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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

pa CNAl&N hAOAA VA 49, 80
Mines com e d y.
ITO H We n e
Honor" scheduled
for next Tuesday
and Wednesday at
w ard m an Park
Theater.
These parts were
played by Mary
Ellis and Basil
Sidney during the
comedy's New York
run in 1929. Mr..
Foster, a native Of
London, can re-
member the IA
nous E ng IL S h
actor. Sir Gerald
du Maurier. as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

IRsT NATIONALS "silver DOL
l. lar" a motion picture based on
= historical events Of the early
i West in the making, will be the
attraction for the holiday week,
starting Friday, at Warner Brothers
Metropolitan Theater. It tells Of the
adventures who swarmed into Colorado
during the richest silver strike in his
tory. With the bigness Of "Cimarron"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

when the play first appeared at Wyn-
dams Theater, London, In 1924.
Other important members of the
cast are Mary Ellen Cato as Imogene,
Dorothy M. White as her mother. Mrs
Faithful; May Cole and Philip Cole as
Capt and Mrs. Holt. Frank Jamison as
Simon Battersby. host to the prinox
Dorothea Lewis as his daughter. ~
gela Battersby: Jane Garlick as EHny,
B. A. P. Doehrer as Oliver and Joe
Bourne as DR.. Ainslee. Orris Holland
is directing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

producing pl c e
that has been en-
Enthusiastically re-
eived by each
generation in C e
17r2. The story is
told of a young
man extre m ely
t / m i d a m o n 6
women of his own
class, but quite
bold with those be-
low him. Mistak-
Ing the daughter
of lis f a t h e r > s
friend for q bar
maid and her house
for an inn, he be-
comes entangled in
m any complica-
tt0nS The cast for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18
"She Done Him Wrong"

MIKE DONLIN, Wade Boteler. Tom
w Mcclure and Arthur Houslnar
have been assigned supporting roles In
Paramounts "She Done Him Wrong"
starring Eas West Lowell Sherman Is
directing and AGrold Hecht, noted stage
and screen dance director, has been
signed to stags the dances Of the gay
nineties, which will be seen in the pic
ture
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

Ill NO PhAlOAoAiiAN
sweep OF historical
happenings, it is
said to be ever
more powerful in
its hro b b in 6
drama that pulses
with the heart
beats Of those
S t ur dy pioneers
who built the
Nation.
Edward G.. Robin
son has the title
role with Bebe
Daniels and Aline
MacMahon in the
f e m mime leads.
Others in the cast
of thousands are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

followed by more R-K-O vaudeville
time" and then the movies. His first
was Honey" and since then 1t has
been THE Night Club Lady" Bird of
Paradise" The Conquerors' and now
"Ihe Unwritten Law"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18
|Washington's Players:
What Various Dramatic Organizations Are Doing
and Propose to Do.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.

TINE Dramatic Club of American
University will present an eight
zenith century English comedy,
i Oliver Goldsmiths "She Stops
to Conquer" tomorrow night
at 8 o'clock in the college gymnasium
auditorium. The play is laugh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

OCCUPANTS of municipal houses In
Limocady, Ireland, are to receive prizes
for cleanliness, cultivation of gardens
and keeping the houses in good repair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

ID DONALD COLMAN in "Cynara,"
IN filmed by King Vidor from the
international stage success, is opening
Friday at Loew's Fox Theater. Playing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-18

\ ECEMBER on the Fox lot in
\ Hollywood witnesses a host OF
new faces in almost every de-
y partment of the studio. Addi-
lions to the roster of actors,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
Doles Or What?

Is it not about time for us to stop talking about the English dol" and make critical study of the English unemployment insur- ance system! Great Britain itself has done the latter. by means of royal commission which has spent two years examining the national problem of unemployment relief. The commission has just reported its find ings and recommendations.
 Y. It is interesting to learn that both the majority and minority groups of the com mission agree that the system should be re- tained. They differ as to method and ap- plication. The majority report recommends keeping the means test" = which requires those receiving government aid to prove they have no othes means of subsistence = adopting changes of administration Which will prevent political influence, and extend- ing the system to include domestic servants and agricultural workers
 Even the conservative members of the commission agree with the others in declar- ing the so-ealled dole to be the first line of defense for great majority of the unemployed" It is apparently not regarded as pauperizing charity but as constructive program for meeting tremendous need. America does not want to adopt the British system outright, yet it is possible we might learn something from it. Our own relief system is big one this winter. and many of our citizens are on a dole though it is called something else and is given locally rather than by the national government. Is our system the last word in handling tie problem3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
War Dsbt Sanity

''ThAs is no reason lo believe the re- quss,s Go ,hs Uhi,sd Sss,ss) win meet with anything but friendly, syphps,hstie sonsid- eration." says the London Daily Herald. in an editorial on War Debt sanity It continues: We see no final solution but complete cancellation. Public opinion in the United States is not ripe for that yet. But / one thing is certain. The United States would be much more ready to offer easement to Europe if the disarmament conference at Geneva is successful. What right have the debtor countries to plead inability to meet their obligations if they continue to squander money on armaments? So the debt question is linked with disarmament"
 This statement is a pretty good interpre- tation of American sentiment. Americans do not want to cancel those foreign war debts. but for some time have realized the growing difficulty of collecting them. Our people are coming to feel. too. that there might be advantages in the way of trade and industrial revival through cancellation. in whole or part. if further collection proves to be impossible. If there should be cancel lation. our country should certainly get something definite for it. either in the saw ing and safety accomplished by real dis armament. or in trade concessions. or both. Along this line. creditors and debtors may come to agreement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18

The entire state must have incurred with former Congressman E. Hart Fenn of Wethers6eld when fire destroyed the library of his historic home in that town. The home in which the ex-legislator resides is known as the Silas Deane house and was built in l764. The library contained not merely a valuable collection of antiques that have been in Mir Fenn's possession for years. but many books that can never be replaced. There were valuable first edi- tions and priceless heirlooms in the form of records and memoirs of the carly residents of the house. Peculiarly enough the fire was confined to tfF library. which itself was modern example of colonial art in wood- working. panelling. etc. The loss is irre- parable. The state, as well as the owner. is the poorer thereby.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION
Sees Tragedy in
 Downfall of Napoleon

Most historians look on Napo- leon as q wholly selfish menace from which Europe saved itself by the narrowest of margins. to its lasting benefit.
 Hilaire Belloc feels that the di- rect opposite is true.
 In his new biography. "Napo- lean," MT BeIloc says that Napo- leon fought for united Europe which, says MT Belloc,N would have been the greatest boon Euro pean civilization could have had. He almost reached his goal; that he failed, Mir Belloc says, must be counted one of the worlds great tragedies.
 This failure, MT Belloc contin- ues, was due chiefly to two errors Napoleon made. He involved him. self in the Spanish adventure. which split the Grand Army in half; and he made the sfnistake of invading Russia. But he also failed to appreciate the unifying force of Catholicism, and failed ;, therefore, to align himself with a power that might have brought him to success.
 MT Belloc has not followed the ordinary biographical formula. He begins his book with a rather condensed, sketch of Napoleon's career, and devotes the remaining chapters to describing certain of its outstanding incidents such bat ties as Marengo and Austerlitz. the Italian and Russian campaigns. the return from Elba, and so on; and his book thereby gains a good deal of dramatic force.
 As a new appraisal of one of the worlds most interesting men. Napoleon" , is powerful and deeply absorbing bit of work. Published by Lippincott, it is priced at S4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18

Joseph E. Stone. vice ce-president of the Stanley Works of New Britain and mem Der of Governor Cross's committee on un- employment. has suggested that the state gasoline tax be increased two cents. The money realized by this increase would be used for highway improvements. with spe- cial emphasis being placed on allocation O! such funds to communities that might pro- vide unemployed men with work on the roadways. Mir Stone believes that this sug- gestion is better than the general sales tax plan recently endorsed by the governor. He points out that the machinery for collecting the gasoline tax already exists. whereas if a sales tax was declared it would be necessary to set up departments for collecting this. That is true. but we wonder if Connecticut would stand an increase of two cents in its gasoline tax. At present we pay two cents
 which is as low as any state. We don't believe there is one state with one-cent tax, although we may be wrong in making this statement. However. we do know that states that have raised their gasoline taxes of recent years have not realized as much thereby as was estimated. The reason is simply this = high gasoline taxes encourage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
No Poisor, Gas

The Disarmament Conference Bureau at Geneva has been taking drastic steps against poison gas. and the most drastic policy of all is the one proposed by Japan. That country would not only prohibit the of fensive use of poison gas. but would no; even allow the use of gas defensively or in reprisal against an enemy violating the ban. and would forbid any manufacturer of such gas This. like most of the other disarma- ment measures proposed, is good. Americans in general has always opposed the use of gas, though not getting so far as Japan now urges.
 When all is said, however. the only really effective disarming process is to stop wars before they start. Experience shows that prohibitions amount to nothing when once nations have got into life-and-death strug- gle. It is necessary to banish the poison gas of jealousy, hatred and insult which pro- duees wars substituting the positive method of aggressive good will, compromise and concession.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18

We sympathize with the efforts of Lew A. Johnson, Ashland Wisconsin. naturalist. He is endeavoring to educate children to be- lieve that snakes are not the natural enemies of mankind. but in many respects their friends. It is astonishing to see how many of us regard snakes with actual repugnanee and kill any and all on mere sight. Danger ous snakes. to be true. should be avoided. but in nine cases out of ten. even the poison- ous varieties that inhabit this state are harm less enough unless disturbed. Mir Johnson says fear of snakes is not inherited. but in- stilled by parents. We believe he is right and education should be along other lines One snake, MT Johnson mentioned. bull snake. he claimed was worth $25 year to mankind in the, work it does for him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
MUCH SMOKE, LITTLE FIRE.
(Meriden Journal)

Newspaper and magazine articles have conveyed the impression to the country at large that Connec- ticut is a state where sweatshops have abounded a place where simon Legree manufacturers have driven women and girls at top speed in sewing machine work with their pay amounting to a'few cehts a week.
 Nothing could be farther from the facts. The evil exists here as it does elsewhere and there is need of remedial legislation, but there was no occasion for branding the state as sweatshop jungle, and no one knows it better than Labor Commissioner Joseph M. Tone, as demonstrated by facts given in his report.
 Most of the operatives in these establishmentspe earn not more than fifteen dollars a week, it stated, but instead of such pay checks as 65 cents or $1.7O for a weeks work being general, the commissio sioner reported that only about z per cent of the workers-569 out of 7,631 --reveived less than $5 week.
 About a third of all these women and girls earned between $10 and $l5, about one in five received from $15 to $20, and there were more who got between $20 and $50 a week than there were who got the beginners pay of less than $5.
 It is easy to play on human sym pathy by this type of exaggeration and politicians well know 1t. Meri- denites recall all the weird stories that were circulated about the state school with the fact basis be- ing so meagre as now to be practi- cally forgotten. Where there is smoke there is fire but too often the politicians can sbring forth clouds of smoke from the tiniest flame.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
50 They Say

If I'd know how much fuss, was going tosbe raised Lover this, I'd q got married this morning while Iswas at the clerks office. All this fuss over an old duffer like me going to take out a permit! No, she's no spring chicken, either --- George H. Taylor, 85, interviewed when he married Miss Gertrude Manchester, 76. in New York City.
 I have one difficulty in travelling and that is, am constantly cred- ited with being an EnglishWoman. I don't mind 1t, as Engltshwomen are very fine women. - Mtrs Katherine Mayo. American author.
 What the world, business, indus try and labor need above all is tranquility. quiet, relief from po- lftica1 excitement. Franz v0n Papen. schapcelior of Germany.
 Since the war there has been some moral injustice toward Italy. - Edouard Herriot. Premier of France.
 neither impede nor facilitate the business of the press. Sapuei Insull. Jr, in reply to all questions by reporters.
 If I have to go to prison, send me to Jackson they need a catcher for their ball team up there. = Nicholas . Gibich. ball player convicted of burglary in De- troit. He went to Jackson,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
COLLECTING SONG BIRDS

(New York Herald Tribune.
 Amid politics and debts the re- port of bird hunting with the rni- crophone finds place in the news with the things that, matter. It seems, indeed. to be bird week, what with, the Harry Payne Whit neys memorial gift to the natural history museum of the w6pRd' s greatest bird collection, the first exhibition of Rex .Brasher's draw ings of American birds--a work of forty-four years that out.Audu- bons Audubonand the sound film collection of wild-bird songs as a departure in ornithology.
 The radio before thsi has toyed with the idea of broadcasting the outdoor singers. It has caught the nightingale in England for listen- CTS, when Philomela happened Go be in humor. But the featfered stars mostly, excepting the hotel canaries. do not keep radio hours and are thin performers musically. They wilY not furnish much. pop ular entertainment. The ninety ir- dtviduaI song specimens, honover. which Albert R. Brand. of the American Museum of Natural Ills tory has captured with the micro phone and htanipede on phono-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18

Washington.-The republicans received such an unprecedentedly terrible beating in the elections that 1t may be surprising when no one comes boldly along to assert that the poor g. Q. p. is dead--or dying.
 Some of our most highly re- spected political experts have been accustomed to killing off the democratic party again and again, on occasions when it was buried under lesser landslides than the one just suffered by the republicans. They did 1t in 1920. 1924 and 1928.
 Perhaps one reason for the present failure<to wave fond fare- wells to the republican party is that the democratic party has come back from the grave in such an amazingly big way.
 A more fundamental reason for withholding the flowers and soft music is the fact that in any po- litical realignment there is bound to re1lain a conservative party a field in which the republicans have an indisputable claim. Theirs Is still the party of the people who,, in general, have the largest sums of money, and of those who most abhor change.
 Nevertheless, it is very much In order to inquire where the re- publican party is going and who is going to lead it on its way. Hoover and his administration have been wiped off the slate. So has the famous Senate Old Guard with the defeat of Smoot, Watson. Mos- es, Jones and Bingham. And the once all-powerful republican house machine is now a pitiful minor
 Hoover probably will mot be a again. A scramble for leadership Is anticipated now and the party will be largely in the hands of it's state bosses who still control their own organizations.
 The republicans are By no means Respondent. They realize; with conditions as uncertain as they are, that the party may be swung back to power in 1936. The old line bosses zsaach as Charlie Hilles of New York, J.. Henry Roraback of Connecticut and Ralph Williams of Oregon already are picking up the pieces. Some of the defeated Old Guards men, who still have political pow CT, will be found working with them. Moses is said to be plan ming establishment of a heavy hitting publicity organization here to badger the democrats just as they peppered the republicans
 That general group is ( believed likely to rally behind Calvin Coolidge as the one outstanding figure in the party who still stands high in popular esteem and as distinct possibility for the g. D. p. nomination in 1886.
 Secretary of the Treasury Og- den Mills is regarded as the only member of the Hoover admins tration likely to stand forth as a fut&lre party leader and possible presIdennal candidate. He was the sole republican to emerge Tn the campaign year as g man of big-time proportions. He is ex- tremely ambitious and very wealthy. All he needs Is fol-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
4 STILL FOR EVERY FARMER
(Brdgeport Telegraph

The suggestion made by Judge Calvin Stewart of Wisconsin to President Elect Roosevelt that "a still on every farm" would be q good slogan to help bring about the end of the farm depression will strike many persons as funny. In certain unreEenerate sections Of the country where applejack or corn liquor are popular, there must be an average of. say, one still to half dozen farms already. There is a limit to what the country can stand in this kind of farm pros- perity.
 However, Judge Stewart was not indulging in irony, nor did he have corn liquor in mind. His idea was that each farmer should have a IT, censed alcohol still to convert his surplus of grain and other ferment- able crops into industrial alcohol. And the idea isSnot wholly without merit. a
 With some slight modification of could run tractors and other farm machinery on alcohol quite as well as on gasoline and thus be saved a considerable part of their cash expenditures. Every substitution of home-raised product for a pur- chased product is so much net gain to the farmer who is having dif- ficulty in turning his crops into cash.
 Theresis in this coantry large, legitimate market for industrial alcohol in addition to the hlegiti. mate beverage market already mentioned. The late Ebenezer Hill, who was congressman rom the Fourth district for so many years, was the chief sponsor for the change in laws which encour. aged the manufacture of industrial alcohol, and he foresaw both q profitable market for farm. pro- ducts and source of cheap supply fo industries which use vast quan~ titles Of industrial alcohol. Congressman Hin's vision was never completely materialized for many reasons. The restrictions necessary to prohibition have proved Q severe handicap on i1- dustrial alcohol production. How ever, we never before had a Etua- tion quite like the present with so many farm products going to waste for lack of a market.
 Judge Stewards suggestion at least deservies some consideration. Alcohol produced near the place of consumption (and thus freed of undue transportatiVn costsl is reasonably cheap fuel. and #. Co 'still the most widely used of industrial solvents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-18
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lowing and he may be able to at- tract that.

1 lowing and he may be able to at tract that. Republican leadership in con- gress Is no longer impressive. but 1t is there that the party must carry on It's major public offen- sive against the demdcratic ad- ministration. Leadership now de- wolves on the previously much spoofed "Young Turks" outstanding among whom are Senators McNary of Oregon and Vandenburg of Michigan. Other leaders may ap- pear in the house and meanwhile much is expected of ex-Senator
 James w. Wadsworth, just elected to the house, from New Jersey. Other prominent younger re- publicans who probably will re-,
 main in politics and may rise high in the party are young Teddy Roosevelt, who must give up his job as governor-general of the Philippines, and Dave Ingalls,, de- feated candidate for governor of Ohio.
 This varied assortment of men, have worked out "a reorganizatin
 of the party by the elections of 1884.
 The ablest republicans in con- gfess are the progressives--Sena- torB Norris, LaFollette, Cutting
 and Johnson, who supported Roosevelt and Borah, who kept quiet. About. third of the 36
 republican senators will be pro-
 gressives, which makes the reg;
 ular republican strength seem
 puny indeed.
 The extent>to which the pro-
 gressixes will cooperate with
 Roosevelt or will be able ito get
 together with the regular repub-
 licans Is altogether uncertain
 pending the first session of the
 neWly-elected congress.