would be more than they could bare.
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 The government Is lining up to prosecute tax plotters. Well. maybe the line had to be drawn somewhere.
 O--O--o The expert who said pie is not made of dough alone would prob- ably admit that ncihter Is bank roll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-15
AMERICAN BRANCH PLANTS LIKELY TO GAIN AS RESULT
 OF OTTAWA FARLEY
By RODNEY BUTCHER NEA ScrYiCG Wrffer

WashingtOn.--1f the imperial
 conference of Britain and her do-
 minions at Ottawa did anything to discourage the expansion of Ameri- can branch factories abroad 1t
 would be taking crack at one of
 the new forms of our economic de- velopment which have continued to grow even in the years of depres- sion.
 Such an occurrence would be cordially approved by many per- sons who feel that the steady in- crease of American manufacturing abroad has been a net loss to this
 country and her wage carners on the ground that American goods
 should be manufactured at home. but would seem 6 misfortune to
 large corporations and others who
 see that foreign activity as nat
 ural and essential part of the pro-
 cess of industrial progress.
 May Work the Other Way But 1t appears that the results of
 the conference are more likely to
 stimulate than to decrease the trend of American industry across the border.
 If the negotlators at Ottawa agree that foreign branch plants
 within their borders must use 60 per cent "empire content"-Iabor and materials--in order to benefit from tariff preferences. there will be an effect both on the branch plant operations and on the extent to our own economic system bene- fits with them. But any increased preference presumably will lead American corporations to jump within It's limits in increasing num- bcrs Just as they have clambered over with their plants to get on the other side of existing tariff laws.
 Foreign countries like to have us establish new factories in them, just as almost any American com munity greets the arrival of new industry.
 The Case in Canada
 Canadians have been especially
 jubiJant at the influx of our branch niants. The movement has been confined largely to Canada in the last two years. Nearly 1b0 Amerl- can plants were established there In 1880 and 1881, the most com. mon explanation being that they
 were pushed there by Canadian re. taliation against our Hawley-smoot tariff.
 Al the end of 1929 the com merce department found that there was a foreign branch plant invest ment of $1,535,000.000, about " per cent of our total foreign in- vestments. in about 12b0 plants The new Canadian plants ana per- haps few others may be added 10 that.
 Desire to avoid heavy foreign tariffs in manufactured goods CO.,