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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
The Cost of Motor Accidents

According to B. G. Willis, vice president of the Firemens Fund Indemnity Com- pany, the annual economic loss due to au- tomobile accidents is about S2,500,000,- 900. Some realization of the magnitude of the waste can be obtained by the knowl- edge that public school education in the en- tire country costs only 0,000,0O0 an- nualy.
 Practically all of the two-and-a-half bil- lion loss is due to three factors carelessness or incompetence. There IS no other major cause of automobile accidents. The unavoidable accident is rare indeed. The percentage of accidents due to mechan- cal failure of the car is small-and in the bulk of these the fault lies with the owner who has not kept his machine in proper condition. The human factor is present i'll every conceivable mishap
 Most of us have insufficient understand automobile. A car going 50 miles an hour has the same potential force as if it were dropped from height of l01 feet. At 40 miles an hour the car will travel 29 feet be- fore the average driver is able to react to danger, and it then takes 80 feet. with four wheel brakes, to stop. or a total of lO9 feet.
 Last year ignorance. earelessness or in- competence at the wheel killed 34,400 peo- pie and injured almost 1.000,000 Dur ing 1932 these factors will be responsible for another 35,O0O deaths-unless every motorist awakens to his responsibility and does his part to reduce the ghastly toll.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
"A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION

Z Negro slavery, apparently, didn't end with the Civil War. Instead It is still in existence today, in our own United States, and about tho only difference between 1t and the pre-war variety is that the mod ern slave costs less and Is more likely to be mistreated.
 So says John l.. Spivak in "Georgia Nigger,"' a white-hot. bitterly impassioned assault on what MT Spivak declares are widespread abuses of the prison camp system and the debtors laws in certain states.
 MT Spivak opens his book with an attack on the chain gang, and returns to that topic again at the end-and, although he tells his story as a novel, he includes pho- tographs and copies of official doc uments to support his criticisms of the chain gang.
 Most of his book, however, Is an attack on the system whereby, he says, negroes can be and are "orced into actual slavery by un- .crupulous plantation owners.
 It works, says MT Spivak. like this. A complaisant sheriff will arrest half 8 dozen negroes TOT vagrancy, say, or for disorderiy conduct. Court will not convene for three or four months. and they face a long stay in jail be- fore trial. So the plantation own- CT pays their fines and takes them to his fields to work off the debt. Somehow they never get out of debt. They are kept prisoners. and if they run away the law will bring them back.
 eorgia Nigger" hsaskcoshrdlu
 "Georgia Nigger" is a shocking and profoundly moving book. Published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam, Inc, 1t sells for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
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| lion American farmers are not go- ing to make a profit any more. The farm crisis is likely to be perma- nent.
 We face the establishment of an American peasantry which must subsist without cash. There will be hunger on the farms this win ter, especially in the south and southwest where hundreds of thou- sands of share -croppers and their children will have little or no food.
 "The immediate problem is se- curity on the farm. Many men who are being foreclosed and driven out have worked their farms for years and this depres- sion is not their fault. In various localities sheriffs and mortgage holders are being prevented from foreclosures by force employed by neighboring farmers. We want to legalize the position of farmers who can't possibly meet their in- terest payments and taxes"
 The farmers will demand: l.. Moratorium on debts, rents, taxes and mortgages. 2. Cessation of all foreclosures, tax sales and evic- tions: 8. Deep cut in the swol- len profits of dealers, middle men and food trusts" 4. Cash relief for all poor farmers. The attitude of Washington of- fcials toward the march has not been made known. Each farmer will have a certain amount Of money, however, and there will be no attempt to bivouack here as the bonus army did. Each dele gate is supposed to be provided with $10, to travel in trucks and to eat and sleep with farmers along the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

A national women's committee for relief and welfare mobilization has been formed in Washington, D. C.. with Mrs Herbert Hoover, honorary head, and Mrs Nicholas Brady national chairman of the Girl Scouts. as active chairman of the new relief com mittee. Mrs Brady said that in selecting women for the committee neither party lines nor politics were considered. Only one qualification was necessary, community in- terest and leadership in social work" Not only nationally, but each separate commun- ity has to keep this in mind this winter in the vast amount of relief work that must be done. Locally we are we'll organized and the relief problems are being eapably hand led.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
So They Say

was in the station about three
 hours, during which time I did my
 best to convert the police to com
 munism, without, am afraid,
 much success.
 Tom Mann, British labor leader
 expelled from Ireland. If the nations of the world al
 one time entertained doubts about
 solidarity, today, facing the world they must admit solidarity at least in misery.
 Paul Reynaud, former minister of justice of France. I wonder if a newsreel of a pa-
 rade of British soldiers before the king of England would be inter- preted as monarchistic propa- ganda?
 -Giacomo de Martino, retiring Italian ambassador to the Unit ed States. It is my judgment that the
 world has set its face toward the
 goal of peace. Senator Alben Barkley of Ken lucky.
 External difficulties lie ahead in
 connection with our Manchurian policy, and we are faced with the impoverishment of the rural com-
 munities, the distress of the small- CT merchants and industrialists, the depression in trade, the growth of unemployment and the increas- ing confusion of thought. Admiral Makoto saito, premier of Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Method of Choice

A nose and throat specialist writes that he has done 10000 tOnsil operations by the stand ard surgical method, but to-day he advises dia- thermy the method of choice for all his pa- tients from the age of 10 years upward.
 Answer-And I contend that the physician who denies the value of this method or fails to recommend it in cases where the major op- eration is not safe does not render his patient good medical service. Diathermy in skilled hands gives results in every respect equal to the results obtained from the major operation. It subjects the patient to no grave hazard. It saves the patients time. It is more economical.
 Ivy Poisoning
 Last year got poison ivy. This year got 1t again but I wasn't any place where could possibly get it. Does 1t come out every year if you aren't around 1t? Some people say if you get 1t one year you get 1t seven years. Miss D. Al
 Answer-The immunity conferred by one at- tack or by other means does not last long, per- haps only through a season. So there Is no reason why any one may not have ivy poison- Ing every year. The skin inflammation may coverings which have retained some of the lrritant since your attack last year. Send a stamped envelope bearing your address for inc structIons for building up your immunity. This helps to clear up such trouble as yours.
 Fibroid Tumor
 What do you think of therapy x.ray treat- ment for tufnoP. The tumor Is the sixe or Q grapefrult. Doctor called tt flbroid uterus. if has given me no paiD just . little discomfort. it bss been present not quite two years. some of my family think should have the tuinor Fe' moved by operation. lMrs V. w. J.)
 Answor--"ThorRpy" is a medical term moan. Ing treatment, x.fay treatment is sufficient ln many cases Of ilbroid tumor. scopyriEht John F' piIls col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
Here, There And Everywhere

ences to the question; the demo- crats are pledged to oppose "can- collation." but are not committed against the more hopeful plan Of revision" Better still, the candi- dates themselves have scrupulously played down the issue. So far as they have dealt with 1t at all, 1t has been either to propose means of making future payments easier or to suggest partial remission in return for an equivalent concession. Thus, Governor Roosevelt, early in his campaign, suggested a lowering of tariff barriers in order to per. mitea larger payment in terms or goods, though recently he has put more emphasis on a tarin high enough to meet production costs" abroad. President Hoover has ex- pressed on several occasions his be- lief that the American public would consider favorably plan for re- mission, eff for any particular pay "ment, we were offered some other tangible form of compensation. "such as the extension of markets "for American agriculture and la "bor."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

writing that Mir Malone enjoys far differ ent perspective than most of us do.
 It has taken Mir Hoover four years to gain control of bad situation. if we are to believe Dudley Field Malone. By putting Governor Roosevelt into the White House we will merely postpone the arrival of thar Nirvana for which all our pollyanna writers are ciamoring Ca time of wild spec ulation and distorted credit. no doubt). But that is just Mir Malone's opinion. There are those of us who are confident that the New York governor could deal with the situation in far different manner than has the pres- ident.
 Perhaps we are bit tired of countless experiments on which Mir Hoover places so much reliance. And may we add that we would like to see control of the nation vested once again in party that never laid claim to possessing such powers as those of producing prosperity or depression at the wave of wand. We excuse President Hoover's wild statements that democratic Congress Control of the House only, Her bie) has blocked all his best efforts to re- store the nations equilibrium. In short. in four months a miracle was to have been accomplished. That's too much for us to swallow. Even Dudley Field Malone can't believe that. But if he does. then he merely proves that in his espousal of the Hoover cause he has gone the whole distance and no mistake about 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
NOT COMPULSORY
(New York sun)


 Demagogues have fawned on and exploited the American Le- zion; fro mthe language or the new national commander of the legion it would appear that dema- gogues have corrupted, the legion. To tell members of the legion that the burden of veterans benefits Is not borne by the leverage, ordi- nary American" is to tell them something that simply is not so. To tell members of the legion that attempts to reduce the size of the burden now borne by the average, ordinary American" amount to "inciting class against class" is stretching the truth in intolerable fashion.
 Commander Johnson speaks or disabled World war veteranse" in one mouthful; 1t would be more honest to speak of war-disabled veterans and peace-disabled vet erans. It would be more honest of Commander Johnson if he were to indicate that, among other things, he is attempting to de- fend the grant from the national treasury of more than $1OO,- 100000 a year to veterans who came out of the war sound in health and .unscathed by battle and who have fallen victim since the war to the same accidents and disabilities to which other civilians have ben subject in the past thir-
 Possibly Commander Johnson thinks that his official position compels him to believe that the $7OO, 100000 which was appropri- ated for the benefit of World war veterans this year is coming from nowhere or is going to be paid into inc treasury without being paid out by American citizens. Nobody is compelled to believe such an absurdity, or even to pretend that he believes it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

Rejoice and be glad! New rules and scoring for contract bridge will go in:o ef- feet November first. If you wer. happy in the fact that you had good system of rules and scoring it's jus, too bad. The changes coming. it is said. will be particularly ap- plieable to reckless psychic bidding an in- crease in the uncomfortable penalties will curb this. it is thought. Another important change will be in the rubber bridge seor- ing: One of the changes will be to make the under the-line scoring for three no trump the same as for a game in either of the mincf suits. an article on the subject states. By the present scoring. three no trump counts i05 and five clubs or diamonds 100. The count of q straight thirty.hve point for nos trump thus will be abandoned" Walter Beineeks. ee.prssident of the Whist Club. which is the lsw.making body of bridge in this country has made the announcement Of the changes to come. and they will be in. tsfna,ienaI in scope. Secrecy on the subject was pledged until November first but some. how of other ihs, news leaked out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
PRETTY PERFUNCTORY
(New York Tribune)


 Former Governor Smith, speak ing at Tammany hall, and for the first time in this campaign, was miles away from his usual form. He had a very bad throat, which made his delivery ineffective. That may improve before election day. Frankly. however, it was the sub stance of the speech which was fiat. The once Happy Warrior" is always at his best when fighting for a cause. This year he has none. and he seemed keenly aware of 1t. We wonder if his later speeches will be any more effective.
 After months of silence following the Chicago convention he finally decided it was necessary to do something in the name of party regularity and of gratitude to Tam- many, which stood by him for the presidential nomination. So he went down the line, referring by name to all the candidates except the minor ones, who were included in a blanket mention. But there was no note of enthusiasm In the performance. There was no per- sonal indorsement of Governor Roosevelt and Speaker Garner. simply an announcement (for the record?) that the "loyalty and de- yotion of the great democratic or- ganization of this city will be ex- erted to the last degree" Tn their favor. Getting down to Morris Tremaine, he called him the "best com ptroiier have known" and then added: "rhat goes for the candidates of the party generally" iow-not at all like the Al Smith we have known. It reminded one of a pupil with c piece to speak hurrying to set it out of the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

A large crop and low prices of turkey presage a year round sale of the birds in- stead of just for few months of the year. One of the largest crops is now ready for the Thanksgiving trade. A representative of the Institute of American Poultry h. dustries states that in few years we shall see turkeys sold the year round. When that is the case. and not taking into considera- ton storage turkey which is also year wound viand. turkey will cease to be the great novelty and delicacy that it is at pres ent This same authority also predicts that turkey can be produced with profit at price even lower than chickens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
PAYING WAR DEBTS
(New York Times)

Some of the difficulties which confront England in making the next payment on her war debt to this country were discussed in a news article in The Times yester- day. The amount involved is. far larger that that due from any oth- CT country, being five times that of the French payment and more than 70 times the sum to be received from Italy. Meantime, England's suspension of the gold standard has added a new problem; for the de- preciation of the pound by about 30 per cent means that more ster- ling is required to purchase the dollars in which the payment must be made.
 Whatever action Is taken on Dec 1b, whom the next payments fall due. It is . clear cause for satis. faction that tho vexed question of the war debts has been handled ju- diciousiy in the presidential cam. paiRn. It could have been made c subject of useless and bitter dis- pute, with the democfRts charging that last years moratorium had aaFcIhced American interests, and the republicans, in seif.defenses hriven Into nn indefongIbIe poe sltion with respect to future pay- ments. Instead of that. both irIc. sponsibIe chafses and impossible promises have been avoided. The republican platform omIts aii fefeF-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

A professor of chemistry at the Uni versty of Pittsburg forecasts day when whole house may be illuminated by single electric bulb. This will be effected, he says from single bulb by means of transpar- ent quartz rods'. He explained that the rods might be extended from one bulb to all rooms of house, the rooms receiving their illumination from the glow at the end of the rods. This is all very well but what will people do with the electric fixtures that are already installed in their homes!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
BY RODNEY BUTCHER NEA Service Writer

Washington.-A number of marches" representing the more distressed clements of the popula- ton, are expected to head toward Washington this winter. The first one, apparently, will be process sion of militant farmers to the Farmers National Relief Confer ence scheduled to begin December z, and end December 10.
 The spectacle will not only be unique. It may even be significant In the meantime the farmers of the west may have revolted at the polls, which will also have been significant. But if the march to the December relief conference should turn into a mass movement, the appearance of revolt Will be even more pronounced.
 For the program is distinctly radical; these particular farmers even demand that their farms not be sold over their heads when they can't pay their debts.
 Sponsors of the farmers march profess not to be organizing 8 mass movement. The parliamentary op- erations of the conference will be restricted to delegates elected by farmer groups who may elect one delegate for each 25 farmers at- tending the meeting.
 They first figured that there would be about 500 delegates, but lately have believed they might have 1000,
 If the idea takes, however, the movement may even assume the hnn1IG march. Spontaneous elections of delegates by groups previously un- known to the organizers are being reported from some states. !ndl- yidual farmers who have not been eletced are eligible to come along as "fraternal delegates" which extends the possibilities.
 MT Lem Harris, a tall, slim Har- yard graduate who took up farm ing and the study of farm problems as a career, is acting as secretary of the conference here. He was three years on a Pennsylvania dairy farm and last year travelled through many regions on a survey of the economic conditions among farm- CTS. He now edits a news letter for farmers.
 "This conference is an outgrowth of the wern farm strike" Harris says. "Our demands and the con- ference call were adopted at mass meeting of 1000 farmers at Sioux City, September g. Leaders there at once set up a conference organ ization and there are now groups in nearly all states, east and west.
 Organizing large group or farn,ers for such a. demonstration is unusual, but the crisis is so se- were, that plenty of them are will- ing to come. I believe several mill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
The Great Peppers"

.s Perhaps we will be accused of this, that, rsssand the other thing for criticizing the sud- : den reversal of form displayed by Dudley . Field Malone this week. Mir Malone has ..shifted his alliance from Governor Franklin ID. Roosevelt the democratic candidate for '@president, to President Herbert Hoover, the
 -main reliance of the republican party. MT \ 4sMalone is best known as liberal democrat ' whose political tendencies have caused \ him to support Alfred E. Smith in ' practically every campaign that he engaged z and Governor Roosevelt in his two success \ full runs for office. Hitherto we have not
 ' criticized severely public figures who decided \ to let the nation in on the fact that they
 ' weren't going to be regular
 ' Dudley Field Malone cannot be said to ' have just joined that select list of great 7. .floppers'. He was in it some years ago
 ' when he championed the LaFollette cause ~sso strenuously. He merely now moves up :. to the pew occupied by Senators Norris. ~ Borah, Johnson. LaFollette etc. a eoterie of : greats and near-greats. All of them are con- :. sistent by their very inconsistency which to- v day has come to be known or described as {. liberalism or progressivism. For any sudden :. change of front displayed by these gentlemen . we must find an excuse. It is not their na- z. ture to be two-faeed. They are not court
 : ing public favor by their defense of prinei' . pies. It is just their nature to go contrary z. to the way they might be expected to move. 2 We can't let Mr Maone's apparent defee-
 -tion pass though without some little conn
 smsnt Don't eonstrue it as bitterness on our
 .psft that democrat has left the fold to sup.
 . port Mr Hoover. We don't doubt that
 ( <smsny will do that very thing this fail. just ~ss they did four years ago when Alfred E. ~Smitb was soliciting their aid M the polls .s.That again is eontfafnsa. However Mr . Malone feels tl'st the president should not be 'ssusted from office right now. because it .wodld upsss the tranquility now prevalent In pfbs nstios. it Is perfectly obvious st this
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
IDAHO AIR ToUi

Idaho Falls. Idaho--An aerial good wil tour of this state and Mon- tana. in which pilots from all secs tons will take part. is planned to start from this city In the near fu- ture. Tho route will pass through the following cities; Boise, Twin Falls. Haley, BurIey. Pocatello, Mont; Keilogg, Occur d'Alene' Lewiston, Cascade and Nampa, ida- ho.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady, M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not disease diagnosis or
 treatment, will be answered by pr Brady. Address him. care of the Democrat Senoane stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
O--NJ-O YOU DON'T SAY

And this is the bawl room," The daddy looked wise, For it was the nursery Where the baby cries.
 o-O-o The socialists will poll a large this year, proving that a ot of Doubling Thomases are for Nor man Thomas.
 o-O-o
 Some of the loudest things in America are the speakeasies. o-O-o Nature may be grand, but an iron dog on the lawn is carrying the idea bit too far.
 o-O-o
 DING. DING
 Red for fall.
 So styIists say,
 It's a warming color,
 On q cool fall day.
 o--O-o They have full range of oil burners now and the range includes the one in your kitchen. The campaign is warming up. Pretty soon the candi. dates will probably take their gloves off.
 o--O-o This concludes our opening pros gram Of the week. It came to you over DBD and was broadcast by tho waterbury Evening Democrat, pio- nser in this type Of newspaper work. We are signing off at this tims, to be back on the alf again tomorrow evening ht the usual hour.
 o-O-o ueod night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
ALAsKA's AERIAL R. F. D.

Nome, Aiaska-.Alaska is to have On asrlai rural free delivery ssr- vice. Joe Barrows has taken oyer . route from Nonana to Buby for merly covered by . dos team. Planes on the line will make se stops to deliver mail te trsppsrs cabins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

Goldfish caught by Norwegian fishormen this year weighed ise,- |3b7 tons. an increase of 19sits tons over the ieoi catch
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24

Argentina has placed Fssssisliens