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Evening star., 1932-04-25

the one drawn up by Washington IN
1883 to send 70 the Governors of the
original States in preparation of the
disbanding of the Continental Army.
The offering vas for the Blue Ridge
Preventorium.
Evening star., 1932-04-25
LECTURES TO CHILDREN
Herman Diers Returns From Mis-
sissippi Exhibition.

Herman H. Diers, Ill Rhode Island
avenue northeast, returned here yester-
day from Natchez, Miss, where he ex-
hibited to school children a collection
of $500 books, maps, pictures and
pieces of literature concerning George
Washington and the city named for
him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
THE RETIREMENT OF
 MIR TILSON
(Hartford Courant)

The announcement that Mi John Q. Tilson, who has represent ed the Third District of Connects cut (New Haven County in the congress of the United States for twenty.two years is to resign from that body. will occasion general re- gret throughout Connecticut. This regret to . very considerable ex- tent will be shared by the nation, since his services have been by no means localized. As Majority Leader of the House when the re- publican party was in control, he became widely known and be dis played those qualities of sincerity and integrity that are always ad- mired in public life but which are perhaps too seldom exemplifie1 He was justly entitled to be the Minority Leaders with the advent of democratic ascendancy. and had this responsibility been given tC him he doubtless would have been content to. continue his congress sional service. Doubtless also the republican minority would have given . better account of itself un- der his leadership than has been | tAlO Ca6C unuGE thG ASduCESAlU OA Mir Shell of New York. As it is, he among 4s5 representatives who would not be particularly missed. Like many another congressman, Mir Tiison has found his only re- ward in such attractions as a pub- lie career many have to offer, and these are not of pecuniary na- ture. He has been able to "get by" on his salary, but to lay ID little or nothing for his family. So at the age of sixty-six he is to leave the halls of legislation and try to make a dollar. Ifs frank state- ment as made yesterday to the house of representatives, would seem to preclude the possibility of his being drafted as a candidate for the governorship of his state, for that office, measured by salary, is only half as valuable as the of- flee of congressman, and the ex- penses attached to # are scarcely less.
 split in the republican party if 1o12, which resulted in Mir VII.
 sons election to the presldency and q succession of democratic vic. tories quite generally, throughout the country. Mr Tiibon's clever terms in congress have been con- tinuous. He has not been . repre- sentative who has distinguished himself for briiIiancy in debate, but he has been level-headed and thoroughly dependable, Iman te bs trusted by his own party and believed in by the opposlng party
 He hes been Ioyai to overy d. mlnIstretion, and particularly Indeed, his present loyalty wal |perhaps Id some measure responsi. bio for his failure Co be elected minority Leader. Not . Sew res publican oon9FesBEllen were ais' pesad e feel thnt they could per. hapz best advance ibelr own 10. ltssesis, the times and the eIrcnm'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
Bear Census

Montana has been checking up on its gizzly bears. and finds that 150 of them are still roaming among her mountains. Only twenty wolves remain in the state. says the survey This is indeed efficiency. Making the wild animals wear license tags will be next. And alas for the raconteur who ven lures to tell of the pack of wolves chasing him all the way out from his lonely hut to the nearest village on that desperate ven- ture last winter when he found himself get ting down to the last pack of egarets.
 One teller of tales might get away with it. But not two at a time. For if all twenty wolves were a-ehasin' Bill Jones, they couldn't have been bowling around Sam Robinson's shanty. No sir. it don't stand to reason. Sam took their license numbers and reported them to the forest service. and barring one bunch of new cubs they was all accounted for. Just the same. there are Montanans who will sleep the more soundly in their electrically equipped ranch houses for knowing that the, forest service keeps SO close an eye on all the dangers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
A Book a Day
Fail to Profit by Knowledge
 Of the Future
by BRUCE CATION

Tn The Gap in the Curtain" John Buschan considers the things that men might do if they could ] get certain glimpse into the fu- 1 ture.
 By one of the those bits of ho- cus-pocus permitted to novelists, he has five Englishmen shown a copy of g newspaper dated exactly one year ahead.
 A financier learns that a certain great merger is to be announced on that date. A politician discovers that supposedly unimportant statesman Is to become prime rnii1- | ister then. A young aristocrat learns that he is to sail on an arch- geological expedition to Yucatan on that day. And two other young men read their own death notices. Mir Buchan then shows how these five react to the news. The flnhncier does his best to cash in on his know1edge-and succeeds in losing 10000 pounds. The politician, striving to insure his own fortunes, managers only to drive himself out of politics. The young aristocrat goes to Yucatan despite every effort to dodge it. One of the two forewarned of death gives way to panic--and does on schedule. Only the fifth man is able to oircumvent his fate, and he. does it by accident rather than by design.
 MT Buchan's point is that it isn't enough to know what is going to happen, unless we also know how it Is going to, happen. A glimpse into the future, he concludes, Is worse than useless unless it tells everything.
 He makes of "The Gap in the Curtain a thoroughly interesting book. Published by the Hough- ton Mifflin Co, it sells for $2.50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
A House At Large

The 73rd Congress will find in the House of Representatives more congressmen-at- large than any previous one. According to present figures there will be exactly 43 mem bers of the House elected to this office in November. Connecticut will send one rep resentative-a -at-large, year from December if Congress is convening at that time. As- eribe this to various reasons. but it all goes back to the fact that after many years of delay Congress finally authorized reap portionment of the House with the result that there was distinct shift from many ] states to others
 After the 1910 census had caused reap portionment there were B eongressmen-at- large in the House. They were gradually replaced as states redistrieted. Connecticut has not had congressman Large since 1913. Representative John O. Tilson was our last representative -at-large. He held that office for two terms. during the 6 lst and 62nd sessions of Congress. After that the office was swallowed up in redistriet- ing of the state. creating five congressional districts where formerly there had been four.
 Our Legislature summed the task of reds- trieting last year. although it had been of fieially notified that it was entitled to one more seat in the House of Representatives. Whether it will continue to shun this diff fieult task remains to be seen. There is bill pending in the Assembly which would create six districts. It was prepared right after the 1920 census when it became evi- dent that Connecticut would gain seat. Perhaps if the democrats gain control of the Legislature this fail they can force action when that body eonvsnes in January. The situation in Connecticut exists in many other states. too. Rather than risk q legislative fight the office of eongrsssman.st-large was created and the task of redistrieting passed along to future legislators to decide
 That many states were lax in this respect esn De seen in the number Of congressman. st large. 43 in all. who viii ts elected in November. We'll wager. though by the time fhs next congressional election h here. thefs won't Dc ons.fhird of this number Dc. ins elected st large. It is q position 10 which few nsen aspire, although it is equal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10

We sincerely hope that with all the dis tres through which this nation is passing it will not overlook the dire need of aiding the complete establishment of the Thomas Jefferson home at Monticello, Charlottes- vile. Va. We are informed that this na- tions shrine is in need of funds>immedately to pay interest on its mortgages and to meet other foundation debts. While there are more imperative needs in our daily struggle for existanee. it should never be said that our citizens deserted a noble cause The preservation of Monticello is as much our problem as it is that of the next man. Those
 who can aid the cause, should do 50 by all means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
So They Say

In the absence of the United States and Russia, the 12 years Japan has sat in Geneva she has largely been a spectator of Euro- pean events that concerned her little. --Dr Inezo Nitobe, member of Japanese House of Peers.
 
 There ia vast amount of pro- ductive business available = if banking accommodation can be extended to finance such produc- tive business -- Federal Reserve Bank state
 nent.
 No one need fear the outcome of Germany because of the Nazis. You could say the future of any country was safe In their hands. --Fred Fl. Chapin, president, Ma
 tional Acme Co.,. after trip
 abroad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10

Somebody has been invading our fair domain and spillng state secrets to the fingers of ironic darts away down there in New York However. we won't kick. We will only give few lessons in geography.
 if we are able to do that. For example. we might ask where are Bantam Falls! There is to be sure. Bantam Lake. our largest natural body of water. and Bantam river. which doubtless might contain at some point falls. but never one that won it the title of Bantam Falls. Perhaps the writer thought of Kent Falls. but liked the sound of Bantam Falls better. And our own dear Quassapaug We usually prefer to spell it with the "a and not the e" that our
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
The New York Times finds the situatio

The New York Times finds the situation in republican circles in Connecticut quite amusing. It ehuekles delightfully."- at the thought of ardent dry reformers invading the sacred presence of State Chairman J. Henry Rorabaek to protest the presence of Senator Bingham on the republican ticket. An editorial writer views that situation in this light. Why was there no artist there to catch the curious, fugitive expres- sion on the lneaments of that time-honored warder of the Republican citadel? The touch of surprise. succeeded by an amused if little weary, smile, should have been preserved for posterity. J. Henry had to tell his visitors that Mir Bingham was per fectly acceptable to Mir Roraback. That anybody. let alone several, in Connecticut should consult Mir Rorabaek about one of his own inventions is beautiful to remem- Der and an honor to human nature. Where are those Drys. these insurgents? In what happy. far-off place under the shade of melancholy boughs do they fleet the time carelessly as in the golden world9 Are they listening to madrigals at Bantam Falls? Are they hidden like needles in Haystack Noun tain? Are they washing their sheep, them selves in sheepskins. on the shore of Shep- herds Pond or Quassepaug' With crook for malet, do they play croquet in some dell on the dizzy heights of Wangum? Are they piping without license = to the angerins of the Seleetmen = in Milton or Avon?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
WOrkaday Patriots

The place was an art museum. The dramatis ptrsonae were a group of young sters between 10 and l2 years of age. &C., eompanied by kind hostess and mem- rooms they came upon beautiful silver and pewter displays Among the objects in the cases they found several bearing the name. Paul Revere. Silversmth." It was mat ter of complete astonishment to those ehil- dren. to whom Paul Revere was a familiar character. to learn that he had been a silver smith. They had known him only as daring horseman and patriot, who dashed forth into the night to warn fellow patriots of the approaching enemy. What he did when the was not arousing every Middlesex village and farm it had never occured to them to ask or even wonder.
 Is 1t quite fair to teach history that way? Or English literature. for that matter! Doubtless Longfellow is more to blame for historian. Why not teach children that the early patriots and founding fathers had to earn their livings and transact business affairs and eat and sleep and live, and have good times and sorrows and sickness and health about as men and women do to- day3 So taught, history might have more relation to life and people as the school ehil- dren know them. and truer ideal might be developed of patriotism and of what it meaps to be good citizen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10

On August 10, 1918. British troops continued their victorious drive aeainst tho Germans on the gomme front. driving forward in many places and increasing the number Of prisoners taken in three days to more than Se,000.
 Vast quantities of ammunition and supplies were captured by the Brifish. Other German stores were blown up or burned by the retreating troops 10 prevent them from falling into the hands of the advancing allies. .
 French storm troops took Montdidier end advanced rapidly over tho surrounding territory. They occupied more than 90 sauare miles of new territory during tho days fighting, taking hundreds ok pfie0uers and thfows lae haok tho defending German troops in great confusion,
 Berlin feWspnpcrg admitted tne seFl0usncss of thc situation on the western front afia ufHed thp 0ef:. man people to remain ioy6I unflI 'psses wlih honsf' had bssn ds- M|MHMWI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
(By Request)

(By Request) 1t seems to me I'd like Ot go Where bells don't ring, nor
 whistles blow,
 Nor clocks don't strike, nor gongs
 don't sound
 And I'd have stiffness all around. Not real stiffness. but just the bees, Or brooks faint babbling Osez In strangely, softly tangled tones. Or maybe Q cricket or kafytlld, Or the song of birds fin hedges bid Or just some such sweet sounds aa
 fhcse 10 fiiI the tired heart with case. If 'twcrcn't for sight and sound
 and smell I'd like . city pretty well, But when it comes e eetting rest 1 like the country lots tho best. Sometimes tt seems tO me I rni1si Just auit t1so cztyss fiin and dust And % ont where flle sky is blue, And say, how does tt seem Go you9 At least it's clear to.day that the nian in the moon Is c bootleeeer..
 ANT m THE TRUTH9 N0 bFnss noe paint can hide c sso. tors knock.
 A buFul1Ised body, mounted on Is iIke thc wei known '.froat'. s In ;T ssiS and iT'i sitter I sahs Iiss's '''-' --sosH. f,ood nlGht,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
BY RODNEY BUTCHER MIA gervicA yVrifer

NEA service WflteR
 Washingtofi.-The reorganization of the $S,000, 900. 900 a year feder. ai government, proposed and de- bated for decades has begun.
 An immediate saving of about $68,000 a year, achieved by the firing of 40 people. is in prospect |. That's aobut S13 out of every million the government spends.
 Consolidation within the De- partment of commerce of the Btu reau of Navigation and steamship Inspection appears to add 5000 Q year to the treasury deficit. But absorption of the radio die vision or the, commerce depart nicnt by the federal radio commis- sioff much more than makes up for that loss and 1t seems to be in order for all right.thinking citizens to cheer and build bonflres. At last 1t appears that 1t is possible to consolidate a couple of gov ernment agencies in the interests ofeconomy without costing the tax payers more money than ever. The Bold Economy Bilf
 Of course the B. of N. and the s. I. s. are only a couple of small bureaus employing Q combined force of some 500 men and women, less than 100 of whom are in Washington. But congress stepped out boldly in the ecoorfny bill and decreed that the two should be merged.
 It also ordered consolid idation of the two radio agencies and even went so far as to toss the Personnel Classification Board, with all of its 6S workers, into the Civil Service commission. It stopped there, of course, but that was something.
 Democrats in congress com plaincd that President Hoover, chief pusher of reorga nization pro agnnda, had refused to be specific as to just what he wanted 
 Congress gave him power, how ever. to consolidate bureaus within executive departments subject to congressional disap- proval.
 Here's a Nice New Job
 There's nice new $9,0G0 year job for the man who becomes di- rector of the Bureau of Nayiga- ton and Steamship Inspection. The heads of the two old bureaus be- come his assistant directors at their customary salaries of $7,500 q year.
 The only possibility of economy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1882
A Clever Move?

Mark Sullivan. well known authority on political matters, believes that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has outmaneuvefed the republican stratesists by planning his Mayor Walker heating date simultaneously with President Hoover's acceptance speech. Both are to occur on Thursday of this week. It is easy to imagine how the metropolitan newspapers will play up the meeting be- tween Roosevelt and Walker to the eonse- quent loss of space for what Mir Hoover has to say. If Mir Sullivan is correct in his surmise that this choice of dates was deEber. ate upon Governor Roosevelt's part we can anticipate lively campaign. Just think of what the Hoover bodyguafds Messrs Hur- ley. Mills, and Brown, our Cabinet mem bers who combine official duties with po- liticsl tours through the country. will say when they learn of this.
 The last time this ruse was employed was 1908. according to Mir Sullivan. and it was distant relative of Governor Roosevelt who used it. It was none other than the late Theodore Roosevelt. He was engaged at the time in fostering the nomination of Will liam Howard Taft. Having resolved that Taft would succeed him in office nothing could swtrve Teddy Roosevelt from his purpose. When he learned that friends of Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes. at the time governor of New York. was going to make bid for the presidential nomination on the republican ticket by spirited public address on topics of the day the president decided to eifeumvent him.
 He had prepared for some time mes sage to Congress. one of his usual fiery ones ia which pungent phraseology played an importont part and gave the newspaper headline writers ample opportunity for scare heads. He released it for publication at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. just three hours before Chief Justice Hughes delivered his address. The next day the Hughes ad- dress was shunted to inside pages. while Roosevelts denunciations of this and that were spread over the front pages of papers from coast to coast. The move was suc- eessful. SO reports Mir Sullivan. And we ali know that Mir Taft was nominated and duly elected
 In this particular instance the governor of New York will attempt to turn the tables upon the president of the United States But there is one flaw in the parallel. The presidents acceptance speech will be heard by countless radio fans throughout the na- ton. And unless the democrats can sum- mon the clements to do their bidding that night there will be many who will know what Mir Hoover is going to do now about those two car garages we built and the extra large kettles we bought for the chicken without having to search the daily news paper from front to back page to find it. All of which makes us wonder if Mr Sulli- van isn't erediting the democrats with too much subtlety and not quite enough com mon sense.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
@lIapQ|IH[d EoIipsg gI972

seems to consist of laying off em- ployes whose work is found to duplicate. But there doesn't seem to be much of any duplica- ton and Malcolm Kerlin, admihis- trative assistant to the secretary of commerce, says no dismlssals are anticipated.
 It seems that the B and N was primarily a maritime law enforce ment agency whereasc the s. l. s. was primarily a maritime inspec- toin service and so far 1t hasn't could do another's job along with his own.
 The Real Triumph But the Radio Commission-R Ra- dio Division merger, involving 400 persons, was reorganization's tri- ufnph.
 The F. R. C., having completed the absorption in Washington, proud announced that it had fired IS people at q total saving of $35,- 15 people at Q total saving of $34,- 900 a year.
 Those dismissed included an official who was making $4,S00, and staff lawyer who was draw ing $36,00O. The rest were clerks and the E. R. c. says that most of them were married women whose husbands were also working for Uncle Sam.
 Now the absorption is being achieved in the field service of the commission and. the division and out there 25 more employees will be canned at saving of $43,000--a grand total of $77,000.
 Deduct that 5000 added ex- pense caused by the B. of N. s. I. IS. merger and you get a net saving of S6S,000, which is almost what 1t costs us every 15 minutes of the year to pay off expenses of past wars and preparations of possible future wars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10
IN CONNECTICUT
tHartford Courant)

Although the spokesmen of the Old Guard in the democratic party of Connecticut, which fought and
 bled for MT Alfred F. Smith at
 Chicago, have declared their in-
 tention to support the chosen
 ticket in the election. they have
 done 50 with a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm. The outcome of the
 convention did not soften their an- tipathy for the New Guard. and they are not inclined to conceal
 their resentment at its ultimaseI
 triumph.
 What the effect of their attitudel
 on the election in the state next
 fall will be remains to be disclosed.
 Numerically the dominant faction
 in the party. they doubtless have the power, if they care to exercise 1t, to make the going rough fri the New Guard now in control.
 Their hostility toward the Cover nor seems particularly acute. de-
 members of the National Com-lI
 mittee, made in accordance with |a resolution accepted at the State |convention by the Old Guard, was plainly in conformance with the spirit of the understanding reached there. Certainly neither Mr Fitzy Gerald by his defiance at Chicago |nor MT. Phillips by his statement on his return has contributed tt the reelection of the governor should he be disposed to run again Even SO. the republicans cannol afford to view the situation il Connecticut with too much com pIacency. To forget that ''Unci Toby" notwithstanding the ran cor of members of his own party has in two years won the esteem of the people of the state. regard less of party, to remarkable de |gree would be foolish. The cleo ton in the state will not go by de fault next fall. and Co win it. th |republicens will still have to fiEli every Inch. Particularly they VI have to nomiHete q candidate ca governor of wider appeal than ha sometimes been the case in tf past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10

in every respect to that of the congressman with district. The honor seems to be an empty one. though. as there is no definite group of voters to whom the elected off ciaIs is responsible or to whom he can direct his appeal for votes. And when the state is redistrieted nine times out of ten he is a gresham and continuance in office is thus interrupted. The fewer eonsressmsn-at- large there are the better off the House will De.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-10

Incidentally the organization created to purchase the home of our third president and author of our Declaration of Independ- ence has paid out close to one million dol lars in its work. The old mansion and grounds were bought for $500.000. Only S100,oo0 of this is unpaid. It cost $324.883 to recreate the Monticello of lief ferson's day. as well as to maintain it as national shrine. Such notable work must not end in failure.