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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20

i,a jsuFnsy hss bs,n closed and bIoskaded more than . month. The government bloeksdss it so prevent the smuggling in oi supplies fer tlas s,bsl, The rebels would keep t closed. anyhow. just to spite the Rovernment.
 Normally. il is reported the United States consumes an average of 100000 bags of coffee a month. There are ssid to be on hand in this country now only 6e0.ooo bags of the potent and cheering beana about enough to last us another twenty days. The Farm Board, however. has l.oS0.000 bags of coffee. obtained by exchanging it for wheat. Tossed into the pot they should hold off the eoffeeless days little longer.
 Brazilian coffee is really only about half the amount of coffee we import. There are certain milder coffees from other countries which are usually blended with the strong Brazilian coffee. making the flavor the U. s. A. likes best. What to do! Trying to get along without his cup of breakfast coffee will leave the average American eiti- zen nervous wreck in week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Advertising For Taxes

Philadelphia has found new way to collect taxes. It advsrtises for them. Not with legal advertising in the form ot court announcements of tax arrears and sher- ifs sales but extra-legal appeals, eourte- ous and friendly. telling property owners of the eity's need and urging them to do their duty.
 When the city faced the necessity ot meeting demands for S2o.00o.0o0 on July 1, with scarcely anything n the treasury. a councilman suggested straightforward sales talks by the administration to individ-' uals and corporations. The talks were to be made through the press and the movies, because everybody reads the newspapers and nearly everybody attends the movies" It was tried, and it worked. When the day came. the money was ready. Now the city is facing the future more confidently. Evidently here is big tax resource that might be utilized by any community.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
A Book a Day
Asserts 990,000 Died ir
 Flight of "White" Army
by BRUCE CATION

If there ever was a genuine re- production of hell on earth, IL must have been in Russia and Si- beria during ,the two or three years immediately following the Rusian revolution.
 "Between White and Red" by
 Erich Dwinger, tells of the things that happened there while the va rlous "white'' armies were trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks, ana there is enough horror and human suffering in hts pages to leave you
 heartsick.
 Dwingor was a German soldier, endured by the Russians early in the war. Escaping from prison after the revolution, he joined the white" army of Admiral Koltchak in q vain attempt to get back home. "Between White and Red tells what he saw.
 He shows us an army of half million men, accompanied by half n million civilian refugees, retreat oing across Siberia in mid winter under conditions so frightful that scant 10000 lived to reach their goal; he shows us battles in which nll prisoners were< executed. in , which, all captured officers were tortured to death; he shows uss starvation. sickness, pain! wcari- ness and despair as the common lot of mollions of people for
 months at itmo; and he voices. too, q bitter criticism of the Allies for their halfhcarted support cf
 Koltchaks expedition--a support. he says, which simply intensified the misery and prolonged the agony.
 "Bctweep White and Red" isn't
 pleasant reading, but 1t certainly is illuminating. Published by Scrib- ner's, 1t costs S2.T5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Whose Zoo?

These is trouble about the Cleveland zoo since a Russiar bear. crazy with the heat, killed keeper said to have been under the influence of liquor. One of the city eoun- eimen insists on drastic action. He greatly regrets lions. tigers. bears and other vicious beasts" He wants to get rid of them and fill the zoo with nice. friendly animals like ponies, dogs, sheep, etc. which harm nobody and have a wholesome influence on children.
 If people want to see wild animals.
 he says. they can go to circus. These beasts at the zoo are bad lot. They lie around sleeping all day, and snarl if anyone pokes them. and smell like anything It IS just too bad. But human beings. especially children, seem to have low tastes. They want the wild beasts and the wilder the bet ter. And they ask whose zoo it is anyhow!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Lost Grandeur

The story of the famous Senator Clark of Montana bobs up again. with special reference to the magnificent marble palace that he built on Fifth avenue in New York at q cost of $7,5oo. 900 and the Si00.ooo pipe organ he installed in it. After Clark's death the succeeding owner Anthony Cam pasna. finding the building a white ele- phant. agreed to pay Edward Walsh.> q wrecker. $250.0oo to tear it down and cart it away. Having done this Campasna hap pened to think that he might use the organ himself. and asked the wreeker to sell it back to him. Walsh gladly sold it to him for a cigar. Campagna was cheated. He found he could not use the organ. after all and had it hauled out and dumped into a swamp. So passed the late Victorian age of grandeur There will probably be no more such homes and organs. From present signs houses for rich and well-to-do people will cost less and will be smaller. Radio sets will serve as pipe organs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
TO HER
(By a Dogserel Bard)

No gallant trOubad0ur am | To sing thy praises to the sky.
 No sefehntic,
 am afraid, From me would prove Suffice to move
 Thy heart. My efforts on the sweet guitar The evening quiet would surely mar.
 And yet swear.
 My lady fair, Tho can't sing, My love bring
 o-O--o Times are so bad in New York that panhandlers are said to be using aper instead of tin cups.
 o--O--o 1t cannot be said of those Broadway plagiarists that they cannot take a joke.
 O-O-o
 BELIEvE TT OR NOT So many cups of wine will con- Its bouquct shall cxiale from out 
 my tomb, And every one that passes by shall halt And reef ana staggcr with that mighty funse.
 -OMAR.
 o-O--o It's A safe bet that a gal who takes a filler in marriage is like. iy to make Q forced landing.
 o-O-o Painting may be c house. hold art, but any eo.ed can tes. tlfy It's also done in aut0mo- miles after parking. 0-O-.O An order was given for i0,. 600 fountain pens at q recent exhibition in Scotland. And now the country is said Co be inereaaing It's expenditure for post office ink.
 o-O--o ~ Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Unite For Victory

We presume that when the democrats convene in New London next month Gov ernor Gross will assume the leadership of the party which is his, not by divine right, but by virtue of his position as chief executive of .. state that has consistently manifested Republican tendencies. With this in view we think that all mention of old and new guard differences should begin to be re- placed now by thoughts of unity. For in union there is as much strength today as there was in the early days of this nation whsn our forefathers were trying to es- tablish themselves on sound basis.
 We like nothing better to see than rivalry for public office We think it makes for better public officials If an office goes un- contested, as 50 many do today. the ineum- bent is apt to lose q good many of the very traits for which he was distinguished when first elected. Of course. there are great many offices that should be filled year after year by the one man and should not be subject to the laws of politics. But these should be appointive for long terms or life. However. in the American scheme of things it is possible to deny man his public office when this action is deemed nee essary. Recourse to the ballot is an in- alienable right of ours that we should refuse to sacrifice for any pfiee.
 All of which is more or less philosophical and not 50 practical. but, nevertheless. 1t night cause some of our democrats in the state to pause moment before committing themselves to actions which they may regret. Connecticut has not hitherto been known as . democratic stronghold. In state and na- tional politics it has steadfastly remained true to the republican party. This condition was reversed two years ago with the cleo tien of two democratic eongressmen, dem oeratie governor, a county office, and in- erased representation in the Legislature. Should we sacrifice this today on the mere assumption that having done it once we can do 1t again.
 It will take more than preeedsnt to win the November election for the democratie party in Connecticut. It will take honest effort and a good slate of candidates. We think that. Governor Gross can win his own election. as he practically did in l930. if he is not tied down by embittered politi- eians. We think that Connecticut can be swung into the Roosevelt column with lit- tic effort. The state is ready for some such tendency as this. Not even the strongest republican candidates can overcome the handicap of the national ticket. But so long as democrats continue to worry about what they are going to get out of the cleo lion their fears will be needless. They won't eyer see them realized. Let's get together now before the September meeting and put the party over the top with one united xhove.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Here, There And Everywhere

q principle whose obverse Is state coercion. The senator did not cx- plore further along th!s fascinating byway but another republ!canNstnl- wnrt, Mr Trufnhull had gone fur ther in a speech few days before the Erisson meeting. The former governor had not forgotten that the R, r. C. arose because prl- vate initiative was temporarily ,palayzed. The government was forced to intervene by inward col lapse or business, not through the yoracious external pressures >of hureau6rats. Mir Trumbull drew the conclusion in so many words: It Is not enough merely to protest the incurslons of federal power; they must be tended off by meet ing Ithe genuine needs they aim to
 meet, spontaneously and from within. That is lesson Amcri-, cans must more and more learn, particularly those who wish to keep the older doctrines alive. No- body denies that individualism Is best, that freedom is best--- so long as they work. But they must work. The social needs which humanity becomes aware of in It's progress will be answered somehow, what rver the philosophical essence of the answer; If individualism and i.assoz-faire do not give the answer as they did not in the crisis, gov ernment intervention is inevitable, as in the R. F. c. It Is not enough to resist outside encr0achnhent. though this is essential; we must supply what it offers to supply from within. Almost never Tn American history has the federal government encroached without the Invitation, spoken or tacit. of the states. The real enemy is not outer pressure but inner vacuum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
WHY coySEcmcrr IS CHOSEN
(Meriden Journal


 We were ch!ded by the friendly New Britain Herald for guessing that more wealthy New Yorkers would choose to make their homes in Connecticut in order to escape the enormously high taxation in New York state. We said that FQir- field county and environs were en- joytng increased income rom the realty holdings of New YorNers and that more of such would pc forthcoming, providing Connecticut had sense enough to hold taxatlon down.
 To which the Herald remarked fiaively that Bridgeport metropoiis of the county, could hardly DC awarded any medals for prosper ity," and Stamford has had to pinch pennies to the extent of eliW- mating kindergartens and curtan- ing first grades in the schools.
 True; but when did Bridgeport become a bedpoom of New York, and what has sensible retrench- ment in Stamford, to do with op- pressive taxation Isn't 1t better to cut on expenses than to- pile on taxation as Now York does? .>i'l
 The fact is that New Workers have found that they pay much less in taxes in Nutmegia and get more for their money than they do in the Empire state, which Is why they come in growing numbers. to Fairfeld and Litchfeld counties and other counties. too. Attractive Ridgefield offers an example. Ita new budget cuts the tax rate two mills. down to IT mills. The per capita debt Is $26 and sinking fund brings 1t down to around SIS. on a $10,O00 valuation. prop .crty as now assessed pays only $S5 into the town treasury. That Is one rood reason why New Workers choose certain places in connecti- cut for their homes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
No Better Man

< We don't think that the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment could have picked a better man to head its organ ization than Jouett Shouse, former exeeu- tive chairman of the democratic national committee. In the brief time that he held the above political office Mir Shouse demon- xtrated his ability in convincing fashion. He was named to his responsible position by John J. Raskob shortly after the dshearten- ing defeat of Alfred E. Smith in 1928 and
 while republicans in the United States were
 boosting of the fact that only under s.o.p. Tule could prosperity reign in the United States.
 7 Mr Shouse didn't waste any time deliber- 1fing over these republican sophisHs. He Set to work forming an organization. His first job was the creation of press bureau
 with Charles Nicholson as the deus ex- Maehina So well did Mir Nicholson per- form his part of the task and so skillfully did Mir Shouse organize and spread his
 propaganda through the nation that l930 found the vaunted republican strength at rminimum. We all know what happened in the elections that fall, We all know that if sMr Shouse had continued in his chosen work The would have achieved even greater glory this fall We think that those who are carrying on his misison will reap many word of praise next November that really Should go to him.
 :. He is an indefatigable worker and should -bring to the wet organization the necessary Impetus to make it more of force than per ebans if ever thought to be. Not that the .soeietys work to date hasn't been all that it should be. Under the direction of Henry H. Curran it has emerged from comparative .obscufity to the leading position among ..those groups opposing the prohibition amendment. Mir Shouse's appointment does .not mean Mir Cunan's retirement He will --still remain an officer of the association. but the actual work of carrying on the fight will fall on Mr Shouse's shoulders. That they .are capable of bearing the burden is un- doubted. We expect great things from him -in his new role.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
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woman politician and had plenty of money to finance her Illinois campaigns, won nomination and election in statewide votes for congre ssw She lost no time in licking senator Charles Deneen when he sought renon1ls nation and 1t appeared for while that the first woman to become q senator in Q regular election would be Ruth.
 But between the wet-dry issue, the Nye campaign funds investi- gatlon, the antics of Jim Ham Lewis and some fancy double. crorsin3, Ruth took a very ba! licking in November, 193o, and fell out of congress.
 .
 Tic Owen Case
 Con.ressman owen was in- tenscly interested in the campaign Of her close friend Mrs McCor- mick because she. too, was plan ming to run for the senate against Duncan Fletcher, tho incumbent.
 But time went on and prospects of landing that job became in- creasingly dim. Ruth Owen de- cided, for the time being, to for ret 1t. And then whom this years primaries came along 1t devel- oped that she couldn't even re- tain her seat in the house--ap- parcntly because she didn't turn wet fast enough to please the voters.
 Mrs Longworth, often suggest ed as a candidate for one public office or another, never ran for anything. But she. did undertake to assort herself, while her late husband was speaker. as high ranking social queen of Washing ton in a memorable contest with Dolly Cam. Mrs Cam won ttie decision And soon afterward Mrs Garner came into the official so- cial position previously held by Mrs. Longw orth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
By RODNEY BUTCHER frEA Gepvice XVritePl

Washington.-The plain,- old. fashioned middle class type of woman seefns to be getting the best breaks in politics.
 The fiashier. more sophisticated gals who go in for the more in,- portant elective jobs have had some, but not as great degree of success and frequently they have been getting it In the neck.
 Here's nicc, unassun1ing Mrs Hattie Caraway of Arkansas, cbri- sidored q lonely, pathetic figure in the life of this capital, sudden ly becoming the first woman in history to N.n an cqulvalcnt-to. election nomination for q full six year term in tl.e senate.
 Other women, wcalthier, more dashing and more used to public life, have, tried or yearned for such an honor, but 1t remained for this motherly little widow in black to turn the trick in a con- tegt with. half q dozen men who had originally cupposed that she would know her place" and re- tire from the senate to which she had been sent briefly as gallant gesture.
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 From Arkansas Plantation
 Mrs Cnraway, well educated and Eeenly intelligent despite her retiring disposition. comes from the same kind of people who pro duccd Mrs NeHie Garncr, wife of the speaker of the house. and Mrs Dolly Cam, hostess and half-sis- ter of Vice President Curtia--two women the political success Of whece men fclks have lodged them in the very highest social position.
 Mrs Caraway came from an Arkansas plantation, Mrs Garner from Texas ranch, and Mrs Cam from q Kansas farm. They are of different types, but each has background of simple do- mcsticity which contrasts with the wealth and original lsocial ro- sition of other widely known vance far in the political or so- cial life of the capital.
 Another TtD
 Consider another trio - Ruth Hanna McCormick, Ituth Brynh owen and Alice Lengworth. daughters of famous men-- Mark Hanna, William Jennings Bryan and Teddy Rooscvelt.
 They are attractive in person. ulity, credited with political acu- men and possessed of wit, grace, iiveliness, good features and charin. It's a far wealthier group than the other three women we wore talking about.
 But they have all been having bad luck and they must git ana observe Mrs CarawaS Mrs Gar ner and Mrs Gam on top of the heap.
 Mrs Mccormick, who was con- sidered the country's most able
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20

Tn. memorial shaft in honor of Orville and Wilbur Wright pioneer airmsn of the United States. will be unveiled at Kitty Hawk. N. C., some time in October. sae- eordins to present plans The last stone in the monument was laid August IF The ironwork is expected to be finished by the end of the month. Work was started on February 4. l93l. It is one of the most attractive memorials that Uncle Sam has ever built. It stands on one of Kitty Hawks shifting sand hills which scientists made fast through ingenious use of certain grasses. The monument itself stands 60 feet above the hill from which in 1905 the Wrghts made their first successful airplant flight in power drive craft.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20

Condemnation proceedings are being brought against owners of real estate in Barkhamstead in order that the plans of the Hartford Metropolitan District Water Bureau for a huge reservoir on the west branch of the Farm inston river may proceed smoothly. It may be recalled that the right to erect dam in this particular region was granted by the l93l legislature after long fight in which both sides in the contest had to make many concessions, but with the water bu- reau ultimately winning its point of seeur- ing an additional water supply. It is too bad that the process of acquiring the nee essary land for the project could not have gone ahead without recourse to eondemna- ton proceedings. It is the first time that private property owners and the bureau have elashsd and it may mean not only hindranee to the proposed reservoir. but the creation of bad feelings. such as existed when negotiations were going on last year in the General Assembly. There are several state reads that will have to be relocated by the reservoir work. Their present site will De inundated when the wats. are i'm. pounded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20

Iieve that if the veteran congressman dropl out of the HOuss this year. it will be hard for the s.o.p. to retain his seat. That is more convincing when sn examination of the last, two elections in which he Partiei- pased are consulted. The democratic can. didstss ia both instances made far better showing than was expected. And with 1852 showing a definite demoerstie tinss there is every indication that only power ful candidate. along the type of Colonel Til- son, can hold the district. So ffr as we know there isn't a similar candidate in the third district All of which should make the democrats feel rather happy. If they can decide the question of which man 10 nominate - Shsnlsy or Maloney = they should win hands down. |.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
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FRENCH FAC 5000 PRIsoNERs

FRENCH FAC 5000 PRISONERS
 On August 20, 1918, the Fourth French army under General Man gin smashed its way through Ger man defensea on the Oise and took more than 1000 prisoners in a day or fierce attacks and counter-at- tacks.
 The net French advance for the two days of fighting in. the new drive averaged more than four miles on q 1e-miie front. Many towns and villages were taken and retreating Germans suffered great losses from French artillery ire.
 British forces continued their ad. vance in the Merville section. push. ing forward more than 6 mile. Much Of the ground sanied by the Germans in stheir i've great oi- fensives in the spring and early summer had been resained by the allies since the start ef their great eountef.offensive on ths harne on July fa.
 Herman morale was ssported wepkenins neticeabiy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
PREVENT FOREST FIRES! f1aefaUaun,.t Tim aa~ Gtarl


 The forest fire season Is at hand again, and q little bulletin from the American Tree association points out that the danger this year is especially acute on account Of the unemployment situation.
 strange as 1t may seem, there are innumerable cases being re corded in which 5oblsss men pur. poseiy started forest frear-ee. cause, when such iirss occur. the unemployed d.usualiy get Q few days work iighting them. The smeIiest state In tho union. nhede lslanas has already had 22l forest nrss nrss this year, and authorities state that many Of them were undoubtedly of Iiieendiary origin. What tho ste nation must bs in tho heavily.tim. bered western states is obvious:
 The American Trae association remA Fks that large arnHtg ef feds erei funds Co tho states for fhe purpose ef hiring men e hght fer'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Coffee Drought

e A coffee shortage looms on the horizon.
 While rival political factions in Brazil are .sausbblins over some local political matter. they are tying up their own coffee exports at home. The Brazilian port through which
 most of the coffee ssns Co this country starts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-20
Going After Business

An intensive sales drive recently con dueted by 2 large cereal manufacturing con- eern has resulted in the largest days busi- ness in the last quarter century Eneeur- aged by that success, the company is now commencing a huge advertising campaign which will be featured in newspapers. mag azines and other publications. and in daily radio broadeasts. Samplins millions of in- dividual homes with the products themselves will be pushed, too.
 Our experience has been." says the head
 of the company. that in our line busi- ness may be had if it is gone after hard enough" A few other bold drives like this should be of considerable benefit to the whole country. While not solving directly the important international problems on which world welfare appears to depend, they might very well give domestic affairs the forward push which would hasten the suc- ecssful taeklng of those world problems.