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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-23
Good evening.
 FREE AIR

Again the blatant tom toms beat, Again the spouters tour the land, Charge and counterseharge il
 made,
 Armies form on every strand, The four year blight is here again. Once moro we hear astory grim, The Hoover-Roosevelt fight is on, Crusaders tool. Please vote
 for him." A speech is made. then reply. Each answer makes the welkin
 ring. But after all is said and done. Each one's a mediocre thing. But it would seem. the public now, Looks askanee at the stuff they
 spout, A healthy sign. l must admit. And so I gladly look about. The days will merge into the
 weeks.
 The weeks into the months
 ahead, But still the battle will go on. With fields wordy, livid red, And after all is said and done. Despite the winner. may say. The country will go on.of course. And much the same as yesterday.
 o-O-o
 Laughter may be a dimple on the cheek of sorrow but it leaves wrinkles on, the face of good hu- mor.
 o-O--o
 The trouble with collective farming is due to the fact that it doesn't collect enough.
 o-O-o As usual both republicans and democrats are claiming everything. But the claims will be written off the morning after the election.
 o-O-o A wet paper .applauding Hoover's stand says he has seen the light. They perhaps mean light wines and beers. o-O--o
 The ex-kaiser says he isn't anxious to regain the German throne. He probably feels 1t would merely mean being "throne"- out again. 3 o--O-O DING. DING. IN OUR TOWN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-23

Old Papa Waterbury Says 1t was sure . wow, And thcrc1l be another convention Just ten moro years from now.
 o-O-o Getting in a hot spot means noth- ing to the devil.
 O-O-0
 Too many remarks of the wrong type will leave marks for days to come.
 o-O-o The man with loose tongue will eventually find himself in q tight position. O-O-O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-23

"A SMILES THE THING"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-23

Again the blatant tom toms beat,
 Again the spouters tour the land, Charge and eounterreharge is
Evening star., 1932-11-07

holds that the dole has done much to
destroy the initiative Of the English
people, but the Danbury Evening News
AYERS that there is no reason to believe
that Britain will fail to come through
thlS trying experience successfully"
The outbreak" in the opinion of the
Houston Chronicle. indicates the dan
ger TO any society which permits hunger
and suffering. Even though it be the
pest Scc-ety possible, even though it be
manned by devoted statesmen and able
Administrators. with the most intense
oeslre to do the right thing. if it fails
III the one task of saving people from
oeStltutlon its destruction is very likely
Not only VIII be forces of destruction
1eed on the embittered minds of suffer
ing people. but on the indignation of
more fortunate people who are heart
StrIcken at the suffering of others"
revealing more favorable attitude
the Springfield Mass Republican com,
menus: The government is between
tne oeVll and the deep sea. 1t is strllg-
gIng to make both ends meet. and is
naturally unwilling to pay out a penny
more tnan 1t has to. but. of course, it
Goes not want the people to starve Un-
ger theSe abnormal conditions a hunger
march Is possibly as quick and effec-
i've way as any to demonstrate
the need OF more liberal policy. and il
may already have justified itself bv the
prime minister's pledge that the meas
ure denounced will be reconsidered.
Evening star., 1932-11-07
The Election Forecasts.

Only relatively few citizens in this
broad land today have failed to COM
NIT themselves, beyond the sage obser-
vation that anything may happen" by
way Of forecasting the results Of the
election tomorrow. Most of them are
sure Of the result and a great many of
them are bound to be wrong. President
Hoover is indirectly quoted as being
serenely confident Gov. Roosevelt, on
Saturday night. was perfectly confident.
In New York Democrats are claiming
a top plurality of 100000 for the
ticket in the State and the Republicans
are claiming a plurality of 235 900. In
the case of the Democrats. Senator
Wagner is expected to lead the ticket,
and in the case of the Republicans Col
Donovan is expected to lead. the presi-
Dental candidates trailing close behind
The partisan forecasts in New York
may be considered as generally repre-
sentative of all partisan forecasts.
But in this election, as in others. the
significant forecasts are those made
without regard to partisanship; the
honest guesses, based on observation
and experience, of how the people will
vote. OF these, Mr.. Frank Kent of the
Baltimore Sun comments upon the
singular unanimity of opinion that
Mr.. Hoover is badly beaten candidate
and concludes that IF there has ever
been a campaign in which the result
seemed more generally assumed. it can
not now be recalled" In a summation
of the forecasts by Washington CORE
spondents, Mr. Mark Sullivan finds that
all of them are sure of decisive Demo-
cratic victory, with the exception of Mr..
David Lawrence, who gives Mr.. Hoover
IAN outside chance"
OF one thing everybody seems to be
agreed. and that is that a Republican
victory would be generally construed as
political miracle, with President
Hoover alone being responsible for
bringing the miracle to pass 1t would
be he, almost alone who attracted the
woman vote" upon which some po-
litical forecasters now lay much stress
It would be he who commanded that
great silent vote" of Americans who
are credited with doing more thinking
than talking during a campaign, and
it would be he whose conservatism and
campaign speeches have appealed tc
the business interests, almost consist
emily described since the beginning OF
the campaign as being suspicious Of
Gov. Roosevelt and the manifestly un-
assimilable elements temporarily in
combination behind him.
Most certainly it would be President
Hoover who succeeded in making 6
farce of the straw-vote business, ane
probably consigning it forever to the
realm Of forgotten things. 1t would bt
he who would make jokes of practically
all the disinterested forecasters. Anc
it would be he who would be respon-
sible. personally, for about the biggest
story since the war. If he does no,
do these things he will at least have
gone down fighting, and there are worse
ways Of going down.
Evening star., 1932-11-07
Somewhat Sad.

There Is thoughtful Eastern proverb
to the effect that feasting is always
somewhat sad. A national election, also,
is to the philosopher a sobering spec
tacle. Probing below the boisterous
surface. he finds truths to regret, facts
to be sorry for.
So defective is the system that many
citizens refuse to participate in it. De-
clining to exercise the franchise. they
leave both the privilege and the re-
sporsibility to persons unqualified for
the business. Thus cities and States
become provinces Of self-constituted
czars and dictators who bleed and Op-
press the people ruthlessly and shame
fully
If in the circumstances any approx
nation of practical democracy is dis
cernible, it must be Of negative va
riety. Hilaire Belloc probably summed
it up when he wrote:
In the moment of an election
one sees so many kinds of men, one
finds out about the relics of so many
philosophers, one Is astonished to meet
still surviving. SO many illusions
these contemporary details take up a
very exaggerated place in our mind
Then it is good for one to remember
that the whole of it is but a little
smoke.
What Mr.: Belloc overlooks is the
blaze from which the smoke arises. Ir
the long run, in the course OF ages
nothing temporary is very consequent
tial, but to human creatures. whose
lives are pitifully brief, temporary joy OF
sorrow, victory or defeat, Is very conse-
quential indeed To men who may never
have the experience of a utopian society
a negative democracy in their own little
day may be a shabby makeshift for the
ideal.
For the comfort of such individuals a
reference to the history Of the growth Of
freedom in the world may be com,
mendcd The chronicles of the perioc
of Charles James Fox and John Wilke.
provide evidence of what elections useC
to be. Gains have been made, gain:
will be made. The ideal democracy
visioned by Thomas jefferson and Wall
Whitman. is not an impossibility.
An election, it cannot be denied, i
somewhat sad But no election at al
would be still more to be deplored Ar
approximation of liberty is to be pre-
ferred to its utter absence.
Evening star., 1932-11-07

Our old friends, the birds, are con-
sptcuous by their absence, as the
phrase has it.
1t is a good phrase, despite what
many say.
Let a man coin a neat expression,
Immediately it is seized upon by others,
until it becomes hackneyed by use.
It will remain, however as good as
ever it was, provided that it is prop
erly used
The nature lover may think. in all
honesty, that conspicuous by their
absence" exactly fits his bird friends
at this time of the year.
Not that few are not to be seen.
Only the other day hundred snow
birds, or juncos, appeared in the back
yard to feast on the chaff blown down
from the trees.
There were exactly 100 of them, &C
cording to our count, but one may be
forgiven for falsifying the record in
such a case.
The plan adopted was to block the
lawn off into sections, according to in
visible lines drawn from one tree to
another, from certain shrubs to the
corners Of the garage, and so on.
Then the birds in each section were
counted.
| X X x x
1t can be imagined that there was a
constant rising and falling of the bird
population as the little fellows flew
down and up, Gown and up, intent on
eating their fill
Leaves from locust trees are small
| and when dried afford ready
provender for these tiny birds. Grass
seed also is tidbit of which they are
very fond.
The snow birds are easily frightened,
flying up into the trees at the slightest
noise. or alarm given by one Of their
mates.
If they fly away quickly, they return
almost as readily.
Even the advent Of wandering cat
struck in amazement at the sight OF
SO many birds nonplusses the little gray
and white fellows for short time only
AS soon as tabby disappears, the
juncos fly down again, with a great
diplay of their white feathers.
:: x = !:
The blue jays are back again, too
not in numbers. but in sufficient guam
tity to make their shrill voices well
heard in our neighborhood.
One will see couple sitting on low
tree limbs, Shrilling at the world in
general.
This is a bird which almost every
cne likes. although almost every one
finds it necessary. at times, to pre-
tend he does not like it.
This sport of panning the blue jay
is one in which the present writer has
never taken part.
The longer one studies them, the
finer these birds appear
= < = =
In two qualities the blue jays sur
pass most of their feathered comrades
if one may call any bird a comrade
OF the jays.
In sheer interest and in beauty these
big fellows need ask for few odds. In
deed. II the jays own actions are to be
respected, he would be ashamed to ask
for odds.
He would give EN-
Your famous cardinal" he might
say, needs all of his fine red color tC
give him a chance in a competition
with me Just look at this"
And away he would fly, his crested
head up. his wings spreading soft tones
o. gray and blue to the light.
When it comes to variety ot
squawks. and other sounds. few birds
can compete with him.
His notes range from the guttera
to the soft, from the harsh TO the
Evening star., 1932-11-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC BILLI4M VILE.

running mate is not named Bryan. but
is the poetess. Gertrude Perry West,
and I have campaign representatives i'll
North Carolina. Virginia. Florida, Mas
sachuSetts, Mississippi, California and
other States
Wall Street brokers have been get
ting an eleventh-hour prediction
laugh out of President Hoover's Madi-
son Square Garden forecast that the
grass will grow in the streets of a
hundred cities" if Roosevelt is elected.
Brokers. driven to distraction by the
effort to keep themselves occupied un-
der present conditions. took to musing
on the possibilities of little putting
practice between clicks of the ticker in
the event that Hoover's prophecy is
fulfilled anywhere in the neighborhood
of lower Broadway and Wall Street.
Messrs. 'Stephane Lauzanne, Jules
SauerWein and Pierre Denoyer of the
Paris press head a distinguished galaxy
of French journalists who have arrived
in the United States to report the
American elections. France is more in
terested in the outcome of the con-
greSsional elections than in who will
be the next President Her main con-
Germ, like that of the rest of Europe
is in the. future attitude of Congress
toward the war debts. Most Europeans
are more hopeful of liberal" policy
at the hands Of Democratic admins
tratlon in the field of international CO.
operation. The French correspondents
took grateful note of Newton D. Bakers
speeches this week. in which the former
member of the Wilson administration
lambasted the Republican party for
scuttllng out of Europe after the World
War.
Once again-on November II, at II
O'Clock in the morning. IL years to the
day since they brought him back from
France-the Unknown Soldier will re-
ceive the plaudits of the Nation. The
occasion will be the formal dedication
of the white marble tomb that recently
supplanted the temporary one beneath
which the Unknown was laid to rest
in Arlington National Cemetery on
Armistice day, 1921. The permanent
monument is of Colorado marble. but
was finished" in Vermont. several
months being devoted to cutting the
original block to the specified size and
preliminary carving. 1t has been de-
scribed by authorities as the most
beautiful piece of carved marble in the
world" The main. or die, block
weighed SIS tons in the rough.
X X
These United States are normally a
Republican country. good ordinarily for
100000 or 100000 Republican ma
jority in a presidential election. The
bulk of big business is Republican. The
world of high finance generally places
its faith in the Republican party
Woman voters took credit for electing
Herbert Hoover President in 1928. In
large numbers their loyalty to him re-
mains unshaken. Hoover is still the
darling of the drys. and, the unpopu-
larity of prohibition to the contrary
notwithstanding. the drys continue to
constitute an enormous voting body
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the
G. o. P. has succeeded in throwing
considerable of scare into certain sec
tions of the business community ano
working classes Before anybody risks
a cocksure prediction Of what tomorrow
may bring forth, these are factors
recommended for serious thought.
Copyright 1922
Evening star., 1932-11-07
AN Ignorant Lot"

William Butler Yeats, coming to the
United States for visit. remarks to
reporter that I'VE Irish writers are an
ignorant lot"
1t may be expected that the epigram
will be misunderstood. AS long as he
lives, Mr.. Yates may in season and out
be reminded of his unkind expression.
Bernard Shaw and James Joyce may
feel called upon to demonstrate that he
is utterly mistaken in his Judgment OF
themselves if not in his opinion of their
Hibernian contemporaries. Those con-
temporaries. in turn, may insist that it
was exactly Mr.. Shaw and Mr.. Joyce
that we're indicated. A grand contro-
versy is implied And Mr.. Yeats may
find positive joy in the spectacle.
But, of course, he is quite right. Irish
writer's indubtably are IAN ignorant
lot" So are English writer's, French
writer's, German writer's, Italian writers
American writer's and all other writers
Nor is ignorance the exclusive preroga-
1--WE VI ptHIilSH IililA VI IiAC ANY ohiol
intellectual depravity of painters, sculp-
tors, actors. scientists, business men and
politicians! Think of the things they
know nothing about-millions and mil
lions of them!
What. for example, is the purpose Of
life? What is the origin of matter!
What is the nature of the atom? Wha
is electricity? What is the mechanism
of heredity? The list of unanswered
and apparently unanswerable questions
might be extended indefinitely. Poo
humanity. cropping and fumbling on
ward in the darkness. has exact knowl'
edge of so little of the phenomena o.
its existence, environment and circum
stance that the most profound thinker
are relatively "unlettered small-knowinl
souls"
1t was against such background
that Joyce Kilmer wrote Of poems bein
made by fools like me-" Fools? Yes
every bard deserves the epithet, and
might be applied with equal justice t
producers Of readable prose. 1t is tru
that men as a class are simpleton!
Ehe measure of their intelligence \
Evening star., 1932-11-07
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. H4SKIN.

What do you need to know? Is there
some point about your business or per-
sonal life that puzzles you? Is there
something you want to know without
delay? Submit your question to Fred
eric j. Haskin. Director of our Wash
ington Information Bureau. He is en-
ployed to help you. Address your in
quiry to The Evening Star Information
Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin. Director,
Washington, d. c., and inclose 3 cents
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Do not use post cards.
Q. How many players are there on
each side in cricket?-D. P. N.
A. The players are arranged in tvc
contesting sides of IL each.
@. Please publish the popular vote
for Hoover and Smith in 1925. E. NJ.
A. Hoover. 2l,429,lG9; Smith, 15,-
005, ,497.
R. F. ' ~ ~
A. Helium has at various times been
exported in limited quantities in the
United States. According to an act OF
Congress of March 3, 1927, 1t is pro-
vided that after that cate no helium
may be exported until after an ap-
plication for permission be made to the
Secretary of Commerce. The Secre-
taries of Navy and War must concur
with the Secretary of Commerce in
recommendation to the President for
| the export of helium. Permission may
then be granted by the President.
Q. Where did Queen Victoria die?-
M. E. B.
A. She died at Osborne on the Isle of
Wight. January %, 1901.
@. What is the name for the eye of
bean?-A A.
A. The Latin word for the "eye." or
the scar at the point of attachment of
seed to its base, is hilum plural hila
Literally it means little thing or trifle.
@. Please give me information re-
garding the national headquarters and
activities of the Quota Club. B. N
A. Quota is an international organ
iZation similar to the mems Rotary
Club. 1t Is composed of business and
professional women who have idistin-
guished themselves in their particular
line of business or profession. Only
one of each classification is eligible to
membership in local Quota Club, and
the person holding the classification
must be an owner. manager or an eX-
ecutive. Quota International has a
membership of about 5000 in the
United States, Canada and Australia
The international headquarters are To-
Gated at 8l2 Seventeenth street north
! west. Washington. d. c. The activities
of the Quota Club are similar to those
of the mems service clubs. As an in
ternational project. Quota sponsors girl
service activities among underprivileged
girls.
@. When was the first medical journal
published in this country?-E. B.
A. The Medical Repository was the
first. 1t was quarterly and was first
, issued in 1897. 1t continued publication
until 1924.
@ How much did England pay for
/ the Hessian soldiers which were sent
TO America during the Revolution?-
S. B. T.
A. The landgrave of Hesse who sold
his troops for so much head. received
more than S2500 900 for Hessian SOL
diers lost during the war.
@. Are there any fish in the Medi-
| terranean Sea"-P. w.
A. 1t abounds in fish, some 400
! species having been noted.
Q. Where was julius Caesar buried ?
"A. E P
A. Caesars body was burned m a
Evening star., 1932-11-07
Sand in Machinery of Justice
From the Chicago Dailv r,iburo

from the Chicago Daily Tribune
Because mittimus or formal order
Upon which convicted persons are taken
to jail or penitentiary had somehow not
been issued, a burglar sentenced to a
term of one year to life has been at
large Tor several months. The Chicago
CRIMINAL Court clerk says he received
no order from the States attorneys
once 1or the Issuance of the mittimus.
The States attorneys office asserts that
tne request was duly sent to the clerks
ofhce. Chief Justice Prystalski inter-
vened and signed duplicate letter di-
rectng the issuance. 1t mysteriously
tailed to arrive. Finally he signed an
other and had il delivered. Then the
mlttlmuS was issued and the convict
was sent on his way
The credit for this final success goes
to the Chicago Crime Commission,
which called attention three weeks ago
to the fact that the Supreme Court
had affirmed the sentence last Summer
and that nevertheless the convict was
still free. We invite our citizens atten-
tlon to this kind of service performed by
the crime commission. without whicn
there can be no doubt criminals would
even oftener than now evade punish
IL
self constantly a necessary adjunct of
criminal justice in this community. The
community should give its support.
and other Communities, at least the
larger ones, should set up similar COM
missions
The other lesson of this incident is
that there are influences obscurely at
work at, all times to defeat justice or to
procure special favorS for lawbreakers.
This is the most serious aspect of our
criminal condition. 1t is revealed re-
peatedly in the official machinery of
the law where corrupt politics is ex-
changing favors with professional crime.
We cannot fix the blame in this in
stance, and that is pity. but citizens
at any rate. should note that something
was radically wrong and that whoever
was guilty the incident is only the
latest illustration of underworld inf1u-
ence in the administration which poll
tics gives us.
Evening star., 1932-11-07
Junior Returns.

f Junior is five years old. His home
is in Kansas City. Playing in the
street. he was run down by an auto
mobile. 1t seemed useless. but he was
rushed to a hospital. Doctors there
sadly shook their heads. But they
consented to try, they promised to do
their best. The next day Junior was
still unconscious, but he was still alive
In his battered little frame a brave
heart beat on.
The doctors sensed the challenge of
their task. In their care was spirit
desiring to live, soul wanting to
survive. The second and the third day
passed, dragging themselves away. And
still Junior clung to earth, instinctively
struggling A week, twos weeks, three
weeks. full calendar month he lay
unconscious but refusing to surrender.
The hospital staff and his parents
worked and prayed at his side. Then,
on the thirty-f1fth day, color came
slowly back into the small white face,
and Junior opened his eyes and smiled
Reporters who had been thought to
be impervious to emotion quietly hur-
ried away to conceal their inability to
justify their reputation for serenity
The story went out to a country popu-
lated by parents and, much more i'm
portant, by children. Every mother
and every father, reading the dispatch
understood.
Critics have said that the modern
world is cold and cynical. Romantic
values are supposed to be "unscientific. y
It has been considered q virtue to be
hard boiled" But Junior has con-
tradicted all that. His adventure ir
the Valley of the Shadow has been
watched and appreciated by multitudes
of persons to whom, theoretically, one
little boy more or less mattered moth
ing. The point is that there are thou.
sands of Juniors and each of them /.
precious.
The daughter of Jairus had the Sor
of God for physician and st. Luke
and st. Mark for historians. For cen
turies her healing has been an inspira
ton to mankind. As the years hav'
!, departed the science et protectin,
Evening star., 1932-11-07

relatively, such . puny and dwarfish de-
velopment. It might be compared with
q polka-dot on the blazing sun.
Mr.. Yeats amuses himself playing
with words He knows that, arriving in
America, he must provide the ship-news
men with something bizarre and star
ting to discuss. He searches his mind
for a theme. He selects one which Is
suitably subtle. The reporters are
gratified. All is we'll
But there is a cheerful aspect of the
subject. Men, We are told. were created
in the image Of the Deity. and 1t may
be hazarded that they were endowed
with something akin to Divine intelli-
gence. The race may be IAN ignorant
lot" but admission of the fact is in
itself manifestation OF nationality and
comprehension. The case is not hope
less.