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The Washington times., 1932-08-10
worthwhile Things

Worthwhile Things
Isn't it true that you want
so many things that those you
can procure do not give you
any especial pleasure?
Always it is the thing just
out of reach that you think
would give you the most joy.
You have had the experience
of desiring something which
you have gained.
After a time it seems COM
monplace and ordinary-you
tired of it.
You long for something bet
ter and being disappointed be-
cause you were unable to pro-
cure it you would not allow
anything to take it's place.
Isn't this childish?
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

A n d you
W o n d e r
W h a t. S the
use of trying
to live in a
pl ce like
this-a place
without a de-
cent meaning
or plan? If
t h ere were
any hope OF
things G e t.
ting better,
YOU could
stand things
go on haV-
ing f a i t h
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

spectacle, and was done so
dramatically, that every eye
in the chamber was fixed
on Van Buren and Clay was
such a master of histrionics
that not a few eyes were
moist.
Van Buren,, suave, looking
deeply interested, but not
embarrassed in the least,
looked directly into Clay's
eyes as though treasuring up
every word he was to say
to jackson. Clay, as though
overcome by his emotions,
sank into his seat.
Whereupon Van Buren,
called a Senator to the chair,
descended to the center
aisle, with every eye upon
him in the dead silence,
walked slowly toward Clay,
who was a bit nonplussed,
and, reaching his desk and
bowling with Chesterfieldian
grace, asked the great Ken
tuckian for a "pinch of
your incompatible snuff,
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
Crazy AS a
March Hare

There was nothing for
Clay to do but offer his box.
With great deliberation
Van Buren daintily took a
pinch, applied it to his nos
trils, returned the box with
another courtly bow and
slowly rcascended to the
chair.
For a moment longer there
was dead silence, and then
everyone burst into laugh
ter, and the effect of the
play-acting of Clay had been
destroyed.
Reading the anti-Jackson
historians one finds much
about the raving" of Jack
son when these bank dele
CATION called at the White
House. He is described as
raving and ranting and all
but beside himself with fury
in his denunciation Of the
bank.
Nine times out Of ten this,
to, was play-acting.
Henry A. Wise, Of Vir-
ginia, a political opponent,
has done jackson the justice
to relate the story.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

enterprise together, worked up
from scratch and finally landed
on Millionaire Row.
The two things in common
in all these marriages were a
deep and abiding love and a
mutual ambition, Perfect un'
derstanding, perfect loyalty,
perfect faith and perfect fair
ness. RECIPROCITY!
When ALL marriages become
mergers" marriage will cease
to be a lottery, or a long
chance" and become sure
thing. And that day is not
far off!
Copyright 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Ine.l
The Washington times., 1932-08-10
A Little Comedy
Now History
Bu Claude G.. BOUers E

Author he Party Battles Of the Jackson Period Ihe Struggle
Democracy in America" jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragc Era" and other important works:
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

When Marriage Is a Merger
Many a true word is spoken
in jest"-particularly in Win
chell's column.
The Washington times., 1932-08-10

Out Of Yesterday-Into To-
morrow
Sick of living, sometimes?
Hate this stupid, cruel, dis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
It Didn't Last Long

\ When congress convenes in December sone of the first things that it may be asked Ito do IS amend the emergency tax measure .fhat it eventually put through this year to spermit first class postage rates to return to Two cents for the first ounce. The present Iate is three cents which is equivalent to .what 1t was for short time during the World war. Prior to that and since that stime the rate has been pretty much fixed at two cents. The. present three-cent rate went into effect July 6. It is natural for citizens and taxpayers to inquire why congress has 10 engage in such rigmarole as this
 ' Here's what the house postofice sub- xommittee has to say about the present rate of three -cents In view of representations made to the subcommittee at its hearings, -fhe falling of in the volume of first class mail since the three cent rate went into ef- feet. the post master generals recent public statements that the two cent rate should be restored as soon as the postal business war fanted it, and the desire of the sub-commlt- tee to build up mails so as to provide more revenue and work opportunities for the pos tal employees and substitutes who are being deprived of employment as result of the decreased postal business !. . ." return of the old rates is advocated.
 f When the increase in the first class rates wss first suggested we opposed it. We did this on the assumption that since first class mail was paying it's own way it ought not to be touched. It was other classes of mail That created the postoffice department deficit. yet the government took the easiest way out of the situation by trying to tax first class mail which would hit the greatest number of taxpayers. No wonder mail income has fallen of in the few months that the new rates have been in effect. We don't doubt but what business houses are adopting other and less expensive means of transmitting messages. etc. And people who might send dozen checks through the mail two or three times a week. now deliver the cash n person. thus avoiding the extra cent post age and the tax on checks. Our legislators esrtaisly need 10 put their heads together snd figure out some other way of balane' ing the budget
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Railroad Peace

If lot of big railroad men mean what they say. it was great thing for them and the country when. after a meeting in New York the other day, the heads of eastern trunk lines gave out this statement: "The executives of the four systems (the New York Central. Pennsylvania. Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio) have agreed and composed all differences between them- selves arising from the Interstate Commerce Commissions four-system consolidation plan of July. 1932." Efforts to unify the eastern railroads. along with the important lines of the West and South. have been hanging fire for dozen years. They were delayed by the Commission and by the rail- roads themselves.
 "The effect of the agreement" it is ex- plained. Twill be to set up in the East four systems fairly evenly balanced as to assets mileage and outlets to Atlantic and Great Lakes ports and to the West. It will enable each of the systems to compete more .fav- orably with the motor vehicle, the pipe line, the electric transmission line and. to lesser exIeHl, tIle SOVeLHHleHl-oupPOlted WaIeh""T' alf of which have cut into railway revenues in recent years. Economics from the group ings will be realized through the elimna- ton of duplicating facilities and from more economical routing of traffic" Railroads are as important as any single factor in the revival of business. If they can eliminate their dead wood and cooperate among themselves and with the Interstate Com meree Commission the prosperity train will be ready to start.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Little Nations Speak Out

The little nations may yet save the League of Nations from the follies of the great powers. The little nations take the League seriously It offers them, for the first time. chance to speak their minds, air their own grievances, demand their own rights and tell the powerful nations what they think of them. The lesser powers are afraid to tackle problems which the big fellows usually con- slider their own special province and some which they are inclined to evade
 The other day. at Geneva, Senor de Madariaga of Spain and Ramon de Valera, president of the Irish Free State and also Council. spoke firmly to Japan. De Valera rebuked the Japanese for going ahead with formal recognition of Manchukuo without waiting for publication of the commissions presiding officer of the League of Nations report and for trying to postpone indefi- nitely discussion of that report. It is be- lieved that the silent spokesmen of the bigger nations approved the plan-speaking of the Spanish and Irish representatives.
 The outcome of this particular issue IS unknown It remains true, however, that the frankness of the lesser powers is a valu- able and wholesome thing. The big fellows may try to manipulate things behind the scenes, but the little fellows will keep useful check on them by their growing habit of speaking their minds with the whole world for audience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

Twenty eight inches separate man or, for that matter, woman from death Tn head-on collision where two automobiles are travelling twenty miles an hour. We have this on the authority of no other than H. L. Yeagley of Pennsylvania State col lege. He bases his determination on the fol- lowing descripton:--- l was climbing the side of Nittany mountain, when car came around a curve at full thirty-mile speed
 with the driver asleep at the wheel. Just beside us it dashed head-on into concrete abutment hastened over expecting surely to find a corpse; but though the Car was a total wreck its driver an elderly man, was only trifle bewildered and bruised :" Making measurements the scientist found that the car moved two feet between the moment of contact between the wall and the front bumper and complete stoppage
 The steering wheel was bent forward SIX inches From this, says Mir Yeagey, 1t is apparent that the man was stopped through a distance of about two and hali feet This is about the same as falling into a freman's net from the fourth floor of building " Oh. yeah! Then you try falling into the net. Mir Yeagley. We'll take your word about the twenty eight inches of safety. but we don't imagine that the idea
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

Perhaps outside of the anti trust sherman act and the Volstead enactment, there Is no other legal
 provision the operation of which
 has yielded more fraud, perjury and corruption than the present divorce laws.
 Divorce actions arising from sincere and honest contentious,
 are as rare as sidereal showers in spring. The legal remedy Is fre-
 quently resorted to either as an escape from the monotony of mar1- tai relations which spring from an aversion to submit to the trials and sacrifice of married life or as a means to legalize illicit intimacy.
 The tendency of human nature to lose interest when the novelty wears off, untampered with proper expectations of the ideals and sanctity of wedlock, leads many to seek new explorations. Under the pretext of incompatibility. often confused for an unconscious SUD- pressed desire to shake off the yoke, promiscuous a cquaintances are freely indulged in.
 The undue liberties, justified by
 broadness of mind, breed a mental state that idealizes the newly made friendship and despises the lawful companion. The distracted fancy and fioundering mind throw the one into unfavorable contrast with the other. The delusion of having found better understanding in the apparently congenial company, creates a hopeless condition verg- ing on obsession which makes the sudden incompatibility, in the otherwise happy home, an intoler- able nuisance. The domestic hearth under such circumstances is turned into 8 real jungle of confusion and disorder. The least provocation stirs a quar- rel. SO much so, that each begins to imagine a hell within and a paradise abroad. The familiar phrase of a "misunderstood hus- band or wife to agree upon Q tmu- tual dissolution of their marital
 relations.
 It is mostly under these circum- stances that law is called upon not to remedy an evil but to place g seal of legitimacy on immoral and corrupt activities. Collision ex. pressed in terms of well planned l choice of suitable grounos TOT us vorce appears in nearly every ac' ton. However common and popu- | lar are our divorce procedures, the | public mind is not yet cleared oi the false notion that one can ob' tain divorce if the other party con.
 sents. The phrase "I will" or "wil not sign the divorce paper" fl
 usually used by either ono of tht
 other party involved in the divorce
 action.
 Thus the law and the tribuna are treated as mere agencies ol bureaus not unlike those of Sovie Russia. Tn the manner of sightlesi Jacob, who through artifice and trickery, was led to impart tn,
 blessing upon the deceitfui impos ter. our procedure is made to plac.. the stamp of approval upon fraud connivance and perjury.
 The essential requisite neeessar! for thee divorce seeker fs freedom from guilt which might be tn
 basis for counter charges by th
 party itself accused. Thus whel
 both parties are equally guilty
 each having ground for divorce
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
Troublesome Conquests

Korea is seething with unrest Just as Japan was beginning to regard that de- pendency as satisfactorily subdued the smoldering fire burst into flame again as a result of the Japanese invasion of Man. churia. A Korean tried to assassnate the emperor of Japan last winter. Korean stu dents have been spreading patriotic propa- ganda again. an activity in which they arc skllful. They grow more natlonalistle. They want independence. There are 2l,- 100000 of them.
 There is continued trouble for Japan in Manchuria, too Its 25000,OOO or more of Chinese and Koreans do not like Japanese rule any better now than they did six months ago. And there is vast China be- yond. permanently hostile to Japanese am btions Nearly all the world powers have grown great through conquest at strategic times and places. But land-grabblng IS not what it used to be. There is a new spirit loose in the world a spirit of self-determl- nation among oppressed peoples and gen eral disposition to respect it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
To-day's Selected Poem
AGAIN THE AUTUMN

(By Glenn Ward Dresbach in The Christian
 Science Montor) Again these divers in the blue Deep pool of air, tho swallows, cool And RllntinR. arc 10 silence through The golden leaves upon the pool. Again old orchards mass the tang Of cider-richneas in the haze; The sun. drowned nests of orioles hang Above the sumac's windy blaze. Again tho autumn fills the heart Wltb musky fragrance and the sound Of wings that glistcn--and depart And apples falling 10 tho ground.
 --fjeverly photo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
A Book a Day
by BRUCE CATION

In Beyond Desire," Sherwood
 Anderson is still groping fer the key to American life-groping in confusion cy1d wonder and occa- sionally in terror, but always with & deep tenderness for people and with a profound poetic insight. Sometimes, in this book. he seems to feel that machinery is the lkeey-that worship of the ma chine is to be the lands salvation. At other times he leans toward Communism as the new religion. In the end he is not decided; but meanwhile he gives you beautiful and moving novel.
 The plot is slight. It is about Red Oliver, son of a doctor In a Georgia mill town, who wants to get himself into rapport with the
 spirit of his age and fails because
 he can't figure out what that spirit
 may be.
 He plays baseball. fumbles about blindly with 8 woman who dazzles him, works in the mill, and at last goes drifting northward. wanting to ally himself with the luckless mill hands, but not know ing quite how to do 1t. Finally he gets involved in a Communist
 strike in North Carolina and is shot
 to death by a National Guardsman.
 That's all. But you get to know
 Red Oliver almost as you know your own brother; and you get to
 know the others, too-the mill girlsr the townsfolk, the rulers of
 the town, all of the actors in the lperplexing and chaotic drama
 which incarnates the perplexity and chaos of America itself.
 Beyond Desire' is published by Liveright, and sells for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
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incumbents are being renominated and reelected this year even though a large minority is being booted out.
 But 1t does make lot of dif- ference when dozen republican senators refuse to campaign for the Hoover ticket and when some even denounce 1t.
 Most of their states are fighting ground for the first time since 1916 and Hoover needs the sup port of those progressives and their supporters. Each one has a personal following, some of them very large.
 Norris, vigorously campaigning for Roosevelt, is likely to be the
 Influence which will cost Hoover Nebraska. Johnson, attacking Hoover and praising Roosevelt without declaring for him, can sway enough votes to make Cali fornia Q doubtful state.
 And to the extent that you con- sider Wisconsin, Iowa, North Da-. kotat and Pennsylvania doubtful states you must concede @ large degree of temporary political po- tency to the LaFollettes, Blaine, Brookhart, Nye and Pinchot. Their failure to help Hoover may make "the difference"
 Hoover's thoroughgoing con- servatism, which has alienated nearly all the progressive leaders. means that a Hoover victory will be a tremendous victory for the conservatives. On the other hand, Hoover may wish later that he had done more to appease the progress sives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1882
More Toll Road Propaganda

Perhaps we are prejudiced, but we must Z confess that the thoughts of the Merritt highway being opened as toll road does not meet with out liking. That. of course. doesn't count one way or the other with state officials, but we believe that public opinion will be opposed to the new parallel route of the Boston Post road as toll road. Fairfield county may point out the advan- fages of such a proposition, but there will be plenty to point out the danger of the state indulging in such an experiment. Not that the road wouldn't probably pay for itself in short order in this way. but would the state stop the tolls once the bond issue had been retired?
 Perhaps it would and perhaps it would- mt. It might find that such scheme pro- vided a substantial amount of revenue that the state highway department could use very nicely in financing other big projects that would have come up by that time. And in the meantime there would be demands from other parts of the state for toll roads and bridges. The demand would be based on the same reasons as those now being advanced by individuals and organizations in Fairfield county Remember what hap pened several years ago when private cor poration sought franchise so that it might secure rights of way all the way across the state from the New York to the Massachus- etts line. It was turned down fatly.
 sa We'll. why shouldn't private companies finance toll roads in Connecticut, if the i. state is going into that business. Maybe i've don't understand Fairfield county prob- 1ems away up here in Waterbury. Certainly we are not subjected to the outrush of a horde of New York motorists in the tour- irG season. But Connecticut isn't so large that one section is so terribly overerowded with motorists and the remainder prac- tiealiy isolated We know that the paral- ld route to the Post road IS an absolute necessity and the sooner it is built the better of traffic conditions will be. That attitude seems to the writer to mean that the state highway department isn't moving fast enough with its plans for building the Mer- ritt highway. It has been our contention right along that it is.
 It must be remembered tbat this road in- ..volved an entire new right of way from 4gre 1yeH York state line near Portchester sll be way up to Bridgeport. That in itself
 s au sxr ensive and arduous task. We don't l-..- y ul4ether the state has acquired rights Of way from one end of the route to the .other. but certainly it is going at this deli- -cate and disagreeable job as best as it can. If the project can be rushed by securing Ioan from the Reconstruction Finance cor- ~poration by all means let us try to secure Zone. But if people think the speedy com -pletion of the road is going to provide jobs flor thousands of unemployed they are due flor sad awakening. Commissioner Mac -donald exploded that thought some time ago. Highway jobs at the best can't take scare of more than a few hundred men and linen only in the warm months. The toll road to us is still fantasy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
So They Say

We are nearing the crossroads at which the fatal decision must be taken-for peace and disarma- mentor for renewal of mad competition in armaments and ul- timate war.
 Arthur Henderson, president Ge- neva disarmament conference.
 ,:
 Now, if ever, is the time to see that boys are employed to keep them from joining the ever-swell- ing ranks of homeless, wandering youth.
 Joel R. Moore. supervisor U. g.. probation system.
 
 We definitely are out of the pam icky state that banking and bus fness have been suffering for many months. Wilson Mccarthy, Reconstruc- ton Finance corporation direc- tor.
 l:
 There is more danger of the for gotten nation than of the forgot ten man. President James Lukens McCon- aughy of Wesleyan university. New York is a fine place to play but l couldn't work there.
 -Ellen Glasgow, novelist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01
BoLTING COP. PROGRESSIVE

BOLTING COP. PROGRESSIVE
 Washington - Although the
 progressives have been having
 some very bad luck, especially those who call themselves repub- licans, they will be accorded Q
 large share of the credit or blame in case Governor Roosevelt defeats
 President Hoover in the November election.
 A close election is always fol- lowed by innumerable explana- tions and 1t can be argued plaus-
 ibly that had it not been for any one of dozen minor factors, some of them accidental and some cas-
 fly avojdable, the outcome would
 have been different.
 If Roosevelt wins he Will have won both his nomination by virtue
 of progressive support and his
 election by the acquisition of an independent vote for which the
 progressives in public office may
 be, considered the spokesmen.
 His election will have been aid- ed by the enthusiastic support of the democratic progressives and the opposition of the republican progressives to Hoover. There will be other factors, of course, but unless landslide is in pros- pect the progressives will be an important one.
 Neither the organization of an independent league of progressiyes for Roosevelt headed by Senator
 George w. Norris of Nebraska, nor the defeat of Governor LaTollette and Senator Blaine in the Wiscon. sin primaries, following that of
 Senator Brookhart in Iowa, signl- fies anything decisive in the pres- idential campaign.
 The republican conservatives carried Wisconsin in a campaign
 restricted carefully to state issues, ex-Governor Kohler having assert ed after his 1880 defeat that Hoo- yer had been too big 0 load to
 carry. The LaFollettes lost their democratic support because the democrats voted in their own pri-
 mary and there seems to be 0 real chance that Roosevelt will carry the state.
 As for Iowa, straw votes and farmer unrest have indicated such a marked trend to Roosevelt that President Hoover will make 0 spe- cial trip for speech at Des Moines.
 Furthermore, the argument that the Wisconsin result augurs badly for Hoover simply because 1t demonstrates the voters are out to unseat those in power doesn't stand up for the reason that most