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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

that these institutions as a whole are blot upon the state. l am ashamed, bitterly ashamed, of them.
 The jail commission is honestly endeavoring to do something to inn prove the situation. It has no axe to grind politically or otherwise no i'll will to anyone, and no de- sire to criticize anyone. But it can accomplish nothing by itself. The legislative archives are full of re- ports such as 1t will make, which have simply moldered away there. Nothing will be done unless the people are aroused to the need or it. To do that it is necessary to have the cooperation of the press. I wish you would give this matter your consideration and if, having done so, you feel I am even meas urably right, you would help the commission out in it's efforts to ac- complish something. I think the plan they will propose is funda- mentally sound. But perhaps you will not agree with it. do not so much care about that. If you will only interest yourself and your readers in the jail problem and the need of some solution, shall be satisfied. How the situation is im- proved, I do not care; that 1t shall be radically improved, I do most deeply care.
 Very sincerely yours,
 w. M. MALTBIE, Chief Justice-State of Connecticut
 Supreme Court of Errors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

Editor of The Democrat:
 I am taking the liberty of send ing you the enclosed release be- cause I want to make direct ap- peal to the editors of the state to interest themselves in the problem with which it deals. Because of other demands I cannot ask my secretary to write a separate let ter to each of you, hence am forced to use 8 multigraphing machine, but I hope you will not look upon this communication as circular. It is an effort briefly to lay be- fore you certain considerations which, had time, would like to talk over with you face to face.
 was interested in the idea of trying to make some improve ment in our jails before the com mission to make a survey of them was appointed; I presume I did more than anyone else to get the legislature to appoint it; and I have been closely in touch with it at all times since. I have two underlying thoughts: First, any survey or recommendations made by the commission must not be an attack upon any present jail man. agement; I know most of the sheriffs pretty well, and count them as my friends, and I feel that they are for the most part as much interested in securing proper jails as I am. What they want is help, not criticism. Sec- ondly, the jains in Connecticut are the weakest spot in it's govern mental machinery. The men re- sponsible have no training in deal- ing with criminals except such as comes from the experiences they acquire, and are not selected with that in view. The system under which they operate is antiquated and the buildings are old. The result is that in some of the jails, particularly in the larger counties, the inmates do not get the treat ment which even meets the stan dards of ordinary humanity. Just think of 8 jail like that at Hart ford, where prisoners, sent there for perhaps nine months or a year, cannot get once into the open air but can only gather, when out of their cells, in a small enclosed court inside one of the cell blocks. VT LIIlHh OL Iilc SOIuiLAOU OL IhC bound-over prisoners, men not convicted of any crime and per- haps never to be convicted, usually two in 8 cell, kept there all the time, absolutely without employ ment of any kind. These are just instances of what mean by treat ment which falls short of common humanity. Some of the conditions in jails do not even measure up to the standards of common decency.
 I am no sentimentalist in my regard for criminals. As between the law-breaker and the law-abid- ing citizen, the latter is the one primarily to be considered. I be- lieve in the deterrent force of pun ishment, and to have that effect I believe that punishment must be real. But I also believe that 1t is a hort-sighted policy so to conduct our tails that those who go out from them are worse equipped to lead decent lives than when they go in; and no one can study the statistics without seeing clearly marked the pathway from jail, to reformatory, to prison. am proud of Connecticut, it's people and it's government, but l am thoroughly satisfied that the weakest spot in its system is the county jail and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

As one of the original packers of the week in John R. Voorhis, who had reached the ripe old age of l03. He had continued active in public life up until last fall when he was forced to retire by recurring illnesses For 58 years however. he acted as chair man of New York's election board an S8.O00 position. to which he had graduated from a dollar-a-week job in law office Although Tammany rules forbid reelection to an office Mir Voorhis had been its Grand Sachem for the past IL years, the braves re- taining him in office by the simple expedient of not eecting successor. He was always a staunch democrat although not always a Tammany democrat. At one time he op- posed Tammany and in such way that the organization realized that it was getting op- position. But the remarkable thing of Mir Voorhis' life was his ability to keep pace with the times. When he was born John Quincy Adams was president. And Adams was our sixth president. Herbert Hoover is our thiry-frst. Any life span that sees so many men pass through the White House must be an interesting one. Mir Voorhis was active at all times in public life once he had attained his majority. What story he could have written of his experiences. What biography his own life story will make.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1882
His Only Alternative

It seems to be the concensus in democratic circles that ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith in defining his stand upon the democratic presidential nomination has taken the only step open to him. As titular head of the party, he is entitled to express himself one way Of the other. He has not seen fit to declare himself the militant candidate that he was four years ago at this time. He realizes that he has had one chance at the presidency and that. unless summoned by the democratic party, it is not his right nor duty to stand in the way of any other dem oerat's aspirations.
 He will make no effort to secure the nomination, thus assuring the avowed can didates of no embarrassment along this line. However. it is sufficiently clear that MT Smith is open to any and all suggestions re- garding his future political career. If his party calls him, he will answer. despite the rebuffs that he suffered at its hands four years ago. Personally We believe that MT Smith can be nominated next June at Chi cago. If he so much as indicates his desire to get into the fight between now and then. we wouldn't be surprised to see him carry the convention as overwhelmingly as he did in 1928.
 We don't doubt. though. but what there fingers in his mind the memory of that same expression of confidence from the entire democratic delegation and the subsequent rejection of him at the hands of some of those who had earlier cheered his nomina- ton. Although Smith polled more votes than any other democratic candidate had his vote in the electoral college was pitifully small, due to the defection of states normally democratic. Normally did we say' It should have been additionally. Never in their history did they shun as popular a democratic candidate as they did Smith.
 No democrat ever believed that Al Smith could undergo such a defeat as he did. It makes us wonder if even the apparent dem- oeratic trend can outweigh the perJudiee Of southern democratic voters. Right after Smiths defeat four years ago we stated that he ought never to seek the presidency again. since it was perfectly obvious that definite portion of the electorate preferred to defeat him. not for political reasons. but for religious ones. While the country has undergone great change since 1928, We don't think that it has forgotten how to be biased. It has not liked the Hoover administration. It would like to administer rebuke to it, but would it do that if such meant placing Alfred E. Smith in the White House. We don't think SO. Perhaps we are wrong. But at any rate Smiths announcement of availability for the presidential nomination does not necessarily make him subject to sacrifice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
M TODAY @eS
 / WORLD WAR \. ANNIVERSARY &E& ofGSE.

On Feb 8, 1918, Foreign Minis ter Nessimy Bey of Turkey, speaking before the Chamber of Deputies, declared that he was in full accord with the speeches of Count Czernin and Chancellor von Hertling, who, on Jan. 24, replied to the speeches on war aims or President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George.
 Won Hertling had addressed the main committee of the German Reichstag, and Count Czernin had addressed the Austrian delegations of the Reichstrat. In these speech es, both men gave their attitudes on peace, differing vastly with the two Allied leaders.
 The Ukrainians claimed q great victory over the Bolsheviki at Sarny, and the Bolsheviki failed in an attempt to occupy kiev. Viborg was taken by the White Guards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
SIDE ACHE FROM ExERTION

A mother says her eleven year old daughter gets a side ache or a stitch in the side when she walks fast, on either side or both, lately most often on the right side. Tho child is over weight, says mother, and so mother likes to get her out for brisk walks, as well watch | her diet. But they do not get very far on their walks Git is fine for mother to go along tool before the child has to stop with the ache in | her side.
 remember we kids in the Bronx (of our | town) used to catch it at that age somewhere | between the Seminary and the Academy. At thirteen fourteen we felt the stitch farther down, about opposite the Methodist church. This was one way to the fire. By the time we were sweet sixteen we could run clean down as far as the railroad tracks and beyond without a stitch in us.
 There are probably two factors concerned In the causation of this effort side ache. First the heavy demands upon the circulation made by rapid growth, and second the long, long time between meals in this period of rapid growth
 The direct cause of the ache is probably engorgement overfI1Ing of the veins of the portal area with blood on it's way back to the right side of the heart and the lungs. You see the heart must pump through the lungs during such exertion running is four or five times great as the volume pumped when the in- dvdual is at rest. For the effort of walking perhaps the demand increases two three times the ordinary. The muscles must have more oxygen for the extra work, and the lungs must be it from more blood and more air
 This child's mother should set an easier pace for the daily walks, and pause for rest as the child feels even slightly distressed By taking it easy at first and increasing the length of the walks gradually week after week. and even doing a part of the daily train ing running, the capacity of the circulation to respond to the effort will be developed so that neither side ache other distress will be brought on by moderate runs or brisk walking
 Then. too, the child, or almost any one else who undertakes such a course of training, should have some fresh fruit juice beverage or a bit of any preferred sweet, or an adult may take a cup of sweetened tea just before start ing off on the hike at some convenient sta ton along the way. This applies even if reduc- ton of prevention of surplus weight is one object of the training, for the sugar is imme diately utilized for muscle energy, and it will not go to produce more flesh. Even marathon runners resort to some milk chocolate. or aweetcned tea sweet fruit juice or candy as they run, to sustain them and prevent col lapse.
 There is TO harm in moderate effort side ache. But if it is very distressing 1t indicates either too strenuous exertion or insufficient fuel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

the Lake Placid boy. who skated to two vie- tories in the 500 and l.500 meter events. Shea was chosen to represent the entire ath- letc body assembled at Placid when the Olympic oath was administered. He it was who recited it while massed behind his slen- der form were athletes representing many nations. The youngster is the son of the vil- laqe butcher and is student at Dartmouth. He stands for the best in American youth Here's hoping that many growing boy will take him as a model. We mentioned picker ing. No Olympic games are quite complete without their sour taste. It has appeared at Lake Placid where foreign competitors criti- cize the American style of speed racing where all skaters loaf until the last lap and then squirt for the finish line. However. it is as fair for one man as another.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
so TT GOES
Fortunes always hiding,

Fortunes always hiding, In quilts, tin cans or sOx, Though some prefer the safer way A banks strong safety box.
 o-O-o What the country really needs is a five cent cigar that will smell like a good nickel.
 O-O--o
 The little things in life may count but the big things add up lot quicker.
 o-O-o Man cannot live by bread alone. He must have a little coffee to wash 1t down. If heaven is a state of mind, the other place must be a condition of feeling.
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 The ocean is supposed to be pretty democratic but it man. ages to have it's swells just the same.
 There's both fore and aft in graft.
 Why not spell it Tammoney. The present probe suggests the reformation"
 O-O-O War merely makes disabled bodied men for the nations in- volved.
 O-O-O This concludes our opening pro- gram of the week. 1t came to you over DBD and was broadcast by the Waterbury Evening Democrat, pioneer in this type of newspaper work. We are signing off at this time, to be back on the air again tomorrow evening at the usual hour.
 o-O-o Good night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
MEETING OF THE BOURBONS.
(Hartford Times)

A dispatch in the Times reveals the fact that the house of Bour- bon, which numbers some few kings and several princes, princel- ings and other dignitaries among its Unemployed" but not impecun- ious scions, is holding in London its first general conference since 1903. It appears to be the idea of the Bourbons that affairs in the world being what they are there might be an opportunity to restore the legs to numerous thrones that have fallen and to regild a few scepters in disuse for some years. quially expressed, may be intruded on the solemn proceedings perhaps 1t is all right on this side of the Atlantic to say the Bourbons are "out of luck"
 The Bourbon family conferences are international in aspect for there is scarcely a royal house in Europe with which the Bourbons have not intermarried since 886, the date of the death of the founder of the line, Robert the Strong. duke of France and count of Paris and Anjou. Today the "unemploy- ed" Bourbons claim as their "king- doms" France, Spain, Naples, Silicy Etruria, Cypress, Jerusalem, Ara gon, Sardinia, Castle, Navarro and dozens of more countries and dis tricts, several of which long since have been absorbed in larger geo. graphical and political entities or taken over by newer empires. king doms or repubuics. If memory serves it was of the Bourbons that someone said "they forget nothing, learn nothing" Whatever modicum of truth there may be in that para dox it is just as well if the Bour- bons learn at an early date that, like the Romanoffs, the Hohenzol- lerns, the Hapsburgs and the Wittelsbachs. their sun has set.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
QUOTATIONS

As soon as business realizes that the federal government Is taking energetic steps to break the full force of the calamitous depression, confidence will revive. Wagner of New York.
  There is no crisis in Europe.
 George Bernard Shaw.
  Authors should be read and not seen or heard.
 Edna Ferber.
 - I came back to find the people risen above partisan politics.
 Charles G. Dawes. No vetos or prohibitions will keep people from running after 1t (alcohoD. Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins of New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER A Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 By RODNEY BUTCHER
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTE

bonds sold in September at par were now at 82.
 Senator Couzens of Michigan, pointing to a widespread condition in which some tax delinquents won't pay and some can't, says it is notorious that tax collections are not being pushed diligently. He boasts that Detroit, after at first being refused loans by some banks and then putting her affairs in order, was able to borrow neces- sary money from her own automo- bile concerns and public utilities as well as $7,500,00O from a New York bank only last December. Detroit cut her budget $60,000,000. devised plan for collection of de- linquent taxes and adopted "a pro- gram of uncompromising economy to bring expenditures within in- come"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
Gov. Roosevelt's Kind Words

Governor Roosevelt of New York has made thousands of friends by his declaration that mo one out of work today can rightfully feel that he or she is personally responsible for having lost his or her position" The governor issued an urgent appeal to all persons out of employment to make their wants known to the local home relief body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

One more familiar figure in the baseball world is dead Barney Dreyfuss was owner of the Pittsburgh club and well liked by all who knew him. Although not born in this country Dreyfuss was an ardent baseball fan after he saw his first game. He bought the Pirates in 1900 and saw his club capture numerous championships. He also devel- oped the immortal Honus Wagner and Fred Clark. He was just one more old timer who loved the game and brought it to the ped estal it now occupies in our life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
Personal Health Service
 (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, sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

Disarmament will never be complete until we abolish the dirty look.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

Despite the pickering that is coming to the front at the winter Olympic games at Lake Placid the hero of the day is Jack Shea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
In To-day's Mail all letters and communications with your opinions the of Waterbury Democrat.

Editors The which Chief Justice regarding jais be found other of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

These times offer excellent opportunities for the mental and spiritual exercise which we usually neglect during prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 5.46 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-08
"A SMILES THE THING"

Good evening.
 THE GiGoLo PASSES The sweetheart of the gigolo Is now sing song girl. And life is one of ecstacy, A paean. whirl on whirl. Her partner of another dance Is seated in the wings. And viciously applauds her act The while she sweetly sings
 (CHORUS) I've kissed my gigolo goodbye, I've said farewell to him, One tires of the comic strut. A star will fade and dim, Today I'm on my own and how. At last I'm in the dough, Why shed tear for what is gone, Why page the gigolo. The sweetheart of the gigolo. Will have her day. but soon. Another one will take her place. Wed joy and mirth at noon, With measured tread she'll hit the
 trail,
 That leads to outcast woe, And there along old Memory lane. Will meet her gigolo.
 (CHoRUS) She'll kiss the gigo1o again, I know he'll understand, For all of us are gigolos Just dancing through the land. Our act is short. the curtain drops. We reap just as We SOW, The pipes of Pan will herd our
 thoughts.
 When we're gigolo.
 o-O-o
 Dizzy Dorothy, Waterbury's in- tellectual idiot, called at the post office the other day for the stamp of approval.
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 Sometimes, the early bird gets the burn.
 O-O-o
 Automobiles had spree wheeling long before they came equipped with free.
 o-O-o
 DING, DING The auto show, the auto show, It's sure 8 dandy sight, But it makes the old car feel like
 a wreck,
 When you drive 1t home that
 night.
 O-O--O Getting back to nature is merely a process of wearing less and less and less. The most unkindest cut of all. When the barber jabs your face just when he's about to finish. Even political soft soap has a tough time of it in hard water.
 o-O-O Speaking of shake-ups, con- slider the family rugs which are treated to one every week or so.
 O-O-o The dogs of war right now seem to be made up of Chinese elbows.
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 TEE, HEB. Uneasy lies the head, (At least, SO Eve been tOld,) That tries to be platinum blond, When nature made 1t gold.
 o-O-o Federal Men Unearth Wet Bed It probably came from the springs.
 o-O-o The leopard cannot change it's spots and neither can a soup stained necktie.
 O-O-o There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the passion point, lead on to affairs with wo- men.
 O-O-O The 1892 presidential can- didates will have to come equipped with safety glass, free wheeling, insulated bodies and floating power to get my vote.
 O-O-o The tears of woman will melt | a mans heart quicker than hot l day.
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 so TT GOES
Evening star., 1932-08-25
U. S. DISTRICT COURT
CLERK KILLS SELF
Body Of Norfolk Man Found Be-
side Parked Car on Road.
Books in Order.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, August 25-Paul R.
Flanagan, chief deputy clerk Of the
United States District Court, for East
ern Virginia, committed suicide yester-
day by shooting himself in the chest
with q pistol.
His body was found beside his parked
automobile on a road near Norfolk.
DR.. L. c. Ferebee, Norfolk County
coroner, said the death was plainly
suicidal, and said that no inquest was
necessary.
Flanagan had not been seen at his
Office since yesterday morning. when
he gave his record books to three audi
tors from the general accounting Office
of the United States Government.
The auditors said that Fqanagan's
books were in proper order, with the
exception of $2,145 of his personal
checks among his accounts, which were
listed as cash. AL the checks, dated
during the present month, were de-
posted in Norfolk bank yesterday.
If there is sufficient money to Flan-
agan's account in the bank to cover the
checks, there will be no shortage in
his accounts, the auditors said.