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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1882
If Prohibition Ends, What Then?

Suppose that the Eighteenth Amendment were to be repealed, what then! That seems to be the question most frequently voiced by those men and women who are wavering on the brink of indeesion. They are prohibtionists at heart, yet they realize that the. Eighteenth Amendment has not presented solution of the problem towards which they and their kin have been working for hundreds of years. First off, it must not be thought that liquor problems are con- fined to the United States. As a nation we have not existed long time, relatively speaking. Far older nations than ours have fought this age old question for centuries and centuries. Few of them dared to take the bold step we did. Some did and have retrcated to former positions.
 Right now it looks as if prohibition was admittedly failure in the United states by considerably more than a majority of the people. The president of the United States has recently added his weight to that of its opponents In the event of repeal what then? There need be no alarm for the nation. It won't immediately become one huge bar room in which jaded appettes will be stacked. Of our forty eight states, thirty eight would still have state prohibition laws which would prevent their entrance into the manufacture, sale or importation ot liquor until the state assemblies had acted Nineteen of the thirty eight with prohibition laws wouldn't even see a saloon.
 And should Congress vote that the 9th Amendment be repealed there would be am pie time for each and every state to consider well it's status before sufficient states had rat flied the repeal action. It must be remembered tfat three e-fourths must disapprove, just as it vss vital to secure three -fourths for the amendment back in 1917 when Congress proposed the 18th Amendment Three fourths of the states had not approved until lo19 One year later the amendment be- crme effective. Should Congress repeal the amendment in December, l932, it is in- conceivable how it's grip could be entirely removed in period less than two years. All of which answers the argument of those who want to know what will follow in pro- hibitions wake. That is a state problem. to our way of thinking. and not for na- tional decision. We sincerely hope that 1t will be given to the states to make their own decisions as to what course of action they will adopt with reference to liquor sales and manufacture. We see what federal inter- ference can do. Why not accept the lesson in the proper spirit and be guided accord ingly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
Just a Bunch of "Hooligans"

Some of us were doubtless amused by passages in the recent history of the eminent English writer, A. G. Bradley, entitled, Colonial Americans in Exile. Mir Brad ley has delved into the incidents surround ing the historic Boston Tea Party around which our American histories place such colorful glamor. But not SO Mir Bradley. And here is where some may smile, but others, who claim ancestry with participants in the Boston Tea Party. will look daggers at any and all who dare mention or quote from the English history of that episode.
 He claims that the Boston Tea Party was the work of Boston Hooligans' He fur- ther refers to our own justly celebrated John Hancock as the prince of smugglers'. Of Thomas Jefferson he says he was ''ebsessed by an anti-British craze" Referring at length to the Boston Tea Party he makes of 1t not motive of revolt against repres- sion. but method by which Yankee snug glers were striking at British control of the high seas. Doubtless there is some accuracy in what he says about tea smuggling, but that the Boston Tea Party was anything but an act of patriotism cannot be expected to be believed by any red-blooded American.
 Surely Mir Bradley must be the same writer who revealed that Paul Revere was not much more than a South Boston bully when he was enlisted to spread the alarm through every Middesex village and farm. Even if MT Bradley had all the facts and every American history merely the fiction we wouldn't care to change ou, opinions on them. We rather like to think that our ancestors were all that we have believed them to be over long period of years. This may be the age of realism. but certainly bit of the romantic won't hurt any man. We don't care what the Boston Tea Party IS proved to be today. We know what it was in our school histor- ties and that account is still good enough for us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

doubtless have a wholesome effect on busi- ness.
 At the same time. it may be that the mere fact of those funds being available. with the knowledge that they can be drawn upon if necessary. is more valuable than their full utilization would be. As for the atti- tude of business men and farmers. it is both natural and wholesome. They do not want to go further into debt. They want to get out of debt. They will not borrow money if they can avoid it. Those who can avoid it. generally speaking. will be better off in the long run.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
So They Say

We feel that our children have a right to grow up normally with other children. Continued pub licity will make this impossible. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.
 I've never been happier or felt younger. Age is a matter of the brain, not of the arteries or Clarence Darrow. 70. criminal
 lawyer.
 October will be time enough to start worrying about politics Senator William F. .Borah Of Idaho, who has announced he would not support President He (Hoover) took his coat off. rolled .up his sleeves and went right at it like any of Us do. -. John Crockett, Chesapeake
 Bay fishing guide to President Hoover. ? A government cannot be run like college fraternity. '- Gene Tunney, exheavywejght champion of the world.
 Today in Russia the formula is: He who works more shall eat more, buy more, enjoy more.
 Emil Ludwig, writer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
BACK TO THE SOIL
(Hartford Courant)

It was Sir John Vaudeville who wrote some centuries ago that "When Adam was turned out of Paradise he betook himslef to gar- dcning." He undoubtedly did, and in a crude manner, but some spark of divinity within him urged him on, impressing upon him in the meantime that he must eat or die and that in order to eat he must eat or die and that in order to eat he must work, no matter how dis tasteful that might be. <,
 We are still back in Adams time, for. in the steel section of Indiana the jobless have taken to garden ing, and in the Calumet section 2O,- 900 families are subsisting on plots, approximately 44,000- in number. Swamplands have been reclaimed, farms have replaced wasteland and marshes and those who are cultivating these are gaining in health and, we feel sure, in con- fidence. When the head of a family discovers that the forces of nature will assist him to food If he will approach them in the right manner, he has gone far. He recog- nizes them as co-worllers and with their aid no middleman is re- quired to feed him and his.
 He gains in self-relianee; the forces of nature tell him what he must and must not do. They do not give him a short work day or week but they urge him in con- vincing manner to employ all the hours of daylight if his strength is adequate to the task. They urge him to secure the aid of other members of his family for they show him that the greater the vol ume of work performed, the great CT is likely to be the volume Of food during the coming winter. In his savage state man might hunt during the winter, but that he may not do freely in northern Indiana, at least, for there are game laws to be reckoned with.
 The modern Adam. turned out to employment because of slack con- ditions or advancing age, cannot hunt or fish. but there Is still ground to be titled and he must depend upon the favor of heaven and tho fertility of the. soil for his food. Nature may blight his pros poets. yet as rule she will work with him and he is likely to dis cover that the markets cannot SUD- ply to equal that which he has pro duced. When he makes this discovery he has become a Tree
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

Washington. - Opinion around here has been tending more and
 more toward unanimity in the be- lief that Governor Roosevelt of
 New York hopes to have privilege of removing Mayor Walker of New York city.
 Court action may temporarily
 block the removal, but the gover- nor's attitude during his examina- ton of the mayor left litle doubt in most political minds here in most political minds here that the
 omens were darkening for Jimmy. Not only did Roosevelt seem ln- censed at some of Walkers ans- wers, but he appears to have been the grst inquisitor or critic to get under the wise1cracking, debonair
 burgomaster's hard-boiled shell of
 defense. For the first time Jimmy seemed to weaken and his defense
 of some the things disclosed by the Seabury investigation obvious 1y astonished the governor.
 It didn't seem possible, but the
 maze of national political compli- cations with which the case was surrounded has actually increased. A New Kind of Rat It also seems worthy of note that Albert M. Day, a department of agriculture biologist, has invented a steel trap which distinguishes as between animals and is designed to catch only the right ones. By an adjustment which makes the trap spring only under, certain weights, it is possible to catch wolves, coy otes, bobcats and other heavy pre- datory animals, without interfering with such innocent critters as birds, rabbits, foxes and porcupines who under the present system are very often caught and serve to warn the more dangerous varmints from the vicinity.
 To Foot or Not to Foot
 The miniature mail trucks which run through the corridors of the long wide navy building go at high speed. They became an actual traffic hazard and one worn- an employe had three toes broken in collion with one. So it was de- creed by the superintendent of the building that the trucks must wear horns which must be footed.
 Then the footing began to bother the naval officers and their clerks and at last reports the police who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

Finland is going to try to eliminate all traces of it's recent prohibition laws. The Finnish is even now considering proposal to pardon some 10000 prisoners who are serving terms of varying lengths for viola ton of the liquor laws. Finland believes that, since it has done away with its former laws it is only right that it should be lenient with offenders In addition it finds its jails so sadly overcrowded that violators of laws that can be enforced are without cells And then there is a mone- tary consideration which is quite consider able from all reports. When Finland be- came wet again on April 6. it ended period of prohibition of about the same length as our own noble experiment. In the first six weeks following the removal of the ban it was reliably reported that drunkenness had fallen off 50 per cent. And yet pro- hibition speakers in this nation attempt to tell us that prohibition in the United States has resulted in a decrease in the number of cases of drunkenness. We just don't believe that statement. reliable as may be the sources. Rum-runners. bootleggers. and il- lieit distillers will not be covered by the proposed amnesty. They must finish out their terms of Imprisonment. By the way how many dry law violators in this nation are imprisoned. Certainly not, as many as in Finland. proportonatey. and yet Fin- land couldn't enforce its laws any better than we do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
THE BUcKBoARD's
 New York Hcrald-Tribunc)

Few isolations are secure against
 the forward march of the automo-
 bile. Even Bermuda in midocean
 has to be always on the alert to vote down the motor threat to her repose. Islands near the main- land cannot hold out for long. Man. tucket was obliged reluctantly to yield. Mount Desert resisted the engines for years. but gave up the fight in 1924 and is now quite rcconciled to modern locomation.
 On Isiesboro, however. In Pc. nobscot Bay, the blackboard still reigns. Ten miles from shore. Islesboro has warded off the auto- mobiles ,and most of the summer residents would gladly keep the machine age at arms length in- definitely. But the permanent rcs- ldents have grown rcstivo at belns deprived Of q lively and entcrtnin' ing instrument of civilization. They want automobiles more than they want quiet, and gre likely Co Bes them, Tor the Issue Ie coming iil
 next month nt c special town meet ine. The natives de not, 4s visltor'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
Loans From Uncle Sam

An economic conference. to meet in Washington August 26. will urge financial and industrial leaders to stimulate business by taking advantage of the new credit faeili- ties now offered by the government. Off, cisls are said to express disappointment at the slowness of private interests to utilize the new economic machinery set up by Con- grcss. Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation have been making the same sort of representations to farmers and stoek men. urging them 10 go ahead and organize the system of agricultural credit cor. porations provided for. The federal funds have been established to be used in an emcr- gency. and 4 considerable use of them would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
Here, There And Everywhere

z At- Y 5a .t | of the world, though with no en- dangling alliances.
 Between 1871 and 1887 govern ment observations were made there winter and summer, chiefly for our own benefit. The most modern in- struments will now be used so as to furnish an important part. of the extensive probing of the incon- stants of nature" in a year when a quest will be carried on under conditions of temperature and wind that belong to the Arctic and at times by the light of the aurora borealis. For while Mount Wash- tington is geographically in the tenn perate zone it is ."climatologically" in the Arctic. Temperatures are sometimes as low as y{59 degrees below and wind velocities as high as 186 miles per hour.
 This scientific enterprise has been made possible by the cooperation of the Appalachian Mountain club, which is ever keeping trails in con- dition and making the slopes and heights even more inviting to those who have found their way to the valleys described by Lord Bryce in the last article he wrote about the United States:
 It would be hard to find any, where lovelier landscape in 8 quiet style, not thrilling but sweet and soothing, than the lntervale above North Conway. near which. under the bold ridge of Chocorua, the honored and beloved phil- osopher. William James, used to spend his summers.
 The lines of the hills, descending one behind another, fainter and fainter as they recede into the level vale through whose meadows a clear stream meanders, blue or dark gray rock, falls showing here and there through the thick hill- side woods. clusters of houses giv- ing a human touch to the scene. and in the distance the snow- tipped top of Mount Washington these make an unforgetable pie ture. M
 The height in that, landscape is to have its part in homage to him whose name 1t bears and whose memory 1t holds in the sight of earth and sky, of men and angels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
@ TODAY ssS
 WORLDMAR X. ANNIVERSARY Ex ofE&E..

BRITISH LAUNCH NEW DRIVE.
 On Aug. 26. 1918, British troops launched q terrific new offensive on a 30-mile front from the River ecarpe to Lihons, and crossed the Hindenbprg line at several points.
 Their attack was preceded py artillery fire lasting several hours and equaling in intensity any bar- rage ever laid down.
 to retreat all along the front. but did SO only after desperate tsht- Ing. with tremendous losses on
 trench troops continued their drive to encircle Royes ana took 1fresnoy and Ht Mard. noye was expected Co faii nt eny nsoment, although it was defen1e1 by the best soldiers in the German arnN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

tI,,rs are so.5Oo. 100000 held in mortgages by eligible institutions. It was sppoTtioned a capitaiI of S20.000.0o0. New EngIand's mortgages were estimated at S9.5O0.000. 900 but our capital is only Sl2.500.000. which is the equivalent of several other dis tricts and less than that of some whose mort gsges are not as high. Somebody may be able to explain this discrepancy, but just at present we can't see the logic of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

The Federal Home Loan Bank Board has drawn up the twelve districts in which home loan banks are to be established. As yet the headquarters city in New England has not yet been announced, but it was stated at Washington that this district had the second largest number of mortgages. We should think that this would have guided the distribution of capital Certainly m New Works case it did ss it is estimated that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

Every foreign country is looking eagerly to the moment when Uncle Sam will cast aside the prohibition laws that have en- cumbered him for the last l2 years. France. Germany. and Spain are preparing for or ders for beers and wines Now an Irish distiler asserts that his company is prepared to sell all the Irish whiskey that his com pany did here before prohibition. He be- lieves that we will be wet after the 1852 presidential election. Such optimism surely must have a foundation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

High tide at Milford Saturday. August 27, S:ll a. m. Daylight time): low tide, 2:44 p. m. Daylight time).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
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 Dr Brady.
 Address him. care of the Democrat. senuine stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

All vehicles must be lighted not later than S:O4 Daylight saving time) tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

The term '.nuisanee tax is superfluous. All taxes are nuisances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

do. consider the islands lone ad- herence to the buggy cru q ae' llghtiui singuInrlty: So one Of tne last f0rtresses that spsed has not and lhe headlights will aieam next sunlnsor in Dark tiurbof.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

The truest thing wes seen about this dis armament business is the wisecraek of Ger man paper in Hamburg - Disarmament is for the disarmed.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
A MOUNTAIN cELEBRATEs
(New York Timesl

Mount Washington during winter is to harbdr on It's summit 2 group Of scientific observers. The plan may bc considered 6 part of the Washington Bicentenniai celebra- ton, as well as of the second polar year program. From the peak boarlng tho namo Of Washington thore is to be special communica. ton and cooperation with the rest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26
Good evening.
 LINES TO A FISH
"A SMILES TIFF THING.

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 LINES TO X FISH The smell of fish is in the air, A pungent odor everywhere. The smell of cod and sWordfish.
 too, f Then comes the smell of
 snapper blue. An fish, just once a week you
 shine,
 Though for your taste l hardly pine. I like to hook you in the deep. It rouses one from life's deep
 sleep. And dangling on my hook of steel. You have that pound. or two
 pound "feel," But in fish store you seem flat. Though you're a fish for all
 O that. I've pulled founders from the sea. Lake bass and perch. trilogy. And as you dangled from the line, You just made me feel sort 0
 fine. You seem so different in the sea, Or ripping lake where winds
 are free, But Friday. when you do your
 stuff,
 One bite. and gee, I've had
 enough.
 O-O-o LOST-A toy Boston terrier. an- swering to name "Skippy." When last seen was colorless-Want ad in last nights Democrat. Good gosh, the poor bow-wow must be suffering from anemia.
 o-O-o Tipping may be an evil but the waiter and waitress feels rather evil unless they get one.
 o-O-O A picture no artist can paint: A chap in one of those white suits walking through a thunder shower.
 o-O-o It's not the blanks in party that cause trouble, it's those pesky duck boards. ....,
 TEE, HEB The mills of the gods,
 Grind slowly they say, And they separate wheat From the chaff of to-day.
 o-O-o Al Smith is editor of the New Outlook" It would be funny now if Roosevelt should buy the maga- zine.
 O-O-o
 The man who tries to drown himself in a sorrow of his own imagination isn't worth sav- ing,
 o-O-o During prosperity we had break fast, luncheon and dinner. NOW we're back to breakfasat, dinner and supper.
 In heaven the last shall be first. The same Is true in l, s,1ndtofnria n of his class at college is work ing for the chap who finished at the bottom of the heap.
 o-O-o
 New York is going to dis card some of its subways. Why not transform them into ! underground auto lanes?
 o-O-o dress in shop window you can't blame, friend husband for ques- her sanity. Who can remember the good old days when they had no loud playing radio next door to give you Q pain In
 
 Former sea captain becomes leader--Headline. Well, he should be an expert on water.
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 OH YEAH He married the stout girl. Let friends jccr and laugh, For this prOdignl son,
 Wanted his fatted calf.
 o-O--o Golf may get people out in the open but the poor ball always gets in a hole.
 And the failure of runt golf courses proves that when you boil things down. they're never as popular as when spread out.
 o-O-o Sickness and of stocks certainly take your money in jig time.
 o-O-o
 The girl who dresses herself in masculine fashion is soon lost to both sexes.
 o-O-o Men who get up in the world get down to business early in the morning.
 o-O-o People who hoiler for beer gen. erally resemble the product of their desire. Seemingly plenty of head but easily blown off.
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 DING, DING Our modern life produces. EalscIsOotls, sO they say. The golfer and the fisherman
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-26

Our modern life pr0duccs,. FalscIi0otls, sO they say. The golfer and the fisherman Sure add their share each day.
 o-O-o
 Going bareheaded makes for amity due to the fact that q lot of men will fight at the drop of . hat.
 O-O-o
 Worlds Fattest Man Wode Blonde Benuty-News Item. Sounded impossible until we read that he has q couple of million dollars.
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 This completes our regular FrI. day evening program. It was broadcast by DBD and came to you through the courtesy of tho Water. bury Evening Democrat, pioneer in this type Of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time. Co Dc back on the air agaIn tomorrow evening ct the usual hour.
 0-=O--O uood night