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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Tvphoid Fever

Is if Dossiblc to contract typhoid fever Dy kissing or sleeping with the person aiter there is no longer any fever? (L. C.) Answer-After a patient recovers rom " nhoid fever the disease ceases to be commuhi, n able as a rule There are exceptions, the wen known typhoid carrier state, in which the pa ticnt though entirely recovered, still harbors and gives off from the intestine typhoid pachi which may produce the disease. Let Mother in Law Think As She Likes Mother. .in- Jaw insists our baby Is nervous
 Baby Is ii bontI,s old, playful, and tries to
 walk alone, She has no had habits but fixes
 to bc active. She sleeps all night from to
 o'clock. co. K.) .,.,... ,o Answer--You may quote me as authofity TOT tbo assertion that there is no such thing hs normal baby that isn't "nervous' llke that Does she expect the baby to sit like a lump on
 n log all day?
 Carbon MOnOxidc Is there any special harm done h cnrb""
 ,uonox xide fu,ncs are allowed to escape from q gns range? Ti,c room K properly ventilated
 but there ls no chimney pipe on the sose' tMrs l. ID ,,, .. ,,,..,.. of inc alr of tho room will produce aneinih. he ldaeboa and IlstlossnoAs and vague general symptoms in tho person who spends many hours In the room. The kitchen should have ths bont ventilation, but often, tt lh ths least vsntIInted room in tho house. Eaithsr kesp windows wido opon or install sultnble sloss | lpips connection with nue or cow er aone ventlintor above the range.
 lcopyrIghL John Y. piis cob
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
So They Say

Imagine the value to history If there has been gossip writers in the days of Christ. Capt George Nichols. columnist of the London News Chronicle.
 
 We are told that the world has entirely outgrown religion. But we are not told If 1t has grown too small or too large for religion. The Rev Dr Charles +. Brown, dean emeritus of the Yale divin- ity school.
 The recent bonus march was one of the most cowardly assaults on government l have ever heard of veterans taking part in. Maj Gen George B. Duncan, U. $. A.. retired.
 Men blessed with the genius of discovery are seldom able to ap- ply their genius to issues of their own day.
 -President Robert F.. Vinson of Western Reserve university, Cleveland. Ohio.
 We arc becoming engulfed In a powerful undertow pulling us back into the dangerous waters of low cred standards as to- hours wages and working conditions In industry and business. Miss Mary Anderson. director women's bureau, U. $. Depart ment Of Labor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
Busy Santa

Among the industries that are fourishlng in spite of everything, do not overlook the Christmas toy industry. Santa Claus appears to have gone onto peak production. His fae- tories in America, at any rate, are working full time, with a good backlog of orders. and new orders from department stores pill ing up steadily. A glance at the financial page would doubtless show Christmas Pre- ferred going strong. In this realm, as else where, the automobile is king. The big shots are toy autos and trucks, and they are being made of the same metal used in real motor cars Designs are realistic and work manship is fine.
 The auto has revolutionized the Ameri- can toy" says one of the manufacturers Tin plate has been abandoned in this coun- try. Sturdy construction is required by small motorists as well as large ones. he makers test their toys by having full-grown man stand on them. Parts are spot-welded, not soldered or bolted. The toys are coated with baked enamel. From all of which may be seen how up-to- date Santa IS. There are other toys, too, of thousand kinds. pour ing from the factories May there be good market for them There will have to be- Whatever else happns this winter-and many things may happen, good and bad don't let Fate take out any grudge on the innocent kids They didn't make the depres- son Every child must have his Christmas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
Slightly Amusing

Mrs Herbert Hoover is an estimable mis- tress of the White House. She takes rank with the first ladies of the land who have preceded her in that mansion, It has been the good fortune of this nation to have elected presidents whose wives have not at tempted to dictate national or foreign poll cies. That is our honest belief. Perhaps we are wrong. Maybe if we were better in- formed on Capitol gossip we might amend this statement to say that majority Of the presidential wives have tended to their social and domestic duties rather than medde in affairs of state.
 Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth was an exception to the general rule. She was the daughter of the dynamic Teddy Roose- welt and became the wife of the late Nicholas Longworth for many years speaker of the House and for longer period represen- tative from Ohio. She came by her heritage naturally. It was second nature for her to engage in political talk and action. he same might be said of Mark Hannas daughter who was born and brought up in an at- mosphere colored by the smoke from poll tieians' cigars and made pungent by thelr colorful remarks. Mrs Ruth Bryan Owen also rose to her present political heights m the same manner.
 Luckily our presidents wives have not gone in for this sort of thing. Mrs Wood row Wilson is today usually to be found whenever democratic leaders of national importance gather to break bread and dis cuss issues Mrs Dolly Gam, half-sister Of Vice President Curtis, is also coming to the fore as an active. campagner. She proved her mettle three years ago when she went to Washington as her brothers official hostess and engaged Alice Longworth in duel for social prestige and position that made many husband wish that he had never come to the Capitol Through the three years of Hoovers administration Mrs Hoover has been in the background.
 She has emerged. though. of recent weeks with the chances of her position m the White House endangered. Travelling west with the presidential party yesterday for her husbands opening campaign speech at Des Moines. Iowa. she elected 10 do a little proselytizing on her own account Al one stop in Pennsylvania she warned men and women erowdlng around the train 10 re- member that there were small children in the group. That was very thoughtful and showed ihe proper maternal instinct How ever. out in Chicago. she spoiled it by ehas' Using esmGsmsn for throwing used a'sl' light bulbs on ths railroad ifaeks. where. ss she herself expressed h. little barefoot boys Tees running up and down"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS
(New York Times)

Since adjournment of congress in July a committee appointed by the house of representatives has been taking testimony on the gov. ernment's activity in fields once thought to be reserved to private enterprise. Hearings have been held in different cities. Various federal activities have been explor- ed. To a far greater extent than is commonly realized, Washington has become the directing head of agen- cies competitive with private busl- ness. The government operates barge lines, transportation com- panies, laundries, dry-clcaning ser vices and lithographing plants. It manufactures steel, clothing, har- nesses and saddlery. It sells ship stores, runs cafeterias and operates extensive dairy farms.
 Some of these activities have been undertaken as natural by products of efforts to establish prison industries, to utilize surplus equipment or to employ disabled veterans. But into many others the government has either drifted cas- ually or been thrust by pressure frof special groups in congress bent on proving to their own satisfaction the superior efficiency of public management of industry. That such proof is far from conclusive is ob- vious in many cases. AS special committee of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States pointed
 out last week, the governments operations can be carried on with out regard to elements of profit and loss wAich are unavoidable factors in private business. Funds with which to finance competitive activities are provided chiefly by taxation, without requiring or ex- pecting payment of interest. Prop erty used by the government is ex- empt from taxation. In computing costs, allowances for depreciation are frequently disregarded.
 Haphazard experiment in many fields of industry has created a great federal bureaucracy, poorly organized for the work which 1t performs, even on the assumption that such activities should be con- tinued. The investigation now be- ing made by tho congressional committee is a useful service. The facts being gathered, for presenta- ton to the house of representatives | In December, are especially perti- nont at this time. They bear direct- | ly on two questions likely to be of outstanding importance at the next session; economy in Federal ex- penditures and efforts to stimulate | tho recovery of business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
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line, invariably concoct their own speeches.
 Ali the important campaign sneakers, including President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt,
 receive plenty of help in prepar- ing their speeches even If the speeches are not prepared for
 them in entirety.
 | Presidential candidates are more likely to insist on inserting their own ideas and phraseologies than lesser campaigners, but only because theirs is the greater anx- iety.
 MT Hoover has secretary, French Strother, who has little to do except collaborate on the presi- l dential speeches and messages. although the chief executive often
 dictates the high spots. ogden
 Mills helps lot whenever Hoover speech deals with finances. Governor Roosevelt has a cou-
 pie of university professors who
 work with him on his addresses
 and they have been receiving l many compliments for the success Roosevelt has had, on his western
 in it."
 A certain Captain Ginsburg of the war department is famous Tor the Irish witticisms he puts In Secretary Hurley's speeches. For- mer President Coolidge once found that q ghost writer" had
 copied a paragraph verbatim from an encyclopedia for a Coolidge dedication speech. An ex-newspaperman is cred tied with the famous "chicken in
 every pot and a car in every ga
 rage" which popped out in one of
 Hoover's 1928 speeches. In fact,
 scores of public men have their | speeches prepared for them
 either because of lack of ideas or lack of time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
Here, There And Everywhere

does not include revenues obtained from hotel, club and restaurant lic- enses which bring the total close to S75,O00,00O. Nor does revenue alone tell the story of the successful op- eration of the Quebec system. Dur ing these past eleven years temper ance has made gains for greater than any that were made during the prohibition regime.
 The law operates well because it commands the support of an over whelming public. opinion. which prohibition, because of it's very na- ture could not command. While we have been trying to make work a law designed to impose total aDsti- hence upon the temperate and the incorporate alike, the Canadian provinces have shown the good sence to make laws respecting IT. quor that would conform to public opinion, instead of persisting in a vain attempt to make public opin- don conform to the law: It IS futile to argue as the prohibitionists do, L., to what public opinion should be. It is sufficient to know that 1t IS distinctly hostile to the Eighteenth Amendment and it's enforcement act in large and important areas of our country. with resulting in- jury not only to our legal and po- litical institutions, but to the cause of temperance as well. That this sit- uation has at last been recognized by both major political parties and their presidential candidates can mean only one thing-that the mis- take of writing prohibition into the Constitution is on, its way to being rectified.
 No small degree of credit for the mounting sentiment everywhere against an experiment born of a worthy motive should be given to the Women's Organization for Na- tional Prohibition Reform. which now has an enrolment of no few CT than 1,152,O00 members. Consid- ering the fact that this organiza. ton did not come into being until 1929, this growth in membership is nothing short of astonishing. The movement could not have succeed cd in the way 1t has unless It's cause was just and unless prohibi- ton had been revealed as contain ing in it for more of evil than of good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05

Washington.-The time has al- most come when your correspond ent conceivably, under pressure, might some time in the distant fu-
 ture be persuaded to admit that
 women, given enough rope. could
 prove themselves to be good in-
 fiuence in politics.
 That statement is somewhat
 revolutionary and unquestionably
 will evoke a great deal of abusive criticism.
 Nevertheless, one turns once
 more and makes a deep bow to Mrs Dolly Gam, the half-sister and official hostess of Vice President Charles Curtis, and admits that al- though honesty may not be the best politics 1t is something of which politics might stand a lot more and that Mrs Gam seems to stand as the foremost exponent of honesty in politics. Try to find
 a male politician as honest! Mrs Gam became a symbol of candor and straightforwardness at the time of her social war with
 Mrs Alice Longworth. She was completely frank about he r de- ! sire to take social precedence over all other Washington women ex- i cept Mrs Hoover.
 If Mrs Gam had been devious and furtive in that campaign she
 unquestionably would have been licked by the astute Mrs Long, worth. But she made no bones about it and after her brother Charlie, with firm and protruding
 jaw, had gone to the state depart
 ment the opposition caved in and
 Dolly won the day.
 She was like that at the repub- lican convention at Chicago when
 various republican politicians (and
 Mrs Longworth) decided that the
 party needed strong man to go on the ticket with Hoover. Mrs Gam, opening up a hot, vigorous, single handed campaign to save Curtis from the impending slaugh- ter, wasted no time stressing her brothers qualifications as cam
 paigner or as vice president.
 "Charlie wants 1t. so I want him to have it" she said. And 'she
 waged her fight on that basis, re- cruiting all of Charlie's old friends
 to help her, and won. Honesty was again triumphant.
 But Mrs Gam now has reached | the apex of honesty under circum- stances in which most politicians can least be trusted. That is to
 say, during a series of camjaign speeches.
 "All my speeches are prepared
 for me-" Mrs Gam told reporters ! in St Paul-and up went new
 high-water mark for candor in po- l litical utterances. Mrs Gam was explaining why she didn't care to
 comment on prohibition and re- | cent political developments; she
 just made prepared talks.
 The point may be lost on those
 who suppose that politicians. from
 presidential candidates down the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
KEROSENE FOR CHIGGERs

i o,atrans chigoe, chigger, jigger, sand l flea, rhnochopron, IS wee sa .a.i.,, the naked | very small that it is hard to see "l'n . fr,oua eve in fact it is little larger than the fo oId eSe'm m soaboia which is responsible TOT o.u | sashioned seven year itch. Like the l'osl shI, ~ inc chigger burrows into the sklh' fnt anI about the toes the tendcr skiii n so o if is | Iops accustomed to exposure ol couo tho I .Ie fooc1e of the species that causes l,e i troube. Like Mrs Acarus she digs m wIea ad nf ia nrenaring for the coming or ner oioo VI | little mites h,,ouo l !, ,,tin i and ali but the last two segments oi
 tha brov,nish red egg shaped insect. become e,.
 hS thG n i the skin Great irritation results l swelling, sometimes an abscess ana sol"e'"0 | sorjous lvmphangtis blood polsonlhs'
 | ,an eea the chicger by means of a | ,aanifvinp lense the best treatment IS extrac
 tion with a heated needle, which kliis the . ,.n. , sect and its eggs. The wound "hich ita . a hot should be treated antiseptlcaliy, say "I ,hile | met dressing of boric acid solution TOT wn'' S wes t than sone simple sterile ointment for day or tWo . .o of the attack
 before the chiggers get dug In; one ent m annIied ! for an hour This kills the insets without 'oo
 greatly irritating your sHin. The hts ;s it is | sbould be kept applied constantly or II nit n possible the affected surface iiiin'e
 for half an hour or longer . o.r | Tn chigger regions it is necessary 'o S"eep Accommodations of dust from walls anu ny,'r, noU' and to use insectide powder sucn as PyIee.,a ~ t freely The application of odorous iolio." ~ tho skin tends to repel chiggers just as IL re. naIs mosouitos mixture of equal parts os U | pIiva oil oil of tar, oil of cedar and oil or
 citronela makes good mo mosanmo anispers uop' | dron of turpentine on the spot or even n
 ouid of chewing tobacco dscourages the pur | towing propensities of a chigger, but the kelo- l aooo traotncnt is the best all around puhcide.
 provided the person using u 'aheS '0 "
 l nroximity flames
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05

New Britain seems about agreed to give the Waterbury relief plan trial. according to the New Britain Herald. And from reports over there in the Hardware City William M. Harris, chairman of the Waterbury Mutual Aid Unemployment Fund, may be asked to direct the work of getting the plan off to flying start. It may be recalled that Mayor Ouigley has been arguing that all the city needed to carry on its present. form of relief work was some cooperation from the man ufacturers But why not get every working man or woman who can afford it to do something for the unemployed? That's what we are trying to do right here in Waterbury and on the whole the scheme must be term ed pretty successful. If New Britain en- dorses it by installing it, it certainly will be with all good wishes for success from Water bury. We know what it did here. We hope it will do the same in New Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1s3:
More Hoover Promises

With the country plunged in the greatest economical debaele of iss history as result of three years of the loosest kind of govern ment witnessed in many decade, President Hoover last night launched forth in his opening speech of the present campaign on yet greater and more elaborate schedule of promises than were made four years ago. Two chickens in the pot and two-ear garage for every man, woman and child throughout the country fade into insignlfi- canoe to what was promised the farmer out in Des Moines last night.
 Undoubtedly the setup was well chosen for Mir Hoover's l932 campaign opener. The center of the farm belt was selected as most opportune geographical location that was carefully written and edited into last nights opening address Delivered by any one else it would have been heralded this morning by just so much political hookum but coming from the president - words of wisdom.
 Without going into an analysis of speech of such lengthy proportions that even the ever -grasping radio corporations were weighed down by its duration, every Ill which the country is beset with today from the question at issue, the farmer. to unem- ployment in general throughout the length and breadth of the land was laid in the lap of democrats whether they were in position to have had hand in the matter or not
 The high Hawley -Smoot tariff, which is now throttlng the country. as almost even a child can see, was glorfied as life saver in the present crisis. Only for th1s bill things would be much worse, said the president what an admission, If such IS the case If the present republican admins tration and Mir Hoover brides itself on the fact that present conditions are not so bad because they could be worse, and the pubic believes such logic. then indeed all IS lost Let's have no election at all.
 However, to what little vestige of thinking public that remains in this country of ours we would point out that the mere fact that because president reiterates facts. which three years have proved not to exist does not make them SO. A president on the political stump becomes politician and you know the rest the proverbial grain of salt must be held in readiness for Mir Hoover as we'll as any one else. If that is not so. how about those chickens and tWo-oar garages' They were only part of the prom ise made four years ago and the old adage about Greeks bearing gifts still holds good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05

One fact that has amused us throughout the early stages of the presidential campaign has been the fine way in which republican spell-binders are extoling Alfred E. Smith of New York. Not that we can ind any fault with Al" The nice things they say about him in l932 are all perfectly true, just as they were in 1928 when these seii- same spel-binders didn't say such eomph- ments to the then democratic nominee for president The intent should be obvious to all thinking people. It is nothing more nor less than a are-faced endeavor to sew the seeds of discord among democratic followers of both Smith and Roosevelt. It certainly is ridiculous to see the effort these repub- licans make to convince the world that Smith is the countrys salvation now that he's not in the race for president.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05

Not to make anybody's mouth water nor to start discussion as to the relative merits of prohibition just listen to this excerpt from recent article in the New York Times about medicinal whlskey in the United States. Its manufacture and present supply. etc. ''Pedigreed yeast is used in the manufacture of medicinal whiskey. This yeast was kept alive but inactive for four teen years in cold storage. It IS first taken out and placed in small jug thence into larger tanks, one of which holds enough yeast to ferment all the mash in one huge fermenting tub The biggest distllery
 has twelve great cypress fermenting tubs
 each of 28,000 gallons capacity. Yeast and mash are pumped into the tubs simulten- eously The fermenting period is four days, the time required by law for fermentation of sourmash whiskey. The liquid is then pumped to. the top of copper still. where it IS vaporized by hot steam. the whiskey passing into condenser. the first process forming what is known as Tow wine. It then runs through copper boxes with glass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
To.day's Selected Poem
ADVICE
CBy Helen Wclshimsr)

You promised tO call ht hnlf-pnst eight TO make some plans for h future date; I have been wntohlnR the ciock-f know You should hny" phoncd m hour ago The hands keep circllnR around. around. 1 am Awnre that perhaps you've found Somebody elTe---but that's Rll right. l didDt ask you tO call t0nlghtI
 After thIn don't say lD adypno9
 What you Will do .. Just take chance For 1 cannot think Of anything Az cruel es e Oh0ns thsf wiii not rinef
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-05
NOT "sOLITAIRE"

Memphis. Tenn - Solitaire. ah you probably know. is m old card gamn played by ono person who has q lot of tinle on his hands 10 kill. W. r.. Mccay. wntchmnn, thought he would have little game to pass away the tlr'e. JIG got out the cards and ht Du' he found he wasn't playing Lsi.tnire nt alt A negro suddenly showed up. held a knife in his ribs ana took his money.